Chapter 34: Deception
After an overview of the characteristics and territoriality of the evil spirits, the lady known as the "magician" went on to write: "Although Susanna . . . Matisse's strength is equivalent to Sequence 5, but it's not impossible for you to deal with her, you can use that knife to give Charlie a bite and exchange the fate of 'meeting the ghost of Montsourie to him, wait for Susanna. After Matisse is killed by the ghost of Montsouri, you are restoring the fate of the ghost of Montsouris and storing it back in the knife. โ
"Well, the above is a joke, there are too many uncertainties in this scheme to be almost unsuccessful:"
"One, the ghost of Montsouris can only kill those who meet him;"
"Two, even if the ghost of Montsouris killed Susanna. Matisse, you can't know, and you can't change your fate back in time, it won't affect Charlie; โ
"Three, Charlie should not be an orphan, his parents, brothers and sisters may still be there, whether the ghost of Montsourie will come out of Trier to kill people, no one knows at present;"
"Fourth, the ghost of Montsouris may not have actually killed Susanna. Matisse; โ
"Fifth, it must be admitted by Charlie himself that Suzanne and him can be married in the occult."
"I say so much, mainly to tell you, don't think like that, don't do it, and you can see from the fact that you take Charlie as a hostage."
"In fact, this is both a crisis and an opportunity."
"The best solution for you is to ask Mr. K for help in dealing with Susanna. Mattis's threat. โ
"Remember, asking for help is an effective way to bring people closer to each other and gain their trust, of course, if the other person is willing and has the corresponding strength."
"You can properly show your potential and make Mr. K feel useful."
"I wish you all the best, and I wish you to gain Mr. K's initial trust as soon as possible and become a member of that organization."
Lumian's first reaction after reading the letter in his hand was that Ms. "Magician" liked to ramble, to pull the topic back from a distance, and to find a high-sounding reason as an excuse, and she always had some absurd, almost joking ideas, which was in stark contrast to Ms. Hela's concise and concise reply.
This style of letter-writing should have been the habit of the "magician" lady, and Lumian pursed his mouth, rubbed the spirit, lit a fire, and burned the paper in his hand. After reading those two letters, he also gave up on using "depraved mercury" to solve Susanna. The idea of Matisse's affair, after all, that he and Suzanne did not just intersect in a short fate, and could not be as simple as stripping away the fate of "meeting the ghost of Montsourie".
Comparatively speaking, asking Mr. K for help is indeed an effective method that Lumian did not think of at all.
This also quickly closes the relationship between him and Mr. K in order to complete the task of Ms. "The Magician".
After thinking about it for a while, how to tell Mr. K about something, and how to show his worth, Lumian changed into a gray-blue worker's uniform, wore a dark blue and almost black peaked cap, and left room 207.
On the first floor, Lumien saw Charlie in a linen shirt and black pants, wandering around the gate.
"In what?" He laughed and said hello.
Charlie smiled: "Charles, can you accompany me to the pawnshop?" I treat you to breakfast and lunch! โ??
The official name of a pawnshop is a pawn shop or pawn shop.
"To the pawnshop?" Lumian approached Charlie and asked the latter question in a low voice, "Is it okay?" โ
Charlie glanced left and right, and said with a wry smile: "They told me that this time it was okay, Susanna's evil spirit has been purified."
"Regardless of whether there is a problem or not, life must go on, haha, this sentence is what I heard from a guest at the bar, is it very cultured?
"In short, for people like us, a day of not working means going bankrupt, and it won't be long before I have to taste hunger again, and I have to pledge that diamond necklace in exchange for cash.
You know? Only cash can make people feel safe, that is not a substitute for clothes and jewelry, and food is a little worse! โ
Speaking of which, Charlie gradually became excited:
Mrs. Alice said that the necklace was worth 1,500 filkins and that she should get 1,000 fils if she mortgaged it.
"Oh, God, I've seen a whole 1,000 filkins in front of me until now, and even if I become the head waiter, it will take years, if not a dozen, to save such a sum of money!
"When the time comes, we'll go to the White Coat Street Cafe for lunch, and I'll have a Duvar broth, a coarse-salt red wine beef, and an apple tenderloin!"
In the White Swan Wine Society, learned to report the name of the dish? Lumian sneered and asked thoughtfully, "You want to ask me to protect you?" โ
Charlie smiled and said: "Such a large sum of money, I will be scared if I take it alone, Charles, you may not have that kind of experience, walking on the road, suspecting that everyone is a thief, will come to rob me of my experience."
"Isn't it hard to imagine that I felt this way when I came back with that necklace, so nervous that I almost fainted?"
"Yes." Lumien laughed, "I shouldn't have had this experience, not now, not in the future, because I'm just going to make people think I want to rob him." โ
For example, Margit, who just contributed more than a thousand Fergin, almost bought that diamond necklace!
Charlie's smile instantly froze on his face.
After a few seconds, he forced a smile and said, "That's why I want you to go to the pawnshop with me." โ
He really doubted the way Charles got money just now, this neighbor is obviously capable and smart, but he has not been in a hurry to find a job, wandering around every day, looking like he is not short of money, but he lives in the "Golden Rooster Hotel" instead of "White Swan Wine".
Thinking of Charles pretending to be a lawyer and infiltrating the police station to provide him with important news, thinking of the other party helping him in Susanna. Matisse threatened to survive, but Charlie felt that it was nothing.
Charles is a thief, a robber, a fraudster, and a thief, a robber, and a fraudster who took the risk to help me!
Lumian was satisfied with Charlie's frightened expression and asked with a smile, "Which pawnshop are you going to go to?" โ
"I've heard that a few pawnshops in the observatory area have more reasonable prices." Charlie had an idea.
Lumian nodded:
"I'm on my way to the observatory area."
He's going to find Aosta. Trull asked for Mr. K's contact information.
Charlie was overjoyed, and spent 1 Fergin to treat Lumien to a kebab pie, a crรจme fraรฎche with plum sour, and of course, his own portion.
Lumian accepted it calmly, not politely at all.
Walking out of the chaotic street, Charlie saw Lumian go straight to the bus stop sign, and followed with a little distress.
He looked around, saw that there was no one, and asked in a curious whisper:
"Last night I said that the knife was called the 'Cursed Blade', and the person who was cut by it really killed the whole family?"
Meet Susanna. Before Mattiss, Charlie didn't believe in this kind of thing at all, and even if he heard about it, it was used as a source of braggadocio and nourishment for speeches, but now, he suspected that Charles really had a magical weapon.
Lumian turned his head sideways and looked at Charlie with a smile: "Want to try it?" โ
Charlie shuddered and said with a sneer:
"I believe it."
"Really? But I just bluffed Suzanne last night. Matisse, I'm an ordinary man, I'm dead if not! Lumian smiled and said, "Don't you feel familiar with the 'Cursed Blade story' I made up?" Didn't you hear the legend of the ghost of Montsourie when that madman was sober? โ
Charlie's eyes gradually widened, and his face was stunned.
Charles, you are so good at deceiving people, an ordinary person actually deceived Suzanne by bluffing. That evil spirit of Matisse, I and he both survived!
I'm just bragging in the bar, occasionally deceiving people, and I can't compare to him.
Bold and smart, such a person will definitely get rich!
Seeing that Charlie really believed the lie he had just made, Lumian struggled to keep his laughter out loud.
He asked solemnly, "Are your father and mother still alive?" Are there any brothers and sisters? โ
Charlie was stunned for a moment, and jumped to the side like a frightened rabbit, "What are you asking for?" โ
Could it really be that there is a "cursed blade", and he is now trying to find out what other family members I have?
Lumian suddenly laughed: "You won't be really scared, will you?"
"You're too easily mischievous, aren't you?"
Thinking of the fool's errand, Charlie patted his head in annoyance.
He couldn't tell which of Charles's words was false and which was true.
However, after being mischievoked, he became even more convinced that the "Cursed Blade" was a fake, based on the legend of the ghost of Montsourie.
Charles likes to deceive people with this kind of fake, like a fool.
Well....
The story of "Cursed Blade" is good, now that he belongs to me, it's scary to go to the bar at night and use it!
The two arrived at the observatory area in a public carriage, and Charlie asked for directions several times, and finally found the pawnshop called "Phil's Pawnshop".
It is located in a seven-storey beige building, with many pilasters, arches, reliefs, large windows, etc.
At the majestic gate, on the top of the "Phil Pawnshop", three words are engraved, "Freedom, Equality, Fraternity"
Freely mortgage every item, discriminate equally against everyone who mortgages something, love any opportunity to drive down the price? Lumian couldn't help but sneer.
How funny it is that a pawnshop should have the political slogan of the republic engraved on the door!
There are several counters in the pawnshop hall with rows of benches in front of it.
At this time, dozens of people sat there, waiting for the clerk to finish appraising the value of the item and call his number.
Charlie familiarly found an empty counter, handed the diamond necklace inside, and received a note with the name and corresponding number of the item to be identified.
After a while, the counter in charge of the money ticket called Charlie's number.
Charlie passed with anticipation, lost his soul.
"What's wrong?" Lumien, flipping through the newspapers in the hall, asked, confused.
Charlie said dazedly and lost: "That necklace, that necklace is fake, it's only worth 12 Filkin"