River Valley Township, Morrison Street,

Inside the Firefly Bookstore, which is currently open.

With white hair and beard, a small braid at the back of his head, and an orange knitted vest, Otto is already old. Andeco was boringly wiping down his business desk.

Because he had just had lunch on it.

Usually at this time of day, there are no guests coming to the door, after all, the children are at school and the adults are also at work.

So he would take in the middle of the day to replace the two employees in the store so that they could go home and cook lunch on their own.

After all, the women who choose to work in bookstores do not have much salary every month, and they are not willing to eat in Western restaurants across the road.

Homemade food is always the best way to save money.

"It's so lucrative that a 5-cent vegetable, with a little salad dressing, can be sold for $3!"

"Maybe I should close this bookstore and turn it into a restaurant, I don't know if the two of them, Via and Susie, have a talent as a chef in addition to sales."

Old Otto folded the rag in his hand in half, turned it over, and complained as he wiped it.

"Hello, is the store manager there?"

A handsome man wearing a black slim trench coat, combing his back hair, and also wearing pigtails appeared at the door, full of artistic atmosphere, he glanced into the store and asked softly.

"I'm the store manager, welcome, what do you need?"

Faced with the fact that the guests who came to the door at this point in time, which belonged entirely to increasing turnover, old Otto quickly wiped his hands with the rag in his hand, wiped his mouth again, threw it on the table, and hurriedly walked out of the counter.

He squinted and smiled and looked at Wu Heng who came to the door in front of him.

With the same hairstyle, he who has already made a fortune seems to see the elegance of his youth, and he feels more cordial to Wu Heng.

Although when he was young, he was not very handsome, but he just thought he was there.

"Did you buy this book?" Wu Heng took out a photo of a book.

"Oh yes, do you want to see it, I'll get it." Old Otto hurried to the corner and brought three identical books.

"It's good to be here!" Wu Heng's smile became gentler.

Only then did he take out a brand-new skull book from the inner pocket of his trench coat and handed it to old Otto: "This book is a friend of mine, who bought it from you a few days ago, but this is a new edition that has just been printed for a short time. ”

"The cover and the name are wrong, and there are some mistakes in it, which caused my friend to get a little hurt after the incident."

As for the family, there is no need to explain in detail what kind of minor injuries they suffered.

When old Otto heard this, his expression changed slightly: "This is just a hunting book, it is full of false things, how can anyone be stupid enough to really try"

"It's like the comics of 'Spider-Man' are so popular, is there really someone who will let the spider bite him!"

"Your friend is an adult, and he should be held accountable for his actions."

Wu Heng saw Old Otto's nervous expression and smiled slightly: "But the damage caused by printing books and selling them without permission is a bit of a stretch." ”

"Two fines together, I hope you have another bookstore under your name, after all, this one alone may not be enough to compensate!"

Old Otto was stunned for a moment, a little speechless, his eyes turned sharply to get rid of the relationship, but he didn't know what to say,

I just felt that the handsome guy in front of him instantly became very hateful, and he naively thought that when he saw that he was young, he shouldn't have that damn intimacy.

"However, I am not short of money, and I am not looking for accountability and compensation."

Wu Heng's words, for old Otto, were more stable than the church bells.

"Say, young man, what the hell do you want to do!" For old Otto, as long as it is not a loss of money and a return, everything is easy to say.

"I want the original book!"

Wu Heng put $10,000 on the desk, his voice became serious, and he had a posture of imperativeness.

"Since you printed these, there must be originals, and compared to the price of pirated copies, this money is enough to compensate for the loss."

When old Otto heard this, his face showed a look of remorse, he knocked his hands and sighed, and said with regret:

"But the original version of that book, I sold it the day before yesterday, damn it, that guy only gave me $500."

Seeing the disbelieving expression on Wu Heng's face, a fine sweat broke out on his anxious forehead: "Really, I swear in the name of the Virgin Mary, and what I say is true." ”

As he spoke, his eyes involuntarily looked at the dollars on the table, and there was a kind of heartache that he guessed the lotto number correctly, but did not buy the ticket.

"Do you remember what the person who bought it looked like?"

"The other party was wearing glasses and a mask, but I didn't care at all, after all, it only cost $500 to be real!"

"It seems that we will only see you in court, Mr. Andeco." Wu Heng looked at the name on the card on the old man's chest, said calmly, and planned to turn around and leave.

"Don't!" Old Otto hurriedly grabbed Wu Heng's arm, "I want to think of a way, I think it's right, I can draw a general appearance of the other party, maybe I can provide some clues!" ”

With that, he immediately picked up the pen and lay down on the table to draw.

"Yes, as long as you provide clues and you can find the person who bought the book, the money is still yours!"

Old Otto was even more excited when he heard this, as if he had met his first love that had been lost and regained.

It's just that after the painting was finished, not only Wu Heng's expression was even colder, but even Old Otto himself couldn't bear to look at it directly:

"Damn it, what the hell is this shit I painted!"

"By the way, when I was selling books at that time, my employee Via was also next to her, and her painting level might be higher!"

When Wu Heng heard this name, his expression moved, it seemed that this was really the place.

"But wait, she's going home to cook, according to the usual time, in half an hour, she will come over!"

Old Otto, as if grasping hope, looked at the door, pointed to a dirty little girl playing on the side of the road opposite, and said:

"You see, she is Via's daughter, today the child's kindergarten is on vacation, I am afraid that she will be at home alone, so Via took it to the bookstore to take care of it, walking back and forth in a hurry, she didn't bring it back just now, let her play in the store, and her mother will bring her lunch later."

"Well, it looks like you're not lying, but I have one more question, where did you get this book?"

After learning the news that the employee in the store was called Via, and that Via was still by the side of old Otto when he sold books, Wu Heng was no longer in a hurry.

"I picked it up." Old Otto said subconsciously, and then thought that Wu Heng had already grabbed his handle, and hurriedly added, "Really, I picked it up at the door of the store, just looking at the back of a mysterious guy, he put it at the door half a year ago." ”

"God, I don't even know why he put it there, and if I knew it would hurt someone, I wouldn't have picked it up."

"It's really bad lately, people can't make ends meet, and the two employees in my store have children, and I can't bear to cut one off, so I want to use some books that are not well-known and print some to subsidize the economy."

When Wu Heng heard this, he frowned, he originally thought it was an old book that Old Otto had picked up from some flea market.

But it's a book put by a mysterious person, and it's bought by a guy wearing a mask, and things are getting more and more interesting.

"I'll go across the street for a bite to eat, and I'll come back later."

Wu Heng glanced at the girl who was bouncing on the side of the road, with short hair, ordinary facial features, and looked like a tomboy, about six years old, and said to Otto.

Then he walked out of the store and went straight to the little girl.

Seeing that the little girl kept sneaking towards the glass partition of the restaurant, facing the steak on the diner's table, she forced her saliva expression and said with a smile:

"Hey, little one, is it alone?"

"It just so happens that I'm alone, why don't you go in and have a meal together, I'm in for a treat!"

When the little girl heard the voice, she glanced back at Wu Heng, and immediately showed vigilant and wary eyes, as if she was looking at a perverted uncle.

"Hey, little girl, what kind of eyes are you, what are so many people here afraid of, forget if you don't want to eat, I'm hungry." Wu Heng was a little speechless by this look, and said deliberately.

When the little girl heard this, she glanced at the restaurant again, and one of the men used a fork to put the steaming steak into his mouth and chewed it slowly, and swallowed his saliva again.

She looked up at the top of Wu Heng's head again, about a foot high, as if she was relieved after confirming something, and showed a bright smile:

"I want to eat, thank you uncle!"

Seeing this situation, Wu Heng secretly said in his heart: At such a young age, can you already observe it, what a talented little guy.

"So what are you waiting for, keep up." Wu Heng pushed open the glass door and said to the little girl.

The little girl dropped the paper airplane in her hand and ran in.

The two sat at a table, and Wu Heng ordered all the delicious things in the store, including 'meatball pizza', 'Caesar salad', 'grilled ribs' and the like.

Wu Heng only tasted a few bites of these things to satisfy her appetite, and the six-year-old girl didn't have much to eat, similar to the raccoon cat, after she was full of wine and food, most of the things on the table were not touched.

"Thank you, uncle, I'm full, my name is Cordell." The little girl said happily.

She touched her stomach that couldn't fit it, and then looked at the food on the table, a little reluctant.

"You're welcome, nice to meet you Cordell, my name is Dean, Dean. Miranda. Wu Heng wiped his hands with a napkin and responded with a smile.

"It's also a pleasure to meet you Dean, I'm Kodel, Kodel. Ulf. ”

The little girl Kodell, when it came to the last surname, hesitated, and after looking at the position above Wu Heng's head again, she still reported her real surname.

This surname, her mother has always warned her not to mention it to strangers.

Cordel. Ulf, it's you!

A member of the future Hellish Monks, a descendant of those who absconded from the Garden of Eden.

Wu Heng finally determined that this is also the place where a small plot takes place, but he came five or six years early, but he didn't expect that so early, the mother and daughter of the Ulf family were already here.

After Wu Heng was about to get up to pay the bill, Cordell was a little hesitant and stopped, Wu Heng saw it, and asked gently:

"What's the matter, Cordell, what's the matter?"

"Uncle Dean, some of these dishes haven't been touched, can I pack them back, it's a pity to put them here."

"Absolutely!"

"Thank you, Uncle Dean, don't you think I'm a little stingy?"

"Of course not, it's not called stinginess, it's called thrift, I like thrifty kids!"

After packing the things, Wu Heng took the little girl's hand and led her to the door of the bookstore.

At this time,

A woman in a red dress and a black blouse, carrying a packed lunch box, was walking along the left side of Morrison Street.

"Cordell!" Seeing her daughter, holding the hand of a strange handsome guy, the woman shouted vigilantly.

"Mom, this uncle invited me to eat at the restaurant opposite, you see I have helped you pack so much."

Creed happily ran over and handed the food in his hand to his mother.

"Excuse me sir, Cordell is too young to be sensible, so I bothered you!"

"Please calculate how much money you spend on this, and I will compensate you according to the price." The woman in the red dress ignored her daughter's dedication, but grabbed her hand, walked up to Wu Heng with a serious expression, and apologized in a panic.

She has been hunted down for half her life, and she deeply knows the truth of 'nothing to be courteous, either traitor or thief'.

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

"It's okay, I just saw that Cordell was hungry, and I liked to order a lot of things every time, and I couldn't eat alone anyway, so I invited her to join me."

Wu Heng saw the little girl's aggrieved eyes and helped her explain.

"Yes Mom, Uncle Dean has no ill will, I can see it!" Cordell said aggrievedly.

"Shut up!" The woman who heard this changed her face suddenly and began to pay for it.

Old Otto also heard the movement at the door, walked out, and when he saw the situation, he helped him and said, "Okay Viah, don't worry, this young gentleman is not short of money, just lunch." ”

Then with an expectant gaze, he explained the reason why Wu Heng came here to Wei Ya.

Hearing that it was not directed at her,

Via breathed a sigh of relief and didn't insist on paying for lunch.

Old Otto leaned into Via's ear again and whispered to her, and Viato glanced at Wu Heng in surprise.

Wu Heng, who was deaf and sharp-eyed, naturally heard what Old Otto said about 10,000 US dollars.

"Sir, I'll let Via paint, she said she has a certain art foundation." Old Otto looked at Wu Heng.

"Yes, but I'd like to talk to this Lady Via alone and ask for some details at the time, just like I did when I asked you just now."

"How about going to the café next door?" Wu Heng looked at Via.

"This," old Otto looked at Via with some hesitation.

Sure enough, you can't hide from what you should have come! Via. Ms. Ulf whispered, and took the initiative to speak:

"Otto, please look at the store again, I'll go for a while, and I'll be back soon."

Then he crouched down and looked at Cordell, touched his daughter's head, pushed it towards old Otto, and instructed:

"Kodel, you stay with Otto first, don't run around, share the food you just brought back with him, and Mommy will be back soon."

As he spoke, his expression was full of worry.

Although I don't know what Wu Heng's purpose is, the other party has already discovered her daughter, and in order for her daughter not to be in danger, she must cooperate with the other party.

If something is too demanding, she will inevitably strike first.

In any case, she has also mastered the 'solvent' ability of the racial talent 'ecstasy', which only a few women have.

With Ms. Via's wary and reluctant expression, the two went to the café's private room together.

Wu Heng released a faint layer of power, isolating the surroundings and not being noticed by Wei Ya.

"Lady Via, I'm sorry for you, I want to see the specific scene at that time, that book is useful to me, I have to find it." Wu Heng said solemnly.

"Okay, I'll draw it." Via turned his head sideways and shouted outside the private room, "Waiter, I want paper and pen." ”

This place has been cut off by the Nightmare Force, and Via's voice will naturally not be transmitted to the outside.

Wu Heng's brows furrowed slightly: "I said to see, not to paint, do you understand what I mean, Ms. Wei." ”

"But if you don't paint, what do you think?" Via looked puzzled.

"Garden of Eden." Wu Heng stared at Via's eyes and slowly said three words.

When Via heard this, he instantly seemed to blush, and subconsciously read the content of the Bible: "We are children of God, and we should love each other unreservedly in the Garden of Eden." ”

"Mr. Dean, although you are very handsome and my husband has passed away, I already have children and no longer think about emotional matters."

It was as if she had heard Wu Heng's provocative hints in his words.

Wu Heng stared at Via with an expressionless face, this woman was still pretending to be stupid.

So he no longer disguised it, and simply pointed out two words clearly: "Phantom Clan!" ”

"I said I'd see what it was, Ms. Via."

The so-called phantom race,

It is a reclusive race that likes to live a life of indisputability, which is also destined for their race to spend time in constant escape and migration.

They were born with the old law, and the old law was a very common everyday skill for them, and they called their old law Rapture.

The origins of its race can be traced back to the Garden of Eden.

In order to escape the pursuit of the 'source of suffering', they went into seclusion.

There is a special talent in ecstasy called the 'solvent' ability, which manifests itself in the form of an energy substance that can overflow from all the pores of the body and feel like water, through which objects can be controlled, manipulated, and destroyed.

On top of that, it can also be used to show your own memories and show them to outsiders as if they were there.

This ability,

This is the reason why Wu Heng no longer worries when he heard that Wei Ya was at the scene.

As long as he passes through Wei, Wu Heng can be immersed in the scene and find the person who buys the book.

In addition, Phantoms also have a perceptual ability to see the colors represented by emotions, so as to judge the good, evil and thoughts of others.

Just the little girl Cordell,

It was only when he saw that Wu Heng had no bad mood towards her that he believed in Wu Heng and was willing to go to the restaurant.

But she didn't know that emotions can be hidden when they reach a certain level of ability.

However, Wu Heng did not have any bad thoughts about the little girl just now.

(End of chapter)