Apostle of Cthulhu

"What are you doing!" Jack, who had just moved out the first box of goods, saw Si Wei holding the Star Foundation pendant and looking at it. He immediately shouted angrily, then rushed forward and snatched the pendant. "Don't you know that touching other people's things is very ungentlemanly? Don't you have a private tutor to teach you this etiquette?"

Private tutoring...

Si Wei apologized: "Sorry, Mr. Jack, I thought this was an item for sale, so I picked it up and looked at it..."

"This is not for sale!" Jack looked very excited and quickly stuffed the pendant into his pocket.

Waff ran out when he heard the strange noise. When he saw the angry Jack, he quickly asked, "Mr. Jack, what happened?"

"It's nothing." Jack turned around and walked into the room again, preparing to move things. "As long as you don't touch things, I won't be angry."

Wafu looked at Si Wei with questioning eyes, but was only met with a silent shake of his head.

Star Foundation? what is that.

"Si Wei, I'm sorry, Jack's temper has become very weird in recent years. As long as you don't deliberately test his bottom line, he will talk to you nicely."

Si Wei, who didn't want to let go of the information related to the expedition team, nodded seriously, "I understand."

When Waff and Jack moved everything out, Siwei realized why Waff had to let people come with him.

With two large boxes of stuff, those who didn’t know would think that Waff was trying to smuggle arms.

"Thank you! Mr. Jack!" Waff stretched his muscles and prepared to move things.

At this time, Si Wei suddenly suggested: "Mr. Waff, I want to go shopping in the market. I will put this box of things here first, and I will help you move it back after I finish shopping. Do you mind?"

Jack glanced at him.

Waff thought for a while and decided that he was not in a hurry for the time being. Anyway, the arrangement of the psychic ritual still needed to be calculated and sorted out, so there was no rush at this moment.

"Okay, but please pay attention to safety on the road! If that doesn't work, you can hire a carriage and I will reimburse the fare."

Siwei waved to Waff, and Jack and he watched him leave.

"Why do you want to stay?" Jack asked.

"I should have told you my reasons, right? I want to go shopping in the market." Si Wei repeated his reasons, "If this box of things requires temporary care, I am willing to pay the additional expenses."

Jack squinted his eyes and looked at Si Wei with a strange look, "You have changed... When I saw you at Nanyoku University, you acted even more annoying."

Sure enough, was Jack's attitude just now caused by the original owner's bad character...

Si Wei secretly breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he knows the reason, he can prescribe the right medicine. "I was really too sharp in the past. I hope I don't make you feel uncomfortable now."

"Hmph, it's okay. When I sat in the parliament before, those national dignitaries were more annoying than you."

When Quan didn't hear the words that highlighted his identity, Si Wei asked, "If you don't mind me being abrupt, would you mind telling me about the CTHULHU expedition team?"

Jack leaned against the door frame and closed his eyes simply when he heard Si Wei's words, "I'm sorry, the expedition team has been disbanded. I don't know anything you ask me now."

Is this really the answer...

Si Wei didn't ask about the Star Foundation. Just touching the Star Foundation's pendant made him so angry. If he asked too much, Jack might just come up and strangle him to death!

At least I already know the whereabouts of a member of the expedition team, which is already the biggest gain of this trip!

After leaving the Versailles Grocery Store, Si Wei started walking around the market seriously. After all, there is a black market hidden here. If you really find something good, it will be an unexpected surprise.

bump!

As his eyes wandered along the street, Si Wei suddenly bumped into a petite guy. An indescribable smell hit his nostrils, smelling like rotten and fermented apples.

Lowering his head, Si Wei saw a little girl whose head was just level with his belly button covering her forehead and staggering back a few steps.

The clothes she was wearing were old and the size didn't match her height. They were either picked up or stolen from somewhere.

Her skin was very white and surprisingly not rough. Unfortunately, there was a large burn mark on the right cheek. Si Wei guessed that this was probably caused by the fire when gangsters on the street bullied her. This kind of thing is not uncommon in the bonfire area. These ignorant guys like to use this method to torture people.

"Yes... I'm sorry!" She looked up at Si Wei's expressionless face, as if she had been frightened, and hurriedly bowed and apologized.

"No need to apologize," Si Wei said in a voice that only she could hear, "If you can, please return my wallet to me."

Si Wei didn't know how she did it. Her breast pocket was at least within reach of her if she stretched out her arms, but she did it and stole her wallet!

The little girl was stunned for a moment, "Money...wallet? Sir...did you misunderstand something..."

"Do you want me to search you?" Si Wei's voice gradually became colder, "I don't think you want to be searched by me in public, right?"

"If you dare to do this, I will call the police!" The age difference finally made her unable to hold back and expose the fact that she stole. "Sir, it's not easy for me either. Please don't embarrass me."

Si Wei shrugged, "So do you think the police will believe a powerful adult or a little thief living in the bonfire area? As someone who hangs out in the bonfire area, you should be very clear about this, right?"

The little girl knew that Si Wei was right. The police had a very serious sense of discrimination against the residents of the bonfire area and would not listen to her explanation at all.

What's more, she really stole the money!

"I... I can give it back to you..." She bit her cracked and white lips. She felt wronged. She deliberately put on the smell of rotten apples on her body so that the victim would not want to communicate with her more. Who knew that she would meet such a guy who was indifferent to this smell today? "But please promise me not to call the police..."

"As long as you return my wallet, I promise not to do that." Si Wei glanced at her exposed arm, which had obvious fresh scars.

The girl took out her wallet without hesitation and gave it back to Si Wei.

But Si Wei was not in a hurry to let her go, "By the way, what's your name?"

She didn't know why Si Wei asked her name, but she still felt that it was better not to hide anything in front of this guy, so she answered honestly: "My name is Alice Madeleine..."

It's a good name.

Si Wei squatted down and chatted with her in the middle of the road, without caring about the eyes of the pedestrians around him. "How did you get the scars on your hands? Were you beaten?"

"You're talking nonsense." As she spoke, Alice covered the scars on her arms with her sleeves.

Not only were her lips pale, but her face was also a bit unhealthy and sallow. Her face shape was good, but the burn marks on her cheeks were very eye-catching.

Alice's hair quality is not very good, and it is a bit greasy. As a girl, she lives like this. Normal people will not bear it.

"I want to hire you, what do you think?"

When Alice heard this, her face became ugly, she crossed her arms and stepped her right leg a little behind her, as if ready to run away at any time.

Little sister, with your small body, do you need to be so wary of me...

Si Wei sighed silently in his heart and said, "You misunderstood, I am not interested in you. I really want to hire you to do things for me in the form of a contract."

"Contract? What is that? And no one will really hire us, they are all liars!"

Si Wei realized that he could not communicate with such a child who looked only in his teens in the same way as adults, so he changed his strategy, "How about this, I will pay you an advance salary first, you help me monitor someone within this week, and report to me at this time next week, how about it?"

"Advance salary?" Alice's words were full of doubt and disbelief, and it was not her fault. After all, there were too many similar cases in the bonfire area, where employers broke their promises and even killed their own mercenaries directly.

Si Wei directly pulled out a large-denomination bill of 100 lem from his wallet and slapped it in Alice's hand, "So much, do you think it's enough?"

The pedestrians around cast even more strange looks...

"One... one hundred lem?!"

Alice had never really owned such a large-denomination bill, so she put it in her pocket the first moment she got it, "Are you serious?"

Without caring about the surrounding eyes, Si Wei nodded, "It's true, as long as you monitor the owner of a grocery store called Versailles in the market, I will give you 100 lem every week, what do you think?"

One hundred lem every week, converted to nearly 400 lem a month, that is much better than Alice's current life!

"Okay! I promise you!"

Without much consideration, the naive Alice directly agreed to Si Wei's verbal contract, without thinking deeply about the problems in it.

It can only be said that she was lucky, but not good enough. If she met Norris, it is estimated that he would directly give hundreds or even thousands of lems and let Alice go back to her mother.