freeallnovels Chapter 3862 Liar
Chapter 3862 Liar
Chapter 3862 Liar
Dark Souls... especially Dark Souls of Kintoki's caliber, finding the "Manager" isn't difficult—as long as the "Manager" doesn't deliberately ignore you, or make it impossible for you to find him at all.
In front of a small house that also survived the great disaster in DC, the arrogant henchman of the "shop" was sneaking around peeking out of the door, cautiously peering into the yard in front of the house through the gate.
Since we're already here, why don't we go inside?
...What if John's analysis is wrong?
Why are there no chrysanthemums here?
"Excuse me, are you Mr. Kintoki?"
"No, I'm not!" The shop's top henchman was startled. When he came to his senses and realized that the person who had called out to him was just a little girl with long green hair, dressed in a traditional, heavy maid outfit, he was stunned for a moment. "Uh... I am."
Bai Zhi chuckled softly, "Mr. Jin Shi, you're here to see the master, aren't you?"
“Well, actually… this…” Jin Shi scratched his head and finally gave in, “Okay, I am.”
"Please come in with me." Bai Zhi casually opened the door. "The master is weeding in the yard, so you may have to wait a while. But if you have anything urgent, I will tell the master for you."
"Oh... okay, thank you...weeding???"
……
You'll find that right now, Mr. Luo is sitting in a buzzing lawnmower, moving rhythmically through the enormous backyard behind the villa... like he's playing a bumper car.
Jin Shi eventually followed Bai Zhi here.
The owner was indeed weeding. When Lao Jin saw this, he felt his brain cells were running out again... The new boss's hobby is quite unique.
"Oh, Mr. Jinshi, you've arrived." Boss Luo skillfully drove the newly opened Kaifeng weeding truck. "Wait a moment, I'll be done here soon."
"No rush... You play first... you're busy!"
Boss Luo simply smiled calmly.
Kintoki felt increasingly uneasy... mainly because he wasn't used to it—the unease stemmed from the fact that he hadn't seen Miss Yuya here.
"well……"
"Mr. Kinshi, just call me Baizhi!"
“Little Bai Zhi… little girl, I don’t think I’ve seen Miss You Ye?” Jin Shi asked quietly in a low voice.
“Miss Youye had something to take care of and left this morning.” Bai Zhi didn’t hide anything. “She told me to keep an eye on things, saying that you might come today, so I’ve been keeping an eye on the door.”
"...Thank you for your hard work." Jin Shi swallowed subconsciously, feeling a chill in his heart. Eleanor's successor was quite something; had she foreseen all of this?
"Then...did she say anything else?" Jin Shi asked thoughtfully.
"Hmm..." Bai Zhi pressed her finger to her lips and thought for a moment before saying, "Miss Youye said..."
As she spoke, Bai Zhi suddenly glared at him, revealing a slightly stern look, and even mimicked the maid's tone, "Jin Shi, squat down!"
In an instant, Kintoki's mind went blank. He was basically in a state where his body's instincts were faster than his brain's, and he immediately squatted down on the ground.
"And then?" Kintoki wasn't embarrassed or annoyed after squatting down; he was just curious why the maid had made him squat down.
"Hmm..." Bai Zhi pondered for a while, and when she saw Jin Shi becoming more and more uneasy, she chuckled, "Actually, no! Mr. Jin Shi, you can stand up now."
"Huh? That's it?"
“Yes, that’s right.” Bai Zhi said cheerfully, “Miss Youye said that as long as it’s just a joke, she won’t make you squat on the ground and not move for the rest of your life. After all, the shop still needs someone to do things.”
lifetime……
How long is a Dark Souls character's lifetime...?
forever……
Jin Shi shivered inexplicably, realizing that he had almost really fallen into a crisis of having to squat for the rest of his life... Damn it.
The buzzing of the lawnmower approached from afar, and Kintoki immediately stood up straight and bowed at a ninety-degree angle, "BOSS!"
"Master, you've worked hard. I've prepared afternoon tea. Shall we serve it now?" Bai Zhi asked softly.
"No, thank you." Boss Luo casually took off his sun hat and looked at Jin Shi, saying, "Mr. Jin Shi, do you have time to come with me somewhere?"
"Have!"
……
……
The city's disaster response and reconstruction efforts are in full swing.
In the past two days, rescue teams have been arriving at the scene one after another, and a large number of people have been resettled.
Currently, the world's attention is focused on this city, with journalists from all over the world constantly moving through it to uncover more details of the disaster.
At the site of the nuclear explosion, the area around the remaining three-person statue is now filled with all sorts of flowers, as well as candles that are either lit or have already burned out.
This is a spontaneous act of commemoration of the local disaster.
Even though several days have passed, people continue to come to pay their respects before this peculiar statue.
Nearby, a mother in her thirties was telling her young child the story behind the name Abraham Lincoln.
A tall woman wearing a baseball cap, with her long silver hair completely pulled back, and holding a bouquet of bellflowers, slowly passed by the mother and son.
The woman holding the bellflowers did not attract the attention of the people around her.
She silently approached the statue, her gaze fixed on the figure in the center, whose hands were raised in a gesture of pain, a hint of sorrow flashing in her eyes.
"Master, Roseweather is late..."
"I will now resurrect you and bring you back to life..."
The woman... Roseweather took a deep breath, calmed herself, and took out an ancient gold coin from the bellflower.
The Miracle: The Coin of Resurrection!
Silently praying, Roseweather gently tossed down the [Resurrection Coin] in her hand.
Time seemed to slow down, and Roseweather could clearly see every trajectory of the falling gold coin... Slowly, slowly, the gold coin finally landed on the ground with a crisp clinking sound.
Roseweather was secretly thrilled. The moment the [Resurrection Coin] landed would be the moment its master was resurrected.
"Owner……"
Roseweather stared at the statue before her with excitement.
One second, two seconds... more than ten seconds have passed, but the statue remains the same. Wednesday, sandwiched between the "Soldier of the Fatherland" and "Abraham" within the statue, still looks pained.
No resurrection!
"how come!!"
In an instant, Roseweather's pupils contracted sharply. She instinctively reached out and grabbed the gold coins from the ground, then threw them down again.
Once, twice, three times... four times!
Each time, I was filled with intense anticipation, and each outcome brought with it fear and unease!
"Impossible, how could this happen... this gold coin..."
Roseweather tossed the coin for the sixth time, and it rolled slowly away... Her gaze seemed to lose focus as the coin rolled, and a feeling of weakness made the Valkyrie almost unable to stand.
Something's happened... The gold coins are invalid... No, the gold coins, were they switched back then?!
In an instant, a wickedly grinning face and the faint smell of cigarettes began to assault Roseweiser's memory!
As if falling into an abyss, the scene of meeting John flashed carefully through her mind like a slow-motion video.
anger!
After her anger subsided, the Valkyrie felt a chill run down her spine... She had messed up the last task her master had given her!
"Big sister, you dropped something!"
The child who had been listening to his mother tell the story of Abraham Lincoln walked over quickly, and an old gold coin once again appeared in Roseweather's sight in his small palm.
She instinctively took the gold coin back from the child's hand, her voice hoarse, "Thank you..."
"You're welcome!" the child said with a bright smile. "Goodbye, big sister!"
Roseweather nodded silently. The gold coin that had returned to her hand suddenly lost its original color... Under Roseweather's gloomy gaze, the miraculous [Resurrection Coin] ultimately turned into a one-cent coin.
A coin featuring the portrait of Abraham Lincoln, a figure familiar to many.
With a determined look, Roseweather turned sharply and knelt before the statue. "I will find that despicable man, reclaim the gold coins, and after I resurrect you, I will commit suicide before you to atone for my sins!!"
The Valkyrie quietly departed.
……
With the Valkyrie's abilities, she could leave the crowd silently without anyone noticing... or at least, very few people would notice.
At that moment, among the mourners, a girl with wheat-colored skin suddenly looked around in confusion.
The girl looked around carefully but found nothing, and could only shake her head in confusion. The ancient Mayan girl sighed and looked at the statue in front of her with a complicated expression.
But what she was really focused on was the "Soldier of the Homeland" among the three statues.
“Grandpa, elders, uncles and aunts…” Taina murmured to herself, “Our enemy is dead, although I didn’t avenge him myself… I hope your souls can rest in peace.”
The ancient Mayan girl had mixed feelings about the final outcome of the enemy who wiped out her tribe—ever since the tribe was destroyed, hatred had been like a mountain, constantly weighing her down and making it hard to breathe.
She thought this path of revenge would be enough to sustain her for the rest of her life, but she never expected that her enemy would die here in a way that no one could have foreseen.
The girl, who had suddenly lost her purpose, was at a loss as to what to do next.
Tina silently left the crowd and wandered aimlessly through the city that was starting to get lively again... except that there were fewer mobile food carts on the street and the shops were not open.
Food... food is easy to get from the aid station.
"Damn John, you stinky John, you bastard, you big liar, you big bad guy, don't let me find you!!"
She was supposed to be with John... but John disappeared while the girl was only resting for a short while... and along with him disappeared the spoils of war from the Dead Apostles that she had painstakingly collected!
They didn't even pay me the promised $25 an hour!
Taina realized she had been scammed and had been exploited for her labor the whole way!
"Don't let me find you!!" the girl roared, her fur standing on end, in the bustling street. "Liar!!"
Snapped--!
A sudden, sharp pain shot through the back of her head... The girl, who had been slapped by someone's large hand, immediately clutched her head and squatted on the ground in pain.
"I think I heard you talking badly about me?"
"It's you..." When Tina realized that the person who "attacked" her was none other than John, she immediately shuddered and activated [Bear Strength] and [Wolf Speed] on herself. "You dare to show your face again!!"
John smiled and reached out to press the girl's head down, instantly eliminating her superhuman strength... but the girl still swung her arms—Water Wheel Fist!
"Go to hell, you liar!! You bastard!! You bad guy!!"
"Don't you want payment?"
"……Um??"
……
John tossed a thick envelope onto a park bench.
The girl looked suspiciously at the envelope on the chair, her eyes still wary.
“Here’s your payment,” John said with a smile. “Count it; it’ll be more than you expect.”
Tina remained skeptical, but still opened the letter... Inside was a thick stack of banknotes—the banknotes she recognized, clearly not the agreed-upon $25 per hour.
“There’s another check for a million dollars.” John sat down in his chair and lit a cigarette. “You probably don’t have a bank account, right? Find some time to open one yourself.”
“These…these are really for me?” Tina stared at John in disbelief. “Why would you…”
“Besides the hourly wage I promised you, the rest is naturally the bounty for hunting down the Dead Apostles.” John squinted and said, “However, the city has been in chaos these past few days, so I waited a while for them to finish counting and then pay out the bounty… and here it is, delivered to you right away, since we agreed to hunt as a team.”
John paused, flicked his cigarette ash, and then revealed a playful look: "Speaking of which, you didn't think I ran off with the spoils, did you?"
"No...no."
"Did you insult me?"
"No...no, I didn't..."
"Why did you curse?"
"You're so annoying!!!"
"Have you eaten?" John, knowing when to stop, casually pulled out a wrapped hot dog bun and tossed it to the girl in front of him. "Try it. I made it before I left. I added pickles on purpose. It should taste good."
Meow...
The ancient Mayan girl reluctantly sat down next to her and began eating the still-warm hot dog with both hands.
The park was unusually quiet as no one came by, only the smoke John exhaled slowly dissipating over time... The girl ate very slowly.
She etched the taste of every bite into her heart.
Do you have anywhere you want to go in the future?
"do not know……"
"Oh." John lit another cigarette before casually saying, "I'm currently short of an exorcism assistant. Are you interested? The monthly salary is ten thousand, room and board included, but there's only one condition: you have to be obedient. Can you do that?"
“Ten thousand…” Taina subconsciously counted her fingers, which were stained with some hamburger sauce.
John teased the girl, saying, "Think about it. The benefits are great, and if I'm satisfied with your job, I might even help you find a partner. When you get married, I'll prepare a generous dowry."
"Go to hell!" The girl angrily crumpled the paper bag containing the hot dog into a ball, threw it at John, and stormed off.
“Then goodbye.” John chuckled and said, “By the way, here’s a reminder: after this disaster, the US government has decided to implement nationwide control over non-humans. It seems that any non-human who doesn’t have a permit to operate without official permission will be arrested and imprisoned… You’d better be careful not to get arrested. Some of the government’s mutant thugs are quite formidable… for you.”
The girl paused, her stiff body slowly turning around.
John then took out an ID card from the inside pocket of his trench coat... With Tina's eyesight, she could easily see that her own photo was printed on the ID card.
"Oh dear, what a pity." John sighed. "It seems that this permit I've been painstakingly preparing these past few days is useless now. Should I just tear it up?"
"……holiday!!"
"What?" John chuckled softly.
"You can't keep troubling me!! Besides pay, you also have to promise to give me a day off every month!!" the girl snapped. "I have to pray on the first day of every month and the middle day of the month!! You have to give me a day off!!"
"Deal made."
John threw the documents he was holding away.
...A worker who gets two days off a month is truly a qualified ox or horse.