Chapter 18 I Want
Chapter 18 I want...
"Sit down first."
Sophia sat on the chair opposite Joyce, only halfway up her buttocks, and began to feel uncomfortable.
"The coffee tastes very good, did you make it?"
"Yes, I noticed that you don't like to drink original coffee." After Sophia finished speaking, she looked up at him secretly.
I didn't notice it, but my observation skills are pretty good... Joyce muttered in his mind. He noticed the maid's nervousness. He put his elbows on the table, leaned forward, and pretended to be threatening:
"What are you afraid of? Are you worried that I am an evil wizard who will decide to kill someone after you discover the secret?"
"No."
For some reason, Sophia felt more at ease when she heard Mr. Baron's familiar teasing.
Well... Seeing that the threat did not have the expected effect, Joyce lamented that it was difficult to deceive girls nowadays, and leaned back in the chair again:
"You ask and I answer? Or do you listen to what I say?"
Sophia remained silent and expressed her choice.
As a result, Joyce began to selectively popularize science:
"In the Second Age, after the birth of mankind, extraordinary people began to be active in various continents, helping mankind survive under the oppression of giants, dragons, elves and other creatures."
"Since the Fourth Age, humans have become the masters of all continents, extraordinary powers have begun to retreat, and the church where the Seven Gods belong has become the most powerful organization of Extraordinaries."
Having said this, Joyce paused for a moment, and as expected saw Sophia's surprised look in her eyes. He didn't care and continued to talk to himself:
"As I said before, extraordinary people are a group of people with magical abilities. They can control fire, condense ice, become invisible, fly... anything that exists in your imagination can be realized."
"If you want to become an extraordinary person, you need to take the corresponding magic potion. According to the extraordinary abilities and authority obtained, it is divided into twenty-two paths."
"The Churches of the Seven Gods each have different formulas for potions. In addition, there are many secret organizations in the extraordinary world, most of which are hidden from the light and are often hunted down by official forces."
"Most of the evil and cruel sacrificial rituals you have heard of were done by them just to please the evil gods they believe in."
"So, the extraordinary world is not the mysterious beauty you dream of, but it is always facing danger. This danger not only comes from the outside, but also comes from the extraordinary people themselves."
"While gaining extraordinary power, extraordinary people are also being eroded by power. It is very common for them to lose control. They may fall into the abyss at any time and become the monster they hate most."
"How about it, are you still interested in becoming an extraordinary person?"
The maid girl lowered her head, making it difficult to see her expression. She didn't know what she was thinking... Joyce's mouth felt dry as she spoke, and she raised her glass and took a sip of the still warm coffee.
Sophia suddenly raised her head and asked:
"What are the twenty-two paths?"
Ahem... Joyce almost spit out the coffee... Beauty, your focus is wrong... He shrugged and said helplessly:
"I'm just a new Extraordinary. I'm currently at the bottom of the Extraordinary world. How can I know everything!"
Although I really know everything, I can't tell you... He saw the maid lady looking remorseful for asking a stupid question, and then added:
"However, I still know a little bit about it, such as the audience channel."
Sophia showed curious eyes at the right time and listened to Mr. Baron’s introduction:
"Extraordinary people on the audience path are good at observing and figuring out other people's psychological activities, understanding their true inner thoughts, and subtly influencing or even changing people's behavior through suggestions."
It sounded so magical, and a bit familiar... Sophia recalled her embarrassing behavior in the morning and blurted out:
"Those golden pupils!"
Joyce nodded to confirm her guess:
"Yes, that is a magical item that the audience can access."
Then, he explained a lot of common sense about the extraordinary world. After discovering that the maid lady had a tendency of "knowledge indigestion", he stopped decisively and said with relief:
"You have enough time to think about it. After you really think about the pros and cons, tell me your decision."
"As long as that happens, I will still be alive."
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Dean is very excited and proud now. If he were to use an ancient poem to describe his mood, it would definitely be "The spring breeze is so proud that the horse's hoof is so bad that he can see all the flowers in Chang'an in one day."
He clearly remembered the expressions of all the police officers when he received the letter sent by Baron Best, including surprise, confusion, envy, jealousy...
After tomorrow, the entire police department will know about this, which gives him a sense of satisfaction that he has never felt before.
However, when he opened the letter alone, Dean was uneasy because he had not yet found out what Baron Best had ordered, and he only had some clues for the time being.
Fortunately, the letter did not mention this.
Baron Best asked him to go to No. 52 Pulitzer Street immediately to deal with the abnormality in that house. As for the abnormality, the letter did not mention it and only included a key.
Dean didn't dare to delay, he even called a carriage without any worries, because he knew that as long as he completed the task successfully, he would get more.
Pulitzer Street is not a particularly prosperous street. It is populated by middle-class people with stable jobs, but its housing prices and rents are beyond the affordability of Dean, a policeman.
After getting off the bus near House 50 and paying the fare, Dean shook his head and looked around quickly. Although he didn't know why Baron Best warned him to be cautious, it didn't prevent him from being cautious all the time. This was his way of survival in the gang.
Not finding any suspicious people or things, he walked towards House 52, took out the key calmly, opened the door, entered the house, and closed the door, as skilled as returning to his own home.
After seeing the scene in the living room, Dean frowned. It's not that he hasn't seen dead people before. Not to mention that only one eye was dug out, it was not uncommon to have broken legs and feet.
What confused him was why a distinguished baron would let him deal with a corpse?
He got closer and saw a wanted poster next to the corpse, which read "Pirate, Lucky Clo, bounty of 1,200 pounds", and the portrait on the wanted poster looked exactly like the corpse.
Pirates are common in Bayam, and dead pirates are not uncommon, but the 1,200-pound pirate corpse is beyond Dean's knowledge.
His first reaction was to exchange the bounty and flee, but then he thought, Baron Best dared to leave the matter to him, was he confident in him or was he on guard?
He didn't dare to gamble, nor did he want to gamble. There were obviously safer and more transparent channels for promotion, and only fools would take risks.
He was good at handling corpses. Although he didn't often exchange bounties, there were still channels, but part of the bounty would be deducted. Presumably, the Baron would not care about these details.
After thinking it through, Dean wiped the blood in the living room as quickly as possible, restored the messy furniture, put the corpse into a large sack and took it away without being discovered by anyone.
He didn't know that after midnight, a black shadow sneaked into the house, circled around, and left in confusion.
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After dinner, Joyce was thinking about something in the bedroom. Sophia suddenly knocked on the door and walked in, saying firmly:
"I've decided."
"I want to become an extraordinary person."
"I want to become an 'audience'."
Please recommend and collect... I don't know if I can sign a contract, so I'll just write it like this first, alas