Ring of Fate

Chapter 908: Newly Arrived (Third update, please give me a guaranteed monthly ticket)
On the top floor of an old building without an elevator, Franka looked at the slightly musty rental house and muttered:

"In this location, this shabby house would cost 2200 yuan for the entire house..."

This rental house has three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen and a living room that also serves as a dining room. Each bedroom is very narrow. The master bedroom has a balcony and the house is more than 30 years old.

But even for such a rental house, Franka used her "instigative" ability as a "witch" and her strengths in socializing to negotiate the price from the female landlord to less than two thousand five hundred, and she didn't have to pay one deposit and three payments, but only one deposit and one payment.

"It's okay." Janna was quite satisfied with her current residence.

It was much better than where the family lived before her mother died.

Lumian glanced at the cash in his hand and said to Franka:

"There are only three thousand left. Even with the money you borrowed, it's less than six thousand. And we still have to buy a batch of ordinary clothes. We can't go out like this every day."

"It's okay." Franca was no longer as worried as before in her familiar environment. She smiled calmly and said, "I can borrow from each APP again, and so can you. Together, it's enough to support Ludwig for several months. Are you afraid that you won't make money in such a long time?"

"Is it so easy to borrow money here?" Janna asked in surprise.

In Trier, whether it is to pawn items at a pawn shop or to borrow money from a loan shark, it is not a simple matter. The corresponding items or people must have a certain value. Just now, she saw that Franca just clicked a few times on her mobile phone and successfully borrowed a sum of money.

Is it like this for everyone, or do beautiful “witches” receive special treatment?
Franka curled her lips and said:
"It's quite easy. Even the poorest people have surplus value. If all else fails, they can sell their organs..."

Obviously, she didn't like the fact that online loans were too easy, but now she had to take out a lot of small loans to support Ludwig and the entire team, so she couldn't say the following words.

Lumian took out the golden box returned by the Magician from the Traveler's Bag and asked carefully:

“Is there anyone buying gold here?”

The space in his "traveler's bag" has also shrunk significantly, and is currently only equivalent to a storage room, so he can't store too much food for Ludwig.

"Yes, but the control is very strict. Let's check to see if there are any illegal channels." Franca is well-read and has some understanding of gold trading.

"Illegal channels?" Lumian said thoughtfully, "Then when we find such channels to sell gold, will they think we are outsiders and easy to bully? They dare not call the police on such matters and just swallow our gold without paying?"

Franca glanced at Lumian:
"You want to go fishing again?"

"This is called a gift from a kind-hearted person." Lumian laughed. "They probably won't call the police for this kind of gang-on-gang situation. It won't affect our good image of abiding by the law, right?"

After being influenced by Aurore and Franka for a long time and being in the corresponding environment, Lumian gradually became proficient in the use of certain words and sentences.

"Can't you just find a good job?" Franca scolded with a smile.

"Work will only affect our ability to observe the people and events around Mr. Fool." Lumian had good reasons.

"That's not necessarily true." Franka retorted subconsciously, "If that job can help you become Mr. Fool's colleague, wouldn't it be easier to observe you?"

"That's right..." Lumian's gaze shifted from Franca's face to Janna and Anthony, as if he was thinking about who should apply for the corresponding job.

"Come to think of it, the company Mr. Fool works for was founded by Emperor Roselle." Franka recalled the information in the file. "The Emperor's real name couldn't be Huang Tao, right? According to the Major Arcana, it is occasionally a projection of the Emperor himself, but most of the time it is a fake person created by Mr. Fool in his dreams. Well, now the latter possibility is the only one left. I don't know how long it will take for the Emperor to get the chance to be resurrected..."

As she was talking, Franka suddenly laughed:

“The name of the Emperor’s eldest daughter, Princess Bernadette, in Mr. Fool’s dream was Huang Beibei. Haha, what a cute name. Is this Mr. Fool’s sense of humor?”

"You should be more restrained, Huang Beibei. No, Princess Bernadette often projects her consciousness in. She seems to have an item similar to a lucky gold coin." Janna reminded Franca with a smile. She had just seen the corresponding description in the information.

At this point, Lumian had thought it through:

"I or Anthony will apply for the job. If the 'witch' enters the emperor's company, there may be a lot of trouble and she won't be able to keep a low profile."

Franca and Janna nodded heavily, both remembering the emperor's wise words.

Lumian turned the topic back to the matter of gold:
"If I sell this golden box in my dream, will my golden box disappear in reality?

"If not, can I sell it again and again by leaving the dream and returning?"

"..." Franca, Janna and Anthony were speechless for a moment.

Is this the effect of the gift of Amon?
After a few seconds, Lumian muttered to himself:
“That shouldn’t be possible. Mr. Fool is a great being who controls errors and loopholes. He would not leave such an obvious problem. I suspect that selling the gold in a dream is equivalent to offering it to him…”

"I think so too." Franka agreed.

As they talked, quiet and evil black flames condensed around the two "witches" and the male-looking Lumian.

These twenty or thirty black flames flew to various places in the room, burning any possible insects.

Originally, Lumian could have completed the cleanup by submerging the entire house in the black flames of the "Witch", but he could only perform at the level of Sequence 7 now.

After finishing the cleaning, Franka began to teach Lumian and others how to use mobile phones, and guided Ludwig to play with the children's phone watch.

Before I knew it, the sky gradually darkened.

"I'm hungry!" Ludwig's voice suddenly sounded.

Franka pulled her eyes away from her phone, looked at the dusk sky, and sighed:
"Mobile phones are so fun..."

Time flies so fast!
Shocked, Lumian, Janna and others put away their cell phones and went out to look for a restaurant in order to prevent Ludwig from getting into trouble due to hunger.

They haven't even decided who will sleep in which room.

After leaving the old neighborhood, Franca glanced at the row of shops on the roadside and said with a smile:

"Based on my previous observations, the prototype of this city is a city I have visited before. The cooking standards of the street shops here may be higher than those of large restaurants, and they are more suitable for people like us who cannot afford to go to high-end restaurants.

"Let's eat here first, in case Ludwig can't wait."

She was referring to a small restaurant just on the left side of the community. It was doing pretty good business and had several tables set up on the sidewalk.

Before going out, Lumian and the others had used the "lie" ear clips to adjust their hair and eye colors and modify their faces. Although the handsome men and beautiful women still attracted a lot of hidden or bold gazes, at least they did not appear out of place in the surrounding environment and look like outsiders.

Franka chose a table on the sidewalk, took the menu, and asked with a smile:

"It's spicy, can you eat it?"

“Didn’t you say that the essence of spiciness is pain? What’s so unbearable about that?” Lumian replied without caring at all.

Franca looked at him provocatively, then looked at Janna and said with a smile:
"Not all of them are spicy. Some are sweet and sour, and some are umami. For example, two of my favorite dishes, Kung Pao Chicken and Shredded Pork with Fish Flavor, can be made less spicy. The proportion of sour and sweet flavors may be different in each restaurant. You have to be lucky to find the type that suits your taste best. The two times I was most satisfied with them were once in a time-honored restaurant and once in a fly-in-the-wall restaurant like today.

"The old-fashioned Kung Pao Chicken is seasoned with lychee paste, and the chicken used is all cut from the chicken legs, which is tender and not dry. The fish-flavored pork shreds in that fly-in-the-wall restaurant only use chopped green onions as a side dish, and the sweet, sour, salty, and pickled pepper flavors are all mixed into the sauce and stir-fried with the meat. This is different from the common method, but it is very appetizing and delicious...

"Um, should we open a few bottles of beer? We rarely have team gatherings like this. Although I don't like bottled beer, I can drink it..."

Ever since she introduced the mobile phone on the train, Franka has been in an excited state as if she was back at home. She always introduces and shares incessantly, with a gleam in her eyes, as if hiding a ray of sunshine.

Lumian didn't mind the guy's enthusiastic host-like attitude, taking over all the captain's words, which made him feel calm, relaxed and happy.

It gets dark very late in the summer nights, and now, a little after seven o'clock, the sky is still quite bright. The wind blowing through the tables and chairs on the roadside brings a bit of coolness from the restaurant and other shops, making the people eating and drinking even more lively. Some of them talk and laugh loudly, some play with their mobile phones while eating, without any restraint at all when sitting on the sidewalk.

Janna observed attentively for a while, and whispered to Franca:
"There's a strange sense of relaxation..."

She had seen people sitting on the roadside eating in the botanical garden and market area, but it had never felt similar to her.

"This is one of the things I miss about the past." Franka, who had already ordered the dishes, said with sparkling eyes.

At this time, a girl with smooth black hair tied into a ponytail, wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt, gym shorts, and sandals, came to the door of the small restaurant and said to the busy boss:
"How long will it take to pack?"

"Xiao Xia, why are you here so late today?" the boss asked in a familiar tone.

Before the girl surnamed Xia could answer, someone suddenly shouted from a distance:
"Catch the thief! Catch the thief!"

A figure ran between the tables and chairs, holding a diamond necklace tightly in his hand.

When he ran to the girl named Xia, the latter suddenly raised her foot and gave him a side kick.

boom!
The thief was kicked several meters away, fell to the ground, wailing in pain, and was unable to get up for a short time.

"These sisters are quite fierce." Franca's eyes were full of admiration.

Lumian looked at the profile of the girl named Xia and whispered:
"Is it the Siatas who shared the apartment with Mr. Fool?"

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