cough..."
"Cough cough."
Another rapid but weak cough rang out, and Lin Fan turned his head as well.
Only then did they see an elderly man with a full head of white hair staring intently at the two of them from a newsstand on the roadside not far from Buckingham.
His eyes were cloudy, his body was hunched, and his face was pale.
They looked like they could die at any moment.
"Young man, cough cough..."
"What... what are you going to do?" the old man asked, panting heavily.
The younger sister craned her neck curiously, scrutinizing the old man.
The sorceress flicked her wrist quickly, hiding the five incense sticks in her sleeve, and said sweetly, "Grandpa, we've come looking for work. We heard that Bai Jinhan can earn a lot of money, is that true?"
Upon hearing this, the old man stared blankly at her and Lin Fan.
"You guys... you'd better not do that. Earning money here is really hard work..."
"Cough cough..."
"Sigh... young people, you still have to work hard." He muttered to himself for a moment, then slowly said, "They all work the night shift, so they're not open much during the day. If you come now, you probably won't find any jobs..."
"Actually, young people... cough cough, don't always think about making a quick buck, the price is too high..."
"The day before yesterday and yesterday, three or four bodies were carried out. Child…"
Hearing the old man's words, Lin Fan and his companion exchanged a glance and walked towards him.
"Grandpa, could you tell us more about Bai Jinhang? My brother and I are from a mountain village. We have sick parents and a younger brother who is still in school. We just want to earn some money as soon as possible..."
The old man sighed upon hearing this: "Ah... every girl who drives here says the same thing."
"A gambler father, a sick mother, a younger brother going to school, and a broken girl..."
"Everyone has their reasons for doing it, but they don't seem to think about what kind of hell this place is..."
According to the old man's account, there were many women in Buckingham, just like the stories in the movies Lin Fan had seen in his previous life. They either willingly or involuntarily succumbed to this den of iniquity, becoming slaves and tools of desire.
Or... fertilizer that nourishes evil.
Every few days, someone dies here, mostly girls, but occasionally a man.
After saying goodbye to the coughing old man, the two returned to the door. Lin Fan asked curiously, "Sister Shaman, why hasn't this place been shut down?"
Faced with Lin Fan's question, the sorceress smiled helplessly.
"We Guardians don't care about these things. As long as those people didn't die from evil spirits or Sequencers, we won't interfere..."
"Of course, this rule was also established to prevent the guardians from having too much power and thus losing themselves."
"Simply put, the sins of ordinary people are the responsibility of ordinary people, and the sins of the extraordinary are the responsibility of the extraordinary..."
Lin Fan nodded, said nothing more, and reached out again to bang on the door!
Bang!
Bang! Bang!
Bang bang bang bang bang!
The dull banging on the door carried far, far away.
They finally heard a response from inside the door.
"What are you banging for? So early in the morning! What's going on?" Accompanied by an angry response, dull footsteps 'thudding' followed.
It was as if someone was walking along the ground, rubbing their feet against the floor.
Lin Fan's vision blurred for a moment, and his gaze seemed to penetrate the heavy door in front of him, allowing him to see into the room.
In the dark room, there seemed to be a drunk man, dragging his feet and cursing as he walked towards the door.
His face was ashen, with a very unhealthy look.
Click...
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With the sound of the door opening, Lin Fan finally saw the people inside.
He was taken aback; the person inside was the same as the one he had just seen.
His face was pale, devoid of any color, and his hair was a mess, like a bird's nest.
He glanced sideways at Lin Fan, then focused his gaze on the incense sticks in the sorceress's hand.
"What are you doing? We worship Guan Yu, not the God of Wealth." He mistook the fortune teller for a beggar who had come to his door to "deliver the God of Wealth."
"I'm not here to deliver the God of Wealth." The fortune teller chuckled, and at the same time, she gently made a hand seal with the finger hidden behind her back. Suddenly, the man felt as if his leg had stepped into empty air and he kicked off the door.
The sorceress entered, twirling incense sticks. Lin Fan smiled slightly, then followed closely behind, carrying his younger sister, and entered through the gate as well.
It's so cold!
The moment Lin Fan entered the Buckingham lobby, he felt an extremely unnatural chill. It made his hair stand on end and his scalp tingle.
Especially given the complete darkness of the lobby at that moment, it created a rather eerie feeling.
The sorceress beside them seemed to sense the eeriness as well. She shrugged and said, "Why is it so cold? Didn't you turn on the air conditioning? Also... could you turn on the lights? It's so dark."
The person who opened the door was already furious that the two had slipped through the door and entered the lobby. Now, hearing that they still dared to make demands, he was even more enraged.
"What are you doing here? Stop whining!"
He casually picked up a baseball bat from behind the door and held it in his hand, his face full of arrogance.
The fortune teller and Lin Fan exchanged a glance, and a smile involuntarily appeared on their lips.
The sorceress smiled and extended her left hand, which was not holding the incense sticks.
She opened her fair and slender palm, revealing a copper coin in her hand.
The copper coin rolled in her palm as if it were alive, and then she flicked it gently with her finger.
The copper coin, gleaming with a yellowish light, flipped rapidly, tracing a bright yellow parabola above their heads, attracting the attention of Lin Fan and the man.
Snap!
The copper coin landed in her palm, and with a flick of her wrist, a red leather document appeared in her hand. On the front of the document was a gold-embossed emblem of the Great Xia Dynasty.
A circular badge composed of ears of wheat, stars, and the Summer Palace.
Below the badge are three strong, powerful gold characters.
[Guardians]
Lin Fan was momentarily dazed.
'Why don't I have this document?'
How did she conjure her up? A magic trick? Or the skill of a sorceress?
To be honest, as a teenager, he really wanted to learn that pretentious pose. He secretly flipped his arms around his sister, subtly mimicking the fortune teller's posture, while simultaneously plotting in his mind how to make his document-holding pose even cooler.
"Guardians?"
Upon seeing the identification badge bearing the emblem of the Great Xia Dynasty, the man immediately dropped his baseball bat, though his words remained somewhat sarcastic:
What are you doing here? We don't seem to be under your jurisdiction.
"Whether it falls under our jurisdiction or not is not up to you to decide."
"Turn on the lights, and then call your supervisor out."
...
Five minutes later, in the lobby.
The lights were on full display.
Lin Fan held his younger sister and sat with the sorceress on the sofa on the left side of the lobby, which was used to welcome guests.
In front of them stood a middle-aged man dressed in a gorgeous, tight-fitting suit.
"Sirs, this is just a small token of my appreciation."
"Please accept this, it's nothing special, just a small token of my appreciation..."
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