Chapter 48 Distinguished Guests

After hanging up the phone, I saw that Clare was almost done with school. Jack followed her example and left a note on the table, telling her that he had something to do and would be out for a while and would be back soon. He went out and took a taxi to the small commodity wholesale market.

This wholesale market has everything from toys, decorations, and wearables, and all kinds of small accessories and gadgets are emerging in an endless stream. Jack searched for almost fifteen minutes and finally found a jewelry store. In this store, I found metal plugs and metal buckles that can be placed in the wardrobe sculptures, with more than ten types and sizes.

Jack carefully compared them, selected three types, and bought more than twenty at a time, thinking that they might be useful in the future. Just after leaving the small commodity wholesale market, Lily called again. I have to say that the efficiency of the special case investigation team is indeed amazing.

This time, Lily told him that after she and Bob arrived, they had found and defeated Mei's ghost, but there seemed to be something wrong there. She had searched it carefully herself, but could not see anything. But for the sake of safety, she had ordered the section of the corridor on the 7th floor of Jincheng Building near the He family to be blocked, and a warning sign was set up, prohibiting entry.

Team leader Lei was on a business trip these two days, and he needed to wait for him to come back to check and confirm. The blockade would be lifted if there was no abnormality. After listening to Lily's words, Jack knew that the time he was waiting for Lei to come back was the best time for him to act. Once the sculptures in the wardrobe were all completed, he would rush to take that guy away immediately, instead of waiting for Lei to return.

Without further ado, he returned to the "Listening Object" store and prepared to take a few small round wooden plugs that could be put into the hollow part of the wardrobe sculpture. This thing was stored in the store before, and it came in handy this time. Jack was not going to open the store today. He had encountered endless things in the past two days, and he was also busy with opening the store, and he couldn't calm down.

As usual, it was almost his usual closing time. Jack quickly found the round wooden stopper, closed the locker near the corner, stood up, turned his head and found that a customer had entered the store in just a short while.

This was a decent-looking woman, about thirty years old, with a little makeup, long wavy hair, a lavender slim suit, a pair of purple high heels, and an exquisite Donkey brand handbag in her hand. Maybe for convenience, she did not put the handbag across her shoulder, but wrapped the golden zipper of the handbag around her right hand twice and just held it like that.

Maybe Jack had just opened the door of the store not long ago, and when he was squatting in the corner to find the wooden stopper, this woman came in. At this moment, she had slowly walked to the middle of the store, looking as she walked, and her eyes were cast on a row of locked counters. The blood pupils (eye pupils) and face skins (masks) were placed in this row of counters.

When Jack saw her, the woman was carefully examining these two sculptures with great interest. "Hello, ma'am, what can I do for you?" Jack looked at the time and felt a little anxious, but he couldn't rush the customer. He was concerned about the wardrobe of strange objects placed in the He family. He was afraid that Lei would suddenly rush back to Jincheng Building overnight. If this guy had great skills and found something wrong with the wardrobe and dealt with it, all his efforts would be wasted.

The woman turned her head and smiled at him, pointing to the top of her head: "Please turn on the light above my head, I can't see clearly." Because Jack didn't intend to do business when he entered the store, he only turned on half of the lights in the store. At this moment, the light above the woman's head was not turned on. Jack didn't say anything and went to turn on all the lights in the store. Although he was anxious, he still stood aside patiently.

The woman approached the sculptures of blood pupils and face skin again and examined them carefully. There were names under the two sculptures, one was "eye pupil" and the other was "mask", and there was no other redundant introduction. In fact, the sculpture of the pupil did not look as hideous as the blood pupil that Jack had encountered. On the contrary, under his production, this blood pupil sculpture was full of absurdity and uniqueness, presenting a sense of detachment that was both realistic and different from reality.

After the woman watched for a while, Jack was a little impatient. Just as he was about to speak, he heard the woman speak. "This 'eye'...how much is it?" Without waiting for Jack to speak, she added: "It gives me a very strange feeling. I have always believed in my own vision. This thing...well, it's good."

"According to your vision, how much do you think it is worth?" Jack smiled and deliberately made an unfathomable look. The woman lowered her head and pondered for a moment, and her slender index finger gently touched her chin: "No less than 10,000."

"Please sit down, ma'am, there is a cushion on the chair here, come, I'll make you tea!" In fact, one of the reasons why Jack did not say that he would not do business today when he first saw this woman was that he found that the other party's dress and temperament were rare. Normally, it was rare for such a customer to come into his small shop. Of course, some customers would just look around and not really buy anything.

However, as long as the other party liked his work, he might become a regular customer in the future and bring him a stable income. Unexpectedly, the other party seemed to have a good eye and took a fancy to his two most proud sculptures at a glance, which were also the most expensive sculptures in the entire shop so far. As for the specific price, Jack actually had a psychological price. The blood pupil sculpture was about 12,000 yuan, and the face mask sculpture was about 30,000 yuan.

The reason for such a price is that the blood pupil, a sculpture close to the artistic atmosphere, cannot be interpreted only by realistic images, but it is necessary to recognize the sense of detachment from reality that it exudes all the time. Anyone who understands it will definitely have this feeling. As for the face sculpture, Jack once experimented that when he stared at it, unless it was to accumulate mental antibodies, it was easy to have an illusion that the face was familiar.

He believed that not only himself, but also others would have the same illusion when seeing the face mask, and vaguely see some familiar faces. It's just that Jack didn't find such a person some time ago. In fact, the most valuable thing about these two sculptures is that they naturally have a bit of abnormal characteristics. This thing is very ethereal. Some sensitive people may be able to feel it, but some people can't.

Looking at the woman's appearance now, it seems that she didn't find the abnormality of the face sculpture, but was more or less attracted by the characteristics of the blood pupil and became very interested in the blood pupil. After making a pot of tea for the other party, Jack opened the glass cabinet, took out the blood pupil, and placed it in front of the woman: "Take a closer look."