Chapter 15 Wang Defa, the Owner of the Internet Café

Qin Siyang and Wen Shu left the campus side by side.

At a crossroads, the two were going in different directions.

Qin Siyang kept observing behind him. After confirming that Li Jingwen and the others were not following them, he said, "Don't worry. They didn't follow. I'm really sorry that you got involved in today's matter."

Wen Shu glanced at Qin Siyang, and her expression was somewhat complicated.

In the end, she still softly said, "Thank you."

However, her cheeks were already swollen and red from the beating, and she spoke a bit indistinctly, which made Qin Siyang feel even more guilty.

Qin Siyang waved his hand: "Don't say thanks. You were beaten precisely because of my business. Come to think of it, it's my problem too. Seeing you in such a sorry state, I don't feel good about it either."

"No, I was beaten because of Li Jingwen and the others. It has not much to do with you. You saved me and also solved the subsequent trouble for me. I should be grateful."

Qin Siyang looked at Wen Shu's unyielding eyes and shrugged: "But what your eyes express is not the same as what you say. I can see the disgust for me in your eyes."

"You're right about that feeling. Although rationally I know that you're not at fault. But emotionally, I still can't help being a bit distant from you. I hope you can understand."

Qin Siyang pondered for a moment: "Even though I slapped Li Jingwen twice for you and also got rid of the trouble she might cause in the future?"

Wen Shu nodded slightly: "Even though you slapped Li Jingwen twice for me and also got rid of the trouble she might cause in the future."

After saying that, Wen Shu turned around and left.

Qin Siyang felt a bit annoyed.

Li Jingwen's stupidity and viciousness somewhat exceeded his imagination.

Even when he was deceived in his previous life, he only thought that Li Jingwen was a gold digger who was two-timing.

Now it seems that there is something fundamentally wrong with Li Jingwen, and she is basically beyond redemption.

However, Qin Siyang felt a bit sorry for involving Wen Shu in this matter.

This was truly an unwarranted disaster. If it were him, he might have already resorted to murder.

Qin Siyang sighed and carried the lunch box filled with food back home.

Today's meal was still the Thousand-foot Mushroom dish, which was one of Qin Siyang's favorite dishes in the cafeteria.

Aunt Zhang, who served the food in the cafeteria, seemed to know his preference and specially gave him two extra scoops. He also expressed his gratitude to Aunt Zhang.

He moved a chair and sat by the window. While eating, he admired the various gods wandering outside the window.

He looked so engrossed, just like a cat that was eating cat food while admiring the delicious fish in the aquarium.

After finishing the meal, he washed the lunch box, took a cold shower, and then went to bed.

Qin Siyang had completely let go of his concerns.

What was the point of staying at home at night?

Anyway, there was nothing to do after getting home, so it was better to go to bed early and get up early to keep a good body. After a good sleep, Qin Siyang had much less to worry about.

Before going out, he took a look at today's calendar.

[January 5th, 2010 in the Blue Star Era]

[Tuesday in the Western Calendar]

[The 22nd day of the 11th lunar month in the Year of the Ox of the Lunar Calendar. It is suitable for sacrifice.]

When he woke up the next day, Qin Siyang still carried a bag and a lunch box as usual.

But considering that he was pestered by that meddlesome teacher yesterday, he found two more books and stuffed them into the bag.

However, he had already lost the textbooks for this semester, and what he took were the textbooks from last year.

Anyway, it was just to fool around, so it didn't matter.

After leaving home, he made a detour to the entrance of the internet café again.

This time, he found that it wasn't Liu Dazhi sitting at the bar, but a middle-aged man with a bushy beard.

Qin Siyang smiled slightly.

Here came the opportunity.

He put on the hood of his sweatshirt, bypassed the surveillance camera at the entrance of the internet café, and waved to the bearded middle-aged man at the bar, motioning for him to come out for a moment.

The middle-aged man pointed at himself curiously: "Looking for me?"

Qin Siyang nodded: "That's right."

The middle-aged man was a bit puzzled, but he still came out.

After all, Qin Siyang looked young and seemed to be a student, so he probably wouldn't do anything bad.

After the man came out, Qin Siyang led him to the alley behind the internet café. The garbage in the alley was still there, and the smell of swill was even stronger.

Even Qin Siyang, who disliked the cafeteria, had to admit that compared with the current place, the cafeteria was like paradise.

The owner of the internet café also came over covering his nose, looking around with a look of disgust, as if he didn't know that the garbage had been thrown behind the internet café.

He muttered: "Liu Dazhi, this lazy guy. I told him to throw the garbage at the garbage dump, but he actually threw it here! I'll definitely teach him a lesson!"

Qin Siyang heard this but didn't respond.

When they reached the place where he had talked with Liu Dazhi that night, Qin Siyang finally asked: "Are you the owner of this internet café?"

"Yes, it's me."

"Two people were taken away by the police from your internet café the other day, and one of them is my friend."

After hearing this, the owner of the internet café frowned: "Your friend was taken away. What do you want from me?"

"You know what the two people taken away by the police were doing, right?"

The owner was no pushover. Hearing Qin Siyang's words and looking at his young face, he immediately became vigilant: "What do you want to say? Are you trying to trick me into saying something?"

"Trick you into saying something?" Qin Siyang smiled softly: "There's no need for that. My friend sent me a message before being taken away by the police, saying that he left something here. I want to check the surveillance footage from that day."

The owner of the internet café snorted coldly: "You little brat are trying to play me? Do you think you can just check the surveillance footage whenever you want?"

"The thing he left for me is worth twenty silver coins. If we find it, I'll give you one silver coin."

"Give me a silver coin? Look at what you're wearing. All your clothes together are not worth a few copper coins. What are you bragging about here..."

Before the owner of the internet café could finish his words, Qin Siyang took out a silver coin.

The silver coin, which emitted a dim white light under the starlight, immediately caught the attention of the internet café owner.

"You..."

Qin Siyang flipped the silver coin in his hand, making a characteristic metallic crisp sound, and then caught it again.

"What do you think of my offer?"

Qin Siyang had always carried this silver coin that he had scavenged from the three thugs.

There were too many copper coins. If he carried them on him, they would make noise and attract attention.

But he only had one silver coin, and when it was in his pocket, no one would notice it. Moreover, a silver coin was of great value, and one could do many things with it.

However, due to his status, he couldn't spend the silver coin at all.

He couldn't register at the Sequence Ability User Administration Bureau for now, and he had no access to deeper-level transactions. As for the black market and such, he knew nothing about them.

This silver coin had become an absolute鸡肋 (a thing that is of little value or use but hard to discard).

But Qin Siyang was clearly aware that as he gradually became stronger and became a registered sequence ability user, the value of this silver coin would keep decreasing—because he wouldn't be short of money anymore.

With the talent of the "God Eater," even if he spent all his money, it would come back.

So, in order to maximize the benefits of this silver coin, Qin Siyang chose to use it as soon as possible.

For example, use it to buy a coffin for Liu Dazhi. The owner swallowed his saliva: "What on earth are you people doing?!"

Qin Siyang smiled: "You don't know? That's for the best. If you don't know, you'll avoid a lot of trouble."

"Now, let's get back to the previous question. Can you take this silver coin?"

The owner of the internet café rolled his eyes twice, gritted his teeth and said, "Follow me."

With that, he led Qin Siyang to a small, dark warehouse next to the internet café.

Qin Siyang frowned. He didn't know that this small room next to the internet café, which was never opened, also belonged to the internet café owner.

The warehouse was filled with sundries, and there were many discarded machines covered in dust.

Only a table in the middle and the surrounding area were very clean.

There were three monitors on the table, and each monitor displayed four surveillance images.

"The surveillance footage is all here. Look for it. Let's make it clear first. If I let you check the surveillance, whether you find what you're looking for or not, you have to give me a silver coin."

The owner of the internet café seemed worried that Qin Siyang would go back on his word, so he said this as soon as he entered the room.

"Wait a moment." Qin Siyang interrupted.

"What's wrong now?"

"Do I have to check the surveillance footage here? Can't I check it on the computer at the bar? I think there's a light there, and it's clearer to see."

The owner of the internet café said: "The computer at the bar is just for arranging customers to log in and out and monitoring the computers. It can't be used to check the surveillance footage."

Qin Siyang hesitated for a moment, nodded, and walked over to check the surveillance.

When he found the surveillance footage for January 3rd, he discovered that there was only footage from the evening, and there was no footage from the morning and afternoon. He immediately frowned. "Why isn't there any surveillance footage from the morning of January 3rd?!"

The owner of the internet café curled his lips: "The electricity bill is so expensive. Of course, the camera can't be on all the time. I usually turn it on every few days. Only when I know that the personnel from the United Government are coming for inspection will I turn it on in advance and record for 24 hours."

Qin Siyang clenched his fists and looked at the owner of the internet café coldly: "Are you playing tricks on me? Without the footage from when the police came in the morning of that day, how am I supposed to check?"

The owner of the internet café grinned and picked up a sledgehammer from the side: "We agreed before. Even if you can't find it, you still have to give me a silver coin. Otherwise..."

Qin Siyang raised his foot and stepped on a discarded monitor beside him. In the sight of the internet café owner, he slowly crushed the big-headed monitor with an iron shell until it turned into a flat disc.

He kicked the iron disc at his feet aside, and immediately smashed three or four more monitors: "Otherwise, what?"

The owner of the internet café immediately panicked: "You... you are... a sequence ability user!"

Qin Siyang glanced at the owner of the internet café contemptuously: "What kind of person do you think can do business worth twenty silver coins in this shabby internet café on the edge of the safe zone? Didn't you have any prediction about my identity?"

"Or do you think that I'm simply impossible to be involved in a business worth twenty silver coins?"

The owner of the internet café was completely stunned. His body trembled with fear, and the sledgehammer in his hand fell to the ground.

Qin Siyang always spoke vaguely, not making anything clear, which gave the owner of the internet café unlimited room for imagination.

In an instant, the owner of the internet café immediately imagined a sequence ability user organization that specialized in running the black market.

And Qin Siyang was one of the managers in charge of collecting debts!

"Spare my life! Spare my life, please. I don't know anything! I didn't mean to delay your business!"

Qin Siyang could tell that the owner of the internet café thought he was an outlaw who specialized in underground business. So, he played along and directly played the role that the owner of the internet café had in mind for him.

"Of course I know you don't know anything. If you knew something and still dared to hide it from me, you'd be a corpse by now."

"Yes, yes, yes! It's great that you understand!"

Hearing Qin Siyang excuse him, the owner of the internet café quickly took the opportunity to flatter him.

"However, you're lucky today. I'm quite easy to talk to."

After saying that, Qin Siyang threw the silver coin to the owner of the internet café.

The owner of the internet café looked at the silver coin in his hand and felt it was extremely烫手. He quickly refused: "No, no, no. I can't take this. You didn't find the footage, so I can't just take it for nothing."

"I might come here to look for something again in the future. I don't want to make a big fuss about it. This silver coin is your hush money."

"Is this... appropriate..."

I'm giving it to you, so just take it."

Qin Siyang walked up to the owner of the internet café again and patted him on the shoulder twice gently: "I'm only worried about one thing. You won't tell the police about what happened between us, will you? If you sell me out, the next time our people come, it won't be a silver coin that we give you. Understand?"

"No, no, no. Absolutely not! You can trust me! You should also know that since I can run an internet café in this shabby place, I do have some connections. As long as there's no evidence, the police station won't be able to do anything to me."

Then the owner of the internet café grinned and showed an obsequious expression: "Besides, if I betrayed you, I'd have to hand over this silver coin, right? With so much money, why would I want to ask for trouble? You can come whenever you want. If I find something, I can also wait for you to come and pick it up."

"Okay. But I might come here to use the computer in the future. I hope you can keep it a secret for me."

The owner of the internet café said: "You can come directly to the warehouse! Use the computer in the warehouse! This computer for checking the surveillance is the latest purchase! Moreover, the login port for the computer's internet connection is encrypted, and even the people from the police station can't locate it!"

After saying that, he took a key off the keychain around his waist and handed it to Qin Siyang.

Qin Siyang took the key, nodded in satisfaction, and then suddenly thought of something: "There's no monitoring software on this computer, is there?"

"No! Only I can enter this warehouse, and I use this computer myself. What would I do by monitoring myself!"

"Okay, I see. Thank you."

"You're being too polite. Just give me your instructions if you need anything! My name is Wang Defa. You can just call me Afa."

"Okay, Afa. I'll remember that. I'll report your matter. You can rest assured that as long as I'm okay, you won't be in any trouble."

This was both a reassurance and a stern warning, making Wang Defa不敢 (dare not) play any tricks behind his back.

"Don't worry! I'll definitely keep my mouth shut."

"By the way, I remember that when I came to your internet café last time, it wasn't you sitting at the bar, right?"

"Oh, you're talking about Liu Dazhi, right? He takes a rest at home on Tuesdays and Wednesdays."

Qin Siyang nodded: "Then I'll come to you on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in the future. I have something else to do, so I'll be leaving now."

"Okay, okay! You go ahead and be busy!"

After seeing off Qin Siyang, Wang Defa looked at the silver coin in his hand, then at the monitor that had been crushed by him, and let out a long sigh of relief.

He saw the sledgehammer beside him and kicked it away in disgust.

He, an ordinary person, actually dared to take action in front of a sequence ability user. He really didn't know how to cherish his life!

Fortunately, this sequence ability user had a good temper. Otherwise, he might have gone to see his ancestors already!

After surviving the danger, he was the only one left in the empty warehouse.

Wang Defa thought carefully. Qin Siyang's arrival and departure didn't seem to have caused him any harm, and he even earned a silver coin out of thin air.

Wang Defa looked at the silver coin in his hand and bit it with his teeth.

"It's really a silver coin."

"But is this silver coin a blessing or a curse..."

After being troubled for a long time, Wang Defa gradually figured it out, and his eyes became firm: "A man can't get rich without unexpected wealth! If I'm afraid of this and that, I wouldn't have grown up to be this old!"

"This huge fortune is meant to fall on me!"

After leaving the internet café, Qin Siyang smiled slightly and set foot on the way to Liu Dazhi's home.

He was in an extremely good mood.

"No wonder today's calendar says, 'It is suitable for sacrifice'."