Wang Defa, the Owner of the Internet Cafe

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.

Finally, 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 thank you. You were beaten because of my business. Come to think of it, it's also my fault. Seeing you in such a sorry state, I feel bad too."

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

Qin Siyang looked at Wen Shu's not-so-gentle eyes and shrugged: "But what your eyes express is different from what you say. I can see disgust for me in your eyes."

"You're right in your feeling. Although rationally I know that you didn't do anything wrong, 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 got rid of the troubles she might cause in the future?"

Wen Shu nodded slightly: "Even though you slapped Li Jingwen twice for me and got rid of the troubles 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 though 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 Li Jingwen has problems at the root, and there is basically no cure for her.

However, the fact that Wen Shu was involved made Qin Siyang feel a bit sorry.

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

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

Today's meal was still the Thousand-foot Mushrooms, which was also 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 more scoops. He also expressed his gratitude to Aunt Zhang.

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

He looked so engrossed, just like a cat, 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 Qin Siyang went to bed.

Qin Siyang had completely let go.

What was the point of staying at home at night?

Anyway, there was nothing to do after getting home. It was better to go to bed early and get up early to keep a good body.

After sleeping, Qin Siyang also got rid of a lot of worries.

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

[Blue Star Era, January 5th, 2010]

[Western Calendar, Tuesday.]

[Lunar Calendar, Year of Ji Chou, 22nd day of the 11th lunar month, suitable for sacrifices]

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

But considering that he was pestered by that meddling teacher yesterday, he found two books and stuffed them in.

However, the books for this semester had been lost by him, and he took the textbooks from last year.

Anyway, it was just to muddle through, so it didn't matter.

After leaving home, he made a detour and came to the entrance of the Internet café again.

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

Qin Siyang smiled slightly.

The opportunity had come.

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 counter, 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, like a student, and he probably didn't have any bad intentions.

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 the cafeteria was like paradise compared to this place.

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 dumped behind the Internet café.

He mumbled: "Liu Dazhi, this lazy guy. I told him to throw the garbage in the landfill, but he actually threw it here! I will definitely teach him a lesson!"

Qin Siyang heard it but didn't respond.

It was only when they reached the place where he had talked to Liu Dazhi that night that Qin Siyang 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 those two people taken away by the police were doing, right?"

The owner wasn't an easy person either. Hearing Qin Siyang's words and looking at his young face, he immediately became alert: "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 playing tricks on me? Do you think you can just check the surveillance whenever you want?"

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

"Give me one silver coin? Look at what you're wearing. All the money you have on you doesn't even add up to 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 attracted the attention of the owner of the Internet café.

"You..."

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

"What do you think of my offer?"

Qin Siyang had always carried the silver coin he had scavenged from the three gangsters with him.

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

But he only had one silver coin, and it wouldn't be noticed if it was in his pocket. Moreover, the silver coin was extremely valuable, and one could do a lot of things with it.

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

He couldn't register with the Sequence Ability User Administration Bureau now, and he couldn't access deeper-level transactions. As for the black market and the like, he knew nothing about them.

This silver coin had become an absolute white elephant.

But Qin Siyang clearly realized 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 squandered 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 guys 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 go back to the previous question. Can you handle this silver coin?"

The owner of the Internet café's eyes flickered twice, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Follow me."

With that, he led him to a dark small 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 owner of the Internet café.

The warehouse was filled with sundries, and there were many scrapped 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 had four surveillance images.

"The surveillance footage is all here. You can search. Let's make it clear first. If I let you check the surveillance, whether you find it or not, you have to give me one silver coin."

The owner of the Internet café seemed to be 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 again?"

"Do I need to check the surveillance footage here? Can't I check it on the computer at the bar counter? 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 counter is just for arranging customers to log in and out and monitoring the computers. It can't be used to check the surveillance."

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

When he found the surveillance footage for January 3rd, he found that there were only the recordings of the night, and there were no recordings of the morning and afternoon. He immediately frowned.

"Why isn't there any surveillance footage for 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 to inspect 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 surveillance footage when the police came that morning, how can I check?"

The owner of the Internet café smiled sinisterly and picked up a sledgehammer from the side: "We had an agreement before. Even if you can't find it, you still have to give me one silver coin. Otherwise..."

Qin Siyang raised his foot and stepped on a scrapped monitor beside him. In the sight of the owner of the Internet café, he slowly crushed the monitor flat until it became a disc.

He kicked the disc at his feet away 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 can't possibly be involved in a business worth twenty silver coins?"

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

Qin Siyang always spoke vaguely, without making anything clear, which gave the owner of the Internet café infinite room for imagination.

In an instant, the owner of the Internet café immediately imagined a sequence ability user organization specializing in the black market.

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

"Spare my life! Spare my life, 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 engaged in underground business. So he took advantage of the situation 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! I'm glad you understand!"

The owner of the Internet café heard Qin Siyang excuse him and quickly climbed up the pole.

"However, you're lucky today. I'm a reasonable person."

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 a hot potato. He quickly refused: "No, no, no. I can't take this. You didn't find the surveillance footage, so I can't take it for nothing."

"In the future, I may still come here to look for something. I don't want to make a big fuss. This silver coin is your hush money."

"Is this... appropriate..."

"I give it to you, so you take it."

Qin Siyang walked up to the owner of the Internet café again and patted him on the shoulder twice: "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 I give you. Do you understand?"

"No, no, no, definitely 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 is no evidence, the police station definitely won't do anything to me."

Then the owner of the Internet café smiled obsequiously: "Besides, if I betrayed you, I'd have to hand over this silver coin, right? With so much money, why would I want to get myself into 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 may 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 of this computer's network 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 surveillance software on this computer, is there?"

"No! Only I can enter this warehouse, and I use this computer myself. Why would I want to monitor myself?"

"Okay, I see. Thank you."

"You're being too polite. Just give me your instructions if you have anything!"

"I'm 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 have any trouble."

This was both a reassurance and a stern warning, making Wang Defa not dare to 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 counter, right?"

"Oh, you mean Liu Dazhi? 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 still have something 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 and then at the flattened monitor. He let out a long sigh of relief.

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

As an ordinary person, he actually dared to take action in front of a sequence ability user. He really didn't want to live anymore!

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

After surviving the disaster, 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 ill-gotten gains! If I'm afraid of this and that, I wouldn't have grown up like this!"

"This huge fortune is meant to fall into my hands!"

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

He was in a very good mood.

"No wonder today's calendar says, 'Suitable for sacrifices'."