Although night is the busiest time in the Demon world, Ji Huan’s family still adheres to the previous habit of getting up at sunrise and getting ready to go to bed after sunset.
Ji Huan checked the time on his phone: it was ten past two in the morning.
He quickly picked up the phone.
“Hello?” Ji Huan said softly.
He heard the deafening music on the opposite side, and also heard the voice of a man talking. For a moment, Ji Huan was not sure who made the call.
Until he heard the voice of the little gray devil.
“Hello.” As calm as ever.
Ji Huan froze for a moment.
“My name is Hui.” Just when Ji Huan was guessing the purpose of the little gray devil’s phone call, he said suddenly.
Ji Huan was stunned again.
He never knew the name of the little gray devil. Ji Huan didn’t ask on purpose, but he did mention it once when he was filling out his resume before, and that’s when he knew that little gray devil didn’t have a name.
Children who grow up here generally do not have names, and they generally don’t use them before they start working. Just like Abu, his name was only given when he became famous in the market and more and more people needed to know his name and contact him.
Having no idea about his own name, Ji Huan asked the little gray devil to go back and think about it for himself.
Then has he thought about it, and finally figured it out today?
But……
It’s so late, and the little gray devil suddenly called, just to tell Ji Huan the name he thought of?
If it’s Abu, Grandpa, or Hei Dan, Ji Huan probably won’t think too much about it.
But now it is the little gray devil who is doing this.
He is not a person who would suddenly make calls because of such things— especially since he knows the general habits of the Ji Huan’s family.
“What happened?” Ji Huan asked him in a low voice.
He listened carefully to the background sound from the little gray devil’s side. There seemed to be another voice in the back, and it seemed to be shouting “Ya Li”, “Ya Li” or something.
The little gray devil didn’t speak for a while, but Ji Huan listened intently, and he heard the subtle and inaudible breathing sound of the little gray devil.
“I’m going to work far away. I’m going to leave Yefar. The salary is very high, almost twice as much as it is now, but I have to leave for a while.”
“If it is possible… I will bring a gift back.”
“Goodbye.”
After saying this, the little gray devil immediately hung up the phone.
By the time Ji Huan reacted and quickly called back, the phone had already been turned off.
No—
Ji Huan immediately dialed Abu’s phone number, and after confirming that Abu was drinking outside and not working, Ji Huan said that he had just received a call from the little gray devil.
“No.” Abu said immediately after hearing Ji Huan repeat what the little gray devil had said before.
“All jobs measured by “basic salary” are jobs with certain risks. “Having been in the robbery business for several months, Abu is no longer a rookie who doesn’t know anything.
“Was he working today?” Abu continued.
“Yes, he delivered goods to a bar at Ham’s store today. The name of the bar is…” Ji Huan recalled: “He didn’t say it.”
“That’s troublesome. There are several bars in the luxury supply area of Ham’s store. I don’t know where he made the delivery today.”
So Ji Huan fell silent.
He desperately recalled all the sentences about work that the little gray devil had said to himself before, and his mind suddenly brightened.
“I don’t know at which bar he made the delivery today, but I know that bar has a type of black wine! Once he brought me a pot after delivering the goods and found out that Grandpa liked it. So he would occasionally work part-time and bring a bottle after that. He said that the wine was made in the bar!”
Ji Huan thought of an important clue!
However, this clue was still not enough. Although they know that the bar has a kind of wine that is not available in other places, they still don’t know the name of the wine or even the name of the bar.
The wine brought back by the little gray devil is always brought back in glass bottles.
After another moment of silence, Ji Huan suddenly said, “Abu, today… Can I go to the luxury area to buy you a drink?”
Ji Huan couldn’t let go of the current situation of the little gray devil in his heart, so he wanted to go and see for himself, but he couldn’t go to places like the luxury area, and grandpa couldn’t go there either. The only person he could think of going there at the moment was Abu, who was currently on the phone with him, but——
“How much salary can you earn with your job? Tell your grandfather, or I will take you to a bar!” Just when Ji Huan was worried about whether he could get help from the other party, Abu suddenly smiled heartily.
With a little determination in his heart, Ji Huan made an appointment with Abu to meet, and then quickly picked up Hei Dan from the bed and handed him to the grandpa upstairs. He said that he was going out, of course, he didn’t directly say that something might’ve happened to the little gray devil, but said that Abu wanted to invite him for a drink.
Knowing in his heart that this is a lively age for young people, and there was nothing to worry about when Abu was there, Grandpa only told him to be careful as he carried Hei Dan in.
Ji Huan quickly got dressed, and holding a key in his hand, he finally opened the door of Ah Jin’s bedroom.
Before leaving, Ah Jin gave him a bag of gold bars and till now he only used two gold bars to survive the days. After he found a job, he never used the gold bars in the bag again.
Now it may need to be used.
Ji Huan took ten gold bars from the bag, and after thinking about it, he took ten more.
Putting the gold bars properly close to his body, he put on his cloak and ran out the door.
He soon met Abu near the labor market where they usually meet, and Abu also rode a motorcycle.
During a robbery, the victim abandoned the motorcycle and ran away, so he took it as his own. However, when he rode it back, he found that it was broken. Later, Ji Huan repaired it for him. Not only did he repair it, but also painted it with a layer of paint.
The old and dilapidated motorcycle looks pretty good.
“Get on.” With long legs kicking on the ground, Abu immediately threw a safety helmet to Ji Huan.
Abu always carries two safety helmets with him, one big and one small, but they are generally used by Ji Huan and the little gray devil.
He himself does not use a safety helmet, but he prepared it for Ji Huan.
Glancing at the smaller safety helmet, Ji Huan reached out to take it, put it firmly on his head, and hugged Abu’s tight waist in front of him.
With the motorcycle, they soon arrived at Area 3.
This is the place where the wealthy people reside in Yefar District, where the vast majority of the bigshots live. It is always bustling with people and has countless brand stores, which are usually found in other big cities. It does not look like the forgotten area of Yefar.
They parked the motorcycle in the parking lot where there were already many cars.
Most of them are cars that look good, and there are also motorcycles, but very few.
They just parked the motorcycle, and soon someone came to collect the toll.
When he heard that the parking fee was actually 100 nickel coins (a currency higher than bone coins), Abu felt a bit pained, but he still paid it himself before Ji Huan took money out of his pocket.
It’s really expensive here, and he doesn’t know if he has enough money with him now. God knows he brought all of his savings with him!
However, Abu did not express his worries on his face.
While walking, he taught some “common sense” to Ji Huan.
“…I once came here with the previous leader, but it wasn’t in some very expensive bar, it was just an ordinary one. If you come here, you must be fierce, and make people afraid of you. Come, learn from me.” In his opinion, Ji Huan looks too weak. At least he looks too friendly, which makes him a bit worried. With a fierce expression on his face, Abu lowered his head and looked towards Ji Huan.
However——
When he looked down at Ji Huan, he froze for a moment.
Ji Huan’s face was expressionless.
His dark eyes were so deep that no one could see any emotions in them.
The thin lips were drawn into a line, and under the purple moonlight, Ji Huan’s face looked extremely pale.
He has never seen this kind of Ji Huan, he looks like a completely different person.
He looks a little… scary? !
Abu suddenly thought of a few big demons he had seen occasionally during missions.
Their bodies were thin, and they didn’t look vicious, but they felt very dangerous.
Ji Huan now looks a bit like those big demons.
“Is this…is this okay?” Just as Abu was thinking wildly, Ji Huan’s small voice of inquiry came from below.
It was Ji Huan who asked his opinion in a low voice.
“Huh?” Abu was taken aback by his question.
“Didn’t you say that when you go to a bar for the first time, you should pretend to be fierce and imposing?” Ji Huan’s face was still stern, but his voice was the same as usual, and he was still the same ordinary boy: “I can only do this.”
Uh…that is to say, that aura just now was fake?
Abu touched his nose.
“You passed the level!” Abu gave him a thumbs up.
So Ji Huan felt relieved.
When he was in his hometown, he knew that many classmates said that he looked fierce in private, but when he came here, he found that basically everyone here looks more vicious than him.
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He is not sure about pretending to be fierce, but if it’s imposing…
He just suddenly thought of Ah Jin.
It has been more than half a year since he came here. Although he only lives in a fixed area, Ji Huan has also seen many demons. However, among all the demons he has met, when it comes to aura, the first person that Ji Huan thinks of is Ah Jin.
Just sitting there, the air around Ah Jin feels different from other people.
Although Ah Jin is not a ferocious looking demon, he looks extremely imposing.
The little gray devil also said that Ah Jin gave people a very imposing and terrifying feeling. Although Ji Huan didn’t feel that Ah Jin was ‘terrifying’, he agreed that Ah Jin has an imposing aura.
So he imitated Ah Jin a little bit.
If Abu feels that he passed the test, it should work, right?
Ji Huan felt a bit uneasy, but with Abu’s company, the two of them stepped into the first bar in the area.
There were demons of all sizes sitting in the bar. As soon as they entered the bar, everyone’s gaze turned towards them. When they saw Abu, some people immediately looked away, but others continued to stare, while others crossed over Abu to look at Ji Huan behind him.
Ji Huan calmly followed behind Abu and sat on the empty seat at the bar.
Pretending to order some wine, Abu asked the bartender for the wine list. After taking it, he immediately handed it to Ji Huan, and Ji Huan looked at it carefully.
In the end they ordered all the black wine in this bar.
Only Ji Huan drank this kind of wine once, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and drink it.
Even with just one sip of each cup, he still felt a little too much by the end.
“Found it?” Abu looked at him expectantly.
Ji Huan shook his head slowly.
Not finding the wine they were looking for at the first bar, they quickly went to the second bar. In the first bar, he memorized the names of the wines he had drunk. This time, Ji Huan avoided the wines he had already ordered, and only looked for black wines with unknown names.
But they still haven’t found it.
It’s not that they haven’t thought about asking the people in the store or the bartender, but——
Considering that the little gray devil probably had an accident during the delivery process, they did not inquire hastily to avoid causing trouble.
The two drank more and more wine, and the money in their pockets became less and less.
Finally, as they entered the fifth bar, Ji Huan was tasting the fourth glass of wine with his almost numb tongue when he suddenly lifted his head.
“Found it?” Abu asked.
This time, Ji Huan nodded.
Sitting on the bar, two people, one tall and one short, looked behind at the same time——
This is the bar where the little gray devil made the delivery today!
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