Chapter 13 Casting The Net
Wells’s work and life were very clearly divided. At 12 noon, he got off work on time, and he predicted that he would come again around two o’clock.
The efficiency of this civil servant is not high, it can be said to be quite low. His act of not wasting time is just because of his indifference and impatience towards other people. Zach calculated his work progress, and it was estimated that he would have to stay at the Grande Funeral Home for a week to complete the investigation. Zach felt helpless, and he wanted to file a complaint against this guy as well.
However, the vampire had a better idea. Both the Gale couple and James were already ahead, Grande didn’t want to fall behind, and has started to cast his own net.
“Wells, you will go to the construction site in the Ford cemetery and complain about your current job. Hmm… Let me think about it, you want to do business, open a bar, or open a retail store. But now your savings do not allow you to resign, how about buying lottery tickets?”
Standing in front of Grande’s porch, Wells, whose eyes were occupied by red color, nodded excitedly after a brief period of confusion. When the thoughts injected by the hypnotizing eyes coincided with the real thoughts, Zach took almost no effort to plant the thoughts in the other’s brain. The vampire prepared bait for himself.
“Of course, for the confidentiality of work, you cannot reveal the name of the Grande Funeral Home.” Zach reminded him with hypnotizing eyes. Papa Midnight called the vampire ‘Toreador’, so Zach was not sure whether the Grande Funeral Home was exposed.
Wells nodded, with the will of the hypnotizing eyes, he left to enjoy his lunch break.
As when the roar of the civil servant’s old car engine had just faded away, the new roar approached, but it came from the road west. Behind a car that was almost as old as Barton city, the exhaust pipes squeal, and the friction of metal components could be heard far away.
Lola jumped out of the car at the sound of the hard door opening.
Lola has changed a lot in the past half month, not in personality, but in dress. When I first met this young lady, she had shiny jewelry hanging on her ears and neck. She always wore high-heeled calfskin boots, tight leggings, mixed-colored skirts, trench coat or jackets from Liszt Street, coupled with a bag that had nothing in common with the school bag. It was exactly like a model that came out of a magazine.
But now, the girl who jumped from the front passenger seat was wearing simple canvas shoes, light blue jeans, and a checkered shirt, with her hair curled in the back of her head and fastened randomly. This change started when she became a volunteer at [Parker Primary School], and Lola greeted happily as she ran here: “Benjamin~”
Zach turned his head helplessly. He didn’t know when the werewolf had already woken up, and he was standing in front of Grande’s door, waving and smiling.
Zach asked with his eyes, ‘you two made an appointment? ‘
Benjamin answered with his eyes, ‘No.’
Only after Lola arrived in front of the two of them did she seemed to remember the person behind her. She turned and pulled over a woman in her thirties, who was surrounded by five or six children. The car that could be scrapped at any time was probably hers.
“Where is Alice? We are here to thank her for the food she prepared for the party two days ago!” Lola took hold of the few children, not letting them run around, and stood beside the woman.
“In the kitchen at the back.” Benjamin pointed behind him and sued his eyes to remind the girl to introduce.
“Oh.” This is Mrs. Trisha, this is our student!” Lola pointed to Benjamin: “This is Benjamin, Alice’s elder brother!” Lola winked her eyes, obviously having a special meaning, which made the woman a little embarrassed. Then Lola pointed to Zach: “This is another elder brother. Let’s go find Alice!”
“Zach Grande.” Zach introduced himself in the woman’s apologetic eyes.
Before the woman named Trisha had time to say, “It’s my pleasure to meet you”, Lola had coaxed a few children and pulled Trisha into the kitchen.
Today is Sunday, a time for the Holy Lord to set aside work and rest. But obviously, not everyone can enjoy such treatment, such as civil servants, or funeral directors, or all people who need to rely on their own hands to make a living…
Zach looked at Mrs. Trisha’s back. She was dressed very formally, her hair was meticulously groomed, but she didn’t have makeup. She was probably dragged here by Lola after attending the church service. According to Lola, Trisha’s husband almost died in an accident at work, and then “miraculously” survived.
Two days ago, Zach would only think that this was a lucky guy, but now, this ‘miracle’ was most likely because of Midnight Papa.
The conditions of [Parker Primary School] in Passing District are very poor, because parents cannot contribute more money to the school and can only rely on the funding of the city government. Therefore, the extracurricular activities, clubs, and interest education of ordinary primary schools have been cut off and can only be maintained by the unrequited efforts of teachers and volunteers.
For example, today, Lola and Trisha were obviously the free nannies for these children. Zach frowned and looked at the color of Trisha’s dress that had faded a bit because she had washed it many times. He also looked at the car in front of the door. It was different from the dirty of Benjamin’s truck. This was the other extremely old car. This did not seem to be a family that had a relationship with Papa Midnight.
For a long time, I didn’t quite understand the difference between Papa Midnight’s Death Contract and Crossroads Demon’s Soul Contract. Of course, I asked this question to the vampire as well. This is how the vampire explains it. You can feel it yourself.
The needs of the demons of the Crossroads are very simple. No matter what you ask for, wealth, status, health, love, hatred… All they want is your soul. This is what people often say, selling your soul to the devil. In other words, when signing the contract, no matter how kind you are, you can kiss goodbye to heaven. When you die, your soul will go straight to hell.
Not humane at all, right?
In contrast, Papa Midnight’s Death Contract is much more humane. Whatever you want, you need to pay for the labor that is considered to be of equal value in the eyes of Papa Midnight and work for him. This is no different from our real life.
However, the ‘labor contract’ for this job is so strict that it uses life and death as its standard.
How do you do this? Simple, Papa Midnight let you die once first. Then your life, your body, and your soul will be maintained by Papa Midnight’s witchcraft. You want to breathe fresh air, eh, work, you want to keep your consciousness, eh, work. Do you want to resign? Fine, the ‘labor contract’ is signed on your heart and can be torn off at any time.
So when a person becomes a Dead Apostle of Papa Midnight, in theory, he can get everything in this world as long as he is willing to complete the equivalent work. You got a fiancée, then go and make someone else’s fiancé disappear. You won the lottery, then don’t hesitate to erase that lucky guy. You are promoted, life seems to be easier, go to ruin another person’s life…
Papa Midnight’s contract with Dead Apostles is like the four seasons of reincarnation, endless.
Like all wise entrepreneurs, Papa Midnight does not care about the salary he gives you, but the work you can accomplish. Therefore, Papa Midnight will first give you a generous salary to express his sincerity. Of course, in his mouth, those guys who accepted the salary but did not work became ‘opportunists’.
But now, the family of Mrs. Trisha didn’t seem to have received Papa Midnight’s ‘salary’, and her life was still difficult.
Lola insisted on keeping Trisha for dinner in Grande, and Zach and Benjamin did not refuse because they were a little curious about her husband.
“We heard that your husband had an accident. Is he okay now?”
In the dining room, Zach sat at the end of the table. Usually, this seat was empty because the vampire didn’t need these foods. But since there were outsiders, Zach still had to endure these things that are destined not to bring any benefits to his body.
“Todd.”
Teacher Trisha was a little apologetic. After the party two days ago, she said that she would like to thank the person who prepared the food. But she wanted to find a suitable time, but because Lola herself wanted to come, so she dragged her here during lunchtime and brought a bunch of students, which was really embarrassing.
“His name is Todd. He has been able to move around on his own recently, and the doctor said he is recovering well.” Speaking of her husband, the female teacher had a kind of pride in her eyes, and this look can be seen on the faces of many people who have overcome injuries.
Zach did not know the details of her husband’s accident before, and said apologetically: “Sorry, I don’t know the details, was it serious?”
“Oh, it doesn’t matter, it’s all over, everything will get better.” Trisha smiled, but there was a hint of complaint in her eyes when she looked at Zach. She looked at the children who dropped their spoons and grabbed the food on the plates with her hands, suddenly acted like a serious teacher and asked these children sternly, “What did I just say?”
The children released the food in their hands, raised their both hands, and said in unison with a tender voice: “Everything will get better.”
Trisha smiled and nodded, and once again used her eyes to signal Zach on the main seat.
Zach nodded in understanding, Trisha didn’t want to mention sad things in front of the children.
The topic was quickly carried away. Lola said that she was raising a donation recently and started discussing with Alice about making love biscuits to raise money. With her last name of Barton, her appeal cannot be underestimated. Looking at her shining eyes, it seems that [Parker Primary School]’s spring was also coming.
After lunch, Trisha left with the children, leaving Lola and Alice occupying Benjamin’s bedroom in the warehouse to discuss fundraising matters. And Zach has already started looking through the old newspaper for the past half a month, hoping to find news about Trisha’s husband.
Zach found it. In the corner of the community column of the Barton Daily two weeks ago, there was such a message:
‘The port worker was trapped in a cruise ship turbine for more than three days, the xx company refused to pay compensation for work-related injuries. ‘
Zach felt sorry for Todd for a while, closed the newspaper, it should be possible to rule out this poor man’s suspicion. Papa Midnight may be a person with strange values, but he would not treat his employees too badly.
Until two o’clock in the afternoon, Wells’ car and Barton’s car arrived at the same time. Wells came to ‘work’, and Barton’s car naturally came to pick up Lola. The Barton High School Rugby League would continue throughout the spring. The Beavers narrowly qualified after losing Conner and Kyle.
That’s right, Lola still needed that extra credit…
In the direct stare of the vampire, Wells reported the results of his ‘break’ during the noon. The vampire took down the names of several people who were interested in Wells’s complaints. Compared with the previous names, there was an overlap. Tonight, the vampire was going out to visit again.
Chapter 13 Casting The Net
Wells’s work and life were very clearly divided. At 12 noon, he got off work on time, and he predicted that he would come again around two o’clock.
The efficiency of this civil servant is not high, it can be said to be quite low. His act of not wasting time is just because of his indifference and impatience towards other people. Zach calculated his work progress, and it was estimated that he would have to stay at the Grande Funeral Home for a week to complete the investigation. Zach felt helpless, and he wanted to file a complaint against this guy as well.
However, the vampire had a better idea. Both the Gale couple and James were already ahead, Grande didn’t want to fall behind, and has started to cast his own net.
“Wells, you will go to the construction site in the Ford cemetery and complain about your current job. Hmm… Let me think about it, you want to do business, open a bar, or open a retail store. But now your savings do not allow you to resign, how about buying lottery tickets?”
Standing in front of Grande’s porch, Wells, whose eyes were occupied by red color, nodded excitedly after a brief period of confusion. When the thoughts injected by the hypnotizing eyes coincided with the real thoughts, Zach took almost no effort to plant the thoughts in the other’s brain. The vampire prepared bait for himself.
“Of course, for the confidentiality of work, you cannot reveal the name of the Grande Funeral Home.” Zach reminded him with hypnotizing eyes. Papa Midnight called the vampire ‘Toreador’, so Zach was not sure whether the Grande Funeral Home was exposed.
Wells nodded, with the will of the hypnotizing eyes, he left to enjoy his lunch break.
As when the roar of the civil servant’s old car engine had just faded away, the new roar approached, but it came from the road west. Behind a car that was almost as old as Barton city, the exhaust pipes squeal, and the friction of metal components could be heard far away.
Lola jumped out of the car at the sound of the hard door opening.
Lola has changed a lot in the past half month, not in personality, but in dress. When I first met this young lady, she had shiny jewelry hanging on her ears and neck. She always wore high-heeled calfskin boots, tight leggings, mixed-colored skirts, trench coat or jackets from Liszt Street, coupled with a bag that had nothing in common with the school bag. It was exactly like a model that came out of a magazine.
But now, the girl who jumped from the front passenger seat was wearing simple canvas shoes, light blue jeans, and a checkered shirt, with her hair curled in the back of her head and fastened randomly. This change started when she became a volunteer at [Parker Primary School], and Lola greeted happily as she ran here: “Benjamin~”
Zach turned his head helplessly. He didn’t know when the werewolf had already woken up, and he was standing in front of Grande’s door, waving and smiling.
Zach asked with his eyes, ‘you two made an appointment? ‘
Benjamin answered with his eyes, ‘No.’
Only after Lola arrived in front of the two of them did she seemed to remember the person behind her. She turned and pulled over a woman in her thirties, who was surrounded by five or six children. The car that could be scrapped at any time was probably hers.
“Where is Alice? We are here to thank her for the food she prepared for the party two days ago!” Lola took hold of the few children, not letting them run around, and stood beside the woman.
“In the kitchen at the back.” Benjamin pointed behind him and sued his eyes to remind the girl to introduce.
“Oh.” This is Mrs. Trisha, this is our student!” Lola pointed to Benjamin: “This is Benjamin, Alice’s elder brother!” Lola winked her eyes, obviously having a special meaning, which made the woman a little embarrassed. Then Lola pointed to Zach: “This is another elder brother. Let’s go find Alice!”
“Zach Grande.” Zach introduced himself in the woman’s apologetic eyes.
Before the woman named Trisha had time to say, “It’s my pleasure to meet you”, Lola had coaxed a few children and pulled Trisha into the kitchen.
Today is Sunday, a time for the Holy Lord to set aside work and rest. But obviously, not everyone can enjoy such treatment, such as civil servants, or funeral directors, or all people who need to rely on their own hands to make a living…
Zach looked at Mrs. Trisha’s back. She was dressed very formally, her hair was meticulously groomed, but she didn’t have makeup. She was probably dragged here by Lola after attending the church service. According to Lola, Trisha’s husband almost died in an accident at work, and then “miraculously” survived.
Two days ago, Zach would only think that this was a lucky guy, but now, this ‘miracle’ was most likely because of Midnight Papa.
The conditions of [Parker Primary School] in Passing District are very poor, because parents cannot contribute more money to the school and can only rely on the funding of the city government. Therefore, the extracurricular activities, clubs, and interest education of ordinary primary schools have been cut off and can only be maintained by the unrequited efforts of teachers and volunteers.
For example, today, Lola and Trisha were obviously the free nannies for these children. Zach frowned and looked at the color of Trisha’s dress that had faded a bit because she had washed it many times. He also looked at the car in front of the door. It was different from the dirty of Benjamin’s truck. This was the other extremely old car. This did not seem to be a family that had a relationship with Papa Midnight.
For a long time, I didn’t quite understand the difference between Papa Midnight’s Death Contract and Crossroads Demon’s Soul Contract. Of course, I asked this question to the vampire as well. This is how the vampire explains it. You can feel it yourself.
The needs of the demons of the Crossroads are very simple. No matter what you ask for, wealth, status, health, love, hatred… All they want is your soul. This is what people often say, selling your soul to the devil. In other words, when signing the contract, no matter how kind you are, you can kiss goodbye to heaven. When you die, your soul will go straight to hell.
Not humane at all, right?
In contrast, Papa Midnight’s Death Contract is much more humane. Whatever you want, you need to pay for the labor that is considered to be of equal value in the eyes of Papa Midnight and work for him. This is no different from our real life.
However, the ‘labor contract’ for this job is so strict that it uses life and death as its standard.
How do you do this? Simple, Papa Midnight let you die once first. Then your life, your body, and your soul will be maintained by Papa Midnight’s witchcraft. You want to breathe fresh air, eh, work, you want to keep your consciousness, eh, work. Do you want to resign? Fine, the ‘labor contract’ is signed on your heart and can be torn off at any time.
So when a person becomes a Dead Apostle of Papa Midnight, in theory, he can get everything in this world as long as he is willing to complete the equivalent work. You got a fiancée, then go and make someone else’s fiancé disappear. You won the lottery, then don’t hesitate to erase that lucky guy. You are promoted, life seems to be easier, go to ruin another person’s life…
Papa Midnight’s contract with Dead Apostles is like the four seasons of reincarnation, endless.
Like all wise entrepreneurs, Papa Midnight does not care about the salary he gives you, but the work you can accomplish. Therefore, Papa Midnight will first give you a generous salary to express his sincerity. Of course, in his mouth, those guys who accepted the salary but did not work became ‘opportunists’.
But now, the family of Mrs. Trisha didn’t seem to have received Papa Midnight’s ‘salary’, and her life was still difficult.
Lola insisted on keeping Trisha for dinner in Grande, and Zach and Benjamin did not refuse because they were a little curious about her husband.
“We heard that your husband had an accident. Is he okay now?”
In the dining room, Zach sat at the end of the table. Usually, this seat was empty because the vampire didn’t need these foods. But since there were outsiders, Zach still had to endure these things that are destined not to bring any benefits to his body.
“Todd.”
Teacher Trisha was a little apologetic. After the party two days ago, she said that she would like to thank the person who prepared the food. But she wanted to find a suitable time, but because Lola herself wanted to come, so she dragged her here during lunchtime and brought a bunch of students, which was really embarrassing.
“His name is Todd. He has been able to move around on his own recently, and the doctor said he is recovering well.” Speaking of her husband, the female teacher had a kind of pride in her eyes, and this look can be seen on the faces of many people who have overcome injuries.
Zach did not know the details of her husband’s accident before, and said apologetically: “Sorry, I don’t know the details, was it serious?”
“Oh, it doesn’t matter, it’s all over, everything will get better.” Trisha smiled, but there was a hint of complaint in her eyes when she looked at Zach. She looked at the children who dropped their spoons and grabbed the food on the plates with her hands, suddenly acted like a serious teacher and asked these children sternly, “What did I just say?”
The children released the food in their hands, raised their both hands, and said in unison with a tender voice: “Everything will get better.”
Trisha smiled and nodded, and once again used her eyes to signal Zach on the main seat.
Zach nodded in understanding, Trisha didn’t want to mention sad things in front of the children.
The topic was quickly carried away. Lola said that she was raising a donation recently and started discussing with Alice about making love biscuits to raise money. With her last name of Barton, her appeal cannot be underestimated. Looking at her shining eyes, it seems that [Parker Primary School]’s spring was also coming.
After lunch, Trisha left with the children, leaving Lola and Alice occupying Benjamin’s bedroom in the warehouse to discuss fundraising matters. And Zach has already started looking through the old newspaper for the past half a month, hoping to find news about Trisha’s husband.
Zach found it. In the corner of the community column of the Barton Daily two weeks ago, there was such a message:
‘The port worker was trapped in a cruise ship turbine for more than three days, the xx company refused to pay compensation for work-related injuries. ‘
Zach felt sorry for Todd for a while, closed the newspaper, it should be possible to rule out this poor man’s suspicion. Papa Midnight may be a person with strange values, but he would not treat his employees too badly.
Until two o’clock in the afternoon, Wells’ car and Barton’s car arrived at the same time. Wells came to ‘work’, and Barton’s car naturally came to pick up Lola. The Barton High School Rugby League would continue throughout the spring. The Beavers narrowly qualified after losing Conner and Kyle.
That’s right, Lola still needed that extra credit…
In the direct stare of the vampire, Wells reported the results of his ‘break’ during the noon. The vampire took down the names of several people who were interested in Wells’s complaints. Compared with the previous names, there was an overlap. Tonight, the vampire was going out to visit again.
