"Of course, you can see."
Seeing that Jenkins was interested, the man immediately enthusiastically opened his suitcase and handed him the black viscous oil in a glass bottle. That thing looks so disgusting it's hard to imagine how it was made.
"Oh, sorry, damn bug!"
Just as the two approached, Jenkins suddenly waved his cane. While waving, he muttered obscenities, as if there were really flies flying around him.
The waving [Spiritual Body Strike Cane] "accidentally" hit and passed through the spiritual body behind the salesman, and the undead, who should not have received physical damage, immediately showed a terrible red swollen mark. Its body quickly melted away around the red marks, and by the time Jenkins apologized to the startled salesman for his reckless behavior, it had completely disappeared.
"Eradicated... It's not the key keeper, is it really just a coincidence?"
While listening enthusiastically to the salesman explaining the advantages of shoe polish, Jenkins was still thinking about the undead just now. He originally thought that the old key keeper wanted to play tricks and let the gun come from a distance, while he himself approached directly while hiding his identity. But thinking about it now, the old murderer couldn't have known that Jenkins could sense ghosts or something like that, and he had no reason to come up with such a complicated method.
"Am I overthinking?"
The price of the salesman's shoe polish is quite high. Of course, it is also possible that he deliberately wanted to kill Jenkins. Jenkins would never spend 3 shillings on a can of dark oil. He would rather find a flower girl on the street to buy a bouquet of flowers than buy a bottle of rubbish.
Hathaway and Britney finally opened the black blackout curtains and came out when Jenkins was trying to persuade the salesman to go to the grocer. The two girls looked like they had been crying, and their eye circles were a little red, but they should have reconciled, otherwise they wouldn't be holding hands.
"Oh, you finally came out, let's go!"
With that said, he left the salesman who was packing the suitcases and walked towards the girls. The aura represented by the gun was still approaching here, but for some reason it circled around. This should indicate that the owner of the gun realized that he had been spotted and was looking for a way to ambush everyone.
"Let's go."
Jenkins emphasized it again, making the shape of a pistol with his drooping right hand. Hathaway nodded knowingly, and also catered:
"Yeah, it's getting so late, let's go. We may not be able to return to Nolan today, but I think we can stay in..."
Before the words fell, a gunshot was heard in the distance. In the long silent night, the sound made the air tremble. The people in the store heard the sound at the same time, and the red-haired girl subconsciously stopped the blonde girl behind her.
"Damn, is the law and order here so bad?"
Jenkins muttered something in a low voice, and then walked out of the store first to take a look, and then turned around and said to the people behind him:
"Listen to the sound, the gunshot should be a few streets away, and I don't see any suspicious people around here now. I think everyone should be careful, there may be a case in the town."
In fact, the sound just now came from the gun, which Jenkins' eyes and Hathaway's ears could confirm. The reason for shooting was definitely to intimidate Jenkins and his party.
"I'm afraid of you?"
Not counting the people from the herb store on the second floor, there are now six people standing on the first floor of the grocery store. And if there is a fight, these people must be hindrances.
Jenkins signaled Hathaway to use [Lullaby] to let everyone sleep for a while with his eyes. Although he also has a similar spell, the bestower's ability is obviously safer.
"I think you can wait here for a while before leaving. The police gentlemen should pass by here. If you go out now, it will be bad to run into the gangster head-on."
The owner of the grocer suggested that he was kind enough.
And Hathaway has already taken out the silk thread that is often used as a string, but before she started playing, Britney actually hugged her right hand.
"Don't worry, Jenkins will protect us."
The blond girl said, her face was now a complex expression of fear and worry.
"I didn't expect to encounter such a thing. I thought this town was very peaceful."
The salesman also sighed softly. He was standing slightly against the wall, a little further away from the others.
"I heard that there was a midnight serial murder case in Nolan City not long ago. I don't think that kind of thing will happen in our town."
The owner of the grocery store continued talking, and Jenkins immediately gave him a suspicious look, but said nothing.
As the boss just mentioned, a few minutes later, the police who heard the news rushed past the store door and ran towards the direction of the gunshot.
Jenkins reconfirmed that the gun was circling within a short distance from here, and reached out to hold Britney's hand. The latter's face turned red immediately, looking at Hathaway's expression, but Hathaway didn't comment, she knew that Jenkins was protecting them.
"Let's go."
Saying that, without even saying goodbye to other people in the grocery store, he took Britney to the street shrouded in night. Hathaway followed closely behind, and the middle-aged salesman shrugged and left the grocery store when he saw that the customers had left.
The air in rural towns is much better than that in cities, and the evening wind at night is filled with the unique moisture and the fragrance of soil in the countryside. Jenkins wasn't sure "fragrant" was the right word to use, but at least it was a lot better than the choking smell of the city air.
The grocery store was extremely warm because of the fireplace, but when they came outside, everyone couldn't help shivering due to the night wind.
Jenkins took off the coat and handed it to Britney, revealing the navy blue sweater Mary had knitted him underneath. Britney tried to hand Hathaway the coat again, but was refused. The latter grabbed her own clothes, indicating that she was not cold at all.
The man took a few breaths of fresh air, first looked up at the stars in the sky, then squinted his eyes and looked in the direction of the gun.
"Hathaway, where did you say we could live?"
"You can live at Rose's house, she is our classmate..."
Halfway through her speech, she looked suspiciously at the salesman beside her:
"Sir, please go away, we don't buy anything."
"Okay ok, but really don't buy it? This is a good shoe polish, I can give you a 20% discount. Look, a huge discount, you will make me unable to make up the money for the carriage back to Nolan "
With that, the salesman shook Jenkins' suitcase again.