Chapter 911

The next morning.

After Franca cleaned herself up in the master bedroom bathroom, she walked to the living room and saw at a glance the plastic bags piled up on the wooden dining table. Those translucent white plastic bags contained food like fried dough sticks, sesame balls, steamed dumplings, soup dumplings, and regular buns, and next to them were cups of soy milk and bottles of milk.

The fragrance permeating the air made Franca feel both familiar and tempting. She blurted out in astonishment:

"Who bought this?"

Do I not even need to lead the way as a guide and help with communication anymore?

Is this still a "foreigner" who has been here for less than 24 hours?

Lu Mian pointed at himself with a smile:

"Of course, it's me."

Franca looked this guy up and down a few times:

"You bought so much breakfast at once, didn't the boss find it strange?"

"It's not like I bought it all from one place." Lu Mian glanced at Ludwig, who took a big bite of a sesame ball, revealing the red bean paste inside, and said with a smile, "Later, one boss did ask when he saw me carrying so much food."

"How did you answer?" Franca asked vigilantly.

Lu Mian smiled:

"I said I was doing multi-level marketing."

"..." Franca opened her mouth slightly, speechless.

"That boss had the same reaction at the time and then asked if I was joking." Lu Mian maintained his previous smile. "I said yes, I was actually preparing breakfast for the company's team-building."

"Where did you learn these terms?" Franca asked, looking slightly dazed.

Lu Mian smiled:

"Aurore mentioned them before, and I asked, but I still didn't understand what they meant. Last night, I finally figured it out online."

"Your learning ability is quite strong..." Franca's mouth twitched.

Surfing the internet so quickly!

It's a good thing this guy hasn't learned to use food delivery apps to order breakfast directly, otherwise what use would I have as a guide?

Lu Mian said in an Aurore-style proud tone:

"I've already applied for a QQ account and a backup WeChat account. Once I finish the observation phase, I'll try to add Mr. 'Fool'."

"..." Franca thought about how this guy was essentially a genuine beauty now, and could switch to a beauty form at any time, and couldn't help but retort, "You'll be treated as a tea seller by Mr. 'Fool', he won't add you at all."

"What?" Lu Mian was a bit confused.

Finally, there's something you don't know, kid! Franca pulled out a chair, sat down, tore open the seal of the soy milk, broke half a fried dough stick, and threw it in to soak.

After doing this, she "popularized" some internet common sense to Lu Mian and Anthony, who was eating breakfast silently—Jenna was on watch in the second half of the night last night and was still catching up on sleep.

Speaking to the end, Franca pondered and said to Lu Mian:

"Although you've integrated and adapted very well, I still think you shouldn't have made that kind of joke when buying breakfast. That kind of joke is impressive, and you're still very handsome now. The breakfast shop owner must have remembered you, which isn't very favorable for our scheduled plan of hiding our identities and observing secretly at the current stage.

"If it weren't for worrying about this point, fearing that being too famous would be noticed by the Celestial Worthy, we could have started a live stream to make money, and even taken Ludwig to eat at a buffet!"

Lu Mian thought about it seriously:

"Indeed, I will be careful. I'll let Anthony go buy it later."

Speaking of this, Lu Mian sincerely praised Franca:

"In this kind of matter, you are more meticulous than me."

Franca picked up a piece of fried dough stick soaked in sweet soy milk with chopsticks, stuffed it into her mouth, chewed and swallowed, and only then half-closed her eyes, sighing with both intoxication and satisfaction:

"This is the feeling..."

She paused and said triumphantly:

"Of course, I'm someone who has seriously played the role of an 'Assassin', definitely not the kind of assassin who thinks 'killing everyone who sees me equals a successful stealth'!"

The few of them chatted for a while, and Jenna also got up and started eating the breakfast Lu Mian had put into the "Traveler's Bag" in advance, which Ludwig hadn't discovered.

Just then, a knock-knock-knock sound rang out.

Lu Mian and Franca went to open the door one after the other and saw two people in police uniforms standing outside. The leader had a high hairline and gray eyes, and the one behind had black hair and green eyes, looking very handsome but with a lazy, idle temperament.

Franca's pupils suddenly dilated.

She recognized that young police officer with emerald eyes.

That is Mr. Great Tarot Card "Star"!

Franca was about to greet him joyfully when she suddenly realized:

Mr. "Star" was locked onto by that Celestial Worthy, and every time he entered the dream, he would be kicked out not long after. The one in front of her should just be the dream image of Mr. "Star" woven by Mr. "Fool's" subconscious.

"Good morning, my surname is Deng, and I am the police officer responsible for this area." The gray-eyed police officer asked with a smile, "You just moved in yesterday, right?"

"Yes." Lu Mian didn't hide it.

The police here even figured out that we just arrived yesterday?

The police in Trier don't have this kind of efficiency...

Police Officer Deng said warmly:

"Do you have a temporary residence permit..."

"Captain, it's called a residence permit now." The young police officer behind him with black hair and green eyes, suspected to be the dream image of Mr. "Star," reminded him helplessly.

He seemed to have reminded him many times already.

"Haha, forgot, forgot." Police Officer Deng laughed at himself.

"We haven't had time to handle it yet." Franca, fearing that Lu Mian didn't know what a residence permit was, answered first.

"Then when you have time, go to the police station service point opposite Xindu Garden to get it done. If you young couple get married later and have children, and want to attend a public kindergarten, you'll also need to look at this." Police Officer Deng instructed in a friendly manner.

This is fast-forwarding to marriage and having children... Franca was both amused and helpless.

"Captain..." Mr. "Star" behind Police Officer Deng reminded him again.

Police Officer Deng smiled:

"Almost forgot, I came to find you today because I have something to ask.

"Call all your friends over."

When Jenna, holding Ludwig's hand, came to the entrance area with Anthony, Police Officer Deng took out a photo:

"Have you seen this person?"

The man in the photo had his hair and eyebrows dyed a scorched yellow, and his facial features were not very deep. It was none other than the messenger Danitz.

"Seen him." Lu Mian answered, pretending to be thoughtful. "He gave us flyers last night. What was his name again?"

He cast his gaze toward Jenna.

Jenna, holding Ludwig's hand, said:

"Surname Da, I don't remember the specific name. He wanted to recommend a tutoring class suitable for children to me. I plan to go see it in person when I have time."

Seeing Lu Mian and Jenna's tone of an old married couple with children, Police Officer Deng's gaze swept back and forth between the two, and between Lu Mian and Franca.

Young people these days...

"Did something happen to him?" Lu Mian asked actively with a curious look.

Police Officer Deng said simply:

"He didn't return to where he lived last night. His roommate reported that he was missing. We are investigating everyone he came into contact with last night."

Franca and Jenna resisted the urge to look at Lu Mian, while Lu Mian said words that couldn't be more real:

"He gave us flyers, chatted for a few sentences, and then left."

Police Officer Deng and Mr. "Star" asked some more details and made records.

After they left and they sat back at the dining table, Franca looked at Lu Mian and asked with concern:

"Is the messenger's corpse still in that mirror?"

Lu Mian took out the corresponding mirror and checked:

"Still there."

There was still a mirror world here, and Lu Mian could also enter and exit freely, but the range for him to directly locate different mirrors was narrowed to five hundred meters. And for mirrors he had already mastered the location of, if he wanted to shuttle through, the distance between the two sides could not exceed ten kilometers, otherwise there would be a danger of getting lost in the void tunnel.

Jenna nodded:

"Then the first guess from yesterday can be ruled out.

"Key things that Mr. 'Fool's' dream identity doesn't know or hasn't heard of will also become real and evolve downwards."

The remaining two guesses were that the dummies in the dream all had part of Mr. 'Fool's' subconscious integrated, and that the messenger's death was done by the Celestial Worthy's subordinates.

These two are not completely contradictory and can be true at the same time.

Lu Mian said "Hmm":

"If it was done by the Celestial Worthy's subordinates, the disappearance of the corpse would also make them suspicious. Next, besides the police, there should also be them investigating the messenger's whereabouts. We have to be careful."

After discussing this for a while, Lu Mian looked at the wall clock that had stopped long ago and looked at the sky outside:

"It seems it's getting late."

Franca took out her phone, lit up the screen, and took a look:

"It's time to go out. Mr. 'Fool' is also about to go to the company."

Lu Mian thought for a moment and said to Franca:

"I'm worried that taking a taxi will lead to meeting Amon again. I discovered online last night that there is also the option of renting a car. Although it will cost more money, it wins in safety and concealment.

"Can you drive?"

"I have a driver's license." Franca blinked. "The identification documents provided by Ms. 'Justice' also include a driver's license."

"I'm asking if you can drive." Lu Mian emphasized amusedly.

Franca was annoyed and embarrassed:

"I got my driver's license in college, and before I graduated, I, uh, came to Intis. Where would I have a car to drive?

"If you ask me if I can drive, I can only answer that I have a driver's license."

She felt that Anthony, who was experiencing the dream world, should have already guessed that she came from a different world.

Without waiting for Lu Mian to ask again, she said confidently:

"With a Beyonder's vision, hearing, reaction ability, and physical coordination ability, plus my driving common sense, I think driving is not a problem. Didn't you guys master how to use chopsticks very quickly yesterday?"

"Then let's go rent a car." Lu Mian made the decision.

Although Franca felt sorry for the money, thinking that she could borrow a lot more, she suppressed that feeling.

Before the repayment date, maybe they would have completed the mission and left the dream!

…………

In a parking space opposite a building.

Lu Mian and the others, sitting in a gray sedan, looked through the tinted windows at the white-collar workers entering the building, either hurriedly or leisurely.

(End of chapter)