Not that powerful?
The girl looked doubtfully in the direction of the bedroom. The subtle energy fluctuations were still slowly coming, and even with the power of Cthugha, she couldn't resist at all. She thought that anyone who could sleep soundly in that place for a long time must be a god-level figure or some kind of madman whose sanity has already been reset to zero.
The girl looked at Lin Ke. The man said he was weak and could only run away with her. For some reason, she felt a bit different.
Prioritize one's own safety when encountering enemies?
"How about it, do you want to stay? I should mention in advance that the salary is entirely up to you to earn. I will give you the minimum wage, and at most, I will provide the storefront for you," Lin Ke said.
If he were to keep her, the risk would increase a lot, but he still trusted Paul's judgment—maybe she could predict something.
If her parents come to the door, then they will educate the parents as well. However, parents who raise such children probably won't care about the life and death of their own children.
"Let's do it this way," the girl said softly.
Staying with an unknown person is very dangerous, but she is willing to try to trust him. Such a powerful existence is willing to call itself an ordinary person in front of her, whether it is out of respect for her or for other matters, she feels sincerity.
"I promise you," she said, "Where is the new clothes?"
Understanding this world starts with clothes. She always feels that the clothes she is wearing now are a bit uncomfortable on the chest, which is strange.
"You are really not polite."
"Remember to wear them where no one can see," he added.
Watching the girl clumsily take the clothes and head to the bathroom, Lin Ke picked up his teacup and started thinking, his hand resting on his head, feeling the temperature of the teacup.
Why did he want to save this girl? There must be a reason.
For the sake of justice in his heart, can't bear to see children in danger?
Come on, it's not worth it to risk the current peaceful life for this. The best solution is to stay out of it.
Because of the white hair?
Not really. Lin Ke is very clear that he just likes white hair, but if he assumes he is playing a game, and there is a white-haired character, and it says that tens of thousands of dollars need to be recharged to get it, he would stop. Rationality comes first.
Because... life is too plain?
Indeed, dying at the age of twenty-something is better than staying in an unchanging clinic every day. It's better to find something to do for oneself... who can stand a life that is the same every day when you are a zombie who cannot die.
Can this be a reason to keep the girl?
It can. Lin Ke convinced himself.
Nonsense. In fact, he just didn't want to admit that he was impulsive. Who knows how much trouble it would bring? Unconsciously, he exerted force, and the teacup in his hand cracked.
"Paul, if the police find this girl, I will give you up too!"
Paul, who had just woken up, was pulled out from the shadow by Lin Ke and scolded. The octopus face wore an inexplicable expression.
...
"Well, there are no customers now, so I'll take you through the process."
After going through the initial process of dressing, Lin Ke took the girl's small hand to the tea shop, pointing to the menu in front of her, and said, "Do you understand these things?"
Lin Ke hadn't realized the seriousness of the situation yet.
After a dialogue that could be described as two different world lines, he finally found out that the girl in front of him could read and understand some math, and even higher-level knowledge of rituals or doctrines, but she was completely ignorant about common sense in life.
For example, she would ask, "Why do people wear clothes? Isn't cake something that comes out of the cabinet directly?"
There are so many points to make fun of that I don't know where to start.
Lin Ke cursed the girl's parents, who didn't even teach her this kind of common sense. How could they be so neglectful of this child, as if she just came out of the laboratory, a blank slate.
Wait a minute, Lin Ke suddenly thought of a very serious problem.
He turned to the girl and said, "Although a name is just a code, I need to know what to call you..."
He felt that this was not quite right. He bent down to look at the girl's small face, scratching his head and added, "I mean, what should I call you, or should I keep calling you a girl?"
The girl lowered her head, opened her mouth, looked up at Lin Ke, and said, "Gaea, please call me Gaea. That's my name."
Let that string of numbers become history, and when she has the ability, she will go back to destroy that place. The girl who has integrated part of the old god is gradually changing. The power of Cthugha is affecting her, with a fiery personality, passionate and noble.
When she is strong enough, she will burn everything and return to the world as the old god.
The two dominion-level cursed artifacts in Lin Ke's room will not be a problem at that time. If he bullies her now, she will burn him later!
Still a bit childish.
"Okay, Miss Gaea." Lin Ke is now going to start correcting her cognition, after all, a child who doesn't even understand common sense cannot be a good shop assistant, and will more likely arouse the suspicion of the guests, "I'll get some books you should read, and you stay here, don't move."
Lin Ke walked to the bookshelf in the corner, which had accumulated a lot of dust. It couldn't be helped, Lin Ke would let Paul take out any book he wanted to read, and the books on the shelf were just symbolic, and he was too lazy to clean up, anyway, no one came.
He called out in a low voice where Gaea couldn't see: "Paul."
In the shadow, a tentacle stretched out and touched Lin Ke's hand in confusion.
"Help me get some books for the waiter to read, and books on life common sense." Lin Ke reached out and scratched Paul's tentacle, lowering his voice, "Hard work."
Paul, tickled, shook his tentacles and retracted them. A few seconds later, two books appeared from the shadows.
Gaea sat meekly beside the counter. Suddenly, she felt something was wrong in the tea shop, as if there was something alive but extremely intangible, constantly wandering in the area where Lin Ke was, and some seemed to have come to her, breathing, wandering around her, gradually filling the entire tea shop.
The bookshelf where Lin Ke was located suddenly became a very terrifying place. In her mind, a certain value was constantly decreasing.
Gaea, who had integrated part of the god, naturally had the gift of clairvoyance and could see some different things.
Such as the gray tentacles that gradually appeared from the void in front of her, swaying in front of her as if testing whether she could see them, with countless noise points on them, colorful, but overall they were gray, carrying an ancient and gentle aura. However, the chaos hidden within it constantly teased her reason, and the murmurs in her ears made her shiver.
"Can you see?" That's probably what those tentacles meant.
An irresistible existence, these things are hallucinations, but if you look at them for a long time, they become real, and you must get rid of them.