novelraw Chapter 53: Details of acting
Chapter 53: Details of acting
"Manager... Manager, come quick!"
Alexander burst through the back door with a look of excitement, as if he had just picked up five million ghost coins.
"This guy, he’s back! He didn’t die?"
"Could it be that those bullies who came to cause trouble have already left?"
Charles saw Alexander running in excitedly, and was puzzled. Suddenly, his eyes focused and fixed on the fragrant treasure candle in Alexander’s hand.
What a treasure!
He was fortunate enough to have seen other ghosts use it.
It was absolutely a great treasure, far better than cigarettes. One puff would even make a fierce ghost’s power surge.
As if noticing his gaze, Alexander looked down at the treasure candle in his hand.
His eyebrows came together slightly, eyelids lifted a bit, pupils dilated slightly, and his body gave a small shudder.
The hand holding the treasure candle quickly moved behind him, then he stowed the candle away.
Details!
Alexander understood deeply that if you want people to believe what you’re saying, it’s not enough just to make up a reasonable story.
Even the most impeccable story, if faced with someone who has a grudge against you, is full of holes.
But, if the details are right, not just within the story, but also outside of it.
If you make every detail perfect, even if the other party doesn’t notice, their subconscious defenses against you will be lowered to a minimum.
For example, right now, Charles couldn’t notice the subtle change in Alexander’s eyebrows, or rather, he would automatically ignore this detail.
But while consciousness may not notice, the brain can, the subconscious can read this information.
At this time, if you add a bit of imagination.
The prey, without you luring it, will lick your face and cling to your legs, forcing you into pushing it into the trap.
Like Charles at this moment.
Originally, when he saw Alexander holding the treasure candle, his first reaction was.
Where did this thing come from?
Who gave it?
Is it dangerous?
Could it be a trap?
But now, his mind was filled with:
Did he find a treasure?
Should I snatch it?
Where did he find it?
Are there more?
"Cough cough..." Manager Charles gave a light cough and asked, "Alexander, have you finished patrolling? Why are you in such a hurry to find me?"
Clearly, this guy was still somewhat wary despite his cunning. He neither dared to snatch nor asked directly about the origin.
But for Alexander, this was a piece of cake.
In his previous life, he had once swindled a scam organization into collectively buying a full set of insurance for fifty years. Even until they were caught, the members of the organization, including the boss, stubbornly concealed this matter.
They were hoping that after they got out, they could receive pensions, financial management funds, elderly entertainment funds... and more than a dozen types of insurance money, plus various insurance benefits, so they could live a life of wealth.
However, in the end, sixty percent of the illicit money involved in the case disappeared without a trace.
When Alexander learned of this news and turned himself in to the police station, the police were stunned!
Eventually, since Alexander hadn’t violated any laws and had surrendered the illicit money, he was released without charge.
Despite the astonished looks from the police, they ultimately let Alexander go.
Those fraudsters, especially the top brass, broke down in tears overnight in prison when they found out they had been swindled.
The entire prison was infuriated, with everyone feeling a shared enmity.
Alexander, the insurance salesman, even scammed them, the fraudsters, which was too damaging!
After this incident, for the sake of his safety, Alexander hid in a well-guarded upscale community and set up a private high-end sales training club.
If he could easily fool those cunning individuals from the fraud organization into spending most of their illicit money on fifty years of insurance, would it be difficult to deceive an old ghost who had been a lobby manager for his whole life and was rather unworldly?
The most important point to note: details!
Upon hearing Charles’s words, Alexander’s eyes slightly widened, his gaze focused on the Adam’s apple of Charles.
This move was called an ’eye-catching’!
Then, the corners of his mouth unconsciously lifted slightly. Suddenly, as if suffering from a toothache, he sharply sucked in air through the corner of his mouth.
Of course, the corners of the mouth need to be slightly higher, this detail must be seen by the old ghost.
This was called ’trying to suppress joy’!
Finally, as if experiencing the feeling of tightening his chest when constipated, he showed an embarrassed expression on his face and said, "Manager, can I get an advance on my salary, or borrow some money from you! I have something good here, I can use it as collateral!"
As he spoke, he took out a bunch of messy stuff, even including a human skin face saw.
"How much do you want to borrow? Given our relationship, and considering that I’ve promoted you to deputy manager, just say it!"
Now, the manager had completely stopped suspecting any traps and instead started to probe.
"Borrow..."
Alexander seemed to hesitate, his fingers behind him unconsciously moved, as if counting something.
However, he didn’t ’notice’ that the door behind him was painted pure black. Although there were some blood stains, the exposed part was bright due to the gloss, perfectly reflecting the position of his hand.
After moving four times, he opened his mouth and said, "Twelve thousand, I want to borrow twelve thousand ghost coins!"
"So much?" The manager was taken aback, shaking his head and saying, "That’s too much, what do you want to do? I don’t have that much money! I can only give you fifteen hundred at most!"
"Fifteen hundred won’t work! At least three thousand!" Alexander looked anxious, but soon seemed to react and hurriedly said, "Here’s the thing, I ran into a ghost I knew from a previous instance. He helped me a lot, now he’s in trouble, I need to help him, I need at least three thousand ghost coins!"
"Okay, wait here, I’ll go get it for you!"
The manager seemed to be persuaded and walked towards a room in the backyard.
Closing the room door, the manager’s brows furrowed as he began to ponder.
If he needs ghost coins, he should be buying something. Just now Alexander’s fingers moved four times, he asked for twelve thousand, after my refusal, he said that the lowest is three thousand.
Twelve thousand, four lots of three thousand, is he buying treasure candle?
That’s something that can greatly enhance the strength of a fierce ghost. Even a malicious ghost would significantly strengthen after inhaling it.
Three thousand? Even five thousand would be snapped up.
Recently, there have been traces of ghost town merchants appearing nearby, even bringing goods from far-off cities.
For example, Fengdu, where there are many powerful ghosts and a large number of cheap ghost servants are produced.
A fierce ghost costs less than ten thousand ghost coins.
Could it be that Alexander has met such a merchant?
That’s a great opportunity! In the world of horror, each ghost city is incredibly large, and the distances between them are tens of thousands of kilometers.
If I could buy something for a cheap price, I could make a 100% profit on resale!
No, if that merchant doesn’t bring much, I could buy all of it, monopolize the market, even establish long-term cooperation, three times, five times, even ten times is not a problem!
"I’ll prepare the ghost coins and give it a try first! If there’s no problem, I’m going to make a fortune!"
As Charles muttered to himself, he went to a hidden corner of the room, pried open a stone slab, pulled up a ring, and finally opened the mechanism, pulling out a thick stack of ghost coins.
It looked like he had a hundred thousand!
That was the manager’s life savings, prepared to save up a down payment to buy a house!
It’s not easy for a non-ghost master to save this much money.
But it’s about to change! After this transaction, I’ll have enough capital for the second, even bigger transaction!
In this life and the next, I will become a rich man! I, Charles, am going to make a fortune!
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