Devil's Department Store

Things were indeed as Miser and the others imagined.

On the second day after Daniel was recommended, he inexplicably made a huge mistake at work. The machine he was operating was almost scrapped. If someone hadn’t responded in time, the entire assembly line would have been forced to stop production. The loss may have been Daniel’s fundamental loss. The sky-high price that cannot be compensated.

After making such a big mistake, even if he was rescued, it would be impossible to keep Daniel's nomination spot. The factory changed the nominee on the same day, and Daniel himself was barely fired because of his strong working ability, but his salary was deducted. , Decentralized to even more unpromising workshop work.

"It must be because of this that he can't think about it," the worker said tut-tsk: "To be honest, it's just a quota, and it's not certain. It's not certain whether he can be better than others! And even if he can really be selected, lose What a big deal this opportunity is. Working where is not work, and how much money you earn is not living? He is already old, and he is an old bachelor. This matter is courting death, do you think it is his own fault?"

As the worker said, he turned his head and found that the witch looked at him with eyes so cold that ice slags almost fell out, so he immediately closed his mouth embarrassingly, and asked in embarrassment: "Hehe, are you his friend?"

"No," said the witch darkly, "but people like you will have their tongues eaten by poisonous snakes."

The worker's expression changed, and he said angrily, "What do you mean?!"

The witch twitched the corners of her mouth, but said nothing.

The worker looked like he was about to make a move, but the witch's aura was too strong, and she looked weird and not easy to mess with. In the end, he cursed a few words and left quickly.

Miser couldn't help but say, "What do you care about with an ordinary human being?"

The witch snorted, and said, "If I don't bully ordinary humans, who else can I bully? Werewolves? Demons? Hmph, witches always curse whoever is unhappy!"

Robert also chimed in: "Originally! That human being talks too much, he doesn't know anything at all and criticizes there! I hate it!"

Belphegor smiled and said, "Human beings are by nature like this. They like to make arbitrary definitions and guesses at will, but apart from being ignorant and reckless, that person just now is not entirely a bad person."

Robert said unhappily: "This kind of person is gossiping, if he is not a villain, how much better he can be!"

Belphegor shrugged and said to Miser, "I was wrong, it seems that cats have the same nature."

"Go!" Miser yelled at him, and said, "As far as you know, the witch didn't really curse him."

The witch snorted.

Of course, he would not let an ordinary human being have his tongue eaten by a poisonous snake. This is just the nightmare that the worker is about to have. I believe that after three days, he will get rid of this bad habit of talking nonsense.

"But I also don't think it should be." The little cat thought for a while, unable to understand: "Daniel survived so many times before, why did he commit suicide this time? It's unreasonable. Is there something else in it?" What's the inside story?"

Facing the problem of the kitten, everyone fell silent.

After a while, Miser kicked its furry butt lightly, and said, "Inside story? What kind of inside story can there be? Silly cat, he is just the most inconspicuous worker."

"No inside story, just reached his limit, that's all."

Robert looked up, very dazed, just like humans can't understand cats, cats can't understand humans, after all, their life is hunting, playing, alive or dead, there is not so much difference.

What Robert said is right, Daniel has suffered many setbacks and failures, some of which are even so bizarre that they cannot be explained at all. In contrast, being targeted at work and being robbed of a recommendation spot in the factory is nothing more than true for Daniel. It's nothing, he should pat his pants, stand up again, and move on as he did in the past.

But the collapse of human beings is really just a moment. Daniel is 46 years old, alone, alone, with no family, no savings, no way out, maybe it's just a thought, he doesn't know why he is still like this I persisted, so I chose to leave this world.

In 46 years, he has accumulated so much resentment and negative emotions. When the ability to bear reaches the extreme, things will happen naturally. In fact, the point is not that he was robbed of a spot. Daniel may just have a fall on the road. He would have the same thought when he fell down, or even got his teeth broken while eating.

To be honest, even with such a soul, it is not easy to persist for so long. His resentment towards fate and this world is natural.

"But this is not something we need to consider," Miser said calmly, "Let's go and find out who tampered with the machine."

"Yes!" Robert became energetic again: "Go and avenge Daniel!"

The witch is also gearing up, he hates this kind of wicked guy the most.

Miser and the others originally thought that the one who framed Daniel was the worker who got the recommended quota, but after investigation, they found that the person who actually did it was also an unlucky ghost. He killed Daniel, but he didn't get the quota himself. The worker who found something wrong with the machine, and the former is still working in this factory.

The next thing is very simple. Miser and the others restored some evidence and reported the other party directly to the factory management personnel, because the incident of Daniel leaving a suicide note and disappearing made a big fuss, and the factory also attached great importance to this matter. After verification The worker was fired immediately, and the incident was announced to the rest of the factory as a slap on the restless ones.

However, the news has spread. For that worker, from now on, similar jobs will probably not have his place.

Miser and others hid aside, watching the worker knelt in the sun crying and confessing bitterly, swore to the management staff that he would not commit the same crime again, and said that he did not expect Daniel to be so extreme, and he used his family as an issue. It's so pitiful.

"But he didn't feel at all that he was wrong," Robert said angrily. "He didn't even apologize to Daniel!"

Miser didn't react at all. After all, he had seen this kind of thing too much. Only a few people would truly regret it. Most people regretted it because of the price they paid, not because they realized the harm they caused others. regret.

After all, if they really had empathy, they wouldn't have hurt others in the first place.

But Miser didn't care about this at all, he couldn't wait to bump into the witch, and urged: "Okay, everything is settled, let's take a look at the bucket list!"

The witch, who was still stretching her neck to see the man crying and making a fuss, retracted her gaze, opened the contract paper, and the writing on it faded away, but in the next second, new writing began to slowly appear.

Miser: "..."

Robert: "..."

Witch: "..."

The witch laughed dryly and said, "It seems that this is really not Daniel's last wish."

Miser broke down and strangled the witch's neck: "It's all about you, crow's mouth!"

"Ah, I didn't do it on purpose! I didn't know it would happen!" The witch struggled: "But this must be the last wish, I swear, I promise!"

"You promise this is of no use!"

Miser went crazy: "This is the last wish! Isn't the werewolf the only enemy that left the deepest impression on him?! Can I kill the werewolf to save the werewolf? My job ahead It's all for nothing! You lose money! Lose money!"

"Why do you want me to lose money!" The witch said unwillingly: "Your boyfriend also said something about a werewolf, and he was the one who persuaded you to take this business!"

Miser said blankly, "Do you think he can escape? I'll strangle you first, and then strangle him."

Belphegor, who was thankful that he was not beaten: "..."

In fact, Miser didn’t really try too hard, the witch still had the strength to scream and move. He waved his hands, and suddenly caught a glimpse of the words on the contract paper, and said happily: “Wait a minute! The word werewolf!"

Upon hearing this, Miser quickly let go of the witch, grabbed the paper in his hand, unfolded it, and was stunned.

"What's written on it?"

Seeing that Miser's expression was wrong, the witch also leaned over to look at it. Robert jumped onto Miser's shoulder, and everyone was stunned.

There is a line printed on the paper:

"Want to thank the stranger who gave me a glass of water when I came out to labor at 20 and was dying of thirst."

After a long time, the witch said, "Thank you?"

Miser said nothing.

Robert couldn't believe it: "This...is this Daniel's last wish?"

"That's right," Belphegor said with a smile, "It's really interesting, and this is the only wish that is most clearly expressed."

Obviously, because this wish is the most important to Daniel, and it also transcends the time limit, keeping the clearest wish in his heart.

He has encountered so many injustices, and his resentment towards fate and the world should be justified, but in the end, the most important thing for him is to be grateful for the kindness from a stranger.

The witch didn't know what to say for a while. He thought of Miser's description of Daniel's soul, and felt that maybe the ending should have been like this, but he also felt that this was too unfair. move.

And Robert was already crying into a ball without any image, the tears soaked the fluff on the cat's face and tangled together, it didn't bother to wipe it, it just meowed loudly: "It's not fair! Why! He is so unlucky, Fate and the world are so bad to him! He wants to be nice to others! Why! Woooooooooo..."

Miser was silent for a while, then murmured, "I don't know either."

Belphegor glanced at him, smiled helplessly, and said nothing.

Daniel's soul has been darkened with resentment, but something constant is still shining in it. It seems that he can no longer be called a completely good person, but he has not made himself a bad person.

Humans are inherently complex creatures, and he is perhaps one of the most complex of them all.