165: Chapter 165 The Broken Skull

By the time Lin Sheng returned to the dessert shop, Rona had already cleaned the place up.

Looking at the empty counter and the youth with pale golden hair standing behind it, Lin Sheng's expression was slightly surprised.

"Rona? Third Sister-in-law?"

Lin Sheng called out tentatively.

Hearing Lin Sheng's voice, the youth sitting behind the counter gave a sudden jolt.

He hurriedly rose from his seat and walked cautiously over to Lin Sheng.

"Hon—Master, you've returned."

The youth rubbed his hands together with a humble posture, a series of movements that looked as if they had been rehearsed countless times under someone else's training.

Looking at Rona standing before him in such a "servant-like" manner, the expression on Lin Sheng's face was hard to describe.

He glanced outside, and only after finding that no one was paying attention to him did he feel slightly relieved.

"Why are you dressed like this?"

Lin Sheng asked as he looked at the youth.

"Master, my previous form was somewhat inconvenient for cleaning, so I..."

Seeing that Lin Sheng seemed a bit angry, Rona was somewhat afraid, his tone full of grievance.

"Stop, stop, stop!"

Rona's tone gave Lin Sheng a full body of goosebumps. In all his long life, this was the first time a male had "acted cute" with him like this.

Lin Sheng thought for a moment and didn't make Rona change back into a lizard.

Previously, he had always treated Rona as a combat unit, which was why he had him disguise himself as a Lesser Dragon.

But the current situation was that he didn't seem to need a combat unit.

Therefore, compared to "Lesser Dragon Rona," a "Butler Rona" seemed more suitable.

However, Lin Sheng was not about to find a male butler, especially one who liked to act cute with him.

So, Lin Sheng planned to give Rona a new identity.

"From now on, you are a clerk of this shop. Just call me Boss."

"As for your name, you can still use your own, but the divinity carried by the name must not be leaked."

Lin Sheng arranged a new identity for Rona and then emphasized several points that required attention.

"Uh... Bo—Boss."

After Lin Sheng finished speaking, Rona suddenly raised his hand cautiously.

Seeing that Rona still had things he didn't understand, although Lin Sheng was displeased, he still patiently asked:

"What else do you want to ask?"

"Boss, this shop doesn't seem to belong to you, does it?"

"What does that make us? Bandits?"

Lin Sheng: ...

...

Although what Rona said seemed to make some sense, Lin Sheng felt that since the owner of this shop was already dead and the shop was just sitting here empty, it was better to take advantage of it for himself.

Moreover, after Lin Sheng had stayed here for a few days, no one had come to cause him trouble. Didn't that indicate that this house already belonged to him?

"Boss, what do you plan to sell in the shop?"

As the shop's current clerk—and its only clerk—Rona followed the principle of loving whatever job he did, working diligently in the shop for two days.

But during these two days, besides sitting behind the counter and staring blankly at the empty shelves, he hadn't done anything else.

"No rush, let me think first. I'll tell you once I've decided."

This was already the third time in these two days that Rona had asked Lin Sheng this, and it was also the third time Lin Sheng had used this kind of rhetoric to brush Rona off.

In any case, for Lin Sheng, this shop was just a transition. He had never thought about opening a shop and then promoting it throughout the universe or anything of the sort.

"Alright then."

Hearing Lin Sheng's usual brush-off, Rona helplessly sat back behind the counter.

Lin Sheng, meanwhile, returned to the back room and began rummaging through the previous owner's legacy.

He didn't believe that an ordinary low-level Transcendent would actively research the knowledge of an Evil God while under the protection of a Main God.

And by some coincidence, that Evil God happened to be an Old One.

If he were to say there was nothing inside guiding this, Lin Sheng wouldn't believe it.

Sure enough, as this thought popped into Lin Sheng's head, he naturally discovered a skull that looked like it was molded from mud under a cabinet in the back room.

Picking up the skull gently and placing it on the cabinet in front of him, Lin Sheng was afraid he might accidentally break it.

After all, the appearance of this skull was truly deceptive; it always gave one the feeling that it would crumble into dust the very next second.

Looking at the mud-like skull placed on the cabinet, Lin Sheng suddenly spoke in surprise:

"It's actually something even a Main God would have difficulty discovering!"

He discovered that this skull had a particularly eerie characteristic.

In the eyes of high-level Transcendents or even Main Gods, this was like a grain of dust, easily overlooked.

Lin Sheng's current true realm was somewhere between a True God and a Main God. If it weren't for his 'Omniscience,' he would have subconsciously ignored this skull as well.

This was quite incredible.

After all, this skull was clearly an Evil God creation, and as everyone knew, Evil Gods had something wrong with their brains.

Although that 'lord of the spirit remains' seemed a bit smarter than the Old One Lin Sheng had encountered before, Lin Sheng didn't think that 'lord of the spirit remains' could produce this thing.

After all, whether it was an Old One or a Main God, it was almost impossible for either side to hide things in the other's territory.

"Interesting."

Lin Sheng slowly stroked his chin. He was curious as to which direction this star domain would develop next.

He had no intention of interfering too much. After all, to this star domain, he was merely a passerby.

Whatever happened to this star domain afterward, Lin Sheng would not step in to interfere.

He would just watch its course unfold.

"Boss, someone is looking for you."

Just as Lin Sheng was deep in thought, a shout from the shop entrance suddenly interrupted his train of thought.

Lin Sheng looked up. His gaze pierced through the half-closed wooden door, seeing the scene at the shop entrance.

Seeing the middle-aged woman from next door standing at the shop entrance talking to Rona, Lin Sheng picked up the skull on the cabinet and walked unhurriedly toward the door.

Seeing Lin Sheng's figure appear at the door, the woman warmly stepped forward to greet him.

She had to be warm; in her eyes, Lin Sheng had already become a terrifying murderer—the kind who didn't have to take responsibility for killing someone.

Besides, even without the status of a "murderer," just the fact that he helped clean up the shop's environment was enough for her to come and thank him.

"Little Brother Ye, this is, is, is, is, is, is..."

The woman handed the unknown beast meat she was holding toward Lin Sheng, but just then, her peripheral vision caught sight of Lin Sheng's hands behind his back and the battered skull he was holding.