New Gods of North America.

Chapter 356 Preparation
After leaving college, Wayne went to a newspaper office and bought an advertising space for $20.

In those days, communications were not well developed, and many local newspapers had pages dedicated to publishing various "advertisements", "statements", "notices", etc., which were basically small boxes of pure text, and were charged according to the number of words or page size.
The content can be varied, for example, it could be "which place is recruiting", "which company has relocated", or "someone came to the local area and found that their relatives or friends have moved and wants to find them".

The cost of this part is relatively cheap, and Wayne bought a week's supply.
The content was "Due to staff being assigned abroad, the Wayne National Detective Agency is temporarily short of staff and will suspend accepting all types of commissions within one week", and then counted down day by day.

Most of the remaining expenses were spent on buying space on other pages and having the newspaper reprint some of the stories that had praised the detective agency.

There is something different every day, and it is published in the newspaper for four consecutive days.

Wayne didn't really want to advertise, but he felt that when Lina and her friends escorted the valuables out of the house, the incident was reported in the newspaper, and he felt that someone was trying to target the detective agency.
Then why not just let the public know that the detective agency is currently short of people, and take advantage of the church's tacit approval to kill extraordinary criminals, and see if we can catch some fish.

The wanted criminals who “come to your door” may be innocent, but this is basically not the case for those who “knock on your door”.

Since Chef Parker was still in a "sleeping" state, dinner had to be prepared casually.
The scale of slaughtering these days cannot support niche products like "fried chicken nuggets", but it does not stop Wayne from buying a few chickens and chopping them into large pieces and frying them.

Although there is no professional equipment such as a high-pressure oil pan, it is not too difficult to coat the dough with wet flour and then dry flour after soaking in salt water. It is not difficult to fry it at low temperature and crisp it at high temperature.
So even though Wayne himself felt that it was not quite up to standard, everyone was very sensible and said that it was delicious.

Well, in this day and age, most people are actually quite satisfied as long as they can eat relatively normal meat every now and then.

There are only a few partners in the detective agency who know that Parker is a "puppet", so "new employees" like Connor will have unrealistic expectations about the chef's sudden "awakening", always thinking that it is a side effect of some special extraordinary ability that needs Lina to suppress.

After all, with little loli like Emma who occasionally takes off her own head, the agents have become very receptive to the weirdness of the world of extraordinary people.

After dinner, I threw all the math homework to the little girl and Seth who came to improve the food.
Wayne was in the detective agency's yard watching Doug help him train the bird.

When I was buying food today, I happened to come across someone selling peregrine falcon chicks. This guy's feathers had almost all fallen out, and he could be trained to fly, so Doug put on a pair of leather gloves and practiced.

In today's Windsor Kingdom and the upper class of southern America, hunting is still a regular activity that can demonstrate identity and status. As one of the most popular hunting birds, the peregrine falcon is actually quite valuable.
Fortunately, according to the concept of this year, the more popular ones are the newly hatched chicks and well-trained adult birds. The price of older birds like this one that are over the age limit and have not been trained is relatively cheap.

So Wayne got a bargain and felt quite happy about it.

Ever since the explosive capability was upgraded, Wayne has always had the idea of letting Doug's birds carry bombs for both detection and attack. Unfortunately, pigeons have a poor carrying capacity, parrots are too conspicuous, and owls are currently considered professional counterparts, but they are only suitable for flying at night.
The Peregrine Falcon, which has top-notch flying speed, makes up for this shortcoming quite well. It flies fast and has a decent carrying capacity. I feel that if it can be used in conjunction with other aircraft, it can at least be used as a short-range rocket launcher.

It's just that this guy is still a little careless at the moment. The owl can now land directly on the hand of the familiar, and the peregrine falcon has to wear thick leather gloves now.
With Doug's help, Wayne tried to land the peregrine falcon with his bare hands, and its claws poked a bloody hole in Wayne's palm.
Wayne tried his best not to show his self-healing ability too obviously, so he wrapped a bandage around the palm of his right hand and then healed himself in secret.

Doug's extraordinary ability is "bird affinity" rather than "bird control", so he still needs to train the peregrine falcon for a while.
But Wayne liked this guy better than that stupid owl, so he felt it was okay.

Conor's "daily practice" is more hardcore.
He was holding a small-sized high explosive with a longer fuse, and after lighting it, he played catch with Peter.

Cowardly Peter is not as brave as Connor. He wishes he could wear "armor" during the whole game with him - if he could beat Connor, Cowardly Peter's principle is not to play - Connor, on the contrary, would consciously observe the burning of the fuse, try to hold the explosive tube at the moment of detonation, and then use his extraordinary ability to defend and unload the force in time.

Wayne didn't try to avoid them too much, and took the opportunity to let Doug's birds get used to the sound of the explosion to prevent them from failing during the airdrop.

After a rare period of leisure, Wayne returned to his room and took a hot bath.
By the way, I put a note written in simplified Chinese next to the mirror and observed whether there was anything unusual about myself.

According to the Hunter Association's theory, Wayne has now absorbed extraordinary materials covering five of the eight areas, and is basically considered a "crazy" or "mutated" reserve.
Although Wayne still feels good about his spiritual intuition, he cannot rule out the possibility that he is "crazy in a natural way".

Therefore, it was not convenient to talk about the absorption of extraordinary materials in the "sacred" realm for the time being. Wayne would first test himself. When he found that he could not understand the sentence "You are here too?" written in simplified Chinese, or when he found that tentacles had grown somewhere on his body, he would immediately seek help.

But the current situation is good.
Apart from a brief feeling of "indigestion" similar to the previous one after absorbing the extraordinary material extracted from Roy Stampler, no other adverse reactions occurred.

Wayne was already familiar with dealing with this kind of situation. He first drank half a bottle of holy water, then went to the cellar and touched the slate fragment.
Then, just like before, the feeling of indigestion quickly subsided, and some spiritual power nourished the "blue bar" in Wayne's body, and the increase was not too small.

After basically making preparations for fishing, Wayne began to routinely maintain his revolver and newly acquired bolt-action rifle, waiting to see if there would be an opportunity to "sit and wait".

Anyway, the homework has been collected and the other students in the dormitory have not recovered yet, so Wayne is happy to continue "recuperating" and plans to skip classes for a few more days.

(End of this chapter)