Posen opened a crumpled paper bag and found a small piece of oatmeal bread and a big thumb bacon stuck to it.
He was overjoyed, looked up at Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao, and saw that they didn't pay attention to him, so he hurriedly wiped the bacon and stuffed it into his mouth.
Immediately afterwards, he ignored the complex and unpleasant smell around him and nibbled on the small piece of oatmeal bread.
Perhaps afraid that the food would be snatched away, he devoured it and quickly choked himself.
However, he was an experienced scavenger and skillfully removed the tin-white kettle he had picked up earlier and took a few sips.
At this moment, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao were rummaging through the piles of garbage for possible clues.
The garbage that is packed into bags and categorized is relatively pleasing to the eye, allowing them to inspect efficiently, while the complex types of garbage poured directly into the bucket are mixed together, stacking up in a fermented wet and sticky environment, some of which have rotted, and the taste is very touching.
Hearing the sound of Bosen drinking water, Jiang Baimian, who was wearing a gas mask, turned around and looked at the scavenger.
He was in his forties, his eyes were blue, his face was full of traces of wind and frost, and the pale yellow beard on his mouth was messy and messy, stained with a lot of debris and water droplets.
After completely swallowing the food that choked on him, the scavenger raised his left hand and wiped his beard.
Jiang Baimian noticed that his hand was trembling slightly and unconsciously.
After thinking about it, Jiang Baimian took off the rubber glove on one hand and took out a photo from his pocket:
"Do you know this kind of cigarette?"
It was a photo of a flag cigarette taken by Gnawa.
Posen screwed the lid of the kettle and pointed to himself with his left finger:
"You, are you asking me?"
"Yes." Jiang Baimian gave an affirmative answer.
She was about to say that she could pay a little money, but Posen had already looked at the photo carefully and said:
"This is a flag cigarette, its filter is short and useless, and it has almost no taste when smoked."
Compared with other cigarettes in the city at the beginning, flag cigarettes are famous for their short filters that do not play any role in addition to having a very strong taste and close to local cigarettes.
"Have you smoked?" Shang Jianyao asked curiously.
Perhaps because these two people didn't grab the food they found, they were the type who could get along peacefully, Posen was no longer as guarded as before, and said with a smile:
"I can occasionally find some cigarette butts from the garbage room, all brands are available, as long as they are not wet, I will pick them up, find a fire to light them, and take a couple of puffs to feel the taste.
"It would be even better if I could find some food to fill my stomach that day."
Posen had already discovered that the purpose of the two people in front of him seemed to be different from himself, and the two sides seemed to have no competitive relationship.
Hearing the cigarette butt being picked up, Jiang Baimian's eyes lit up, and he asked patiently:
"Do you know all kinds of cigarette brands?"
"I used to smoke some, and there were often discarded old newspapers in the garbage room with advertisements for various cigarettes." Posen said with a little pride, "I know the words!"
Jiang Baimian immediately asked:
"Then where did you pick up the flag cigarette butt?"
Posen recalled:
"That time I went to the green olive area to sell all kinds of things I picked up, and when I passed by the port, I picked them up on the road, I was looking forward to it, but the result was ......."
As a result, customers of Banner Cigarettes will smoke a few puffs of cigarette butts before discarding them, and the short filter design that has no filtration effect to block certain ingredients is almost zero.
Jiang Baimian was a little disappointed and asked in confirmation:
"You didn't pick up this kind of cigarette butt in these neighborhoods?"
"No." Posen shook his head affirmatively.
Jiang Baimian thought about it:
"Then which buildings have you been to in the past week?"
She was ready to use the method of elimination.
Poson thought about it carefully:
"Gad House, Hearst Apartments......"
As he spoke, he pointed with his right hand.
Jiang Baimian found that his right hand was also a bit problematic, not so dexterous.
After writing down the name of the building in the Bosen newspaper, Jiang Baimian stood up, walked out of the garbage room, and took out the walkie-talkie in a secluded place nearby.
"Gade House, Hearst Apartments...... put it in the second place and give priority to other buildings on the list." She gave orders to Bai Chen, Long Yuehong, and Gnawa.
After getting an affirmative reply, she put away the walkie-talkie and returned to the garbage room just now.
At this time, Shang Jianyao had already had a good conversation with Posen.
"Are you looking for something? Don't worry, the garbage truck will still be here for several hours." Poson comforted his new friend.
"Hmm." Jiang Baimian nodded, squatted down again, and put on the rubber glove.
Posen rummaged through all kinds of garbage, looking for food and valuable items, while laughing:
"You can often find something interesting here.
"In the previous winter, I found a bag of clothes in an opaque bag, guess what they are?"
Shang Jianyao replied cooperatively:
"Coat, padded jacket?"
"No, no, no." Posen shook his head.
He said with a smile:
"There is a pair of dark blue socks, a pair of black leather boots, a pair of silk underwear, a pair of black trousers, a white shirt, a black vest, and a black formal suit, which are the ones that aristocrats like to wear the most, and they are all very new, with no traces of sewing."
"That sounds a bit weird." Jiang Baimian's thoughts changed, and he probably understood what was going on.
A certain aristocrat imitated the style of the forensic playboy Weller of the Red Stone Collection to comfort other people's wives, but others came home early and blocked him in the house.
He didn't care about putting on his clothes, climbed out of the window, and fled in a hurry in a state of "the emperor's new clothes".
Later, he either met his entourage guarding the neighborhood, or found a sheriff in the name of being robbed, or took the clothes dried by others.
The wife was afraid that the clothes and shoes he left behind would be discovered by her husband, so she hurriedly put them into a bag, took them down in the name of taking out the garbage, and threw them into the garbage room.
Posen was about to respond when he found an apple that had rotted for most of its size.
His eyes lit up and he put it in the linen pocket he had brought.
After doing this, Posen smiled and said:
"Yes, I can imagine a love story.
"It's a pity that I didn't dare to sell that set of clothes in the Golden Apple Area and the Red Giant Wolf Area, so I could only send them to the Green Olive Area, but I also changed a full 5 Ole.
"That month was so beautiful......"
Shang Jian Yao listened with relish, and expressed his opinion:
"That outfit is worth at least 50 ore."
「50？ At least 200!" Posen retorted.
Jiang Baimian glanced at him, nodded slightly, and said:
"You seem to have a certain amount of education?"
"I am a citizen." Posen emphasized, "I once joined the army."
"Then how did you become a scavenger?" Jiang Baimian asked curiously.
Posen was silent for a moment and said:
"I used to be the most accurate marksman in our battalion and made a lot of contributions, but later in a war, my right forearm was injured and my movements were not so flexible, so I left the army.
"I was assigned a lot of farmland at that time, in the southern suburbs, and lived a good life for several years, until the weather changed drastically, food production dropped sharply, and the Senate refused to help us......
"Later, I couldn't bear the debt, so I had to sell the field to a noble master and enter the city by myself......"
Jiang Baimian deliberately asked:
"Then why don't you become a relic hunter and go to the wasteland of the North Bank to make a living?
"At your age, there should still be some oil in the tank."
Posen showed a bitter smile:
"On the day I found out that the interest on my debt was unbearably high, my left hand began to tremble a few times from time to time.
"I can't use a gun with either hand anymore......"
After a short silence in the garbage room, Shang Jianyao asked seriously:
"Then do you hate the Senate for not helping you?
"Do you hate those nobles for taking the opportunity to provide usury and annex your land?"
Posen's expression changed a few times, he lowered his head slightly, looked at the ground and said:
"Hate, how can you not hate?
"Hum, Jasper, Paris...... One after another, they died in exchange for those lands, but in the end they ended up in the hands of nobles who did not take any risks in the war."
Suddenly, he raised his head and roared in a slightly painful voice:
"We, the citizens, died one after another to have the current 'First City', but they just want to take away our land and send us to those factories!
"Most of the slaves in those factories won't even live for three years!"
Jiang Baimian listened quietly and looked at Shang Jianyao.
For the first time, she felt the internal contradictions of the "First City" so realistically.
…………
Alpha Building, in the attached garbage room.
Bai Chen and Long Yuehong were also wearing gas masks, rummaging through all kinds of garbage with Gnava.
There are a large number of companies, chambers of commerce, and apartments provided to employees, which were not originally on their list of today's investigations, but the situation reported by Jiang Baimian before made them give up the Gade Building and Hearst Apartment.
"It's really a test of patience." Long Yuehong almost used a needle in a haystack as a metaphor.
Bai Chen glanced sideways at him and said:
"It is in this kind of place where it is almost impossible to find clues that the real 'priest' can be careless.
"Hurry up, you have to finish looking here before the garbage truck comes."
As she spoke, the movements in her hands did not stop at all.
——As unofficial personnel, they have to avoid crowds when rummaging through garbage, so as not to startle the snakes, and at the same time, they have to rush before the garbage truck transports the garbage, otherwise, after the garbage is mixed, who knows where it comes from.
"Okay." Long Yuehong endured a little disgust and continued to work.
In this regard, Gnava did not feel any discomfort at all.
As time passed quickly, Long Yuehong picked up a thin plastic bag and poured the garbage inside on the ground.
His eyes swept away, and his eyes suddenly froze.
There were several cigarette butts with short filters in that pile of garbage.
This is the butt of the flag cigarette!
Long Yuehong subconsciously raised her head, looked outside the garbage room, and looked at the twenty-seven-story Alpha Building.
PS: At the beginning of the month, I asked for a guaranteed monthly pass~ I probably didn't have the energy to write a monthly summary in recent months, everyone is considerate, laughs
(End of this chapter)