Chapter 388 Aisha
Shang Jianyao thought carefully and gave the "best" advice:
"I'll ask you directly."
"......" Jiang Baimian thought for a few seconds, "Forget it, what if it's a secret sect that can't be known to others? Respect the privacy of others."
Shang Jianyao's thinking had long been unknown in which direction he had gone, and he said to himself:
"The ritual of that sect is to whip yourself, drip yourself with a candle, prick yourself with a needle, and cut yourself with a knife?"
The more Jiang Baimian listened, the more wrong it became:
"Why do you feel weird......
Is this the legendary masochistic sect?
She "hmm" for a long time and came up with another explanation:
"Could it be that Boss Ugo uses similar pain to suppress the state of only biological instincts?"
I don't know where he learned these methods......
While the two were discussing, Ugo's door creaked open.
He changed into a linen shirt, his blonde hair was very wet, and his face was slightly pale.
The vomit and various debris on the concrete floor of the room have also been cleaned up.
Shang saw that Yao was about to speak when Jiang Baimian glared at him, so he forcibly changed the topic:
"Boss, have you ever seen a cat that looks like a ghost?"
Ugo raised his eyelids slightly and replied coldly:
"I've never seen a ghost."
Jiang Baimian exhaled silently:
"It is a mutant creature that has infiltrated the city. We have a mission and are looking for it and its companions......"
She roughly described the physical characteristics of the sleeping cat and the nightmare horse.
Ugo shook his head:
"If I encounter such an obvious aberration, I will try to hunt it."
"Have you ever seen a child? He likes to play games, wearing tomato scrambled eggs, oh, you don't know what tomato scrambled eggs are, it's a set of red and yellow things." Shang Jianyao asked.
Ugo looked at him and asked rhetorically:
"This is also an aberration creature?"
"No, this is my friend, and he should have come to the original city too." Shang Jianyao explained sincerely.
Ugo thought for a moment and said:
"I haven't seen it."
He answered a few more questions from Shang Jianyao and Jiang Baimian, without mentioning what happened in the room without saying a word.
Jiang Baimian accepted it when he saw it, and led Shang Jianyao out of the hotel.
She looked back at the surveillance camera at the door:
"After that, let Lao Ge look through the surveillance video during this period, if only he could capture a sleeping cat, a nightmare horse or a little chong, well, he is the most efficient."
"Then what are we going to do?" Shang Jianyao asked.
Jiang Baimian pointed in one direction and said:
"Go to the home of the first patient of this 'heartless disease' epidemic.
"The first patient is always the most special, and it often shows something."
The first patient of this "heartless disease" epidemic is named Aisha and lives on the 4th floor of the apartment at 19 Bar Street.
Her husband is a dock stevedore, and she has no fixed job to take on clothing accessories and certain parts to subsidize the family, and take care of her two children.
——In the green olive area, there are many similar part-time female workers, mainly concentrated in the garment industry, because the production lines of a large number of factories are relatively old and have not been transformed, and many small accessories of clothing, such as flowers in different parts, buttons of special shapes, etc., need to be completed by workers with both hands.
This is not complicated, but there are a large number, for the factory, it is very not cost-effective to hire a large group of people specifically for this, on the one hand, there will be a fixed salary expense every month, on the other hand, the next batch of clothes may not need this kind of processing, maybe four or five people can complete it with a machine.
Therefore, the owners of small and medium-sized garment factories choose to find contractors, and the contractors will distribute flowers, buttons and other accessories that need to be processed on a per-piece basis, so that women like Elsa who do not have a fixed job can complete them at home.
The contractor only needs to do two things, one is to find skilled workers to give Elsa and the others a training before distribution, and teach them how to do it, and the other is to pay part of the fee to the corresponding gangsters, which not only prevents them from being vandalized, but also helps them deter those part-time female workers, so that they do not sell the materials they send out.
The strip street is not far from the Ugo Hotel, and it only took Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao five minutes to reach their destination and enter the apartment on the 19th.
It's very humid here, it's cold to the bone marrow in winter, and it's like a large steamer in summer, but fortunately, it's not the hottest months now, but it just makes Jiang Baimian feel a little stuffy.
Along the mottled stairs with handrails, the two came to the 4th floor and knocked on the door of Elsa's house.
"Who?" Behind the dark red wooden door with many scratches and paint peeling, a young boy's voice came out.
His tone was unabashedly vigilant.
Shang Jianyao replied seriously:
"I said I was here to make friends with you, do you believe it?"
"I don't believe it." The little boy behind the door replied without hesitation.
Jiang Baimian had already thought of an excuse, and said with a soft smile:
"We are relic hunters, the adventurers in the story, investigating a strange cat, and I want to ask you if you have seen it."
"What kind of cat......" came out of a more immature little girl's voice.
The little boy quickly interrupted her:
"Don't talk to strangers, Dad said that there are bad people out there and will sell us! Only when he comes back can he open the door."
The little girl stopped making a sound.
Jiang Baimian took advantage of the situation and asked:
"What about your mother? She's not at home?"
At this moment, she suddenly blamed herself, feeling that she was exposing the child's wounds.
The two children behind the door were silent for a while before the little boy replied:
"Dad said that my mother was sick and went far away, and she would have to wait until she recovered before she could come back."
Shout...... Jiang Baimian exhaled and was about to ask.
At this time, Shang Jianyao asked on her behalf:
"Have you seen how my mother got sick?"
The little boy's tone became very low:
"I saw ......"
"Is she sick at home?" Shang Jianyao asked.
The little boy was a little crying:
"No. That day, she went to Aunt Anna's house to get flowers to make, and before she came back at noon, Thea and I had been waiting for her, and we were hungry while waiting......
"Later, we heard a sound on the street, so we went to the window and looked outside, and then we saw my mother, her eyes were red, she kept shouting, she was so sick......"
Both Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao already knew about the subsequent developments - Aisha injured several people, avoided the pursuit of the security guards all the way, and was shot dead near Rabe Street.
Shang Jianyao asked again:
"Are there those flowers around her?"
"No." The little boy first replied, and then emphasized, "I can't talk to you anymore!"
Shang Jianyao took out a few "Ralphie" candies and placed them in the gap at the bottom of the door:
"Thank you for your answer, this is your reward.
"This kind of sugar will make you a little diarrhea, you can't eat too much, you will get sick."
When he spoke, Jiang Baimian also squatted down and picked up three of the "Ralphie" candies.
She shook her head at Shang Jianyao, pressed her voice very hard, and said:
"The children here have no resistance to candy and will definitely eat too much."
She immediately smiled at the closed door and said:
"There is only one person per person, you can't grab it."
She stuffed two "Ralphie" candies in turn, confirming that they were obtained by the little boy and the little girl respectively.
"I'll just lick it a few times, won't I have diarrhea, right?" The little girl asked innocently.
"I don't know either, why don't you wait for your father to come back and ask him?" Jiang Baimian maintained the tone of talking to children.
The little boy's "hmm" voice was a bit loud.
Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao got up one after another and left Aisha's house.
"Judging from Aisha's son's answer, she should have gotten the handmade flowers she needed to make before she got sick......" Jiang Baimian analyzed as he walked down the stairs.
This is because Elsa's house is not far from the subcontractor's house, no more than fifteen minutes away, and even if you include the training time, she must have gone back before the onset of the illness - the same is true of the sheriff's investigation.
Judging from the fact that the handmade flowers were not scattered around her, there was a high probability that she suddenly suffered from "unintentional disease" on the way back.
The sheriff in charge of this matter did not investigate clearly, it seems that the batch of handmade flowers was picked up by passers-by, and it was impossible to determine the specific location of Elsa's "unintentional disease".
Speaking of this, Jiang Baimian suddenly turned around and glanced at the door of Aisha's house.
She sighed and said:
"After the 'heartless disease' attacked and turned into a beast, she still leaned all the way to this ......"
Shang Jianyao did not respond.
Jiang Baimian quickly adjusted his condition:
"We'll simulate Elsa's route and see where we'll pass along the way. Now let's visit the residents on the lower floors, these are the people Elsa might meet when she goes out."
"It may also be that the person above happened to meet Elsa in the corridor." Shang Jianyao helped refine the details just like the usual group discussions.
This time, his thinking was not so jumpy.
"Hmm." Jiang Baimian exhaled again, "Then visit them all."
For most of the next half hour, they knocked on doors door to door and met all kinds of residents.
This includes a relic hunter who ventured into the wasteland of the North Shore and was injured; A family where a husband is busy in a factory and his wife works part-time as a street girl; There is a room that is empty at this time; There is a couple who have saved up a sum of materials, worked hard to enter the original city, and have not yet obtained citizenship, and have a very hard time; There are middle-aged people who drink untreated water for a long time, eat red river fish, are sick, and their relatives have died......
In the end, the two things that were frozen in Jiang Baimian's mind were:
narrow and gloomy staircase; There are no people over fifty years old.
"Let's go." Jiang Baimian left the apartment first.
She and Shang Jianyao followed Elsa's possible route to the subcontractor Anna's house, and along the way, they were like real sheriffs, asking the residents on both sides to completely determine the location of Elsa's illness.
After patient investigation, the two probably locked an area.
The seven or eight-story apartments here are one after another, "crowding" the street into a rather narrow area.
Jiang Baimian looked up to the sides and casually asked Shang Jianyao:
"What do you think?"
Shang Jianyao replied seriously:
"Wait for the power outage."
PS: I got a small padded jacket and was successfully promoted to seniority, hehe. I stayed up all night, I really can't do it, I go to bed regularly, and then I have to be busy for the next week, adapting to the changes in my life role, maybe there is only one watch at noon every day, and then the second shift will be resumed, but the weekend single shift will officially start, thank you~
(End of this chapter)