Because they entered the exam scene first, Gao Ying and Zhu Sunling's investigation progress was also far ahead of other candidates. And now, several candidates have decided to check out the abandoned Blue Bay No. 1 Middle School. However, Gao Ying is not very optimistic that they will come back alive.
It can be said that if there is no absolute order, the candidates may have already started to riot, and they may even use force against Gao Ying, Zhu Sunling and others. Each of them is struggling in despair and suffering, but the examination papers of most of them are still blank.
However, Gao Ying's cheating vision discovered that on Yan Yuchu's test paper, the exam questions he made were actually much more than Gao Ying's.
Yan Yuchu already knew Gao Ying's cheating vision ability, but he didn't mind letting Gao Ying see it. Gao Ying also saw the generosity of the uncle in front of him, as the so-called debt of favor is hard to repay, and he also knew that since he had read Yan Yuchu's exam paper, he naturally needed to remember this favor.
"Finally found Zhang Zhilan's address."
Zhang Zhilan didn't seem to have a deep connection with those classmates back then, so he only found out the address after asking a few people.
It is already afternoon.
Zhang Zhilan was the last person to go to the beach that night. Gao Ying, Zhu Sunling and Yan Yuchu decided to find this person together. So far, the useful information obtained is quite limited. Zhang Tianquan and Lin Dulu, whose whereabouts are currently unknown, hope to get clues from her.
According to Zhang Zhilan who talked about it from other populations, there is quite little information. She looks mediocre, and she was very inconspicuous in the class at the time, and she was taciturn. Also because her personality is too introverted, she lacks a sense of presence, and she doesn't interact with most of the people in the class. How much information can be obtained from her mouth is completely unknown now.
Zhang Zhilan's house is deep in a relatively secluded alley. Her house is not big and looks quite old.
Gao Ying walked to the door and knocked on it.
Not long after, the door opened.
"who are you?"
The person who opened the door was a middle-aged woman with a cigarette in her mouth. She only opened the door a crack, looked at Gao Ying with obvious vigilance, and asked impatiently, "Who is it?"
Gao Ying only felt that the smoke was very choking, and immediately said: "Squeeze the smoke first."
The impatient expression on the middle-aged woman's face quickly disappeared, and then she threw the cigarette on the ground.
At this time, another voice came from the room: "What's going on? Who is it?"
"Follow my instructions for all actions in the future, and don't speak without my order." After Gao Ying gave the order to the middle-aged woman, she walked into the dim room. The light in the room was very dark, the curtains were drawn tightly, and the inside was even more smoky. Several people gathered around a two-table table covered with playing cards and banknotes.
Obviously, these people are gathering crowds to gamble.
"who are you?"
"Sister Ling, what are you doing?"
Gao Ying quickly walked to the curtain and quickly opened it to ensure that everyone in the room could see his face clearly. At this time, Zhu Sunling and Yan Yuchu also came in.
"What are you doing, boy?" A man with a cigarette in his mouth came up and was about to say something when Gao Ying gave an order coldly.
"From now on... everyone obeys my command... Sit down! Don't speak without my order!"
Under Gao Ying's solemn expression, everyone followed his instructions like puppets and sat down collectively.
And Zhu Sunling opened the window, on the one hand, to facilitate escape, and on the other hand, it was unbearable to bear the smell of cigarettes all over the room. After opening the window, the smell finally dissipated a lot.
Gao Ying also waved his arms to keep dispelling the strong smell of cigarettes, and then ordered everyone to snuff out the cigarette butts in the ashtray. In this way, the air in the room is slightly more tolerable.
Yan Yuchu stood at the door to ensure that the door would not be closed suddenly. Looking at the seamless coordination between Gao Ying and Zhu Sunling, he couldn't help feeling that the two had a tacit understanding. Moreover, no matter in appearance or wisdom, the two can be said to be evenly matched, and they can be called a talented man and a woman.
This can't help but remind Yan Yuchu of his past self. Back then when he was a Death-level examinee, he also met a woman who cooperated perfectly with him. After that... countless times of life and death, he became a love that he would never forget even if he was reincarnated. The past is like smoke, and after reliving it again, his greatest insight is that beautiful things are always short-lived and not easy to last. At the beginning of Yan Yuchu, who only recovered the memory of his previous life after entering the exam scene, he had already deeply realized that the eternal life was completely meaningless. Immortality is actually another, more cruel way of death.
Looking at Zhu Sunling who was so obsessed with immortality, he couldn't help but feel that Zweig's words about Queen Mary who went to the guillotine were quite appropriate: She was too young at that time to know all the gifts of fate. The price has already been secretly marked.
"Who is Zhang Zhilan?"
Gao Ying shouted loudly, he watched everyone in front of him, but no one answered.
So he changed the question: "Where is Zhang Zhilan?"
This time someone finally answered.
The answer was the middle-aged woman named Sister Ling who opened the door.
"she went out."
"Where did you go?"
"have no idea."
After questioning, it was learned that this woman was Zhang Zhilan's mother. Zhang Zhilan's father was a man who was also smoking at the gambling table. They always gather here to gamble, and at this time the whole house is filled with smoke, Zhang Zhilan will leave home during this time. Where she went, her parents don't know either.
So Gao Ying could only ask about Zhang Zhilan's situation first.
In TW, unlike HK, gambling is completely illegal. However, Blue Bay Town is located in a remote place, and the Tianyun Club has also opened some underground casinos, and they have greeted the police in advance and donated some profits, so the police turned a blind eye. Of course, this is just a private gathering, and the amount of gambling is not too large. Zhang Zhilan's parents are bad gamblers. Zhang Zhilan never mentioned this point to any of his classmates. It's no wonder that she has formed her taciturn and inarticulate character.
When asked about Zhang Zhilan's school situation when she was a student, her parents almost didn't know anything about it. Apart from paying her tuition, taking care of her board and lodging, they didn't understand anything else at all, and all they could think about was gambling.
"You have been gambling for a long time, how do you repay your gambling debts?"
"Let my daughter go out and sell herself." Zhang Zhilan's mother replied firmly.
Gao Ying was stunned by this calm answer.
"You... what did you say?" Gao Ying grabbed Zhang Zhilan's mother by the collar and lifted her up: "You asked her to sell... herself? Why is she willing?"
"She doesn't sell herself, and the people in the casino won't let us go."
"So she agreed?"
"yes."
Gao Ying only felt trembling all over.
"Both you and your husband are willing to let her sell?"
"What does it matter, she is our daughter, and it is only natural for her to go out and sell herself to us for money."
After Gao Ying suppressed her inner anger and inquired in detail, she learned that Zhang Zhilan had been doing takeout frequently in high school. Although she looks ordinary, but because of her young age, her business is quite good. During the period when parents owed gambling debts, those who wanted debts in the casino said that they could also sell themselves to pay off the debts. The people in the police station were all bribed by Tianyun Society, so calling the police was useless. Of course, Zhang Zhilan was resolutely unwilling at first, but at that time the person in charge of collecting debts was Brother Shun who was killed by Gao Ying. Although Boss Xiong was in charge at that time and his style was relatively gentle, but there were so many people in Tianyun Society, it was impossible for him to manage all the people below. What's more, collecting gambling debts is a matter of course. If you don't want to pay back the money, don't gamble.
Although Gao Ying knew that this was TW and not the mainland where the rule of law prevailed, he did not expect that the collusion between police and robbers was so serious!
"At that time, who were the specific identities of the people in charge of debt collection?"
"The one who takes the lead is Brother Shun." Zhang Zhilan's father recalled, "There are two people who follow him, I am very impressed, one is called Kunzai, and the other is called Quanzi."
"Quanzi?" Gao Ying suddenly thought of something, and said loudly, "Is it called Zhang Tianquan?"
"I don't know, I only know that his name is Quanzi."
"Does your daughter know him?"
"Yes, he knows my daughter."
(end of this chapter)