Mingche knows a lot about trading.
The key to all transactions in the world is not equal exchange, but to cater to the other party's preferences.
He already had a preconceived idea that Bai Wu was a man who was greedy for beauty. What he needed to verify next was Bai Wu's grasp of the case.
However, Mingche was very patient. He went straight to the point of winning over Baiwu and showed his importance to Baiwu. Then he arranged a beautiful woman for Baiwu that he could not refuse.
But then, Mingche's pace slowed down.
He chatted with Bai Wu about women's topics from time to time, and slowly built up a certain trust between them.
At the same time, he was also making a final observation to see if Bai Wu was really lustful.
Bai Wu's acting was very natural, especially he also knew how to talk about what the person likes:
"Young and immature girls, pretty but not useful, and some are too skinny, tsk tsk~"
Mingche now believed that Bai Wu was not just pretending to be a pervert, but a real pervert.
He felt relieved, and drank a few cups with Bai Wu, promising to take Bai Wu to some high-end places. After coaxing Bai Wu into looking forward to it, he got down to business:
"Brother Bai, our two families are actually assisting each other in this case. I wonder what you have discovered after investigating it?"
Bai Wu still hesitated for a second or two, but quickly made a choice:
"The target is Yan Jiu, who should be 1.65 meters tall and weigh 49 kg. She is mischievous and a night owl, but cannot smile. She often looks at herself in the mirror to manage her facial expressions. Because she doesn't know how to smile, her facial expressions are very stiff when she tries to learn."
"She has expressed her desire to leave the tower more than once through the monitor or directly to a patient in the asylum. She tried to talk to you about the evil, but unfortunately you were too lazy to pay attention and just found some books to get rid of her."
Mingche was surprised. There was no surveillance video, but the young man just went in and took a few looks, and he was able to come up with so many clues.
Bai Wu didn't care about making this information public at all, after all, it was all useless information.
But since the other party likes to think he is preconceived so much, he only needs to say part of it, and the other party will definitely think that he has grasped some key clues.
"She has a serious problem controlling her emotions. She is the type that cannot leave the tower. But after she disappeared, you investigated the records of the asylum but did not find any clues. It was as if she disappeared out of thin air."
"And you found out from the written records she left behind that she had wanted to escape from the asylum a long time ago, and even recorded some situations outside the tower, but you still didn't find any valuable clues. You also tried to decipher those messages, but in the end you got nothing."
After saying this, Bai Wu kissed the beautiful woman brought by Ming Che. The woman looked shy and was reluctant to accept. Bai Wu said with a squinting look:
"Actually, you are going in the wrong direction. I do have some clues, but I still need some supporting evidence. If Captain Ming is willing to show me the information Yan Jiu left behind, we can exchange some clues, and perhaps this case will be solved."
Clear eyes with a gleam of light:
"But will Brother Bai tell Wujiu about these clues?"
Do all the soldiers in Gaota Town know the nickname Wujiu... It seems there is no need to envy the captain's strength, because it is earned by his height.
"Not yet. I was originally planning to collect all the clues and solve the case in one go. But since you have found them, Captain Ming, the clues are now delivered to my door."
Bai Wu's eyes were full of interest, but his hands didn't stop moving:
"Solving a case is like solving a puzzle. Sometimes we can imagine the original pattern without having to complete the puzzle, but sometimes even one piece is missing. This time it's the latter. Based on my understanding of Miss Yan Jiu, she may have left a key piece of information. As long as I can check the information she left behind, I am confident that I can solve the case one day."
If we can strike at the Investigation Corps and solve the case at the same time, that would be the best of both worlds. Mingche suppressed his excitement:
"Brother Bai, I am a businessman who values honesty and truthfulness, so I will just say it directly. If you are willing to help our Zhenyu Army solve the case as soon as possible, I can help you remove the word 'second'."
Bai Wu pretended to be surprised.
This was indeed something worth surprising. He had not expected that Ming Che had such great power that he could directly raise the authority level of the lower-level residents.
If he finds out later that he has been tricked, he will probably get into a lot of trouble in the future.
However, Bai Wu made some comparisons and found that although Mingche had a celebrity face, he was also very friendly, good at doing business, and absolutely generous to his subordinates.
Even if all this is fake, as long as everyone believes it, it is still a skill.
This is a person worth making friends with and even pleasing.
But in Bai Wu's heart, there was no need to even compare, the short guy was obviously cuter.
He nodded and pretended to agree:
"Okay, okay. I want to learn more from Team Ming."
Mingche smiled and started chatting with Baiwu about women again, occasionally talking about the case, and Baiwu would squeeze out a little bit of it from time to time like squeezing toothpaste.
But I always acted as if I had a trump card and kept Mingche hanging.
Ming Che was not in a hurry. The more he communicated with Bai Wu, the more he felt that he was a talented person. He did not want his utilitarianism to be too obvious, so he even thought about making friends with him.
After a few bottles of wine, Mingche told Bai Wu an address, asked Bai Wu to have a good rest for a day, deal with Wujiu's matters, not to arouse their suspicion, and then go to find him at the address tomorrow.
After everything was arranged, Mingche left reluctantly.
Bai Wu also found a reason to get rid of the beauty brought by Ming Che.
The bait has been taken. As the saying goes, if we don’t have guns or cannons, the enemy will make them for us.
Although the case information was taken away by the Zhenyu Army, it can be retrieved from them.
Bai Wu was preparing to return to the mental hospital, as he still had to confirm a few places.
Walking on the street on the third floor, which is considered an entertainment area, it is much more lively at night than during the day.
It seemed quite deserted at this time, with only a few people on the streets.
Before Bai Wu entered the bar, he knew that someone was following him. They were Mingche's men, but after he reached an agreement with Mingche, these people had left.
But at this moment Bai Wu discovered that there was another person on the street staring at him, and this person's right arm was covered with some kind of tattoos.
He had a ferocious expression on his face and his eyes were staring straight at Bai Wu without any dodging. Unlike Mingche and his group, this person didn't mind being discovered at all.
Don't look into his eyes!
In the past, the notes would also remind Bai Wu not to do this or that, but they were always in a joking tone. This time, Bai Wu could feel that it was an extremely serious warning.
But it was too late, Bai Wu just felt that his whole body could not move.
With the strength of the second stage and ninth level, he was considered an expert, but after staring into the eyes of the stalker, he felt that he could not use any strength at all.
His legs felt as heavy as if they were filled with lead, and there was an unbearable gravity pressing down on him.
With a plop, Bai Wu fell to the ground. He could actually hold on for a while, but lying down was obviously more comfortable and it also showed weakness.
The man held the cell phone and picked up Bai Wu with an indifferent look on his face. Bai Wu felt that the gravity attached to his body was still there, but the feeling of weakness had gone.
At the same time, feeling the opponent's iron-hard arm, all kinds of thoughts turned rapidly in his mind, and finally Bai Wu decided to give up resistance.
"The 'cargo' has been found, ma'am." The weirdo was talking to someone.
Bai Wu was very calm. He had a premonition that he would soon be knocked unconscious.
Before the other party took this step, he struggled to cast his last glance at the man's mobile phone.
The person on the other end of the line is a high-ranking official from a certain church, an organization with which you have a close relationship. Your adventure started from this organization, so you'd better find a way to escape. I have to remind you that verbal attacks are meaningless against these believers. Think carefully about what cards you have left, otherwise we will both be in trouble.
The banker.
Bai Wu looked at those strange tattoos and thought they had something to do with Cain, but after thinking about it carefully, it didn't seem right.
Cain's main target is Shorty, but if he really wanted to fight Shorty in the tower, he wouldn't have waited until now.
He was testing Shorty and wanted to challenge him outside the tower.
So it is very likely that it was not Cain, but the dealer.
The notes mentioned believers... It seems that the casino is also affiliated with a religious organization.
When Bai Wu entered the third level, he had thought about being wary of the casino.
The reason he was attacked this time was not because he was careless, but he never expected that the people in the casino would be even more rampant than the Zhenyu Army and dared to rob directly on the street.
Especially since the other party actually possesses such a terrifying sequence.
But when it comes to religion, it is not surprising. The behavior of some fanatics cannot be deduced according to normal logic.
It is common to have religion in the end times. Bai Wu used to think that only weak people would believe in religion, but later, after reading history, he found that religious belief is a very confusing thing...
Without time to think more, Bai Wu's consciousness became chaotic and he fainted.
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The third floor of the tower, an unknown space.
Bai Wu woke up quietly. The air was filled with the smell of blood and a slight stench of decay, which made him frown subconsciously, and then he suddenly became conscious.
But he did not raise his head and open his eyes. Instead, he remained in a sleepy posture, breathing evenly, squinting his eyes, and looking at the ground without any movement.
"The ground is slightly damp. Judging from the light, there should be something hanging from the ceiling... Wait, this looks like a slaughterhouse?"
In the past, some pork shops would have hooks to hang pork. Bai Wu roughly judged from the shadows on the ground that there seemed to be a similar arrangement in this room.
But this world doesn’t even have rice, and human food has been unified into nutritious meals, so how could there be slaughterhouses
So with a little imagination... Bai Wu guessed that what was hanging in the room was not pork.
"It seems that if I can't escape, my fate will be to be hung in this room and slowly rot?"
"I was unconscious, but they left me here. I can sense that there is no one in this room, which means they are not worried that I will run away. Or, the gatekeeper is very strong and is likely the one who knocked me unconscious."
"I must have been hit by the evil gaze. The other party didn't kill me. It seems that he wants to wait for me to wake up and interrogate me? I can't rule out other possibilities, but this is my only chance to escape."
"As mentioned in the notes, verbal attacks are meaningless to these believers. In other words... this group of people have been brainwashed, and reasoning with them is useless..."
"It seems that I haven't been searched yet, which proves that this matter has nothing to do with Cain. Otherwise, he would definitely find a way to get the ring back."
I already have a preliminary plan in my mind.
Bai Wu recalled his trump cards. Apart from the various items that could not be used in combat, there was only one thing left:
"Taotie."
Being hung like a dead pig is like being food to be slaughtered.
This sudden disaster made Bai Wu realize that he might have to step out of his comfort zone and do something a little more extraordinary.
“But how do we implement it?”
The description of Taotie in the information is very vague. It can obtain some characteristics by devouring its opponents.
But even if he had Taotie, Bai Wu had never used it and didn't know the effects of Taotie.
How much does it take to trigger? What kind of opponent's ability will it gain? Will the swallowing effect be immediate? Will the swallowed person lose his ability...
These white mists don’t know.
"You only have one chance... If you fail, it's game over. Sprinkle flowers on the end."
After he had an idea, Bai Wu slowly raised his head and began to observe his surroundings.
Everything was just as he had imagined. Hanging on the hooks were frozen corpses.
There were both male and female corpses in the large room, with each corpse only 1.5 meters apart. There were eleven rows of corpses, with twelve or thirteen corpses in each row.
This is not a slaughterhouse, but a slaughterhouse... or a corner of hell.
Countless corpses were hung upside down from the ceiling by hooks, and each corpse looked extremely painful.
The entire slaughterhouse is like hell on earth, or the devil's kitchen.
The notes on the corpses are all the same.
Some corpses will die outside the tower and be devoured by the evil, but if they are not devoured, the believers will find a way to recover the corpses, believing that these corpses are taken away by the tower god. Oh, there is another good news, if they are the cargoes that survived by chance, they will think that this is a gift from the tower god, and they don't worry about prions.
"Prions. Humans can be infected with these things when they eat other humans. So what the note means is... I will be eaten?"
As the only case of failure in the casino's long operation, Bai Wu's performance did not make the casino's people frustrated.
In their view, this was the best food gifted to them by the pagoda god.
Bai Wu observed for a while and confirmed that there was no surveillance equipment.
"Just want to eat me... Who is it? I'm not in a situation where I'm being stewed in an iron pot at this time... Obviously, the other party is a person who attaches great importance to rituals, and such people are often of high status. This is also a favorable situation."
The top executives of the casino, that is, the top executives of a mysterious church. Bai Wu's mind became active, and he processed everything from a game perspective:
The winning condition for this game is to eat the opponent.
Defeat condition: being eaten by the opponent.
"I didn't expect that so many forces would be involved in the journey to the third floor. Yan Jiu hasn't been found yet, but all kinds of monsters and demons have come first... And Cain hasn't made a move yet. If he knew that Wujiu was coming to the third floor, he would not miss the opportunity. This situation is quite interesting."
After repeated simulations and deductions many times, Bai Wu was still not absolutely sure that he could survive.
He already knew that the reason why he didn't even have the strength to fight back was because he was suppressed by sequences like the Evil Gaze.
But the opponent's true strength is still unknown, so he can only take it one step at a time.
At the same time, footsteps were heard in the slaughterhouse.
(I'm going to see the neck this afternoon, so I'm combining two chapters into one and posting it first to ask for votes!)