Shang Jianyao thought about it carefully and gave the "best" suggestion:
"Will ask directly."
"..." Jiang Baimian considered for a few seconds, "Let's forget it, what if it's a secret sect that can't be known by others? We must respect other people's privacy."
Shang Jianyao's train of thought had already gone in an unknown direction, and he said to himself:
"The ritual of that sect is to whip yourself with a whip, drip yourself with a candle, stab yourself with a needle, and cut yourself with a knife?"
The more Jiang Baimian listened, the more wrong it became:
"Why does it feel weird..."
Is this the legendary self-abuse sect
She "um" for a long time and came up with another explanation:
"Maybe Boss Hugo used similar pain to suppress the state of biological instinct?"
I don't know where he learned these ways from...
While the two were discussing, Ugo's door creaked open.
He put on a linen shirt, his blond hair was very wet, and his face was slightly pale.
The vomit and all kinds of debris on the concrete floor of the room have also been cleaned up.
When Shang Jian Yao was about to speak, 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 breathed out silently:
"It's an aberration creature that has sneaked into the city. We've taken on 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 aberrant creature, I will try to hunt it down."
"Have you ever seen a child? He likes to play games and wear tomato scrambled eggs. Oh, you don't know what tomato scrambled eggs are, it's a set of red and yellow." Shang Jianyao asked.
Hugo looked at him and asked back:
"Is this also an aberrant creature?"
"No, this is my friend, and he should have come to Primal City as well." Shang Jianyao explained sincerely.
Ugo thought for a while and said:
"never seen it."
He answered several questions from Shang Jianyao and Jiang Baimian, without mentioning a single word about what happened in the room.
Jiang Baimian took it as soon as he saw it, and led Shang Jianyao out of the hotel.
She looked back at the surveillance camera at the door:
"Then let Lao Ge look through the surveillance video during this period. It would be great if there were An Sleeping Cat, Nightmare Horse or Xiaochong. Well, he is the most efficient."
"Then what do we do?" Shang Jianyao asked.
Jiang Baimian pointed in one direction and said:
"Go to the first patient's home in this 'no-heart disease' outbreak.
"The first patient is always the most special and tends to reveal something."
The first patient of this "innocent disease" epidemic is named Aisha, who lives on the 4th floor of the apartment at No. 19 Strip Street.
Her husband is a dock stevedore, and she has no regular job, taking on clothing accessories and certain parts to support the family, as well as taking care of her two children.
- In the Green Olive area, there are many similar part-time female workers, mainly in the ready-to-wear industry, because the production lines of many factories are relatively old and have not been transformed, and many small accessories for clothing, such as flowers in different parts, buttons with special shapes etc., requires workers to do it with both hands.
It’s not complicated, it’s just a large number. For the factory, it’s very uneconomical to hire a large group of people for this purpose. On the one hand, there will be a fixed salary expense every month. On the other hand, the next batch of clothes may not necessarily be needed. This kind of processing may be completed by four or five people with machines.
Therefore, the owners of small and medium-sized garment factories choose to find contractors, and the contractors will distribute the flowers, buttons and other accessories that need to be processed on a per-piece basis, so that women like Aisha who do not have regular jobs can Done at home.
The contractor only needs to do two things. First, find a skilled worker to give Aisha and the others a training session and teach them how to do it before distribution. They intimidated those part-time female workers, lest they sell the materials handed down, ask for money or lose their lives.
The strip street is not far from the Ugo Hotel. Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao arrived at their destination in five minutes and entered the apartment on the 19th.
It is very humid here. Winter is cold and piercing into the bone marrow. Summer is like a large steamer. Fortunately, it is not the hottest months now, but Jiang Baimian feels a little stuffy.
Along the stairs with mottled handrails, the two came to the 4th floor and knocked on the door of Elsa's house.
"Who?" A young boy's voice came from behind the dark red wooden door with many scratches and peeling paint.
There was unabashed vigilance in his tone.
Shang Jianyao replied solemnly:
"I said I'm here to make friends with you, do you believe it?"
"I don't believe it." The little boy behind the door answered 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. We are investigating a strange cat and want to ask if you have seen it."
"What kind of cat..." A more immature little girl's voice came out.
The little boy interrupted her quickly:
"Don't talk to strangers. Dad said there are bad people outside and will sell us! Only when he comes back can the door be opened."
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 a little, feeling that she was exposing the child's wound.
The two children behind the door were silent for a while before the little boy answered:
"My father said that my mother was sick and went to a far away place. I won't be able to come back until she is cured."
Phew... Jiang Baimian sighed, ready to ask.
At this time, Shang Jianyao asked instead of her:
"Did you see how mom got sick?"
The little boy's tone became very low:
"I saw..."
"Is she sick at home?" Shang Jianyao asked.
The little boy brought a bit of crying:
"No. That day, she went to Aunt Anna's house to get flowers to make, and she didn't come back by noon. Xia and I were waiting for her, and we were all hungry...
"Later we heard noises in the street, so we went to the window and looked out, and then we saw my mother, her eyes were red and she kept shouting, she was very sick..."
Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao both knew about the subsequent development - Aisha injured several people, avoided the pursuit of the security guards all the way, and was shot and killed near Rabe Street.
Shang Jianyao asked again:
"Are there those flowers around her?"
"No." The little boy answered first, then emphasized, "I can't talk to you anymore!"
Shang Jianyao took out a few "Ralfi" candies and placed them in the gap at the bottom of the door:
"Thank you for your answers, this is your reward.
"This kind of sugar will make you have a little diarrhea, you can't eat more, 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 and pressed her voice very hard:
"Children here have no resistance to candy and will definitely eat more."
She immediately smiled at the closed door:
"There is only one per person, you can't rob it."
She stuffed two "Ralphie" candies in turn, confirming that they were taken by the little boy and the little girl respectively.
"I'll lick it a few times, won't I have diarrhea?" the little girl asked innocently.
"I'm not too sure, why don't you wait for your father to come back and ask him?" Jiang Baimian maintained the tone of speaking with children.
The little boy's "Mmmm" sound 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 already obtained the batch of handmade flowers that need to be done before she fell ill..." Jiang Baimian analyzed while walking down the stairs.
This is because Elsa's house is not far from the house of the subcontractor Anna, and the walk does not exceed 15 minutes. Even if the training time is counted, she must have gone back before she fell ill. This is also the result of the sheriff's investigation.
Judging from the fact that the batch of handmade flowers were not scattered around her, it is very likely that she suddenly suffered from "no heart disease" on the way back.
This point, the sheriff in charge of the matter did not investigate clearly, it seems that because the batch of handmade flowers were all picked up by passers-by, it was impossible to determine the specific location of Aisha's "innocence" attack.
Having said that, Jiang Baimian suddenly turned around and glanced at the door of Aisha's house.
She sighed and said:
"After the 'innocence' attacked and turned into a beast, she still leaned all the way here..."
Shang Jianyao did not respond.
Jiang Baimian quickly adjusted his state:
"We'll simulate Elsa's route later and see what places you'll pass by on the way. Now visit the guests on the floors below. These are all people Elsa may encounter when she goes out."
"It may also be the person above, who happened to meet Aisha in the corridor." Shang Jianyao, like the usual group discussions, helped refine the details.
This time, his mind was not so jumpy.
"Well." Jiang Baimian sighed again, "Then let's visit."
For the next half an hour, they knocked door-to-door and saw all kinds of residents.
There are relic hunters who went to the wasteland of the North Shore and were injured; there is a family whose husband is busy in the factory and his wife is a part-time street girl; there is an empty room at this time; A couple who did not get citizenship and lived a very hard life; there are middle-aged people who are sick and have lost their relatives because of long-term drinking of untreated water and eating red river fish...
In the end, the two things fixed in Jiang Baimian's mind are:
Narrow and dark stairs; no one over fifty.
"Let's go." Jiang Baimian left the apartment first.
She and Shang Jianyao followed Aisha's possible route to the house of Anna, the subcontractor. Along the way, they were like real sheriffs, asking the residents on both sides, trying to be completely sure that Aisha was sick. Place.
After patient investigation, the two probably locked an area.
Seven or eight-storey apartments are built one after the other, "squeezing" the streets into quite a narrow place.
Jiang Baimian looked up and looked to both sides, and casually asked Shang Jianyao:
"Do you have any idea?"
Shang Jianyao replied seriously:
"Wait for a power outage."