Going down the stairs is a small basement.
Under the dim light, a wooden single bed was placed in the corner. Four ropes thicker than fingers were tied firmly to the four legs of the bed, and the other end was tied to the white woman lying on the bed.
In another corner of the basement was a worn-out desk with a small bag of flour and several used syringes on it.
Hearing that the voice of the visitor was different this time, the woman reluctantly opened her eyes and whispered for help with her chapped lips:
"help..."
——
In the living room of the house, Ryder was searching the house carefully. Luoan finished calling the nearest hospital and asked them to send an ambulance here. Then he walked back to the sofa and poured a glass of water for the woman who simply put on a shirt and pants.
Seeing that the other party's depressed state was getting better, Luo An asked the woman in a low voice what happened.
"My name is Hailey."
After the woman drank the water, she grabbed the half piece of bread left on the living room table and ate it. While eating, she said:
"I work in a gym in the Yilet District. When I have no money to repay the bank loan at the end of each month, I come to this area part-time to make money."
Elite District also belongs to New Jersey, located south of Northville District, about twenty minutes' drive from Northville District.
As for the part-time job Haili mentioned, Luo An frowned slightly when he thought of the women wearing cool clothes on the roadside when they came by car. He didn't say anything, but poured some more water into the cup.
After Hailey, who was eating bread, said this, she didn't see any expression of disdain on Luo An's face from the corner of her eye, and she breathed a sigh of relief.
After asking about today’s date, Hailey continued:
“Four nights ago, when I came here to work part-time, I met this nigger named Yoang.
Originally I didn't want to serve a black guy, but the nigger was willing to pay a third of the price and it was still daytime, so I agreed.
During the service that day, this nigger strangled my neck with his right hand from behind and knocked me unconscious. When I woke up, I found that I was locked down, and this nigger was preparing to inject me. Flour, he said he would sell me in a few days..."
Luo An pretended not to hear the minor flaws in Hailey's words.
Just as he was about to continue asking some questions, Ryder suddenly walked out of the bedroom next to him, holding a white T-shirt in his hand.
Shaking the T-shirt open, Ryder pointed to the signature on the lower right corner of the shirt and said:
"Luo An, this is Ricardo's shirt from the hyena (lie four times) dog gang."
Hearing this, Luo An was stunned. What is the Hyena Gang? Who is Ricardo?
"The Hyenas were a white gang in the Bassaco area of New Jersey."
Seeing the confusion on Luo An's face, Ryder explained:
“The gang is not big, but it is involved in flour, guns, women’s and other industries. It is one of the newly emerging forces in New Jersey in recent years.
And this Ricardo is also one of the grooms responsible for managing Ji Nu in the Hyena Gang. "
"OK."
Luo An didn’t know much about gangs in the United States, but the basic rule of blacks mixing with blacks and whites mixing with whites was clear, so he asked:
"How could Yoon, a black man, be related to a white gang?"
"Obviously, Yoon is a part-time groom, and Ricardo only cares about Ji Nu's skin color and doesn't care about the skin color of the groom."
Hearing Luo An's question, Ryder glanced at Hailey on the sofa and explained:
"Especially the Hyena Gang has been very lacking in discipline girls recently."
As a new gang, the Hyena Gang is in the expansion period of grabbing territory. At this time, they urgently need a large number of girls to make money for themselves.
But Ji Nu doesn’t just exist, and grooms can’t conjure people out of thin air, so while the grooms of the Hyena Gang coax women into the water, they also buy prostitutes from grooms in society.
Yoang didn't know where he heard about this. It happened that he was fired from the supermarket some time ago and was short of money, so he decided to take a part-time job temporarily and set his sights on people who appeared alone in this area and had no previous experience. New faces I’ve seen.
Such women generally do not have a groom behind them, and most of them work part-time. When they work part-time, they don't tell others what they are doing. They just sneak to other areas and work outside.
This gave Yoon a great opportunity, because he didn't have to worry that after he abducted such a woman, someone would call the police immediately, or another groom would immediately come to beat him.
Promising a high price to lure the woman into his home, Yoang locked her up, used a small amount of flour to control her day by day, and finally sold her to Ricardo of the Hyena Gang.
As for the cost of flour to control women, Yoon, as a black man, can always get cheap low-quality flour containing impurities. As long as women are not poisoned and addicted in the past few days, Yoon will not lose.
Seeing Hailey sitting on the sofa start to yawn, have a runny nose, and become lethargic again, Luo An sighed.
Ryder turned around and continued rummaging through the house.
After calling the hospital ambulance again, Luo An took out the folder of the serial murder case, pulled out a few photos and handed them to Hailey, asking:
"Do you know these people?"
Hailey opened her eyes, looked at them, and shook her head: "I haven't seen them before. I don't know them."
Luo An frowned slightly, but didn't say much. He was just playing with dates and without dates. It was best to have information, but forget it if he didn't.
Didi——
A few minutes later, the ambulance finally arrived. Luo An's mouth twitched when he saw several nurses coming out of the ambulance. One of them was the sturdy nurse Lucia.
He seemed to understand why the ambulance arrived so slowly.
"Good afternoon, Agent Roan!"
Nurse Lucia casually picked up Hailey on the sofa and put her in the cart. She waved her hand to her colleagues to push her back into the ambulance. Then she turned to Luo An with a big smile and asked:
"Thank you for protecting me before. Can you leave me your phone number? I would like to treat you to a meal."
"It is my responsibility to protect the citizens of the Commonwealth."
With his heart tense, Luo An hurriedly changed the topic, took out the photos of the four victims of the serial murder case and handed them to Lucia, asking:
"By the way, do you know or have seen these people?"
When Luo An shot at the car repair shop, Lucia hid in the rest room of the car repair shop and never came out. Luo An was busy on the phone and didn't bother to ask her.
"Let me see."
Lucia took the photo, looked at it for a while, frowned, pointed at the first victim, Linda Qipo said:
"I think I saw her in the hospital, but I really can't remember clearly."
Hearing this, Luo An raised his eyebrows and was about to ask. Lucia turned around and strode towards the ambulance. She slapped the window of the driver's seat of the ambulance and shouted:
"Tom, do you recognize this woman?"
Luo An opened his mouth and didn't know what to say. Tom, who was in charge of driving the ambulance, cursed in a low voice and then took the photo handed to him by Lucia.
"I know her, she should be called Linda."
After a few seconds, Tom nodded and explained to Luo An beside him:
"I forgot her husband's name, but I happened to be present when she got married at Little St. Phil's Church a year ago. That wedding lasted for a long time because someone disrupted it. I remember it very deeply."
"Yes! That's right, it's the Little St. Phil's Church! It's not a hospital!"
Hearing Tom's words, Lucia clapped her hands and said happily:
“When couples get married at Little St. Phil’s Church, there will be a dedication service, which is to provide some free food to passers-by.
I also went to that wedding and ate several big cakes. "
Luo An raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and hurriedly handed the photos of the other three victims to Tom and asked:
"Then do you know these three people?"
Tom took the photo, looked at it carefully, then pointed at Tamara Terry’s photo and said in a deep voice:
"And her, eight or nine years ago, I don't remember the specific time. But her wedding was also held at Little St. Phil's Church. At that time, I had no money, so I often went to Little St. Phil's Church to participate in dedication activities."
