This residential area on Avenue L'Enfant is located on the edge of the old town, but the architecture here is no less than that of the city center. Some solemn vaults are engraved with statues of kings and gods. Behind the bright and clean square glass windows, neatly wrinkled white curtains hang.
Even in a livable area, such a residence is enough to show the lofty status of the owners.
In comparison, the mansion belonging to Viscount Rich was even less conspicuous in this group of buildings. At this moment, the Viscount's servants were already waiting at the door. After seeing Si Lei's figure, they opened the door outside the house. The iron gate led the two of them through the front yard.
Si Lei glanced at several cars parked in the courtyard and said, "It seems you have other guests here today?"
"Yes, there are indeed many guests here." The servant replied, "The Viscount ordered me to ask you two here, do you want to see him alone, or do you want to see if there are others around?"
"Who are the guests?" Si Lei asked.
The servant leaned into Si Lei's ear and announced two unfamiliar names - they were both confidants of Baron Tanglar and Count Schmidt.
"It's not just these two." Chiba suddenly spoke not far away. She pointed to a wedge-shaped car in the corner that had obviously been modified. "Don't you Viscount like to modify cars?"
"Uh...this is..."
Si Lei walked up to Qianye and said, "Do you recognize this car?"
"I recognize it. At the end of the Silver Age, this kind of car was very popular in District 1." Chiba walked to the wedge-shaped car and patted the very exaggerated rocket shape on the rear of the car. "The human aviation industry had just started at that time, and some Car designers took it for granted that adding this rocket shape to the rear of the car would make the car drive faster and more stable, but in fact it was just the opposite - this shape just increased wind resistance and improved fuel consumption, so it later faded out. The stage of history.”
Si Lei rolled his eyes silently, "...I'm asking you if you know the owner of this car?"
Qianye smiled and said, "You should recognize it, right?"
"Chiba."
At this moment, a voice came from diagonally in front of the two people.
Si Lei looked sideways and saw a brown-skinned man standing at the front door of the Viscount's mansion. The man's hair was slightly curly and tied into a pigtail. He was wearing a light gray long cardigan coat and a white knee-length jacket. Long skirt.
The collar, cuffs, placket of his coat, including the hem of his lower body, are all covered with golden embroidery. Even the handmade cloth boots on the soles of his feet are embroidered with patterns that echo those of his coat. The patterns are complex and extremely delicate. .
"It's really you." The man smiled and greeted Chiba.
"Who is this person?" Si Lei asked.
"Avinash." Chiba replied, "Mercury Needle who is currently working for the coalition government."
Avinash led Qianye and Si Lei towards the reception room on the third floor. Although the outside of the Viscount's house looked quite plain, the interior decoration was not timid at all.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Qianye suddenly felt a little ridiculous.
Since the starry night of 3812, the entire human civilization has been interrupted for nearly two hundred years. It was not until the first mother city rose from the ground in 4001 that everything slowly returned to its former prosperity.
Two hundred years, in the Bronze Age, was enough for a country to go from prosperity to decline, not to mention that in the dark era of blackouts, one after another forces rose up in the chaos and quickly perished.
After taking off the outer skin of civilization, people bite each other like wild animals. The descendants of those in power in the past were close to the corpses of the poor, and the heads of the angry rolled beside the bones of the coward... Countless people died, and only the blood-stained rivers continued to flow.
Among them, who is nobler than whom?
Now six hundred years have passed, everything has become so orderly again, but how did all this happen? Who lifted these people to this position? Who recognized their status? Who brokered their alliance?
"What is the name of this police officer?" Avinash asked sideways.
When their eyes met, Si Lei felt slightly offended - Avinash did not lower his head at all when talking to her, only looked down.
"Si Lei." Si Lei replied.
"Has Viscount Rich mentioned to you before why the identity of the murderer can be identified?"
"No."
"Did he ever talk about why he couldn't talk?"
Chiba interrupted, "What are you asking so many people about now? This is what we are here to do today."
Avinash withdrew his gaze, and no one among the three spoke again until they entered Viscount Rich's living room.
…
In Ava's mansion, Hesta walked out of the back room of the study.
After saying goodbye to four waves of visitors, Ava ended her reception this morning.
Inside, Hesta listened to Ava's conversations with all the visitors in the morning. Among them were Mercury Needles and government officials. The topics discussed involved all aspects of things in the livable land.
This is the first time Hesta has been allowed to listen in the study by Ava. Except for some boring financial report inquiries and the transfer of some personnel in the province of Nia, Ava spent a lot of time formulating this year's "Ava Morgan Award" on the list.
The Morgan Award was established in 4619, when Ava was 60 years old and five years after her retirement. Years of fighting have accumulated an astonishing amount of wealth for her. She used the money to establish her own foundation and began working for this plan in the third district.
The "Morgan Award" is a general term. It is actually divided into two categories: "Ava Morgan Scholars" and "Ava Morgan Pioneers". It is used to encourage outstanding achievements in the four fields of medicine, engineering, law, and education. Contributing women. From nomination to review, the entire process is jointly managed by the female academic community and senior female practitioners in related fields.
In principle, Ava has veto power, but she rarely interferes with the process. Even so, one month before the winners are announced each year, the proposed list will still be sent to her, and she will go through them one by one to decide whether to exercise her rights.
"Can I see it?" Hesta pointed to a dozen project briefs on Ava's desk.
"Please."
The brief summary of the project finalized by Ava has been taken away by previous visitors. Now the ones placed here are the last batch of losers. Ava is not very satisfied with this year's selection of medical scholars, but there is no more suitable candidate among the remaining candidates. , so this year’s Medical Scholar Award is temporarily vacant, and Ava needs some time to continue thinking about it.
Hesta read the brief description, and among a number of difficult professional terms, she quickly grasped the main point of the article - an obstetrician and gynecologist who had been working as an aid doctor in the wasteland of District 11 developed a new type of midwifery. The needle can not only help some pregnant women with insufficient fertility to give birth as soon as possible, but also completely avoids the side effects of excessive uterine contractions, fetal asphyxia and even heavy bleeding in pregnant women that may have been caused by midwifery needles in the past.
What's more, its price is less than 120 yuan of the old-fashioned midwifery needle, making it affordable for anyone.
Once this midwifery needle was used, it was affectionately called the "girl's life-saving charm": in just two months, it had saved the lives of thousands of mothers under the age of 15 in the wasteland of District 11 - these are too young. Girls are often very weak and easily die from dystocia due to their inability to produce sustained, powerful uterine contractions during pregnancy and childbirth.
"What do you think of it, Jane?" Ava's voice was weak.
Hesta placed the document back on the table.
"It seems hard to tell whether it is a 'life-saving charm' or a 'life-saving charm'."
