Of course Qianye remembered that she and Si Lei both made the same judgment on the information given by the photo - either the waist was cut off or the eyes were gouged out.
"Let's talk about that woman again," Si Lei continued. "Foye said that she couldn't speak and could only make whimpering sounds. Fernand locked her in the attic of another courtyard, and she would howl every night. , and at the same time, he beat the iron fence with shackles. During that time, Foye slept in another courtyard, and was tormented by the sound every night, causing him to suffer from insomnia.
"After being locked up for about a week, the woman's voice disappeared. Foye didn't know where she was sent. He only knew that Fernand had constant nightmares after that. For this reason, he made an appointment with a very famous person in the third district. Treatment with a counselor. The treatment lasted about three months, and Fernand’s sleep returned to normal.”
Chiba listened for a long time and frowned suspiciously, "...the woman you are talking about is not a red-haired one, is she?"
"That's the problem!" Si Lei's tone instantly rose. "I asked Foye the same question, and he said he wasn't sure because this woman had her hair and eyebrows shaved off—but does that count? Overwhelmed with sexual desire? The red hair of the Hesta tribe is too eye-catching, and it is a feature that can be used to determine the identity at a glance... But what exactly happened, we still have to find Maya to be sure."
Si Lei continued to flip through the notebook, "Before exiling Maya, Fernan burned Maya's cheeks with a soldering iron, so in theory this person should have very obvious characteristics - there are burn scars on both cheeks, although it is like looking for a needle in a haystack. , but with this clue, I think I can go to the wasteland and try my luck!"
"Have you reported to headquarters?"
"I reported it, but they suggested that I wait until Lixi's squatting is over - maybe Victoria and the others can catch the murderer directly. I said these two things are not contradictory and can be done at the same time. But AHgAs replied that manpower is very tight recently and there is no way to arrange mercury injections for me."
After Si Lei said this in one breath, she eagerly grabbed Qianye's arm, "That's why I came to find you."
Qianye's mouth darkened slightly and she did not answer immediately. She pretended to think about it and continued to look through Si Lei's notebook, but she was thinking about something else: she really needed some excuses to temporarily avoid dealing with this "unknown person". Aberrants" confrontation.
If Victoria catches this aberrant two days later, most of Jane's crisis will be relieved - no matter whether Fernan was killed by this "aberrant", he can be blamed on it by then. superior.
If this "abnormal" breaks through Victoria's defense and successfully hunts Rishi two days later, then she can temporarily bail Jane out through special regulations.
——In the entire third area, besides myself, who else has more experience in dealing with aberrations than Jane? In order to deal with a highly dangerous enemy, it's not too much for her to ask for a helper to cooperate, right?
When chatting with Stella last night, Chiba almost thought that his plan had been seen through, but fortunately it was just a false alarm.
"How long do you expect to spend in the wasteland?" Chiba asked.
"Without you, I would be out for about a month by myself."
"Is one month enough?"
"If you drive out, you can roughly cover the six nearby wastelands in a month - but it is still a bit dangerous for me to go into Short Sound Alley alone, and I don't trust the support provided by Pauler or Avinash..." Si Lei paused briefly and then said, "If you are willing to participate, with the speed of your mercury needle, it is not a problem to complete six wastelands in one day. Counting the investigation and visit time, it is optimistically estimated that it can be basically completed in two to three days, or up to a week." End investigation."
"How is it?" Si Lei asked.
Qianye came back to her senses. She smiled and handed the notebook back to Si Lei, "Without approval from above, I cannot be your means of transportation."
Si Lei thought that Qianye might refuse, but she really didn't expect that the other party would refuse so quickly. She was stunned for a moment, and suddenly wondered whether her choice of words was inappropriate: "It's not a 'transportation' -"
"I didn't say not to go. On the contrary, I am very interested in this process. I can accompany you to Short Call Alley first, and then you can follow you all the way." Qianye lowered his eyes and looked out the window, "But, I am in November You must return to a livable place on the 12th, you can arrange your itinerary based on this premise, and if everything goes well, I will meet you again."
"Okay, is that an important day?"
"Jane's first court hearing is on the 13th. As a guardian, I must attend." Chiba replied.
"Understood." Si Lei nodded, and she put away her notebook, "Then you go back and prepare now, pack some luggage, and I will pick you up downstairs at your apartment in two hours—"
"What? Leaving tonight?"
"Time is running out." Si Lei had already put the notebook back into his bag. "If we're lucky, we might be able to find Maya before Rixi is assassinated. I have a hunch that the clues she holds must be the key to this case."
Chiba picked her scalp with a complicated expression - she originally wanted to go back and take a hot bath tonight.
"It's better to wait first."
"What are you waiting for?"
"I have to stay here until the next wave of mercury needles comes over." Qianye raised his eyebrows and said, "I personally am lazy, and I still have to finish my shift. I think it's better to wait until tomorrow morning-"
Before Qianye finished speaking, Si Lei pointed to the side door of the hospital downstairs: "Are they the ones you want to wait for?"
In the darkness, Victoria happened to lead a team riding bicycles in from the side entrance of the hospital: she brought the newly integrated combat team, a total of 12 people.
Chiba recognized everyone in this team. Each of them had faced the aberrants head-on in the wasteland. Two of them should have come from the fourth and fifth districts for support.
This kind of luxurious camp is extremely rare, which shows that the headquarters attaches great importance to this matter.
They parked their cars neatly into the bicycle shed in the corner of the hospital. There seemed to be something wrong with the lock of one of them. She squatted on the ground and struggled for a long time but couldn't lock it. In anger, the man simply stood up. He kicked his car to the ground, then turned around and disappeared around the corner of the hospital building after Victoria and the others.
From now on, AHgAs has officially taken over Viscount Rich's security work.
"Can you go?"
"...let's go."
Chiba followed Si Lei through the corridors of the hospital that night. She was like a complete bystander. If Si Lei hadn't suddenly fallen from the sky tonight, she would be in a good mood right now - after confirming that the murderer who followed the night before yesterday was not Hesta, no matter what the outcome would be the day after tomorrow, She is confident that Jane's current state of captivity will be temporarily lifted.
She needed to wait.
