"But isn't your newspaper closed? Where did you publish the article you picked up..." Victoria paused, and suddenly realized a new question, "Why was the "Anecdote Daily" closed?"
"Small newspapers without serious publications will end up like this once they become famous," Stella waved her hands nonchalantly, "It was also because we were slow to respond and failed to make it. We won't do it next time."
"...So technically speaking, what you've been doing is illegal?"
"Strictly speaking," Stella corrected generously, "what I have been doing is a crime."
Victoria narrowed her eyes.
"I'm on bail now, have I told you?" Stella pushed the hair scattered on her shoulders back, as if she was saying something proud, "But fortunately there are a lot of things that I don't People I know rushed to pay my bail without any expense on my part.”
"Do you think you became famous in one battle?"
"It's the second battle." Stella put her hands on her hips, "Isn't it natural that the noise will be louder than before?"
Victoria stood up and walked to the refrigerator, "What do you want to drink? Do you want beer?"
"No," Stella replied, "Do you have any whiskey here?"
"No."
"Don't you drink?"
"I have stopped drinking for a long time." Victoria replied, "Someone else put these cans of beer here for me."
"...Then I will drink whatever you drink."
Victoria went to the kitchen, took two glasses of corn juice and went to the living room after one operation.
"You put these photos here after you took them?" Stella pointed in the direction of the darkroom.
In fact, the darkroom is the bedroom of the apartment where Victoria lives, but she rarely comes to Tan Yi. This time she wants to stay here for a long time, so she conveniently converted this room into a studio. She usually sleeps outside in the living room or outside. police station.
"Um."
"Have you ever thought about—"
"Don't try to take my photo."
"Let me ask!" Stella frowned, "And has anyone ever told you that you often-"
"If I guess what you are going to say, then I will answer your question directly." Victoria crossed her arms. "Maybe I am interrupting you, but I saved you time."
"This is definitely a bad-"
"Not really," Victoria shrugged, obviously unrepentant, "Everyone around me is used to it."
Stella smiled bitterly, "...Okay."
The two went back to the darkroom to develop the remaining photos. At nine o'clock in the evening, after the final printing and enlarging process was completed, Victoria got two black and white photos.
She hung the two photos on a blank wall in her studio, looked at them for a while, and then cut out the rest of the film without retaining it.
Before leaving, Stella suddenly remembered something, "If I don't publish it and just ask you for a photo in a private capacity, can you reprint it and give it to me?"
"Which one?"
"The one from Anna."
…
In a small hotel in the wilderness, Si Lei walked out of the bathroom wiping his hair and saw Qianye leaning on the bedside reading a book by candlelight.
"What are you reading?" Si Lei looked closer, "The forest... chants..."
——She suddenly remembered that this was the book she had seen on the dining table in Chiba's apartment.
"You still read in such a dark place, aren't you afraid of myopia?"
"Otherwise, there's nothing to do." Chiba turned over and got off the bed, "You've finished washing, right?"
"You go ahead." Si Lei pointed to the bathroom, "I left a bottle of hot water for you."
The room quickly became quiet. Si Lei took out his notebook and pen from his coat pocket, walked to the bedside table and squatted down. She quickly jotted down several new discoveries of the day. Water dripped from her wet hair, soaking the towel draped over her shoulders.
It can be said that this trip was very fruitful. Except for the first day where I didn’t get anything at Short Ming Alley, there were new surprises every day for the rest of the day. They first bumped into the local snake who worked for Fernan, and then dug out two amazing organizations along the way.
The first is Joan Valéry's "Valéry Communist Alliance", and the second is the non-profit organization "Mont Saint-Severn Foreign Aid Center" which was established with Fernand's own participation and soon retreated to the background. The tentacles have extended to gambling, drug, weapons, alcohol smuggling business and human trafficking in the wasteland.
Both organizations are inextricably linked to the livable land in District 3. Both parties have internal channels to send people to the livable land - the coalition government and AHgAs have their people, or in other words, receive people. Money helper.
They have a complete set of epidemic prevention and observation measures to ensure that each "cargo" transported is safe enough. What is ironic is that because everyone in the entire chain has more or less seen the power of chelation disease, they have privately concluded Some of the review measures are even more stringent than the official rules.
Under the continuous arrests and interrogations, more and more evidence points out that Fernand is inextricably linked to Hoffman, Rishi and others. Although they have hardly met in recent years, in 4615- 4619 In the past five years, Baron Fernand has been trying his best to play the role of a qualified hawk for some of the upper-class figures in the Third District - this is also when his career took off.
Over the years, Fernand brought more than one hundred and thirty women and children from the wasteland into habitable areas. The original search for the red-haired Hestad in the wasteland was a commission from Hoffman.
This almost completely confirmed Si Lei’s initial guess. There was not a word of truth from people like Li Xi. The so-called Hesta Witch who suddenly appeared on the roadside and issued a curse to everyone did not exist at all. Everything was as they claimed. Just the opposite.
Even though Si Lei didn't know exactly what Li Xi and others had done back then, it was not difficult to imagine these things as long as he looked at the boiling hatred of the assassins.
If the clues from the "Mount St. Severn Foreign Aid Center" point to the crimes committed by Rich and others, then the "Valerie Alliance" directly points to the true identity of the "assassin".
In 4618, AHgAs received a tip that one of the killers raised by Valerie might have mercury needle abilities. AHgAs quickly intervened to investigate. However, the entire alliance suddenly disappeared with the death of Valerie himself, and no similar news has been heard since.
According to Chiba, there are occasional situations where some mercury needles complete their own transformation without being exposed to AHgAs. On the one hand, AHgAs encourages these people to move closer to the organization with extremely high welfare benefits. On the other hand, AHgAs encourages these people to move closer to the organization. , AHgAs will collect clues about missing mercury needles from the public at a high price, and then actively recruit people.
However, what Chiba did not reveal to Si Lei was that in order to cause trouble for their opponents, many organizations in the wasteland would often send people to anonymously report to AHgAs that there were mercury needles in enemy organizations, so most of these reports were not credible.
In addition, the first awakening of most mercury needles occurs when they encounter chelates for the first time. Once they are not successfully rescued by AHgAs, they often die directly at the hands of chelates - there is a chance to complete the second awakening. And there are very few mercury needles living in foreign lands.
Chiba was very happy to see Si Lei shift the suspects of the assassins to the participants of the Valerie League, so that she could more safely search for the whereabouts of "Old Charlie".
There is evidence that his adopted daughter of unknown origin is not from the Third District.
