"Uncle Wayne?" Wenger looked at Kai who was suddenly stunned a little strangely. After all, Peter... what's so good about him? Aren't you the only one who cares about him?
Kai suddenly came to his senses: "Oh, it's okay. When I saw this child, I just thought of myself."
The 'self' here does not refer to Kai, but to Adam. Not to mention, Adam and Peter do look a bit alike. Before I entered high school, I had the same virtues. I was a thin, honest kid who was good for nothing but studying. But I didn't expect that after I got to high school, I felt like I had eaten gold. I suddenly opened up. So I was selected into the school football team in high school.
ah?
The three of them were a little bit in disbelief. Kai now was not only handsome, but also tall and strong. Standing there, he gave off an oppressive sense of majesty. Never would he have imagined that he would be a little chick like Peter when he was in high school.
Kai smiled and didn't explain much, but stretched out his hand to shake Peter's hand. "Hello Mr. Parker, Ben often talks about you and says he is always proud of you."
This was not because Kai was being polite, but because Ben really liked his nephew very much. Always talk about it.
Peter lowered his head in embarrassment, looking like he was not very social.
Kai didn't say anything after seeing this, he was just a child after all. Spider-Man or not, it doesn't matter.
"Mrs. Parker, I need your help with something." Kai told Mei his purpose of coming without any concealment.
After hearing this, Mei felt a little embarrassed. The circle of homeless people, like many small circles on the fringes of society, is extremely exclusive. They don't like contact with outsiders. Even some of the homeless people who joined them, they were defensive. It is not easy for social workers to gain the trust of homeless people, because these people are accustomed to keeping silent. Even if you see a homeless person every day, you may not be able to establish a friendship with him. Most of these people are people who have experienced social beatings. The defensive mentality is heavier than those crimes.
Because no one cares about them, they can only protect themselves.
As for the police? That is the group that homeless people are most taboo to deal with.
It’s not that Mei doesn’t want to help, but after helping, she is very likely to ruin the trust that the mutual aid station has built with the homeless through hard work. Mei is not the kind of rich person who regards charity as a face-saving project. On the contrary, she is an ordinary person who sincerely wants to help others.
She cherishes the trust relationship with these people very much. Once this trust is broken, these people will probably not come here because they are afraid that Mei has ulterior motives.
Wanderers have nothing, what is there to gain?
It would be wrong to think so. They indeed had nothing, but at least they still had one thing. That is life, and in this world, life is valuable. They don't want their last value to be plotted by others. If that really happens, such a life will be too miserable. So they are more sensitive and defensive.
They have nothing, which means they are defenseless against all disasters.
"Please believe me, Mrs. Parker. I really do it for their own good. With the recent series of disappearances, no one knows whether it will happen to them." Kai said sincerely.
Mei thought for a while and then said: "I can help, but you have to leave. You can stay here."
This condition seems inhumane and even a bit rude. But Mei didn't lie because it was the only way. If Kai stays here, the people here will feel uneasy and uncooperative. Every group has rules for every group.
The same goes for the homeless people, they have a tacit understanding with each other. Breaking the rules is destined to be isolated. If they have nothing and are isolated by other wanderers... it will be difficult to survive.
Kai nodded: "I can agree, but I also hope you can hurry up. After all, homeless people will disappear every moment."
"I will do it as soon as possible...but...I hope you can be a little patient." Mei was also in a dilemma. If something like this is too urgent, it will make those homeless people nervous.
"Okay." Kai gave Mei a phone call: "If you find anything, call me. Also, if possible, I will immediately give a large sum of money to the rescue station. You don't have to feel pressure. This is not an exchange, it's just for you." Admiration for the effort.”
"Thank you, thank you!" Mei thanked hurriedly. For a completely public welfare social organization like theirs, no amount of donations would be too much. They have no hematopoietic mechanism and rely entirely on social donations. With more funds, they can help more people.
…
Just when Kai thought he would have to wait for two or three days, he unexpectedly received the news the next day.
But it's not good news.
Mei was almost kidnapped today! Not only that, little Peter was even stabbed and sent to the hospital trying to protect his aunt! If Mei hadn't taken out the anti-wolf spray at the critical moment and killed a gangster, the consequences would have been disastrous. But even so, Mei was still injured. She was hit on the head with a stick, which probably caused a concussion.
Ben was already going crazy with anxiety at this moment! This alerted the people at the Tramp Construction Company. Tramp Construction, the company that Ben worked with Foggy and Matt. In order not to forget their original intention, they simply used this name.
Of course, Kai always felt that this name would affect the company's business. After all, it would be difficult for customers to trust a bunch of homeless people. It’s not about sympathy, it’s just about reality.
But the three old men insisted.
Many of those workers got help from Ben, and the rest got along very well with a good old man like Ben. So when everyone heard what happened, everyone was filled with indignation and wanted to help. There were more than twenty workers. Take the steel pipe from the construction site and go to the mutual aid station. They believe that someone betrayed Mei, which caused this to happen. Fortunately, Fergie used his eloquence to persuade everyone, otherwise we don’t know what would have happened.
This made an already bad situation even worse.
At the same time, this incident also angered Kai!
Mei is just an ordinary person, her family has no money, and she and Ben don't even have many relatives. Why did others kidnap her?
The only reason is what Kai asked May to do.
In other words, May and Peter were treated like this entirely because of him!
…
In the hospital, a large number of police officers surrounded May and Peter's wards. If Ben hadn't objected, Kai would have even sent police to surround the mutual aid station. Kai was also annoyed by the people who accepted help at the aid stations! Mei was attacked, but no one came forward to help except Peter!
These people... are damned!
Mei Mingming thinks of them so much!
By the time Kai saw Mei, she had stabilized from a severe concussion and now couldn't stand up at all. Once she did, she felt dizzy and nauseous. The doctor admitted her to the hospital just to be on the safe side. But May clearly didn't want to do that.
Because their family... has no medical insurance.
It's hard to imagine Ben as an engineer, a standard middle-class person. I actually didn’t buy medical insurance for my family. The couple put all their money into the aid station except for necessary savings and expenses.
"I'm sorry... Mrs. Parker. I'm very sorry." Kai even couldn't face this woman for a while. "Please rest well in the hospital. I will arrange for the best doctor. At the same time, you don't have to worry about any expenses. Our police station will be fully responsible, including subsequent compensation."
Kai felt that he had to make amends for letting others experience this kind of thing for no reason. Does it make people bleed and shed tears? It is impossible for the people's police to do such a thing.
"No! No need. I'm fine, it's just that the doctors are nervous. And I didn't...do anything." Mei waved her hands quickly.
"No, no. This is not a deal, Mrs. Parker. This is what you deserve. It can even be regarded as my apology and compensation. It was me who caused what happened to you and little Peter." Kai said seriously. After that, Kai no longer gave Mei a chance to refuse and directly turned the topic to the case.
"Do you remember who those people were who attacked and tried to kidnap you? And what happened?"
Although Mei suffered a severe concussion, she did not lose her memory of that time, and although she did experience brief amnesia, she recovered quickly. So now I can describe the situation in an organized way.
It turned out that after Kai left, Mei thought about it for a long time and couldn't help asking for news. She always felt that she cared more about the safety of those homeless people than trusting them.
After walking around the lobby of her rescue station, she discovered that there were no disappearances in their rescue station. But she was still worried and went to the slum area where she often helped to get information. The so-called shantytown is not really an area that exists in New York, at least not on the ground.
These squatter settlements exist in underground sewers. It was dark, dirty, and a place forgotten by New Yorkers. It is one of the areas with the largest concentration of homeless people.
After asking around, Mei actually received some news.
Several homeless people told May that they had seen people kidnapping other homeless people at night. But when it comes to who kidnapped those people... they said they didn't see clearly, maybe because they were afraid of revenge? Who knows.
May felt like she was doing nothing, but apparently someone else thought otherwise.
Not long after Mei returned, several 'social workers' followed an ambulance to the rescue station. That's pretty much it after that.
Several 'social workers' arrogantly planned to take Mei away, and one of them loudly said: "She may be infected with an infectious disease and needs treatment."
He said this very loudly, obviously trying to give a reasonable explanation to the onlookers.
Peter went to help, but there was a conflict. In order to save Peter, May immediately fought back. To be honest, Mei's safety awareness is quite good. After all, if you say that homeless people are pitiful, that's of course. But you would be naive to say that these people are good people. It's always good to be prepared.
Mei used pepper spray and a stun baton to knock out two social workers. This ended up pissing off the men, and one of them took out his baton and gave Mei a hit on the head. When Peter saw his aunt being beaten, he lost his composure, so he picked up a chair and threw it at the social workers.
Then Peter was hit twice in the stomach.
Now someone finally couldn't sit still and called other social workers from the mutual aid station.
Seeing this, those people didn't care about the kidnapping and drove away in an ambulance. As for the appearance of those people, Mei didn't know. They were all wearing protective clothing and large masks.
"I'd like to know about this ambulance," Kai asked.
Ben immediately said: "It's an ambulance from Metropolitan Hospital. The license plate number is XXXXXX."
This is what someone who was there told Ben.
Kai immediately called his men to check on the ambulance. All the police officers in the 15th Precinct knew that their chief had gone crazy, so they did not dare to neglect and found out quickly. The ambulance with the same license plate had just taken the patient back to the Metropolitan Central Hospital at the time of the incident and did not come out at all.
There was no need for Kai to ask for this. The people from the 15th Precinct quickly contacted the Traffic Management Bureau to find a decked ambulance. This thing was of very serious nature. Soon the traffic management bureau took out the surveillance cameras at various intersections for comparison, and in the evening, they got the news.
The ambulance eventually disappeared into a twelve-story building in the suburbs. Interestingly, the company where that building is located actually has an ambulance.
It was a pharmaceutical company, owned by the Life Foundation.
Kai quickly got the details of the company. Life Foundation is not a small company, on the contrary it is quite large. But what surprised Kai was that the company's main business was not pharmaceutical research and sales. The name of the Reasonable Life Foundation is very similar to an organization engaged in biotechnology.
On the contrary, this is a very authentic deep space exploration company. To put it bluntly, it is an aerospace company.
There are also a large number of private companies in the US aerospace industry, and the Life Foundation is one of them. Their main business is the manufacturing and launching of various satellites. There is also a lot of cooperation with the NSA. Of course, it would be wrong to say that it has nothing to do with medicine or biological research. The Life Foundation was actually established by a medical company. Its president, Carlton Drake, made his fortune in a pharmaceutical company, but for some unknown reason suddenly changed careers and focused most of his energy on space exploration, developing a deep space probe.
But that doesn't mean he gave up on medicine. On the contrary, the Life Foundation's space program has relied on the profit support of pharmaceutical companies to develop to its current level.
When Kai was checking the Life Foundation's information, he also discovered something interesting. That is, about a year ago, this company broke the news that a meteor shower crashed into the Life Foundation's deep space probe.
But Kai didn't care, he just felt that this company was unlucky. He only thought that the Life Foundation was planning to develop some new drugs to make up for the loss after the deep space exploration project failed.
You must know that those who play aerospace industry spend a lot of money. If you don’t have enough capital to enter this industry, you are simply asking for trouble.
If you think so, they might have some reason to arrest homeless people. Do they conduct biological experiments or clinical trials?
But this reason is not sufficient.
After all, for such a large company, recruiting volunteers is not a big expense.
Unless...their research itself is illegal!
