The interior of the bar is not ostentatious, with a wooden bar and dark red lighting, but it looks a bit like a folk bar... This is somewhat inconsistent with the style of a bar opened in a black area of Brooklyn, with no private partitions. There are tables, chairs and coffee tables scattered throughout the main space of the bar. Guests sit together in small groups, carrying wine bottles and chatting. There are few bastards who are crazy about drinking. Most of those who drink too much are lying in the corner or being moved. Throw it outside.
The singer who performs in the store is not in the heavy metal death rock style. He is wearing a white singing suit with three or two belts hanging on his arms side by side, which is a bit like Elvis Presley, but he is singing "Old Time Rock and Roll" by Bob Seger. It can be seen that the store owner pursues It is an old classic concept that will never go out of style.
Lin Nian walked to the wooden counter and pulled an empty chair next to him for Lin Xian to sit down. Behind the bar, a black-haired waitress wearing a blue tank top with a small section of dark wheat-colored skin was concentrating on wiping the cup. While Lin Nian was thinking about something, before he could speak, Lin Xian beside him suddenly reached out and touched his arm, motioning for him to look over.
There was an old photo frame on the wine counter facing the black-haired waitress. Inside was an old photo taken by several people gathered at an open-air round table in front of the bar. The sunshine that day shone very well on everyone's face, with smiles and harmony, as if the most beautiful moment of a big family had been frozen in place. Everyone was sitting hand in hand and praying before meals, and the most fascinating thing inside was The one who caught the eye was the man in the prayer center.
Bald head, muscular man, white shirt, a tough guy face that is calm and full of leadership... There is no doubt that he is the person they are looking for this time, but the tough guy in this photo is younger than in the prison photo. There are many, and there is no fierceness in his eyes, but tenderness and cherishment towards his family.
Got lucky?
Lin Nian and Lin Xian looked at each other. It seemed that the intelligence agency of the Laurent family was indeed powerful enough. An address was given to them directly to the prisoner's former lair. According to the intelligence, the target they were pursuing was being investigated. Before he was arrested in Chernobyl prison, there was a "family", brothers and sisters from all over the world, brothers who had known each other through life, and the black-haired woman in front of them with her back turned to them should be one of them.
Lin Nian picked up two empty cups on the table, pinched them gently with his fingers, and made a sound when they hit the wall of the cup. Only then did the black-haired woman who was distracted by wiping the cups return to the bar. She put down the cup and took a breath. Turning around and walking to the bar, he put his hands on the counter and looked at Lin Nian and Lin Xian. When he saw them clearly, he couldn't help but be stunned by their temperament and appearance. However, it only took him a few seconds to come back to his senses and asked calmly, "what do you want to drink?"
"Warm milk without sugar, for him." Lin Xian looked at the woman who looked obviously Mexican with a smile, half-raised his hand and wiggled his fingers, pointing to Lin Nian aside.
"Come to the most chaotic bar in Brooklyn and only order a glass of milk?" After hearing this, the black-haired woman ignored their identities and glanced at Lin Nian with interest, "I guess he is underage?"
"The real age is 17, the virtual age is 18, the real age is 18, the gross age is 20, rounded to 21, I have reached the drinking age." Lin Nian said.
"Pfft." The black-haired woman laughed, and Lin Xian laughed at the side. The two women looked at each other, and the black-haired woman asked first, "Brother?"
"Brother." Lin Xian smiled and nodded, "But we are not related by blood."
"It doesn't matter whether you are related by blood or not." The black-haired woman waved her hand and shook her head and said with a smile, "You should know very well that you will not love him more or less because of blood relationship, because no matter what, you We all love him just as much, no more, no less, and this is always the case with family."
"Lin Xian." Lin Xian reached out his hand after hearing this sentence, "You understand the word family very well!"
"Letty Rodriguez." The black-haired woman held Lin Xian's hand, "People who value their family can be seen wherever they go, such as you. My friends call me Letty, what do you want to drink? I dinner."
Sometimes women's friendship is so inexplicable. Lin Nian sat aside and didn't want to talk. He turned to look at the bustling guests in the bar, with a hint of sharpness in his eyes.
"Please have a non-alcoholic drink, we have to drive soon." Lin Xian retracted his hand and said with a smile.
Within a few minutes, Leidy put a cup of sugar-free hot milk and a bright red drink on the table, "Milk and a cup of SugarRush, sweet, light, fruity, non-alcoholic, very suitable for women to drink."
Lin Nian stared at the milk in front of him, and after a moment of silence, he chose to pick it up and take a sip. People in the bar couldn't help but take a second look at what he was holding and smiled interestingly, but when they saw Letty had the good sense not to laugh at them after talking to them.
"So, you two siblings came to this place just for a drink at 11 o'clock...11:30 in the evening? Did you get lost while walking?" Letty sat on a chair and looked at the two people in front of the bar. He asked with a raised eyebrow.
"No, we are here to participate in the competition." Lin Xian said after taking a sip of his drink.
"Wow, can't you tell that you are also the type of woman who likes playing with cars?" Letty looked at Lin Xian with a smile on her face. For her, there is nothing better than discovering that a friend whom she just met and got along with actually has something in common. There are better things to do, "Where did you get the news about the competition here?"
"A friend told us that if you want to find excitement, come to a bar called Brooklyn Hot Flash at midnight (11:00-1:00)." Lin Nian said while drinking hot milk.
"Then I advise you to stay away from that friend of yours. He is probably jealous of your sisters' relationship and wants to send one of you to the hospital in a car accident." Letty shook her head and said, "There are indeed underground racing events here, but But people are not welcome to participate with a playful mentality...Look at the group of people outside, you should understand what I mean. The people who come here are all ruthless characters and tough food. If you are not in this territory, you will be here. If you meet these people elsewhere, they will probably take your pants away."
"What if you didn't come here just for fun? I heard that the bonuses here are very big." Lin Nian wiped the milk on the corner of his mouth and looked up at the Mexican woman, "People outside say you are here The organizer of the event needs your nod if you want to sign up.”
"Sign up? Has a 17-year-old boy gotten a driver's license? And unfortunately, even if you have a driver's license, it doesn't mean you can really set foot in the field of 'racing', especially 'underground racing.'" Letty looked at Lin with a smile. Year, "Putting aside the competition, little brother, do you believe that we are driving the same car, and I can make you unable to see my taillights within a block of distance? You know that racing cannot be won by stepping on the accelerator." of."
"About this, I have to say a few words for my brother. We did come here with the purpose of racing." Lin Xian pushed the half-drunk drink and said, "Our car is parked outside. , you can go and take a look at the one with the most people surrounding it, and you’ll probably understand what we mean.”
"A nice car, a handsome man and a beautiful woman, coming to the bar at midnight...this is not the plot of a car chase movie." Letty waved her hand.
"Why don't you go out and take a look at our car first, and then come in to talk?" Lin Xian did not explain, but smiled and tilted his head to signal Leti to go out.
"..." Letty stared at Lin Xian for a few seconds, then shook her head with a smile, stood up, and walked out of the bar, really prepared to be surprised.
After Leti walked out, Lin Xian turned to look at Lin Nian and found that Lin Nian had a photo frame in his hand. When he looked at the counter, he saw that the photo frame there had disappeared.
"What do you think?" Lin Nian glanced at the photo frame a few times and handed it to Lin Xian.
"This Letty should be very close to the prisoner we are looking for." Lin Xian took the photo frame from Lin Nian's hand, gently slid his thumb across the spotless photo frame, and looked at the people surrounding the photo in a circle. "Look at the seat in the photo, she is sitting next to the prisoner. From the social distance they maintain, it seems that the relationship between the two is either relatives or lovers. When she mentioned 'family' during the chat just now, she showed many subtle movements. Out of the loneliness and sadness, she should have been used to having someone by her side in the past, and this person should be the person we are looking for... This gives me the feeling that the relationship between the two of them should be more of a lover... .a true lover.”
"She has been looking at photos and thinking about people. Has she never seen the prisoner?" Lin Nian asked.
"No...I tend to think that she has met the prisoner, just in a short period of time." Lin Xian shook his head and said, "I have seen patients who miss their old friends. After a long period of separation, the intense longing for them is inevitable. It will dilute with the passage of time, and even if you still care about it, you won't care that you can lose your mind during the chat, or frequently look at things and think about people... This situation of hers will only appear when they meet recently, or through the person who speaks.”
"Interesting judgment..." Lin Nian glanced at Lin Xian, feeling inexplicably that his sister was really good at this job. At least she was much better at analyzing clues in detail than he was.
"Actually, I have other feelings." Lin Xian touched the photo frame, closed his eyes, and gently placed his hand on the bar, stroking the texture of the wooden bar, "If I were her, she would often stay here. If it were a bar, then she would often sit...at the spot where she was sitting just now at the counter. Why would she sit there...because in her memory there was always another person doing something behind the bar? ...She will prepare wine for this person...yes, hard liquor, preferably whiskey or vodka, mix the wine and ask him to drink it...He will sit...where you are now, this The location is the best place to chat... They will chat... What to say... She is very sad... Then he must have said some very bad things... like..."
"I won't stay here for long, I will leave here, and I need your help, Letty." She opened her eyes and said, but her tone was very much like another person.
Lin Nian looked sideways at Lin Xian and was slightly startled...because he had seen the girl in this state before, in another girl...Yelena's body, just standing there In an environment, one can deduce what happened here based on all the details captured, and even restore some close conversations. This ability seems to be called... "profile"?
