"Aren't you very good at this kind of thing?"
Ming Yuexin's retort made Zhou Jinru almost so ashamed that he couldn't even raise his head. He asked Shi Huaiya to help him, but he didn't know if he could do it or should he touch it himself?
Ming Yuexin jumped slightly, and the two-headed little man stood on Zhou Jinru's shoulders, with his hands on his hips: "Doctor, don't forget that the Western Region is now under the control of the nobles. If you go there in a big way, they will definitely kill you. Caught."
"Why are you so arrogant? I will make some disguises. Don't underestimate me."
Zhou Jinru found his original newsboy hat, and with his unkempt beard, he looked completely different from the one wearing formal leather boots before. Shivaash might not recognize him even if he stood in front of him.
"But this is even worse. Any stranger who enters the Western Region will be strictly interrogated. As a civilian, the doctor will definitely be exposed. You don't look like a civilian at all."
There is no way around it. He can disguise his appearance, but he can't do anything about his temperament. After all, he is not a professional intelligence officer.
In order to achieve his goal, he finally had no choice but to go to Shi Huaiya. Anyway, he was looking for his own operators and it would not be embarrassing.
"Ah hahaha, Zhou, the purpose of your begging me is to enter the Quiet Church in the Western District, but do you know that place is not accessible to ordinary people now?"
After Shi Huaiya took a bath, she was wearing pajamas with her collar wide open, completely unaware of the white light that pierced Zhou Jinru's eyes.
He said: "Miss Shi, you should get dressed first."
"What?"
Shi Huaiya was startled. She lowered her head and saw her appearance. Her face turned red and white. The red color was because she had made a fool of herself in front of a strange man. The white color was because she was so careless, thinking that she didn't need to be particularly careful at home. As a result, It became what it is now.
She suddenly raised her voice: "You, what did you see?!"
Zhou Jinru wanted to shake his head and nod, but finally had to say: "There was a burst of white light just now, and my eyes were almost blind."
Shi Huaiya: "..."
She took a few sharp breaths, forced herself to calm down, and said in a serious tone: "You must not have seen anything, I hope so. If I hear any bad rumors, not even Shivaash can save you. Bodies are fished out of the Sega River every day!”
This is a very direct threat. It seems that Shi Huaiya is serious. Zhou Jinru will certainly not offend her. After responding, he directly changed the subject: "Miss Shi, have you decided to help me?"
"Why should I help you?"
Shi Huaiya crossed her legs and dangled in the air with her toes hooked on her slippers. Her beautiful insteps looked particularly white and tender under the light. She held her cheek with her right hand and had a faint smile on her face, just like the one who spoke with a cold tone just now. The eldest lady does not exist.
She looked at the ocher red nail polish on her left hand and said calmly: "We just met today, and I'm going to help you do something that takes great risks. Don't you think it's too sudden? Even if you are hoping Manservant of the Vaish family, even if you are Chen’s old friend, I must help you?”
"Thank you, Miss Shi. Your dinner was delicious. I'll remember this favor. Goodbye."
With a gentle smile on his face, Zhou Jinru bowed slightly, performed impeccable Victorian gentleman etiquette, and then turned around and left.
When he took the third step, Miss Felin's voice came from behind: "I changed my mind."
Snap.
When Zhou Jinru turned around, Shi Huaiya's slippers suddenly fell off. The corners of her mouth turned up slightly: "My shoes have fallen off. If you can help me put them on, I will agree to your request. As a As a valet, you should be familiar with these things, right?"
Facing the eldest lady who was staring straight at him, Zhou Jinru leaned forward again, turned around and left without saying a word, without any hesitation.
"You've already come to this point, and you're still so stubborn?"
Pointing her toes on the slippers, the eldest lady did a standard dance move, showing a rare puzzled look:
"What good thing does he have that can make Chen Chen so desperate?"
…
…
When he walked out of the bungalow of Shi Huaiya's family, Zhou Jinru stood in a mist, and everything he breathed into his nose was moist air. He sighed silently. Sure enough, no one recognized him in the sitcom.
It was just Shi Huaiya's facial expressions and the subsequent request. Did she think so from the bottom of her heart, or did she subconsciously want to take revenge for the previous snub?
Miss Vase is actually the strongest Dragon King?
"Now I can only rely on myself."
Zhou Jinru still put on the shabby work clothes he had worn when he came here before, put on his newsboy hat, and left the Shihuaiya manor all the way without notifying Elena or letting Chen know.
The cold is the most unbearable at night in the Eastern District. Every day, homeless people who were barely able to survive the day before are found freezing to death in a corner. The little food the foundation can provide is of no use to people in trouble. , allowing them to live for a few more hours at most. Wanderers without shelter from the cold will still die in the cold night.
"Doctor, now the housing environment in the entire Eastern Region is in a saturated state. The root cause of everything is that no one cares about the civilians in the process of continuous expansion of this country. The population may bring about a strong development rate, but the foundation is not solid. Hidden dangers will be left, and the power of capital is constantly pushing the entire country forward. As vested interests, the aristocracy neither wants to change anything nor really improve the lives of civilians."
Zhou Jinru kept listening, and finally said: "They never lower their heads to look down."
There are almost no people in the Dongda District at night, and under the light mist, no one is willing to move in the humid environment.
Zhou Jinru, who went deep into the mist, did not feel any discomfort. His movements were light, like a fish returning to the water. Just like his identity, a mist hunter is also a deep sea hunter.
"If I plan to sneak into the Western Region now, what chance do I have?"
Ming Yuexin did not immediately return to Zhou Jinru's words, and he did not rush to hurry. Instead, he found a way to get into a first-floor residence where the window was forgotten to be closed, and then casually pulled down the window support frame.
With the faint light of the street lamp outside the window, seven or eight people were sleeping in this room with an area of only 30 square meters. They slept on a wooden board covered with a thin mattress, and there were some straws underneath. No one was awake, only A man made a voice in his sleep: "This place is full, go somewhere else, otherwise the landlord will scold you tomorrow."
"I'm only going to rest for a few hours and I'll be leaving before dawn."
No one answered Zhou Jinru's words. The exhausted people had already fallen into a deep sleep. Even in the cold, they had to seize every moment to regain their strength.
"Doctor, people who are struggling on the edge of survival are like this. They work more than twelve hours a day, support themselves with a shallow salary, day after day, with no chance of escape."
Zhou Jinru sat down in the corner and lowered his head slightly. He once saw a worker whose life was destroyed by a fire in a slum area that was even more difficult than Dongda District. He could not forget those eyes.
"At least I see some hope after two hundred years."
He could only comfort himself with these words.
Ming Yuexin added: "Victoria in reality has gotten much better. It has gradually become the center of the world. Both soft and hard power have grown greatly. Although there are still strikes and miserable civilians, everything has changed. Well, at least the surface layer has become very good."
"Only the surface?"
"Have you forgotten Miss Melanza?"
Zhou Jinru fell into silence again. Melanza was just an ordinary person who was affected. Her life was destroyed in a strike because someone threw an Origin Stone at her.
"Actually, I know that Victoria in reality is just packaged with the illusion of prosperity. They have transferred most of the industrial industries to an extremely powerful main city of Londinium, with countless satellite cities around it to provide supporting services, and the low-level industries have been handed over to others. Countries like Rem Billiton and Victorians always have a bright future."
"Doctor turns out to know everything."
Zhou Jinru smiled: "All of us know that this country is becoming weak due to years of accumulated abuses, so those who are waiting for opportunities can see the light of day, and they are starting to make moves, such as the regent, such as Shenchi, and such as... "
He did not continue.
"What's out there?"
"It's just fog."
A light mist seeped in along the cracks in the window. Zhou Jinru leaned against the wall, with the window above his head. He smelled a trace of rust in his nose. He didn't know when.
"I seem to have encountered this smell somewhere."
He closed his eyes and did not move. His palms pressed against the wall suddenly felt a tremor, as if something was passing by, approaching from far away, but Ming Yuexin's reminder was that there was nothing outside, only mist.
"Hidden in the mist?"
Zhou Jinru was a mist hunter, so he would think about this unconsciously, but his body's instinct told him to sit where he was and not move.
Soon, the tremor disappeared, and the strange existence in the mist disappeared.
"Judging from the direction, it's heading towards the Western Region?"
"If the doctor feels that there are really monsters out there, then the doctor's judgment is correct."
"What I can do is limited, and now I have no weapons except a revolver. My weapons are all thrown at Adela's place, and I don't know where she is now."
He had been sitting there, and he didn't know how long it had passed. There was a glimmer of light in the dark sky, and it continued to get brighter. The civilians sleeping in this room of less than thirty square meters woke up one after another.
"Who are you?"
One of them stared at Zhou Jinru, who was still sitting by the wall. They didn't know this man, but he actually spent the whole night here.
He subconsciously reached out to touch the savings hidden under him, and his fingers accidentally touched a tenant with gray hair sleeping next to him. The hard body startled him.
"he died."
Zhou Jinru observed for a long time that the old tenant had been dead for a long time and should have died before he came.
The tenant who pointed out that Zhou Jinru was an outsider looked confused: "I don't know, Old John was fine yesterday. He said he had an extra glass of wine as an exception..."
Zhou Jinru added: "He is already dead. You should notify the police station to check the situation and determine whether he died of natural causes, and then use this reason to ask the landlord to reduce the rent."
"You're right, that may be the case."
Some people realized that the old John they talked about was already a corpse, and all they could do was use this opportunity to relieve themselves of the burden.
"Thank you for your advice, sir?"
They looked towards the corner again and saw Zhou Jinru's figure nowhere else.
Walking on the street, the soles of his shoes stepped on the wet brick road. This road was the only road in Dongda District that was not easy to get his shoes wet. Zhou Jinru was not in the mood at all. He just walked with his head down and said nothing.
"PhD?"
"Do you think I'm too cold-blooded?"
Ming Yuexin said: "No."
Zhou Jinru laughed at himself: "Someone is obviously dead, but I am still using his death to make profits. To those tenants, I am a cold-blooded and ruthless person."
"No, Doctor will always be a person worthy of giving everything in Ming Yuexin's heart."
"Really?"
"real."
Zhou Jinru calmed down. When faced with his recent death, he had no other choice but to create as many favorable conditions as possible within the available rules.
Those tenants would use the house to kill people, forcing the landlord to reduce the rent. Although space in Londinium was in demand, the rent for a room with a dead person would certainly not be too high.
In the end, both parties compromised and achieved a compromise plan, and everyone was happy.
This is what they call the benefits that Old John can create after his death.
"Doctor, there are some things we cannot change. There is only so much we can do."
"I know, no need to comfort me."
Zhou Jinru responded. When he was in Rhode Island, not all the patients admitted survived to stabilize their condition. Some patients with acute attacks failed to survive even with Kelsey's full treatment plan. Even with Zhou Jinru's help, Their reason suppresses the activity of the Origin Stone, and their heartbeats will stop beating due to excessive consumption of life.
They had experienced this many times.
He continued to walk forward, and when he passed an alley, he suddenly found someone following him, who seemed to have been following him for some distance.
Zhou Jinru's foot slipped and he fell into the shadows, disappearing from the pursuer's sight.
Soon, a figure walked quickly. As he walked through the alley, he saw a shadow falling rapidly above his head. Zhou Jinru, who had fallen from the second floor, pressed his knees against the pursuer's shoulders.
"it's me!"
Only a low cry was heard, and the figure had been pushed to the ground by Zhou Jinru. His hands were placed on the back of his neck, and he could break it with just a little force.
The hat rolled off his head, revealing his beautiful blond hair, and a pair of pointed satin-like ears.
Zhou Jinru was also surprised, and quickly got out of the way and pulled her up: "Why is it you?"
