Why it never ends

Chapter 200 Contact
"But isn't your newspaper blocked? Where did you post the manuscript after you picked it up..." Victoria paused, and suddenly realized a new problem, "Why was "Anecdote Daily" blocked?"

"Small newspapers without a serious issue will end up like this when they become famous," Stella waved her hand indifferently, "It's because we were too slow to react. We didn't make it, and we won't do it next time."

"...so technically, what you've been doing is illegal?"

"Strictly speaking," Stella corrected generously, "what I've been doing is a crime."

Victoria narrowed her eyes.

"I'm on bail right now, did I tell you?" Stella brushed back the hair scattered on her shoulders, as if saying something proud, "But fortunately, there are a bunch of people I don't want People I know rushed to help me pay the bail, and I didn’t need to spend money.”

"Are you famous in one battle?"

"It's the second battle." Stella put one hand on her hip, "Isn't it only natural that the commotion is bigger than before?"

Victoria stood up and walked to the refrigerator, "What do you want to drink? Do you want beer?"

"No," replied Stella, "do you have any whiskey here?"

"No."

"Don't you drink?"

"I've quit drinking for a long time." Victoria replied, "These cans of beer were put in my place."

"...Then I'll drink whatever you drink."

Victoria went to the kitchen, took two glasses of corn juice and came to the living room after a pass.

"You put all these photos here after taking them?" Stella pointed to 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, and this time she will stay here for a long time, so she conveniently changed this room into a studio, and she usually sleeps outside the living room or police station.

"Ah."

"Have you ever considered—"

"Don't take my picture for granted."

"I'll just ask!" Stella frowned, "And has anyone ever told you that you often—"

"If I guess what you're going to say, then I'll answer your question directly." Victoria put her arms in her arms, "Maybe I did interrupt you, but I saved you time."

"It's definitely a bad—"

"Not really," Victoria shrugged, obviously unrepentant, "Everyone around me is used to it."

Stella smiled resentfully, "...OK."

The two went back to the darkroom to develop the remaining photos. At nine o'clock in the evening, after finishing the process of printing and enlarging, Victoria got two black and white photos.

She hung the two photos on the blank wall of the studio, looked at them for a while, and then went to cut the rest of the film without saving it.

Before leaving, Stella suddenly thought of something, "If I don't publish it, but just ask you for a photo in a private capacity, can you reprint a copy for me?"

"Which one?"

"Anna's."

……

In the small hotel in the wilderness, Su Lei came out of the bathroom wiping his hair, and saw Qianye leaning against the bedside reading a book by candlelight.

"What are you reading?" Su Lei looked closer, "The forest... sings..."

——She suddenly remembered, isn't this the book she saw on the dining table in Chiba's apartment.

"You still read in this dark, aren't you afraid of myopia?"

"Otherwise there is nothing to do." Chiba turned over and got off the bed, "You finished washing, right?"

"You go." Su Lei pointed to the bathroom, "I left a bottle of hot water for you."

The room quickly became quiet. Su Lei took out the notebook and pen from his coat pocket, went to the bedside table and squatted down.She quickly wrote down a few new discoveries of the day, dripping water from her wet hair, soaking the towel draped over her shoulders.

This trip can be said to be very fruitful. Except for the first day when there was nothing in Duanming Lane, there are new surprises every day for the rest.They first bumped into the coward who was working for Fernan back then, and then dug out two amazing organizations along this line.

One is the "Valerie Commonwealth" organized by Joan Valerie, and the other is the non-profit organization "Saint-Severn Foreign Aid Center", which was founded by Fernand himself and quickly retreated behind the scenes. The tentacles have extended to the smuggling business of gambling, drugs, weapons, alcohol and human trafficking in the wasteland.

Both of these organizations are inextricably linked to the Habitable Area in the Third District, and both sides have internal channels to send people to the Habitable Area—both the Coalition Government and AHgAs have their people, or in other words, receive Money helper.

They have a whole set of anti-epidemic observation measures to ensure that every "goods" delivered is safe enough. What is ironic is that since people in the entire chain have more or less seen the power of chelation disease, they privately concluded Some of the review measures are even more stringent than the official rules.

Under continuous arrests and interrogations, more and more evidence points out that Fernan has inextricably linked with Hoffman, Rich and others. 4615 For the past five years, Baron Fernand has been trying his best to act as a qualified eagle dog for some upper-level figures in the third district-his career took off from this time.

Over the years, Fernan brought a total of more than 130 women and children from the wasteland to the habitable place.It was Hoffman's commission to search for the red-haired Hestas in the wilderness.

This almost completely confirmed Su Lei's initial guess. The people like Rishi didn't say a word of truth. The so-called Hesta Witch who suddenly appeared on the side of the road and cursed everyone did not exist at all. Everything was the same as what they claimed. just the opposite.

Even though Si Lei doesn't know what Lixi and the others did back then, it's not hard to imagine these things just by looking at the boiling hatred of the assassin.

If the clues of the "Saint-Severn Foreign Aid Center" point to the crimes committed by Rich and others, then the "Valerie League" directly points to the true identity of the "Assassin".

In 4618, AHgAs received a tip that among the killers raised by Valerie there might be those with mercury needle ability. AHgAs quickly intervened in the investigation, however, with the death of Valerie himself, the entire league suddenly disappeared, and there has been no similar news since.

According to Chiba, occasionally there will be such a situation - some mercury needles complete their 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. , AHgAs will solicit clues about mercury needles from the private sector at a high cost, and then actively recruit for security.

However, what Qianye did not reveal to Si Lei was that in order to cause trouble for the opponent, many organizations in the wasteland would often send people to anonymously report to AHgAs that the enemy's organization had mercury needles, so most of these reports were not credible.

In addition, the initial awakening of the vast majority of mercury needles occurs at the moment of encountering the chelate for the first time. Once they are not successfully rescued by AHgAs, they often die directly under the hands of the chelate—there is a chance to complete the second awakening And there are very few mercury needles in foreign lands.

Qianye was very happy to see Su Lei transfer the suspects of the assassins to the participants of the Valerie League, so that she could find the whereabouts of "Old Charlie" more safely.

There is evidence that his adopted daughter of unknown origin is not from the third district.

(End of this chapter)