Chapter 11: Finding a Different Way
When Lin Xiuyi and Sean arrived at Route 90, it was already about seven o'clock in the evening, and the two had a simple dinner at a burger restaurant on the side of the road. Then I sat in the shop and waited slowly for dark.
Why wait until it's dark, because it's only when it's dark that the warblers who are active on Route 90 come out to work. In Seattle, many people have heard of the name of Route 90. Many Seattleites refer to Route 90 from downtown Seattle to Tukma International Airport as Strip Row. In fact, the name is simply too apt. Five out of ten businesses on both sides of the highway run motels, and three out of ten are striptease venues. Once in the evening, the streets are full of warblers waiting for business, and they will lie on the windows of passing cars to negotiate the price with the car owners who have come to have fun, and when the price is right, they will sit in the car and walk with the customer.
Lin Xiuyi and Sean sat by the window of the coffee shop, watching the scenes of life staged on the striptease street. Lin Xiuyi couldn't help but sigh in his heart, life is so hard. Was that true of Mary when she was alive, standing on the side of the road, getting into the Green River Killer's car for a few hundred dollars, and losing her life. What about Mary's child? Did she insist on leaving the child in her womb, and what did the man who made Mary pregnant? These questions are waiting for Lin Xiuyi and Sean to find answers.
"Lin, what are you going to do?" Sean asked with the initiative as he saw that the time was almost up.
"What else can I do, I can only ask little by little, and quietly inquire about Mary's news!" Lin Xiuyi said helplessly. It's not easy to find Mary's whereabouts, because there are so many people here that the Seattle police and the FBI simply don't have access to information about the residents.
Lin Xiuyi and Sean drove slowly on Highway 90, and from time to time a woman came up to ask if they needed service. Lin Xiuyi was a little unaccustomed to this kind of direct inquiry at first, but after being asked more than a dozen times in a row, Lin Xiuyi gradually got used to it.
"Hey, why don't you find a place to relax?"
As soon as Sean stopped the car, a woman came up and accosted him. Lin Xiuyi turned on his mobile phone, flipped out a photo of Mary from the email, and then held it up in front of the other party and asked, "Do you recognize this girl?"
"Are you police?" asked the woman who accosted her, warily.
"No, we just wanted to ask about this girl's whereabouts! In fact, my friend and I met this girl last time, and we both liked her very much!" Lin Xiuyi replied casually. Then he pulled Sean, who was sitting next to him, over and said to the other party.
"Don't lie to me, you're the police!" The woman who came over to talk to her was much smarter than Lin Xiuyi imagined, and Lin Xiuyi wanted to say a few more words to the other party, but the other party left without looking back.
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In this way, Lin Xiuyi and Sean wandered on Route 90 for most of the night, until a glimmer of light appeared in the east, and the two never heard from Mary. This made the two of them exhausted and inevitably a little discouraged at the same time.
"Lin, it's not okay to do that, these women won't tell us the truth at all!" Sean said, leaning back in the reclining chair and rubbing his temples. Lin Xiuyi didn't say anything, he also knew that doing so was completely looking for a needle in a haystack, but now there was only this way.
"Sean, I'm going to buy a cup of coffee to refresh myself, and we'll go back to sleep later, and come back tonight!" Lin Xiuyi finished speaking, opened the car door and walked towards a fast food truck on the side of the road.
"Hello, what do you want?"
The food truck is run by a young woman with tattoos all over her arms, who looks like a fitness instructor. However, Lin Xiu could hear that the other party's English had the same accent problem as his own.
"Two Mexican barbecue rolls, and two cups of coffee!" Lin Xiuyi looked at the menu pasted on the body, and had just finished ordering, but was attracted by a small handwritten advertisement next to him.
"Hourly babysitter who can take care of your children while you're busy, by the hour, at a negotiable ......"
"May I ask if you still work part-time as a nanny?" Lin Xiuyi asked curiously.
"Oh, no! that's an advertisement for my fellow countrymen, we're all Mexican, what's the matter, sir, do you need a babysitter?" asked the food truck owner expectantly.
"Ah, yes! I want to ask a nanny to take care of the children at home, my working hours are not fixed, most of the time I am not at home at night, I want to ask a nanny to help me take care of the children at night, it is best to find an experienced one!" Lin Xiu thought for a moment in his mind, and immediately made up an excuse again. For he had just thought that if Mary went out to work at night, who would take care of her children? The child's biological father should not be possible! With the conditions of Mary's family, I am afraid that she would not have any connection with a place like striptease street until she was pregnant, and if the man was willing to lend a helping hand, how could Mary come to this side of striptease street. And Mary was using Natalie's credit card to buy baby products, so she must have given birth to the baby.
So Mary had to find someone who could help her take care of the children at night, and only then would she be able to come out at night to earn money. Yes, it must be so!
Thinking of this, Lin Xiuyi hurriedly took over the two breakfasts that the owner of the fast food truck had just made. Then he turned and ran back to the car, and couldn't wait to wake Shaun up.
"Sean, wake up, I've figured out a way! We should go find a babysitter......" Lin Xiuyi was a little incoherent with excitement, and he couldn't make Sean understand his thoughts after a long time.
"Lin, what are you talking about? What babysitter?" asked Sean, puzzled.
"Sean, what are Mary going to do with the children when she goes out to work?" Lin Xiu asked Sean rhetorically.
"Ahh......h When Mary is working, she needs to find someone to take care of her children!" Sean finally understood what Lin Xiuyi meant, and his sleepiness disappeared at once, and then his mood suddenly improved.
"Sean, we have to find a female agent to come here, lying that we are going to hire a night babysitter, do you have a familiar female detective, let her come over and help us!" As soon as Lin Xiu calmed down, he began to plan the next step of the search. The reason why I want a female agent is because it is a bit strange for two big men to come to the strip street to find a nanny. If it's a hotly dressed beauty who comes to find a babysitter, it's not so eye-catching.
"I have a candidate in mind, how about Jessica, the secretary of Director Musk?" Sean touched his chin and asked Lin Xiuyi.
"It's the woman with long legs?