Chapter 304: Deception
Although the existing clues are almost equal to none, Fang Ze still plans to go to the slums near the Delhi subway station mentioned by Lao Dong before, and with the vision of Athena, he may find some new clues.
After Fang Ze told Lao Dong about this, Lao Dong agreed and promised to take Fang Ze to the slums near the Delhi subway station tomorrow morning, and he would be Fang Ze's translator.
After getting Lao Dong's promise, Fang Ze returned to the bedroom arranged by Lao Dong, connected to the network here with the mobile phone he brought, and browsed the local Internet to see if anything special had happened recently.
Most of the Internet in India has two options, English and Hindi, and Fang Ze has the ability to be a language master, so there is no pressure to read, and he quickly brushed up on a lot of news.
'Ah, this news. When Fang Ze glanced over, he found an inconspicuous news item in the corner of Delhi's news website, saying that the Delhi police had cracked down on a criminal gang specializing in making counterfeit drugs last week and had arrested three members of the gang. And they have also launched a hunt for the remaining members who escaped.
It's kind of interesting.
Fang Ze opened his notepad, recorded the brief content of this news, and then carefully paid attention to the time when this news happened.
It's just a day slower than the time when Sister Fan disappeared in New Delhi.
It seems that there is no possibility of connection, but Fang Ze still feels that there may be a little story between the two, after all, there can't be too many gangs selling drugs in New Delhi.
Early the next morning, Lao Dong prepared two kinds of breakfast for Fang Ze, one was Indian, full of curry and paste, and the other was a few pieces of bread with milk.
"You can start with a taste of the Indian side of the food. Lao Dong said to Fang Ze, "If you can't get used to it, you can eat bread." ”
Fang Ze smelled the strong smell of curry wafting from the plate, shook his head directly and said to Lao Dong, "I'd better eat bread." ”
"Okay. Lao Dong clapped his hands and motioned to the servant to bring down the plate, and then he said to Fang Ze, "There are actually a lot of delicacies in India, but it's too early for the chef to come to work, so I can only make do, and when we come back in the evening, I'll ask the chef to cook you some meat dishes for you to eat." ”
"Aren't Indians basically vegetarians, and can they still make delicious meat dishes?" Fang Ze asked strangely.
"You know, India is a big country with a population about the same as that of China, so your impression that Indians are vegetarian is similar to the impression that foreigners have that Chinese people know kung fu. Lao Dong explained to Fang Ze, "Delhi is the north of India, so people eat more meat. India's southerners are more vegetarians. ”
Lao Dong said, pointed to the tableware on the table and said to Fang Ze, "So you don't have to worry about them in the north and they will let you eat directly with your hands, because the north uses tableware to eat, and most of the south only eats with your hands." And there are some places where it would be rude to eat without holding your hands together. ”
"I see. Fang Ze nodded to indicate that he knew, and then he asked Lao Dong, "I've always heard of the name of Indian flying cake before, where can I buy this in Delhi?"
"You can't buy it anywhere in Delhi. Lao Dong shrugged his shoulders and said, "There are no flying cakes in India, only a kind of Bo cake called Gapati, and they can't fly around making Bo cakes." ”
"So the Indian flying cake is not Indian?" Fang Ze was stunned.
"That's right, it's the same as Chongqing chicken pot is not Chongqing's. Lao Dong said to Fang Ze, "That thing was transmitted to our country from Singapore, it seems that the Indian Tamils in Singapore made it and then spread it to other countries." Anyway, there was no one in India before, but now some shops will translate Bo cake as flying cake in order to attract foreign tourists, and the two methods are completely different. ”
Fang Ze listened to Lao Dong's words and didn't know where to complain. It turns out that most of the food in this world can't be judged by the name alone.
"But the Indian bread is also very delicious, and the bread is also good, so as long as you are not too picky, or you are in the middle of nowhere, you will not be wronged by your stomach. ”
Fang Ze listened to Lao Dong's introduction to Indian food, and quickly finished the bread in his mouth, and then said to Lao Dong, "After eating, let's go now." ”
went out and got into Lao Dong's car, and these two Indian servants who followed Lao Dong were usually two Indian servants, and they took the car all the way to the bottom of the Delhi subway station in India.
The tracks of the Delhi metro station are a bit similar to the metro in Jinling, and many of the tracks are overhead over land. Unlike the Jinling subway tracks, which are still clean and clean, under the subway tracks in Delhi, when Fang Ze got off the train and looked up, he almost thought he was playing Fallout IV: an open-air garbage dump, dilapidated and scrapped cars, crumbling shanty houses, and poorly dressed Indian children.
"This is the slums of India?" Fang Ze turned his head to look at Lao Dong and asked.
"It's not. Lao Dong shook his head and said, "It's still a long way from the slums, so we still have to walk a little." ”
Lao Dong asked an Indian servant to look at the car, and then Hu He walked forward with another Indian servant and Fang Zebu.
As the surrounding environment became more and more desolate, even Fang Ze, who had superpowers to rely on, couldn't help but feel a little flustered, he turned his head and asked Lao Dong and said, "There won't be danger here." ”
"Don't worry. Lao Dong said to Fang Ze, "As long as you don't come here in the middle of the night, it's generally fine." There are no triads in India, so you can rest assured. ”
"Didn't you say that Delhi is very chaotic, how come there is no underworld in such a chaotic place?"
"One is because Indians are not martial under the influence of Hinduism, and the other is because as you mentioned before, various castes despise each other, so it is difficult for people at the bottom to connect together to establish any influential organization. Third, because this is India, various religions are the most common forms of organization among the Indian people, and their local rights are greater than those of the government. ”
Lao Dong didn't go far and the whole person began to pant, but he still explained in detail to Fang Ze, "Have you read the news of the riot that happened in India before?" The Indian government wanted to put a religious master on trial, which led to mass riots. So, in this case, do you think that there can still be an underworld society, who do they ask to collect protection money, and the religious tax is not enough. ”
After listening to Lao Dong's words, Fang Ze wanted to say that in fact, it is not that there is no underworld, but it has changed its form, and this situation exists in all countries, but like Neon, the underworld honestly admits that he is the underworld and has become a rare animal.
"It's here. Lao Dong pointed his finger in front of him and said, "This is a slum. ”
Fang Ze looked in the direction of Lao Dong's finger, and then understood why Lao Dong didn't drive over just now, because this place is completely composed of low shantytowns, many passages are only two people wide, and there are all kinds of sundries underneath, not to mention cars, even if people walk, it is troublesome.
Fang Ze and the four of them walked slowly into the slum. The arrival of the four strangers soon attracted a large number of onlookers from Indians living in the slums, and the four of them did not walk a few steps before they were surrounded like monkeys.
The crowd was dominated by men and children, and women were rarely seen.
Seeing so many people surrounding them, Lao Dong's two Indian servants immediately shouted at this group of people fiercely, so frightened that most of them gave way to Fang Ze and them, and only dared to watch from a distance.
"This won't be fine, right?" Fang Ze asked Lao Dong, "If you are still so fierce in other people's territory, will you be besieged?" ”
"If they had the guts, they wouldn't be Indians. Lao Dong said to Fang Ze, "As long as religion is not involved, the people here don't dare to do anything to people of high castes." ”
Lao Dong said, and saw two tall, thin, slick-looking men sitting on top of a broken box looking at the four of them, so he immediately shouted in Hindi, "You two come here." ”
The two men were a little overwhelmed by Lao Dong's shouting, and they were stunned for a long time before they came over.
When Lao Dong saw these two men coming, he took out a few rupees from his pocket and waved them and said, "We need to ask you some questions, and if we can answer them, all these rupees are yours." ”
When the two Indian men saw the rupee in Lao Dong's hand, they immediately nodded as if they were pounding garlic, and said to Lao Dong in Hindi, which has a strong local accent.
Lao Dong turned his head to look at Fang Ze and said, "I just observed that after these two people were scolded and scolded, they still haven't left, so they should be a little bold, and their status here is not low, if you have any questions, you can ask, and I will be your translator." ”
Listening to Lao Dong's words, Fang Ze turned on Athena's vision and said to Lao Dong, "You first ask them if there are any foreigners with two men and one woman who have come here recently." ”
"Okay. Lao Dong listened to Fang Ze's words, and immediately asked the two Indians in Hindi, after the two Indians heard Lao Dong's words, they looked at each other, and then replied in Hindi as well, "Don't say it's the latest one, at least no foreigners have come here for at least half a year." Foreigners take pictures when they come, so we are very impressed and will not be mistaken. ”
The answers of the two Indians, under the observation of Fang Ze's Athena Vision, were both judged to be true. In other words, Fan Jing and the three of them have never been to this slum. Fang Zegang was still wondering if Fan Jing had gone to see someone near this slum, when he heard Lao Dong translate to him in Chinese what the two Indians said just now.
The two Indians said that a female foreigner and two male foreigners had been here last week. However, they left with another group of people shortly after they arrived, and they didn't know who they were, and they didn't look like locals. ”
Hearing Lao Dong's translation, Fang Ze, who was about to tell Lao Dong to go nearby to see if there were any other clues, suddenly froze.
Lao Dong told a lie.
Fang Ze instantly looked at Lao Dong, who was performing hard, and his heart suddenly sank.
From the moment he came to New Delhi and saw Lao Dong, he pretended not to know English and Hindi, not because he was suspicious of Lao Dong at the beginning, but because he wanted to see if he could catch any fish in this way.
This is something he used to think of when he watched an American video maker. The American video maker is a white man, but he speaks Chinese very well and is keen to make videos to introduce Chinese netizens to the real United States.
And because his introduction generally contains a lot of complaints, when he records videos on the spot, he uses Chinese that Americans can't understand to make all kinds of complaints.
So as long as he has a smile on his face, those Americans who have been filmed will not think that the video maker is frantically complaining about them, and think that he is praising them.
In the same way, if a person is sure that the other person does not understand what he is saying, then he will not deliberately cover it up and will tell a lot of truth.
Now, Lao Dong's truth has not been heard, and this translation that directly changes the meaning of the text has completely leaked himself.
The purpose of why Lao Dong translated like this was quite clear, it was to mislead Fang Ze and make Fang Ze think that Fan Jing and they had been here, and would not think about other places.
So, if you think about it from this single point, Lao Dong simply knows where Fan Jing and the others went before they disappeared. Not only that, Fan Jing's disappearance also has a lot to do with Lao Dong, otherwise he wouldn't mislead Fang Ze so much!
"Would you like to ask a few more people? Lao Dong didn't know that he had leaked out at this time, he raised his head and looked at Fang Ze with an expression of urgency to help.
"No need. Fang Ze shook his head and said to Lao Dong, "I think it's very likely that Fan Jing and the others have been to the slums here more than once, let's take a look at other places around, maybe we can find some clues." ”
"The problem is, there's nowhere else here but this slum. Lao Dong explained to Fang Ze.
Fang Ze ignored Lao Dong, but directly took out his mobile phone to check the map.
Although there are certainly not as many places as in the country, some of the more important places are marked.
Fang Ze looked at the map and found that there was really no other place here except for the slum accident.
But.
Fang Ze enlarged the map and looked at it again, less than half an hour away from the slum, there seemed to be a hotel, and it was built not far from the platform of the station.
"Can you understand what is written on this?" Lao Dong saw Fang Ze standing looking at the map, and took the initiative to come over and say, "Do you want me to help you translate it." ”
"It's okay, I'm just going to take a look. Fang Ze put away his mobile phone, and then said to Lao Dong, "Why am I suddenly a little hungry, this bread is not a big deal." Is there a place to eat to take me to a meal. ”
"That's fine. Lao Dong nodded and said, "We can take the subway to the next city to eat, and then slowly find someone when we are full." ”
"I'm sorry for you. ”
"No hassle, no hassle. Lao Dong said to Fang Ze with a hypocritical smile on his face.