Liu Zheng returned to the table, gently shook Jessica awake, and asked her home address.

"46th Street... No. 485..."Jessica didn't even open her eyes, and buried her head in her arms again after reporting the name of the place. Liu Zheng had no choice but to carry her on his shoulders and go out to call a taxi.

In the early morning, Manhattan Avenue has gradually resumed its daytime liveliness, and the taxi walked along Fifth Avenue for a while, turning onto 34th Street, and Liu Zheng could already see one of New York's most famous landmarks, New York Times Square, from the car window.

He remembers writing in the Task Force Library that Steve Rogers fought against the Red Skull in World War I, crashed into the Arctic Sea in a Hydra XB-35 winged bomber, and was frozen and slept for 70 years until it was discovered by an oil exploration team in 2011 and rescued by S.H.I.E.L.D. to New York.

At that time, the American team was recuperating in the beautiful Greenwich district south of Midtown, and the U.S. government was worried that he would not be able to adapt to the 21st century city for a while after he woke up.

Rogers made a fuss at the santium, escaped, and ran all the way north to New York's Times Square, where he was so struck by the glitz that he almost thought he had crossed over. It was also because he was confused that he did not continue to escape, and was stabilized by Nick Fury, the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., who rushed over, and brought back to the headquarters in Washington.

Liu Zheng wanted to take a good look at this bustling neighborhood known as the "crossroads of the world", but every taxi driver knew how congested that area was, and generally tried to avoid those streets, so he only saw a half of this square from a distance.

The car drove up Eighth Avenue and turned right into the Clinton district, which is still habitually called "Hell's Kitchen." As for why it was called this name, Liu Zheng didn't know, but he heard Danny mention that this district was the earliest slum, with rampant drug pins, serious racial conflicts, intertwined gangs, and an extremely high crime rate, and it was the worst place in Manhattan for public security.

The buildings here are obviously older than the midtown across the road, and most of the buildings have rusty fire escapes installed on the facades, and it is said that the security here was very poor a few decades ago, the management capacity of the district government was limited, and the fires that occurred frequently were man-made or accidental. Liu Zheng felt very awkward when he looked at it all the way, the security in this place was bad enough, and the outer wall of the apartment was full of these things, didn't this welcome thieves to the door?

When the destination arrived, Liu Zheng helped Jessica, who was still unconscious, to get out of the car, followed the street sign into the apartment, and went around again before finally finding Jessica's home on the fifth floor. The time for the completion of this apartment should not be short, the property owner has not maintained it well, the stone paint on the wall has been warped, there are many places that have even fallen off, and there are problems with the maintenance of the elevator.

Jessica's rented room is in the innermost part of the hallway, which is both her home and her office. The door is facing the corridor, and Liu Zheng's design of this room is really full of slots. The entrance to the office of the director of the special group office is directly opposite the passage, and the same is true of Jessica's detective agency, no wonder business is getting worse and worse...

He used to work in Qiantang for a real estate company, so he had some research on home feng shui.

The feng shui of the gate is actually a very important issue, which has the saying that the road can not be rushed, and the feng shui is called "the straight road is empty", which means that the gate is facing a big road, and the table is retired. originally

The innermost room in the corridor was already unlucky enough, and it was still facing the passage, as if it was pointed at by a sword, and it definitely belonged to a pattern of great murder. From the perspective of aura, the people who are facing the road are also susceptible to the aura, which invisibly makes the people who live in it physically weak and in a trance, so that the career will be affected, and the situation will deteriorate.

The next time Jessica woke up, she had to be reminded to rent a different place, and if she stayed here, she would never be upset.

Liu Zheng helped the confused Jessica through the corridor and walked to the door, when he couldn't get in without a key, he found that there was no glass on the door, and a large piece of cardboard was pasted on the window frame, haha... It's really Jessica's style, that's right. He poked through the cardboard, reached in and opened the door from the inside, and helped Jessica into the bedroom, where she lay her flat on the bed.

The hangover girl grunted twice, adjusted her comfortable position and continued to sleep. Liu Zheng looked at her unwary and confused look, she was really angry and helpless, fortunately she was not a bad person, otherwise she would have cried.

The room is stinky, there are a lot of dirty clothes that have not been washed on the ground, and even underwear is not cleaned up, although Liu Zheng also lives alone, but the habits he has developed since childhood are not bad, and he can always tidy up the house when he grows up.

Jessica's house was in tatters, with many bullet holes in the walls, I don't know if it was inherited from the previous owner, or if Jessica did it later; The refrigerator is so badly deformed that it may have been used as a punching bag by a drunken Jessica, and a lot of food in it has gone bad; There is a big hole in the wall between the living room and the kitchen, which is large enough for an adult to drill through, Liu Zheng looked at the hole and was stunned, I really don't understand what this woman is crazy about at home.

Just as Liu Zheng was about to leave, he heard a knock on the door, and then the door was opened, and a middle-aged woman and a girl stood outside. The woman was dressed very decently, and the family conditions should be very good, but the girl looked like a child, a typical rebellious teenager.

"Excuse me... Is this Jessica Jones' home? The woman looked at Liu Zheng suspiciously, and she didn't know why an Asian man appeared here.

"Uh... Yes. Liu Zheng didn't expect a customer to come to the door early in the morning, so he had to lure the two in. The woman sat down on the old sofa in the living room, looking a little worried.

Liu Zheng pointed to Jessica, who was lying on the bed in the bedroom and snoring, and said with a wry smile: "Sorry madam, Jessica drank too much and is sleeping." ”

"Let's go, Mom." The girl standing on the side of the sofa sneered and turned her head to leave, but was stopped by her mother.

"Sir, my name is Michelle Raymond and this is my daughter Lexi. We need Jessica's help, and alas, we don't know if we're in the right place. ”

Liu Zheng struggled to cope on the surface, but he complained bitterly in his heart, his limited English ability was really not enough to deal with the consultation of two Americans.

"Sir, my husband is missing..."

"Mom, you don't really want to ask that drunk for help!"

"Lexie, that's enough!" The woman turned around and cursed, and said apologetically to Liu Zheng, "Our situation is very bad, he has been missing for a week." ”

Liu Zheng understood, but he didn't understand what the mother and daughter were doing here without looking for someone.

"Mrs. Raymond, did you call the police?"

"No, the police department won't file a case for this, there are too many missing people in New York every day... You don't understand, I do

Sure this is not normal, John is as punctual as a watch! The woman shook her head and babbled a lot, still unwilling to believe that her husband's disappearance had become a fact, "He is an architect, he goes to work at 8 a.m. and comes home at 6:30 p.m., and he has never changed." But lately... It's not normal, he's always mysterious, nervous, this... It's not like him. ”

Liu Zheng doesn't know much about the national conditions of the United States, if he is in China, someone has been missing for a week, the police will definitely file a case without saying a word, and the New York police don't care... It's no wonder that this lady rushed to the doctor and found a private detective agency here. He didn't have much to do about it, and besides, it wasn't his job to say anything, so he comforted the woman a few words and stabilized her emotions: "Okay lady, I'll tell Jessica about the situation." Of course, if you have time, you can take the time to meet her again in a private meeting. ”

The mother and daughter sat and waited for a while, and when they saw that Jessica showed no signs of waking up, they could only say goodbye and leave.

Liu Zheng sent the two away, and was about to go back to the room to check on her situation, when he heard the telephone on the table in the living room ringing.

Jessica rolled over and went back to sleep, showing no signs of wanting to get up to answer the phone.

When Liu Zheng was hesitating whether to go over and answer it, the phone jumped to the message function, and a strange voice that was obviously synthesized jumped out.

"Zizi... Jessica Jones... Zizi... Don't go to John Raymond. ”

John Raymond!! Of course, Liu Zheng remembered this name, he rushed to the desk with an arrow, picked up the microphone and shouted: "Who are you?" ”

However, all that came from the other end of the phone was a busy "beep" signal.

He pressed the microphone to the telephone, walked to the window, lifted the blinds, and looked out. Under the effect of the owl's tail lines, the power of the relentless force has been greatly enhanced, Liu Zheng spread his perception outward, and scanned the space within a radius of 500 meters, and found nothing abnormal.

As soon as John Raymond's wife and daughter left, a threatening phone call came to the door, which means that the other party's eyes and ears must be nearby! Liu Zheng frowned, the uneasiness in his heart became stronger and stronger, and he had a feeling that there was a big conspiracy looming over him, and the Hand was the root cause.

"Jingle Bell Bell Ring!!"

The piercing phone rang again, and Liu Zheng reflexively picked up the phone and shouted angrily: "Where are you, who is it!" ”

“.... Who are you? ”

What Liu Zheng didn't expect was that what came from the other end of the phone was not a weird synthesized voice, but a beautiful female voice.

"I'm Joey Meacham, who are you? Where is Jessica Jones? The woman on the other end of the line asked curiously.

"I'm sorry... I thought it was..."Liu Zheng apologized for his recklessness, but he immediately realized who was speaking, "You're Joey Meacham!" Hi there, I'm Liu Zheng, Danny's friend. ”

The woman visibly froze: "Danny, Danny Rand?" How did you end up at Jessica's Detective Agency? ”

Joey and his brother Ward are partners of Danny's father and the children of Harold Meacham, both of whom are now executives of the RAND Group. Liu Zheng and Luo Zhijian were dragged away by Danny before they could go upstairs after they arrived at the company, so she may not have known about the existence of the two of them. Liu Zheng was inconvenient to say more on the phone, so he hung up the phone after asking the address of the LAND Group.

Seeing that Jessica was still asleep, he closed the door and went downstairs, flagged down a taxi outside the apartment, and left Hell's Kitchen and drove towards the RAND Group headquarters building.