Chapter Twenty-Eight: Seeking Intelligence
In New York, in the most densely populated Manhattan district, there is a Dongying Street full of Dongying specialty shops.
Although it is not written in the description of Manhattan, it is called this by all the locals and tourists who come here, and gradually, the original name "East Village" was added in the middle.
Dongying Village is most famous for its unique Japanese food shops, and there are also some small bourgeois shops related to music and art in the streets and alleys.
It was originally a subcultural neighborhood of poor artists, musicians, hippies, and students, and in a word, it was an environment where personal interest was greater than the revenue of opening a store, and the owner's style was more important than user experience. Therefore, the game store in Dongying Village is also more distinctive than that in other places.
Of course, in addition to game stores, there are also some Toei custom shops, izakayas, and CD shops.
So, Lin Sen is not too familiar with this place, because he often comes, ahem, he often comes here to buy CDs, well, game CDs and some game consoles!
For example, Pokemon black and white, Pokemon red, green and blue, gold and silver, fiery red, pearls, diamonds, and countless other versions, Lin Sen has collected them all on this street, as well as Lin Sen's favorite, FF7 produced by Square Enix, I heard that a reset version will be released recently.
Seeing that the two of them came here directly after coming out of Matsuura Co., Ltd., and then looked at the neon lights full of red, green, and green, and flashed on Frank's uncertain face, in case the other party entered a custom shop, then ...... Not......
"The custom shop here should just be a wine and chat!" Lin Sen's words rescued him in time.
There are many kinds of custom shops, but according to the experience that Lin Sen often heard when he came here to buy things, if it was not serious, there should be a woman in sexy and revealing clothes at the door, and it was impossible to see the scene inside clearly from the outside.
Lin Sen's explanation reassured Frank, and then he looked at Lin Sen a little strangely, revealing an expression that everyone understands: Brother, you know a lot!
"New Yorkers know it!" Lin Sen couldn't cry or laugh, how could he, a good student who had not yet reached the age of eighteen, become an old driver in the eyes of others, but he didn't bother to explain, so that he could hide his true identity even more.
Fortunately, the two men from Matsuura Co., Ltd. ignored the custom shop on the side of the road, and there was a bar called Angel's Share not far in front of them.
For this bar, although neither Linson nor Frank are cocktail lovers, its name is also thunderous in New York, on the one hand, it is famous enough, on the other hand, it is controversial, especially for cocktail lovers, it is a love-hate place.
This is because this Speak Easy bar in New York's Japantown is where Toei bartender Shingo Goken became famous, and after Shingo Goken won the world championship in a bartending competition sponsored by a certain brand, this bar became famous.
The so-called Speak Easy style bar is actually a bar that "pretends not to be a bar", which is a tradition left over from the previous Prohibition period in the United States, and many bars are often disguised as pharmacies and grocery stores in order to hide people's eyes.
Angel's Share still retains the style of Speak Easy, and there are a variety of Japanese restaurants and game stores around, among which there are countless secret passages, and no one knows how many secret rooms are hidden in it, and how many caves are hidden in it.
Later, there were more and more Dongying people in the bar, there were waiters, women who accompanied the wine, and even clean aunts and door security guards, and then later, even a strange regulation was introduced:
Only Dongying people are entertained.
Lin Sen also knew about this regulation when it was first introduced, but he didn't go to bars much, so he didn't feel at ease, and now it seems that since that time, this place has gradually become a secret contact point for the Hand Club.
"You find a place to wait, and I'll come when I go." Frank had also heard of the strange rule, and he was not slow to react, knowing that if the two of them were targeting Angel's Share in front of them, it would be tricky, and the best thing to do was to take advantage of the opportunity to sneak the bugging device on the two of them.
Just after Frank pretended to be a drunk man and stumbled past, Lin Sen hid in a remote shadow corner and secretly looked at the surrounding environment, and people kept walking into the custom shops and izakaya on the side of the road, and although it was Dongying Street, most of the people who came here to play were Europeans and Americans.
The streets of Dongying Village do not seem empty at all, from time to time you can see one or two drunk people falling asleep on the side of the road, and the people passing by are not strange, it is estimated that they have long been used to it, and basically the people who come and go are vain. It's normal, it's either a custom shop or an izakaya or something.
Suddenly, Lin Sen caught a glimpse of a person in his spare eyes, and it immediately caught his attention.
An Asian woman, a woman who is dressed very formally, how formal is it, wearing a black close-fitting suit uniform, without a trace of wrinkles, showing the woman's bumpy figure perfectly, the only fly in the ointment is that she wears a pair of trousers, not a uniform short skirt.
Even so, the woman still reaped the attention of many passers-by along the way, her hair was meticulously coiled behind her head, she wore a pair of black-rimmed glasses, and her thin lips were tightly pursed, which looked extremely serious and serious, and made her particularly out of place.
The woman looks quite beautiful, but when she appears in this place, this dress, the easiest thing to associate with is: a certain custom shop, a special need of a special scene, but if Lin Sen wants to say, he will only give an inappropriate evaluation.
The Asian woman walked all the way from a distance without hurry, every step seemed to have been measured, and under the iceberg-like appearance, Lin Sen felt like a cold and lifeless machine, which was also too strange.
Moreover, the direction she walked seemed to be towards Angel's Share, a bar that was most likely a den of the Hand Club, an Asian or Toei woman, and then the two of Matsuura Co., Ltd.
Lin Sen felt as if he had inadvertently discovered something extraordinary.
"You feel something is wrong, right?" Frank had already returned, and was listening carefully with a pair of headphones on, and he had just noticed the woman, just then, Matsuura Co., Ltd. and the strange Toei woman met in front of the Angel's Share bar.
After the two sides said hello, the Dongying woman walked in under the leadership of the two.
Frank listened to the bugging device for a while, and suddenly found a very serious problem, shook his head at Lin Sen, and said, "I ~ can't understand Japanese......"
For a while, they were a little embarrassed by each other. Lin Sen really wants to complain, I took off my pants, you show me this?!
"Give it to me!" As soon as Frank's words fell, a voice sounded in the ears of the two, and Logan actually appeared in front of the two of them silently.
"Logan!" Lin Sen was surprised and delighted, "Why are you here too?" ”
Logan took a cigar in his mouth, took the headphones from Frank's hand, and his face was a little solemn, "Originally, my goal was the same as yours, it was the people of Matsuura Co., Ltd., they sent people to steal the information of the Osborne Group, but what I didn't expect was that I also saw another person here, but why are you here?" ”
"Matsuura Co., Ltd. is a member of the Hand Association, you just said another person~" Lin Sen thought of the woman who impressed him, "Do you know that woman in a suit?" ”
"Poof" Logan showed his claws of Edman Alloy and smiled: "It has something to do with her!" ”
Although Logan didn't make the identity of the woman clear, what he meant was already clear to Lin Sen: this woman was from Stryker's side!
For a long time, the three of them did not speak, standing in place like stone sculptures, and trying not to make a sound, so as not to interfere with Logan's listening to the other side.
I don't know how long it took in the end, until all the shops around it were closed, Logan was still listening intently, Frank had already taken out all the weapons in his trench coat and examined them carefully, and Lin Sen was dumbfounded.
Except for a Nepalese saber that he can name, the rest can only be distinguished from what is a rifle, what is a pistol, what is a submachine gun, what is the model or something, oh, there are a few howitzers, and the rest, he can't even distinguish between grenades and smoke grenades, in the face of such a humanoid arsenal, Lin Sen is very skeptical, Frank also has some storage props.
"Alright, they're done." Just after Frank hid all the weapons in his trench coat, Logan's side was finally finished, and then told Lin Sen two news: one good and one bad:
1. Daredevil is not locked up in the building of Matsuura Co., Ltd., he is held alone in the harbor near the mouth of the Hudson River, and it should not be difficult to save him.
2. Stryker and the Hand have joined forces, and their common goal is to deal with the Osborne Group and obtain the Osborne Group's human modification technology.
Human modification technology? After listening to this, Lin Sen felt more and more strange, Stryker's human body modification was because of his "X Weapon Project", and his human body transformation was actually very simple and rude, just to find a suitable carrier, and then grab other variant abilities.
So what does the hand need for human modification technology? Lin Sen thought about it for a long time and didn't have a clue, forget it, let's go and save people first.
In order to prevent a long night and a lot of dreams, and to avoid the sudden whim of the people in the Hand to transfer Daredevil, Frank and Logan decided to rescue Daredevil now, and Lin Sen will not object, his heroic act today has not been completed, so it depends on this rescue operation!
If memory serves, there's still one chance to draw a lottery.