Chapter Seventy-One: Mrs. Castro
It seems that the two men who carried the door panel didn't feel that they were facing fate, they obviously regarded Cheng Bin as a spirit disease, and it was still contagious, so they didn't say a word of nonsense, they ran with the door panel, and they ran fast.
Cheng Bin glanced back at Rebecca, who was sitting in the car, and made a gesture to her, signaling her not to move, and walking towards the crowd in front of him.
You don't have to walk inside to see that the men are looting a house, and the crowd is mixed with women and half-grown children in addition to men. Basically, these people want everything, from furniture, doors and windows, to furnishings, what to move, the scene was extremely chaotic for a while, but unfortunately, no one started fighting because of coaxing.
Cheng Bin stood on the street and watched for a while, and his eyes fell on a mother and daughter across the street. The two men, thin and wrapped in thick clothes, stood in the corner and watched the people in the opposite house come and go, not moving or speaking.
Cheng Bin thought for a while, walked over and raised his hand to hold the brim of his hat and nodded slightly, and asked, "Excuse me, is that Mrs. Castro's residence?" ”
When Cheng Bin walked over to them, the two people became obviously nervous, but in the end they didn't run away, the mother just grabbed the little girl standing beside her, hugged her into her arms, lowered her head and looked at the ground, as if she was used to waiting.
After hearing Cheng Bin's voice, the woman looked up at him, and Cheng Bin found that this woman was not only emaciated, but also pale, even among Caucasians, her face was a little too white, and she could hardly see blood, which looked extremely unhealthy.
To Cheng Bin's surprise, this woman should not be very old, maybe about the same as Emily. Although he didn't ask, Cheng Bin felt that Gu Baptism should be at least forty years old, and generally speaking, he didn't look like a person with a wife in her twenties.
After discovering this, Cheng Bin felt a little disappointed, and it seemed that he had guessed wrong.
"Yes." The woman said briefly, then lowered her head again, looking less eager to talk.
Cheng Bin hesitated for a moment and said, "Then do you know where Mrs. Castro is?" He said, "I'm from Maple Leaf and have something to say to Mrs. Castro. ”
The woman raised her head again, looked at him with a complicated expression for a moment, and then whispered, "If you want to find Mrs. Castro from Maple Leaf Town." ”
"I am," she said. ”
Although Cheng Bin had already had some guesses in his heart, it was obvious that after he really got the answer, he was still shocked.
He looked at the mother and daughter in front of him dumbfounded, then looked back across the street, "If I'm not mistaken." He said, "Are you watching them rob your house?" ”
"So what?" Mrs. Castro said lightly: "After the news came here last night, the two people sent to protect me escaped, and I think I should thank them for not harming our mother and daughter." ”
She looked at Cheng Bin and asked, "So do you think I should take up arms and resist?" "No, I'm not going to do it, and I'm not going to do it for the sake of my children," she said. ”
Cheng Bin coughed a little embarrassed, if he hadn't delayed in the wasteland, he should have rushed to the Grand Canyon last night, if that was the case, maybe the current situation would be completely different.
"Of course." He racked his brains to organize his words.
"I mean," he said, "don't the police care?" When I came in, I saw that there were guards. ”
"For a mother and daughter who have lost their asylum?" Mrs. Castro laughed, and Cheng Bin found that her expression was vivid when she laughed, even if the smile was full of bitterness.
"Nope." "If they come, they'll only take the biggest one," she said. ”
Cheng Bin looked at her deeply, and only after a while did he say "uh", and said sincerely: "I think you are right, for you, the greatest wealth is yourself." ”
"Really?" The woman retracted her smile, looked at him and said, "So you're here to take it?" ”
Cheng Bin was stunned for a moment before reacting, it was obvious that the people here didn't know what was going on in Maple Leaf Town, they just took it for granted that Gu Dip had fallen, after all, according to normal circumstances, it is impossible for the police chief of a town to die quietly, especially if he was killed, at least Maple Leaf Town should also be wanted murderer. Maple Leaf didn't do this, and the only explanation was that the person who did it was Emily.
So when she heard Cheng Bin say that she was from Maple Leaf Town, this woman thought he was here to cut the grass and eradicate the roots.
To Cheng Bin's surprise, she didn't seem to be panicked and scared, but accepted her fate very calmly.
He took a deep breath, "I think you're mistaken. He said, "I was commissioned by Mr. Castro to take you and your children back. ”
He looked at the girl who heard him, turned his head from his mother's arms to look at his girl, and smiled, "But before I do that, let me take care of some things first." ”
He reached for the brim of his hat, smiled at the curious little girl, and turned to walk across the street towards the house.
There were more people in front of Castro's house than there had been before, and a steady stream of people had gotten the news. The composition of the people in the Grand Canyon is much more complex than in the wilderness town, because of the high turnover of people, the cold interpersonal relationships, and the fact that no one seems willing to stand up for the orphans and widows, and everyone wants to take advantage of this rare opportunity to get a piece of the pie.
Cheng Bin strode into the courtyard, stood in front of the house that had lost its gate, drew his pistol, and fired a shot into the sky.
The faint smoke dispersed in the air, and Cheng Bin looked at the people coming in and out in surprise, and it seemed that they were not affected by the gunfire in the slightest.
Cheng Bin looked at the still busy crowd in a daze, looked at the gun in his hand again, gave up the idea of firing another shot, reached out and took out a grenade from his pocket, and pulled out the safety pin casually.
Just as he was about to throw the grenade into the house, someone finally noticed him, and a man came out of the house with a solid wood cutlery box in his hand, and shouted at him dissatisfiedly, "What are you standing for?" ”
"Nothing." Cheng Bin looked at him and smiled, and casually threw the grenade that popped off the safety pin into the house.
"I'll just rub it, I won't go in." Then he suddenly shouted loudly: "It's raining, collect your clothes!" ”
In the confusion, not many people noticed his voice, but three seconds later, a huge explosion accompanied by the sound of glass shattering poured out of the various exits of the house, and in the smoke, the gray-faced crowd staggered out of the house.
Cheng Bin stood in front of the door without moving after throwing the grenade, he had just seen the furnishings in the house, so he threw the grenade into the fireplace opposite the living room, the lethality of the fragmentation mine in this kind of place is negligible, unless someone happened to stay in the fireplace at the time of the explosion.
The man holding the cutlery box opened his mouth wide and looked at Cheng Bin, who didn't care, and it took him a long time to react, exclaimed, threw away the cutlery box in his hand, and ran away. The solid wood cutlery box fell to the ground, and after the lid popped open, the silver cutlery inside scattered out, and soon covered with a layer of dust.
"Who? Who is it? "The most noticeable consequence of blowing up the fireplace was that the house was filled with smoke, and it was clear that the fireplace in Mrs. Castro's house had really served as a fireplace, and not just as an ornament.
In the smoke, a man rushed out of the door in a rage, brandishing a revolver in his hand, but he obviously didn't see Cheng Bin because he was rubbing his eyes with his free hand.
"Who did it?" He rubbed his eyes and cursed loudly, "If you let me know who did it......"
"What will happen to you?" Cheng Bin reached out and grabbed the man's hand holding the gun, pulled it down from the air, and then took the revolver with five fingers and the man's screams.
He said very gently, "I should say it to satisfy my curiosity." He said to the frightened man in front of him, "Of course I'll consider your suggestion too." ”