Chapter 1274: The Murderer Is. . .
A dark-toned hoodie, a dirty satchel, and a petite camera are the classic three-piece sets for Jessica Jones at work.
This morning, in the face of the anxious and grief-stricken woman, Jessica suddenly changed her mind, not because of her conscience, but because of another reason.
As she calmly asked a few questions, clarifying the anomalies before her child's disappearance, Jessica quickly came up with a name based on these anomalies.
Jebdia Kilgrave.
Purple people.
A nightmare in her heart that can never be erased.
This terrible woman was able to control her, using her language to kill strangers she didn't know even with just one sentence.
From Jessica's violent reaction, it is clear that the two have a very unpleasant memory of the past.
In fact, Jessica still has no way of knowing if she got rid of her.
The language power of the purple people is very strong, and it is completely impossible for the people who are controlled by her to rely on their own strength to get rid of her in their lives.
But Jessica escaped, using her own powers, but... Now she was starting to be a little skeptical.
Jessica was afraid that it was just her self-righteousness, she thought that she had broken free from the Purple Man's shackles, freed from her mind control and escaped, when in fact, it was just another game of the Purple Man, she had let her go, like cat and mouse.
Jessica has seen those people, and she has felt it herself, those who are controlled by the purple people are like the walking dead, no. Ten thousand times more terrible than that.
It's like the mind and the body are forcibly separated, the mind is trapped behind a screen, and that screen is its own body, and the mind that is cut off from the body's signal connection can do nothing, but can only watch its former body accomplish those things that it doesn't want to do.
Watch yourself beat up strangers, watch yourself stab a sharp knife into the lower abdomen of a loved one, watch your hands stained with blood, watch yourself walk onto the rooftop. Then take a leap.
You can't feel pain, but you can taste despair that is more suffocating than death.
That's really... Very scary experience.
It was so terrible that Jessica never believed that she had escaped the demon, and she felt like it was all like a dream, and the current experience was a dream, or that the terrible memories of the past were nightmares.
She constantly anesthetizes herself with alcohol, and only then can she enjoy a moment of peace.
But now, the purple man has appeared again, how can this not make Jessica anxious and panic.
At the time of cheering up, Jessica was still a fairly qualified detective.
Even if things are sliding down to a very bad point, she needs to calm down, and it is in this way that she needs to be calm, peel back the cocoon, and find clues that are really valuable.
Jamie Tree, a nondescript name, could have five of the ten New Yorkers killed by a Zirita by that name, and the remaining five were Tom or Jack, the son of the middle-aged woman, the unlucky one who had disappeared.
According to clues provided by the middle-aged woman, he was hanging out with a group of Irishmen.
All Jessica can think of is the Irish gang in Hell's Kitchen, a bunch of bastards who do all kinds of evil, but still claim to stick to the so-called bottom line.
Despite being a private detective, Jessica doesn't like to get involved with gangsters, and even though she has the strength to handle most of the troubles, she has a natural sense of staying away from these things.
In other words, her heart doesn't constantly push her to be a superhero, not because she's afraid, but because she doesn't like trouble.
Gangsters are forever entangled in trouble.
It wasn't a hassle to ask about a little guy named Jemitri among the low-level personnel, and after smashing the third eye socket with her fist, Jessica got the news she wanted, and stuffed her camera full.
It does seem to have something to do with the Purple Man.
Recently, there have been rumors in Hell's Kitchen that there seems to be a new player wanting to get a foot in the big cake, and he has swept away some scattered small groups at great speed, and soon gathered a force from three to five people.
--And these people are very loyal, especially the leaders, almost completely loyal to the unseen being.
Jessica's face was grim, which was indeed very much in line with the characteristics of the Purple Man's abilities, because she only needed a fluttering word, and these people would rush to the death to offer their loyalty to her, and even take out their true hearts.
And Jamitry, the lowest of the gangsters, the little people at the bottom, of course, can't come into contact with the high-ranking existence of the purple man.
But the boss above him could.
According to Jessica's clues, the guy in charge of Jamitry's area went to the Irish Gang with the others one night, and then came back like a different person, and began to expand wildly.
You know, now is not the fifties and sixties when the United States* gang was in its heyday, shooting people to death at will, as long as there is no evidence to hand over a few more people to confess, the territory can be snatched.
* The government only turns a blind eye and does not care much.
But that's because the departments were chaotic at that time, and the interests were very complicated, and no one paid attention to the affairs of these low-level civilians, and even if there were phone calls and faxes, the news was still relatively closed, which gave the black * faction a space to survive.
Right now.. Although the interests still exist, it is far less complicated and huge than before, because the rules of operation of the * government have been perfected, if you want to succeed, you must follow the rules, instead of using brute force, there are countless pairs of eyes hidden in the shadows to supervise each other, and no one dares to make any too out-of-the-ordinary moves.
The developed network has put everything almost on a transparent level, and the living space of the black * faction has been repeatedly compressed.
Although they still exist, they rarely engage in those bloody and violent businesses, such as robbery, collecting protection money, etc., and the * gang has disappeared in the eyes of ordinary people, and the main source of funds is those shady businesses.
It can be said that they have abandoned activities that tend to cause panic among ordinary people, which has greatly reduced their exposure and made them seem to have disappeared, which prolongs their survival.
After giving up this part, they all turned to the black industry, and now the * gang is no longer the street fight scene of the past, they are more like businessmen, but they are completely illegal businessmen.
So this kind of continuous outward expansion is simply crazy, even in the fifties and sixties, there were no such crazy guys.
They don't think that after they grab it, it's all theirs, but here is the United States, and no power can surpass *.
Now they don't react, once they come back to their senses, even if they just rely on the power gathered by the New York Bureau, they can be wiped out.
* There is never a shortage of vacant rooms in the national prison.
This is a complete self-defeating move.
However, Jessica doesn't think it's a problem with the Purple People, and the terrible thing about her ability to manipulate people's hearts is not just that she can control others, but that the people who are controlled still have intelligence.
They don't stupidly go straight to their goals, and they still use their minds to solve problems.
If the Purple Man wants to integrate the dark power of Hell's Kitchen, then even if he gives an order, these unruly cannon fodder will not be so reckless, they will still try not to attract the attention of the police, and slowly expand their power.
Now the crazy actions of these cannon fodder. Obviously, Purple Man didn't aim to integrate Hell's Kitchen.
Jessica didn't know what Purple Man's purpose was, but she definitely had other plans.
And Jamie Terry is an inconspicuous victim of this grand conspiracy.
Based on the clues found, Jessica targeted a newly opened film and television merchandise store on the edge of Hell's Kitchen.
Obviously, a guy like Jamie Terry definitely can't touch the existence of the purple man, but his boss is loyally completing the task left by the purple man.
Everyone was constantly expanding outward, and naturally, Jamie Tri was also notified of this.
But he didn't know what to do.
Let him scare and scare ordinary people, and after nightfall he pulls out a knife and makes a small windfall, maybe Jamie still has some experience and can be a little more competent.
But land grabbing? Please, a series of prohibited businesses such as arms, * products, etc. are the source of funds for the modern * gang, and there has been no clear division of territory for more than 60 years, because the territory has been extinct in the streets, and I am afraid that no one knows what to do at all.
As the miserable middle-aged woman said, her child Jamie Terry is indeed a little clever.
After a long period of contemplation, he and his companions finally set their sights on a newly opened store, in a very delicate location, on the edge of Hell's Kitchen, and almost left the block, in fact, half of the store was already outside the block of Hell's Kitchen.
A shop that sells film and television merchandise.
Such a place, and it is still newly opened. No one has ever been there.
Jamie didn't know what his boss meant, and after thinking about it, he decided to collect a symbolic amount of protection money, and then show his face to complete the task.
His instincts told him that the chaos in Hell's Kitchen was not normal.
Jamie doesn't know any Kim, doesn't know Mrs. Gao, the Hand Clan, and doesn't know anything about the Purple Man, he's just one of the most inconspicuous trash in Hell's Kitchen, but trash also has the wisdom of trash and their way of survival, which is what they rely on to survive in this chaotic neighborhood.
Pity.. This time his cleverness did not bring good luck as usual, instead, he chose a path of burial that led to hell.
Jamie is missing, just after coming to the merch store.
Jessica repeatedly compared a lot of clues, and finally targeted this store, Jamie disappeared after coming here, or rather. He's missing here, in this shop.
There were two other people who came with Jamie, and the three of them came to the merchandise store together.
According to the half-dead thug who was beaten by Jessica, Jamie used to do things in the morning, which meant that he and his companions came here during the day.
But as Jessica investigates around the store, she discovers that not only are there no witnesses, but no one in the neighborhood even feels that something happened that day.
The neighborhood seemed as quiet as ever that day, but in fact, because Hell's Kitchen rarely makes it to the edge of the block, it's not only quiet, it's peaceful.
It's just that Jessica continued to dig deeper, but immediately noticed that this matter seemed to reveal some kind of weirdness.
It's not strange that no one saw how Jamie and the others came out, because maybe they couldn't get out, but no one saw Jamie and the others come here, so it was obviously not normal.
Unless Jamie didn't really come to the store, Jessica was wrong for all the clues.
After discovering this, Jessica turned back to the place where she had heard the news, and after some investigation, she found a clue that she didn't know whether to be happy or distressed.
Jamie and the others did come to the store because he had also tweeted a selfie at the time.
This then leads to another problem.
Where the hell did the three of them go, or rather. Why no one has seen them, not when they left, but when they came here, there were people who saw them at all.
Jessica had already discovered several very good vantages for observing the surrounding shops, and she had talked to the owners of these houses with a panoramic view, and their answer was that they had never seen these three people at all.
But Jessica obviously won't believe it, because she is sitting now with an unobstructed view of the street outside and the front of the surrounding shops, and there is no possibility of subconsciously ignoring Jamie and the others.
And Jessica wasn't asking alone.
One person may be lying, and the two may be colluding, but Jessica asked almost everyone in the vicinity of the store, and the answer was very consistent, they had not seen three people enter the store that day.
It is impossible for all of them to lie together, even if they are hiding a common secret, and not everyone will be united in not telling the secret.
Things seemed to be in trouble, and Jessica felt that something might be more than she could handle.
Of course, there is another possibility, and the most reasonable explanation, that is, Jamie and the others have never been here at all.
But Jessica instinctively thinks that this is not the case, there is a problem with this store, and the key to the problem is in this store, and this judgment does not come from her superpowers or anything like that, but simple, a woman's intuition.
After half a second of thoughtful consideration, Jessica was ready to find out for herself with a pair of dejected dead fish eyes.
It's a bit reckless or dangerous, but maybe you'll find some useful clues, for example. Three corpses or something.