Chapter 113: The Residual Temperature
"Predator...... I see, maybe I can really take advantage of it. ”
Dimiit put aside the argument and thought seriously about Akeya's words. Even Leo could tell it was an idea.
The Predators' target is also Cullom, and they are numerous and well-informed, and they will not leave their executioners alone. Tomorrow the final vote, they will definitely make a big move.
The most important thing is that they have not been exposed, and today's operation was disrupted by Akya, and it is highly likely that the executioner did not know that the Predator was in the city of Kogani, but again, Tokar did not know that Akya was on the side of Leo and Dimit to help.
And that's a great thing.
"But the Predator is also an enemy, and it can't be relied on too much."
Dimmit's words made Leo, who had just seen some hope, depressed again, and what was even more depressed was that he was quite right, and could only look at Akya expectantly.
"What, how do you say that?"
"Of course we won't rely on it," Akya said, "all we have to do is stir things up, the more chaotic the scene, the better, with Dimitt, as long as we snatch Kulom, even if we are chased, we don't have to worry." ”
As he spoke, he deliberately squinted at Dimmit.
"If you don't drop the chain."
"Heh, who do you think you're talking to?" Dimmit sneered, "If you're worried about me, let's think about how to rob people while it's messy." If it's a mess, how can you guarantee that you'll get Cullom out? ”
"Half of us."
"What about the other half?"
Akya sighed a little helplessly: "Look at Cullom himself. ”
If it were some other small organization pestering Kulom, Akeya would still have some way to infiltrate it and directly grasp Kulom's movements. But if the executioner is there, he can't take that risk. They even arranged for people to go in at the end of the police station, and in the city government, I don't know how many of them were.
On the afternoon of the first day of the interview between Julie and Bob, Akeya arranged for the two to return to the hotel and took time to go to the city hall. The final vote will be held there, and if you want to take Kulom and wait until he is done with the election, it is foreseeable that the city hall will become a battleground.
The structure of the entire government compound is similar to that of the Akiyama City Hall, with a front and back yard and two exits. On election day, the backyard will be completely locked down, and the front yard will become a polling place for government officials and a small number of citizens to vote.
If the Predators were to steal people, the area occupied by the voters in the front yard must be the first place for them to attack, in order to create chaos and allow the people in the building, that is, the two candidates and their entourage, to evacuate from the backyard. Thinking about it this way, the executioner will put the main force in the backyard, after all, there are a considerable number of police in the front yard.
This kind of deployment, Tokar must have thought of it too. It's just that the backyard is not only blocked, but also under martial law, and no one is allowed to approach. Akya couldn't think of how Tokar would attack.
But he was sure that Tokar would be there, so he was going there himself, keeping an eye on him. Wait for the Predators and the Executioners to fight, waiting for an opportunity to reap the benefits.
The rest is Cullom himself.
Rolov said that Kulom's assassination was a bureau set up to allow Rolov to interfere in the election, and now looking at it, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a distress signal. The commotion has been so loud in the past two days, he should have noticed that the people from Akiyama City were coming, at least Zhu Liying and Bob.
In that case, he will definitely not sit still, and if he wants to make contact with these people, the best opportunity will be tomorrow. Usually the executioners see death, but on that day, all or most of the executioners will be concentrated in the city hall. As long as you can get out of there, you are basically free from the executioner. With the Predator's "help", this opportunity is indeed not small.
Assuming that Cullom escapes from the executioners, he will not choose the heavily guarded backyard when he wants to leave the city hall building, but the front yard, which is easier to escape. Even if the front yard is messed up by the Predators, it is just what he wants.
Because, like the executioner, he probably didn't know that the Predator would come, and maybe he would mistake it for a rescuer from Akiyama City.
The people in the front yard should be all serious policemen, and it may be difficult to stop the Predators. Therefore, the special detachment should put a combat force here that can grab people in the chaotic army and retreat with all its body.
That's Dimmit.
"So my plan was that I would keep an eye on the backyard, Dimmit would blend in with the citizens, as close to the building as possible, and the captain would drive Dimmit's car and be on standby nearby. What do you think? ”
Akeya analyzed this time, not to mention Leo, even Dimmit was surprised. He thought about it from the beginning, and although these scenarios are not 100% realized, they are indeed the ones with the highest success rate.
"I'm okay with that." Dimmit said.
Leo rubbed his chin and thought again, "What if, what if the executioner killed him in the building?" ”
"It's unlikely," said Akeya, "that if they kill Cullom before the election is over, the city of Kogani will immediately put the whole city under martial law, and it won't do them any good." If he wants to be killed, he has to be taken somewhere after he loses the election and secretly executed. What's more, during the election process, the room where the candidate stayed was monitored throughout the whole process, broadcast to the outside world, and it was impossible to kill people in front of everyone. ”
The last suspicion was explained, and Leo no longer had an opinion, after all, Akeya had dealt with the executioners. The three of them discussed the time, and the plan was finalized.
"For the rest, there's nothing to do with those two, right?" Dimmit straightened his clothes and walked to the door, "Why don't you let them go back first?" Save time to walk, but also take care of. ”
"That's what I said, but I always feel uneasy just to let Bob send Julie back." Leo said.
"I'm thinking about you, don't forget, we're going to part ways here."
"I don't need you to remind me, I'm also thinking about the two of them."
"Whatever you want, come and move things."
The three of them walked out of the room as they spoke, Leo thought about it and asked Akya to go to the car and take out the things, he was going to the second floor to see how Julie was doing.
Drake was putting it mildly, but the operating room, hidden in a car wash, was fairly formal, with all the equipment it should have, and there was a medical storage room opposite the operating room that stored spare plasma and various medications.
Of course, Leo couldn't see this, he only saw that the door of the operating room was the same as the door of the hospital's operating room, and even the "during surgery" warning light on the top, he couldn't figure out why he had gotten to this point, if it weren't for the stickers and advertisements of various cars plastered all over the corridor, he would have thought that this was a hospital.
"That one named Drake seems to have a lot of origin."
Leo said as he sat down on a bench in the hallway. Bob had been sitting there for a long time, and was quick to say hello to Leo.
"Mr. Leo."
"Just call me Leo."
"Oh."
"How are you, don't you have to go and see?"
"I'm fine, it's just ......"
Bob looked up at the operating room door and turned to Leo.
"So, Leo, may I ask something?"
"Say it."
"Pabaya...... Yes, Pabaya Superman, yes...... What kind? ”
"Well."
Leo secretly touched the wound on his neck that had been bitten by Julie, it didn't hurt much, it was itchy. The wound had stopped bleeding a long time ago, and it was almost as if it had been pricked by a needle.
"It is said that I can self-medicate, and I also listened to Dimmit."
"Self-medicated? How is it treated? ”
"Well, I don't know the specifics."
"It's really unscientific."
"Listen a lot and get used to it." Leo said, and immediately changed his words, "No, it's better for you to hear less about this in the future." ”
"But I, I want to know more about my predecessors...... Secret. ”
The last two words were as small as mosquitoes, and Leo asked Bob what he was talking about, and Bob quickly waved his hand.
After waiting for half an hour, "during surgery" turned into "free", the door parted left and right, and both stood up.
Two men in white coats and masks came out pushing mobile beds. Julie Ying was lying on it, covered with a quilt, and she was already awake.
"It's over, it's going well." One of them said.
Bob hurried over. "Senior, are you okay?"
"Hmm."
Julie replied lazily, moving a little.
"Are you alright, Bob?"
"I'm fine, I'm ......"
When waiting for Julie Ying to come out, Bob thought about a lot of things to say, but at this moment they were all stuck in his throat, and in the end he could only squeeze out one sentence.
"Thank you for saving me, that's what I want to say, good night senior!"
With that, Bob bowed, almost bending his body into an acute angle, and then hurriedly disappeared from the hallway. Leo glanced at the shy young man and walked over as well.
"Since it's okay, rest early, we'll finish our errands tomorrow, and we'll go back together."
Saying that he was also leaving, Zhu Liying hurriedly called out to him.
"Stop!"
"What else?"
Julie opened her mouth crampedly, not knowing how to speak.
"That's, I'm sorry......"
"What are you doing? Is it because of that? ”
"Or what?"
"I don't care, don't care."
Seeing that Leo was about to leave again, Julie Ying was so anxious that she cried out.
"Wait a minute!"
"What's wrong again?"
"Ears sticking to them!"
Leo couldn't figure out what Julie was doing, so he muttered as he put his ear to Julie's mouth, and then heard a very soft voice.
"I can't remember...... Am I, biting and sucking blood? ”
Leo squeezed his eyes: "Otherwise? You're going to suck it in chains, I'm already cold. ”
"Ahhh......hh
Zhu Liying's cheeks suddenly flushed, her arms were in the quilt, she couldn't move, and it was easy to pull the muscles in her back, so she had to bury her face in the pillow.
"The first time, the first time to bite and suck blood......"
"I really don't understand you Pabaans, what else is there to say?"
"Nope!"
Julie looked up sharply and took a bite to spare.
"Absolutely nothing! It's okay, go to sleep, sleep! ”
The two white coats pushed the hospital bed and went to a single room at the end of the corridor, leaving Leo stunned and confused.
"Is this an anesthetic in the brain?"
*****
"Thank you for your patronage! Walking! ”
Seeing off the last two guests of the night, Sharon packed up the plates and cutlery they had left behind and brought them to the kitchen.
The events of the day scared her enough, and when the gun went off, the surging flow of people almost drowned her, but fortunately, Leo reacted quickly and pulled her to run. There was no time to say much, so she hurried away from the square and went back to the hotel.
Because of this riot, she opened in the afternoon, and the customers were sporadic and sporadic although she could not earn a few dollars, but she also ended up clean.
The doorbell rings and a guest comes in.
"I'm sorry, it's closed."
"How about being accommodating?"
The familiar voice made Sharon put down the plate in her hand and hurriedly walked out, looking at the guest, surprised and delighted.
"Absolutely."
It's Cullom.
He closed the door, pulled a chair out from under the table, took off his coat and threw it on the back of the chair, and sat down steadily.
Sharon looked out the window, and there were four cars parked outside, and several people came down, standing in front of the store, like a group of door gods.
She raised her eyebrows: "No wonder you can come out." ”
"No, I followed it all day long, for fear that I would lose it."
Cullom's words made Sharon laugh. She wiped down the table she had just finished wiping again, and went to make a pot of tea, which Cullom looked at with a smile.
"How about buying and selling lately?"
"It's the same old way."
"Shouldn't I have more today?"
"No."
Sharon carried the teapot and filled the table with teacups.
"I'm tired enough of running for my life from Chelse Square during the day."
"Oh, you went during the day?"
"yes, I'd like to see how you've been doing."
When she said this, Sharon's tone was not as sarcastic as usual, and she was very serious. Cullom lowered his head and took a sip of tea.
"I'm going to do it too, so I want to have a good bite to eat before the election ends tomorrow."
"How do you say it like the Last Supper?"
"Well, that's a pretty apt description."
"Hehe, then I have to show my hand, what to eat?"
"Well."
Cullom took the menu, flipped through it, and looked at it.
"It's hard to choose."
"So, how about ordering something that's not on the menu?"
"Okay," Cullom said, looking up, "you still have a hand hidden?" ”
"What about one hand?" Sharon smiled, "I know a lot of cooking." I'll give you something you haven't tasted. ”
"Really? Hope it suits my appetite. ”
"You're satisfied!"
Sharon walked briskly into the kitchen, picking this and that with both hands, and getting busy. Cullom looked at Sharon, leaning back in his chair, slowly closing his eyes.
It's wonderful.
That was years ago, and Cullom was in the middle of his prime. Under his auspices, the city of Kogani planned a new logistics distribution center, which is where he is located today.
Merchants who smell business opportunities are rushing to settle down here after the plan is settled. At that time, Cullom occasionally drove around the place, and looking at the shops and restaurants everywhere, he seemed to see a busy scene here in the future.
One day, he was driving his car again and was on patrol, and suddenly noticed smoke coming out of a restaurant not far away. When his car drove up to the front of the restaurant, an open flame erupted, and a man and a woman ran outside. The restaurant was completely on fire, but the two men didn't seem to care about the fire and instead argued.
Cullom immediately stepped on the brakes, and the merchants who heard the sound also gathered around, and Cullom instructed everyone to put out the fire, and by the time the fire brigade arrived, the fire was almost extinguished.
The fire was not a problem, but the man and woman, Cullom really didn't understand, so he called the two over.
When I asked, I found out that the two were actually husband and wife, from other places. In order to earn more extra money for the family, the wife insisted on opening a store here, but the husband firmly disagreed, so the two often quarreled over the phone. In order to force his wife to regress, the husband also came here several times to make trouble and disrupt the restaurant business.
This time, he took a lighter and threatened to burn down the restaurant, and his wife went up to grab it, but the lighter ignited the carpet and quickly burned.
"You can't set fire anyway, can you?" After hearing the words of the two, Cullom angrily scolded the man.
"No, Mayor, I just wanted to scare her, I didn't really ......" the man nodded.
"No need to argue, the police will be there soon, if you have anything to say, tell them!"
Several of the men who helped put out the fire held down the man and dragged him to the side of the road to wait for the police. Cullom took the moment to look at the woman, who was wiping tears from her eyes as she looked helplessly at the almost half-burned restaurant.
"It's too much." She muttered.
"What do you call the lady?" Cullom asked politely.
"Sharon Layal, Mr. Mayor."
"Ms. Leal, you can take insurance for your losses."
"However, I have just opened here, and I haven't had time to insure ......."
"Then let me take care of you."
Sharon didn't understand the mayor's words, but three days later she did, and Cullom paid out of his own pocket to give Sharon a sum of money to help her reopen. As for her husband, Cullom personally intervened and explained to the police that this incident was just an accident. After several talks, the police finally agreed to release him.
Cullom's move was not all a whim. This place has just prospered, and it can not only increase the confidence of merchants, but also brush up on the support rate. It was just a routine operation, he didn't pay attention to it at all, and turned it over the next day.
However, one afternoon half a month later, Cullom came out of the building after work and unexpectedly saw Sharon. She had been waiting at the gate for a long time.
Cullom recognized Sharon, "It's you." ”
"I have come to thank Mr. Mayor, and with your funding, the shop has been fully restored."
Sharon's voice is slightly lower, but it is very comfortable to listen to, like a professional announcer. A natural and unpretentious smile, neither humble nor arrogant, just right. Only then did Cullom notice that she had the maturity and self-esteem of a thirty-year-old woman inside and out, and her heart was filled with ripples.
"It's hard work, why worry about it."
The two of them each said a few polite words and said goodbye to each other. This time, Sharon has a place in Cullom's mind.
After that, Cullom would sometimes visit Sharon's shop when he was in the mood, but only when it was about to close, so that no one else could see him. Cullom found that although Sharon was from a rural background, she was empathetic, understood his struggles, his difficulties, and was willing to listen to his occasional complaints, even complaints.
This is a woman's most valuable quality, and it is also a treasure that a man cannot ask for.
A year later, Sharon divorced. Cullom himself didn't realize that he had been visiting Sharon's more often since he found out about it, but he knew that most of the time he wasn't here to eat, but to use the little restaurant as a haven.
However, since the executioners arrived, Cullom had been drastically deprived of his freedom, and his visits to the restaurant had plummeted, not once for several months. But the more this happened, the more he missed that place, that person. Therefore, he secretly gave Sharon as much financial support as possible, so that her store has lasted until now.
Not long after, Cullom also divorced. The day after signing the agreement, he insisted on going to the restaurant, and in the company of Sharon, he cried bitterly.
Tonight, he persuaded Gaslius to come. This time, the two haven't seen each other for half a year.
"Here we go!"
Sharon's voice pulled Cullom's thoughts back to him, and he saw the shopkeeper bring out a plate...... Something mixed with eggs, sausages and rice, steaming hot, put in front of your eyes.
Cullom took the spoon and took a closer look, the smell of which was tangy.
"What is this?"
"The cuisine of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is called fried rice." Sharon said triumphantly.
"Fried rice? It's like paella. ”
"The method is a little different, and it uses eggs and sausages, so the taste is more chic, so let's try it."
Cullom took a scoop with great interest, put it in his mouth, and after chewing it a few times, he felt that it was full of flavor.
"Well, that's good!"
"Really?"
Sharon smirked and sat down across from Cullom, and the two of them chatted while eating, but not about the election.
With the last bite in his stomach, Cullom wiped his mouth and got up to leave.
"It's time to go back."
He reached for his coat, and Sharon snatched it from his hand.
"I'll do it."
"Isn't it just getting dressed?"
"Listen to me."
Cullom no longer refused, and turned away obediently. Sharon draped his clothes over him and put sleeves on him.
"Come on tomorrow."
"I don't have much of a chance of winning."
"Come on, it doesn't matter if you win or lose, remember to come to me and eat something."
"Okay, I promise you."
Cullom didn't know why he was lying casually, probably because he didn't want Sharon to worry too much.
Clothes are on.
Sharon grabbed the hand of her sleeve and went down, grabbing Cullom's hand, and she looked at him with worry in her eyes.
Cullom turned sideways and looked at Sharon. He didn't dare to face it, for fear that he wouldn't be able to resist the urge to hug her. finally sent his wife and children away, but he couldn't involve an outsider at the last moment.
No, Sharon is no longer an outsider.
The two looked at each other wordlessly for a moment, and Cullom gently withdrew his hand.
"Good night."
"Well, I'll see you tomorrow."
Sharon watched in amazement as Cullom exited, got into the car, and disappeared from the door. She stood for a few seconds and sighed softly.
Then, she picked up the empty plate, but instead of going back to the kitchen, she let go, and with a snap, the plate shattered.
With scraps on the floor and unfinished dishes from the kitchen, Sharon unbuttoned her apron and threw it on the counter, heading back to her bedroom.
The bedroom door is close to the kitchen, and when you open the door, you can see the dresser. Sharon sat down in front of the mirror on the dresser, picked up a lace handkerchief next to the mirror, pressed it against her face, and rubbed it carefully and mechanically.
"Already, there's no reason to stay here."