Jill sneered, it turned out that he knew this brother well.

He pulled out a steel needle crossbow bolt and a pocket pistol from his inner pocket, pointed them at Beckett and placed them parallel to his desk. He had borrowed the pistol from Boomley, and the steel needle crossbow arrow was the one that had pierced his ribs.

"I wouldn't mind punching a few holes in you with this gun, and then sticking this steel needle bolt into your chest." "You should know I'm going to do what I say!" ”

Beckett turned to glance at the pistol and crossbow on the table, then turned away again.

"But I'm not going to do that yet. You'll have to tell the Ink Gang in front of me to withdraw the hunt for Ina. Jill added. He learned from Boomley that the person who wrote the Mogang bounty wanted to be removed from it, and in addition to being killed by the hunters, there was also a way for the employer to voluntarily revoke the corresponding bounty. That's what he's going to do now.

"What if I say no." Beckett looked out the window with a gloomy face.

Jill didn't say anything, but quietly picked up his pistol and fired a shot at Beckett's left shoulder.

As the gunfire fell down, Beckett regained his footing, and Jill continued: "If you don't agree, I'll do what I said and never break my word." ”

The office was silent for a while. Beckett turned his back and slowly raised his right hand to signal to Jill that he had agreed.

Jill got up, picked up his phone from his desk and walked behind Beckett, waited for Beckett to turn around, and raised the phone to chest height with Beckett facing it. Beckett unlocks the phone with the thumb of his right hand, clicks on a certain software, and taps on it with his index finger at a certain frequency.

"Alright." Beckett said.

Jill turned his phone around and saw four words written on it: Bounty Withdrawn.

When he saw that the signature was a string of ellipses, he felt a little uneasy, so he asked, "That's it?" ”

"If you don't believe me, you can kill me right now with the gun in your hand." Beckett said coldly.

Jill put the pistol in his inner pocket, turned and walked towards the door, and said halfway through, "This crossbow arrow will be left for you as a souvenir." ”

Beckett hurried back to his desk and pulled out a pistol from the back of the desk and aimed it at Jill's back, but couldn't pull the trigger when Jill stepped out of the office. He sat down, gently placed the pistol on the table, and moved it a few more inches forward.

"Little bastard!" Beckett screamed.

The glass door of the office is closed again. Jill paused at the door with his back for two seconds, reached out and pulled the corner of his jacket to make it smoother, and then walked to the elevator. Before entering the elevator, he dialed Ina's phone and confirmed that she was okay.

Ina told him to stay safe.

As he walked out of the building, he received a medical alert from the "reindeer" asking if his headache had improved and offering him a follow-up visit to the hospital next Wednesday. However, he never liked going to the hospital, so he immediately deleted the message. Standing in front of the stone steps, he looked at the large red clouds in the southern sky, inhaled, and then exhaled long, and his heart became refreshed. What to do next was what he had to think about, but after thinking about it, going to the shelter on 35th Street in Queens was the best option.

It encompasses the entire area on the third floor of the Tenjin underground shopping mall and is connected to a metro station where three subway lines meet, which is why it is the largest refuge. In addition, the people who gather here to take refuge will not be less entertained and lively, as the shops on this shopping street will be open as usual for a few days.

Jill arrives at the target site, descends to the lowest floor, and passes through a tight security checkpoint. Interestingly, he discovers that the people who are guarding and guarding the passageways are not the police, but the members of the Blade Squad. One of them, with whom he had a relationship, was the man who had come to escort Borg on Orange Street at that time.

"The Blade team hasn't really been idle." Jill sighed. As he walked inside, he saw that the commercial street was brightly lit and crowded, as if he had the illusion of entering a noisy night market.

He was about to buy something to eat to fill his stomach, but when he passed a curved corner, he unexpectedly bumped into Nodia who was hurrying towards him, and next to Nodia was a tall woman with a white beret covering most of her face and a DSLR camera hanging from her chest. He hesitated to stop Nodia.

Naturally, Nodia also noticed Jill. He reacted, took the hand of the woman next to him and ran to Jill, pushing Jill's back with his forearm and entering a lingerie store together. This immediately caused an uproar in the store. They were watching the excitement because of how dramatic it was for a woman to intimately take two men to a lingerie store.

"Diana, you go to the locker room and hide." Nodia said to the woman.

Diana did as Nordia said.

When Diana entered the locker room, Nodia took off her shirt and threw it on the back of the container, stood with her back to the doorway, reached out and took a bra from the hanger next to her, held it in front of Jill and compared, and made a look of appreciation.

Jill became ashamed, half of her neck turned red, and she wanted to find a crack in the ground to get into.

"Do yourself a favor and keep an eye on the door." Jill turned to leave, but was grabbed by Nodia and smiled at him. At the same moment, two men in black suits came to the door of the lingerie store and peeked inside, lingering for a moment longer as their gaze swept over Jill. Then, they turned to leave.

"They're gone." Jill said.

Nodia breathed a sigh of relief, put the bra back on the hanger, and whispered in the direction of the locker room, "Diana, you can come out." ”

Diana poked her head out of the narrow door of the locker room, looked left and right, and then, with a little excitement, came out of the locker room and trotted back to Nodia. She took off her beret and let out a straight, short, reddish-brown shoulder-length hair, and she looked at Jill with a sense of "nice to meet you."

"He's my friend, Jill." Nodia jumped out and introduced to Jill.

"Jill?" Diana muttered as she mished Jill's name, "I remember where I saw it." The other day, a colleague of mine had your name on the information he had gathered about JA paying for the relocation of the townspeople of Silverbow to Billings. Because the relevance is not strong, I didn't put your name in the news later, otherwise you would definitely become a celebrity. ”

Listening to Diana's statement, Jill knew that Diana was a journalist by profession, but it was still unclear what the relationship between her and Nodia was, and why the two men were tracking her.

He looked at Nodia, expecting her to give him an answer.

"You won't believe it, I've only known her for less than half an hour." Nodia read the hint in Jill's eyes, and a smile appeared on her face as she spoke, "I was walking down the street when Diana suddenly came running up to me and pulled me aside to get me in front of her, her arms around her waist, and she herself buried her head in front of me. After a while, she pushed me away and ran away without saying a word. I walked on, and just around the corner, she ran towards me again, chasing after two men in suits, the same two you had just seen at the door. Out of kindness, I stopped her for a while, and then I ran down the street with me. I really only know her name is Diana, a reporter for a cutting-edge newspaper. ”

"yes, I'm just a journalist, for the real thing. When I was collecting evidence, I accidentally alerted its owner, so those people were sent by the owner to retrieve the things. Diana lifted the camera on her chest.

"But I always feel that they don't look like they're arresting people, it's more like they're chasing people and looking for people." Jill said.

Listening to Jill's words, Nodia thought for a moment, and then looked at Diana with Jill.

"Why are you both looking at me, what I said is true." Diana thought for a moment, and quickly changed the topic, "Look, someone is looking at us, let's talk in another place." ”

Jill and Nodia looked around and agreed.

"I'm hungry, so let's find a place where I can eat." Jill suggested.

"Agreed, my stomach was chased by them and I was hungry." Diana chimed in.

"I know of a café not far from here, just down the street next door." Nodia said to the other two. He just wanted to go to the front to lead the way, but Diana took the lead.

The two followed behind and whispered something.

"You're not supposed to be in Los Angeles, how did you end up here?" Nodia asked.

"Come back and do something important, and when it's done, come here to hide."

"You're quite capable, and you can come back to New York at this time." Nodia had long figured out Jill's habits and didn't want others to find out the bottom of it, so she changed the conversation knowingly.

"Came back on Boomley's ride." Jill replied truthfully.

"Tell me."

At first, Diana walked in front of the two of them, trying to keep her body down and leaning towards a crowded place, but then she felt a little cumbersome, so she simply took a few steps back behind the two of them, and used their bodies to cover them. But her move interrupted Jill in the middle of her speech.

At the tea restaurant, according to Diana's suggestion, the three of them found a place to sit inside.

"You mentioned the Ink Gang on the way here, right? I expressed interest. One year ago, I researched Lisbon, who was born in the Mexican Gang, to find out the real reason why he became a big celebrity in the Economic Development Board. A few days ago, there was an explosion on the floor of the hotel where he was staying, and it was hard to find a person named Charlie but he couldn't go any further. With that, Diana picked up a piece of tart and put it to her mouth and took a small bite.

"He evaporated from the world?" Nodia asked as quietly as she could.

Jill eats egg noodles with a steel fork while listening to their conversation.

"Yes, he was an engineer and a smart man, and finding him in the middle of a sea of people would be like looking for a needle in a haystack." Diana picked up the tart again and bit down until she finished eating it.

Nodia had an idea, but was hesitant to say it.

"In exchange, it's your turn to say something to me." Diana said again.

Jill puts down the steel fork.

Nodia threw a glance at him and motioned for him to say, "I just thought of something, and I said it for you." Yesterday, a friend of Gil had been in contact with the Ink Gang, and I happened to hear the name of a mutual friend of our two on their bounty list. When Jill learns, he finds a way to get the mutual friend out of danger. Besides, mine, I know Charlie, you can go to 35 Orange Street and look for him when you have time, and if you're not there, I can help you find him, but then I want you not to report on him, only about Lisbon or the Mexican Gang. ”

"I promise you. This commercial street is really worth it, and there are two news pieces at once. But you'll have to tell me more about the bounty list. Because of her years of professional habits, Diana became excited.

"To put it simply, the bounty slip is a way for the Ink Gang to make extra money, helping their employer kill people or deal with dirty things. None of them can see the light of day. If you want to expose them, you have to be careful and careful. I advise you not to take risks. Nordia said.

"It's a common thing for journalists to take risks, otherwise how can they get good news and reports? But thank you for the reminder. As a token of gratitude, I came to treat this meal. Diana said.

After settling the bill, Diana had just gotten up with Jill and Nodia, when she saw two men in suits passing by outside the store, and quickly bowed back to her seat, waiting for them to leave, and she stood up again.

The quick-eyed Jill noticed that it was not the two men in suits he had seen in front of the lingerie store before, and sighed that he was not wrong, Diana was not just a simple reporter.

At 18:30, the Tenjin underground commercial street was closed on time and no longer allowed people to enter or leave. Diana left the mall half an hour early, and before that, led by Nodia, she accompanied Jill to the distribution point near the end of the subway to get her sleeping bag.

After settling Jill in, Nodia also left and went on patrol in the outer ring of the shopping street.

At 10 p.m., Jill was lying in his sleeping bag, and it was very interesting to think that because of the impending war, everyone had gathered here to live in a co-ordinated group. It reminded him of his elementary school summer camp days, when he and his classmates were lying on the grass in the woods, looking at the stars that twinkled like lanterns dotted the sky, and for the first time he felt that those little dots were so magical, and he unconsciously fell in love with observing them.

Tomorrow more people will come to the shopping street, and it will become more lively.

In his sleep, Jill is awakened by thunderous snoring and tries to try to fall asleep again, but fails. He looked at the time, it was 3:21. At 22 minutes, he felt the whole shopping street shake a little, not very much, but he did feel it, as evidenced by the shaking sign not far away.