Chapter 7 The Crocodile in the Sewers
"I looked for someone to check, and I found her parents. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"Oh?" Li Ji's face was expressionless.
"Her parents begged me to help her hide it. They signed a waiver of rights, and they didn't care whether she lived or died.
"Why?" Li Ji didn't understand.
"They didn't say anything, they just wanted me to find a good person to adopt."
Li Ji breathed a sigh of relief. Seriously, after two people get along for a long time, there will always be some feelings. If he really let him let go of this little girl, he was still a little reluctant. I have to say that loneliness is the sharpest weapon in the world, far more than nuclear warheads.
Although Li Ji has been in contact with many people in the past few months, the only people who can really talk and chat together are Matt and the little girl, and James, the little old man, may be counted as half. Alone in a foreign land as a stranger, every festival is full of relatives. Lonely sandbar cold.
"This little girl, there may be something special, you have to pay attention." Matt said in a slurred.
"Special?" Li Ji smiled: "You know what? There is a theory about the origin of man, which says that man slowly evolved from a single-celled organism to an ape, and then from an ape to a human. If you push back, you will find that your fathers have a single generation every few generations. In other words, if only one of your grandparents in the thousands of years had a problem, then there will be no you in thousands of years now. Push a little further. In the case of single cells, if there is even the slightest problem with the single cell that produced you, then the ape that gave birth to your grandparents will not be born, and certainly your grandfather, your father, and you will not be born. So. “
"Each of us is a unique and 100% lucky person in this world."
"Each and every one of us is special."
Li Ji checked the information, and Darwin's theory of evolution was refuted in this world. So apart from biologists, few people outside know about this. The biology of this world is more inclined to produce humans directly from single cells, which means that apes and humans have the same ancestor, just like tigers and leopards are also felines, but there is no such thing as who evolved whom.
"Hmm." Matt didn't express any thoughts.
"Can she turn into a monkey and eat me?" Li Ji smiled, and he patted Matt on the shoulder.
"Everyone is human, no matter how special she is, as long as she doesn't eat me, what does it matter?"
Walking out of the bathroom, Li Ji saw Jane crying silently.
"Well, I didn't sneak away." Holding the little girl, humming a nursery rhyme, while shaking, it doesn't matter if the little girl can understand Chinese or not.
"You're not going to leave me, are you?"
"How come, you are so well-behaved, how can I be willing to throw you away. Well, it's so cold right now. I want you to warm my bed. “
The little girl sneered, and she jumped up and hugged Li Ji's neck.
"Wow, you just eat, it's so heavy, do you want me to hug it?"
"Who told you to abuse me, I can't eat enough every day."
"Isn't it, you eat as much as I eat every day, and you still can't eat enough?"
"That's, who told you to eat so little?"
"Am I eating less? You didn't see that big fat man eat as much as I did. “
"You're special, different from him."
"Oh? Am I special? So what's the difference between me and him? “
The little girl tilted her head: "He's fatter than you!" “
"No, you're thinner than him."
"What's so special about this? There are more people thinner than him. “
The two went out noisily. Matt paid and frowned tightly.
The little girl here was already angrily pulling Li Ji's mouth, rubbing it for a while, pulling it for a while, going to pull Li Ji's hair for a while, and then pulling her ears again. Anyway, she thinks this toy should be able to play for a long time.
The three of them walked for a while and came to the place where the bicycles were parked.
"It's time for her to go to school, too. What do you think? Matt asked.
"Hmm." Li Ji checked some information about this world, and he knew that the child protection association of this world was about the same combat power as the original world, and if Li Ji didn't let Jane go to school, once the child protection association knew about it, it would be very troublesome. And what he fears most now is trouble.
"You can help me get it, and the adoption papers should be fine."
"If you want money, you can help me put it on first." Li Ji blinked, he had no money and had to sell cute.
Matt gave him the middle finger. Li Ji said there was no pressure.
"You have a car, you have a driver, you have a job. I'm a poor ** silk so I have to be one-two-one. Bye. Say goodbye to Uncle Badass. “
"Goodbye, Uncle Badass." Jane sat on the back of her bike and stretched out her little hand and waved.
Matt was speechless, although he didn't understand the meaning of Li Ji's words, but it was not a good word in short.
Li Ji was riding a car and was about to set off, but was pulled by Matt.
"Wait a minute." Matt pulled his wallet out of his pocket, counted out a few bills and handed them over.
"Yo-shey, Matt, your big good man." Li Ji took the banknote without blushing and put it in his pocket. No way, the poor can't even afford a wallet.
Matt hugged Li Ji before letting go, and said softly: "I hope you will become the most famous reporter in New York as soon as possible." “
"Inherit your auspicious words." Li Ji stepped on the bike.
"Hey, I'll pick you up for dinner in the evening!" Matt shouted loudly behind him.
"Good!"
"Uncle Badass just took something from you." Jane, who was sitting in the back, hugged Li Ji's waist and whispered.
"Oh? What is it? Li Ji's heart moved slightly.
"I don't know, I don't see clearly, it's a very small thing."
Neither of these guys is ordinary people. Li Ji thought secretly. Matt stretched out his hand, Li Ji, who had seen him killing, knew very well in his heart, jokes, how fast could he dodge bullets? Just think about it, at least if it were Li Ji himself, he wouldn't see if Matt had taken something. But such a stretch of hand was still seen by Jane, a little girl.
It can't be a vampire, right? Vampires are fast, but Jane doesn't seem to suck blood. Li Ji threw this funny thought out of his mind. No matter what Matt took away, or what kind of great person Jane was, it didn't have much to do with Li Ji. Xiao Li is just a hacker who does the "promising" job of a journalist. Combined with the 1,000 dollars of dollars that Matt had just given, he had less than 1,600 dollars in his pocket, and this was when James provided the dormitory for him to live in for free. After the next month's salary is paid, he will have to find a house to live in. At that time, he would be destitute, such a person, he didn't feel that he had anything that Matt and other big people could plot.
Now Li Ji doesn't have much idea, he is just worried about where to find news. Without news, there is no job, without a job there is no salary, without a salary, he has to carry Jane to sleep under the bridge to receive relief. What the hell can this traverser do?
I rode my bicycle around Clinton, the famous Hell's Kitchen, for an afternoon without finding any unusual news. After returning to the newspaper office, meeting with Britney and Jack, and learning that the two did not find any valuable news, Li Ji felt a lot more comfortable, and did not rule out the possibility that these two guys had concealed the news. But it is estimated that it is unlikely. How could a reporter with a real path come to New York to talk about such a small newspaper?
Associate Editor Joey was still smiling, and after meeting with the three new employees one by one, he was not in a hurry at all after learning that there was no valuable news. As if he wasn't part of the newspaper. However, after careful observation, Li Ji found that the deputy editor must have a way. Because he saw a piece of paper under Joey's keyboard for coloring sheets.
As expected. After going to work the next day and receiving the equipment, the deputy editor-in-chief and the two old employees were not in the office. The editor-in-chief just walked out and said "work" and went back to the office.
After Li Ji ran to buy a pack of cigarettes and threw them to the security guard, the security guard kindly told him that the deputy editor-in-chief took two old employees on a business trip last night, and it is estimated that it is unlikely that he will come back today.
Big news. It must be big news. Otherwise, the three old employees will not go out together. It's a pity that this big news doesn't have anything to do with Li Ji. After finding Jane at the ice cream parlor, the two sat there thinking. After coming up with some unrealistic ideas, the kobold military advisor Jane puffed out his mouth and desperately ate ice cream.
On a cold day, eat ice cream! Li Ji felt sorry for his money on the one hand, and Jane's stomach on the other.
Numb, can't get the news, Lao Tzu won't steal it, Li Ji, who finally made up his mind, went to the company to collect a bunch of New York strange talk periodicals that couldn't be sold, and then took Jane back to the hut. First, I studied the content of the strange story in New York with the dog-headed military advisor, trying to find some context for the editor-in-chief's news. The other side also began to hack into the company's network, trying to find something of value in the computers of the editor-in-chief and associate editor Joey.
As mentioned earlier, hackers like to leave a backdoor. Li Ji is no exception. After he hacked into the network of Urban Strange Talk last time, he left a backdoor on the computers of Joey and others. So this invasion is familiar, and it will soon be in. It's just that the database is too big, and it's not easy to find something valuable. It is important to know that the category of value has basically been set as the target of the journal to be published. Li Ji can't use these things even if he gets them. Because he couldn't explain where the news was coming from, he couldn't tell Joey: I hacked into your computer and found it on your computer.
After saying that, maybe the FBI will come to the door in a few minutes.
New York Tales is full of strange things, and a line that often appears in Daredevil movies is "The crocodile in the sewers." “
What makes Li Ji speechless is that the original source of this line is New York Strange Tales. On the press column is the "famous" Joey. Yes, the report that there was a crocodile in the sewer of **** was at first the conjecture of a middle-aged woman, and then it was known to Joey, and then Joey falsified the evidence, and after taking a few photos of the so-called conclusive evidence, it was grandly on the front page of New York's strange talk, and Joey greatly ridiculed the sewer project in New York with contemptuous language in the article, which was appreciated by a large number of middle-aged and elderly readers.
Eggless. Joey! You taught me! Li Ji angrily took Jane to the vegetable market to buy a big fish, and Cheng Hui was twenty dollars.