Chapter 76. Act II 2 Old Hatred
Zhou Jinru looked directly at the black and white screen in front of him and said softly, "This shouldn't be a coincidence, Miss Adella. ”
"That's what your master told me?"
This tone fell on Zhou Jinru's ears, and he immediately thought that he was still Shivaash's manservant, and that Adella was referring to the man behind him.
Sure enough, meeting the protagonist is not the main line, she is just talking, as for Shivaesh to relay, sorry, it doesn't exist.
Adella pursed her thin lips and said, "Why are you following me?" ”
Zhou Jinru shook his head: "I said it was a coincidence, you don't believe it." ”
What is the identity of this young lady now?
Depending on the development of the plot, the identity of the heroine will change a lot, sometimes she is a political rose, sometimes she becomes a business celebrity, and sometimes she becomes a world-famous explorer, and the supporting plot is ever-changing and difficult to understand.
"You count three times in your mind and continue to watch this movie, I never showed up."
Is this hypnosis?
Zhou Jinru was stunned, any method that could substantially affect his spirit could not have an effect on him, let alone the low-level technique of hypnosis.
"Wait."
Adele's movements stopped, and she looked at the calm-looking man in front of her in surprise: "What exactly do you want to say?" ”
Zhou Jinru tilted his head slightly, rolled his eyes, and looked at the heroine beside him, he quickly reported an address, which was the same bar he first entered two years ago in the plot, where Ke Song worked as a bartender.
"The bar you mentioned doesn't exist anymore, I don't know why, but if you want to inquire more, you might as well go and have a look there, it's open today."
Opening today?
Zhou Jinru's eyes froze, and he thought to himself, could it be the red stage he saw in the newspaper?
Adella quietly left her seat, and looked at the man who was sitting motionless, thinking that she was really a member of the Shivaash family, and that it was as difficult to deal with as his master.
Half an hour later, Zhou Jinru stood up, moving his stiff body, Victoria's development in black and white films two hundred years ago was still in its infancy, and a movie was only in its twenties, and it was hard to say whether it was worth the ticket price, anyway, it was not cheap.
When he walked out of the theater, he reached out and stopped a carriage: "Go to the Red Stage." ”
The coachman didn't ask much and drove him on the road.
In two years, how Lentinium has changed, Zhou Jinru is unrecognizable as an outsider, but when he came to that crossroads, he finally found a sense of familiarity.
Sure enough, as Adella said, the bar that used to be no longer exists.
Zhou Jinru looked at the renovated and freshly painted exterior wall, as well as the specially added red stage sign above his head, and more than a dozen waiters in brand-new uniforms standing in front of the door, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and stepped forward to ask: "Forgive a returnee who has been away from his hometown for a long time, I used to have a little friendship with the bar owner here, but now I don't know where he is." ”
He was received by the manager of the Red Stage Lobby, and when he heard this description, he said in a regretful tone: "Sorry sir, your friend died in an accident two years ago, and you can find his tombstone at this address." ”
Zhou Jinru walked out of the red stage with a note in his hand, which recorded the public cemetery of Lentinium, which should be the place where the ashes were deposited to be precise.
"A lot of incredible things happened in that bar, and finally the bar owner chose to commit suicide, I don't know if it was the monster I let out do, but it's not without a way to investigate."
He recalls an address that was given to him by the distant mountains at parting, saying that two years later in the story, her character should still be working in divination, and she can go to find her outside the largest city hospital in Lentinium.
"It's normal, there's a church outside the hospital, the priest ......"
Zhou Jinru remembered for no reason that when he came out of the back door of the hospital before, he could see a row of fortune tellers sitting on the side of the road, but he couldn't find these in Rhode Island.
An hour later, he came to the back door of the city hospital, followed the house number, stood in front of a wooden door, looked at the notice posted on the wall, and fell into a long silence.
"An expert in divination, who can help you divinate good luck and expel bad luck, for only 10 gold pounds per divination."
Zhou Jinru didn't know if she was reliable in the plot for a while......
Knock, knock, knock.
"Please come in."
A girl's light voice came from inside the wooden door, Zhou Jinru raised his head, his eyes were full of doubts, the girl inside was not like the voice of Yuan Shan, could it be her female assistant?
It seems that Yuanshan has a lot of money in the plot, and he can afford to hire a female assistant.
He pushed the door in, and as soon as he stepped into the divination room, he felt that the light before him had become much dimmer, illuminated only by the fluorescent lamp overhead.
What appeared in front of him was not the distant mountains he imagined, but a girl with long dark blue hair, wearing a white ladies' blouse, sitting at the table, and her long dark blue skirt reaching to her ankles.
The girl looked over, and in a trance, Zhou Jinru saw the bright starlight in her eyes, which was intoxicating.
"Good morning, sir."
The girl got up from her seat, lifted her long skirt to give a salute, Zhou Jinru took off her top hat and saluted in return, he hung his cane on the hanger in front of the door, sat opposite the girl's fortune teller, and carefully looked at the girl in front of him.
The appearance and temperament of this quiet girl are very unique, and the starlight in her eyes is even more impressive.
Star pole.
Zhou Jinru silently recited the girl's name in his heart, this was an operator he did not have, and the description of Yuanshan and the appearance in the sitcom all showed that the person traveling with her was Xingji.
"Sir, what do you want to divination, I am good at crystal ball divination and horoscope divination, if you want to divinate tarot cards, I recommend my colleague to you, Miss Toyama."
Very sincere, say what she is good at, and what her colleagues are good at, is a girl who is very easy to get along with, provided that she is willing to get closer.
Zhou Jinru nodded: "Crystal ball divination, I think it's appropriate." ”
"What is the direction you want to divination?"
Of course, he won't say that you come to divinate what I want to divination, so he got straight to the point: "The predecessor of the Red Stage, the reason why that bar is really dilapidated." ”
As he spoke, he pulled out his wallet and pulled out a 10 gold pound note and placed it on the desk.
The girl soothsayer sitting opposite bit her lower lip, the man in front of him unexpectedly did not divinate himself, he came with a goal, such a person is extremely difficult to deal with, and if the divination is not good, bad things will happen.
Why didn't I do a divination first when I was on duty?
The girl didn't have time to regret it, she picked up the crystal ball in front of her with both hands, and in the next second, the crystal ball emitted a faint blue light, and after a minute, everything was calm.
"Sir, you can find clues in the city garden."
"Are there any directional targets?"
The girl shook her head: "The results of the divination are very vague, I am not sure whether it is good or bad, if you can, please contact the Fog Hunters, they will handle this matter well." ”
It's better to contact the Misty Hunter than to contact Sir Chen, and I am the Misty Hunter.
Zhou Jinru pushed the banknote away from the star, got up and left, when he didn't go out a few steps away, he heard some movement behind him, turned his head, and saw the soothsayer girl quickly hanging a sign of "rest today" at the door, and then quickly shrank in and locked the door tightly.
“……”
He pressed his top hat, no expression on his face, and quickened the pace of departure.
……
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The city garden of Lentinium is not much different from two years ago, except for the daily cleaning, there are no additional facilities, and there is no expansion or reduction in scope.
Zhou Jinru quickly found this place, and found that there were still many people who had lost their jobs resting here, and even though the sun was still high, he still saw that the garden benches were almost full of poor people in ragged clothes.
Maybe basking in the sun is how they keep warm.
Xingji said that clues can be found here, is it the same as last time, roll a dice, and then be taken away by the police?
Speaking of the dice, when Zhou Jinru entered the sitcom again, he couldn't find the dice on his body, and he didn't know where it fell in the past two years.
Walking quickly through the City Garden, he found no clue or anyone associated with it, and when he came to the other side of the garden, a sign appeared directly in front of him, labeling the names of those who had died in the disaster two years earlier.
"The disaster of two years ago?"
This should have happened after the first act, and belonged to the hidden plot?
He walked over briskly and looked at the unfamiliar names on the stele, only a few characters, no descriptions, no prayers, nothing.
Suddenly, Zhou Jinru noticed that someone was watching him, turned his head, and saw a short orange hair at a glance, and now she was no longer the bartender she was at the beginning, carrying a large package, obviously going somewhere, passing by here.
"Croissant!"
Miss Plump Hoof ignored him and walked away without looking back.
Since Zhou Jinru found Ke Song, where was he willing to let her go, he hurriedly chased after her and reached out to drag her.
"Help! Help me! ”
Ke Song suddenly shouted, carrying a large bag, and ran to the nearest patrolman, who obviously noticed the abnormality here, took out his whistle and blew it violently, and several nearby patrolmen wearing dark blue police uniforms and coats gathered one after another, and some even drew their batons.
"Sir! Stop it! Stay away from that lady! ”
The nearest patrolman shouted.
After passing through them, the Sonsant picked up his speed and slipped into an alley, where he ran away without a trace.
Zhou Jinru was stopped by several patrol policemen, so he had to take two steps back and raise his hands to show that he was not hostile.
Approaching a little closer, noticing that the man in front of him was wearing a decent formal suit, without the slightest flustery or timidity, the patrolman's attitude slowed down and asked, "Sir, what happened just now?" ”
"An accident, I left here for two years, and I finally met an acquaintance, but she didn't seem to want to see me."
Recalling what had just happened, the gentleman returned and found a former acquaintance, and the other party was reluctant to communicate too much because of his current deplorable situation, so he shouted for help and ran away.
The patrolman thought that he had found the truth of the matter, and that these things were not uncommon in Lentinium, and nodded understandingly: "Sir, what your friend needs is a quiet environment, and enough decency, the next time you meet, change to a more relaxed way, maybe she will be willing to communicate." ”
"You're right, I was abrupt."
Zhou Jinru nodded, indicating that he had understood, he seemed to remember something, and asked politely: "I lost my temporary identity document, where can I reissue it?" ”
"The local police station, it's easy to find."
Several other patrol officers gathered over, and after sharing the situation, they all expressed their willingness to send a companion to take Zhou Jinru to the police station for registration.
If you have something to do with the police, this sentence works in any world.
Zhou Jinru said seriously: "It's okay, it's troublesome." ”
For insurance reasons, he did not take out his wallet to give a tip, and he was worried that it would be seen as a bribe.
A patrol officer led him to the police station, and he asked curiously: "I saw a monument over there, but it wasn't two years ago, and there were some tragedies in the city?" ”
The patrol officer was obviously happy to explain: "It was indeed a tragedy, the bar located in the center of the city was set on fire by the bar owner for some reason, unfortunately some nearby buildings were affected by the fire, and even detonated the pipes of combustible source stone, many people lost their loved ones in the explosion, so in order to commemorate the tragedy, a monument was erected opposite the city garden." ”
"Detonating combustible source stone gas?"
Zhou Jinru silently recited this sentence, in his impression, the current utilization rate of source stone is already very high, and the source stone gas is no longer used as a fuel, but a safer source stone liquid is used.
In Ifrit's flamethrower, it is true that a high concentration of source stone gas is still used, which has been improved to a liquid source stone in the opinion of the Armament Department.
It seems that something big did happen two years ago.
Zhou Jinru came to the police station, and he had only one purpose, Chen sir.
On the way, I have inquired that Chen Sir was still a special operations team member at the beginning, and now she has been promoted to the head of the police station, in charge of all affairs, and is responsible to the general office of Lentinium.
"Please come in."
In the office of the person in charge of the police station, Chen, who was reading the papers, moved his sore neck, put down the documents in his hand, and looked at the door.
Squeak.
The door was pushed open, and a man in a long black trench coat walked in, he took off his top hat and saluted: "Hello, Chen." ”
Chen stared at the man in front of him, carefully recalled his face, and finally fixed on a person, and said in a deep voice: "Zhou, I didn't expect you to dare to stand in front of me!" ”
Zhou Jinru: "?! ”
What's the situation, he doesn't know if he offended Sir Chen!
Then when he came to the police station, didn't he fall into the net?
"Chen, there must be a misunderstanding here."
"If there is any misunderstanding, you won't remember what you said to me at the beginning!"
Chen slammed the table and sneered in a sarcastic tone: "You were the one who swore an oath to the mountain, and you were the one who abandoned me, what else do you have to say?!" ”