When night falls, the Bronx is noticeably darker than the rest of New York, where people tend to go home early and the deteriorating law and order situation puts pressure on everyone, not only the citizens but also the police.

The growing number of protests has nerves on everyone's edge, and the police have even had to send a third of the Bronx force to conduct night patrols, and there are flashing police lights on almost every street, and pedestrians are hurrying past with their heads down, annoyed by the scrutinizing eyes of the police, but there is nothing they can do.

Two policemen, one old and one young, leaned on the police car and half-squinted their eyes to rest, when suddenly, they heard a greeting and looked up to see a young Chinese man carrying a large number of lunch boxes standing in front of them.

"Officers, your dinner."

"Oh, aren't you the cook at the restaurant at the end of Chinatown? We didn't order anything from you today. The young policeman said with some confusion.

The old policeman took a puff of cigarette, looked at the young man and said, "Don't worry, there are people guarding both intersections of Chinatown, and the troublemakers can't get to you." ”

"Oh, by the way, tomorrow morning you have to open the door two hours late, someone has to pass through the intersection of your front street, it's the men of the mousetooth in the black street, and they will definitely shoot at that time, you tell your boss to hide in the store and don't come out, otherwise you will be shot."

The Chinese youth stroked his chest and let out a long breath and said, "Thank you so much, officer, if you hadn't reminded me, I would have wanted to deliver food tomorrow morning." ”

The old policeman opened the lunch box and said, "You're Chinese, right?" Don't worry, the Chinese gangsters are famous, and the rat teeth don't dare to offend your boss there, you just hide, no one dares to trouble you. ”

The Chinese young man immediately smiled gratefully, but then showed a slightly embarrassed expression, he took out two lunch boxes from the package on the back of the bicycle, and said, "Mr. Officer, I'm afraid I have to trouble you to pass it on, this is the meal that Officer Julis ordered in our restaurant, but she seems to be in the street." ”

The old police officer waved his hand a little impatiently, put down the lunch box, moved the barricade next to it, and said: "You just go in and send it to her, by the way, don't expect her to tip, that incident made her very angry during the day today, you should come out quickly after delivering the meal, otherwise you will be careful of being troubled by that drunken crazy woman." ”

"Thank you, thank you! I'll be out as soon as I'm done. ”

The young man pushed his bicycle into the blockade, he laughed softly, and said in his head: "I said a long time ago, you don't have to take down the police, I hate to fight and kill." ”

A cold snort sounded in his head, and Venom said angrily: "If you hadn't had to eat, get clothes, punch cards, and pack up lesson plans, we would have finished our work a few hours earlier!" ”

"And you Asians are always like this, in order not to have conflicts, you would rather take a few detours, efficiency! We want efficiency! ”

"Don't do that, Venom, isn't that efficient enough? I just went back to the restaurant where I helped cook, and I made 8 more meals while the owner was away, and of course they only ordered 7 servings...... So, would you like one? ”

"I want that sweet and sour tenderloin, and black chicken soup!"

"You're too picky." Xu Shangqi reached out and opened the package hanging on the back of the bicycle, took out two hot meals, and in the corner of the building, the venom enveloped his body in an instant, and swallowed two lunch boxes in one gulp.

"Hot Hot Hot !!"

Venom screamed, gasping as he chewed the food in his mouth, and said, "Of course, I've been to Chinese restaurants with Eddie, but the food there is so expensive that Eddie doesn't have that much money to eat since he quit." ”

"So you ended up eating all that Chinese food?"

"Almost, he said he had a small appetite, and every time he had a bunch left, I solved it." Venom licked his fangs, but what he didn't expect was that Xu Shangqi said: "Then he must love you very much, my mother also said that she can't eat enough, and then leave the delicious dishes to me." ”

Venom was silent for a while and said, "Is your mother still waiting for you at home?" ”

"Maybe, but she'll probably never be able to wait for me." Xu Shangqi shook his head, and then said with some doubts: "Aren't you able to read my memory?" Can't you see my past? ”

"I'm not interested in the past of a ball lettuce."

"Okay."

"Wait a minute, are you okay with me saying you're ball lettuce?"

"I like lettuce, it's delicious and nutritious."

Venom shut up.

He found that this young man's temper was really good, and he could even be called a little submissive, unlike all the hosts he had ever met, even Peter, who was the least quarrelsome, was not as flat as he was.

Soon, Xu Shangqi, who entered the cordon under the pretext of delivering food, came to the door of a building in the Bronx, where the cordon was even denser, and two police cars were parked, and a blonde female police officer stood at the door with a serious face.

"Excuse me, who is Officer Julis?" Xu Shangqi shouted loudly: "The meal you ordered has arrived, do you want to open it now?" ”

The female police officer turned around and glanced at the subordinate next to her, but she thought about it again, and still stepped forward to take the lunch box from Xu Shangqi's hand, Xu Shangqi helped her open the lunch box and open the chopsticks, and asked as if she was a little curious: "Officer, what's wrong?" ”

The female police officer was a little wary at first, but when she saw Xu Shangqi's face, she recalled that the young man seemed to always deliver food nearby, so she said: "The leader of the protest the day before yesterday, Pierre Reeves, was found dead in his home at 3 p.m. today, shot and killed, and the bullet model is the same as the one commonly used by the Bronx police." ”

Xu Shangqi gasped, his face was a little bad, he was not a show, he had never been involved in a murder since he was a child, and he felt uncomfortable at the thought that there might be a corpse lying in this house.

Finding that Xu Shangqi's reaction did not seem to be fake, the female police officer was more relieved, so she asked: "Recently, you delivered food around here, did you see any suspicious characters?" ”

Xu Shangqi recalled for a while, but didn't think of anything, and just as he wanted to refuse, Venom said in his head: "Tell her that there is." ”

"Isn't that a lie?"

"It's not a lie, you really saw a suspicious person, it's just that you didn't find it yourself, and your attention wasn't on him, so you can't remember, but I looked at your recent memories, and there is a person who is really suspicious, you tell her as I say."

"Looks like there is, officer." Xu Shangqi replied.

As soon as these words landed, all the surrounding policemen "hulala" surrounded them, and the sound of pistol loading sounded one after another, Xu Shangqi was immediately frightened a little distracted, he was really allergic to firearms.

The female police officer looked at Xu Shangqi's obvious Asian face, she waved her hand at the people around her and said, "Don't make a fuss, Asians are afraid of guns, don't you know?" Spread out and bring my body camera. ”

"Listen, boy, I'm hoping to get a clue, but I don't want to be tricked either, so what you're going to say, I'll use a body camera to record it, and you're going to be responsible for what you said."

The female police officer was already very restrained, and under the law enforcement style of the American police, her way of speaking was already gentle, but Xu Shangqi was still a little worried, but Venom had already controlled him to open his mouth.

"That day, I went to deliver food at No. 9 Soren Street, and the bakery owner there ordered a xiaolongbao and millet porridge, and when I finished delivering the food and walked out, I saw a man in a suit and leather shoes enter the cigarette shop next to it."

"The suit he wears is probably a pretty good brand, and I've seen a lot of such customers when I was working in a Chinese restaurant."

The female police officer immediately frowned, she first looked at Xu Shangqi's costume as a cook, and then believed what he said.

The Chinese restaurant where Xu Shangqi is located is indeed a store that only the middle class can afford.

In fact, the prices of Chinese restaurants in New York's Chinatown are very expensive, and a very ordinary stir-fry can be sold for tens of dollars, which is impossible for ordinary people to afford.

"9 Soren Street? No, it's not a middle-class community, how could a man in a suit with a sign that allows him enter a Chinese restaurant be there? The female officer muttered to herself.

"Are there any other characteristics?" She asked.

"If I'm not mistaken, he had a camera in his briefcase, and when he walked past me, the surface of the briefcase had the outline of the camera and the protruding marks of the lens."

The female officer's eyes immediately widened, and she said, "Reporter?!" ”

"Oh, he's a journalist," Venom continued, "that shouldn't be a clue, right?" There have been a lot of reporters lately, and they're all there to shoot protests, aren't they? ”

"No, there's no protest on the Solon street, on the contrary, it's very close...... It is very likely that he was filming the murderer of this murder, that is, he knew in advance that the murderer would do it, or rather, the murderer may have been arranged by their people! ”

The female officer fumbled her lips with her hand and speculated, then she frowned again and said, "But we didn't arrest him in the first place, and it's hard to guess who instructed all this." ”

"Isn't that easy?" Venom shrugged his shoulders and said, "Whoever is the first to report this murder tomorrow morning will be who." ”

The female police officer looked at Xu Shangqi with wide eyes, and Venom spread her hands and said, "Originally, they took such a big risk, spent so much effort, killed people and arranged reporters, they must have wanted to create a breaking point." ”

"However, only the first news will be very popular, and other follow-up interviews are no match for first-hand news, as long as you look at which newspaper is the first to break the case tomorrow, don't you know which newspaper is involved with the mastermind behind the scenes?"

"Yes, you're right." The female police officer said instinctively, but at this moment, a police officer rushed in in a panic and said to the female police officer, "Oh no, Officer Julis!" New York TV has just aired an urgent news break that one of the leaders of the Bronx protests has been murdered, and the police have characterized the case as a suicide! ”

Officer Julis's eyes widened with rage, and she said, "We haven't started the investigation yet, so it's going to be determined?!" And who got the news out? Didn't we cordon off the scene? ”

"Obviously, planting together." Venom shook his head and said.

Julis gritted her teeth and said, "These damn paparazzi! It's already bold enough to plan a murder to make news, no, no, I understand, it's a means to intensify the contradictions, damn it! ”

After speaking, she sighed a little helplessly and said: "If I go back to the bureau now to apply for an arrest warrant, I'm afraid it will be approved at least tomorrow night, and the murderer will have already destroyed the evidence and fled...... It's not the first time. ”

"Perhaps, I can help." Venom looked Officer Julis in the eye and said, "I knock on someone's door, but I don't need a warrant." ”

Julius looked at him with some doubts, but then showed a look of sudden realization and said, "Yes! You're a food delivery! You're still Asian, and no one would have thought that Asians would do the police a favor, and you'll always stay away. ”

"Are you really willing to help, though?" Julius pursed her lips and said, "I have to warn you, this thing is very dangerous, the other party must have a gun, and there may be something more dangerous than a gun." ”

This attitude surprised Xu Shangqi a little, and the unscrupulous style of American police officers for the sake of performance is famous all over the world.

Julis looked at Xu Shangqi's face and said, "You are about the same age as my brother, and your mother must be waiting for you to come home, so if you are afraid, I will treat you as if you didn't say this...... I went to apply for a search warrant. ”

"Whether you want to go with her or not, you decide for yourself." Venom was silent after speaking.

Xu Shangqi took a deep breath, he was really scared, he was very scared, he had never seen so many guns and bullets in his life, and any of them would kill him.

But at the same time, he gave rise to another emotion: will this innocent and dead protest leader have a chance to cross over? In the midst of the clashes of the protests, will the dead citizens and police have a chance to cross?

According to common sense, there must be none, but they don't have to cross over, they can live their lives well, enjoy such advanced and developed technology, and live a stable life.

But now, some people don't want them to continue to live like this, some people want to set the times back, they want everything to go back to the time when productivity was insufficient, so why do these people do this?

The development of science and technology and the progress of society are good things for any ordinary person, except for a group of people - those who are above others and want to continue to live by exploiting others, who do not want to make progress and do not want others to progress, real demons.

That group of exploiters who had gone to work for him, shed blood and sacrificed for the past, and also had to bury the last shovel of soil.

Xu Shangqi is indeed afraid of death, but at least he is sure of one thing, in this world, his motherland is still very strong.

It's not that he doesn't have a home, it's not that he doesn't have relatives, he has thousands of dangers and obstacles, and the world is far from a class, and he is no closer than a comrade.

The helplessness of wandering in another world will surely hone a firmer will, and the lonely wanderer needs greater ideals to expel pain, and the more he feels pain, the more he wants greatness.

So what is the ideal that can be great, to laugh with the laughter of mankind, to be happy for the happiness of mankind, so that thousands of mothers can wait for their children with full anticipation, and also let thousands of children see their mothers after being tired?

"Are you telling the truth?" Xu Shangqi suddenly asked in his mind.

"What is true?"

"Tell me about being a superhero."

"Of course it's true."

Xu Shangqi smiled shyly and said.

"Alright, officer, let's go."

The fever is really uncomfortable

Let's wear masks, influenza A is quite serious

Why do you have me every flu!

(End of chapter)