143 Strange Paintings
Jimmy looked at Justin, a handsome middle-aged white guy who seemed to have two horns suddenly growing out of his head.
Jimmy: "Profiteer, why didn't you say it sooner!" ”
Justin: "You weren't here with me at the time, how can I tell you, you can't make a quote on the phone, it hurts so much." ”
Jimmy: "You hurt my feelings even more now, we have such a good relationship, you hurt my heart so much." ”
Justin: "If you're sad, you can go home and recuperate, but you'll still have to pay for it." One yard to one yard. ”
Jimmy took a sip of wine speechlessly and whispered, "No, it's all used up this time." ”
Justin was surprised, Jimmy's gold coins were all out of his side, and he knew exactly how much he could do with 5 gold coins.
Justin: "What? What the hell did you do that required 5 gold coins? Justin approached Jimmy and asked in a low voice, "How many people did you kill?" Otherwise, you won't need so many gold coins. ”
Jimmy also whispered, "Two, but two for buying information and one for borrowing a safe house." ”
Justin straightened up: "You're slaughtered, I'm pretty sure." Justin shook his head, looked at Jimmy, and burst out laughing.
Jimmy rolled his eyes, "It's my first time running errands, and I don't know their rules. Justin, tell me about it, so you don't have a problem next time. ”
Justin: "2 dinners, 1 in the safe house is fine, this one is fine." The 2 pieces of intelligence, there may be a problem, if it wasn't for you being slaughtered, then I can only speculate that there may have been a change in the middle, otherwise one is enough. ”
Jimmy: "Well, the information is very detailed, and they found out about the new situation and asked me to go over and update it. ”
Justin: "That's fine, I think I know who the tipster she gave you is." You're in luck. ”
Jimmy: "Can you tell me?" The identity of that person. ”
Justin: "No, it's a secret, and I knew it by chance. ”
Jimmy: "Well, you guys have a lot of secrets. The guest is coming to the door soon, bring me another drink. ”
Jimmy and Justin were chatting, and there were already sporadic guests coming, but the bartender guided them to the other side of the bar, leaving room for Justin and Jimmy to chat.
Justin turned around and went back to work, not mentioning the coin again.
For Jimmy, a poor ghost, Justin has no interest in blackmailing.
Jimmy was also depressed, he had just done something, although he was bleeding heavily, he was also very happy, but he was so troubled by Justin, but he didn't feel happy at all.
The next day, Jimmy went directly to the police station to cancel the vacation, and now that the matter is dealt with, it is time to go to work with peace of mind, and it is almost time for the final exam, Jimmy just uses this time to review well.
It's really fun to fish during work hours, and James also thinks it's good for Jimmy's self-motivated performance, although it seems to be fishing, but Jimmy's business ability is too strong, if you don't let it go, or don't let it go, in case something happens again, his heart may not be able to stand it.
A week later, Jimmy receives a call from Jerry, whom Mary has called, and she has returned home safely, and hopes that Jerry will come to her.
Jerry couldn't go over on his own, and he couldn't go to see Mary as a homeless man, so he could only find a way to send him to Memphis by the way.
Jimmy didn't care, when he was off duty, Jimmy took Jerry to buy clothes, cut his hair short, trim his beard, and take a shower in Jimmy's apartment, Jerry looked very normal, a thin but handsome looking uncle.
The only glare is the hair, Jerry is not old, only about 50 years old, but the hair is already quite a bit gray, with the wrinkles on his face, it looks more like 60 years old.
Jimmy drove Jerry back to Oakville, Memphis, and Jerry kept talking to Jimmy about Mary's childhood along the way, and kept urging Jimmy to drive faster, which made Jimmy speechless.
Mary had been waiting on the side of the road in advance, and when she saw Jimmy's blue Mercury, she waved her arms excitedly.
Before Jerry could stop on the side of the road, Jerry pushed open the passenger door and ran towards Mary. Jimmy got out of the car and stood at the front of the car watching the father and daughter hug each other excitedly.
The scene in front of him made Jimmy very emotional, and he could be regarded as returning Jerry's original favor, although the cost was a little higher.
When Jerry and Mary's excited relationship calmed down a little, Jimmy walked over and hugged them goodbye, Jerry didn't go back with Jimmy, he would live here with Mary, and say goodbye to the life of a homeless man.
Jimmy had one more thing to do this time, he was going to the warehouse to take some boxes back to Little Rock, which was his biggest takeaway last time, and he couldn't keep it in the warehouse to eat ashes.
When Jimmy was passing by the hardware store, he bought a small hand-held cutter with its own battery.
Jimmy took out a few briefcases from the warehouse, drove to an outdoor place where no one was around, and cut the briefcase directly along the edges, cracking the code or something was too troublesome, for Jimmy, it was more effective to brute-force cracking.
A few briefcases were opened, and Jimmy was also disappointed, these briefcases were probably prepared by the gang boss in order to run away, and there were several different passports with his photos inside, which were packed in different boxes, and there was no need to tidy them up when needed, just take the boxes and get on the plane.
Aside from a little extra money, nothing else was of any use to Jimmy.
Jimmy found some dead branches from the side, dug a hole in the ground, poured everything else into the chest, and burned it down. As for the body of the box that has been cut, if there is a large trash can when you pass by, you can just scatter it and throw it in, and no one will care about the broken box without any special signs.
After that, Jimmy made two more trips to Memphis and finally cleared the warehouse. Those suitcases were kept, and there was no need to keep the clothes inside, Jimmy packed them and threw them near the camp for the homeless, and they would help him clean them thoroughly, leaving absolutely no traces.
Five Generations of Rivers, Mountains and Moons
For Jimmy, this period should be considered busy, going to work, supporting, studying, occasionally doing private work, life is very fulfilling, and by the time the dust settles, it is already June.
On this day, Jimmy received a letter at the front desk of the police station, Jimmy returned to his workstation, opened the envelope, and inside was two sheets of A4 paper with two drawings on them.
The first picture shows a man holding a gun in his left hand, pointing diagonally upward, what is in front of him, but nothing else.
The second painting shows a man lying with his arms outstretched, seemingly floating in the air, with two pistols underneath.
Strange paintings, if you look at two paintings in a row, the first one is fighting against something, and the second is death, the painting is drawn in pencil, there is no signature, and there is no other text in the letter.
Jimmy picked up the envelope again, and it didn't have a mailing address, but there was a postmark that was Texas.
Texas, there are only three people that Jimmy can think of, Tolsten, Jerry Mikulek, and Roland, and it is estimated that only Roland can mail paintings, but Roland? The last time he left, he had already made it clear that he wouldn't let himself go back to him, how could he mail such a letter to himself.
There must be something special about these two pictures, but Jimmy can't see it, Jimmy tries to remember the process of meeting Roland when he first met, because more than half a year has passed, and Jimmy's memory is a little blurry.
Suddenly Jimmy remembered a detail, Roland had said that he had relied on Chambers' paintings to find doors to other worlds, and Chambers's ability was similar to the ability of foreknowledge, which could reveal pictures through drawing. But Chambers had already left a few years earlier, and when he was not by Roland's side, how could two more paintings appear? Could it be that Chambers has returned to Roland?