Back at his home, Jimmy is completely relaxed, Nia still needs to go to work, and he also needs to meet and talk to other people, such as Father Rodney, who he hasn't seen for a long time, such as his godson Eliot, and of course, his father-in-law's family.

I haven't seen him for more than a month, and Jimmy still has a lot of things he wants to talk to Kevin about, especially when he went to Los Angeles to get in touch with things over there, and Dave and what they did behind the scenes, he couldn't talk to Dave about these things, and Dave only talked about them when the two were eating, and he didn't mean to let Jimmy know the inside story at all.

There weren't many people around Jimmy who knew anything about these things, and his father-in-law, Kevin, was undoubtedly the best person for him to ask.

Nia had already called her mother in advance, and the two still came over for dinner in the evening, followed by Nia and her mother watching TV and chatting, Jimmy and Kevin came to the study to chat, and some words were still not suitable for talking when the family was together.

Jimmy raised his own questions, especially why there was such a thing of using the case to interfere with the opponent within the Donkey Party, although Kevin did not know the details, he still roughly guessed what was going on.

Kevin asks Jimmy to elaborate on the circumstances of the case, and then gives his conjecture.

New York is a traditional donkey party dominant state, and it also has a very high status within the donkey party, and one of the candidates in this primary election is from New York, but this woman's reputation is not very good, and there is no doubt that quite a lot of big people are optimistic about the candidates of the other side in this election.

After all, the most promising old white man has withdrawn from the race, and now the only two candidates are women, the other is black, and many people subconsciously still want to continue some traditions, and if they compete with blacks for party candidacy, New York has little advantage, and the affirmative action movement and skin color still have a certain status in the eyes of some people. (The black man's position has shifted a bit, don't care.) ）

For the disadvantaged side, she also has a lot of allies, if you want to reverse some things, you must use some means that cannot be disclosed, and this time Jimmy's case is not big or small, it does not involve the people above, but it is also a hidden key node, using this key node can actually interfere with many people, although it will not become an obstacle to the other party, but it can definitely dig a ditch on the road and let him stumble when he walks over.

It's just that the case is out of control, and even involves the big people above, so this case must be pressed, for Jimmy, an agent who can handle the case but is not his own person, it is the best choice to drive him out of the case for investigation, as long as the person who handles the case is his own person, many things can be handled.

And the reason why New York agreed, apparently, some people gave enough pressure, and from now on, her campaign should be close to the end.

Kevin explained as he poured himself a glass of wine and drank it in one gulp, "Jimmy, you're really a lucky guy, this kind of politically involved case has always been difficult to deal with, and it's not bad to get out now, at least you don't have to worry about being targeted and retaliating afterwards." ”

He put the cup down, looked at Jimmy and shook his head with a smile: "That's not bad, it seems that most of the top brass in the party should have a choice, at least leaving us a lot of time to adjust the response plan in the future, and some things need to be cut off." ”

Jimmy nodded, Kevin explained very clearly, of course he can think about the advantages and disadvantages of the so-called women and blacks, the current social atmosphere is still the era of racial equality, the era of gender equality has not yet arrived, the advantage is of course on the other side, New York is also unlucky, they can only do things behind their backs when they encounter this kind of thing.

At this point, Jimmy really understood what he had done in the end, what was the reason for the development of the whole body, the so-called involvement of the whole body, the person he got rid of happened to be the key node, and the later cause of the headquarters to arrange for someone from the Los Angeles office to take over his case was obviously because the case of Mrs. Hareton's murder and the case of the attack on the big man touched people at a higher level, and they were also worried that this matter would have a bigger problem, so they had to let their own people control everything.

Jimmy also had an idea, if he was not mistaken, that the attack on the big man was probably caused by Mrs. Hareton, and that it was probably arranged through lawyer Sebastian, after all, it was impossible for her bodyguards to know about such a big event, and only Sebastian was in and out of her safe house for some time before the killing.

Now that Sebastian is gone, either he has gone into hiding after seeing Mrs. Hareton have had an accident, or he has been killed by the people behind the scenes, and it is impossible to completely understand these things.

But these have nothing to do with Jimmy, the information he handed over is already very detailed, and it is not so easy for the Los Angeles office to push the black pot on Jimmy, as long as there is no problem on the hotel side, no one will definitely think of Jimmy, and only Winston knows the inside story on the hotel side.

Kevin should also gain a little this time, knowing the thoughts of the people above in advance, for those of them who are in the middle and lower levels, it is time for resource allocation and relationships, Kevin is not very old, if he works hard, it is unlikely that he will become a councillor or something, but there is still hope for touching it upwards.

After talking about the most important things, there is nothing to keep secret, the two left the study and returned to the living room, the family chatted in the living room, watched TV, and occasionally complained about the TV series, and the family was happy.

After a two-day break, Jimmy called Roland again, and this time he was successfully connected, but Roland couldn't make it to New York for the time being, and needed to rest in Maine for a few more days.

Jimmy didn't wait any longer, Roland didn't know where he was now, and it was inconvenient to contact people outside for the time being, so he couldn't give a specific route, Jimmy contacted the hacker who had given him before the hotel, and asked him to help find out Roland's mobile phone location information, and directly bought a ticket to Bangor, Maine.

Bangor is the second largest city in Maine, with a small population of only a few hundred thousand people, and Maine is also a standard sparsely populated place, completely different from cities like New York.

However, Bangor is also a big city after all, and the airport is still available, so Jimmy got off the plane and found a car rental directly at the airport, rented a car, and rushed to a remote town in the northwest.

Something must have happened to Roland, but it was inconvenient to talk on the phone, and Jimmy wasn't sure how long he would need to stay here, so he simply came over with his luggage and equipment.

Jimmy has gotten permission from Dave, and when he returned from Los Angeles, he didn't send his gear bag back to the office to keep it, and now he is going straight to his suitcase, although it looks scary, but there is no problem with flying, just check in the equipment.

In fact, Roland was wrong when he said he was in Bangor, Maine, because he was very far away from Bangor, and although he didn't determine the specific area to belong to, he was certainly not on the outskirts of the city.

The terrain in Maine was not bad, and Jimmy was fast, and he finally arrived at Roland's cell phone location area before dark, a small village with only a dozen houses.

This small village is very remote, and it took a long way to come down from the state road, and on the way Jimmy also saw some dilapidated buildings on the distant hills, except for the good natural environment, basically did not find anything special here.

It was only as soon as he entered the village that he noticed the problem, driving from the road, and there was no one in sight of the houses on either side.

Roland was already standing at the door waiting for Jimmy, Jimmy reached out from the window and waved, and suddenly found that Roland's pants were missing a trouser leg and a bandage on his leg, he frowned and parked the car in front of the house, opened the door and got down, and walked to the back of the car and opened the trunk while talking, "Roland, what's wrong with your leg?" Injured? ”

Roland stood there and looked at Jimmy: "It's just a small injury, do you have a medical kit?" ”

Jimmy came out with his suitcase: "Bring it, go back to the house, I need to check it out." ”

Roland turned around and walked into the house, Jimmy followed behind to the position of the sofa, pulled out the dagger in his pocket and cut the bandage directly, and after removing it a little bit, he found a big problem, it was a puncture wound, a hole was pierced on the side of the calf, Roland just simply cleaned it and applied a layer of unknown medicine.

Jimmy: "What happened?" What kind of medicine is this? ”

Roland: "The ointment for the knife wound, I brought it from there." ”

Jimmy looked up at Roland: "It doesn't seem to be working, the wound is already showing signs of inflammation, you need to go to the hospital." I'll give you a change first. ”

Jimmy opened the suitcase and took out the equipment bag from inside, there was a small medical kit for emergency first aid, first tied his calf with a tourniquet, then cleaned Roland's wound, and after putting the bandage on the bandage, he loosened a little tourniquet to allow the blood to slowly return to normal flow.

Jimmy: "It's just an emergency, so it's better for us to go to the hospital for further treatment." What's going on? This is not a gunshot wound. ”

Roland watched Jimmy busy bandaging himself and didn't speak, and when Jimmy was all done, he said that he had come here after meeting the spider monster and found that everyone in the village had disappeared.

He rested in the small village and returned to the small cave, following the blood dripping from the spider monster before, and it took him a long time to find a house, which was a warehouse, and there was a cellar in it, although the blood had disappeared before, but apparently this cellar was where the spider monster was hiding.

Roland returned to the other houses and found a flashlight, and went down the ladder in the wall of the cellar to the inside, where a large hole stretched diagonally to the side, and there were many traces of spider silk, which also confirmed his belief that this was the nest of the spider monster.

The depth of the cave is very deep, Roland was attacked by the spider monster when he went in with a flashlight to search, because the space is small, although he successfully killed the spider monster, but he was also pierced in the calf by the spider monster's foot, and then he took care of the wound after coming out, and received a call from Jimmy.

Jimmy: "So the spider monster has been killed?" And what about these disappeared people? ”

Roland: "I didn't go deep into the cave to look for it, but these people are probably hopeless, and it's been a few days......"

Jimmy turned his head to look outside the house: "There are a lot of houses here, and there must not be too few people, so many people are missing is a big deal, and it is difficult to explain." Where is that cave? I want to check it out. ”

Roland: "The house at the farthest end of the village, next to a small warehouse, is there. ”

Jimmy nodded and stood up, "You don't want to go over, rest here, I'll come back when I go and see." ”

Roland shook his head, "No, let's go over together, I'll stay on it and wait for you." He held out his hand, and Jimmy pulled Roland to his feet, and the two of them chatted as they slowly walked towards the house.

Jimmy isn't overflowing with sympathy, it's just that something so big is happening here, Roland has been here for a few days, and he will definitely be a suspect to focus on afterwards, and he has to figure out what is going on here to figure out what to do next.

Jimmy: "By the way, Roland, what the hell is a black rainbow?" ”

Roland: "A magical energy, there is a legend in our world that Gann created the material world, and then created multiple parallel realities, and on the edge of the darkness of the world appeared the first magician, who called himself Merlin.

As the greatest mage, Merlin turned his abilities into thirteen rainbow balls, these rainbow balls have different abilities, I am not a mage, and I don't know much about this, but there are not many rainbow balls that still exist in the world.

That's one of the reasons I'm looking for you, Jimmy, and I wish you could go back with me. ”

Jimmy helped Roland along, "Why?" ”

Roland: "Our world is about to decline, there are a lot of anomalies, geological activity is becoming more and more frequent, and there are also a lot of space-time rifts, connecting with other universes. A mage I met once told me that they suspected that there was an imbalance in the world's energies, and that if the balance was upset, it would further increase the rate of decline of the world.

Merlin's Rainbow Ball is the source of magic, and maybe it's because I brought the Rainbow Ball out of our world that caused the imbalance, whether that's the case or not, I'd like to try it. ”

Jimmy frowned, "To your world?" ”

Roland: "Just wanted to try, you inherited the black rainbow, maybe you can go back with me to balance it out." ”

When Jimmy suddenly heard this topic, he was still a little confused, "Roland, what do you ask...... Let me think about it, it's not so easy to decide. That's the warehouse up ahead, right? Let's deal with what's in front of us first. ”

(End of chapter)