Chapter 60: Special Departments (Asking for Recommendation Votes)
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The next morning, it was not yet eight o'clock.
South District of the city.
A slightly dilapidated truck, with a sudden noise, stopped on the side of a busy road.
Not far in front of here is the vegetable market street, there are two door-to-door shopping malls at the south intersection, and a school to the north, and there are all kinds of signboards along the street, involving restaurants, licenses, massages, accommodation, clothing, gymnasiums, etc., all kinds of stores.
It is where the population gathers, and there is an endless stream of pedestrians.
Cheng An, who was neatly dressed and decent, and was incompatible with this broken car, got out of the car.
"How long?" An old man with a hood quickly approached and asked vigilantly.
"Should it take more than three hours?"
Cheng An didn't know either, so he said casually.
"If you park for more than three hours, pay the fare in advance, twenty copper coins, and add five more for each extra hour." The old man's outstretched hand.
"Parking is so expensive?"
Cheng An frowned.
He doesn't have much money, but now that he has become an official priest, naturally every penny must be carefully calculated, and the water will flow for a long time, otherwise how will he go to the divine revelation next time?
There will never be another person who will give him a huge sum of 10 million and give him another free one.
The old man wearing the hood pointed to Cheng An's mud truck, and said with disgust: "You occupy three times the parking space of others, and only charge you twenty, which is already cheap, if you don't want to pay it, drive away." β
Cheng An wanted to drive away, but when he looked back, he found that other places on the street were also under control, and some were members of the law enforcement team.
In desperation, Cheng An had to honestly hand over two copper coins of ten yuan.
Although he earned 150 crystals during his previous trip to the mine, which is equivalent to 150,000 copper coins, they were all stored in his personal registered account in the form of crystals, and Cheng An did not plan to take them out.
That's all the next inspired savings, and they can't be used easily.
After collecting the money, the old man's attitude was much better, and he pointed: "Your big car, you should park on the industrial road outside, the area is empty, the parking fee is cheap, and it is not far from here, just a ten-minute walk." β
"Then you didn't say it earlier?" Cheng An was surprised.
"Hey, at first glance, you're a newcomer from out of town, so you can spend money to buy a lesson!" The old man was very straightforward.
Cheng An rolled his eyes, thought for a while and said, "Uncle, then I'll ask you about the place, do you know where No. 66 Lielangqi Street is?" β
"66 Lielangzi Street?"
The old man's eyebrows and nose suddenly twisted: "Turn left at the intersection in front of you, and go in for about a hundred meters." β
"Thank you."
Cheng An thanked him sincerely, turned around and went to the co-pilot to get a brand new backpack.
Inside there are his materials, including passes, the emblem and priest certificate of the God of War Church, account passbooks, and so on.
β62οΌ64οΌ66β¦β¦ Here it is. β
Cheng An turned into Lielangqi Street, counted the house numbers along the way, and found the location.
It is flanked on both sides by a six-storey faΓ§ade with a staircase facing the street leading directly to the upper floors.
"Star Washing Center ......"
Cheng An glanced at the signboard of the store on the first floor, and could vaguely see that there were several girls inside, who were working hard to go back and forth between several huge basins, busy working, pulping laundry.
"Obviously, even the products of super civilization such as resentful spirit puppets can be made, but the quality of life of ordinary people is outrageously low, no one has come to invent household washing machines, rice cookers, etc., these convenient products, and the technology tree of this world is a bit crooked......"
The corners of Cheng An's mouth twitched, turned into the stairs, and went up the stairs step by step, reaching the 3rd floor.
He saw a small sign that Lloyd had given him at the address of the station, which was not ostentatious:
"Abnormal Incident Handling Center."
β¦β¦
Seeing the signboard, Cheng An was in a trance.
The name of this sign is really ...... It's hard to complain about, because it's so straightforward, and one sentence shows what this place does.
The people of the God of War Church are really simple, the name is appropriate, and there are no bells and whistles at all.
Cheng An didn't hesitate, walked up and knocked on the door, and waited for a while, but there was no reaction in the house.
Can't hear me? Or did they all happen to be out?
Cheng An was slightly surprised, increased the intensity again, and repeated:
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The door frame shook slightly.
After a while, the sound of hurried footsteps was heard from inside, followed by a crisp female voice that looked like a sugar cube in its mouth:
"It's coming! Here it comes! Don't be in a hurry! β
The door clicked and opened inward.
A young girl with flaxen hair wearing a short skirt, shirt and black suit, but wearing an apron, looks like both a working woman and a maid, holding a kettle in her left hand, holding a towel in her right hand and opening the door at the same time, with a few light freckles on her cheeks, playful and cute.
She looked at Cheng An, then glanced at the stairs behind Cheng An before saying, "I'm sorry to keep you waiting, may I ask who you are?" β
"Cheng An, a junior priest of the God of War Church, was introduced by Father Lloyd of the Tasok Street Church and came here to report for duty."
Cheng An said as he handed out his church ID to identify himself.
"Huh? Report? β
The girl was stunned for a moment, glanced at the documents a few times, and then hurriedly piled the kettle, towels and other objects on the coffee table, bowed, and said with a red face:
"Hello Priest, I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I was just busy! Then please come in first, wait here for a while, and I'll ask the captain right away! β
With that, she ran quickly, trotting, from the passage inside to the staircase, and staggered upstairs.
Hmmm, won't you pour me a glass of water......
Cheng An looked at the kettle she put on the coffee table, saw a stack of disposable water cups on the desk next to her, felt a little thirsty, and poured a glass of water herself.
He whirred as he looked at the layout.
The layout of the door is very simple, just a desk for the front desk, a coffee table for the reception, and three leather sofas.
In addition, on the ground in front of the window, there are several potted plants, which are green.
There is a passage in the middle, flanked by offices, where you can see people using old-fashioned printers and computers, sorting out document after paper.
Uh, computer ......
Cheng An rubbed his eyes to make sure he was not mistaken.
It's really a computer, it's the kind of old antique with a boxy display that looks like a big stone.
Is there a computer in this world?
Cheng An was quite surprised, he didn't know about this before, and it was the first time he had seen it, it seemed that computers in this world belonged to things that could only be used by special departments, and the scope of action was very small, and it was basically at the level of recording data.
And he observed that those computer shells also looked quite old, and it was okay to say that it was an unearthed text.
"It's weird......"
Cheng An was amazed.
At the end of the passage, there is the staircase;
The staircase outside the door stopped when it reached the third floor, and it seemed that the third to sixth floors belonged to the territory of this church station.
After about five minutes, the flaxen-haired young girl came down the stairs and said with a smile: "Officer Cheng An, the captain said that you should go up to her office, and you will come with me." β
"Okay." Cheng An quickly drank the boiled water that had been blown cold by him, stood up, and followed upstairs.
The staircase steps were made of marble slabs, and Cheng An walked on them, with a faint smell of blood lingering on the tip of his nose, and he couldn't help but feel a sinking in his heart.
Has anyone been injured? What did you just deal with?
Sure enough, the job of a priest doesn't seem to be very safe.
He didn't show it and followed all the way.
The girl turned on the corridor lights that were turned on and off along the way, and said in a rather familiar manner:
"I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Daisy, and I'm the front desk of the office here, and I'm responsible for handling some of the paperwork when your priests go out on missions, as well as the reception and registration of visitors.
"My brother is also a priest, but it's a pity that he died during a mission not long ago, if you guessed correctly, you should have come to make up for my brother's position, and I ask you to take care of it in the future."
Cheng An raised his eyebrows.
It turned out that the priest who died in the gangster's fight was the girl's brother......
Although her expression was sad, it was not very sad, and she belonged to the stage of missing her brother, but she had stepped out of the past and bravely faced the future.
It's only been a little over a month, and it seems that the church has done a pretty good job of comforting her......
"I'm sorry, but your brother is a very brave and great priest." Cheng An said in a deep voice.
"Thank you."
Daisy whispered, turned into the hallway on the fifth floor, walked to an office door at the end, and knocked on the door.
Knock knock!
"Captain, I've already brought Officer Cheng An over."
"Come in."
A word was round, with some murderous, serious adult female voices coming out.