Chapter 1049 People in Distress

Although Urban and Rural Port has the word "Hong Kong", it is not close to the Shanghai River.

It is an old street located on the edge of Qingtian District. It borrows the word "urban and rural", so most of the people living there are migrant workers in the city.

Of course, because of this characteristic, the conditions here are not very good in all aspects.

One word to describe it is: "a mixed bag."

In the evening when it was time to get off work, Mei Sheng drove a special car for branch missions and headed for the destination along the expressway.

This road is slightly congested, but it is much better than before. After all, today is New Year's Day.

Mei Sheng drove the car meticulously, her body tensed and her hands firmly clenched on the steering wheel.

She didn't say a word while driving, and it seemed that her driving level was not high.

Ji Li, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was smoking a cigarette and scrolling through his phone screen with a calm expression.

He was looking through recent social news to see if there was anything noteworthy.

On my way back from Tiannan College last night, I witnessed a "kidnapping case" with my own eyes. There was absolutely no reason for it.

Especially when a new mission suddenly came less than twenty-four hours later, this was even more worthy of attention.

Ji Li probably has more executive experience than most store clerks, and the intensity of his tasks is second to none among the ten major branches.

It is this rich experience that gives him a keen insight into the precursors of some tasks.

This time it was another commission mission, using the name of the Seventh Spirit Exploration Agency.

Obviously, this mission is related to the "case", but I don't know if it is related to the kidnapping last night.

However, after browsing through the recent news, he turned off his phone again with slight disappointment.

These news are all non-nutritious things. They are basically a warm-up for the New Year's Day festival and are used to promote consumption.

Ji Li lowered the car window completely, put his hand out the window and dusted off the cigarette ashes, frowning.

The snow stopped after Tiannan, but the cold wind in winter was still a bit chilly.

As soon as a piece of cigarette ash was dusted off, it was blown back into the car by the wind and landed on the side of Mei Sheng's face. This startled her and made her hands tremble.

Mei Sheng suddenly stepped on the brakes and the car stopped on the congested road, almost colliding with the rear of the car in front.

She turned her head dissatisfied, looked at Ji Li and said:

"Can you please not affect me?"

When Ji Li heard this, he turned around and glanced at Mei Sheng, who had a serious expression. He didn't say anything, just silently not looking at her, and took another puff of cigarette into the wind.

The vehicle in front started to move. Mei Sheng waited for a while, and then slowly drove the car after ensuring a safe distance.

She drove very slowly this time. Although it was not very fast before, the fact that she was about to reach her destination made her no longer so nervous, so she said:

“As soon as the Tiannan mission came out, the four major branches were put on hold.

You come out of the task, and the rest period is less than a day. A new task comes again. It is very urgent, and the two tasks almost collide.

This shows that this commission task has been postponed to the point where it can no longer be pledged.

From this point of view, I think this mission will be fast-paced. "

Mei Sheng is also a "long-time store clerk". She has been in the store for a long time, although she has only performed three tasks in person.

However, in every mission, she played a very important role and played a big role.

The judgment this time is also very accurate, and it is also an important content that can be extracted from the limited information at present.

Ji Li didn't say anything after hearing this. In fact, given his personality, choosing Mei Sheng was far less effective than choosing Fang Shenyan.

This man and woman are both capable of running a store.

But Fang Shenyan has a mask and has cooperated perfectly with Ji Li many times. It's a pity that he has some problems now.

Ever since he mentioned Yu Guo that day, Ji Li noticed that Fang Shenyan seemed to be stuck in a certain knot, and he became very "interested" in Yu Guo.

Of course, you can also call it obsession.

Therefore, since the meeting ended last night, Fang Shenyan left with Ji Li and went to Tiannan Academy of Drama.

Although he couldn't find anything, he believed that when he came back, he would get some answers to this confusion.

"The last mission of the Detective Agency was related to a case, and you mentioned that you witnessed a kidnapping last night.

So I judge that our employer should be one of the parties involved this time, maybe a family member of the kidnapped person..."

Mei Sheng told her reasoning while driving. She was not a person who liked to talk, but Ji Li was too silent.

In the past, Ji Li conducted such pre-mission analysis, but this time, apart from briefly talking about the kidnapping before getting in the car, he only focused on smoking.

This forced Mei Sheng to take the initiative and share some of the extracted clues.

Ji Li didn't listen to a word of Mei Sheng's words. The last cigarette had been extinguished and the new one had not been lit yet.

He kept looking out the window at the viaduct that was about to leave, looking at it in ecstasy.

In his eyes, there was a green-gray child standing on the bridge pier staring at him with white eyes.

Beside the ghost boy, Yu Guo was waving to him with a smile on his face, as if he was saying goodbye to a friend.

Mei Sheng analyzed it while driving, but Ji Li didn't say a word, which made her gradually lose interest, so she stopped talking.

…

The streets of Chengronggang are very similar to the road where Gao Yan once lived.

Tightly wrapped military coats, shiny dirty cotton-padded jackets, bumpy cement roads, trolleys carrying children, elderly people on crutches...

In the twelfth lunar month of winter, the white-haired old lady who sells vegetables on the road huddles on the curb, squeezing her eyes and looking at the pedestrians passing by.

The middle-aged man selling meat spat on the ground and poured a basin of bloody water into the snowdrift. Several children fell on it while playing.

The seven or eight-year-old kid with a runny nose picked up the blood on his clothes with his hands and shouted for compensation from the uncle who sold the meat.

Chaos, poverty, noisy, but real.

The car had long been abandoned outside the urban and rural port. Ji Li was wearing a mask and walking past figures with a cane.

There are bungalows one after another without house numbers. There are only a few scattered buildings in this area, just a few hundred meters ahead.

Those buildings seem to be rare things here. It is estimated that some people who came to the city early spent many years of hard work to buy a house here.

Although local people will never buy this kind of house.

As Ji Li walked, he silently pushed away the crowded pedestrians in front of him with his crutches, causing a burst of curses.

Mei Sheng did not wear a mask. She followed Ji Li calmly, not feeling the slightest discomfort about anything around her.

It seems that she has become accustomed to this, and has even regained some shadows of her childhood.

Coincidentally, during the dispute between the child who fell into the snowdrift and the meat seller, he was pushed back and staggered again, and was about to fall in front of Mei Sheng.

She hurriedly reached out and grabbed the child's arm, lifting him up from the ground.

The child raised his head in shock, his innocent eyes flashing with surprise, but this surprise was not without reason, because Mei Sheng was really beautiful.

The child who was noisy just now immediately put away the unnecessary expression on his face, retracted his hand cautiously, and kept a distance from Mei Sheng.

"Thank you... thank you sister..."

Mei Sheng seemed to have glanced at him coldly, but said nothing and was about to move forward.

The child stood behind and suddenly asked:

"Sister, you are not from here, are you? Are you looking for someone? I can help you."

Beautiful skin is so useful in many cases.

Mei Sheng did not look back, but looked ahead at Ji Li, who was looking at her, as if asking for advice.

But before the two of them could reply, they heard a woman with a harsh voice shouting from behind, and the noise of a child.

“I’ve told you so many times, don’t run around on the streets these days.

Did I tell you what happened on No. 302 over there in vain?

Xiao Lianlian stayed at home so long that her body was cut open and the floor was soaked with blood. You still don’t have a long memory! "