Chapter 734: Implicate (Please Collect, Recommend, and Vote for the Monthly Version) Please Vote for the Monthly Version!!!
"Uncle Wayne?" Wenger looked at Kai who was suddenly stunned with a bit of surprise. After all, what's so good about Peter? Isn't it only me who cares about him?
Kai suddenly came back to his senses: "Oh, it's okay, I just thought of myself when I saw this child."
The "self" here does not refer to Kai, but to Adam. Not to mention, Adam and Peter are really a bit similar. Before high school, he was also like this, thin and honest, a child, good for nothing except studying, but I didn't expect that after entering high school, he was like eating golden Ke La, and suddenly opened up. So he was selected into the school football team in high school.
Huh?
The three of them were a little bit unconvinced. Now Kai is not only handsome, but also tall and strong. Standing there, there is a sense of oppression. No one thought that he would look like a little chicken like Peter in high school.
Kai smiled, without much explanation, but stretched out his hand to shake hands with Peter. "Hello Mr. Parker, Ben often mentions you. He said he is always proud of you."
This is not that Kai is polite, but Ben really likes his nephew very much. He often mentions him.
Peter lowered his head in embarrassment, and he didn't seem to be very good at socializing.
Kai didn't say anything when he saw this. After all, he was just a child. It didn't matter whether he was Spiderman or not.
"Mrs. Parker, I need your help with something." Kai told Mei the purpose of his visit without any concealment.
After hearing this, Mei was a little embarrassed. The circle of homeless people is like many small circles on the edge of society. They are extremely exclusive. They don't like to contact outsiders. Even some homeless people who join them are very defensive. And it is not easy for social workers to gain the trust of homeless people, because these people are used to keeping silent. Even if you see a homeless person every day, you may not be able to establish friendship with him. Most of these people have experienced social beatings, and their defensive psychology is more serious than those criminals.
Because no one cares about them, they can only protect themselves.
As for the police? That is the group that homeless people are most afraid to deal with.
It's not that Mei doesn't want to help, but after helping, she is very likely to let the trust that the mutual aid station has built with the homeless go down the drain. Mei is not the kind of rich person who treats charity as a face-saving project. On the contrary, she is an ordinary person who sincerely wants to help others.
She cherishes the trust relationship with these people very much. Once this trust is bankrupt, these people are likely to not come here because they are afraid that Mei has other intentions.
The homeless have nothing, what can they gain?
It's wrong to think so. They really have nothing, but they at least have one thing. That is life, and in this world, life is valuable. They don't want their final value to be plotted by others. If that happens, such a life is too miserable. So they are more sensitive and more defensive.
They have nothing, which means they have no resistance to all disasters.
"Please believe me, Mrs. Parker. I really do this for their own good. No one knows whether the recent series of disappearances will befall them." Kai said sincerely.
Mei thought for a long time before saying, "I can help, but you have to leave. You can stay here."
This condition seems inhumane and even a little rude. But Mei did not lie, because it was the only way. If Kai stayed here, the people here would feel uneasy and uncooperative. Every group has its own rules.
The same is true for the homeless, they have a tacit understanding with each other. Breaking the rules is doomed to be isolated. If they are isolated by other homeless people with nothing...it will be difficult to survive.
Kai nodded: "I can agree, but I also hope you can be faster. After all, homeless people are missing every moment now."
"I will do it as soon as possible...but...I hope you can be a little patient." Mei was also in a dilemma. If this kind of thing is too urgent, it will make those homeless people nervous.
"Okay." Kai gave Mei a phone call: "Call me if you find anything. In addition, if possible, I will immediately give a large sum of money to the rescue station. You don't have to feel pressured. This is not an exchange, but just my admiration for your efforts."
"Thank you, thank you!" Mei thanked him in a hurry. For a completely non-profit social organization like theirs, no donation is too much for them. They don't have any hematopoietic mechanism and rely entirely on social fundraising. If they have more funds, they can help more people.
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Just when Kai thought he had to wait for two or three days, he received news unexpectedly the next day.
But it was not good news.
Mei was almost kidnapped today! Not only that, little Peter was even stabbed to protect his aunt and went to the hospital! If Mei hadn't taken out the anti-wolf spray at the critical moment and put it on a gangster, the consequences would be disastrous. But even so, Mei was still injured and hit on the head with a stick, probably a concussion.
Ben was already crazy at this moment! This alarmed the people of the Tramp Construction Company. The Tramp Construction Company is the company that Ben, Fergie and Matt cooperated with. In order not to forget their original intention, they simply used this name.
Of course, Kai always felt that this name would affect the company's business. After all, it is difficult for customers to trust a group of tramps. This has nothing to do with sympathy, but is based on reality.
But the three old men insisted.
Many of the workers got help from Ben, and the rest got along well with Ben, a good guy. So when everyone heard about this, they were all indignant and wanted to help. More than 20 workers were already carrying steel pipes from the construction site to the mutual aid station. They thought that someone had betrayed Mei, which led to this. Fortunately, Fergie persuaded everyone with his eloquence, otherwise it was unknown what would happen.
This made Ben's already very bad situation even worse.
At the same time, this incident also angered Kai!
Mei is just an ordinary person, her family has no money, and she and Ben don't even have many relatives. Why did others kidnap her?
The only reason was what Kai asked Mei to do.
In other words, Mei and Peter were treated like this because of him!
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In the hospital, a large number of police surrounded Mei and Peter's ward. If Ben hadn't strongly opposed it, Kai would even send police to surround the mutual aid station. Kai was also very annoyed with those who received help at the rescue station! Mei was attacked, and no one except Peter came forward to help!
These people... are simply damnable!
Mei obviously cares so much about them!
When Kai saw Mei, she had stabilized. She had a severe concussion and could not stand up at all. Once she stood up, she would feel dizzy and nauseous. The doctor asked her to be hospitalized for insurance reasons. But Mei obviously didn't want to do this.
Because their family... had no medical insurance.
It's hard to imagine that Ben, an engineer, a standard middle-class. He didn't buy medical insurance for his family. Except for the necessary savings and expenses, the couple invested all their money in the rescue station.
"I'm sorry... Mrs. Parker. I'm very sorry." Kai even had a little difficulty facing this woman. "Please rest in the hospital. I will arrange the best doctor. At the same time, you don't have to worry about any expenses. Our police department will take full responsibility, including the compensation later."
Kai felt that he had to compensate for letting others suffer this kind of thing for no reason. Is it to make people bleed and cry? The people's police would never do such a thing.
"No! No. I'm fine, it's just that those doctors are nervous. And I didn't... do anything." Mei waved her hand hurriedly.
"No, no. This is not a deal, Mrs. Parker. This is what you deserve. It can even be seen as my apology and compensation. It was me who caused you and little Peter to experience this." Kai said seriously. After that, Kai no longer gave Mei a chance to refuse, and directly turned the topic to the case.
"Do you remember who those people who attacked and tried to kidnap you were? And what happened at that time?"
Although Mei had a severe concussion, she did not lose her memory of that period. Although she did have temporary amnesia, she recovered quickly. So now she can talk about the situation at that time in an organized manner.
It turned out that after Kai left, Mei thought about it for a long time, but she couldn't help but ask for news. She always felt that she cared more about the safety of those homeless people than trust.
After she walked around the lobby of her own shelter, she found that there was no missing case in their shelter. But she was still worried, so she went to the shantytown where she often went to help to inquire about the news. The so-called shantytown is not an area that really exists in New York, at least not on the ground.
These shantytowns exist in underground sewers. It is dark, dirty and messy, and is a place forgotten by New Yorkers. It is one of the areas where the most homeless people gather.
After asking around, Mei actually received some news.
Several homeless people told Mei that they had seen someone kidnapping other homeless people at night. But who kidnapped those people... they said they didn't see it clearly, maybe they were afraid of revenge? Who knows.
Mei felt that she had returned empty-handed, but apparently some people didn't think so.
Not long after Mei went back, several "social workers" followed an ambulance to the rescue station. What happened next was almost the same.
Several "social workers" were rudely trying to take Mei away, and one of them said loudly: "She may have been infected with an infectious disease and needs treatment."
This was said loudly, obviously trying to give the onlookers a reasonable explanation.
Peter went up to help, but a conflict occurred. In order to save Peter, Mei immediately fought back. To be honest, Mei's safety awareness is still quite sufficient. After all, as a group of homeless people, you say they are pitiful, that's natural. But if you say these people are all good people, then you are too naive. It's always good to be prepared.
Mei used anti-wolf spray and stun gun to knock down two social workers. This angered those people, and one of them took out a baton and hit Mei in the head. Peter saw his aunt being beaten, and he was no longer calm, so he picked up a chair and smashed it at those social workers.
Then Peter was hit twice in the stomach.
Finally, someone couldn't sit still anymore and called other social workers from the mutual aid station.
Seeing this, those people didn't care about kidnapping and drove away in an ambulance. As for the appearance of those people, Mei didn't know, they were all wearing protective clothing and big masks.
"I want to know the information of this ambulance." Kai asked.
Ben immediately said: "It's an ambulance from Metropolitan Hospital. The license plate number is XXXXXX."
This was told to Ben by someone who was present at the time.
Kai immediately called his men to check the ambulance. The police in the 15th Precinct knew that their chief had lost his temper, so they didn't dare to neglect it and found out quickly. The ambulance with the same license plate had just taken a patient back to the Metropolitan Central Hospital at the time of the incident and had not come out at all.
Kai didn't need to tell him to do this. The people from the 15th Precinct quickly contacted the Traffic Control Bureau. An ambulance with a fake license plate was a serious matter. The Traffic Control Bureau quickly compared the surveillance footage from various intersections. At night, they got the news.
The ambulance finally disappeared in a 12-story building in the suburbs. Interestingly, the company where the building was located actually had an ambulance.
It was a pharmaceutical company, belonging to the Life Foundation.
Kai quickly got the details of the company. The Life Foundation was not a small company, but on the contrary, it was quite large. But what surprised Kai was that the company's main business was not pharmaceutical research and sales. To be honest, the name of the Life Foundation sounded like an institution engaged in biotechnology.
On the contrary, it was a very authentic deep space exploration company, or in plain words, an aerospace company.
There are also a large number of private companies in the aerospace industry in the United States, and the Life Foundation is one of them. Their main business is the manufacture and launch of various satellites. They also have a lot of cooperation with the NSA. Of course, it is not right to say that it has nothing to do with pharmaceutical and biological research. The Life Foundation was actually established by a medical company. Its president, Carlton Drake, made his fortune from a pharmaceutical company, but for some reason he suddenly changed his career and put most of his energy into space exploration, creating a deep space probe.
But this does not mean that he has given up the pharmaceutical industry. On the contrary, the space program of the Life Foundation has been developed to its current level with the support of the profits of pharmaceutical companies.
When Kai was checking the information of the Life Foundation, he also found an interesting thing, that is, about a year ago, the company had a news report about a meteor shower crashing into the Life Foundation's deep space probe.
But Kai didn't care, just thought that the company was unlucky. He just thought that the Life Foundation was planning to develop some new drugs to recover after the deep space exploration project was defeated.
You know, aerospace is very expensive. If you don't have enough capital to enter this industry, you are just asking for trouble.
If you think so, they do have some reason to capture wanderers, to do biological experiments or clinical trials?
But this reason is not sufficient.
After all, for such a large company, recruiting volunteers is not a big expense.
Unless... their research itself is illegal!