New Gods of North America.

Chapter 520 "Fish Fried"

After reaching a tacit understanding with the community "lizheng",

Lina, Liam and "Chameleon" each brought a community "headman" with whom they could communicate, as well as the tribesmen they called to help, and then began searching house to house in the community.

The "detailedness" of the search is always proportional to the "time consumed". After a whole day, they barely screened 80% of the community.

At dinner time, several people were invited to the home of a community "headman". When they met before dinner, Wayne had a headache again.

Damn, these guys are still fooling the detective agency as "white masters". Under this situation, there is no way they can find anything.

Although we told them not to shoot birds these days, stupid birds like parrots and peregrine falcons occasionally fly over the community. However, the birds can only track specific targets or monitor whether there are "extra people". They can't tell who are the ordinary Aboriginal people walking around in the community.
No matter how small the community is, it is not possible to complete supervision within the sight of a few people. Now both residential areas have been searched, not to mention finding the murderer, even the unregistered community residents have not been encountered - or maybe they have been encountered, but only when everyone goes door to door to confirm the people can they strictly compare the number of heads and names. It is still difficult to distinguish unfamiliar faces mixed in other places.

To put it bluntly, most of the time it was the "li zheng" (village head) who was in charge of leading the way and translating, who was playing tricks like "hiding the truth" or "sneaking into Chencang".
Before the inspection team arrives at the location, the news has probably already arrived. People who should not show up will be temporarily moved away in advance, and then when the inspection begins, it will appear that "everything is normal."

Unfortunately, it is still difficult to completely cover up the traces of daily life. For example, a family already lives in a crowded place, but they still reserve one or two extra beds for visiting guests. Or, there are only a few family members, but the clothes hung out to dry are not the right size for them.
The detectives have received relevant training in the detective agency. They may not be able to see too detailed situations, but it is not difficult to tell whether a bed has been "unused for a long time" or "recently used". Clothing and other things can be "detected at a glance".

They said the detective agency wouldn't care about their extra hiding of their clansmen, but the community "li zheng" obviously still didn't believe it...

Now that the secret has been kept secret, there are obviously many places in the community where people can hide. Who knows where the fugitive leader is hiding, or whether he has also been deliberately "hidden from the world" by the tribesmen.

Wayne thought about it for a moment and suddenly felt that what a factory manager said this morning was right. These aborigines were indeed difficult to manage. Not only did they stick together, but they also had many "little tricks" in their minds.
I can understand it, but I am not happy.

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As night fell, the few white faces in the community almost disappeared completely.
It's not that "the people are gone", it's simply that they "went home after get off work". Except for some people in the police station, schools and hospitals who are responsible for shift management, the real bosses have already finished work and closed their shops, and those who are still at work no longer go out.

"Since they won't cooperate and the person in charge is gone, why don't we think of a 'fish fry' tonight? What do you think?"

After dinner, Wayne and his friends refused the company of the community "village heads" and took a walk in the community to digest the food. Then he mentioned this idea to Lina.

"Frying fish" is not difficult. The problem lies in how to fry the most important fish. Wayne brought up this topic to see if the detective agency can come up with an idea king.

Anyway, the night is still long, and he can go out and meet Inesa and the others later. If that doesn't work, Wayne thinks that today's Ollie seems pretty good, and it is also a good idea to get a few "informants" among the indigenous people first.

If the person cannot be caught immediately, the community can simply be closed for a few more days. After all, the indigenous people do not need to leave the community to go to work, and the familiar white-skinned staff will not be stopped when they enter and leave.

Inesa and the others also got the cathedral warrant brought by Doug. According to the plan, they would conduct random inspections on the "outgoing" carriages outside. Unless there was a long enough tunnel here, Wayne was not really worried that the guy could escape. There were still some street lights in the community, but the natives did not know what news they had received, and they seemed to be hiding from a few people.
The community seems to be haunted. There is no one around, but you can always feel someone peeking at you in the dark, or when you look down the street, you see a figure, but when you look again, it's gone.

When Lina heard about "frying fish", she immediately became excited:

"How about we just kidnap that guy's family? Or how about this? We can burn down his house first, then drag his brothers and their families to the community square. If they don't come out for half a day, we'll kill one of them. If they don't come out for two days, we'll burn them all."

"..."

Wayne was a little speechless. If one day he was in doubt and wondered whether he should do something bad to disrupt order for his own selfish interests,
It seems that it is not only inappropriate to discuss this with Inissa, but it is probably not appropriate to discuss it with Lina either...

Otherwise, the little devil in my heart would say, "Let's do something bad secretly," and then Lina would say, "Okay, okay, okay."
Not to mention dissuading me, I feel like I don't hesitate at all...

Wayne's voice sounded a little weak. "Kidnapping someone's family and blackmailing them, if this kind of thing gets out, it will be publicly spurned by civilized society... I don't care about my reputation, but the detective agency has to continue operating."

"That's easy. I can just let Peter take a bite secretly. We don't have to really kill them. Just pretend. It's just acting. When the truth is revealed, maybe people will praise you for your wisdom in the newspapers."

"Hmm... that's a solution. Do you have any other ideas?"

"I guess there should be a place like a simple temple in this community - at least it should be more secretive than that basement. It seems that the extraordinary power there is too weak, or the key items may have been moved away - if we can find that place and threaten to blow it up..."

Damn, Lina, you are indeed a pretty girl who can raise spiders and crows for fun. If it were in the Middle Ages, the Holy See would have thought you were a witch and had you arrested and burned. That would be their incompetence.
If you think about it carefully, this trick is indeed quite powerful. Originally, other beliefs are not allowed to exist in the community. Even if there is a bomb, with the Holy Spirit Church at the head, no one would dare to publicly pursue it or make trouble. And if the community "heads" do not want the "temple" to be destroyed, they have to cooperate in finding the bad guys.

Unless in the eyes of these people, the fugitive leader is more valuable than the "temple", otherwise this is simply an open conspiracy.

This woman is so terrifying.
My idol image is still a bit too important.

Before Lina finished her words, Wayne had already figured out the connection, which made him worry that if he traveled to the Middle Ages, he would be burned together.

Then Wayne noticed that Lina's words actually "came to an abrupt end". Following her gaze, he saw two people standing silently in the distance, seemingly with no intention of avoiding him, as if they were coming with bad intentions.

Opening the vision of simple lines, I saw that the two, four, seven, nine, and ten people around me all seemed to be wearing masks, with "mosaic" on their faces.
Hey,

I didn't expect that the fish jumped out on its own without even having to be fried.

(End of this chapter)