Chapter 661: Take me to see your boss (two-in-one super chapter, please vote for me)
green olive street
A small cold drink shop at the entrance of the street.
"Old sir, what are you doing?"
The middle-aged shopkeeper, who was wearing an old-fashioned floral skirt and already had fine wrinkles on his face, brought over the prepared iced orange juice and placed it on the table in front of He Ao.
At this moment, He Ao was sitting on the sofa behind the table, while Jia Qian was standing in front of the table, half-squatting, slightly bending her knees, slowly raising her hands, her little eyes slightly squinting, as if she was feeling something.
"Teach children some fitness skills,"
He Ao said with a smile.
"This little guy has to learn this at such a young age?"
The shopkeeper glanced at Jia Qian in surprise, and then she seemed to remember something and sighed, "But in this day and age, it's good to learn some of these things."
Then she looked back at He Ao, handed the orange juice in her hand to He Ao, and asked with some confusion, "Mr., are you planning to enter the Green Olive District?"
"I want to find someone in there," He Ao took the orange juice from her hand and put it on the table, "Thank you."
"Do you have friends living here?"
The shop owner glanced at He Ao's neat formal suit, then looked back at the almost completely dark road outside the shop door, as well as the dilapidated buildings with shimmering lights standing on both sides of the road.
The clothes of He Ao and Jia Qian were incompatible with this dilapidated and chaotic place.
"No, I just came here to find someone."
He Ao shook his head.
"Old sir,"
The shopkeeper glanced at He Ao, hesitated, and continued,
"Don't blame me for talking too much. The entire city of St. John knows that the Green Olive neighborhood is the messiest and the poorest. To put it bluntly, it is a slum. The stores at the door like ours are better, and at least they can do business with the outside world, but this does not represent this neighborhood.
Case."
She paused and said, "The formal dress you are wearing looks expensive. After entering, you will inevitably encounter some extra troubles. Your accent should be from our local area. You should know that this neighborhood is the entire St. John's."
The only place in the city where the street sweeper comes twice a day,”
She looked back at the deep darkness again, like a street crawling with dark monsters, and then looked back at He Ao, "If there is nothing particularly important, I still recommend that you go back and don't continue in.
Already."
“Are there many people missing around the block lately?”
He Ao asked curiously.
"Many people go missing every day in the Green Olive neighborhood,"
The shopkeeper glanced at He Ao and knew that He Ao was not so easy to listen to. She sighed, "Different places have different rules. If you really want to go in, don't be surprised if something happens. It's best to go in there."
Take some cash from the bank outside and then go in.
"If someone from a gang asks you for protection money, just give it to him directly. They may ask for an exorbitant price, but the general first-time payment is one hundred and twenty federal dollars.
"If you pay this price, they will know that you understand the rules and will not make things difficult for you. If you successfully pass this test, then you are probably safe in the neighborhood."
"Do the people in this neighborhood earn more than one hundred and twenty federal dollars per week?"
He Ao asked softly.
The shop owner didn't seem to expect that He Ao would ask this question. She shook her head, "Except for gang members, almost none."
She sighed, "This is a slum, and most people have trouble even having enough to eat."
Speaking of this, she glanced at He Ao again and said, "Old sir, this dress on you is still a bit too 'gorgeous'."
Her words were hinting to He Ao that this formal suit might still cause unnecessary trouble to He Ao.
"Thanks,"
He Ao nodded slightly and did not go into depth on this issue. Instead, he asked, "How many gangs are there in this neighborhood? Do the leaders of those gangs live in this neighborhood?"
"Now the neighborhood is basically controlled by the largest gang, the Scorpion Gang,"
The shop owner thought for a moment and replied, "They control more than 70% of the area in the neighborhood. The rule of one hundred and twenty federal coins was set by the Scorpion Gang. I heard that although the boss of the Scorpion Gang is elsewhere,
Even though we have bought a villa, he still likes to live in the Green Olive neighborhood, but I don’t know the specific location of this boss.”
"I understand, please."
He Ao nodded in thanks.
"What's the trouble?" The shopkeeper shook her head and sighed, "It would be best if you don't go in."
She put away the tray that had just been filled with iced orange juice, and walked back to the counter of the store with her body hunched.
He Ao withdrew his eyes from the shop owner and looked at Jia Qian, who was still slowly posing in front of him, "How do you feel?"
"I seem to be able to feel it a little bit,"
Jia Qian opened her little eyes, looked at He Ao, and shook her head, "But they are not obedient."
"As long as you can feel it a little,"
He Ao stood up, raised his hands to the left, and made a palm-up gesture, "Come on, maintain this feeling, and do it with grandpa."
"good!"
Jia Qian nodded and made the same gesture as He Ao.
He Ao opened his spiritual consciousness and looked at his granddaughter.
Lines of subtle energy flowed through Jia Qian's small body.
"Come on, raise your hand and turn to the right."
Along with He Ao's slow voice, Jia Qian's movements also followed He Ao's movements to the right.
"Stop, maintain this action, and raise your arms a little higher."
While she was doing the movements, He Ao was also monitoring the flow of energy in her body. When the energy flow was unstable, he would guide his granddaughter to change her posture.
Then he would ask Jia Qian to repeat this action five or six times until Jia Qian completely mastered the correct action.
As time passed by, He Ao continued to teach his granddaughter new moves. These moves were created by him after he disassembled the boxing techniques of Alifia in the main world and mastered the basic principles.
Boxing.
This set of boxing techniques also contains some of Ridgit’s insights from when he first practiced physical training, as well as some of Ridgit’s fighting insights.
But in fact, this boxing method is not perfect yet, and there are still many details that cannot be integrated.
A set of holistic and logical practice methods is universal. It cannot only allow one or two people to use this method to practice, but allows everyone to use this method to practice, from the special to the universal.
However, He Ao's current boxing style has not yet gone through this step from special to universal. Many of his techniques are very effective if he uses them by himself, but if it were another person, they might be just showing off.
Of course, this boxing technique cannot be spread and practiced on a large scale. In the case of He Ao one-on-one, it will have another ending.
Because He Ao can adjust the subtle movements of the learner through his spiritual consciousness, so that this boxing method can completely adapt to the learner's body. In fact, based on this boxing method, he has customized a set for the learner that belongs to the learner.
An improved version of the boxing technique.
And this kind of tailor-made version, the speed of learning progress is completely unmatched by the universal popular version.
It took almost just over an hour for Jia Qian to master the method of mobilizing energy in the body.
Although the amount of mobilization is not large and the process is a little slow, she has indeed taken the first step.
In such a short period of time, He Ao was not going to teach her any deeper fighting routines. Instead, he simply taught her a few moves and made her familiar with this method of mobilizing energy.
To be precise, mobilizing energy is the core of He Ao's boxing technique.
In the process of mobilizing energy, Jia Qian can also become familiar with the rules and methods of energy operation in the body as quickly as possible. This is consolidating her foundation.
When she is familiar with the body to a certain extent, lays the foundation, and then learns the routines, she will basically get twice the result with half the effort.
Next, He Ao spent almost two hours making Jia Qian completely familiar with the energy mobilization method.
At this time, the shop owner also packed up his things and prepared to close the shop.
"Business here doesn't seem to be going well?"
The two glasses of iced orange juice had been finished long ago. He Ao finally bought two ice creams. This time it was Jia Qian's choice again, one strawberry and one vanilla.
During the few hours that He Ao taught Jia Qian martial arts, no other guests came to visit except He Ao.
"People living in the Green Olive neighborhood rarely buy this kind of cold drink," the shop owner smiled gently, "and my shop is located at the entrance of the Green Olive neighborhood. People from nearby neighborhoods go around the street when they see it.
If you keep walking, you will naturally not come to my place."
"Auntie, then you can't make money?"
Jia Qian's hands were on the bar, and her little head, which was only slightly higher than the bar, stared at the shopkeeper with some confusion.
"yes,"
The shop owner smiled and handed the two prepared ice creams to Jia Qian, "I used to do some odd jobs to barely support this shop, but it's hard to find odd jobs recently."
"How many years have you been operating here?"
Jia Qian asked curiously.
"It's been more than a year. In fact, I already owe the rent. This store will be due tomorrow morning. This should be the last time I open the door here,"
The shop owner seemed to be caught up in some kind of memory and felt a little depressed. Then she shook her head and looked at Jia Qian, "It's so late, kid, take your grandpa home."
She still didn't give up the idea of persuading He Ao to leave.
"Grandpa, we'll go back when he's done."
Jia Qian nodded. She raised the two ice creams in her hand, took a look at them, and then handed the vanilla ice cream to He Ao, "Grandpa, eat it."
"good."
He Ao took the ice cream and picked up the crutch leaning beside him.
The suitcase containing the child's ashes was stored in a locker in a high-end hotel.
"Bye bye, aunt!"
Jia Qian turned to the shop owner and made a goodbye gesture.
"Bye-Bye."
The shop owner also responded to Jia Qian.
Then He Ao and Jia Qian turned around, and the old man and the young man left the cold drink shop together and walked into the depths of the night.
The shopkeeper standing behind the counter looked at the disappearing figures of the two men and sighed softly.
She opened a locked drawer under the counter and took out a framed picture.
A young man in the photo frame is smiling shyly at the camera.
She placed the photo frame on the bar, then dug out a box of unlabeled pill bottles from the drawer.
She took a glass of water, opened the pill bottle, and poured the pills into her hands.
She raised her head and glanced outside the door.
After a brief hesitation, she slowly stood up and walked to the door, ready to press the closing button of the electronic rolling shutter door.
And when her finger was placed on the button, her eyes unconsciously cast their gaze into the depths of the night.
At the end of the darkness, it seemed as if there were two figures, an old man and a young man, walking along the decaying road deeper into the darkness.
Finally, she withdrew her hand from the button and poured the pills back into the bottle.
She did not cover the medicine bottle, but sat on the chair at the door, where He Ao had just sat, with the open medicine bottle and the slightly rippling water glass placed in front of her.
And her eyes were staring into the depths of the night, staring at the end of darkness.
——
He Ao, who was walking on the dark street, raised his head and glanced at the dimly shining buildings on both sides.
There must be a problem on Winter Street, but everyone knows that there must be a problem there, so the people behind the scenes will definitely try their best to cover up all the clues.
So now it's hard to get clues when you go there.
But the Green Olive Block is different. The missing eucalyptus involved in the Green Olive Block are ordinary missing eucalyptus and have nothing to do with the nightjar eucalyptus.
And the investigation is still very difficult.
Usually, people who want to investigate Nightjar Eucalyptus will be dissuaded by this difficult neighborhood and give priority to investigating the Winter neighborhood, which is more closely related to Nightjar Eucalyptus.
But is Green Olive Street really not related to Nightjar Eucalyptus?
You must know that most of the missing eucalyptus are related to raising pollution monsters, and the one who attacked Yin Xiya was a raised C-level pollution monster.
He Ao has reason to believe that the people who caused the disappearance in Green Olive Street are most likely the same people who attacked and killed Yin Xiya.
So, could this wave of people be related to the Winter neighborhood or even to the nightjar eucalyptus?
Therefore, the key to finding the person behind the Winter Block is not in the Winter Block, but in the Green Olive Block.
"are you sleepy?"
The night wind blew across their cheeks, and He Ao lowered his head and glanced at Jia Qian, who was eating ice cream.
Now, it's almost early morning.
"not sleepy!"
Jia Qian shook her head, raised her little head and looked at He Ao, "Grandpa, are you sleepy?"
"Grandpa is not sleepy either."
He Ao shook his head.
After starting to practice, the energy gained from practice can effectively reduce physical fatigue.
He Ao returned his gaze to the depths of the night.
Not far in front of them, there seemed to be a small 'building' that was still shining dimly.
Doing things at night has its advantages.
There are a large number of people living in the Green Olive neighborhood, so if you act during the day, it will be difficult not to involve ordinary people who have nothing to do with the incident.
Following He Ao's gaze, Jia Qian also discovered the small building.
The grandfather and grandson continued to move forward, approaching the light source.
"What do those two over there do?"
Before He and Ao reached the 'small building', a loud shout came from inside the building.
Only now did He Ao see clearly that it was not a building, but an unfolded parasol. Under the umbrella sat five gang members wearing bright clothes of different colors and looking fierce.
According to the relative distance from He Ao, the seating order of the five people is three in the front and two in the back.
"Find someone."
He Ao's body gradually approached the big umbrella.
The five people under the umbrella also discovered He Ao.
They looked at the combination of an old man and a young man, and their originally tense bodies relaxed obviously.
"There are old men and children wandering around in the middle of the night."
Sitting on the right hand side of the back, a man with a hairstyle like a cockscomb looked at He Ao and laughed, "I really feel like I have such a long life."
"Old man, do you know the rules?"
The man sitting on the left hand side in front took a look at He Ao's formal suit and smiled.
"A protection fee of one hundred and twenty federal coins?"
He Ao asked hoarsely, holding the half-eaten vanilla ice cream in his hand.
"Oh, someone knowledgeable?"
The man on the left in the back row glanced at He Ao in surprise.
"What do you know?"
The man sitting directly in front of He Ao, in the middle of the front row, stood up directly. He looked at He Ao's formal suit, "Old man, the crazy woman at the cold drink shop at the intersection told you one hundred and twenty federal coins, right? That's not the case now.
The rules have been changed, the rules have been changed, a thousand!"
He paused and glanced at Jia Qian, who was standing next to He Ao, "One thousand per person."
"You can change your rules as soon as you want."
Jia Qian took a bite of the ice cream, put one hand on her waist, and looked at the man with a milky voice.
"Hey, kid, look if there is anyone else around here?"
The man sneered and continued to look at He Ao, "Now, what we say are rules."
The other four people beside him also stood up.
He Ao glanced at the man.
He knew that this guy looked like he didn't want to let him go.
Usually, this kind of casual extortion is followed by killing people and taking wealth.
Human greed cannot be satisfied.
Especially in this dark, unsupervised environment.
The wind in the silent night brought an icy chill, blowing through everyone's hair.
"Why did you call the cold drink shop owner 'crazy woman'?"
He Ao asked calmly.
"As an old man, you still care about that crazy woman. Are you afraid that the old tree has blossomed?"
The man standing in front of He Ao laughed again, and his companions around him also laughed.
Jia Qian, who was biting ice cream at the side, raised her head and glanced at the man, but said nothing.
"Seeing that you care about others so much, I will tell you,"
The man laughed and said, "That crazy woman once had a son who disappeared while working near the block. She thought that the gang in the block killed his son, so she opened a shop at the door of the block and advised everyone like
People who enter the neighborhood go back.
"If it weren't for the fact that this crazy woman has a good relationship with the idiots in the neighborhood, is well-informed, and runs as fast as a mouse every time, otherwise we would have taken this annoying crazy woman away and sent her to see her
My son."
Having said this, he stopped smiling and looked at the ice cream in He Ao's hand.
"The ice cream in your hand hasn't melted yet. It looks like that crazy woman is still opening a shop tonight. I will deal with you later. I will kill that crazy woman and hang her body at the entrance of the block.
,It must be interesting.
"Lest some people still want to secretly send messages to this crazy woman behind our backs."
"So her son was killed by your gang?"
He Ao had no expression on his face and stared at him calmly.
"of course······"
The man looked at He Ao and sneered, "It's us~ Who told his son to be unlucky enough to wander around the block and be single?"
As he said that, he raised his head and walked towards He Ao step by step, "Of course, we also obey the boss's orders. Our boss likes to be alone, like you, old man."
He blinked and pulled out a fine steel dagger from his waist, "We have talked so much with you, but we have to settle it down after spending a thousand fortunes for each person, right?"
"There is a fee for escorting, so you have a part-time job at a nightclub?
He Ao watched them calmly. He was leaning on a cane. After using his other hand to signal Jia Qian to cover her ears, he continued, "Are you going to make a statement too?"
The man's expression changed. He raised the dagger in his hand and twirled it, "Old man, some people used to be very good at talking, but since they lost their tongue, they can't speak. I'll give you one last chance to speak.
Hand over all your money, otherwise..."
He glanced at Jia Qian beside He Ao and said, "This little friend of yours looks to be the right age."
He Ao's calm face darkened for the first time. He looked at the man and said in a hoarse voice, "Usually I don't let children play with uncles who perform at nightclubs."
"Old guy, you're looking for death."
The man suddenly moved forward and stabbed He Ao in the neck with a knife.
At this moment, Jia Qian on the side let go of the hand covering her ears. She grabbed He Ao's right hand holding the crutch with one hand, and then used it as a support to jump up and support her entire body horizontally with one arm.
He stood up and kicked the man in the stomach.
The man didn't react for a moment and was kicked out. His body hit the center pole of the big umbrella and he spat out a mouthful of blood.
The dagger in his hand also fell to the ground.
"The old man is still good at fighting,"
The man vomiting blood watched Jia Qian let go of her hand and fall back to the ground from He Ao's crutch. He laughed ferociously, "But times have changed!"
At this moment, the other four people suddenly took out pistols from their pockets.
They didn't shoot before because they wanted to prevent He Ao's formal clothes from being damaged. After all, it was likely to be 'their thing' soon, but now they couldn't care so much anymore.
While the four men raised their guns, He Ao took a step forward and disappeared suddenly.
His crutch hooked the wrist of the gang member on the far left, jammed his arm, and with a sudden swing, the gang member flew away and hit the other two gang members next to him.
The three of them flew out together and hit the wall in the corner.
At the same time, He Ao raised his crutch and looked at the last person who was still standing, aiming at him and preparing to shoot.
boom--
The crutch with wood grain crossed the hazy light like an illusory shadow and hit the man's neck.
Card--
With an extremely slight sound, the man's cervical vertebra was directly shattered by the powerful force, and his body went limp and he collapsed to the ground.
He Ao looked at the man vomiting blood with calm eyes,
"Times haven't changed."
At the same time, he stepped on the dagger on the ground with his toes and exerted force suddenly.
The sharp dagger cut through the night and shot out with a sharp sound.
At this moment, behind He Ao, He Ao had just hooked his wrist and thrown him away, knocking two of his companions away. However, because the two companions were using him as a cushion, the slightly injured gang member sat up from the ground.
He picked up the pistol on the ground and pointed it at He Ao.
At this moment, the dagger that cut through the night arrived in front of him, accurately pierced his throat, took his body backwards, and nailed his body to the wall behind him.
The wooden crutch followed the gravity and passed through He Ao's palm, and finally fell to the ground, where He Ao held it in his hand to support his body.
He stared at the man vomiting blood with somewhat turbid eyes, his expression as calm as ever,
