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44. The Fast and the Furious

:) Like today he tried to stop a car accident.

...Although he succeeded, the process of stopping was full of unexpected things that made him doubt his life.

Xiaojiju: Who am I, where, why is there a naked man flying towards me?

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Originally, after wandering around in New York for a whole day, he just wanted to sneak home before May found out. Unexpectedly, he saw the takeaway lady who had met several times before on the road.

Speaking of which, she was also present during the car accident today?

Although she had only become impressed with her until today, Peter couldn't help but stop and quietly followed her and took a few more glances.

It feels...he...a bit like a pervert who follows a single woman?

No, no, no, no, no! He is just worried about her safety! Are there few girls in New York who are alone in the middle of the night? Without her, there will be no deliveryman willing to send that super-delicious pizza from Manhattan!

The little Spider righteously found a reason for herself, and then followed the other party with peace of mind, intending to escort her home before leaving.

Although you should speed up when you have to walk at night and try to walk where street lights are available, for some reason, the takeaway lady does not follow these rules at all and is not fast. She seems to be not worried about danger at all.

She kept lowering her head and doing something along the way. With her good night vision ability, Peter saw clearly that she had been wrapping bandages on her hands.

Is it injured? He guessed.

He fell behind her not far or near, and the two of them walked slowly for more than ten minutes. The girl finally stopped and raised her head.

Peter looked up in her eyes.

This is a well-known high-risk neighborhood in Queens, and the building in front of me is mostly empty due to various reasons.

Does she live here? It seems that it is not very safe... The little Spider thought with no confidence.

Well, but maybe her family lives here.

He watched the takeaway lady go upstairs and heard the noise and entered the room on the third floor. After waiting for a while, he carefully touched the window corresponding to the room. He planned to leave when he saw the other party turn on the light.

...And then he saw the dark hole.

The window glass had long been broken, leaving only sharp glass fragments, which looked like the giant mouth of a monster who chose people to eat.

The cold wind whistled into the empty room, and the strange howling sounds echoed repeatedly.

You can even vaguely see the bare floor from the window, a thick layer of gray accumulated.

Little Spider: "..."

I feel like my heart has suffered a heavy blow.

Why, how, can you be so poor?

Their family's financial situation is not very good, and Mei's salary can only support his high school tuition. He also needs to try his best to get scholarships and achieve excellent results in the competition to ensure that he can go to his ideal university.

Although I know that the deliveryman's income will definitely not be very high, I saw with my own eyes that the girl who had just been impressed today still looked alone in such a place... This scene still subverted Peter's worldview.

He has also seen many sins in the past ten days, and knows that many people can only struggle to live, even earlier... He knew that the world is not completely warm and friendly.

As a top student at Midtown High School, he naturally began to discuss the political system of the United States, the economic policies of the government, the gap between the rich and the poor caused by the Matthew effect, and various dark reality that cannot be changed in the short term... But seeing and hearing and truly realizing that the people around him are experiencing these are different.

Peter knew that this kind of thing could not be solved, it was different from fighting crime. He finally glanced at the still dark window and turned around and left.

... Rania didn't know that her poverty had caused a good young man to slide into the abyss of sage learning. She only knew that if this continued, her poverty would almost become a fixed meme in her colleagues' mouths.

"The boss has given you a raise, why are you still so poor? Are you losing weight?" Mike was surprised early in the morning when she looked at her poor breakfast that she had completely followed the healthy recipes. "Lania, you will faint if you lose weight like this. Why don't I invite you? Isn't it good to have a devil cake to heat the dog?"

Why are you poor?

Eat... Recharge after eating.

Rania thought with a faint sadness.

It is getting heavier = the flight mode needs to be maintained at all times = Although it shouldn't theoretically, the flight mode is an increase in power consumption = the need to eat frequently.

In addition, American corn syrup is flooded, and sugar is cheaper than water. Instead, natural fruits and vegetables are more expensive. If you want to eat healthy, you have to spend more money...

The electricity consumption is fast, the poverty, the Engel coefficient is over, and Rania cannot get up.

She has worked very hard to survive, but it really won’t work if she continues like this.

After taking a tweet and checking in for breakfast this morning, Rania decided to discover her ability to see if she could find a way to make a fortune.

Although the home screen originally had some applications that need to be downloaded in the store, not every app can be used. Some app icons are gray and the following says "Installation". However, after installing for so many days, it has not been installed, which makes Rania have to wonder if her Internet speed has exploded.

——Even system files are included.

Why is the [Clock] also being installed? Because it can delay shipment by integrating the alarm system?

Rania was puzzled.

The guest at the next table was playing match 3 game, and Rania glanced casually. The other party may have played this game for a long time, with three strings of 0 followed by the number of gold coins, and there are also quite a lot of stars.

...

If she plays this, will the money be directly recorded?

Worth a try.

Rania suddenly looked serious, glanced at the game name, opened the store and started searching.

Stark's wifi speed is very fast. After a while, the game called [Dream Garden] was downloaded. She scratched her heart and waited for the progress bar to reach her head. After finally loading, a company icon lit up in front of her eyes, and a fresh and cute picture slowly unfolded.

[You live in a big city...busy streets, bustling crowds, and endless traffic...]

[You begin to look forward to the trees growing outside the window and the birds singing...]

【Suddenly one day, you received a letter…】

At this moment, a push flashed above the screen, and Rania glanced at it. It was an email from "Austin"—

The email content and the subtitles produced by the cutscenes are exactly coincidental.

"Hello, my name is Austin, your uncle's housekeeper, you have inherited his beautiful mansion and a lovely garden.

Come and check out this place. I'm sure you'll fall in love with this safe, friendly, and comfortable city.

Austin.”

Rania: "…"

Hey.

This is.

Her blinking frequency began to increase.

...Suddenly, she was a poor man who had to live in a house. Did she have a house?

Her abilities are getting more and more...

Great!

Rania showed no sign of her face, and she had already started to roll around with happiness. She raised the corners of her mouth and ran quickly to click on the email.

At the bottom of the email, Austin affectionately told her that her lovely big house is located in Gotham, New Jersey.

Rania remembered this name and happily cut to the home screen, her heart full of expectations for the future.

——It must be a safe, friendly and comfortable place.

Rania reported several avatars one by one before she left the Twitter page and breathed out.

Since all the killers have come to the door, we must not be able to live here anymore.

...A few hours later, the girl in a denim jacket and jeans walked slowly on the streets of Manhattan.

She stopped at the intersection, looked up at the towering building in front of her, pursed her lips, and pressed the cap on her head down again.

The mobile phone desktop floating in her field of vision can be locked at any time, and it will not affect Rania's vision. You can search by clicking on the map provided by the system. Therefore, the only factor that hinders her from going out is her uncontrollable swallowing.

Since it is her own...the ability, no matter what it is, she should be able to control it.

Perhaps she had a firm belief that when Lania left the apartment, she was already... able to turn on and close her devouring ability as she wished.

...But the corresponding apartment was no longer left in the floor.

Rania tried her best to prevent herself from thinking about how many messy things were in her body. She found a restaurant and went in cautiously without sitting down. She just ordered a drink and stood by the window. Through the glass, she could see the building across the street.

New York in November was already a little cold. Lania's nose was a little cold as she walked along the way, but just the light and fashionable clothes of New Yorkers who came and went, she could not tell the scent of winter.

There were no suspicious people on the street, but thinking that since they were collecting information, the other party could not wear sunglasses, chewing gum, sitting in the car with expressionless faces like in the movie. It is obviously a major project that requires perseverance to find these people and follow the clues behind the scenes.

It is impossible to say that she is not curious about why she was targeted, not to mention that she has no direction for her past. Apart from tracking this matter, she doesn't know what she can do, so even though she knows that there will be dangers behind this matter, she can only grasp this fragile straw.

There was also some money that was found in her pocket. When Lania left, she only took away her clothes and a complete set of identity documents. Interestingly, the names on these driver's licenses and other things were different from those in her memory.

Rania bit the straw, her thoughts floated, and suddenly a vague conversation came from the front desk and penetrated into her ears.

"...In this weather, how can we recruit people who are willing to send food to the city?"

That's it. Rania thought.

She got up and left the seat, walked towards the front desk, bit her lower lip, and whispered in a low habit: "Disturbation, I heard from you, you want to find a deliveryman, right?"

...

As the clerk talked about, when there was no salary advantage, it was indeed wrong for those who were willing to send food all over the city in this weather. Of course, Lania's face also added a lot of points to her. At least two clerks enthusiastically recommended her to be a waiter instead of delivering food.

"This is the boss' number, and mine. If you have anything to do, you can find me." Mike, one of the clerks, wrote down the phone number and handed it to Lania, and even jokingly squeezed her eyes.

...I don't know if she can call "herself".

Rania accepted the number and thought silently.

Now she doesn't have enough money to buy a new phone to pretend, so she has to find some ways to cover up the phenomenon that she can make phone calls without using her phone...

For example, siri?

As the intelligent voice control function of Apple's products, Lania, which integrates an iPhone, can naturally use it. She modified the settings, turned on the "Allow Hey Siri" function, took a deep breath, and adjusted the natural tone.
Chapter completed!
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