Vol 2 Chapter 64: Needle in a Haystack

Posen opened a crumpled paper bag and found a small piece of oat bread and dusty thumb bacon inside.
With joy in his heart, he raised his head and glanced at Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao. Seeing that they didn't pay attention to themselves, he wiped the bacon and stuffed it into his mouth.
Then, ignoring the complex and unpleasant smell around him, he bit on the small piece of oat bread.
Perhaps because he was afraid that the food would be snatched away, he gobbled it up, and soon choked himself.
However, he was an experienced scavenger, skillfully took down the tin-white water bottle he had picked up before, and took a few sips.
At this moment, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao are looking for possible clues from the piles of garbage.
Those garbage packed in bags and classified into categories are relatively pleasing to the eye, allowing them to inspect efficiently, while the various types of garbage that are poured directly into the bucket are mixed together, stacking up the wet and sticky environment of fermentation, and some of them are already Rotting, the taste is very touching.
Hearing the sound of Posen drinking water, Jiang Baimian wearing a gas mask turned around and looked at the scavenger.
He was in his forties, his eyes were blue, his face was full of wind and frost, and the pale yellow beard around his mouth was messy and messy, stained with a lot of debris and drops of water.
After completely swallowing the food that was choking him, the scavenger raised his left hand and wiped his beard.
Jiang Baimian noticed that his hand was shaking slightly and unconsciously.
After thinking about it, Jiang Baimian took off the rubber glove of one hand and took out a photo from his pocket:
"Do you know this cigarette?"
That is a picture of the flag cigarette taken by Gnawa.
Posen screwed the lid of the kettle and pointed at himself with his left finger:
"Are you asking me?"
"Yes." Jiang Baimian replied in the affirmative.
She was about to say that she could pay a little bit of remuneration. Posen had already looked at the photo carefully and said:
"This is a banner cigarette. Its filter is short and useless. It smells almost tasteless."
Compared with other cigarettes in the city at the beginning, the banner cigarette is not only very strong in taste, close to the soil smoke, but also famous for a short filter that does not have any effect.
"Have you smoked?" Shang Jianyao asked curiously.
Perhaps the two of them didn't grab the food they found. They belonged to the type that can get along with each other in peace. Posen was no longer as alert as before, and said with a smile:
"I can occasionally find some cigarette butts in the trash room. They are of various brands. As long as they are not wet, I will pick them up, find the fire and light them, and take a couple of mouthfuls to feel the taste.
"If you can find some food that day to fill your stomach, it would be even better."
Posen has discovered that the goals of the two people in front of him are not the same as his own, and the two sides seem to be in no competitive relationship.
Hearing picking up cigarette butts and smoking, Jiang Baimian's eyes lit up and asked patiently:
"Do you know all kinds of cigarette brands?"
"I have smoked some before, and there are often discarded old newspapers in the trash room with advertisements for all kinds of cigarettes." Posen said proudly, "I know words!"
Jiang Baimian immediately asked:
"Then where did you find the banner cigarette butt?"
Posen recalled:
"That time I went to the Green Olive District to sell all kinds of things I picked up. I picked them up on the road when I passed by the port. I was looking forward to it. The result..."
As a result, customers of banner cigarettes would smoke a few puffs of cigarette butts before discarding them. In addition, with the short filter design that has no filtering effect and cannot block certain ingredients, the residual taste is almost zero.
Jiang Baimian was a little disappointed at once, and asked as confirmation:
"You haven't found this kind of cigarette butts in these blocks?"
"No." Posen shook his head affirmatively.
Jiang Baimian thought about it again:
"Then which buildings have you been to in the past week?"
She is going to use the elimination method.
Posen thought about it carefully:
"Guide Building, Hearst Apartment..."
As he said, he pointed with his right finger.
Jiang Baimian found that his right hand also had some problems, which was not so handy.
After writing down the name of the building of the Posen Newspaper, Jiang Baimian stood up, walked out of the garbage room, and took out the walkie-talkie in a quiet place nearby.
"Guide Building, Hearst Apartment... put it in second place, and prioritize other buildings on the list." She gave orders to Bai Chen, Long Yuehong, and Genava.
After getting a positive reply, she put away the walkie-talkie and went back to the garbage room just now.
At this time, Shang Jian Yao and Posen had a very happy conversation.
"Are you looking for something? Don't worry, there are still several hours before the garbage truck will come." Posen comforted his new friend.
"Yeah." Jiang Baimian nodded, then squatted down again, putting on the rubber glove.
Posen rummaged through all kinds of rubbish, looking for food and valuable items, and laughed:
"Something interesting can often be found here.
"In the previous winter, I found a bag of clothes in an opaque bag. Guess what?"
Shang Jianyao responded cooperatively:
"Coat, padded jacket?"
"No, no," Posen shook his head.
He smiled and said:
"There is a pair of dark blue socks, a pair of black leather boots, a pair of silk underwear, a pair of black trousers, a white shirt, a black waistcoat, and a black formal suit. They are the kind that nobles like to wear the most, and They are all very new and there are no traces of stitches."
"This sounds a bit weird." Jiang Baimian's thoughts turned, and he probably understood what was going on.
A certain nobleman learned the style of Redstone's forensic dandy Weller and comforted other people's wives. As a result, they went home early and blocked him in the house.
He didn't care about putting on his clothes, climbed out of the window, and fled hurriedly in the state of "the emperor's new clothes".
Afterwards, he either met the entourage guarding nearby, or found the sheriff in the name of being robbed, or followed other people's clothes to dry.
The wife was afraid that the clothes and shoes left by him would be discovered by her husband, so she hurriedly put them in the bag, took them down in the name of taking out the garbage, and threw them into the garbage room.
Posen was about to respond when he found an apple that was mostly rotten.
His eyes lit up and he put it in the linen pocket he had brought.
After doing this, Posen smiled and said:
"Yes, I can imagine a love story.
"It's a pity that I didn't dare to sell that suit in the Golden Apple District and the Red Giant Wolf District. It could only be sent to the Green Olive District, but I also changed a full 5 ore.
"It was a wonderful month..."
Shang Jian Yao listened with gusto and expressed his opinion:
"That suit is worth at least 50 ore."
"50? At least 200!" Posen retorted.
Jiang Baimian glanced at him and nodded slightly:
"You seem to be educated?"
"I am a citizen." Posen emphasized, "I once joined the army."
"Then how did you become a scavenger?" Jiang Baimian asked curiously.
Posen was silent for a moment:
"I used to be the one with the most accurate marksmanship in our battalion and made a lot of credit. Later, in a war, my right forearm was injured and my movements became less flexible, so I left the army.
"I was allocated a lot of farmland at that time. I lived in the southern suburbs and lived a good life for several years. Until that year, the weather changed drastically and the grain output dropped sharply. The Senate refused to help us...
"Later, I couldn't bear the debt, so I could only sell the field to an aristocratic master and entered the city by myself..."
Jiang Baimian deliberately asked:
"Then why don't you go to be a relic hunter and seek a living in the wasteland of the North Bank?
"At your age, there should be some oil in the tank."
Posen gave a bitter smile:
"On the day I found that the debt interest rate was unbearable, my left hand began to tremble from time to time.
"I can no longer use a gun with both hands..."
After a brief silence in the garbage room, Shang Jianyao asked seriously:
"Then do you hate the Senate for not helping you?
"Hate those nobles who took the opportunity to provide usury and annex your land?"
Posen's expression changed a few times, he lowered his head and looked at the ground and said:
"Hate, how can you not hate?
"Hum, Jasper, Paris... died one after another before they were exchanged for those lands, but in the end they got into the hands of the nobles who didn't take any risks in the war."
Suddenly, he lifted his head and roared in pain:
"We citizens, one after another died, to have the current'First City', but they just want to deprive us of our land and send us to those factories!
"Most of the slaves in the factories have not survived for three years!"
After listening quietly, Jiang Baimian and Shang Jianyao looked at each other.
For the first time, she felt so truly the internal contradictions of the "First City".
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Alpha Building, attached to the garbage room.
Bai Chen and Long Yuehong also wore gas masks, and Gnawa searched for all kinds of trash.
There are a large number of companies, chambers of commerce, and apartments for employees. They were originally not on their checklist today, but the situation reported by Jiang Baimian made them abandon the Gade Building and Hearst Apartments.
"It's really a test of patience." Long Yuehong almost used a needle in a haystack as a metaphor.
Bai Chen glanced at him sideways and said:
"It is this kind of place where it is almost impossible to find clues, so that the true ‘priest’ can be careless.
"Hurry up, you have to find here before the garbage truck arrives."
While she was speaking, the movements in her hand didn't stop at all.
As unofficial personnel~EbookFREE.me~ They must avoid when there are too many people to search for rubbish. At the same time, they have to grab the before the truck takes away the rubbish. , Who knows where it comes from.
"Okay." Long Yuehong endured a little nausea and continued to work.
In this regard, Gnawa has no discomfort at all.
As time passed quickly, Long Yuehong picked up a thin plastic bag and dumped the garbage in it on the ground.
His eyes swept away, and his eyes suddenly froze.
There are several cigarette butts with short filter tips in the trash.
This is the of the banner cigarette!
Long Yuehong subconsciously raised her head, looked out of the garbage room, and looked at the 27-story Alpha Building.
PS: At the beginning of the month, I ask for a monthly pass~ I should not have the energy to write a monthly summary in the past few months. Everyone is considerate, laugh