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Chapter 30 Section VI

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The next morning, Wu Ze didn't even eat breakfast, and was thinking about the wording of the letter. He handed the rough draft to Kantaro and asked him to rewrite it.Kantaro wrote neat words like typeface on the letter paper. Wu Ze put the letter and the paper with the bank account number written yesterday into the envelope, and several people packed up and left the hotel.They bought breakfast at a convenience store and took a taxi to Shinjuku House while eating.Seeing that there was no one around at the door, he quietly stuffed the letter into the mailbox in Room 1001, then quickly took the elevator and pressed the buttons for the ninth and tenth floors.Takezawa, Yahiro, and Kantaro came down from the ninth floor.

"Then please." I really found someone to go up to the tenth floor. Entering Room 902, in the empty room, Lao Tie was hugging his knees like a baby, sleeping with his mouth and eyes half open. "Old Tie, I bought some breakfast." Wu Ze greeted him, and Lao Tie suddenly let out a strange cry, hugged his knees, and jumped abruptly from the ground, and he didn't know which muscle he used. "Scared... scared me to death... scared me to death..." "There's no quilt, it's cold." Baxun put the white jacket that was sent over Lao Tie's shoulders, and Lao Tie covered his chest with his hands, as if trying to grasp his heart, and let out a long breath.

"Ah... I, fell asleep... Hey, I think I just fell asleep for a while." Wu Ze handed the plastic bag from the convenience store to Lao Tie. "I bought rice balls, sandwiches, and coffee. Eat something first, and then go back to the hotel to sleep. I stayed all night." "Oh, it's okay. I can sleep here for a while." "Did anything happen upstairs afterwards?" "Nothing happened. No one came to the office." Wu Ze and the others sat on the ground as yesterday.Old Tie ate a few mouthfuls of breakfast sleepily, then lay down again, hugged his knees, put on a Baxun jacket as a quilt, and closed his eyes.The other three pricked up their ears silently, listening to the sound coming from the receiver speaker.

After getting off the elevator on the tenth floor, Zhenxun came to the corridor.To the left of the corridor is a railing with peeling paint.Although it was already the tenth floor, the railing only reached Shinhiro's chest. I really don't like high places. When he was in middle school, Shinzo only thought about committing suicide once.Escape from the school, climb to the top of a nearby tall building, and look at the small figure far below.There is a park in front of the high-rise building, and the mother is playing with the children in it, and the children's energetic shouts can be heard from time to time to the roof of the building where Zhenxun is located.She stayed there until night, but finally she didn't have the courage to jump off and gave up suicide.Back at the apartment, Zhenxun hugged his sister and cried for a long time.Since then, she has felt that the high place is the place farthest from happiness, and she doesn't like it anyway.

Zhenxun leaned on the railing with one hand and looked down quietly.There is a small two-story building next to it. Looking at its square roof from above, it is a bit like the camera overlooking the boxing ring when a boxing match is broadcast on TV.There is a square boiler-like machine on the roof.Thick tubes.A handful of people seem to seldom go up.T-shirts, plastic bags and other things that came from nowhere were scattered on the concrete floor. Leaving the railing, Mahiro walked along the corridor.Room 1001 is the innermost one.Zhenxun's throat tightened, and he walked forward slowly.She stood in front of Room 1002, the second door from the bottom, and took a deep breath.

Then, Mahiro rang the doorbell. Waited for a while, but there was no answer.Mahiro rang the doorbell again.There seemed to be movement in the door.Finally, a strange sound of "Boom... Boom... Boom" came from inside, as if someone had bumped into something inside the door.Then a long sigh came through the door, and with a click, the lock inside opened. "--Who are you?" A thin female face was exposed, she was about twenty years old, she had long brown hair, a tight red T-shirt, a pink pullover that reached to her knees, and below that were carefully shaved white bare feet.

"What's the matter... so early." The woman poked her head out from the crack of the door, squinting her eyes at Mahiro.I don't know if I was drunk or not awake. "Drunk, sleep in the morning." It turned out to be both. It's not easy, I really want to.It would be great if the opponent was a middle-aged man. I was the best at dealing with it, but opponents like this were the most annoying.But of course you can't say that.Only bite the bullet. "Ah... sorry, I, the room..." While talking, Mahiro turned sideways to look at the nameplate by the door.

"I'm on the ninth floor... Hey, is this the tenth floor?" What to do, Zhenxun covered his mouth with his hands.The woman let out a long sigh and smacked her lips. "Forgive me, just fell asleep." The woman scratched her head and was about to close the door, when Shinzo said "I'm sorry" and stopped her, then looked up and down for a while, and asked cautiously: "Um... my sister, are you the hostess of 'pairets op torebian'? " Zhenxun made up a shop name at random.The woman opened her mouth and yawned, pulling a thin strand of saliva between her teeth, and then smiled unabashedly.Correct facial features, slender face.If she dresses carefully, she is really a beauty.Pity.

"What's that? It sounds like you have no taste at all. How can I work in a place like that? I'm 'Grace''s bartender. Hey, you know?" Why!Mahiro clasped his hands in front of his chest, showing a surprised expression. "'Grace'? Really? That's my dream store." Although it's a store name I've never heard of.But Mahiro still made the sound of longing as enthusiastically as possible. "Looking forward to?" The woman frowned, as if very impatient.However, there was a little smug look deep in his expression.The woman looked Mahiro up and down without any scruples.

"What, are you also a hostess? You can't tell at all, you still look like a child." As the woman spoke, she smoothly smoothed her tousled hair. The word "vision" seems to be working, albeit a little more formally. "Oh, that, I'm not a hostess yet, but I've always dreamed of becoming a hostess one day... It would be great if I could work in a place like 'Grace' sometime." The woman snorted.The short snort fully shows the sense of mockery and superiority. "I advise you to give up. Drinking is a very tiring job." "Well, is it? But I've been—"

"I don't have to stop you, really don't do this business. Everything will happen..." The woman ran her hand through her hair and looked into the distance.Mahiro showed a shocked expression, was stunned for a moment, and then resolutely turned to the woman. "However, I always feel that this encounter is not accidental. The room where I rang the wrong doorbell happened to be the hostess of 'Grace'." When it comes to the name of the store, Mahiro's voice is still full of emotion. "Sister...I know it's rude to say that when we first meet...Um, can you introduce me to the store?" "Introduction? Oh, no." The woman scowled and twisted her body. "But, I really want to go to 'Grace', I want to try." "In this case, you can go directly to the store to apply for the job." "Sister, do you think there is no problem?" Zhen Xun asked anxiously, and the woman looked at Zhen Xun for a long while, and finally said with some reluctance: "Well... it can be done. I don't know." With a feeling of blooming flowers around his face, Mahiro spreads a bright smile. "Really? I'm so happy to be told that by a real hostess. I feel confident now. Going to 'Grace' tonight." Then, Shinhiro whispered again: "However, I don't want to enter the store on the same day as my sister... With someone as good-looking as my sister, customers will definitely not come to my place." A smile flashed across the woman's face. "Perhaps. Better not on the same day." "What day of the week does my sister go to work?" "I don't have a fixed time... Well, I go to the store every Wednesday and Friday." "Ah, then I'll ask the store manager to arrange a time other than Wednesday and Friday for me to have a look." "I don't know what the store manager will say. Picking your own day..." Yes, Zhenxun responded with an energetic voice, nodding his thanks to the woman.During that movement, Shinzo's gaze swept across the room—there were five or six pairs of ornately decorated high-heeled shoes on the sanhe soil.As far as the eye can see in the room, you can see many scattered solid-color clothes, as well as a very cute small dressing table.There are nail clippers and mascara on the dresser.Obviously living alone. "Sister, thank you. If my wish comes true and I can work at 'Grace', maybe I will see you again in the store. Please take care of me then!" "Ah... oh, you too." The woman's drunkenness and drowsiness seemed to have completely disappeared, and she retreated into the hallway.The door snapped shut. "Wednesday, Friday." Can't hear anything from the receiver.In order to relieve the tension, Wu Ze took a sip of the water in the plastic bottle he brought. There was a sound of opening the door from the entrance, and Zhenxun came in.Everyone looked at her in unison. "--How about it?" When Wu Ze asked, Zhenxun replied unceremoniously: "It's done." "Lonely hostess. Basically go to the store on Wednesdays and Fridays." "Oh, that's nice. It's Tuesday . . . the nearest is tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow." Zhen Xun found out when the residents in Room 1002 would be gone.If there are people next door, this battle will not be successful. "Sorry for asking you to do such a troublesome thing. It would be great if only Lao Tie and I could do it." It is inconvenient for Wu Ze and Lao Tie to go to the tenth floor, so they can only entrust this matter to Zhen Xun.Everyone knows the looks of the two of them, and it would be bad if they meet in the corridor.It is even possible for Wu Ze to directly hit the fire. "How's it going here?" Shinobi bent down beside Wu Ze, who was wearing overalls, and picked up a plastic bottle to drink water. "Heard nothing. They seem to be late in the morning." "It was all here at eleven o'clock yesterday." The old man looked at his watch.It is eight thirty-two in the morning. "In about two and a half hours, they will come." "I guess so." But did not wait until that time.About an hour later, the first sounds came. The sound of the door opening.Then there was the sound of a door closing violently.Approached with two feet on the floor.There was a metallic clicking sound, as if he was sitting on a metal folding chair.Click, click, click, click, click—like fingers tapping something. "Very impatient... I don't know who it is." After a while, there was another sound of opening the door.The sound of heavier footsteps entered the room. "Oh, Nogami." "Oh, morning." It sounds like the tidier was the one who entered the office just now, but Nogami is the one who entered the office now. "What is that... letter?" After a moment of silence, Nogami's moaning voice was heard. "Hey, hey... what is this, the bank account has been completely found out." "Oops, Mr. Nogami. What should we do?" "No matter what to do, we must first contact Huokou." The two of them didn't speak any more, and after about twenty seconds, the voice of tidying up people came again. "Ah, I'm sorry, Mr. Fukuchi, there's something...not good." The sorter seemed to have called the crater.He briefly explained the situation and read the letter that had slipped into the letterbox verbatim.Then followed by "Yes...Yes...Yes", echoing the other party's voice; from time to time, there will be a louder "Yes", which is probably because the voice of the fire mouth is also severe.Just listening to the speaker through the receiver, Wu Ze was already fidgeting, and his pulse speeded up a lot. "... What did Mr. Huokou say?" Nogami's voice.The organizer seems to have hung up the phone. "It is to let us withdraw the money in all accounts as soon as possible. If the account is frozen, it will be bad if we can't pay the protection fee." "What should I do with the money I withdraw?" "Concentrate on this office for the time being." "Great!" The old iron yelled.Wu Ze couldn't help but clenched his fists in front of his chest.But when they heard the next sentence, the two of them shut their mouths at the same time. "Because there are only safes here." "Well, it's true that so much cash can't be left anywhere. It's better to put it in the safe here." "A safe..." Wu Ze couldn't help but said in a low voice.The other four people also looked sad.It seems that the cash that was wanted to be seized is about to be received in the safe. "Tomorrow evening, Mr. Huokou will ask someone who knows more about the urban usury extermination group. Find out about the "a certain organization affiliated to the city government" written in the letter. Let me go with you." "What will the office do during this period?" "Leave it to Mr. Nogami and you are responsible." "Tomorrow evening..." The residents of 1002 happened to be away at that time.In Room 1001, there were no burners or organizers.In other words, no one knew Wu Ze and Lao Tie. So on this night, Wu Ze and the others made the final discussion of the plan.Go deep into every detail and leave nothing to chance.
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