"Let's put the video aside for now," Weiwei glanced at the girls in front of her, "Tell me your purpose."
She checked the occupations of several people on the map, and as expected... they were prostitutes at the bottom of Gotan. She could guess that from their thin and revealing clothes, but it was a magical thing that these people came to her.
The prostitutes, the low-level sex workers living in Gotan, are not at fault for selling their bodies to make a living. In the process of receiving customers, they always get infected with various diseases, and the more serious ones are drug addiction. Engaging in sex work is illegal in Gotan, and Weiwei can arrest them, so these people came to her at the risk of being arrested.
“Ha…” The girl in charge of the negotiation was still the one in a struggle. She took several deep breaths and suddenly stepped forward to grab Weiwei’s hand. “We want to report the case. Please, I beg you… We, we want to report the case because you are also a woman and because you saw the video, so… please, I beg you…”
She burst into tears before she could finish her words, and the hands that were holding Weiwei were shaking. Weiwei used a little force and held her hands back, which calmed the child down.
Weiwei: "You can describe the case now."
They went to the back door of a nearby bar. Several people, some older and some younger than the girl, followed her like little ducks.
"You must understand our work... It happened ten days ago," she said with a wry smile, "My little sister was strangled to death by a guest in bed."
The girl's name is Ruiti. After her parents were abandoned, she was adopted by an old prostitute. When she grew up, she naturally became a prostitute herself. The old prostitute had a daughter, who was 14 years old this year and died in bed the first time she served a customer.
The business of prostitutes has never been stable, and most of them died early. The old prostitute was actually just 30 years old, but under such a blow, she immediately fell seriously ill and was about to die.
The other women had all been helped by the old prostitute, so they saved some money to buy her medicine, but it didn't help much.
Ruti saw the video about Bella on the guest's mobile phone and knew that she was a policewoman. She impulsively chose to go to her to "report the case".
"I just want that man to pay a little money," said Reti in a trembling voice, "Just a little, because the money we saved is not enough to send Curry's mother to the hospital, just a little bit..."
She said with tears streaming down her face, "If you kill someone, you should pay for it, right?"
[You get the side quest: Tears of a Nightingale]
[“Just pay a little money”, this is Ruiti’s wish. Do you want to fulfill her wish and catch the “guest”? Please get more clues about the case. ]
[Mission Reward: 1000 Gold Coins]
After playing the game for a month, Weiwei naturally discovered that the money on her panel was gold coins, while the "money" spoken by other people was US dollars. She could only convert US dollars into gold coins one-way, and the exchange rate fluctuated. Sometimes seventy or eighty US dollars equaled one gold coin, and sometimes forty or fifty equaled one gold coin. There was no regularity in this fluctuation.
Even if calculated according to the lowest standards, the reward for this mission is equivalent to 40,000 US dollars, and all the prostitutes here may die of illness before earning 40,000 US dollars. The "little money" they want is not even forty gold coins.
"Child," Weiwei stroked her hair, "Do you know? In Gotan, sex work is illegal."
Ruiti had a confused look in her eyes. With her level of education, she only knew that she should avoid the police, but she didn't know why she should avoid them, because in their eyes, the police and gangsters were the same kind of people.
It seemed that one of the women around knew what was going on. Her gaze changed instantly and she took several quick steps back. She wanted to scream but didn't dare to, and she wanted to run away but was worried about her other companions.
"Relax ladies," she raised her hands to show that she was harmless. "I accept this report, but I can't open a case without sufficient evidence. Do you understand? After all, I have neither seen the body nor the name of the murderer."
This is the process of investigating a case in the real world, but Weiwei was just talking. Of course she would investigate the case, but now she needed some rhetoric.
Under Ruiti's nervous and impatient gaze, Weiwei continued, "If you take me to see the old prostitute now, maybe I can lend you some money to send her to the hospital first, and then we can talk about the case - of course, this money is a loan, not a free gift."
But this was enough to make Reiti cheer!
The others also relaxed. Weiwei wanted to hold Ruti's hand, but the girl who had grabbed her arm before dodged.
She smiled shyly: "No, no, it's too dirty."
Then she walked in front, leading the way for Weiwei, her steps much more brisk than before.
She quickly followed Ruiti's lead to a corner of the boiler area, which was densely populated with low houses. It was a civilian area within a civilian area. Before entering the house, Weiwei hung a ribbon-shaped flower bud as big as an adult's palm on the roof. She didn't explain anything, but lowered her head and walked in.
This ribbon flower is the flower of the colorful street trees - of course, the one on Crime Alley is not blooming yet.
This was bought by Weiwei from the gold coin mall. It can be purchased repeatedly. It is called [Evil Thought Flower]. It does not glow and is very low-key. Most people will ignore its existence. It will bloom only under the nourishment of evil thoughts. After blooming, an eyeball will appear in the center of the flower, acting as a monitor and transmitting the image to Weiwei's system panel - if new food, that is, evil thoughts, appears around, then the monitoring screen will turn red.
Weiwei is not just strolling around, she also arranges flowers along the way. Now there are thirty flowers on the small map.
This advanced monitor is quite cheap, you can buy one for 100 gold.
There was indeed a woman lying in this simple house. She should be only 30 years old, but she looked like she was in her 40s, with half of her hair white.
Facing this woman who forced her daughter to be a prostitute and was traumatized by her daughter's death, Weiwei changed her tactics. If she had used a simple method, she might not have been able to get any clues about the case.
So she leaned over to the woman's ear and said, "I know what happened to your daughter, and I can send that man to jail. Do you want to see him being punished?"
The woman's pupils suddenly widened. She coughed, gasped, and stared at Weiwei: "If he spends some money... cough, he can go out..."
“That may have been the case in the past,” Weiwei said, “but now I’m the warden of Blackgate Prison.”
Oh, she seems to be a deputy, and she has a boss who is tall and fat and his name is Joseph or something?
——Forget it, this person is not important.
The old prostitute held her wrist and blinked her cloudy eyes. Weiwei held her back and said, "Now, you should go to the hospital. I will pay for the treatment, but it is not free. You have to work to pay off your debts."
"Let me finish," Weiwei picked her up with one hand, and the woman continued, "She doesn't know... the man's name... they always pretend, I have never seen that person... but I heard that he asked... to call him--"
"Martin Dad."
Weiwei sent her to the best hospital in Gotan. Before she fell into a coma, the old prostitute asked Ruiti to follow her.
After all, the case happened ten days ago and the body had been burned, but Riti also knew something - after all, the house here was not soundproof at all.
"That man, he might have taken drugs, for pleasure or something, and then he strangled my sister to death," said Reti, who may not know that being a prostitute is illegal, but she knew all the drugs on the bed. "We only found out about this in the morning, and there were clear handprints on my sister's neck."
Weiwei thought for a moment and said, "Come with me to the police station first."
This was her first time... um, one day, stepping into the GCPD.
It was still busy as always, but her former colleagues couldn't help but glance at her when she passed by.
Is that video really that popular?
Weiwei decided to go back and take a look. This game Easter egg seemed quite interesting.
Since she has the support of professionals, there is no need for Weiwei to work hard on her own - she can just ask Ruiti to help her make a "suspect portrait" and then arrest the person by looking at the face.
Weiwei went to find Qiao as if she knew the place well. At this time, besides Qiao, there was another strange man in Qiao's office. He was handsome and had a perky butt, which made Weiwei couldn't help but take a few more glances. The appearances of the other NPCs were randomly generated by the machine, but this man must have been drawn by an artist with even his hair, right?
But after listening to her description, Qiao frowned: "If we can't file a case, we can't use the machine."
"There is no evidence, no body, no definite suspect," he said. "Of course I want to believe it, but even if I draw a portrait, I can't issue a wanted warrant, and it will waste police resources. Who can prove that this is not a dispute over prostitution?"
Hearing his words, Ruiti, who had been hiding behind Weiwei, poked her head out and stared at him unwillingly, but she was sobbing and unable to speak.
Qiao sighed, "Let's go and do the portrait, but you can't take the photo with you... that's the rule."
If Joe was afraid of trouble, he could have chosen not to do the portrait, but he compromised.
"Wait a minute," the man who had been silent came over and looked at Reti, "Girl, you just said he was on drugs... then maybe we can issue a wanted warrant?"
He shrugged his shoulders: "In fact, the case I'm investigating is related to drug distribution, and maybe I can find clues from this case..."
Everyone (except Reeti) could see that he was just trying to help.
Ruti didn't even make it clear what kind of drug it was, maybe just a stimulant, but now that the man had spoken, it was two cases combined into one, and they could be filed for investigation.
"My current clue just happened to be broken," he said. "Hello, Officer Bethwin? I am Richard Grayson from Bludhaven. Because of a drug smuggling case, I need the cooperation of the Gotham police. I hope we can cooperate happily."
"Hello..." Weiwei stretched out her hand halfway.
Richard added, "You can call me Dick, too."
Weiwei pulled her hand back.
Dick: “……?”
"Oh, by the way," Weiwei said, "I also hope that we can work together happily, but I am no longer a police officer of the GCPD."
She introduced herself with a smile: "I was promoted just yesterday and am currently the warden of Blackgate Prison."
——The deputy has never worked a single day.
——But these are details and are not important.
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