The Catania family has great influence in the underworld, including many warehouses, restaurants, casinos, pharmacies, etc. Drizzt came to a restaurant.
"Are we on the right track?"
Lu Tan asked.
"I must be right. I can smell it."
Sia walked into the restaurant and smelled the aroma of food.
There are currently no customers in this restaurant in a civilian area. The employees are eating employee meals, which are pizzas with only minced meat and cheese on top. Compare this morning to the workers I heard about eating feed and feeling that they are making a profit. The gap is obvious.
"Can I have a piece?"
Lu Tan didn't think he was an outsider, he leaned over and asked.
The employees looked at the gangsters who brought the three people in, and did not dare to get angry or speak.
Lu Tan took a piece for himself, gave another piece to Shia, and put it into his mouth.
"It tastes good. It would be nice if I added some fruits, such as pineapple or something."
After hearing Lu Tian's words, the employees suddenly stood up, as if Lu Tian's words had offended them.
But seeing the gangster's thugs, these employees sat back and swallowed their anger and could only continue to eat the food on their plates.
"tasty!"
Shia finished a piece of pizza in three clicks, five by two, and looked towards the kitchen.
The gangster led the three people through the kitchen and to the cold storage.
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Drizzt didn't expect that he actually put the body in the cold storage.
Thinking about it this way, the meat used in the pizza that Lu Tan and Shia ate just now...
When he opened the cold storage, a gust of cold air hit his face. Drizzt saw no corpses. Only the frozen livestock hanging.
Lu Jian saw the man come to the innermost part of the cold storage and use the key to open a door.
Inside that door lay the gangster's body.
The corpse had obviously gone through a certain amount of struggle. It was not lying flat like Dr. House. The expression on his face was even more ferocious, as if he had seen something extremely terrifying.
From the man's abdomen, a glass flower bloomed. Due to the low temperature, the flower was also covered with a layer of frost, making it appear crystal clear.
Drizzt shuddered. He came to the body and took a closer look.
There are also traces of paint and paint on the gangster's body and clothes. It seems that these three cases were indeed carried out by the same person.
"Does it smell like perfume?"
He asked Lu Jian.
"have."
Lu Tan nodded.
"Can I take this piece of clothing?"
Drizzt asked the thug, who nodded.
He then took off the piece of cloth stained with paint and checked the contents of the gangster's stomach.
"It looks like ordinary bread, meat and vegetables, and the specifications are better than that of the call girl."
The examination of the body was quickly completed, and the gangster locked the door again.
"I'm a little curious. Do the employees in the restaurant know that there is a body here?"
Lu Tan couldn't help but ask.
"have no idea."
The thug replied.
"Then at least the pizza isn't made with human flesh."
Lu Tan gave Shia a thumbs up.
After investigating these, it was already getting late.
The streets in the civilian area are much cleaner than those in the black streets, and at least they are not that smelly. There is the sound of factory machinery running in the distance, but it is much quieter than where Drizzt lives.
People on the street at least look like individuals, and a comparison between the two can better reflect the differences.
Dinner was noodles with chicken legs. Drizzt couldn't bear to eat it, so he only ate a piece of bread. Lu Tan ate a big bowl, and Shia ate three bowls.
"belch--"
I also burped after eating, which was not ladylike at all.
"Why don't we investigate at night?"
Lu Tan couldn't help but ask.
"The dark streets at night are not a safe place. I don't want to get into unnecessary trouble."
Drizzt is still studying the paint. The color of the paint appears light blue, but also has dark green, dark red and other scattering under the light. It is very special and does not look like ordinary paint.
"There must be very few factories producing this kind of paint. It should be a breakthrough. In addition, I have also obtained the information about this gangster. He has no interaction with Dr. House and Flora. The last time he went to the underworld to collect rent, he did not
Didn't go to Dr. House's clinic or the Red Ballroom."
"Where does this perfume come from?"
Lu Tan asked again.
"I can't quite smell the perfume, so I can't confirm it, but tomorrow I can find a store that sells perfume and let you take a whiff."
Drizzt said.
After the meal, the three of them set off on their way back to Drizzt's Detective Agency.
The orange cat is still sleeping, probably spending 80% of the day in his sleep.
"By the way, you two had better attend the banquet tomorrow night. Maybe I need your help."
Drizzt added.
"oh."
Lu Tan responded and looked at Xia again.
"We have a big dinner."
"Yeah!"
Shia expressed her joy.
At midnight, the sound of bells came from a distance, making Drizzt drowsy. He looked at Flora's pendant, trying to identify what kind of flower it was.
Soon, with a blur of consciousness, he saw the flower blooming, just like the glass flower blooming on the corpse. He felt something inside his body was about to move, ready to break out. He struggled for a moment, and suddenly
I felt that a certain cold gaze was locked on my body.
Then, Drizzt felt someone shaking him.
"Wake up, look what this is."
He opened his eyes and saw the girl squatting in front of him. The surrounding area was no longer a rancid alley, but an old but neat house.
The girl seems to have grown up a bit, and more importantly, she is no longer unkempt. She seems to have taken care of herself, her face has been washed, and although the clothes on her body are shabby, at least they are still clothes. Their lives are much better.
The girl took out the thing in her arms, which was a sandwich wrapped in paper, with vegetables, sauce and meat sandwiched on white bread.
"I went to the guest's house today, and he brought me some food that he didn't want to eat. Look, it's meat. We are so happy."
She spread the food and handed it to Drizzt.
From her words and current state, Drizzt could already guess what the other party was doing to make money.
"You eat, I have already eaten. I ate a lot at his house. There are delicious things on the table. I can eat and work at the same time. He seems to like this very much."
The girl pushed the food towards Drizzt.
"By the way, there are also medicines. I bought cheap medicines that should be able to cure your illness. As long as you get better, our lives will definitely get better."
She took out another small bottle of medicine and put it on the table.
The girl opened the curtains. The weather outside was gloomy and there was no sunlight.
But her smile is brighter than the sun.
Her eyes are full of hope and longing for the future.
At this time, Drizzt suddenly noticed that there was a pendant on the girl's neck, between the slender collarbones.
The pendant is an unknown little flower carved from wood.