“Nothing. None of your business.” Gloria held the door exactly where it stood: “Don’t you have some water valve to fix?”
“I’ll ask again. What is going on?” The ndlord she air: “Sounds like you’ve just used quite a bit of rubbing alcohol and iodine alcohol. You are dealing with someone injured, huh? Someone unsavory you don’t want the others to know?”
Gloria stared at her ndlord’s eyes. The ndlord stared back at her. After a few seds, Gloria sighed, turned bad picked up the detective’s wallet she pced on a small table behind the door, lifted a few big bills from it and ha to the ndlord: “ing fee, and you better shut it about this.”
“Gdly.” The ndlord’s eyes lit up when he saw the bills: “This is a - a guy with a fat wallet huh? An old flirt or a er?”
“No, no and no - and one more word from you, I will dump him in the fug water tank.” Gloria narrowed her eyes.
“Alright, alright missy. It’s yuest.” The ndlord raised his hands while clutg the bills tightly with his fingers: “Just make sure he doesn’t die in my building. Bad for business.”
“You better tell this to the fuckers at the end of this hall as well.” Gloria shut the door.
After sending the ndlord off, Gloria found her phone charger and plugged her phone in, while she turned on the rec software to record what Marcus was saying.
“No - no! No! You ’t do that!” Before long, it seemed Detective Marcus Cai had fallen into a different dream, which caused him tle harder. The wooden bedposts to which he was tied started squeaking. “We worked on those! NOOOO!”
Gloria jumped up and quickly tapped the detective on several of his pressure points on his chest and shoulders. This forced him to y back down a out a long exhale. With this, Gloria put her right index and middle fingers on the side of the detective’s neck, a index and middle fingers oective’s heart position. Slowly and steadily, she pushed her Qi into the detective’s body to help him calm down and stabilize his breathing and flow of Qi. There was a little resista first and the detective te her a, but sootled back down and started breathing slowly. His sweating seemed to have slowed as well, and judging from the low mumble he spoke, his overall dition was stabilized, for now at least.
There was also a strange sensation ing through the tips of Gloria’s fingers wheried to push her Qi into the detective’s meridians. It was the Qi of the detective, blending in with hers and reverse flowing into her fingers, not in an aggressive way but in a gentle and almost nourishing manner. With her admittedly limited prior experiehis kind of thing rarely happened. It would only work this way, acc to what she learned from Luoshan Zi and some of her unnamed mentors, their Qi had good patibility with each other.
Someone knocked on the door, and she stopped with her thoughts and rushed to the door. It was Gyuu Park and Sue, somehow arriving at almost the same time.
“Okay, this apartment is not gonna be big enough, so let’s either squeeze a little, talk in lowered voices or talk out here.” Gloria whispered to her friends.
“In your apartment, it’s safer since we o keep it down anyways.” Gyuu Park whispered back.
“Agreed.” Sue nodded.
Three of them had to stand around the bed, as there was almost no more room in this tiny apartment.
“Okay, so this is your secret stashing pce.” Sue looked around: “So - so small!”
“It’s not like I afford a bigger pce.” Gloria shrugged.
“Which makes it a worse idea t the cop here! ” Gyuu Park rubbed his temples: “If the coppers came to find him, you’d be shit outta lud no room to escape.”
“That’s not gonna happen, he has no phone. And I have mih me. Plus he’s injured.”
“We ’t be sure!” Sue raised her voice slightly: “For all we know the city might have put trackers in his badge! Or somewhere way more invasive!”
“I don’t think that’s possible.” Gloria shook her head: “But the most important thing is, he’s also looking into somethied to the 15 year cycle. I just don’t know what yet. And - I am pretty sure he was on that ship as well.”
“... yes I see that you’d feel for him.” Gyuu Park nodded with his arms crossed: “But that doesn’t mean anything - we have at least a few dozen survivors of that i.”
“Most of whom are dead, or ying low, or have left the city already.” Gloria shrugged: “Last time I heard of some of them, they were involved in a suicide.”
“No - no - no! They - ” Detective Marcus Cai mumbled again: “They didn’t kill themselves! They - they were poisohey - Captain, please!”
“Well, that was - iing.” Gyuu Park frowned as he looked at the detective turning his head on the bed.
“Like I said, he has a lot more iing things to say.” Gloria nodded: “And - he just survived a Blood Rainbow, without actually log himself in or esg. I am not sure how many could have dohat. ”
“Last I heard only a few people.” Gyuu Park nodded.
“And he was injured as fuck. If I didn’t bring him over he would have died in that tunnel.” Gloria sighed: “And - guess what, if he brought that bad omen to a care ter of a hospital, that’d be kinda - kinda horrible.”
“But you are not worried about you or us at all?” Gyuu Park chuckled.
“Hey, we already know how to deal with it.” Gloria shrugged.
“Okay, okay, let’s not dwell on it.” Sue immediately waved her hands: “So - how are we going to deal with this? I mean, of course we’re going to have to deal with the omens.”
“I’ve already dohe basics.” Gloria sighed: “You know, as only advised. And I am prepared to do a puke test. I don’t think he is in a dition to do that though.”
“It’s fi’s fine. We’ll deal with it ter. I mean, if we’re going to do something soon, we will he information.” Gyuu Park shook his head: “And what has he said so far? Anything that could help us?”
“Not yet. Aside from the fact that he was also on that ship. And he was looking into what happened but got his iigation taken down by force.” Gloria scratched her head: “I will keep listening - hopefully he will reveal something useful. If not while he’s out, then awake.”
“No - no - they are anized … what are you saying!?” Right this moment, the detective mumbled again: “I don’t know - I don’t know why they tried to get children…”
