New Gods of North America.

Chapter 223 News
The next two days are off.

Wayne ate at some local restaurants and asked the chef to expand the menu. He also visited the police station and the church to make his presence felt so that he wouldn't be treated as a bad guy.

Doug was holding a small notebook and teaching the new members.

Wayne has come up with a new idea and is planning to come up with something like a "new employee manual" or "internal teaching material".

Otherwise, if Lina were allowed to lead the new recruits, who knows what kind of gang she would form.

For example, Wayne packed some local specialties to help Lina calm down, but he found that Willy and Emma, the two little kids, could basically "solve the problem within a minute" when faced with an ordinary padlock.

They can even play a "marathon" game. On the table in the room, there is a row of various padlocks commonly seen on the market. The time starts from the time the first lock is opened, and ends when the last lock is opened.

Willy was timing the task beside her while Emma started tinkering with a small tool similar to a wire. Surprisingly, she was quite fast and cleared all eight locks in just over five minutes.

Wayne looked at the little girl who was led astray, and felt his mouth twitching a little, "Really, Lina, you are teaching Emma these things all day long?"

Lina shrank her neck a little and said, "This is still good enough for me. If you let Emma study it herself, it would be even more terrifying..."

Wayne was a little unconvinced, "She's just a little girl, how scary can she be?"

Lina thought about it, and took out a rope and a pair of shackles with thin iron chains from the "tool box" beside her.

Then she called Emma over, handcuffed the little girl's hands and feet, and then tied her to a chair.

Emma cooperated with Lina to play house.
After tying him up, Lina clapped her hands and said, "Emma, show Wayne how you would escape in this situation?"

Wayne's spiritual intuition responded quickly.

Then he saw one of the little girl's handcuffed hands suddenly fall off and fall to the floor with a "pop"...

Then there was another "snap", and the shackles fell off with a "clang", but the ropes on Emma were still there.
Then the forearms, elbows, upper arms, feet, calves, and knees also slipped out of Emma's sleeves one after another.

Then even the head rolled down...

These fallen body parts "melted" into pieces of equal volume on the spot, slowly coursing towards Emma's bound body. The parts inside Emma's clothes also seemed to have turned into pieces, each full of vitality...

What the hell is this picture?!

Where did that cute little girl who looked like a doll go? Has anyone seen this big one?
And although it may seem a bit rude to say this,
But when Wayne looked at these gurgling pieces of meat, he felt that they looked familiar, as if he had seen them in Richmond before.

No wonder Doug's owl doesn't like Emma to touch it.

Finally, the pieces of meat pulled the clothes out from the loose ropes, crawled back in, and put themselves together to become a pretty little loli who stood up.

Lina spread her hands and said, "Look, if we use something to unlock the shackles, wouldn't it look normal?"

Wayne stroked his forehead, feeling that what Lina said made sense... At this time, Wayne had already imagined a scene in his mind.
For example, will the members of the detective agency one day pick up a piece of meat from the floor, look around, and think to themselves: Huh? This piece looks like Emma's?

It always seems to make sense, but it also seems like something is wrong.

So after telling Emma "Never do this in front of outsiders unless it's a critical moment", Wayne could only let the two little brats compete with each other in hand speed for the time being.

If they picked the lock, at most she would be taken to the police station, and they might not even be able to lock her up. But if someone saw her, she might end up in the church.

Inissa was sorting out her notes at the side, which recorded the extraordinary abilities in various fields in different categories.
At this moment, she was adding characteristics to Emma's extraordinary ability, and by the way, she had already written down the countermeasures below, such as "take away in pieces" and "ensure damage".

Hmm... this is very hunter...

The three chatted for a while, watching the little kid play and talking about the new members and the future development of the detective agency.

After the rest, the detective agency followed the steam train line to the place where the gang called "Gary Adventure" might commit crimes and wait for a while. If they didn't encounter them, they would go to look for the so-called "Thin Gang".

As for the legendary "supervisor", if there is a clue, just touch it, otherwise we will discuss it later.

As for the remaining small fry, it all depends on fate. If you can contract the security of this section of the route, let the agents from the office slowly clean them up. If they can't handle it, call in the main force.

Western Virginia is very mountainous, and many local specialties are actually so-called "wild vegetables" or "game".
The things that can be brought back as gifts are probably various types of American ginseng and dried sorrel. Deer head specimens are not expensive, but they may not be presentable - it is said that many people prefer to use the deer they hunted as specimens.

There are more things to eat locally. Although bear and deer meat is not available every day, it is said that it is not rare. The restaurant even offers fried squirrel, which makes Wayne always think that eating these things would result in a sentence of several years in modern society.

However, it turns out that there are practical reasons why many things fail to form a breeding industry.

Either it’s hard to raise, or it’s not tasty.

Everyone tried a little of the new dishes, and the regular meat was still the most popular.

Some American-style foods have become popular at this time.
Pickled boiled eggs and pickled oysters, which are common in western taverns, can also be seen in taverns here. Nowadays, their status in taverns is probably similar to that of peanuts in China.

And because Virginia is closer to the ocean, the pickled oysters here are at least the real deal, unlike the "pickled oysters" in Western taverns or brothels, which sometimes contain "prairie oysters" or various strange "eggs".

It is said that some great bartenders can tell which local pub or "tavern" you have visited before just by smelling it and judging by the differences in the various marinade recipes.

Time soon came to the evening of the holiday.

After purchasing the things, Doug counted the number of people and found that everyone was present, so they all had a good rest and prepared to set off tomorrow morning.

By the way, some not-so-good news was also brought back.

For example, the team led by Chris Mannix, who had previously discussed cooperation with Wayne, seems to have been attacked, and it is not clear who the perpetrators are.

(End of this chapter)