Chapter 16. The Statue of the Angel of Liberty
First of all, I can't take the child back. Li Wei was not sure if she was her own flesh and blood. The intuition told him that it is likely that it is not, and this little girl has a problem.
Secondly, he also had to hold the baroness's thigh, and at least he could not give up the baroness's line until he resolved the threat of the Red Moon Curse.
In the end, he would not take care of his children. Although Li Wei was a human being in his two lives, he had no fiancée or married. His wife was limited to paper people. The most communication with women came from self-media platforms, the kind that did not show their faces, so he didn't understand the creatures of children at all.
"Dad, where are we going?"
Li Wei pinched the banknotes in her pocket and whispered: "Let's go to Queens."
"oh."
The child may not know the Queen, but she knows that it’s right to follow her dad.
...
Queens.
Levi brought Little Leah to the rental apartment. The little girl held a pile of food in her hand. When he took the key and unscrewed the door, Hal's face happened to appear at the door.
“Hal.”
"Bruce, why are you here?!"
Levi pointed at Leah, and Leah shouted: "Uncle, are you my dad's friend?"
Hal was stunned, looked at Levi, then looked at Leah, and said in surprise: "Dad?"
Li Wei was silent for two seconds, and before the neighbors poked their heads out to watch, he took the child into the door.
He said helplessly: "Yes, her name is Lea, and she is my daughter...Lea, this is Uncle Hal, but he is not your mother."
The Victorians got rid of their tramps, dressed well and were polite, and their neighbors loved such a new friend.
Har knew where his changes came from, and couldn't help but worry: "How do you plan to explain to the Baron?"
While helping Leah wash her face, Levi said, "I am the Baron's personal trainer, I will find a chance to tell her about the rest."
Hal sighed, "How could you have a daughter?"
"Don't uncle like me?"
"How could it be, my little Lea, you are so cute, how could anyone not like you?"
Lea looked gloomy: "When Dad was away, many people didn't like me, and they treated me badly. Fortunately, Aunt Jenny took me to find my father."
Hal immediately looked at Li Wei and said righteously: "This is your fault!"
"Shut up."
Li Wei covered his forehead, and things were a little out of his control.
The fortune teller said that he could find a way to obtain the blood magic ring from the industrial area, but this method was definitely not the little girl in front of her. She was not an ember at all, and there were no ring marks.
"I have to try again, hopefully it's still time."
Levi immediately stood up and left, and he instructed Hal: "You take care of Leah here and don't let her be hurt..."
Hal nodded repeatedly, and he was still counting on Li Wei, so there was no reason not to agree.
Lea said reluctantly: "Dad is leaving?"
"Yes," Li Wei squatted down, held the little girl's hand, shaking her big hand, and said softly, "Dad is going to work, Uncle Harr will be here to accompany you. Don't worry, it's safe here."
"Well, I will wait for my dad to come back!"
Li Wei left with confidence and returned to the industrial area. This time he avoided most security guards and walked around from the afternoon until the sun set. He never found any useful clues, so he had to return to Norman Manor.
...
On the other hand, shortly after Levi left, Hal took out a pizza and smiled and said, "Can we make a game?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he accidentally slipped his feet, threw away the pizza, and his head hit the chair.
Just a second before the tragedy was about to happen, the middle-aged man unexpectedly found that he was not bleeding. He slowly opened his eyes and looked at Leah in surprise.
He actually floated in the air, including the pizza!
A ring lit up on the little girl's chest, like a bright moon!
Moon halo ring seal!
Lea said uneasy: "Can Uncle Hal keep it a secret for me? I don't want my dad to know."
She paused and repeated, "I'm not a freak."
Hal swallowed hard, then focused his head.
"I promise!"
...
Levi, who had nothing, returned to Norman Manor, and like yesterday, the Baron was waiting for him in the studio.
But this time there were two more people, one of which was Li Wei, Bai Shiyi, and the other, wearing a straight police station uniform, his beard was very beautifully trimmed, and his face was full of smiles.
Levi retreated his gaze and whispered: "Barcelona."
Mapel nodded slightly, looked at her guest, and said lightly: "Bruce is my employee, my personal trainer, not my servant, nor my slave. You can convince him yourself."
Bai Shiyi smiled without saying a word. The police station clerk first spoke, he said, "I'm very happy to see you, Mr. Bruce, I'm Michelle, the deputy general manager of the New York Police Station, this time..."
"What's up?"
Li Wei interrupted the other party's politeness indifferently.
The deputy chief proclaiming himself Michelle didn't mind his rudeness and said with a smile: "Mr. Bruce, our city is facing an unprecedented crisis. I hope you can join a temporary team to prevent the disaster from happening. We will provide very generous rewards, including inhibitors of the Red Moon Curse, and the opportunity to become embers."
There is no doubt that this is a blank check.
But Li Wei's left is Baron Norman, and Bai Shiyi on the right is. The former has the grace of recreation, while the latter has the grace of knowing and meeting. The two of them work together. Even if there is a pit in front, he can only jump down with his teeth.
What's more, the price tag offered by the Deputy Chief of Police Department is exactly what he needs.
Li Wei pulled a chair, sat down facing the three of them, and asked, "What happened?"
He didn't ask why he came to me, and he meant to join the team by default.
Michel took out a file bag from behind, and Li Wei frowned and whispered: "Where is the Federation facing a crisis of disintegration, is it the world going to be destroyed?"
He opened the file bag and turned on the first page, with the title saying:
"In the unprecedented crisis of the Anken Federation, some people deliberately blow up the statue of the Angel of Liberty in New York!"
The statue of the Angel of Liberty is a gift from Gaul eighty years ago to celebrate the separation of the Anken Federation from Victoria's control, gaining freedom and becoming an emerging country.
A lot of things happened within eighty years. The arrogant Corsica I was defeated and burned himself under the siege of three countries, and his body was gone, and Gaul was destroyed.
The westward movement of the Anken Federation drove the indigenous people to the edge of the map, completely controlling the entire continent, and becoming the world's great powers in one fell swoop.
The most famous landmark building in New York, the statue of the Free Angel, represents the friendship between the Anken Federation and Gaul. Although one of the parties is gone, the value of the statue is still there, at least it can be used to sell tickets.
Now, someone has set his sight on the statue and tried to blow it up.
Chapter completed!