nightcrawler in los angeles

Chapter 3

Tao Xi saw that the cloth had been completely soaked by the "Break Medicine", Tao Xi picked up a piece of wood from the ground, bit it on his mouth, and slapped the cloth on his back~
numb~
cool~
There is still a little sting~
But Tao Xi just snorted!
But Tao Xi sighed in his heart. Fortunately, Marco and Hill were not there, so Tao Xi didn't have to pretend that he didn't feel any pain at all.

I don't know how long it took, Tao Xi lay on their wooden bed and fell asleep again~
When Tao Xi woke up, the sewer he was in had already been illuminated by sunlight.

Tao Xi looked at the sunshine around him and seemed to suddenly think of something, and a carp came up with a jerk and was ready to jump up~
"Sigh~"

"I'm really not used to it!" Tao Xi slowly got up while supporting the ground with one hand and the wall with the other.

Tao Xi deliberately slowed down his movements a lot in order not to let his own body hurt too much, but fortunately Hill was considerate enough to put all Tao Xi's clothes on the wooden bed when he left.

Tao Xi washed his face casually with the water left in the bucket, and then he didn't care to see whether the radio he was thinking about was good or bad~
Tao Xi picked up the jar full of cigarette butts, hummed the song Tao Xi learned from the sewer at the entrance of the video store, and walked unsteadily in the complex sewer~
Tao Xi walked, jumped and climbed along the way~
When Tao Xi saw that the sewer he was about to pass by was filled with sewage without knowing when, Tao Xi pointed to a section of the drain pipe protruding along the manhole cover not far away and yelled at the empty sewer: "You guys Aren't these bloody capitalists afraid that your children might drink the waste water!"

Tao Xi, who was pinching his nose, kicked away a mouse that was trying to swim through the sewage, sighed, then held his trouser legs and waded towards the sewer that was already full of sewage~
This piece of sewage seems to have been drained for a long time, and only half of Tao Xi's body is left in the deepest place, but fortunately, Tao Xi's water quality is not bad!

But I never thought that Tao Xi turned around and cursed just after passing through this sewage area: "You **** capitalists are really immoral! Don't you know that the Olympic Games will start soon! Spending some money to install drainage facilities is no better than you Is it much stronger to discharge sewage casually!"

Tao Xi ran all the way for an unknown amount of time and finally found a tap water pipe~
Tao Xi skillfully found a valve, and after he turned it clockwise, water flowed out from a water outlet~
Tao Xi hurriedly sent his whole body under the water outlet, Tao Xi cleaned up the sewage on his body while drinking the water from the water outlet~
"It's so far away! If this group of people can't give me enough benefits this time, I'll let them hang out for a week!" A gray vest was tied around the waist by Tao Xi, and Tao Xi, who was naked from the upper body, looked up at the people not far away. A drain only the size of his head sighed.

Looking along the drain, there seems to be a lot of people on it, and the crowd can still hear the movement of shouting slogans~
"Tsk! It's not late to hurry up, they haven't finished their run yet." Tao Xi hurriedly took out the can full of cigarette butts that he had been carrying in his pocket.

Tao Xi carefully placed the cigarette butts in the jar one by one in a position parallel to the drain~
Just as Tao Xi was taking advantage of the sunshine to pat his cigarette butt, a whistle of "Dididi" suddenly came from directly above the drain~
"Hey, did the running exercise end so soon today?" Tao Xi muttered in a low voice, then quickly got up and ran towards a wooden stick standing at the drain~
This wooden stick looks very smooth, and it seems that people often play with it~
And there is a small pocket bent by the wire at the top of the stick~
Tao Xi held a wooden stick in one hand and put the other in his waist, staring at the movement of the drain~
"Hey! Brat, old rules, I want the best butts!" Accompanied by these words, half a human face appeared the size of the drain.

Tao Xi was not surprised by this person's appearance. Tao Xi directly sent the wooden stick with the pocket in his hand to the drain outlet and replied: "Old rules."

Hearing Tao Xi's words, that half-face disappeared into the drain and stretched his hand in~
At this time, he was still holding a penny in his hand. When Tao Xi saw that the penny was put in the pocket of the wooden stick, Tao Xi said crisply, "Shall I choose for you?"

"Quick, quick, whatever! I've been holding back all night, you really don't know how it feels to have no cigarettes in prison."

Tao Xi didn't agree with this person, but lowered his head and picked up 10 fairly long cigarette butts on the ground, put them in the pocket of the wooden stick, and handed them up.

That person above is also very neat~
After taking out all the cigarette butts from his pocket, he walked away, but soon another person approached his face~
Tao Xi served more than a dozen people very skillfully. When there were fewer and fewer cigarette butts on the ground, a timid voice sounded~
"I, I heard. You can smoke here, right?"

"Yes sir, no credit for petty purchases, ten cigarette butts for a cent."

"I have no money~"

When these words sounded, there was a sudden noise from the drain~
"Go away! You still have to wait in line without money, don't you know that we have a tight time for release! Don't you want the guards to block us!"

Tao Xi nodded in agreement when he heard the words from the drain outlet, but the person who finally got in line did not give up~
Tao Xi first heard a muffled hum, and then the sound of people dragging on the lawn~
Tao Xi, who heard the noise, nodded in satisfaction and secretly decided to give this voice an extra cigarette butt next time~
But the man being dragged away clearly didn't give up: "Please, I'm going to die if I don't smoke tonight! Please!"

As soon as Tao Xi heard this man's words, he immediately guessed how he got into the prison, whether it was drug trafficking or drug use, or it was possible that he was sent to the prison just after he successfully rehabilitated drugs.

"Okay, okay, I'll give him a few, everyone is a hard-working person, let's forget it this time, next time you must ask your family to give you enough money, you will be very miserable if you don't have money in prison!" Tao Xi While talking, he bent down and picked up the cigarette butt.

Tao Xi above didn't know what happened, anyway, when that person came back again, he kept muttering "Thank you, thank you".

"Hey! Little Taosy!"

"You look more and more like your grandfather!"

Tao Xi immediately replied enthusiastically after hearing this voice, "Uncle Bolton! How are you doing recently? Last time I heard from your subordinates that you were sick, and I told Marco to go to Chinatown to get you some time." What about the medicine!"

The person who was called Bolton's trainer had a rough voice. Although he couldn't see his face clearly, it could be seen that Tao Xi knew him very well~
"Hey! The medicine is no longer needed!"

"Give me a few cigarette butts too, the taste in your mouth is a bit weak!"

When Tao Xi heard Uncle Bolton's words, he obediently put the cigarette butt left in his hand into his pocket and sent it up.

Bolton, who was sitting at the drain, seemed to be very capable in the prison, so he lit his cigarette butt and smoked it, and no one came up to disturb him from the shadowy figures around him~
After all, those who came to buy cigarette butts just now planned to smoke secretly at night~
A whiff of tobacco smoke wafted in, but Tao Xi sniffed the smell carefully~
Bolton, who heard the movement of the sewer from above, made a joke instead: "Yo! Little Taoxi has grown up? He even wants to smoke!"

Tao Xi shyly shook the back of his head when he heard this ridicule and explained: "No, I just want to smell what kind of smoke it is~"

But Bolton, who was sitting at the drain, did not answer Tao Xi. Instead, he said to himself, "Recently, a few Mexicans have entered the prison. They are a little uneasy, and things are a little troublesome."

When Tao Xi heard this sentence, he asked directly: "Then uncle, will you use the things I saved you with me to fetch you?"

"A few Mexicans won't do it!"

"Just take some time to help uncle buy something from outside."

After Bolton finished speaking, a big hand with a skull tattoo stretched out~
"Drip drip"

A whistle sounded, and the original black shadow of the drain also lit up~
A ray of sunshine shines in the sewer~
Tao Xi went to pick up the note on the ground and the dollar wrapped in a rubber band, put it in his pocket and left~
This hole is the confidence that an old Gnar dared to take in two little guys who escaped from the orphanage in the sewer seven years ago~
This drain is also the only place for foreign "trade" in Prison 86, the largest prison in Los Angeles!

As for the guy named Uncle Bolton by Tao Xi just now, he is the underground king of this prison!
Although Uncle Bolton never told him why he went to prison~
But Tao Xi can more or less guess it, and his "uncle" cooperated with his grandfather Old Gnar, Tao Xi can no longer remember the year!

But Tao Xi has served Bolton for seven years, but his "uncle" not only has no intention of being released from prison, but as time goes by, his reputation in No. 86 Prison has become bigger and bigger!

Tao Xi and his three brothers rely on this drain not only to allow them to stutter when they can’t find a job on the street, but also when something big happens in the prison, the third brother can also have a good meal~
Of course, this rubbing meal is just for three people to eat a hot dog without meat~
After turning around and leaving, Tao Xi saw the sewer full of sewage again. When Tao Xi saw that the water in the sewage outlet had reached his neck, Tao Xi frowned and instinctively wanted to make a detour to leave!

But the moment Tao Xi turned around~
Tao Xi seems to have suddenly seen something~
Tao Xi first ran into the sewer and stared at the garbage bags floating on top of the sewage, and exclaimed, "Hey, this seems to be waste water from a paper mill!"

Tao Xi held a piece of waste paper that had just been fished out of the sewage in his hand and looked over carefully, not paying attention to the fact that the waste paper was still "ticking" with stinky water~
"Mei-Australia Paper!"

Of course, Tao Xi knows that the United States and Australia Paper Industry is famous. After all, a block 5 kilometers away from the sewer where Tao Xi lives is named after this factory, but an idea suddenly popped up in Tao Xi’s mind~
But I don’t know why Tao Xi forgot as soon as he spoke~
Just throw away the waste paper~
Tao Xi grabbed the hair on his head and squatted on the water pipe thinking for a long time!

Suddenly, the voices of Hill and Marco flashed through Tao Xi's mind~
"Grandpa Gnar said that the father of a classmate of Hill's was the general manager of the American-Australian Paper Company in the suburbs of Los Angeles County, and directly recommended his son to Caltech. It was because of this that Hill got into trouble with his grandfather."

At that time, Tao Xi was still immersed in the secret of making a deal with the prison drain for the first time, so excited that he couldn't help himself, so he said to Marco casually: "When I have money in the future! If I don't need Grandpa Gnar, I will Get Hill into a good college!"

【Tao Xi, grandpa is sick!I don't have that much ability to get you all to school, after I'm gone, if Hill says something immature again, you hit him like I did, just hit him. 】

【grandfather!Don't worry, I will definitely let Hill go to college! 】

Thinking of this, Tao Xi rubbed his eyes vigorously with his hands. He sat cross-legged on the tap water pipe for a long time, and then turned around and crawled towards the valve control of the drain pipe secretly occupied by the paper mill~
Because of the injury on Tao Xi's back, Tao Xi did not go into the water this time, but crawled along the water pipe towards a depression in a drainage pipe!
It is better to say that the valve control station is a large number of large and small centralized control consoles for controlling the switch openings of the sluice gates. The Los Angeles County Water Department built this console at the bottom of the manhole cover for the convenience of workers, and the sewage just did not flood here. ~
The large and small handles on the valve control are enough to dazzle an outsider. If one accidentally closes the wrong handle of the valve~
Maybe the next day this person will have to be picked up by the Los Angeles County Water Department and sued you in federal court!
But Tao Xi hesitated to determine his goal after watching it for a long time~
Tao Xi tried it for the first time~
When Tao Xi found that his strength was not enough to turn the switch, Tao Xi turned his head and ran to a corner, found a steel bar, inserted it into the gap of the switch, and used leverage to turn the switch!

Tao Xi saw that it could be twisted and turned down, Tao Xi immediately turned his head and looked over, and the valve at the drain outlet not far away really fell down~
"Hey! I'm lucky, so I was right!"

But when Tao Xi turned the valve halfway, Tao Xi stopped twisting it, and Tao Xi turned around and went to another sewer, picked up a lot of garbage and threw it into the sewage~
Tao Xi went back and forth a few times like this. When Tao Xi saw that the water channel in front of him had been covered by garbage, Tao Xi nodded in satisfaction, but Tao Xi did not leave in a hurry, but dealt with it on the spot. After looking at his footprints and traces, he turned and left~
And Tao Xi looked very happy when he left, even the humming of the song was changed~
(End of this chapter)