GBP Chapter 197 Topa, Gallagher
Chapter 197 Topa, Gallagher
When Su Qiankun and others finished collecting clues in the real hotel and were about to return to their guest rooms to fall asleep.
A drunk man was seen shouting and causing trouble in the hotel lobby.
Another white-haired woman appeared, and she asked a few people to drag the troublemaker away.
The white-haired woman is called Topa.
Formerly known as Ye Lina, her home planet is a very marginal planet with scarce resources. With the decline of the planet's civilization, the planet's environment and air quality have become worse and worse. The planet is covered with haze and wilderness, and the residents of the planet must wear respirators to survive.
But as the company brought the planet under its management, it also provided the planet with a complete set of environmental design plans, which greatly improved the planet's ecological environment, allowing Ye Lina's home planet to regain vitality and prosperity two years later. In return, the indigenous people of the planet will become lifelong employees of the company.
It was also in that year that Yelena joined the company's strategic investment department, determined to bring the same changes to other planets in distress.
Ye Lina joined the 166th Marketing Group of the "Strategic Investment Department" as the youngest employee. With hard work and good luck, she was soon recognized and cultivated by the team leader Francesco Debiski.
Before Francisco retired, he introduced Yelena to "Emerald" and recommended Yelena to take over as the leader of the 166th Marketing Group. In the end, Yelena became one of the directors of the "Strategic Investment Department" and a member of the "Stone Heart Ten" "Topa".
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Feeling the strange gaze, Topa also looked towards the source of the gaze.
It seems like an unknown passenger on the Starry Sky Train?
The news of their rescue of Yalilo VI from the nuclear crisis has spread.
The company has also recently planned to collect debts from Belloberg, but the representative has not yet decided...
I also heard about their story from Sha Jin.
So I went to talk to them.
As the two sides were chatting, Topa suddenly received a call.
"It's okay, just do as they ask, try to avoid conflicts with the family, and report to me before taking any action. Yeah, yeah, okay."
After hanging up the phone, Topa sighed: "Alas, as you can see, the company is not very popular in Pinocchio. The family's landlord friendship is just superficial courtesy. The former frontier prison is now shackled to the company's employees."
"Only Sha Jin, who had the 'invitation letter', was allowed to attend the event. We, the accompanying personnel, were not even eligible to enter the dream and could only stay in the real hotel."
Ji Zi said: "No wonder Sha Jin is looking for people to cooperate with him everywhere. It turns out that he can't get any help from the company in his dream."
Topa continued, "Yes, I heard that his situation is not optimistic. You are helping to investigate some... things that are not good for the family. Outside the dream, if you need anything, feel free to tell me. The company will never treat its partners unfairly."
Jizi said, "Thank you, Miss Toppa. We were just about to ask the hounds about the case. Perhaps you have already dealt with them?"
Topa pointed behind him and said, "Look, they are following us. Just look for them. It's just right. They can help me divert my attention. It's too uncomfortable to be stared at all the time."
Then Su Qiankun took everyone to talk to the members of the hound family.
Although the other party was unwilling to cooperate, fortunately he told us where the sheriff was.
After entering the dream, Gallagher was found at the dream border at the "Golden Moment".
He is the sheriff of the Hound family and also an unkempt, lazy and casual bartender.
They dress quite casually and mix drinks even more casually. They treat visiting guests with courtesy, but remain cautious.
It seems that there are many past events, but he never mentions them actively.
After communication, we learned that Gallagher was also investigating the deaths of fireflies and robins.
So Gallagher wasn't surprised to see Star Express coming to investigate.
At the same time, I also felt sad that the nameless guest was actually mixed up with the family.
San Yue Qi asked: "What happened to the family?"
Gallagher waved his hand and said, "It's nothing, don't worry about it. In Pinocchio, everyone likes family."
“No matter how much one resists the ‘beautiful dream’, when the time comes, one will become reluctant to give it up.”
"Who would leave their warm nest? Only fools, children, and drunks with crazy minds."
Ji Zi said: "Mr. Gallagher seems to have some meaning."
Gallagher shook his head: "You misunderstood, I didn't."
Then he changed the subject: "You want to talk about the case? Sure, come with me. This place is not suitable for talking. Let's move to another place."
After that, he took Su Qiankun and others to Shu Weng's Jingmeng Bar and personally made cocktails for them.
Gallagher: "I salute you with this glass of El Dorado, dream chaser - to your golden dreams."
Shu Weng: "Sure, Gallagher, you are still as good as ever."
Gallagher looked at everyone: "How about you, are you satisfied?"
Sanyueqi scratched his head: "This taste is so complicated..."
Ji Zi: "It has a rich taste and distinct layers. It's a masterpiece. Especially the processing of the auxiliary ingredients. I can taste a different flavor, spicy, sour, but also a little sweet."
"I don't know what that means. Perhaps Mr. Gallagher would like to explain his ingenuity?"
Gallagher: "Unfortunately, if you're expecting a profound answer, you're going to be disappointed."
“The imagery it contains is very simple, it’s just a taste of what Dreamland is really like, nothing more.”
Su Qiankun asked: "What does this have to do with Mikhail?"
Little Gray Hair pondered: "Mikhail..."
March 7: "Yeah, I was saying I heard it somewhere. When Little Gray Hair was knocked unconscious by that Masked Fool girl, I seemed to hear someone muttering this name, right?"
Gallagher spread his hands and said, "Oh, you know a lot. I was right about you. Now I have no reason not to be honest with you."
"Then let's talk about the case in detail, and of course, the story of Mikhail."
Gallagher explained that Firefly was indeed a stowaway, but after her "death", her whereabouts could not be found either in dreams or in reality. This was the first time that the hound family had encountered such a situation.
Himeko: "'First time'....So in Pinocchio, 'death' is real, right?"
Gallagher: "You have seen it all. What else is there to hide? A city with a bright and beautiful surface must have a dark side. I don't need to say more about adult matters."
"If you want to question the family based on this alone, you are too naive. There are also accidental deaths in dreams, so what? This extremely low probability event will only affect a very small number of people."
"If you really want to get to the bottom of this case, you must first understand the family's real "difficulties."
"The Star Train also received the music box, right? Do you know what secrets are hidden inside?"
Su Qiankun said: "A message: "See the impossible things in the dream, find the legacy of Pinocchio's father, the "watchmaker", and then answer: why life is asleep."
Gallagher smiled: "It's exactly the same."
March 7: "Hey, what are you laughing at? Did you write this? Your writing is quite good."
Gallagher: "I'm the sheriff in charge of the case. How could I not know? I suppose you must have noticed that this message was not written by the family - or even that the relationship between the two is not that good?"
Su Qiankun asked: "According to my speculation, which is of course just an speculation, the family regards the "watchmaker" as an enemy?"
Gallagher: "I can tell you that's absolutely true!"
"The latter is a mysterious figure that is hard to find, living only in the business myth he created, and the hounds have been unable to catch him."
"So, let me ask you a further question. Have you ever thought about why the family tolerated the "Watchmaker" sending such a joke message to the outside world, allowing you to be invited here and make a mess here?"
Ji Zi asked tentatively: "You want to use this opportunity to expose the true identity of the "Watchmaker"?"
Gallagher: "Now you can understand why the Oak family authorized the Nameless Guest to assist in the investigation, but concealed everything from you."
"Because the "Watchmaker" is not a legend in the dreamland at all, but the most unspeakable stain in the history of the Pinocchio family. He is the initiator of all the changes in the dreamland."
Like a repeater, Little Gray Hair asked the same question that Su Qiankun had asked just now: "What does this have to do with Mikhail?"
Gallagher: "You haven't realized it yet? I mean Mikhail, the betrayer of the family - he is the famous "Watchmaker". "
Afterwards, Gallagher took Su Qiankun and others to the Clark Film and Television Park, and talked about the history of how Hanunu, the prototype of the Hanu brothers, liberated the prison star, and the watchmaker extended an olive branch to the family, making the prison star the current Pinoconi.
Gallagher said that he was one of Mikhail's many children and had hoped to find the real culprit and get Pinocchio's "harmony" back on track, but failed.
The family apparently accepted him back and gave him the job of sheriff, but after Mikhail's death, he clearly realized that Pinocchio could not go back. However, he recently heard that someone else was rebelling against the family in the name of "watchmaker".
During the period, Sanyueqi asked him about his age, and he claimed to be 13 years old.
As a commotion suddenly broke out near the movie park, Gallagher hurried away to deal with it.
Although the whereabouts of Firefly remains a mystery, everyone has learned a lot of doubts from his sharing.
The true identity of the "Watchmaker", his relationship with his family, and the struggle between forces hidden behind dreams and death...
Su Qiankun's investigation has basically come to an end.
As for Walter's investigation, I'll start in the next chapter...