Chapter 659: 659

Chapter 659 Concert and Extra Income

Initially, Zhang Heng planned to check out Lin Sisi’s neighborhood . Considering the fact that he had spent quite a long time outside, he could only push this matter back for now . Besides, interviewing Lin Sisi’s parents wasn’t going to be as easy as interviewing Li Yan . Even if they believed that Zhang Heng was a reporter, they might not be willing to meet him .

After all, another interview would only reopen the wounds still fresh from losing their beloved daughter .

Zhang Heng returned home at about 8 in the evening . His grandpa was sitting on the sofa reading newspapers, and the food on the table remained untouched .

“I’ve sent you a message telling you not to wait for me . ”

“It’s better that we eat together anyway,” said Grandpa as he put down the newspapers . He did not ask where his grandson had gone to since he always believed in his judgment and self-discipline . The two had always lived like that . Grandpa believed that the more he controlled Zhang Heng, the more rebellious his grandson would become .

Zhang Heng later asked his grandfather where he learned such an idea, and the latter told him that he found it out when raising his mother .

“Let me heat the food then . ” As he spoke, Zhang Heng brought the dishes on the table into the kitchen .

After learning that those creatures wouldn’t do anything to him for now, Zhang Heng stopped using the Lego kitten as his meal taster . That said, he remained vigilant . The tragic incident that happened to Lin Sisi and the college students was a constant reminder that this was no safe place . The aliens might have replaced people he thought he knew .

After dinner, Zhang Heng contacted Qin Zhen again .

The latter had a cousin who worked as a ticket reseller, specializing in buying, then selling tickets for performances or events at a higher price . Ticket resellers were either loved or hated, especially when it came to popular performances where tickets would be sold out in a blink of an eye on an online ticketing platform . Even if one had a smooth internet connection, there was no guarantee that they could bag a single ticket . If they were lucky enough to snatch one, however, it would be one with an awful sitting position .

Thus, fans who failed to buy the tickets or wanted a good position could only seek the help of a ticket reseller . It wasn’t uncommon for a one thousand yuan ticket to be marked up to at least three or four thousand yuan . As for tickets that sold like hotcakes, the reseller would increase the price to seven to eight thousand yuan . At the same time, there was a risk that the scalper would scam the buyers by selling them fake tickets .

Although all online ticketing platforms claimed that they had nothing to do with these resellers, it was difficult for them to explain the shady order of ticket allocation . Only they would know the truth . Like many, Zhang Heng disliked ticket resellers too . However, there were only four days left before the start of the concert, and purchasing the tickets through the legal channel wasn’t possible anymore . Knowing how Bai Qing was a real big fan of GEM, Zhang Heng had been thinking about how to repay her kindness . It so happened that there was a GEM concert on Friday, so he decided that he’d invite her to the concert as a thank you gesture .

At the same time, Zhang Heng was concerned that Bai Qing would misunderstand his intention . In the end, he decided to bring Qin Zhen with him .

Qin Zhen took a deep breath after hearing that Zhang Heng was inviting him to a GEM concert .

“Did you rob a bank recently? Do you know how much it costs to get GEM’s concert tickets? And you’re even getting the VIP seats?!”

“Don’t worry about the money . Just ask your cousin to help me to get the tickets,” Zhang Heng said .

Since the race proceeds couldn’t be brought back into the real world, it would be all but a waste if he didn’t spend it now .

“Okay, I’ll ask my cousin!” Qin Zhen agreed . He then asked curiously after a pause, “Now, which girl are you blowing-off such a huge fortune on?”

“Look… if you’re not interested, I can pass your ticket to someone else,” Zhang Heng said . “Fine… Fine… You’re the boss since you are paying . It so happens that I like GEM a lot too . Don’t forget me if you are going to do something like this again! I promise to be your eternal wingman . ”

IIII

Zhang Heng hung up the phone after that . So far, he had been carrying out continuous investigations for several days and nights . He had to go to class during the day, and hence, didn’t plan to sleep late again tonight . After copying his homework and taking a shower, he retired early and went to bed .

In the next few days, he continued playing high-school student while investigating the alien debacle . Zhang Heng went to the neighborhood where Lin Sisi once lived . Just like what he expected earlier, the girl’s parents had no intention to be interviewed anymore . However, he managed to use a pack of cigarettes to acquire some valuable information at the gate outside the neighborhood .

According to the security guard, the three children often left together in a group . The one thing he didn’t know was where they were heading to .

These three children should have had their own secret base or something along that line .

Through the surveillance clips, Zhang Heng extended his investigation to a place that was ten kilometers away . He was closer to the east of the city, where several state-owned factories and mines were once located .

The 1990s were probably the golden years of the state-owned factories and mines . At its peak, a factory had tens of thousands of employees, and the director of a factory was considered to be on equal footing as a mayor . The factory’s grounds were usually like a self-contained kingdom, having its own kindergarten, elementary, junior, and high school built within its grounds . It had everything the prospective worker needed, including housing and hospitals . Due to various reasons, however, these large state-owned factories started to go downhill . Not only were all the benefits canceled, but the factories even failed to pay the workers as well . Due to this reason, the whole city looked a little bleak .

There was no longer any need for Zhang Heng to masquerade as a worker from a security camera manufacturer . Since he had loads of money with him now, he could just make up an excuse and gave the store manager a hundred yuan to check their CCTV footage . With that, he managed to speed up his investigation .

He tracked the Honda Fit all the way here, but it disappeared all of a sudden . Even after watching all the footage from the nearby shops, the Honda Fit was nowhere to be seen . It all but seemed to have disappeared into thin

air .

Excluding the possibility of a supernatural phenomenon, Zhang Heng figured that they might have changed the car halfway .

After noticing an underground parking lot next door, he went down, wanting to check the parking lot’s CCTV footage . It was then that an accident happened .

There was no one in the duty room, and at the same time, the light above his head began to flicker . Zhang Heng stood still and looked at his surroundings . At least eight to nine people, all holding steel pipes and wrenches in their hands, had emerged from the dark .

“You shouldn’t have been so nosy,” a man who appeared to be their leader snorted in an unfriendly tone .

“Is that so?” Zhang Heng raised his eyebrows, put his hand in his pocket . “What can you do to me then?” he chided nonchalantly .

The leader snorted, “Stop acting like a fool . You know what’s going on here . Someone asked me to tell you to stay put . Otherwise, you might just be the next victim . ”

“And… who is that person?”

“Hey, why are you asking so many questions?” . the leader growled impatiently .

“So you actually don’t know anything . You just take their money and do their bidding . ” Zhang Heng’s stare swept across the crowd . Judging from their clothes, they should all be the workers from nearby factories, and it seemed that they hadn’t received any stipends for some time . Hence, they could only find other ways to make some extra cash .

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