New Gods of North America

Although Wayne was quite adaptable in the wild, objectively speaking, his standards for food were actually quite high for this era.

Just being able to eat a relatively substantial amount of meat occasionally was already a luxury for many urban wage earners.

And this was just "daily life" in the detective agency.

In contrast to urban wage earners, the townspeople of Black Stone Town, although not all of them could guarantee meat every day, benefited from the lack of sophisticated preservation technology in this era.

Even if they were reluctant to spend money to buy it at the market, townspeople's families would basically have several periods each year when they were so tired of eating meat that they wanted to vomit, whenever their own farms actively or passively carried out slaughter.

So, generally, people who could live stably in the West were more wary of meat and the like under the same conditions.

Even if the specific intake was affected by the season and income level, they wouldn't really haggle over a piece or two of meat—quarreling was another matter, that was just finding a reason to argue or fight.

Wayne continued his lifestyle in Black Stone Town, and the detective agency's income could continue to support such expenses in the city, plus some personal requirements such as "bread should be soft and fresh" and "preferably with seasonal vegetables that don't repeat too much."

Even without mentioning the detective agency's salary, the daily meal allowance was actually quite attractive.

Some agents, even if they were initially not used to the rules and various courses in the detective agency, basically no longer felt that there was anything wrong with this kind of life after staying for a few more days.

The detective agency recently had a lot of manpower at the temporary stronghold, and the daily food purchase volume could be described as abundant compared to ordinary families.

The partners didn't mind the specific consumption, but the agents had to pay attention to the food.

So Wayne, as the boss, only realized today that the ingredients in our detective agency usually undergo security checks.

It is said that this habit was only formally implemented as a routine inspection after Lina returned with her team.

She was bored when she led the team before, so she publicly said that she would let the big spider Peter randomly select a lucky agent every day and add something to one of their ingredients, saying that it was to train the agents' vigilance when they went out.

Compared to the so-called "vigilance," Wayne felt that this seemed more like the agents' post-traumatic stress disorder...

But these are not the point.

The point is that after Wayne went to check the poisoned ingredients and the unfortunate dead rat, he found that the problematic things were a bottle of red wine and a piece of ewe's milk cheese.

Inesa had already completed the reconfirmation at this time, and only these two things had been poisoned with acute poison.

Ewe's milk cheese is not common in America, at least there is no such thing in Black Stone Town.

It looks snow-white, with blue mold spots on it.

The appearance looks pretty good, but if you get a little closer, the smell is in the heavy flavor category among cheeses.

Blue cheese...

After asking about the situation, Wayne asked Doug to call Mr. Morier, the gold master, over to appreciate it together.

These two things can be regarded as luxury goods in the detective agency's food rankings.

Both the red wine and the blue cheese are from Frank.

The former is better, but the latter is now basically a low-cost-performance imported product that ordinary Americans would not buy.

The poison only chose them, and the targeting is obvious.

Mr. Morier understood it at a glance, "I just wanted your people to help me buy some specialties, thinking that Sistria might also miss these flavors, but I didn't expect..."

Wayne patted him on the shoulder: "This is the value of our detective agency's security services.

For your safety, you can't do anything special in terms of diet these days.

If you secretly give money to ask for the purchase of such things again, I will let the agents refuse to cooperate."

—Of course, the money for buying things will not be refunded.

Lina's persona is not short of money, if she wants to eat these things that can be bought locally, she won't ask someone to run errands herself, right?

Considering that the other party is the gold master for the time being no matter what, Wayne did not criticize his strategy of picking up girls.

The main thing is to make the other party realize the current situation, which is also a "customer management" to reduce the instability of subsequent work.

After finishing speaking as calmly as possible, the detective agency had to tense its nerves after the gold master returned to the room.

Inesa quickly entered the state: "Although we can only speculate that it was done by the group of people who attacked him before, we don't know the other party's identity yet, but the poisoning is so precise, the other party obviously has mastered Mr. Morier's whereabouts, and also knows the existence of the detective agency, so we can't rule out the possibility of them attacking again.

Did anything unusual happen when you went to buy ingredients?"

Ryan, who was in charge, was already waiting next to him, and quickly replied when he heard the words, "No.

The things we bought were directly from the sellers, and no outsiders had access to them afterwards.

Since there is a problem, then it must have been tampered with before we bought it."

Then the two asked and answered, and described in detail the purchase process and the shops involved.

Wayne listened silently, feeling that the situation was not very good.

In this era of America, there are also farmers' markets and other retail markets for agricultural products, which are the kind where small vendors get together to set up stalls.

Because there are more choices and they are cheaper, the detective agency randomly buys fresh fruits and vegetables there.

But the places that sell alcohol, meat, and dairy products are basically "shops".

The places to choose from in the city are relatively limited, and they are all doing long-term business, especially the two things that Mr. Morier specified.

The agents need to ask one day in advance, and then they can pay the money and deliver the goods the next day.

The red wine and ewe's milk cheese were not bought from the same store, and they both had problems at the same time.

No outsiders had touched them after they got them.

Thinking in the worst direction, it means that there may be an internal spy in the detective agency.

And even if the suspicion is not placed internally, the situation is not much better.

Either the other party has enough ability to make the merchants willing to cooperate even at the risk of damaging the reputation of the store and normal operation; or the other party has the ability to complete a series of actions such as "surveillance", "information collection" and "intervention action" in a timely manner without the store owner's full knowledge.

The third-party forces who want to deal with Mr. Morier, this looks like a more professional organization...

Wayne asked Ryan to take people back to find the store to settle the account, and don't say the specific details first, just say that there is something wrong with the things, and call the police if it can't be solved, to confirm the store's reaction.

On the other side, after being called over by Willie, he took the bottle of red wine away with a cloth.

Since there are not many people who have been in contact with the thing, there may be fingerprints left by the poisoner on it.

In short, give the other party a number first, and no matter whether it can be compared or not, this person must be recorded in the detective agency's file.

Lina has been suffocating these days playing the role of an elegant and reserved young lady.

She originally wanted to go with Ryan to make trouble, but Wayne grabbed her by the back of her collar.

Wayne thought for a while and told Ryan, "There is no need to take too radical actions for the time being, limit yourself to arguing and calling the police, the purpose is still to put the focus on 'understanding the situation'.

The other party did not poison things like butter or sausage that are more likely to be accidentally eaten, it seems that the hostility towards the detective agency is not that great now."

But then again, one attack and one poisoning, the third-party forces' will to kill Mr. Morier is very firm...

Although there is also the possibility that Mr. Morier is hated by others, Wayne still feels that the timing of him being targeted is a bit too coincidental.

The attack is likely to be related to the assassination case.

But Mr. Morier is almost completely unaware of the assassin group that secretly attacked him before.

He is a complete image of a "clueless victim".

What clues can he grasp?

What is the meaning of eliminating him?

Wayne's eyes just glanced at Lina, and the beautiful girl's blond hair flicked up, "Not doing it.

Acting as an actor and a bodyguard, and not letting people go out to breathe, you can ask yourself.

Inesa and I have to go out to deal with the other two lines, you are responsible for guarding the house, and Mr. Morier also looks like he is pouring his heart out to you, who will do this if you don't?

Wayne rolled his eyes, "Otherwise, let's draw lots to decide?"