North American Gunslinger Detective

Chapter 827 Agree

It is easy to forget the time while reading at the bedside, especially in the quiet night. Apart from the light from the bedside lamp next to him, there is nothing else to disturb him. Even if it is a novel he doesn't read often, Jimmy can be fascinated by it.

"Hmm", Nia woke up unexpectedly, "You're still awake?"

Jimmy turned his head and looked at Nia: "Oh, is the light affecting your sleep?"

Nia looked at Jimmy with sleepy eyes and rubbed her eyes. "What time is it? Is Liam asleep?" As she spoke, she sat up and leaned towards Jimmy.

Jimmy: "The little one has fallen asleep. You should sleep a little longer. It's not even 3 o'clock yet."

Nia rested her head on Jimmy's shoulder, "What are you looking at? Let me see."

Jimmy smiled and showed the novel cover to Nia. Nia said in surprise, "Why are you reading this? Didn't you say you were not interested before?"

Jimmy: "Just flipping through it. You should take a rest first. You're tired from watching Liam during the day."

Nia chuckled and put her arms around Jimmy's waist. "You like this book too, right? Then, can I talk to Roland? Ask him to help take some photos of that place. At least it's more realistic than the novel."

Jimmy sighed, "Well, he should be back in the next few days. I'll go buy him a camera during the day. Okay, go to sleep. There are still a few hours until dawn."
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Since he had promised Nia, Jimmy did not delay any further. Before going to work in the morning, he went to the apartment on the Upper West Side to meet with Roland.

Roland was very surprised after hearing what Jimmy said, and then he felt a sense of surprise. Although Jimmy had no interest in going back to the Dark Tower world with him, Nia was obviously very interested in the other world. He immediately agreed to Jimmy's request. After returning this time, he would take some pictures for Nia as gifts.

Roland now has the ruins of the portal as his base, with enough supplies to support his life. He no longer has to wander around like before. Although there is a lack of excitement, even just taking some photos around is much more interesting than a jungle of steel and concrete like New York.

As an old man who has lived in both worlds for many years, Roland still knows very well what he should shoot.

A few days later, Roland packed his backpack and came to Jimmy's house. Jimmy took a small bag from the side, which contained a new DV, some spare batteries and memory cards, enough for Roland to use.

When Roland left this time, Jimmy's family was in the basement. It was the first time that Nia saw the portal open normally. Roland was pushing a small cart with the things he had purchased in the past few days on it. They were all placed in boxes and stacked on the trailer. He waited for the portal to stabilize before walking over. Soon the portal closed and the wall returned to its original state.

Nia: "It's amazing!" She carried Liam to the location of the portal, reached out and touched the wall, turned her head and looked at Jimmy: "Have you used this?"

Jimmy shook his head: "No, I've never been to the other side."

Nia: "Is the scene shown in the portal just now the world on the other side?"

Jimmy: "It looks like it. The scene was the same several times before. It should be the location of the portal on the opposite side. Okay, it's time for us to go up."

Nia walked out of the basement quickly, looking back every two steps. Jimmy closed the secret door again. He couldn't help but feel a toothache when he saw Nia walking out of the storage room. It seemed that Nia was getting closer to Roland's world step by step, and it seemed that she would inevitably pass by in the future.
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Things have been confirmed. Jimmy's so-called working hours have completely lost their meaning. Apart from symbolically showing that he is still in the office, there is nothing else he can do. More than a month passed in peace, and finally Nia discovered his abnormality.

Nia knew very well how Jimmy had worked in the past few years: he was busy and passionate, and he was very dedicated to case investigations. Even after get off work, he would occasionally stay in the study to investigate case materials. However, Jimmy was obviously not in good spirits recently. You know, he had just handled a major case in Albuquerque, and he shouldn't be like this even if he was taking a break now.

However, Nia did not get any useful results from Jimmy. Jimmy just evaded the question. After all, it was a work matter and there was no need to affect Nia's mood.

Jimmy's idea was simple. He just wanted to kill time by slacking off, and treat it as a daily check-in and idle game. Mainly, he didn't have anything else to do. He couldn't go to the InterContinental Hotel to be a killer. That would be too boring.

Even if he wanted to wipe out the drug trafficking gangs across New York, he could not completely eliminate them all by himself. Although he could gain a lot every time, there would always be new gangs emerging, and there would definitely be more ordinary people who would be hurt and harmed in order to seize territory.

As for the gangs, that is the business of the police and the anti-gang unit and has nothing to do with him.

Roland was very fast. In fact, the video shooting did not take that long. The reason why he did not come back was because he did not know what happened to the mage he had arranged to meet before. He did not arrive at the ruins on time. Maybe he got lost.

After finally meeting the wizard nearby and agreeing on a follow-up time, Roland activated the portal and returned.

Roland brought back the DV and memory card. Nia happily took them and went to the living room with her laptop. She plugged in the adapter and started playing the video. "Oh, these are spectacular ruins. Wait, what is this?"

Nia pointed at the dark grey forest in the video. Roland knew exactly where he was filming and said expressionlessly, "This is a forest. The trees have completely mutated. It used to be a monster's lair. It should have been dealt with by now."

The videos are all in short segments and are not connected together. Moreover, Roland simply went to a place and took some random shots. There was no careful arrangement and no shooting techniques. Except for deliberately avoiding some disgusting places and some corpses, the rest were authentic random shots. There was no artistry, but the sense of reality was still very strong.

It was also the first time for Jimmy to watch it. He nodded as he changed the video. Judging from the houses and equipment, this was indeed a medieval environment. The buildings were basically wooden houses, and they were not built in a modular and standardized manner like modern wooden houses. They looked very rough. The key point was that there were too few people. There were only a few dozen houses in a stronghold, and there were very few people. Their clothes were completely different from those on Earth, and there was a strong sense of age.

"how do you feel?"

Roland looked at Nia, whose eyes sparkled, and smiled slightly, asking, "Are you interested in going to take a look? The portal is very safe, I can guarantee it."

Nia looked up at Roland, then turned her head to look at Jimmy, and finally shook her head at Roland: "It's really interesting, but forget it, I don't have time."

Roland: "No, we have a portal, and the round trip is very fast. We just need to wait for the portal to recharge. It won't take too much time."

Roland didn't encourage Jimmy at all. He focused on seducing Nia and stimulating her curiosity. "You have been in the steel jungle of New York for too long. Maybe it would be nice to go to our place to relax, right?"

Jimmy immediately interrupted Roland: "Hey, I'm still here!"

Nia looked at Jimmy with her eyes shining. It had been more than a year since she became pregnant. Apart from staying at home, the police station, and the hospital, she also occasionally went to church and the park to meet and chat with other people. She had basically never left New York. She couldn't resist the opportunity to cross the world.

Jimmy pointed upstairs in the direction of the baby's room. "We can't leave now."

Nia: "What about in the future? What about after a while? We also have to have our own lives..."

Jimmy compromised, reached out and grabbed Nia's hand and patted it: "Okay, okay, but at least we have to wait until Liam grows up a little, and that world is not safe, right, Roland?"

Roland: "As long as we're near the ruins, it's fine."

Jimmy glared at Roland fiercely. Nia heard what Roland said, "Look, Roland has been back and forth several times. The safety over there must be guaranteed."

Jimmy: "Okay, okay. But let me go check it out first, OK?"

Roland couldn't hide the smile on his face anymore, Jimmy sighed, and Nia looked at the computer screen again, which continued to play other videos.

There was no way out. Roland had caught Jimmy's weakness. For him, going to the Dark Tower world was not a problem at all. What he was worried about was actually his family. Apart from them, there were not many people he cared about. Since it was convenient to travel back and forth, he might as well go.

Jimmy looked at the laptop and said, "Nia, these videos need to be destroyed and must not be leaked."

Nia turned her head and looked at Jimmy, "Huh? Why? These are just scenery, they don't matter, right?"

Jimmy: "Even if it's just a landscape video, someone with a keen eye can still analyze a lot of things. It's a new world, and it will be a big problem if people doubt it."

Roland nodded. "Yes, the two worlds are completely different. I don't want anyone to go there either."

A new world is an absolute great opportunity for some people. Even if it is very dangerous over there, it is still impossible to stop those with great ambitions from developing that world. Whether it is minerals or other resources, they are all reasons that are difficult to refuse.

Ordinary people will encounter dangers in that world, but it is impossible to stop them. In other words, as long as the harvest is big enough, it will only be a matter of a few people dying.

This is not because Jimmy does not trust human nature, but because such a thing has already happened, such as the discovery of the New World of America...

People like Jimmy and Nia who have no ambitions can at most experience a different world and different scenery. If it were other people, even ordinary people, their ambitions would expand and they would try every means to collect supplies for themselves.

Now Jimmy is not very clear about the threat he faces over there, but Roland has told him before that where many monsters appear, human gathering places usually cannot avoid large-scale casualties or even annihilation. This level of disaster has not been seen by Jimmy at least in modern society. The monsters he has seen usually only cause very few casualties. It is obvious that the gap in strength between them is very large.

Assuming that someone really has evil intentions and takes a large number of people to that world, let alone other things, it is estimated that half of the people who go there will never come back. Not everyone has the ability of a gunslinger, and even if they have this ability, they may not necessarily save ordinary people.

Jimmy and Nia expressed their concerns, and with Roland's comments, the three finally reached a consensus. In fact, Nia was just interested, and she didn't plan to stay in that world for a long time, as she had a little kid at home who was less than one year old.

Of course, after talking so much, the topic became more and more in-depth, and the side effect was that Nia became more interested. Jimmy had originally planned to wait for a few months for the little guy to grow up a little, but ended up going to see him in a few days.

Well, there was nothing to do now anyway. In order to fulfill his wife's temporary wish, Jimmy confirmed the time with Roland and let Roland rest for a while.

What should I prepare to go to a strange world? This was Jimmy's first time, so he didn't know. Although Roland repeatedly said that there were enough living supplies there, he didn't completely relax. He had a set of hiking clothes and a large backpack with spare clothes and bullets, as well as a lot of emergency food and water. In short, he could survive well if he was thrown into the wilderness.

It was unknown how many days he would stay there this time, and Jimmy didn't know how many days of leave he should take, so he simply called Ruiz to make an appointment and asked for a long vacation in person. Anyway, no one wanted to find him to do anything in the bureau, so it would be better to rest at home instead of killing time.

Ruiz could hear the resentment in Jimmy's voice, but he had no choice but to drink with Jimmy and listen to him complain.

In fact, Ruiz has said a lot of good things about Jimmy, and was even willing to exchange a lot of benefits in exchange for Jimmy's participation in some things. However, some people are too wary of Jimmy.

The drug trafficking organization that had been hidden in New Mexico for nearly 20 years was uncovered by him just by going to Albuquerque, and he even received public commendation from the DEA.

They were also desperate. This guy was too difficult to suppress. If he was not careful, he would cause a big trouble. However, his success rate was too high and he was too difficult to deal with. If he was suppressed by force, the problems that would be caused would definitely be even bigger. After all, it involved the rules for the promotion of agents. If the unspoken rules became open targeting, it would be even more troublesome if others caught him.

Now Jimmy says he will take a break for a few months and not go to work for the time being. Although it is against regulations, Ruiz is not going to refuse. He can't just kick him out of the FBI.

Jimmy and Ruiz chatted for a long time before they left. Their life-long friendship was certainly different from that of others. Ruiz told Jimmy some information that was not too confidential, and Jimmy also knew part of the reason, which was much clearer than the hint from Dave.

At the scheduled time, Jimmy and Roland came to the basement with their respective equipment. After confirming that the generator on the opposite side had reached the start-up time, Roland entered the number of the opposite side's portal and started the two-way transmission.

(End of this chapter)