Under the influence

This issue of slave labor keeps popping up. Although I have not ruled out the idea of an army of babyhead slaves bunkered up in Pansy Greenleaf’s house, Phoneblum’s proliferation of unfrozen sex slaves seem much more important. This explains Phoneblum’s protection from the office, for he keeps tabs on who is recently frozen and who is suitable for his intended purposes. Gangsters usually deal in drugs or stolen property but this one in particular is dealing in zombie women employed as sex slaves. In a world where the have the technology to evolve animals and give them the ability to walk and read, mind control doesn’t seem that far off. It’s another way of manipulating a race to do as the liberator wishes. 

 

Now that we know Phoneblum and Pansy are such close “friends,” the barracks don’t seem so surprising. Phoneblum manipulates people/things for his livelihood. If it does turn out that Pansy is a nanny, it makes sense that babyheads would live in her house.

 

I also find it appropriate that an ape would be a detective. They contort their faces in such inquisitive ways. Plus I would think that their close relation to humans would put them in tune with the inner workings of a human’s mind; introspection is important in the line of detective work.

 

The more I think about it, the more I see reason for the office to hurry to close the case on Angwine. Perhaps they were being influenced by Phoneblum to get him off the grid quickly. He might be planning to use him after he’s been frozen as a slave of some sort, or maybe he just wanted him to close his mouth because he knew so much. I guess we’ll have to find out. 

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