July 15th, seven o'clock in the morning

"It seems that I dreamed of something a long time ago" Lloyd woke up from his sleep, he didn't notice the somewhat lonely look on his face, he just dreamed of what his brother had said before a long business trip before, I don't know why I remembered it at this time, maybe it was just a simple nostalgia

The "jingle bell" The guide communicator hanging in the room suddenly rang, so Lloyd, who had just woken up, gave up the idea of putting on his coat and picked up the microphone

"Hey, yes, the investigation report was sorted out last night, what? Got guests? Lloyd was stunned for a moment, but quickly came back to his senses, "Okay, I know, I'll go to the section chief's office right away"

"Oh, here we are," Lloyd was the last to arrive this time, and he was the one in charge of pushing the door open

"Sure enough, it's Deputy Commander Sonia," Randy said with a laugh

"Hello everyone/Hello" Standing in front of the section chief's desk was Sonia, who entrusted them with the investigation of Warcraft, and Noel, who was still accompanied by the adjutant-like character

"Hello, do you want to inquire about the investigation this time?" Lloyd also asked with a smile

"Huh? Is it so urgent? We haven't been there to check on Mine Town yet," Ellie said in surprise

"Huh? Haven't you been to Mine Town yet? Noel was surprised, "If you take the bus, you can ask questions quickly, or do you have any acquaintances who are investigating the location?" ”

"Do you think anyone has a chauffeur to pick them up" Randy complained "the bus just left once, had an accident once, and we walked there both times"

"Huh? I'm sorry! Noel hurriedly apologized, "I didn't understand the situation and just talked, I'm really sorry!" ”

"No, no, no, there's no need to be so polite," Lloyd smiled wryly and motioned for her not to be so polite, then turned to look at Sonia, "I'll be able to explain it now if I need to"

"Well, excuse me, I want to know how you understand this from your point of view," Sonia nodded, and began to listen to Lloyd's explanation

"Before that, I have something I want to ask beforehand," Chong indifferent interrupted what should have been explained, "Is there something going on in this incident, such as the guard being asked to stop doing unnecessary things?"

“！！” Noel was visibly shocked by the remark

"That's right, it's true," Sonia said with a solemn attitude that didn't hide it, "Our guards in Mine Town have all been evacuated, but how did you know about this?" This happened this morning, and they had just returned to the border when we came here, which is an internal secret."

"It's just reasoning, because if you know the result, then the process of extrapolating backwards will obviously be much easier," Chong said indifferently

"Do you know the outcome of this?" Sonia's pupils narrowed, "Can I tell you about that?" ”

"Then will you believe it" Chong asked rhetorically, "I have no evidence, if I tell a result, will you believe it is true, and will your soldiers and superiors believe this result?"

Sonia was silent for a long time before shaking her head

"Then there's no need to say the answer, you can start listening to other people's reasoning" Chong took two steps back to signal Lloyd to start telling Sonia the clues gathered from various aspects, yes, all he wants is a result, but for most people, maybe the process is the most important, especially for the government

―――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――― the dividing line of the mining town

"Well, you probably won't answer this question, but do you really know the answer to this?" On the way to the North Gate, Randy finally couldn't help but ask

"For reasoning, the most important thing is to magnify all the suspicious links, and think about the worst place" worship out of boredom and indifference "to think of the incident as artificial, and then to draw a definite conclusion by guessing the psychological activities of the suspect who has been determined a long time ago, in detective science, this is called reverse reasoning and speculation, and you are using clues to lock the result, that is, the most commonly used bar reasoning"

"In other words, somebody steps on the finish line and starts looking for where the sprint line is, and you start from the starting point to find the finish line, that's the difference" Chong finally came to the conclusion "That's right, that's it, you're too troublesome to do"

"Then let's make a bet, who is more accurate in my conclusions and reasoning with you," Lloyd suddenly began, "how about it?" ”

"This gamble is useless" Chong glanced at him, "I don't care how things go unless the final answer is different"

"No, it's useful, it proves who is more qualified to be the team leader," Lloyd continued

"Are you kidding? Didn't I argue with you about this, "Chong swept him a few times", or did you feel unconfident and asked me to take responsibility for you? ”

"No, please, anyway, I want you to make this bet with me" Lloyd said solemnly, "Please"

"As you wish, I'll make this bet with you" Chong didn't know why he agreed, maybe it was a simple sense of pride at work "What the bet is is determined by the winner"

"Deal" The eyes of the two split instantly after alternating in the air, while Randy and the others were dumbfounded and watched the two continue to walk forward, what kind of development is this?

"Huh?" When she got to the bus stop, Tyo suddenly became serious

"What's wrong, Tio girl?" Randy was surprised, "You're coming too?" ”

"It doesn't seem like there's a sound," Tio straightened up the force staff in his hand, "Sensor activated"

"Roar!" After a few moments, everyone could clearly hear the wolf howl in their ears

"What!" Lloyd and the others immediately looked around nervously

"The hillside of about 40 Cels should be this position," said Theo, wiping the sweat from his forehead, "what should I do?" ”

"Now, guys, I'm a little sorry," Lloyd said solemnly

"It's okay, I understand," Ellie said with a sigh

"Oh, let's go," Randy said energetically, not knowing that the orangutan only needed a nap to continue to be active

"Then explore the past all the way, it may be reminding us of something" So Lloyd and the others directly skipped their own opinions, thinking carefully, do you want me to be a nominal leader, right? Anyway, it won't be reduced to Akarin

"Roar!" When they came to the hillside, suddenly there was another wolf howl, as if it was helping them guide the way

"Sister Tio, do you know where?" Randy asked out of habit

So Tio activated the sensor, and then she pointed to the front with a rosy face, "About 10 Cels, from the map it is at the fork in the road."

Chong's heart couldn't help but be confused, he didn't know what was wrong, but he always felt that there was no ethereal inspiration of nature in this roar, illusion?

Twenty minutes later

"The voice is gone," and when the five of them went up to the drawbridge to explore and then went down to the bus stop, they couldn't hear anything, and the wolf disappeared as if signaling them to stop here and wait for the bus

Chong looked to their right, on the left was the mining town of Mainz, and on the right was the staircase leading to the mountain, could it be that the beast motioned for them to go up the mountain? Could there be an old man's owner's bungalow in it, and then his servants are dolls or something? Just kidding, this kind of cliché of TV series

-- It's really happened!

Most of the people who are usually called "workshops" are doll factories, but do they say that there are puppeteers living in them? He can't help but be a little resistant when he mentions puppeteers now, after all, what can he say about puppets, although it is much better than the feeling of them at the beginning, but he also doesn't want to deal with some wood with human appearance, he has a psychological shadow

"Ah, this is a very famous puppet workshop," Ellie said in surprise when she saw the door number later than herself

"Is it famous?" Lloyd didn't know much about this and asked

"Well, it's very famous, and the dolls made are the same as real people, and I've had the pleasure of seeing them a few times, and it's almost clever," Ellie seems to have a high opinion of the dolls here, "They can be sold for a lot at auction."

"I've heard that the upper class seems to be very fond of collecting dolls here," Tio nodded

"Thank you for your comments about this place, but grandpa isn't here today," a little girl's laugh came from behind them as they looked at the door number and talked about the dolls

"Ahh

"Big brother, what are you doing here," the little girl asked sweetly, "Do you want grandpa to help you make dolls?" ”

"We're not bad guys, we're police officers from Crossbell," Lloyd replied after being startled by the sudden appearance of the little girl

"Oh, it turned out to be a policeman" The little girl was taken aback, but it looked more like she was pretending, "Hehe, I've only seen police in the city, I didn't expect to come to patrol this kind of place, could it be that grandpa broke the law?" ”

"No, we're not here to patrol, we're here to ask the owner of this house if he's seen any monsters in the neighborhood," Lloyd explained

"It's a wolf-shaped beast, if you know the owner of the workshop, can you know something?" Ellie added

"A wolf-shaped monster? I haven't heard of it, but just now I did hear a voice like a long whistle from a distance, "Little girl, don't open your eyes" That's it, big brother, if you're okay, leave quickly, it's dangerous around here"

"I want to say that too, thank you for your concern, but you're actually more dangerous for us," Lloyd said with a smile, "You also mentioned just now, grandpa, if there is no one else in the house, I want you to hide in it, is that okay?" ”

"Since you know the danger in this area, it's easy to talk, big brothers, remember to be careful" The little girl chuckled again, "I'm going to play with Freckles, go to that glass castle, by the way, big brothers can come again if they have a chance next time, I have a child who I also want to introduce to the big brothers~"

"Oh, I almost forgot to say my name, just call me Ling, the big brothers in the support department remember to play hide and seek with Mr. Wolf~" Finally, after leaving a bunch of unintelligible words, Ling entered the house, and then the iron door closed again

"The big brothers of the Support Division," Chong muttered to himself, "only on both occasions they warned us that it was dangerous, and finally concluded that the monster was a wolf and not another creature."

"Chong, did you find something wrong?" Lloyd only noticed the phrase "the big brother of the support department", and the last two sentences were completely unnoticed

"It's nothing, I can't guess anything about this little thing" Chong reverted back to his indifferent expression, "Let's go, there's no need to waste any more time"

(The girl named Ling is not an ordinary person, her eyes are sharp and the back of her bare hand has a cocoon that only a martial artist can have, but this shouldn't have anything to do with this matter) It's normal to be able to hear a long whistle, after all, the second call just now is very close to them, and if you can't hear it, there is a ghost

Chong was suddenly stunned for a moment, he thought about something else as he thought about it, outsiders?

(The second wolf howl is wrong?) Looking down the mountain, there seemed to be a pair of eyes staring at him in the forest in the distance, it was a pair of emotionless eyes, and if you think about it, if it were a puppet, it would naturally not be able to make that authentic cry with the smell of the forest

"It's not us but me who's being reminded by the wolf?" Chong whispered to himself, he said that he was used to thinking of the incident as a human and then directly locked the suspect to the source and started reverse reasoning, so do you want to try to reason? What does the two wolf howls, the puppet workshop, the sudden appearance of the girl, and the outsiders gradually gathering in Crossbell mean?

There are two wolves - one is not a real wolf - a wolf-shaped puppet - an outsider who controls the wolf-shaped puppet - a girl from outside

In the end, the possible result is an alien girl who manipulates the puppet

"No" may be thinking too much, but now this idea is difficult to dispel once it pops up, maybe only when the real suspect behind the scenes comes forward can he get an answer, but more of a sense of insecurity

I'm being targeted by wolves