By the time Haidong arrived at the newspaper office, it was already nearly noon. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The two hostesses on the first floor greeted Haidong very warmly this time, but Haidong, who was in a hurry, didn't notice the change.

To be honest, Haidong doesn't know much about Zhao Luoluo, the president, although he doesn't know what Zhao Luoluo is looking for him, but just from the fact that Zhao Luoluo took the initiative to establish a communication connection with him, he can't think too much - in reality, there are very few girls who will take the initiative to establish a relationship with a boy.

The wooden door on the stairs wasn't closed today, and Haidong quickly glanced at the rooms of the other editors on either side as he walked inside, everyone was concentrating or inattentive as usual, and it seemed that he was the only one involved in this strange incident.

Haidong knocked on the door of the editor-in-chief office a few times but no one responded, so he had to go back to his studio first, he thought about it and sent a message to Zhao Luoluo: I arrived.

A few minutes of waiting was not short for a man like Haidong, who had been called in the morning and remained in the dark until the door of his room was inexplicably shut.

Hai Dong was shocked at first when he saw the door suddenly closed, but soon thought about what was going on. The fact was not surprising to Haidong, and within two seconds, Zhao Luoluo appeared in front of him out of thin air.

"The Law of Cause and Effect Sin." Zhao Luoluo said without warning.

"Huh?"

"Have you ever heard of the law of cause and effect?" Zhao Luoluo walked around the table to Haidong's side, and stretched out his hand to signal Haidong to get up.

"I've heard of it." Haidong watched Zhao Luoluo drive himself up from his seat, and then sat up as a matter of course, although he was unhappy, he still dispelled the idea of arguing with her. "It seems to be similar to the principle of the butterfly effect."

"No, it should be said that it is a domino effect, you only need to move the beginning to link some events that would not have intersected together, and finally achieve the goal, which is the most powerful remote control crime."

"How do you know that this morning's incident was done this way?" Haidong asked.

"That Wang Bo this morning, his real identity is a scavenger."

He was a little shocked to hear this.

"Remember that car accident a week ago?"

"Remember, the deceased was the class president of a class in our college, and the newspaper was proofread by my proofreader." Haidong's face changed, "Could it be that someone also used the law of cause and effect to commit a crime that time?" ”

"That squad leader is also a member of the Scavengers." Zhao Luoluo did not give a direct answer.

Hearing this, Haidong couldn't help but swallow his saliva, if what Zhao Luoluo said was true, then the answer would be self-evident, he had no reason to believe that two such coincidental accidents.

"Like this time, no one, including the inspection team, thought it was a conspiracy, and even I thought it was a simple accident, but the scavengers still found some problems inside, and even found that it was related to the law of cause and effect." Zhao Luoluo stretched out his hand and pointed to the water dispenser, and Haidong looked over vigilantly.

"Pour water."

"Oh..."

"There are traces of the last incident, Shi Jin is very tight every night, after school at 6 o'clock, he will go to the club to participate in club activities until 7:50, and then catch the last tram at 8 o'clock. On the day of the incident, he found that the lights in the classroom in the class were not turned off after the club activities, and it may be that his sense of responsibility as the class leader drove him back to the classroom to turn off the lights. Surveillance showed that it was 7:58 a.m. when he arrived at the school gate, the tram at a stop across the road had arrived, and the sidewalk had only two seconds left to go green, and the next green light would be two minutes later. ”

Haidong nodded thoughtfully while receiving the water, "The back is what is written in the report, Shi Jin was hit and killed on the spot by a truck coming from the side when he was in the middle of the sidewalk... But even if the design told him to go back and turn off the lights and calculated that he would run a red light, how could there be any guarantee that he would be hit by that truck? The truck drove here for more than two hours from the starting point, and due to the influence of the intermediate road conditions and the driver, it was impossible to narrow the error to the few seconds when Shi Jin crossed the road, even if the driver himself was the murderer. ”

"I don't know, so I just said it, and I always thought it was an accident," Zhao Luoluo took the cup from Haidong's hand and took a sip. "Just a connection to this morning's incident."

"Didn't you say that the scavengers found out last time, why didn't they pay attention? Didn't you do anything? ”

"What you guys, I'm not a member of the Scavengers."

"You're not a scavenger?"

"When did I say I was a scavenger? Forget it, I don't have time to explain this now, I just went to my sister's house and found that she was not there, I should have known about the morning. The last incident scavenger responded by "killing" the girl who forgot to turn off the lights after finishing duty that day, do you remember that my sister's mood suddenly became very strange yesterday afternoon, because she received a notice that the girl had been killed. ”

"Is that girl really a murderer?" Haidong asked.

"A girl with only more than two hundred abilities is the murderer of the scavenger?" Zhao Luoluo asked rhetorically, but she continued without waiting for Haidong to answer: "My sister was originally strongly opposed, but the others decided to do it. ”

"Do you know it's an innocent person?"

Zhao Luoluo nodded, "The members of the scavengers have always been well hidden, but the murderer still killed two people accurately, if the two cases were done by the same person, and he has no intention of stopping, then the next target is likely..."

"It's Senior Sister Shangling." Haidong swallowed.

"Causal cases cannot be solved by looking for evidence like ordinary cases, because all that can be found at the scene is accidents, and the only way to obtain the truth is to follow the results to find the source, and find the domino-like connections hidden in them between seemingly unrelated things."

"The connection between the events... It sounds like it was designed for me to break. "Haidong looks at it a little differently, and this impression is only a rude and unreasonable girl." But the scavengers themselves can handle it, I saw a big man like Wang Zhenglong yesterday. ”

"The top management of the scavengers never take action lightly, they are all well-known characters in the experimental area, and once their identities are exposed, they will be involved in the whole body."

"But now he's dead." Haidong emphasized.

"So don't expect too much from the scavengers, even if they do get involved, the investigation may not be faster than yours. Moreover, in their opinion, these two incidents may be bait to lure their high-level leaders to show up, so that they will not act rashly. Zhao Luoluo explained.

"But now he's dead." Haidong emphasized again as if he hadn't heard.

"What if you're dead!?" Zhao Luoluo finally burst out unbearably, and she stared at Haidong angrily with tears in her eyes.

Before, when Zhao Luoluo stared at Haidong like this, he would feel that this little girl was unreasonable again, but this time it made Haidong feel a heart-wrenching pain, as if he had wronged his sister.

"Who is a scavenger? They are now recruiting naïve students like my sister to join the gang under the banner of eliminating villains and maintaining order, and it is true that they are quite measured so far, and it is true that they are only attacking people with low ability and unmotivated now, but isn't the purpose of those high-level scavengers to get rid of others and protect themselves? If only the scavengers are left in the test area in the future, then they can definitely do it to their former companions without mercy. ”

"I know, I was wrong, editor-in-chief, don't be like me, okay?" Haidong lowered his head and apologized repeatedly.

"Humph!" Zhao Luoluo was still angry, "If it weren't for the fact that I was worried about my sister's danger, who would come to you who thinks you are a fool who thinks he is smart." ”

"Yes, yes, I'm self-righteous, I'm stupid." Haidong nodded repeatedly.

Zhao Luoluo wiped the corners of his eyes, "Then you will do what I say from now on, do you hear?" ”

"Huh?"

"Ahh Zhao Luoluo stood up and glared at Haidong.

"Yes, yes, yes." Haidong naturally didn't dare to look at Zhao Luoluo who was angry, and he didn't want to do it again as soon as he bumped into the other party.

"Then what are you doing in a daze, hurry up and find out the truth, detective."

(I remember the morning.) ）

......

There weren't many customers at the mall, and as usual, it didn't seem to be affected by the fall in the morning.

But it's not surprising when you think about it. The former doesn't care what happened here, and the latter "risked his life" to buy a gift.

Haidong and Zhao Luoluo decided to start the investigation at the toy store first, after all, this is the only place that can be found that is directly related to the case.

Fortunately, the clerk who received Guo Zilong in the morning was still there, and as soon as she entered the door, she enthusiastically began to sell the newly arrived games to Haidong, probably in her eyes, she had recognized Haidong as a dead house that could spend a lot of money on games.

"Sorry to bother you, I'm here for this morning's case." Haidong made his purpose clear as soon as he came up, although his eyes couldn't help but glance twice at Heavy Rain's new work "Overwatch Defender", but when he remembered that he had just bought the cheapest hamburger at a fast food restaurant in the mall, it made him feel painful, or Zhao Luoluo invited himself to drink a glass of juice - although the other party definitely didn't have any good intentions, in short, he understood that this was definitely not a place he could touch.

"You can take a look at the recent games, both of which are selling very well." The clerk didn't seem to hear Haidong's words at all, but he noticed Haidong's eyes.

"I'm sorry, I'm not here to buy the game today." Haidong reminded.

Hearing Haidong's words, the enthusiasm on the clerk's face disappeared at once. "He's our 10,000th customer, and I don't know what the hell he's doing with his girlfriend."

"Can you be sure he's the 10,000th customer?" Haidong hurriedly asked.

"If "Overwatch Guard" is discounted by 10% now, it is estimated that it will not be sold out tomorrow, if he is not the 10,000th place, why should I sell it to him at a 3% discount?" The clerk looked at Haidong like an idiot.

"Okay, then sorry to bother you." Haidong naturally felt that the clerk's eyes were not good, and he didn't stay longer after getting the answer he wanted.

Stopping outside the door, Haidong analyzed as if talking to himself: "Wang Bo fell from the building because he wanted to get the game he threw down, and his girlfriend threw the game because Guo Zilong bought "Overwatch Defender", and the reason why he bought it was because he was the 10,000th customer in the store and got a three-fold discount. Haidong tried to sort out a way, "But after arriving at the store, the clue is broken, the variables of the 10,000th customer are too great, and the number of customers who enter the store every day is more than 100 or less, how can it be so accurate to count the 10,000." ”

"Dididi" Haidong's brain chip received Zhao Luoluo's news: "If you can know the number of customers a few days before the crime, it is still possible to use the method of making up the number of people." ”

"It's true that if the number of people left behind is not large, the murderer can enter the store a few more times by himself to make up the number, but what if the number exceeds before then? You can't go back by the end. ”

"Dididi" Haidong blinked his eyes and continued to flip through the news, "You don't need to worry about the murderer, they must have several plans, and you can use whichever is feasible." ”

"I said, can you not be incognito all the time, a transparent person standing next to me silently I feel so stressed." Haidong seemed to be speaking to the air next to him.

"Dididi." "The other party is an invisible murderer, alas, if you are targeted and disposed of because of the investigation, you can't even affect me."

Haidong stretched out his hand to grab it, but Zhao Luoluo, who was actually standing next to him, but as soon as he raised his hand, he felt as if he had touched a soft mass, and this strange touch made him feel like an electric shock for a moment.

Haidong was just about to explain, when he saw Zhao Luoluo looking at him with a resentful face.

In the next second, he heard a scream, and Haidong was sure that Zhao Luoluo must have used superpowers when he stepped on his feet. But before he came back to his senses, Zhao Luoluo's next kick came. This time he stepped on the other side, and the force was so strong that the customers who had just heard the screams and looked back couldn't help but let out sympathetic screams.

"Let's see if you dare to eat my tofu." Seeing Haidong's painful jumping, Zhao Luoluo may have felt that his feet were a little heavy.

"Oops, misunderstanding." Haidong said while jumping.

"Forget it, I don't care about you, it's important to get down to business, and then go in and ask the clerk if anyone has checked the customer records in the store recently."

"Hey~~~, go this time, you can also see the clerk's attitude towards me just now." Haidong pleaded.

However, this time Zhao Luoluo did not refuse, but the necessary number of falls is naturally indispensable, "I said that I will hand it over to you for investigation today, it's really useless, I invite you to drink juice in vain." ”

As soon as Zhao Luoluo stepped into the store, the female clerk immediately greeted him warmly. "Hello beauty, there are several games here that have a strong reaction among girls, and the prices are also very affordable, you should have heard of it."

"No, thank you." Zhao Luoluo directly refused. "I'm here to investigate what happened this morning, has anyone come to check your customer count information in the past two days?"

As soon as she heard Zhao Luoluo say this, the female clerk was obviously a little impatient. "The inspection team has confirmed that it was an accident in the morning, so what else do you people without armbands have to investigate?"

"Please be patient with me." Zhao Luoluo took out a business card from his shoulder bag and handed it to the clerk. "Otherwise, tomorrow the newspaper headlines will be very unfavorable to your store."

The clerk looked at the business card carefully, and then at Zhao Luoluo, and the expression on her face showed that she couldn't connect the editor-in-chief of the newspaper with the pink-haired girl in front of her, who looked smaller than herself. However, after a while, she relented, after all, more than eighty percent of the students in the school district subscribed to the paper or electronic version of the Supernatural Ability Newspaper, and the loss caused by offending the editor-in-chief was not something she could afford as a part-time clerk.

"The customer data records in our store are stored on the computer at the cash register, and the computer also has a lot of games for customers to try. Three days ago, it was around 7 p.m. on a Tuesday night A customer came into the store to buy a game called "Dog and Bear League", because it was released two years ago, and we no longer have a physical disc of that in the store, so we could only activate it by purchasing CDKEY online, and he offered to buy it locally with his own account. ”

"Wait, if he can't pay with his own account, why does he have to buy it in your store?" Zhao Luoluo interrupted.

"Although I also thought it was strange, I didn't object, because as long as the purchase request was sent from the terminal of our store, we could receive a share after the purchase was successful. In the end, he used a USB flash drive to copy the set of cdkeys he bought. ”

"Did you keep an eye on him while he was operating?"

"Nope." The clerk shook his head, "Because that computer is basically for customers to try out, and there are no important things to keep, so I went to entertain other guests halfway, and when I came back to see him, he had already finished copying on a USB flash drive." ”

"Do you remember what that guy looked like?"

"The in-store surveillance can be called up, and I can also give you his account information, and the records on the webpage should still be there."

"Hmm."

The clerk walked to the computer and quickly rummaged through the history, "There is, the account number is 103944577, it should be the mobile phone number." ”

Seeing Zhao Luoluo write down the number, the clerk called up the surveillance camera at the door again. "That's the person" The clerk pointed to a boy in the black uniform of Dawn College on the screen, and when he came in, he deliberately raised his head and opened the surveillance in front of the door, so he also took a clear picture.

"Wait a minute." Zhao Luoluo walked quickly to the door and shouted at Haidong, who was still standing outside the door, "Hurry up and let me in." ”

"Oh." Haidong walked in after Zhao Luo.

"This is the editor of our newspaper, and he was responsible for writing about this morning's fall." Zhao Luoluo introduced.

"That's right, it was really rude before, please don't mind." After learning Haidong's identity, the clerk immediately apologized.

"It's okay, just give me a chance to buy "Watch Ass" at a three-fold discount." Haidong joked that he didn't mean to blame the clerk in the first place.

"When you first came, you were the 10,000th customer of our store, and we can give you a 95% discount at our discretion."

"Then forget it..."

"Come and get down to business." Zhao Luoluo grabbed Haidong's arm and pulled him to the computer. "This person is from our academy, do you have any impression?"

Haidong took a closer look at the photo of the front face taken by the surveillance and shook his head, "I'm not impressed." ”

"Can you use your abilities to see what this person is doing on the computer?"

"All my ability can see is a monitor..."

"What's the use of you talking about you" Although Zhao Luoluo didn't want to count his employees in front of outsiders, he couldn't help but send a message directly to Haidong.

Haidong now really regrets accepting Zhao Luoluo's request to apply for a connection in the morning, he thought that he had taken advantage of it in vain...

"I can only contact that person through this phone number now, thank you for your cooperation."

"You're welcome, if it wasn't an accident in the morning, I hope you can find the killer soon. Oh yes! The clerk seemed to suddenly remember something. That night, when I was about to enter the customer data of the day, I found that the computer was malfunctioning, and I informed the store manager that the store manager contacted the next day to repair it, and the person who came to fix the computer also looked like a student from Dawn Academy. ”

"In other words, the person who repaired the computer could also be the murderer." Zhao Luoluo's tone looked a little helpless.

Haidong also looked embarrassed: "Yes, either there are no clues, or two are found out." ”

At this moment, the prompt sound in Zhao Luoluo's head suddenly sounded, it was sent by Xu Shangling, and she hurriedly clicked to receive.

"The information has been received, the incident in the morning has confirmed that it was not an accident, we have started to investigate, you must not intervene, there will be a danger to your life."