Lloyd's abrupt questioning, as always, did not cause Theo's mood to change, and many times, the little girl's mood was so calm that it made people feel that she was not a person, but a doll or something.

It is significantly more embarrassing for one person to try to cause a conversation but be miserably cold than for two people to be silent.

The silence continued to grow heavier, and just as a bewildered Lloyd realized that Theo would not reply to him, a small voice rang out.

"Hmm...... Perhaps. ”

Theo stared at the screen, the glow-blue light of the screen tinting her bright yellow eyes a layer of gray blue.

If anyone had been to Theo's room, they would have known right away that she was lying.

In Theo's room, there is a lot of decoration for Mixi. It's not an ambiguous thing like "maybe like", but a real fanatical love.

"In my usual personality, I don't get too attached to things. Surprisingly, I kept this with me. ”

There was a faint sense of nostalgia in the cold tone, and Theo narrowed his eyes, perhaps stung by the light of the screen.

I couldn't help but start thinking back about this stuffed toy, and Theo was in a trance for a while.

Here, if anyone with a modicum of common sense understands that either the topic should be ended or Tyo should be comforted, but the person who exists here now is Lloyd. When the IQ is superb, the emotional intelligence is not very good. Compared with Theo's faint nostalgia in his words, Lloyd paid more attention to other aspects.

"All the time? Didn't you buy this after coming to Crossbell? I remember, Missy seems to be a specialty of Crossbell? ”

Should I say that I am worthy of being a search officer, even if I talk to a friend, I will unconsciously pay attention to the logical errors in their words.

Faced with the incomprehensible question, Theo shook his head calmly and continued to say in a cold tone: "This is something that someone else gave me. Received it from Mr. Guy about five years ago. ”

"Uh-........................-huh?!"

The information passed through the brain and was quickly transformed into Lloyd's intelligence, but the time to digest this information was surprisingly long.

"Guy Bannings, Lloyd's predecessor, is that your brother?"

Tio said lightly, and at the same time turned his head, his clear eyes that could not see emotion focused on Lloyd's face.

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At the police headquarters, instigated by something called the Gossip Heart, Randy and Ellie take advantage of their positions to start a treasure hunt in the sea of books.

Speaking of the ocean of books, the vast sea of smoke or something, in the past, Ellie could only understand this kind of words to express the meaning of "there are a lot of books", but today, she really understands why people use this as a metaphor.

What is the concept of unprocessed documents that have been piled up for more than 2 years?

Assuming that there were only five police chiefs - much more than that, of course - each of whom missed five documents a day - of course, much more than that - even then there would be nearly 10,000 documents left unprocessed in a year.

A document is not just a thin piece of paper. With the exception of pragmatists like Guy, the other people's files are thick, with a lot of useful and useless materials sandwiched inside, which looks very bluffing. If you change the folder to red, maybe some people will be surprised, when did the dictionary become so big?

What does it feel like to pile up 20,000 dictionaries in front of you? That's probably how Ellie and Randy are feeling right now. What's more, the number is definitely not 20,000.

The conclusion is that Ellie and Randy are really swimming in the archives.

As for a child who was supposed to be there, he didn't know where to go for a long time. This is a sea of books that even Randy can only show half of his head, and Ellie can't even show the top of his head! The kind of kid who only reached Randy's waist would have been swallowed up by the ocean - sleeping in some inconspicuous corner.

In fact, Hexu is indeed sleeping, although he wants to help as much as he can, but the words in the document that are sloppy or shirk responsibility are too profound for children to really understand.

"Oh, Miss, I've found something good."

As if he had dug up a treasure, Randy pulled out a document from a pile of documents and waved it excitedly, but he didn't want to accidentally knock down the pile of documents around him because of his too big movement......

"Be careful, Randy...... What is it? ”

Ellie sighed helplessly, this Randy, if she could be serious and safe, she should actually be quite likable.

As a result, Randy "desperately" sent out the documents, and Ellie, completely ignoring her companion being buried in a sea of books, began to read.

《Report》

The title is very simple.

The cover also features the name of Guy Bannings. It should be a report on one of his missions.

It's simple enough.

A few pages were simply flipped through the pages, and it was strange enough.

The content is a report of Guy escorting a certain person to the Duchy of Remephilia.

There is no problem with the content, the problem is the time and the people.

The time was five years ago.

It's strange that the documents of the police station, which are supposed to be divided by time, at least by year. Before today's work, Chief Sergei said that "you have already processed the documents of three years ago", which is what he meant.

Why is a five-year-old report mixed in with a three-year-old report?

In this way, in general, according to the thinking of the police department's top management, useless documents will be thrown away, and Mr. Gay's request for the establishment of a support section should also be "waste paper" rather than documents.

And the characters.

In order to make the most intuitive impression on the report of the police station, it is common to leave a photo on the data page. So, Ellie saw a mature, somewhat flat-faced young ID photo, with brown messy hair and resolute eyes that looked very similar to Lloyd. No, it should be said that Lloyd is very similar to him.

Underneath the man's photograph is the name Guy Bannings.

It should be Lloyd's proud big brother.

In the other photo, there is a girl with aqua blue shawl hair, who looks very young, only about nine or ten years old, with frightening white skin, an indifferent expression, and bright yellow eyes that make people think of Tiou who is very similar to her.

Underneath this photo, there is a line of writing on it.

Tio Prato.

Ellie subconsciously put her hand to her mouth, and then realized that she didn't actually have the habit of smoking pipes. It's action that she learned from detective novels, and when she thinks about it, she does it unconsciously.

I always feel that this is not a coincidence. It was as if someone was deliberately directing them to focus on Guy's body.

Let's make a note of it first, and go back and discuss it with Lloyd and Youjun.

Deciding on her future course, Ellie read it carefully.