"Hello, Superintendent Quake, sorry to bring you here so late. Watch the latest chapter of Perfect World, and look at it quickly. ”

"Hello, sir. Oh...... No, I mean it doesn't matter. ”

Dickey? Quake looked haggard, his face was pale, his hair was messy, his eyes were full of anxiety and suffering, he didn't sleep all night last night, and he barely took a nap until the early hours of the morning, but he was awakened by a slight noise outside the window, and it was difficult to fall asleep, obviously the psychological pressure was very great.

"Call me Marlowe, have a cup of coffee, don't be nervous, let's talk casually." Marlow? Chaplin put down the coffee in his hand and said in a slightly casual tone. He tried not to put pressure on the frightened bird in front of him. Although he looks down on this kind of soft egg from the bottom of his heart, there are too many such people, and they don't belong to the same department, so he doesn't bother to waste his tongue on what to evaluate.

More than a day has passed, and the strange deformed monster seems to have disappeared out of thin air, and even the CZTS (Insight War Zone) system of the Pre-Research Bureau has been unable to find any trace of the other party, and Marlowe, who can only wait passively, also remembered the superintendent who is said to have been in direct contact with the other party, and brought him to talk to see if he could get any useful information.

"I've already said everything I can say, there's really nothing to add, my colleague has a transcript there."

Dickey? Quake held the steaming coffee cup in both hands, as if drawing heat from it, staring at the table in a daze.

Marlow? Chaplin, of course, had already read the transcript, but he liked to talk about it again in person. Years of work experience told him that sometimes the key details are often hidden behind some people's negligence, and tirelessly combing through clues can often have surprises, so he didn't say anything, but said directly:

"Dickie, I'm sorry I heard about your partner."

Hearing this, Dickie, who had been expressionless? Quake shuddered and his eyes turned red for a moment, and he covered his face with his hands and let out a howl like a wounded beast. He was always haunted by his failure to rush into the fast-food restaurant in time. Maybe I could have been braver and move faster at that time, and that stupid boy of Tewen still had a chance, and he let him stop firing!

Blame yourself!

It's all your own fault!

Marlow? Chaplin did it on purpose, and now is not the time for mother-in-law. He doesn't have much time to persuade the other party, and it would be a good choice to directly stimulate him to collapse, often after a thorough vent, people will be much clearer and calmer.

So he remained patient and waited without saying a word. About ten minutes passed. Dickquirk had sat up straight again, and was speaking much more fluently.

"My partner and I ...... that day That is, the police officer Tevin? Salisbury, as usual, is patrolling the West End. Suddenly receiving an order from headquarters, we immediately rushed to the scene...... Seeing that the guy was carrying the victim's body in his hand, he did not squat down with his head in his hands as requested...... So my partner Tevin shot and he shot him in the right arm...... The strange man probably didn't expect to be shot, and he kept standing there, staring at his arm...... Suddenly, he pounced as if he was angry...... He's moving too fast......"

"Wait!" Marlowe, who was listening intently, suddenly spoke up and interrupted the other party. "You say he stood there motionless, and then your partner shot and hit. And he was stunned, not in pain like ordinary people, just looking at his arm in a daze? ”

Dicki didn't quite understand what the other party meant, and became a little wary: "My partner came exactly according to the procedure, and he shot after warning in advance......"

Marlowe waved his hand: "No, no, no, you misunderstood, I didn't say that you had a problem shooting." What I want to ask is, are you sure that the other person is standing still and letting you shoot, and then reacts very strangely after being shot, and then attacks you after a while? What I want to know is the reaction of the other party. Dickie, please think about it, it's important! ”

Dickey hesitated for a moment, then replied in a somewhat uncertain tone, "It was already dark. The lights were a bit dazzling, and he seemed to dodge a bit, which I wasn't really sure. But he was absolutely stunned for a moment, like ...... Like I didn't expect us to shoot...... No, it's like seeing someone shoot for the first time...... I didn't shoot a single shot after that...... I should have cooperated with Tewen to keep shooting...... Otherwise, maybe not so many colleagues would have died......"

He smiled bitterly at himself, and then rubbed his hair, which was already a mess like a chicken nest, vigorously.

Marlow? Chaplin didn't pay attention to his self-talk. He tried to think back to what he had seen in the video, the monster was unbelievably fast, and with the ordinary P226 and M9 semi-automatic pistols that these officers were equipped with, and the accuracy that was not much better than that of a rookie, the probability of hitting the opponent was almost none.

Why, then, would the other side stand still and let the officer shoot, instead of attacking in advance? What was the reason for his change after that? His reaction was also very strange, and it was difficult to see from the video.

Marlowe redrew a horizontal line on the notepad in front of him before he spoke:

"No, no, no, that's not your responsibility, Dickey. Listen to me, the other person is far more terrible than you think, so you don't have to blame yourself at all. ”

Dickie's eyes were red and he shook his head in pain.

"I don't know, Marlowe. Thank you, I have not dared to say this since yesterday. As soon as I close my eyes, those colleagues who died tragically come to my mind, and sometimes I see their faces change to the appearance of Tevin, and ask me why I didn't save him......"

Marlow? Chaplin glanced at his watch, the hands pointed to 23 o'clock, he looked up at Dickie, and continued: "Like I said, it's not your responsibility, Dickie. I can't reveal more for reasons of secrecy, but even if you fill it in, it won't help. So we're going to look at the present, and I ask you, from the time you arrived on the scene, to the time you finally got out of your sight, that weirdo, did he say anything? ”

Dickey froze, he struggled to remember, then shook his head blankly.

"It seems that no, from beginning to end, he did not say a word...... By the way, his expression is also very strange...... I've never seen anyone look like that...... Very, very quirky...... I don't know how to describe it, it's like she's completely numb...... There are very few emotions of joy and sorrow, and if I were to say that he might be really mentally ill...... This deformed monster ......"

Marlow? Chaplin retouched the notepad full of words and fell into deep thought. The more he asked, the more suspicious he became about the monster's reaction, and he didn't see anyone communicating with him, either from the video or from the eyewitness accounts. Or rather, someone tried to communicate, like the hostess, but almost all of them said in one voice:

The other party did not speak.

Is it that he didn't speak, or did he not want to speak, or could not even speak?

Marlowe...... Is that guy a human or not? ”

Dickie hesitated for a moment, then looked at the other with a look of hope, as if he wanted an answer from him.

Marlow? Chaplin was silent for a moment, and finally replied:

"All I can tell you is that at the moment we can't know for sure. But personally, I wouldn't think of him as a human being. So--I suggest you think the same way. ”

Dicki nodded, and was about to speak, when the door to the inquiry room was suddenly pushed open, and a commissioner from the Operations Division stood in the doorway with excitement on his face.

"Sir, find the target!"

Marlow? Chaplin got up, put away his notepad without saying a word, and walked out.

Marlowe...... Sir......"

Dickey stood up almost at the same time, and even brought down his chair. He had an urge to ask the person in front of him to involve himself in the pursuit, to shoot all the bullets into the monster's body with his own hands!

But in the face of Marlowe? Chaplin and the other commissioner looked into their eyes at the same time, his lips twitched a few times, but his mind flashed the faces of his wife and two children, and finally he lowered his head in despair, trembling all over, and did not say the request.

Marlow? Chaplin's gaze lingered on him for a few seconds, and he quickly walked out. (To be continued.) )xh118