At 7:50 in the morning, Lin Nian opened his eyes on the bed in the hotel.

The white curtain of the bedroom was blown by the wind, and the cold sleet wind penetrated through the cracks in the quilt and took away the body temperature, and he looked sideways while lying on the pillow. The sky outside the window was still hazy, the porcelain blue sky was drizzling, and another damp hug embraced the coastal city into the gloomy sky, everything seemed chaotic, like someone who hadn't woken up.

He looked out the window for a long time, this memory has always been such a haze and green city has always been rained more or less, as if to clean some unclean dust on the ground, as long as there are people who are interested in looking for it, they can always find the traces of perseverance that will be washed by the rain countless times...

The screen of the newly bought mobile phone next to the pillow lit up, and at the moment before the alarm went off, Lin Nian had already turned off the alarm clock, he sat up from the bed and exhaled a long breath of turbidity, as if he was going to spit out all the rain gas with the smell of blood in his dream, but when he inhaled again, the new smell of rain filled his nasal cavity again, making people feel that their brains were awake and they felt that they were covered with a sense of dampness.

Get out of bed, put on shoes, get dressed, wash.

In a series of routine actions, Lin Nian did one more thing today, and that was to make two insignificant phone calls.

"Hello?"

The first call was connected.

"This is Chu Zihang."

"Don't look for us today, you live with your family, you may be suspicious when you go out often, stay at home with your mother, I will inform you in advance at the right time in two days."

"Okay, isn't there anything else going on?"

"Yes." Lin Nian said, "Please retell the story you told me on the balcony that day on the elevated road on the night of the typhoon." ”

The other side was silent for a while, and then said, "Okay." ”

Familiar stories are once again told over the phone, with no overly rhetorical vocabulary, only the most straightforward and blunt facts that make people feel sad and hopeless.

Lin Nian listened to his narration without saying a word, memorized a word from beginning to end, and after drawing the full stop, he nodded and said, "Thank you." ”

"Okay."

The phone hung up, and the conversation between the two was always so concise, there was no superfluous nonsense and small talk except for business, and the conversation was as clean as their faces.

Hanging up the first call, Lin began to make a second call, and Paganini's custom piano ringtone rang on the opposite side, but no one answered for the time being.

Lin Nian put the phone on the sink and began to rinse his mouth, two minutes passed, the phone automatically hung up and prompted that no one connected, he was not too disappointed or depressed, he just pressed the replay button and continued to wash himself.

A minute into the second call, the call finally came through.

"Hey... Feed? Lin Nian? Su Xiaoxiao's voice sounded on the opposite side, with a joy that could not be suppressed.

"Su Xiaoxiao?" Lin Nian wiped his face with a towel, took the mobile phone off and put it in his ear, "Just woke up?" ”

"Yes... I slept a little late last night, and I didn't get a call from you just now, I'm sorry. ”

"No, I'm sorry to disturb your sleep here." Lin Nian hung the towel on the railing, left the sink and walked into the bedroom.

"Don't bother, if you don't call, I'll wake up immediately, there is still a cram class this morning." There was a constant murmur on the other side of the phone, and all kinds of things were touched to the ground, crackling, and I could imagine the little goddess getting up in a hurry.

"All in all, good morning." Lin Nian said.

"Good morning... Lin Nian, you called me just to..."

On the other side of the phone, Su Xiaoqiao's speech suddenly became tight, and the girl who had always been lively and hot was suddenly called by someone she liked to say good morning, and she would actually end up like this... It's understandable, they always have a completely different side in front of the people they really like.

"I want to ask you for something." Lin Nian said straight to the point.

"Whew... Looking for my help, one thing? Just say, if there's anything I can do to help, I'll help! Su Xiaoqiao patted Simmons's bed packing ticket.

"Please help me find someone, his name is Chu Tianjiao." "The only information I have here is that this person lived in the city for decades, made a living as a driver, and finally disappeared on a blocked elevated road on July 3, 2004, when Typhoon Dandelion entered the country. ”

"Chu... Tianjiao? Su Xiaoqiao seemed to be stunned by the name, but after chewing her surname a few times, she sat on the bed in a black lace satin pajama duck and her face swelled with a strangeness.

"He is Chu Zihang's biological father." Lin Nian said the conjecture that Su Xiaoqiao was thinking of now, and the insightful words made Su Xiaoqiao shudder slightly, and hugged the quilt on the side and hugged him, revealing only one head with a mobile phone.

"Why did Lin Nian suddenly think of checking him?"

"Interest." Lin Nian said, "I want to know what this man has done in this city in the past ten years, and who he has had a deep relationship with, but the limited resources at hand can only trouble you." ”

"No trouble." The joy in Su Xiaoqiao's heart is like the black stupid hair on her head, a boy unconditionally chooses to ask for help from a girl after encountering a problem, this sense of trust is simply happy... In other words, Lin Nian would never ask her for help before, but after yesterday's incident, their relationship seems to have undergone some subtle changes.

"How long will it take? Find a place to talk in person, I don't like to talk about these things on the phone. Lin Nian asked.

"Meet and talk... What do you think of the restaurant? I know of a new restaurant that is particularly tasty and is in the CBD area, and we can go there at noon! Su Xiaoqiao coughed lightly twice, suppressed his joy, and asked Lin Nian's opinion very rigorously.

"Noon? So fast, I can do it here. Lin Nian was a little surprised, Su Xiaoqiao's confidence in her own intelligence network... But there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it, the Su family's local industry is one of the best, and the network of minerals is very open, whether it is the bright side or the dark side, once you want to investigate a person, half a day is completely enough.

... And what Lin Nian wanted to find was only the 'traces' left by the man named Chu Tianjiao in this city, it was hard for him to imagine that a group of laymen could find clues that were suspected to be an 'S' class half-blood, something like them wanted to hide, and it was impossible for a layman to find it in his life.

But fortunately, Chu Tianjiao has disappeared for several years, and he will not start to erase his traces because he finds that someone is investigating him... Perhaps only at the moment Lin Nian may have the opportunity to really find everything about this man.

"You send me the address and time at noon, and I will be there on time." Lin Nian said.

"Good! See you at the restaurant then. Su Xiaoqiao nodded, waited for the other side to hang up the phone first.

She sat on the bed for a long time, and then finally got excited, stretched out her hands and hammered the bed like a drum, shook off the quilt, ignored the smell of rain and breeze blowing in outside the curtain, stepped out of her long legs and ran to the bathroom.

...

On the other end of the phone, Lin Nian hung up the phone, and the door was knocked open, Wan Boqian saw Lin Nian wearing a windbreaker and sneakers, and was stunned for a moment: "Are you going out...?" ”

"I'm going to go out and check things out in a while." Lin Nian calmly sorted out his belongings, inserted the dagger into the built-in scabbard in the cuff of the windbreaker, and filled the steel-core bullets on the sheets into the nest of the Colt revolver one by one, and inserted the gun into the back waist under the windbreaker.

"Do you need me along?" Wan Boqian smelled that Lin Nian had a 'serious' aura that she couldn't see yesterday, and the 'S' level in this state gave people a lot of direct pressure, at least as far as Wan Boqian was concerned, she didn't even dare to look at the other party's eyes, for fear of being frightened by the fleeting golden intent inside.

"You stay in the hotel to take care of the hostage, it's better to tie him up, don't let him run away, and then ask him to call his secretary to send the invitation to the charity dinner in two days, and write the lines for him to read accordingly, so as not to use the code he agreed upon when he was kidnapped. When his secretary arrives, you open the door but don't let her in, remember to throw a few more clothes on the floor, the secretary outside the door will self-righteously misunderstand his current situation, and he won't care if he disappears for a few more days. Lin Nian said lightly.

"Got it." Wan Boqian nodded, her preparation was almost the same as the plan made by Lin Nian, she was rigorous to the bone to prevent all accidents from happening.

"I'll go first." Lin Nian was ready for everything, and Wan Boqian also noticed that he didn't choose to bring the alchemy knife in the equipment box, and he had a Colt revolver and two daggers with limited lethality... Even though there is no one in the city who can threaten him, even if it is all armed.

"Did you find any information about the mission?" Wan Boqian couldn't help but ask.

"No, it's something that has nothing to do with the mission, I care about it, so I'm going to make a trip, unless I die, it won't affect the overall mission, you don't have to worry about me implicating you." Lin Nian walked past Wan Boqian and left the bedroom.

“... Do I need to report to the Executive Department? ”

"No, I don't." Lin Nian said, "If you are not at ease, you can even take the initiative to report my decision to the head of the executive department." ”

Wan Boqian didn't say anything, everyone knew that the 'S' class was now the most comfortable knife used by Minister Schneider, and there was probably no one in the entire executive department who could replace such an efficient 'S' class. Strength is the smallest unit of freedom, and now Lin Nian is strong enough to have a certain degree of freedom since he entered school.

"If I haven't been back for more than twenty-four hours while I'm out, help me keep in touch with Norma." Before opening the door to leave, Lin Nian stopped as if he remembered something.

"Your mobile phone..."Wan Boqian remembered that each commissioner's mobile phone was accurately located by Norma, but she suddenly remembered that Lin Nian had changed the positioning system on the mobile phone, and as long as he turned off the mobile phone signal, it could basically disappear from Norma's monitoring.

"As I said, it's a private matter." Lin Nian said lightly.

"I see." Wan Boqian nodded lightly and said with interest, "I won't notify the executive department." ”

Lin Nian turned his head to look at her, but didn't say anything, and after turning his head and walking into the corridor with the door, the footsteps quickly disappeared.

“......”

In the living room of the room, Wan Boqian exhaled as if relieved and walked to the sofa and sat down, the white gauze curtain was blown by the wind, and the rainy city was outside the window, she turned her head to look at the cubicle where there was a small sound of struggle, and took out her mobile phone, but the contact shown on the phone was not the executive department, but... School Board of Trustees.