"Faceling, if you really dare to take my son, Xu Fu, away from me-" Xu Shengxing's bone-chilling voice was as cold as a blizzard, carrying a strong sense of threat, as if he would be unable to control his anger at any time and burn me and this breakfast shop to the ground, "-I will never forgive you." Even if you chase you to the ends of the earth, I will crush your bones and ashes, and burn your soul to the ground. ”

As we talked, none of the other customers at the breakfast shop seemed to notice what was going on on our side, as if we were just a pair of ubiquitous customers, talking about trivial matters everywhere. It seems to me that either he used psionic energy to block out the voices of our conversations, or he gently hypnotized the customers in the store. But all super-level psionics will have some tricks that ordinary psionics can't toss, and they are much more flexible than ordinary people like me who can only punch and kick their legs.

After a while, Xu Shengxing seemed to have finally calmed down, and he consciously suppressed his anger.

Then, he said coldly: "Two corpses." ”

"What?"

"There were two corpses." He said, "In Beaver Pharmaceutical's company, there is a room where psionic energy is isolated, and it is equipped with runes, which can make second- and third-level psionic people have the illusion that they cannot sense their own psionic energy. And in this room, we found two corpses, one of which did not seem to have fatal external injuries, but the internal organs were smashed to pieces as if they had been stamped by an obese person, which is obviously your usual modus operandi; And the other corpse was shot in the head by a soul bullet, you don't know how to use a gun, do you? That is, it is the hand of your accomplices. Who is he? Where are the people? ”

He misunderstood me, in fact, I used to use a gun, but I rarely had to use it. And the bullet is expensive.

As he spoke to me, a new customer came in the breakfast shop, it was Adam, and as soon as she came in, she saw the two of us, smiled knowingly, and walked in like a friend.

Seeing this, I said to Xu Shengxing: "It's right behind you." ”

Xu Shengxing stared at me for three seconds, and then looked back.

Seeing Adam, he frowned, and then nodded suddenly, actually recognizing this disguised face, "It's you." ”

"You know her?" I asked unexpectedly.

The person who answered was Adam, "In the past, when I was instigating gang infighting, I also served as an informant for the Public Security Bureau by the way, so that they could enter and finish up afterwards. Otherwise, it would be my sin to allow the situation of infighting among the gangs to further expand and spread to the superficial society, so that even ordinary citizens are drawn into disputes. ”

"It's just an illegal intelligence broker, don't pretend to be a kind citizen who cares about social order, and make people want to vomit." Xu Shengxing didn't seem to know Adam's true identity, "I see, you're the Faceling's partner." Hmph, what a dog man and a woman—"

He looked at me, then at Adam, and finally at me, with a sneer, "Anyway, your ex-partner seems to be an illegal intelligence agent too, right?" In a sense, it's really a fateful combination. The two of you, one likes to dog-eat-dog with psionic criminals, and the other likes to let gangsters eat dog-eat-dog; One is responsible for frontal attack, and the other is responsible for information support; One man, one woman...... Even if it is said that it is a 'good partner made in heaven', it is not an exaggeration, why don't I be the matchmaker, how about you get married on a certain day? I'll be at your wedding as well. When you kissed passionately in public, I led the team to rush into the wedding scene and arrest you all, so that you could be a pair of mandarin ducks in prison—the handcuffs could be tied together, and the wedding clothes would be left for you, and you would wear them to prison. I'm sure the reporters of the telegraph agency will also like this news. ”

After hearing this, instead of being annoyed, the "reporter from the telegraph agency" continued with a smile, "I don't mind at all, I just don't know, does Mr. Faceless dislike me, a woman of unknown origin?" ”

"Disliked." I say.

"Wow, I'm so hurt—" She tentatively covered her heart.

"Compared to this, Xu Shengxing, did you come here to meet our two criminals just to tell a joke? This leisure is really enviable. I turned to Xu Shengxing and said, "Let's get down to business, do you have any more information about the mysterious organization?" ”

"If there were, we wouldn't have managed to wait for that mad psyker to attack." Suddenly, Xu Shengxing seemed to have finally made up his mind, and he cooperated with us to communicate, and his attitude was no longer thorny, "If you can find the corpses of the victims who fell victim to human experiments, then I can ask the spirit mediums in the bureau to help psychic and see what these victims experienced when they were dying - provided that there was really such a thing as human experiments." ”

"You haven't found the bodies?" I asked.

"All the victims who can be found are dead at the hands of the sheepskin killer, and as for the victims who were really kidnapped by the mysterious organization, it is estimated that they have all been dealt with privately, anyway, there is no way to expect it to fall into the hands of the Public Security Bureau." He said.

"So, does it work to let the psychic medium directly divinate the key information?" I asked.

"Although it is not without the value of trying, you must understand that even on the side of the Public Security Bureau, there are not many spiritual mediums that can perform divination with a high accuracy rate, and they are doing this and that kind of divination for the government every day." His expression became like walking on the road on a rainy day, but he encountered a large pool of stagnant water that could not be bypassed, "It's easy to just invite them to channel, but the consumption of divination is another level, I'm afraid it will take a week just to queue up." It is not known how many people will be killed during this period. ”

"There are more than 10 victims who have died at the hands of mysterious organizations, and this is still a conservative number that I have investigated, and the government still doesn't pay attention to it?" Adam was a little incredible.

"Listen, as of now, whether it's a mysterious organization or a human experiment, it's your unilateral rhetoric." Xu Shengxing looked at her coldly, "And for the Public Security Bureau and the government, there are only two things that can be confirmed: first, some people are indeed missing; Second, they all seem to have been taken captive by the sheepskin killers. I'm currently investigating in the direction of 'the real culprit is someone else', but-"

"But others hint at you: if you Xu Shengxing finds it difficult to investigate, then you can simply blame all the disappearance records on the sheepskin killer?" I asked rhetorically.

"I didn't say that." He said indifferently, but I suspect that he himself had some complaints about his colleagues and superiors.

At the same time, I was also impressed by the mysterious organization.

At first, I inevitably underestimated them because they showed layman's demeanor towards crime, but here they showed their ability to skillfully grasp the minds of officials, and resorted to a "killing two birds with one stone" strategy, using the sheepskin killer as a scapegoat, and giving the local police a "perfect" reason to close the case.

It is likely that they also know that they are not good at criminal activities, and under normal circumstances, they will not be able to escape the investigation of the local police sooner or later, but they should be very good at dealing with officials.

So then, if nothing is expected, they will play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses and initiate certain social connections, so that the local police will feel that it will be quite tricky to track down, so they will turn to the route of saving trouble and sloppily close the case.

And Xu Shengxing may have foreseen this, so he is willing to sit here and exchange views with Adam and me, so as to complete the investigation before the "case is closed".

"But, Officer Xu, you actually have some things you haven't talked about, right?" Adam said suddenly.

"Something—means?" Xu Shengxing asked without changing his face.

"You've been friends with the boss of Beaver Pharmaceutical, Renta Inoue, since high school, aren't they?" I have to say, when Adam told me this, I almost couldn't help but look surprised.

"Are you suspecting me of colluding with Beaver Pharmaceutical?" Xu Shengxing asked rhetorically.

"Although I only investigated it before I came here, if I really suspect it, I won't find out here." Adam said, "But we want you to be honest and tell us about Inoue Renta." ”

"I do know something about him, but not so much that it becomes a valuable clue." Xu Shengxing said.

"The devil is hiding in the details, maybe you think it's useless to say it, but what if the clues are hidden in it?" Adam asked rhetorically.

Xu Shengxing groaned.

After a moment, he seemed to have made up his mind, and said, "It's okay, it's not a secret anyway, I'll tell you about it." ”

"Please tell me the details." Adam emphasized.

"Nature." His face was expressionless.

*

Based on his statement and what I know about him, I have done a brief collation and addition of the content.

Before telling how Xu Shengxing and Inoue Renta got acquainted in the past, we must first make a brief introduction to "Xu Shengxing in the past".

Xu Shengxing in high school, in a word, is a person like the protagonist of a fictional story.

He has automatically awakened his psionic energy since he was in elementary school, and has been hiding it until he graduated from high school, as if he is a late-blooming teenager with many novels soaked in his brain, thinking about "how to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger today".

No one knew he was a psyker, and he never told anyone. Unless something is important, never show your spiritual abilities in front of others. Even if you are forced to show it, you must hide your identity for fear of revealing the fact that you are a psyker.

Some people may wonder that this world is not a world without supernatural powers, so what can others do if they know that they are psykers? The government will not suddenly arrest him in a laboratory and imprison him, let alone let evil scientists be "dissected and studied" at every turn, followed by "slicing experiments" after dissection, and then soaked in formalin as specimens and preserved after they are cut off, and a set of mentally handicapped scientific research combos is completed in this way - it will never be like this. You must know that the psionics in this world are similar to "car accidents", although ordinary people do rarely encounter them in life, and there are even a handful of people who have never seen psionics in their lives, but psionics are still active in various regions of this world, blooming everywhere, and they can't be counted.

However, Xu Shengxing still tried his best to avoid being known as a psionic by the people around him, and his parents were kept in the dark.

This is because the general population generally harbors a "distancing mentality" from psykers.

This is by no means an incomprehensible phenomenon.

Even if the average person speaks to a muscular man who works out all year round, he will inevitably be polite; If the latter has a knife and axe, or even a pistol, he must be more polite, lest he anger the latter.

The psionics, on the other hand, are more powerful than the muscles and axes of the "latter", and even more powerful than pistols. They just live in the same room with ordinary people, which is equivalent to putting the invisible blade against the throat of ordinary people, and what they want to do is nothing more than a snap of their fingers, and ordinary people can only passively accept the "result" and the "fate" changed by the result.

Most psykers will guarantee that they are safe, and they will not harm ordinary people, or even think about such things at all. However, ordinary people understand that no matter how much kindness the psykers exude, the disparity in strength between them will not change. Often, psykers are able to speak their minds, but ordinary people only dare to pick up words that do not make the former angry, so as to create the illusion that "we are talking on an equal footing", when the truth is diametrically opposite.

The equality of the mind is based on the equality of matter.

The courage of ordinary people to be able to speak on an equal footing with psionics is in itself the greatest inequality; It is better to say that the reason why ordinary people are afraid of psionics is because sound animal instincts come into play, and if they are not afraid, it is some kind of pathology.

Although I have said before that the inhabitants of this world, whoever they are, theoretically have the potential to become psionics, "theoretically" is a rather cunning word after all, and it is easy to give unrealistic hope to the less gifted. And in this society, there are still only a handful of people who can eventually become psionics.

Those who stand out from the crowd, if they are not loved, will be alienated - this is what Xu Shengxing said to my younger brother Xu Ji when he grew up. In fact, according to my observations, this sentence is not limited to psionic people, people who are particularly good-looking in appearance, people who are particularly talented, and people who are particularly strict in their self-requirements...... This sentence also applies to a certain extent; In high school, he was full of pessimistic and negative imagination about "exposing the identity of the psyker", and at the same time thought that he was by no means a person with a so-called personality charm.

So, his adolescence passed through a period of time in a life of secrecy.

Time passed, and he was promoted to the second year of high school.

Then he got acquainted with the current owner of Beaver Pharmaceutical, the president of the student council at the time, Renta Inoue.