Xu Shengxing seemed to be in a strange mood, and when Chloe (Adam) and I took away our police uniforms and went to different places to change clothes, he just nodded nonchalantly, signaling that he would wait quietly for us to finish changing. And if he were normal, he would laugh at me here, "It's just a woman, and you are a man who feels embarrassed to change clothes in front of me?" ”

But instead of doing so, he stood silently, watching the leaves sway in the wind, as if the movement of the leaves hid a mysterious metaphor of nature, and he became a sorcerer of an ancient tribe, trying to find some kind of solution in this irregularity like a tortoiseshell bursting out of the fire.

It can be seen that he is at a loss, and it seems that in the past two days, he has found not only the location of Inoue Renta, but also some clues and evidence that do not meet his expectations.

When I came back from changing clothes, Chloe hadn't come back yet, Xu Shengxing glanced at me, nodded casually, and said, "It's decent." ”

"In that case, why don't you give me another frag grenade?" I patted the holster attached to the outside of my thigh, there was a gun inside, but there were no bullets, "I remember that when you police officially participated in combat missions, you would bring that thing in addition to the pistol." ”

"Only against psionics and monsters like you." He corrected a sentence, and then he actually threw over a frag grenade without insurance, looking at his action, it didn't look like a grenade, but like an apple.

I immediately reached out to catch it, and although I knew that it would not explode easily, my heartstrings were tense when I saw that this dangerous object seemed to be about to fall to the ground.

"Really give it to me?" I asked very unexpectedly.

I've seen this kind of frag grenade explosion scene before, and the damage is really not small. The surface of the grenade is inlaid with thousands of small steel balls, which will explode in all directions as the grenade explodes, causing great damage to enemies within a certain range. I have the same weapon in my home world, but here, in order to deal with psionics more efficiently, I have even strengthened the lethality and damage range, and it is really not something that can be handed over to outsiders.

Having said that, when it comes to actually fighting high-level psionics, it actually doesn't play much role, and at best it can only deal with second- and third-level psionics. When it comes time to deal with a first-level psionic, it will seem overstretched and do not have the power to make a final decision.

If it is used to deal with Xu Shengxing, it will be even more useless, Xu Shengxing himself can create far stronger lethality than this. The reason why he carries firearms and grenades with him is probably only because the deterrent power of these two weapons is more understandable to ordinary people.

"It's a dud, you can't fix it, it's no different from a toy." He glanced at me coldly, "I knew you were going to ask for it, so I brought one over to laugh at." ”

"Thank you." I didn't think so, and said, "Did you want us to disguise ourselves as 'fake cops in the police force' before we kidnapped Inoue from the escort before we kidnapped them from the escort?" ”

As I spoke, Chloe changed her clothes and came over to join me.

"Yes, there is a plan." Xu Shengxing said, "However, if he exposes the fact that he is the real murderer when he confronts me, then you don't need to kidnap him, I just escort him into the bureau." ”

Chloe overheard our conversation and interjected, "He can't make that kind of mistake." ”

"It's not up to him." As he spoke, Xu Shengxing lifted his cuffs and exposed his wrists, only to see that he was wearing an antique bracelet on his wrist, "This is a psionic item that I applied for from the bureau yesterday, and it has the effect of 'detecting lies'." If someone around is lying, the item itself will automatically heat up to over forty-five degrees for the wearer to know. And unlike traditional polygraphs, this psionic item is 100% effective at the average person - either 'close' to 100 percent or 100 percent. ”

As he spoke, he suddenly looked at me, and although it was only a glance, it felt like a savage picking up his spear and suddenly stabbing at the fish in the brook—the impression of "prepared suddenness".

"Metaphor—" he stared at me tightly, "Faceling, you're eighteen, aren't you?" ”

My heart tightened, but the surface of the work still did not fail, and I replied without changing my face: "No, it adds up to about forty-two years old." ”

He looked down at the bracelet, his brows furrowed again, and it seemed that the bracelet was not responding.

"How can a Faceling be eighteen?" Chloe laughed, "If that's the case, then hasn't he been hunting psyker criminals in the body of an ordinary human since he was fifteen years old?" Even if you start practicing martial arts from your mother's womb, you will definitely not be able to do this. ”

As she spoke, she looked at me again and was surprised, "But, it turns out that you are forty-two years old this year, I really didn't expect it." Looking at this disguised face, I thought I was only twenty-four years old. ”

It's just that the "mental age is forty-two years old". My heart said.

"Again, I was just talking gibberish, Facelings can't be that young." Xu Shengxing nodded and said, "Anyway, I'll test Inoue Renta with this psionic item later." If he is the real murderer, I will be able to detain him and ask the bureau for more investigative resources to collect evidence of his crimes. ”

"Can't you just convict him?" Chloe asked.

"No, you can't." Xu Shengxing said, "The polygraph conclusions of psionic items cannot be used as evidence in law. ”

"Even if the polygraph is 100 percent effective?" Chloe asked.

"It's political, social, ethical, psychological, historical, psionic...... and other academic issues, and there are often debates in academic circles about whether it should be incorporated into the legal system, which is quite complicated...... "Xu Shengxing said, "but it can be summarized in a way that even a fool can understand...... Some 'people who see lying as breathing' are not happy to see such a thing having legal effect. ”

"Okay, I see." Chloe nodded abruptly.

Xu Shengxing continued: "But this thing still has a lot of value as a reference, and even if I lynch him at that time, no one in the bureau will say anything." ”

"It's illegal for the police to lynch, right?" I asked.

Xu Shengxing said categorically: "As long as it is not exposed, it is not a crime." ”

"So are you really a people's policeman?" Chloe seemed to refresh her perception of Xu Shengxing again, "Does your son know that you work like this outside?" ”

"Don't ask me to repeat it a second time, of course he won't know."

I glanced at him.

*

An hour later, we drove to a pharmaceutical factory in the suburbs.

From the outside, the pharmaceutical factory looks like a huge white box on the ground, and as a building, it has no personality, just a large size. Of course, as a factory for mass production of drugs, there is no need to pursue architectural artistry. This place is also a few years old, the exterior walls have been beaten by wind and rain, and many places have lost paint, and there are gray marks everywhere.

When we walked to the entrance, we were greeted by someone who looked like an employee.

Nominally, Xu Shengxing's trip was for official business, and he wanted to ask Inoue Renta, who was here; Chloe and I were sidekicks, wearing helmets and not even showing their faces. Although there are some uninvited guests, it is by no means unexpected.

Although it looked like it was just the three of us, according to Xu Shengxing, he also ambushed a police force outside in case of emergency.

"Please go this way." The staff took us down the hallway.

The hallway is flanked by floor-to-ceiling windows that allow a direct view of the room. The place we passed by was less like a production line, more like a place where drugs were being studied, and the researchers were fiddling with lab equipment and computers in their rooms, not knowing what they were studying. According to the employees who led the way, the pharmaceutical factory also has a research and drug component, not just a mass production of drugs.

Chloe looked left and right, then leaned over to my ear and whispered, "It feels like you're in the 'final level.'" ”

If Inoue Renta is the "boss" of the mysterious organization, and we want to defeat him here, then this is indeed the final level.

However, I never lost sight of my purpose. I'm not here to bring down Inoue – of course, if I have the chance, I would. But at the end of the day, my goal is to investigate the occult organization thoroughly, and find clues from their research plan on the "Psionic Awakening Potion" that will be useful for me to become a psyker.

If Chloe is a "counterattacker" who is determined to fight in the pursuit of a mysterious organization, then I am an "investigator" who acts to explore secrets.

"Can you show us around?" Xu Shengxing was very polite when he talked to the staff.

"Well, probably not." Employees are a little embarrassed, "mainly because there are some trade secrets. And in some places, you have to go through an iris scan before you can enter. I can't get in either. ”

"It's a shame." Xu Shengxing said.

"Are you here to investigate the thieves?" The employee asked curiously, "It seems that there was a thief in the morning, but the security guard failed to catch it and ran away for the thief." ”

Thief? This timing? I can't help but pay attention, but according to the "setting", I am now Xu Shengxing's follower, so it's not good to ask casually.

"Really?" Xu Shengxing was a little surprised, "We're here for other things." ”

The employee sighed, but he didn't really care about anything else.

Soon he took us to the guest room and opened the door for us.

Xu Shengxing walked in, and Chloe and I followed closely.

The living room is equipped with a variety of furnishings, including sofas and low tables, as well as bookcases and potted plants.

There were two other people inside, one of whom was a man in his forties, who looked quite handsome in appearance, and although he was middle-aged, he could still be called a beautiful man; The other person was not smiling, his eyes were sharp, he was wearing a black uniform, and he stood erect behind the sofa, as if he was a bodyguard from a military background.

The former should be Inoue Renta, and this is the first time I've seen him so closely.

But at the moment, the latter, the man who looked like a bodyguard, attracted my attention even more.

I couldn't say what was noteworthy about him for a while, and if I had to say anything, it was "intuition".

This statement seems to be more common in psionics, but ordinary people also have intuition, but unlike the intuition of psykers based on inspiration, ordinary people's intuition is based on unconscious thinking - if the human brain is compared to a computer, then many of these programs work in the background, such as processing light information into pictures, air vibrations into sound, etc., these are all programs that work in the background. Occasionally, a human backend will combine some seemingly unrelated information to draw conclusions and push it to the foreground.

The foreground (superficial thinking) can't see the process of working in the back office, and will take it as some kind of unwarranted intuition.

And my intuition now tells me that this bodyguard standing behind Inoue Renta is likely to be a rare "super-level psyker".

Xu Shengxing also immediately set his eyes on the bodyguard, looked at it for two seconds, and then looked at Inoue Renta and said, "It's been a long time." ”

Inoue Renta had already stood up, took the initiative to greet Xu Shengxing at this time, and said enthusiastically: "Yes, I haven't seen you for about half a year, right?" We both have our own careers and families, and we can't just get together like we did when we were students. As he spoke, he sighed, as if he was sighing that time was unforgiving.

Xu Shengxing nodded silently and sat down on the sofa, while Chloe and I stood behind him without saying a word, like the bodyguard.

Inoue Renta personally poured a cup of hot tea for him and himself, and then sat down opposite Xu Shengxing. As Xu Shengxing once mentioned, Inoue Renta seems to have some kind of compulsion for neatness, after sitting down, he first paid attention to whether his clothes had extra wrinkles, specially pulled his clothes corners and trouser tubes, and then adjusted his sitting posture so that he could show the impression of being upright.

"So, what's the matter with you?" He asked enthusiastically, "I heard it's business, right?" ”

"That's right." Xu Shengxing nodded.

"Why don't you talk about anything else?" Inoue said, "It's rare to meet old friends, and if you only talk about business, it's inevitably boring." ”

"Not necessarily." Xu Shengxing said, "Today I only talk about business. ”

Inoue Renta's face was surprised, "What, are you busy?" ”

"That's it for the greetings." Xu Shengxing picked up the porcelain cup with hot tea, looked at it, put it down again, and then said, "I'll only ask you one question, and I'll leave after asking." ”

Hearing this, Inoue Renta frowned and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Are you behind the recent disappearance of people in Beaver City?" Xu Shengxing asked with a glance.

"How is that possible? It's the first time I've heard of it. Inoue looked surprised, as if he couldn't understand why such a question was being asked.

Xu Shengxing touched his wrist.

The bodyguard behind Inoue Renta was aware of it, and the iris of his eyes suddenly turned dark yellow, carefully examined Xu Shengxing's movements, and then recovered, a sneer pulled out of the corner of his mouth, and said, "Inoue, don't pretend anymore." This cop has brought a psionic item and has already detected your lies. ”

The atmosphere at the scene became tense in an instant.