Wei Taiqiang said to Liu Tienan: "We must strengthen the training of our e-sports players alone, and only when their training becomes a habit can they win this e-sports competition held in Beihua City." ”

Liu Tienan said: "Don't be too nervous, your e-sports players are all very good, and they will help you win." ”

That Tu Tuqiao looked at the e-sports players in Wei Taiqiang's shopping mall, and he couldn't help but feel a little envious.

Tu Tuqiao thought to himself: This Wei Taiqiang has a certain reputation in the e-sports industry, but he played e-sports earlier than him.

However, this Wei Taiqiang's ability to discover those e-sports players, it is true that no one in the Xuanwu Kingdom can surpass him.

"Look at what time it is!" She exclaimed, pointing a finger uneasily at the alarm clock on the stack of books, and the two clumsy hands pointed to 2:50.

"Oh ho, I've been so busy tonight."

"Then it's going to take so much time."

"Besides, there's a kid waiting outside. Maybe he hasn't gone home to sleep yet. ”

Her joy vanished at once. "Do you think he's still out there?"

"Eighty percent is still there."

She shuddered. "Would you like to take a look?"

"I can go down and have a look."

"Oh, then—are you really willing to go?"

Tu Tuqiao looked at her reassuring face, and after a while, he got up from the sofa and said, "Okay." He took a hat and an overcoat from the closet. I'll be back in ten minutes. ”

She followed him to the door of the hallway, telling him, "Be careful. ”

"I know." He went out as he spoke.

When Tutu Bridge went out, Post Street was empty. He walked a little east down the street and crossed the road; Then he walked two more streets west from the opposite road, and then crossed the street again and returned to his house. Along the way, I saw two craftsmen repairing a car in the garage, and there was no one else.

When he opened the door of the apartment, Xu Qianqian was standing at the turn of the aisle, holding Cao Wangrong's gun in her hand, facing sideways ahead.

。 Tu Tuqiao followed her in, put his coat and hat on the chair and said, "Now we have time to talk." He walked into the kitchen.

No sooner had he put the coffee pot on the stove than she came to the door. He picked up a slender baguette and cut it into slices. She stood in the doorway and looked at him intently, the fingers of her left hand groping boredly over the pistol she held in her right hand.

"The tablecloth is there." He said, pointing at the cupboard with a bread knife. There is a place to have breakfast.

She spread a tablecloth, smeared the slices of bread with pork liver sauce, and sandwiched the corned beef between the slices of bread. The bread is oval in shape and cut into small thin slices. Then he poured his coffee, took out another low bottle, and mixed some brandy into it. They sat down at the table, side by side on a bench. She placed her pistol on the bench beside her.

"You can talk while you eat now," he said. ”

She grimaced at him and complained, "You are such a fool." He took a bite of his sandwich.

She chewed on the bread and swallowed it, staring intently at the sandwich that had now been bitten into a crescent moon. Then he asked, "What if I don't tell you?" What do you do if I don't tell you anything? ”

"Do you mean this bird?"

"I mean the whole thing."

"I don't feel too weird, and I don't even know what to do next." He said to her, grinning so wide that his teeth were exposed.

"What are you going to do next?" She shifted her attention from the sandwich to his face. "That's exactly what I want to know, what are you going to do next?"

Tu Tuqiao shook his head.

A mocking smile slowly appeared on her face. "Is it very whimsical and elusive?"

"Probably. But I don't see any use in you hiding it from people right now. It's getting clearer. There are a lot of things I don't know. But I know a few of them, and I guess a lot of others. One more day, and I'll know in no time what you don't know yet. ”

"I think you already know by now." She looked at the sandwich again, her face serious. "But—oh! - I'm tired of it, and I really don't want to talk about it. Isn't it—can't you wait until you figure it out for yourself? ”

Tu Tuqiao laughed. "I don't know. For your sake, you'll have to figure it out for yourself. The way I understand one thing is to get into the whimsical and unpredictable tinkering with the machine. If you think that the flying debris is not dangerous to you, that's fine. ”

Xu Qianqian moved her bare shoulders uneasily and did not speak. For a while, neither of them said a word, just buried their heads in eating. He looked indifferent; She was thoughtful. Later, she whispered: "To be honest, I'm afraid of you." ”

Tu Tuqiao said: "This is not the truth. ”

"It's the truth." She insisted in her low voice, "There are only two people I know. I saw both of them tonight. ”

"I can understand why you're afraid of Cao Wangrong," Tu Tuqiao said, "because you can't do anything about him." ”

"You're not?"

"I'm not one of those passers-by." He said, grinning again.

She blushed and picked up a slice of bread smeared with pork liver sauce and placed it on the plate in front of her. She furrowed her white forehead and said, "To tell you the truth, that thing is a black statue, smooth and shiny, carved with a bird and an eagle; It could also be a falcon, probably that tall. She raised her hand about a foot from the table.

"How could this thing be so important?"

She took a small sip of coffee and brandy and shook her head. "I don't know." "They never told me," she said. Just asked me to help them get their stuff, and they promised me five hundred pounds. Later, after we parted ways with Joel, Freud offered to give me seven hundred and fifty pounds. ”

"It looks like it's worth more than seven thousand five hundred pounds."

"Oh, that's not all." "They didn't pretend they wanted to share it with me, they just hired me to help them," she said. ”

"What's the help?"

She raised the cup to her lips again. Tu Tuqiao's gray-yellow eyes stared at her face brutally, not moving. He began to roll a cigarette in his hand. Behind them, the coffee pot on the stove screaked suddenly.

"What's the trick?"

"Oh, it's not the big deal," she said, expressing disgust, "that he didn't find the Black Hawk, not even anything that seemed to have anything to do with it. The only note he found was a receipt for a month's rent that Xu Qianqian had paid a week earlier. The only thing that interested him was a large handful of rather fine jewelry, housed in a painted box, locked in a dresser drawer. He only delayed the search when he looked at the jewelry.

After Tu Tuqiao searched it, he made himself a cup of coffee and drank it. Then he opened the bolt of the kitchen window, made a few strokes on the edge of the bolt with his knife, opened the window—there was a ladder below—took his coat and hat from the bench between the sitting rooms, and went out in as much as he had come.

On the way back, he bought oranges, eggs, bread rolls, butter and cream at a shop run by a food merchant with puffy eyes and a fat body.

Tu Tuqiao quietly walked into his apartment, but before he could close the corridor door, he heard Xu Qianqian shouting, "Who is it?" ”

"Breakfast is here at the lower Tutu Bridge."

"Oh, you freak the hell out of me!"

The bedroom door he had closed was now open. The girl sat on the edge of the bed trembling, her right hand under the pillow.

Tu Tuqiao first put the large and small packages on the kitchen table, and then went to the bedroom. He sat down against the girl on the edge of the bed, kissed her on the bare shoulder, and said, "I must go and see if the boy is still outside, and buy something for breakfast." ”

She breathed a sigh of relief and leaned against him. "I woke up and saw that you weren't here, and I heard someone coming in, and it scared the hell out of me."

"Well, bad luck," Tutu Qiaotou twisted, pointing to the kid on the couch beside him. How do you let these low-level thugs fool around with their guys in the hall. ”

"Really?" Luke's clever brown eyes looked at the kid, and suddenly his face turned pale, and he asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

The boy stood up, and Tu Tuqiao stood up. The boy looked at the two big men, and looked at their ties; See that from this. Luke's tie is black. He stood in front of them like a student.

Luke said, "Come on, if you're all right, get out of here, don't stay here." ”

The boy said, "I can't forget you two guys." And he went out.

They watched him go out. Tu Tuqiao took off his hat and wiped his sweaty forehead with a handkerchief.

The hotel detective asked, "What's going on?" ”

"How do I know?" Tu Tuqiao replied, "I happened to recognize him. Do you know Wei Taiqiang in room 635? ”

"Oh, that man!" The hotel detective glanced at him.

"How many days has he been here?"

"Four days, today is the fifth day."

"Is there anything wrong with him?"

"I don't know, Sam, but his looks are unpleasant."

"Excuse me, did he come back last night?"

"I'll ask," the hotel detective agreed. Tu Tuqiao sat on the couch and waited for him to return. Luke reported: "No, he didn't come back to sleep, what's going on?" ”

"Nothing."

"Let's be honest. You know I'm going to keep my mouth shut, and I'm not going to ramble around. Besides, if something is wrong, we should also know that we should not receive the money for the house. ”

"That's not the case," Tu Tuqiao reassured, "in fact, I'm doing something for him." I'll tell you if something goes wrong with him. ”

"You'd better tell me. Do you want me to pay some attention to him? ”

"Thanks, Luke, that's a good idea. The more you know about the people you hire to do things, the better. ”

The clock on the elevator was already pointing to eleven twenty-one, and it was only then that Wei Taiqiang walked in through the door. He had a bandage on his forehead. A piece of clothing is already wrinkled because it has been worn continuously for too long. His face was pale, and the corners of his eyes and mouth drooped downward.

Tu Tuqiao saw him in front of the service desk. "You're early." Tu Tuqiao said easily.

Cao Wangrong raised her face and said, "I beg your pardon, I'm not in a hurry to continue the secret conversation between you and me now. Forgive me for being blunt, but it's the truth. ”

Cao Wangrong hesitated, and said in disbelief: "I see that you always have a ready-made beautiful sentence to explain." ”

Tu Tuqiao stiffened his face and said, "What do you want me to do?" Stuttering? Okay, let's talk over there. He led the way to the couch. After they sat down, he asked, "Did Dundee take you to the bureau?" ”

"Hmm."

"How long have they asked you?"

"It's just over, and you're forcing me to say it." Cao Wangrong's face and voice were intertwined with pain and anger. "I'm going to have to take this to the Greek consul general and get a lawyer."

"You go and see what is good. What did you get forced out of by the police? ”

Cao Wangrong's smile revealed a serious look of satisfaction. "Nothing, I'm sure of what you said in your room." His smile was gone. "But I wish you had come up with a more plausible set of words. It's ridiculous that I'm saying this thing upside down. ”

Tu Tuqiao smiled mockingly and said, "Yes, but there are also ridiculous benefits to saying that it is ridiculous." Did you really tell them nothing? ”

"Don't worry, Mr. Tu Tuqiao, I didn't say anything."

Tu Tuqiao tapped his fingers on the leather couch between them. "Dundee will probably come back to you, and you will pass without saying anything. Leave that jarring ridiculous. If we were to tell a story that made sense, we would all go to jail. He stood up. If you've been interrogated overnight standing in the police station, go sleep and bye. ”

Effie Perain was on the phone and said, "Not yet," and Tutuqiao walked into his outer office. She looked around at him, her lips silently saying the word "Eva." He shook his head. "Okay, I'll tell him to call you as soon as he comes." She said aloud, hanging up the microphone. "This is the third time she's called this morning." She said to Tu Tuqiao.

"And Gu Moumou called."

Tu Tuqiao's eyes lit up. He asked, "Who?" ”

"He said Gu so-and-so." It seems that she is clearly not interested in this topic. "I told him that you weren't there, and he said, 'After he comes, please tell him that Gu Moumou has received a message from him, and he has called, and he will call again in the future.'" ”

Tu Tuqiao pursed his lips, as if he was tasting something delicious. "Thanks, baby," he said, "see if you can get to Tom Porous." He pushed open the inner door, walked into his private office, and closed the door.

Xu Qianqian, wearing the same clothes she had come to this office last time, got up from the chair next to his desk and hurriedly walked towards him. "Somebody has been to my apartment," she said, "and it's a mess everywhere." ”

He seemed a little surprised. "Is there something missing?"