Li Su followed Chu Zihang into the gray car he parked in the parking lot. This car is a ubiquitous make and model in Oslo, far from the Maybach or Panmera he used to drive, the only thing that remains unchanged is Chu Zihang's driving skills that are still as steady as an old dog, under his control, the old and clumsy car is racing on the sparsely populated Oslo highway with the maximum speed limit.

"Brother Chu, our perception of warmth may be a little biased." Finally eased up under the heat, Li Su spit out at the first word.

"Oh, I'm used to it, and today is indeed the warmest time of winter in Oslo." Chu Zihang said lightly.

“...... Forget it, don't talk about this. What is the mission? Norma actually asked me by name for support. Li Su stretched out the hand that was carrying the bag to the air outlet of the car, and he felt that it was a chicken paw that was thawing.

"You take a look at this first." Chu Zihang handed over a newspaper. When he opened the newspaper, he habitually looked at the publisher and the date, it was a local newspaper in Oslo, and it was published today.

The page that Chu Zihang had turned was the news of the day, and a huge headline occupied the entire page: "Graffiti sculptures, pranks or red ideology swept away?" ”

Continuing to read on, it seems that the famous sculpture "Pillar of Life and Death" in Oslo's Fronier Sculpture Park has been poured with red paint from top to bottom, painting the half-seated sculpture red.

This Li Su has heard that those artists who are full of talent, impatience and justice always like to do this thing. They tend to appear when the moon is dark and the wind is high and the wind is low and no one is around, leaving their masterpieces on famous sculptures or landmarks, and then slipping away before dawn. The sculpture of the Red Army in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, is probably one of the most poisoned, with one of the most famous graffiti showing Red Army soldiers being spoofed as Captain America, Santa Claus, Ronald McDonald, and other well-known characters.

"An artist who loves the color red with a lot of blood, and then what?" Li Su closed the newspaper.

"That's not paint," rarely, Chu Zihang paused: "It's blood." ”

"So horrible?" Li Su opened the newspaper again and glanced at the photo. "This bleeds...... It's not small...... Four? ”

"No, two." CHU ZIHANGYOU HANDED OVER HIS IPAD, AND ON IT WAS ANOTHER PHOTO TAKEN AT A CLOSER DISTANCE, JUST UNDER THE PILLAR OF LIFE AND DEATH. As Chu Zihang said, he did identify two human body parts from those fragments of meat, but the scene was so disgusting that people wanted to vomit out all the contents of their stomachs.

"Vampire Scythe?" Li Su understood.

"Yes, the other party's spirit may be a vampire sickle." Chu Zihang nodded. "That's why Norma assigned you."

"Okay, do you know the identity of the other party?"

"The identities are unknown, but the identities of the two deceased have been confirmed, and they are the victims of two disappearances in the previous two days."

"What was found on the corpse?"

"It's still work on splicing, and there's nothing to discover."

"Okay. Norma, send me the personal information of the deceased. ”

As soon as the words fell, the two files were pushed to the tablet, Chu Zihang drove seriously, Li Su looked at the files carefully, and there was nothing to say all the way.

"This is the Oslo branch? Will the members have a welcome ceremony or something? Li Su got out of the car and looked up at the three-story building in front of him, or one of the rows of small buildings. The brick-red façade and white windows reveal a rustic aesthetic, but this aesthetic is a bit old-fashioned, reminiscent of the not-so-distant sixties of the last century.

"There is no welcome ceremony, because the members of the ministry have gone to greet you." Chu Zihang said as he took out the key from his pocket and inserted it into the brass-colored lock cylinder.

"It's ...... Bad jokes? Li Su was stunned for a moment.

"Yes, I just read it from the book, and the book also says bad jokes to help stir up the atmosphere."

Li Su shivered fiercely: "It's really cold enough." ”

"So you're the only one in the Oslo branch?" The indoor temperature was the same as the outside, and Li Su was not ready to take off his coat, so he simply sat on the sofa.

"Well, most of the missions here don't involve murders, it's a very laid-back place. In the past, there was a senior here, and we would take turns supporting other branches. ”

"Sounds good."

"If you want to comfort yourself, go out and turn right at two intersections is a cake shop, turn left is a supermarket, things are very complete, the spare room upstairs can pick a random one, you can live, I usually have a simple cleaning, I still have some things to confirm today, tomorrow action." Chu Zihang went to the backyard and came back with an extra bundle of firewood in his arms. He piled the firewood beside the stove, picked a few and started the fire.

"What do you eat at night?"

"Go out and eat."

"I'll go buy some food and make it myself, so that you can recall the taste of Chinese food, anyway, this house is estimated to not be warm in a short time." Li Su casually found a spare room to put down his luggage and left this unsightly branch.

When he returned, the house was warming up, reminiscent of spring in Illinois. Chu Zihang took the cake in his hand and put it on the dining table, and he walked directly into the kitchen with a plastic bag. To his relief, the kitchen had been converted into a gas stove and didn't need to be rekindled, and he hadn't really used firewood to cook.

"It gets dark so early." Li Su walked into the restaurant with a bowl of Sanxian soup and looked up at the sky outside the window.

"It's very close to the Arctic Circle, so the nights are longer in winter." Over there, Chu Zihang had already cooked two bowls of rice, and put them on the seat with chopsticks. The meal was very harmonious, the two who hadn't seen each other for a long time chatted about what happened after they separated, and after eating, Chu Zihang went to wash the dishes, and when he came back, Li Su had already turned on the projector in the restaurant and conference hall, and turned out the touch-screen computer that was dozens of inches hidden in the wall. This set of equipment is unified in each branch, and he is familiar with it after operating it so many times.

"Let's get started." Chu Zihang slid a few times on the screen, and the documents covered the entire screen like snowflakes.