"You take it all." Ed didn't even pay much attention to Marcy's banditry, but just lifted his glasses with a thoughtful gaze and silently rubbed his chin, "So the current situation is ...... The parents of the girl, Susan, were suspected of attacking each other wildly after taking drugs and died accidentally. Susan herself was later taken away by the female doctor who cared for her parents, and the two disappeared with no trace of whereabouts. At the same time, this matter is also involved in the huge force of unknown backgrounds and suspected gangsters, but I don't know exactly why? ”

"Basically," Marcy said, swallowing the clouds, "that's it. ”

"What a mess."

"The world is always a mess. That's why we need people like us. That's why people like us will have something to eat. ”

"I won't complain this time." Ed tilted his head to squint at Marcy, grinned, and sighed, "Damn, damn it." If you can't find anything right now, and you can't make any useful progress, then I'll have to think of something else. ”

“……”

Marcy leaned back in the booth, looking at Ed through the hazy smoke, gritting her cigar teeth and moving up and down tightly, making the other end of the cigar burn like a lever.

"Why?" She spoke suddenly.

Ed turned to look at her. "What, why?"

"It's okay to have nothing to do with you now." Marcy said, shrugging her shoulders, "I mean...... It's unlike all the petty fights you've taken on before, and this time, um- it's dangerous, isn't it? Leaving the unidentified female doctor aside, the hidden power that those suspected gangsters represent is a huge problem. I mean, no matter who they are, they must be ruthless characters, ruthless characters with huge energy, and no one can predict what will develop in the end if they get involved. And now you can get rid of all of this, and you know that I can do you a favor and make your figure disappear in this matter, so that everything that follows becomes the work of our police, and you don't have to worry about it anymore. But...... You're not going to do that right now, are you? You still want to continue the investigation and meddle, even if you are prepared to use some extraordinary means. ”

Marcy's eyes stared straight and unblinking. "Extraordinary tactics that could get you involved in a bigger crisis."

"Hearing you say that, it seems like you already know what I'm going to do next." Ed smiled, then shook his head, "You're mistaken, Marcy. I didn't volunteer to meddle in this mess, and in fact I would never have to touch it for the rest of my life, if I could. But it's impossible, isn't it? It's my job, to be entrusted by my employer to figure out some things that haven't been figured out, to solve some problems that haven't been solved, and if there is danger in the process, it is helpless and unexpected. I think you know this very well. ”

"But ......"

"As for why you said I didn't take the opportunity to get out of the way," Ed interrupted Marcy, holding out a hand, "I'll tell you why, I'll tell you what's going on, tell you what's going on right now - I received that anonymous commission this morning, and it went straight to my office. There was nothing but cash advances, and there was nothing but an address, 'Bakitardon XVI. 'Two Thousand One Hundred and Seventy-Four Main Street', it was silly and stupid, like a guessing game, but I accepted it for a number of reasons, the most important of which was that I had nothing to do. But the cause never matters compared to the effect, does it? As a result, I accepted the commission, which I didn't know what I wanted me to do, and headed to the damn Bakitardon XVI. 2,174 Main Street. Then, I found two corpses there, a man in a closet with a bandage tied into a dumpling, and a couple of mysterious bastards who acted like second-rate thugs but were actually polite and completely different from second-rate thugs, and I fought with them because they wanted to knock me unconscious and put me in a car and take me away like a fish. ”

Ed made a gesture of smashing the handle of a gun in front of Marcy, the strange thing that the stupid big man wanted to do to the back of his head at that time.

"It's a trap. Can you understand, Marcy? It's a trap. Ed tugged at the collar of his cheap shirt under a cheap suit like a business agent who had suffered a big dumb loss at the negotiating table, and inhaled through his nose, "For detectives, commission is the client, commission is money, commission is everything. I've collected the money, taken the commission, and started to act, I have to finish the next work, solve the puzzles that need to be solved, find out the answers that need to be found, and manage the things that need to be managed to the end. Otherwise, if I open an opening for my work for a seemingly perfect reason this time, I may do something of the same nature for the same reason next time, until I finally destroy myself from the inside out. ”

“……”

"Of course, there is a trivial reason to mention." Ed waved his hand seemingly casually, the corners of his mouth slanted slightly, "That commission is quite generous, I don't want to return it like this." ”

"I don't think that's your real reason." Marcy pouted sarcastically, her eyes glittering in the dim space. Ed took a closer look and saw that it was the light that reflected the image of the data.

"Say whatever you want."

Ed stood up and straightened his clothes. He'd been out of this place for his usual pastime for far too long, and most of the time he had nothing to do with the pastime. Now that he's got everything he wants, it's time to leave. If he stayed later, he was afraid that he would get dizzy.

Marcy was sitting right in his seat. He pushed Marcy with his leg, on the one hand, to get her up, and on the other hand, he also felt that this guy should go with him. Unless, of course, she wants to stay here a little longer, have a little more fun, have a few more drinks, and catch a few more stupid fish with white stripes. This option is not impossible, and one of the conditions on which she can come is that he will pay for all her consumption here today.

But the truth is that Ed was overwhelmed. Marcy quickly stood up, snatched her mobile phone on the table, picked up the coat on the side, and threw it on her body at the same time as opening the door, in a heroic posture.

She nearly knocked Ed's glasses off the back.

The two approached Paul, who was picking up customers at the bar, and asked about the "package" they had left with him. Paul tilted the corners of his mouth and pointed twice with his chin to a dark corner. Ed and Marcy turned their heads to look at it, and with a slight glance they saw what they were looking for.

The little brother in white has come to his senses at this time, but he is already the same as before. He sat in a booth against the wall where the lights of the bar could not be illuminated, tremblingly drinking the small wine specially prepared for him on the small round table in front of him, and on the left and right sat a large man in uniform and unsmiling sunglasses, like a bodyguard firmly sandwiching him in the middle.

The look on his face could no longer be described as frustrated, and he was almost crying.

"He opened his eyes and yelled," Paul said, "so I had to find a way to make him a little quieter, and it worked pretty well." His wine is counted among your heads. ”

"On my head, to be exact." Ed glanced at the little man in white, shook his head, and then looked at Paul again, "Thank you, man." I owe you this time. ”

"Be careful, Mr. Eddard." Paul's eyes flashed with a cold light, "Forget it this time." If you do this trick again, the article. The son can't protect you, trust me. I like you a lot, and I don't want anything to happen to you. ”

"Hmm...... What the future holds, who can say? ”

Ed smiled, beckoned to Marcy, and turned to walk towards the little brother in white. However, Marcy did not move, but leaned back against the bar, put her two arms and elbows on the countertop, tilted her head to look at the handsome bartender brother with interest, and the corners of her mouth seemed to be smiling.

"Stuttgard is such a big city, right?" She whispered in a soft, whisper-like voice, looking at Paul, "A pile of more than 10 million people, and surprises can be encountered everywhere. For every hundred or a thousand people, there will be a guy who looks inconspicuous at all, but behind it is unexpectedly unusual. ”

"Hmm...... Hum. Paul didn't lift his eyelids.

"I can't protect that person, you can actually try." Marcy whispered, "But if next time I'll hear you say 'Strip. Son', I'll make wine with your eyes. Do you understand? ”

“……”

Paul didn't speak, and Marcy didn't pay any more attention to him. She looked up and saw that Ed had already returned with the little brother in white, so she got up and stepped forward to take control. Her arms hugged the little brother in white affectionately like a lover, but the little brother in white reacted to her like a snake and scorpion.

Ed noticed Paul's change, but didn't show anything on his face. His face, as long as you think about it, can only be different from the iron wall in color and shape.

As the three of them reached the door, Ed turned around and waved at Paul.

"Goodbye, man." He said, with a smile on his lips, "Tonight was a great one." ”

Paul made a rude gesture to Eddard and watched them disappear into the staircase. Outside the bar, Ed watched Marcy bring the limited-edition bracelet she had treasured to the little guy in white, and gently shoved his head into the car, glancing at the iron-gray full set of car mats inside. The color of the eagle's iron talon.

"You're not cute at all." "It's not feminine at all," he said. ”

"Femininity is determined by women." Marcy didn't care, slammed the door shut, and clapped her hands. Then she turned to look at Ed, "So, you're ready to decide?" ”

"You snatched my cigarettes." Ed said, "I'm going to get another box of ...... A box of even better. ”