"I think you probably killed him."

Tommy's voice came. He stood in the corner of the room, near the handrail of the stairs leading up to the second floor, his black and white eyes behind his big black-rimmed glasses, looking inexplicably at Ed, who was as terrible as an emotionless devil at this moment. Strangely, he seemed to be calm, and his words were calm, but they were a little farther away, as if they were coming from across the other side of the Santu River.

"In that case, you'd be overly defensive." Ed shrugged his shoulders and glanced down at Gilry. He beat him badly, but certainly didn't actually kill him. He still has some measure.

But now Jiri doesn't look like he can answer questions. He turned his head to look at the side of his coat, walked up to him, lowered his head and grabbed his hair and lifted his head, revealing his face. He still has Ed's shoe prints on his face, a nosebleed, and a tooth in his mouth. But although his consciousness was vague, he still had no problem speaking.

"Hey." Ed slapped him on the side of his cheek to sober him up a bit, "Your boss, Mubag, where is he?" ”

"Muba......

"Yes, Mubagh. Isn't he supposed to come with you, but I don't seem to see him. Where is he? ”

He ...... In the ......"

"He's here."

A sudden, deep voice fell silent in the world. Ed slowly looked up at the stairs leading to the second floor. A man is stepping down from the top step by step.

He looked similar to what Ed saw in the photo, with a shiny bald head and a jet-black beard, but although it was still exaggerated, it was not as exaggerated as it was seen in the photo, it should have been trimmed and changed from a big beard to a smaller mustache. But still bearded.

He walked down from the second floor, his eyes fixed on Eddard, and a gun in his hand. The muzzle of the gun was not pointed at Eddard, but seemingly casually pointed in the other direction with the hand holding his arm. Tommy's direction.

Tommy turned his head back when he heard the voice, saw the bearded man on the stairs, and subconsciously wanted to leave, but Ed and the bearded man stopped him almost at the same time.

"Don't move!"

"Listen to him!"

“……”

Tommy looked at Ed, then at the beard, and then at the foot that he had just lifted and fell back. He closed his lips tightly and reached for his glasses.

Ed exhaled softly, silently picked up the pistol that had fallen on the ground from his coat, and then slowly got up. The bearded man had already walked down the last steps at this time, and walked to Tommy's side. He looked at Eddard, then suddenly reached out and grabbed Tommy's neck, grabbed him by his side, and held Tommy's head with a gun. At the same time, Ed quickly raised his hand and aimed his hooded pistol at the bearded head. The three-man room instantly became a stalemate.

"Detective, huh." The beard twitched the corners of his mouth, because there was too much hair on the side of his mouth, Ed didn't know what he was laughing at, "You're the detective that Jiri said, looking for this little guy?" ”

"Let him go," Ed squinted at the beard, "let him go, I'll let you go." ”

"Hey." The bearded man smiled, then glanced at Ed with a strange gaze, "Are all the detectives so good now?" He said, glancing at Gilry and Hood who had fallen to the ground. The son is fine. ”

“……”

"Get out of there, please." The bearded man retracted his smile and glared at Ed, "You're blocking the door." ”

Ed opened a slit in his mouth, took a light breath, and began to move his body. His front is always pointed at Beard as well as the muzzle of his gun, and Beard is always facing him, and he hugs Tommy as Ed moves, drawing circles in the room with Eddard. Tommy's face was flushed from the strangulation of his thick arms, but he was barely able to breathe.

As the clock ticked by, a tense silence filled the living room. By the time Ed turned to the place where Beard had just stood by the stairs, Bearded had finally retreated all the way to the door, and the street was right outside the door.

"If I'm going to run," said the bearded man, looking at Ed earnestly, "you might still be able to shoot me in the back without this little creature as a talisman." ”

"I often put cold guns in people's backs." Ed said coldly, like a frozen chicken in the depths of a freezer, "But not today." My client just asked me to find someone, and didn't let me deal with the gangsters, let alone kill people. Actually, if she asks me to kill, I won't kill. You have to be clear about one thing, Mr. Mubagh, I am a detective, and detectives are shrewd and know what to do and what not to do. ”

Mubagh nodded. He was satisfied with Ed's answer. He opened his mouth to say something more at the end, when suddenly a knock came from outside the house through the wooden door.

This was beyond the expectations of everyone present. Mubag's brow furrowed, and he glanced back at the door, then at Ed. Ed frowned as much and shook his head slightly at the bearded questioning gaze, indicating that he had nothing to do with it.

After a brief hesitation, the knock on the door outside the house became a little quicker and louder, as if there was some urgent matter. The bearded man had an impatient look on his face. He let go of Tommy, who had been held into jelly by himself, but instead of letting him go, he motioned for him to stay next to him, and he took the gun in one hand, the muzzle of which pressed against Tommy's waist.

Then he leaned against the door and opened it a small crack. Ed stared at the scene without blinking, until the pop of "bang" suddenly appeared, startling him.

The unlocked door was violently kicked open from the outside in, and then a group of wolves rushed into the sheepfold, and at the same time almost four guns pressed against Mubag's bald head, unloading his weapon and twisting his arm against the wall, and five more guns aimed at Eddard in the air. In just a moment's effort, all three people in the room were restrained, and there was no room for resistance.

Then, a giant bowed his head and burrowed into the room. Ed was a little unresponsive at that moment, a little unsure of what he was seeing. It was definitely not human, or it definitely didn't have only human blood flowing from it, and it was very likely that someone on the ancestor had split a leg with a whale. Ed himself is not short in terms of size, he is considered a relatively normal type, while Mubagh is even more than half a head taller, more than 1.85 meters. But the one in front of him was two heads taller than Mubag, and he was wearing a large hat that was obviously custom-made, a gentleman's top hat with a wide brim, which blocked half of the ceiling. As soon as he stood in the living room, he squeezed Ed up the stairs.

At this time, Ed still had a gun in his hand, even when he was pointed at it by a group of people. He glanced at the sudden uninvited guests, all of whom were dressed in the same modest suits and uniforms as himself, and even wore silk gloves, clearly members of the same department or family.

After entering the room, the giant first glanced at Mubag, who was restrained against the wall, and Tommy, who was motionless next to him, as if he had forgotten his existence, then swept over the two half-dead little figures lying on the ground, and finally looked at Ed, who was standing on the second step of the stairs holding a gun. The muzzles of several suits and uniforms are pointed at Eddard, and Eddard's muzzle is aimed at one of the giant's eyes.

The giant's eyes lit up suddenly, and a muffled grunt came out of his throat, but his expression obviously suddenly became much more excited, and a silly smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and then he suddenly made a gesture and was about to rush towards Ed. He didn't seem to notice the pistol in Ed's hand at all.

"Big cat, stop!"

Just as things were about to get out of hand, a cold voice suddenly came from outside the house, sternly scolding the bloodshot giant. The giant leaned forward and paused, then slowly straightened up, bowing his head and stepping aside like a child who had done something wrong. Behind him, the real principal entered the house through the doorway.

The visitor was a gray figure, gray from head to toe, with a gray hat, a gray coat, a gray scarf, gray leather shoes, and even gray hair. But what is striking is that he looks very young, very young, much younger than Ed, he looks only in his twenties, early twenties.

As soon as he entered, he first glanced at everyone else in the room, including Ed and Mubag, with a gaze that looked at the cabbage sticks on the side of the road, and the four big characters were almost written on his face casually. It wasn't until he saw Tommy with dark glasses that a cold smile finally appeared on his lips.

"Oh my God, my dear brother." He said, opening his mouth dryly and raising his chin slightly arrogantly, "I finally found you." ”

Tommy's face remained calm. After being let go of Mubag, no matter the sudden change in the situation, the group of strange armed men who rushed in, the giant cat, or the gray-haired young man in front of him who seemed to know him, did not let him mess up. Tommy was silent for a moment when he was greeted by the young man's disgusting greetings, then nodded with a smile.

"Long time no see, Joey." He said, "You look a little fatter." ”

"Smack-"

Without mercy, the gray-haired Joey slapped Tommy in the face. He slammed it hard, and clear blood flowed from the corners of Tommy's mouth. But he was silent.

"Who allowed you to speak?" Joey snorted coldly and suddenly turned his head to look at Ed. "You're not a smart man, are you, sir?" He glared impatiently, spoke quickly, and waved his hand, "Please, don't complicate simple things. You know what to do. ”

“……”

Ed closed his lips and looked at Joey without saying a word, at the big cat, at the muzzle of the gun that was already all pointed at him, at all the damn everything that was going on in front of him. Then he let go of his finger that was pulling the trigger, slowly lowered the gun, put it down on the step between his feet, and kicked it out.

Immediately, two suits rushed up and dragged Ed down the steps, then forced him to his knees and put a gun against Ed's head in the back.

"You're lucky." Joey looked down at Ed on his knees, glanced at the other minor characters in the room, and finally stopped at Mubag, "You should all be dead here today, but I don't want to make any damn trouble that might get my door in the last five hours before I leave this damn aerial fertilizer plant." ”

He muttered, gesturing to his men, then turned to the door, pulling out a box of cigarettes from his bosom as he went. The cigarette case looked as luxurious as it was made of platinum.

Ed looked at his back, and suddenly felt a pain in the back of his head, and then everything in front of him turned black. He really felt that he should consider buying an insurance policy for the back of his head or something, otherwise it would be in trouble if it did break one day. He still needs to use his brain from time to time.