Chapter 18: Karn
On a glittering city night, there's a place that doesn't look so eye-catching, and it's a lot less impressive than other eye-catching outlets.
"Karn, you've lost again, concede, concede."
At the table, a man brought all the coins on the table to him, and his smile looked very unpleasant.
Sitting on the other side of the table was a man with long hair, who was nothing out of the ordinary except for his eye-catching long hair, and he wore a long trench coat with a clean plaid shirt underneath it.
The man just scratched his head, he had already lost a lot of money, and he was a little annoyed by losing money in a row, and he wasn't ready to play.
After being upset, he also shook his hand, got up and wanted to leave, and at this moment a young girl came up to him and said in a ** tone: "Handsome guy, is it alone?" ”
The man turned around and found that it was a young and beautiful girl, who was greeting him.
"Yo, little sister, are you also alone, brother, I'm just bored, why don't we find a place to sit?" The man looked at the girl as he spoke, and the irritability in his heart suddenly dissipated, and his eyes were fixed on the girl's cheeks and refused to move away.
The girl nodded, smiled, and made a gesture of please.
Then, the two left the torii and walked along a path.
Along the way, the man kept bringing up the topic and wanted to talk to the girl about something, but the girl just smiled and sent it away in a few words.
Until he turned the corner of a path with no street lights, suddenly a sack fell from the sky and slipped him in from the top down.
"Xuanji, well done." A familiar voice rang in his ears.
This was the last sound he heard before he was knocked unconscious, he didn't have time to scream and resist, he only felt a ** behind him, and he didn't know what was knocking on him, and then the whole person lost consciousness and passed out.
I don't know how long it took, but his hazy consciousness regained a lot, and he came to his senses.
He opened his eyes to find that his hands and feet were tied together with thick ropes.
Based on experience, he knew that he seemed to have been kidnapped, but he had an occupational disease and always wanted to know the ins and outs of something, so he began to wonder who he had offended recently, and after thinking about it for a long time, he didn't come up with a reason.
Then, the man took a closer look around him, which appeared to be in a room in a normal hotel.
Just as he was thinking about it, there was a movement at the door, it seemed that someone was swiping the door card and entering the password, maybe someone was coming in, so he quickly closed his eyes and continued to pretend to be unconscious.
A moment later, the door was pushed open, and Xuanji walked in with a large bag in her left hand and half an ice cream in her right hand.
Xuanji already looked a little different, wearing a somewhat classical floral dress with a texture similar to silk, which was a symbol of luxury even in this era.
Her long jet-black hair was already coiled up, and a delicate hairpin was inserted between her hair, but she still wore the nano mask on her cheeks, and this mature and seductive face did not belong to her.
The bag contained some food and some household items, only these and nothing else.
"Eat less cold stuff, it's not good for you. After all, your belly. Bai Fan walked in behind Xuanji, also carrying two bags in his hands.
Xuanji walked into the room, found an empty sofa and sat on it, put the bag aside, and then ate ice cream deliciously.
"It's okay, it's okay, I'm not your natural human, and my body is not so delicate, so I ate the third one." Xuanji said as she took a bite into the ice cream, which was strawberry-flavored and had a layer of cream on top, and Xuanji liked to eat it.
After a few moments, only the ice cream stick was left for half of the ice cream, and Xuanji licked her lips and then smacked her mouth twice.
The two had just gone out for a simple shopping, the two had changed their outfits, and Bai Fan had also changed a lot, he was wearing a casual shirt, a pair of dark blue jeans, and even a pair of myopic glasses with no prescription for himself.
If you don't say your name, I'm afraid no one will be able to recognize them, the two of them are Bai Fan and Xuanji.
Xuanji closed her eyes and threw the ice cream stick into the trash basket leaning against the coffee table, and then she looked back at the tightly tied man next to the TV stand.
"Don't pretend to be asleep when you wake up." Xuanji yawned and said slowly.
Hearing this, the man also slowly opened his eyes and looked at Xuanji and Bai Fan.
Before he fell unconscious, he heard a name, another man called her Xuanji, but as far as he knew, he also knew a Xuanji, but that person was a combat clone of the military, and as far as he knew, during the mission to protect Bai Fan, Bai Fan fell to his death, and Xuanji was missing.
It's just that he just woke up and moved slightly, but this woman can immediately judge that she has woken up, and there is only one possibility, her hearing is extremely sensitive, and she is very likely to be a combat clone.
However, he looked at the man who was walking in the distance and seemed to feel that he had seen him somewhere, and his figure was very much like a person, Bai Fan.
A spiritual light suddenly appeared in his mind, he knew what was going on, so he nodded leisurely to Bai Fan.
"I'll just say that you definitely won't die so easily, it turned out to be a fraud death." The man said.
Then, Bai Fan walked up to the man, then squatted down, leaned forward curiously, and looked at the man carefully.
"Karn, it's you, Sherlock Holmes reincarnate you." Bai Fan said.
Karn squirmed and sat up, shook his head to Xuanji on the sofa and said, "I'll just say, Xuanji next to you is the strongest combat force in the military, you can't be killed so easily." ”
However, he immediately noticed Xuanji's bulging abdomen, and then frowned, as if he felt a hint of surprise.
"Her belly .... Wouldn't you, Bai Fan, do you? Karn asked.
Bai Fan sighed, then nodded slightly, and said four words meaningfully: "It's a long story." ”
Karn pressed the corners of his mouth to Bai Fan's ear and whispered back, "You're such a beast, she's the battle clone who saved your life." ”
Ahem, cough, Xuanji, who was sitting on the sofa, suddenly coughed three times, her hearing was extremely keen, although the voice was very small, but there was no secret in the conversation between the two.
When the two turned around, they found Xuanji sitting on the sofa, squirming and squirming, a little embarrassed, as if they didn't want them to continue talking about the topic.
So, the two of them diverted the topic, "Anyway, what's going on with your face, and why did you tie me up with this kind of bad means, if you want to find me, why don't you go to the detective office to find me openly." Karn then asked.
Bai Fan sat on the ground with his butt crossed, cross-legged, and then pointed to his face and replied: "This thing is a nano mask, as for why I tied you up, it's a long story." ”
Karn nodded, and then took a deep breath, as if he had something to say.
"I've been checking in the past few months since you disappeared, and the powerful relationship behind this, guess what I found?" Karn suddenly came to his senses.
Bai Fan didn't speak, just nodded and motioned for him to continue.
"The thread of all this ultimately points to one place, the Joint Powers Committee, but also to one person, Commissioner Fritz."
In fact, Bai Fan had already suspected the Joint Powers Committee, and all the signs during this time showed that the person who could carry out such an assassination against him with one hand could only come from the Joint Powers Commission.
After the cloud technology development project began, he was subjected to a shocking hunt, and although there was no evidence, he was sure that it must have a direct relationship with the Joint Powers Commission.
However, he didn't know who did it, and about the Joint Powers Committee, which is a world head body, but it is also divided into many parts, so it is also very troublesome to find out who is behind the huge Joint Powers Committee.
Bai Fan not only wants to find out who is behind it, but also cares more about one thing, what is the cloud technology development project, and what secrets are hidden in this project.
It was only Karn who told him what he wanted to know as soon as he opened his mouth, which he hadn't expected, and he moved so fast that he had been able to identify the hand behind him in just three months.
Then, Karn smiled again and said, "There is someone else investigating this matter besides me, it is someone from the Security Bureau, and there are not many clues about that person, but it is only a matter of time before this matter is investigated. ”
Bai Fan only felt that all this was a bit dreamy, and he received a letter inexplicably, and was inexplicably chased and killed not long afterward, although Xuanji saved him many times in a row, but who was the person who sent her to protect him behind the scenes.
Some people in the military want to kill him, and some people want to save him, the criss-crossing complex network of relationships makes Bai Fan suddenly have a headache, the only thing that is certain is that starting from the Joint Power Committee, all kinds of events are strung together and are a huge conspiracy.
Karn is Bai Fan's personal detective, and he only serves Bai Fan, whether it is the family strife within the Bai family, or other things that Bai Fan has passed along the way, eighty percent of the information comes from him.
Bai Fan's ability to stay away from family strife can be regarded as his credit, and the idea of letting Bai Fan enjoy a luxurious and erosive life is also his idea, otherwise in the most tense months of the Bai family's internal relations a few years ago, his eldest brother and second sister may make a move on him at any time.
"Xuanji's period of protection for me is six months, and now three months have passed, but as long as the remaining three months are passed, I will not be hunted down, I have been thinking about this for a long time." Bai Fan said.
Of course, Karn knew what Bai Fan meant, in fact, he had noticed this matter in the first place, but so far, there was no investigation result.
The level of secrecy surrounding the development of the cloud technology was so high that even if Kahn suspected that there was something wrong with the project, he would not be able to investigate the project, and after a long detour, he could only focus on the commissioner Fritz, who was in charge of the project.
In fact, Karn has a more aggressive investigative approach, and he also knows that as long as he investigates, he will know the answer, but in fact, this approach is very risky, and even requires a strong combat clone to be able to do it, otherwise everything is empty talk.
After he saw Xuanji, his eyes lit up, if he had Xuanji's help, he could rely on Xuanji's power to carry out the radical investigation methods, so as to find out the truth of the matter.