"Grace will take revenge!"

Looking at the dinghy in the distance, I struggled to swim in the sea, and my mood was extremely low.

After swimming a few hundred meters, my body cramped and I didn't have the strength to swim down. The body slowly sank to the bottom of the sea and began to choke on the water and could not breathe.

Goodbye Chiqi, goodbye Zhou Qing, goodbye to this world!

I closed my eyes in despair.

A cold body hugged me, and my mouth began to be blown into oxygen.

When I opened my eyes, it was the snake girl.

I couldn't speak in the water, and I looked into her eyes in surprise.

She smiled at me, her forehead pressed against mine, and a cloud of light surrounded us.

The light cleared, and it was already at the door of my detective agency in London.

"Huh! What's going on! ”

I pushed her away in a panic.

"It's all right!"

She whispered comfort.

"Back in London?"

I was amazed, remembering that the snake girl has the ability to teleport.

She smiled in response.

"You saved me again!"

I hurriedly thanked Chiqi, and immediately became nervous again, "You rescued me, but what about my companion?" What about Chiqi? Will she be able to leave the island? ”

"You don't have to worry about her, she naturally has her own way to leave."

The snake girl said with a smile, and slowly disappeared from my eyes.

I know she also has the superpower of stealth, or stealth, or teleportation, and she's gone anyway.

The door of the investigation was wide open, and only Si Yu sat inside.

"You're back! So fast?! Why is your body so wet and what happened? ”

Si Yu asked with concern.

"It's hard to say, is Chiqi back?"

I was sent back by the superpowered snake girl, and I guessed that Chi Qi didn't come back so quickly, but I couldn't help but ask.

"I didn't come back! Didn't you go together to investigate the events in the Red Sea? ”

Siyu replied.

"Didn't come back, oh! I'll go upstairs and change my clothes first. ”

Knowing that it was too much to ask, the answer was obvious, it was always indecent like a chicken in soup, and I was ready to go upstairs to change my clothes.

"That, wait, that..."

Si Yu seemed to have something to say.

"Huh? What's wrong? ”

I really don't know what's wrong with me going back to my room to change clothes.

"Well, how do you say that! He looks like you, and when he woke up, Hunter took him here, and now they use your room, and they don't know where they received your clothes? ”

"Huh?"

I can't believe it's only been out for more than ten days, and the room is gone.

Embarrassment, Hunter ran in out of breath.

"Siyu! Come with me to the scene, the boss and I take turns to keep an eye and can't hold on, the three of us take turns to get better! ”

It was as if he didn't see me, ignored my presence.

Si Yu gave him a look and motioned for me to stand next to him.

"Ahem, what, what case are you investigating?"

I cleared my throat and asked Hunter, reminding him of my presence.

"You're back? Yesterday, Ms. Fang Yin also called and said that you left your post without permission. You have received money from other people's ship kings, and you have to pay them back, which has nothing to do with us! ”

Hunter didn't care how I managed to act like a chicken in the soup, and without the compliments and politeness of the past, he came up and pushed the ship king's affairs to a clean end.

"We're helping people keep an eye on her husband, and we've taken on a cheating case."

To avoid embarrassment to me, Si Yu replied to me.

"Let's go! Stop it! ”

Hunter was impatient and grabbed Si Yu's shoulders to leave.

"When did you become so intimate?"

I muttered to myself.

"You go over first, I'll change into civilian clothes!"

Si Yu gently pushed him away.

"Then remember to lock the door later!"

Hunter told Siyu to remember to lock the door, and then ran out.

"It seems that you really treat me as an outsider, and let you lock the door before leaving!"

I felt a little unhappy.

"Hunter is just dazed! Don't blame him."

Si Yu excused him.

Speaking of Hunter, her eyes are ambiguous. I looked at her directly, and she dodged shyly. Coupled with her intimate actions with Hunter just now, I have already guessed that they should have been dating in the past ten days since I was away.

"Hey!"

I sighed and went out.

The dove occupies the magpie's nest, and he is a little unhappy, but after thinking about it, it can be regarded as completing the deathbed entrustment of Siyu's adoptive father, and Siyu can be regarded as having a belonging. Although this Hunter is a little scheming and urban, he is also a down-to-earth and hard-working young man, and he will never abandon his comatose partner, which can be regarded as affectionate and righteous.

Si Yu chased out the door and handed me a wad of money, "The one million given by the boat king is all on Sister Chiqi's side, I only have these, this is the pocket money she gave me last time." You can take it and use it first! ”

"How could I ask for it?"

I stretched out my hand to excuse myself.

"Do you have any money on you?"

Si Yu asked as he looked into my eyes sincerely.

“.....”

I was dumbfounded by her question. When he was on Earth A, he spent a lot of money, and he came to Earth B to pretend to be Fang Yin's son, and he did two cases in a row, which can be regarded as not worrying about expenses. But the money is all on Chiqi, and I don't have a penny on me.

"Take it! I'm going to work! ”

She shoved the money into my hand and turned to lock the door of the detective agency.

"It seems that I have indeed become an outsider. It's not just Hunter, but now Siyu probably treats me as an outsider! Yes, I don't belong to this earth in the first place, and to them, I am indeed an outsider. ”

Holding the wad of money, I walked two streets in a daze, like a homeless man, and squatted down in the corner.

My sense of loss at this time is indescribable, Chiqi is nowhere to be found, the investigation center was occupied by the dove, Earth A can't go back, and without the support of the boss, I am not even as good as a dog.

A sense of misanthropy arose, and I thought about dying like this, dying on a street corner, and no one cared. This feeling of misanthropy is very familiar, like a previous experience.

"Li Yu!"

The name popped up on my mouth unconsciously. I had dreams of his life, hysterically yelling at disobedient children and typing out of his manuscripts. He must have been whispered in his mind, so that I could have this sense of déjà vu.

I can't help but wonder, what happened to him?

Manuscript! By the way, the manuscript, when I was investigating the "Tie Ling Lingtong" incident, I searched the manuscript he posted on the Internet as evidence, and his other manuscripts should also be searchable.

I took out my phone, opened a Chinese search engine, and typed in the name "Peter Lee", which is the pen name by which Li Yu published his novels.

A fantasy novel he wrote called "The Interview" caught my eye. (See the appendix at the end of the book for the full text of "Interview") The content is that the down-and-out protagonist "I" was defeated by life, had nothing to love, and walked into a street and alley. The streets suddenly became dark, the lights came on, and a young man claiming to be from the future appeared, saying that he wanted to interview "me". The young man repeatedly said that the future "me" is a great person, but "I" has no self-confidence. Just because I felt the rough mouth of the young man and the sensitive personality of the "I" when I shook hands, I guessed that the other party was a police officer from the future, and concluded that my future self was a "homosexual who killed Ms. Lan".

The article seems to be alluding to Li Yu's situation and state of mind at that time, and he was desperate. Even though he knows that his future is bright, he still has no self-confidence and thinks wildly.

This is a novel that has been reprinted countless times, and it took a long time to search for the first release of Li Yu's personal homepage. Thirty or forty years ago, the old homepage of a blog was full of security risks, not only marking when the article was first published, but also where it was posted. The article was first published on December 18, 2019, and there is also a place on the post, a place called Anfu Village in Guizhou, China.

"Go to China!"

A voice came out of my head and said to myself.

Make up your mind and search for the price of the ticket again. The nearest flight, from London to Guizhou, China, costs more than £2,000 in economy class.

I counted the wad of money that Si Yu stuffed into me one by one, and read out softly 1.2.3.... That's more than £6,000 in total.

These numbers pop out of their mouths and back to their ears. An inexplicable sense of shame welled up in my heart, and I secretly scolded myself for how could I be so humble...