When Yan Yunkai woke up, it was almost noon, he was the only one in the room, the sound insulation of this room was not very good, and he could still hear the sound of Wang Cutting screaming in the hall outside.

I slept well this night, I was full of energy, and I was still thinking about last night in bed. The water ghost or something has long been left behind, and what he remembered the most was the moment when he turned around on the deck and saw Zhao's theft machine.

Strange to say, it hasn't been a few days since he first saw Zhao Thief in Qingcheng Mountain, and at that time, he was subconsciously vigilant and vigilant, and he didn't look at the pair of golden beast pupils last night, and he actually felt quite cool.

Yan Yunkai turned over and sat up, grabbed his hair, and his body was almost recovered, but there was still a vague feeling of muscle soreness after overexercise.

He spent some effort to clean himself up, pushed the door out, and saw his colleagues gathering together to eat snacks, Wang Ju squatted on the side with an empty schoolbag very resentfully, Zhao Theft Machine dismantled a bucket of potato chips, hesitated for a moment, and closed the lid for the child to return.

"Forget it, you can eat." Wang Ju waved his hand generously, turned his head and looked at Yan Yunkai with tears in his eyes, looking like he had been bullied, "Yan Yunkai, they all snatched my snacks, nasty adults!" Woowoowoo......"

Xie Zhi and his team members chewed beef jerky and watched the children pretend to be indifferent.

The corners of Yan Yunkai's mouth twitched slightly, and said, "You eat less, be careful of tooth decay." ”

Wang Ju glared in disbelief, stretched out his little hand, and pointed at him angrily: "How can you be like this, I'm still a child, I'm still growing my body!" What's wrong with eating more snacks! ”

"But you haven't seen you grow taller in so many years." Yan Yunkai gestured twice at the position slightly above his waist and abdomen, "Forget it, baby, don't force your height, you will only gain weight by eating snacks." ”

Xie Zhi laughed, threw Yan Yun a jelly, ignored Wang Ju's resentful eyes, and said with a smile: "Let's go back to Beijing after lunch, you can pack up your things." ”

"It's all packed." Yan Yunkai said.

Wang Ju was robbed of snacks, and the originally planned publicly-funded tourism became a one-day trip to the fishing village, and it ended in a hurry, the gap in his heart was too big, and he squatted in the corner of the sofa and sighed.

Zhao Thief stuffed the bucket of potato chips in his hand into his arms, looked at him calmly, and under Wang Ju's aggrieved eyes, he pulled the corners of his lips and revealed a fleeting smile, which was very faint, and disappeared in a blink of an eye, making people who saw it think it was an illusion.

"What are you laughing at?"

"He said you weren't tall."

Wang Ju looked at him indescribably: "Isn't it, uncle?" Do you think it's funny that they all discussed from this topic to when they got a salary increase? Your reflex arc is too long, isn't it? ”

"Huh?"

"It means that the response is very slow."

Zhao was stunned for a moment, glanced at Wang Xi, and then closed his eyes calmly, pretending not to hear.

Wang Tailor: "......"

After everyone had lunch, they planned to go back to Beijing.

When Yan Yunkai dragged Wang Jie, who had never enjoyed eating seafood, out, Xie Zhi was leaning on the side of the car and smoking, and when he saw them coming out, he threw the remaining half of the cigarette on the ground and ran over his feet.

One of Xie Zhi's two team members turned into goshawks and flew away, and the other drove them to the airport, and then left in the dusty SUV without going with them.

The plane glides across the runway, gradually tilts to take off, and soars into the blue sky.

In the evening, Capital International Airport.

"Why do little kids always like to eat this kind of thing?" Yan Yunkai looked down at his watch, "There are still a lot of people queuing up to pick up food in front." ”

After getting off the plane, Wang Tailor kept shouting that he was hungry, and he had to drag them to KFC to eat foreign fast food, Yan Yunkai originally disagreed, thinking that eating those was not nutritious, but Wang Tailor's mouth was deflated, and he immediately pulled his trouser belt and burst into tears: "Dad, you can't even let me eat KFC because my stepmother hates me!" ”

In the uncertain gaze of the passing passengers, Yan Yunkai smiled and kicked him into the door of the KFC gracefully.

Wang Zhi and Xie Zhi took their seats, and Zhao stayed to accompany him to line up to get food.

While waiting, the mobile phone rang, Yan Yunkai glanced at the caller ID, subconsciously gathered a gentle light in his eyes, connected the phone, and smiled before speaking.

"Ah, I'm in Beijing, just came back. I've been busy lately...... I'll go back to dinner with you tomorrow. He spoke softly, his eyes wandered around aimlessly, and finally stopped on the back of the person in front of him, "I know, don't worry, I'm a logistics person, what danger can I have." ”

Yan Yunkai looked at the broad shoulders in front of him, and while responding to the person on the other end of the phone, he looked at Zhao Thief unabashedly.

More than half of his wardrobe is suits, and his daily work is also standard suits, so when he buys clothes for Zhao Theft, it is naturally the same standard.

At the beginning, Zhao Thief was dressed in a long shirt, his hair was not short, and he looked like a teacher in the Republic of China, but now the long shirt has become a shirt, and his hair has been shaved short.

Yan Yunkai raised his eyes and glanced at the number of the pick-up window, poked Brother Ku's back, and motioned for him to serve the plate.

"Hey, I'm not going to tell you yet." Yan Yunkai said goodbye to the other end of the phone, hung up the call, and took a tray from Zhao Thief's hand.

Wang Qian was happy to eat this meal, Yan Yunkai chewed slowly and took a bite of a hamburger, and then watched him gobble up a Coke straw.

Xie Zhi looked at the non-smoking sign, had to hold a french fry in his mouth, and said vaguely: "Eat more, work overtime tonight." ”

Yan Yunkai raised his eyebrows.

"Although the water ghost is dead, there are still many things that have not been clarified." Xie Zhi said, "For example, the thing that looks like a scale, which was embedded in the water ghost's chest before, but it can't be that the water ghost grew on its own. ”

If the leading water ghost had obtained the scales that were obviously infused with spiritual power by chance, and therefore increased his cultivation, perhaps this incident could also be defined as a group behavior of the water ghost to seduce humans out of instinct and vainly try to find his own substitute for the dead ghost. But if someone else deliberately put that thing into the body of the water ghost, then this time the water ghost gathering is not so simple.

Yan Yunkai bit the straw and asked, "First find out what kind of race's scales are there?" It can be a bit difficult. ”

Although their office has been collecting data on various races over the years, due to various reasons, such as technical immaturity, and the scarcity and extreme lack of cooperation of many of the Great Demon Clan, the data collected by the Nine Places is too small.

Just as it is difficult for humans to tell which animal the hair comes from by a single hair, there are so many families with scales, what can be detected by a single scale?

Yan Yunkai felt a little hanging.

That night, Yan Yunkai's office was rarely brightly lit.

Xie Zhi sat behind his desk, looking very serious, comparing the scales in his hand to the image data on the computer screen.

He was born to understand human nature, and has always been a symbol of "light and justice" in traditional culture. Maybe he has been in the world for a long time, but he usually behaves quite down-to-earth, and often makes people forget that this is also a mythical beast.

"When Xie Zhi was working, I always felt that he was a condescending talent to keep us here." Yan Yunkai took the fruit knife and peeled the apple, and the peel fell round and round, hanging down into a long one, "He should have gone to the judicial system in the first place, otherwise it would be good to go to the Discipline Inspection Commission." ”

In historical legends, the pig has a single horn on its forehead, and likes to use the horn to top those corrupt officials and scum.

Yan Yunkai peeled an apple, handed it to Wang Cut, took another one from the fruit bowl, peeled it neatly, and handed it to Zhao Thief.

"Tsk." Xie Zhi pushed the mouse, "I didn't see the same." There are so few monsters with scales. ”

"The scales are more common, reptiles become spirits, there are still a lot of snake demons, and there are fewer fish clans. In the early years, it was okay, the underwater aura was abundant, and the cultivation conditions were no worse than the deep mountains and old forests, but the water pollution has become more and more serious over the years, coupled with the overfishing of human beings, I heard a fish demon say that the juniors in their clan don't even have a person who can open their minds. Yan Yunkai lowered his head and wiped the fruit knife, "Have you asked the demon committee?" Maybe they have a clue. ”

Xie Zhi shook his head and said, "The demon committee over there doesn't know anything, only that there hasn't been any major trouble in the coastal area for nearly half a century. I stayed in Fujian, visited many villages in that area, and didn't ask for any useful clues. ”

Yan Yunkai didn't have a clue for a while, and noticed that Zhao had never participated in any of their conversations, let alone took the initiative to express his opinions.

"What do you think?" Yan Yunkai asked him.

Zhao took out a piece of paper to wipe his hands, raised his eyes to look at him, spoke unhurriedly, and asked Xie Zhi: "Can you do it?" ”

"What?"

"If you did it......"

"Of course I can." Xie Zhi thought about it for a while and understood what Zhao stolen the machine meant.

That scale had been infused with spiritual power, and these spiritual energy might even directly open the water ghost's mind and provide it with cultivation. In the first case, the scales are a treasure that absorbs spiritual energy, and can automatically absorb the power of heaven and earth; In the second case, the person who infuses the scales with spiritual power is powerful in itself; The third case is a combination of the above two.

"You're saying we can suspect the level of a big demon or a divine beast?" Xie Zhi said.

Yan Yunkai said: "This is the era of the end of the law, among the monsters who have entered the world, there are only so many big demons, and they are all our key monitoring objects, and we will not be unaware of any big moves from them." There are even fewer divine beasts, and they are all in a semi-secluded state. What's more, they are so powerful that they usually don't bother to plan anything, and they don't have the motive to do so. ”

"If you want to say that, there's one more problem." Xie Zhi said, "Could the owner of the scales be the same as the person who embedded the scales into the chest of the water ghost?" ”

"Who knows." Yan Yunkai smiled lightly and shrugged his shoulders: "So, we don't have a clue at all. Including the planner behind it and the motives of the planner, these are all speculations, maybe there is no planner at all, it's just that the water ghost got the treasure by chance. ”

Wang Ju had a headache when he heard this, and rolled his eyes: "Why do you think so much, there are no clues anyway, let's talk about it when something happens in the future." ”

"It's called precaution." Xie Zhi glared at him.

The office door was slightly open, and after two knocks, a young man with glasses pushed the door straight in, holding a document in his hand.

"Team leader, this is an analysis report." Zhou Yi printed two copies of the report, one for Xie Zhi and one for Yan Yunkai, and also explained, "This scale is very similar to fish scales, the inside of the scale is a fiberboard layer structure, and the surface is distributed with hydroxyapatite as the main component of inorganic matter, and the shape is round, much like the round scales of carps." ”

Yan Yunkai flipped through it and asked, "Doesn't it look like where?" ”

"Most of the scales of the fish are rings, and the rings can be used to judge the scales of the fish simply, although the lines on this scale are not obvious, but if you look closely, they spread outward from the center, which is relatively regular, and its internal structure is very tight—unusually tight." Zhou Yi said, "The Yin Qi of the water ghost did not have any effect on the scales, did not corrode it, and in addition, the hardness of this scale was also very large. I've never seen an ordinary monster grow scales like this, and even if it's a fish demon, it can't cultivate its true body to this level. ”

Xie Zhi touched his chin and hesitated, "I do know a very powerful divine beast with scales...... But he is a unicorn, and it is impossible for him to do such a boring and tasteless thing with his scales. He thought about it carefully, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt like it, "Eh, not to mention that I haven't been able to remember it yet, after all, too many years have passed, and I have observed the scales of the unicorn before, and it seems to be really similar." ”

Wang Di said casually: "Maybe your unicorn friend fell off his scales when he went out to play, and was accidentally picked up by others." ”

Xie Zhixun him: "Do you think that losing scales is as simple as losing hair?" ”

"That ......" Zhou Yi silently raised his hand.

"You say."

Zhou Yi hesitated: "Legend has it that the unicorn has a deer body, dragon scales, and an oxtail, maybe it doesn't look like the scales of a unicorn, but like dragon scales?" ”

Xie Zhi was stunned for a moment: "But where did the dragon come from?" ”

Zhou Yi was not sure, but said: "I sorted out the archives today and flipped through some files at the beginning of the establishment of our unit, and there was a case in it that mentioned dragon scales. ”