Chapter 9: The Tip of the Iceberg

"Okay, I will." Li Qi smiled and nodded, and while pouring another cup of coffee for himself and Spner, he asked Robles seemingly unintentionally, "Mr. Robles, I would like to ask if Dr. Lenny had seen anyone or behaved strangely in the period before he died?" ”

"Uh, no, um, actually, I haven't seen him in a long time, you know, people who do scientific research always like to think on their own, especially a genius like Alfred." Robles thought for a moment.

"Really?" Li Qi took a noncommittal sip of coffee, "Then what did Dr. Lenny do before he died?" ”

"Alfred has been working on new types of intelligent robots, and I think there may have been some problems in the research that caused this sad thing to happen, but of course this is just my guess, after all, no one knows what geniuses are thinking in their heads." A trace of grief flashed on Robles' face, and then he looked at Li Qi and said, "This agent, isn't Alfred confirmed to commit suicide, why do you still need to ask these questions?" ”

"Well, Mr. Robles, may I ask what the little green thing Lanny was holding when he fell......" Spooner asked Spooner next to him.

"Holographic projector!" Robles apparently knew about that too.

"Yes!" Spooner glanced at Li Qi, who seemed to say the name of this thing just now, "Why do you think Dr. Lanny left the projection for me?" ”

"Oh, agent, I wouldn't need to look for you if I could answer this question, maybe he's seen you?" Robles shook his head.

"Yes, I've seen him!" Spooner nodded.

Robles glanced at Spooner with some surprise and continued: "The holographic projection is a pre-recorded program reaction that seems to be sapient, but in fact he set up to contact you after death before committing suicide. ”

"Death?" Spooner looked at Robles and repeated.

"What?" Robles didn't know why Spooner repeated the word.

Spooner put down the coffee cup in his hand, his eyes widened, and said, "You just said that you set up to contact me when Lenny dies!" ”

"That's right, suicide is a type of death, agent!" Robles replied wittily.

"Excuse me!" Li Qi interrupted their conversation with a voice on the side, and the two of them looked at Li Qi in unison.

Li Qi said: "Mr. Robles, I know that you have business to do here. Especially this week, you're about to launch a new generation of NS-5 robots, in fact, you may not know that I'm a loyal customer of your company! ”

"Thank you!" Robles thanked him and didn't say anything more, waiting for Li Qi's next words.

Li Qi smiled, "I think the last thing you want to see is a dead person lying in your hall, but since it has happened, we have to investigate around and ask a few questions, which is considered a routine." Mr. Robles, I suppose you're okay with that, right? ”

"Oh no, no problem, I'll ask my staff to cooperate with you." Robles nodded and generously agreed.

"Thank you!"

Li Qi thanked him, nodded to Robles, and pulled Spooner out of the office.

"Hey, Li Qi, why don't you ask Robles more questions, I always think he's suspicious." Following Li Qi out of Robles' office, Spooner grabbed Li Qi's arm and said.

"Spooner, do you think Robles killed Dr. Lenny or did he instruct someone else to kill Dr. Lenny? Whatever the truth is, do you think Robles will tell the truth now? You have to know Robles's current position, even if it is to sit down with Mr. President for a meal, I will not be surprised, I don't want to wait for him to have someone throw us out of the USR. Li Qi said to Spooner with a serious analysis.

"Hey, Li Qi, are you scared? Afraid that Robles will lay you off with a phone call? Spooner looked at Li Qi with some sneer.

"Don't worry, Spooner, I'm much more daring than you think." Li Qi patted Spooner's shoulder absently and said with a smile: "I just think that since we can't get an answer there, why waste time there?" ”

"Oh, Li Qi, I really can't see that you are the first time to commit a case, not bad!" Hearing Li Qi's words, Spooner thought about it and felt that this was indeed the case, and hammered Li Qi's shoulder with his fist and smiled.

"Because there is only one truth!"

Just as the two were talking, the elevator door opened not far away.

A woman in a silver scientific research uniform walked out of the elevator, saw the two people in front of the elevator, bowed slightly and said: "Hello two agents, my name is Susan Kevin, I am the director of USR, and it was Robles who asked me to cooperate with the two of them." ”

"Hello, Dr. Kevin, my name is Li Qi!"

"Hello, Kevin, just call me Spner!"

"Lawrence wants me to help you as much as I can." The three of them walked into the elevator together, and Susan repeated Lawrence's advice.

"Then I'm sorry for you, Dr. Kevin!" Li Qi readily expressed his gratitude.

"You're welcome, just call me Susan." Dr. Lenny's death made Susan, who had special respect for him, feel more and more heavy, and the atmosphere became serious, "I've read Dr. Lenny's mental file, he has recently become very strange, refusing contact between humans and robots, every genius has his own quirks, doesn't he, no one knows what amazing inventions he will have next time." ”

"You're a psychiatrist?" Spooner on the side looked at Susan in surprise when he heard what Susan said, and said with a smile: "My ex-wife would be very happy if she knew that I was talking to you." You don't know her, do you?! ”

"Excuse me, are you kidding?" Susan looked at Spooner, who was smiling and talking, and frowned.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Susan, Spooner, well, some dry humor." Seeing Susan's somewhat displeased expression, Li Qi hurriedly spoke out to play a round.

While the three of them were talking, the elevator reached the 10th floor, where Dr. Lanny's research room was located, and he committed suicide by jumping from his research room.

The three of them stepped out of the elevator, and Susan took Li Qi and Spooner as they walked towards Dr. Lanny's laboratory.

"Susan, you've read Dr. Lanny's file, do you think Dr. Lanny is suicidal?" Li Qi asked Susan as he walked.

"I think the answer is obvious." Susan replied with a cold face. The death of Dr. Beloved is a foregone conclusion, isn't it?

"Oh, yes, what you see with your eyes must be true, maybe one day your eyes will deceive you, you must not only look at the surface when looking at things, sometimes, the more obvious the answer, the more you may want to hide something!" Li Qi replied with a pun.