Chapter 38: What Follows (2)

"Heavy pupils?"

Zhou Ji was stunned. It's not that he's never heard the word, and he'd seen it occasionally in novels before. Even the shadow of this word can be seen in history, and most of the people who appear together with it are celebrities, such as the Five Emperors Yu Shun, the Overlord Xiang Yu, the Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, the word ancestor Cangjie, etc., all of whom have four pupils. Therefore, the double pupil syndrome is also deified and demonized, and the ancient physiognomy believes that this is a kind of abnormal and auspicious appearance, symbolizing auspiciousness and wealth, and even a person with this sexual characteristic will be regarded as the next emperor in an era.

That being said, in reality, he had never seen anything like this that seemed to be in the middle. Even if there were, it should be just a precursor to the person's cataracts, right? Zhou Ji frowned, and by the way, he made up what it looked like to have two overlapping pupils in a single eyeball, and said suspiciously: ".... If you have double pupils, are you sure that the person is wearing contact lenses that are not suitable and misaligned? ”

Xiao Zhou scratched his head, "It shouldn't be... No one wears glasses and an extra layer of invisibility, right? Even if it's a disguise, wouldn't it be nice to wear sunglasses... Yes, he wasn't afraid to look at me at all, he didn't seem to care about his pupils being spotted, and I occasionally had nightmares and dreamed of those scary eyes..."

Zhou Ji was silent. This topic ends here, although they have photographed the faces of pedestrians in various surveillance videos on satellite before, there are really a lot of men with red hair and glasses, and there can be tens of millions, but people with heavy pupils can be counted on one finger, how difficult will it be to find? So he stopped talking, just let go of his foot that was firmly on the brakes and continued to drive towards the hotel. After settling Xiao Zhou, he still has a lot of time to look for more clues.

However, when he took the weak Xiao Zhou to the room where he lived and was about to open the door, he suddenly realized that something seemed to be wrong. You must know that more than ten years of life as an agent did not give him other habits, but made his daily life suspicious. For example, every time before going out, Zhou Ji will take out a very thin black wire in the sewing bag that has always been necessary in his pocket and tie it to the door or the hidden position of important items that he doesn't want others to open, once someone touches these objects, the black line will break or fall to the ground. And most people will not find it if they don't pay attention to it, and even if they do, they can't return to their original place according to the only immovable thing they were. Over time, this has become his fourth instinctive behavior in addition to eating, sleeping, and going to the toilet, so it is simply impossible to forget this habitual action because of a moment of haste or negligence.

However, this time, when Zhou Ji stretched out his hand to the position where the black line was clamped by the door, and wanted to recycle the black line as before, he suddenly felt empty. He subconsciously waved his hand up and down, left and right, still touching everything.

Zhou Ji's face turned cold, and he quickly leaned his face to the door regardless of Xiao Zhou's puzzled expression beside him, trying to find any suspicious traces.

What's going on, has anyone come in? The gate is also intact, it doesn't look like someone has tampered with it, could it be the hotel's cleaning staff? ... No, the hotel itself is one of the strongholds controlled by the top, and it would never make the mistake of giving the key card to the agent's room to an outsider. So is it an acquaintance or some other agent? How could you just barge in without even saying hello?

Zhou Ji hesitated for a moment, feeling that it was useless to think so much. After making up his mind, he turned his head and whispered to Xiao Zhou, "Hey, you stand back a little and hide to a safe place where I can see you." ”

Xiao Zhou nodded in panic, although he didn't know what the situation was now, but he also knew that something serious seemed to be about to happen, so he hurriedly hid behind a garbage can that was no more than his knees high, and shrank in the corner like an ostrich.

Zhou Ji glanced at him and shook his head helplessly. But now I can't take care of him, and once I open the door, I don't know what I'm going to face. So he gritted his teeth, held the door card and swiped it gently, only to hear a "drop", and the door slowly opened a gap.

"Boom !!!"

In order to avoid a sneak attack behind the door, Zhou Ji flew up and kicked open the door in an instant, rushed into the room, and immediately saw a man bending over and rummaging for something next to the sofa in the living room. But his movements froze in the air, his body shook and he almost jumped up, obviously frightened enough by Zhou Ji's sudden movements.

"! Zhou Ji, what is wrong with your TMD!! The man quickly regained his senses, straightened up, and scolded, "Is it necessary to open a door?!" ”

At this time, Zhou Ji, whose heart was beating suddenly, finally saw the man's face, but was surprised to find that he not only knew this person, but also was very familiar with it. He-it turned out to be Wang Yao, who had been gone for a long time!

But didn't Wang Yao go back to N City to handle the case more than half a month ago?

“... Why did you come here without saying a word? I thought someone unknown had broken into my room! Zhou Ji complained dissatisfiedly, his eyes fell on the sofa that Wang Yao found and the cushions flew up, and said suspiciously, "Anyway, didn't you go back to N City to handle the case a long time ago?" What is this for? What are you looking for? ”

“... Yes. Wang Yao responded, shook off the pillow in his hand, and said a nonsensical word, "It seems that you don't know yet." Then you're either completely excluded or you're being targeted. ”

"What?" Zhou Ji was inexplicable: "What do you mean by that?" Am I being left out and being the next target? What the hell is going on? Did you have any instructions from there? Why didn't I receive it? ”

"Of course not. Because I'm in the same situation as you, and it's terrible. Wang Yao shook his head and said, "Do you know? The others are already suspicious of the two of us. ”

"No, you're kidding, aren't you?" Zhou Ji was amused when he heard it, "What do you suspect us for?" We are agents who handle cases, and we will be exposed to a lot of sensitive things, and the higher authorities will doubt us, why should they doubt us? ”

Wang Yao stared at him with a strange look, and it took a long time before he said a sentence: "Because the upper authorities suspect that we have been bought by the Black Book Company." ”

"But suspicion also needs some proof, right? Can you just guess at will? And you said 'we', which means that Lin Xingcheng and Yue Zhi are not the objects of suspicion, why are they just you and me? Zhou Ji was unwilling.

"Why? Hehe. Wang Yao smiled palely. That's because there are only two of us left in the team working on this case. ”

"What, what... What do you mean..."

"That's right, something happened to the two of them. And Yue knew that the defendant died, and Lin Xingcheng also disappeared at the same time. ”