Chapter 18: The Lost Earl

Although Zhou Zheng wanted to find Amy and ask her some more things, but the sea of people was vast, and he didn't have time to look for them one by one, and besides, as long as the other party stood in an inconspicuous corner, it was hard to guarantee that someone would notice her, but since the other party did not leave this venue, Zhou Zheng was not worried that the other party would run away on the way, and he was now interested in another matter.

"Did something happen?" Zhou Zheng walked up to Nat and said slowly, "If you have any questions, can you tell me, maybe I will help." Oh, maybe you've forgotten me, re-introduce yourself, my name is Zhou Zheng, and I'm an Interpol. ”

"Okay, it's actually ......" Nat looked at Zhou Zheng, thinking that he would not be the kind of person who would easily reveal the news, not to mention that Zhou Zheng was still an Interpol, and it might be much easier to have him to help him, so he said what he was worried about, but just as he wanted to continue, he found that there were a large and a small woman standing next to Zhou Zheng, and immediately looked at Zhou Zheng with a puzzled look.

"It's okay, you go on." Zhou Zheng naturally knew Nat's scruples, and explained, "I promise that they won't leak the news, one of them is a member of the Sherlock Detective Agency, and the other ......"

"Of course I know this lady, I talked to her before, and she was still carrying a Chinese woman at that time, didn't she?" Without waiting for Zhou Zheng to finish speaking, Nat preemptively spoke, winking at Zhongli Yue'er as he spoke, as for what it meant, I'm afraid only Nat and Zhongli Yue'er understood.

"Since you have made a guarantee, I will tell you, but you must not let any of the guests in the venue know." After speaking, Nat's face became a little solemn, glanced at Zhou Zheng and the three of them standing in front of him, and whispered, "This matter is very important to us, Count Vader has disappeared." ”

"What?!" Nat was like a bombshell, bombarding Zhou Zheng and Nan Ruoxun, they all looked at Nat with an incredulous look at the moment, as if to confirm that they had heard correctly, as for Zhongli Yue'er, although the surprise in her heart was no less than that of Zhou Zheng and Nan Ruoxun, there was one thing that made her care very much, so she put all her mind on it, and she didn't care too much about the disappearance of Count Vader.

Is it a delusion? Zhongli Yue'er raised her eyebrows, her eyes gradually narrowed, and at the moment when Nat said the news of Count Vader's disappearance, he vaguely caught a trace of excitement in Nath's eyes, as if all this was expected by him, but now the anxious look in his eyes did not look like pretending, so Zhongli Yue'er was very entangled, and he was entangled that he was not mistaken.

"Can you elaborate?" Zhou Zheng coughed a few times, and asked with a solemn face, he naturally knew the meaning of Count Vader's disappearance, and if the organizer of the banquet did not appear, would this banquet still be meaningful? At that time, there will definitely be people making trouble, once the scene is chaotic, it will be difficult to calm down, in case the bomb that Ouyang Xiu said is detonated, there will definitely be countless deaths and injuries.

"No problem." Nat nodded, and told Zhou Zheng and the three of them everything he knew, "When the banquet was about to be held, Count Vader asked me to come to the door to receive the invitation, and told me not to worry about him, just in case, I called two security guards in the corridor to stand at the door of Count Vader's room, and when I finished receiving the invitation and was about to tell Count Vader that I could come out, I found that Count Vader had disappeared, and even the security guard guarding the door had disappeared without a trace. ”

"What was the Count doing at the time?" Zhou Zheng pinched his chin and continued to ask.

"I don't know." Nat shook his head, "But I think the Count must be doing something very important to him, and I saw him writing wildly with a pen in his hand, and he looked very anxious. ”

"Could it be the two security guards guarding the door?" Nan Ruoxun expressed his opinion, "If the earl is missing, and the two security guards are knocked to the ground or something, I'm afraid someone knocked the security guards unconscious and took the earl away, but even the two security guards are missing, which can only show one problem, those two security guards have a problem, and they took the earl away." ”

"Impossible." Nat immediately denied Nan Ruoxun's opinion, "I am very familiar with those two security guards, they will not do such a thing, if it is really as you said, it is the two of them who took the earl, then where are they now?" I had looked at the floor of the Earl's chamber, and I had found no sign of them, and it was impossible to escape through the window, which was so high above the ground that it was impossible to jump without a rope or something, let alone the main entrance. ”

"Please take me to Count Vader's room." Zhou Zheng thought about all the possibilities, and found that the result was similar to what Nat said, because there were too few clues, he was not easy to determine, so he had to look for more clues, but one thing he was sure of was that the other party had not left the building yet.

In this regard, Nat did not refuse, and was just about to lead Zhou Zheng, Nan Ruoxun and Zhongli Yue'er to Count Vader's room, when a familiar voice sounded from behind everyone, and looking back, everyone found that Ouyang Xiu and Di Luo were panting and running towards them, with a look on their faces that something was clearly happening.

"What's going on?" Zhou Zheng smiled apologetically at Nat, turned around to support the two of them, and hurriedly asked, "Why are you running so fast?" ”

"Inspector Zhouzheng, I'll talk about it later." Ouyang Xiu ignored Zhou Zheng's question, stumbled up to Nat, and hurriedly asked, "Let me ask you, does this building have an attic?" ”

"Of course there is." Nat was stunned by Ouyang Xiu's question, and replied, "Didn't you see it outside?" I still don't understand the meaning of attic. ”

"Then have you any ...... lately" Before he finished speaking, an explosion suddenly sounded throughout the venue, and in search of prestige, a burst of smoke rose from the door of the room, and the flames burned violently, and before everyone present could react, it turned into a ferocious fire.

Seeing this situation, a trace of remorse flashed in Ouyang Xiu's eyes, and he was about to ask Nat if there was a back door or something like that, when the explosion interrupted his words again, which made Ouyang Xiu very annoyed, although he didn't know where the sound came from, but Ouyang Xiu dared to guarantee that their retreat had been cut off.

"Damn!" Ouyang Xiu gritted his teeth, hesitated for a while, turned his head and said to Zhou Zheng, "Inspector Zhou Zheng, I'll leave you here, I'll go first." ”

"Where are you going?" Zhou Zheng still didn't know what medicine was sold in Ouyang Xiu's gourd, so he couldn't help asking.

"The attic, of course, where the bomb was planted." As he spoke, Ouyang Xiu took out a piece of paper from his pocket, which he took off from the traffic pole at the intersection, "The evidence is this, Inspector Zhou Zheng, you should be able to see it." ”

"This is ......" Zhou Zheng took the paper in Ouyang Xiu's hand, glanced at the numbers on it a few times, and combined with Ouyang Xiu's just said that the bomb was in the attic, he immediately understood what was going on, so he said, "I see, at the beginning, the empty three boxes are prompts, and we have to find this string of numbers three apart, so that we can find out 7, 5, 12, 15, and replace them with pinyin letters to become G, E, L, O, and the combination is 'attic', but this riddle is too simple." ”

"But that's the case, now we have to believe it, and we have to believe it if we don't believe it, Inspector Zhou Zheng, the work of evacuating the crowd will be entrusted to you, and the bomb will be handed over to me." After speaking, Ouyang Xiu was about to turn around and leave, but Zhou Zheng grabbed his shoulder with one hand, in this regard, Ouyang Xiu looked at Zhou Zheng with a puzzled expression, he didn't understand what Zhou Zheng meant by blocking himself at such a critical moment.

"Can I leave this kind of thing to you? No matter how good you are at solving the case, this kind of thing can't be handed over to a child like you, I'll go with you. Zhou Zheng said a few words to Ouyang Xiu with a smile, and began to assign tasks to everyone, "Yue'er, you take Nan Ruoxun and Di Luo to find a way out of here first, and then call a fire truck and help evacuate the crowd, and Ouyang Xiu and I will go to the attic first." Mr. Nat, please leave with these children, for my instinct it is that the prisoners who took Count Vader may take advantage of the chaos to escape. ”

"Okay." At this time, Nat had no other choice but to agree to Zhou Zheng's request, and as for the others, they had no opinion on Zhou Zheng's arrangement at all, so they nodded and began to work on their own.

Seeing the busy crowd, Zhou Zheng and Ouyang Xiu suddenly felt much more relieved, glanced at each other, quickly ran up the stairs, and disappeared into the venue in an instant.

"Have you started...... Looking at the burning fire, Clifford looked extremely calm, glanced at the direction in which Zhou Zheng and they left, and then glanced at Nat who was busy with Nan Ruoxun, and a strange smile rose on the corner of his mouth, "I hope their performance will not disappoint me!" ”