When Duanmu Huai and Mary returned to the hotel, it was already midnight.

"Woo..............."

"I really didn't expect you to be so unable to drink."

Looking at Mary who was walking beside him, swaying, Duanmu Huai was also speechless.

"It's just wine, if you can't drink it, drink less."

"But......... It's a rare opportunity to do that......... Drinking alone......... It's not interesting......... Belch. ”

"Hey........."

Looking at Mary like this, Duanmu Huai sighed helplessly.

"Anyway, let's go back and get some rest."

"Uh-huh........."

Walking up the elevator, Mary leaned on Duanmu Huai's side like this, her head little by little, like a sleepy child. Speaking of which, it is really rare to see such a cute side of Mary, in Duanmuhuai's impression, Mary behaves no different from an ordinary daughter most of the time, with elegant manners, educated, very responsible, and very brave.

So it's interesting to see her childlike side.

"Ding———

The elevator beeps and the doors open.

"Mary, it's time to get there."

"Uh-huh..............."

In the face of Duanmu Huai's words, Mary just responded in a daze, and Duanmu Huai reached out, grabbed her collar, and lifted the girl in front of her like a kitten, shaking it a few times.

"Woo..............."

"To be honest, it's rare to be able to drink red wine like this."

Looking at Mary, who was still in a daze, Duanmu Huai also shook his head helplessly. Then he picked Mary up, stepped out of the elevator, and put the unconscious girl back into her room. Mary lying on the bed looks like a fairy tale princess of Sleeping Beauty, but she looks very beautiful and cute.

"Sleep slowly, you're tired all day today."

Duanmu Huai reached out and touched Mary's head, and then planned to leave. However, at this moment, he found Mary's hand grasping the corner of his clothes.

"Hmm............... Don't leave me......... Mom ........."

“…………………”

Hearing Mary's whisper, Duanmu Huai rolled his eyes helplessly.

"Let's talk about Dad."

As she spoke, Duanmu Huai sat down next to Mary, and the girl's originally tense expression seemed to relax a lot, and she fell into a deep sleep again.

Speaking of which, it seems as if Mary had never heard her family situation mentioned.........

Looking at Mary, who was asleep, Duanmu Huai touched his chin. Of course, many people in the court had their own secrets, and Duanmu Huai didn't plan to ask more. But Mary's situation seems to be more complicated, his understanding of Mary's family is limited to the inner world he had seen when he was with Mary in Antarctica, remembering that Mary's mother left her alone in the fog and then went to work abroad.

At that time, although Mary was very strong on the surface, she actually hoped that her mother could be by her side.

After that, Mary seemed to talk to her mother on the phone occasionally, but that was all there was to it.

Although there are also two good friends, Xia Li and Ashelica, and I heard that Mary said that the people who stayed in the fog capital also took good care of her, but after all, the situation was different from her biological mother.

Recall that in the courtroom, Mary seemed to be with herself most of the time, and the rest of the time she was alone. It's not that other people exclude her, it's just that everyone has their own things to do, of course, Ogis doesn't seem to like her very much——— well, strictly speaking, Ogis doesn't seem to like anyone who will monopolize herself, I remember that after confessing to being with Lumiel in the future world for sixty years, Ojisi was very unhappy with Lumiel.

Ann and Gurea are inseparable, Bambi spends most of his time playing with Kula, Lumiel and Eckel always get together, and Shizuka is good friends with Maria......... Although strictly speaking, the relationship between Mary and Lani is not bad, but the two are a master-apprentice relationship, and they are not ordinary friends.

Well?

Think about it carefully, how can you be one-on-one under this court? Now Ogis and Rose seem to be a couple. If you want to talk about being alone, it seems that there are only a limited number of people left, such as Lorena and Zhen Ji Ling, but Lorena spends more time exercising every day than with friends, and Zhen Ji Ling is busy live streaming every day.........

Is this normal?

Forget it, it doesn't matter.

Duanmu Huai shook his head helplessly.

So do you want to bring in two of her best friends as support staff? Although to be honest, in Duanmuhuai's opinion, Xia Li is of little use to the court, but considering that she has a good relationship with Mary, maybe it can be ......... Well, let's wait and see.

And just like that, the night passed.

"Uh-huh..............."

When Mary opened her eyes, it was already early in the morning, she blinked, turned her head blankly, and saw that beside her, Duanmu Huai was leaning there, closing her eyes and recuperating.

"Huh? Mr. Duanmu? ”

Seeing Duanmu Huai's face, Mary suddenly woke up and almost jumped out of bed.

"Why are you here? Wait, this is my room........."

As she spoke, Mary turned her head and looked around, well, judging from the outside, this was her guest room.

"Why, haven't you woken up yet?"

Looking at Mary's puzzled and panicked look, Duanmu Huai smiled.

"Didn't you say you wanted me to stay last night?"

"Hey......... Yes............! ”

Hearing Duanmu Huai's words, Mary was stunned for a moment, and then she suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly retracted directly into the quilt with a red face.

“…………… Hug, sorry, I'm sorry! I'm awake, I'm fully awake! ”

"That's good."

Duanmu Huai also stood up at this time.

"Let's take a shower and change our clothes, and then we'll go to breakfast, and then go to the countermeasures bureau, Yamen just called and said that there is something important to discuss with us."

"Okay, I'll go right away!"

Mary wrapped herself in the quilt, heard the footsteps of Duanmu Huai gradually leaving, and then the sound of the door closing, and then she cautiously poked her head out of the quilt, looked around, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

"Hoo ..............."

With a sigh of relief, Mary left the quilt and got out of bed. She also remembered at this time, because she drank a lot of red wine last night, she was a little fluttery, and when she leaned on Duanmu Huai, Mary only felt very relieved, and unconsciously wanted to be coquettish to Duanmu Huai, so she subconsciously said that.........

"Woo........."

Thinking of this, Mary's face suddenly turned red, and she wanted to get back into the quilt again. Although he said that he was drinking, he was inevitably a little too inappropriate, and as a lady, he would actually say that kind of thing to a man......... Fortunately, it was Mr. Duanmu, who changed the words of someone else.........

It seems that it is better to drink less alcohol in the future.

While reflecting inwardly, Mary went to the bathroom, and she was still wearing yesterday's dress, and she didn't look messed up.

…………………

Why do you always feel a little unwilling?

After that, Duanmu Huai also returned to his room, took a shower and changed his clothes, and when he walked out of the room, Mary was already waiting for her outside the door.

"Good morning, Mr. Duanmu."

Although Mary was greeting, Duanmu Huai always felt that there seemed to be some resentment in her tone?

Well, probably an illusion.

After breakfast, the two left the hotel and went to a family restaurant near the Countermeasures Bureau, where they met with Inspector Yamen.

"Yo, good morning."

Duanmu Huai said hello to Yamen, and looked at the man in front of him with dark circles on both eyes and looked like he was staying up late and working overtime.

"Look at the way you looked, you didn't sleep well last night?"

"I didn't sleep well, I didn't sleep at all last night........."

Hearing Duanmu Huai's inquiry, Yamen was also speechless, Duanmu Huai and Mary killed the ghouls and went home to eat and sleep, but he was unlucky, because there were even SSS levels among the ghouls who were killed, and his partner Mado Investigator was injured and went for treatment, so that Yamen was tortured by the high-level of the Countermeasures Bureau for a night like an interrogation.

In fact, it's normal for the higher-ups to have this kind of reaction, you report that you are going to deal with ordinary ghouls, and you come back and tell me that you killed someone else's boss, can this be the same thing?

You should at least give us a little mental preparation! It's not a surprise, it's already a fright!

So the Yamen Inspector had to describe everything in detail from beginning to end, of course, since he and the real household investigator acted separately, most of the situation was actually not very clear to him, and he only learned about the situation later after listening to the real household investigator's explanation. In any case, after the Special Countermeasures Bureau figured out the cause and effect of the incident, it was also shocked, and at the same time, it also gained a deeper understanding of the strength of the court.

In fact, strictly speaking, similar things are no stranger to the countermeasures bureau itself, such as a case of ghouls eating people somewhere on the street, and then the investigator went to investigate, but accidentally found out that the other party was actually an S-level or even higher-level powerful ghoul, in this case, those who were lucky could come back and report, and those who were unlucky were eaten by the other party on the spot.

Well, this situation is put on the Inquisition, then it is not luck, but strength——— in exchange for the countermeasures, in the face of the one-eyed owl, in the case of unpreparedness, it will inevitably be annihilated, but the Inquisition Court directly killed it, and did not even make much noise, it was as easy as dealing with small soldiers.........

And after realizing this, there was a completely new decision within the countermeasures bureau.

"Headquarters wants you to help with a difficult case."

As he spoke, the Yamen investigator handed the two documents to the two men.

"Tricky case?"

"That's right......... It's an underground auction. ”

"Underground auctions?"

"Yes, it's an underground auction organized by ghouls, and we've been investigating it all along, and according to the intelligence and clues we've gathered, ghouls will capture and capture humans, and then bring them to the auction for auction, and the auctions will be attended by some very powerful and famous ghouls. They will eat the humans they photograph or keep them as pets........."

"Oh, that's funny."

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai raised his eyebrows, although what he said was quite interesting, his tone was cold and full of chill.

"However, since the auction is very secretive and most likely related to SS-class ghouls, we have not yet known the details of the auction, not even the people and location......... Therefore, the Bureau of Countermeasures would like to be able to entrust the investigation to the Trial Division and to handle the case. ”

"No problem, we'll leave it to you."

Duanmu Huai finished reading the documents at hand, and then nodded, and the Yamen Investigator was also relieved.

"Then please leave it to the two of you, if there is any situation, you can contact me at any time."

With that, the Amen searcher stood up, saluted the two of them, and left.

"I really didn't expect these ghouls to auction humans as commodities........."

Even Mary, after listening to the explanation of the Inquisitor of Amen, was equally ugly.

"So, Mr. Duanmu, how should we act?"

"This time it's a lot easier."

"Simple?"

Hearing Duanmu Huai's words, Mary blinked in surprise.

"That's right."

Looking at the girl beside him, Duanmu Huai smiled, reached out and patted her shoulder.

"That's right, don't we have a piece of Tang monk meat here?"

(End of chapter)