Matthews?

Listening to the name squeezed out by Grandma Jiantian, Seti was stunned for a moment.

According to the tone, he knew very well that the other party was not calling him.

And if it weren't for me... That, of course, is another "Theseus".

Lunac Prosius!

"What's wrong with Theseus? Is he coming to eat noodles again?"

Seti hurriedly lowered her head and asked, it can be seen that Grandma Tian has lost all her strength when she squeezes out these two words, and when she heard Seti's question, she only nodded her dim pupils up and down, as if she agreed.

After that, the pupils gradually dilated and expanded, and there was a tendency to be unconscious.

"That's... Let's get the patient to be rescued as soon as possible."

The nurse next to her reminded softly, and only when she heard the words did she let go of Grandma Mita's hand, and the cart of the couple who were lying on the side was pushed away by the nurse and rushed to rescue and treatment.

Looking at the departing cart, Seti pondered:

If Xius really went to the store, the Mitian couple were handcuffed in the bathroom, was it because of Xius?

Or that it must have something to do with Hughes.

And when I rushed into the fire, there was no one else in the store.

Did he flee ahead of schedule?

Sethi understands that by grasping this opening, he can even find the "madman" directly.

So he turned back to his mother and said, "Mom, go back first, and I'll go to the ramen shop again."

"You're going to put out the fire again?" Akemi Nishinomiya looked worried.

"What kind of fire to fight, the fire is coming, the fire must be extinguished, I just want to see the high-pressure water gun head to moisten the water, not in the way..."

"I want to see it too." Hearing the high-pressure water gun, the natural stupid mother's eyes lit up.

"You're going to work, and it's okay to be a little more mature."

"Okay~"

Seti fooled her mother.

He immediately walked out of the Nerima Ward Central Hospital and went to the Mitakumi ramen shop again.

...

As Seti expected, with the arrival of the fire department, the raging fire at the ramen shop at this time has been effectively controlled.

The high-pressure gas canister in the store, which was burned to the point of deformation, was also carefully transported out.

Officers from the Sheriff's Department also arrived.

It has begun to evacuate and expel the surrounding melon-eating people, and a cordon has been set up.

When Seti, who still had smoke marks on his body, approached the cordon.

A young police officer, who had apparently communicated with the people around him, recognized him, stepped forward and patted Seti on the shoulder, and boasted:

"Young man, you are the one who rescued the Mita couple, right? That's a good job!"

"I just did what I could, and the Jiantian couple are very good, so they can't just die." Sethi should respond with two sentences.

"Yes, that's true, in fact, I often come to eat noodles, I remember that when my work was not going well, Grandma Jiantian would gently help me channel negative emotions..." The young police officer looked at the ramen shop that had been burned beyond recognition, and sighed,

"Oh, that's a pity... But how are Grandma Jiantian and Grandpa doing?"

"I've taken them to the hospital for emergency treatment, so there shouldn't be any major problems." Seti pointed to the Nerima District Central Hospital behind him, and then asked,

"You know how this fire starts?"

The young police officer shook his head: "I don't know, we also received a report call from the surrounding people, so we rushed over, the specific situation is not very clear, and we have to wait for the fire to go in and investigate."

In other words, no police officers have gone to take samples yet, and there is still first-hand information in it!

Sethi made a judgment, and he tried to ask, "Can I go in and have a look?"

Hearing this, the young police officer looked embarrassed and refused, "I'm afraid this is not quite in line with the rules, right?"

Seti was just about to say two more sentences.

A stern reprimand suddenly came: "What are you talking about, Shangwei!"

Young police officer

Hearing this voice, he immediately reflexively straightened his waist.

Seti also looked for the voice.

This is a middle-aged police officer, with thin lips and a straight face, and his stern appearance almost writes "I can't speak" on his face.

"Inspector Kumagawa." The young police officer saluted and then quickly explained, "This is the little hero who rescued the Mita couple just now, and he asked me if I could go into the store and have a look."

The hierarchy in the Japanese police is divided into 10 stages, of which the lowest patrol is the younger police officer today, and the higher inspector is the patrol chief, that is, the patrol chief, but in fact, the rank is the same as the patrol. Generally, when the inspector reaches the age of inspection, he will automatically get the title of "inspector chief", which is given to people who have been inspectors for ten years and have not yet become the next level of inspectors.

And the middle-aged police officer in front of him, who is called the chief inspector, represents rich experience and deep qualifications.

Inspector Kumagawa listened to the introduction of the young police officer, and also looked at Seti's body, and asked, "What are you going to do when you enter the store?"

After years of experience, he immediately became keenly aware that Seti had other purposes.

Looking for a madman... Seti was thinking about how to answer.

Seeing that Seti didn't reply immediately, Inspector Kumagawa became even more suspicious in his heart and asked:

"How did you get in such a big fire just now? Can you elaborate on what happened? And where were you when the fire broke out?"

The young police officer next to him also reacted when he heard the inspector's words, and said that this young man wanted to go back to the store, not to destroy the evidence, and his eyes on Seti changed suddenly.

This is to make me the object of suspicion... Sethi thought about it for a moment and decided not to further explain.

He took out his mobile phone and dialed the aftermath phone of the Tianzhu Nerima Branch serving the squads, and skillfully reported the current address and fire incident on the other end of the phone.

——These days of searching for free aliens and solving cases in the training area, Seti has long been familiar with this.

Inspector Kumagawa even took advantage of the phone call to glance at the young police officer next to him, and the two quietly blocked Seti's retreat.

Wait for Sethi to hang up.

Inspector Kumagawa continued to take two steps forward and asked:

"Who did you just call, and you haven't answered my question yet... It's not me who intimidates you, I have the right to take you directly away for investigation, and I ask you to cooperate."

Seti counted the time and said, "I won't be leaving, don't worry... Your phone should be ringing too."

Cell phone? Inspector Kumagawa just wanted to say not to divert his attention in such a childish way, but as Miyuki Nakajima's singing sounded, his mobile phone really rang!

Inspector Kumagawa frowned and took it out, staring at Seti while glancing at the screen of his phone.

When the caller's note is seen, all the dissatisfaction quickly disappears.

Once the phone is connected.

He began to nod his head frequently.

After a while, after he hung up.

The scrutinizing gaze at Seti vanished completely, and in its place... Respectful!

Ben's stern expression quickly squeezed out a smile, his attitude turned one hundred and eighty degrees, and he bowed his head and said:

"I'm sorry, I was offended just now... What are your instructions?"

？？？ The young police officer was stupid, he had never seen Inspector Kumagawa show such a look, and the object was such a young man!

The pillar of heaven moves strangely fast... Seti did not embarrass him, and said:

"You continue to lock down the surroundings, and you can't let anyone go or let anyone in without my instructions."

"Roger!"

Immediately, Inspector Xiong Chuan obeyed the order, and then immediately pulled the young police officer next to him away.

When the latter got closer, he couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "What's wrong? Who's calling?"

"Director's phone number—" After answering, Inspector Kumagawa turned his head to look deeply at Seti.

Recalling the tone of the inspector on the phone just now, he was also very curious about this young man

The true identity of the guy.

Unexpectedly, a phone call can drive the director, and his identity is not ordinary...

But years of experience allowed him to quickly control his emotions, no longer whispering, and began to meticulously complete Sethi's orders, continuing to prevent and control the cordon.

Seti also took advantage of the situation to pass through the unstopped cordon.

Enter the ramen shop where the fire has been extinguished.

The store was in shambles, the flames devouring all the colors and turning them to pure charred black, and Seti looked around briefly, but really didn't see any useful information.

But Sethi knew very well that there must be something here.

Suppose there is a murderer X behind the fire, regardless of whether the identity of the murderer X is a madman or someone related to a madman.

Since the other party will do this more, he will set this fire again.

That means he has something he wants to cover up with this fire.

But... What could it be?

Seti paced through the blackened floor, her eyes constantly staring at the scorched tables and chairs in the store, the central chef's counter burned to ashes... Look at it inch by inch, look for it inch by inch.

Long.

Seti still hasn't been found.

However, he was not discouraged, because during this time he learned one thing: professional things should be done by professional people!

Seti waited a little longer.

Sure enough, a soft lolita voice came from his ears: "Isn't this the place where we ate noodles last time? How could it be burned like this?"

As he spoke, the transparent air around Seti's body gradually revealed color, revealing the hurried figure of the earth royal gate Xiaoju under the illusion.

She is still wearing the onmyoji's robe, and the cute pill head on her head is quite eye-catching.

Seti immediately thought of this "little crime-solving expert" and called her over.

"Someone set it on fire, presumably related to a transcendent event, I'm looking for clues that may exist, but I haven't found it." Seti replied briefly.

After many days of getting along, Tuyumen Xiaoju also connected seamlessly and quickly entered the state of solving the case.

Nodding his head and using his brain.

She quickly thought of something, and turned to look at the charred top edge of the doorway wall—there was nothing there now.

But in her memory, the last time she ate noodles, she remembered that there was a camera here!

Because of her love of reasoning, she has always been quite concerned about this kind of thing.

So she pointed and said, "There used to be a surveillance there, but now it's probably burned... But let's look for the surveillance hard drive and see if there are any useful clues in it."

Monitor! Seti also lit up and reacted.

According to memory, I found the cash register computer behind the central chef's counter, and now the computer screen has long been burned and melted.

And the chassis underneath the cabinet...

It's fairly well preserved!

Seti was overjoyed, and the ruthless iron hand lifted its hot metal shell, and Tuyumen Xiaoju also leaned over Lori's face and looked in expectantly.

Then, their hearts sank at the same time.

The hard drive inside is gone!

According to the pre-arranged lines next to it, it means that there was indeed a hard disk here before.

"It must have been taken away in advance, and this murderer's heart is weird... But there could be anything else in there?" Seti removed the blackened motherboard and looked at the back—there were no extra hard drives.

One failed attempt.

The earth gate Xiaoju next to him stood up.

The round pupils of the eyes constantly look around the entire ramen shop, and the cerebellum seeds are running rapidly.

The fire made the difficulty of digging for clues catastrophic.

Conventional fingerprint forensics, DNA comparison, etc., are completely impossible.

Rao is a rich experience in solving cases and reasoning, and she has no idea for a while.

Therefore.

..

It's time to hang up!

Tuyumen Xiaoju stretched out her little hand, her fingertips twisted the spiritual power, and began to draw in the air, drawing the style array, her delicate and skillful spiritual power control made the style array quickly take shape.

With the formation of the array.

From the perspective that only the Onmyoji can see, there are other things in the entire ramen shop that has been burned black by the flames:

All kinds of colors represent a variety of things, representing the possible "past" and "future".

Dogomon chrysanthemum carefully discerned in his mind.

She shifted her steps at the same time, following the thought in her mind, and walked to the black dining table at the door, which still had the shape of a table, and said, "Wrist Hao, here and here."

Seti approached.

I saw that the desktop pointed to by Tuyumen Xiaoju, although it was scorched black, but if you look closely, it seems that there are some regular depressions... It's like words!

So Seti immediately opened his eyes wide, and his level 4 vision was fully exerted, and he could distinguish the words on it little by little.

「.... Deep?"

There is a word "deep" written on the dining table!

And there are obviously words on the back, but they are so badly burned that even the current Seti can't distinguish them at all.

"Deep"? What do you mean... But what's written on the back? Can you see it, Wrist Hero?" Tuyumen Xiaoju asked.

"I can't see clearly." Sethi shook his head, and then asked, "What about your divination?"

Tuyumen Xiaoju pursed his lips: "How can Shi Zhan come out, Shi Zhan can only get a vague information, and then it is all up to the Onmyoji to judge, if Shi Zhan has a clear answer, then in front of the Onmyoji, wouldn't there be no secret?"

"However, the Sage Onmyoji should be able to account for a relatively clear result based on this table... But we're sure we don't want to move that existence..."

"It's... But who wrote this word, could it be that it was there before?" Seti asked instead.

Tuyumen Xiaoju pondered for a long time, then shook his head and said, "I don't know... It's possible that I didn't pay attention to this little detail when I came here before."

Her eyes then fell on the officers who were maintaining the cordon outside the door.

"There's another way, I've heard that there is a developed science and technology that can repair the text on it, so why don't you send this table to the sheriff's office to repair it..."

"That's all there is to it." Seti said, and then continued,

"You can use your spiritual power to find out if there are any other clues here... By the way, there is also the bathroom, you come with me, this is where I found the Mita couple, they were handcuffed to the water pipe, and there was no fire there, maybe there is a clue."

Tuyumen Xiaoju nodded and followed.

...

An hour later.

Seti and Dogomon-chanju are about to dig the entire Mitakumi ramen shop three feet into the ground.

In particular, the bathroom that Seti thought might have clues was searched for many times.

But in the end, no new clues were found.

It's a careful veteran who is committing crimes! Seti concluded.

Tuyumen Xiaoju turned his head and said to Seti:

"I'll send the table at the door for text restoration later, and I'll go check the surveillance... But I think it's also very difficult to find out anything, and there is still a lack of key information."

Seti didn't understand this.

A fire destroyed almost all the clues, and there was nothing useful except for the word "deep" carved by someone who didn't know what it meant or who carved.

Then.

Seti's mobile phone rang, he opened it and saw that it was his mother's phone, connected, and said:

"Hey, Mommy."

Nishinomiya Akemi's mature voice soon came: "Xiaoti, seeing that Grandma Tian woke up, she said that she wanted to see you, and she had something to tell you."

Hearing this, Seti's eyes lit up and said, "I'll go over now!"

Then hang up.

Picking up the confused Tuyumen Xiaoju is a 100-meter sprint.

The key clue, isn't this coming!

......

Nerima Ward Central Hospital, inside the ward.

When Seti and Domimon Kiku arrived.

Grandma Jiantian was lying on the hospital bed, with an oxygen tube in her nose and an indwelling needle in her hand for infusion, but her face was obviously much better.

Grandpa Mita next to him is also the same configuration.

But he is still unconscious, but looking at the information of the vital signs detector next to him, he is out of danger.

After seeing Seti coming. Seeing that Grandma Tian wanted to get up, but she didn't have the strength, she quickly gave up and asked in a weak voice:

"Timo, how is Theseus?"

Sethi approached the head of the bed and bowed down to communicate with her, "Do you mean my unscrupulous father by Hughes?"

"yes, he's not in the store?" Grandma Jiantian hurriedly asked.

"No, when I rushed into the fire, I saw only the two of you in the whole store." Seti replied truthfully.

Hearing this, Grandma Tian suddenly became emotional, and said to Seti, "Xiaoti, then you call the police! Theseus has been captured!"

Ha? Level 9 Hundred Refiners, you told me I was arrested??

Seti reassured her first, "Don't get excited, you're still very weak... And the police have already come, so you don't have to worry."

After seeing that Grandma Tian had calmed down, Seti continued to ask, "Grandma, can you tell me the details?"

Seeing that Grandma Tian nodded, she said:

"This morning, Theseus came to the shop out of the blue and said he wanted to eat noodles, and the old man hadn't prepared the soup yet, but we decided to help him make a bowl of noodles first.

"But Theseus was in a hurry, and kept urging the old man to hurry up, and we didn't pay much attention to it, just as he was busy with work and in a hurry.

"Later, when the noodles were ready, and Hughes hadn't eaten a few bites, five men in black suddenly rushed into the store, and the other party seemed to know Xius and said that he wanted to take Xiusi somewhere...

"I didn't hear the specifics clearly, because two people tied me up and the old man in the back and handcuffed me to the bathroom.

"Then a fire broke out, and the old man and I were choked... If I hadn't mentioned you, I'm afraid that our old bones would have been burned to death..."

Grandma Kanda looked grateful to Seti.

Five big men who knew the unscrupulous father rushed in... And the unscrupulous dad who has always urged the ramen to hurry up won't have a premonition of their arrival, right?

Then he didn't flee in advance, and he also implicated the Tian couple, what did he want?

And the arsonists should be the big guys...

Seti thought for a moment and continued to ask, "Which table did Theseus sit at when he came in to eat noodles?"

Grandma Mitian replied, "The one at the door."

Sure enough, it's the one at the door... Seti's eyes lit up and he asked, "Was there an inscription on the table before?"

"Words?" Seeing that Grandma Tian asked suspiciously, she immediately said, "I wipe the table many times a day, but I don't know what words are engraved on that table."

It's really hammered, the word "deep", and the follow-up words that can't be seen clearly, are the unscrupulous father's orders at the moment!

But for what?

For a reminder? To leave a clue?

Tuyumen Xiaoju, who had never spoken next to her, interjected, "Grandma, can you still remember the appearance of those people who rushed in?"

Seeing Grandma Tian frowning and recalling for a moment, she said, "It should be possible... The one in the lead is not young, probably forty or fifty years old, and his eyebrows are very heavy,...

"Wait!" Tuyumen Xiaoju hurriedly said, "I'll go find a simulated portraitist to come in!"

After saying that, she walked on her short legs and walked quickly out of the ward.

With a portrait, then the murderer will be much easier to find!

Watching the other party leave in a hurry, seeing that Grandma Tian also showed a kind smile, and then she remembered something

Well, he said to Seti:

"By the way, I almost forgot, when you asked me to bring it, I told Theseus, and his reply was, "I'm fine, I'm going to leave Tokyo in the near future."

"And what also puzzled me was that he was sure you'd be coming to the store right away... It turns out that you really came, and you saved both of our lives."

Are you sure I'm going to go to the Takaku ramen shop right away?

Why?

The Hundred Refiners don't have the ability to predict the future.

Wait a minute.

Could it be because... Hughes is sure that I have seen the diary, and after knowing that the madman is him, he will definitely go to Nerima Central Hospital to ask my mother?

As a result, you will see the fire at the Mitakumi ramen shop next to you......

Hiss... Is this also in your calculations? Lunatician!

And the sentence of Hughes, what does it mean that he will leave Tokyo in the near future, is it to tell me his whereabouts now?

Through the conversation with Grandma Mita, Seti understood that there were many things hidden behind the arson.

He also had too many questions to answer in his mind right now, like a fog was shrouded in it.

But if you want to unravel, you can't rush.

It needs to be peeled back little by little.

So Seti said, "Grandma, you can remember it now, and when the simulated portraitist comes, you will describe all the murderers in detail, and with the portraits, you will definitely be able to bring the other party to justice."

"Hmm." Seeing Grandma Tian nodding, she began to close her eyes and recall the appearance of those people.

Seti also stood up, pacing and thinking as well.

I am also patiently waiting for the arrival of the analog portraitist.

He is ready to start with the identity of these big men first!