January 17, 8:00 a.m., Polish City Police.

Li Xiaonan, who used to go to work on time regardless of wind and rain, did not appear in the office, which made Zhao Yinglu, who was "wiped out" the day before, a little confused: "Isn't it that you can't accept the blow, and the can is broken?" ”

Zhao Yinglu waited a little nervously in the detective's office until 8:30, but still didn't see Li Xiaonan's shadow, so he was a little hesitant to call him.

Just as Zhao Yinglu was pacing back and forth with her mobile phone, there was a knock on the door in the office.

"Uh... Enter! ”

Zhao Yinglu hesitated for two seconds, sat on Li Xiaonan's seat, and said in a crisp voice.

The door to the detective's office was pushed open, revealing a tall, thin man wearing a black and gray trench coat and a hat of the same color, hiding most of his face, with his hands in his pockets, so it was obvious that he was not the one pushing the door.

Beside him was a chubby man in a bulging suit.

Zhao Yinglu keenly noticed that there was still a drop of oil stain on the collar of the slightly chubby man, as he had met before.

"Aren't these the two masters of the 'Jinli Piano Company'?" Zhao Yinglu pretended to say hello listlessly while putting the mobile phone she had just held in her arms on the table.

Gai smiled and lay straight down on the couch across from his desk, dangling his legs on the armrests of the couch and leisurely lighting a cigarette.

Jean slowly found a chair, sank herself in, and said, "Ananda is going to pick up Tamel and Miya, they just went to entrust and came back, you don't need to contact him, you should be there right away." ”

Zhao Yinglu let out a "hum" and pushed the mobile phone on the table inside, and before she could refute anything, Qin continued: "I heard that you are in trouble, and the prisoner still 'left' my address?" ”

He specially added an accent to the word "stayed".

Zhao Yinglu snorted again, baring her teeth with some dissatisfaction: "Do you know that we are in trouble again?" I said you saw me yesterday, go and eat your meal! ”

Qin didn't seem to hear the words, but took out the newspaper from his pocket, pushed it in front of Zhao Yinglu, and easily changed the topic: "The mocking words have been announced to the world." ”

“Catchme，ifyouca

.”

"Yes, yes, the man walked around the police station and ran away from the palm of his hand." Zhao Yinglu pouted and replied with a pout.

"So the case is solved, isn't it?" Gai replied without a clue: "It's just that the person ran away." ”

"It's not ordinary people who ran away." Jean pulled out a terminal-style communication tool from another pocket, operating it as if she were a little presbyopia.

“...”

"Yo, have you had a tea party with me?"

Li Xiaonan pushed the door back to his office, and saw Zhao Yinglu sitting in his place, tilting his head, with a face full of words: "I'm not happy, who will save me." ”

Across from her was the piano operating the terminal with his eyes bent, and Gai lay back on the couch after saying that sentence earlier, and was also looking at the terminal.

"Jean! I've been upgraded to B grade! ”

A cheerful voice came from behind Li Xiaonan, and at the same time, a girl who was not too tall and had some flesh rushed out and went straight to the piano who was holding the terminal farther and farther away.

"Congratulations, Miya, thanks to your tamel experience." Qin said expressionlessly: "Otherwise, he wouldn't have been A-level a long time ago." ”

"Actually..."Tamel's figure also followed Li Xiaonan into the office, and he said, "It may be an S-class." ”

Jean turned his head to look at the "tenor" tamel with a cold temperament, and after a few seconds, said, "I can't imagine that you are the kind of person who can wear suspenders." ”

After a few seconds of silence, Tamel unceremoniously walked over to the fearless Jean, snatched the terminal from his hand, and said in a somewhat "cold" tone: "What about the science detective network for Miss Officer?" ”

Tamel said as he looked at a document displayed on the terminal in his hand at this time: "Saraville, the genius detective who appeared out of thin air five years ago, at least his life history from the detective network cannot be found any time ago, and no one even knows his real name, he appeared like a ghost in the 2018 detective qualification competition, and made a name for himself in that incident, in that incident, he went from obscurity to the highest honor in the detective world - the 'One Truth Award', it took only 14 days. ”

That's the end of the information on the terminal, but Tamel is still saying: "After that detective qualification competition, until the winter of 2019, he is still active in major cities, and frequently appears in the field of vision of the detective community. ”

Tamel paused, tilted his head slightly, and looked at Li Xiaonan, who was listening carefully: "Then at the beginning of 2022, he completely disappeared from everyone's field of vision, just like when he appeared, like a ghost in the night." ”

"Wait a minute!" Zhao Yinglu raised his hand to ask at this time, attracting everyone's attention: "What is that terminal, and what is... Does the detective identity still need to be qualified? ”

Tamel gave Li Xiaonan a strange look, apparently the detective had not told his men about the rules of the detective world.

At this time, Gai's voice came from the sofa, accompanied by the green smoke rising slowly, he explained: "Anyone can call themselves 'detectives' and accept the commissions of some people, but the identity of a detective who is recognized in the real sense needs to be obtained in the annual qualification competition, and the time of this event is not fixed, it all depends on the mood of the organizer, and there is no regularity, and the person who qualifies will be 'recognized' him before' Self-styled detective identity, and get a terminal like this, through which you can enter the closest door to the 'truth' in this world - the detective network. ”

"Huh... Is it just an officially recognized non-governmental organization..."Zhao Yinglu muttered unconvinced: "What else is the 'closest door to the truth'..."

"Ananda didn't tell you..."Qin turned her head faintly at this time, looking at Zhao Yinglu, and in her slightly sunken eyes, those eyes seemed to be smiling evilly.

"Alright, I'll tell you." Li Xiaonan interrupted Qin's words, took a few steps closer and patted him on the shoulder.

In Zhao Yinglu's surprised expression, he said slowly: "I also participated in that selection competition before. ”

"But I didn't make the cut."

After Zhao Yinglu heard the "explosion gossip" that Li Xiaonan admitted in person, she was still for a few seconds, and then ran out of the office with a scream.

Although Li Xiaonan also tilted his head slightly to show a puzzled expression, he still signaled that everyone was fine, and it should be a small problem such as a recurrence of an old disease or a sudden serious illness.

"As for the case, you can go to the scene of the crime and take a look at it later, and the file is in the drawer over there." Li Xiaonan pointed to the middle of the desk and said, "After all, finding the only truth and publishing it is what a detective should do, isn't it?" ”

"And now that you have accepted my free commission, either actively or passively, please help me investigate the person in this photo through the channels of the detective community."

Li Xiaonan took out the Polaroid photo from his trouser pocket and slapped it on his desk, and in the center of the picture, Saraville squinted like a non-mainstream homemade nouveau riche.

"I know this man—" Tamel's finger landed on the back of the figure sitting on Saraville's right shoulder, with long, straight black hair mixed with bright red highlights.

"Crimson Eyes... Sohime. ”

Tamel called up a character file on the terminal and handed it to Li Xiaonan.

"Before the 2018 'Tryouts', the female detective who was codenamed 'Scarlet Pupil' had a weird personality, was moody, and not easy to get along with. In 2018, he was defeated in the 'selection competition' and was suspected of voluntarily giving up his qualification for some reason. once caused a lot of heated discussions in the detective world with his gorgeous appearance and distinctive pale red pupils, and then appeared several times as Saraville's assistant in 2019, and finally gradually faded out of public view without a trace. ”

The fade from view here is that she has not been involved in the detection of recorded cases or the more popular private commissions. As for whether she drank a cup of coffee under surveillance, I think she was still more keen to do it. Tamel added.

Li Xiaojiao nodded, signaling understanding, and his eyes fell on the face that came over at some point and rubbed the lid of his chin against the photo.

"You have an impression... Violin. Gai said, placing his finger on the back of Saraville, who was sitting on her left shoulder: "Fairy chess, Suman." ”

"That master of psychology who focuses on layout and deception." Gai recalled: "Back then, she didn't sign up for the 'tryout', and some of her fans regretted it..."

"Suck it..."Qin took out a cup of milk tea out of nowhere and drank it, when the sound of a straw interrupted the lid's words.

Everyone's eyes were immediately attracted by Qin, who was a little confused, and tentatively raised the milk tea in his hand and said, "I bought it on the road when I came, and their new flavor..."

Li Xiaonan's expression was a little speechless, but he still said: "When you say this, I seem to have heard of the 'reincarnation of the succubus' that made a group of male college students fascinated back then?" ”

"Are you really not one of them? Ananda. Detective Meiyan turned her head at this time and looked at Li Xiaonan with a wicked smile on her face.

At the same time, the sound of approaching footsteps sounded outside the office, and Feng Beifu pushed open the door and walked in without hesitation, as if he was taking revenge on Li Xiaonan's behavior the day before.

With a cup of coffee and a can of peeled garlic cloves in his hand, he was stunned for a moment, then raised the coffee in his hand to everyone and asked, "Does anyone want to try garlic coffee?" ”

Taking advantage of the silence of the audience's "bullet moment", Feng Beifu saw the photo of them in the middle through the few people in front of him, and when he opened his mouth to mock the shape of Saravel's dirt buns, he noticed the figure hidden behind Saravel.

"Aoi-chan? How did you get together with Saraville. ”

The "bullet moment" was broken, including the facial paralysis of Qin, after hearing the words of Feng to be buried, they all expressed some doubts about the collapse of facial expressions - "Aren't you his brother?" The wind is buried. ”

“...”

After everyone gathered the previous information to Feng Bei, he also completed the ratio of coffee to garlic, and while drinking heavy coffee, he said, "So my younger brother Bai Zhu Aoi is currently a member of a high-performance antisocial personality organization called 'Church', and it seems that he is still mixing quite well?" ”

"No wonder when I contacted him over the years, he said that he was driving a Maybach for a boss as a driver, and the phone calls seemed to be sneaky, and I thought it was a bad mood after losing the 'tryout'." The wind whispered.

"So Saraville is so rich, she actually drove Maybahye, Xiaokui really found a good boss."

Feng Beifu's gaze swept over Tamel and Miya, who had become full of excitement for some reason, and continued, "Unlike his brother, who works for a waste boss, and has only one stupid employee under his hands, he even has to research his own recipe for coffee..."

"Is this the point!" Tamel's voice contained murderous intent as if squeezed out of the back molars: "Xiao Aoi joined the criminal organization, hey, are you really sure this is him?" ”

The Wind Servant chuckled, his smile playful, "No one in this world except him should wear that ugly fisherman's hat." As for his membership in a criminal organization..."

"Then get him back, before he makes a terrible mistake..."

"Or after creating some 'surprise' for my brother."