Chapter 20: Giving Your Soul

"This time..."Li Xiaonan looked helplessly at Feng who was standing next to Bai Zhuaoi and put on the frame again, and asked tentatively, "Dementors?" ”

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go~" Feng Beifu snapped his fingers, sat on the sofa opposite Li Xiaonan, and cocked Erlang's legs: "Why are you embarrassed, the Sword of the End of Light." ”

Li Xiaonan squeezed out an ugly smirk from the corner of his mouth, and then took another hard puff of cigarette, accompanied by a "whine" sound, his "soul" was once again sucked away by the "dementor".

"Alright, Aoi, go get him a towel to wipe it off." Feng Beifu pulled the corners of his mouth and said, "Look at him making the sofa for others." ”

"The trail is broken again."

After the white candle sunflower farts went to the bar, Li Xiaonan said with some blank eyes.

Feng Beifu sighed, and slumped himself into the sofa as Li Xiaonan looked: "Guessed." ”

"What about you?" Li Xiaonan asked, "How is the progress of the surgeon's line?" ”

"Just like you." Feng Beifu shrugged his shoulders, and the black suit on his body rubbed against the sofa against his back to make a "rustling" sound: "It's also broken." ”

Let's talk.

Li Xiaonan looked at Feng Beifu, who didn't seem to care too much about this result, and was about to open his mouth to ask a question, when a heavy white towel "snapped" on his face, and at the same time, the sound of "woo" followed him like a shadow.

"Can't you just stop!" Li Xiaonan's voice roared in the towel: "The wind is waiting to be buried!" How many more souls does he have to suck before he can rest! ”

Li Xiaonan struggled to remove the towel from his face, and was about to threaten to ask him, but without admitting it, two warm smiling faces appeared in front of him.

White Candle Aoi turned off the disturbing sound and handed the vacuum cleaner back to the waiter.

Wind Waiting for Burial also removed the frame of the glasses without lenses.

The two of them smiled and said, "Let's have some 'special' lunch, Ananda." ”

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"Cut..."Li Xiaonan buried his head in eating the crab roe noodles in front of him with an unhappy face, but the face that obviously swept away the haze betrayed his true thoughts.

"So what's going on?" Li Xiaonan opened a can of Coke in his hand and made a "huh~" sound.

"Aoi hasn't read lately." Feng Beifu replied inarticulate while snorting the noodles, "What you saw today is the 'real' Aoi~"

At the same time, White Candle Aoi put down the orange-flavored soda in his hand and once again showed a smiling face with a low IQ: "Do you want to see the Dementor again?" ”

Li Xiaonan hurriedly shook his head, remembering the mentally handicapped trick performed by the two brothers ten minutes ago, and couldn't help laughing: "How do you know I'm here." ”

"Officer Salted Fish revealed it." Feng Beifu replied, "He said that you are not in good shape, and it is raining again, so he told us to go to the side of the road to see if we can find you." ”

"It just so happens that the investigation on our side has also fallen into a bottleneck, so I'm here to find you, Xiaokui said that you won't go back to the hotel to lie down."

Li Xiaonan raised his eyebrows in surprise: "So you know all about the investigation here?" ”

"Including the 'evidence' that 99 percent was poured into the foundation." Feng Beifu answered: "And on our side, we didn't deliberately cater to your down-and-out mood, we really broke the clue." ”

"Why do you seem to be in a good mood?" Li Xiaonan was a little puzzled.

Feng Beifu put the last bite of crab roe into his mouth with a spoon, let out a satisfied "ah" sound, and then said: "First of all, I don't believe that anyone can do everything when they are engaged in criminal activities, so even if these clues cannot be pursued, I believe that new clues will still be discovered." ”

"Secondly, according to my thinking, if the logical line associated with a clue is artificially cut off, then it can just prove that the logical line is right and we are on the right path."

"Have you ever played a single-player RPG game, Ananda?" Feng Beifu suddenly changed his style: "If you don't know which way to get out of the maze, then pick the road with many monsters." ”

Li Xiaonan nodded a little indifferently, as if persuaded by the rogue logic of the wind waiting to be buried: "So it's going to start again, right?" ”

Feng Beifu cast his gaze: "If the cases can be easily solved, then there will be no us sitting together now." ”

"Da..." Li Xiaonan lit the cigarette again and said, "Thank you for your comfort." But in fact, it is more of a little annoyed than frustrated. ”

"Do you know what is the most taboo when playing cards?" White Candle Aoi asked suddenly.

In Li Xiaonan's puzzled eyes, he continued: "It's an aggressive and reckless gambler's mentality. ”

"Although it takes courage to back up your opinions and logic a lot of the time, if you are pushed by aggressive ideas, you will not be able to win the game."

Then Feng Beifu added with a smile: "Xiaokui once won the title of 'poker king' in our community~"

"It sounds fake, hey, what a 'poker king'..."Despite thinking about it, Li Xiaonan still realized that Bai Zhukui, a guy who didn't seem to be smart, seemed to have a wise and foolish temperament.

"I should have told you all about the situation on my side, so what pit did you fall into?" Li Xiaonan asked.

Feng Beifu breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Li Xiaonan, who had regained his fighting spirit, and said, "We investigated the diagnosis, visitation and travel records of the hospital where the fourth victim worked, but found nothing. ”

"Every registered name can be found with complete personal information and a photo of the face, which does not match our criminal profile of the mastermind behind the scenes. In order to prevent omissions, Xiaokui and I also went separately to interview the doctors and nurses who worked at the time, colleagues who belonged to the same department as the victim, some hospitalized patients and even hired nurses, and all the subjects of the investigation claimed that they had not seen the victim come into contact with a beautiful woman. ”

"But we still have gains."

"A patient from another department provided a referential statement that he said that during his hospitalization, he went to the wrong consultation room during a follow-up examination and heard the victim mention words similar to 'gambling' on the phone. Due to the psychology that more is better than less, and the fact that the investigation at the time did not cover other wards, this information has been concealed to this day. ”

"Gambling?" Li Xiaonan muttered: "But I remember that there is no mention in the file that there is a large amount of money in the accounts of these victims. ”

"That's the contradiction that I think can be used as a breakthrough." Feng Beifu reached out to the waiter for a cup of coffee, and after the waiter walked away, he continued: "Since there is no large amount of money in the account, what is the gambling game he is participating in as a bargaining chip?" ”

"Fingers?" Li Xiaonan's guess startled him into a cold sweat.

"Maybe." Feng Beifu frowned: "We tried to investigate the victim's communication records, but unfortunately, to this day, there is no way to verify the phone number that spoke to the victim one by one." ”

"We can only trust the findings on the file – there are no suspicious correspondence records."

Li Xiaonan nodded, and his desire to take out a cigarette from his pocket again was stopped by the sudden sound of "whining", he smacked his lips and said with some unhappiness: "So the clues about the 'gambling game' must be credible, right, at least in your opinion." ”

"Honestly... I'm not sure. Feng Beifu groaned: "But I personally feel that this clue has the need to investigate. ”

"Once the patient's confession is true, even the police don't have a recorded confession... The mastermind behind the scenes must not have imagined that it would be exposed because of this. ”

"Chips... Gamble..."Li Xiaonan raised his right hand and stroked the stubble on his chin with his thumb: "You don't want to enter the game yourself, do you?" ”

"If I can use 'enter the game' to prove the existence of the gambling game, and personally prove that the chips in the gambling game are fingers..."Feng Beifu lowered his head slightly and looked at his slender fingers: "And then successfully meet SHE..."

"Then I have a complete enough logical chain to lock the black hand behind the scenes."

Li Xiaonan was shocked into a cold sweat by the sudden crazy words of Feng Beifu: "Have you forgotten Xiaokui's words, Feng Bei is buried." ”

Feng Beifu turned his head, and the frenzy in his eyes made Li Xiaonan a little strange: "Unearthing the truth is not as simple as finding the time capsule you buried under the tree when you were a child, the Sword of the Last Light. I know where you came from, but I still want to say..."

"Nothing in this world can be done unscathed, and even if the process goes smoothly, you still have to take some risks and pay some costs."

A bolt of lightning swept across the dark sky that had been shrouded in clouds at some point, and through the bar window, the white light illuminated the miserable white face of the wind to be buried.

"Victory isn't as cheap as you think."

"Boom..."

Thunder followed, and after the three people in the seat were silent for more than ten minutes, Li Xiaonan said, "Do you want to sacrifice your soul for the truth?" ”

"My soul has long belonged to the truth." Feng Beifu replied with a cursing of his lips, "But you don't have to get too excited, after all, I haven't found a way to enter the game yet, and even... There is simply no way to prove the existence of a 'gamble'. ”

"I'm starting to expect the patient to be babbling." Li Xiao is hard to make jokes that are not funny.

"I won't necessarily lose~" Feng Beifu was still interested: "Next, I'm going to go to the eastern suburbs to have a look at the real estate and investigate the developers and... Try one's luck. ”

Li Xiaonan sighed, he didn't think it was a good idea to take risks with his own life, but he really couldn't refute the words of Feng Bei - there must always be someone willing to trade risks for answers.

Through the glass window of the bar, Li Xiaonan looked at the pouring rain and said, "I'm going to go to the southern suburbs of the university town to have a look, and by the way, go back to school to change clothes." ”

"I don't think Sun Mo's line can be broken yet, he went to the vicinity of the university town..."

Feng Beifu took the coffee from the waiter, bowed his head and took a sip: "I'm not kidding, Ananda. ”

"If you find a clue about the 'gambling game', be sure to tell me immediately. It's not because of the naΓ―ve idea of taking the lead, but because I have a lot of confidence in myself. ”

"I'm not going to lose."