"Bang!"

Saravel pulled the trigger from the corner of her mouth, and a rapidly spinning bullet burst out of the muzzle flames, passed through Li Xiaonan's ear, and shot into the buffet area where he had "lingered".

The bullet struck one of the food trucks with a closed iron drum with spare drinks written on it, and the strong kinetic energy rubbed against the iron sheet, splashing a little spark.

"Boom..."

The glow of the fire lit up in the corners of the golden church hall, and in the exclamation and clamor of the crowd, the flames seemed to follow some kind of guidance, and the raging fire twisted and eroded along the walls of the church like pollution.

In an instant, lines of flame of unknown significance occupied the walls on both sides of the stage, enveloping the entire church hall.

At the same time, Li Xiaonan and Tamel, who easily climbed over the three rows of seats, were rushing towards Saravel and Zongji in the middle of the stage, and they were not afraid to face the muzzle of the guns raised by Saraville and Zongji again.

"Heh..."

Saravel chuckled and pulled the trigger again.

His pupils constricted instantly, and Li Xiaonan subconsciously rolled to the ground on the side, trying to dodge a fatal shot from such a distance.

"Click..."

The sound of the bolt hitting the end of the rail came from the pistol that Saraville was holding - he had only one bullet in his pistol, and this shot was empty.

At the same time, Tamel, who came out with Li Xiaonan, had jumped onto the stage where Saraville was.

His right hand touched the back of his waist, and the cold touch reached his palm.

At the same time, Tamel's left hand reached out to Saraville, who was also standing in place and did not dodge, where he wanted to catch the former A-class genius detective who had degenerated into a "criminal".

"If you want to catch me here, maybe you'll lose even more, Tamel."

Just as Tamel's hand was about to touch Saraville's collar, Saravel's emotionless voice rang out at the right time.

"Do you want to use Li Xiaonan's life to interpret your justice as a detective?"

Hearing this, Tamel's pupils dilated instantly, and he immediately turned his head to look at Zongji, who was also holding a pistol on the side, but what appeared in his eyes was a beautiful face with a wanton smile, and the long black and red hair fluttered messily with Zongji's trembling in the church with a sea of fire in the background.

"With life..."

"Trade the truth."

Saraville raised her head slightly, and opened her eyes, which were always squinting, and her dark pupils stared at the tamel in front of him.

"Detective."

As the words fell, Li Xiaonan, who was rolling on the ground, suddenly burst into flames, and he kept tearing the violently burning clothes with his instincts, and kept rolling in place.

In Tamel's shocked gaze, the flames that should have been extinguished burned more violently with Li Xiaonan's movements.

"That bouquet of flowers," Tamel blurted out.

Without the slightest hesitation, Tamel withdrew his left hand, and at the same time released the right hand that had been clenched, and then jumped off the stage, neatly dragging Li Xiaonan away from the area covered by the bouquet, and took off his coat to help Li Xiaonan extinguish the flames burning on him.

"I'll be waiting for you where I am destined, Tamel."

Saravel left an inexplicable sentence, and then disappeared into the smoke and fire with Sohime.

“...”

January 20, 2023, 11:00, Polish City Church.

After receiving the message from Li Xiaonan's trouser pocket, Zhao Yinglu led some of the on-call detectives to the scene forty minutes ago.

The girl, who usually seemed to be a little too smart, uncharacteristically lost her mind in the face of an unexpected sea of fire.

Instead of waiting for the fire hydrant that the incoming fire truck was connecting to the detectives, she picked up a fire extinguisher and rushed to the church door that was bursting with fire.

In the end, thanks to Zhao Yinglu's heroic feats, the fire that started in the church was completely extinguished twenty minutes ago, and only two people were burned.

At this moment, Tamel stood in the hall of the church covered with water and smoke and dust, frowning at the two of them who were sitting honestly on the ground and grinning in pain.

"Ananda..."

Tamel was interrupted by a pair of large strong hands pressed against the seat behind him.

Then, circles of white bandages were wrapped around his somewhat dazed head by the paramedics behind him.

"Hey, hey..."

Zhao Yinglu trembled the muscles on her face, endured the severe pain of the burn, and showed a smirk with false apology to Tamel, who was helplessly wrapped in her mouth: "I'm also in a hurry, Tamel..."

Waving his hand, Tamel sighed, then closed his eyes, "enjoying" the process of being treated in the back of his head.

"Saraville probably didn't think there would be three casualties in this fire."

Tamel thought to himself, and he opened his somewhat distracted eyes and slowly swept across the devastated church hall: "That 'spare drink' is the source of the fire they set up in advance. ”

"The walls were also smeared with flammable, odorless fuel, so the flames surrounded the hall in just a few minutes."

Tamel's gaze swept over Li Xiaonan, who was lying on the stretcher with his eyes closed and trembling slightly: "That bouquet of flowers... It must be a spontaneously combustible substance such as white phosphorus. ”

"I'm waiting for you where I was destined to..."

Thinking of this, Tamel's gaze subconsciously fell on the sinuous lines of the walls outlined by the flames.

The walls of the Golden Hall have been covered in black, like the marks of a "hound" climbing.

Through the pitch black that had been licked by tongues of fire, Tamel stared at the charred black lines that were hidden in them.

"Uhh

Li Xiaonan gasped and lit a cigarette in the smoke and dust, thanks to his jacket, which he has treasured to this day, his burns are not serious as a whole, if you exclude the slight hair on his head that takes time to recover, only the place where his wrist directly touches the white phosphorus is wrapped in thick bandages.

Under the gaze of the medical staff, Li Xiao showed an ugly smile apologetically, signaling that he would follow the vehicle back to the hospital to treat the phosphorus burns on his wrist after saying a few words.

Taking a hard puff of cigarette, Li Xiaonan raised his left hand and patted Zhao Yinglu's shoulder with difficulty: "Thank you, I'm fine." ”

Looking at the curly hair on Zhao Yinglu's shoulders, Li Xiaonan exhaled the cigarette and continued: "There is very little white phosphorus arranged by Saraville, the others are just some combustibles, the phosphorus burns are not so serious, if nothing else, I can return to the team quickly after a little examination..."

Zhao Yinglu interrupted Li Xiaonan with a hug again, she didn't say a word, but Li Xiaonan seemed to feel that a thousand words came into his ears.

Nodding slightly as if he understood, Li Xiaonan turned his gaze to the stunned tamel on the side of the seat: "You were beaten by Saraville?" ”

“...”

“... Your detective Zhao Yinglu may be the reason for the madness, blinded by the smoke and mind, and subjectively thinks that I am some thug who wants to kill you. So, she used the tools she had brought with her to extinguish the fire. Tamel pointed to the fire extinguisher in Zhao Yinglu's hand that hadn't even been latched, and continued, "A heavy blow to me..."

Speaking of this, Tamel shook his head, his tone full of helplessness: "Is it dangerous to be friends with you, Ananda?" ”

"Uh..."

The cigarette butt that Li Xiaonan had caught in his fingertips fell to the ground with his trembling, causing a flash of fire again.

"I'm sorry tamel..."Li Xiaonan scratched his head with a complicated expression while slapping out the fire on the ground: "I'll treat you to the tea party after the incident is resolved..."

Before the words fell, Tamel stood up from the bench "Teng": "It's decided, then you don't stay in the way, do the inspection early and return to the team as soon as possible, there are still more than ten hours before 12 o'clock at midnight, and the puzzle has just begun." Leave it to me for now, I think I probably already know what the invitation means. ”

“...”

January 20, 2023, 12:00 p.m., Polish City Church.

After driving Li Xiaonan and Zhao Yinglu away, Tamel commanded the traces left behind to carefully remove the blackened marks from the walls, revealing the mottled lines that had been hidden inside.

The fire started at the corner between the wall on the right side of the stage and the wall on the side of the main gate, and if the purpose was to use the flames to surround the entire church and create chaos in order to escape the scene, the same lines should be all over the wall on the side where the gate is located.

However, Tamel had previously observed that there was only one trace of burning on the wall on one side of the entrance, and that trace connected to the walls on the left and right sides of the stage, acting as a pathway that only served as a way to transmit flames.

By reasoning, the lines drawn by the flames are more than just creating chaos and creating atmosphere.

At this time, the two walls on the left and right sides of the stage have been cleaned, and looking at the dark marks on the walls, Tamel faintly feels a little familiar...

"Click..."

Tamel immediately took a picture of the two walls horizontally across the phone, and then put the phone upright, and the first picture that appeared in Tamel's eyes was a man holding a flower in his left hand and a cane tied to a package in his right hand, with a pitch-black puppy at his feet, surrounded by vigorous waves on the outside of the cliff beside him...

"Fool," Tamel muttered to himself, frowning, a not-so-good memory coming to his mind.

Guessing, Tamel flicked his phone to look at another image, in the center of which was a pitch-black circle, resembling the shape of a clock's dial, surrounded by black patterns in the shape of wolves, swords, lions, and snakes.

"The opposite of the fool..."

"Wheel of Fortune..."