"I see, I see."

After listening to the information provided by the guitarist, Hugo nodded in satisfaction, and casually tore off the page of the notebook where the information was recorded, tearing the paper into a pile of tiny strips like a paper shredder, and then throwing it into the wastebasket in the backstage room.

If anyone looked at the detective's notebook, they would see that the tattered cheap little book had been torn off in half, and only a dozen or so blank pages remained.

"Is that an important clue, please? Do we need to take it out and destroy it? Watching the detective's strange behavior, Cook pointed to the wastebasket and asked cautiously.

"No, it's not classified information, it's just a personal habit. This means that I have clarified the logical relationship of a certain part and no longer need to rely on words to generalize. ”

Hugo closed his notebook and said casually, then turned back to the witness—

"Miss Guitarist, your account has given me an almost complete picture of the incident, but some of the details are missing in some places - do you know anything about what happened after the engineer caused the production accident?"

"She didn't seem to resign immediately, and the matter seems to have caused a bit of a stir, with many employees saying that her behavior in staying at the factory was brazen." Miss Lu seemed to have guessed the detective's question, answered without hesitation, and then shrugged her shoulders and said, "I don't know what happened after that." ”

"Thank you." Hugo nodded, and then turned his gaze to the other two musicians—

"Out of vigilance as a mystery reader, let me ask, the four members of your band should know each other's lives, right?"

Cook and Martin hesitated, looked at each other, and nodded.

"Since you know the basics, you should be able to testify to each other that you have nothing to do with the accident caused by the engineer two years ago and the explosion not long ago, right? Please don't rush to answer, think calmly for ten seconds before telling me. I repeat that this is not to doubt you, but to be prepared for routine questions, and if you have any confusion about your companions, it is better for each other to talk about it on the spot. ”

The detective's tone was very sincere, as if with convincing magic, and even subjected the three to a very unreasonable mutual scrutiny.

Lu, Cook, Martin, the three musicians closed their eyes and began to think.

Ten seconds later, the three of them all agreed-

"There is no doubt at all."

The white-coat detective snapped his fingers, and no longer pursued the alibi, and bowed deeply like a magician's curtain call: "Thank you for your cooperation, I won't bother you anymore......"

"Wait." Miss Lu unceremoniously interrupted the detective's closing remarks, "When you wait to go out, bring the garbage in the wastebasket with you, isn't there often such a plot in the comics, and the items left by the detective have caused new bloody cases or something, I don't want to become a new victim of the case because of my previous work experience." ”

The drummer and keyboard listened to it, and nodded again and again in admiration, indicating that it was worthy of Miss Lu, and the work was really leaky, and he was careless and almost got into big trouble for the band.

Even experienced detectives were stunned when they heard this, and couldn't help but smile bitterly - how bad is the reputation of the detective profession among young people? It's almost time to catch up with Absoru......

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When Hugo left the backstage with a garbage bag and came to the battle area of the gym, he saw an extremely absurd scene.

An even more imageless person appeared in front of him—

With a broken face, messy white hair, and even tears in the corners of her eyes, Homiga, the owner of the Poison Pavilion, was sitting on the floor, and there were six Poké Balls scattered around her, and even her electric bass was thrown to the ground in the distance, completely looking like she had broken her defense.

And Miss Bilan, the assistant who was left behind earlier, was holding Eevee in her arms at this time, with an Ancestral bird on her head, standing on the other side of the battlefield without embarrassment.

Beside her, the huge blastoise was as calm as a mountain; The two evil-eyed ghosts grimace at each other, and there must be a monster hidden in them; Pi Kexi, who was standing next to Bilan, didn't move, but the corners of his smug mouth were about to crook to the side of his eyebrows.

The image of Miss Assistant is also a little too much like a villain...... The detective couldn't help but slander, did he rely on crowd tactics to smash the gym owner?

Seeing Hugo's strange gaze, Bilan hurriedly explained: "It was the owner of the Homiga Pavilion who asked to continue the all-out battle, and I just took out some real skills to fight." These guys came out of the fare after the battle. ”

"One...... None of them knocked down...... Not even that Archaeopteryx could beat ......"

The defeated bassist owner let out a dry bellows sound, denouncing Azure's atrocities. Hugo's eyes became more and more strange as he looked at his assistant.

"It's ...... This was because the attributes of the Archaeopteryx were very restrained by Miss Homigara's Centipede King, so I let it go on the field and give it a try......"

Blue explained in a bit of a panic, as if she, the winner, was even more embarrassed by her victory.

"I asked Picosi to use the 'baton' to give it a boost of 'Smaller' and 'Cosmic Force', so that the Archaeopteryx could experience the taste of high-level battles in advance...... I didn't expect to actually win......"

As Blue spoke, the Ancestral Bird lay lazily on its white tarzanni with its eyes half-closed, as if these topics had nothing to do with it.

"Woo, obviously that centipede king is still my trump card......"

The proud voice of the band's lead singer was trembling, and she saw Hugo coming out of the rear, as if she had found someone to talk to, and cried unwillingly-

"That stupid bird is clearly full of flaws, but its durability is ridiculously high, and its skills always fail to hit it, occasionally hit a few times, and it is immediately full of physical strength with "Feather" with it...... This is not an elf battle at all, this is naked humiliation! ”

Homiga erupted in a protesting roar, almost rolling on the ground—

"Shouldn't Pokémon battles be a game that brings smiles to people's faces? Why is there such a disgusting skill as "getting smaller"? ”

"That's not right, is it?"

Hugo touched his chin, but he felt a little strange.

He looked Homiga, who was in a battle-damaged state, up and down, and then lowered his voice and faced the white-haired girl in a voice that only two people could hear—

"Master Homiga, your protest seems to be a bit cheap, right? Of all the United Trainers, it is clear that only you, the Poison Sect Pavilionist, are the least afraid of the moves that increase the evasion rate. ”

"Oh?"

The owner of the drug hall was simply free to roll around, and when he heard Hugo's question with a gun and a stick, he immediately stopped, and the tears in the corners of his eyes disappeared, Homiga raised his head and looked up at the detective in the distance, "Why do you say that?" ”

"Because all poison-based Pokémon have a representative move, which is "Poison". When this move is performed by a powerful poison-type Pokémon, it is almost impossible to avoid by enemies. Not only can this skill ignore evasive moves such as "Smaller", but even if the opponent's Pokémon temporarily leaves the battlefield with the "Flying Sky" skill, the toxin can spread into the opponent's body with the air. ”

Hugo walked up to the owner of the Homiga Pavilion, squatted down to face the white-haired girl, and asked softly in a whisper-

"Even if the Archaeopteryx increases its amplification under "Succession", if your Centipede King tries "Poison", then it should not last a few rounds. Why didn't you deliberately use the "Poisonous" skill to allow the Archaeopteryx to win the battle? ”