Nazi thought that she had experienced the double shock of Yuqi Mansion and Miss Douzi, and she should not be surprised by any accidents in this house again.

However, the detective, who sat behind the desk in the reception room, easily shattered her calm.

Generally speaking, the characters depicted in paintings are always a little more beautiful than the prototypes, but the young detective in the white coat looks exactly the same as the characters in the painting at the door.

Neither pigmentation nor dullness, it feels like pouring a glass of water into another cup of the same size......

Speaking of pouring water, as soon as Nazi found a suitable seat in the reception room, there were green vines serving fresh tea to everyone in the room. As the vines looked, I saw that half of the living room was separated by a grass seedling turtle with a tender seedling on its head, releasing its skills.

Is that one of the detective's Pokémon? What kind of acrobatic show is this? Why use skills from such a distance?

Nazi's eyes were drawn to the grass turtle, and she didn't notice the actions of Bilan next to her, as the detective's assistant rightfully took the second teacup from the "rattan whip" and passed it on to the detective. Everything is like a flowing stream......

Having said that, there is indeed a difference between the detective himself and the painting.

Retracting her gaze from the Grass Turtle, Nazi suddenly remembered that the detective's black hair had a slightly different luster from the painting, which had a hint of dark gold.

However, this is probably the artistic consideration used by the painter to express the sun's illumination...... It's really useless inspiration.

While the lady from the Guandu Pavilion Master was thinking nonsense, the detective spoke-

"First meeting, Miss Nazi. It looks like you've just disembarked from the United Royal, and you've been introduced by retired mathematics professor Fischer to find out the truth about the Bilberry King's wins and losses in the gambling ship – am I right? ”

Is this the prophetic power of some new variety?

The stunned Nazi instantly turned around and looked suspiciously at Bilan, who had followed her into the reception room.

"I didn't notify the detective in advance." The assistant lady sighed in surprise, "Besides, you didn't tell me all this information in the first place, did you?" What is the Royal Union? What does it have to do with Mr. Lingonberry? ”

Out of strange pride, Douzi deliberately chose to communicate with N when Bilan was out. So she didn't know anything about the casino yet.

"Let me explain!"

Fortunately, my friend, junior, and landlord do not need to abide by the confidentiality principles of the detective industry, and proudly share the information she has-

"The Royal United is a casino on the surface of the sea, where Mr. Bilberry has almost wiped out the plasma ......"

From the construction of the casino by Lingonberry to the victory of the roulette game by N, Douzi narrates the whole incident in a completely smooth manner in the tone of a movie director's narration. Among them, it is natural to add oil and vinegar, adding many plots that do not appear in the N narrative, but can make the plot transition more logical.

"Yes, that's what I witnessed with my own eyes aboard the United Royal." Nazi nodded respectfully, thanking Douzi, who was drinking water with a dry mouth.

"But I'm more curious, why can you tell my identity and purpose at a glance, Mr. Detective? Could it be that Lingonberry or Fischer informed her in advance? ”

Detective Hugo shook his head: "No, Mr. Bilberry should have a lot of aftermath to deal with in the near future, and the old pedant of Fischer is not considerate to this extent, I have judged your intentions by other means." As for identity, Miss Nazi is a well-known figure in Guandu and Hezhong, even if she can't be as good as Douzi, but I can't recognize your identity in person. ”

"Please elaborate on the part about the purpose. How did you tell that my visit was related to the professor? The hall owner asked reluctantly, "I came to Feiyun City to clear the confusion in my heart, but I don't want any doubts to be answered before the questions are answered, and the questions will multiply by themselves." ”

"It seems that Miss Natsu is the type who will carefully study the techniques behind the magic show even if she watches a magic show." Hugo rubbed his chin and commented.

"In a world where superpowers really exist, magic is a fraud in the name of magic. It's not okay if you don't debunk it. ”

Nazi unleashed her superpowers, causing the business card she still held in her hand to spin and leap like a ballet dancer, and declared it with great seriousness.

The detective nodded and shook his head: "Naturally, the trick can't be compared to the real spell, but until it is revealed, it is a real miracle." ”

"Anyway, what kind of trick is it to listen to the footsteps to predict the mood and observe the clothes and analyze the origins, right?"

Bilan interrupted the detective's high-minded talk incomprehensibly, it seems that the relationship between superiors and subordinates in this detective agency is not very strict-

"Miss Nazi, do you have any special accessories that can only be purchased on that ship? Or did you change some kind of habitual behavior based on the advice of a bilberry or that professor? This detective is particularly fond of pretending to be a ghost by peeping at other people's bodies all over his body. ”

Hearing this, the hall owner looked her dress up and down, recalled the exchange on the gambling boat, and immediately shook her head and denied it.

"No, none of that happened. The one I was wearing was a new piece of fashion that I had purchased in Raven City after I got off the ship, and the sunglasses were brought from Guandu and had nothing to do with the Royal United Nation. I don't change my habits based on other people's opinions. ”

"You don't need to look at the whole body, just look at the most conspicuous places." The detective didn't let the discussion continue, and directly revealed the mystery -

He reached out and pointed to something that swirled around Nazi's fingertips.

"By looking at the business card that Miss Nazi held in her hand, I realized that it was Mr. Fishers who had given you my address in Feiyun City, and that I had just introduced this scholar who was at home to a job that paid well."

"Hugo, did you already know the whole plan of Mr. Bilberry?" Douzi was taken aback, and his eyes glared at the detective.

If Hugo had known the truth in the casino, and was himself a complicit in the plan, then she herself hadn't been tricked by Hugo before—the reasoning that the detective's answer was simply the prisoner's surrender.

"No, no, there is such a thing as a scam, and the fewer people who know about it, the better." Hugo smiled sarcastically, "No matter how much the gambler king wins, how can he reveal his most precious casino tricks to me, an outsider?" I just happened to hear that the Royal Union was being built on the Bilberry, so I recommended a talent to Mr. Bilberry. ”

Since mathematicians can use mathematical analysis to find loopholes in casinos and use foolproof probability algorithms to win every game in the game.

Then the casino side can also do the opposite, hire more sophisticated mathematicians, let them patch the loopholes of the casino in advance, and find the flaws in the foolproof game algorithm.

Just like ghost and dragon Pokémon, the same race can also restrain each other.

"Fischer is the most skilled mathematician I know of at studying the laws of the number of random phenomena. When I first came to United States, I dealt with the retired CUHK mathematician while investigating the disappearance of a university student, and it was at this time that the business card was handed to Fischers. ”

"I see, when you know where Fischer and I cross, you can confirm my purpose." Nazi understood Hugo's reasoning process, but was not satisfied enough.

She then asked, "But how did you identify this thing that was originally Professor Fishers by a small business card?" ”

"In cases handled outside of the United States, there have been cases of confusing the public by exchanging the victim's business card. Although I was able to debunk the criminal's methods, it took a lot of effort – when I was printing my firm's business card, I wondered if I could leave some kind of mark on the business card so that I could tell the reason for it. ”

"You can't design a different business card for everyone, can you?" Bilan was a little dumbfounded, in her impression, the detective's business card was like a cooked food in the supermarket for people to try, as long as there were characters who had crossed paths, they would basically be sent one.

"Detective time is too precious to do such an inefficient job." As he spoke, Hugo opened his business card case and took out a stack of business cards about five centimeters thick from inside—

"In fact, it's just an index to memorize."

He pinched one end of the stack of business cards and flipped through them as quickly as he could with the flip of a page.

"What do you see?" Hugo asked with a smile.

The three girls saw the same sight -

In the lower right corner of the business card, where the detective's name is printed, the word "Hugo" moves slowly and leisurely for a distance like a spiny tail insect crawling in the grass, and the terrain changes strangely several times along the way.

"What does that mean?" Nazi asked.

"It's the principle of the film's presentation." Douzi commented with interest, "The visual hold will stitch together the successive scenes into a continuous animation. ”

Only Bilan showed a look of sudden realization.

"I see!" "The position of the names and the font of the names have been changed, so that you can use them to build a table that records the intersection of the two indexes!" It's no surprise that the reason can be identified in an instant! ”

Hugo snapped his fingers crisply-

"Yes, the position of the name fluctuates from side to side, and it can represent twenty-four initials; Different fonts represent different types of characters, and I have prepared 12 different fonts to cover common occupations and specific groups of people in life. For example, this business card in Miss Nazi's hand looks like 'F, a scientist' in my eyes. ”

It can be said that from the beginning of the design of this set of business cards, Hugo was looking forward to the emergence of a criminal who did not deal with him, and tried to frame himself by discarding the detective's business card at the scene of the crime - if such a criminal appeared, Hugo could have enough key clues to lock the suspect at the moment he saw the business card.

"Ah, it's really interesting to be able to narrow it down to a few people." The landlady, who aspires to be a director, said admiringly, "Give me the whole one when you have time." ”

"It's a hassle to make." The detective frowned and admonished, "And when distributing business cards, you must strictly follow the classification rules, otherwise all the preparations will be meaningless." I'm a little worried about Douzi, can you remember the double index on the business card. ”

So Douzi gave up decisively: "Ah, it's really troublesome." That's it. ”

"But it's a coincidence, I remember that during the incident at the Seven Treasures Museum, you were so excited that you sent business cards to all the researchers working inside, and if there was a Mr. F or Ms. F among them, I wouldn't be able to guess the truth so handsomely today."

Bilan picked up the teacup and took a sip, and said in a relaxed mood.

"No, it's not a coincidence."

The detective showed the business card in her hand again, and asked Nazi to show the business card in her hand again.

The two are compared, and the difference is clear at a glance -

The business cards that were handed out to math professors in the early days were empty on the left, and the address of the detective agency was not marked on them. On the detective's current business card, the information of "Yusu Mansion in the center of Feiyun" is openly written, as well as the street name and house number.

"When I met Fischers, I didn't have a permanent office in the United States, so I didn't have this address information on it. It wasn't until I moved into the Hasu Mansion that I printed a batch of business cards with detailed addresses. In the course of a year, the only F-scholar I have ever met is Fischers. ”

The assistant lady suddenly remembered something in the depths of her memory: "Oh, no wonder I ...... at that time"

"What?" Douzi looked curiously at Bilan, who wanted to speak and stopped.

"It's not related to the topic right now, but when I first moved into the Hasu Mansion and was about to share a house, didn't Hugo say that he was going to reprint his business card and change it from 'Hasu Residence' to 'the first floor of the Hasu Residence'? It turned out that it was very troublesome to print such a special business card. ”

"That's right......" Douzi thought for a while, and then looked at the detective, "Speaking of which, Sister Xiaolan and I should both have Hugo's business cards, right, mine is still a limited-time model without an address, so what will the occupation represented by the font on the business card of the two of us?" ”

The two girls didn't know where they had forgotten their business cards for a long time, so they had to ask Hugo to answer them personally.

Where is this topic going...... The detective began to have a headache and looked at Nazi with an inquiring gaze, hoping that the client would not be impatient with the rambling small talk.

I saw that the superpowered girl didn't care, but looked back and forth at the detective and the assistant lady with a playful face.

"Hugo, tell us what our occupational classification is? I'm supposed to be an artist, right? Blue is a Pokémon trainer or something. ”

"Nope." Hugo reluctantly said, "I don't have a trainer type in my classification, after all, this condition is too broad. As for Douzi, you'd better make a few movies that can be released first, and then call yourself an artist. ”

"What do we mean to you?"

Douzi waved his arms and shouted some shameful lines, but no one felt strange in this context.

"They're all jobless vagrants." Hugo confessed to himself, "The font is a childish round font. ”

"So as soon as we met, you were doing such an impolite thing."

Azure let out a dry sneer, and the look in her eyes seemed to be looking at a real spiny-tailed insect - please don't discriminate against bug-based Pokémon.

"Mmmm, it looks like it's time to reconsider the rent increase this month."

Douzi took the opportunity to fall into the well, completely forgetting that the rent of the Hasu Mansion was not managed by her, but by her mother.

"I'm just stating objective facts...... Don't project your disappointment in yourself onto someone who has nothing to do with it. ”

In the midst of a farce, the client, Miss Nazi, quietly covered her mouth and snickered.

I don't know what happened in the conversation that touched the laughter of the superpower hall owner.