Before Detective Hugo dressed in black and carrying all three beginner elves with him, and was about to go out, Blue asked a question that now seems a little stupid to herself—

"Hugo, why did you bring all the Pokémon today, and didn't leave a little one to come and see the house?"

As soon as she remembered the way Hugo looked at her deeply, the girl was so ashamed that she wanted to learn the "burrowing" move......

The detective is on a personal trip, so he does not need to be accompanied by a work partner.

In this case, the task of the left-behind office falls on the assistant who happily receives a monthly salary from the detective - that is, Bilan herself.

As it should be, it goes without saying that it comes naturally...... This is such basic reasoning that Turquoise sinks into deep self-doubt.

In this way, the day after the detective went out, Miss Assistant became an acting detective at Hugo's detective agency.

Although I don't know how they usually take care of their homes, Bilan, who stays in the office, has the authority to decide whether she should accept the commission or not, and if she encounters a particularly urgent case, she can also temporarily leave the office to conduct external investigations.

In addition, the email address of the office that was originally guarded by the detective was also transferred to Bilan at this time - it was said to be transferred, but in fact, it was just telling her the password.

It was a hybrid cipher composed of twenty alphanumeric symbols, which at first glance looked like a misspelled text, but according to Hugo's explanation, this line of symbols had no connotation in essence, and was just the product of encrypting the line of numbers with the National Pokémon Illustrated Catalog as a codebook.

"The client's privacy is the conscience of a private detective, and it can't be overly protected, so the password of the mailbox cannot be saved, nor can it be recorded in any way in the firm."

I remember Hugo said so at that time.

"If you accidentally forget the password, use the knowledge of cryptography and logical reasoning to re-translate it. Cracking codes is also one of the compulsory courses for detectives, and now that you know the principle, it is very simple to deduce the rules of symbolic encryption. ”

"I won't forget it!"

Blue replied with such an oath, only to enter the wrong password the next morning.

The "Wrong Password" prompt pops up over and over again......

Bilan felt that she had not made a mistake in her back, and she had tried to convert the case and case, but her email was dead and she couldn't log in.

It took more than an hour to crack the code, and if it was Bogaman, who was taken away by the detectives, it should have taken less than ten minutes.

Bilan repeatedly compared the cracked code with the password in her memory, and finally came back to her senses-

It was a good-natured joke left by Hugo, or rather a test.

The password given by the detective itself has several digit deviations, and the real password must be translated according to the parsed encryption rules. If she doesn't have the ability to crack the code, the detective won't give her the client's important privacy.

There is also another possibility, that is, Hugo himself memorized the email password incorrectly, but this is very unlikely.

However, the rush to take over the office ended there.

After a lot of hard work, Bilan opened the official mailbox of the Hugo Detective Agency, although it was stuffed with all kinds of consulting documents, but they were no different from the commissions that Bilan usually handled.

Perhaps there are many crimes in the world, but there are few that can really flow to private detective agencies.

For the first time, the Hugo detective agency made a name for itself in the detective industry because of the smuggling of the water fleet. But increased fame doesn't mean that interesting and difficult cases will come in, and when people come across real cases, they will only go to the police as soon as they come across. It is only when it comes to privacy or the small things of life that are inconvenient for the police to deal with that residents are likely to think of the detective agency they once saw on the side of the road.

After Azur eliminated inquiries that were clearly outside the scope of her business, there were only a few requests left in her mailbox that required detailed investigation—a lost old man, a partner elf who didn't know where to run, a background check on an unmarried partner, and a suspicious recent movement of her spouse.

Each of them is a very easy task, and even if you don't go out yourself, you can complete the task by sending only Eevee and the Changeling...... But don't be in a hurry, it's not time to go out and investigate.

Bilan admonished herself like this, and decided to start with the case of the old man who had the highest priority.

There is no point in wasting time on a useless commute, and the girl first contacts the client before the official investigation begins.

Sitting in the office chair that the detective usually sits on, Bilan opened the street view map of Feiyun City from the Internet and dialed the client's phone.

The other party immediately picked up the phone, and it seemed that he should be very anxious to find his lost relatives.

"Hello, this is the Hugo detective agency you consulted......" Bilan said.

After a short greeting and self-introduction, she asked in detail about the living habits of the lost old man when he was at home, his recent words and deeds, and the places he had looked for after he ran away. At the same time, he recalled the experience of searching for people he had accumulated in Feiyun City, and tried to deduce a few routes that the old man might choose to travel.

"Hmm...... Based on the clues you have given so far, I have three phases of speculation. ”

Bilan slid the mouse, dragged the three-dimensional image in the map, and marked his thoughts with a red line——

"First, your search in the apartment is not thorough enough, judging from the structure of the house outside, there should be a passage to the next building at the back of your unit building, the old man may not have left the building at all, and is still trapped in the next floor, if you can, please send a flying Pokémon to scan it through the window."

There was an immediate commotion on the other side of the microphone, and the faint sound of Pokémon flapping its wings was faintly heard, and Bilan waited for the chaos on the other side to subside, and continued to explain her speculation in an orderly manner.

"Second, I noticed that there is a children's park near your place of residence, and this kind of park in Feiyun City usually has street performers who juggle their professions, and the elderly may follow the crowd to the inside of the park, please take the trouble to separate people to investigate this place."

The client agreed gratefully, but Bilan didn't wait for the other side to fall, and then said-

"Finally, there's the possibility that you said you moved once from the center of the city to the periphery, and I guess it's possible that the old man wanted to go back to his old home address and left home because of that. In this case, the most likely mode of transport for him is the public bus, and the bus stop near your old home has been cancelled, so the old man is likely to get off at the last stop at the original address, please look around there. At the same time, you can also contact the traffic management bureau of Feiyun City, and the staff inside can help you issue a missing person notice to the bus driver......"

Suddenly, there was a commotion on the other side of the earpiece, and it seemed that the flying Pokémon that had left the house flew back - this is also a little too fast, right? Has it inspected every window?

"Ah, Miss Detective, thank you so much, we found the old man! He seemed to be sleeping on the empty floor of the building next door, and although he had been missing for two days, he seemed to be in good spirits, and I really don't know how he got there...... I'm going to take care of the elderly now, can you get back in touch later, thank you so much! ”

The phone hung up in a hurry, and there was silence outside my ears.

Compared to the events solved by the detectives, such detective consultations are not even commissioned. Even if his relatives didn't come to find the detective, the hungry and cold old man wouldn't stay in that place forever, and he would probably be spotted by passers-by soon after wandering around the building......

Blue put down the earpiece and stared blankly at the Street View map with red markers on the screen in front of her.

Although the incident was successfully resolved...... But he didn't have the sense of accomplishment that he felt when he solved a case as a detective.

But for some reason, a warm feeling welled up in my heart that made my whole body lighter.