This is a tricky case.

In the detective agency late at night, Bilan put her hands crossed with her ten fingers against her forehead, and her mood was heavier than ever.

To say that this case is difficult does not mean that the information in the incident is confusing and incomprehensible, nor that the mystery is deep and dark and cannot be reached.

In fact, after leaving the client's house, Miss Detective Surrogate launched an investigation with the speed of Reib, and made a breakthrough within an hour.

No matter what kind of world we live in, the relationship between people is always closer than most people think—Hugo once said when he showed useless miscellaneous studies, and some sociologists have proposed a theory called "six degrees of space".

The theory points out that no matter how withdrawn a person is, he can at least find twenty-five nodding friends who can be reached, and if these related people are asked to introduce more people, there are 6.1 billion people in the seventh power of twenty-five, barely enough to cover the majority of the population on the planet.

This means that any two strangers on Earth, no matter how far apart they are physically and socially, can be connected through up to six introductions. And, for most people in the world, they have access to far more than twenty-five people in question.

This is knowledge that is not of the slightest use, and even if you don't know it for the rest of your life, you don't have anything to lose.

However, while Blue is doing her investigative work, the boring knowledge instilled by Detective Whitecoat will inexplicably pop into her mind, making her feel like "that's what happened".

The so-called detective investigation is basically like this - through the channel of acquaintance, find key witnesses, ask them reasonable questions, and then judge whether the other party's statement is false based on the known information.

But if you go through the process of such an operation, the detective will basically be able to see the true shape of most events.

In this commissioned investigation, Bilan also adopted the same idea.

Before leaving the 30-story apartment, she got the preschool teacher's phone number from the boy's parents. After getting the number, she pretended to be a relative of the boy, and found a random reason to get the contact information of Sachiko's mother from the teacher - and in this way, through only two layers of introduction, Bilan was given the opportunity to speak directly with the key witness.

Despite the darkness of the night, the detective who had privately accepted the case made a call without the slightest hesitation.

When a woman receives an unknown call in the middle of the night, she should subconsciously feel vigilant that she must clearly identify herself at the first time. In preschool, the little boy has a close relationship with Sachiko, and this can be used as a breakthrough to ask questions.

Just as Blue was weaving a lie in her head, a ...... came from the other end of the earpiece

A man's voice.

"Hello, who are you?"

That's what happens sometimes. Blue wasn't surprised by this.

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As Detective Hugo once said in the case of the power plant, it is irrational to confront the parties involved in the incident without gathering most of the information.

If the so-called authorities are obsessed with the case, even the most astute investigators can easily be led by the nose by the information that has just surfaced.

Although Bilan accepted the commission from the boy without saying a word. But that doesn't mean she's all about accepting Sachiko's speculation about her current situation.

Sachiko disappears from time to time at school, and she can only come into contact with one of them at home when she can see both parents at home - can such a strange reality really be explained by time travel?

Do parallel space-times really exist? Putting aside such esoteric questions, the little girl's physique that repeatedly jumps in dual time and space is really incomprehensible.

Based on what the girl observed at home, it can be seen that because of that magical constitution, Sachiko can freely switch between the two planes according to the communication and interaction with her parents.

But if you accept this premise in its entirety, there is an obvious contradiction - when Sachiko is in preschool, she doesn't have parents by her side, and what causes her to disappear from time to time to another plane?

Even if Sachiko's physique cannot be completely controlled by herself, such a strong argument to explain this contradiction, the same contradiction will evolve with the reasoning - since she will disappear uncontrollably at school, why is she free to jump between two planes at home, and at the same time not miss every line of dialogue between her parents?

Take 10,000 steps back, even if Sachiko's physique is sometimes stable and sometimes uncontrollable. Why, then, when the two worlds began to gradually separate, Sachiko only felt the abnormality of not being able to see both parents at the same time in the family, but did not show the phenomenon of missing for a long time at school - if there was such a serious disappearance, no matter how bad Sachiko's reputation in the school was, the school and teachers would not be able to ignore her.

The intertwined world that the little girl constructed for herself was slender and crystalline, like a mist rising on the ice, but it was not logically valid.

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The call was picked up by someone who was not the owner, but this level of change was not enough to shake the mood of the acting detective lady.

"Aren't you Mrs. Kuribayashi? Ah, I see, Your Excellency is her husband, Mr. Kuribayashi, who plays the lead role in the superpower show at the White Tree Cave Circus. ”

After a moment of hesitation, Bilan asked the man straight to the point.

Before making the call, she had already contacted Miss Junsha from Feiyun City and learned the most important information in the whole incident.

Sachiko discovered her physique a year ago, when Junsha was a member of the Public Security Section of the Feiyun City Police Department - she couldn't have been unaware of the huge Pokémon rampage that killed one of Sachiko's parents.

"Oh, it's the circus incident."

Miss Junsha, who stayed at the police station to work overtime late at night, got the opportunity to chat on the phone and be lazy, and she was very happy to talk to Bilan. Bilan heard her apologetic words and her colleague's apologies as she walked briskly out of the office.

"I was very impressed by the super circus called 'White Tree Cave', where they introduced a huge Alola egg tree to the show, but it had an accident in the middle of the show. The flames spewed out by the fire-type Pokémon frightened the coconut egg tree, which was still preparing to appear in the background, so it ran in a panic, waving its long neck, injuring the nearby actors, and the audience also panicked. Heck, if we hadn't arrived in time to evacuate the crowd, we would have had a stampede...... Alas, I really miss my work in the Public Security Division. ”

"Were there any casualties at the time? Was there a couple surnamed Kuribayashi who were killed? ”

Bilan interrupted the sigh of the police officer, who is now known as the detective of the Criminal Division, and unceremoniously continued to ask.

"No one was killed!"

On the other end of the phone came Junsha's resolute negative voice.

"That's a false report from the local news media, a false positive. In the entire circus, only one acrobat who performed a high-altitude jump fell and injured his leg due to an accident, and no one was killed at all. ”

It's only natural to think that even though this was a year ago, the media industry of Hezhong has long since become a stronghold of extreme elven protectionism after the intensive cultivation of plasma regiments, and it is needless to say how the pens in the media will fall apart when an accident occurs in a circus that dominates Pokémon to perform for profit.

"So, Miss Junsha, do you have an impression of the name I just mentioned?"

The news that the little girl saw on the television turned out to be a false report by the United Media, and no one in the circus actually died. Listening to this news that was enough to subvert everything, Bilan suddenly ...... That's exactly what happened.

"Well, the couple whose name is Kuribayashi......"

Jun Sha only thought for a few seconds before immediately replied, "I remember, I remember, it's a family of psychic abilities and a superpower." There are quite a few people in the White Tree Cave Circus, and I saw them perform recently. Both of them have superb superpowers, and in the past, there have even been rumors that their husband and wife are about to leave the group and fly solo. But after the riots, it seems that they no longer have such intentions. ”

I see.

At this point, Blue put together the last piece of the puzzle and made up her mind to call Sachiko's house.

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"I'm a private investigator hired by the Feiyun City Police Department, and I'm conducting a follow-up investigation of the public security cases that happened in the past - it's an inspection, but it's actually just a routine questionnaire, if you don't waste your time, can you answer us a few questions?"

Bi Lan deliberately asked in a relaxed tone: "If the full score is 10, if you were asked to rate the performance of the police in the circus incident a year ago, what would you give the police a review?" ”

It's impossible for the United Police to commission detectives to conduct polls in the middle of the night, but if they take the trouble to come up with a complete process, they can let down the guard of people who are not familiar with government affairs — many of the criminals who engage in phone scams do the same, but Blue is doing good now.

The man fell silent, and after a long time let out a low, dry voice—

"This young lady, are you a professional detective hired by the Feiyun City Police Department?"

"Yes." Blue lied without changing her color.

"Miss Detective, I have something unrelated to the events of a year ago that I would like to consult...... No, it's not appropriate to say that it's irrelevant, but I've come across something that we can't solve on our own, and I'd like to entrust you with helping me resolve it. ”

"Oh, what kind of event is it?"

The man fell into an even longer silence -

"My daughter, she seems to be having something strange lately......" was halfway through the sentence, and then ended with hesitation.

"Understood, I'll discuss the commission with you in detail later. But for now, please complete this questionnaire first – how are the police doing in the service of the public? Is the principle of timely, efficient and people-friendly policing followed? ”

Over the phone, Bilan said kind words with an expressionless face.

Hugo once said that acting is a full set.