Inside a private detective agency.

"Sir, your commission is complete. Henry, the private detective who smoked and drank alcohol, looked at the gentleman in front of him wearing a black tuxedo, a half-height silk top hat and a dark face mask, and said with a sigh of relief, "It's really an easy task, it's not difficult, but it took too much of our energy, and frankly, I regret it very much, regret that the price was too low before." ”

No, no matter what you say, I'm not going to pay even a penny extra!" Crane said with a mental emphasis, pointing to the thick stack of papers on the coffee table, "This is the investigation report?"

"Yes. Henry held down at least sixty pages of the investigation report and sighed, "This is the most troublesome ...... I've ever done."

Before he could finish speaking, he saw Klein hand over four £1 notes, and his attention turned to distinguishing between the real and the fake.

"That's the full final payment. Klein reached out and grasped the thick investigative report.

Henry coughed twice:

"You're such an honest gentleman, well, I didn't expect the investigation report to use so much paper, completely out of my budget. ”

At this moment, Klein picked up the very thick investigation report and stood up.

He bowed slightly, and immediately picked up his cane and walked to the door.

Detective Henry's follow-up words were choked in his throat.

Hey, how could I possibly pay for the paper cost of the investigation report? This is included in the overall commission fee! Klein touched the remaining 5 pounds 8 Soler private money, muttered in his heart, and walked briskly to Besik Street.

He looked around to make sure no one was paying attention to him, and then he smartly left the place and took off his mask.

Crane didn't plan to go home now, but planned to find a nearby café, quickly sort out the investigation report, find out the houses that had tenants changed after he divined the "red chimney", and then take advantage of the time before dinner to check the part.

There are quite a few cafes in the neighborhood, but almost none of them meet Klein's requirements - Since steam and machinery became the symbol of the times, more and more cafes have lowered their style and become cheap restaurants, serving tea, coffee, bread, toast, and lamb stewed with tender peas for busy laborers.

After walking for a while, Klein finally found a café with a decent environment.

Sitting in a hidden corner, he took a sip of Southwell coffee, which cost only three and a half pence, and cautiously flipped through the report.

“...... A total of 1,179 houses with dark red chimneys are located in the northern, eastern, western, southern, sycamore, quayside and university districts of Tingen...... On the outskirts of Tingen, there are a total of 546 houses with red chimneys of the kind described by employers...... This does not include the small towns and villages that belong to Tingen but are relatively far away. ”

"The following is the address of each house and the corresponding landlord and tenant information, according to the employer's request, the situation in the last three months has been collected in more detail. ”

......

Klein scanned the pages, scribbling with his pen on the paper he carried.

Eventually, he discovered that after his divination of the "red chimney", a total of 25 houses had changed tenants.

"It's not too much, try to finish it in two days, well, I've seen that red chimney in dream divination, I've seen part of that house, as long as I encounter it again in reality, I will inevitably have spiritual familiarity, so as to confirm the target, in short, I'm a human flesh inspector......" Crane nodded silently, and planned the fifteen places to go to today according to the different locations of the houses.

As for whether such an action was dangerous, he didn't need divination to get an answer.

Since there has been a change of tenants, it shows that the person behind the uncoordinated fate of himself and the coincidental events has left!

I want to know what the previous tenant looks like from the landlord...... However, since that guy hiding behind the scenes can unknowingly influence my fate, and let coincidences appear seemingly naturally, there must be a way to erase the traces of his own existence...... Hey, I can only pray to the goddess to let that guy have a certain omission...... Crane exhaled, forcibly lifted his spirits, put on his silk top hat, took his cane and report, got up and walked out of the café.

Next, he hired a two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage for 2 soles, and ran through the fifteen houses with red chimneys before dinner, but unfortunately, none of them were the ones he had seen in his dreams.

"If tomorrow's investigation still results like this, things will be in trouble, and he still lives in the red chimney house that I divined before...... This either shows that he is confident enough that he is not afraid of my pursuit, or even of the capture of Tingen's Nighttime Squad, or that he does not know that he is exposed, and that it is a power that does not belong entirely to him against my divination...... Klein stood at the door of No. 2 Daffodil Street, analyzing one possibility after another.

After a few minutes, he patted the dust off his black tuxedo, pressed the half-height silk top hat on his head, pulled out the copper key, and opened the door home with a smile on his face.

He's going to prepare lamb and honey roast for Benson and Melissa tonight.

............

At eleven o'clock in the evening, the three brothers and sisters who had said goodnight to each other entered their bedrooms.

Crane closed the door, stood in front of his desk, and looked out of the convex belly window by the light of the gas lamp, at this time, the neighborhood was dark, only a few street lamps were guiding the way, and the stars in the sky were embedded in the black curtain, little by little, not clear.

"I don't know what Beckland, known as the 'Land of Hope' and the 'City of All Things', will look like......," Crane whispered silently, reaching out to hold the curtain, ready to pull.

Woo!

At this moment, a cold wind blew without warning, and the glow of the gas lamp suddenly turned gloomy green.

Crane subconsciously took a few steps back, instinctively tapped his left tooth twice, and at the same time, he jerked towards the head of the bed, trying to grab the pistol pressed under the pillow.

In his sight, a face stood out on the wall under the gas lamp and above the desk, a translucent face with no eyes, no nose, only a mouth!

"Don't shoot. The face said with its mouth closed.

Can you communicate? Klein was already with a gun in his hand and aimed at the target.

"What do you want to do?" he asked in a deep voice.

The face chuckled:

"I'm Dali. ”

Dali? "Psychic" Daly and "Psychic" Dalie Klein, who was transferred to the diocese of Beckland, frowned in confusion:

"Ms. Dali?"

"I know that such a visit is too rude, and I should have let you know in advance so that you could be fully prepared, but it is not convenient for me to meet you directly now, so I can only communicate with you through this little fellow. The translucent eyeless and noseless face laughed.

Although the voice is wrong and ethereal and harsh, it is indeed Ms. Dai Li's speaking style...... the ability of a "psychic" is really cool...... Klein sighed to himself, and asked without lowering his gun:

"Ma'am, what do you want to communicate with me?"

"If I were you, I would seal the bedroom with spirituality first, otherwise, your family would think you have something mentally wrong. The translucent eerie face quipped, "Hehe, you don't need to be so vigilant, I secretly returned to Tingen because of a letter from Dunn, and you know, night watchmen can't leave their precincts at will." ”

"Captain's letter?" Crane didn't approach the desk, but groped for "Holy Night Powder" from the inside pocket of his black trench coat on the coat rack.

"Dunn and I are both extraordinary members of the Tingen Market Value Nights, and we have always maintained a good relationship with each other, and he sent me a letter last Thursday, yes, Thursday, mentioning your story, saying that you imitated the aphorisms of the voyeurs, and summarized your 'soothsayer's code' from the act of divination, and claimed that it effectively helped you master potions, so that you no longer have to hear sounds that you shouldn't hear, and you don't see pictures that you shouldn't see, Dunn said, it's very much like me. ”

"Hehe, you really don't want to seal the room? I personally don't mind being misunderstood by your brother and sister. The translucent face explained in a slow voice.

So that's it...... It was indeed Ms. Dai Li...... Crane breathed a sigh of relief, tucked the "Holy Night Powder" back into his inner pocket, and then walked a few steps to his desk and took out a ceremonial silver knife from the drawer.

Quickly building a spiritual wall, he turned to look at the strange faces standing out on the wall and said:

"Ms. Dai Li, what did the captain say in the letter?"

"He just expressed his doubts and felt that he had grasped something, but he couldn't clearly understand it, and he hoped to get my opinion. "And as soon as I read the letter this morning, I knew that you were definitely not as ignorant as you had stated yourself, hehe, Mr. Moretti, I think you should have summed up the way to play it!"

"That's what you're coming to me for?" asked Klein, neither affirmatively nor negatively.

Dai Li has clearly known the "way to play"...... He calmly judged in his heart.

Dai Li let the translucent face show a slight smile and said:

"Yes. ”

"I think we should be honest with each other about this matter, I know that you have summed up the way of acting, and you must also know that I have mastered the way of acting, hey, what is unpleasant is that it took me nearly two years to clearly realize that you have only been an extraordinary person for a month and a half. ”

Hearing Dali's words, Klein pondered for a moment, and then smiled calmly:

"It's because you are my role model. ”

He wanted to say "I'm just standing on the shoulders of giants", but in the end he decided not to give Russell the Great a chance to appear in his ears again.

PS: The event, I already knew, Yuewen and I communicated, however, I have to come at my own pace, in the last few days, the old people at home have a birthday, I am running back and forth, plus there have been more outbreaks in the past few days, so I have to adjust it, well, strive to be able to add more before the end of the event, in short, this is a new book on the shelf month, and there will be no less in the back, as for those tasks, two have been completed, and this kind of thing is rewarded, everyone has rewarded enough on the first day of the shelf, and there is no need to force it now.