fog city detective

"Detective in the Fog City" Author: Shrimp Write

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This book goes to heaven and earth, playing with ghosts, including anti-terrorism, anti-drug, detection, espionage, layout, conspiracy, serial killer, flying robber and so on.

The background of this book is Europe, it does not involve any discrimination, and it does not involve any topics related to our country, so please do not take it for granted.In addition, there may be some differences between the Shrimp-Europe Plate and the Continental Plate that everyone normally recognizes in a small number of details.

Special Note: Do not attempt to translate the dialogue in English, as the author does not speak English.

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Chapter 1 Prologue

On a Sunday morning in London, a roadside restaurant was open as normal.There are not too many people in the restaurant, some people dine in the seats, some people sit on the long bar and drink hot tea.The waiter aunt took a coffee pot and black tea to add to each customer, and stopped to chat with familiar customers from time to time.The atmosphere of the restaurant is slow and cozy.

The two children packing sandwiches broke the atmosphere by slapsticking and laughing in the narrow long restaurant, and the waitress aunt couldn't help but stop: "Hey! Hey! Hey! Two gentlemen, please be quiet for me."

The two children stopped and stood and looked at each other.After the aunt turned around, the eldest child twisted his butt and knocked the child down. The child fell to the side of a middle-aged man's chair, and the middle-aged man hurriedly reached out to support the child.The child stood up, as if he had done something bad, and apologized with a restrained expression: "I'm sorry sir."

The middle-aged man smiled a little: "It doesn't matter, but the restaurant is not a place to fight."

"Yes, sir." The child nodded.

The waitress aunt said, "Two boys, your breakfast is ready."

The eldest child stepped forward to take the paper bag, and walked to the door of the restaurant with the child one after the other.

A balding man in his fifties with a big belly sitting on a bar chair slowly folded up the newspaper and stopped the child with his hand.He smiled and looked at the child: "I invite you to have breakfast."

The child was a little nervous, shook his head, turned to look at the older child, and cast his eyes for help.

The eldest child stood at the door without saying a word, as if waiting for the child to come by himself.

Aunt found the abnormality and said on the side: "John?"

The man called John glanced at the child's right trouser pocket: "I found him hungry, right?"

It's the child who asked.The child nodded at the question, John smiled contentedly, and pushed the bar chair beside him for the child to sit on.At this time, the eldest child quietly left the restaurant.

John asked for a milk and a hot dog, and took five bills from his coat pocket and placed them in front of the child.The child dared not move, and John explained, "I want to buy the purse in the right pocket of your pants."

The child hesitated for a moment, then took out the wallet from the right trousers pocket.John took the wallet, threw it on the ground without looking at it, and asked, "What's your name?"

The child replied, "Liang Xi."

John asked, "Vietnamese?"

The child replied: "Chinese."

At this moment, the aunt saw the wallet, picked it up and shouted, "Hey, which careless guy lost the wallet?"

Everyone groped, and the middle-aged man realized that he had lost his wallet and hurried forward to claim it.

John pushed the milk in front of Liang Xi and glanced at the five banknotes he put on the table: "This is your money, you can put it away."

Liang Xi picked up the banknotes and asked, "Can I count it?"

John chuckled: "Of course."

Liang Xi picked up five banknotes and began to count. His way of counting money was different from others. He first held the money in his left hand, and then took out one in his right hand and placed it on the table, and counted: "One, one, one, one. Zhang, one."

After counting, Liang Xi's hands were empty, and there was only one banknote on the table.Liang Xi pushed the note to John: "I'm sorry sir, I can't take your money."

John was very surprised.He knew it was a magic trick, and he also knew how to use it, but he was just surprised that Liang Xi could do it so well.John put away the bill in front of him and thought for a while: "Liang Xi, I know you are a student of the Blue Jacket School."

This time, Liang Xi was surprised: "How did you know?"

John smiled and replied, "I am a detective." Unless Chinese children are orphans, they will not be pickpockets.There is a blue jacket charity school four blocks away, and the restaurant is near the bus stop.Combining all the information, John came to a conclusion.

Liang Xi didn't care about the detective profession, and tilted his head indifferently: "The UK is full of detectives."

John felt that this was right, nodded in agreement, and asked, "Do you like being a pickpocket?"

Liang Xi didn't answer, and drank the milk silently.

John knew it: "My detective agency is not far away on Burning Street, and there is no one to help me with the cleaning. If you want, I can solve your troubles."

Liang Xi looked up at John: "But... but they are a very bad group of people."

John said, "I'm just asking if you're willing or not. As for how to solve the trouble, that's my business."

Liang Xi thought for a while and said, "Sir, it is illegal to employ child labor."

John didn't take it seriously: "If you don't give money, you won't be hired."

Liang Xi was stunned, is this the detective's logic?

Seeing Liang Xi's expression, John smiled for a while, and said, "But I allow you to count the money for me once a week."

Chapter 2 John

There was a shutter sound, and Liang Xi, who was wearing a bachelor's uniform and a doctor's hat, was photographed on his mobile phone.Liang Xi leaned over and picked up the phone to look at it for a moment, and sighed to the blonde girl who took the photo: "Every time I look at my photo, I'm afraid to fall in love with myself. How can you say that people can be so handsome even in graduation photos." More than ten years ago The restaurant thief Liang Xi has now completed his university studies and graduated successfully.

The blonde girl said speechlessly, "Your narcissism has reached a new height."

Liang Xihui smiled.

The blonde girl looked at Liang Xi and whispered, "Hey! My family isn't here tonight?"

Liang Xi looked at the photo and asked disapprovingly, "What? Would you like to invite your classmates to a party?"

The blonde girl kicked Liang Xi, and when she was about to say something, Liang Xi's phone rang.Liang Xi motioned to wait a moment and answered the phone: "Mary...Okay, I'll go and clean him up right away."

Liang Xi hung up the phone and looked at the blonde girl: "Lucy, I have to go, keep in touch, happy graduation."

"Liang Xi!" Lucy shouted. Seeing that Liang Xi didn't hear him, she said helplessly, "I mean, I can drive you."

Liang Xifeng usually returned to Lucy, and dragged a wild flower to Lucy with his left hand: "You are the most beautiful in the world."

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Liang Xi got out of the car, closed the door and patted the window edge of the driver's seat to say goodbye to Lucy, then turned and entered a house by the roadside.The old woman who was pruning dead branches and fallen leaves in the lawn and flowerbed in the front yard put down her gardening tools and went up to hug Liang Xi: "Liang Xi, I'm so glad to see you."

Liang Xi let go of the old woman and reminded: "Mary, we just had dinner together last weekend. You will make John jealous."

Mary laughed and patted Liang Xi on the shoulder. She was a cheerful person.

Liang Xi looked at the living room. Old John was sitting on the sofa with a cup of tea and a newspaper to waste his life.Mary looked at the living room, a little helpless.Liang Xi said: "The older the man, the more like a child. Leave it to me, by the way, get me a clean hammer."

Liang Xi entered the living room: "Hi, John."

John didn't lift his head: "Yeah."

Liang Xi poured water, tore off a piece of post-it note and folded it diagonally to form a crease, then opened a few medicine bottles on the counter, poured out a few capsules and pills and placed them on the post-it note.Holding the note paper in the left hand, water in the right hand, and handing the note paper: "Take medicine."

John looked at the newspaper, unmoved: "This medicine will make me drowsy and unable to concentrate and think."

Liang Xi put down the pills and water, and sat opposite John: "John, we need to discuss the issue of taking medicine."

John put down the newspaper and took off his glasses: "How to discuss?"

Liang Xi said, "Do you think taking medicine is bad?"

John: "Yes."

Liang Xi: "What's the reason?"

John: "It makes it hard for me to think."

Liang Xi: "You are already 68 years old, and your brain is already confused, so taking medicine will help your thinking."

John: "No, I'm fine, and I'm sober now."

Liang Xi: "Okay! You know Chinese."

John: "My major in university is Chinese."

Liang Xidao: "In order to prove that you have a clear mind now, I will give you a Chinese question, a very simple math question. If you can answer it, it means you have a clear mind. If you can't answer it, it means you need Take medicine."

John came to the interest: "Let the horse come over."

Mary placed tea and refreshments on the coffee table in front of Liang Xi, leaning against the table to watch the two of them.

Liang Xi said: "In order to match your rusty brain, let me speak slowly. The question is: If I, Xiaohua, and Xiaoming each have two apples, how many apples do we have in total."

John was deeply bored and picked up his glasses to continue reading the newspaper: "Six."

Liang Xi said: "Wrong."

John was startled: "Why?"

Liang Xi snapped his fingers: "two Jia Ru, two of me, two of Xiaohua, two of Xiaoming, a total of eight."

John: "If it's human?"

Liang Xi: "The surname is Jia and the name is Ru, Jia Baoyu's Jia, you know the Dream of Red Mansions."

John immediately waved his hand and said, "Language trap, it doesn't count, it doesn't count."

Liang Xi was dissatisfied: "A lot of years old, do you want shame?"

John still refused to accept: "Re-issue the question in English. There are too many traps in Chinese."

Liang Xi nodded: "Okay, Mary will testify. Next question: I, Xiaohua, Xiaoming, and Xiaohuang have a watermelon knife and three watermelons of the same size in front of me. How can I use one knife to divide the watermelons equally?"

John was careful and asked, "Four people share three watermelons."

Liang Xi nodded: "Yes."

John: "The knife can't turn, it has to obey the principles of physics."

Liang Xi nodded: "Yes."

John pondered for a while, and said, "I need two knives." Six copies of one knife and twelve copies of two knives can be divided equally among four people.

Liang Xi shook his head: "No, there is only one chance."

John said, "Impossible. What's the answer?"

Liang Xi said, "He chopped Xiao Huang to death with one knife."

John vomited blood and pointed to the door: "Get out of here."

Liang Xi was dissatisfied: "Even my personality has become irritable. It's time to take medicine, John. Well, I'll give you one last question."

John: "You ask the question first."

Liang Xidao: "I have read such a test in a scientific magazine. The mind controls people's emotions and physical nerves. If you say your brain is fine, then we will conduct a test. Follow me first, open your mouth to breathe through your mouth, and keep your tongue Don't move, hands shoulder-width apart. Here's the point: Hold your two thumbs up in this situation. Stop! If you can stay still for 30 seconds, I'm sure you don't need medicine. "

John warned: "You are not allowed to touch me."

Liang Xi nodded: "Of course."

John looked back at Mary. "Mary can't touch me either."

Liang Xi nodded: "Of course."

John: "Okay."

Liang Xi: "Don't be rude any more."

John firmly said: "I bet on the reputation of my Rose Detective."

Liang Xi took out his mobile phone and prepared to time: "When you're ready, start."

John posed. "Go."

Liang Xi tapped his cell phone to start timing, reached out and pulled out the capsule, pouring out the powder.He took the claw-pulling hammer that Mary handed over, smashed the medicine powder, and sent a folded note to John's mouth.John wanted to resist, but the resistance proved that he couldn't keep his position.Liang Xi just smashed the pills and opened the capsule, but did not touch John.

But if you don't resist, the powder will be poured into your mouth.How to do it?Take medicine if you move, take medicine if you don't move.

As John struggled, Liang Xi's index finger swiped at the fold of the note, and the powder in the fold accurately flew into John's mouth.John couldn't move his tongue, which caused a lot of saliva to be produced in his mouth. As soon as the powder met the saliva, it instantly bonded and melted.A bitter taste passed from the base of the tongue to the brain. John wanted to spit out the powder, but Liang Xiyan blocked his mouth with one hand and held up the water with the other.John gave up his resistance, took the water and took two sips, which relieved the strange smell of the capsule powder.

The powder is only likely to cause a violent cough, not suffocation.

Chapter 3 The Manor

John slowed down from the powder attack, motioned to Liang Xi, who was smug, to sit down, looked at Liang Xi and said gently: "Child, there is an idiom called Dazhiruoyu in Chinese. Do you know what it means?"

Liang Xi explained: "A person who looks stupid is actually very smart. He seems to do stupid things, but he reaps good results."