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Liang Xi nodded.

"Before getting married, Mary's ambition was to be an international volunteer to travel around the world. It's a pity that she met John, who can't tell the difference between food and grains. John can satisfy her by tasting her food." Kunta sighed, not knowing After thinking of something, he said after a long time: "Greet her for me when I contact her on the phone."

Liang Xi: "Okay." Open the door and get out of the car.

With one finger flick, Kunta flicked the cigarette butt into the trash can next to Liang Xi, raised two fingers and swiped goodbye, drove into the broken car, turned on the music, and left leisurely.

……

Robert received a call from Liang Xi, telling Fanny that Hannah had invited Hannah to Bobby's house for afternoon tea (why is afternoon tea eaten instead of drunk?), and Hannah would arrive in half an hour. What Hannah meant on the phone was Invite London's police officers who can make decisions to join them for afternoon tea.Liang Xi briefly explained the situation, don't let directors, assistant directors and other bureaucratic people attend, but let people with real power and practical affairs attend.

Liang Xi mentioned a few candidates. The first is Liu Zhen, the deputy director of the Anti-Terrorism Office. However, Liu Zhen is not good at solving crimes and knows little about external forces. She needs to make up classes temporarily.Followed by Isa, Isa is the most suitable candidate, there is no one, but Isa's position is undecided, maybe the Minister of the Interior approves the replacement of the blade director, so it doesn't make sense for Isa to attend the afternoon tea.Or invite front-line executives like Yisha from MI6 to attend the afternoon tea.

Robert wants to cry but has no tears. Who do you want to let go?Liang Xi replied, if you can't send someone here, or if the person you send is not qualified enough, or it's a waste of time, you won't be allowed to enter.Hannah will contact Europol to send someone to the afternoon tea.

Robert asked Liang Xi to give him 15 minutes, and Robert contacted Assistant Director Donner.Requirements: Knowledge of external forces and London judiciary, non-bureaucratic, and the ability to call the shots.Liu Zhen was very reluctant, either to invite Isa, or to contact MI6 and send Mediterranean to participate.The four members of the Mediterranean team happened to be in London to be investigated by the Home Office.Does letting MI6 participate means letting MI6 intervene in domestic affairs?

Donner contacted the director and first explained the relationship between afternoon tea, Fanny, Hannah and other representatives.The director explained that he would contact the Minister of Internal Affairs and ask the Minister of Internal Affairs to make a decision on Isa's handling first.After the Minister of the Interior heard why he had to decide the outcome of Isa immediately, the director informed the Minister of the Interior that Hannah explained that the UK did not need to send people to participate. A director of the European Police Department and a judge of the European Criminal Court personally took a special plane to London.

After another phone call, Hannah directly contacted the Director of the Police Department: This matter has nothing to do with you British people.

……

Due to waiting for people from the European Union, Hannah was led to the guest room to rest after arriving, and the afternoon tea was changed into a dinner.Liang Xi contacted Robert and Liu Zhen.Fanny seems to be in contact with the Illuminati and the Orphan Society, and Hannah is in contact with her own family.At present, everyone has made clear the reason for this meeting, and fed back the situation to the people behind, asking them to give their opinions.The most idle one is Bobby, the owner of the mansion. In his own home, a few guests simply ignore him, and he has to prepare dinner for them.Fortunately, Liang Xi did not shy away from Bobby's presence on the phone with the police, which gave Bobby a little sense of participation.

Liang Xi said: "We talked for 2 minutes. I think Hannah has a lot of information, and may even have a more accurate target. The Orphan Association didn't tell the truth to Fanny, and she knew very little information."

Tang Na also participated in the call and asked, "Liang Xi, what are you worried about?"

Liang Xidao: "I think the lonely old man will kill someone, but the lonely old man will not kill Xiao An, and the lonely old man will cover up the fact of the murder. If we are worried, we are sure that the ghost leaked the news during Operation Blood Dawn, and Hannah may know The ghost’s identity or part of the information. Or there are more troublesome things. From Hannah’s words and attitude, I think she has a certain hostility towards the British police.”

Downer said: "The ghosts in Operation Blood Dawn must be British. Maybe the Cove family has information on some members of the Orphan Society and even the Dark Society. What is their purpose?"

Liang Xi said: "I don't know, my identity prevents me from having any right to speak. The dinner is about to start, I will contact you after the dinner is over."

……

The dinner talks feature Fanny and Hannah.Liang Xi, Bobby and even the two EU personnel were all observers.At the back, the boss of the orphanage who claimed to be Mia talked directly to Hannah on the phone.The process was quite difficult, and both parties were not counseled. They just sat down and talked based on the principle of not wanting to be taken advantage of.

Mia initially refused to admit the murder, but later admitted that she killed a woman for Menghaika's revenge, and promised not to touch Xiaoan.Hannah was very dissatisfied. If I show evidence of your murder, you will admit only one person. You have no sincerity in negotiating.Hannah didn't come empty-handed today, she told Mia that she knew the true identities of at least three members of the Orphan Association.

Hannah made her own request. Since Mia said that the lonely old man would only kill one woman, it proves that they did not kill the other three.The most direct and simple way is to find the murderer who killed the other three people, preferably the murderer who killed Xiao An.Not only that, Hannah is willing to share with Mia the information she collected about the murderer who killed Xiaoan.

Hannah's condition is that the three members of the Orphan Association under her control take the initiative to report to a certain location and be held as hostages.Hannah gave Mia two weeks to prove that Ann's death had nothing to do with the Orphan Society.

Hannah believes that Mia lied first in this negotiation, and she made such a condition out of the possibility of not being used by someone behind the scenes.For the two parties to reach an agreement, Mia first needs to show her sincerity.Hannah's capital is a lot of information she has about Xiao An's murder.Since Mia, you said that you are also victims, don't you want to figure things out?

Hannah further suggested that she could give Mia more support during these two weeks.And explained to the EU judicial staff that if the judicial staff is willing to cooperate with this condition, she will provide all the information of this case, and there is also a member of the Dark Society who she has confirmed as a member.

Liang Xi's explanation to Tang Na was: "Hannah doesn't completely believe that the orphans killed Xiao An, she hopes to integrate all resources to dig out the murderer who killed Xiao An. She needs both judicial resources and the orphans. "

Compared to Hannah's straightforward attitude, Mia shrank, obviously not prepared to deal with it head-on.Liang Xi’s personal explanation is: “Mia did not expect that Hannah’s negotiating style was straightforward. It was not a negotiation at all, but directly asked and explained the resources she could provide, and put her attitude on the table. At the same time, due to the lonely old Due to the adjustments made before the meeting, Mia, as the boss, may have lost some of her right to speak."

Mia said that within the next two weeks, she will try her best to chase down the murderer. Whether it is her cooperation or Hannah's cooperation, she will achieve this goal without reservation.Mia also put forward the condition that if the real culprit is not found or proved within two weeks, Hannah Fang must release three of her hostages.

Hannah told Mia that it was impossible for her to agree to this condition.There is no other reason for sending the three of them as hostages, but Mia's lie at the beginning leads to a compensation for cooperation sincerity and trust.

Liang Xi interpreted: "Before the meeting, Hannah didn't want hostages. Mia's attitude made her decide to take hostages. This in turn proves that Hannah can basically represent the Kefu family."

After another ten minutes of conversation, Hannah agreed to back down and agree to exclude one of the three hostages, a pregnant woman.At the same time, she said that if the pregnant woman disappears and absconds within two weeks, she will definitely retaliate.

Chapter 444 A Strange Case

After the dinner, Liang Xi went back to the room to contact Donna to explain the situation, expressing his attitude: "Hannah didn't ask me to investigate. The four murders happened in foreign countries, and I am not interested in going abroad to investigate. It is basically certain that Hannah is interested in Grace. Reese is not interested, Thresh's strategy has completely failed, and everyone now knows that Chris is a fake Thresh. But don't give up protecting Chris because of this, there are many smart people in this world, and there are also many fools."

Tang Na said: "Can you discuss it with Hannah? Let our people participate in the investigation."

Liang Xi said: "I expressed this meaning, and Hanna thinks it is unnecessary. She just needs a judicial institution to participate in this incident, and doesn't care which judicial institution it is. People from the European Union have made it clear that they will definitely assist Hanna to arrest The murderer who killed Xiaoan also reminded Hannah that all actions must be legal and compliant. Subtext: Don’t let us know about your bad deeds, and the information you get from doing bad deeds can be shared with us.”

Downer asked, "Didn't Hannah and Fanny explain part of the case to you?"

"No..." Liang Xi asked, "What are you worried about?" Tang Na asked Liang Xi this afternoon.

Downer replied: "I don't know what to worry about either."

Liang Xi reminded: "You should worry about the ten-day terrorist attack that Fanny mentioned."

Tang Na said: "Okay, I see. Please contact me if you have the latest news." He is the assistant director of the frontline police department. He has no anti-terrorism function, and only has the obligation to cooperate with the anti-terrorism department.Now that the blade is half disabled, we can only hand this matter over to the Anti-Terrorism Office.Of course, Donna would not make this decision. He contacted the director, informed him of the situation, and the director would assign tasks.Donner also has an idea to reinstate Officer Isha to her original post, not to take a vacation, and deal with the ten-day crisis first.

Although Daofeng has only been established for a year and a half, it has a strong mass base.His informants are all over England, and there are even undercover agents hiding among ordinary people.If there is any difference between undercover agents and ordinary people, it is their working and living environment. They are more likely to get close to extremists and illegal resources than ordinary people.Unless the Office of Counter-Terrorism is in close contact with MI6, borrowing MI6's external help, and using its own domestic resources, it can stand alone.

Why is Donna worried?The Operation Blood Dawn leak illustrates the problem.Meng Haika's new identity was given by the Witness Protection Agency. This agency is directly under the prosecution system and supervises each other. There is almost no possibility of leaking secrets.But the gangsters were able to learn of Meng Haika's new identity and accurately ambushed Meng Haika.The circus claims to have been hired by Davis to kill Monhaika, and Davis has direct ties to Operation Blood Dawn.

Everyone is worried that after the truth surfaced, it will trigger an earthquake in the political arena.If someone from the UK is involved, the UK must find out the truth as soon as possible and take down this person.

……

Liang Xi didn't think too much about it, and left after dinner with Tang Na.Before leaving, Hannah's bodyguard gave Liang Xi a package of information. Liang Xi didn't really want it, and he didn't even talk about the reward, so why did he just give himself the information?But if someone gave it to me, I took it. Bobby's bodyguard sent Liang Xi back to the apartment. Liang Xi threw the documents aside and went to take a shower. When he came back, he lay on the bed chatting with Karin and watching TV.He didn't read the information or anything, the reason was simply that he didn't pay.The Koff family also has to give money, or there are other reasons.Having a meal with you is still giving Donald face.

Personality dictates that even if you remind yourself to accumulate more resources, forget about it later, otherwise you don’t need to remind yourself.Liang Xi is no longer a matter of lack of resources, but information that lack of resources cannot give.

After a good night's sleep, he went to work at the detective agency the next day in good spirits. As soon as he arrived at the detective agency, Liang Xi saw Baker leaning against the car and waiting for him.

Liang Xi stopped the car and asked, "Has anyone I knew died?"

Baker said, "No."

Liang Xi asked, "Is someone dead?"

Baker shook his head: "No."

Liang Xi: "You want to treat me to breakfast?"

Baker picked up the food bag in his hand: "Coffee, steak."

Liang Xi said, "You are in charge of a case where no one is dead."

Baker smiled and got it right.This was Baker's first chance to handle a case independently after he joined the criminal investigation department for a year.In this case, he is the detective. He is the biggest and does not need to report to anyone. At the same time, he can ask his colleagues to assist in the investigation and use the strength of the technical department and the physical evidence department.Baker has not forgotten his personal power: Liang Xi.

Parked the car, got into the Baker car, took breakfast, and said, "Isa has been approved for vacation."

"We're going to Las Vegas the afternoon of the day after tomorrow, and then to Canada, South America, and Southeast Asia." Baker handed the phone to Liang Xi: "The hotel is all booked." He was in a pretty good mood.The only more troublesome thing is that he has to suspend Isha in front of Isha to complain.In fact, Baker is very grateful to the guy who suspended Isha, so that he can take advantage of the void to replace work in Isha's mind.

Liang Xi returned the phone and asked, "What case?"

Baker said: "An American named Frank, 35 years old, male, lives in the Sanfan Hotel. When cleaning yesterday morning, he was found to have not returned all night, and the waiter didn't take it seriously. After ten o'clock last night, he received a report. The police went to the underground parking lot of an office building. The reporter was an employee of the company. He was going home after the night shift. He heard the movement and found that there might be living things in a zombie car. The police contacted the fire department to pry open the trunk of the zombie car , found Frank in the trunk."

Baker waited for the red light, swiped his phone a few times and handed it to Liang Xi. Liang Xi looked at the information and said, "It's pretty ruthless!"

Baker replied, "Well, the fingers were cut off. See next page."

Liang Xi flipped through the pages and was surprised: "I suspect there is ricin in my body."

Baker said: "The doctor believes that if there is ricin, Frank only has 48 hours of life left. The doctor said that it will take at least eight hours of observation to determine whether it is ricin. Since the kidnappers want to kill Frank, why not do it directly? "

Liang Xi didn't answer Baker's question, but asked his own question: "Why cut off ten fingers? Is this torture? From the report, it doesn't cause much pain if you cut it across the board. But ricin also shows that it is a kind of torture. In Frank When I was awake, I watched my life go irreversibly to death, and I was tortured by toxins during the period.”

In 05, an illegal immigrant from Algeria threw ricin in a public place in the UK to carry out a terrorist attack. A policeman named Oak tried his best to stop the attack. Oak died in the line of duty because he was not wearing body armor.This is the first known use of ricin in a terrorist attack.Afterwards, Yingjunfang began to study the toxin, and it is said that an antidote that can induce neutralizing antibodies has been developed.However, the bacteria side denied this, saying that the experiment had been suspended.According to the research on the bacteria, the biological chain of ricin makes it impossible to spread on a large scale, and the cost performance is too low.Therefore, please rest assured that the toxin will be used as a poison against a single person at most, and will not be used for large-scale terrorist attacks.

Baker said: "Is this case interesting? I'll give you 48 hours to solve the case, and then I'll go on my honeymoon."

"You think highly of me." Liang Xi said: "Detectives can solve a case in a short time, but they must meet the most basic condition: the murderer must be related to the victim. Detectives have no ability to find the murderer among billions of people. Conan You know? The murderer chooses one of three, or one more. The detective is most afraid of choosing one of several, and the most fearful thing is that the murderer has nothing to do with the victim."

Baker said: "It can be seen that the kidnapper has a grudge against Frank."

Liang Xi said: "Frank is an American and traveled to London. What kind of enemy can a tourist have? On the other hand, if a tourist can gain such an enemy in more than ten days, it shows that Frank has a background. To check his background, you have to Contact the Americans. 48 hours is never enough. The only possibility is that Frank, who is still conscious, can give us enough information. It would be best if he knew who the kidnapper was. Is he still conscious?"

Baker replied: "When I went to see him in the morning, he was falling asleep. The doctor told me not to disturb him for a while. At this time, the wound will be very painful when he wakes up. We are just passing through now."

Liang Xi asked, "Maria Hospital?"

Baker replied, "Bass Hospital."

Liang Xi said, "Can I be transferred to another hospital?"

Baker asked: "Maria Hospital has the ability to treat toxins?"

Liang Xi said, "No, I just miss Karin." It's such a big deal.

Although what Baker said was very interesting, Liang Xi was not interested enough. This type of case was either not likely to be solved in the short term, or it was not difficult and the suspect could be caught directly.Whether the case is interesting does not depend on how cruel the criminal is and how painful the victim is, but on what criminal methods the criminal uses.

……

When Liang Xi and Baker arrived at the ward, Frank was losing his temper because he found that his fingers were all gone, and he couldn't accept the result.Baker asked the doctor, didn't you tell him the more unacceptable result?The doctor motioned Baker to look at Frank who kicked the hospital bed with his feet, and several nurses couldn't hold him down.Before the diagnosis, the doctor will not tell me his conjecture.

Doctor: "Unfortunately, you have to wait." The nurse injected Frank with a sedative, and Frank slowly calmed down and gradually fell asleep.

Liang Xi asked, "Baker, have you found his finger?"

"I searched for a nearby trash can and arranged for a police dog, but I couldn't find it."

"Mobile phone." Liang Xi took Baker's phone and looked at the information for a while: "Let someone go to the river near the office building to look for it."

Baker called to arrange, and a person in charge of physical evidence collection waited for Baker to finish the call, and handed the mobile phone in the evidence bag to Baker: "He called at around nine o'clock last night."

"How did you beat him?" When Frank was found, his hands were tied behind his back, his feet were bound, and his mouth was also sealed.

"Voice call, call the phone number named 123, the call time is about 30 seconds." The evidence officer said: "No. 123 has no registered owner information, so I don't know the identity of the other party." He left the decision on whether to call back to Baker.

Baker replied: "No, let the technician investigate the information associated with this number first."

The witnesses nodded and went about their own business. Living people are more troublesome than corpses.

Liang Xi's analysis: "He didn't come home overnight, so he must have been tied up. How can he make a phone call? Could it be that he was tied up after nine o'clock last night? There are so many contradictions in this case?"

Baker asked the doctor, "How long will it take to wake up?"

Doctor: "At least an hour."

"Go out for a walk."

The two took the elevator downstairs, took the side door to sit on a bench in the small park, and analyzed the case.The more Liang Xi analyzed, the more weird he felt, especially when Frank was cut off, his hands and feet were tied, and his mouth was sealed, how could he call his mobile phone to dial a number?Besides, didn't Frank know that his finger was cut off?

Baker gave information: a medical incubator was found in the nearby river, and there were ten fingers in it.According to the doctor's preliminary conclusion, Frank's ten fingers were cut off at around [-]:[-] p.m. The doctor believed that Frank's ten fingers were cut off under anesthesia, and the other party bandaged Frank.

Liang Xi reasoned: "Kidnapping Frank, injecting anesthesia, amputating his fingers, stuffing them into the trunk, binding his hands and feet, sealing him up, making Frank's voice call... There must be something wrong here."

Baker asked, "Is it an operation? Amputation of Frank's fingers to save him?"

Liang Xi was stunned: "I have read a lot of books and heard anecdotes. I have never heard of any disease that requires amputation of ten fingers, and it is an acute disease. Could it be that the ten fingers were smashed by chance? Why not send them to the hospital?" ?”

"Liang Xi, Baker." While talking, a fat man appeared, and Liang Xi and Baker got up to greet him.

The fat man is House. He came from the direction of the inpatient department on the other side of the park. He was surprised to see the two and came up to shake hands with them: "Who is sick?"

"The case." Liang Xi asked, "What about you?"

House glanced at the inpatient department and said, "Customer!" He said nothing more.He took out a box of cigars, opened the box and let the two of them pick it up.

Liang Xi took the cigar and saw House's appearance: "What's on your mind? Sit down!"

House smiled and sat down, thoughtful: "Do you think a person's humanity can stand the test?"

Baker replied: "It's very difficult. The one who tests human nature is always the one who gets hurt in the end."

House asked: "How about you, Liang Xi? For example, beautiful women? Super beautiful."

Liang Xi smiled wryly: "It's not easy. When there are no serious consequences or sequelae, for example, a super beautiful girl insists on getting along with me. I know that it won't affect me in any way after we get back together. I shouldn't refuse... But I Know a truth: There is no free lunch in the world. Maybe I could be her lunch."

House said: "A dying man who wants to know three kids who care about his people, not his money."

Liang Xi said: "Since he can't see it himself, the result of the test will definitely not satisfy him."

Baker said: "I believe that human nature is inherently dark, otherwise there is no need for laws. It is difficult for morality to restrain bad people from doing bad things, but laws can intimidate bad people to consider the consequences when they do bad things."

House said: "My understanding is: if doing bad things has no cost but only benefits, why should people be good people?"

Liang Xi: "I don't quite agree. If you are right, it means that the relationship between people needs to be restrained. In fact, there are many relationships without interests. For example, Baker is my friend. If he goes to jail one day, he has nothing to me. value, but I will still visit him until I slowly forget this friendship."

Baker: "I'm not satisfied with your example. According to the example you said, if you marry Karin, and Karin is my sister, even if you forget this emotion, you have a sense of responsibility to visit me. This is the human self Constraints, do you want to fulfill your responsibilities? If you don’t fulfill them, no one will blame you, and you have no loss. If you fulfill your responsibilities, you will lose, you will lose time, energy, and even be entangled by me.”

House: "So people are very complicated and cannot be easily summed up in one concept."

Liang Xi and Baker agreed. At this time, a nurse ran out from the side door and said urgently, "Officer, he is dead."

"What?" Baker Liang Xi got up immediately, and Baker and House greeted: "Let's talk later."

"Go get busy first."

House watched the two enter the side door and walked unhurriedly to the parking lot near the hospital.

Chapter 445 Three Kills

When the alarm bell rang a few minutes ago, the nurses entered the ward and found that the monitor showed that Frank had no vital signs, so they immediately began to rescue him.Various methods such as epinephrine and defibrillation were used, but Frank still had no vital signs.The doctor arrived 1 minute later, looked at the pupils and rescued him for a few minutes, and declared Frank dead.