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Richard said: "We can provide detailed information on the former residents of the apartment building, including the residence of Cai Wu's friends in the company. However, we have not obtained the consent of the blasting company. If you enter the apartment building to look for items and are caught, the screw company I will never admit it. From the professional point of view of a lawyer, I can tell you that it is not a big problem. Because the management right of the apartment building you invaded is a demolition company, if a case is filed to investigate your illegal invasion, the apartment building will not be demolished on time. ."

Ha ha!Are you funny?You can’t find the thing that threatens your company. Not only do you not secretly have fun, but you also mobilize the company’s people to look for it, for fear that not enough people will know?Now I'm looking for a detective, trying everything I can to find it out.

Liang Xiwei: "I'm a detective, and I don't do anything illegal."

Richard said nothing, unzipped his briefcase and put a stack of £50 notes on the coffee table: "Five thousand as advance. If you can find what we need, you can also get ten thousand. "

us?Liang Xi can capture the details very well. From what Richard said, Liang Xi knew that Richard was not alone.So Richard's group must have tried to find a way to rummage through the apartment.Because the apartment building is about to be demolished, they are now desperately ill.This money can be taken, but it is impossible to take, the key is how to operate.If you think you can lie down and sleep after taking the five thousand advance payment, you are wrong.

Liang Xi thought for a while: "I don't need to pay in advance. After I find something, I want [-] pounds."

Liang Xi sat on the ground to raise the price and waited for the other party to return the money.Unexpectedly, Richard agreed: "Deal."

Richard took out a business card with only a phone number and a website: "The information is in this website, download the password six six. After you find something, call this phone number. By the way: the insider can only be you alone."

Liang Xi said half-jokingly, "You guys wouldn't set a trap in an apartment building to dig out a kidney, would you?"

Richard was startled: "Ah? What?"

Liang Xi smiled and said, "It's okay, the detective's joke."

Chapter 12 Past

Richard stood up and shook hands with Liang Si: "Then we will wait for your good news."

"Okay." Liang Xi glanced at Richard's bluetooth earphones hanging on his ears.In his judgment, Richard was just a talker, it seems that there is a story behind this case.But a detective has to be curious, and not curious.You've helped a bad guy do a bad thing without knowing it, and it's not a big legal issue.Similar to taxi drivers carrying killers to kill people, knowledge is a criminal, and ignorance is a witness.The more you know, the worse the sentence and the faster you die.

After sending Richard off, Liang Xi jumped up with excitement. What does fifty thousand pounds represent?For Liang Xi, who has no lofty ambitions, [-] pounds means that he can survive for at least one or two years.

Looking for something?No difficulty.You know, it's not the detective who can find things the most, it's the thief.

Having said that, I have to introduce Liang Xi's life experience.Liang Xi's father was a magician. He followed the circus national parade and participated in various carnivals. Liang Xi became his father's little assistant when he was three years old.Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, because Liang Xi's father was not at home all the year round, and his mother finally chose to divorce, and soon married a man and left the UK.

After the divorce, Liang's father was very decadent, and began to drink heavily and stayed up all night.He did not realize that the reason for the marriage change was that his time at home was too short, and he blamed poverty as the main reason for the marriage change.So at a wine table, several magicians from the circus formed a burglary gang and used the opportunity of a national tour to commit crimes all over the country.

This way of committing the crime has been until Liang Xi was six years old. Because of the special building structure of the theft target, Liang Xi became the youngest member of a thief gang.In order to make his father happy, Liang Xi trained hard.When Liang Xi succeeded in stealing, Liang Xi saw the rare smile his father showed to him, and Liang Xi also gained a sense of accomplishment at this moment.

Relying on the advantages of small size and quick learning, Xiaoliangxi's stealing technology has advanced by leaps and bounds.In addition, everyone liked him and taught him their own housekeeping skills.After three years of training from the age of 6 to 9, Liang Xi became a professional little thief.

Often walking by the river, how can there not be wet shoes.Finally one day, the thieves were targeted by the police in Liverpool.Because of the night and torrential rain, they had a car accident while fleeing.Three thieves, including Liang's father, were killed and one thief was injured. Fortunately, Liang Xi didn't even have a scratch.After the thief was arrested, he confessed everything, and all the assets of Liang Xi's family, including the house and other real estate, were confiscated.Liang Xi entered the welfare institute, so he went to the blue jacket school.

The Blue Jacket School is a name for a charity school.Almost all the students in it are orphans. Liang Si, who just arrived at the school, has made two wonderful magic tricks, and is immediately known by the bad boys in the senior grades.They coerced Liang Xi to help them steal money and things.After being beaten several times, Liang Xi could only succumb to violence.After about a year of such a life, Liang Xi finally met John in the restaurant, and his life turned around.

Entering the room to find something, Uncle Hei, a friend of Liang's father, thinks that there is no one in the world who is more suitable than Liang Xi.Liang Xi can always find the most valuable property in the target family.From the beginning of the trabecular strike, he has shown a detective talent of observation, reasoning and judgment.He can find the hidden safe and secret door based on the details of the conversations of the overhearing owners and the furnishings in the house.The most exciting time was when he took a £[-] necklace from the neck of the woman in the painting.This necklace was disguised by the owner, a master of oil painting, and even deceived the insurance personnel, but it did not deceive Liang Xi.

Therefore, Liang Xi was full of confidence in entering the house to find things, and at the same time admired Charlie and the others, and they were able to find himself, the genius who was looking for things.

Liang Xi's thinking this way is of course a joke and a boastful mentality.It never occurred to him that he was really the object-finding genius that the other party thought. Charlie didn't know John at all, and Charlie's goal was him.

……

At five o'clock in the afternoon, in the alley across the street from the detective agency, a hooded man watched Liang hit the Beetle and called, "Eagle, he's in the car."

"Hummingbird, don't follow him, overtake him to the apartment building."

"Yes." Hummingbird replied.

In a large villa by the Thames River, a 35-year-old man hung up the phone, put his phone on the table, and asked, "Can this man named Liang Xi be found?"

The object of his questioning was a black man in his 50s. He was sitting on a chair, his hands and feet were handcuffed to a chair with tie ties, his nose was bruised and his face was bruised, and his body was covered with scars.The man was Liang Xi's accomplice more than ten years ago: Uncle Hei.

Uncle Hei answered with certainty: "Among the people I know, only he can possibly find it."

The man asked, "Egret?"

The red-haired female hacker sitting on the left replied: "Liang Si's navigation destination is the position we gave him."

The man said nothing, picked up the coffee on the table, walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows, admired the outdoor scenery, and slowly tasted the coffee.

Half an hour later, the hummingbird connected: "Eagle, I am near the apartment building. There are several warning signs to be demolished within a limited time near the apartment building, and the time of demolition is written on it."

The man is the eagle: "Are there security guards?"

Hummingbird replied: "The back door is unclear. There are security vehicles at the entrance of the road as barricades, and two security guards are chatting."

Eagle: "Send the photo here."

Hummingbird: "Understood."

Egret: "Received the photo and is comparing it."

The eagle took the coffee and walked towards Uncle Hei. Uncle Hei was very frightened: "Boss, I have said everything I know, and I didn't hide it."

The eagle nodded and pointed at Uncle Hei: "I believe in you. So you are useless." He glanced at the man standing beside Uncle Hei.

The man covered Uncle Hei's head with a plastic bag that had been prepared for a long time.

When Uncle Hei was struggling, Eagle walked to the coffee machine, put the cup away, and reground a cup of coffee.The coffee was ground, and Uncle Hei was dead.

Egret reported: "Eagle, the security identity has come out, it is MI5 uniformed guards." Uniformed guards are equivalent to security and auxiliary police, not regular police, but personnel recruited within the department.Most of the jobs are to maintain order, and drivers, etc. are not involved in sensitive and confidential matters.Why not use the police?Because the normal income of a regular policeman is enough to employ three uniformed guards.Each agency has a financial budget, and the money deducted from personnel can buy additional equipment for the department.

After listening to the explanation, the eagle was a little surprised: "MI5? No wonder, no wonder even Viper is dispatched. What is it?" The use of uniformed guards shows that MI5 doesn't pay much attention to this building.

Hummingbird reported: "Liang Xi arrived nearby, he drove the car directly to the apartment building, got out of the car and negotiated with the two security guards."

Eagle questioned: "The 'negotiation' with the gun? "

Hummingbird: "No, it's just verbal negotiation."

Eagle: "Fake, I found a fool."

Hummingbird: "Security is a little overwhelmed."

Eagle: "What?"

Hummingbird: "Security is on the phone."

Hummingbird: "The security guard stepped back and made a gesture of invitation to let him in."

Eagle asked, "Are you sure he didn't have a pistol?"

Hummingbird: "He's holding a cell phone."

Eagle asked: "Bomb the phone?"

Hummingbird: "It doesn't look like it."

Eagle came to be interested: "It's interesting."

Chapter 13 Special Stash

At the door of the apartment building, Liang Xi was negotiating with the security guard: "I'm a detective from the Rose Detective Agency. My name is Liang Xi."

The security guard yelled impatiently: "Go, go, go."

Liang Xi said: "I just received a request from my employer to come to this apartment building that is about to be demolished to find someone."

The security guard said impatiently, "There's no one inside."

Liang Xi said: "My employer's brother suffers from intermittent mental illness. According to the last call, there is reason to suspect that the employer's brother is hiding in this apartment."

The security raised his voice: "I've told you there's no one inside."

Liang Xi took out his mobile phone: "I'm at the door of the dormitory of the former screw company apartment building in the industrial zone. The security guard is sure that there are no human beings in the apartment building. Is that so? Mr. Security, can you take pictures of your people? Can you tell me about you? 's name?"

The security guard asked back, "What do you mean?"

Liang Xi replied: "After the building is detonated, if any human tissue is found in the rubble, you will be liable for murder. Of course, I will also report the situation to the police."

What else the security guard had to say, another security guard stopped him and said to Liang: "Wait a minute, I'll make a call first."

After 20 seconds, another security guard asked, "How long will it take you?"

Liang Xi looked up at the 17-storey apartment building and replied, "Two hours at most." If you can't find it within two hours, you can't find it. Detectives don't study chance.

Another security guard replied: "Okay, come out within two hours or we'll call the police and accuse you of intrusion and theft."

Liang Xi was very surprised by what the security guard said. Why did you call the police?You should be worried about me calling the police.After the police come, they will negotiate with you, you will have to ask the supervisor to come over, and finally you will have to search the building once.This is not security, security does not think so.

Pretending to be a security guard of an explosives company, nine times out of ten, it has something to do with what you are looking for.If you can pretend to be for at least two hours, it means you have the permission of the blasting company.Only officials can get permission.Reverse push, these two are the police, the building is their bait, they are trapping prey.People who enter an apartment building looking for items, or the items themselves are their prey.

Well, that's a good example of how this thing is really worth £[-].As for seeing through the identity of the security guard, you can completely delete it from your mind.He is just a detective who accepts the commission of finding objects.

……

Entering the apartment building, Liang Xi used his mobile phone to re-read the information given by the employer. The 14th to 17th floors are the residences of the screw factory managers and administrative staff, and the 2nd to 13th floors are the residences of ordinary workers and grassroots management.There are 12 rooms on each floor, one for two workers. Floors 14 to 17 are one room per person.

Cai Wu's original residence is 1502. She has two friends, one lives in 702 and the other lives in 1702.In addition, the data also contains the names of the occupants of each room.Apparently this is an internal document of the screw company.

It is certain that the employer did not lie too much, especially in the details, Cai Wu should be the one who hides things.Cai Wu's 1502 must have been thoroughly searched, and no corresponding items were found. 1502 is impossible to have a target product.Secondly, 702 can be temporarily excluded. The two live together, and Cai Wu should also know what she is doing.

The problem now is that by the time Cai Wu was hiding, 70 percent of the staff had already moved out of the apartment building.Cai Wu may have hidden Dong XC in the belongings of 30% of the resident population, and the things have been taken away by someone.This possibility is possible, but it is not within the scope of the detective's consideration, because this is not something that the detective can recover.

The employer did not tell the background story clearly, which greatly reduced the possibility of Liang Xi inferring the hiding place through the background.Of course, the employer made it clear that Liang Xi would not accept the order.

Liang Xi's strategy is to start with the greatest possibility. To be reasonable, 1702 is Cai Wu's friend, and the possibility of hiding in 1702 is very high.However, Liang Xi's inference is based on the premise that it has been searched, so 1702 is not the most likely hiding place.Considering that Cai Wu is easy to obtain and avoid searching, the biggest possibility is to hide in a room near 1502.

有人住的房间不适合藏匿物品，因此最大可能是1502附近，已经搬离公寓的1503、1501。其次是06、07、09这三个房间。

Someone searched, but the target product was not found. It can be seen that Cai Wu is prepared, which shows that Cai Wu is smart.How smart is Cai Wu?If Cai Wu is just ordinary smart, things are not in 03 but in 01.If Cai Wu was smart enough, things wouldn't be in any room and couldn't be found.Liang Xi could only recognize the high probability, so Liang Xi locked rooms 01 and 03.If the two rooms can't find anything, Liang Xi will see the time and decide whether to go to the three rooms 06, 07 and 09 to find the items.

Theory of finding things: When you're looking for an item in your home, and you rummage more than 50% of the area, you're less than 20% likely to find something next.If you rummage more than 80% of the area, your chances of finding something next are close to zero.When you rummage through more than 94% of the area, it's almost impossible to find anything.

There are 17 floors with 12 rooms on each floor, and it is possible to hide the target item.Not to mention two hours, Liang Xi couldn't find it for two days.Where is the limit of stop loss?This is the most important thing that seekers should consider.

Although the probability of finding something is not high, the cost of Liang Xi is very low.Bring a used tablet, a couple of memory card converters and a flashlight.

……

Liang Xi began to climb the stairs.The building had long been out of power, and the light was getting worse as the sun went down.This is not a problem, the light will not delay Liang Xi's search for things.Because no burglar likes burglary during the day or with the lights on.The problem is on the full fifteenth floor.When he reached the 15th floor in one breath, gold stars appeared in Liang Xi's eyes. This was the result of his lack of daily exercise.

Pushing open the fire door, I saw a long corridor, which is a feature of old-fashioned buildings. A corridor runs from beginning to end.Compared with the corridor, room 1501 is more messy, and there are various things abandoned by the owner.Shoes, clothes, socks, paintings, treadmills, etc.

Liang Xi's way of finding things was named by himself: special hiding.Where would a seldom-used but necessary item go?For example, a shaver charger.The shaver can last one to two months per charge, adding unnecessary clutter if items are placed randomly.But the charger is an indispensable item, so the best choice is to store it, and store it in a place where you can't see it everyday but can find it.

A similar situation occurs in some women, especially older women.They will special hide valuables, the first is gold jewelry.They are extremely imaginative and can hide things in impossible places.

There is a similar situation with private money.

Therefore, Liang Xi called this type of hiding special hiding, you can't see it, and you can't even find it without some extreme methods.

There was not much time, and Liang Xi turned on the flashlight and started work.

Chapter 14 Eagles

Several people were sitting in the MI5 conference room, and the big screen showed Liang Xi entering the apartment. A muscular man in his 50s walked into the office quickly and asked, "Who is he?"

Humanity on the side said: "Liang Xi. Detective of Rose Detective Agency."

The man asked, "John?"

The man in the suit replied, "Now the boss of the detective agency is this Liang Xi."

The man asked, "How long have you been in?"

The man in the suit replied: "It has been 1501 minutes since I entered room 3."

The man said, "Cai Wu lives in room 1502?"

Man in suit: "Yes."

The man went to the technician to read Liang Xi's information, took out his mobile phone and called: "John, long time no see."

John: "Hi! Mark."

Mark asked, "What is the relationship between a person named Liang Xi and you?"

John asked back, "What did he do?"

Mark replied: "We have reason to suspect that he is looking for a list. This list is a list of certain British agency personnel who have been corrupted over the years by a terrorist woman named Angela. One of the victims found that Angela He asked Eagle to help him deal with the matter. Eagle found Angela, and Angela swallowed a gun and died. Eagle did not find the list at Angela's house, but received a call from the police, who said they had caught one thief."

Mark said: "The police detectives investigated Angela's death, and after discovering Angela's identity, we took over the case. We learned that the thief was picked up and confirmed the identity of the thief. Soon we also found out that he had close contacts with the thief. A woman named Cai Wu monitored Cai Wu’s mobile phone. Cai Wu and the Eagle negotiated a deal on the list. Cai Wu offered 50 pounds, and the Eagle said that he would consider it. When we were preparing to secretly arrest Cai Wu, she Died in a car accident."

Mark: "We searched the apartment building where Cai Wu lives and found nothing. Because the apartment building is about to be bombed in three days, we ambushed police detectives around, hoping to catch the eagle."

John asked, "Isn't the eagle dead?"

Mark replied: "That's right. The gang was in Paris for the first time last September and I suspect it's a well-established team in the guise of an eagle in Europe."

John: "Liang Xi is looking for a list in the apartment building now?"

Mark: "Yes."