Pokémon: I'm a detective, not the sixth one.

Lu Yi rubbed his chin, expressing his headache over the current situation.

At first glance, Gugu and Paras seem to have the ability to sneak attack Gardevoir. They can learn hypnosis and mushroom spores respectively. If they attack Gardevoir as soon as it enters the door and is unprepared, they may succeed.

But this line of thinking simply does not stand up to scrutiny.

First of all, the thin man came for physical therapy, and there was another elf responsible for helping him relieve his fatigue. There was no reason for Gardevoir to enter that room.

Secondly, even if Gardevoir went to clean up the private room after the man's clock-in, she should have waited until the customer was sure to leave before cleaning up. This is basic service etiquette.

In addition, the thin man appeared in the surveillance video for two hours, and the time before and after was very tight. Excluding the time he spent waiting for the technician at the beginning and sorting out his clothes after the physical treatment, he hardly stayed for too long.

Following these thoughts, Lu Yi curled his lips helplessly, as if the nature of the case was already very clear, and Gardevoir's disappearance had basically nothing to do with these people.

"Where are you going next?"

Lu Yi glanced at the tall police officer and didn't want to investigate in the same direction as them, as that would be a waste of time and energy.

"We will split into two groups. One of us will monitor the skinny guy sleeping at home, and the other two will go to the port and search the packages of the three ex-convicts again under the pretext of boarding the ship for inspection."

Hearing the police officer say this, Lu Yi nodded in agreement.

The nature of this case is completely different from ordinary missing cases. Gardevoir has strong fighting and self-care abilities. It is not like a missing child who needs to rely on calling and searching in the streets to find her whereabouts.

In other words, if Gardevoir was determined to leave, it would not be easily found given the high IQ of this type of Pokémon. There was no point in Lu Yi and the police officers being anxious, they could only start from the various clues available.

Therefore, the police officers' approach was to eliminate the suspicion of the four people to the greatest extent possible. If they were confirmed to have nothing to do with the case, there would be no need to waste energy looking for Gardevoir.

"In that case, I'll have to trouble you two groups of people. I'm going to go back to the physiotherapy clinic to see if there are any suspicious traces there." Lu Yi said to the three police officers.

"How Gardevoir left the therapy center has not yet been determined. Ms. Haruhiko, as the reporter, cannot completely rule out the suspicion of 'self-production and self-sale'. After all, the Alliance has come across many cases where 'the reporter is the perpetrator'."

Hearing this, the police officers looked at each other. They really had ignored this possibility.

Especially the guy who didn't care about Lu Yi's arrival before, now he was a little dazed and his expression was not very natural.

It wasn't that he had any connection with Gardevoir's disappearance, but he thought that the three of them had overlooked the possibility of "self-production and self-sales", and it was easy to miss the key clues!

Assuming that Gardevoir's disappearance is related to Miss Harushiba, the latter would have cleaned up the scene while the police officers were busy. This is completely dereliction of duty on their part!

"I see. Detective Lu Yi is very thoughtful. Thank you for your concern."

The tall police officer nodded at Lu.

……

The southern coast of Loushi Town.

"Hey! When will the traffic be allowed? You're going to compensate me for delaying my contract signing tonight!" "That's right! I was optimistic about Loushi Town, but now I see that your transportation capabilities are terrible! You can't even guarantee the most basic traffic, who will dare to transport goods here in the future?"...

Xingguangcan hid far away and watched the biker gang members apologize to the passengers one by one. He felt like he couldn't hold on any longer.

If this continues, Loushi Town might lose the big picture for the small, and lose a large amount of talent and investment in order to find clues about Gardevoir!

So he hurriedly called Shi San: "Brother San, we can't control this anymore! Has Detective Lu Yi made any progress?"

Shi San replied helplessly: "We are back to the physical therapy clinic now. Brother Lu Yi has just learned about the case. How can the investigation be so fast?"

"What should we do?" Xing Guangcan frowned tightly, "Although Detective Lu Yi has only been here for a short time, we have already sealed off the sea area for three or four hours!

The passengers are not stupid. There is no natural disaster warning in the nearby waters. They can check it!

Many people have already deducted points from our impression. If we don’t let them go, the town will probably lose a lot of resources!”

After hearing what Xing Guangcan said, Shi San also showed anxiety.

"Damn, this is really difficult. Let me explain the situation to the police officers. Two police officers are heading your way. I think the traffic will be restored once they are in place. They will carefully check the carry-on luggage of the passengers boarding the ship."

"Okay!" Xing Guangcan nodded, and then joined the queue to calm the passengers.

……

On Lu Yi's side, after arriving at the physiotherapy clinic again, he directly asked Miss Qingzhi for the room numbers of the two groups of customers, and also asked for a work uniform that Gardevoir wore daily.

Shi San stayed with Miss Qingzhi to calm her down, but in fact he created an independent space for Lu Yi so that he could investigate the environment of these private rooms.

Lu Yi first entered the private room where Da Hu and the other two had stayed overnight. It was very clean inside, and all items were arranged in order, obviously having been carefully cleaned.

He called out Arcanine and Aledo in turn. The former identified the smell and determined that there was a lingering smell in the room that was the same as the work clothes. This proved that Gardevoir had been here for a certain period of time, and the residual smell had not yet dissipated.

The latter used his mental power to explore every corner of the therapy center and made sure that there was no trace of Gardevoir here.

"After the attack, the possibility of Gardevoir hiding inside the therapy gym has been ruled out for the time being."

Lu Yi muttered to himself, and then called out the tropical dragon.

"You're tall, go outside the door and help me block all the gaps."

Hearing Lu Yi's instructions, the tropical dragon, who didn't dare to straighten his neck completely in the corridor, leaned obediently against the door frame, and at this time Lu Yi closed the door from inside the room.

Functional buildings such as physiotherapy clinics usually do not have glass windows installed in the rooms.

The purpose of doing this is, on the one hand, because some massages require customers to take off their tops, and their privacy can be easily invaded; on the other hand, the relatively dim environment can help customers sleep and have a better effect of relaxing their nerves.

At this moment, with the tropical dragon tightly attached to the door frame, there was no light-transmitting gap in the entire private room.

Lu Yi turned on the ultraviolet flashlight and carefully observed the floor beneath his feet, just like when he was looking for signs of a fight in Luyu Village.

There were no obvious signs of dragging or scratching, no blood stains or abnormal oil stains, and no signs of fighting.

Lu Yi frowned and swept the light to other locations, not wanting to miss any details.

He lay on the floor, lifted the sheets and checked under the bed; he turned around and shone the light at the door, trying to find any signs that Gardevoir was trying to call for help but the door was tightly closed.

He even followed Luyu Village's experience and carefully checked the four corners of the small dining table, but still found nothing.

After a moment, Lu Yi pursed his lips helplessly, and the dimples on both sides of his cheeks were squeezed out.

【Nothing unusual.】

This was the conclusion Lu Yi came to after careful investigation.

However, just as he was kneeling on one knee and checking the flat surface under the dining table, an ultraviolet electric light swept across an object under Lu Yi's body, and he seemed to have caught a glimpse of something in a trance.

So he looked at it intently, carefully directing the light at the object - a small household trash can that can be found everywhere.

This thing was not originally on Lu Yi's key screening list, because the trash can is one of the most common functional tools in society, and it basically has no connection with missing persons.

However, it was this object that could not be more ordinary that made Lu Yi discover a detail that could not be ignored!

——The black plastic bag inside the trash can seemed to have traces of fingerprints on the edge!

……