Conan: About the fact that I have a black brother

Amid the system's explosion, Lin Xiaochen finally gave up his plan to set fire: "I won't resort to such means this time, but I reserve the right to set fire."

The system was speechless and typed out in silence: […………………]

Ten p.m.

Under the cover of night, the sky and the earth were pitch black, and a heavy snow fell unexpectedly.

Lin Xiaochen sneaked into the bushes outside the orphanage, clicked on the panel to check his [Stealth lv.max], and then looked at the goose feather snow falling from the dark sky.

Steal the wind but not the moon, steal the rain but not the snow.

It's windless and snowing tonight, so it's not a good time to go on a secret search.

The system advised in my mind: [Host, why do you have to take risks? Wouldn't it be better to wait for the official letter of cooperation to come down and then go in openly? ]

Lin Xiaochen flatly refused: "It will be too late then."

[Ah? Why?! Ah! Host, stop! ]

Lin Xiaochen took three or two steps over the bushes, flipped over the crumbling earth wall, and sneaked into the orphanage's backyard in a dignified manner.

He walked slowly and gracefully along the wall towards the dean's office.

"The dean is still in the office."

Suddenly, a child's whispers came from behind.

Lin Xiaochen's hair stood on end. He turned around and bumped into a pair of golden eyes. The eyes were very bright, like fallen stars in the dark night.

"Are you here to look for something? Not tonight. The dean will not leave the office tonight."

The boy said this. He was wearing thin, ill-fitting trousers that exposed half of his ankles, and an overly large sweater that exposed half of his shoulders to the cold air.

Lin Xiaochen didn't care about anything else and walked forward to help him put his clothes in order. He took out a pin from somewhere to hold the clothes, and covered the boy's cold hands with his big hands: "Why don't you go back to bed?"

"Mr. Policeman hasn't slept either." The boy tilted his head, "Why do you want me to rest?"

"My name is Lin Xiaochen, you can just call me Haya. What's your name?" Lin Xiaochen half-knelt and looked into the boy's eyes seriously.

"Do I have to give out my own name after the other person tells me his or her name?" the boy asked.

"That's the theory," Lin Xiaochen said gently, "Then, can you tell your uncle why you don't want to say it?"

"Do I have to answer your question?"

"No need." Lin Xiaochen laughed, "You are such a strange kid."

"They say that to me, too." The boy blinked his eyes. "They always say I'm weird."

This awkward look is just like the little bastard's behavior when he was a child.

Lin Xiaochen thought silently.

"Why..." Lin Xiaochen was about to ask clearly when he saw a figure passing behind the house in the distance. He picked up the little boy and hid in the shadow of the corner.

The little boy didn't cry or make a fuss. He let his hands hang down at his sides and obediently let Lin Xiaochen hold him and jump and leap.

"You can hug my neck, it will be more comfortable." Lin Xiaochen whispered in the boy's ear, "Are you cold?"

The boy hesitated for a moment, then hugged Lin Xiaochen's neck obediently. He sniffed: "...It's not cold..."

My torso is clearly a little hot.

Lin Xiaochen sighed and hugged her tighter.

In order to facilitate movement, he was wearing night camouflage today. Once he took off his jacket, only the vest was left inside.

——There’s no other way, I’ll just hold you tighter, I can’t freeze to death.

Lin Xiaochen comforted himself.

After the figure disappeared, Lin Xiaochen quickly emerged from the shadows and jumped onto the low wall. "Hey, I don't care why you came out, but it's too cold now. I'll take you back to the dormitory. Don't tell anyone that I was here, okay?"

"Okay." The boy nodded, "Uncle, will you come over tomorrow?"

"As long as you don't tell anyone, I'll come to see you tomorrow, okay?" Lin Xiaochen held the child in one hand and slowly walked towards the classroom. He remembered that the dormitory was next to the classroom.

“……” The boy was silent.

When the boy's feet touched the wooden floor, he turned back to the empty yard and whispered, "My name is Xi, you must remember it."

The sound was swallowed by the snowflakes, and I don’t know if anyone heard it.

The snow was falling heavier and heavier, covering all the traces left by Lin Xiaochen.

There was no light in the dean's office, but Lin Xiaochen still relied on his excellent night vision to see the person inside through the gap in the window frame.

The man opened the bookcase behind him, took out a heavy object that looked like a book, and put another similar one in.

—Are you swapping evidence? It seems I'm late.

Lin Xiaochen was just thinking about it when the man suddenly became alert, raised his hand to look towards the window, opened the desk drawer next to him, and took out a gun from it.

Lin Xiaochen restrained his breath and slowly moved towards the grocery room, no, the archive room. The moment the man pushed open the window, he went behind the archive room.

It was also because of the man's action of pushing the window that Lin Xiaochen saw the man's face clearly - it was Jiang Shoujianyi!

How could it be him?

Lin Xiaochen couldn't believe it, but seeing that the man had seen the footprints on the ground and was about to chase him, Lin Xiaochen had to leave quickly.

[I just can’t sneak today]

The system spoke coldly in my mind: [Now it’s okay. If you expose yourself, the other party might just run away.]

"I won't run away," Lin Xiaochen said as he ran. "Running away at this juncture will only make the police more suspicious of him. Besides, where can he run to?"

[He ran away. You can't catch him, but you can't do anything to him, right?]

"If he wanted to run, he would have already run away. He ran away before the police arrived." Lin Xiaochen went back to the direction of the apartment. "There is someone behind him. That person will not allow him to leave."

——Even if it means death.

The next day, the police received a report from the orphanage that important items were missing.

Lin Xiaochen and the other two drove there again.

On the way, Yui Uehara said in surprise: "We were just trying to find an excuse to go over, but suddenly the orphanage was robbed."

"It's hard to say whether they are destroying evidence and pretending it was stolen." Yamato Gansuke snorted, "The Takahashi couple went to the police station again. I don't know if Gao Ming can handle it."

When the three arrived, the children had just finished their meal and were making a snowman in the yard, with messy footprints on the ground.

When Yamato Gansuke and Uehara Yui saw this scene, their blood pressure immediately rose.

——How can they extract the footprints like this? !

The dean and Jiang Shoujian were watching the children playing in the yard. When they saw the three men coming in, they walked over and said, "Gentlemen police, we were robbed last night. Please help us."

Yamato Gansuke was furious: "You know how to call the police but don't know how to preserve the evidence? It snowed yesterday, and the footprints were such a crucial clue, and you just destroyed it like that?!"

"That policeman." Jiang Shoujian said awkwardly, "In fact, it snowed heavily yesterday. When the director discovered the theft, there were only footprints of me and the director in the entire orphanage, so -"

"Just because you didn't discover anything doesn't mean the police didn't discover anything else!" The eldest brother pinched the bridge of his nose with a stern attitude.

"Forget it, there's no point in talking more. Agan, let's go in and take a look first. In case there are any left, it will be too late if they are destroyed later." Although Uehara Yui was trying to persuade, her tone was cold and it was obvious that she was also very angry.

Yamato Gansuke sighed and walked towards the dean's office.

Lin Xiaochen was about to catch up, but he saw through the open window the boy sitting in the corner with a full plate of food in front of him.

——Your name is Xi, right?