Star City Detective I Royal Cat and Mice

Bai Yan confirmed an axiom - time is relative, not absolute.

If I needed an example to make a point, it would be right now, when the time spent waiting for the knife in Rhyme's hand to stab him in some part of the body has become extraordinarily long.It took so long that, in the end, Bai Yan was even a little impatient.So he opened his eyes a little bit, because he was sure he heard something coming from around him.

"I don't understand—" Lime said with an aggrieved expression, his tall figure really didn't match the aggrieved expression.He was squatting there with his trousers rolled up and rubbing his legs.The sound Bai Yan heard was the screeching sound of the fabric of Lime's waterproof pants being crumpled.

"Don't fight back?" Bai Yan stared at Lime and asked.He tried to keep his voice calm and his exhalation even, so as to cover up his almost frightened state.

"Fight back?" Lime snorted, "I'm a special soldier, well, now I'm a special soldier with one leg. But even with one leg, if I fight back, you will still die. Then, Zhan Qingyun will kill you when you die I."

"Of course he will—because if I die, you will never get a penny from my father!" Bai Yan tried to remind Lime in another way that he must live.

"One cent? What money?"

"Okay, stop pretending, okay?" Bai Yan snorted disdainfully, "Isn't it just for money that you kidnapped me?"

"Kidnapping you?" Lime said while continuing to rub his legs, "I really don't understand what Zhan Qingyun wants you to be, a little white mouse who has a bad temper and doesn't know how to respect others."

"The little white mouse you are talking about—what is it?" Bai Yan asked tentatively after swallowing his saliva.Because this title made Bai Yan have some bad associations - cold laboratories, blood-stained cotton balls, broken needles, scalpels, hemostats... What should they do if they really don't want money?Bai Yan didn't dare to imagine any more.

Lime stopped rubbing his legs, he took two steps forward with his crutches, moved a pumpkin beside Bai Yan, made a small space, and sat down beside Bai Yan.Bai Yan's body was completely caught in the shadow of Lime's huge body, which made him subconsciously move a little to the side.When Lime sat down, he casually handed the boning knife in his hand to Bai Yan.

"The children who stayed with Zhan Qingyun, in order not to reveal their identities, we call them guinea pigs. I made it up, how about it?" Lime took out a tin cigarette case with peeling paint from his jacket pocket , took out a cigarette, lit it, took a puff and said, Bai Yan held the handle of the knife and looked at Lime inexplicably.

Obviously, this was not enough for Bai Yan to figure out what a "little white mouse" was, but what Lime did made him somewhat less wary, and he waited for Lime to continue talking.Lime took a puff of the cigarette, and then took another puff, and Lime didn't speak again until the whole back kitchen smelled of burning.

"I don't know how to explain Zhan Qingyun and what he did to you. He helped those children, rescued them, and then arranged the rest. Wait, go get that plate—" Rhyme As he spoke, he pointed to the cupboard by the door. There was indeed a plate there. If Bai Yan could still recall, it was placed there when Lime entered the door just now.Bai Yan got up and walked over. There were a few egg rolls on the plate. Some cress and shrimps were rolled in the egg skins, cut into small chunks, and some salad juice was poured on it.

"Try it," Rhyme said.Bai Yan hesitated for a moment, he felt that he had every reason to question whether there was any conspiracy wrapped in this exquisite food.

"Okay, I apologize." Lime saw Bai Yan's hesitation, so he said, "I did what happened at noon, what I asked you to sprinkle in the milkshake was not cheese powder, or in other words, it wasn't just cheese powder. There is something in it that can make you relax. As for why this thing appears on the dining table, if you can deeply understand the work that Zhan Qingyun and I worked on before, you can probably understand it."

"What kind of work did you do before?" Bai Yan asked.It's another new problem, under the condition that Bai Yan has not understood the problem of "little white mouse" at all.

"Wait, I need his permission to answer this." After finishing speaking, Lime took out his mobile phone from his pocket and sent a text message to Zhan Qingyun, writing—"I can tell him about you what?"

"No." Soon, Zhan Qingyun replied in a text message.So Lime raised the phone in front of Bai Yan, shrugged, and showed him the two communication records.

"Well—but I think I'll suffocate if I don't talk to you," Rhyme muttered.While muttering, he dialed Zhan Qingyun's phone number.

"Hey! Zhan Qingyun! That kid has gone crazy!" Lime shouted in horror immediately after the call was connected.Then he picked up a frying pan and threw it on the floor, "My God, my other leg is hurt too, I can't stop him! He is banging on the door, it looks like he is going to get out of here."

"Stop him! Stop him! Lime!" Zhan Qingyun shouted directly on the other end of the phone, "Tell him! I will explain everything to him! Stop! Tell him to stop..." In the end, It can be heard that Zhan Qingyun's voice is almost pleading, "Lime! Find a way!"

"I can't move much! You know that! What can I do!"

"Find a way! Don't let him get hurt! Don't let him leave! You must have a way! Whatever way you can, just calm him down!"

"I'll try my best! I'll try my best!" After speaking, Rhyme hung up the phone.

"Now, we have a whole night of chatting time, I think we can talk about Zhan Qingyun now." Lime's face recovered from panic to a smile in an instant, and Bai Yan suddenly felt that what Zhan Qingyun said was right——Lime is really A "good teammate".

"Then, let's start with the question you are most interested in." Lime put down his phone, took an egg roll from the plate, and handed one to Bai Yan.

"The people who were brought here by Zhan Qingyun - what happened in the end?" Bai Yan wanted to know too much, but the first question he blurted out even he felt a bit out of order. "I mean, the students he brought here—"

"What students?"

"That's right, those, what you call guinea pigs—"

"Are you kidding me? How could Zhan Qingyun bring his students here."

"Then I-"

"So, this is also my strange thing. You are different from those little white mice, not at all." Bai Yan felt a little strange in his heart.He felt that there seemed to be something wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.

"Has he and those people, I mean, the mice, done something, something, beyond the scope of normal communication?"

"Beyond—normal? Interaction? Category?" Lime smacked Bai Yan's question, "What exactly do you mean?"

"That's, I think, like, like, going to ___ or something?"

"My God!" Rhyme almost exclaimed, "you're so straightforward."

"Wouldn't it be better to be straightforward?"

"Yes, it's better to be straightforward. Come—" Lime handed another egg roll to Bai Yan, "Cheers to straightforwardness!"

"I really don't know why you have such an idea. But as far as I know, the kind of thing you said is beyond the scope of normal communication—" Bai Yan listened carefully.

"—none of them."