please don't believe me

【Main task: Solution of Baiyou

任务时间：XX年12月21日起至XY年01月30日（41天，已锁定A国时间）

Mission target: Matthew Lessman (locked)

Mission description: Dear magician, Shen Xiuyuan is in trouble, please help him!

Success Condition: Please bring back Matthew Lessman safely! (locked)

Task Reward: One of the essential elements for the system to break away!Collect all seven and you will be able to leave this system completely and return to the original world!

Task reminder: There are still 41 days before the task deadline.

Additional side tasks: 1. (Required) Please confirm "Shen Xiuyuan's troubles" within 24 hours. -Completed (task objective confirmed, success condition confirmed)

2. Gambling games.Identify other hosts and report the existence of "heresy" to the system, once every seven days, and update the judgment opportunity 7*24 hours after the judgment.Note that if the judgment is wrong, the system will immediately report your location to other hosts; if it is successfully judged by other hosts, this task will fail immediately, and the main task will fail immediately! - recognition success: 0. 】

"...I never expected that the system would take things about the world we live in as tasks. Could it be that after you guessed it once, you wanted to surprise us? It's still an open task, and it's like letting us dig a hole for ourselves." Jump in." Dai Bowen said to the man beside him as he stepped on the path between the lawns, "Originally, the 'task objective' and the 'success condition' were both 'unknown', but Lin Tong said over the phone that 'Matthew is missing. ', the task panel immediately changed."

"You can't ignore the virtues of the system itself, it must have smelled it." Shen Xiuyuan replied, "It just makes you look like you have a choice."

"So, is the system equal to politicians?" Dai Bowen twitched the corner of his mouth. "There is also betting, we don't know whether the opponent is a 'local' or a 'far away'. If it is a 'local', it will be bad." gone."

Fully integrated into the environment, no different from others, means that it is difficult for Dai Bowen to pick out this "heresy".

"You're a 'local' anyway. So it's either you win or draw, nothing to worry about. And it's just a play-off, it doesn't have to be played."

"Once you hit it, it's a 'sudden death' game, isn't it?" Dai Bowen turned to look at the man, "Sorry, I didn't mean to ruin your Christmas."

As soon as the mission was confirmed, Shen Xiuyuan immediately canceled the original itinerary, and the two of them flew to country A immediately.The planes both landed at [-]:[-] p.m. local time in country A, and an hour later, they appeared at the gate of the first target.

Fortunately, when they were still flying across the ocean in the air, Lin Tong had arranged for the reception in country A, otherwise they would be in a hurry.

"Don't apologize, honey, you shouldn't apologize to me." Shen Xiuyuan stretched out his hand and patted the other person's back, which is both a comfort between friends and a lover, "I am bothering you, and it is a big trouble. But we will Solved, I'm sure you can, like every time before."

Dai Bowen smiled at him.

"I asked the system. It is said that if this mission fails, it will only let me do other missions instead of going back to the timeline... You understand what this means."

"Affecting tasks." Shen Xiuyuan stood still in front of the steps, looking up at the scene in front of him, "The result is the fact."

In front of them was a common house in country A, with a white house surrounded by lawns and two steps down from the porch.The upper part of the door is a glass pane, and a Christmas wreath hangs on the inside, reflecting the lights in the house, bringing a Christmas atmosphere.

However, its owner probably has no time to enjoy Christmas for the time being.

"Another piece of bad news." Dai Bowen stopped next to Shen Xiuyuan, and also took off his sunglasses and put them in his inner pocket, "There are still a few hours left, and the time given to me by the system is only 40 days. If this is the time limit for a rescue mission... ..."

"Matthew may not live to 41 days."

Shen Xiuyuan stepped up the steps and rang the doorbell.

"Ms. Lesman, maybe you don't know yet." Dai Bowen turned the pen in his hand, but stared at the person on the opposite sofa, "Although you think your actions have nothing to do with Matthew's disappearance." It has nothing to do with it, but if you don't cooperate with me to think about it carefully, there will never be any positive progress in this matter."

The blond woman looked away under his gaze.She looked at Shen Xiuyuan who was sitting next to her, and moved her body uncomfortably: "I've already told the police officers about everything, it's the same as last time. It's just that Matthew has a criminal record, and they think... "

"I will listen carefully to the police officer later." Dai Bowen raised the end of his pen, "Now, tell me what you did on the day Matthew disappeared.

"From beginning to end, use your own timeline to describe it, and don't miss any details you can think of."

Meera Lessman, Matthew's aunt, described what happened to her throughout the day on December 12.

To put it simply, she got up in the morning and made breakfast for herself and Matthew, and then Matthew went out.She asked Matthew where he was going, and Matthew responded with "leave me alone", and Meera said "it's like their every day conversation".Meera didn't get off work until late at night, so she continued to catch up on sleep after breakfast until she got up at noon.She made a quick lunch, saved a portion in the fridge for Matthew to eat when he got home, and went to work.

The place where Mela works is the warehouse of a large shopping mall, and the daily work is unchanging, so boring that it is hard to remember.Even though Dai Bowen repeatedly asked Meera to say some details, which are not important, Meera racked her brains and still couldn't say a third sentence that could be called an "incident".And the two so-called "details", one is related to the tape, and the other is the large packaging carton.

Mela works late into the night and leaves on time.When she got home, it was pitch black.At first she didn't care, because Matthew didn't have the habit of leaving lights for her, let alone waiting for her.But when she saw that the food in the refrigerator was still intact, she decided to go upstairs to see Matthew.

Matthew basically kept Meera out of his room, locking it whether he was in it or not.In order not to provoke the irascible adolescent boy, Meera knocked on the door and called his name at first, but there was no response from inside.Whether it was a boy who opened the door with an impatient expression, or angrily hitting the back of the door with something to say "don't bother me", she had never met.So Meera found a spare key to the room, and finally found that there was no one she was looking for in the room.

Dai Bowen wrote the last stroke: "Excellent, Ms. Lessman. Now, repeat it in reverse, from the end to the beginning."

"What?" Meera frowned, and turned her head to look at Shen Xiuyuan.

Shen Xiuyuan also looked at her: "Do it."

Meera pursed her lips, then let go, flashbacking.

Dai Bowen checked the key points recorded one by one, and finally determined that the order was almost the same, and Meera should have told the truth.

Then he asked again, "What time was it when you went to see Matthew?"

"Around 1:20 in the morning, because I called Officer Clark at 1:24 and asked her for help to ask if Matthew was staying at the house of his friends." Meera replied, "I have also answered this question. Officer Clark."

"Did you file a report at that time?"

"No, not at that time... I just wanted to ask Matthew if he had gone elsewhere. I don't have the number of Matthew's friends. Officer Clark was involved in the last time, uh, that investigation, and she was able to contact those boys. and their parents." Mela said, "Half an hour later, Officer Clark replied to me that there was no trace of Matthew at the boys' home and suggested that I report the crime."

After reporting the case, Meera immediately notified Shen Xiuyuan who was far away in country C.

Dai Bowen said: "Matthew is only 15 years old. His disappearance should be reported and filed immediately. Officer Clark made the right decision. What will the police say after that?"

"Like I said, Matthew has a record, and I don't think they're going to be that diligent..."

"Hey, Meera, I have a suggestion - let's follow the rules of the game where I ask you to answer, and don't think about whose responsibility it is for the time being, okay?" Dai Bowen interrupted her again, "Now, tell me the police Informing you of the situation."

"I called this morning and Officer Clark said that the investigation had just started because people from the forensics department only came to work in the morning. I called again in the evening and the reply was that the surveillance video hadn't been finished yet, but they will try their best. Meera replied, "Actually, who knows?"

Dai Bowen ignored her dissatisfaction: "Have they talked to those little boys again?"

"Looked it up," Meera said. "The boys said they'd been at the skatepark all day and didn't see Matthew until they got home at sunset."

"That's it? Didn't you ask them if they knew where Matthew had gone?"

"'No useful information' - Officer Clark's exact words."

"..." Dai Bowen paused, "Okay, let's talk about Officer Clark."

Dai Bowen and Shen Xiuyuan came out of the house.

Street lamps and Christmas lights of various houses dotted the streets, and the north wind blew across the face, making it bitingly cold.They parked on the sidewalk and waited for the car. Dai Bowen turned his head to look at the Christmas wreath on the door: "She's a bit weird."

When Shen Xiuyuan heard the words, he also turned to look sideways: "Did she lie?"

"Not yet, or rather, I haven't seen it yet." Dai Bowen narrowed his eyes, "You have to find someone to watch her."

"It has already been done. In fact, because of what happened last time, we are preparing to sue her and ask the court to transfer Matthew's custody to me." Shen Xiuyuan said, "However, it is still a step late."

His voice was low, revealing his unhappiness and secret regret.

"It's a blessing in disguise." The system is still counting down normally, Dai Bowen is not worried about Matthew's safety for the time being, he shrugged, "Perhaps after this, the rebellious boy will be willing to obediently go with you?"

"Let a minor run around outside... Although the folk customs in this place are loose, it doesn't mean that the law allows them to do so. Ms. Raisman is doomed, and she will not receive any alimony." Shen Xiuyuan said , then turned around and asked, "Then, where should we go next?"

"The original plan." Dai Bowen helped Shen Xiuyuan straighten his scarf, "Go and talk to those skateboard boys."

"The police agree, the guardian is present, and interrogation is prohibited. This is the "Law on the Protection of Minors." Shen Xiuyuan looked towards the end of the road. In the darkness, his car was slowly approaching. There is a reply."

Dai Bowen also looked over: "It seems that Ms. Raisman is not the only one who is dissatisfied with the police station, huh?"

The off-road vehicle finally stopped in front of them, the driver leaned in the direction of the co-pilot, and said to Shen Xiuyuan outside the car: "Mr. evidence."

"Ah." Dai Bowen opened the back seat door, "It seems that you have added another reason for your dissatisfaction with them."

Shen Xiuyuan got into the car from the other side: "I will think of a way."

"No need." Dai Bowen closed the car door and took out his mobile phone, "I'll 'make arrangements'."