Brand Master [Comprehensive Yingmei]

Vera lives in a five-star hotel under the Wayne Group. This hotel focuses on "safety and comfort", ensuring that guests will never be in danger during their stay, so it has always been very popular.

The security measures in the hotel are meticulous, each floor has elevator control, the door locks have been specially encrypted, and each floor has dedicated service staff. Not only that, even the rooms are equipped with alarms, and the windows on the upper floors can only be opened. A slit.

The staff member Vera found happened to be in charge of this floor. He knew a little about all the guests, and when he saw the child in the room, his face changed slightly.

He vaguely remembered that Miss Vanessa seemed to be staying in the hotel alone, right?

What's more, the child in front of him was dressed in ragged clothes, with a yellow and thin face, at first glance, he was no different from a vagrant on the street—could this child be a thief?

However, there is no problem with the security on this floor. How did he break into Miss Vanessa's room?

Before the staff could figure it out, Vera standing behind him suddenly said:

"—Baby."

She looked at the little boy tenderly, and reproached in a friendly tone:

"Since you are in the room, why don't you open the door for mother?"

staff member:……

little boy:……

The staff asked dryly: "Ma'am, is this you, your child?"

Ms. Vanessa looks at most in her 20s, and she doesn't look like she has a six or seven-year-old son! ! ?

"correct."

Vera walked towards the little boy first, and sighed, "Hey, my little mud monkey has gone out to run around again, right?"

Although the tone was very brisk, the boy who was vigilantly hiding behind the luggage rack could still clearly see that Vera took out a beautiful pistol from her bag in front of him. She looked down, her eyes twinkling menacing light.

boy:"……"

He blinked and shouted quickly: "Mom!"

staff member:"……"

I always felt that something was wrong, but with an ostrich mentality of "there is absolutely no possibility of thieves on the floor I am in charge of", this person still left dubiously.

When the door was closed and locked automatically, Vera pulled a chair and sat on it leisurely. While playing with the gun, she looked at the boy and smiled:

"Okay, dear son, now, put down my computer and have a good talk with your mother."

boy:"………………"

The hotel staff guessed right, the little boy was originally a street vagrant.

His whole body was dirty, and he was as thin as a little monkey, but his eyes were as sharp and bright as a vicious little wolf cub.

Even if he was caught straight by Vera, he didn't panic at all. Instead, he took a step back vigilantly while holding the computer.

Only then did Vera realize that the boy was barefoot and without shoes, and his little feet stepped on the thick carpet of the hotel, leaving small black footprints.

Looking along the arrangement of small footprints - the boy really got in through the gap in the window of the room.

So here comes the question, the room Vera reserved is on the ninth floor, how did he bypass the security guards and escape the security equipment to the ninth floor?

The boy must be very agile and very clever.

Rarely praised in her heart, Vera took out a pair of handcuffs from the bag with lightning speed, and directly handcuffed the boy while he was not paying attention.

——Bear children are so powerful that they climbed to the ninth floor and got in. What if she made him escape due to her negligence?

"Hey! Let me go!"

Caught off guard by Vera handcuffed by the bed, and watching Vera take the computer, the boy was shocked, "What the hell are you trying to do?!"

"I should be the one asking you this question, right?"

Vera opened the notebook carefully, and after confirming that the computer was intact, she asked, "You want to steal my computer?"

"……so what!?"

The boy paused, and clicked his tongue angrily, "It's my bad luck, I didn't expect to be bumped by you, if you want to call the police and arrest me, go!"

Vera didn't speak, she squinted and looked at the boy quietly.

After a few minutes, after the boy moved his body more and more uncomfortably and turned his head away from Vera, she spoke softly:

"Didn't Ke Lun tell you before letting you come that the information I got from the police station is not in the computer?"

This light questioning sentence exploded in the boy's ear like a bomb, and he froze without trace, denying it categorically:

"What nonsense are you talking about? I always do it by myself, what the hell is Colum?"

Vera glanced at the boy noncommittally, with a half-smile.

"It seems that you are a little more righteous than the guy from Colun."

She stared at the boy who was visibly disturbed but masked his anger, and sighed,

"Let me guess... Colum told you that I just left the room and told you to hurry in and steal, right? But the question is, why do you think I came back so quickly?"

The boy visibly froze.

This dazed mind alone has revealed all the information. Vera raised her eyebrows and said in a deep voice:

"Don't you understand? Ke Lun is trying to blame you! Stupid son."

The woman's expression was too determined, and the timing of her return was really coincidental...so coincidental, it was impossible to say that there was no one behind the scenes.

The boy's face changed again and again, and he said coldly, "What do you want?"

...It really was Keren.

With two or three strokes, the most important information was easily extracted from the child's mouth. Vera blinked and secretly sighed dryly.

Of course, she wasn't surprised either.

Because Vera had been suspicious of the detective from the first time she met Collen.

Vera didn't pay too much attention to the details of the murder case—she wasn't a policeman or detective after all, and she wasn't interested in getting involved in the murder investigation as an outsider, but she could analyze it from the words, deeds and logic of Collen. .

The logic of Collen's words and deeds is actually very ridiculous.

He'd been working very hard all the way through dinner to prove that Batman was the murderer.

Inferred from his logic chain, but he has been deriving backwards from the conclusion of "Batman is the murderer", and constantly tracking the evidence to prove this conclusion.

Vera felt from the conversation with Ke Lun that Ke Lun is actually not like other people in the police station. He has a kind of dissatisfaction and condemnation of Batman "originating from the police position". any personal enmity.

So here comes the question: Why did Collen insist on blaming Batman for the murder?

——If it is not held on Batman's head, it will damage his own interests.

So Collen must prove this to media reporters, so he must tell everyone that Batman is the murderer.

During the dinner, Vera pierced Columb's so-called "evidence" so accurately and sharply, and stated that she was Batman's "secret lover", which would definitely make Collen feel a sense of crisis.

Of course Vera saw this, so she took the opportunity to answer, saying that she had obtained all the information from Director Gordon, and planned to investigate slowly by herself.

Sure enough, Colum was in a hurry.

Vera is still working as a reporter for the "Washington Herald". Naturally, it is impossible for him to kill people, so he can only forcibly create more "evidence".

For this reason, he definitely needs to know how many cases Vera has on hand.

With such an idea in mind, Vera deliberately agreed to Kelun's invitation, deliberately spared time to let people "take advantage of the loophole", and then deliberately called the hotel staff to catch the thief.

Of course, if Ke Lun didn't have this idea, Vera would just walk back and forth in the elevator twice, but Ke Lun really did it.

Vera, who caught the thief so smoothly, was also speechless:

I just lied like that casually, but I didn't expect anyone to believe it?

Speechless, she replied calmly: "Not at all, our goal is Kelun. If you don't want to be used as a scapegoat, tell us everything you know."

The boy looked at Vera blankly, sneered, and leaned against the corner of the wall.

Because he was handcuffed behind his back, his current posture looks like he was punished to stand in class.

"Collen only asked me to come and steal all your information, and I don't know anything about the rest."

He sneered, "If you want to know, I'm an orphan on the street. I have to do whatever the police officer in charge of my area asks me to do. Do I have a choice?"

"I'm not being hired by him, I'm working for him - if I'm not working for Coron, guess where I'm going to be sent?"

While speaking, the boy's already thin and dry body curled up into a small ball in the corner. He lowered his head and pursed the corners of his mouth tightly. His thick eyelashes covered his eyes like a small fan, and he looked clearly fragile. , but resisted the appearance of being strong.

Faced with this scene, no matter who it is, they will have an infinite silhouette for such a helpless, pitiful and miserable boy. Let alone questioning the boy, they probably have the idea of ​​releasing him on the spot.

Only Vera remained motionless.

She listened quietly to the boy's words, and after knowing the boy's tragic life experience, not only did she show no sympathy, but frowned in surprise.

Waiting patiently for the boy to finish speaking, she asked in confusion and bewilderment:

"So? Are you going to let Colum oppress you like this?"

"……What did you say?"

"I said, Ke Lun oppressed you like this. When you were doing things for him, didn't you have any resistance at all?"

Vera asked sharply.

"!"

The boy suddenly raised his head, his face felt like someone had slapped him in the face, and there was burning pain, "What do you mean? He is an adult police officer, what do you expect me to do?"

"What do I expect you to do? It should be what you should do for yourself, right? You are not required to confront Columbine head-on, but if you do things for him, you don't have the slightest grip on him?"

Vera shook her head, and asked earnestly and sharply:

"Are you going to act like a coward and be willing to be a hawk dog in Ke Lun's hands for the rest of your life, or just fight him to the death? You already have nothing. Are you afraid of losing anything?"

"Who the hell is a coward!"

The boy was furious. He opened his eyes wide and glared at Vera through gritted teeth, "Who said I would be willing to become Colum's dog? Who said I don't have anything against Colum?"

"…………"

Vera looked at the boy.

The boy stared at Vera.

After a long time, the boy who was extremely angry suddenly turned green, and slowly returned to his senses. He stared at Vera in disbelief: "You, you—"

"Yes, yes, it's me, it's me, baby."

Vera tilted her head, and spread her hands helplessly at the boy:

"...Okay, I lied to you."

The boy's face suddenly changed.

His face was red and green for a long time, and he was trembling with anger. After a long time, he gritted his teeth dejectedly:

"As an adult, don't you feel ashamed to lie to children?"

This woman is really blind to that face that looks like a fairy in the lake!What a beautiful voice!

big liar!Big trotters! !

"You are a child, don't you feel ashamed to steal from adults?"

Vera asked back strangely, she finally stood up and walked towards the boy, "Besides—"

Walking to the boy's side, Vera pretended not to notice the boy's sudden stiffness. She reached out to the boy's back and took out a thin piece of wire from his palm hidden behind his back.

"Besides—haven't you been playing the sympathy card to cheat me and take the opportunity to open the lock secretly?"

Taking the wire away, Wei La stretched out a finger and tapped the boy's forehead:

"Liar liar."

boy:"………………"

How did this woman know that he secretly opened the lock while talking! ! ?

The last hole card was also taken away by Vera, and the boy finally showed a depressed expression.

Vera didn't mean to embarrass the boy too much, she put the wire and the gun in her handbag, and said frankly:

"Don't think too much, my goal is indeed only Kelun. From this point of view, you and I should have the same goal? In this case, being open and honest is the best choice-don't worry, I'm not like Kelun , did not intend to use you to do business."

The boy glared at Vera again, and reluctantly acquiesced:

"If you want me to be honest, it's okay, but we have to be open and honest as you said, and stop cheating each other, lying and deceiving people, okay?"

- Don't fucking lie!Don't fucking lie!Stop fucking cheating on each other!Really tired!

"That's natural," Vera said seriously, "I lied to you before, it was because you lied first."

Boy: "... Then I'm really sorry!" (gritting teeth)

Finally, the cooperation was barely reached. The first step for the big and small to be open and honest is of course to exchange identities and officially introduce their names.

For this reason, the two spoke at the same time without hesitation:

Boy, quickly: "My name is Jackson, I have no last name, and I am a street orphan."

Vera, smiling: "My name is Vanessa, my surname is not important, I am a Washington reporter."