I'm on the scramble

The climate above Yokohama is still mild, and when looking at the gaps in the white clouds, you can find a corner of the blue sky.The beautiful and comfortable scene makes it difficult for people to notice that this harbor city is gradually being infiltrated by invisible threats.

Three days had passed since the day when the members of the group attacked the detective agency. Since the members of the detective agency were threatened with their lives, the president immediately arranged for the staff without force value to be transferred outside the county.As for the remaining investigators, they moved their base to Wanxiangtang.

"Wow, I haven't been here for a long time, I feel so nostalgic."

Ah Li, who stepped into this ancient lecture hall again, couldn't help but let out a sigh of emotion.

It was active as the base of the Armed Detective Agency in its early days.However, there is no entrance and exit in the conventional sense. If you want to enter here, you must take the abandoned underground line.The geographical location is concealed and both offensive and defensive are available. Even if the enemy touches here and wants to capture it, it will need to pay a huge price for it.

The detective agency is a small business, staying here is to save the cost of the detective agency headquarters being destroyed by the enemy, and to save resources.

"Miss Li, have you ever worked here before?" The silver-haired boy leaning against the desk asked A Li curiously.

The base camp they are currently staying in is a progressive type.Push open the iron door set by the underground railway and go down, walk through the dark room all the way, and finally continue to explore down the stairs, and you can walk into a bright lecture hall.

There are many long tables and chairs neatly placed inside, and blackboards and desks are also equipped on the front wall. A group of people from the detective agency are staying in this lecture hall to discuss the next plan, and Dun is leaning on one of them. The edge of the long table spoke to her.

"Yes, besides you, there were several faces here that you hadn't seen before."

Ah Li rubbed his chin and recalled the little things that happened here before, especially remembering that there was a hacker named Huadai in the detective agency at that time, but unfortunately he resigned a long time ago and went home to squat at home, otherwise the persecuted targets would be all over the place now. So much fun.

Dun Wenyan nodded sadly, and tried to think about the scene at that time in his heart: "This is it..."

In the past few days, Dun and the others have recovered from their serious injuries, but the journey to find Jinghua was not smooth, which caused him to have such a downcast expression all the time.Seeing this, Ah Li went over and patted him on the shoulder, comforting the rookie who took all his faults on his shoulders.

"It's okay, don't put on such a depressed expression all the time, I will help bring Jinghua back. It's a good thing to get back her mood, but you don't want to damage your body because of this, everyone in the detective agency and I will worried."

This scene fell into everyone's eyes. The petite girl who was only as tall as the collarbone of the silver-haired boy was trying to touch his head on tiptoe, with an infinite gentleness like a spring breeze blowing on her face.

Dun finally realized something was wrong.

Facing the friendly attitude shown by the tea-chestnut-haired girl, he stood stiffly in place for a while, not daring to move, his purple and gold pupils blending purple and gold, observing her from head to toe.

(That's right, the costume has changed back to the original sweet short shirt and black skirt, and the height is also that height, why hasn't the head changed back?)

The girl who caught his eyes didn't know that Dun had such disrespectful thoughts in his heart.Seeing that he didn't speak, she couldn't help but tilt her head, and the bell on the cat ear headband rang with a clear and sweet sound.

"What's the matter?" A Li looked at him curiously, and said with concern, "Tell me if you feel uncomfortable."

A drop of cold sweat dripped from the corner of Dun's forehead just like that.Three seconds later, Dun, who couldn't bear the panic anymore, hurried away from her, accidentally kicked over a cardboard box on the way, and scrambled towards the orange-haired youth who was also facing this side with a doubtful life. around.

"Mr. Tanizaki, Ms. Gravel is broken! She is so gentle to people!"

Hearing that he dared to speak ill of the demon in the agency like this, the faces of almost everyone including Tanizaki changed, and they kept winking at him.

Although everyone knew that something was wrong with the other party, but daring to say it so bluntly would be courting death.

With a thump in his heart, Dun immediately realized what stupid thing he had done.He turned his head violently, his movements extremely stiff.

But the violent scenes they imagined did not happen.

Ah Li was startled for a moment, and then smiled sweetly.If we used to say that she was a little devil who bullied people at the slightest disagreement, now she can be said to be a little angel who came down from heaven, and the contours of her eyebrows and eyes are so soft and healing.

"You can't just say that people are broken, dun dun, language is a weapon that can't control the direction well, and it can easily hurt people." Ah Li, who had warned him as a senior, put his hands behind his back, still in the same mood. Canary-like beauty breaking out of the cage.

(Not angry, it seems that I am really not angry...)

Tanizaki said dully, "It's really broken."

Now Dun couldn't bear it anymore, he boldly rushed over and grabbed Ah Li's shoulders and shook: "Miss Li, you are wrong! Come to your senses! Don't you want to touch my meat pad? As long as you can return to the original state , I let you knead as many times as you want!"

In order to make the senior he admired return to his original appearance, Dun already betrayed his color at all costs.Unexpectedly, Ah Li still had the appearance of being illuminated by the holy light, holding his palm and squeezing it.

The boy's hands were well-jointed, and when he was touched by soft hands that did not belong to him, he blushed subconsciously, as if feathers had inadvertently sprouted from his feet, and his body was floating lightly in mid-air.

But before he experienced this feeling carefully, he found that his paw, which he loved so much in the past, was gently put down.

"Really, in fact, I don't want to embarrass you every time. If you don't want to, you can tell me that it doesn't matter. By the way, I recently met Fluffy, who I met before, and I will introduce Carl next time. Let me know, it is super smart and will send me flowers~"

A Li clasped his palms together, and said to him with bright eyes.When she thought of Carl's touch and that naive appearance, she couldn't help but burst into happy bubbles behind her back.

Perhaps because of the repulsion of the same kind, Dun was sensitive to the meaning of her words and became alert: "Karl is..."

For some unknown reason, Ah Li opened his mouth while sitting on the office chair with his legs crossed and swaying in disorder, and his tone lightly pierced his heart: "It is Ah Li's new favorite, you have lost the novelty. "

All of a sudden, the silver-haired boy who was revealed to have lost his sense of freshness felt struck by lightning.

"Y-that is to say... I fell out of favor?"

Dun pupil who heard the news, if someone could knock open his chest at this time, he would definitely see that his heart was broken into pieces at this time, and he was in great pain.

So in a blink of an eye, everyone saw this newcomer who had just joined the company, like an abandoned cat, crawling into an empty cardboard box that everyone discarded, squatting down and hugging his knees in aggrieved manner.He felt that the surrounding voices were far away from him at this moment.

Ah Li, who just made him feel disappointed and wronged, happened to turn his head and talk to Dazai, who was in charge of bringing back the Hong Kong gangster cadre before the torture.

"How about the Hong Kong gangster cadre who was arrested? Nothing happened, right?"

"No problem, Ms. Li, I have already discussed everything you are worried about with her."

Dazai, who perfectly solved the task, even patted her on the head with the palm of his hand, wanting to try to see if there was something wrong with her head: "Are you angry?"

It's different when I'm leaning against this young man in a sand-colored windbreaker, and when I'm leaning side by side with Dun Dun.According to the girl's height, the top of her head could barely reach the young man's chest.When he looked up, his figure was set off to be more petite and weak. Similarly, from a youth's perspective, the height taunt was also at the full level.

There seemed to be a crack in the expression of the girl who was being patted on the head and asked.

Ah Li maintained his smile and took a deep breath: "I advise you not to make trouble, be careful I will get angry."

Then Dazai seemed to be doing some experiment, frantically probing on the edge of danger, and patted again: "Now, are you angry?"

Ash: "..."

Dazai: "Hey..."

Just as the young man in the windbreaker extended his sinful claws to the top of her soft fluffy hair again, and the moment he was about to touch her hair, the slender wrist tied with bandages was suddenly grabbed by the girl and turned back.

"Don't be shameless!"

"Ow!"

In an instant, Dazai was like a mackerel who had lost his dream, and was ruthlessly thrown on the sofa by Ah Li, unable to get up.

"Hmph, if you dare to mess with me again, I'll break you in half!"

Ah Li clapped his hands at this guy expressionlessly, and wiped off the salt particles that did not exist in his palm after touching the mackerel, then turned his head, pushed open the door of the infirmary, and walked in with great strides.

Staying behind her, the colleagues who watched the whole scene of the killing breathed a sigh of relief, and then went on to do what they should do.

"Miss Li has finally returned to normal... I almost thought she was topped by someone."

Dazai, who watched everyone continue to complete their work without asking how much pain he endured for it, successfully turned the detective agency lady back to her original form, couldn't believe it.

"Hey, no one cares about me?"

The person who answered him was Kunikida, who replied coldly: "No, next one."

After closing the door to isolate the noisy outside, Ah Li came to the quiet infirmary upstairs.Lemon's bed seemed to be moved to the operating room because she and Xie Ye wanted to conduct human experiments at any time, and she stayed with her until now, and from time to time, she could hear the sound of gasping from the next door.

The infirmary is very quiet right now. In the cold and monotonous room full of the smell of medicine, the red-haired woman sitting on the edge of the bed in an elegant posture is the only bright color in the room.

She was holding the teacup, sipping the bitter tea in the cup elegantly, and the long flame-like red hair on her cheeks fell down softly, making her look beautiful and generous, but not vulgar.

"Oh, it seems that this small corner of my concubine's home also has lovely little guests visiting."

Hearing what she said, Ah Li also slowly approached her with curious eyes looking at a beautiful scroll before his eyes.

"I feel that the welfare of Hong Kong gangsters is good. The cadres are so handsome. Are they all as good-looking as you?"

"Hehe... Even if you flatter me, you won't get any benefits."

The red-haired woman sitting opposite her covered her lips with a plain white kimono sleeve and smiled: "If the detective agency is full of cute little guys like you, then I won't think this place is boring."

Ah Li's forward footsteps suddenly stopped, and at the same time as the toe of her shoe fell to the ground, the sound of the blade being cut off suddenly exploded in the air.

The shattered blade was thrown backhanded by Ah Li, sharply piercing the air next to the red-haired woman's ear, and then the blade fragment transformed by the supernatural power joined forces with the female warrior who quietly appeared behind the other party at some point. dissipated in the air.

Empty, as if nothing happened.

But Ah Li knew very well what kind of murderous intent flowed between them in just that short moment of fighting.

"Even if you're bored, don't take pleasure from me, pretty lady."

Ah Li slowly put the knife back into the scabbard.

On the opposite side, Koyo Ozaki seemed to be looking at someone again for the first time.

"So you are the girl staying next to Xiao Jinghua."

"Huh?" Just when Ah Li was wondering, Hong Ye took out a few photos that were slightly dusted from her arms.

It was a photoshoot taken by her and Jinghua before.

"No matter how I coerce that child, she still holds on to these photos... It's like holding on to the ray of light in her arms, for fear that this little thing of nothingness will disappear through her fingers. Presumably you are in her heart, It has very important weight.”

A Li stared at the photo in her hand and asked: "Dazai should have discussed with you about Kyoka, right? That's the condition for you to stay in the detective agency in peace?"

But Hongye glanced at her, but avoided answering.

"It's really pitiful. Light is always an elusive and illusory thing, and humans alone cannot capture it. That child is not suitable for living in the sun, because she was born a flower of darkness... But you selfishly let her see the light, once people see something better, they will never return to the original dark nest, and she has no way out."

"Who said that?" Ah Li retorted, "I think she is very suitable to stay here."

"She is able to see clearly what she wants and desires in the dark. It is because she is able to shine, so she can see her figure. It is too early to say that she is not suitable for living in the sun." a bit."

Hongye didn't give in, her expression turned cold: "If she is abandoned, she will fall into the abyss again. If you can't give her happiness, it would be better not to give her hope in the first place, isn't it?"

"Just like my former concubine..."

Ah Li understood the reason in her heart. She was referring to the question of whether Jinghua could pass the test for joining the detective agency.

It's just that Ah Li believes that he still has a little sense of people for the time being.

"So what. Even if she really made a mistake, whether it's the abyss or the mud, as many times as she falls in, just drag her out."

The eyes of the girl who said these words were upright and stable, like a star that would shine.

It's not the kind of eyes that people who haven't been through pain and don't know how to live in the dark.It is to know everything, but also to insist on oneself, to exist in the distant universe, and to burn one's own star blazingly.

The darker the sky, the brighter the stars.

Hongye stared at the girl in front of her for a long time, and then sighed softly from her red lips.

She handed the photo in her hand to A Li, as if entrusting her daughter's lifelong happiness to this girl.

"Xiao Jinghua, I'm counting on you."

Ah Li nodded, took back the photo of her and Jinghua, and rubbed it with her fingertips.

"Although keeping you here is the last resort in the plan, if possible, I don't want to use it, but now I have something else to ask."

"Do you know where Jinghua stayed before she was taken in by you?"

After getting the information she wanted and coming out of the office, Ah Li found that there were several people gathered in a circle outside the door, and she didn't know what conspiracy they were planning.

She walked a few steps closer, her little head wearing a cat ear headband poked in through the gaps in the crowd, and saw Dun Dun squatting in the cardboard box, repeating in a low voice, "I'm out of favor, I'm out of favor" The words, as if they were played badly by everyone.And Dazai was hanging a wooden board with the words "please adopt" around Dun Dun's neck, as if he was going to pack him up and throw him out as a stray cat.

Seeing Dazai who was making trouble again, Ah Li felt his fists stiffen slightly: "...what are you all doing!"