I am aging gracefully in the world of famous books

In the hotel room, Ace slowly flipped through the materials of Lieutenant Commander James Albert. He read two thin sheets of paper for more than ten minutes.

Pei Xiang nestled comfortably on the rocking chair, gnawed on an apple and said:

"The information I have collected is not much, and it is all known to everyone on the surface. For more in-depth and detailed information, you need to investigate it yourself."

"I must start with this playboy?" Ace raised his eyebrows slightly.

Pei Xiang smiled and nodded, and said leisurely:

"Don't think I'm embarrassing you. Ace, if you can overcome your personal likes and dislikes and objectively analyze the information in hand, you will find that Major Albert is a very suitable candidate. A prodigal son like him , Occasionally do something out of line, people will take it for granted. In this way, you have more room to play."

Ace glanced at Pei Xiang, who was eating fruit seriously after speaking, and slowly stroked the paper with Albert's background information with his slender fingers, thoughtfully...

At [-]:[-] the next morning, Pei Xiang was awakened by a somewhat pungent smell of powder mixed with alcohol.She reluctantly opened her sleepy eyes, staring dazedly at the tall figure standing on the other side of the room.

——Standing so far away, is it because you are afraid of being beaten?

"Amy, I have a plan and I need your assistance."

Pei Xiang shrank back under the quilt, slowly closed her eyes, pretending she didn't hear anything.

Ace didn't say anything more, just walked a few steps closer to the bed, then stood by the bed and looked down at the ball wrapped in the quilt.

After a while, Pei Xiang turned over as if admitting defeat, and muttered:

"What do you need my help for? Tell me, but you have to stay away from me before this, the smell on your body is too pungent."

Ace walked around the end of the bed to the window and pushed open a latticed window to let the morning breeze into the hotel room.

"I have been watching James Albert all night. His nocturnal life is as boring as every playboy. Except for tobacco and alcohol, he is a woman. He doesn't leave the entertainment venue until after three o'clock in the morning, and then he and his new lover Ser Lena has returned to her residence in Lanenton."

Pei Xiang sat up hugging the quilt, and put on a large and soft dressing gown.

"Ace, if I hadn't known that you had been to all the casinos and bars in our area when you were thirteen or fourteen years old, and you were used to some scenes, I wouldn't dare to let you out alone to observe that Al Bert."

"I'm not really 16 years old," Ace went to the bathroom to help Pei Xiang clean up the washing utensils, "My memory is gradually coming back, Amy."

This sentence aroused Pei Xiang's interest, and she jumped out of bed immediately, and ran to Ace with her slippers on to talk to him. At this time, she didn't dislike the various smells on his body anymore.

"What do you remember recently? Do you remember the experience we lived together after you were born? What happened to us later, why did we leave the magical world and come here?"

"No, I haven't recovered the memory after becoming the elf Cuicui."

Ace shook his head and handed the towel to Pei Xiang.

"Or, I suspect that there is another reason why I became an elf. Because in my memory, I seem to have lived on the bottom of the sea for a long time, accompanied by endless fighting and powerful transformation. Of course, Creatures on the bottom of the sea are also intelligent, so, in non-combat peace, we also need to manage our own lives just like humans, with love and hate, separation and separation."

"Life at the bottom of the sea?" Pei Xiang was stunned for a moment, "Everything you see...isn't it from the perspective of magic seeds?"

"No." Ace said with certainty.

He turned around and exited the bathroom, ready to wait outside for a while.However, Pei Xiang's next question made him temporarily stop leaving.

"Back then, um, I mean... when you were in the water, did you have any other names?"

After a few seconds of silence, Ace replied meaningfully:

"There should be, but I can't remember it at all. Every time I try to remember my own name, there is a very heavy force that prevents me from continuing to think."

Pei Xiang paused after washing up.Before she had time to wipe off the water droplets on her cheeks, she quickly raised her long, wet eyelashes and looked at Ace at the door, her eyes sparkling.

The two people's eyes met, and suddenly they were stunned.

Needless to say, Pei Xiang knew that she and Ace had thought of one place.So, she continued to act badly, and said unhurriedly:

"The name is sometimes the most crucial clue. In the past few years, my memory recovery has been stagnant. The past pictures are always intermittent, and some important information is always missing. Perhaps, the correct way to clear the fog is to Get your real name back."

Ace looked back at Pei Xiang, and then added with her analysis and deduction:

"If the name Cui Cui can't fully represent my past, what about the name Amy?"

Pei Xiang sighed, before closing the bathroom door, she said with a smile:

"Like you, besides Amy, I should also have an identity that makes me more identifiable. Unfortunately, I haven't recalled it yet."

"It's a pity." Ace replied in a low voice.

After that, the two tacitly stopped mentioning the topic of memories and names.

By the time Pei Xiang finished washing and sitting on the body of the Mirror Emperor Wei ⑹ Baoaisi, the mixed smell had almost dissipated.

He sat quietly on the chair by the window and looked at Chen Xi, without any extra expression, like a silent and cold sculpture of a god, with deep and indifferent pupils, which completely lost the childish freshness of a teenager.

Pei Xiang was stunned for a moment because of the sense of distance that Ace inadvertently revealed. Immediately, she snorted softly, waved at the man imitating the sculpture, and asked unhappily:

"Ace, you deliberately left a strong smell of powder, tobacco and alcohol on your body to wake me up, did you come up with some ingenious plan?"

The moment Pei Xiang spoke, the indifference and alienation quietly dissipated from Ace's eyebrows, and he became that young human being with joy, anger, sorrow and joy again.Although she has a stable and precocious personality, she still has all kinds of petty vivacity and petty calculations deep in her heart.

For example, during the "examination", try to drag the person who made the question into the water, and when "suffering and suffering", you must not leave the one who watched the excitement.

"I'm sorry Amy, I know that what you did this morning will definitely disturb your rest. But after some careful consideration, I think that since Teacher Amy promised to seriously assess me, it's better to watch the whole process, otherwise how can I Give the most objective and true score?"

Pei Xiang smiled softly, thinking that the future will last forever.

Ace smiled too.Afterwards, he again estimated the possibility of Pei Xiang agreeing to the plan, and then slowly said:

"Amy, while spying on James Albert last night, I overheard a conversation, E inspired."

"Give you the inspiration to complete the assessment task?"

"Yes. Miss Serena, Mr. Albert's new lover, said that she especially wanted to see what the cruiser's club that only entertained male naval officers was like. She wanted to see the layout, decoration and the men in the club. The way she looked when she was relaxing. She wished Mr. Albert would sneak her into the club, and thought that would be very exciting and exciting.

"Miss Serena has been obsessed with this matter for half the night. At the beginning, Mr. Albert still had some sense. Although he was very moved, he never let go of Miss Serena's request. , he promised a diamond brooch and two hats of the latest fashion from Paris.

"Later, the two of them drank too much, and the lady whispered a few provocative whispers in Albert's ear, and Albert agreed to the matter in a flash of his head. But in my opinion, after drinking After waking up, Mr. Albert will probably regret it very much, but he doesn’t know whether he will bite the bullet and fulfill the agreement, or pretend that he doesn’t remember what he promised.”

These words made Pei Xiang's thoughts spin, she carefully observed Ace's expression through the mirror on the dressing table, and asked tentatively:

"Ace, what do you mean...Could it be that you want to dress up as Serena and follow Albert into the Cruiser Club? No, it's not right, you just said that you hope I can watch the whole process or participate in it, then I... ...Hey, is it your plan that you play Albert and let me play Serena?"

Ace nodded happily.

Pei Xiang frowned, and said carefully:

"I don't quite agree with your plan. You don't know much about James Albert just based on one night's observation. It is barely feasible to pretend to be him occasionally to bluff people. But don't forget Well, among the members of the Cruiser Club, there are Albert's bosses, colleagues, friends, and even relatives, once you meet those acquaintances, you just need to have a little in-depth conversation for a while, and you will be suspected."

"That's true, so we don't choose to go in when the club is open."

Pei Xiangxiu raised her eyebrows and waited for the next article.

Ace explained with a smile:

"Albert is not willing to agree to Serena's request because he understands that once he does that, it will be a deep offense to the gentlemen who were present and secretly observed and commented. If the truth is revealed later, it will offend him Many people, when the time comes, it will not just be a slightly outrageous incident, it will become a scandal if it is not done well.

"However, what if 'Albert' brings Miss 'Serina' into the club in disguise while the club is still closed? Wouldn't that not only satisfy the curiosity of the loved one, but also not offend? The privacy rights of other members."

Ace only gave a general outline of the plan, and Pei Xiang immediately connected every necessary link in her mind. After quickly assessing the feasibility, she said with a slight smile:

"Well, I sort of see what you're up to. Indeed, that would give us good reason to visit the club from start to finish, and to ask open questions of the attendants.

"And afterward, we can also use the matter as an excuse to ask the staff present not to mention it again, as if nothing happened. Well, maybe when we leave New York, that Mr. Albert I didn't even know that 'I' had done such an interesting thing again.

Well, our destination for a while should be Fortes.After visiting that gentleman, we will go to Major Albert's residence and take a car from his door... By the way, I guess the major and his lover are still asleep, and at noon Is it right? "

"Of course, I can make sure of that."

While talking, Pei Xiang had finished arranging his hair, Ace got up and left the room, and Pei Xiang began to change clothes.

Afterwards, they went to Fortes' house together, reprocessed the drawings that were to be traded at 07:30 this morning, and then sealed the file bag again before returning it to Fortes.

"I don't understand why you have to do it again." Fortes muttered.

Pei Xiang glanced at Ace who proposed the plan, and smiled without saying a word.

After leaving Fortes' house, Pei Xiang and Ace went to Albert's residence again...

At 10:[-] in the morning, Pei Xiang and Ace witnessed the sealed document bag being brought into the Cruiser Club.

At 45:[-], Ace, disguised as Albert, and Pei Xiang, who was disguised as a woman but looked like a pretty girl, appeared in front of the main entrance of the club.

"Mr. Albert!"

The waiter who came to open the door looked in surprise at the officer who shouldn't be here at this time, and the beautiful woman behind him who was wearing men's clothing but was trying to hide it, and suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart .

"Go in and talk."

"This……"

Not allowing the waiter to refuse, "Albert" led the person into the Cruiser Club with his head held high, and said to the female companion beside him in front of the waiter:

"That Circe, Circe, you are young now, but sooner or later you will grow into a man, and then you will be able to join a similar club. However, it is true that it will be several years before you grow up, so, for To satisfy your curiosity, baby, I decided to show you around the clubs I often visit."

Pei Xiang glanced at Ace's camouflaged affectionate eyes with a smile, and immediately entered the role-playing state.

She raised her small and white jaw, looked around excitedly and arrogantly, and said in a low and soft voice:

"Thank you dear Albert-cousin, I'm so glad you've granted my little request. I know it's a little headstrong, but Sarah said you've done so many bragging things for her, and so do I." Think... ahem, I mean, bringing me here can prove your heart, can't you? Of course, it's the precious friendship between brothers."

"Mr. Albert...and this...sir," the foreman who came after him looked at the man and the woman who were talking to themselves with an uneasy expression, feeling depressed, "Excuse me, what can I do to help the two of you?" Is it?"

Albert tidied his hair casually, and at the same time quickly scanned the nameplate on the foreman's chest with his peripheral vision, and then showed a chic and hearty smile.

"Ah, it's a pleasure to see you at this hour, my dear Nott. Is this the first time we've met in the morning? What an interesting experience."

"Yes," Nott couldn't be cold-faced to Albert, and could only reply with a modest smile in line with professionalism, "I didn't expect to see Mr. Albert at this time and this place, and I was a little surprised .”

Albert smiled frankly, looked kindly at the suspicious foreman Nott and said:

"I remember that there is a small rule, that is, before new members join the club, they can be guided by the old members to visit the interior of the club, and then decide whether to pay the dues and become one of us. So, today I will take My cousin Circe is here, although he is young, he has always had a dream of sailing, and maybe he will be able to come and go here often in a few years."

Hearing Albert talk about the club's rules, Norton sneered secretly, thinking that this move is really rogue, can we still search your "cousin" and check his gender?

Probably influenced by Albert's open-eyed and nonsense attitude, Nott's stiff expression gradually relaxed after experiencing the initial surprise.

He tried his best not to be rude and glanced at "Mr. Searcy" standing next to Albert. He thought about it and said that every time James Albert fell in love, he would do some absurd things that the social circle would love to talk about. However, they never expected that this time it would affect their club.

"Mr. Albert, is this your cousin?" Norton emphasized the word "cousin".

Albert nodded without hesitation.He has a natural expression, a gentle and open smile, no flicker in his eyes, and he doesn't seem to have the slightest sense of shame. He even took the time to wink with his pretty "cousin" beside him.

The "cousin" folded his hands when Albert looked over, his pink lips were curved, and the corners of his eyes and brows were full of admiration and attachment.

Seeing this, Norton took a deep breath. He felt that the only thing to be thankful for at this moment was that Mr. Albert still remembered to pick this time in the morning.

"So, are you here today to show your cousin the inside of the club? Then leave after the tour-be sure to be as polite as possible before the other members arrive.

"Of course," Albert raised his eyebrows elegantly, and said in a very understanding manner, "Norton, I know the rules, so I won't make things difficult for you. Look, for today's visit, my cousin Circe's suit is new."

While talking, Albert patted the foreman on the shoulder affectionately, and stuffed a small roll of banknotes into Norton's jacket pocket.

Feeling the thickness of the banknotes, Norton twitched the corners of his mouth, and finally took a step back to make room, and asked Mr. Albert, a member, to bring his "cousin Circe" into the Cruiser Club.