Bandage fine tricks
Chapter 21
Cats are creatures with a very wide range of activities.
This is true even of house cats.
Some foreign zoologists once conducted experiments on those domestic cats wearing GPS positioning and monitoring, and then found that the cats that the owners thought had been sleeping at home/in the yard could run dozens of kilometers a night GPS route map, did not return home to sleep until early in the morning, so that the owner who got up early could see himself sleeping soundly in a ball of cats.
Perfectly concealed the fact that he spent the whole night.
Therefore, the task of finding a cat is actually very difficult, and it will not become easier just because Xiao Ba can turn into a cat by himself - you will not find a missing person because you and the other party are human beings, it will not become easy Bar?
Xiaoba sent Hezhi home first. After the adult who was so panicked that the child followed the disappearance and almost called the police hugged the child to calm down, she carefully asked about the time and before and after the disappearance of the three-colored cat.
"It was noon yesterday." Hezhi's mother hugged her child with a worried expression on her face, "I was preparing lunch when I heard the French windows of the living room being opened, so I poked my head out of the kitchen and took a look. It was found that Aji walked out from the French window of the living room."
Xiao Ba blinked in surprise: "Aji in your family can open French windows?"
"Ah, yes, but it won't open if it's locked. If it's not locked and there is a slit, it will open occasionally." Hezhi's mother nodded.
"Does Aji go out usually?"
After recalling it carefully, Hezhi's mother replied: "No, usually Aji only stays in the living room, especially in such a hot weather. There is air conditioning in the room, and he likes a cool place."
The house cat who usually doesn't like to go out, suddenly leaves the cool environment... Xiaoba thoughtfully: "Did you hear its barking in the period since it left the living room?"
"No." Hezhi's mother said with certainty, "If it wasn't for the sound of the floor-to-ceiling windows opening, I might not have noticed it left."
"That's right..." Xiao Ba thought for a while, and said, "Then before it opened the floor-to-ceiling windows, did you hear any sound, well, it might be the sound similar to the flapping wings of birds?"
She observed in the courtyard just now that the windows of the kitchen and the living room on the first floor of Hezhi’s house face south and the other faces west. The gap - it is probably reserved for ventilation. If this is the habit of Hezhi's mother, then yesterday, when she was preparing lunch, the kitchen window should also be kept in this state.
Under such a premise, if there is any movement in the courtyard, Hezhi's mother should hear it.
"The sound of bird wings flapping..." Hezhi's mother frowned and thought for a while, then suddenly remembered, "Ah, yes! After Aji went out, I did hear that sound of flapping wings! In our yard, I thought some seabirds landed in our yard, but I'm not very interested in these, so I didn't go out to see..."
Xiao Ba turned his head and looked out of the French windows. There was a tall tree with luxuriant branches and leaves in He Zhi's yard. It happened to block the overheated sunlight in summer, lest the house be roasted into a stove.
"I understand the general situation, and I will help you find Aji." Having asked almost everything she wanted to know, Xiao Ba closed the notebook she used for taking notes, and before leaving, she said, "And finally One question, have you told anyone about the fact that Aji in your family is a boy?"
Hezhi's mother took a strange look at the girl who claimed to be a detective. The girl was wearing a sports T-shirt and short skirt that were easy to move around. She was covered with a very thin red sun protection clothing. Framed glasses, judging from the development of the body, should be a junior high school student. If the previous question is still understandable, this last question...
"I talked to Mrs. Jiamen in the same neighborhood, but she didn't believe that my Aji was a boy at all. She also said that Sanhua only has females and no males... I was very angry and ignored her." Mother Hezhi Said, "Her husband is quite reasonable. After hearing about the dispute between me and his wife, he came to the door with a gift to apologize, and said that my Aji is indeed a boy."
"Does the other party have a job related to cats or pets?" Xiao Ba asked.
Hezhi's mother froze for a moment in surprise: "Yes, yes, Mr. Jiamen seems to be running a pet shop, the one at the intersection."
"Thank you very much, I will come and let you know when I have news."
After Xiao Ba said goodbye to Zhi's mother, he turned a corner and started running.
She thought about turning into a cat and then asked the nearby cats if they had seen the Sanhua, but... so far she doesn't know how to turn into a cat and how to change back...
What if it doesn't come back...
But the situation is generally clear, what needs to be clarified now is whether the Sanhua Aji is still there...
Thinking about it, Xiao Ba ran all the way to the pet shop at the street corner: after the actual combat training these days, she found that her physical strength was very good. It seemed that no matter how long she ran or how much strenuous physical exertion she did, it was as if she had not consumed any physical strength at all. , is simply unbelievable.
Kunikida-sensei even suspected that her extremely aggressive "special ability" also gave her extremely high physical strength.
In a sense, the guess was right.
Xiaoba recalled that the sports meeting medals displayed in the most conspicuous glass cabinet in the study room at home, he was able to stand out among a group of students with "superpowers" and win many sports championships such as long-distance running and sprinting. For track and field events, most of the sports games that link elementary schools and junior high schools only last for one or two days, which also includes preliminaries and finals...
This body has been surprisingly full of energy since before—I don’t know if it’s because of the breathing method: brother Yuanyi who taught her "star breathing" in a dream said that the body will not get tired when maintaining the breathing method .
She uses a breathing technique called [Complete Concentration Breathing·Changzhong], which has completely become her instinct for many years. Even now that she has lost her memory, even if her mind no longer remembers, her body still maintains this A special way of breathing, which is why she never feels tired.
I ran at least two kilometers at a sprint speed of [-] meters, but there was no sign of panting or sweating at all. The girl wearing light brown half-rim glasses seemed to be walking slowly all the way, breathing steadily Push open the door of the pet store.
"Welcome!" A teenager wearing a pet shop uniform and apron greeted him. Judging from his appearance, the other party should only be seventeen or eighteen years old. Before she came in, she was cleaning a cat toilet clumsily.
"Is the store manager not here?" Xiao Ba looked around and asked.
"Ah, the store manager is going to deliver the pre-ordered pets to the customers, and he just left the house for a while. Do you want to buy some animals?" The young man said, "You can have a look in the store first, and if you like one, tell me, I still know the price of pets in the store."
"No, I made an appointment with the store manager to pick up the agreed-upon Sanhua cat today," Xiao Ba sighed, "I have a temporary arrangement and change the time, why don't you tell me, it's such a hot day, run for a while It's a very uncomfortable trip..."
"Huh?" The boy was stunned for a moment, "The store manager just went out with a three-colored cat... Could it be to give it to you, Miss?"
Xiao Ba looked blank: "If he doesn't have a second customer who wants to buy a Sanhua male cat, it should be mine... But I didn't tell him my address. Where did he send the cat?"
"The store manager confirmed the address with the customer before going out... Didn't you hear from the store manager?" The young man asked, without any doubt: If it was just a Sanhua cat, it might be a misunderstanding, but Sanhua male cats are so rare, the store The manager only got it yesterday, and he deliberately asked him to keep it secret, because it was for a certain customer. If other customers know that they want to get a second one, the store manager has no such channel... He didn’t go out and spread the word, so , Knowing that this store will sell a Sanhua male cat today, except for the store manager, the only customer who ordered the Sanhua male cat is himself.
Xiao Ba reached out to touch his pocket, but found all four pockets on his body but couldn't find the phone, and suddenly realized: "...ah, I remembered, when I went out, I thought the phone was too hot in my pocket, so I threw it at home. It's too late to go back and get the phone... Forget it, tell me the address, I'll go there now, it's not easy for the store manager to make a trip in such a hot day."
Ten minutes later, Xiao Ba, who got the address, called a taxi and took her to the seaside pier. After paying the taxi and letting the taxi leave first, she sniffed against the brackish sea breeze.
I don’t know if it’s because of the recent transformation into a cat form. She found that her sense of smell has been enhanced a lot. Although the five senses in the human form are not as good as those in the cat form, compared with ordinary people, her eyes and ears are better. The level of intelligence has reached a new level.
Just like now, she can clearly smell the fishy and salty smell of the sea in the wind, mixed with the smell of many people, the smell of cats... and the smell of gunpowder smoke.
Xiao Ba frowned.
She remembered that her tutor occasionally mentioned in the detective agency that the huge black shadow entrenched in this seaside city...
The black-haired girl looked around for a while, and quickly climbed to a high place with a wide view with the help of the surrounding containers of different sizes and heights, and saw the panoramic view of the seaside pier.
There is still a lot of traffic on the driveway next to it. If the military and police are fighting with some forces here, there is no reason not to evacuate the crowd. , it could only be the faction Mr. Kunikida mentioned——
Port Mafia.
After roughly determining the direction of the gunpowder smoke, Xiao Ba carefully descended from the height and ran in the direction of the smell of the cat in the wind.
The only good news is that the person and the cat she was looking for were not in the direction of the gunpowder smoke—to be precise, the two were in the same general direction, but separated by a considerable distance.
But... Xiaoba couldn't help turning his head to look in that direction while running.
It's a little strange, has the port mafia in this city gone crazy to the point of going to war with some organization in broad daylight?
Generally speaking, if a transaction fails or a war starts, isn't it always in the dead of night?
Although gangsters in this country are legal enterprises, it does not mean that they will not be sent to prison after being caught by the police with evidence of their crimes!
In addition, although I smelled the smoke from the use of guns, I haven't heard any gunshots so far... Suppressor?No, it's unlikely that everyone's weapon will be equipped with a suppressor, and even if it is a suppressor, it's not impossible to hear no sound...
What's more, they're fighting each other, and there's no need to install a yin sterilizer.
There was a lot of doubt in her heart, but Xiao Ba didn't reveal anything on her face. When she saw a man waiting anxiously alone behind a container not far away, she slowed down and walked unsteadily from behind the container. Come out and say: "Mr. Jiamen in front, can I trouble you to return the three-colored cat Aji that you stole from the neighbor's house?"
The man was obviously taken aback, and his whole body trembled. When he turned around and found that it was only a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl who was speaking, his expression suddenly stabilized a lot: "You, what are you talking about? Why don't you understand... Besides, who are you!" Mr. Jiamen shouted sternly.
He didn't remember seeing such a girl at all.
Although she is not very old, she can already see that she is very beautiful, so there is no reason why she would not remember seeing her.
"Shh..." The young girl put her index finger in front of her lips, making a "quiet please" gesture, "It's best not to make too much noise! You have an appointment with the gangster who trades cats here, It seems to be at war with another organization! You don’t want them to find out that there are two passing by here, and then kill them just to silence them?”
She bent her lips: "After all, the organization that can't guarantee the victory is the organization of the gangster who made an appointment with you to buy a cat."
"W-what gangster..." Mr. Jiamen wiped the sweat that kept pouring out of his forehead. He didn't know whether it was because the weather was too hot or he was too nervous, "I, I can't understand what you said..."
"Actually, the matter is very simple. You heard from your wife that Mrs. Shanyu in the same neighborhood claimed that her three-flowered cat, Aji, was a boy. She took the opportunity of coming to apologize and confirmed this fact. You run a pet shop , I know how low the occurrence probability of Sanhua male cats is, the probability of one in 40, whether it is pursuing rarity or scientific research needs, Sanhua male cats have always been in a state of being priceless." The black-haired girl Gently pushed the light brown half-rim glasses, smiled and said, "Maybe at this time, you learned from one of your customers that the other party is looking for a rare pet, such as a Sanhua male cat, so You have the idea of stealing—I think the price offered by the other party should be very attractive?"
"Don't, don't be joking!" Mr. Garmen wanted to refute anxiously, and he was concerned about what organization was fighting next to what the girl said just now, so he lowered his voice, "That, that cat named Aji is kept indoors. And it was noon when it disappeared, and Mrs. Shanyu was in the house all the time, how can I, how can I break into Shanyu's house and steal the cat out?"
"You can't go in, but Aggie can come out!" The girl took it for granted, "Cats don't hunt for food, it's their nature to hunt. When they hear the sound of birds' wings flapping, they will definitely go and have a look—as You, the owner of the pet shop, knew this very well, so you made a cat trap, put a sparrow with injured wings in it, and used the movement of the sparrow to attract Aji in the living room.
"Mrs. Shanyu said that she didn't hear Aji's cry. This is because Aji is in a hunting state at this time. In order not to disturb the prey, it will not make a sound. And when it follows the sound of the sparrow struggling Once you get out of the cat trap, the mechanism in the cage will automatically close the entrance and lock it inside—in order to prevent it from screaming after being frightened, you gave it anesthesia, let it fall asleep, and then contacted the customer , made an appointment to meet here today for a deal.
"As for guessing that your transaction partner is a certain gangster, I smelled the smoke of gun battles on the way here. I am afraid that a gun battle is taking place somewhere on this seaside pier. The reason why there is no sound at all, Probably someone with supernatural powers like 'Mute' blocked the sound transmission and did not cause commotion? If there were military police and other official forces in the battle, the nearby ordinary people must have been evacuated, but nothing happened The evacuation signal, plus they cover up their movements in every possible way, that is to say, both sides in the war are shady. If you think about it in this direction, isn't the most shady thing is the gang fight?
"The seaside pier is very suitable as an activity place for those shady transactions. Your client made an appointment with you to trade here today. He probably wants to pick up the Sanhua tomcat after completing a certain transaction. Okay. Take it back with the transaction result to announce the good news to the BOSS, shall we? Unexpectedly, the organization that agreed to make the transaction reneged, so they fell into a fight, and you, who still did not see the transaction partner when the time came, because of the special identity of the customer and this I had a bad association with the location, but I didn’t dare to leave, for fear of being retaliated by the client afterwards, so I waited anxiously and fearfully at the same place—am I right, Mr. Garmen?”
Mr. Garmen's face was frighteningly pale.
The young girl said everything clearly and plainly, like...
It was as if she had seen it with her own eyes!
"You, who are you!" Mr. Garmen asked in fear, this is definitely not an ordinary person!
The girl was taken aback, and then she smiled innocently and cutely: "I'm just a rookie who imitates other famous detectives, so don't take me to heart."
"How is it possible..." Mr. Garmen couldn't believe it.
The girl seemed to want to say something, but suddenly her expression turned serious, and her eyes immediately turned to another direction: "Someone is coming."
In addition, the smell of gunpowder smoke in the wind has faded a lot.
……Could it be that?
Xiao Ba was startled, and he didn't care about anything else, so he quickly stepped forward and grabbed Mr. Jiamen, picked up the cat bag at his feet with the other hand, and was about to drag him out: "Hurry up! This place is very dangerous... ..."
"Cough cough..."
There was a coughing sound in the wind, very weak, but for some reason, cold sweat broke out on Xiao Ba's back: Danger!
"Ahem...the two passing by? Forget it, let's get rid of it."
Obviously the owner of the voice has not yet shown up, but Xiaoba has an extremely strong sense of crisis in his heart, telling her that even so, the crisis has arrived!
Without thinking, she pushed Mr. Garmen away, and she used the recoil to roll and leave the spot a few meters away—almost the moment the two left the spot, something like a black cloth with an ominous red glow Drill straight out of the concrete floor, straight up!
"Huh? Missed?"
This time, Xiao Ba finally saw the owner of the coughing sound. The face of the other party was very young, but the hair on the temples gradually changed from pitch black at the root to snow white at the end, and his cheeks were sickly flushed from coughing. Mouth hand, she saw the other party's lips are very pale.
A frail and unhealthy looking male.
"Ahhhhhh!" Mr. Jiamen seems to have finally recovered from the panic that he almost stepped into the Santu River, and he let out a miserable cry. The young male ran away—the movement caught his attention immediately.
Oh no!At this time, if you turn your back on the opponent and still call, you will die faster!
Shocked, Xiao Ba hurriedly looked around and found an iron rod not far away, and immediately rushed to pick it up.
"Ahem, although I don't know if you have seen it... But in order to avoid future troubles, I'd better invite you to hell." The young man with snow-white hair on the sideburns calmed down his cough, and the black beast with an ominous red light appeared on his face again. He appeared beside him, raised his head slightly, and rushed straight to Mr. Garmen who was running away with his back turned!
At this moment, he heard a voice, obviously it should be at the critical moment of a thousandth of a second, that voice sounded as gentle as if he was reciting a poem:
"Breath of the Stars, Three Shapes, A Midsummer Night's Dream!"
Faster than the black beast is a galaxy-like light, even under the clear summer sky, the galaxy-like light is still dazzling, but it is as blurred as a midsummer night's dream—just like its name.
Within the range of the radiance, the black beast seemed to be swallowed up and disappeared—but as the driver of the black beast, even if his eyes did not see what happened, from his supernatural ability [Rashomon]—— That is, the essence of the black beast—the information transmitted from the body, and it is also clear what is going on:
At that moment, every star that lights up is a little bit of knife light.
Countless sword lights fell on the black beast, crushing his [Rashomon] forcefully.
Such a knife... method?
The light dissipated, and the young man saw the girl who suddenly rushed out and rescued the middle-aged man from under his [Rashomon] was holding...
It is an iron rod.
It is very common and can be seen everywhere. It is full of rust and iron, and there are some concave marks caused by the impact. It is obviously discarded and useless scrap iron.
But in the hands of that girl, it displayed such a radiance.
"Ahem, [Rashomon] who can defeat me...very good, you are worthy of being hunted——meeting for the first time, Akutagawa from the lower port mafia," he put down his hand covering his lips, the hem of his black trench coat Windless and automatic, gradually distorted into the appearance of Black Hand, "It's the man who wants to kill you - after you go to hell, please don't forget to tell the Hades about this."
It turns out that the black beast was transformed from his coat, with supernatural powers?
Xiao Ba is holding the cat bag in one hand, and holding a stick in the other hand, protecting Mr. Jiamen, who is paralyzed on the ground behind him, with a serious face: the ability of the coat to become an attacking black beast... A superpower to manipulate clothes?It looks very similar. Judging from the other party's response, he should only be able to control the clothes on his own body, not clothes within a certain range - if it's the latter, she and Mr. Garmen are already dead.
"Mr. Jiamen, can you still run?" Xiao Ba stared at the man who introduced himself as "Akutagawa", not daring to move away, so he could only whisper to Mr. Jiamen who was protected by her behind, But there was no echo—Xiao Ba carefully identified Mr. Jiamen's heartbeat and breathing sound behind him, and confirmed that the other party had passed out.
...Hey, can you stop being so dizzy at a time like this!
The cat was shivering in the cat bag. The only good thing was that it didn't struggle because it felt the scary atmosphere. At least Xiao Ba didn't have to be distracted to stop the cat bag.
Tsk... The Midsummer Night's Dream just now was used out of desperation, and according to the teaching of the first brother Yuan in the dream, normally you should hold a knife in both hands, but just now she had to use it to protect the cat bag. With one hand, the 【Type】almost failed to complete, and if she had another chance, she didn't know if she could reproduce it again—in addition, the opponent's black beast seemed to have only one, but if it could split...
If I hadn’t lost my memory and received the teachings of Brother Yuanyi, I might still be able to fight. If it’s me who lost my memory by instinct even in [Complete Concentration Breathing·Chang Zhong]... Xiao Ba made a very wise judgment: If you can't beat it, run away!
No longer hesitating, Xiao Ba took half a step back and squatted down, directly put down the iron rod and freed his hands to carry Mr. Jiamen who was unconscious on the ground.
Xiao Ba refuses to think about what kind of image he is now holding a cat bag while carrying a big man on the other.
Fortunately, Mr. Jiamen is short, and she might not be able to carry it with a taller one. After all, Xiaoba is only a 14-year-old middle school girl. Although [Complete Concentration Breathing·Changzhong] makes her physically strong, she will never be exhausted. Feels tired and recovers faster, but doesn't increase her strength.
But Xiao Ba's behavior angered the man: "Facing me, you dare to put down your weapon... so you don't take me seriously!"
The angry roar was accompanied by the black beast stabbing out from the ground, and it narrowly brushed Xiao Ba's left arm protecting the cat bag - at the critical moment, Xiao Ba jumped to the right in time to avoid the blow .
The black beast left a bloodless red mark on her arm.
Burning pain.
"I don't think that iron rod I just picked up is a weapon..." Xiao Ba endured the pain and grinned, trying to divert his attention.
This time Akutagawa didn't speak anymore, but directly used actions to represent her awakening: the black beast that originally only had one head suddenly split into countless ones, attacking her from all directions!
There is no way to avoid them all—unless she gives up the big burden of Mr. Garmen on her body!
Xiao Ba quickly made this judgment, moved her body slightly, and made the decision to sacrifice some non-vital parts to save the two of them—but when the black beast attacked, her vision was suddenly covered by a sand-colored windbreaker. cover.
……Hey?
The black beasts all over the sky disappeared suddenly when they came into contact with the man in the sand-colored windbreaker.
"Okay, that's it." The clear and magnetic male voice said in an extremely brisk tone, "I just passed by accidentally, and I can't see what happened to you from here, so there is no need to kill like this? Akutagawa, It is because of this that you have not been recognized by your teacher (me) all the time."
Xiao Ba suddenly stopped when he heard the coughing sound, and the sea breeze couldn't even capture the sound of his breathing—couldn't he be pissed off by what this person said?
"...I understand, let them go today, if we meet next time—"
The voice didn't say anything more, and Xiao Ba heard the sound of boots scraping the concrete floor gradually going away.
Are you leaving?
"Okay, it's all right now, you can put this uncle down now - such a lovely young lady is not suitable for carrying a heavy load!" The man who suddenly appeared in front of her turned around, and Xiaoba saw clearly what he looked like Before that, he had already stretched out his hand to push Mr. Jiamen off Xiaoba's shoulder.
Mr. Jiamen's head hit the ground heavily, waking him up from a coma: "It hurts!"
Xiao Ba silently looked at the man who made the move just now: Was it unintentional or intentional?
If it was intentional, did he have any enmity with Mr. Garmen?
Only at this time did she see clearly what the man who suddenly appeared to rescue her, Aji, and Mr. Garmen looked like: he was tall, over 1.8 meters by visual inspection, wearing a sand-colored long trench coat, with a black slim vest and A white vertically striped shirt with a crossed bolo stone tie at the neckline.
He seemed to have been seriously injured before coming here. The exposed neck and the wrists protruding from the cuffs were wrapped with bandages, extending all the way into the clothes.
But there was no smell of disinfectant or medicine, and no smell of blood... It was a little strange, under these wrapped bandages-was he really hurt?
Xiao Ba suppressed his calm gaze, raised his face and thanked earnestly: "Thank you, sir, for saving me!"
"It's not a problem. Miss, shouldn't you call the police first? Also, you need to take care of the injury on your arm." The handsome man smiled.
The military police has already hurried to the place where the mafia fought just now, obviously there is no need to report the gang fight just now, but Xiaoba has another thing to report here.
Sanhua cats are not worth much, but Sanhua male cats are very valuable. Mr. Jiamen's theft has obviously reached the point where he can go to the police station to file a report, but considering that the owner is Shan Yu's family, Xiao Ba thought about it, and with the help of From the public phone on the side of the road, I called Hezhi's mother - before leaving Hezhi's children's house, she had written down the landline number of Shan Yu's house.
On the phone, Xiaoba told Mrs. Shanyu all the ins and outs, including the rarity of the Sanhua male cat. As for whether to sue Mr. Garmen who stole their Aji in the end, it was Mrs. Shanyu herself A matter of judgment.
After a while, Xiaoba took Aji in the cat bag and Mr. Jiamen who woke up and walked on his own although he was knocked down but not serious, to the nearest police station, until Mrs. Shanyu and the little friend Hezhi Come in a hurry.
——Obviously, Mrs. Shanyu is not prepared to settle down.
Under the police's questioning, Mr. Garmen has already recruited him for everything, which is exactly the same as Xiaoba's previous reasoning.
But this has little to do with Xiaoba. The girl who accepted the entrustment returned Aji to Hezhi: "Okay, return it to the original owner. Look, my sister will keep her word!"
"Yeah!" The little boy smiled happily holding the lost Sanhua cat, "Thank you sister! Ah, the commission fee for hiring a detective that the aunt next door mentioned..."
He touched his body and found that he didn't bring it: "I put it at home..."
"It's okay, just give it to me the next time you come to the detective agency! Now, Hezhi and his mother should take Aji to the pet hospital first—Aji has suffered a lot, so take good care of him. !” The girl with curly black hair bent down, stroked and cured her frizzy head, and said gently.
"Well! I will!"
Watching Hezhi run towards his mother with the Sanhuamao in his arms, Hachi was about to call Mrs. Kunikida of the detective agency, but was held down by his shoulders and sat down on a bench beside him.
"I've returned to my mother, shouldn't you take a look at yourself?" The gentleman who didn't know where he was just now sighed, although he was still smiling, he was a little helpless, "The wound on the arm We still have to deal with it—the girl’s body can’t leave scars!”
He was holding a medical kit in his hand with the logo of the police station on it. Obviously, during the time when he disappeared just now, he asked the police to borrow the medical kit.
"It's okay, there is no bleeding... It hurts!!!" Xiao Ba's polite refusal turned into a scream after the other party pressed the cotton swab soaked in the medicine.
"Akutagawa's [Rashomon] is not a simple thing, you can't relax just because it doesn't see blood!" The man stretched out his hand, and stroked along the strip-shaped red and raised red mark, and then used another A new cotton swab was re-stained with disinfectant and applied.
Xiao Ba keenly felt that when the man's finger scratched the red mark, there was some kind of strength remaining on the wound, which disappeared.
Reminiscent of the scene of the overwhelming black beasts suddenly disappearing when they touched him just now... A person with superhuman abilities similar to Kamijou Touma?
Similar to the Shenjing Sumo in Academy City, this one should be contacted to make the ability disappear.
——But it is also possible that it can be eliminated only by looking at it, but for the sake of concealment, it is deliberately made to be eliminated by touching it.
"No, my ability needs to be touched to work. In addition, unlike the one in Academy City, his ability only exists in one hand, and I can passively release it from my whole body beyond my control. As if seeing through what she was thinking, the young man said softly while applying disinfectant to Xiaoba, "That is to say, as long as I am alive, the effect of my supernatural power will always take effect, and all things that touch me Active abilities will fail."
Xiao Ba was stunned, just met by chance, why did he tell her about his supernatural power, shouldn't this be strictly guarded against letting others know?
Then she remembered that she hadn't asked the gentleman's name: "Thank you very much for saving me, what is your name?"
"If you want to thank you, don't tell others that you met me, it's fine-you should guess it, I have a certain relationship with the mafia that attacked you just now, in order to prevent trouble, please hide my existence in the incident Is it okay?" The young man in the sand-colored windbreaker had already healed the wound at this time, and when he heard Xiaoba's words, he smiled softly and said, "As for the name... I will tell you when we meet next time. you."
next time?
Xiao Ba was stunned, he didn't know his name, and he didn't know where the other party lived. Why was he so sure that there would be a chance to meet next time?
unless……
He stalks himself!
"If I followed you, with your vigilance, I would have discovered it long ago, right?"
That's right, the sensitivity of her five senses is not covered... Huh?
How did he know?
No matter how you look at it, you can only come to this conclusion after at least investigating her behind the scenes-from this point of view, there are more than one or two more suspicious points about the sudden appearance of the savior!
Xiao Ba just wanted to raise his head to ask, but found that the young man who was still by his side just now had disappeared.
There were people coming and going in the police station, she looked around blankly, but she couldn't find the sandy figure from behind.
Only the unpacked medicine box next to her showed that the person just now was not her hallucination.
"Why did you come to the police station?" The blond man hurried in from outside the gate, and immediately walked over quickly when he saw the girl sitting on the bench, "I received a message from the police station...are you injured?!"
Kunikida was startled when he saw the open medical box next to him.
Because it involved the port mafia, after accepting the case, the police station found out that the source was actually a child who went to an armed detective agency to entrust him to find a cat, so he called the detective agency.
From Mr. Garmon's statement relayed by the police, Kunikida Doppo has already guessed that the person Xiao Hachi met at the seaside pier was the evil dog of Mafia at the port
This is true even of house cats.
Some foreign zoologists once conducted experiments on those domestic cats wearing GPS positioning and monitoring, and then found that the cats that the owners thought had been sleeping at home/in the yard could run dozens of kilometers a night GPS route map, did not return home to sleep until early in the morning, so that the owner who got up early could see himself sleeping soundly in a ball of cats.
Perfectly concealed the fact that he spent the whole night.
Therefore, the task of finding a cat is actually very difficult, and it will not become easier just because Xiao Ba can turn into a cat by himself - you will not find a missing person because you and the other party are human beings, it will not become easy Bar?
Xiaoba sent Hezhi home first. After the adult who was so panicked that the child followed the disappearance and almost called the police hugged the child to calm down, she carefully asked about the time and before and after the disappearance of the three-colored cat.
"It was noon yesterday." Hezhi's mother hugged her child with a worried expression on her face, "I was preparing lunch when I heard the French windows of the living room being opened, so I poked my head out of the kitchen and took a look. It was found that Aji walked out from the French window of the living room."
Xiao Ba blinked in surprise: "Aji in your family can open French windows?"
"Ah, yes, but it won't open if it's locked. If it's not locked and there is a slit, it will open occasionally." Hezhi's mother nodded.
"Does Aji go out usually?"
After recalling it carefully, Hezhi's mother replied: "No, usually Aji only stays in the living room, especially in such a hot weather. There is air conditioning in the room, and he likes a cool place."
The house cat who usually doesn't like to go out, suddenly leaves the cool environment... Xiaoba thoughtfully: "Did you hear its barking in the period since it left the living room?"
"No." Hezhi's mother said with certainty, "If it wasn't for the sound of the floor-to-ceiling windows opening, I might not have noticed it left."
"That's right..." Xiao Ba thought for a while, and said, "Then before it opened the floor-to-ceiling windows, did you hear any sound, well, it might be the sound similar to the flapping wings of birds?"
She observed in the courtyard just now that the windows of the kitchen and the living room on the first floor of Hezhi’s house face south and the other faces west. The gap - it is probably reserved for ventilation. If this is the habit of Hezhi's mother, then yesterday, when she was preparing lunch, the kitchen window should also be kept in this state.
Under such a premise, if there is any movement in the courtyard, Hezhi's mother should hear it.
"The sound of bird wings flapping..." Hezhi's mother frowned and thought for a while, then suddenly remembered, "Ah, yes! After Aji went out, I did hear that sound of flapping wings! In our yard, I thought some seabirds landed in our yard, but I'm not very interested in these, so I didn't go out to see..."
Xiao Ba turned his head and looked out of the French windows. There was a tall tree with luxuriant branches and leaves in He Zhi's yard. It happened to block the overheated sunlight in summer, lest the house be roasted into a stove.
"I understand the general situation, and I will help you find Aji." Having asked almost everything she wanted to know, Xiao Ba closed the notebook she used for taking notes, and before leaving, she said, "And finally One question, have you told anyone about the fact that Aji in your family is a boy?"
Hezhi's mother took a strange look at the girl who claimed to be a detective. The girl was wearing a sports T-shirt and short skirt that were easy to move around. She was covered with a very thin red sun protection clothing. Framed glasses, judging from the development of the body, should be a junior high school student. If the previous question is still understandable, this last question...
"I talked to Mrs. Jiamen in the same neighborhood, but she didn't believe that my Aji was a boy at all. She also said that Sanhua only has females and no males... I was very angry and ignored her." Mother Hezhi Said, "Her husband is quite reasonable. After hearing about the dispute between me and his wife, he came to the door with a gift to apologize, and said that my Aji is indeed a boy."
"Does the other party have a job related to cats or pets?" Xiao Ba asked.
Hezhi's mother froze for a moment in surprise: "Yes, yes, Mr. Jiamen seems to be running a pet shop, the one at the intersection."
"Thank you very much, I will come and let you know when I have news."
After Xiao Ba said goodbye to Zhi's mother, he turned a corner and started running.
She thought about turning into a cat and then asked the nearby cats if they had seen the Sanhua, but... so far she doesn't know how to turn into a cat and how to change back...
What if it doesn't come back...
But the situation is generally clear, what needs to be clarified now is whether the Sanhua Aji is still there...
Thinking about it, Xiao Ba ran all the way to the pet shop at the street corner: after the actual combat training these days, she found that her physical strength was very good. It seemed that no matter how long she ran or how much strenuous physical exertion she did, it was as if she had not consumed any physical strength at all. , is simply unbelievable.
Kunikida-sensei even suspected that her extremely aggressive "special ability" also gave her extremely high physical strength.
In a sense, the guess was right.
Xiaoba recalled that the sports meeting medals displayed in the most conspicuous glass cabinet in the study room at home, he was able to stand out among a group of students with "superpowers" and win many sports championships such as long-distance running and sprinting. For track and field events, most of the sports games that link elementary schools and junior high schools only last for one or two days, which also includes preliminaries and finals...
This body has been surprisingly full of energy since before—I don’t know if it’s because of the breathing method: brother Yuanyi who taught her "star breathing" in a dream said that the body will not get tired when maintaining the breathing method .
She uses a breathing technique called [Complete Concentration Breathing·Changzhong], which has completely become her instinct for many years. Even now that she has lost her memory, even if her mind no longer remembers, her body still maintains this A special way of breathing, which is why she never feels tired.
I ran at least two kilometers at a sprint speed of [-] meters, but there was no sign of panting or sweating at all. The girl wearing light brown half-rim glasses seemed to be walking slowly all the way, breathing steadily Push open the door of the pet store.
"Welcome!" A teenager wearing a pet shop uniform and apron greeted him. Judging from his appearance, the other party should only be seventeen or eighteen years old. Before she came in, she was cleaning a cat toilet clumsily.
"Is the store manager not here?" Xiao Ba looked around and asked.
"Ah, the store manager is going to deliver the pre-ordered pets to the customers, and he just left the house for a while. Do you want to buy some animals?" The young man said, "You can have a look in the store first, and if you like one, tell me, I still know the price of pets in the store."
"No, I made an appointment with the store manager to pick up the agreed-upon Sanhua cat today," Xiao Ba sighed, "I have a temporary arrangement and change the time, why don't you tell me, it's such a hot day, run for a while It's a very uncomfortable trip..."
"Huh?" The boy was stunned for a moment, "The store manager just went out with a three-colored cat... Could it be to give it to you, Miss?"
Xiao Ba looked blank: "If he doesn't have a second customer who wants to buy a Sanhua male cat, it should be mine... But I didn't tell him my address. Where did he send the cat?"
"The store manager confirmed the address with the customer before going out... Didn't you hear from the store manager?" The young man asked, without any doubt: If it was just a Sanhua cat, it might be a misunderstanding, but Sanhua male cats are so rare, the store The manager only got it yesterday, and he deliberately asked him to keep it secret, because it was for a certain customer. If other customers know that they want to get a second one, the store manager has no such channel... He didn’t go out and spread the word, so , Knowing that this store will sell a Sanhua male cat today, except for the store manager, the only customer who ordered the Sanhua male cat is himself.
Xiao Ba reached out to touch his pocket, but found all four pockets on his body but couldn't find the phone, and suddenly realized: "...ah, I remembered, when I went out, I thought the phone was too hot in my pocket, so I threw it at home. It's too late to go back and get the phone... Forget it, tell me the address, I'll go there now, it's not easy for the store manager to make a trip in such a hot day."
Ten minutes later, Xiao Ba, who got the address, called a taxi and took her to the seaside pier. After paying the taxi and letting the taxi leave first, she sniffed against the brackish sea breeze.
I don’t know if it’s because of the recent transformation into a cat form. She found that her sense of smell has been enhanced a lot. Although the five senses in the human form are not as good as those in the cat form, compared with ordinary people, her eyes and ears are better. The level of intelligence has reached a new level.
Just like now, she can clearly smell the fishy and salty smell of the sea in the wind, mixed with the smell of many people, the smell of cats... and the smell of gunpowder smoke.
Xiao Ba frowned.
She remembered that her tutor occasionally mentioned in the detective agency that the huge black shadow entrenched in this seaside city...
The black-haired girl looked around for a while, and quickly climbed to a high place with a wide view with the help of the surrounding containers of different sizes and heights, and saw the panoramic view of the seaside pier.
There is still a lot of traffic on the driveway next to it. If the military and police are fighting with some forces here, there is no reason not to evacuate the crowd. , it could only be the faction Mr. Kunikida mentioned——
Port Mafia.
After roughly determining the direction of the gunpowder smoke, Xiao Ba carefully descended from the height and ran in the direction of the smell of the cat in the wind.
The only good news is that the person and the cat she was looking for were not in the direction of the gunpowder smoke—to be precise, the two were in the same general direction, but separated by a considerable distance.
But... Xiaoba couldn't help turning his head to look in that direction while running.
It's a little strange, has the port mafia in this city gone crazy to the point of going to war with some organization in broad daylight?
Generally speaking, if a transaction fails or a war starts, isn't it always in the dead of night?
Although gangsters in this country are legal enterprises, it does not mean that they will not be sent to prison after being caught by the police with evidence of their crimes!
In addition, although I smelled the smoke from the use of guns, I haven't heard any gunshots so far... Suppressor?No, it's unlikely that everyone's weapon will be equipped with a suppressor, and even if it is a suppressor, it's not impossible to hear no sound...
What's more, they're fighting each other, and there's no need to install a yin sterilizer.
There was a lot of doubt in her heart, but Xiao Ba didn't reveal anything on her face. When she saw a man waiting anxiously alone behind a container not far away, she slowed down and walked unsteadily from behind the container. Come out and say: "Mr. Jiamen in front, can I trouble you to return the three-colored cat Aji that you stole from the neighbor's house?"
The man was obviously taken aback, and his whole body trembled. When he turned around and found that it was only a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl who was speaking, his expression suddenly stabilized a lot: "You, what are you talking about? Why don't you understand... Besides, who are you!" Mr. Jiamen shouted sternly.
He didn't remember seeing such a girl at all.
Although she is not very old, she can already see that she is very beautiful, so there is no reason why she would not remember seeing her.
"Shh..." The young girl put her index finger in front of her lips, making a "quiet please" gesture, "It's best not to make too much noise! You have an appointment with the gangster who trades cats here, It seems to be at war with another organization! You don’t want them to find out that there are two passing by here, and then kill them just to silence them?”
She bent her lips: "After all, the organization that can't guarantee the victory is the organization of the gangster who made an appointment with you to buy a cat."
"W-what gangster..." Mr. Jiamen wiped the sweat that kept pouring out of his forehead. He didn't know whether it was because the weather was too hot or he was too nervous, "I, I can't understand what you said..."
"Actually, the matter is very simple. You heard from your wife that Mrs. Shanyu in the same neighborhood claimed that her three-flowered cat, Aji, was a boy. She took the opportunity of coming to apologize and confirmed this fact. You run a pet shop , I know how low the occurrence probability of Sanhua male cats is, the probability of one in 40, whether it is pursuing rarity or scientific research needs, Sanhua male cats have always been in a state of being priceless." The black-haired girl Gently pushed the light brown half-rim glasses, smiled and said, "Maybe at this time, you learned from one of your customers that the other party is looking for a rare pet, such as a Sanhua male cat, so You have the idea of stealing—I think the price offered by the other party should be very attractive?"
"Don't, don't be joking!" Mr. Garmen wanted to refute anxiously, and he was concerned about what organization was fighting next to what the girl said just now, so he lowered his voice, "That, that cat named Aji is kept indoors. And it was noon when it disappeared, and Mrs. Shanyu was in the house all the time, how can I, how can I break into Shanyu's house and steal the cat out?"
"You can't go in, but Aggie can come out!" The girl took it for granted, "Cats don't hunt for food, it's their nature to hunt. When they hear the sound of birds' wings flapping, they will definitely go and have a look—as You, the owner of the pet shop, knew this very well, so you made a cat trap, put a sparrow with injured wings in it, and used the movement of the sparrow to attract Aji in the living room.
"Mrs. Shanyu said that she didn't hear Aji's cry. This is because Aji is in a hunting state at this time. In order not to disturb the prey, it will not make a sound. And when it follows the sound of the sparrow struggling Once you get out of the cat trap, the mechanism in the cage will automatically close the entrance and lock it inside—in order to prevent it from screaming after being frightened, you gave it anesthesia, let it fall asleep, and then contacted the customer , made an appointment to meet here today for a deal.
"As for guessing that your transaction partner is a certain gangster, I smelled the smoke of gun battles on the way here. I am afraid that a gun battle is taking place somewhere on this seaside pier. The reason why there is no sound at all, Probably someone with supernatural powers like 'Mute' blocked the sound transmission and did not cause commotion? If there were military police and other official forces in the battle, the nearby ordinary people must have been evacuated, but nothing happened The evacuation signal, plus they cover up their movements in every possible way, that is to say, both sides in the war are shady. If you think about it in this direction, isn't the most shady thing is the gang fight?
"The seaside pier is very suitable as an activity place for those shady transactions. Your client made an appointment with you to trade here today. He probably wants to pick up the Sanhua tomcat after completing a certain transaction. Okay. Take it back with the transaction result to announce the good news to the BOSS, shall we? Unexpectedly, the organization that agreed to make the transaction reneged, so they fell into a fight, and you, who still did not see the transaction partner when the time came, because of the special identity of the customer and this I had a bad association with the location, but I didn’t dare to leave, for fear of being retaliated by the client afterwards, so I waited anxiously and fearfully at the same place—am I right, Mr. Garmen?”
Mr. Garmen's face was frighteningly pale.
The young girl said everything clearly and plainly, like...
It was as if she had seen it with her own eyes!
"You, who are you!" Mr. Garmen asked in fear, this is definitely not an ordinary person!
The girl was taken aback, and then she smiled innocently and cutely: "I'm just a rookie who imitates other famous detectives, so don't take me to heart."
"How is it possible..." Mr. Garmen couldn't believe it.
The girl seemed to want to say something, but suddenly her expression turned serious, and her eyes immediately turned to another direction: "Someone is coming."
In addition, the smell of gunpowder smoke in the wind has faded a lot.
……Could it be that?
Xiao Ba was startled, and he didn't care about anything else, so he quickly stepped forward and grabbed Mr. Jiamen, picked up the cat bag at his feet with the other hand, and was about to drag him out: "Hurry up! This place is very dangerous... ..."
"Cough cough..."
There was a coughing sound in the wind, very weak, but for some reason, cold sweat broke out on Xiao Ba's back: Danger!
"Ahem...the two passing by? Forget it, let's get rid of it."
Obviously the owner of the voice has not yet shown up, but Xiaoba has an extremely strong sense of crisis in his heart, telling her that even so, the crisis has arrived!
Without thinking, she pushed Mr. Garmen away, and she used the recoil to roll and leave the spot a few meters away—almost the moment the two left the spot, something like a black cloth with an ominous red glow Drill straight out of the concrete floor, straight up!
"Huh? Missed?"
This time, Xiao Ba finally saw the owner of the coughing sound. The face of the other party was very young, but the hair on the temples gradually changed from pitch black at the root to snow white at the end, and his cheeks were sickly flushed from coughing. Mouth hand, she saw the other party's lips are very pale.
A frail and unhealthy looking male.
"Ahhhhhh!" Mr. Jiamen seems to have finally recovered from the panic that he almost stepped into the Santu River, and he let out a miserable cry. The young male ran away—the movement caught his attention immediately.
Oh no!At this time, if you turn your back on the opponent and still call, you will die faster!
Shocked, Xiao Ba hurriedly looked around and found an iron rod not far away, and immediately rushed to pick it up.
"Ahem, although I don't know if you have seen it... But in order to avoid future troubles, I'd better invite you to hell." The young man with snow-white hair on the sideburns calmed down his cough, and the black beast with an ominous red light appeared on his face again. He appeared beside him, raised his head slightly, and rushed straight to Mr. Garmen who was running away with his back turned!
At this moment, he heard a voice, obviously it should be at the critical moment of a thousandth of a second, that voice sounded as gentle as if he was reciting a poem:
"Breath of the Stars, Three Shapes, A Midsummer Night's Dream!"
Faster than the black beast is a galaxy-like light, even under the clear summer sky, the galaxy-like light is still dazzling, but it is as blurred as a midsummer night's dream—just like its name.
Within the range of the radiance, the black beast seemed to be swallowed up and disappeared—but as the driver of the black beast, even if his eyes did not see what happened, from his supernatural ability [Rashomon]—— That is, the essence of the black beast—the information transmitted from the body, and it is also clear what is going on:
At that moment, every star that lights up is a little bit of knife light.
Countless sword lights fell on the black beast, crushing his [Rashomon] forcefully.
Such a knife... method?
The light dissipated, and the young man saw the girl who suddenly rushed out and rescued the middle-aged man from under his [Rashomon] was holding...
It is an iron rod.
It is very common and can be seen everywhere. It is full of rust and iron, and there are some concave marks caused by the impact. It is obviously discarded and useless scrap iron.
But in the hands of that girl, it displayed such a radiance.
"Ahem, [Rashomon] who can defeat me...very good, you are worthy of being hunted——meeting for the first time, Akutagawa from the lower port mafia," he put down his hand covering his lips, the hem of his black trench coat Windless and automatic, gradually distorted into the appearance of Black Hand, "It's the man who wants to kill you - after you go to hell, please don't forget to tell the Hades about this."
It turns out that the black beast was transformed from his coat, with supernatural powers?
Xiao Ba is holding the cat bag in one hand, and holding a stick in the other hand, protecting Mr. Jiamen, who is paralyzed on the ground behind him, with a serious face: the ability of the coat to become an attacking black beast... A superpower to manipulate clothes?It looks very similar. Judging from the other party's response, he should only be able to control the clothes on his own body, not clothes within a certain range - if it's the latter, she and Mr. Garmen are already dead.
"Mr. Jiamen, can you still run?" Xiao Ba stared at the man who introduced himself as "Akutagawa", not daring to move away, so he could only whisper to Mr. Jiamen who was protected by her behind, But there was no echo—Xiao Ba carefully identified Mr. Jiamen's heartbeat and breathing sound behind him, and confirmed that the other party had passed out.
...Hey, can you stop being so dizzy at a time like this!
The cat was shivering in the cat bag. The only good thing was that it didn't struggle because it felt the scary atmosphere. At least Xiao Ba didn't have to be distracted to stop the cat bag.
Tsk... The Midsummer Night's Dream just now was used out of desperation, and according to the teaching of the first brother Yuan in the dream, normally you should hold a knife in both hands, but just now she had to use it to protect the cat bag. With one hand, the 【Type】almost failed to complete, and if she had another chance, she didn't know if she could reproduce it again—in addition, the opponent's black beast seemed to have only one, but if it could split...
If I hadn’t lost my memory and received the teachings of Brother Yuanyi, I might still be able to fight. If it’s me who lost my memory by instinct even in [Complete Concentration Breathing·Chang Zhong]... Xiao Ba made a very wise judgment: If you can't beat it, run away!
No longer hesitating, Xiao Ba took half a step back and squatted down, directly put down the iron rod and freed his hands to carry Mr. Jiamen who was unconscious on the ground.
Xiao Ba refuses to think about what kind of image he is now holding a cat bag while carrying a big man on the other.
Fortunately, Mr. Jiamen is short, and she might not be able to carry it with a taller one. After all, Xiaoba is only a 14-year-old middle school girl. Although [Complete Concentration Breathing·Changzhong] makes her physically strong, she will never be exhausted. Feels tired and recovers faster, but doesn't increase her strength.
But Xiao Ba's behavior angered the man: "Facing me, you dare to put down your weapon... so you don't take me seriously!"
The angry roar was accompanied by the black beast stabbing out from the ground, and it narrowly brushed Xiao Ba's left arm protecting the cat bag - at the critical moment, Xiao Ba jumped to the right in time to avoid the blow .
The black beast left a bloodless red mark on her arm.
Burning pain.
"I don't think that iron rod I just picked up is a weapon..." Xiao Ba endured the pain and grinned, trying to divert his attention.
This time Akutagawa didn't speak anymore, but directly used actions to represent her awakening: the black beast that originally only had one head suddenly split into countless ones, attacking her from all directions!
There is no way to avoid them all—unless she gives up the big burden of Mr. Garmen on her body!
Xiao Ba quickly made this judgment, moved her body slightly, and made the decision to sacrifice some non-vital parts to save the two of them—but when the black beast attacked, her vision was suddenly covered by a sand-colored windbreaker. cover.
……Hey?
The black beasts all over the sky disappeared suddenly when they came into contact with the man in the sand-colored windbreaker.
"Okay, that's it." The clear and magnetic male voice said in an extremely brisk tone, "I just passed by accidentally, and I can't see what happened to you from here, so there is no need to kill like this? Akutagawa, It is because of this that you have not been recognized by your teacher (me) all the time."
Xiao Ba suddenly stopped when he heard the coughing sound, and the sea breeze couldn't even capture the sound of his breathing—couldn't he be pissed off by what this person said?
"...I understand, let them go today, if we meet next time—"
The voice didn't say anything more, and Xiao Ba heard the sound of boots scraping the concrete floor gradually going away.
Are you leaving?
"Okay, it's all right now, you can put this uncle down now - such a lovely young lady is not suitable for carrying a heavy load!" The man who suddenly appeared in front of her turned around, and Xiaoba saw clearly what he looked like Before that, he had already stretched out his hand to push Mr. Jiamen off Xiaoba's shoulder.
Mr. Jiamen's head hit the ground heavily, waking him up from a coma: "It hurts!"
Xiao Ba silently looked at the man who made the move just now: Was it unintentional or intentional?
If it was intentional, did he have any enmity with Mr. Garmen?
Only at this time did she see clearly what the man who suddenly appeared to rescue her, Aji, and Mr. Garmen looked like: he was tall, over 1.8 meters by visual inspection, wearing a sand-colored long trench coat, with a black slim vest and A white vertically striped shirt with a crossed bolo stone tie at the neckline.
He seemed to have been seriously injured before coming here. The exposed neck and the wrists protruding from the cuffs were wrapped with bandages, extending all the way into the clothes.
But there was no smell of disinfectant or medicine, and no smell of blood... It was a little strange, under these wrapped bandages-was he really hurt?
Xiao Ba suppressed his calm gaze, raised his face and thanked earnestly: "Thank you, sir, for saving me!"
"It's not a problem. Miss, shouldn't you call the police first? Also, you need to take care of the injury on your arm." The handsome man smiled.
The military police has already hurried to the place where the mafia fought just now, obviously there is no need to report the gang fight just now, but Xiaoba has another thing to report here.
Sanhua cats are not worth much, but Sanhua male cats are very valuable. Mr. Jiamen's theft has obviously reached the point where he can go to the police station to file a report, but considering that the owner is Shan Yu's family, Xiao Ba thought about it, and with the help of From the public phone on the side of the road, I called Hezhi's mother - before leaving Hezhi's children's house, she had written down the landline number of Shan Yu's house.
On the phone, Xiaoba told Mrs. Shanyu all the ins and outs, including the rarity of the Sanhua male cat. As for whether to sue Mr. Garmen who stole their Aji in the end, it was Mrs. Shanyu herself A matter of judgment.
After a while, Xiaoba took Aji in the cat bag and Mr. Jiamen who woke up and walked on his own although he was knocked down but not serious, to the nearest police station, until Mrs. Shanyu and the little friend Hezhi Come in a hurry.
——Obviously, Mrs. Shanyu is not prepared to settle down.
Under the police's questioning, Mr. Garmen has already recruited him for everything, which is exactly the same as Xiaoba's previous reasoning.
But this has little to do with Xiaoba. The girl who accepted the entrustment returned Aji to Hezhi: "Okay, return it to the original owner. Look, my sister will keep her word!"
"Yeah!" The little boy smiled happily holding the lost Sanhua cat, "Thank you sister! Ah, the commission fee for hiring a detective that the aunt next door mentioned..."
He touched his body and found that he didn't bring it: "I put it at home..."
"It's okay, just give it to me the next time you come to the detective agency! Now, Hezhi and his mother should take Aji to the pet hospital first—Aji has suffered a lot, so take good care of him. !” The girl with curly black hair bent down, stroked and cured her frizzy head, and said gently.
"Well! I will!"
Watching Hezhi run towards his mother with the Sanhuamao in his arms, Hachi was about to call Mrs. Kunikida of the detective agency, but was held down by his shoulders and sat down on a bench beside him.
"I've returned to my mother, shouldn't you take a look at yourself?" The gentleman who didn't know where he was just now sighed, although he was still smiling, he was a little helpless, "The wound on the arm We still have to deal with it—the girl’s body can’t leave scars!”
He was holding a medical kit in his hand with the logo of the police station on it. Obviously, during the time when he disappeared just now, he asked the police to borrow the medical kit.
"It's okay, there is no bleeding... It hurts!!!" Xiao Ba's polite refusal turned into a scream after the other party pressed the cotton swab soaked in the medicine.
"Akutagawa's [Rashomon] is not a simple thing, you can't relax just because it doesn't see blood!" The man stretched out his hand, and stroked along the strip-shaped red and raised red mark, and then used another A new cotton swab was re-stained with disinfectant and applied.
Xiao Ba keenly felt that when the man's finger scratched the red mark, there was some kind of strength remaining on the wound, which disappeared.
Reminiscent of the scene of the overwhelming black beasts suddenly disappearing when they touched him just now... A person with superhuman abilities similar to Kamijou Touma?
Similar to the Shenjing Sumo in Academy City, this one should be contacted to make the ability disappear.
——But it is also possible that it can be eliminated only by looking at it, but for the sake of concealment, it is deliberately made to be eliminated by touching it.
"No, my ability needs to be touched to work. In addition, unlike the one in Academy City, his ability only exists in one hand, and I can passively release it from my whole body beyond my control. As if seeing through what she was thinking, the young man said softly while applying disinfectant to Xiaoba, "That is to say, as long as I am alive, the effect of my supernatural power will always take effect, and all things that touch me Active abilities will fail."
Xiao Ba was stunned, just met by chance, why did he tell her about his supernatural power, shouldn't this be strictly guarded against letting others know?
Then she remembered that she hadn't asked the gentleman's name: "Thank you very much for saving me, what is your name?"
"If you want to thank you, don't tell others that you met me, it's fine-you should guess it, I have a certain relationship with the mafia that attacked you just now, in order to prevent trouble, please hide my existence in the incident Is it okay?" The young man in the sand-colored windbreaker had already healed the wound at this time, and when he heard Xiaoba's words, he smiled softly and said, "As for the name... I will tell you when we meet next time. you."
next time?
Xiao Ba was stunned, he didn't know his name, and he didn't know where the other party lived. Why was he so sure that there would be a chance to meet next time?
unless……
He stalks himself!
"If I followed you, with your vigilance, I would have discovered it long ago, right?"
That's right, the sensitivity of her five senses is not covered... Huh?
How did he know?
No matter how you look at it, you can only come to this conclusion after at least investigating her behind the scenes-from this point of view, there are more than one or two more suspicious points about the sudden appearance of the savior!
Xiao Ba just wanted to raise his head to ask, but found that the young man who was still by his side just now had disappeared.
There were people coming and going in the police station, she looked around blankly, but she couldn't find the sandy figure from behind.
Only the unpacked medicine box next to her showed that the person just now was not her hallucination.
"Why did you come to the police station?" The blond man hurried in from outside the gate, and immediately walked over quickly when he saw the girl sitting on the bench, "I received a message from the police station...are you injured?!"
Kunikida was startled when he saw the open medical box next to him.
Because it involved the port mafia, after accepting the case, the police station found out that the source was actually a child who went to an armed detective agency to entrust him to find a cat, so he called the detective agency.
From Mr. Garmon's statement relayed by the police, Kunikida Doppo has already guessed that the person Xiao Hachi met at the seaside pier was the evil dog of Mafia at the port
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