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"I remember now." Xing suddenly spoke, his brows still furrowed. "The Black Tower asked me to help her find a strange object, which has no entity but has life. I went to the Realm Seed Department and the Secret Scroll Department and seemed to have found several staff members. One of them and Alan were investigating some supernatural events..."
Although his tone was serious, Xing couldn't help but turn around and give Cheng Che a sinister smile, "It's a supernatural event!"
Cheng Che: ...
It is true that supernatural events are scary, but stars are really not suitable for scaring people.
Cheng Che reached out his hand and tapped Xing's forehead, then raised his chin towards his friends who were waiting nearby, "You don't have to think of me first at a time like this. Think about your missing lady in the Black Tower first."
Xing blinked, "But the Black Tower is not missing, it's just a puppet."
It’s important, but it’s also not important... It’s really not very important. After all, there are so many dolls in the Black Tower, and Cheng Che has cursed and broken several of them!
Although he said this, Xing still frowned slightly and tried to sort out his memories. "It was... the mysterious disappearance of a clerk. The surveillance did not find any traces. It seemed like... the human body spontaneously combusted without fire, and then disappeared."
After the words were spoken, everyone fell into silence.
Jing Yuan's body, which was lazily leaning, could not help but straighten up, because his brain, which had been offline for vacation, seemed to be back online. "It has no entity, but it has life. It ignites without fire. Is it Sui Yang?"
Xing shook her head, "I don't know, but Wuwubo and Suiyang in the space station seem to be relatives, so if it's Suiyang, it makes sense."
Jing Yuan touched his chin, not knowing for a moment whether he should put his brain online.
Logically, I was on vacation, but at a time like this, it seemed reasonable to help out as a semi-anonymous guest.
"It's such a long story. Are you tired?" Latio raised an eyebrow and said calmly, "I am quite tired anyway."
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"Don't I have a talent for storytelling?" Xing tilted his head and couldn't help rubbing his forehead. "But I'm tired of thinking about it. For tonight's meal, I want to order a delicious walnut crisp and a tofu pudding with lots of chili oil. Finally..."
Xing touched his chin, but suddenly turned to look at Cheng Che, "Would you like to share some of your snacks with me? I think nuts are good for the brain."
Cheng Che tilted his head, "Have you ever thought about a question?"
"What?" Xing raised an eyebrow and asked in confusion, "Are you trying to reject me? Half of the nuts in your nut box were peeled by me!"
"Does a walnut that has been caught by a door have any brain-boosting effect?" Cheng Che asked back.
He took out a piece of paper and wrote down everything Xing had just said, then drew a long line to connect them, trying to put together a mind map, "Energy life, no entity, but life, missing clerks, spontaneous human combustion..."
Cheng Che frowned, "Phase Spirit Fire?"
As soon as the words fell, everyone's eyes were focused on Cheng Che.
Xing couldn't help but reach out and pat Cheng Che's head, "Is your mind not empty?! How did you come up with these four words? I didn't even think of them!"
Cheng Che: ...
Cheng Che pushed Xing's hand away, expressionless, "Are you a fool? We have seen the surveillance footage of Ruan Mei's laboratory. She said that the Phase Spirit Fire disappeared when she was halfway through her research!"
Chapter 516 Woo woo, so fierce.
In the small conference room, Xing sat on a chair and looked at Cheng Che. He slightly raised his head and stared into those cold amber eyes. After thinking for a long time, he couldn't help but ask, "Has anyone ever said you are a genius?"
"No." Cheng Che seemed to be very resistant to this word and answered quickly, "This is an answer that a normal person with a normal memory can think of, and it is also a normal intuition of a game player about the foreshadowing of the plan."
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Xing frowned and lowered his head after a while, "You scolded me for having a bad memory and saying that I have no intuition..."
"Forget tea. You and tea don't fit in." Cheng Che had a blank expression on his face. He leaned back in his chair and slowly rubbed the straps on his clothes. His tone was calm. The clear boyish voice had a bit of a low tone at this time. "But I really can't believe that you can't even remember the commission given to you before Black Tower disappeared. You..."
Cheng Che paused, a hint of doubt in his eyes, and looked at Xing seriously, "Is it the sequelae of the medicine that Ruan Mei gave you, or has someone tampered with you without your knowledge?"
Xing instantly returned to normal and couldn't help rubbing his forehead. "I don't know. It may also be that I have too many commissions and I always forget some details."
"Amnesia is memory damage, and it's normal to have an impact on memory." Latio finally couldn't stand the two idiots talking to each other, and he tapped the table lightly with the chalk again, making a crisp sound. "After listening to your one-sided statement, let me ask, is there anyone who can testify for you about what you said and did?"
Having said that, Latio's gaze was focused on Xing's face, his eyes staring coldly into Xing's eyes, waiting for the other party's answer.
The gray-haired girl was slightly startled. She opened her mouth but couldn't help but lower her head. "The Black Tower can testify to this."
Latio: ...
"If we run as fast as we can now, we might be able to catch up with the company's shuttle ship in four system hours." Latio remained unmoved, his voice still cold and indifferent.
Xing touched the back of his head and couldn't help but tug at Cheng Che's sleeve.
"What's wrong?" Cheng Che tilted his head and asked in confusion, "You want me to testify for you? But my friend, I didn't even know that you secretly accepted the commission, so how can I still falsely testify for you?"
Xing sighed slightly, "Why did I secretly accept the commission? At that time, you and Jing Yuan were in the breeding room studying how to breed a cat cake that looked like Fu Xuan. You were having a lot of fun. After playing for two hours, you both fell asleep on the table. How could I pull you two up?"
Not to mention Jing Yuan, the general with his eyes closed, she didn't even want to see Cheng Che's bad temper when he woke up again.
Cheng Che spread his hands and looked up at Latio.
ScrewGum glanced at everyone and said in a calm and elegant tone, "Mr. Latio, your way of asking questions always has a tendency to be preconceived."
Hearing this, Latio raised his eyes, raised his eyebrows and looked at ScrewGum, "Excuse me, this is a bad habit of mine. From experience, it is undoubtedly very effective."
At this point, Latio knocked on the table again and said, "Since no one has proved it, let's clear the suspicion by asking questions and answering them."
Xing blinked, first looking at Cheng Che and Jing Yuan who were sitting next to him, then looking at the people sitting opposite him who were interrogating a criminal, and thought for a moment before answering, "Can I ask for help?"
"Oh?" Latio asked in confusion, his tone was unclear whether it was sarcasm or surprise. "Do you need help from others to clear your name? It seems that you are not very confident. Or maybe..."
Latio paused, and looked at Xing thoughtfully, "You are not innocent at all?"
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"Clear and innocent, I took a shower before going out, I'm pretty clean!" Xing answered quickly, pointing at the two men next to him, "I just think Cheng Che and Jing Yuan are better than me in the matter of whistling, I think they can better clear my suspicion."
Cheng Che, the ever-changing little crow, is a crow mouth today, a big liar tomorrow, and a gossiper the day after tomorrow.
Jing Yuan, General Shen Ce, can understand and speak both polite words and words with hidden meanings.
Latio was speechless for a moment, looked away and calmed down for a moment before speaking again, "Get the situation straight. You are now a suspect."
Xing nodded and sighed as if in compromise, "Okay, then ask."
Latio gathered his thoughts, leaned forward slightly, rested his elbows on the table, and approached Xing, "According to what you said, you met with the Black Tower because you received a specific commission."
Xing blinked and looked at Latio, his eyes flickering as if he was thinking about whether there was anything wrong with this sentence.
Cheng Che glanced at Latio, then looked away and pressed his phone, muttering, "Pretty serious."
At the side, Jing Yuan raised his eyebrows and slightly tilted his head to watch Cheng Che scribbling on the screen of his mobile phone. The messy lines did not seem to have any structure, as if it was just a habitual little action.
"Serious?" Jing Yuan lowered his voice and asked softly, "Is this serious? You were not serious at all in the Prison of Desolation."
This atmosphere is not as gloomy as that of the Prison.
"I just feel that this professor is also well versed in interrogation techniques, which can create a sense of oppression. This is what my elders did when they talked to me." Cheng Che muttered, and just as he was about to say something, he saw Xing quietly raise his hand out of the corner of his eye.
The gray-haired girl raised her hand seriously and explained, "Yes, I went to see Heita because I received a special commission. She asked me to help her find the missing treasures and told me that I could go to Ester if I needed help. Then I went to find Ester, and she asked me to find two clerks. The clerks..."
The long speech was clearly audible in the quiet conference room. Latio blinked, with a hint of severity between his delicate eyebrows, and scolded coldly, "Don't interrupt when others are talking. Hasn't anyone taught you etiquette?"
The tone was calm, without much hint of reprimand, but it made one's heart skip a beat for no reason.
Xing couldn't help but touch his head, frowning as if he was very embarrassed, "Then... when should I tell you?"
Latio: ...
Latio remained calm, looking at Xing coldly, and uttered a merciless word from his lips, "Stop pretending, please shut up."
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Xing Momo turned to look at Cheng Che, "Friend, I need..."
Before he finished speaking, Latio knocked on the table again, his voice cold, "Playing dumb again, now is the time for questioning."
Xing turned his head silently, lowered his head and said nothing.
Woo woo, so fierce.
Cheng Che raised his eyes and looked at Latio, "How about I answer it, I think it might be more interesting for us to ask and answer questions together."
Latio shifted his gaze and looked directly at Cheng Che, "Please shut up too. This is a question and answer between me and her."
Chapter 517 Looking forward to it!
"Friend! Calm down!"
The gray-haired girl tightly grasped Cheng Che's wrist, her expression tense and her tone hurried, "Don't be angry! Shut up! He just wanted to get the facts to clear my suspicion, he didn't mean to be so fierce! I'm not angry! Don't be angry either!"
"I know he scolded you, but just bear with it for now!"
Beside him, the white-haired general stroked his chin and watched Xing's obstruction with interest, then looked at Cheng Che's expressionless face with a playful smile on his lips.
Well, I'm free anyway, so it might be fun to have some fun!
As long as Cheng Che doesn't curse him or Luofu, it should be quite interesting to see him get angry and talk nonsense.
Cheng Che lowered his eyes expressionlessly, looking at the phone in his hand that was shaking so much that he was about to drop it.
He thought for a long time, and finally lifted his eyelids to look at Xing, "Wait a minute, how can you tell that I'm angry?"
He wouldn't get angry over just one sentence, right?
This sentence didn't cross his bottom line, right?
Oh no, he doesn't seem to have any bottom line.
Xing couldn't help but be startled, staring at Cheng Che's eyes with golden eyes. After a long silence, he hesitated and said, "Aren't you angry?"
Aren’t crows said to be petty and vengeful birds?
Cheng Che had a blank expression on his face, and he lowered his eyes to look at Xing, "What gives you this illusion?"
Xing smiled awkwardly, let go of her hands and sat down on the chair seriously, but when she raised her eyes she met Latio's gaze.
The cold and aloof man sat on the chair with his legs crossed, looking at this side with a weird look. Although his face was expressionless, one could always feel that his eyes were full of the meaning of "I'll just watch you guys chat".
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Xing quietly withdrew his hand and said awkwardly: "I'm off topic, you go first..."
Latio glanced coldly at the people opposite him, "I shouldn't have expected you to take this matter seriously."
He exhaled slowly, trying to draw his attention back to the question. "As you said, the Black Tower has entrusted you to find a rare item whose name is unknown. However... the Black Tower has collected many rare items, and it is hard to imagine that she would treasure an ordinary item so much."
Sensing the doubt in Latio's mouth, Xing raised his hand again, but cautiously did not speak.