"Yi Zi, why are you back so early today?" Duan Tiannan smiled gently and looked at the girl.
"The boss said it's a good time to sleep on a rainy day, so he didn't come to open the door." The girl smiled sweetly and said hello to the group of middle-aged people.
Everyone responded with a smile.
Residents in urban areas often don’t know each other, even if they live next door.
This slum has retained good neighborly relations.
Only then did Lu Wen realize that the middle-aged Duan Tiannan and the girl were actually a father and daughter.
But Duan Tiannan's face is one of those people who can't remember it at first glance, even after looking at it several times. Don't they say that daughters take after their father's appearance? This is too outrageous...
"You two are here to eat. Hey, I thought you were here to take shelter from the rain." The owner then noticed Lu Wen and handed over the menu with an apologetic smile.
"fine."
Xia Chuluo ordered two beef noodles without looking at the menu.
Lu Wen scanned the girl next to him.
[Duan Hongye]
[20-year-old human female]
[unemployed]
Is working in a milk tea shop considered a vagrant in the system
Lu Wen thought for a while, maybe it was because of the labor contract.
"Sister, what do you do for a living? It's really enviable that you can carry a bionic man with you to assist in your work."
"private detective."
"Yeah, no wonder my sister can tell what I do at a glance."
"It's not safe here lately, so don't go out at night."
"Uh-huh."
Lu Wen always felt that the content of the two's chat was a bit strange.
It's obviously normal, but something feels wrong.
The rain came and stopped quickly.
Before I finished eating the noodles, the rain stopped.
After a while, several people finished their meal.
The girl Duan Hongye said goodbye to the two of them, and then left the noodle shop with Duan Tiannan.
Lu Wen looked at the two people leaving, stroking his chin and thinking for a moment.
"That girl is the murderer?" he suddenly said.
Xia Chuluo was startled and looked up at Lu Wen.
She pulled out a tissue and wiped her mouth, but didn't respond immediately.
"Let's go back to District 13. The doctor told me to take a good rest."
"Then I'll take it as your admission."
…
Outside the low bungalow.
The girl Hongye took out the key and opened the door.
The room is always a little dark, and an energy-saving lamp cannot make the living room appear brighter.
"Why do you want to see her?" Hongye threw her backpack on the sofa, her calm tone sounded like a different person, completely different from the girl in the noodle shop who always had a smile on her face.
"Meet the daughter of an old friend."
Duan Tiannan smiled, walked to the kitchen, and took out a bottle of cold beer from the old refrigerator.
Although this middle-aged man has escaped the weight gain of middle age, his belly has gradually grown in size.
"If she was that person's daughter, how could she live to be so old?"
"As a matter of principle, you still don't understand our generation..."
Duan Tiannan smiled and turned on the TV. He held a beer in his hand and leaned down on the sofa, half lying down.
It's those old western movies again, with a strong sense of history.
Hongye also likes to watch a movie from the last century.
"Do you know "The Killer Isn't Too Cold"?" she asked.
"Then what's good to see? That's what you little girls like to see."
"Haha, you still don't understand our generation!"
“…”
The corner of Hongye's mouth curled up slightly, trying to win the game back.
She turned around and walked into the kitchen, took out a bottle of milk, and also sat on the sofa.
In this small room, it seems that nothing has changed in more than ten years. The same old objects and the same old movies, but some people have grown up and some people are getting older.
"Xia Chuluo knows it's you."
"Today I… "
"She knew it yesterday. Even the android next to her might have noticed it."
"Why?"
The girl Hongye obviously didn't believe that she had done enough.
She and Xia Chuluo are of the same age, and she is confident that she will not lose to any of her peers.
"A deliberate milk tea stain has already made you lose."
"anything else?"
"The murderer likes to return to the scene after committing a crime, some to observe whether the scene is perfect, some to appreciate his own masterpiece, and some to show off in front of the executive... You belong to the third type."
Duan Tiannan paused and took a sip of beer to moisten his throat.
"You want to see how Xia Chuluo looks for the murderer. You want to see her helpless. You appear in front of her arrogantly, which gives you a sense of accomplishment... But you still don't understand her. What Xia Chuluo is best at , is to analyze other people’s psychology.”
"I remember I told you before, after it's over, leave immediately, as far away as possible, so that you can live longer. Only two kinds of people will return to the scene, one is a fool, and the other is a peerless genius. , and you... are not a genius."
Hongye was silent, holding the milk bottle in his hand.
Duan Tiannan always smiles gently on weekdays and looks like an ordinary middle-aged man. He rarely criticizes Hongye.
But this time it's different.
"If she really wanted to catch you, you wouldn't have come back yesterday."
"But this is a slum. Anyone looking for him on the street might be a wanted criminal. She doesn't dare to arrest me!"
"This is indeed a slum." Duan Tiannan looked at the handsome cowboy on TV and said calmly: "Her father's slum..."
…
The black car speeds on the urban road.
While driving, Lu Wen explained his analysis to Xia Chuluo.
"When you chat with her, it feels like... you have known each other for a long time. Either she has known you for a long time, or you have known her for a long time."
"Have you become wiser lately?"
"I'm pretty smart to begin with, otherwise why would you ask me to be your assistant?"
"Because I promised to keep you alive, and I happened to be short of a cook at home."
“…”
Before the car entered the Thirteenth District, rain fell from the sky again.
Lu Wen turned on the wipers, but his vision was still a little blurry. The dark clouds and mist in the distance looked like alien beasts crawling under the sky, wandering among the tall reinforced concrete buildings.
“I find that once you know you’re in debt, it becomes more and more proactive to analyze things.”
"Is this... is this your conspiracy?"
Lu Wen suddenly felt that people's hearts were sinister.
Of course, Xia Chuluo also did it for his own good. From the first day they met, he had been instilling all kinds of life-saving knowledge into him.
"By the way, you and that Hongye really knew each other before?"
"I don't know her, but she should know me from some source."
"Why not arrest her? Because it's a slum?"
"No, because there is no evidence. The evidence should... be at that middle-aged man's house. The two of us are not the opponent of that middle-aged man yet."
Lu Wen thought about the middle-aged Duan Tiannan whom he met twice.
Suddenly, I realized that I couldn't remember what he looked like just by relying on my own memory. I had to rely on the image left by the memory chip.
This man is really too ordinary.
(End of chapter)