"Did I say something wrong?" Ms. Laura's face was stunned, and she couldn't react for a while.
She looked at Joe, who choked on the coffee, thumped his chest, coughed violently, shook his hand straight at her without raising his head, and then gave a trembling thumb.
Seeing that his face was red and his neck was thick, Laura was almost out of breath from coughing, and no longer embarrassed him, she turned to look at Gu Yan.
Then she was enlightened, and suddenly realized: "Oh."
That wasn't enough, she lengthened her tone again, "Oh—" and said narrowly to Gu Yan, "You're not happy when I pinch him? Are you so jealous? Why didn't I see that you still have such a side? Woolen cloth?"
Gu Yan wanted to say something, but after hearing that, he seemed to stare at Laura for a while, and finally nodded at her with a sullen face, "You are right."
Young Master Qiao is about to cough into tuberculosis.
Professor Yan Da's expression changed from blank to very complicated.
But it wasn't enough for the unlucky girl Laura to run against Gu Yan, so she turned her narrow gaze on him.
"… "
Yan Suizhi endured the stare silently, a little dumbfounded.
"It's over, I made a red mark on my face." Laura added in a desperate way.
Yan Suizhi: "..."
Forget it, pull it out and shoot it.
Yan Suizhi withdrew his gaze, and simply didn't say anything. Anyway, the one who was going to die in the end was definitely not him.
He touched the side of his face calmly. This action was done by him without any embarrassment. It was more like a random little action, showing a gentle and calm temperament.
Then he picked up the coffee cup in front of him, took a sip silently, and said to Ms. Laura, "I suggest you forget this scene, for your own good."
It's over. It's over.
Young Master Qiao, who finally finished coughing, slumped on the sofa like a dead dog, his chest heaving half-deadly, he glanced at Yan Suiyi from his half-open eyes, then at Laura, and then looked back as if stung by a wasp , The heart said that it was too late for the cemetery to reserve a place for Miss Laura.
Yan Suizhi put down the coffee cup, and seeing Gu Yan glanced at him, he couldn't help raising his eyebrows and said, "I feel a little bit of a loss."
After speaking, before waiting for the other party to react, he reached out and pinched Gu Yan's face, and then raised the corner of his mouth in satisfaction: "This way it's balanced."
Gu Yan: "???"
Speaking of loss, is there anyone here who loses more than him
But the timid Miss Laura saw this scene, she thought she was fed a big mouthful of dog food, and panicked, so she gave a thumbs up to Yan Suizhi: "This is the first time in my life that I saw someone dare to pinch him, little intern. You've opened my eyes, warrior."
"… "
Real warriors always ignore themselves.
Qiao silently covered his eyes, feeling that he really couldn't bear to watch any more.
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The smartphone vibrated suddenly, making the paraplegic young master Qiao alive.
He wiped his lips, sat up half-dead, turned on the screen of his smartphone, and the caller was the friend who helped to check the entry records.
Young Master Qiao suddenly regained his energy, his eyes changed, he rubbed his face twice, and clicked to connect: "Hello? Is there a result?"
The other party said: "It's a little bit."
"What does it mean to be a little bit?"
The other party said, "We have set up several systems, some search from back to front, some from front to back, using precise screening to find, first screen the year that Lawyer Ke was involved in the accident. I know you are anxiously waiting. I'll send you some of the results first, so as not to delay your progress. But—"
As soon as Qiao heard this turning point, he picked up his heart, "But what?"
"I think this screening method will still miss a lot, and there are too many ways to mix a bird in." The friend on the other end of the communication tried to explain a few words, and then gave up: "Forget it, look After that, you will understand what I mean.”
"I know, as long as there is a result." Joe nodded. "I know that there must be many ways to mix things up even if you don't say it, but it's better to have information than no information, and it's a little bit to find out."
"Of course it's best if you can think of it this way." The other party explained again: "In the past few years and the last few years, the screening is underway. After each year, I will send you a part, and I will not call you one by one. Now, remember to keep an eye on it and check it out."
Joe said simply, "Okay, I've been watching, thanks."
He spoke calmly, but after hanging up the communication, he took a few deep breaths.
"How do you say?" Gu Yan and the others all looked over.
A communication completely diverted the previous topic, and the focus again fell on the scavenger.
The voice just fell.
Joe's smartphone dinged.
"Come on." Qiao stared at the interface that popped up and said, "He said that he first searched for the entry and exit records of the year Ke Jin's accident occurred, and some things have already been sent to me. I—"
He stared at the interface for a few seconds, exhaled, and clicked on dismantling.
A long row of recorded screenshots and dynamic image files are arranged above the coffee table.
Joe switches the screen to share mode, and the file starts to autoplay in a scrolling fashion.
Records show that at the beginning of January of that year, Decama’s consignment note at the port of entry indicated that a batch of 300 gray sparrows had been shipped in. The attribute was meat finch, and the inspection method was screening. The note says it was shipped by meat sparrow dealer Eddie Watson.
Immediately following this record, however, were the precise search results of the images.
In the video, 300 edible grey sparrows are huddled together and locked in a huge bird cage. But at one point in time, the search box picked up one of the 300 grey sparrows.
That one just happened to reveal a piece of tail feathers at that moment, and it could be seen from the piece of tail feathers alone that it was a shepherd bird mixed in with the grey freckles.
Everyone's eyes narrowed.
As the friend said just now, after reading the record, we can see that it is not easy to check the shepherd, just like this video, if the birds are more crowded, the shepherd will be completely covered. , it is difficult to find this paragraph with precise screening.
As you can see, there must be a lot of missing parts.
This video is followed by another recording.
Records show that the day after the 300 gray sparrows entered the port, someone came to pick up the shipment. The person who took it away was also a meat sparrow vendor named Zhang Wendi.
"No Lee Connor..." Laura said.
"Look back." Yan Suizhi reminded.
Qiao Wenyan immediately turned back.
It stands to reason that the shepherd bird has changed its environment and cannot survive for a long time. That is to say, this shepherd is coming, and as long as it is not expected to die in Decama, there will be a corresponding record of departure in the near future.
but none.
The second record had already arrived a few months later, which meant that the one it left the port was well concealed and could not be found.
The record, months later, was in mid-May when an animal-based troupe entered the port of Decama. Most of the magic show parts in the troupe use the most common gray sparrow. After all, it is cheap and in large quantities.
Once again the shepherds entered the harbour mixed with the grey sparrows.
After passing the screening, the entire troupe was brought into the planet Decama and performed in several districts.
Likewise, among the members of the troupe registered, there is still no trace of Conor Lee.
"Have you checked Connor Lee's entry and exit records?" Yan Suizhi said, "It is very likely that he has been using other people to bring shepherds in."
Fortunately, the friend Joe asked for also thought of the same situation. After these two records, he attached a copy of Lee Connor's entry and exit times.
Unsurprisingly, he had eight records of entry and exit during that time, and two of them were very close to the Shepherd's consignment time, one was 1 day away, and the other was 3 days away.
Seeing this result, Joe's face became ugly again.
Guessing is one thing, seeing pictures and texts confirming the guesses a little bit is another.
He clenched his fists and almost hit the coffee table. But when he glanced at Ke Jin dozing off to the side, he stopped in time. He cursed several times in a very low voice.
Conor Lee was that scavenger.
This guess is basically not wrong.
But the most important thing is not this, but where he has gone, who he has become, and where he is now, that is the most important.
They screened for so long, not to look at this name in these records, but to let this person, this person involved in many lives, deserve what he deserved.
But unfortunately...
The last record of this year was at the end of the year, around December. This time, it was neither an exit record nor an entry record, but the trace of the shepherd bird was found in the monitoring of the port, and it flew a short distance with the mighty crowd. , resting on top of the metal gate pillars of the port.
It is difficult to find out who the shepherd is following through this surveillance.
The only good thing is that Joe's friend was very efficient.
About an hour later, a new result came, and the attached message said: The system checks from both ends to the middle at the same time. This is the last year, from January to now.
Qiao opened the file with hope, only to find that there was very little in it, only one record and one video in total.
Just seeing the pitiful numbers made Joe lean back on the sofa with a sigh.
Laura also "tsk", clearly expressing disappointment.
But after opening it, they found a difference.
This time the shepherds came into Hong Kong without being mixed in with a large number of gray-spotted finch, and they did not do too much concealment. They were just brought in by a person in the name of pets.
The carrier's name is Marcus Bard.
The video that follows is of the moment Marcus Bader lifts the bird cage through the gate.
After lossless magnification, Marcus Bader's appearance is clear.
It was a man of medium stature, with a bland and unremarkable appearance. He had no special memory points. He could drown in the crowd in an instant when he walked on the road. He was a typical public face.
"Just like this face, I can't remember it three times." Joe frowned and muttered, "On purpose."
Marcus Bader in the video looks in a normal mood, always touching his side face and neck, as if he is not used to or uncomfortable. However, he took care of the bird's feelings very much. As soon as the review was over, he opened the bird cage.
The shepherd fluttered its wings twice, flew out of the cage, circled around him twice, first stopped on his shoulder and rubbed his cheek, as if to say hello to him, and then flew high and far away.
Joe bit his tongue after watching this video, turned his head and started to use this popular face to accurately search the whole network image.
It's a pity that in every corner of the public network, the presence of this man named Marcus Budd is extremely low, and there is no information about him at all.
"Wait a minute." Qiao said, "wait for my friend to provide some more, and I'll ask friends from the media to help you search."
Laura said, "What the media can get is actually limited. At most, they can find out what has been published, and those reports and images that have not been published but have been submitted to superiors. There are still many that will not be published. If the Internet or are not going to post it on the Internet, they will not be able to find it.”
Qiao said again: "Then let's find someone in the file system..."
After he finished speaking, he said helplessly, "But the file system also has limitations."
On the other hand, Gu Yan suddenly remembered how he looked at Yan Suizhi, "Speaking of those who didn't post on the Internet... Do you remember those two reporters?"
"Benqi and Hexi?" Yan Suizhi nodded knowingly, "I almost forgot about these two. Last time we were at Tianqin Star, we collected a lot of things from their cameras, try it? "