.Guanzhi County, the second branch of hl North.
Jim Malone was sitting in his office, smoking a cigar comfortably, but uninvited guests in this world liked to show up uninvited at such times.
The phone on the table rang, and Ma Long reluctantly pressed the call button.
"Sir, Mr. Nice is here. He said he wants to see you immediately."
"Let him in." Ma Long said and hung up.
A few minutes later, Zhi Xia opened the door and walked in. He skipped the courtesy of knocking on the door to say hello. He walked to Ma Long's desk and said, "I need you to unblock a secret file."
"Huh..." Ma Long blew out a smoke ring: "Well, why am I not surprised at all? What else do you want? A photo of the Governor's mistress?"
"Listen, Jim, I think I found it." Paper Man said to Malone with a solemn expression: "The murderer of San Marco's 'Bloody Midnight' ten years ago."
Malone took the cigar out of his mouth with a noncommittal expression: "You know I work night shifts all year round just to avoid you, right?"
Paper Man still ignored the other party's teasing: "I'm not kidding."
"Okay, I understand what you mean." Ma Long stood up: "Tell me about the clues you have now."
Zhi Xia said: "A murder occurred at the Copper Parrot Tavern this afternoon. You will understand after watching the surveillance video."
Malone said: "Okay, wait." He turned around and pressed the phone on the table...
hl's service efficiency is very high, and it can be arbitrarily transferred to the archives of all surveillance videos in the jurisdiction. A moment later, the two watched the incident again on the huge screen on the wall of Malone's office. Afterwards, Ma Long ordered an investigation team to analyze and study all the surveillance videos of the hotel in the past week to see if any new discoveries could be made.
Paper Man seemed quite excited and was talking to himself: "Same height and body shape, cruel techniques, a style of not taking killing seriously at all, and the incomplete clues obtained ten years ago. The description is exactly the same, it must be him! If the DNA comparison is correct, then... "
"So what?" Ma Long poured cold water on it: "The DNA we obtained ten years ago cannot find any match in the databases around the world. Even if the DNA comparison result this time is correct, we can only You know, the murderous king from ten years ago is back, but he still knows nothing about other things."
"It doesn't matter whether this kind of person has a legal identity. The key is that we now have more specific characteristics of his appearance. We can start from the entry and exit records..." Before Zhi Xia finished speaking, Ma Long interrupted. : "This case does not require your intervention, just leave it to us hl."
"What did you say?!"
Ma Long said: "If you insist on checking, you can." He pointed to the door behind Paper Man: "Go out, turn left, go to the end, find my secretary, and then sign an insignificant contract. ”
Paper Man said: "Jim, you know I will not join HL."
"Then you should also know how many people every year endure great pain to transform themselves into modified people, just to be a handyman in HL. Not to mention, they have to fill in the weight to be calculated. Paper documents. I took care of everything for you years ago, and you still won’t sign it today.”
Zhixia said: "We have talked about this topic many times. I like being a policeman, it is more free, and..."
Malone didn't let him speak anymore: "Since you want to be free, you won't be able to enjoy any of HL's case-handling resources and authority. I'm giving you information out of personal friendship, and that's because I have the power to resist some things. But now we are We are talking about a wanted criminal with a level four danger level, and only those who carry 'those four words' have the right to pursue him."
"What if I insist on checking?" Zhi Xia asked forcefully.
Ma Long relit a cigar and said: "Then you go and investigate, just don't block HL's way. This is within my authority, and I can give you the greatest tolerance."
The Paper Man replied lukewarmly: "Thank you then." He had already left the door before he finished speaking.
He had just left for less than a minute when Malone picked up the receiver of the desk phone and dialed the encrypted number of HL Europe Headquarters: "I am Colonel Malone of the Second Northern Division. Please pick up the general for me... Yes, I You know it’s early in the morning, so you’d better wake him up quickly.”
… …
At the same time, the Phoenix Opera House was twenty meters underground.
"What a great job, this underwater reflection city, hahaha..." the blood owl said with a ferocious smile: "It's hard to imagine how much time it would take to build such a complex interconnected tunnel like an anthill under the entire Venice. Human and financial resources, not to mention the designer’s scheming.”
In front of him stood a man whose left leg was empty from the knee down. The other person's voice trembled with fear and despair: "Who are you?! There is no such person as you in the second branch!"
The blood owl smiled: "So you Iron Commandment only sent a group of wastes to guard here? I walked along the way and didn't meet a single strong person. Why, to hear what you mean, the HLs in Venice are not better than me. People? It’s really a bit lonely... This city is indeed in decline now.”
The man seemed to understand that the Blood Owl was not someone sent by the empire's high-level officials. He shouted almost crazily: "Why are you doing this?!"
"Ah? What to do?" The blood owl had an incomprehensible expression on his face. He looked back at the blood and stumps that spread far behind him: "Are you referring to the cleanup work? What is there to make you excited about? Howling? I just need a place where no one will disturb me, and I can do some scientific research. As you know, you should clean up before moving into a new home to avoid snakes, insects, rats and ants crawling around in the eyes. come out."
"You... you..." The man didn't know what to say. He understood that the mad demon in front of him would never leave anyone alive, so he "touched" his hand into his arms: "Today, you will put the two steel commandments Three senior priests, thirty-six priests, and ninety believers were slaughtered... The higher-ups would never sit idly by with such a scale of casualties..." He held a pocket watch in his hand and made the sign of the cross on his forehead and chest. Then he shouted loudly: "My Lord, I will punish you with my body!"
Before he finished speaking, the pocket watch erupted with a burst of white light.
The blood owl knew what that meant. In just a moment, he moved to the man's side, tore the man's entire hand from his wrist, and crushed the man's head with his foot.
The light of the pocket watch gradually dimmed and disappeared...
"I really hope they can come faster." The blood owl looked at the broken body on the ground with bloodthirsty eyes: "I prefer to use blood to experiment."