Jobtran thought of the time when Tristenay was by his side, and couldn't help feeling sad.
He gave a bitter smile and stopped talking. Veronica, who was good at observing people's expressions, noticed the flash of sadness on Joe Butran's face. She stood up, walked behind Joe Butran, and gently massaged his messy head with both hands.
At this time, Joe Butran did not resist Veronica's kindness. Instead, he closed his eyes and enjoyed it.
Seeing this, Ross quietly left the archive room to avoid embarrassment by staying in the room.
Ross sighed outside the door, took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it.
He couldn't understand why the Bureau would recruit him as an investigator.
An ordinary childhood, a boring life, and a mother who always nags him to get married quickly.
If I hadn't woken up and found myself lying in a strange ruin, I would probably still be herding cattle in the countryside, surrounded by cow dung and flies every day.
At that time, Ross didn't remember why he appeared in the ruins. When he woke up, he just had a splitting headache and a thing in his hand that looked like a flintlock rifle.
It was an underground city, a ruin that had turned into dilapidated walls and rubble.
Perhaps there had once been human civilization there, or even a civilization beyond humankind.
Ross woke up naturally while lying on a place similar to an altar. When he woke up, there were a group of people around him, looking at him with strange eyes.
Those people seemed to expect Ross to confess something, but Ross remembered nothing except that he felt like he was dreaming.
The content of the dream was very vague, as if I had arrived in a high-tech city where the buildings were floating.
There is no sign of any human in the city. Instead, there are some creatures with a lower body similar to a snail and several trumpet-shaped tentacles and a pair of claws on the upper body living in the city.
They seemed to be able to fly around on a disc without having to walk on the ground at all.
They carry some white cubes with them, and can easily put things into the cubes by lightly touching them with their claws. It feels like the space equipment in science fiction novels.
Those creatures didn't care about Ross's existence, they were all busy in the city.
Ross didn't wake up from his dream until a creature that had never appeared in the real world came to the city and fought with the creatures in the city.
They were a terrifying, leech-like ancient race, a group of completely grotesque beings.
Their bodies are only partially material, and although they have no wings or fins, they can fly freely in the air.
Their bodies appear and disappear in the void, and their bodies have a terrifying and absurd plasticity.
At the same time, their arrival is accompanied by a strange noise that is harsh and deafening.
The continuous, sickening sound of the flute stimulated Rhodes who was sleeping at the time.
This sound almost drove Rhodes crazy. In his sleep, he wanted to pierce his eardrums with sharp objects more than once.
Those stripy, irregular, leech-like creatures may be called flying leeches.
No one knew how the strong winds were brought about, but column-shaped waves of wind attacked the creatures in the city.
The original residents of the city used an electric gun to spray plasma current to repel the invaders.
But there were too many flying leeches, and the city eventually perished.
The natives gathered together and flew into a white vortex and disappeared, while one of them turned back and gave Ross a meaningful look.
The dream ended with Ross waking up with a uniquely shaped electric gun in his hand.
That was a tool used by the indigenous people for self-defense.
The people around him claimed to be from the Investigation Bureau and invited Rhodes to join the Bureau.
Ross became a dog-level investigator without knowing it.
The investigators asked Rhodes a lot of questions, and after Rhodes answered truthfully, they asked Rhodes to take away the electric gun.
The electric gun did not react after everyone present pulled the trigger, but only Rhodes was able to activate the electric gun.
Perhaps this is the main reason why the Bureau recruited Rhodes.
The trajectory of Rhodes' life changed, but he didn't expect that the first mission would be so difficult.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help feeling a little discouraged.
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"Lord Xiaozafu, the autopsy report is out."
Suo Ou handed the autopsy report in his hand to the distressed Xiao Zhafu.
Xiao Zhafu just received a call from his superiors, asking him not to investigate the murder case of the French chef, otherwise he might lose his official position.
Despite this, Xiao Zhafu's sense of justice and curiosity still drove him to speculate the culprit based on the only information he had.
"Although I cannot bring him to justice, I can go and warn the Einstar family privately."
Xiao Zhafu thought so.
"Okay, thank you, Soo. Give it to me, let me take a look."
Xiao Zhafu responded politely.
Soo waved his hand.
"There's nothing to thank me for. It's a small matter. The contents of the autopsy report are similar to what I guessed. You can just take a look at it."
Xiao Zhafu nodded and opened the file to check it carefully.
"The spine was broken, a fatal blow. There was massive bleeding inside the aorta. There were no external injuries. It was just as you said. This was done by a professional."
Suo Ou curled his lips and said helplessly,
"If someone with this skill is found, it will be difficult to catch him."
Xiao Zhafu nodded and replied, "I have simply listed a few suspects, but without a superior leader, I dare not send anyone out."
Suo Ou sighed, "Just swallow your anger. When you are under someone's roof, you have to bow your head. Your friend's wife and children need to be taken care of."
Xiao Zhafu leaned back in his chair helplessly and fell backwards.
Looking at the snow-white ceiling, Xiao Zhafu suddenly remembered a key clue and asked Suo Ou,
"How much of the telegraph machine have we recovered?"
Suo Ou was stunned at first, then shook his head vigorously.
"It's an imported product from Faguo. With the manpower we have here, we don't have enough knowledge to reassemble it, let alone restore the contents."
After hearing this, Xiao Zhafu thought carefully about other clues that could provide some clues.
"Not mentioning the telegraph, what do you think the last message on the chopping board means?" asked Xiao Zhafu.
"You said DUSK? That means dusk. It must be a code name or a person's name." Suo Ou said with a frown.
"I guess it should be a code name, a spy code name. I have compared it with all the names on the guest list and the servant list of the Einstar family that day. I even thought of the abbreviation of the name as a possibility. But no one fits the bill." Xiao Zhafu replied.
"Do you think it could be..."