Chapter 478 Above the Posa (13) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]

Since the police captain is Huai Jiamu, all problems will be much easier to solve.

Huai Jiamu and Bai Jinshu are acquaintances, and Bai Jinshu is obviously also an outsider, not a native of another world.

With this layer of "outsiders" in mind, the policemen's expressions became more sincere, and they regarded Bai Jinshu as an informant sent in by Huai Jiamu earlier.

"What a coincidence," the policeman with glasses suddenly realized and extended his hand, "Nice to meet you. Are you the captain's informant? It turns out that the captain has started sending informants to this world so early."

As he stretched out his hand, he began to really look at the long-haired young man.

He has long hair, which is rare among men in modern society. He stands with an upright posture and has a mixed-race look, as if he has minority blood or is simply mixed-race. When he stands next to the person next to him, they seem to be from two different worlds.

What is this person's profession? Such long hair... artist?

He has a good manner and mixed-race looks, and seems to be an artist whose family is very wealthy, with no shortage of food and drink. Normally, any of his paintings can be sold for millions... or he can easily buy paintings worth millions.

I don’t know how the captain knows such a rich person, and how he can make the other party willingly enter another world to be an informant.

The bespectacled policeman had an occupational disease attack. While looking at the other person, he subconsciously judged his family background, work and living habits. At the same time, he felt the other person's hand touching his fingertips very perfunctorily and then leaving.

"I'm not an informant, I'm here to investigate as well." Unlike his hand that separated immediately after touching, the other party's expression looked very sincere. "But I didn't come in early, I just arrived yesterday."

How come the Foundation's exploration team's investigation is not considered an investigation?

"I have mysophobia," the long-haired young man opposite him explained, noticing the flash of surprise on his face, "Sorry, I'm not used to shaking hands with others."

The policeman with glasses subconsciously added in his mind: Good at observation.

"Oh...oh, it's okay, my hands are indeed a little dirty. I have a cousin who also has mysophobia, much more exaggerated than yours, haha. Without washing our hands, not only can we not touch him, we can't even touch his things." He quickly pulled out a cousin to liven up the atmosphere.

The bespectacled policeman glanced down at the captain's hands in confusion as he spoke. It was strange, his hands were not clean, but were the captain's hands clean?

His eyes passed from the long-haired young man's hands with neatly trimmed fingernails to the captain's hands as he began to put on gloves.

...Then it's okay.

It turns out that the captain took off his gloves to shake hands just now.

The policeman with glasses understood it immediately.

The captain must have known this long-haired young man for a long time and knew that he had mysophobia, so he took off his gloves before shaking hands with him.

Then it is reasonable for them to be disliked.

"Thank you for your understanding," the long-haired young man nodded, "It's not convenient to talk here."

He looked in the captain's direction and asked, "Shall we find a place where it's convenient to talk?"

"Okay." Huai Jiamu nodded.

"Let's go then," Bai Jinshu walked forward a few steps and suddenly remembered to add, "By the way, this is my friend."

He was referring to Bo Jiren.

"We came here together to investigate," he warned the police officers in advance, "Besides us, there were a few other people who arrived together yesterday."

"Oh, right," the policeman with glasses remembered after hearing what he said, "we still have some people who haven't arrived yet."

"Captain," he looked in the direction of Huai Jiamu, "Xiao Guo and the others haven't arrived yet. Should we wait for a while and then go together after they arrive?"

"Okay," Huai Jiamu thought for a moment, "Let's wait for them."

*

If we say we are waiting for someone, then we certainly can't just stand here and wait, we will definitely have to chat for a while.

Bai Jin said that he was Huai Jiamu's friend and was also here to investigate. As for what he was investigating, he told the truth and said that he was asked by someone to come here to find someone.

Because of the relationship with Huai Jiamu, the other policemen naturally trusted the "captain's friends". As they chatted, Bai Jinshu extracted a lot of other information from them.

For example, they cannot actually be considered police officers in the traditional sense. They belong to an independent department. If we have to make an analogy, it might be similar to the Dragon Group, which specializes in handling matters beyond traditional criminal investigation.

For example, if a victim is found dead in his bedroom, the police will start investigating whether the victim was murdered, who he saw before his death, whether there were signs of fighting at the scene of death, the social relationships of the deceased, etc.

As for them, after receiving the report, they would start to investigate whether the deceased had been bewitched or cursed, and whether there were any other remnants of magic in his room...

This was the first time Bai Jinshu came into contact with this kind of worldview in an unknown space. He listened with great interest to them talking about the cases they had handled in the past, and probably understood why they had entered "another world".

After all, it’s a bit strange for traditional police to go to another world to investigate a case, but if it’s a setting like the Bureau of Anomalous Investigation, it seems understandable.

The barrage is very understandable:

[If you mean the Dragon Group, I'll understand. ]

【Masters with a system. 】

[I see. It's a place like the Abnormal Investigation Bureau, right?]

[Why does Aoshen know the captain of the Dragon Team? 】

[I guess it's because of some props he used? Or is it a fixed attribute? ]

[It is also possible that Aoshen has been to that world before and met this team leader. ]

These policemen in front of me... or now they can be called members of the Abnormal Investigation Bureau. The difference between them and normal policemen, to put it simply, is that one is responsible for materialism, and the other is responsible for metaphysics.

They belong to the category of metaphysics, while Xiao Guo, who has not yet arrived, belongs to the category of materialism. Speaking of his work unit, before he was transferred to the Abnormal Investigation Bureau, he was actually from a brother unit of the neighboring team.

But this is just from a procedural perspective.

"Xiao Guo was actually just sent here to cause trouble for us," the policeman with glasses curled his lips, "He was just called to our team for nothing, but he was actually here to cause trouble for the captain."

The policeman with glasses is called Xu Ke, and he is the deputy captain. It seems that he has a good relationship with the identity that Huai Jiamu replaced this time. When he said this, he couldn't help but feel sorry for the captain.

"But Xiao Guo is unlucky too. He didn't want to be sent here to cause trouble for us," he complained and added, "He's a good guy. If he hadn't followed us, he wouldn't have come into this world to take risks."

It sounds like this little Guo is a really nice person, otherwise Xu Ke wouldn't speak up for him in this situation.

"What do you mean?" Bai Jinshu looked at Huai Jiamu with interest.

"I offended someone when I was on a mission a few years ago," Huai Jiamu briefly mentioned the background of this identity, "Now this person is taking revenge on me and sending the entire team here to carry out the mission. Xiao Guo was implicated and followed us in."

After all, as members of the Abnormal Investigation Bureau, they must have something to rely on, but ordinary person Xiao Guo does not.

"Xiao Guo must have been ostracized in his previous company... unit," Bo Jiren, who had experienced many office struggles, couldn't help but interjected, "He was sent here to please both sides, and the person chosen must not be liked by their leaders."

Several people nearby nodded in agreement, and their evaluation of Xiao Guo was unanimous: he was an unlucky guy who was excluded and chosen, and was caught between two sides and couldn't please anyone.

Although his position and his existence are indeed meant to cause trouble for everyone, he is a good person, and everyone in the Huaijiamu team understands the situation and knows that it is not his fault, so they are mostly sympathetic to Xiao Guo.

After coming in this time, they divided into three teams in order to find the frightened girl. One team was Huai Jiamu, one team was Xu Ke, and one team was Xiao Guo. The three teams agreed to gather at a certain place at a certain time, which is where Bai Jinshu and the others are now.

Since it was mentioned that the entire team was sent here to carry out the mission, the following questions will follow naturally.

"You were looking for someone just now," Bai Jinshu mentioned the frightened girl, "So your mission this time is to find someone?"

"Uh..." Xu Ke hesitated for a moment, "It's mainly about finding someone."

This “mainly” is very spiritual, what is “secondarily”?

"Wen Qi is missing, and her parents reported it to the police," Huai Jiamu briefly summarized it again. "We investigated her classmates and learned from them that she made a bet with others to play the elevator game, so we came here to find her."

"Wen Qi's parents are the CEOs of Tianquan," Xu Ke added, "The school she attended was a famous aristocratic academy, and her classmates all came from wealthy and powerful families. One of the classmates who made a bet with her had parents who were the superiors of our boss. When she disappeared, a lot of people came to report it to the police. After further investigation, it turned out that she disappeared while playing a supernatural game, so this matter fell on us."

"It just so happens..." He hesitated and looked at the captain, "It just so happens that the captain has offended someone, and there have been rumors about the supernatural game for a long time. With this opportunity, the captain has offended someone, so this task fell on us."

It’s a long story about this world.

The rumor that "you can enter another world by playing the psychic game" may seem to be just some groundless rumors to the outside world, or false news added when making up the psychic game to increase the story and the danger level of the game, but for the people in their department, it is actually not new.

There are so many messed up psychic games in the world, and countless of them claim to be able to go to another world. Most of the time, the other world they go to is not real, but hallucinations or they have been able to see something briefly by opening their ghost eyes. Even worse, it may be an illusion caused by psychological suggestion.

This information really caught the attention of their special department more than ten years ago.

Anyway, when people are bored, everyone is happy to discuss some gossip or tell some interesting things. After talking about some interesting cases they have handled that can be reported to the outside world, now when it comes to this world, everyone starts talking about it.

More than ten years ago, the police were tracking down the murderer of a serial killer case. Just when they were about to catch the murderer, the murderer, who had been under police surveillance, suddenly disappeared.

In the room where he disappeared, there was only a blood-stained mirror shattered on the floor.

The case was strange and was quickly reported to their special department, but there was really no evidence at the time, and in the end they could only conclude that the murderer must have performed some non-materialistic rituals, but now that the person was gone, the only possibility was that he was dead, and the case was thus closed without a beginning or an end.

Unexpectedly, a few days later, the murderer appeared in front of the police again. This time he was successfully caught by the police, sentenced to death according to the procedures, and then executed a few months later.

Everything seemed normal, the matter ended successfully, the case was solved, the criminal was sentenced to death, and everyone was happy.

Unexpectedly, a few years later, the same thing happened again.

Another suspect inexplicably disappeared from police surveillance, this time in a school building in the middle of the night.

The special team came to check but found nothing. It happened that there were no students during the summer vacation, so the police cordoned off the place and checked every inch. A few days later, the suspect inexplicably appeared in the teaching building again.

He was successfully caught by the police, sentenced to death, and executed a few months later.

Everything seemed normal, and the matter ended successfully.

As a result, this happened from time to time over the next few decades.

From time to time, criminals would disappear, and some of these disappeared criminals would reappear and be taken away by the police, while others would simply disappear without a trace.

This is a strange matter, but not in the sense of a mysterious unsolved case.

For criminals who disappear and then come back, there is nothing wrong with the entire process from beginning to end except that they disappear for a few days. Not to mention that most of these people are directly sentenced to death after being caught. The end is very clean and there is no way to investigate.

As for criminals who disappear and are never found again, it is not the business of the Bureau of Anomalous Investigation. They are called fugitives who have fled for fear of crime. They will not even receive any information from us.

The people in the Abnormal Investigation Bureau who handled these cases at the time felt that something was wrong, but they didn't know where to start, let alone how to investigate these cases that seemed to have been successfully concluded, or how to intervene in the criminals who seemed to be on the run. In addition, they usually had a lot of things to do and didn't have much spare time to investigate these unsolved cases that were mostly unresolved, so the matter was put on hold.

Those who think that this matter is not right mainly discovered that there were various non-materialistic rituals in the places where those disappeared criminals disappeared. Some of the rituals were recognized as spiritual rituals that can lead to another world. Therefore, some people have always believed that these criminals went to another world, but they don’t know why they came back later.

Cases of missing criminals occur from time to time. Some people in the bureau think this is strange, some think it's not their place to meddle, and some don't go out to investigate at all. When they receive a report of the incident, they ask their sister units to surround the building and wait for the criminals to fall into their trap a few days later.

Until now, a rich second-generation girl named Wen Qi has disappeared. After her disappearance, her classmates were so scared that they reported the case to the police overnight, telling the police that Wen Qi made a bet with them to play an elevator game last night, but she unexpectedly disappeared directly in the elevator. She must have gone to another world mentioned in the game.

This matter was quickly reported to the Abnormal Investigation Bureau. Wen Qi's classmates insisted that she must have gone to the other world mentioned in the elevator game. It happened that the identity used by Huai Jiamu offended someone, and that person deliberately made trouble, so the action team that Huai Jiamu was in was sent in.

"We must find Wen Qi in the other world and bring her back no matter what," Xu Ke said.

It sounds like Huai Jiamu's appearance here was entirely accidental.

The main reason they came in this time was to find Wen Qi, and secondarily, of course, someone brought up the matter of "another world" again, and everyone wanted to investigate whether the missing criminals were really here.

Bai Jinshu touched his chin, thought of A Lian and A Yuan, and felt that those people were most likely in this world.

Rumors about the other world spread not only in the Bureau of Anomalous Investigation, but also among criminals.

But if that's the case, then why would those criminals who were sentenced to death after only staying in this world for a few days go back?

"The person you're looking for is called Wen Qi?" Bai Jin thought about A Lian and A Yuan, then turned back to the frightened girl to confirm, "Are you sure she disappeared after making a bet on a supernatural game?"

"Yeah," Xu Ke nodded, noticing that something was wrong with his expression, "Any questions?"

"...Not yet," Bai Jinshu also used a very ambiguous word, "I'm just asking casually."

Did Wen Qi really take the initiative to make the bet and play the elevator game?

When he saw her that night, the scars on her legs were obviously abnormal, as if she had been beaten. Bai Jinshu once suspected that Wen Qi was bullied at school, and someone forced her to play this game, or she couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to escape from reality, so she played this game.

Bai Jin couldn't explain what kind of company Tianquan was, but judging from Xu Ke's tone, it should be a very large company. The panicked girl Wen Qi was definitely a rich second-generation.

How could a rich second-generation student attending an aristocratic school be bullied and beaten at school?

This matter was strange from beginning to end. What Wen Qi behaved like and what these people who came to see her did were like two different people.

Just as I was thinking, Xiao Guo arrived.

Just like everyone said before, Xiao Guo is a nice person. Although he was sent here to cause trouble for Huai Jiamu, everyone in the team gets along well with him and the atmosphere among everyone is very harmonious.

As Xiao Guo's team arrived at the meeting point, everyone's topic changed from aimless chatting to mission-related. Xu Ke introduced that Bai Jinshu had met Wen Qi before, and Bai Jinshu was cautious and did not tell him the elevator game or other information. He just said that he had seen Wen Qi on the road, and if necessary, he could tell him where he had seen Wen Qi.

But Bai Jinshu can obviously provide more information than just this.

Compared to the elusive Wen Qi, the common sense about this world learned by Bai Jinshu, who arrived in this world before them, is more important information.

On the way to the pharmacy, Bai Jinshu roughly told them his current speculations about this world, and by the way, he asked Bo Jiren to tell the other people in the temporary group chat who kept asking questions about the current progress.

Including the name and identity of the girl in the white dress, the members of the Abnormal Investigation Bureau who came to find him, and the fact that there were already many visitors from other worlds in this world more than a decade ago. This might be one of the key clues to this space.

At the same time, the members of the Special Investigation Bureau who arrived here later than them also learned information about this world from Bai Jinshu.

This includes not revealing one's identity as being from another world, otherwise one will be caught by the police. It is best to find a job, otherwise one will also be caught by the police here. Also, there are strange things that appear on the streets here at night. The people here are likely not to die. The owner of the pharmacy where he works has lived for at least four hundred years.

Both sides gained something. As new outsiders here, the team members’ top priority now is not to find Wen Qi, but to find a job as soon as possible.

Bai Jinshu was only responsible for bringing people to the commercial street, and then let them find jobs by themselves. Huai Jiamu was of course treated preferentially, and was taken to the pharmacy by Bai Jinshu, who planned to register him there as well.

"Brother Faye," Zhao Yinglai was leaning against the door of the pharmacy to dry the medicine residue. When he saw him coming, his eyes lingered on Huai Jiamu, "This is..."

"Captain of the Special Investigation Team," Bai Jin said, "just think of him as our eighth member."

There is nothing to hide about Huai Jiamu's identity, but he doesn't want to be too special and mention his identity as an exploration team member in front of the camera.

But there was nothing wrong with this identity for Zhao Yinglai. After all, Huai Jiamu also knew that they came in because Zhao Yinglai was looking for someone.

Zhao Yinglai thought for a few seconds and nodded in understanding: "Oh... OK."

Is this person the eighth person who disappeared?

Guan Hongyan did mention to her that there was a special fixed attribute in their organization. After entering the unknown space, they would lose their original identity and become one of the indigenous members.

This isn't it, is it?

She looked at Huai Jiamu, but couldn't see any answer from his face, so she could only pick up the medicine residue out of boredom.

"The glazier came to fix the window this afternoon," she pointed to the broken window, "that girl in the white dress... Wen Qi, are we going to help that investigation bureau find someone?"

"Let me tell you something. I don't think she looks like a rich second-generation," said Zhao Ying, who had met countless rich second-generation domineering CEOs. "She doesn't have any expensive things on her body, her hair is very rough, and her legs were not beaten that night..."

"I don't think so either," Chang William came out from the back room and said sympathetically, "She doesn't have the temperament of a rich person. Could those people have deceived you, Kao?"

Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows.

"No," Huai Jiamu said, "Wen Qi is indeed the daughter of Tianquan's founder, and her parents reported the case personally."

When Wen Qi's parents reported the case, he had already entered this unknown space and took over this identity. He remembered this part very clearly.

"But..." He paused.

"But what?" Zhaoying poked his head in.

"But his parents don't look anxious," Huai Jia paused, thought for a moment and then said, "They're not even as anxious as the two classmates who called the police after discovering Wen Qi's disappearance."

This is weird.

Their daughter was missing, but they were indifferent. Instead, several classmates who had made a bet with their daughter were so anxious that they were about to cry, and even insisted that Wen Qi had gone to another world. As a result, this matter was quickly transferred to the Abnormal Investigation Bureau, which became the opportunity for them to enter here.

"There's something wrong," Zhao Yinglai muttered, "There must be something wrong with Wen Qi."

This is a bit too contradictory.

"Let's catch her tonight." Bai Jinshu nodded.

Wen Qi entered this world through the elevator game yesterday. She wanted to go back during the day but found that the office building was surrounded. If she still wants to go back, she will definitely try a second time tonight after all the people near the cordon and the police have left.

As for her identity and how she came into this world, it would be better to ask her herself.

How to catch this slippery loach that has escaped twice...

"Chang William." Bai Jinshu looked at Chang William.

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