Chapter 17 Yang Yan: You must fall into the trap! It’s really worth investing in wonder! Come and push wonder!
"This is already the second time Wonder has escaped from the Squid Detective Agency. Do you understand how valuable this is? The Squid Detective Agency has never failed since its debut!"
Bai Ye was forced by Yang Yan, whom he had just met, to sit in front of a street-side spicy hot pot stall across the street from the hamburger shop. He sat on a scattered plastic bench and thought of the demonology homework he had not had time to finish in the hamburger shop. He felt like the sky was falling.
Yangyan excitedly kept talking about how handsome the Phantom Thief Wonder was beside him, and forcibly added Bai Ye's contact information on Yewang, and forwarded him a lot of speculations and... fan works about the Phantom Thief Wonder that seemed true or false on the Internet.
Bai Ye's eyes widened. He even saw a link to the Squid Detective Agency enthusiasts forum in these reposts.
Several of the articles and amazing pictures were even produced by him!
Yang Yan: "I would like to recommend a fairy lady to you, square root of three, who is simply the town lady of seafood fans. Although I am a rival, I can't help but be moved by the friendship portrayed by seafood lady."
The master of both literature and painting in the seafood industry, [Root Three], hesitated to speak to Yang Yan: "This..."
The boy, who looked like a gym student with his cap buttoned back, spread his hands and said, "It can't be helped. Wonder has just made his debut and there are too few fan-made products! I can only eat at the rival Squid Detective Agency!"
Still a gay man.
Bai Ye: ...You're even on the opposite side! How can someone step on someone else's wall in front of others? Report Report——
The black-haired, blue-eyed boy took a deep breath and said, "That guy is different from the Squid Detective Agency. He is a dangerous thief, right? Is it really okay to praise a guy who is suspected to be a demon apostle so much?"
Yang Yan's expression instantly became alert: "Could it be that you are actually a rival disguised as a friend?"
Wonder himself Bai Ye: "...I never said I was a fan of Wonder."
The proprietress of Malatang called out Yang Yan's number. Yang Yan thought for a moment, rummaged through his backpack for a long time, and took out a very exquisitely made bookmark. The overall shape was a playing card with black fragments and laser, and the pattern was a simple and exquisite sun pattern with an inverted cross star running through the sun.
"I'm just kidding. Actually, I was a fan of the Detective Agency before. Now, consider this as my recommendation. Wonder is really a very artistic thief. Anyway, it's worth joining the circle!"
The wheat-colored high school student smiled as he put on his schoolbag, stuffed the bookmark into Bai Ye's hand, and stood up to get his spicy hot pot dinner: "Goodbye, Bai Ye from Solomon Academy, thank you for listening to my 'preaching' today. When we meet next time, I will do you a favor unconditionally! I hope that when I see you next time, you will become my friend!"
Bai Ye looked down at the badge on his chest with his name and class written on it. On the dark blue background, under the black sun, a white thornbird stood on the dark thorns and sang loudly. It was a similar pattern to the Sun Enforcement Bureau.
Yang Yan looks simple and honest, but he is surprisingly sharp, and...
The boy looked at the bookmark in his hand. He felt that this playing card bookmark looked very familiar. He took it without having time to react. Now, after carefully observing the familiar laser sun pattern on the back of the playing card, he realized: Isn’t this the playing card he deliberately scattered when he disappeared?
Bai Ye remembered that he didn't think much when he designed the props. He just changed the color based on the official poker peripherals of the Sun Enforcement Bureau, changed the white background color laser to a black background blue light red edge laser effect, and added a reverse cross star running through the sun pattern to represent his opposing position with the Sun Enforcement Bureau...
He was 100% sure that in order to prevent the law enforcers from tracking him through the purchase records, the playing cards he used at the time were completely generated out of thin air by himself using the [Miracle Magician]. In other words...
If I remember correctly, it's only been two days, right? How come even the peripherals have been made?
Bai Ye looked at Yang Yan's back as he skipped away, and felt that he might never understand the train of thought of this crazy fan of Phantom Thief Wonder in his entire life.
He opened his phone in despair and typed the word "Phantom Thief" into the Eden app and other search engines he usually used. Before he could even type the first letter of the word wonder, a bunch of entries popped up below.
[Phantom Thief Wonder, a strong sense of stealing]
【Shui Se: The demon came up right away, now I am obedient, please let me go.】 】
[Why was Erzi Seafood not at the scene of the theft of Night Heart? Suspected internal split of the Squid Detective Agency! 】
【wonder: What is this? Commit suicide! 】
[Wonder concept stocks are listed. Who will be the first to have a bull market among the thief concept stocks? 】
Bai Ye's eyes went dark. He randomly clicked on an entry, scrolled down to read the comments, and found that he was too early.
[Did Wonder commit suicide in order to save Mizuiro? Why do I feel like a good citizen who helps others when he sees injustice? 】
[You call the thief who tried to steal the Heart of Night Citizen Number Three? This is enough to be a criminal entering the night tide! 】
【But didn’t he come back? But it is true that my love for my new wallhead did not stop me from calling the police as soon as I saw him.]
[I am dying of laughter. Who dares to believe that this devil-level game has nothing to do with him? Maybe the demon apostles didn't divide the spoils equally among themselves, and they had more important things to do, so they let Shuise go. 】
[This thief is indeed different from those money-oriented thieves in the West District. He stole the Heart of Night and returned it to me. He was just showing off his skills! He is simply the kind of pleasure-seeker who likes to focus everyone's attention on himself, right? Compared to antisocial personality, this seems to be more dangerous! 】
[I have no doubt that this criminal who can commit suicide at will is probably smiling when he blows up the entire Night City. 】
[But despite all the criticism, this Phantom Thief is really handsome, with no blind spots. Every move he makes seems like a pre-designed performance, just right. 】【Wonder live photos x10】
[I never dreamed that there would be a day when raw photos of the Phantom Thief would be released. 】
Bai Ye looked at the pictures that were obviously taken at the Neon Light Building that night. The pictures were so detailed that he could see the folds of his clothes clearly. He felt that the shadow of social death had completely enveloped him.
Some people even used pictures taken at the scene to photoshop an emoticon package of him. Judging from the number of likes, the message must have been circulated quite widely.
No, didn’t we agree that there would be no audience in life? Why did all these photography masters jump out when he was forced by t173 to play a thief?
The boy stood in front of the spicy hot pot stall, staring at his phone in a daze, his face gradually turning red with shame and anger.
He took a deep breath and secretly made up his mind: Nowadays, even the dark history is in high definition. No matter who he is in front of, he must not reveal his identity as Wonder, otherwise...
The kind-hearted proprietress who was busy cooking spicy hot pot saw Bai Ye standing there in a daze. She thought of the boy who had just left after chatting with this child, and suddenly realized what she had misunderstood.
"Child." The proprietress coughed twice and spoke calmly.
Bai Ye obviously didn't know what he was about to experience, and turned his head subconsciously in a daze.
The proprietress said: "People always fall in love with the right person at first sight. The boy and you are both young, and you both go to school here. There is great hope."
The lady boss smiled and said, "For the sake of romance, please help the boy who forgot to pay the bill!"
Bai Ye: ...I suddenly want to turn into Malatang.
The neon lights flickered on and off, and the night in Night City was like a script flipped by a DM, and it quickly came to an end. The sky brightened, accompanied by the shrill sound of Westminster bells. Compared to other high schools, Solomon Academy, which had a very gentle schedule, ushered in a new day.
At this time, there were only students on duty in the classroom of Class 13 of Grade 12. Youyu, who arrived first because he lived on campus, took two boxes of chalk boxes he had picked up from the office center. He placed the boxes of chalk on the podium with great stealth, and was ready to sneak away when the people on the podium were not paying attention. Unfortunately, the moment he turned around, a low and deep boy's voice, like a ghost hand reaching out from hell, grabbed his ankle.
"you say……"
Shuise, who was wiping the blackboard, turned his head suddenly. The dark circles under his silver eyes were as thick as the thickness of demonology homework. "If I buy all the laser playing card factories in Night City, will Wonder be able to escape?"
You Yu, the most famous high school detective in Night City, thought for a long time with his brand new 16-year-old brain, but couldn't figure out what the relationship between the two was.
Shuise sighed and condescended to explain: "We saw it with our own eyes. It seems that he always turns into a laser playing card and runs away."
You Yu patted Shuise's shoulder sympathetically: "You should be glad that Sister Linglan is not here, otherwise she would have to give you a few forks to clear your mind."
Shuise frowned, completely immersed in his own world: "If it was just a Phantom Thief, I wouldn't be bothered to this extent, but there are too many suspicious points about him. If he is an ordinary pleasure criminal, then the devil-level game in the building was completely the work of the Devil Apostle. If he is a Devil Apostle full of sins, then he didn't kill me in that Devil Game, but let me go and chose to commit suicide——"
Shuise's expression became uglier and uglier. "More importantly, the Night's Heart from last night was identified as the real Night's Heart. In other words, he stole the Night's Heart and returned it. This is totally not the style of those thieves in the West District. And it's not just you. The law enforcement officers haven't caught any trace of him or any suspicious clues."
Shuise took a deep breath and turned back to his seat from the podium: "Sometimes I have to doubt that this guy not only has multiple soul tags, but to this extent... it's as if there is an invisible higher-dimensional being helping him."
As class was approaching, more and more students came to the classroom. You Yu was stunned when he heard this, but he soon showed his heartless smile as usual, jumped down from the podium, and sat next to Shuise: "I think among these reasons, the second one has the greatest impact on you."
Shuise pursed her lips tightly, her silver eyes fixed on the patterns on the wooden desk in front of her, as if that was not the desks ordered in bulk by Solomon Academy, but Wonder's face.
"yes……"
Soon, the young man with light blue-like silver hair sighed as if he had accepted something.
"I really can't figure it out. He was the Phantom Thief who tried to steal the Heart of Night and was suspected of targeting the extra points of the reunion, the Ten Commandments Token, and declared war on the law enforcers, but... I didn't die in the devil's game that I entered with him."
"It would be nice if he was just a thief who committed a heinous crime."
The boy's eyes followed the sunlight coming in from the window. Just as You Yu was about to speak, he discovered that the classroom was already half full without him noticing.
The murmur of chatting suddenly increased, drowning out his deliberately low voice.
"I heard that he was the wanted criminal who almost killed Captain Faust when he just got the tag skill! It is said that he killed people without blinking an eye and even wanted to kill his own classmates. If it weren't for the captain of Wheatfield Town who saved those two students..."
"Oh my god, I knew this guy was not a good person, but why did the Squid Detective Agency stay with him yesterday?"
"Isn't it that the law enforcers asked the members to help supervise that guy? But Solomon Academy is definitely safe, and I don't think he dares to do anything. We'll teach him a lesson when the demon comes!"
…
Shuise and Youyu looked up at the same time. Whispers full of malice and suspicion lingered, but the young men at the center of the rumors just walked slowly to their seats and sat down.
Bai Ye clearly heard his classmates whispering again, but he didn't care and just quietly opened the book.
"Everyone, class is about to start."
Shuise has never been used to this kind of behavior. He frowned and wanted to speak, but he saw a girl with soft and elegant eyebrows standing at the door. Her eyes were curved and her flaxen pigtails were raised in a light arc in the air.
Although Suzuran, the discipline committee member, was smiling, she looked very oppressive. Her emerald eyes swept across everyone in the class, and silence enveloped every place she looked.
"Can you quiet down now?"
The students in Class 13 fell silent immediately, and even Youyu and Shuise nodded subconsciously.
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