Chapter 177 Walking with the Wolves
Have you ever offended anyone before? Yu Sheng's sudden words made Little Red Riding Hood a little confused for a moment. After a few seconds, she realized why the other party asked her that. She frowned and said, "Are you trying to say that the museum incident is a trap set for me?"
"Don't blame me for conspiracy theories. There are many suspicious aspects of this matter, but the most suspicious thing is why it happened to you - remember the 'sacrifice' in it? If Hu Li, I and Irene hadn't helped you delay the evil wolf that came out of the shadow for a while, you would have really lost control," Yu Sheng said seriously, "and the reason why you went to the museum and stepped into the white exhibition hall at that time was because you accepted a commission to recycle the collection, and it was a commission with a time limit. As a result, now that we have checked, the commission is fake... Then this 'coincidence' is really suspicious."
"The two angel followers were the ones who committed the sacrifice," Little Red Riding Hood's expression suddenly turned bad, because she was always very averse to anything related to that group of lunatics. "You mean, that group of lunatics who followed the Dark Angel set up a trap to deal with me? Why? This doesn't make sense..."
"So I asked you if you have ever offended anyone."
"...How could I offend someone to be targeted by those lunatics?" Little Red Riding Hood frowned. "You know, I never deal with anything related to the Dark Angels. I usually only accept commissions of moderate size from regular channels, and most of them are from the Secret Service. The Fairy Tale organization is also very cautious in its external communications. We may have competitors in the spiritual world detective business, but they will definitely not be enemies."
"That's another possibility. You haven't offended the Angel Cult, but you have the 'value' that the Angel Cult has targeted," Yu Sheng thought for a moment. "After all, you said that they are a bunch of lunatics. The behavior logic of lunatics is different from that of normal people. They may think that you can help their 'cause', so they did it."
Little Red Riding Hood said nothing, and seemed to be lost in thought and doubt.
Yu Sheng also knew that his thoughts had diverged a bit too much at once, and it was not easy to figure out the motives of the Angel Cultists, so he quickly coughed twice and brought the topic back.
"Well, let's talk about this commission itself. What do you know now?"
"I contacted the client directly. Now that I think about it, because I was familiar with the other party, I did not carefully verify the details of the commission this time," Little Red Riding Hood exhaled lightly and said seriously, "The electronic commission document I received did have the mark and one-time serial number of the Wonderful Items Association, but it was not issued directly by the docking department of the Wonderful Items Association. Instead, it was forwarded to me by the client using his personal account. We have done this before, so I didn't think about it this time."
Yu Sheng frowned: "Will a large organization allow such a loophole operation?"
"Of course not in principle, but in reality it's hard to avoid because it's the end of the year, and large organizations like the Qiwu Association have very tight deadlines for outsourcing orders. So at the end of the year, the people in charge of outsourcing will try to send out the orders before the deadline. In this way, they can use the timestamp of the order to jump the queue during settlement. After all, everyone has KPI pressure..."
Yu Sheng: "...Is this actually such a realistic reason?!"
Little Red Riding Hood was silent for two seconds, then raised her hand and pointed at the nine-tailed fox that was walking with its tail hanging on the ground.
"Isn't there a very practical reason why your fox drags its tail along the ground when walking?"
"…reasonable," Yu Sheng instantly reconciled with reality, but couldn't help but lean back on the sofa and sigh, "The world is a huge makeshift team, this sentence is really valuable."
He rubbed his brows, thought for two or three seconds, and raised his head: "So, now there is no way to confirm whether the original commission was forged by the contact person himself, or whether there is a higher-level "insider" in the Wonderful Item Association who deleted the corresponding records after the contract was issued?"
Little Red Riding Hood shook her head. "There's no way to confirm it, but the Secret Service will definitely launch an investigation in this regard. In any case, this kind of flawed operation was kept under the table when nothing went wrong. Now that something has really happened, it has been exposed. It must be investigated from top to bottom."
"Then I'll have to ask the Secret Service later," Yu Sheng muttered, and then asked, "Where's the contact person who got into trouble? What's his situation? What happened to him?"
"I don't know the details yet. From what I heard, it seems that he fell from a height and hit his head, and died on the spot," Little Red Riding Hood said. "I have already contacted him and will go to his house tonight. He has always lived alone, and now a nephew is there to handle his funeral affairs."
"I'll go with you." Yu Sheng said immediately.
Little Red Riding Hood hesitated for a moment and looked at him: "You want to..."
"What if we can 'ask' something out?" Yu Sheng said with a serious expression, "Just like the time in the museum. Although I don't know what the restrictions are for 'talking to the dead', I can always try my luck."
Little Red Riding Hood thought about it and finally nodded: "Okay... then shall we set off now?"
"Let's go now," Yu Sheng said, standing up from the sofa, then looked down at Irene, "You and Hu Li wait at home, I can go alone this time."
Irene immediately stood up and said, "Huh? Why?"
Yu Sheng rolled his eyes: "...We are going to the deceased's home to inquire about the situation. Do you think it is appropriate to hold a doll in your arms?"
Irene bared her teeth immediately, showing a very dissatisfied look, but in the end she had to agree with Yu Sheng's reason and sat back on the sofa: "Okay, I'll be at home... Then I want to use your computer to play games!"
"Whatever - but you have to use your own account, and you are not allowed to touch my private files!"
"I know."
After arranging the dolls, Yu Sheng turned around and saw Hu Li standing behind him with a worried look on his face: "My benefactor, do you really not need to take me with you? I can help fight."
Yu Sheng's eyes jumped, and he had to emphasize to Hu Li again that he was going to the deceased's home to investigate, and there was no need to fight - it would be inappropriate to go to someone's funeral hall and fight with the deceased's family or the deceased...
Little Red Riding Hood was stunned as she listened to the conversation between Yu Sheng and Hu Li. She once again gained a deeper understanding of the mental outlook of these people in the hotel.
After telling Hu Li that there were leftovers in the refrigerator and that she could heat them up if she was hungry, but to be careful not to set fire to or tear down the house, Yu Sheng finally changed into his going-out clothes and walked out of No. 66 Wutong Road with Little Red Riding Hood.
In the short distance from his front door to across the street, Yu Sheng looked back three or four times.
This made Little Red Riding Hood a little confused: "Are you so worried?"
"This is the first time I went out alone and left Hu Li and Irene at home," Yu Sheng said with some worry in his tone, "I was even worried that my house would be torn down by them when I came back."
"That's a nine-tailed demon fox, not a husky with nine tails," Little Red Riding Hood sighed, "and I feel that Irene is quite stable. At most, she speaks a little impatiently sometimes."
"...I'm ashamed that you can give her such a high evaluation - if you knew what she has done, you would never say this," Yu Sheng sighed, "Can you believe that she can stew herself without anyone watching? And last time, she almost set the house on fire, and the first thing that was set on fire was even herself."
little Red Riding Hood:"……?"
"You will see it sooner or later," Yu Sheng waved his hand, "Let's not talk about this for now - how do we leave?"
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The "contact person" mentioned by Little Red Riding Hood lives in another urban area a little distance away from Wutong Road, which is closer to the city center and takes more than 40 minutes to get there by taxi.
Besides, Yu Sheng had never been to that place before - there were no coordinates recorded, so he had no way to open the door and go directly there.
So in order to save time and avoid unnecessary complications, Little Red Riding Hood made a special invitation to Yu Sheng.
Walking with her wolf pack.
In an inconspicuous street corner, Yu Sheng looked at the giant wolf in front of him with a little concern. The wolf's body seemed to be made of shadows and its outline was undulating.
"Seriously... this thing doesn't bite?" He said doubtfully, "And can this really carry people?"
"Of course I can bring people with me," Little Red Riding Hood looked helplessly at the nervous Yu Sheng, and even more helplessly felt the simple emotions coming from Shadow Wolf. She spoke with a very complicated mood, "And you're still worried that it will bite you? It's worried that you'll bite it!"
"How can you say that!" Yu Sheng's eyes widened when he heard it. "Am I the kind of person who is so unsatisfactory about food?"
little Red Riding Hood:"……"
Seeing the girl's reaction and thinking about how he had persuaded her to eat the wolf's flesh, Yu Sheng finally felt embarrassed. He gave up the idea of continuing to defend himself and obediently imitated Little Red Riding Hood and rode on the wolf.
"Is it possible? The wolf is shaking. Is it unable to carry the heavy load?"
Little Red Riding Hood turned her head to look at Yu Sheng, and slapped the wolf on the head: "Coward."
Then she shook her head and gave the wolves a straightforward order: "Let's go."
Yu Sheng was just about to ask how to control the wolf he was riding, and how to jump between shadows like Little Red Riding Hood, but before he could open his mouth, he suddenly felt a dizzy sensation before his eyes.
The next second, the world in his eyes changed.
The colors turned into varying shades of black and white, and the buildings in the city turned into various silhouettes with only outlines. The roads disappeared, replaced by discontinuous "bridges" between the shadow masses. The normal and orderly scenery in his vision a second ago suddenly seemed to be reflected in a fragmented mirror - then, the city curled up, and the broken and floating buildings became a three-dimensional maze in this black and white world, like a chaotically mapped painting, the distance and size of all things were reorganized in an instant.
The wolves started off lightly and flew into the bizarre shadows.
(End of this chapter)
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