Chapter 511 Above the Posa (46) [VIP]
The eunuch knocking on the door seemed to know the old man. Before he finished saying the word "investigating the case", he walked into the pharmacy, greeted the old man familiarly, and looked around: "Doctor Fan."
The old man standing behind the counter raised his head to identify who it was, and then answered in surprise: "Hey, Constable Liu, what are you investigating here? Xiao Jiang, serve tea to Constable Liu."
"Yes, yes, no, no," the man called Constable Liu was stunned for a few seconds before realizing that he was being called. He waved his hands and muttered softly, "Oh my god, this name, every time I am called this, I can't react."
It seems that they are not the only ones who are not used to being addressed as old men.
However, it can also be seen that this "Constable Liu" probably did not die long ago. He must have died two or three hundred years later than the old man, most likely in modern times.
He might be more accustomed to calling him "Officer Liu", but since the old man had been dead for a long time, the name could not be changed, so he simply didn't bother with the old man. After all, it was just a name and not a big deal.
"Why not?" the old man said cheerfully, "Xiao Jiang, hurry up."
"Doctor Fan, I really can't drink this," Liu Yinchai stood beside the counter, supporting the cabinet with one hand and looking around the entire pharmacy. After taking in all the people in the pharmacy, he sighed, "There are still three whole streets waiting for me to check one by one."
"You have quite a lot of people here," he casually looked at Chang William who was also behind the counter, "Is this Xiao Jiang?"
"I'm Xiao Jiang," Zhao Yinlai stood up and greeted Constable Liu, "Hello, Constable Liu."
"Hey, hello, hello," Liu Yinchai casually agreed, looked at her for a few times, and turned back to look at Doctor Fan, "Doctor Fan, when did you come here?"
"This is not a fellow," the old man shook his head, "this is my new apprentice."
"Hey, that one," he pointed at Chang William with his chin and said bluntly, "that's the buddy."
Bai Jinshu narrowed his eyes slightly, raised his head and looked at Zhao Ying.
The old man's statement... is he trying to protect them?
The meanings of "mate" and "apprentice" are different. A mate is someone who is hired casually, while an apprentice is someone personally recognized by the old man.
In the context that the ghosts are looking for someone, taking the initiative to say that Zhao Yinglai is his apprentice is equivalent to using his own reputation to guarantee Zhao Yinglai.
He would go to such lengths?
Bai Jinshu questioned the old man's behavior in his heart, but it didn't show on his face at all.
Zhao Yinglai knew in her heart that the old man wanted to protect her, and she did not object when the question of becoming his disciple was raised like she had done in previous times, but instead acquiesced.
Sure enough, as soon as the old man said this, the ghost's gaze that occasionally glanced at Zhaoying immediately shifted to Chang William.
Liu Yincha looked at Chang William and touched his chin thoughtfully: "Doctor Fan, how long have you been here? I don't see you."
"I can't remember," the old man shook his head, as if he didn't realize that the ghost was looking for someone and was just chatting, "About... one or two years? Or three or four months? Haven't you seen him? Why do I remember that you have seen him?"
The difference between these two time periods is quite large. The difference between one or two years and three or four months is at least half a year.
But Liu Yinchai nodded in understanding: "Then I guess I remembered it wrong."
The old man has lived for a long time, and his perception of time is different from that of ordinary people. One or two years and three or four months are probably the same to him. If he really reports an exact number, it would seem strange.
As for whether he had seen it or not, to be honest, he couldn't remember.
But Doctor Fan was an old man who had lived here for more than four hundred years, and Chang William didn't look like the person they were looking for from his temperament, so Yinchai didn't think much about it and just thought that he had forgotten.
During the conversation between the two, many of the guesses that had just arisen in Bai Jinshu's mind had been confirmed.
The Yinchai didn't seem to be coming for them.
As soon as he came in, he looked around at everyone, and then followed the old man's words and set his target on the first person he mentioned, "Xiao Jiang", and began to question him. Then, guided by the old man's words, he shifted his focus from "Xiao Jiang" to the "newly hired guy" Chang William, which shows that he did not have a specific person to investigate before entering here.
The person he chose to investigate was completely based on his conversation with the old man. He easily let Zhao Yinglai go just because of the old man's guarantee. This shows that he had no idea that the person who set fire to the police station last night was right in front of him.
Sure enough, when Liu Yinchai looked at them next time, although his eyes were still observing them, he was no longer as vigilant as when he looked at Zhao Yinglai and Chang William.
"Are you here to look for someone today?" The old man seemed to have just realized why the ghost came today. He took the initiative to introduce, "These two are a disciple and a servant. The people over there have nothing to do with me. The person lying on the bed is a patient. Those two are here to keep him company."
He broke off the relationship naturally, as if he had never known Bai Jinshu before.
"What's wrong with you? Is it so serious?" Liu Yinchai poked his head in curiously. "This is the first time I've seen a bed like yours."
"You wouldn't know what disease it is even if I told you," the old man replied as a matter of course, "This bamboo bed of mine has been in the warehouse. Many people have slept on it. You just haven't seen it."
Liu Yinchai should be targeting people with jobs. He had no interest in Bai Jinshu, Huai Jiamu and Wen Qi, the three "patients + family members". After chatting with the old man for a few more words, he waved his hand and said that he had to continue the investigation and said goodbye.
When the old man left the pharmacy, he put away the expression on his face that looked like he wanted to distance himself from the matter, and raised his chin towards Bai Jinshu and Zhao Yinglai: "What did you do last night?"
"Last night..." Zhao Yinglai touched the tip of his nose, "Should we go wake them up?"
The old man had an expression that said, "Are you kidding me?"
"You guys went out last night?" William Chang was shocked. "Weren't we all asleep?"
"Qiu Zihan couldn't sleep, so we went out for a walk together again," Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows, "I'll call you next time."
【《Turning Around》】
[Refers to Jiang Jie and Qiu Zihan being chased by the ghosts and almost making a whole circle around Fengdu.]
【《I'll Call You Next Time》】
[The next person to be cheated will be Chang William.]
[Very good, you have fully understood the Austrian language. ]
[Austrian language: It sounds very nice on the surface, but actually contains a completely opposite meaning.]
【It’s so funny.】
In the unknown space, the old man glanced at the nonchalant expressions of the two people, curled his lips and did not ask too many questions. Zhao Yinglai breathed a sigh of relief silently. The sleepiness that had been staying up all night was completely scared away. He simply raised his watch. A few dozen seconds later, a new message was sent in the temporary group chat:
Jiang Jie: [@Qiu Zihan, you haven’t been arrested, right? ]
Qiu Zihan: [Ah? What got you arrested?]
It seems not.
Zhao Yinglai twitched his lips. Qiu Zihan was obviously an important part of last night's plan, but he acted no different from Chang William.
She looked up at Skao, who was sitting next to their eighth team member on the other side of the pharmacy. He had closed his eyes and looked like he was going to catch up on some sleep. She quickly raised her watch again to interrupt his sleep: [@Skao, how do you think the Yincha find people? ]
It didn't seem like the evil messenger was targeting them. Of the four people who took action last night, three were sitting in the pharmacy alone, but the evil messenger didn't notice any of them.
But if they were not coming for them, there was no reason for the police to suddenly start investigating cases and looking for people everywhere. It must be because of the fire last night and the two deported souls.
After this analysis, the only possibility is that they did come because of the fire last night, but they are not sure who set the fire, and the criteria for finding the arsonist may not be based on the person, but on a certain characteristic.
Bai Jinshu was just about to continue catching up on his sleep when he felt his watch vibrate several times.
Skao: [Anomalous Investigation Bureau.]
Jiang Jie: [? 】
Skao: [What I mean is that they are actually looking for someone from the Bureau of Anomalous Investigation.]
Skao: [They are looking for someone who has a job here but has not been working here for long, preferably someone who has just started working here in the past few days.]
Liu Yincha took the initiative to ask Jiang Jie and Chang William twice, and the logic of his inquiries was always "time of joining the company".
Asking when Jiang Jie came and how long Chang William has worked here are essentially to find out when they started working.
As for the three "patients" and "patients' families" who were not staff members, Liu Yincha's attitude was much more casual. He didn't even ask when they sought medical treatment or when they became ill. The old man perfunctorily answered the question about Huai Jiamu's illness, and Liu Yincha didn't ask any further questions. Instead, he followed his wishes and stopped asking.
This attitude is very subtle. It doesn't seem like the attitude of investigating a case, but more like a casual chat where you don't care if you don't get an answer.
So based on these judgments, the ghost officials had no idea who the two living souls they were chasing yesterday and who the person who set fire to the police station was. The key words they were looking for were actually: the new employees who had just joined the company in the past few days.
Combined with the fact that they were the only confirmed candidates to be living souls were Xu Ke and Wen Qi.
Although Wen Qi has been here for three or four days, she has never taken the initiative to look for any job. She just stayed in the pharmacy with them, so this character keyword must have been obtained from Xu Ke.
Not to mention that Qiu Zihan knocked on the door of Xu Ke’s workplace in front of so many people yesterday.
That is to say, it is estimated that the ghosts found out the identity of Xu Ke, the living soul here this morning. Since the members of their Abnormal Investigation Bureau often work together, they probably found a lot of members of the Abnormal Investigation Bureau by the way.
Thanks to the tips from those who came earlier, these team members have all found jobs and have the same temperament as police officers. So after summarizing, the common points that the Yinchai have found are most likely: they are new employees who have police temperament and have just joined the company in the past few days.
The temperament of special professions is very obvious, especially the Yinchai and the Abnormal Investigation Bureau, who are in the same industry. It is estimated that the members of the Abnormal Investigation Bureau are particularly obvious in their eyes.
Zhao Yinglai and Chang William had an old man to mediate between them, so they were not "newly hired", and the other members of the exploration team had various occupations and were not "police colleagues", so they were all let go.
The only one is Huai Jiamu, the captain of the Abnormal Investigation Bureau, who is now seriously injured and lying in bed. He is also a patient of Dr. Fan, the old man in Fengdu. It is estimated that Liu Yinchai never doubted his identity from beginning to end.
They had nothing to do with the arson and the escape last night, but those who were arrested were all from the Investigation Bureau. Thinking about it this way, it was the members of the Abnormal Investigation Bureau who saved them from disaster.
Bai Jinshu blinked, feeling no guilt for arresting the wrong person by mistake.
Anyway, the people who are caught will not die, they will just be sent back to the world of the living. If you really think about it, for those who don’t know that one can only stay in the underworld for seven days, they are still saving a life.
Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly heard some hurried footsteps outside the door.
"Captain," a familiar-looking member of the Abnormal Investigation Bureau hurried in, squatted beside Huai Jiamu and looked around, and said hurriedly: "The deputy captain seemed to be arrested by the police here yesterday, and many team members were also arrested. Are you okay?"
look.
The long-haired young man sitting next to him raised his eyebrows.
It was exactly as he had guessed.
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