Twenty-nine feathers
"Wow! Xiaoye, how did you convince your husband to change our workplace?"
The three of them stood in front of the Secret Investigation Bureau, which finally had a storefront. Each of them held a brown cardboard box in their arms, which contained more important items. They looked up at the five words "Secret Investigation Bureau" written on the doorplate and sighed.
The area here is estimated to be nearly three times larger than their original location, and it is fully equipped. It can be seen that the design alone must have taken a lot of effort.
"He volunteered to help. I only found out about it yesterday," Ye Linghan replied. "Besides, he's already informed the police, so there's no need for us to report it."
Indeed, this saves Su Mo and the others from having to go back and forth to report.
"By the way, why isn't Liao Xihe here?"
Ye Linghan looked around. He hadn't seen him since morning. His appearance was so sudden that apart from knowing his name, no one knew anything else about him.
But it must be said that Liao Xihe's arrival did provide great help to the original trio.
"Ah, I gave you all a few days off. Although investigating the case is important, I am more worried about your physical and mental health."
As he was speaking, Su Mo's phone rang. He took out his phone, smiled after seeing the note, and turned the screen to face Ye Linghan. "Just when I mentioned him, I came here right away."
Su Mo pressed the answer button and then turned on the speakerphone. The other two came forward, wanting to hear what Liao Xihe wanted to say on the phone.
Liao Xihe on the other end of the phone sounded puzzled, "Brother Mo, are you all not here? I knocked on the door for a long time, but no one opened it."
Ye Linghan suddenly raised his head, looked at Su Mo, and mouthed, "You didn't tell him?"
Su Mo spread his hands, "It's not too late yet."
He originally thought that Liao Xihe would recuperate at home for a few days, and then he could tell him about the change of location after he had packed up, but he didn't expect that the young man was extremely energetic and, like Ye Linghan, all came back early.
"Um, I'll send you a location now. Come meet us here. We're moving."
"Okay!" Liao Xihe said, and hung up the phone directly, without giving Su Mo any chance to explain.
"It's not...him, this?" Su Mo looked up in surprise, listened to the busy tone on the phone, and looked at the two people beside him.
This kid is so impatient and irritable!
Yao Qingluan covered her mouth and laughed.
Su Mo was originally afraid that the child would be angry and blame them for not telling him, but he found out that he was overthinking it. The child was so stupid that he didn't take it seriously at all.
“Dongdongdong—”
There was a sudden knock on the door.
"This kid came so quickly?" Su Mo was surprised. It had only been a few minutes since he hung up the phone. The distance between the two places was not close. Even if he was a vampire who could fly, it was impossible for him to come so fast.
Ye Linghan continued, "Or someone else?"
"I'll go open the door." Yao Qingluan said as she walked towards the door.
"Who are you looking for?" The moment she opened the door, Yao Qingluan found that she did not know the person in front of her, it was a stranger.
Hearing her say this, Su Mo and Ye Linghan also walked over, fearing that the other party had bad intentions and Yao Qingluan would not respond.
However, when he arrived at the door, Ye Linghan discovered that the person who came was actually an old acquaintance, so he greeted him with a smile, "Why are you here?"
The other two were confused, their eyes switching back and forth between the two people in front of them.
"This is my college roommate Zhao Tang, who now works in the Abnormal Trace Research Department." Seeing this, Ye Linghan hurriedly introduced him.
"These two are my colleagues, Su Mo and Yao Qingluan." Ye Linghan then introduced his colleagues to Zhao Tang.
"Hello."
"Hello."
They let Zhao Tang into the house.
"Did Yin Chen tell you that we moved here?" Ye Linghan asked.
Zhao Tang had met Yin Chen several times in college, but they were not familiar with each other. However, they knew each other earlier than others.
"Yes, his assistant found me yesterday and told me that you guys changed your address. I happened to be free today, so I came here. I heard you were injured. How are you? Are you feeling better?"
This is also what Yin Chen’s assistant Sun Mao told him.
Zhao Tang pulled Ye Linghan's arm and looked him up and down and left and right several times. He breathed a sigh of relief when he found no wounds.
Fortunately, Yin Chen was by his side and could help heal his wounds.
Sun Mao also mentioned the fact that the two were together to Zhao Tang, so he knew about their relationship and was very happy for Ye Linghan.
The person smiled and shook his head, and jokingly said, "If you had come a few days later, I would have been well."
"Is there something that brings you to me suddenly?" Ye Linghan asked again.
Because he knew that Zhao Tang was usually busy with work and didn't have much spare time to come out. Even if Ye Linghan wanted to find him, he had to do so when he was free. But now he actually took the initiative to come to his house, so it must be something important.
"Yes, there is indeed one," Zhao Tang said as he pulled out a stack of documents from his messenger bag and handed them to Ye Linghan. "You asked me to help you with the tests last time. The results are out, so I thought I'd bring them to you right away."
"Well, it's just a matter of a phone call. I could just go find you. Why bother you to come all the way here?" Ye Linghan said as he took the document from Zhao Tang's hand.
Su Mo and Yao Qingluan also came over and asked, "Xiao Ye, what is this?"
After hearing that Zhao Tang worked at the Investigation Bureau, he couldn't help but admire him secretly, and at the same time became very interested in the test report he brought.
Ye Linghan flipped through it and said, "I found this piece of evidence and asked Tangtang to help test it."
His eyes fell directly on the final test results, two reports, one showing the presence of CLY-20 and the other not.
Ye Linghan narrowed his eyes, his expression solemn. Su Mo and Yao Qingluan beside him also saw the key information and looked at each other in bewilderment.
"So, the first cigarette butt I gave you contained CLY-20, but the second one didn't." He looked at Zhao Tang for the final confirmation.
Zhao Tang remained noncommittal. "Judging from the results, that's the case."
"Perhaps Zhao Xingjian didn't simply die from excessive blood loss. He could have died from being injected with CLY-20."
Because he remembered Yin Chen told him that taking CLY would not be fatal, and the truly lethal and fastest way was through injection.
So...either the murderer first killed him with an injection and then faked it as excessive blood loss, or two groups of people attacked Zhao Xingjian together, or the cause of death was simply excessive blood loss.
"It's his fault for doing so many bad things, and in the end he got punished." Yao Qingluan said angrily.
"However, the reappearance of CLY-20 does not mean that the investigation should focus on the vampires. After all, that is only found in their lost forbidden book." Yao Qingluan spoke again.
"But these are just speculations. They can only provide direction for our investigation." Su Mo said on the side.
Ye Linghan crossed his arms and said in a deep voice, "That may not be the case. Perhaps there is another person we can try our luck with."
Su Mo and Yao Qingluan's eyes lit up, and they asked in unison, "Who?"
"The last time Yin Chen and I went on a business trip to South City, I was forced to drink alcohol laced with CLY-20, so I plan to wait until Yin Chen finishes his work and then go to South City."
He glanced at the three people around him and asked, "Are you going?"
He originally wanted them to go with him, but out of selfish motives he didn't want them to.
He wanted him to go because the information integration would be higher, and more people would make things faster. There were many things that he couldn't string together well by himself, but if Su Mo and Yao Qingluan were there, it would be much more convenient and faster, and his thinking would be broader.
But he didn't want them to go because the fifteenth of every month was approaching. Yin Chen would be relatively fragile during these days, and his supernatural powers would run wild uncontrollably. Only his own blood could soothe him, so he was afraid that Yin Chen's vulnerable side would be seen by more people, which would be disadvantageous to him.
Su Mo and Yao Qingluan looked at each other, and Zhao Tang on the side spoke first.
"I won't go. I've been busy lately, and I have to wait for the professor to come back. He might have a new assignment, so I can't leave."
This was within Ye Linghan's expectations. After all, he had no hope for Zhao Tang's time at the beginning. He was already very grateful that he could take the time to help him with the tests.
"I want to go, brother. How about we go together?" Yao Qingluan was very interested. After all, she had only heard about these things from her elders in the family and had never experienced them personally, so she was very curious.
Moreover, the little girl was very carefree. She had just been kidnapped not long ago, but it didn't affect her at all.
However, since Yao Qingluan wanted to go, Su Mo naturally would not refuse and joined in naturally.
"Ah!" Yao Qingluan exclaimed, "Did we forget someone?"
"Liao Xihe!" Su Mo said.
He almost forgot about it.
After experiencing the kidnapping incident, everyone tacitly agreed to Liao Xihe joining in. After all, he helped so much.
Moreover, everyone has some selfish motives, and they want to hear gossip and want to hear him talk about his life experience. Besides, he also promised to explain it after the matter is over.
"Then let's wait for him to come and ask him if he wants to go with us," said Yao Qingluan.
"Okay." Ye Linghan said, "Before we go, we can find another person."
"who?"
"Yinster, find Xingjian, he's his driver. Maybe we can get some clues from him."
Su Mo nodded in affirmation, "Then let's wait for Xiao Liao to come and go together."
As he was speaking, there was another knock on the door. If nothing unexpected happened, it must be Liao Xihe Wu Yu. Yao Qingluan went to open the door, and sure enough, Liao Xihe was standing at the door.
When he walked in, Ye Linghan and Su Mo looked at each other, instantly understood each other's meaning, and cooperated tacitly.
"Aluan, who is it?" Su Mo spoke first, and he and Ye Linghan pretended not to look at the door.
"Xiao Liao is here."
Liao Xihe, who had just entered the room, thought that he was called here because he must have been recognized and successfully joined this "loving" family. So he was in a very good mood and said excitedly, "Good morning, brothers."
But no one responded to him. Although Zhao Tang was not familiar with the others, he knew Ye Linghan and knew that this man must be planning something bad, so he stood aside and covered his face, trying hard not to laugh.
Ye Linghan and Su Mo continued to lower their heads. The former slowly spoke, "Xiao Liao is here. What's going on?"
This sentence confused both Yao Qingluan and Liao Xihe. The former did not participate in their "eye contact", so she did not react for a while.
The "victim" Liao Xihe was even more confused.
What was he doing here? Of course, he was here to work and solve cases. Is that even a question?
"I'm here to work." He looked back and forth in confusion at the two people sitting there, as well as the stranger standing next to Ye Linghan whom he had never seen before.
Su Mo raised his head, trying hard to control himself from laughing, and then said seriously: "But we didn't agree for you to come to work. It's too dangerous here. You should go home."
"Ah?" Liao Xihe was instantly more confused. Someone called him over the phone, so how could he not agree?
However, although Liao Xi looked silly on weekdays, he was actually very smart when it came to doing serious work. He seemed to realize that they were teasing him, so he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Instead of beating around the bush, it's better to move forward bravely. He thought for a moment and said, "Isn't this part of your test for me? I guess it's a test of my reaction ability, right?"
Obviously he wasn't scared, the kid was pretty smart.
Ye Linghan and Su Mo knew when to stop and took the opportunity given by the other party to go down the slope without making things difficult for each other.
"Yes, congratulations on officially passing the test and becoming a new member of our group." Su Mo spoke to give him affirmation.
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