travel frog

Although there is a lot of information, there is little useful information.

Excluding the replaced investigation reports left by several seniors, there is only one piece of information that Mr. Su Jiu sorted out that is useful, which is the time point when his memory and other people's cognition diverge, just as Qin Jiu guessed, five years ago.

In January five years ago, So Fei met his lover Zhuang Wumei.

In January five years ago, under the arrangement of the family, Sophie had a blind date with Zhuang Wumei, the daughter of the richest man in Shuangxing Town.

In June, Sophie confessed her love to Zhuang Wumei and gave her a custom-made set of rings.

In June, Sophie got engaged to a woman named Zhuang Wumei.

At the end of November, the male Zhuang Wumei disappeared.

At the end of November, So Fei married a woman named Zhuang Wumei.

The above is the difference between the memories of Mr. Su Jiu and others.

The strange thing is that Mr. Su Jiu's materials to Gin also included a stack of clippings from five years ago. The time on the clippings is exactly the same as the one he received later, but the content is quite different. He and the male Zhuang Wumei's scandals all turned into a process from blind date to engagement to marriage with the woman Zhuang Wumei, which seemed inexplicably blunt.

It's like... the newspapers in the entire Tianxing Town are deliberately staring at the reports on the relationship life of the two of them.But this news is obviously far less exciting than the unidentified scandal.

Conspiracy is too much.

Gin put away the materials and pressed them under the pillow, and only kept the important rings and photos with him. He looked up at the clock, and it was already past seven o'clock in the morning.

"Knock Knock Knock-"

At this time, there was a knock on the door, followed by Zhang Ke's voice: "Mr. Kurosawa, are you awake?"

"Just woke up." Qin Jiu grabbed the quilt and shook it off, and turned off the lamp, creating the appearance of having slept all night, "Is there something wrong?"

"Pei Yu just made breakfast, let's go downstairs and eat together." Zhang Ke enthusiastically said, "There is no breakfast stall nearby. If you want to go out to buy, sir, you have to go through the fields to the market to buy it."

"Okay, I'll go down after washing up." Qin Jiu didn't refuse his kindness.

When the sound of Zhang Ke's footsteps disappeared, Qin Jiu got up and walked into the bathroom.

There are two faucets in the sink, and there are unopened toiletries in front of it, and new towels are hung on the hanger next to it.

He habitually turned on the faucet on the left, and what came out was warm water.The water flowed gently, gently washing his icy fingers to relieve the chill.

After washing up, Gin put on a scarf and strode downstairs.At that time, Pei Yu and Zhang Ke were already sitting at the dining table waiting for him. On the table were porridge, side dishes, buns and fried dough sticks. It was a Chinese breakfast that he only tasted once in his life.

Gin sat down on the only vacant chair, picked up the bowl and drank the porridge first.

"Mr. Kurosawa, how did you sleep last night?" Pei Yu asked inarticulately while biting a fried dough stick.

"Very good, it's quieter here than the new hotel." Gin Jiu told a lie without redness, "By the way, I saw a person in the coffee shop last night, who looked a lot like Mrs. Su Jiajiu, but he was a man. of—is there such a man in town?"

Hearing this, Zhang Ke raised his eyebrows: "No, I've never heard of it."

Pei Yu wanted to speak, but he interrupted him before he finished speaking. He anxiously poked his elbow at him after he finished speaking: "Yes! There is one!"

"Who is it?" Qin Jiu and Zhang Ke asked in unison.

Pei Yu rolled his eyes at Zhang Ke: "My friend, go to the hospital and have a look. Your memory is almost as good as that of Grandma Shen who makes bean curd next door."

"Say it quickly, don't take the opportunity to run on me!" Zhang Ke gave him a light punch.

Pei Yu swallowed the fried dough sticks: "It's the person in the picture you drew last time you showed me! Black suit, red coat, and long straight silver hair - just like a male version of Mrs. Su Jiu Well!"

Zhang Ke frowned and thought for a moment, got up and went back to the room, rummaged for a while, and came out with an oil painting.

He unfolded the painting: "This one?"

Pei Yu nodded like pounding garlic.

Qin Jiu took the oil painting and looked at it carefully. He saw that under a dazzling red plum tree, the young man was looking into the distance against the wind and snow. He seemed to be facing the eyes of the people outside the painting in a trance. His expression was colder than the wind and snow.

At first glance, the people in the oil painting are not reminiscent of the female Zhuang Wumei, because the temperament is quite different.One is cold and the other is violent. With such distinct characteristics, the similarity between their appearances will naturally be ignored.

As for the eyebrows and eyes of the person in the painting...

Qin Jiu suppressed the urge to take out the photos for comparison, and only compared them with his own memory, which indeed matched the charm.

In addition, for some reason, he always felt that the face in the painting was very familiar.

"Look, isn't it very similar to Mrs. Su Jiu?" Pei Yu asked from the side.

Before Qin Jiu could speak, Zhang Ke said, "I think he looks more like Mr. Kurosawa."

Gin: "..."

Oh, that's how the sense of familiarity comes from.

When I looked at the photos before, because I couldn’t see the face clearly, I didn’t feel that strong, and he had only met the woman Zhuang Wumei once. He was so concerned about her temperament and appearance, but he didn’t notice that there was something hidden in her soft facial features. It is similar to the painting, and now I have a sense of familiarity after seeing this painting with a sense of freehand brushwork rather than realism.

If the male Zhuang Wumei looked like this, he was indeed very similar to him, but why did So Fei have no reaction when he saw him?

Gin touched his face.

"He is the owner of the Zhuang family's old house I mentioned, the Zhuang Wumei who has the same name as Mrs. Su Jiu." Zhang Ke looked back and forth at Qinjiu several times according to the painting, "I only met him once five years ago. This painting was also drawn at that time. Because it has been a long time, I have never seen Mr. Kurosawa..."

Qin Jiu returned the painting to him, turned his head to meet his gaze, saw the curiosity and speculation in his eyes, and immediately knew that he had misunderstood: "I'm not Zhuang Wumei, I'm the private detective Heisawa Zhen from Shuangxing Town .”

"Ah, I'm sorry." Zhang Ke quickly apologized, "It's okay if I don't say anything. As soon as I mentioned that Mr. Zhuang, I think the two of you really look alike."

Gin frowned.

Did the system batch copy his face to the two key figures in the case?

Without expressing his opinion on this matter, Gin Jiu quietly finished his breakfast, helped Pei Yu clean up the dishes, and then went out to the Su family mansion.

He now has a lot of questions he wants to ask that Mr. Su Jiu.

Outside the Su family mansion, Qin Jiu knocked on the door, and the person who opened the door was still the middle-aged man from last time.

Seeing him, the middle-aged man was not surprised: "Sir, are you here to find Master Ninth?"

Seeing Qin Jiu nodding, the middle-aged man said again: "The young master is still in that room from the previous time."

"Thank you."

Thanking him politely, Qin Jiu took a few steps, and suddenly turned his head to look behind him. The middle-aged man was still standing there looking at him, slightly surprised by his turning around.

"What's wrong? Don't you know the way?" He asked.

"No, I want to ask," Gin Jiu took off his glasses, "are you not surprised at all when you see my face?"

The middle-aged man's pupils shrank suddenly, and the hand hanging by his side suddenly grabbed the corner of his clothes. After a long time, he said, "It's just that I resemble Mrs. Ninth. There are so many similar people in the world, so it's not surprising."

Gin Jiu had a full view of his reaction, and put on his glasses again: "Mr. said so, have you seen other people who look similar to Madam Nine?"

"...I have something else to do, excuse me." The middle-aged man did not answer this question, bowed slightly, then turned his head and left quickly.

Qin Jiu looked at his back, knowing the result of this temptation.

Following the way back last time, Qin Jiu soon came to the wooden house opposite the pond, and reached out and knocked on the door.

A few seconds later, Su Fei's faint voice came from inside: "Come in."

Gin opened the door and entered, and saw that he was still sitting where he was talking with him before, but the tea on the table was completely cold.A long cloak was draped over the thin clothes, and the hem of the clothes was dragged to the ground, which was also a thin piece, and he was blowing the cold wind, his face was pale, as if he didn't know the cold.

"It's you." Su Fei looked up at him, and only smiled a little on his face, "Why, has the investigation progressed?"

Gin sat down opposite him: "I have encountered some doubts, and I want to discuss them with you."

"Tell me, I'll tell you everything." Su Fei picked up the teacup and realized that the tea was already cold, so she put it back, picked up the kettle from the tray next to it and boiled the water again, skillfully.

Gin took out the ring and the photo and pushed them over the love letter he found from the dealer's old house: "Look at these things first."

Su Fei's gaze rested on the ring for a moment, and then picked up the love letter underneath and opened it.Mingming already knew what was written in it, but he read it carefully, with a nostalgic smile on his brows, diluting the previous indifference.

"I didn't expect you to find them." Su Fei casually put down the love letter, but still didn't touch the ring, just stared deeply at the back on the collaged photo, "This photo is enough to prove his existence. "

system hint:……

"Sorry, but before I get to the point, I would like to take the liberty to ask an off-topic question." Gin Jiu ignored the system prompt that popped up suddenly, and took off his glasses as he did in front of the middle-aged man who opened the door for him, "Mr. Su Jiu, may I ask?" Does your lover look like me?"

"...Mr. Kurosawa speaks quickly, but it seems that my concealment is a bit ridiculous."

So Fei didn't panic at all, instead she adjusted her sitting posture and leaned relaxedly on the soft pillow behind her.

"Yes, he looks like you."

"you?"

As soon as the word came out, Gin had a premonition that his cognition would face another shock.

"Yes, you guys." Sophie seemed to be used to seeing his expression at the moment, funny and tired, "Every detective who investigated this matter for me before had this face, exactly the same face as his, you are the first nine."

"So," he poured some tea into the teapot, "they all ended up missing."

System prompt: The main mission [First Ring] has been completed [-]%.

System prompt: The main mission [Second Ring]: [-]% of the mission has been completed.

Remarks: I know, you are not him yet.

The remarks on the second ring of the main task made Gin realize that something was wrong with the follow-up development of this case, full of sickness and creepiness.

So he put on his glasses, cleared his throat, and decided to change the subject first: "Forget it, let's not talk about looks first, let's talk about the ring. Did you customize this ring for your lover?"

"Yes, they are a pair, each of us has one, but no one is wearing them now." Sophie glanced at the ring with cold eyes filled with disgust, and even grabbed it and threw it into the pond outside. "Things that the master doesn't want, just throw them away."

His movements were so fast that the ring was gone before Gin could react.

"That is……"

"Evidence?" Su Fei interrupted him, "They don't bear any clues, don't worry about it. You should have other questions to ask me, go ahead."

"..."

Gin met his gaze, and he looked back calmly.

The emotion in Su Fei's eyes was as calm as when he commented on his "illness" when they first met, as if what he threw away just now was not the ring he spent a lot of money to make for his beloved, but dead grass and leaves.

To be honest, Gin himself was an emotional insulator, but at this moment, he couldn't help but feel that the person in front of him might be a little seriously ill.

Maybe he wasn't lying, he was really sick.

"Mr. Su Jiu, do you smoke?" Qin Jiu changed the subject abruptly.

"Occasionally." Su Fei raised her eyebrows in confusion, and then took out a box from under the table, which contained several kinds of cigarettes, all of which were expensive brands, "Cigarettes can relax the mind, I don't smoke often."

Gin noticed that there was an empty space among the neatly stacked cigarettes in the box, so he pointed to it and asked, "Have you finished smoking a pack?"

"No, that pack smells too strong, I threw it away." Su Fei casually took a pack of cigarettes from the edge and filled it.

"What brand?" Gin asked again.

Sophie said a name, and that name was printed on the cover of the pack of cigarettes in the gin pocket at this moment.

He took a deep breath: "Mr. Su Jiu, why did you come to me to investigate this matter?"

"I asked someone to look for it." Su Fei really knew everything he said, and didn't ask too much, "That person is the housekeeper of our Su family, the one who brought you to see me last time."

"thank you, I know now."

Gin got up to say goodbye.

He was going to find out the thief he met in the dealer's old house, and ask him who had instructed him to go to the new hotel last night.

……

"I know, you are not him yet."

In the speaker, a gentle male voice reads this line in a bleak and treacherous tune, and the red plum on the screen falls into the clear pool, and the startled ripples blur the reflection of the wooden house in the water.

"Tack, tick, tick..."

The sound of footsteps was neither fast nor slow, from far to near, and half of a man's face was faintly revealed under the suddenly withered filter.The man stretched out his hand to touch something, and on his ring finger he wore an iron wood ring engraved with 28 constellations, and the ruby ​​inlaid underneath was shining.

A handful of silver hair poured down from his fingertips, brushed against his smiling face, and then fell powerlessly.

"They are all fake, only you are real." The man said softly, "I have dealt with those fakes."

The blood dripped to the ground, and the splashed Yeyan turned into the red plum that fell from the branch at the beginning, and fell into one person's hair.

The man was lying on the ground, his silver hair stretched out, as if he was in a deep sleep.

The screen gradually faded into darkness, and at the same time, a line of words slowly floated up on the screen: The second test of "Era Restorer" is about to start, and the new expansion pack "One Thousand People" is officially released.

This test will be open: new maps "Tianxing Town" and "Double Star Town";

The new gameplay "immersive detective", players can choose any character who appears in the case to experience the plot from the perspective, different perspectives, different truths;

Experience the "World Exploration [New Map]" gameplay for a limited time, maybe this world is not what it is shown in the plot.

The second test will open [-] places, and you can click to make an appointment now!

After the expansion was finished, the video automatically paused at the beginning, and Akai Shuichi recovered from his surprise, and rewinded to the scene of a character lying on the ground in the second second of No.30.

Character name: Zhuang Wumei.

CV: Kurosawa Jin.

"It's fine with the voice actor, but this face is the only way to model?" Shuichi Akai blurted out.

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The comment section of the last chapter almost gave me a hard time. I explained what a spoiler is with my strength, but not a complete spoiler, only a little spoiler.

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