Dereliction of duty · 90 years in the new calendar

NO.15, a sunny day as always.

The Office of the Demon King's Hall.

Sui: What are you looking at?

Flo: Letter...

Put it on the table.

Sui: A table?

Flo: Well, the recipient, it's the two of us.

Mr. Sui, let's come and see.

The envelope is very simple, and the seal is not very tight, it looks very casual.

Open it and see that this is written by Master Xus. Flo glanced at the set of desks and chairs in the back of the clerical office, thinking that maybe the reason Master Xus didn't go to work yesterday had something to do with this.

Sui: "City"...

Why is it there?

In the letter, Master Xus said that there are some things that he wants to investigate here.It seems that because of some "children" reason, he and Master Zolf went to the city, and prepared to deal with the situation.

The specifics are just a generalization. At the end of the letter, there is a reminder to pay more attention to whether there are any strange people around the Demon King Palace.If so, you're welcome.

Flo: It was signed yesterday.

But I, didn't see it yesterday...why.

Sui: Maybe there was a delay in sending the letter?

...No, speaking of which method it was sent here.

Flo: If that adult thinks about it, there are many ways.

This kind of detail, when discussed, may not necessarily be meaningful.

Sui: That's true...that guy is hard to judge with common sense.

So, what does he want us to do?

Flo: Wait a minute.

A photo was attached to the back of the letter, which was a full-body frontal photo of a little boy, with a line underneath, ordering the two to search the list in the Demon King Palace to see if they could find him, or an adult who looked similar to him.

He also said that the child has no name and is twelve years old.

Flo: ...the location in the photo.

I seem to have, when, seen.

Sui: Really, let me see, see...

Mr. Sui snatched the letter paper suddenly and stuffed it into his trousers pocket in a panic.

He nodded and smirked trying to ease the embarrassment, then waved his hands, and rushed out the door in a cramped pace, muttering something in his mouth to go first.

Seeing this, although suspicious, Flo has no other choice.

After three or two steps, they arrived in front of the group of rooms on the top floor of the Demon King's Palace.The rooms along the west corridor on the top floor are all used to store materials.Unlike the files placed in the clerical office, here are files that are not updated so quickly.

The same is true along the east side of the road.The difference is that the room at the "end" of the east corridor is Lord Zolf's office.

Sui: ...it's locked.

Flo: I have the key.

Flo picked from the keychain for a moment and opened the door.

These keys were placed on the table with the letters, and each key had a numbered paper attached to it, corresponding to the house number.

Sui: At first I thought it was a random place.

Surprisingly, quite organized.

Flo: Master Xus, you complained to me.

What to say, he has always felt that the name here is too bad to get.

...Mr. Sui, you know, what is the most annoying point?

Sui: Huh?

Flo: "Only I can complain like that, you guys must never speak ill of Zor."

It is not so easy to pause when retelling and reciting.

This is similar to ordinary stutterers, after all, there are ready-made templates for "reporting".

Sui: ...All right.

I'll look at the right, and leave the left to you?

Flo: Good.

Let me have a look at the photo again——

Sui: No.

He seemed quite calm, but for some reason he just got nervous about that photo.

Maybe it's because he said that the place is familiar to him?In other words, Mr. Sui must be able to see that the location in the photo does have some kind of key meaning.

...if only he could keep it from himself, Flo thought to himself.

Probably because of partiality, he very much hoped that the reason for Mr. Sui's concealment and evasion was for his own good... although he knew that this possibility was not optimistic.

Flo: (Stop thinking about it, alas.)

(12 years old...try first to find the year of birth.)

(However, it is not easy to match the current photo with the birth file.)

(A bit clueless.)

Flo collected himself and buried himself in the errand.

After hours of rummaging through the files that were neatly stacked but had to accumulate a lot of dust due to age issues, he still found nothing.

Unlike his own nothing, suddenly, Mr. Sui let out a small cry and called him over.

Sui: Tired...

Look at this, does it look alike?

What he got was an adult's file, and the person listed on it was indeed similar in appearance to the little boy.

Looking at the text description, it is also written that this woman gave birth 12 years ago.

However, for some unknown reason, she abandoned the child in the wilderness.

Flo: The information matches...

This is good news, but at the same time, Flo has another doubt in his heart:

Flo: (What's with these files?)

(It's like... writing a script for these people, too detailed.)

(Who organized it, Master Xus?)

(Even if it is him, it is impossible to make such a large number of archives.)

Flo looked around the room.

Large and full, the solid wooden cabinets are neatly arranged, and there is an imposing manner that cannot be explained in words.