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I didn't have lunch until almost two o'clock in the afternoon, uh~ with the people involved in the operation; Lieutenant General Ghost Spider, Adjutant Creevey, my old classmate General Polusalino, and their respective subordinates soldier.

After retesting the traces of blood, the two men with the highest military ranks on the scene had sullen faces, and then ordered one after another to quickly arrange them. The personnel brought by the two generals acted separately: members of the Science Department collected the remaining samples from room 309 and prepared to take them back to the headquarters laboratory Further inspection.

Lieutenant General Ghost Spider went to ask the relevant people in the hotel again, trying to get some information about Lieutenant Colonel Uriel through fragmentary clues.

Room 309 of the hotel was demolished to the point where only a frame remained, everything was sealed up, and almost the floor tiles had to be pried open.

And then... When it was time to come to an end, the people involved in the operation finished their work and gathered in the lobby of the hotel hungry, ready to enjoy today's long-delayed lunch.

……

The lobby on the first floor seemed deserted at this time. The hotel owner and residents had been repeatedly questioned and sent away after taking notes. Admiral Ghost Spider ordered the hotel to be closed. What happened in Room 309, everything It's a secret for now.

However, I believe that even if the truth comes out, there will be very little that can be made public, and the public will not know at all; what happened in the room on the third floor may just be dusty.

……

Sitting on a chair, while waiting for the meal, I took a closer look at the surrounding area: the layout of the lobby on the first floor of the hotel is nothing special. Set up a few tables and chairs to provide drinks and food for the guests.

At this time, the desks and chairs were full of people, and the soldiers under Lieutenant General Ghost Spider and the science department of General Yellow Ape seemed to be very different from each other.

On the right is a soldier in a snow-white shirt and navy blue trousers, exuding a capable and capable look; on the left is a researcher who has taken off his protective suit, hood, and respirator, and looks like an intellectual.

Maybe it's because civil servants and military generals are born at odds?Even if these people don't speak, their eyes and demeanor when they occasionally look at each other still reveal a little bit of incongruity.

As for why everyone is silent, the answer lies in their respective chiefs.

Lieutenant General Ghost Spider and General Yellow Ape, these two were sitting on my right and left respectively, and unfortunately, my table became the focus, and by the way, it also became the dividing line between the two parties.

As for why I was able to win this honor, General Huang Yuan explained deeply and vividly what a "relationship household" is with his actual actions.

……

Polusalino... I don't know what to say about this man. Anyway, he was sitting on my left, and he was turning sideways at this moment, staring at me with a smile. He also took off his brown sunglasses, and his eyes looked like he was looking at a dish.

The ghost spider on the right will look gloomy, smoking one by one, and the ashtray in front of his desk is full of cigarette butts.

The oppressive and treacherous atmosphere lasted for a long, long time until the food delivery staff arrived.

Because the hotel was closed, the lunch was delivered from the Navy Headquarters. Adjutant Creevey, who was in charge of this matter, followed the push cart with something that looked like a file under his arm.

Maybe I was really hungry, smelling the aroma of food floating in the air, the still scene in the hall suddenly relaxed, as if the paused scene was playing again.

The neatly stacked lunch boxes were distributed from the outside to the inside. As the food was delivered to everyone, and then the boys immersed themselves in eating, the strange atmosphere just now finally disappeared like an illusion.

After waiting for a while, the cart arrived at the table where I was sitting, followed by Adjutant Creevey.

Polusalino casually took two from the top, put them on the table, then pushed one of them in front of me, and cast his gaze at Lieutenant General Ghost Spider through me, "Hey, Creevey, your officer I haven't eaten, so it's not too late to read the official documents~"

Lieutenant Creevey paused, then put the kraft paper bag that was about to be handed to Lieutenant General Ghost Spider on the corner of the table, and said in a low voice, "You are right, General Yellow Ape."

The caring and good adjutant first took lunch for his boss, and then took another for himself, then turned to sit on the only vacant seat at the square table, "I'm also hungry."

Perhaps it was Mr. Creevey who said the same thing. The Ghost Spider, who had stretched out his hand as if to get the documents, changed direction, turned to open the lunch box in front of him, grunted, and said nothing in the end.

……

There were four people at a table, the interim boss and Mr. Good Adjutant began to eat without saying a word, while keeping their eyes on each other.

After preventing Lieutenant General Ghost Spider from turning into a workaholic, General Huang Yuan closed his eyes and said with a smile, "It smells delicious, as expected of the canteen's signature dish, beef stew with potatoes~"

I glared at him, opened the lid of the lunch box, scanned the dishes inside, curled the corner of my mouth, then reached out and dragged the box in front of him, opened it together, and quickly picked out the dishes I didn't like into his box with chopsticks.

"Yeah, you are still so picky at the age of [-], it's too bad~" General Huang Yuan lowered his voice and murmured in his ear, saying that he was complaining, but in fact he didn't stop him, and his voice was also very pleasant, "After all these years, your habits still don't change. Change."

Shut up, you bastard!I glared at him with dead fish eyes, "Don't think I didn't hear you when you ordered, did you do it on purpose? You know I hate beef..."

We had dinner together in recent nights. This old classmate who claims to have no secrets between each other knows my taste very well. What happened?

Admiral Hun Dan abused his power and deliberately told the kitchen when ordering, saying 'I don't want to see other dishes except potatoes and beef stew'!Like a vexatious child.

"Yeah~ Baisui really understands me." The man's expression was quite natural, "It was on purpose~"

While speaking, he also picked up his chopsticks and slowly picked out the potatoes in his box, "Hundreds don't eat beef, and I don't eat potatoes, so we won't waste food."

Choking on his answer for a long time, the corners of my eyes twitched violently. Before a mouthful of blood sprayed all over his head and face, the old classmate continued with a straight face, "It's wrong to waste food, Bai Sui."

"..." With the veins on my forehead, I took several deep breaths, then picked out all the pieces of meat that would clog my teeth, poked potato pieces with chopsticks, and finally started to eat angrily.

……

He smiled softly in my ear, triumphantly, but I turned a deaf ear to it, and only took the food in my mouth as someone, biting it viciously until it was rotten, before swallowing it.

After getting along with each other these days, I have come to understand the vile nature of this person, and at the same time, I also know that the friendship between this person, the yellow ape general Polusalino, and me back then was much deeper than I thought.

For example, he knew that I was left-handed, but in fact I hid it very well, or I should say that I am not left-handed for thousands of years. My soul is that in the previous life, before I became a wagtail, that person was completely right-handed.

This world tends to be Western-style, and most of the tableware uses knives and forks. If you are not very, very familiar with it, you will not notice it at all. I only subconsciously use my left hand when holding chopsticks and using weapons.

And I rarely use weapons.

He also knows my partial eclipse habit, and knows that I don't like beef or fish and shrimp, but I like aquatic products with shells, and they can only be from the sea, such as clams and conch.

There are also some weird picks that I have, and he knows it very well, such as not liking red fruits that are too sweet, but not hating fruits with plenty of water and refreshing taste.

For example, I don't like meat, but I always like to mix rice with soup... Uh~ I think that, it tastes like the home-cooked braised pork many years ago.

Then think about it this way, I personally think that Polusalino may have been quite... unlucky at the time. He not only had to get used to me, but also tolerated a companion full of problems like me.

For example, he always sits on my left, although according to him it is because he is also left-handed, and the two of them sat like this to avoid conflicts with their neighbors at the dinner table.

But he will be used to pick up the food I picked out, and then put what I like in my bowl...

When I want to eat fruit, he will accurately pick out the varieties that meet my preferences, and he will help me peel the shells of sea crabs that always make a mess, and pick out the delicious crab meat.

Although he will take revenge every now and then, like now... But for his tenderness and consideration, no matter how naive and bad his behavior is, I can't beat him, it's really cunning.

Back then, he and I were probably very close friends, right?I think.

It's a pity that I have forgotten all of them now.

……Dividing line……

After the belated lunch, the members of the science department said goodbye politely, and took the samples obtained at the scene back to the laboratory for testing, striving to draw a conclusion as soon as possible.

Then under the command of Lieutenant General Ghost Spider, these physically fit young men were commanded by Lieutenant Creevey to deal with large-scale 'evidence', and by the way, be responsible for some aftermath work.

The hall on the first floor was quickly cleaned up, and then Adjutant Creevey picked up the kraft paper bag placed on the corner of the table again, and took out the documents in it, "Lieutenant Colonel Uriel's file, and all personnel records."

Dividing the document in his hand into two and placing it on the table, Lieutenant Creevey shifted his gaze a few degrees, "Do you need to go through it?"

"Yeah~ I won't meddle in the internal affairs of other garrisons." General Huang Yuan smiled slowly and replied, "What's more, no one in the headquarters knows what your boss likes and dislikes. He hates others putting their hands into his troops the most. .”

"So you still know~" Lieutenant General Ghost Spider rolled his eyelids with a cigarette in his mouth, "Since you know it, don't do it knowingly, Polusalino."

The corners of his eyes slanted as he spoke, and his smile was half mocking and half sarcastic, "I won't meddle in the internal affairs of other resident districts. If you say it so understandingly, it's because you are too lazy to take care of things, right?"

He raised his hand and flipped through the few pieces of paper in front of him, while sneering and ridiculing, he threw the whole stack of documents on the table and pushed them in front of the disgusted person...

Looking at the pile of documents across the front, and the arm of the temporary boss, the corner of my mouth twitched silently: Lieutenant General Ghost Spider...says one thing and does another...this is a typical mouth and integrity, hey!

……

Out of the corner of my eye, maybe I could see something from my expression, Lieutenant General Ghost Spider stared at me very displeasedly, then sneered, and didn't say anything in the end, just pushed the document out and retracted his hand, looking after himself The document that looks like many pages is missing since it was opened.

The moment it was opened, I seemed to see at a glance... a headshot on the corner of the page?It's Lieutenant Colonel Uriel's file, right?

After thinking about it, I quickly lowered my eyes, lest Lieutenant General Ghost Spider wait suspiciously and think that I was peeping at the secret.

"Hundred years old~" General Huang Yuan naturally pushed the thick stack of documents in front of him back under my eyes, "The records of the relevant personnel~ See if you can find any clues."

"After all, Baisui is more sensitive than anyone else when it comes to details." Slowly Youyou said, while leaning slightly closer, "Please take care of these~"

I rubbed my forehead first, sighed, and stretched out my hand to these documents——I’m not sure if there’s anything wrong with this, Lieutenant General Ghost Spider has always been a bit hostile, he still can’t trust him, and I didn’t I intend to manage too much, but...

Now that Polusalino said this, it was impossible to refuse.

Although I have never understood why General Huang Yuan can trust so much, he really knows me too well, but unfortunately, I know nothing about him.

This is not fair.

His thoughts were flying in a blink of an eye, and then he put away all distracting thoughts and focused on the document he opened in his hand: the transcripts of all relevant personnel.

The one at the top is Ms. Angelina who went to the Navy Headquarters in the morning to find her lover...

……

What followed was a long and boring reading time, and the hall was so quiet that only the rustling of pages was left.

It took me a while to go through all the personnel transcripts, and then I would go back and pick out a few of them and put them on the table.

"First, we need to find Lieutenant Colonel Ulier."

I clicked on the piece of paper pressed by my fingertips, and I habitually turned my face away, "the hotel owner said that the waiter reported that Room 309 was clean when cleaning, and the hotel waiter Mira confirmed that the cleaning car was not in the usual position. "

"Is there a unified garbage disposal point in the town of Marineford? If so, send someone to look for it, or you will find..."

"Lieutenant Colonel Ulier?" General Huang Yuan continued naturally, and when he spoke, he still focused on the document in his hand, "He was loaded and thrown away?"

"Probably—" I thought for a while and explained to him, "The murderer cleaned up the room, and of course the largest garbage is sent away in a box car, so it doesn't attract attention~"

"Although the hotel is located in a town, Marineford is a military base. The murderer cannot guarantee that he will not be seen walking the street with the victim."

"Throwing it out the window in the hallway is not practical, so it is likely to use the garbage truck in the early morning."

Before I finished speaking, I heard Lieutenant General Ghost Spider on the right coughing hard, maybe I thought my words were inappropriate?He came over with a gloomy white look, and said in a hoarse voice, "Creevey, look for her as she said."

Mr. Adjutant took the order to go, Lieutenant General Ghost Spider then slapped the table with his palm, "Tell me who is the murderer, thousands of years old."

"Everything must be done step by step, Lieutenant General." I looked back innocently, "Although I am not a human being, I am not an all/knowing/all/powerful god."

"You can know everything by looking at the information? You really flatter me."

……

The temporary boss had bitten the veins on his cheeks, and he seemed out of breath. After a while, General Huang Yuan said as if trying to smooth things over, "Is the suspect a woman? Bai Sui, do you think you have revenge for such cruel methods?"

"However, according to the data, the victim is very popular~"

"Aristocrats are humble and generous, and many of my friends are very popular with women." He handed the information in his hand under my eyes, and said in a calm voice, "So it's emotional entanglements? Angelina? Or the one you mentioned yesterday? Mrs Elsa?"

"Aristocratic background?" I was stunned for a moment, raised my eyelids, and snorted angrily, "It seems that the clues that can be used in these transcripts are not 100%, at least there are some mistakes."

"Lieutenant Colonel Uriel is not of noble origin, and the fact is quite the opposite."

"Also, the handsome and funny victim, a murderer himself, was neither humble nor generous."

The stack of materials I just read is not exactly what I think the hotel staff records are, and some of them are information provided by people in the Navy headquarters who are familiar with Lieutenant Colonel Ulier.

Including his colleagues and subordinates, as well as his friends outside of work.

The speed of the navy's action was astonishingly fast. I thought that perhaps when it was learned that the life paper had been burned, Vice Admiral Ghost Spider's subordinates began to act, and completed the initial information collection in a very short period of time.

With impressive action power and careful thinking, Lieutenant General Ghost Spider...to be able to sit in his current position, apart from force, he also has brains.

And by now, Lieutenant General Ghost Spider and General Yellow Ape, have they both noticed it?

Maybe something is wrong within the Navy, or maybe those problems already exist but are hidden too deep, and they have not been noticed until the key points are touched.

……

But forget it, I threw away the irrelevant things in my mind, and focused on the case, "There are many possibilities for the murder. Bold assumptions and careful verification. Only with definite evidence can we draw conclusions."

"So everything is guesswork at this point."

"The suspect is first placed on the victim's lover, Angelina, Mrs. Aisha, or other women. The investigation needs time and manpower."

"Then there are interest disputes, colleagues and friends, money relations, and whether there are grievances or grievances on weekdays."

"Considering the special nature of the profession, it is recommended to investigate whether the victim was involved in certain incidents."

I told General Huang Yuan one by one. In the end, I put down my hands and squinted my eyes, "In fact, I think... the final outcome of the victim and the murderer is reversed for the case that happened last night."

After a brief silence, General Huang Yuan twitched his eyebrows slightly, "Yeah~ Centenarians are really... always able to speak amazingly~"

Staring at me for a while, he seemed to think about it, and said, "Late Colonel Ulier planned to implement some plans last night, but the result was unexpected. Is that what you mean?"

"Candles and incense, the murderer has no chance to prepare them all. These things should have been in room 309." I also raised my eyebrows, and the corners of my mouth sank slightly, "Actually, I don't really want to track it down."

Looking at my old classmate who seemed a little stunned by this answer, I calmly shrugged, "Don't forget the blood behind the wallpaper in room 309, that's a slaughterhouse."

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"So you think he deserves to die?" Lieutenant General Ghost Spider said suddenly, with a hoarse voice and an angry tone, "Thousands of years!"

The temporary boss seemed to want to jump up on the case, his figure moved slightly and then stopped abruptly, as if forcibly suppressing his anger, his expression was extremely gloomy; the one who stopped the ghost spider lieutenant general was General Huang Yuan, and he passed me by. It seems to be signaling the other party to be calm.

Then he turned his face slightly, and the old classmate's quiet eyes met mine, his expression undecided.

After another moment of silence, General Huang Yuan said in a tone that he didn't know how to describe, "The concept of a hundred years old is like the original code of law, and those who kill with an eye for an eye will die."

I don't know what to think of, and the deep vicissitudes accumulated over the long years overflowed in the black eyes, "We are soldiers, and every soldier on the battlefield can kill without hesitation, but that doesn't mean that they can become murderous outside the battlefield. .”

After a long time, he turned his gaze to another direction, and sighed, "The truth has nothing to do with justice, a hundred years old."