Viscount Rich replied excitedly, "Ever since her portrait appeared in the Indomitable Newspaper eight years ago, I have suspected that she has something to do with that woman! I will never mistake that hair color—"
"But you just said that it wasn't until Viscount Tanglar came to see you that you remembered that there was such a red-haired girl twelve years ago?"
Viscount Rich frowned, "What's the problem?"
"In the past twelve years, did you just think of this incident recently, or have you been thinking about it day and night?"
Rishi was suddenly speechless and a little annoyed, "...there are some moments that remind me of it intermittently. Is there any meaning to your question?"
"What does that red-haired woman look like, her age, height... Do you still have an impression?"
"Yes, of course," Rixi nodded repeatedly, "She... is not short, but not tall either, maybe over 1.6 meters? But she looks very small, because she is very thin, her shoulders are very thin, and she is very Bai, about seventeen or eighteen years old...?"
"Seventeen or eighteen years old, are you sure?"
"Uh," Rishi's throat moved, "Maybe... sixteen?"
Chiba suddenly sneered indifferently, "Thank you for your refusal. If she has not reached the age of sexual consent in the third district, your reputations will not be preserved, Viscount."
Rixi glanced at Chiba with a complicated expression, "Of course, we won't do such despicable things."
…
After leaving the Viscount's residence, Si Lei and Qianye didn't speak. They got on the car in silence and looked at the road ahead in silence.
The car stopped at the first traffic light, and Si Lei suddenly looked at Qianye, "Do you believe what he said just now?"
Chiba shook her head - the legends told by Viscount Rich might not be as credible as the newspaper she read in the morning.
"Me too..." Si Lei blinked, "I don't believe a word of it. There are too many loopholes."
"But I believe that there is indeed a red-haired woman. Think about it, Hoffman's genitals were chopped off, and Rich also called the woman a 'whore'... Do you think there might be some connection here?"
The red light in front of the road turned green, and Si Lei suddenly turned the steering wheel to the right.
"Where to go?" Chiba asked.
"Right now, let's go find Tanglar and Schmidt." Si Lei's eyes were glaring. "Let's ask them about this story in a different way and see what they say."
…
There is no suspense.
Both Danglars and Schmidt gave the same details about the "red-haired woman":
He is small, very fair, and over 1.6 meters tall. He looks young. He first took the initiative to solicit customers, but when he failed, he shouted a curse to everyone...
However, after dismissing the others, Si Lei asked the two men alone about some more details:
On the day you met her, did she have long or short hair? Does she wear her hair in a ponytail or let her hair down? Oh, with hair down? But Viscount Rich said she was wearing braids.
——"Then I may have remembered it wrong, it was too long." (Schmidt)
——"Hey, did you meet another girl later that day? Maybe I forgot about it." (Danglar)
She was wearing a straw hat that day, right? There was a very dazzling black bow on it, so that you all felt a little ominous when you first saw her? (Temporary editing from Si Lei)
——"I don't remember." (Schmidt)
——"Yes! I am the first to say that this man's hat is too strange, it must be from the wilderness." (Danglar)
Is she wearing a long skirt or pants? What color is the skirt? Is it a solid color or polka dots?
——"No impression." (Schmidt)
——"Sure color, right? It should be solid color." (Danglar)
…
Schmidt was worthy of being an old police inspector. When faced with more than twenty questions raised by Si Lei, he answered them flawlessly. Either he didn't remember it or he didn't have a deep impression. But Danglars was far from being so careful. His answer was like a pile of glass beads in a sack. When he opened an opening, they all poured out.
After finishing questioning Schmidt and Tanglar, Si Lei lost his temper.
She returned to the car alone and had some silence, while Chiba smoked a cigarette alone outside the car, and then got back into Si Lei's passenger seat after smoking.
"...Are you okay this afternoon? You just kept following me around." Si Lei looked at Qianye, "You have so many capturing radars to install-"
"It's not like I need to do anything," Chiba glanced at the watch, "It will be finished in another hour and can be used tonight."
The two were silent for a while.
"...Why do you never take the initiative to mention that you are Hesta's guardian?" Si Lei asked.
"So what if I mention it," Qianye said openly, "I've already said it, the custody relationship in the mercury needle is not as deep as you think, and you are not raising a child for yourself. If Hesta commits a crime, you can just get it. Now is an opportunity to make up for it."
Si Lei laughed, "I finally figured it out..."
"What did you see?"
"Your feelings for this Hesta are not as deep as your feelings for that subordinate named Youleka."
Chiba didn't respond. She looked out the window and repositioned herself, "Where should we go next, the Duke Villefort's Palace?"
"Forget it, I won't go." Si Lei shook his head, "That's enough. I have to go back to the police station for a meeting before three o'clock in the afternoon - Avinash seems to have submitted an arrest plan tonight, and I need to Approval.”
…
At 5:00 p.m., a curfew went into effect in the entire city of Tanyi.
The streets that used to be bustling with people have become deserted, with only countless guards standing guard and patrolling at different street intersections.
Capture radar has covered the entire Tan Yi - any object moving at a speed exceeding the upper limit of ordinary humans will be captured by the radar signal at the first moment of appearance and a photo will be taken. The mercury needles brought by Avinash are already lurking in every corner of the city, and Avinash himself has always been by Rishi's side.
Chiba squatted on the tallest church spire in the center of the old city of Tanyi City as before. From this position, she could see the eight main roads of Tan Yi City extending outward in a radial pattern - and more importantly, from here, she could grasp the changes taking place in the air and on the ground at the same time.
At the afternoon deployment meeting, Avinash refused to disclose the specific lurking location of his team members to Chiba. He was not even willing to let Chiba participate in tonight's arrest operation, but he himself also knew that the two of them now belonged to two different groups. System, these orders of his have no binding force on Chiba.
The winter sun is gradually setting, and the night sky shows a kind of dawn blue. Based on the previous clues that "the murderer likes to act at night", he is probably lurking somewhere in Tanyi City at this moment, quietly waiting for nightfall.
Chiba held his breath and entered bullet time.
However, she still had doubts in her heart at this moment.
— Could it be you, Jane?
As soon as this conjecture appeared, it was immediately denied by Qianye.
Even if she doesn't believe Jane, she shouldn't doubt the effectiveness of Ava's methods: Jane Hestad is now being closely watched by Ava, and there is no way she will appear here at this moment.
But if it's really you...
Jane, anyhow, give me some hints.
