Is it still too late to apply for a replacement to lead the team? Qi Zhuyue thought painfully.
The answer is of course no.
She now understood why Xia Chengyin was so vague. It was because the person who sent the message was Bai Su, and she and Bai Su didn't get along well. If Xia Chengyin had told the truth, she would have found an excuse to push it away.
Whether it can be rejected is another matter. You still have to try.
Only she, Xia Chengyin and Gao Tianyi knew about Qi Zhuyue's relationship with Bai Su. Other colleagues would not know anything unless they took the initiative to tell them, let alone Bai Su himself.
However, why was Bai Su so impressed by her? Is this an intuition?
Black-haired young man: "So we really haven't met before?"
The woman with a ponytail: "...No."
Qi Zhuyue pretended to be calm and walked forward, calling the name of the young man who was sitting: "Bai, Baisu, right?"
The black-haired young man nodded and threw the mobile phone in his hand into a plastic bag aside.
In addition to the human bodies that did not know whether they were alive or dead, there were also some debris scattered around his feet.
It was said to be sundries, including open books that were tied to the ground, strange weapons that didn't look like they could be obtained through regular channels, and the bag containing many mobile phones.
The most eye-catching ones were of course the weapons. When Qi Zhuyue saw the oval-shaped one lying on the ground, her heart almost stopped.
No matter how powerful they are, they are nothing compared to a grenade that happens to explode.
Bai Su watched the members of the special department nervously take away the bomb that would not explode at all and had already destroyed its internal structure, and then Qi Zhuyue, who was wearing a ponytail, approached.
"Your mobile phone...Senior Xia said he couldn't get through." Qi Zhuyue looked at the mobile phone she had just thrown into the bag, looking confused.
The elderly machine doesn't look like what their department would be equipped with, does it?
To this, Bai Su's answer was: "The phone is out of battery."
Qi Zhuyue slowly typed a question mark.
Not to mention that the mobile phone given by their department had a long standby time, judging from the information she learned below, Bai Su had been in this building for at most two days.
In two days, the phone ran out of battery?
Qi Zhuyue had an idea: "How long has it been since your mobile phone was charged...?"
Bai Su thought for a while and replied: "Three or four days, maybe. Wouldn't it be enough to recharge it when the charge drops below 10%?"
For a moment, all the humans around him looked at Bai Su as if they were alien.
How could anyone not worry about the power of their mobile phones? As long as conditions permit, they will keep their mobile phones fully charged for as long as possible.
Bai Su bent down, rummaged through the bag, and took out his phone that had no power and a black screen that couldn't be turned on.
He also found that his own mobile phone could not be used before looking for other human mobile phones. Most mobile phones were locked, and only a few old ones were easy to open.
If you just browse the web, the phone is enough for the elderly.
Qi Zhuyue felt that there was no point in talking more about mobile phones, so she quickly retracted her deviated thoughts.
"Ahem." The woman with a ponytail coughed twice, "Can you tell me something about this person?"
Qi Zhuyue looked pointedly at the man lying on the ground. He was still alive, but he couldn't wake up.
The hood on the cloaked man's head had been pulled off by Bai Su, revealing a scruffy but slightly young face.
He doesn't look very old, probably around thirty years old. There are thick blue-black circles under his eyes, which shows that he usually lacks sleep and rest.
Bai Su looked at the cloaked man, then at Qi Zhuyue, and clapped his hands.
"First it was like this...then it was like that...and finally bang, bang, click, bang bang bang - I dragged...brought him up."
Bai Su's words were concise and concise, and he used a lot of onomatopoeia to describe the unspeakable scenes that happened. He thought he learned it quite vividly, but to human ears, it sounded blank.
Qi Zhuyue had a forced smile on her face and asked: "What's the last thing?"
Bai Su repeated it: "Bang, bang, click, bang bang bang."
Qi Zhuyue couldn't hold back her smile: "Mr. Bai, I don't understand what you are saying!"
Bai Su blinked at the human and smiled innocently: "Didn't I make it very clear? Or you can ask him."
Bai Su pointed his hand at the cloaked man on the ground who couldn't wake up.
Qi Zhuyue looked at the cloaked man on the ground in silence. If she could wake him up, she would definitely not come to ask Bai Su.
Bai Su watched the human helplessly turn the cloaked man over and over to check, but didn't wake him up until a stretcher came over to take him away.
Bai Su, who had secretly done something behind his back, hid a touch of white on his fingertips.
He won't wake up when he wakes up, he just doesn't know where humans will send the cloaked man.
Bai Su hid his face and yawned, then pointed to the book on the ground with a conscience.
It is more like a notebook than a book. The notebook is covered with a special cover, so it looks a bit like a book. When you open it, it is filled with the handwriting of the cloaked man.
"They seem to be doing something strange." Bai Su said, "You can take a look."
After dragging the cloaked man up the stairs, Bai Su changed his expression.
His disgust was palpable, and he threw the cloaked man on the ground in disgust, found a piece of cloth for hand pads from other rooms, and began to rummage through the things he was carrying.
In fact, there was a more convenient way, but when he thought of the aura on the cloaked man... Bai Su gave up that plan.
All the found items were thrown to the ground. Weapons and random gadgets were mixed together. Only the codex caught the most attention.
Bai Su flipped through it roughly, and after just reading the beginning, he knew that this was conclusive evidence that could determine the nature of the incident.
Although the name of the mysterious being behind them was still not revealed, there was some vague description of the image.
Meat Mountain, Red Meat Mountain.
Bai Su picked up the pages of the book through the cloth, showing a thoughtful look.
He felt that this description was a little familiar, and he seemed to have... seen it somewhere.
Where is it? The monster searched his memory and found nothing.
Bai Su struggled for two seconds before throwing away the familiar feeling, and dropped the note to the ground.
After going to an office on the same floor to get back the bag containing his mobile phone, he sat there and waited for people from the special department to arrive.
Qi Zhuyue glanced at Bai Su, leaned down and picked up the upside-down notebook.
She flipped through two pages casually, and then the page turning speed became slower and slower, and the expression on her face became more and more serious.
"This is not and -" Qi Zhuyue raised her head and blurted out, but she quickly swallowed back the rest of the words.
"With what?" Bai Su, who didn't understand what the human said, asked back.
"...Nothing." Qi Zhuyue quickly turned her attention to the notebook in her hand.
She couldn't say that she thought this notebook was somewhat similar to the abbot's diary brought back from Fuzhao Temple.
Even though she could explain that she was responsible for Fuzhao Temple, Qi Zhuyue still didn't want to have anything to do with Bai Suduo.
There is no way to avoid the inevitable work.
The notebook record is quite long, and it takes a long time to study it carefully, because it contains obscure words and sentences plus some poems unique to the Riddler.
Qi Zhuyue shouted back, and the team member at the back handed her a sealable box, and she put the notebook in it.
"By the way, Mr. Bai, do you know what happened with the explosion downstairs?"
Speculating that the onomatopoeia of "bang bang bang" at the end was related to the big hole that opened downstairs, Qi Zhuyue had no choice but to go into battle in person and start questioning.
This time, Bai Su's story was more detailed.
"You mean, there were two people wearing cloaks, and you felt something was wrong so you asked straight to the point..."
For a moment, Qi Zhuyue didn't know what to say, and in the end she could only hold back the word "reckless" in her heart.
"Then you... got into a fight? The two cloaked men first blew open the door to the room, and then you chased them all the way downstairs. Did you take the stairs?"
Qi Zhuyue thought about it strangely and found no traces of fighting in the stairwell. Except for the dragging blood, it could be called clean.
"No." Bai Su shook his head, then stood up and walked towards the corridor.
The people in the special department didn't know what was going on. They looked at me and I looked at you, and followed them.
Bai Su led them to a gap in the corridor.
People didn't pay much attention to it downstairs before, just thinking it was a collapse caused by the explosion. Now standing upstairs and looking at it, they can easily see the smooth and flat cuts.
It would have been possible to investigate it if given more time, but Baisu led the people and took a shortcut.
Qi Zhuyue looked at the incision and murmured: "Is this...?"
Bai Su replied: "It was cut with a sword."
Qi Zhuyue asked: "Sword?"
Bai Su looked around and said, "Wait a moment."
After saying that, the black-haired young man walked back the way he came before without waiting for anyone's reply, bypassing the members of the special department who were blocking the way, and stood in front of several giant cement blocks.
Then Bai Su put his five fingers on the edge of the steel bar and gently lifted it up, then picked up the cement block that was taller than a person and put it aside, and did the same with the remaining blocks.
Finally, he picked up a dusty sword on the ground.
The people around him didn't understand what Bai Su was doing. Only Qi Zhuyue frowned slightly, as if he had an idea.
Bai Su chose the simplest way to directly show humans the sharpness of this sword.
With a wave of his hand, there was no snapping sound, and the scene of "cutting tofu" appeared in front of human eyes.
The people in the special department turned their heads silently, compared the cuts on the ground, and suddenly understood what was happening with the collapsed ceiling.
"This is?"
"Another cloaked man's weapon."
"No, I mean, how could this appear there?"
Judging from the sharpness of the sword, it can be seen that it is not a mortal object. If such a thing is brought back to the bureau, it may be sealed and can be loaned out for use after it is determined to be harmless.
No matter which angle you look at it, the owner of the weapon will never throw away this sword.
Unless... The woman with a ponytail broke away from her contemplation and looked at the black-haired young man holding the sword with flickering eyes.
Unless someone snatches the sword away.
Bai Su, who was thought to have snatched someone's weapon, threw the sword to the side. No one from the special department dared to step forward to catch it. In the end, the sword penetrated straight through the floor, leaving only the hilt on the ground.
Of course the sword penetrated the ceiling below, but luckily the blade was not long enough and there was no tall person below.
The people from the special department carefully put away the sword again, and Bai Su led the human back.
Skipping the office area, which was so messy that no one was around, the group walked outside the red room.
The inside of the red room, whose walls were completely blown open, was even worse than the outside. The crooked furniture was broken into several pieces, and the weapon that caused it could be clearly identified from the cuts.
"Is it that sword?" Qi Zhuyue said to herself, "It can only be that one."
The woman with a ponytail walked toward the red room. As soon as she entered the wall, she felt uncomfortable.
The human looked around in confusion, his eyes resting on the wallpapers on both sides.
Qi Zhuyue, who was always very inspired, lowered her head instantly. After about ten seconds, when the others were wondering whether to step forward to check the situation, she raised her head again.
In just a dozen seconds, Qi Zhuyue's face turned pale and her lips lost color.
Bai Su leaned against the wall, watching the human woman exit the room on her own, instructing others to tear off all the wallpaper and put it away, before stepping back in.
Hmm, why does this state of human beings look so familiar?
It should be... the state when you come out from under the praying banyan tree, right?
Bai Su watched the human woman's back wandering around in the room that had lost its red wallpaper. He didn't know what she confirmed, and she walked out after more than ten minutes.
Qi Zhuyue held a notebook and pen in her hand, which recorded some symbols and short sentences that she could only understand, so that she could go back and summarize them.
She followed Bai Su to explain the incident backwards, walked from the hole downstairs to the destroyed red room, and then went to a conference room to look at the furnishings inside. Today's investigation was almost done.
"Thank you very much for your cooperation, Mr. Bai. The report -"
"Well, what report?"
The black-haired young man raised his eyes and took a step back.
"This is the report of this incident. Mr. Bai, you are also a participant, so you should hand it in..." Qi Zhuyue wrote two more words in the notebook. When she looked up again, in front of her, except for the team members she brought, there were already The black-haired young man disappeared.
The team member who was being watched by Qi Zhuyue stepped aside and pointed to the cave entrance exposed behind him: "That person jumped down from there."
"Huh?" Qi Zhuyue suddenly tightened her grip on the pen, "Jumped?"
The team member nodded: "The guy said he's going to find his friends."
Qi Zhuyue felt a sense of déjà vu for some reason - a sense of déjà vu with a familiar colleague and report document.
After being stunned for a while, Qi Zhuyue suddenly closed the notepad in her hand: "Did you escape?"
Although she was a little scared of Bai Su, in order not to take on too much work, she was still prepared to ask someone to find Bai Su.
Just as his name was called, a colleague hurried over from another corridor extending from the elevator. He leaned into Qi Zhuyue's ear and whispered something.
"What did you say, Bai Bai——" Qi Zhuyue's voice rose, and then she closed her mouth, letting the next words disappear between her teeth.
She didn't care about Bai Su anymore and hurriedly followed her colleagues to the other side.
Bai Su, who successfully avoided the annoying writing work, jumped downstairs and blended in with the human police in a natural manner. Except for his somewhat messy clothes, there was no way he was one of the "victims" at the scene.
Ordinary policemen looked at the direction he was coming down and mistook him for someone from the special department.
Bai Su asked where the rescued people were, and the ordinary policeman gave him directions.
The vacated room was not very far away. The victims with dizzy heads were sitting there, and An Xiangwen was naturally among them.
Bai Su walked towards where An Xiangwen was sitting, lowered his head, and met the curly-haired young man's aimless eyes.
Human names rolled on the tip of my tongue.
(End of chapter)
