Bilan, who was traveling to the Hezhong area, first met Hugo in a cafe near Yuqi Residence. At that time, she was drinking coffee leisurely. The floor-to-ceiling windows with excellent lighting allowed the tragic situation of the two-story building next to her to come into view. .
At that time, Yuqi Mansion looked like it was about to catch fire, with thick smoke billowing from the windows. A young man in a white coat first took out three beginner Pokémon that were blackened by the smoke. He threw them gently into the courtyard, and then walked back into the house through the thick smoke. Soon after the smoke gradually subsided, the man came out carrying two used cans of dry ice fire extinguishers and threw them to the garbage collection point outside the courtyard.
It seemed that the fire crisis was successfully resolved... Bilan breathed a sigh of relief and put down the fire alarm phone in her hand.
Firemonkey, Bogaman, Turtle... the girl with chestnut hair and shawl identified the Pokémon that were taken out one by one. They turned out to be a complete set of beginner Pokémon from the Sinnoh region.
These three Pokémon looked pitiful. They couldn't help laughing when they saw each other's funny looks in gray. They seemed to have a very good relationship. The young man in a white coat who used a fire extinguisher to put out the thick smoke was watching them play with a helpless expression.
Bilan's eyes couldn't help but shine. Even in Dr. Oak's research institute, she had never encountered these three Pokémon.
Speaking of Sinnoh, she couldn't help but think of the Unova news she just saw. On the front page was a photo of the Sinnoh champion receiving the Unova Guardian Medal. Miss Zhulan said that she solved the incident at hand while visiting a friend. , but resolutely denied a series of actions he had taken in Hezhong in the past. Many media speculated that the champion was performing secret missions in Hezhong and spoke like this just to hide his whereabouts.
Being a champion is really tiring... The same goes for Chi Hong. On the surface, he says he is settling down on Silver Mountain to practice, but in fact he is not busy running around the world as a firefighter. Every time he visits, he never sees anyone.
The girl sighed and continued to drink black coffee with only sugar cubes in it. She came here today to meet a friend. It was said that the other person had a nice place for her to stay during her journey.
A cup of coffee later, the person she was waiting for arrived.
The tall girl wearing a hat appeared at the door of the cafe like a star. The high ponytail is tied up from behind the peaked cap, and the combination of a white vest, black jacket and denim shorts looks full of vitality.
"Sister Xiaolan, I didn't expect you to come to Hezhong!"
Seeing the junior Ye Yan, who was half a head taller than her, squeeze into the seat next to her, a smile appeared on Bilan's face: "Long time no see, Douzi."
After some intimate interaction between best friends, Douzi sat down on the seat opposite Bilan and ordered a cup of iced fruit tea from the waiter.
"Speaking of which, what do you think of Yu Qidi? Are you satisfied?" Douzi put aside the straw, raised the cup and drank fruit tea, and asked casually.
Bi Lan showed a surprised expression: "Yu Qidi? Are you going to introduce me to the apartment where I will stay? Is it nearby? This is the center of Feiyun."
Dou Zi laughed heartily and pointed out the window at the double-storey building that almost caught fire ten minutes ago: "It's not an apartment, Yu Qi Residence is a great villa in the city!"
It turned out to be the double-story building that almost caught fire! Xiaolan was surprised. She thought the building Douzi introduced would be a low-cost apartment like a B&B, but she didn't expect it to be a villa in the city center!
"But isn't there someone living there? There is some kind of office sign hanging on the second floor."
Under the sun, the metal signboard of "Hugo Detective Agency" looks like a giant glowing business card. However, it seems that the owner of the office has returned to the house with the elves, and he probably still has to deal with the problems caused by the fire, right?
"That's the tenant. The person living there complained to me about the rent last month. You can ask him to vacate the second floor for you to live in." Douzi said with a relaxed look, "That person inside The guy's name is Hugo, and he's a very reliable detective, but don't let him command Pokémon, that man is disastrously clumsy at that."
I’ve seen it with my own eyes. Bi Lan recalled the thick smoke coming out of the window, and couldn't help but ask again in a confirming tone, "A very reliable detective?"
"There won't be a better detective than him in the entire Hezhong." Douzi seemed to have a high opinion of that man.
The energetic girl drinking fruit tea continued: "I remember when I first met that detective, he was handling a kidnapping case. At that time, I ran to a rich man's country villa and wanted to buy it from him. Yuqi Mansion. And the detective happened to come to that villa. It turned out that he had accepted the commission from the rich man before, and this time he came to completely solve the case. In other words, I stepped into the classic mystery movie. The detective pointed out the serious part!"
Her best friend seemed to be very interested in telling some interesting story, so Bilan ordered another cup of coffee and listened with interest.
The story happened ten months ago. At that time, the detective did not have an agency. Douzi was still an innocent girl with no way to squander the huge sum of money earned from the league tournament. The owner of Yuqi Mansion was still a wealthy man in Feiyun City. A real estate tycoon that everyone knows about.
A Pokémon in the rich man's home was kidnapped. The kidnapper who stole the Pokémon left a note in the place where the Pokémon usually lived, asking the rich man to prepare a ransom of one million yuan and put the Pokémon away. The ransom box is placed under a bench in a certain park. When the kidnappers receive the ransom, the Pokémon will be returned as agreed.
To be honest, the demands made by the kidnappers in the note are really unfair to the rich man. After all, no one can guarantee whether the kidnappers will still refuse to admit their debt after taking one million. They may break their promise and not release the elves, or even He will continue to extort ransom from the rich.
But the real estate agent loved his Pokémon very much, and one million was not a huge amount of money for him, so the rich man decided to follow the kidnapper's instructions.
At the same time, the rich man thought of the strategy of hiring a private detective, and invited Hugo, a famous detective who had just emerged in Feiyun City at that time, and asked him to ambush the place where the ransom was placed to monitor at all times, track the kidnappers who withdraw money from the park bench, and confirm that they 's hiding place. If the kidnapper reneges on his promise, the rich man can directly send bodyguards and guards to recapture the elf based on the address traced by the detective.
Detectives originally suggested placing a tracker inside the ransom box to make it easier to find the kidnappers' lair. But the rich man was afraid that something might happen to his beloved Pokémon, and he was determined not to take such a step that would easily be discovered by the kidnappers.
So the detective followed the rich man's instructions and hid near the park bench, and began to monitor the one million ransom placed under the park bench day and night...
"Then the reliable detective followed the kidnappers' traces and found their lair?" Bilan asked. She felt that the story was a bit unremarkable, and the detective in the story looked completely like a bastard who was paid to do things. Not reliable, nor handsome.
"On the contrary." Douzi said pretending to be mysterious. "On the day of the transaction, the box containing the money under the bench disappeared in the blink of an eye in front of the detective, leaving only a shallow pit at the scene."
