The blue waves were rippling on the sea, and a few fluttering pink birds curiously chased the waves raised by the ship. However, the detective and his assistant were tired of seeing this kind of scenery last month, and now they are more concerned about the condition of the ship itself.
"I really didn't expect that Mr. Doug would start a coastal liner after selling the whaling ship. I thought the old man would continue to go to sea to catch more king whales."
Bilan patted the railing gently, feeling a lot of emotion.
When chasing the water fleet, the roar of old man Doug when he stood up to face the huge whale still seemed to echo in his ears. But now, this old captain has actually found such a serious job, plying a fixed route from nine to five... I always feel like the style of painting doesn’t match.
"The Howler King eats a lot. If ordinary people don't have a stable income, they can't afford his three meals a day."
Hugo still acted as if everything in the world was taken for granted and answered with a lack of interest.
“And there’s also the benefit of Doug doing coastal passenger shipping.”
"What is it?" The girl tilted her head.
"A body as big as the Howling Whale King requires a very vast space for activities, so it needs to swim around in the nearby waters. However, as a port city, Feiyun City's offshore is dotted with large and small waters that are inaccessible due to various reasons. . There are privately contracted fishing grounds, special venues for tourists to snorkel, and important channels for ships to pass through. The king of roaring whales may cause safety accidents by turning over in those places, so it is very dangerous to release them directly. "
"Well, there are so many restrictions. So? What does this have to do with Mr. Doug's new job?"
"It is the intertwined rules that make up this rational world, blue." The detective in the white coat crossed his arms and said inscrutably, "Mr. Doug used another rule to solve the problem of the children of the Roaring Whale King walking. .”
Bilan still wanted to hear what was going on, but Hugo turned around and shouted "Hey!" to the sea.
Then, a fountain rose into the sky in the sea in front of the two people, and a huge blue head emerged from the splitting waves.
"Huh? Is the Roaring Whale King following this ship?"
They had dealt with each other before, so Bilan was not surprised by this. She waved her hand and said hello to the Roaring Whale King, who responded with a friendly low cry.
"That's it." Seeing the Howler Whale King popping up, the detective rapped his knuckles on the railing happily.
"Just like I can throw Bogaman into the sea near the ship to swim, it is completely reasonable and legal for ships and tourists to send water Pokémon to escort beside the ship. Even though they are still in the ship's exclusive channel at this time, But as long as you don’t leave the ship too far, it won’t be regarded as illegally occupying space. As for whether the escorting Pokémon is a tench or a Kyogre, it doesn’t matter. Anyway, there is no limit on Pokémon in the regulations of the United Alliance. Their kind.”
Before Bilan could respond, tourists who noticed the fountain and the whale song flocked to the deck, and the surrounding area suddenly became noisy.
"It's the Roaring Whale King!" "It's so close to us!" "What a big fish!"
The crowd was bustling with people holding up their mobile phones to take pictures, making conversation extremely difficult. The two detective assistants, who seemed out of place, returned to their seats in the cabin angrily.
The nearby passengers were all attracted to the deck by the Roaring Whale King. Seeing that there was no one around, Hugo talked about business——
"Have you read the information about the explosion that Junsha obtained through internal channels? Do you have any thoughts?"
Hugo took out a stack of paper documents from somewhere and asked while flicking the paper.
"After reading it, I feel weird." The assistant lady honestly expressed her feelings.
"I compared this explosion with past power plant explosions in the Unova area, and found that the scale, speed, and intensity of this explosion were extremely rapid. Normally, power plants should be equipped with means to prevent explosions. , but these measures had no effect at all in this explosion."
"Well, very keen. The magnitude of this explosion is far greater than before. It is not like an ordinary accident. This will also be the focus of our subsequent investigation." Hugo nodded.
"Could it be someone's deliberate sabotage?" Bilan took the initiative to guess, "If someone familiar with the inside of the factory deliberately set up explosives, it should be able to cause the current effect."
"Man-made sabotage?" The detective touched his chin and looked at the documents in his hand seriously, "But will deliberately sabotaging a power plant bring any benefits to the prisoner?"
Bilan thought for a while and said: "Maybe it's to express hatred or express extreme opinions? Isn't that what the Plasma team often does?"
"The Plasma Group is indeed notorious, but this is even more wrong. Don't forget who our client is."
"Ah, that's true. If this is the work of Plasma Group, the young leader will more or less hear about it..."
The assistant lady looked puzzled. Besides Plasma Group, who else in the Hezhong area would launch such a crazy terrorist attack?
After thinking for a long time to no avail, the girl changed her mind——
"By the way Hugo, there is one more doubt."
"Are you talking about the factory director William who is highly suspected by the police?" The detective looked up at the assistant and guessed the other person's thoughts sharply.
Bilan nodded generously: "Yes, although the power plant director's performance in evacuating his employees in time was excellent and saved everyone's lives, how did he detect the signs of an impending explosion?"
"He may know some inside information. But you have to know that even the police can't pry that information out of his mouth. As amateur detectives, it may be even harder for us to do this."
Hugo spread his hands and turned the document to a certain page. On it was the call record with Douzi, and continued——
"The only information left is the information provided to us by Mr. N. He said that this was the eyewitness testimony told to him by the bean pigeons flying in the sky - at the scene of the explosion, there were seventy-one elves in the entire power plant. All died, and their broken bodies were located in the deep pit at the center of the explosion, and were disposed of by the police afterwards - this is something that did not appear in the report."
"I don't know whether I should accept this testimony." The assistant lady was a little confused. "It's not just a matter of the source of the intelligence, this is also a subversive clue. If you believe this clue, the whole picture of the bombing will completely change. The casualties are much more serious than the official reports, and the behavior of everyone in Liyong City has become weird...could there be a shady story that even the local police had to take the initiative to cover up?"
"Well... such a huge scandal occurred that the whole city had to use a tragic and complete explosion to cover up all the truth - this possibility is not impossible."
The detective rubbed his chin and thought——
"If this is a scandal within the alliance, it's no wonder that His Royal Highness the Prince of the Plasma Group is so interested in it."
"Then do we still want to participate in this investigation? Isn't the Plasma Corps our enemy?"
The surrounding passengers who were led to the deck by the Roaring Whale King gradually returned to the cabin. Bilan looked around and asked in a low voice.
"Of course." The detective leaned back in his chair, folded the case information in half casually, closed his eyes leisurely, but his tone was decisive——
"I have always believed that only by letting all the truth come to light and exposing the wounds to the air can the wounds finally heal. Plasmas are not created out of thin air. If we clear away their overgrown branches and leaves on one side, they will continue to breed on the other. If the soil is watered and fertilized, Hezhong's problem will never be completely solved. And ah, Bilan——"
The detective assistant who was listening intently was startled when he suddenly heard his name.
Hugo looked like a hunter chasing his prey, his gray eyes hard and focused, like two steel needles that could pierce people's hearts. Just listen to him facing me, with a smile on his lips and said——
"We are detectives, and it is not too late to decide on the follow-up arrangements of the case until we find out the truth - we still don't know what the answer to this confusing case is."
