Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 180 The Never-Ending Smoke

In the apartment building of the 45th parish, the old man and the young man were enduring every minute of agonizing time, waiting for Aya to break the incredibly tense situation.

At the Chengnan Law Enforcement Office, Milo finally had a relatively quiet period of time.

It's getting close to evening now.

Slacking off is always more comfortable than investigating cases.

However, as one of the only two remaining members of the criminal investigation team in the south, whenever Milo appears in the office in a relatively relaxed state, colleagues from various departments will soon come to him with documents to check and sign. These are documents that he has been neglecting to sign, including weapons transfer procedures, file transfer procedures, and some information about his personal accounts.

This is why Theon tries to avoid staying in the office; the law enforcement officers have become accustomed to his frequent disappearances.

Milo looked at the pile of scattered forms on his desk, and his head began to throb slightly.

At that moment, Eric's shadow suddenly appeared on the chair opposite Milo's desk.

He turned to the side and gestured, "The paperwork can be left to Henry."

Milo glanced around the office, his gaze finally settling on a small, bespectacled figure in the corner.

The latter patted Milo on the chest, the unspoken message being, "Leave it to me."

...

"Wait, so you mean that even though you're in a non-physical shadow state, you can still interact with things in the real world, is that right...? Oh, I guess that's true." Milo recalled how Ethan Field died and felt that he had asked a rather stupid question.

The next second, the pen on his desk automatically detached from its cap, the stacked forms began to flip automatically, and the pen tip quickly wrote where a signature was required.

"So the office door being opened and closed repeatedly was your doing, right?"

Milo glanced at Henry's slanted shadow on the desk, then at the pen standing upright, and quickly got up to close the office door.

Chief Eric nodded and gestured, “After we realized you could see us, we’ve been trying to make some noise to get your attention.”

"Then why not just do it like this, find a pen, and write down what you want to say to me right here?" Milo was a little puzzled. Why was he having so much fun with the door when he had nothing better to do?

“Because we couldn’t do this before.” Eric shook his head—“Pushing the door open was the biggest commotion we could make before, and it took seven people to push that door open.”

“Let me imagine it.” Milo squinted, roughly picturing seven grown men struggling to push open the office door, then nodded: “It’s quite comical. So when did you realize that you could do anything besides pushing open doors?”

Eric shook his finger – “After you put on the ring.”

Milo seemed to be deep in thought.

He quickly pulled out the document that Enid had prepared for him.

Ethan Field did not mention this, but from the perspective of the final totem alone, Milo seems to be able to verify this in a strange way.

This is the script of an ancient civilization, and this single script encompasses a vast amount of content that is beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Milo does not believe that he has completely grasped all its meanings; he still needs to continue learning.

The point Eric made is important right now, as it shows that the exiles' ability to act is subject to the medium.

The bronze ring is the medium, and Milo is equivalent to amplifying the function of this medium.

The closer the connection between Exile and the real world becomes, the more significant the impact the group of seven can have on the real world. Writing with pen and paper is a significant improvement over before, but it is by no means the limit.

……

This explains why, at the entrance to the law enforcement office, Maggie Green's shadow could only frantically gesture in sign language to urge Joey to escape, but couldn't push him away from the assassin's line of fire. However, when her bronze ring was in Milo's possession, she was able to strangle Ethan Field with her own hands.

It now appears that Milo, the psychic, provided Maggie Green with the power to kill. That makes perfect sense.

According to the Scarlet Witch, vision is the most direct factor in determining whether a creature is noble or not. It contains an incredibly profound and complex system of knowledge. Above the spectator, there are countless paths to take, and the forms of power it manifests are equally varied.

Currently, the pen on Milo's desk that can automatically make shoes can be understood as a manifestation of the power of a psychic.

……

"I want to ask a question."

Milo suddenly said:
"From your own perspective, do you have any physical sensations, like hunger, pain, or the like?"

“Not yet,” Eric replied. “At the beginning, it was a void, a blank. It took us a long time to gradually figure out how to receive information from the real world through the medium. But if we do too much of certain activities, such as pushing the door panel or being too far away from the bronze ring, we will have a feeling of weakness. That’s the only way to describe it. It’s not quite the same as the weakness that normal people are aware of, but the result is the same: eventually we will lose consciousness, or in short, fall asleep.”

Eric tried his best to describe it, but his perception of the world of exile was still somewhat vague because it was a completely unfamiliar concept that was difficult to express clearly through sign language.

“So strictly speaking, he’s not addicted to smoking,” Milo said, pointing to Will, the chain smoker by the windowsill.

The latter had been lying there smoking ever since he returned to the office, without stopping for a moment.

Having been inexplicably called out by Milo, he shrugged and muttered a few words to Eric.

Eric conveyed the message in sign language: "He said that nicotine addiction is etched into the soul, not the body."

"So, does he have an endless supply of cigarettes?" Milo muttered as he asked.

Will, who doesn't understand sign language, kept nodding at Milo.

Milo: "Old Theon would probably love to be banished."

So everyone in the office started nodding.

Eric gestured – “They said they’d lock Theon up somewhere soon.”

“They’re really as close as brothers.” Milo shook his head.

……

bang...

The office door was suddenly pushed open.

With lightning speed, Milo slammed the pen, which was writing in mid-air, down onto the table.

"Next time, could you please knock on the door first? What if I'm doing something bad, then you'll know everything?"

He glanced at the law enforcement officer outside the door with annoyance.

The latter responded calmly:

"A new case, the complainant claims... claims he is your good father."

Milo rolled his eyes.

He could figure out who this wonderful father was even with his own eyes closed.

(End of this chapter)