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Liang Xi: "Why me?"

Baker: "Because we all drank."

Liang Xi pressed his left forehead with one hand to ease the pain, and held his phone in the other: "I drank too."

Baker: "You went down at one o'clock yesterday afternoon and only had five beers in total."

Liang Xi closed his eyes and calculated that for a normal person to metabolize a bottle of beer in three hours, five bottles would be 15 hours.Around four in the morning, my alcohol metabolism was basically exhausted.But why does my head still hurt so much?

Baker: "My sister, the surgeon."

Liang Xi: "Name."

Baker: "Well...I think about it, I haven't seen her in two years. Her name is coffee..."

Liang Xi admired Baker's parents and gave him a thumbs up.

"No." Unlike Liang Xi, who was killed at half-time, Baker and the others played for four games and drank until two in the morning this morning.Baker couldn't remember his sister's name for a while, and his voice was blurred: "I'm related to coffee, I call her coffee beans."

A relative of coffee?Liang Xi tentatively asked, "Could it be Coco?"

"That's right, detective, awesome. Her name is Karin."

Which is right?You should have shot him in the leg.

After hanging up the phone, Liang Xi first determined his position, took the bus back to his residence, took a shower and changed his clothes, and after eating a packet of acamol powder, the headache stopped immediately.Go downstairs and drive the Beetle to the airport.

Even if he made friends, he gained certain resources and gained a certain amount of trust from Liu Zhen's team.Maybe it doesn't help Liang Xi's purpose of finding the truth about John's murder, maybe it helps.In any case, Baker and the others are not bad people, and it would not be a bad thing to have more friends like this.

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A black-haired woman walked out of the airport steadily with a little luggage. She kept looking for faces in the pick-up crowd. Then she saw Liang Xi, and then looked at the sign on Liang Xi's hand.That's right, she looked at Liang Xi first.Liang Xi also discovered this, maybe this is the charm... or it may be self-indulgent, people just read the cards.

The black-haired woman is 1.7 meters tall. Although she is wearing a loose and comfortable sweater, it can be seen that she has long legs and a good figure.Unlike Baker, Baker is blonde and the brunette is brunette.Baker has black eyes, and the brunette has blue eyes.Baker is pure Caucasian and the brunette is of mixed race.The woman has an obvious Caucasian body shape and appearance, but there is also a hint of Asian delicacy between her eyebrows and eyes.The most obvious thing is that her skin is relatively delicate, which is very different from the rough skin of the Caucasian race.

Liang Xi can only think that he is handsome and attractive.Because according to his detective's judgment, in the case of confirming that Baker is not a mixed race, this black-haired beauty is absolutely impossible to be Baker's sister.

The black-haired woman walked towards Liang Xi. Liang Xi hesitated, should she give her a phone number?Give me the phone number, I can't support myself now.It seems too cruel to not give the phone number.The best solution is for this black-haired beauty to give herself [-] million first, and then she will be her girlfriend. She is moved by her true feelings and has to reluctantly.

The detective's mind jumped fast and he thought a lot. With just a few steps, Liang Xi had already started to calculate the probability of divorce.Black-haired woman: "Where's my brother?"

The voice is clear, and you should avoid alcohol, cigarettes, and spicy food every day.

"Ah?" Liang Xi returned to God: "Karin?"

"Yeah." Karin glanced at Liang Xi with a deep look.

Liang Xi hurriedly said, "Baker has drunk too much. The car is here. I'll help you with your luggage."

Karin: "No, thank you."

Liang Xihe smiled to resolve his embarrassment, and walked towards the Beetle with Karin, saying, "Karin, have we met? It always feels a little familiar."

Karin asked back, "Have you had neurosurgery in France?"

Liang Xi: "No."

Karin: "I haven't seen it."

Unlike Baker's heroic character, Karin is taciturn, but she always answers questions, her attitude is average, and she can't tell whether it's good or bad.Liang Xi felt that Karin and Baker should be two types of people.Karin is very rational in speaking and other aspects, and it is difficult to guess and infer what she is thinking through her expressions.There are usually several types of such people.

Category [-]: Specially trained agents.Baker has denied this.

The second category: lack of love, lack of parental care since childhood, relatives who do not care, and indifferent personality.

The third category: atypical doctors.Life and death are accustomed to daily work.Healing the patient at the beginning can bring joy, and the death of the patient can bring loneliness.Later, I saw a lot of joys and sorrows of life and death. I saw the world from the patients and their families, and slowly closed my heart.However, judging from her age, the best situation for Karin, who is around 25 years old, is just after her internship period, and she started the main surgery, so she would not have such a state of mind.

The fourth category: professional poker players, it goes without saying.

The fifth category: people who have not come out of major mental blows such as broken love, widowhood, and the death of children.

Category [-]: Rare innate emotional deficits.

Category [-]: Cold and arrogant.Usually she is a beautiful woman, with many suitors around her, no close female friends around her, and looks down on people of Liang Xi's level, so she is just a simple polite response to Liang Xi.

During the conversation with Karin in the car, Liang Xi guessed that one of the points was right. Baker was not of mixed blood, but Karin was of mixed blood.They are half-siblings.But Liang Xi couldn't figure out the second point, which was the origin of Karin's slightly different attitude.Liang Xi was very willing to choose an agent, because when communicating with Karin, Karin showed some attitudes that were not used to chatting at home, and vaguely restrained her way of speaking.However, this can be explained by the medical profession.

Liang Xi felt that Karin should be a hybrid.Lack of love, atypical doctors and suffering a major mental blow.Likely to be excluded from the group in childhood or at some point.

While chatting, driving, and brainstorming, Liang Xi never got an answer that would satisfy him.

It's not because she fell in love with Karin at first sight that she speculates on Karin, this is Liang Xi's professional habit.Well, although the career hasn't made money yet, the habit has been cultivated by John.The biggest difference between humans and animals is the ability to think complex.Don't let your mind stop.Think of the weather changes over the next few hours from the clouds.Judging the other's occupation from the clothes, even a passerby, as long as your mind is free, you should observe, judge, speculate and think.

Chapter 24 Dunes

Karin didn't go to Baker's house, she made a reservation at a hotel.Liang Xi inquired and learned that Karin declined to stay after completing her internship in a hospital in Paris, France. After returning to London, she will work at the Maria Hospital in London.She does not need to sit in the clinic, she will serve as a neurology technical consultant to assist the hospital in dealing with difficult diseases related to neurology.

When approaching the hotel, Karin spoke a little more and introduced the neurology department.Many procedures, from spinal taps for diagnosis to treatment, involve nerves.Liang Xi didn't understand much, but he could understand a little bit. One thing he was sure about was that Karin was a good doctor, better than himself anyway.

Parking at the entrance of the hotel, Liang Si got out of the car and opened the trunk, and Karin picked up the suitcase first.Karin also noticed Liang Xi's movement of holding the suitcase, Karin tried her best to have a polite smile: "Thank you."

Liang Xi resolved the embarrassment with a smile: "Goodbye." I always feel that I have seen Karin before, but I have no impression of Karin's voice.

Karin nodded, both of them had a social etiquette trouble, and no one turned their heads and left first.This embarrassment is very detailed.This etiquette was not needed originally, but when two people show this etiquette, whoever turns around first will feel inappropriate.Just like hanging up the phone, some professional staff will habitually wait for customers to hang up.In most cases, the callee will hang up first.But in a few cases, there will be the embarrassment of waiting for the other party to hang up first.

Both of them thought of this question and couldn't help but smile at each other. Liang Xi nodded in greeting and turned to leave and get into the car.Got electrocuted!The most terrifying thing is the big beauty's smile, full of electricity.However, Liang Xi was not electrocuted once, twice or three times. He was often electrocuted.In fact, encountering beautiful women on the street, stunning glances often make people excited, and then it has nothing to do with Liang Xi.

All this is poor, so poor that Liang Xi has no confidence to ask girls.

Of course, Liang Xi is also someone who has been in love.In middle school, he had two girlfriends.It's a pity that he didn't know the world at that time, and because he was too smart, he always saw through and exposed the girl's kind or unkind lies.When the second girlfriend broke up with Liang Xi, she said to Liang Xi that she liked Liang Xi very much, but as she was excellent in all aspects, she actually developed a sense of inferiority in love.She could no longer bear Liang Xi's insight into everything, crushing her to a life without any private space.

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Karin entered the guest room, where an old man with gray hair and beard was already waiting for her.Karin walked over, picked up the information bag on the table, opened it, and pulled out the documents inside: "The five places will find trouble." The fifth place is MI5, in charge of domestic security affairs.

The old man did not answer the question, saying: "Three months have passed, and there is no progress in the five places."

Karin: "Operation Dune?"

The old man said: "Maria Hospital is the best private hospital in London and one of the best private hospitals in Europe. It has the most advanced examination equipment and the most professional doctors. Seventy percent of the rich, powerful and politicians in the UK prefer Maria for medical treatment. Hospital. We don't know who Angela has been in contact with, who has been wooed, and what information has been stolen from whom, but we know that Angela has built a resource bank and handed it over to her accomplices."

Karin said: "Didn't the list chips have been obtained from the five places three months ago?"

The old man replied: "There are only lists in the chip, fifty lists. We don't know how many people Angela controls? How much information do we know? How many people are now being beaten by terrorists?"

Karin asked, "Who found out that Angela was a terrorist?"

The old man replied, "John."

Karin asked, "What about the others?"

The old man replied: "He was killed shortly after the chip incident. The person who hired John to investigate Angela was probably the one who killed John. This must be a big man. There is reason to suspect that the big man was beaten or lost something very important. Will ask retired John to help him."

Karin asked, "What is my job?"

The old man replied: "Angela's body was donated to the medical school for dissection and research work. Ten days ago, a medical professor discovered that Angela was carrying a rare infectious disease, a latent infectious disease that can only be transmitted through love. The maximum incubation period is five years. This disease is named pn2, and has been notified to the health departments of European countries. The symptoms of the disease are similar to many common diseases, such as colds, coughs, blood in the urine, etc. People on the 50-person list will get sick one after another , the condition recurs, and the typical symptoms of pn2 will appear. The treatment is also very simple."

The old man took out a capsule from his pocket and put it on the table: "You can inject it after it has melted, take it directly, or take medicine powder."

Karin was very smart and said: "I understand that we are going to poison fifty suspects one after another and force them to go to the hospital. Because of the spread of information, these people should know that Angela has this infectious disease, and the doctor may also ask questions. Whether they have been in love with the original pathogen Angela. In order to obtain accurate treatment, for the sake of life, for the health of their families and lovers, they will confess to the doctor that they have contact with the pn2 patient. After obtaining the information, I will make the patient take the medicine in time. Take the antidote."

The old man neither denied nor affirmed: "There are executives from MI50 or even MI5 among the 6 people, which is also the main reason for transferring you back to London. The only people you can trust are me and Mark, the director of MI5. I don't care what you do, there are Master the two principles yourself. You cannot cause death, and even if it does, you cannot allow the body to be dissected. In theory, you are just a doctor, and you will only help when there is trouble with Mark, understand?"

Karin put the information on the table: "Some people would rather die than tell the truth."

Old man: "But their assistants, secretaries, and staff don't want to watch their boss die. People who have money and power have no ability to fall in love alone and privately."

Karin asked, "So I'm a doctor every day?"

The old man replied: "Consultant, neurological consultant, involved in diagnosis, but not directly involved in treatment. Your medical level is sufficient for this position."

Karin nodded, the old man stood up and walked to the door, saying, "You and your brother Baker haven't seen each other for a long time, haven't you?"

Karin: "Two years."

The old man said: "Family is the most precious wealth, and you can have more time together when you return to London. By the way, Baker captured a British fan king in the early hours of yesterday. He may be selected for a new anti-terrorism team that MI5 is forming. department."

Karin said: "No. Baker has good tactical skills, but he's just a rough man."

The old man said, "I read the transcript. Under the circumstance of protecting the translator, Baker saw through the gangster's escape trick, sneaked into the gallery alone to capture the gangster, and also used his body to protect the hostages."

Karin: "Baker's transcript?"

The old man replied, "Translation and hostage notes."

Karin disagreed: "They should go to an ophthalmologist. I know Baker best, and I will never think about things that can move my brain."

The old man said: "I think you have misunderstood Baker. The hostage records show that there were three people at the time, she, the translator and Baker. The translator was not only a coward, but also an idiot, and nearly killed the hostage. Baker not only subdued the gangster, but also saved the The hostages die."

Karin was surprised: "I haven't seen you for two years, Baker is already so good."

The old man said: "Karin, take this job as a vacation, take it easy. I hope my subordinates are people, not cold machines. Be bold and feel free to date boys, girls can too."

Karin said: "I like Martians."

"Haha." The old man laughed, put on his coat, and picked up his hat: "I have one thing to remind you. Over the past year, a group of very professional gangsters have appeared in Europe to solve problems for the rich. Sometimes they use birds Their names are used as code names, sometimes the names of flowers are used as code names, and sometimes the names of scientists are used as code names. They are professional, vicious, and have extensive information. They are currently the focus of police investigations in European countries. If you have this information, you can let Mark know. ."

Karin: "Okay."

Chapter 25 The Battle of the Haunted House

Liu Zhen was very interesting. When reporting the time, he filled in the full amount of 24 hours for Liang Xi, and also called in person to apologize.Liu Zhen told Liang Xi that Wang Shuang was a very important criminal, but unfortunately he did not have a bounty and could not give Liang Xi additional remuneration.

This call made Liang Xi think of a job that can not only open a detective agency, but also engage in a detective career that he is interested in, as well as guarantee his quality of life: offering a reward.

Due to the limited manpower and material resources, it was impossible for Liang Xi to trace the old cases.However, no matter how new the case is, it has become an old case from the police taking over to the funding of the reward.The reward that Liang Xi mentioned refers to the reward that the information was not accepted by the police and the case was not filed, and it was suspected that the victim's family had paid for it.Most of these rewards are for finding evidence of a case, which is posted on the police website with the help of the police.Also because they were just looking for evidence for filing a case, the amount of reward offered was very low, with a maximum of £[-].

However, this official reward page is the favorite place for detective fans, because you can see the general situation of the case by clicking on each reward offer.Someone created a detective community specifically for the reward network, inviting detective enthusiasts to discuss cases together.The most famous of them is Baker United, which is composed of more than 20 amateur detectives in the UK, and successfully helped the families of 12 prospective victims to file a case within three years.The reason why it is called Baker United is because they are all Sherlock Holmes fans without exception. The Sherlock Holmes Detective Agency is on Baker Street, so their joint team is called Baker United.

Three years, more than 20 people, and twelve cases were filed, which already shows the difficulty of offering rewards.

Case [-]: A's shoulder bag was lost. She thought that her bag had fallen into a makeup shop and was taken by the owner and clerk.After the police took notes, obtained surveillance, and questioned the suspect, there was no further result. After obtaining permission from the police, A posted his situation on the reward website to collect clues and witnesses.If it can be proved that he brought a satchel before shopping and lost his satchel after shopping, he can get [-] pounds if the case is successfully filed.If you can get theft leads, you can get a thousand pounds.If you can provide evidence against the thief, you can get £[-].

This case requires personnel to conduct a large number of visits to the streets and ask for information on various businesses.And once the case time exceeds three days, everyone's memory will become blurred, and it is almost impossible to win a reward under normal channels.Unless there is a way to find the stolen bag, step by step to check back to find the thief.

Case [-]: A middle school student suffered an eye injury, claiming to be beaten by some classmates.Several classmates denied the accusations, and the police did not have any evidence or clues to rule out the possibility that the middle school students would testify indiscriminately.In order to relieve the child's gas and medical expenses, the child's father offered a reward of [-] pounds.

No matter how easy or not easy, Yuan Wang never takes orders from the children.Because the children are so cute, so cute that Yuan Wang doesn't want to see them, let alone deal with them.

Looking all the way, Liang Xi found that either he could not do it alone, or someone had already done it.There are so many people doing nothing in London, it seems that there are still stalls to be set up on weekends.

When Liang Xi was about to close the page, he was attracted by a case.

The title is Ghost. After clicking on it, there is only one sentence in it. The owner claims to be infested by ghosts and seeks the help of psychics, and he must be grateful.There must be a sentence of heavy thanks that is enough to drive away more than half of the people.Similar to the farce of looking for a dog to send a house. After finding the dog, the owner claimed that someone pretended to be himself to publish information. Anyway, it is impossible to give the house. The dog has been found, and the house will not be given to you. What can you do?Therefore, the reward without the stated amount is considered a hooligan in the eyes of many people.

People and things involving psychics, ghosts, are sometimes very complex, sometimes extremely simple.What made Liang Xi interested was that the police actually put the psychic incident on the bounty net, which shows that the police have carried out a certain understanding and investigation.Because there are certain facts, the police cannot rule out the possibility of ghosts, but there is no correct answer.

Liang Xi dialed the phone number, and the person who answered the phone claimed to be Yali, a real estate agent.On the phone, Ari briefly explained the situation of the house.

Lily is 27 years old, a single beauty, and a private manager.Starting two months ago, Lily, who fell asleep at night, always felt that someone had invaded her room.Lily called the police twice, but the police did not find any clues and evidence to prove the existence of the intruder. The police persuaded Lily to see a psychiatrist.With the advice and help of friends, Lily purchased and installed indoor surveillance.

For the next week, Lily slept very well.But a week later, Lily felt that someone had invaded her house again in her sleep.Lily called the police again, and the police dispatched detectives to conduct a more comprehensive investigation, ruling out the suspicions that Lily raised several suspects.After the fourth call, the police forced a urine test on Lily and found the ingredients of marijuana.

The UK is under semi-legal control of cannabis, as long as you don't sell it or use it in front of the police, it's usually ignored.The police released Lily after warning her, and put Lily on the police blacklist.If Lily calls the police, there will still be police officers, but not only will there be no special personnel to investigate, Lily may even be charged with obstruction of justice.

Unbearable Lily threw the house to the real estate agent and temporarily lived in a friend's house.In principle, the bounty is no longer valid, but the real estate agent has played a language game that must be thankful. He hopes that someone can solve the ghost problem so that the house can be sold normally.

"I'm a psychic," Liang Xi told the real estate agent.

A real estate agent doesn't care if you are a psychic medium or not. If you do something, they will give you a few dollars, and if you can't do something, they will not give you money.Liang Xi drove over to meet with the real estate agent. The real estate agent introduced the situation and promoted the houses he had mastered.In the end, it was assessed that Liang Xi did not have the ability to buy a house, so he gave the key to Liang Xi and asked Liang Xi to go to the haunted house to investigate the case.When they were separated, the real estate agent told Liang Xi that the haunted house was now [-]% off, so Liang Xi could think about it.

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The haunted house is on Vail Street, on the fringes of London.The house is a three-storey villa, built along the road, without a front yard, but with a large back yard.Neatly planted shrubs, trees and other greenery separate neighbors.The architecture of each house has its own characteristics, and you can find popular styles of buildings from pre-World War II to this year in the residential area of ​​Vail Street.

The target haunted house was built in the 80s and is the legacy of Lily's grandfather.No matter from the perspective of the environment, or from the emotional point of view, or Lily's financial situation introduced by the real estate agent, Lily's idea of ​​selling the haunted house cannot be understood.Judging from this, Liang Xi thinks that Lily and the real estate agent should not have lied. There are really ghosts in the haunted house, at least Lily thinks so.

Chapter 26 The Battle of the Haunted House

Liang Xi parked on the side of the road, turned the key, circled the house, and unlocked the front door to enter the house.

The house is empty except for built-in furniture, and the nails, sockets and drill holes left in the walls can be seen at a glance.Liang Xi looked up at a thread on the top side of the door. The thread was not covered with electrical tape. It should be the thread left after the removal of the monitor that Lily had previously installed.After walking a few steps on the first floor, Liang Xi saw another thread.After walking down the first floor, Liang Xi found at least five threads.

Judging from this, Lily couldn't bear this house.When she called the police several times and determined that her home had been invaded, she did not choose to escape, but hoped to prove herself through monitoring.From psychiatry anything is possible, to detectives, a brave woman is not prone to hallucinations.Is it really the cause of Xiaoma?If it's because of Xiaoma, Lily should stop using Xiaoma, why does she still think her home has been invaded later?

The stairs are in the living room. Liang Xi went upstairs and found that the top of the stairs had also been installed with surveillance cameras.

There is an open space of [-] square meters at the entrance of the stairs on the second floor, which is Lily's personal activity center.At this time, the sofa and other furniture on the second floor have all been emptied.In the large empty space, a young man with black hair and blue eyes sat cross-legged in the middle, palms up, eyes closed, like a meditating monk.

"Fuck!"

Even meeting a ghost will not scare Liang Xi.Liang Xi surveyed outside the house and on the first floor, mentally confirming that there was no one else in the house.Suddenly such a silly bird appeared in such a silly posture, making Liang Xi's heart skip a beat, and he couldn't help swearing swear words.