fog city detective

Chapter 55 Birthday

Shortly after lunch, the service team hired by Poppy arrived, and they set out to decorate the house as much as possible for the birthday.Tables, chairs, and dining tables are set up on the large grass in the front yard, with snacks, desserts, iced drinks, and a chef preparing a BBQ marinade.The pomp and glamour attracted idle acquaintances in the community, and everyone quickly regarded it as a lively social place, with some playing poker and others playing chess.For a time, Mary's house and neighbor lawn were very lively.

Mary has a cheerful personality, and she will not refuse anyone who comes.Because of Bobby's takeover, the service company dispatched additional staff and food to the scene to serve according to the number of guests.Mary's only concern is that it's not a good idea, and that it's costing Poppy a lot of money, and she hasn't seen Poppy yet.Liang Xi persuaded Mary that this guy was poor only with money.In fact, Liang Xi knew that Poppy was here to give himself face, and secondly, to give himself face.Poppy just wanted to create the pomp of the emperor's tour, and he could shake the mountain wherever he went.After all, the effect of money is more obvious than showing one's IQ and kindness, and it will not deceive people.

The big cake appeared in the hustle and bustle, and the huge seven-story cake was brought into the living room. Liang Xi silently glanced at the cake he made in the kitchen, and now he wanted to beat someone.Damn Golden Retriever, he managed all the topics of today's birthday with one penny. Even Mary became a supporting role, and he was reduced to a trick, and he didn't even have more than three lines.

After the cake, it was Mark, who gave a bouquet of flowers and hugged Mary, who was obviously familiar with Mary.Mary specially asked Liang Si, who was reading in the study on the second floor, to greet Mark.Not for any other reason, because Mark is the only friend of John's life who has arrived so far.

Mark did not conceal his identity. When Liang Xi explained that he had inherited the Rose Detective Agency and asked about his work, he said frankly, "Head of operations of the five divisions." In fact, he still concealed it. To be precise, he was the head of special operations of the five divisions.

John once talked to Liang Xi about the five divisions. There are six directors in the five divisions, and each is responsible for one area of ​​affairs, such as anti-national terrorism, anti-Northern Ireland and domestic terrorist attacks.Each director of operations has its own team under the direct jurisdiction of each director.The director of special operations is different.In the early [-]s, the Fifth Division underwent a major overhaul and became a domestic intelligence agency similar to the FBI, but without criminal investigation and arrest powers.The Special Operations Office has continued the traditional five-part style. In short, it is a secret operations office that is not under the leadership of the government.

For example, there are terrorists who are preparing to do bad things in London. Under normal circumstances, the five divisions are responsible for collecting intelligence, analyzing it, and handing it over to the police and other relevant agencies for processing.The Special Operations Office can take direct action against terrorists without approval and without the consent and assistance of other judicial agencies.

Mark and Liang Xi talked about John's case, which sounded very real, but in fact they were side-by-side.Mark said: "Not long ago, the police arrested a kidnapper in the villa village. It was confirmed that he was a French policeman. We suspect that there is a direct connection with a criminal gang with a changing name. We call this criminal gang Chameleon, the reason Every time they act, they change the codenames of everyone involved."

Liang Xi asked, "Do you think they are related to John?"

Mark did not deny it: "From our intelligence, we found that John seemed to be investigating something during his lifetime. Comprehensive intelligence found that only the Chameleon gang was the most eye-catching during this period."

Mark already knew that it was Poppy's bodyguard who had raided the villa and rescued the hostages from the gangsters.Contact Liang Xi Huyoubo to investigate the distribution warehouse incident, and there is reason to suspect that Liang Xi is using Bobby who is doing nothing.But to Mark's surprise, Poppy's father rejected Mark's offer to stop Poppy.He told Mark that he had no right to interfere with Poppy making friends, and that if Poppy broke the law, he could be arrested directly.

Without evidence, and with Clement's group of lawyers, Mark definitely didn't want to cause trouble.It happened that one of Poppy's bodyguards was a comrade-in-arms of Mark's subordinates, and he learned from his subordinates that it was Liang Xi who asked Poppy to lead people to raid the villa.As for the warehouse, he is not clear, he is only responsible for carrying out the orders of the bodyguard chief.Under the questioning of Mark's subordinate, the bodyguard told Mark's subordinate that even if he knew something, he would not tell Mark's subordinate, because he did not want to lose this very lucrative job.

The bodyguard speaks very skillfully, and he has already pushed the work of Bobby onto Liang Xi.Liang Xi can be finished, he must protect his boss, Bobby.In the end, Mark came to a conclusion that deviates from the facts: Liang Xi deceived Poppy and used Poppy's resources and money to do bad things for himself.

To Mark's surprise, Liang Xi was not very interested in the Chameleon gang. It seemed that Liang Xi had confirmed that Chameleon had nothing to do with John's murder.Mark asked tentatively, "Do you think Chameleon has nothing to do with John's murder?"

Liang Xi replied: "As far as I know, a criminal gang will not let John hide from me and Mary to investigate secretly. John is too early to be interested in criminal gangs. The person who can make retired John go out should be John's. Old friend. From the information from the investigation of John's murder scene, I think the murderer is very likely to be a big man, a big man who has a thug."

Mark asked, "Who would that be?"

Liang Xi explained: "The first one may be the bigwigs of the judiciary, who have the resources in this area. The second one may be rich people, for example, I have a friend whose bodyguards are well-paid, so his bodyguards I don't care about helping him do something bad. The third possibility is someone with power. No matter what power, if you have power, you are a big man. The so-called Matthew who met John should not be the mastermind, but an aide beside the big man, dogleg people like that."

Liang Xidao: "From the degree of their secrecy, it can be seen that the big man is definitely doing bad things. If John does bad things for others, the relationship must be very strong, and even the relationship between life and death may let John do bad things for him. John's life and death relationship I know exactly who they are, and I've ruled them out. There's only one other situation where the relationship is good, but it's not good enough to have John do bad things for him."

Liang Xi said: "Why would John help him? Because what a big man did might not be a bad thing. No, let's put it this way, it's nothing for me to do this kind of thing as a commoner. When a big man does this kind of thing, it's a big thing. So I guess it has something to do with morality and women. If my guess is right, the big man must be a powerful person in the face.” For example, what Clinton did is considered a fart for the common people, but because he is the president, it is A scandal that shocked the world.John would help a friend investigate such a bad thing that wasn't a bad thing.

Liang Xi said, Mark's palms sweated, this little thing is a monster.He deduced step by step from what he knew about John, and speculated about the general information behind the culprit.Liang Xi not only speculated on the big man, but also probably speculated on the scandal of the big man.

Mark faced the judgment, is Liang Xi really capable of this?Or was it because Liang Xi was employed by a big man and had additional information to draw this conjecture?Mark is more willing to believe that it is the former, Liang Xi may really have such ability, the reason is that John has such ability.Compared with John's city, Liang Xi's desire to attack is stronger, his analysis is bolder, and his sharp edge is like an unsheathed blade. He is a very dangerous person.

A very dangerous person must first have dangerous qualifications, and a person who is incompetent cannot become a dangerous person no matter how bold and thoughtful they are.

"Yeah!" Mark answered the phone, and after listening for a while, he answered neither lightly nor seriously: "I'll go right over."

(End of this chapter)