Wasteland Love Game

Chapter 241 235. Can only black tea do?
On the streets of Baker Street, the security guards of the Chaebol Federation are searching from house to house.

These soldiers were not given specific instructions, they were just wandering around like headless chickens.The purpose of Xu Qing's arrangement is to make them cause commotion and attract the attention of the public, while she herself takes the opportunity to sneak in and investigate.

He got an optical camouflage suit from Xu Group.As the name suggests, the special function of this set of equipment is to use optical camouflage technology to make the wearer almost invisible. It is a pre-test version that has not yet been released on the market.

Xu Qing opened the detection eyepiece and sneaked into one residential building after another to investigate.

Soon, he found a seemingly inconspicuous footprint on the stairs of a residential building, which seemed to be a mark left by stepping too hard.

"This clue. It's probably him!" Xu Qing took out a photo from the crime scene where the planner had been. After comparing it, he found that the shapes of the two footprints were almost the same, and he was basically sure that the planner had been there.

Using up to six points of inspiration, Xu Qing followed the clues all the way to the door of Formalin Detective Agency.

——The planning should be hiding here!

Xu Qing nodded secretly, her heartbeat gradually became much faster.

Of course, Xu Qing couldn't be so stupid as to barge in the door carelessly.He first used the thermal imaging eyepiece to investigate the situation behind the door. After confirming that there was no ambush, he took out a master key and quietly pried the door open.

"Kacha——" With a slight spring sound, the door of the office was easily opened.

Xu Qing repeatedly confirmed that there was no ambush at the door, and then tiptoed into the office's living room.

He glanced at the bread on the dining table and the cans of soda in the trash.

"The bread looks very fresh, and the undried drink in the can should have been taken out within three hours." Xu Qing checked these clues, and quietly deduced in her heart:

"In other words, there were people living here not long ago. It seems that the plan is here!"

Xu Qing investigated the living room again, and found a lot of traces of people living in it recently, even the sofa was still slightly warm.

Although the process of finding a plan seems a little too smooth, Xu Qing believes that all this is due to her excellent insight.

But since there was no one in the living room, the murderer must have been hiding in another room.Otherwise, with so many security guards on the street, it would be impossible for the murderer to escape without causing any disturbance.

Xu Qing turned on the thermal imaging detector and began to search through the walls for other rooms.

Sure enough, he scanned two figures in the direction of the bedroom, and the outlines were all women.

One of the women was standing at the window looking out, while the other was lying on the bed and sleeping.

"The professor's daughter should be inside." Xu Qing deduced:

"But I didn't see the plan, where is he hiding?"

Xu Qing searched around with a thermal imaging device, but found no trace of the man.

Seeing that no other breakthrough has been found so far, Xu Qing decided to monitor their every move first, and contact the security guards downstairs to surround them.

Ten seconds later, the woman standing at the window and looking out suddenly walked out of the bedroom.

Xu Qing quickly hid aside and held her breath to make sure that she would not be noticed by the other party.

At the same time, Xu Qing also put one hand on the energy pistol at his waist, just in case of accidents.

However, when the door opened and Xu Qing saw the real face of this woman, he became dumbfounded, and his heartbeat slowed down half a beat.

Long black hair, a well-proportioned figure, a light white long dress at home, and a face that made Xu Qing feel very familiar
"Chen Ruirui?!" Despite her excellent psychological quality, Xu Qing took a few steps back because she was too shocked, and couldn't help snorting.

What floated in front of his eyes was the face of the girl he saw in the amusement park on Valentine's Day.

There are too many doubts about this girl named Chen Ruirui, and she also left a deep impression on Xu Qing.

Xu Qing only knows that the girl entered the amusement park as a "friend" of her classmate Nayuta, but she has a particularly good relationship with Asouyoshi Chiyo.Other than that, everything about this girl seemed to be a mystery.

The search team did not find Chen Ruirui's body in the ruins of the underground boxing hall, but Xu Qing believed that Chen Ruirui probably died in the explosion of the underground boxing hall, and even the body was blown to pieces, so she did not investigate her further.

But what Xu Qing didn't expect was that Chen Ruirui, who was supposed to be killed that day, actually appeared in front of his eyes, and it was on such a special occasion.

"Who's there?!" The black-haired girl heard the movement, as if she had been frightened, she picked up a butter knife from the table next to her.

Seeing this situation, Xu Qing had no choice but to calm himself down, then turned off the optical camouflage mode to release the invisibility, and shouted:

"Calm down, don't act rashly!"

When Chen Ruirui saw the yellow-haired young man who appeared suddenly, she looked at him with a surprised expression, and then couldn't help but ask, "Who are you? Why did you break into a private house?"

"What, don't you know me? We met at the playground!" Xu Qing quickly made friends to calm the other party down.At the same time, he put one hand on the gun at his waist, alert to all possible dangers.

"I remember, it's Young Master Xu?" Chen Ruirui suddenly realized, and immediately asked with a complicated expression: "But why are you here?"

Xu Qing is a person with a very flexible mind, but the current situation has plunged him into complete confusion, and even made him forget his purpose of breaking into this detective agency.

He followed the traces left by the plan all the way, why did he meet this girl who was supposed to die on Valentine's Day?
Although Xu Qing's current inspiration is 6, he occasionally sees some strange visions.But he is a staunch materialist, and he doesn't believe in yin and yang ghosts, and he doesn't think it's Chen Ruirui's ghost who came to seek revenge on him.

Since Chen Ruirui appeared in such a place, it was definitely not a coincidence.Xu Qing even suspected that she had something to do with the planning, but there was no evidence right now, so he could only bury this bold conjecture in his heart.

"This is what I want to ask you, why are you here?" Faced with Chen Ruirui's questioning, Xu Qing simply asked in an anticlimactic manner.

"I am a tenant here, why can't I be here?" Chen Ruirui retorted confidently.

"Tenants?" Xu Qing raised her eyebrows and asked curiously:

"According to my investigation at the landlady's wife, the tenant of this apartment is a brown-haired young woman named 'Formalin'."

"I share a room with her! If I tell the landlord about moving in, she will charge me an extra 'property fee', so I didn't tell the landlord's wife!"

Chen Ruirui replied naturally.

Thanks to the bonus of the skill "Fraudster", she doesn't even frown when she tells a lie. Her eyes and expression are so lifelike that people can't see half of her acting skills, as if they are words from the heart.

"Hmph~ Is it a common way of saving money for common people?" Xu Qing accepted Chen Ruirui's rhetoric, and asked straightforwardly:

"Where is Formalin now?"

Although he wanted to ask about Valentine's Day and why Chen Ruirui survived, the most urgent task now is to catch the accomplice who planned it and him.

As for the secrets about Chen Ruirui, Xu Qing would naturally take him to the police station for interrogation afterwards.

"She is in the bedroom, but she is sleeping in it now." Chen Ruirui asked very cooperatively: "How about I wake her up?"

"When did Formalin come back?" Xu Qing asked suddenly.

"Probably yesterday morning~" Chen Ruirui tried hard to recall, and tapped her chin with her fingertips like peeling an onion: "A man sent her back."

"What does that man look like?" Xu Qing asked impatiently.

"I didn't look carefully, but it was a young man wearing glasses, who looked quite young." Chen Rui recalled.

Hearing these words, Xu Qing pinched the armrest of the sofa with her fingers excitedly, her heart skipped a beat.

——It’s right, everything is right!Whether it's the time or the man's appearance, everything is right!
Although many mysteries have not yet been solved, Xu Qing felt ecstasy in his heart.

"Formalin" is most likely an accomplice in the plot.Since she is in this room now, as long as she is caught, it means that she is one step closer to catching the plan.

——This time, I will definitely step by step and never let this damn plan escape my grasp!
Xu Qing took a deep breath and tried hard to restrain his excitement.

—Look well, father!I will definitely win the plan with my own hands and prove myself!

"Which room is Formalin in now?" Xu Qing asked with a pretended calm tone.

"Does Young Master Xu know her?" Chen Ruirui put her hips on her hips and asked angrily, "Why did you come to her and break into a private house?"

"I'm very sorry for the behavior of breaking into a private house just now." Xu Qing had to confess part of the situation and put pressure on Chen Ruirui:
"But I'm conducting an investigation on behalf of the Chaebol Federation, and we need Formalin to cooperate with our work. Can you take me to see her?"

"Did she commit something?" Chen Ruirui was a little nervous when she heard this.

"We just need her to cooperate with us in investigating some things. After all, she is a professional detective and we need her help."

In order to ease the girl's emotions, Xu Qing quickly lied and comforted her: "Can I see her now?"

"Then I'll bring some tea to Young Master Xu first, and I'll wake her up later." Chen Ruirui nodded, but first ran to the kitchen and took out the kettle and tea leaves:
"We only have black tea here, is that okay?"

Chen Ruirui thoughtfully poured a cup of hot water for Xu Qing, and put a black tea bag in it.

Watching the red color gradually dissipate from the black tea bag, the hot water is dyed reddish brown like a dye.Xu Qing frowned and said:

"I'm not thirsty, go and wake her up quickly."

Xu Qing is very contemptuous of this kind of low-quality tea bags that ordinary people drink, and only takes a few sips when dealing with ordinary people and has to give them face.

And Xu Qing wasn't sure if there was poison in this cup of black tea.Out of caution, he can't drink this unknown thing for the time being.

Seeing that Xu Qing didn't drink, Chen Ruirui picked up the teacup and drank the tea in it.

"I know ~ Eldest Young Master looks down on our cheap tea." Chen Ruirui puffed her cheeks and sighed angrily.

"I didn't, please don't be too sentimental!" Xu Qing was a little bit taken aback by the girl's blunt puncture of his thoughts, so he had to defend in a panic in order to dismiss the face.

However, seeing the girl drinking so calmly, Xu Qing dispelled the speculation of "black tea poisoning" and let go of her guard.

"Forget it, just sit on the sofa and wait, I'll go into the room to find her now." Chen Ruirui seemed too lazy to argue with Xu Qing on this topic, so she put down the teacup, turned and walked into the bedroom.

After Chen Ruirui walked into the bedroom, Xu Qing opened the thermal imaging eyepiece again and began to observe the situation inside.

At the same time, he also quietly contacted the security captain of the Chaebol Federation and ordered the guards to surround the apartment.

He saw the thermal imaging figure of the girl walk to the bed, and patted the thermal imaging figure lying on the bed.

The thermal imaging figure lying on the bed seemed to be woken up by Chen Ruirui, slowly got up from the bed, and then stabbed Chen Ruirui in the lower abdomen.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Qing heard Chen Ruirui screaming in pain in the bedroom.

"What's the situation?!" Xu Qing was completely confused by this sudden situation.

If what Chen Ruirui said is true, the person lying on the bed should be her roommate, why did she stab her suddenly?

For a moment, a possibility came to Xu Qing's mind.

Perhaps Chen Ruirui was not Formalin's roommate, but was coerced by Formalin and the planner, and was taken as a hostage or eyeliner.

This can also explain why Chen Ruirui took the initiative to disclose so much information to him, probably implying that she was coerced by the murderer of the incident in the central area and urgently needed to ask Xu Qing for help.

After brainstorming, Xu Qing took out his pistol and broke into the bedroom without saying a word.

He quickly scanned the room and found a brown-haired woman wearing a gas mask lying on the bed in the room.According to the information in memory, this woman is obviously the professor's daughter "Lealita", and now she has changed her name to "Formalin".

Formalin did stab the dagger into Chen Ruirui's lower abdomen.Not only that, Formalin also cut off one of her arms.

The bloody severed hand lay limply on the ground, and the dark red blood flowed all over the floor, making the bedroom look extra bloody.

When Chen Ruirui saw Xu Qing barging in, she showed him a frightened expression, as if asking for help.

"Stop your atrocities, Lealita!" Xu Qing took a deep breath, directly raised the charging pistol, and aimed at Formalin's shoulder.

But just as he was about to pull the trigger, he suddenly smelled a pungent smell.

The room seemed to be filled with some kind of medicinal gas.After Xu Qing smelled the gas, his consciousness gradually became blurred.

"This is... sleeping pills?" Xu Qing suddenly felt something was wrong, covered her mouth and nose and wanted to leave the room.

Sensing the opponent's retreat, Formalin took out a dagger from her pocket and threw it precisely at Xu Qing's thigh.

Xu Qing snorted coldly, ready to jump sideways to dodge.

"Formalin" has learned a lot from the fifth brother, and his dagger throwing technique is very precise, but Xu Qing's physical fitness and reaction ability are not vegetarian.

Xu Qing's instinctive reaction made him try to jump sideways to avoid the dagger.

But before he could move his feet, something grabbed his ankle, preventing him from dodging.

Xu Qing looked down, only to find that Chen Ruirui's severed arm moved to his feet at some point, and then grabbed his ankle like a living creature, restricting his dodging movements.

"What is this?!" Xu Qing looked at the broken arm grabbing her ankle as if she had seen a ghost, preventing her from moving.

Then, with a sound of "噗嗤!", the flying knife thrown by Formalin pierced Xu Qing's thigh, causing him to lie on the ground in pain.

Generally speaking, the young masters and ladies of the chaebol family will carry energy shield devices with them.But most of these devices are for thermal weapons, such as bullets or bombs.

After all, in this city where guns are legal, the vast majority of people will choose to bring guns to beat others into a hornet's nest, rather than take a knife to chop people on the street.In criminal assault cases, the ratio of gangsters holding guns to cold weapons is basically crushing nine to one.

Therefore, installing a cold weapon defense system on the portable energy shield device is purely superfluous, and will only speed up the consumption of the battery and the load carried by the system.

Because of this, Formalin's throwing knife did not trigger the protective device on Xu Qing's body, and directly pierced into his thigh.

"Damn hiss—what's going on here?" Xu Qing clutched her thigh in pain, unable to figure out what was going on for a while.

But now for him, the first priority is to ask for help.

He crawled backwards with his bleeding thigh, distanced himself from Formalin.At the same time, he hastily called Cyberwarlock.

[Sorry, the user you are broadcasting is temporarily unable to answer——]

Such a message came from Xu Qing's mobile phone.

"Fuck it!" Xu Qing cursed angrily, and then contacted the security guards who were waiting downstairs, telling them to rush into the apartment for support.

But when he connected the walkie-talkies of the security guards, he heard the sound of iron blades cutting flesh and screams one after another, but no one responded to him at all.

"Why?" In the astonishment, Xu Qing couldn't help but took a deep breath of the medicine mist that floated out of the bedroom.

His consciousness gradually became drowsy, and soon he passed out under the effect of sleeping pills.

(End of this chapter)