【Ruijin】Eye of the Storm

Chapter 8

Although extremely valuable images of suspicious targets were found, there is still too little directional information available.According to the movement route of the woman in the video surveillance, Zitang Huan drew an area on the map that might become the residence of the other party as the scope of investigation.

"There are three middle and low-end residential areas in this area, and they happen to be in three different directions," An Mixiu spread the map on the front hood of the Jinbei car, and tapped the place marked with a red pen on the map with his fingers. , and said to the people around him, "Zitang will stay in the car to collect and command information, and the rest will be divided into three groups to conduct investigations, bring their IDs, and don't reveal their identities and cause unnecessary panic among civilian residents."

"Do you have any other questions?"

Jin turned over a few pages of the bound resident information form at random, and shook his head: "The amount of investigation is a bit large."

"We can focus on the tenants first." Gray suddenly interjected, and Lei Shi on the side immediately agreed: "Yes, killing a large number of people in a short period of time, this murderer always gives people a sense of haste. Feel."

"There is another possibility that we cannot ignore," Kelly continued, and glanced at Jin's direction, "If this person is indeed a retaliatory murder, or even a targeted attempt to stimulate the tower to respond, then We have to consider that the unerased image traces in the surveillance are clues that he deliberately exposed to us." She paused, "Maybe, they are waiting for us to take the bait now."

An Mixiu sighed, his eyes became dangerous: "That's right. Everyone remember to get a gun from the trunk before departure, and be careful. Gray."

Jin and Gray raised their heads at the same time, looking at An Mixiu.

The brown-haired guide kept smiling, and made a gesture of avoidance: "Take a step to talk."

Gray didn't object, he lowered his head and said to his guide, "Go over there and wait for me first." Jin nodded with his lips pursed, looked around the faces of the two, and took the initiative to put away the map and form booklet Go in the direction of the community gate.

An Mixiu and Ge Rui walked forward one after the other, and stopped at the side of the road two or three parking spaces away from Jinbei.Gray keenly felt that An Mixiu opened the guide barrier calmly, and his eyes became darker.

"Don't get me wrong," An Mixiu said, leaning against a street tree, "I don't mean anything else, I'm just worried that 'walls have ears'."

Gray glanced out, and slowly said: "You suspect Leishi?"

"I don't want to question your inclusion decision made on the first tower," An Mixiu said with sharp eyes, "but I don't understand why you let an untrustworthy evil party participate in this investigation. Is there any special reason for letting you go? This move?"

"Because Leishi is a non-staff sentry, this level of freedom enables him to provide more information channels, not to mention this is what he wants," Gray replied, "Leishi has long been restrained."

"...Containment?" An Mixiu frowned.

The silver-haired S-rank sentinel looked indifferent: "His younger brother is blessed by Yita. This is an unequal deal between Leishi and Ta. He will judge for himself which is more important."

"……Who?"

"Camille."

An Mixiu was very surprised, obviously it was the first time he knew that there was such a relationship inside Tower One.He remembered the B-rank guide who had met once in the underground prison, and fell silent for a while.

"There is another question," An Mixiu put his hands behind his back, staring at Grey's face with burning eyes, "Who is Qiu?"

Gray's breath stopped, and he turned to look back at him.

The brown-haired guide said calmly, "I promised to help you as much as I can, but I didn't deny that I would continue to do my own research."

"——What does Jin's own sister have to do with that batch of missing banned drugs?"

Kim sat on the doorstep and waited 15 minutes before Gray showed up.Jin looked down at the pair of black Martin boots parked in front of him, and Gray stretched out a palm, as if to pull him up.The guide didn't move, but looked up at him.The two stared at each other for more than ten seconds, and finally it was Jin who took the lead.

Jin sighed, holding Gray's palm to stand up with strength.Stepping on the third step and looking down at the other party, he said, "It's so strange."

Gray didn't respond, Jin let go of his hand and jumped back to the flat ground easily, then glanced behind him again: "Brother An is gone?"

The silver-haired sentinel nodded: "Follow me closely, be careful yourself." After speaking, he pushed his shoulder again, and the two walked side by side into the community.

Although the housing buildings in the community are a bit dilapidated, the green plants on both sides of the corridor are lush.It is basically impossible for decent properties to exist in such an old community, so the two had no choice but to inquire one by one according to the scope of investigation given by Zitang Huan.Gray stood behind Jin and watched him knock on the door. The door was half opened from the inside, and the middle-aged woman in an apron held the doorknob and stared suspiciously at their faces: "...Who are you looking for?"

"Hello, Auntie, we just came to ask you something small." Jin smiled, turned his head and gave Gray a wink, and the sentinel took the phone from his coat pocket and dug out the saved photo, "Look at you Do you have any impression of this girl?"

The woman frowned and glanced at the phone screen, with a visibly impatient expression on her face: "...I don't know, I don't know." After speaking, she wanted to close the door quickly.Jin stood close and was almost directly hit by her large movement.Gray reacted quickly and reached out to block the door frame with his forearm, which also shocked the middle-aged woman.Just as she was about to complain, she raised her head and met Gray's cold eyes. She was shocked by those eyes, and her attitude instantly shrank. After a long time, Ai Ai said: "This... I really haven't seen this person before. Go to another house and ask again, what else is there?"

Jin stared into the woman's eyes for a few seconds, and after confirming that the other party was not lying, he pulled Gray to thank him and leave.They continued to investigate a few more, and all they got were basically the same answers.In the afternoon, Jin leaned on the flower bed downstairs and took a water-based pen to scratch out the residences of the three residents. He couldn't help but feel a little depressed.

Gray came back from buying a drink from a small supermarket on the roadside, threw a can of juice to Jin, and opened the straw of the boxed milk by himself.

"There are four left," Jin said with emotion, "I hope there is still a chance." He closed the booklet and handed it to Gray, and the sentinel took it over but didn't intend to look at it, his eyes fell into the distance as if emptied.

"Gerry." Jin called him suddenly, "Can I ask you?"

Gray glanced at him and motioned for him to continue.

Jin opened the juice soda and took a sip: "...Where did you find me that time?"

Holding the milk carton in his hand, Gray said, "A hotel in West City."

"I don't remember clearly," Jin whispered, holding the other hand on the edge of the flower bed and slowly clenched it tightly, "But I also know that there was a big disturbance that time, and you were involved, right?"

There was no expression on Gray's face, he just stretched out his hand to pinch his soft earlobe, and rubbed it lightly: "It's because I lost control, it's not your fault."

"Yes," Jin grinned, "I still don't know who did it, so I'm not reconciled." He paused for a moment, then raised his hand to hold Gray's hand that was pinching his earlobe, and continued Said: "I have a guess, although I can't be sure, but I want to tell you first."

"I think the people this time should be on the same side as the group a year ago."

Gray immediately raised his brows, and when he wanted to speak, Jin covered his mouth first.Jin's palms were cold, but the light in those blue eyes was extremely persistent: "I know what you want to say. I also went to look through the files of that mission. The reason why they came to me was obviously because someone Something only I know, and it must be very good for them, even though I don't even know what it is now."

The silver-haired sentinel heard the meaning behind his words, and his expression became more serious. He took Jin's wrist and moved his hand away: "No!"

Jin pursed his lips tightly: "But high risks come with high rewards. This is my job, why not?"

The atmosphere became tense for a moment, Gray kept silent, and Jin kept fighting with him, until the urgent ringing of the phone came from Gray's pocket.

The sentry let go and turned to pick up the phone.Jin breathed a sigh of relief, and continued to look down at his shoe uppers in a daze.The conversation didn't last long, and after a while, Gray answered "Got it" on the phone and hung up the call.Jin coughed, leaned over and asked him tentatively, "...what's the matter?"

The sentinel shook his head and put away his phone: "Go to Area [-] and gather. An Mixiu has found someone."

The two rushed to the contact location, and An Mixiu had been standing downstairs in the unit waiting for them for a long time.

"I found a landlord," An Mixiu explained to the two people behind him as he went upstairs, "He said that he once rented a house to Lena and another man."

The house is on the third floor, and there are no lights in the old-fashioned residential corridors. It is very inconvenient for people to walk after dark.Gray and Jin walked in with An Mixiu, and at a glance they saw a middle-aged man sitting on the wooden sofa in the living room and Lei Shi standing bored beside him. At first glance, it looked like a kidnapping scene .

When Jin was at the door, he hesitated for a second whether to change his shoes, but when he looked down and saw the shoe prints on the floor extending all the way to Leishi's feet, he silently dismissed the idea.

The landlord looked about in his early 50s and [-]s, and looked a little uneasy. Jin guessed that it was because Leishi and the others had already shown him his ID.Seeing two new faces approaching the door, the middle-aged man became more and more flustered: "No, what else do you want to ask?"

"When was the last time you saw this person?" Jin turned on his phone and asked succinctly.The uncle glanced at the image on his mobile phone: "I really can't remember. I remember that this girl and another man rented a basement from me a long time ago. It's been more than half a year, right? The first time I paid three One month's rent, and I left my card number later, and the monthly rent was paid on time, so I never contacted them."

Jin and Gray looked at each other, and the sentry found a pen and paper from the coffee table in front of him, and put it in front of the landlord: "Write down the address of that basement."

The landlord responded quickly, grabbed the pen and wrote down, as if he was afraid of being implicated by a misunderstanding.

When the landlord put down the pen, An Mixiu half-bent and took the piece of paper with the address written on it, then kept this posture and looked up at the other person's face, and said slowly: "We have been here before, I have to trouble you to keep it a secret."

Before the landlord could react, the pupils of An Mixiu began to dilate slowly.The rest of the people didn't speak, and watched An Mixiu silently give spiritual hints. After 30 seconds, the brown-haired guide slowly stood up, and the man had already fallen into a temporary lethargy on the sofa.

Lei Shi walked around the sofa and glanced at the note in An Mixiu's hand: "It's not too far from here, should we start now?"

An Mixiu nodded, and handed the note to Jin: "I'll inform Reid and the others, and I'll go to the city bureau to borrow a car. You guys go first and meet up in an hour."

TBC