——Three weeks later·Somewhere in the 17th District of Jincheng City——

"Oh my God, how many years has this damn place been left there? The dust inside can reach up to your ankles!" Aaron stood outside the door in disgrace, holding a broom in his hand and a towel on his head.

He stretched his waist and complained to Lan Tian.

"I don't know. I heard that many safe houses existed before the peacekeeping war. Maybe this one is the same." Lan Tian is also dressed in the same way with the same gray face. The powerful performance of the prosthetic body and superb hacking ability cannot allow her to perform in the general cleaning.

She is more efficient than Aaron because she has no experience of cleaning a room in her memory.

"Can't we just hire a cleaning company? If that doesn't work, you can rent a housekeeping drone." Glancing at the interior of the room, which was still filled with smoke and dust, Aaron really couldn't bring himself to put on a dust mask and go in to continue cleaning.

"Maybe I don't want this address to be included in the network records again. After all, it is a dark corner of the world that has long been forgotten." Suddenly Ling Chong's voice came from the ramp behind him.

"Uncle Ling is back." Aaron stuck his head out and asked, "How are things going?"

"Here, I don't know what route she took, but it was really fun." Ling Chong shook a card in his hand, "The other party didn't even ask to fill in the registered address, they just gave me this card and sent me away.

.”

"Can this work?" Aaron asked doubtfully.

"It should work. My registration qualification before being dragged into the police force by your father was the same as this card. I just didn't expect that one day I would be able to get the same thing." Ling Chong looked at the card with mixed emotions.

, and then threw it to Aaron.

"Eh?" Aaron hurriedly caught the card and cast a questioning look at Ling Chong.

"The name registered above is you, not me." Ling Chong explained, "Don't forget that I am still a police officer assigned to the Intelligent Management Bureau by the police station. How can I go to the Public Security Management Center to register for a detective qualification certificate?

"

"So, am I fired from the police station?" Aaron looked at the card with complicated eyes.

"What else do you want? Anyway, before you went to the Bureau, you were already ready to resign and change your career to become a detective. Now your dream has come true." Ling Chong said with curled lips.

"...Same." Aaron showed a self-deprecating smile, "I didn't expect that after going around in circles, this is the final result."

"Miss Lan, can you contact Miss Zhou directly now?" Ling Chong turned to Lan Tian and asked without commenting on Aaron's emotion.

"No, the communication channel between me and her is one-way now." Lan Tian shook his head regretfully, "I can send the message over here, but it's hard to say when she will reply."

"Forget it." Ling Chong didn't say much, "Has the room been cleaned?"

"Uncle Ling, go in and take a look for yourself. Is it so clean that you don't need a machine?" Aaron, who had a sore back and pain in his back, hurriedly complained, "If we really don't want to expose our location, even if we buy a drone to clean it, we can't do it."

Okay, I'm willing to pay the full amount."

"Oh, it looks really disgusting." Ling Chong came to the door and took a look inside. When he retracted his head, Ling Chong also gave up, "But we don't have enough operating funds on hand to buy a new one directly. Otherwise, we won't be able to buy a new one until the second day."

Check out the flea market in District 11? Maybe you can find used goods left behind by people who were forcibly relocated to District 9."

"Hey, she can obviously mobilize so many resources, why is she so stingy when she comes to us?" Aaron muttered dissatisfied.

"Have you ever seen a private detective who spends money lavishly? Ninety-nine percent of people in our field are struggling on the poverty line. If you can fill your stomach every day, God will reward you." As a veteran private detective,

Ling Chong felt that he needed to teach Aaron a lesson first.

"I also want to take a look. Maybe I can find some strange old firmware." When the flea market was mentioned, Lan Tian, ​​who had never had a chance to wander around the city, also became interested.

"Of course you can go, but you have to restrain your desire to spend money indiscriminately so that our office will not be filled with useless garbage." No matter how you look at Lan Tian, ​​it doesn't look like he has any idea about money and the hard-earned nature of this thing. Ling Chong

Determined to nip problems in the bud.

"I'll try my best." Fortunately, Lan Tian is a good boy who knows how to restrain himself.

After the discussion, the three of them were going to the market to buy a second-hand drone, but as soon as they walked down the ramp, they saw a familiar face wandering at the intersection with a confused look on their face.

"Xiao Xiao?" The most surprised person was undoubtedly Ling Chong, "Why are you here?"

"Dad, it turns out it's this way." Ling Xiao's expression clearly meant that he didn't bump into them by chance, "Your place is really remote. I followed the holographic navigation for half an hour and walked through this intersection four or five times.

I was stunned and didn’t find it.”

"Instead of you waiting a minute, you answer my question first." Seeing his daughter's attitude, Ling Chong was a little confused, "Let me change the question, how do you know this place?"

"The address Miss Zhou gave me." Ling Xiao answered honestly.

"Ah?" Ling Chong opened his mouth and didn't understand what Zhou Yuqing was doing.

"Miss Zhou said that Mom can't see you or she will be implicated, but it doesn't matter since I'm already an insider, and I came to you for business." Ling Xiao said with a serious face.

"Then let's talk about your business." Aaron just thought it was funny and cooperated with the other person casually.

"Brother Long, didn't you open a detective agency? I want to hire you to find someone." Who knew that what Ling Xiao said was really serious, "Of course I will pay according to the market price. I heard from Miss Zhou that your finances are quite tight now.

Yes, I still have some personal money that I saved in the past."

"This..." Ling Chong looked like he didn't know what to say. He was hired by his daughter with the pocket money he had given him before. Probably not many fathers in the world would encounter such a magical scene.

"Do you have any specific information about the person you want to find?" Ling Chong didn't express his position, and it was difficult for Aaron to express his opinion. However, Lan Tian, ​​a complete outsider, showed strong interest.

"Yes, he is my classmate and my best friend." Ling Xiao nodded, "What is your ID? I will send the information directly to you."

"No need, I'll connect you directly." Lan Tian smiled.

"That's awesome, is this a hacker?" Ling Xiao, who immediately received the forced link initiated by Lan Tian, ​​cast an admiring look at Lan Tian. A girl like her who is dreaming of age always lacks resistance to cool high-tech gadgets.

"It's just a little trick," Lan Tian smiled proudly, "Let me see what's going on with your classmate."

With that said, Lan Tian began to check the message sent by Ling Xiao, and at the same time, the message was also given to Ling Chong and Aaron.

"Did people disappear in that incident?" Seeing that he could no longer refuse, Ling Chong had no choice but to resign himself to his fate and devote his attention to the commission itself.

"Yes, the situation was very chaotic at that time. Everyone was busy running for their lives, and there was no one to direct the evacuation." Ling Xiao will probably never forget the chaotic scene on the streets at that time in his life.

"Was she with you before she disappeared?" Aaron also asked.

"No, she was sick and didn't come to school that day." Ling Xiao shook her head.

"Shouldn't you rest at home if you are sick? Or is it that someone in her family has a prosthetic implant?" This answer is very strange. Normally, it is a good thing that she did not go to school that day. The chaos at that time was mainly on the streets.

, it is much safer to stay at home, unless the person you live with is a prosthetic implanter himself.

"At least not as far as I know." Ling Xiao shook her head again, "I have met her parents. They are business elites who use a lot of terminals for work every day. Apart from her, her parents are the only ones in her family."

"It seems that your classmate sneaked out to play while he was recuperating." Ling Chong made a judgment from a parent's perspective.

"I don't know. There was no news that day except that she communicated with me once in the morning. By the time I heard that she was missing, it was already time for the school to resume classes." Ling Xiao frowned slightly, it seemed that she was not.

I like my father's hasty judgment.

"Because of those bad things in the past, there are too many missing people in this city now, so even the police station probably won't pay much attention to it." Aaron looked at the problem from the perspective of a former police officer.

"That's why I came to Brother Long." Ling Xiao nodded, "I'm really worried about her. I don't want anything to happen to her."

"Officer Ling," Lan Tian cast a pleading look at Ling Chong, "Why don't we help? Your daughter will be happy to get this person back, right?"

"...Okay." Ling Chong sighed helplessly, "But I don't guarantee that you will be able to get the person back. Do you know this?"
Chapter completed!