Chapter 2 Cleaning up
Guanzhi County, the second branch of HL North.
Jim Malone was sitting in the office smoking a cigar happily, but the uninvited guests in this world liked to come uninvited at such times.
The phone on the table rang, and Ma Long pressed the call button helplessly.
"Sir, Mr. Ness is here, and he said he would see you immediately."
"Let him come in." Ma Long hung up after saying that.
A few minutes later, the paper hero pushed the door open and came in, saving himself the politeness of knocking on the door and saying hello. He walked to Ma Long's desk and said, "I need you to unblock a secret file."
"Hu..." Ma Long vomited a smoke ring: "Well, why am I not surprised at all? What else do you want? Photo of the Governor's mistress?"
"Listen, Jim, I think I've found it." Paper man said to Ma Long with a solemn look on his face: "The murderer of St. Mark's 'Bloody Midnight' ten years ago."
Malone took out the cigar from his mouth, with a look of no objection: "Do you know I work night shifts all year round to hide from you?"
The paper hero still ignored the other party's joke: "I'm not kidding."
"Okay, I understand what you mean." Ma Long stood up: "Tell me the clues you have now."
Paper Hero said: "There was a murder in the Copper Parrot Tavern this afternoon. Just look at the surveillance video and you will understand."
Ma Long said, "Okay, wait." He turned around and pressed the phone on the table...
HL's work efficiency is very high, and it can be transferred to archives of all surveillance videos in the jurisdiction at will. After a moment, the two of them watched the incident again on the huge screen on the wall of Ma Long's office. After that, Ma Long ordered and sent an investigation team to transfer all surveillance videos from the hotel in the past week for analysis and research to see if there are any new discoveries.
The paper hero seemed quite excited and said to himself: "The same height and body shape, cruel method, and the style of acting that does not take murder seriously is exactly the same as the descriptions of the incomplete clues obtained ten years ago. It must be him! If the DNA comparison is correct, then..."
"So what?" Ma Long poured a basin of cold water on it: "The DNA we obtained ten years ago could not be found in the databases around the world. Even if the DNA comparison results were correct this time, we can only know that the murderous devil came back ten years ago and still knew nothing about other things."
"It doesn't matter whether this kind of person has a legal identity. The key is that we now have a relatively specific appearance characteristics and can start with the entry and exit records in a carpet-like manner..." Before the Paper Hero finished speaking, Ma Long interrupted: "This case does not require your intervention, just hand it over to us HL."
"What did you say?!"
Ma Long said: "If you have to check it out, that's fine." He pointed to the door behind the Paper Man: "Go out and turn left, walk to the end, find my secretary, and sign an irrelevant contract."
Paper Man said: "Jim, you know I won't join HL."
"Then you should also know how many people will endure great pain every year to turn themselves into transforming people, just wanting to be a choreographer in HL. Not to mention, they have to fill in paper documents calculated by pound. I helped you get everything done a few years ago, but you still refuse to sign an autograph today."
Paper Hero said: "We have talked about this topic many times. I like being a policeman, which is more free, and..."
Ma Long did not let him continue to speak: "Since you want to be free, you will not be able to enjoy any HL's case handling resources and authority. I will give you information out of personal friendship, because I have the right to resist some things. But now we are talking about a wanted criminal with a level 4 danger level. Only those who carry the 'those four words' have the right to investigate."
"What if I have to check it?" asked the paper hero toughly.
Malone reignited a cigar and said, "Then you go and check it out. Just don't block HL's way. This is my authority, and I can give you the greatest tolerance."
The paper hero replied lukewarmly: "thank you." He left the door before he finished speaking.
Less than a minute after he walked, Malone picked up the receiver of the phone on the table and dialed the encrypted number of HL's European headquarters: "I am Colonel Malong from the Second Division of the North. Please pick me up the general... Yes, I know it's early morning, so you'd better call him up quickly."
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At the same time, Phoenix Opera House is twenty meters deep underground.
"It's really good to do it, this underwater reflection city, haha..." Xue Xiao said with a grin: "It's hard to imagine how much time, manpower and financial resources it takes to build such an ant hole-like interconnected tunnel under the entire Venice, not to mention the designer's scheming."
In front of him was a man who was empty below his left knee. The other party's voice trembled with fear and despair: "Who are you?! There is no such person as you in the second division!"
Xue Xiao smiled: "So you only sent a group of waste to stay here by the Iron Precepts? I walked all the way and didn't meet a strong one. Why, according to your opinion, is there no one in Venice's HL who is better than me? That's really a bit lonely... This city is indeed declining now."
The man seemed to understand. Xue Xiao was not someone sent by the senior officials of the empire. He almost shouted wildly: "Why do you do this?!!"
"Ah? What to do?" Xue Xiao had an inexplicable expression on his face. He looked back at the blood and limbs that had spread far behind him: "Do you mean cleaning work? Is there anything you want to be so excited about? I just need a place where no one disturbs me and do some scientific research. You also know that you should clean up first when moving into a new home, so as not to crawl out in an annoying way."
"You...you..." The man didn't know what to say. He understood that the madman in front of him would never leave any living mouths, so he touched his hand in his arms: "Today, you will kill two senior priests, thirty-six priests, and ninety believers of the Iron Pillage... The upper class will never sit idly by and watch..." He held a pocket watch in his hand, drew a cross on his forehead and chest, and then shouted: "I will fulfill my will, and I will be punished by God!"
Before he finished speaking, a white light burst out from the pocket watch.
Xue Xiao knew what that meant. In just a moment, he moved to the man, pulled the other person's entire hand off his wrist, and slashed the man's head with one foot.
The light of the pocket watch gradually dimmed and disappeared...
"I really hope they can come faster." Xue Xiao stared at the fragmented corpse on the ground with his bloodthirsty eyes: "I prefer to use live bodies to experiment."
Chapter completed!