Brave World, I report to the police station in red at the beginning

"Okay, Mr. Inumoto, I think it's okay for me to call you that."

"As you like."

Continue wiping the sweat.

Li Mengyu touched her chin.

"Is it... hot here?"

If the weather forecast is correct, today's temperature is only around 15 degrees. Is it really that hot?

"No, it's not. This is an old problem of mine. I tend to sweat when I'm nervous."

"It seems that you are not in good health. You need to take good care of yourself..."

Li Mengyu realized that she seemed to have gone off topic a bit, noticed Jun Qianjing's strange look, and quickly turned the subject back.

"Regarding what you said about looking for your wife, Mr. Inumoto, can I know the details? Since Officer Sato asked you to come to me, there must be something strange going on."

"Yes, it is."

Inumoto Saburo slowly told the story of what happened to him.

At the beginning, he emphasized to Li Mengyu that he and his wife were very loving and they never even quarreled in their daily life.

"So the possibility of Mrs. Inumoto leaving on her own is zero."

"There's absolutely no way she would leave on her own! I told her the other day that I would buy her the cosmetics she liked, and she had always wanted them. How could she just leave like that?"

According to Mr. Inumoto, that day was a normal day like any other, and he even bought the cosmetics his wife had always wanted.

But when he got home and opened the door, he did not hear his wife's usual greeting.

Nothing was missing from the house, but a living person was missing.

"This is not the first or second time that I have sought help from the police."

Of course, he couldn't be indifferent when his beloved wife disappeared, and he must have tried his best.

"I don't think it's possible for a living person to disappear without any reason. Your neighbors..."

"My wife is not in good health. If the environment is too noisy, she will get a headache. Therefore, we live far away from the city and there are no neighbors around."

No one witnessed it?

There are some similar scenes and some similar plots.

Jun Qianjing didn't know what he was thinking about, his face turned pale, and his eyes were full of vigilance when he looked at the man in front of him.

"Chikage, don't be so rude."

He tapped the girl's forehead gently and suddenly felt that he might have exposed the child to it too early.

He looked at Inumoto Saburo.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. This child encountered a bad thing in the previous incident. Now he is suspicious of everyone. Please bear with me."

"It's okay, it's okay. I really like children, but my wife and I have never had any children."

The look he gave Qian Jing was quite gentle, and it didn't seem like he was telling a lie.

"Well, I have a general idea of ​​what happened. Next, please tell me what's wrong."

Inumoto Saburo pondered for a moment, as if he was thinking back.

"If there's anything wrong... nothing is missing from the house."

"? It seems like this has already happened before..."

"No, it is. Nothing has disappeared. Whether it's mine or my wife's, everything is still there."

"all?"

"Yes, nothing is missing. The clothes I bought for her, her own clothes, bags, money, everything is still there. The clothes she was wearing when I left home that day were also left at home."

"This is really... quite an unusual situation."

Li Mengyu touched her chin.

"Please leave a photo of your wife, and preferably your address as well. I will come over tomorrow... tomorrow at the latest. Some things can only be truly understood on site... For that part, I need to make some preparations."

"Sorry to bother you, I, I really, have no other choice..."

Well, since they have come to the supernatural agency, what other solutions are there?

"By the way, my way of collecting money here is to collect the money first and then do the work. Mr. Inumoto, do you want to choose to pay it all at once?"

……

Looking at the briefcase in his hand, cash! 20!

Li Mengyu was a little bit unbelieving. Could it be that 20 yuan was really given just like that?

Are you really not afraid that you might run away with the money?

He looked as low as dust, as if the last spark of light in his eyes was about to be extinguished.

"It seems that we can't give up anymore."

He took out a few bills from his briefcase and touched Jun Qianjing's head.

"Let's go out and buy you a monster encyclopedia."

"Isn't it about making preparations..."

"I will be preparing to buy you books. By the way, I will also go to the police station to meet with Officer Sato. The client... has some reservations."

"! Is it the same as before? It hurts!"

She covered her forehead.

"You can't have the same opinion of everyone just because of one thing. This is wrong. You look at him with suspicion... If he is not lying, you are trampling on the feelings in his heart."

"When it comes to our clients, our first thought should not be to doubt them, but to believe them, even if the matter is extremely outrageous."

Chapter 29: Clouds of Doubt

"Do you want me to reserve a special seat for you? You come here every day anyway."

"It was you who pushed them to my side, Officer Sato..."

Li Mengyu couldn't even keep the business-like smile on her face.

Seeing this, Officer Sato leaned forward slightly.

"Okay, I won't joke with you anymore. Is there something you care about here?"

"What else? Can I come over and use your air conditioning?"

"It's not impossible. Of course, if you just come here to use the air conditioning, it's fine. After all, it's public property, so you don't have to spend my money."

"You are so lazy... Well, I'll tell you the truth. That client... Mr. Inumoto, probably didn't tell me the whole truth. If he has hidden something... It's actually hard for me to sort out my thoughts."

The smile on Officer Sato's face faded slightly.

"You're talking about Mr. Inumoto, right? It's no wonder that no matter who it is, no one wants to talk about such things."

He rubbed his brows, took out a box of cigarettes from the cabinet, and handed one to Li Mengyu.

Li Mengyu refused, saying he didn't smoke.

Officer Sato didn't care and just ordered it.

"Mr. Inumoto... is a pitiful man. He first started looking for his wife half a year ago..."

"Half a year? That long?"

"Yes, he has tried every method he could think of in the past six months. In the beginning, he reported the case to a higher level police station."

It's a small police station, and it's possible that there's only one officer, Officer Sato, so it's normal that he's not trusted by others.

"The police station took it very seriously and sent many people to his home to investigate and collect evidence... Logically speaking, even if their case was stuck halfway, Mr. Inumoto would not come here."

He waved his hand to disperse the smoke in front of him.

"Do you have anyone over there?"

"Bah, if I have people over there, why are you still here? Don't blame me for saying something harsh, this is a remote place... It's a bit free, but there's absolutely no chance of making merit, and it's impossible to climb up the ladder."

"Okay, okay, I don't want to hear you complain. Did they take the initiative to stop investigating? What's going on?"

Officer Sato did not expect that Li Mengyu could guess the development of the situation at once, and he blew out a smoke ring.

"It's a strange thing to say. You saw the photo provided by Mr. Inumoto. The wife he mentioned in the photo is a beauty."

Li Mengyu took out the photo given to him by Inumoto Saburo from his pocket. He had only glanced at it before, but now he looked at it carefully.

The woman in the photo is indeed very beautiful, with fair skin, long legs, and a 36d figure that attracts everyone's attention.

"It's just so-so."

He commented, and put the photo back into his pocket before Officer Sato could take a second look.

"You guy..."

Officer Sato glared at him and asked, "You're eating alone, right?"

"Don't interrupt. Although Mr. Inumoto looks ordinary, as long as there is love, no matter how outrageous the thing is, it is possible to happen."

"As expected, you also think this is outrageous!"

"The key point is the first sentence."

"Okay, okay, I understand. I'll tell you directly. Those people have tested the furniture and clothes in Mr. Inumoto's house, and the results are very surprising... There is no residue of skin tissue other than Mr. Inumoto's on those women's clothes."

For ordinary people, as long as they have worn clothes, there will be some dandruff left even after washing. It is impossible for there to be no residue at all.

"If the size of those clothes didn't really match Mr. Inumoto's body shape, those people would have even thought that Mr. Inumoto had both paranoia and cross-dressing fetish."

"So...it's paranoia?"

"The key information I extracted from the conversation without hesitation was, yes, in that room, in the end, only traces of Mr. Inumoto living alone were found, and the marriage certificate Mr. Inumoto provided was also fake, and there was no record of him being married."

"The guys in the police station, who are staunch materialists, gave up the case and labeled Mr. Inumoto as delusional... The hospital even confirmed that he was delusional."

"If this is a fictitious event, it's normal that it can't be continued... But since you recommended him to me, if you say you want to try your luck... I'll smash your head right now."

"Hey, I can't say I didn't hear what you just said. Assaulting a police officer is a serious crime!"

"Anyway... you're the only one here... Officer Sato."

Officer Sato coughed twice, not sounding like a joke.

"...Okay, okay, it's just speculation. There must be something in Mr. Inumoto's house that has been with him for a long time."

Is it a thing rather than a person?

By the way...when Officer Sato said that the people in the police station were materialistic, he did not include himself in that.

"Why do you make such an inference?"

"I went over there to check... Although I didn't find any useful information on Mr. Inumoto's wife's things, if it's really paranoia... some things have wear and tear that can't be explained, like slippers. The degree of wear on the heels shows that someone has used them frequently, but the size is obviously not suitable for Mr. Inumoto..."

"If it was paranoia, then when Mr. Inumoto used the slippers himself, he would have definitely left marks on things that didn't fit his size, stretched out clothing, and caused the shoes to deform in a way that was easily visible... But other than normal wear and tear, there were no such things, right?"

Officer Sato raised his eyebrows and said, "You've already said everything, what should I say?"

"That's all I can offer you. Has it been of any help to you?"

"I don't know. I'm going to go check it out tomorrow as well... Simple reasoning is useless, Mr. Officer... But if it's really related to that kind of thing, to be honest, I don't know how to deal with it this time."

Li Mengyu sighed softly, feeling overwhelmed.

"But since I have already accepted the commission, I will definitely solve this matter."

"Cough cough."