Reasoning Notes

Chapter 244 Reasoning Notes 5: The Final Game (54)
Following the old man's instructions, Xiao Po put the potted flower in An Xiaoxuan's room.

"What is this?" An Xiaoxuan, who just came back from the outside, asked while hanging her bag on the wall.

"It's my newly planted flower." Xiaopo lied.

"Mmm, it smells so good." An Xiaoxuan came over and smelled it, but she didn't know this kind of flower in the flower shop.

"I heard it's a South American variety." This is what the old man told Xiao Po.

An Xiaoxuan was a little surprised: "How did you find it?"

"It's a secret." Xiao Po imitated the old man's way of doing things in a way that pretended to be mysterious.

"Little ghost, haha." An Xiaoxuan nodded her little broken nose, stopped asking, and took out the information in the bag.This time she finally found some more valuable clues.

"What is this?" Xiao Po asked, leaning against An Xiaoxuan's side.

Regarding the progress of the case, An Xiaoxuan would sometimes reveal a little bit to him.

"I found the common ground of those victims." With a hint of excitement in her tone, An Xiaoxuan read those materials to Xiao Po.

After several days of investigation, An Xiaoxuan found a breakthrough in the deceased's interpersonal relationship.According to people close to the deceased, the deceased seemed to be in love before they were killed.But their "boyfriend" is very mysterious, no one has seen his appearance, at best he has only seen his back.

The police also started from this aspect in the beginning.However, that "boyfriend" didn't seem to exist in this world, and the police couldn't find it no matter how hard they looked.However, An Xiaoxuan was lucky enough to hear from one of the friends of the deceased that the deceased once said that the "boyfriend" might be a flower shop.Because he is very familiar with the names of various flowers, he must be a flower lover.

"I plan to go to various flower shops tomorrow to investigate." An Xiaoxuan said resolutely.

The dawn is right in front of her eyes. In order to meet her father who has been missing for many years, she has persisted for so long and must not give up halfway.

There was no response from the room, and the purple-blue flower was silently playing with its enchanting figure.Xiao Po fell asleep, with her little face pressed against An Xiaoxuan's thigh, breathing lightly.

"Ha. This child..." An Xiaoxuan patted his head affectionately, and looked at the beautiful flower again.

She always felt that she had seen this kind of flower somewhere, and it was very fragrant in the room.

She and Zhang Jing traveled all over the city together, looking for it in every street and every flower shop.But because they didn't have any information about this "boyfriend", even if they asked the owner of the flower shop, the other party was at a loss, and finally just shrugged and said he was helpless.

Tired after walking all day, they found a KFC and sat down.When Zhang Jing went to order the set meal recommended by the store, An Xiaoxuan drew a red cross on the map where the flower shop was circled.The last flower shop was also searched, but they still didn't get a clue.She sighed deeply.

"Don't be discouraged, it will work." Zhang Jing came back with French fries, Coke and fried chicken wings, encouraging her.

"But, it feels so vague. I miss my father." After she finished speaking, she lay down on the small table wearily, and closed her eyes.

She remembered that when she was very young, she used to play on the swings in the park with her father.Her father threw her up into the air and caught her again. The wind was filled with the laughter of the father and daughter.However, her memory of her father became more and more blurred.She was really scared, afraid that one day suddenly she would not remember her father's appearance.With this slight sadness, she slowly fell asleep.

There is some noise around, and the conversations of diners can be heard in the ears from time to time.A voice approached her ear like this: "You are tired."

Yes, she is tired.

An Xiaoxuan didn't know why she always felt very tired, her body seemed to be being swallowed by something, and her spirit was weak.

She was sick, dizzy, had no appetite, and her feet felt weak after walking a few steps.The doctor invited by Xiao Po couldn't diagnose what kind of disease it was, but just prescribed a dose of medicine hastily for her.She drank, but nothing improved.

Her body became thinner day by day, and her fair skin turned into a purplish color—she was poisoned.

Like all the symptoms of the deceased in the case before death, she was poisoned by that unknown poison.However, she has not eaten or touched anything unusual recently.What is certain is that she has been targeted by that "boyfriend".

Where is he?

An Xiaoxuan dragged her frail body and stood by the window observing the outside environment.If "boyfriend" is watching here, he must be nearby.Suddenly, her sight fell on an old building across the diagonal street.In a room on the third floor, curtains are hung all day, and the reflection of the glass occasionally reflects from a slightly cracked gap.

—Someone is watching this way with binoculars.

When An Xiaoxuan realized this, the other party seemed to notice something too. The curtains of the room on the third floor were all drawn, and a vague figure quickly walked away from the window.

...don't try to escape.

She was in poor health, but An Xiaoxuan still managed to run out of the room.She wants to find out that "boyfriend", and in doing so, she can meet her father.

"elder sister!"

An Xiaoxuan didn't hear Xiao Po's cry from behind, and ran down the narrow stairs.The sun outside was very strong, and she felt dizzy for a while, but she still lifted her heavy steps and ran towards the building.When she arrived, there was no one in that room.

The door was ajar, the room was messy, and she was a step late.

She walked wearily on the street, thinking about when she was poisoned and what the source of the poison was.A hundred flowers were blooming in the flower garden on the street at this moment, An Xiaoxuan looked at them, and suddenly stopped in her tracks.

...the bouquet of purple-blue flowers.

In the room of a dead man, there is a bouquet of long-faded flowers in a vase, which seems to be purple-blue.She had checked the surveillance video of the building where the deceased was. The deceased walked into the elevator with a flower from his "boyfriend" happily... the flower was also purple-blue.She once smelled a faint floral fragrance in the bedroom of a deceased person, which seemed to be the same as the potted flower at home.

Is it like this?That flower is the source of the poison?

But, that's a little bitch, he can't harm her.

An Xiaoxuan shook her head vigorously, unable to believe her inference.But she had to admit that this was the only reasonable explanation.She's going home now to get that vase of flowers tested.

Everything is about to come to light.

"Xiaoxuan." The voice was very familiar. Zhang Jing was standing on the side of the street, leaning against a car and smiling, "I have good news for you. After many pleadings, the God of reasoning finally agreed to meet you."

An Xiaoxuan smiled, but she felt that she was not smiling.She couldn't figure out where the anxiety in her heart came from, but she still got into Zhang Jing's car.

Meeting her father was her long-lost dream.

After the car started, Zhang Jing looked at her with concern: "You are very sick."

"No, it's okay, just a little sleepy." An Xiaoxuan leaned her head on the passenger seat, the soft seat gave off a disgusting smell, but she still fell asleep slowly.

She had a dream in which she met her father.

The car slowly drove away from the side street along the road. Behind the car, a 9-year-old boy on a bicycle chased after him from a distance.

After chasing out the door, the worried Xiao Po saw Sister An getting into Zhang Jing's car, and he had an ominous premonition.Because, when he saw Zhang Jing getting into the car, an unknown evil smile flashed across his face.

He can understand.As the old man said, "Xiao Po, you will be a very good detective in the future. Because you can see through the darkness in people's hearts. But..." the old man changed the subject, "You may also be a very good criminal Or, because you also have darkness in your heart."

At that time the old man laughed after he finished speaking, Xiao Po didn't know what that smile meant.He doesn't want to be a criminal, he wants to be a good person.

The sun shines on the road, cars, pedestrians, the city is like a slow-moving machine, echoing harshly.The traffic lights start counting down, and then continue after returning to zero, like the non-existent machine mentioned by the teacher in physics class - the perpetual motion machine, which never stops.

Xiao Po rode an old bicycle, drove through one intersection after another, struggling to catch up with the speeding car.However, no matter how hard he tried, it was impossible to catch up with the car.Xiao Po took a shortcut and rushed down an unbearably steep slope.Because he couldn't control the bicycle, he fell to the ground with the bicycle at the end of the slide.The ankle sprained, and the severe pain passed through the brain and was transmitted to every nerve ending.He endured it, got up, and continued to chase.

Fortunately, the car didn't drive very far, and soon after, Xiao Po saw it parked by the side of the road.But there was no one in the car.

"Are you ok?"

An Xiaoxuan reluctantly opened her eyes with a gentle question in her ear.It was dark in front of them, and they were walking up a damp and cramped staircase.

"Where are we going?" She asked Zhang Jing who was supporting her.

"Go see your father, god of reasoning."

That's right, it seems to be like this... An Xiaoxuan raised her hand and patted her head lightly, which would make herself more awake.

Soon Zhang Jing helped her to stop, this is the room on the top floor.Pushing open the door, a strong fragrance came to her nostrils, and An Xiaoxuan woke up instantly.

That's right, this smell is the aroma of purple-blue flowers.What is this place?

She opened her eyes wide in astonishment, and in front of her was a large greenhouse.A large glass skylight spreads overhead, allowing brilliant daylight to filter in from above.There is only one kind of plant planted in the greenhouse, so all the flowers that come into view are purple-blue.

(End of this chapter)