The Advent of the Infinite King

Nanako Shimizu said, "No, that's not the correct answer."

Kento Toba shivered suddenly, his fingertips trembling uncontrollably.

"I still remember this question." Lu Tianxing said, "I've been thinking about it for a long time."

Kawazu Ikuo also said: "Me too, I remember thinking about this answer, my head was about to explode."

"That's right." Xie Chen said: "That should be a super difficult problem that you want to forget but never forget. If you don't remember this question, don't you all think it's strange?"

"Well..." Kento Toba was speechless.

Xie Chen said: "Miss Lingzi went to your room to peek at the answers on your test paper, but since you are not in the room, you may have gone to the garage to check on the innkeeper's dead body."

Mao Lilan said: "Then Miss Lingzi saw..."

"That's right." Xie Chen said, "It's just a blank answer sheet with nothing written on it."

Kento Toba's pupils shrank suddenly, he gasped, and his eyes became more and more frightened.

Xie Chen said: "Why didn't you write the answer, because even if you wrote it, it would be for nothing. You already knew in your heart that the innkeeper who gave the test paper was killed by you long ago, and he is no longer in this world."

At this time, Kento Toba's lips were in heat, trembling constantly, and his eyes began to become bewildered, staring fixedly at a certain place on the ground.

Xie Chen said: "If you think I'm talking nonsense, then please take out your answer sheet immediately and show it to us all."

Kento Toba suddenly knelt down on the ground, put his hands on the ground, gritted his teeth and said, "Damn..." This move undoubtedly admitted his crime.

"You kid!" Toshiaki Fujisawa grabbed his collar, lifted him up and said, "Quickly tell me, why did you kill me and the boss!"

"Irene Adler's ridicule." Xie Chen said suddenly: "According to my guess, the reason probably comes from the book that I assisted the innkeeper to publish."

"What did you say?" Fujisawa Toshiaki said loudly.

Mao Lilan asked: "Irene Adler in that book? Is it the actress who once won Sherlock Holmes in the story?"

"Yes." Hitomi Iwai nodded.

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"However," said Hitomi Iwai, "our boss blamed it on Holmes' error of judgment."

"I see." Ikuo Kawazu said, "So he felt that the book humiliated Holmes."

Kento Toba sneered, raised his head and stared at a certain part of the ceiling.

"On the contrary, Irene is the only woman Sherlock identifies with. In this case, how could she laugh at Sherlock? I really can't imagine."

"What?" Toshiaki Fujisawa let go of Kento Toba's collar.

Kento Toba put his hands on the ground, gritted his teeth and said, "I can't forgive this kind of thing, absolutely not..."

Afterwards, he fell to his knees and cried bitterly. For freedom, he even killed his lover.

What did Damu Lingzi think before he died, sad or angry, Xie Chen sighed silently, for some reason, he thought of the lighter used for lighting again.

"Huh..." Hattori Heiji woke up.

"Hattori, you are amazing." Mao Lilan praised: "You really deserve to be a famous detective."

"Ah?" Hattori Heiji was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Of course, this kind of case is nothing to me."

Xie Chen, who was hiding behind the door, smiled lightly. This guy is much smarter than he imagined.

Mao Lilan went to the kitchen, Xie Chen walked out from behind the door, Hattori Heiji leaned on the door panel, looked down at Xie Chen, and said slowly: "Hey, who the hell are you?"

"As you can see." Xie Chen put his finger to his mouth and made a silence, "My business is very troublesome, don't talk too much, it will be of no benefit to you or me."

Hattori Heiji raised his head slightly, looked at Xie Chen with his eyes on the distant scene, and asked after a while, "Then why do you still... Do you think I'm a fool?"

Xie Chen smiled and said, "I think we can be friends."

Hattori Heiji took a deep breath, at this moment, he suddenly felt that he might never forget that smile.

It wasn't a real smile, although it looked like a smile, but it didn't feel real, it was more like a confession to something.

In the early morning of the next day, they walked to the Panshan Highway, and Mori Kogoro stopped a truck and took Kento Toba to the police station.

The rest took taxis. After returning to the urban area, Hattori Heiji rushed to the airport and took the earliest flight to Osaka.

After this incident, he clearly saw that the so-called sleeping Kogoro was just a vain name, but Xie Chen repeatedly warned him not to underestimate that uncle.

Mao Lilan and Xie Chen returned to the detective agency. They didn't have a good rest for the past two days. After a brief wash, they went back to their respective rooms to sleep.

At noon, Mori Kogoro, who escorted Kento Toba, also came back, collapsed on the sofa, and fell asleep.

At [-] o'clock in the evening, Xie Chen opened his eyes, lay on the bed and couldn't fall asleep. Conversing black and white is not a good thing, especially for a child's body, so he decided to go outside for a stroll.

On a cool night in May, Xie Chen walked aimlessly along the street, turned around the Mihua Supermarket, and unknowingly came to the vicinity of the cinema.

Although it was very late, the street was not so desolate. Some shops were still open, and there was a cold noodle cart that closed late, always parked beside this road.

On the other side of the street, there are construction teams living all year round. At very late, workers in twos and threes gather here for supper.

When passing by the cold noodle car, Xie Chen was stunned for a moment, and accidentally saw the little mixed-race girl, and the little girl also saw him at the same time.

The little girl was still wearing the white nightgown, but it looked gray at this time, covered with mud, her face was stained everywhere, and her feet were still without shoes.

He looked at the road under his feet, rubbed his palms, walked up and down carefully in front of the cold noodle car, raised his face to look at the car from time to time, and twitched his dirty little nose.