Gene from the 13th Department of Bright City

6:03 am

Larry was quietly doing leg presses on the street, as if he was planning to trot. At this time, many people who got up early to go to work passed by on the street, including some old people exercising. Larry watched the maid Erin go out. , he walked casually, watching the maid from the corner of his eyes.

Eileen walked very slowly, and Larry matched Eileen's pace and followed leisurely. Larry planned to follow Eileen every day, and he would always find clues.

As for where Xu Kun, the son of a wealthy businessman, is, the administrative department has investigated the entire area, but there is still no trace of it. It’s just that Larry felt that Xu Kun must be in this area since he started following him two months ago. His parents arranged for him to be hidden.

The upper area is not like the lower area. There are not only a large number of surveillance probes, but also thermal probes. It is unrealistic to use mutants to become invisible to send things to Xu Kun, but in Larry's opinion, in the end, Dangerous places are the safest places.

The wealthy businessman couple should not be able to bear to let their son escape to the barrier area or live at the bottom.

This was a murder case that happened 6 years ago. At that time, Xu Kun was drunk and had an argument with someone in a bar. He immediately ordered the mutant who was a bodyguard to beat and torture the other person. Then he killed 5 people in a row with a gun. It was considered a crime. A rather vicious case.

But later someone was behind the murder. Some officials from the 5th Section at the time shielded Xu Kun, and the case was completely suppressed. However, in the subsequent large-scale crime investigation, someone confessed the matter in order to reduce the punishment.

Immediately afterwards, based on the evidence found, they went directly to the wealthy businessman to arrest him. However, Xu Kun escaped early, and he ran away within a week in advance. It seemed that it was because the person in charge of the bar was arrested. After that, 5 departments A wanted warrant was issued.

However, more than a year later, the fact that there is no trace of Xu Kun has almost fallen into an endless loop, almost becoming a fatal case.

Larry originally thought that Gene was specialized in solving these cases. After arresting the wanted criminals in two cases, Larry learned that Gene randomly selected 5 wanted criminals for Larry to actually let Larry know. Find them and arrest them.

Although Gene does this casually, Larry takes the case seriously every day, because his mother has told him since he was a child that he must take everything seriously. Larry has done the same for so many years, regardless of species. The investigation is still ongoing.

Larry followed Irene to a large commercial street in District 18. Every morning around 6:30, Irene would come to this street. After completing the purchase, she would go back to the villa to make breakfast for the wealthy businessman and his wife. Usually, Irene would come to this street. We will go back at 7:30, and we will have an hour and a half.

Sure enough, Erin started to look around. Looking at the shopping list on the light and shadow screen, Larry felt a little strange, because it was too cumbersome. He had to make a shopping list every day, and then buy things according to the list. .

From Larry's point of view, this seems unusual. All the host needs to do is tell him what he wants for breakfast the next day. It's a simple question, but there are a lot of things to buy on the shopping list.

Larry had asked Section 5 to do a simple check before and found that the things he bought could be compared with the shopping list. However, the large shopping bag that Erin was carrying this morning did not have decorative buttons. Larry stared at it closely, not knowing at all. None of them relaxed.

Eileen first went to a butcher shop, bought some fresh chicken, and asked the boss to cut it into pieces. After Eileen left, Larry immediately went over and took out his ID and asked. The boss saw that he was a special investigator from Section 5. The certificate told the truth, and the amount of chicken Irene bought was within the normal range.

Nowadays, the city's laws have been revised to include punishment laws. If a fugitive is caught and does not choose to surrender, he will be punished ten times the time he was at large. That is to say, if Xu Kun continues to escape, he will be punished. The sentence was increased by more than ten years. Even if he did not escape, he would still face 40 years in prison if he was punished for several crimes.

Larry followed quickly and watched Eileen go to buy jam again. He still followed Eileen and asked the owner of the jam shop. Eileen didn't have the opportunity to buy more. At this time, she walked in In the supermarket, I went to some fresh vegetable cabinets and started shopping. Larry was watching during the whole process.

Soon Eileen finished her shopping and queued up in a long queue. However, at this time, Larry's eyes widened in astonishment, and the bag of breakfast rice in his hand almost fell to the ground, because the bag in Eileen's hand was The bag was replaced by a bag with decorative buttons.

Larry looked around. He didn't know where Irene was or when she changed the bag in her hand. When he hesitated, Irene had already checked out and left. Larry wanted to go find the experience adjustment monitor, but then he thought I gave up the idea because this supermarket is owned by a wealthy businessman. Once Larry does this, it will be exposed in the investigation, and he may never have a chance again.

Then Larry pretended not to want the bag of breakfast rice and went back to the shelf to look at it. However, no matter what Larry thought or how he looked for it, he still had no idea where Eileen had changed the bag.

Now what Larry can be sure of is that Eileen should bring some water and food in her bag every day when she comes out, because after the previous interrogation by people in Section 5, it can be determined that there is indeed it, but it cannot be prosecuted for such things. she.

The button matter cannot be used as strong evidence. There must be more effective evidence. It is certain that Irene handed the bag to someone in an extremely secretive way while visiting the supermarket. Maybe It's Xu Kun, and Xu Kun may be hiding in this supermarket.

The more Larry thought about it, the more confused he became. After breakfast, he returned to his place of residence and continued to monitor. Although he had not slept all night, Larry would now monitor until 6 o'clock every day and sleep until 12 o'clock. After getting up, continue monitoring, because this period of the night is the best monitoring time.

After a hazy day, Larry couldn't hold it any longer at night. After eating something, he went to sleep. When he woke up, Larry immediately lay down at the window and continued to monitor.

Another whole night of nothing was found. Such surveillance was very time-consuming and energy-consuming, but Larry didn't find it cumbersome at all, because he was a stubborn person and had to take everything he did seriously.

It was morning again, this time Larry did not wear sportswear, but put on a suit, because yesterday was the weekend, and today is already Monday. Larry catered to Eileen when she went out to do shopping, and slowly followed her. .

Larry followed him closer today, and it could be seen that Erin was still a little defensive, especially when she saw people from Section 5, her eyes would look panicked for a moment. Larry had seen this happen before Many times, he was even more convinced that Aili would give Xu Kun food every day.

Arriving at the supermarket again, this time Larry cheered up. There were not many people in the supermarket this morning. Larry looked at the products on some shelves casually, keeping a distance of less than 4 meters from Erin. He stared at Irene's every move, but what surprised Larry today was that the bag with decorative buttons was not replaced, and Irene went home.

In the afternoon, Larry was a little frustrated and went to a snack shop on a nearby street, got some food, and planned to continue to visit the neighborhood after eating.

It was Larry's job to find out where Xu Kun was hiding. After the food was served, Larry saw that the boss was not too busy and asked casually. The boss became happy when he heard that it was the case of the son of a wealthy businessman.

"That little brat used to do all kinds of evil in this place. Now he deserves it."

"yes."

Larry echoed, then continued.

"It's just that no one has been caught yet."

The boss nodded and said with a smile.

"It's impossible to catch."

"Isn't it that the 5 subjects are different now than before?"

Larry said and the boss laughed.

"If I had such a rich father, there would be a hundred ways to hide me."

Larry nodded. At this time, Larry asked about Irene. The boss told Larry that Irene had been a servant in his house since a long time ago, when Xu Kun was still young.

After finishing the meal and finding nothing, Larry planned to find some older shops near Xu Kun's house and ask the people in the shops.

This case seems a bit tricky to Larry, but the same method he used to solve two cases in the past was the same. Asking around for everything about the wanted criminal, you only need to know a few details. When you finally integrate these things, you will always find out. A bit of a clue.

Then Larry continued to monitor until the afternoon and then went to bed as usual. For the next three days, Larry was a little surprised. During this period, Irene did not change her bag.

The investigation was completely deadlocked. It was another afternoon. Larry was looking around in an old store nearby under the sun. Then he bought something and took the opportunity to ask an old man who was interested. The old man said The wealthy businessmen were very angry, saying that they had used despicable means to take away a store that they had owned in the past, and now that store was very valuable.

The old man said a lot of things, but these things were worthless.

Larry even had a little doubt about his reasoning. He didn't know how long it would take for this case to be solved. Most of these unsolved cases were transferred to Section 2 for processing.

Section 2 has a large number of special investigators. They are dedicated to special cases and only submit case handling reports to the chief and secretary of Section 2. They have a certain degree of strength and can deploy people from other departments to assist.

Many such cases were solved during the investigation of Section 2. Larry sighed helplessly. It was already 5 o'clock in the afternoon when he returned to the room. Larry started to eat and then planned to sleep.

On the morning of the fourth day, Larry found that Eileen still hadn't changed the bag in her hand, but for some reason, Larry felt that Eileen seemed a little irritable. The cashier got mad at the slightest friction.

The cashier at the front desk seemed to be a new employee, and they didn't know that she was a servant of the boss's family. The two of them started to quarrel. Some security guards immediately came to try to persuade them, and a manager of the mall also came to mediate, but immediately Facing Eileen, the commotion subsided.

Larry was a little helpless, but the moment he followed Irene out of the supermarket, Larry saw that the bag in Irene's hand had changed. Larry immediately turned around. His mind was clearer now. Sure enough, Xu Kun In this supermarket, it should be someone from the supermarket who was helping to exchange bags with Irene, but it was a little difficult to find the person who exchanged bags.

Because there are many shopping bags of the same style and color, it is too difficult to find them, or it is impossible to do it by yourself.

Just when Larry was at a loss what to do, he saw the female cashier who had just argued with Irene leave the checkout counter with a gloomy face. She had just been separated by more than 20 people. Larry didn't know why they were quarreling, although it was possible that It had nothing to do with the case, so Larry decided to ask.

Until noon, Larry saw this new cashier carrying her own things and leaving the supermarket. She was fired, and her eyes were red, as if she had cried. Larry immediately walked over, calmly. A handkerchief was handed over.

"Miss, can I ask you some questions?"

The woman looked at the ID that Larry took out with some surprise. Then Larry offered to invite her to lunch, and the girl happily followed Larry.

However, after asking, Larry was shocked. The reason for the quarrel was not because of some quarrel, but when Erin paid the bill, she used cash. As a platinum member, Erin can enjoy a 20% discount, but Eileen did not choose the discount, but bought something at the original price.

Larry felt something strange, and the girl reminded Irene, but Irene seemed irritable, and an argument finally broke out.

"Sir, do you think there is something wrong with that person?"

Larry hummed and asked some more about things in the supermarket. Then Larry understood something. Maybe the reason why Erin didn't use the platinum membership card discount every time she went to buy something was because she wanted to pay the bill at the original price. Provide platinum membership discount receipt.

In this way, part of the money spent on buying groceries every day will not be recorded, because apparently the membership card was used, but the bill was paid according to the original price. As for the extra money, Larry casually calculated it. If If you accumulate it over time, you can buy a lot of things, and there are a lot of them.

But at this time, Larry had another question. After investigating Eileen, he found that she had no relatives and had been working in the wealthy businessman's house for 30 years, which was equivalent to her home.

A breakthrough has been found. The manager of the supermarket must know something. Larry plans to go directly to the manager and investigate the manager first, because Larry still can't figure out who Erin exchanged bags with. But the manager must know. From his attitude towards this matter and directly firing the girl, it is certain that the manager knows something.

After the long-term harvest came to fruition, Larry immediately rushed to Section 5. He planned to go to Section 5 to retrieve all the information about the manager, and he should be able to find something.