Fog Formula-Warning Book of Fog City Search Chief's Strange Talk - chapter Ten

“Hi, excuse me, is this the Search Bureau?”

The teenager from the University of Science knocked on the door of the meeting room, looked at the two people inside, and said behind the door with some uncertainty: “I saw Room 5007 written on it. The people on the first floor just let me Come to this conference room…”

The boy had short white hair and a pair of sky blue eyes, and was wearing a clean and tidy lab coat commonly known as a “white coat”. Only the blue shirt inside was faintly exposed in the gap of the placket. White was originally an extremely difficult color to control, but against the background of the clothes, this boy’s skin was as white as snow, reminiscent of snowflakes in winter, with a clear and clean crystal.

Standing halfway in front of the door, he seemed hesitant, but he could clearly feel that this hesitation did not come from fear, but from pure introversion, not being good at communicating with others.

At six o’clock in the morning, this introverted young man visited the “Search Bureau” by himself, a place that was said to be like a Raksha hell in the outside world. The people inside introduce themselves.

This is a surprising attitude, because the search bureau has a good reputation, even other employees of the Navi city hall should be careful when walking through this door, for fear of any weirdness or ghosts suddenly appearing from that door. In the eyes of the world, the search bureau is roughly that kind of weird place. People here kill weirdness, and they are accompanied by weirdness all day long.

Is he a child who is excluded by others – such thoughts subconsciously emerged in Xi Wei’s mind.

“Visiting a place like the Bureau of Investigation early in the morning” would be a bad task for ordinary students who would “make the whole day miserable”. It must have been a few evasions in the research institute before finally pushing it to the person in front of him, and he still looked like he didn’t understand the situation at the moment, probably so introverted that he didn’t even listen to the “excellent reputation” of the search bureau Said.

Thinking of this, Xi Wei even felt sorry for him. Such a person was pushed to such a task… It seems that his classmates are quite disliked.

“This is the search bureau, and I’m the search chief Jian Shenxiu.” But what Xi Wei thought was obviously out of Jian Shenxiu’s attention, he just looked at the visitors at the door, and made a very short self-introduction, showing that his identity.

It’s just that when he looked at the visitor, his expression changed slightly for a moment, but it disappeared quickly, and he regained his calm.

“Ah, hello, Mr. Inspector.” The white-haired graduate student was taken aback for a moment, as if seeing Shenxiu looked much younger than he imagined, but he immediately bowed to Jianshen. “I’m a student at the Institute of Biology at Yukimizawa University of Science, and my name is Nanami Kazumiya.”

This young man named Qihai Hegong used honorifics the whole time, which also verified Xi Wei’s thoughts. The more introverted people are, the more they worry about making social mistakes, so they are always more cautious than ordinary people when they have to communicate.

“That’s right. The day before yesterday, you issued a commission to our laboratory through the search bureau, asking us to analyze the source of an item, and asked us to do so as soon as possible. Do you still have any impression?”

The boy came in from the door, and it was only then that Xi Wei saw that he was actually carrying a box in his hand, so she quickly got up from the chair and walked over to help him put the box on the table in the meeting room.

The box was not heavy, just a crisp click when it was placed on the table. The sound-absorbing sponge is used inside, so I can’t tell what it is.

“Well, I remember.” After seeing the box, Shenxiu raised his eyebrows slightly, and then continued:

“Evidence sample No. 137 of case E37, I had someone send it to your laboratory for you to analyze its species origin. According to the normal process, after the analysis results come out, you should call us and then email us Give us the analysis report. Afterwards, we will send someone to your laboratory to retrieve the evidence.”

“But now you have come here on your own. And you brought a…box?”

“Well. Because the analysis result is really… special, so we can only send one to explain this conclusion to you.”

Thinking of the analysis result Nanami Kazumiya didn’t know what expression to make, in fact until now he still thinks that conclusion is absurd. But now that everyone else is here, he can only reach out and open the box, revealing the contents in front of the two of them.

Xi Wei could see clearly that there were three quartz tubes of different sizes and some other tools inside the box. The quartz tubes were marked with different font sizes, and inside were three groups of black hairs of different lengths.

Then the white-haired boy reached out and took out the longest quartz tube, took out a ruler from the corner of the box, and placed these two items in front of Xi Wei and Jian Shenxiu.

“This one is the evidence you gave us earlier. The average length of the hair inside is about 17 centimeters.” Nanami Kazumiya pointed to the test tube and explained.

“The staff member who gave it to us at the time said it might have come from some kind of big cat like a tiger or leopard. This is judged from the situation at the scene.”

“Well, what’s the problem?”

When the word “situation at the scene” was mentioned, Xi Wei nodded with a pale face. At that time, she was on duty at the search bureau and was one of the first police officers to arrive at the scene. She may never forget the tragic scene of that scene in her life. [Bloody] is no longer enough to describe the horror of that scene, flesh and blood scattered everywhere, bone fragments were scattered everywhere, and even until the end they couldn’t find the victim’s organs, that kind of destructive power is definitely beyond the ability of ordinary “beasts” the extent achieved.

“There is indeed a problem.” The young man from the Institute of Biology had a helpless expression on his face.

“Because we did a genetic analysis on it. The results of the genetic analysis showed that they did come from a certain cat species, but the animal’s name was Bombay cat.”

“Cat?!” Xi Wei’s eyes widened in an instant, and she was surprised even when she saw Shenxiu’s expression.

“Yes.” Qihai and Gong nodded affirmatively, opened a tablet he had brought over, called up a picture of a black cat and placed it in front of the two of them.

It was obviously a photo from a photography magazine, and the photo was captured very well. The cat in the picture was pure black and slender, with a pair of bright golden eyes, dexterously dancing among the flower pots, as if Only black elves.

“Bombay cat, also known as the little black panther. In the 1950s, Americans crossed black American short-haired cats with dark brown Burmese cats. And the results of genetic analysis showed that the blood of the Bombay cat was quite pure. A Bombay cat of this pedigree can sell for tens of thousands of yuan in Xuejianze, which was also a port city before ‘Yongye’.”

“…”

Xi Wei didn’t speak for a while, she looked at the 17cm hair in the quartz tube, and then at the small to medium-sized pet cat in the photo which was only 30cm long. Finally, he cast his eyes on Nanami and Gong in front of him, feeling as if he was looking at a psychopath.

“You say it came from this cat?”

“You don’t have to look at me like that. I know it’s hard to accept.” Nanami and Gong were also helpless. “It was also hard for us to believe this fact, so we repeated genetic tests on it many times. But the final results were the same.”

“For whatever reason it’s so long. At least genetically, it’s Bombay.”

“…”

The meeting room was silent for a few seconds, and no one spoke for a whole few seconds.

“It’s really hard news to accept.” In the end, Shenxiu broke the calm. “But you’re sure you didn’t come here just to say that, did you?”

His eyes naturally swept to the boy’s box. In addition to a separate quartz tube contained in the evidence provided by the search bureau, there were two other quartz tubes of different sizes in the box, which also contained black hair.

He wouldn’t bring these two quartz tubes for nothing to no avail.

“um, yes.”

Nanami Kazumiya came back to her senses, and then picked up two test tubes in the box.

“Because the results of the previous genetic analysis were too shocking, after discussing in our research institute, we decided to send someone to explain this matter to you and provide some other references.”

He picked up the shortest quartz tube first, and the black hair inside was only about one centimeter long.

“This test tube contains the hair of a normal Bombay cat. In fact, the Bombay cat is a short-haired cat. Most of the hair on their bodies is only about 5mm, and the longest part can reach more than 10mm. It is also one of the reasons why they are called little black panthers, their hair is shiny and black, not the kind of cat with fluffy hair.”

Then he picked up the quartz tube of the evidence and put the two together for a comparison.

“That is to say, the length of the hair you provided us is more than seventeen times the length of a normal Bombay cat.”

“You mean…” Xi Wei had calmed down at the moment, her expression changed slightly after hearing these words, and she understood what he wanted to express. He frowned and said:

“The owner of these hairs may also be seventeen times longer than the regular Bombay cat?”

“Ah, no no no.” Nanami Kazumiya shook her head like a rattle.

“We speculate that this may be the result of some kind of mutation in the Bombay cat. It may indeed vary greatly in size, but it is impossible to reach an astonishing number of seventeen times. The Bombay cat is a medium-sized cat, and its body length can reach 40 centimeters, if it is seventeen times longer than a Bombay cat, it will be close to seven meters in size, comparable to an armored vehicle.”

“The largest cat that ever appeared on Earth is the Northeast Asian giant tiger, which can reach four meters in length and 800 kilograms in weight, but that was 50,000 years ago. The bone structure of cats does not support them Growing to such a large size, these seven-meter-long cats completely violate the laws of physics, and their weight will reach an astonishing two tons, and their bone structure cannot bear such a terrible weight, and they will crush themselves.”

“…”

For some reason, Xi Wei trembled the moment the words “violate the laws of physics” came into her ears, and exerted a slight force on her fingers at an angle that Qihai and Gong didn’t notice. Seeing Shenxiu’s eyes narrowed slightly, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes.

Leaving aside other people, the people in the search bureau are quite familiar with the words “violating the laws of physics”.

“What about another quartz tube?”

But Qihai and Gong are still here at this moment, they didn’t show the slight emotion in their hearts, seeing that Shenxiu remained calm, they just raised their fingers to point to the last quartz tube in the box.

“You brought three quartz tubes, didn’t you? The first two were evidence and Bombay cat hair. So what’s the last one?”

“The last one is the hair of the black panther. Because the Bombay cat is also known as the little black panther, I brought the hair of the black panther too.” Nanami Kazumiya hesitated and picked up the last quartz tube.

Inside is black hair about two centimeters in length.

“Bringing this here is just to prove that the hair of cats does not change in proportion to their body size. For example, long-haired cats may also be small and medium-sized cats, but cats can reach several centimeters in length. And black A leopard is a type of leopard, its body length can reach 1.5 meters, but its fur is only two or three centimeters long.”

“Okay.” Jian Shenxiu nodded. “I see.”

“Then I have nothing more to say. Do you two have anything else to ask?” the white-haired boy asked the two of them.

“If you have nothing to ask, please allow me to say goodbye.”

“No, you did a good job.” Jian Shenxiu nodded, stretched out his hand to take the evidence contained in the quartz tube, and silently looked at the cluster of slender specimens in the period through the transparent quartz wall. hair.

Seventeen centimeters of black hair is sealed in a twenty centimeter quartz tube. The light falls on the curved surface and decomposes and refracts the light source, covering the black hair with an inexplicable beauty.

“Okay, then the sample will be returned to you again.” Nanami Kazumiya put the two quartz tubes back into the box, and then fastened it. Salute to the two.

“I’m taking my leave.”

“Go slowly.”

The phrase “walk slowly” is what Xi Wei said. When you are a subordinate, you must learn to say words that your boss is unwilling or too lazy to say. Just like the content of such polite words, Jian Shenxiu obviously lacks interest in such polite behavior.

But she didn’t mean to leave Qihai and Gong. The information this boy brought was so important that she turned her eyes to Jian Shenxiu the moment the boy left the house.

Nanami Kazumiya didn’t know certain things, so it didn’t matter when he said them. But Xi Wei is in the search bureau because she knows something about the “secrets” of the past! She knew exactly what caused the riot in the chaotic years! The words “gene” and “mutation” caught her ears and she couldn’t help but think of some things that once happened in this city!

Few people now know that Xue Jianze once had an organization called “Abyss Tower”. But Xi Wei remembered! She knew why Shenxiu’s personal assistant, Marchesias, always wore his hood, because he was a child who walked out of the “Abyss Tower”! Under his hood hides unseen secrets!

“The Chief Inspector…”

Xi Wei couldn’t wait to speak, but she was interrupted by Jian Shenxiu before she could speak. Jian Shenxiu raised his hand to her in a booing gesture, and then raised his hand to make a call.

“Has the entry of the customs records seized this morning been completed? Help me screen all the entry records related to pet cats like ‘Bombay cats’ within five years. Pay special attention to the purchase records of any official institutions. After screening and sorting, send them to me as soon as possible.”

After he called, he didn’t exchange any pleasantries, and he directly used a commanding tone.

Then he made another call.

“Help me check all the recorded [Urban Strange Tales] to see if there are any strange stories related to cats. After checking, sort it out and send it to me as soon as possible.”

This time his tone was equally serious, and it was also an order without self-reporting his name, and he used the word “as soon as possible” for the second time.

But when he pressed the phone screen for the third time, he hesitated. The speed of pressing the keyboard was much slower this time, but after a moment of hesitation, he finally dialed the number.

“Hello. It’s me, see Shenxiu.”

Different from the previous two times, this time he chose to declare his family first.

Vaguely, Xi Wei seemed to hear laughter coming from the other end of the phone.

“If I remember correctly, your files on [C-series creations] have been deleted, right?”

Seeing that Shenxiu didn’t care about the laughter on the other side, he said directly.

The laughter over there seemed to stop abruptly.

“Okay, I get it, trash.”

Then he directly ignored the angry roar on the other end of the phone, and hung up the phone quite simply.

“…”

The meeting room became quiet again.

Seeing that Shenxiu raised his hand, rubbed the center of his brows slightly, looked at the quartz tube with slender hair on the table, and narrowed his eyes slightly.

“Night, mutation, fog, big cats, and [three o’clock in the morning], [eyes] including what the victim said this morning…”

He gently repeated these nouns, then tapped his index finger on the table, and said the new noun twice.

“Bombay cat, Bombay cat…”

Xi Wei didn’t dare to disturb his thinking, so she had to stand by the side all the time, watching him rubbing his brows in circles.

Everyone stood in different positions. She didn’t know what the search chief knew, nor did she know what kind of scenery he saw in his eyes. At this moment, she was more confused than ever, as if there was some storm gathered after the void, but she couldn’t even see the storm itself.

However, at this moment, suddenly…

The hands of the wall clock on the wall jumped slightly to the seven o’clock position. At that moment, the sun on the skyline outside seemed to pass a just right angle. The bright sunlight penetrated the glass of the conference room and shone from the outside, illuminating the entire conference room.

“Xi Wei!”

Suddenly, in the morning light, Jian Shenxiu raised his eyelids slightly, and his whole body was bathed in the morning light, as if it was covered with a layer of gold.

“Here!” Xi Wei suddenly stood up straight, thinking that he had discovered something, her spirits lifted instantly, and she was ready to wait for the next order.

“nothing.”

However, Shenxiu couldn’t help smiling when he saw this, and the corner of his mouth curled up in a slight arc.

“Go and rest.”

“What?” Xi Wei was taken aback.

“Have I said that? There is a report to be heard soon, now that the report is over, let’s go to rest.” The chief searcher tilted his head.

“You have worked overtime for more than 24 hours since the night before, and it is time to rest.”

“But the case…” Xi Wei still wanted to say something, but she was interrupted by Jian Shenxiu just as she was about to speak.

“Don’t worry. Let it ferment for a while.”

The search chief seemed to have grasped something, turned his head and looked out of the window, his gaze was far away.

“Some people, you can wait for them to pop out by themselves.”