Dragon Clan: They're all insane, and you still want me to slay dragons?

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If Xia Mi were here, she would definitely scold the two of them sternly and then pick up on the joke: Shut up! The commissioner's life or death is unknown, and you still have the mind to play detective games? This is just messing around!

Fortunately, even though Xia Mi wasn't there, there were other factors that could bring everyone's attention back to the original point.

From below the elevator shaft came the screeching sound of metal being pried open, and the ecstatic shouts of several rescuers: "Quick, quick, bring the stretcher over! The victim is still alive! The victim is still alive..."

The hotel executives wept with joy; for them, who had long accepted that Commissioner Raymond had failed, this was truly good news.

Gao Kui and Chen Motong were shocked and stopped talking about detectives. They looked at each other and wondered, "They're still alive?"

The car plummeted from the nineteenth floor to a pit even deeper than the fourth basement level. The car was deformed from the impact. The force of the impact was immeasurable, but it was incredibly strong.

To be able to survive like this, you truly deserve to be a specialist in the execution department.

The rescue team hurriedly carried Commissioner Raymond out. He was in bad shape, bleeding from all seven orifices and pale as a ghost. He had clearly suffered severe internal injuries from the impact of the elevator falling to the bottom.

"Commissioner, you're not dead!?"

Commissioner Raymond lay sickly on the stretcher. After looking around, he finally identified Gao Kui and Chen Motong by their voices and appearances, and shakily pulled out a room key from inside his suit jacket.

"The documents...the documents...are still upstairs..."

Gao Kui, who had just been arguing with Chen Motong about Conan, suddenly became respectful and took the room key: "Specialist, you can go with peace of mind. I will make sure the documents reach the dean intact."

"Oh, the dean I was referring to is Professor Guderian."

Chapter 64 Spider-Man?

Commissioner Raymond is probably not dead, but we cannot let our guard down because of that.

Many people or animals, after falling from a height and being hit, appear to be unharmed on the spot, which leads to complacency and the assumption that nothing is wrong.

In reality, many of the small blood vessels in his body were shattered by the impact, and soon after he vomited blood, his physical condition deteriorated rapidly, and he eventually died.

Commissioner Raymond is now bleeding from all seven orifices and vomiting blood. His injuries must be more serious than they appear, and he might die before he even gets to the hospital.

A few minutes later, the ambulance arrived quickly. There was a well-known general hospital near the hotel, which reportedly had many collaborative projects with local universities.

The hotel's leaders and staff surrounded Raymond, helping him onto a stretcher and into the ambulance.

This scene reminded Gao Kui of a certain passage from the traditional crosstalk "Funeral Ceremony": First, twenty-four pallbearers carried the coffin outside. The pallbearers were all wearing red-tasseled hats, green-framed clothes, shaved heads, bathed, and wearing boots. Each of them was fully dressed in trousers. Eighty pallbearers changed shifts three times, totaling two hundred and forty people, forming a long, winding line that stretched for five miles...

Gao Kui's understanding of traditional Chinese crosstalk comes from this crosstalk performance. In fact, Gao Kui has never personally participated in or attended a traditional Chinese funeral. Whose funeral could an orphan attend?

Moreover, his "mother" at the orphanage was a believer, and believers are not allowed to participate excessively in traditional Chinese funeral rites. They are not allowed to carry banners, break pots, or kneel and worship the deceased.

That kind of behavior is considered worship of the dead, which is forbidden by God.

After sending Commissioner Raymond to the ambulance, the hotel's leaders and staff turned to dealing with other incidents: such a major safety incident had occurred at an internationally renowned luxury hotel, and they had to give an explanation to the group's senior management, brand members, and the public.

After receiving their room keys, Gao Kui and Chen Motong took another elevator in the hotel to the 26th floor.

Chen Motong held onto the elevator car wall, still feeling uneasy. One elevator had just crashed to the bottom, and there was no guarantee that another wouldn't. Logically speaking, the probability of the one they were riding in crashing to the bottom was even greater: public elevators are used far more frequently than private elevators, and their wear and tear is also much higher.

But if he didn't take the elevator, he would have to climb all the way to the 26th floor. Chen Motong thought about it and decided to gamble on his luck. Even if he lost the gamble, he would still have Gao Kui and Longinus.

Gao Kui stood beside Chen Motong, pulling his thoughts away from Commissioner Raymond and the funeral committee... and shifting them to the conversation they had just had outside the elevator shaft.

"After reviewing it carefully, I think you have a point. Most of the cases that Conan and Inspector Megure solve fall under the jurisdiction of the First Investigation Division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department."

The background music from "Detective Conan" is indeed a bit out of place; the background music from "Ace Attorney" would be more suitable. However, your response here is also problematic. If you hadn't said there's only one truth, I wouldn't have gotten stuck on the idea that it's Conan…

Gao Kui talked non-stop, while Chen Motong used her profiling skills to observe Gao Kui's state. By now, she had a full understanding of Gao Kui's mental state.

His mental state is indeed somewhat abnormal. He's not crazy, but his thoughts run wildly, and his perspective on things is quite peculiar. He can't help but let his mind wander.

Often, Gao Kui would confide his random thoughts, seemingly chatting with Chen Motong in a friendly and enthusiastic manner, but in reality, he wasn't paying attention to Chen Motong at all; he was simply talking to himself without thinking.

This state is extremely deceptive; he appears very enthusiastic and friendly. However, once Gao Kui regains his senses and focus, he will distance himself from Chen Motong again because he dislikes her.

When the elevator reached the 26th floor, Gao Kui's mutterings had turned to the cockroach bully from "Metal Heroes: Cockroach Bully," wondering why a snake was called "Cockroach Bully."

The specific details of the connection are: from Ace Attorney to Hiroki Narimiya, the voice actor for Phoenix Wright, the main character of the series; then Takagi mentions that Narimiya co-starred in a movie with Hiro Mizushima, who is the lead actor in Kamen Rider Kabuto, which shares the same name as Kamen Rider Kabuto…

Each turning point is connected, but the speed of the turning points is so fast that it almost drives Chen Motong, who has a strong sense of logic, crazy.

"Have you seen the episode 'Chocolate Represents a Man's Pure Love'? The cockroach bully confessed his love to Miss Yumeko and then accepted Miss Yumeko's signature chocolate. The lovers finally got together."

"Metal Heroes: Cockroach Fighter" has a total of 52 episodes. The cockroach bully and Miss Yumeko confess their feelings to each other in episode 50. Isn't that great? A robot and a human girl falling in love.

After the main storyline ends, the cockroach bully will surely live happily ever after with Miss Yumeko, right? I actually quite like being happy..."

Gao Kui continued rambling on and on. With a beep, he swiped his room card, pushed open the door, and entered suite 666. After taking a few glances at the interior design and layout, he headed towards the living room.

Commissioner Raymond said the documents were on the coffee table in the living room.

Passing through the spacious entryway into the living room with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the city view, Gao Kui suddenly stopped, no longer talking about the cockroach bully's love, and just stared at the empty coffee table.

empty.

The coffee table wasn't empty; it was decorated with stylish items that the hotel had carefully prepared for its VIPs, as well as some foreign mineral water and snacks that Gao Kui couldn't recognize.

But the document that Commissioner Raymond mentioned was missing.

"How could there not be? Could Commissioner Raymond have made a mistake..."

Like a headless fly, Gao Kui muttered to himself as he searched back and forth between the living room and several rooms. Not being used to thinking, Gao Kui would reflexively use exhaustive search when faced with similar problems.

If you turn the apartment upside down, you're bound to find some documents.

With a logical thinking level far superior to Gao Kui's and extremely strong observation skills, Chen Motong immediately scanned and observed the details in the room.

After noticing something was wrong through some clues, he immediately called out to Gao Kui: "The documents should no longer be in the suite. When Commissioner Raymond was murdered, someone went in and out of the suite and took the documents."

"How did you figure that out? Never mind, you don't need to explain. I wouldn't understand anyway. Just tell me who came in, how they came in, and where they left from."

Tell me any useful information!

At that moment, Chen Motong felt that Gao Kui was truly a wise man; he rarely seemed to be caught in a war with himself.

When faced with problems he couldn't understand, Gao Kui would cleverly avoid getting himself into trouble and calmly treat Chen Motong as an external brain, while he would just focus on getting to work.

On the other hand, what about Chen Motong?

Even if one cannot understand Gao Kui, one still deliberately seeks trouble, single-mindedly trying to understand the other party. Compared with Gao Kui, who seems to be mindless, it is really hard to say whether this attitude towards life is rational or irrational.

The admiration for Gao Kui's mentality was fleeting, but Chen Motong was still able to grasp the key points. Using her own unique methods, she observed more details in the suite and recreated the previous scene in her mind through these details.

Gao Kui forced himself to concentrate and shut his mouth so as not to disturb Chen Motong. He took out Longinus from the tennis bag on his back and tucked the Glock pistol into his waistband, ready for battle.

"bathroom!"

Chen Motong's eyes suddenly flashed, and she pointed towards the bathroom: "The person who took the documents left through the bathroom window."

Gao Kui returned to the bathroom he had just searched.

The suite's bathroom is very large, at least ten square meters, bigger than the master bedroom of many small apartments. The most eye-catching feature is the DORN brand bathtub, which is luxurious and elegant.

Opposite the bathtub is a glass window, designed so that guests can enjoy the night view of the coastal city while taking a bath.

Gao Kui leaned against the window opposite the bathtub, gazing out the window.

The building's exterior wall has a half-meter-wide overhanging eave, just wide enough for a person to walk close to the wall, provided that someone actually dares to walk outdoors at a height of 100 meters.

About 50 meters away is another building, about the same height as the Regent Hotel. Between the two buildings is a tower crane that is over 100 meters high, which is extremely rare.

Wearing a cheap Monkey King mask and shrouded in a wide cloak, the figure strode along the less than one-meter-wide eaves of the Regent Building, accompanied by moonlight tassels, rushing towards the tower crane with incredible speed.

A night breeze blew by, lifting a corner of the cloak and revealing a folder faintly visible beneath it.

Chapter 65 The Leap of Faith

Without uttering a single wasted word, Gao Kui kicked open the window, drew his Glock pistol from his waistband, and fired a burst of shots at the sprinting thief. The distance between the thief and him was beyond Yin Liu's attack range.

A rapid burst of gunfire rang out, and a series of bullets broke through the air and the sound barrier. When they reached the thief's back, they suddenly seemed to sink into a quagmire, and their speed dropped sharply.

The invisible air was stirred up, turning into a viscous, invisible force field behind the thief. The bullet struck the force field and could no longer advance.

Words of Power: A dust-free land, or a pure land free from defilement.

In the past few days, Gao Kui has not been completely oblivious to everything. He has learned a little about some interesting Word Spirits, including the high-level Word Spirit "Dustless Land" which is also from the Wind King lineage.

This Word of Power is known for its defensive capabilities. It ranks 66th in the sequence list, which is relatively low. So far, the hybrids who have awakened this Word of Power generally have bloodlines of grade B or higher.

Grade B is already very impressive among mixed-race individuals. Many of the top specialists in the Executive Department who are rated Grade A only have a Grade B bloodline rating.

The defensive force field vanished in an instant. Using the Dustless Ground to block the incoming bullets, the thief glanced back at Gao Kui, who had fired the shot, and then accelerated his sprint toward the tower crane.

In a few strides, he rushed to the very edge of the Regent Building's eaves, and with a surge of air around him, he leaped up toward the tower crane, nimbly and gracefully traversing the more than twenty-meter distance between the eaves and the tower crane, landing on the crane's boom.

The figure leaping into the air under the moonlight vaguely reminded Gao Kui of the animated series "Cat's Eye," which always thrilled him when he was a child.

In fact, the thief's figure and outline are nothing like the Cat's Eye sisters. The Cat's Eye sisters all have long legs, tight clothes, and curvy figures. The thief is completely covered by a cloak and is wearing a ridiculous Monkey King mask.

This kind of shot and action of leaping under the moonlight is not exclusive to the Cat's Eye sisters. It is also common in other anime and movies related to phantom thieves. It has become a kind of gene imprinted in related artistic works.

As a phantom thief, you'd seem like an imposter if you didn't include a shot like this.

"You actually dared to fire a shot outside Nibelungen! Professor Guderian and the others are in for a headache now!" Chen Motong's slightly surprised exclamation brought Gao Kuipiaofei's attention back to reality.

Gao Kui looked at the thief again. The thief landed lightly on the crane arm, like a professional athlete doing rhythmic gymnastics on a balance beam, without swaying at all.

He accelerated a few more steps, crossed the more than 20-meter gap between the tower crane and the opposite building, landed on the opposite rooftop, turned around to greet Gao Kui and the other two, gave a farewell with a strong sense of provocation, and then slowly walked into the rooftop stairwell to go downstairs.

"Damn, that's arrogant." Gao Kui grinned.

After getting what he wanted, he calmly left, leaving behind a dashing silhouette, just one teaser away from becoming a classic phantom thief in various movies and TV shows.

"There's no way we can catch up. Jumping more than 20 meters in the air from a height of 100 meters twice in a row requires not only extremely strong physical qualities, but also first-class balance, the ability to control the wind, flexibility, and excellent mental qualities."

The person who stole the documents is definitely an elite hybrid.

After a moment's thought, Chen Motong concluded that it was impossible to catch up with the enemy unless she combined her advantages with Gao Kui's.

"It's not necessarily true that we can't catch up."

Not wanting to simply watch the other person leave so calmly, Gao Kui tucked Longinus into his belt, left the suite, and rushed towards the elevator.

The usually quiet hallway was unusually lively as several residents, clearly socialites, were startled by the gunshots and opened their doors to see what had happened.

Upon seeing Gao Kui holding a firearm and Longinus at his waist, he quickly closed the door, for a wise man does not stand under a dangerous wall.

"You betrayed my love..."

"Hello?" Gao Kui took out his phone and answered the call as soon as the urgent ringtone sounded.