Of course, Du Ruoying was not happy for long.

Moriarty returned soon after, with a relaxed smile on his face.The two police officers behind him also looked relieved: "You can go."

Although he had expected that it would not be so easy to deal with him, but it was also a bit difficult to accept this failure in a short period of time.

"Is it all over?" she asked unwillingly.

"That's right, it's over. Fortunately, we brought in an interpreter temporarily, otherwise I really don't know how long it will be delayed." Officer Yuan said, "However, although the matter has been clarified—Student Du Ruoying, I still have to say you One sentence! Next time, don’t casually accuse someone of being an illegal immigrant, you know? Anyway, he is also the one who saved you, so you should be grateful. Don’t let foreign friends see our jokes, okay?”

"That's right," Officer Lu said, "Be careful of making Professor William angry, and I'll kill you at the end of the semester, hahaha."

"……?!!professor?!"

"William James Ryan Morty, the specially-appointed English professor of your college, have you never met him at school?" Police Officer Lu said speechlessly.

"No..." She scratched her head depressingly, "Officer, you must have been deceived by him, right? We have never had such a professor in our school."

"Where do you think this is, we are so easy to deceive?" Officer Lu said, "Of course we called your school to confirm."

Hearing this, she finally felt completely lost.Holding the last chance of luck, she asked in a low voice: "The thing about the leaves—wasn't he doing it?"

"It's true that he did it." Officer Yuan said, "But it was also to protect you."

"In order to prevent the hooligans from coming back to trouble you, he wanted to give them a little warning, but he couldn't speak Chinese, so he used stick figures to show them that he knew their crimes and hoped that they would not come to your door again. However, You can see so much information just by looking at each other, which is really Sherlock Holmes's reasoning ability, professor." Officer Lu said, "It's you, student Du Ruoying, what's the matter with you? Why do you act like you don't know anything?"

"But... maybe I was scared at the time, hahaha...ha..." She could only return an embarrassed smile.

What kind of story did Moriarty make up to convince everyone so quickly that she didn't dare to act rashly now.

"We have also confirmed the matter of the jammer and the deep pit. Wang Fanfan admitted that it was her prank." Officer Lu said, "Sorry for wronging you before."

"fine."

"Little Lu, go and drive them back to school." Officer Yuan waved his hand and asked Officer Lu to lead them out of the police station.

The moment she stepped out of the hall, Du Ruoying couldn't help narrowing her eyes slightly due to the strong light coming from outside.In the backlight, she saw a familiar figure in police uniform walking towards her: "Xiaoying, are you alright?"

"Ah, it's brother." Du Ruoying's eyes wandered aside, avoiding staring at him, "Well, it's okay. Did you come here specially to find me?"

"Well, the task of attendance happened to be finished ahead of schedule, so I'll come back to find you quickly." The voice was very gentle, full of genuine concern.Not at all like Moriarty.

"Ruoxian is your brother?!" Officer Lu said in surprise, "I'll go, this is really unexpected..."

Moriarty looked at Du Ruoxian calmly.He is nearly 1.9 meters tall and wears a neat light blue police uniform.The short, dark and fluffy hair exudes a circle of maroon luster in the sun, and the marks of the police cap can be vaguely seen.The eyebrows and eyes under the broken hair looked somewhat similar to Du Ruoying's, gentle yet sharp.The most noticeable thing is the black wristband on his left hand, with a faintly visible scar on the inside.

Du Ruoxian felt Moriarty's gaze, so he returned his scrutiny: "Who is this?"

"Professor William, our English teacher." Du Ruoying introduced to her brother, and then said to Moriarty in English, "William, this is my brother, Du Ruoxian."

Although he didn't want Moriarty to know about any of his family members, he didn't want his brother to know about Moriarty's existence.However, Du Ruoying's instinct to pretend to be good still made Du Ruoying introduce each other to them subconsciously.

"English teacher?" Du Ruoxian asked suspiciously, "I thought it was a math teacher." It seemed that he was deliberately speaking to Moriarty, and he used English.

"Oh?" Moriarty smiled, "Why do you say that?"

"Because—I saw that you were very interested in this glass door when you came out of the door. Your eyes scanned its outer edge from top to bottom, then along the bottom edge, and finally, There seems to be some kind of confirmation, and you seem a little satisfied.

"Generally speaking, people in the construction industry don't observe an ordinary glass door in this way. At most, they care about the material and structure of the door-but what you look at is the size."

After hearing Du Ruoxian's analysis, Du Ruoying looked back curiously, and suddenly realized: "Golden rectangle!"

"That's right," Du Ruoxian said, "The shape of the glass door is a rectangle with the golden ratio."

Moriarty narrowed his eyes halfway, and nodded to Du Ruoxian: "I see. Your conjecture is not completely wrong, in fact, I did teach mathematics - to be honest, you remind me of an old friend... "

The scene before him overlapped with another encounter many years ago on the Noah Dick cruise ship, when another person made a similar reasoning about him, following the spiral staircase on the cruise ship.However, the mild-tempered young detective in front of him is obviously not the same person as the smug detective who was smoking cigarettes back then.

Thinking of this, Moriarty showed a relieved smile.He said to Du Ruoxian: "In this case, please let me give you a reasoning in return—"

A trace of surprise flashed across Du Ruoxian's eyes, then he nodded in agreement.

"You are very talented to be a criminal policeman, but your career has not been smooth, probably because you have made fatal mistakes before? You seem to like reasoning quite a lot, which has influenced your sister. Like you, I like Holmes very much. The relationship between you brothers and sisters is very good, but there is still a estrangement, that's because—your sister once hurt you deeply, and she still feels guilty about it..."

"Enough!" Du Ruoying grabbed Moriarty's clothes and stopped her.

Looking at her slightly trembling lower lip, Moriarty smiled apologetically: "I'm sorry, I was too rude."

"Hey, hello," Police Officer Lu quickly broke the awkward atmosphere, and said to Du Ruoying and Moriarty, "Can you please change the time and place for speaking practice, the chatter is not over yet? Let's go, You are not in a hurry, I am still in a hurry."

So Du Ruoxian reached out and touched Xiaoying's head, and said with a smile, "Well, let's go."

After watching them leave, Du Ruoxian returned to the police station.He borrowed the case report of the delinquent juvenile from Police Officer Yuan, and then slowly read it.As the documents were turned page by page, his expression became more and more serious.

Just to warn bad boys, is it necessary to draw two identical leaves?Moreover, Xiaoying's English ability should be enough to act as his translator. Why did she choose such a troublesome method to express her warning?

In addition, the color of the soil also made him very concerned.When they met, he noticed that there was a line of red and black mud stains on Moriarty's cuff, which was the same color as the mud in the deep pit.

But this case happened a few days ago.In the height of summer, does anyone really wear the same clothes for days without changing them?What's more, apart from the dirt stain, the entire body of the English professor is as clean as new, as if it hasn't been washed for a few days...

What an incredible professor.To be honest, it had been a long time since he had met someone who made him feel so puzzling.He couldn't help but recall the reasoning that the professor had just given him.

The first point pointed out that my official career was not going well, which is easy to understand-my own sister, whose name and appearance are so similar, but colleagues can't think of me.In addition, she encountered such a dangerous misunderstanding before, but no one came forward for him at all. The person who really knew the truth just secretly gave him the news and asked him to come back early.All this shows how insignificant his position in the police station is.If this is not a problem caused by incompetence, it can only be because of his tainted past.

The second one is also easy, because it was Du Ruoxian who first took the initiative to deduce the other party's identity.So it's not hard to guess that he likes to reason about that.

As for the third point, estrangement and guilt... just seeing Xiaoying dare not look directly at him, can so much information be deduced?This professor is really not easy.

Thinking of this, Du Ruoxian stretched the black wristband on his hand a little longer, trying to completely cover up the scar on the inside.His gaze finally landed on the handwritten English signature on the information column, and he couldn't help frowning at the eerie name—William James Ryan Morty.

It's like deliberately showing off a bad meaning...

The afternoon sun shines through the camphor tree outside the window and the louver grille inside the window, casting a blurred light and shadow, which makes his thoughts also fall into a blur.

"So there's really no need to convict?" Du Ruoying asked Officer Lu in the police car.

Officer Lu, who was sitting in the driver's seat, looked up at the traffic lights at the intersection. There were more than 90 seconds left in the bright red countdown.He sighed lightly, shrugged his shoulders and said, "What crime, you say, what crime? You are going to paint the wall, and I can say vandalism. You paint a leaf, and you want me to judge it?" What crime? I said you, little girl, do you have a grudge against your foreign teacher? He saved you anyway, why do you want him to go to jail?"

Du Ruoying curled her lips in displeasure, and said aggrievedly, "I just asked casually..." Then she turned to Moriarty again: "So where did you get your legal identity?"

Moriarty glanced at Officer Lu, knowing that the other party couldn't understand English, so he explained calmly, "The reward for mission two."

"...Miscalculation." She covered her face sadly, "What kind of fairy system is this, that can actually legalize your identity--by the way, you were not a professor of mathematics before, how did you teach English? "

"That's right," Moriarty smiled, "The system does allow me to choose a subject at random, and I really want to choose mathematics, but I didn't expect that there is no mathematics course in your college. Among the remaining options, Only English is more suitable.”

"Ah... In this way, I understand." She glanced at him helplessly, weaving in her mind the wonderful scene of him giving them English lessons.Presumably, the group of face-control students around me will be crazy with joy, if there is such a handsome foreign teacher to teach them English in the courtyard.Maybe the absentee rate will hit a record low.

Wake up, girls!This guy is not the male god teacher he dreams of, this guy is definitely a demon in human skin! !

"You understand, but I haven't understood yet." Moriarty's voice brought her back to reality. "The Department of Architecture—how can you not study mathematics at all?"

"Because what you learned in high school is enough." She replied nonchalantly.

"Oh? Do you think so? I think mathematics is the foundation of all disciplines, and even perceptual art disciplines such as music cannot completely ignore its existence. Architecture, as a discipline that should be rational, has an important role in mathematics. Is it really advisable to have such a shallow taste in the field?" Moriarty was obviously not persuaded by her, his tone was calm and slow, full of jokes, "Is it because of laziness, or because of stupidity? If not, then you face What kind of education method is right? Can this education method really train students to become qualified architects?"

"...I want you to take care of it." Du Ruoying, who was suddenly teased, felt a burst of displeasure.

"Hey, of course I don't intend to care about it. I'm just curious." He spread his hands and smiled very relieved.Under the slightly raised eyelashes, the red eyes are arrogant and lazy, "I will take care of it right now, there is only one thing - and that is task three."

She silently turned and looked out the window, noncommittal to his words, but the subtle changes in her pupils could not escape his eyes.

Obviously, she was afraid.

Just like a wild cat playing with a mouse, the more you see the struggling emotions of the mouse, the more fun you can feel.An inexplicable pleasure made Moriarty raise his mouth.

He opened his eyes halfway, moved closer to her slightly, and then whispered to her in a decibel that only she could hear: "I see that you promised so hastily before, and there may be something that you haven't noticed in time, so now I kindly remind you ——The difficulty of this mission is Level 2. From there, it’s all about true crime.”

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