Star City Detective I Royal Cat and Mice

The handcuffs on Bai Yan's wrists have not been removed yet, but the place of his chat with Lime has changed from the back kitchen floor to the coffee shop.The coffee shop was closed, and there was only one light on next to the sofa where the two of them were sitting.On the table in front of the two of them was a half-eaten herb-roasted chicken. Bai Yan admired Lime, who was missing a leg, from the bottom of his heart, but of course it was limited to his cooking skills.

"So——" Bai Yan asked after taking a sip of the white wine Lime handed him, "Zhan Qingyun is still looking for and helping those children who have experienced similar experiences. After speaking, the door of the coffee shop was pushed open with a bang.Zhan Qingyun, who was sweating profusely, rushed to the sofa where the two were sitting panting.After being stunned for a while, Zhan Qingyun suddenly understood something. He stared at Lime with a sigh of relief and said, "It seems that you two have a good chat. Where are you talking?"

"Talk about how you got the scar on your hand." Lime raised his glass to Zhan Qingyun, and then drank it down.

"I told you, don't scare him anymore."

"But, wasn't it you who asked me to find ways to keep him here?" Lime pursed his lips at Bai Yan, "Look, what a boss."

Zhan Qingyun stopped arguing with Lime, just said "Go, come home with me" and walked towards the door.

"Who? Me?" Bai Yan asked Lime with his eyes wide open.Lyme spread his hands and said, "Otherwise? Is he going to invite me, a lame old guy, to go back with him? Forget it, when we were on a mission, we used to curl up in a culvert under a bridge. For three days and three nights, I’ve had enough of being with him—can you imagine, in a palm-sized culvert, soaked to the chest by the stench of river water, and a leech would swim over from time to time—” Lyme said Tear off a strip of meat with sauce from the roast chicken and put it on Bai Yan's forearm.

"By the time you find out, they've already bitten your skin, and by the time you react to shake them off—" Lime pressed the chicken on Bai Yan's arm and pushed hard, "It's too late, they're already deep Dig deep into your body, maybe with a piece of tail leaking out, but the harder you pull, the deeper they go. Get between your skin and muscles, go in hard. A , followed by one, from head to toe, from chest to back, that feeling—” Rhyme closed his eyes, hissing in his throat.Bai Yan's hairs were standing on end, the acid water gushed up from his throat, and the skin all over his body was inexplicably itchy.

"Are you going to spit out all the supper here?" Zhan Qingyun turned to stare at Bai Yan and asked.Bai Yan got up with a whoosh, and brushed off the crushed chicken on his arm with a few strokes.He rushed to the door in two steps, pushed the door open and ran out before Zhan Qingyun.

As soon as he went out, he felt the chilly autumn night wind blowing towards his face, and Bai Yan stood there dumbfounded and couldn't help shivering.Afterwards, Zhan Qingyun threw his coat on Bai Yan's head.This made Bai Yan a little annoyed, he tore off his coat and threw it back.Of course, this action was not smooth, because the handcuffs were still on Bai Yan's wrist.Bai Yan raised his hand in front of Zhan Qingyun.But Zhan Qingyun just twitched the corner of his mouth, turned and left.

"Why should I go home with you?" Bai Yan chased after him and asked.

"You can choose not to go." Zhan Qingyun walked quickly, he had already turned around the bamboo fence in front of the coffee shop.Bai Yan had to trot to keep up with him.

"Of course I can choose not to go! Uncuff the damn handcuffs, I'm leaving now."

"That's impossible. I just want to ensure your safety." Zhan Qingyun answered briefly and then added, "Ensure your safety during the period before you drop out of school."

Safety?Bai Yan snorted disdainfully from his nose.As everyone knows, New Star City is a prosperous, livable city with good law and order, especially compared with the neighboring Star City.On the contrary, Bai Yan felt that being with Zhan Qingyun was the biggest insecurity for him.

"Is there nothing else we can talk about besides dropping out of school?"

"What do you want to talk about? That Rhyme who not only lost a leg but also lost a brain hasn't talked to you enough?"

"I want to hear it from you."

"tell you what"

"I heard that since more than ten years ago, you have privately rescued some children from the poor areas of Xingcheng Drugstore Street, rescued them from some disgraceful professions, and then changed their identities and sent them to Nova City or cities farther away go, they-"

"Sure enough—" Zhan Qingyun sighed, "You know more than I imagined. Well, even if Lime talked to you about this, what does it have to do with you?"

"The relationship between this matter and me is that the children you rescued have the same characteristics as my age and similar appearance."

"Lyme!" Zhan Qingyun gritted his teeth and cursed in a low voice after hearing Bai Yan's words, and his steps became faster and faster.

"What is your purpose in helping them?"

"That's not what you should know."

"Of course I have the right to know, because you are forcing me to drop out of school."

"Well, if you must know - because I want them to stay away from some nasty things and enjoy a normal life like other children."

"Heh, in this way, in addition to the titles of Professor Zhan and Police Officer Zhan, you should add a philanthropist Zhan?" Bai Yan said with a smile, "Do you think this reason is valid?"

"It's pretty solid standing, in my opinion."

"Then, if you want me to quit school, you also regard me as one of them? If I quit school, what do you want to do? Leave here incognito like them? Don't you think it's a bit ridiculous? A hero?" Bai Yan said the last three words Biting extra hard, "Xingfu should really give you an award for caring about delinquent minors or something. But there is one obvious situation that you can't fail to notice. If Rhyme's description is correct-they are all orphan."

Zhan Qingyun suddenly stopped.

"And I'm not!" Bai Yan roared, "I have a family, I have a father. Even if his business is not very decent, indeed, I am ashamed of his business, and we often have some quarrels, but I will never do anything to betray him, let alone leave him half a step!"

Bai Yan finished speaking in one breath, and then waited for Zhan Qingyun to say something.