Start with the Readers Chapter 33: Delegation
The lady who walked into the Essinger Detective Agency was about twenty-five or sixteen years old, wearing a long red dress, with fair skin, plump body, black hair like a waterfall, blue eyes full of charm, very attractive people.
Since Detective Essinger happened to be absent, the servants at home brought the lady to Abner's office in a state of dismay.
When he saw the lady's appearance for the first time, Abner was slightly taken aback, but after all, he is a well-informed person in the information age, so he quickly returned to normal and greeted politely: "You Okay, ma'am. I am Abner, Detective Stanton's apprentice and assistant. Detective Stanton has not returned yet. If you have something to entrust, you can wait until 11 o'clock."
The lady narrowed her eyes and smiled when she heard the words. Although it was just a simple action, it was very eye-catching. She looked at Abner slowly, and said in a very pleasant voice: "I actually came to see you, Mr. Blaine. You are already a well-known detective nearby, and I have some small matters to entrust to you. "
Abner was a little surprised when he heard this. You must know that although he has a little fame, the people who really come to him for business are actually people who are not rich and want to get cheap. The clothes and jewelry on the lady in front of him They are all expensive, but they don't look like people who can't afford to entrust a teacher.
However, since someone came to send money, Abner would not refuse. He first took the lady to the reception area to sit down, and then asked: "Ma'am, it is an honor to be recognized by you. Excuse me, can I What can help you?"
"Detective Bryan, just call me Rey." After the lady named Rey announced her name, she continued, "I would like to entrust you to investigate the hobbies and daily travels of these gentlemen. Get used to it, the more detailed the better."
While speaking, she took out a folded letter paper from her bag and put it on the coffee table in front of the sofa.
Abner bowed his lower body, then unfolded the letter paper, and carefully read the name on it.
"Lord Natos, Viscount Conslake, Baron Gramere, Baron New Glass..."
"There are 12 in total, all of them are single aristocratic men... Good guy, is this lady going to build a fish pond?!" Abner saw that the corners of his eyes twitched a little, and subconsciously complained in his heart. Then, he recalled the information about these nobles in the teacher's information, and gradually got a bottom line in his heart. However, he still pretended to be difficult, frowned slightly and said, "This commission is not complicated, but it is very cumbersome, and it will take a long period of time and a lot of help to complete."
"I understand, I will pay you a satisfactory price." Ms. Rey nodded slightly, and then inadvertently gave Abner a wink, giving enough hints.
Abner turned a blind eye to this, pondered for a moment and said:
"20 pounds, it involves a nobleman, I have to bear a certain risk, so the price of this entrustment is 20 pounds! In addition, you have to give me at least a week."
As a matter of fact, most of what this lady wants is in the teacher's database.
"The price is very reasonable, I accept it! Well, I can pay you 5 pounds in advance, and I will come back on Friday, and if things progress, I will pay you another 5 pounds. The rest I'll give it to you after it's all finished!" Ms. Rey seemed quite rich and powerful, and she didn't counter-offer at all.
"Then let's sign the contract!" Abner took out the standard contract, signed it first, and handed it to Ms. Rey.
The other party seemed to sign without even looking at it.
After sending Ms. Rey out of the house and waking up the servant who was still out of his mind, Abner returned to his office and re-examined the commission. This is his habit, and it is also the need for the 'reasoning student' to play.
"On the surface, Ms. Rey seems to be just a social butterfly who selects high-quality men. This is more in line with her clothing temperament and the content of the commission. But she always gives me a sense of danger and disobedience! In addition, there are some problems with the list of noble men she provided...Although they are all single, they don't seem to be in a good condition. According to the teacher's information, these people are either already down, their financial situation is not optimistic, or they have offended the real power temporarily. Losing power... In short, these are people who have a certain status but no noble essence!"
"As for Ms. Rey's choice of these targets, one reason may be that these people deceived her because of their glamorous appearance. But this may be very low. That lady is not a fuel-efficient lamp at first glance, and even if there are one or two The superb acting skills have deceived her, and not everyone is like this! Well, the second possibility is that these people were carefully selected by Ms. Rey, and falling out of power is her expected goal!"
"But what is the significance of her choice? She is very rich, so she wants to find a man of status but embarrassing to improve her social status? It is possible, but this kind of lady is the target of many nobles. There is no need to find a detective to listen to information, as long as you go to a dance party, the other party will be hooked... unless her money comes from a bad way!"
"Another possibility is that she wants to use this type of man to achieve something. For example, use him as a springboard to climb higher branches. Or... Huh? This Baron Gramere seems to be in the novel Appeared!"
Halfway through the reasoning, Abner suddenly narrowed his eyes. He silently opened his pure white eyes, recalled the content in "Lord of the Mysteries", and suddenly had a new idea:
"Baron Gramere turned out to be the unlucky guy who will be replaced by 'Vice Admiral Hurricane' Qilingus in the future... Looking at it this way, the nobles on the list actually have another thing in common, that is, none of them Hire Extraordinary bodyguards!"
"So, Ms. Rey is choosing a suitable partner for Qilingus' disguise in advance? That's right, after Qilingus replaced the unlucky guy, he quickly mastered the other person's habits, hobbies, and tone Personality, this is obviously because someone gave him the corresponding information in advance. And such private information is easier to obtain such private information only from beauties who are closely related to Baron Gramere..."
After thinking this far, Abner has roughly figured out the context of the matter, and he can really confirm it with just one or two more evidences. This kind of reasoning that knows the process of inversion of results is indeed the simplest.
"Hey, now that I think about it, that Ms. Rey is not necessarily a real beauty! You must know that there is an organization behind Qilingos' move that cannot be named. Ruen is considered an ally in this series of incidents. Moreover, after Qilingus died, his pirate fleet was also taken over by the Witch Church... So it is reasonable to send a witch to collect information in advance!"
Thinking of this, Abner felt a little headache, and sympathized with the servant in the living room who still seemed to have lost his soul.
"It's better for me to pretend I don't know about this matter. It involves the ancient sun god. As long as she doesn't come to provoke me, I don't need to deliberately do bad things. It may not be broken under the interference of the 'writer'." Thing... Besides, the nobles on the list are not good people, except for a few one or two, they are all good-for-nothings."
After Abner made a decision in his mind, he didn't immediately sort out the information, but planned to change his reasoning logic a little, and then discuss it with the teacher. It is imperative to be defensive. For a suspected 'witch', Abner does not have the slightest trust, so he has to be prepared for unexpected accidents.
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After Rey came out of the detective agency, he showed a smile full of interest on his face, and whispered to himself: "It's very interesting little detective, you can ignore my charm! Hmph, sooner or later you will be addicted to joy. Yuli can't extricate herself!" Then, she boarded a carriage that had already parked by the side of the road.
There is already a person waiting in the carriage at this time, that is a young girl with a pure face ~IndoMTL.com~ and a very literary temperament.
Seeing Rey return to the car at this moment, while bowing slightly, the young girl also asked curiously: "Master Rey, we can easily collect such simple information, why do we need to spend money to entrust For the detective?"
"Because this is more natural and more in line with our identities, even if the official Extraordinary investigates, they will not have much suspicion. They just think that I am a mistress who is good at looking for opportunities. And if this step is missing, there will be no explanation It is clear why we are familiar with the habits of a nobleman and can easily meet him. In this way, as long as we are investigated, it is easy to be regarded as suspicious." Ms. Rey explained with a smile.
"But aren't those nobles so downcast that they don't even have Extraordinary bodyguards? Why did they attract an official investigation?" The young girl was still puzzled.
"It's just in case. And the desolation on the surface may not be true. We need to reserve means to deal with accidents." Rey shook his head, pointed at the young girl with his finger, and said, "Lina, you are just too careless. You have no defense against the people you develop. Now the other party has fallen into the hands of the officials and confessed you. If I hadn't been with you before in that loan shark gang You will be ambushed by the official team!"
"I didn't expect Turner to be such a waste that he could even fail the business of selling people." Lina said a little discouraged.
"Have you checked how the person you developed was exposed? You don't want to avenge him, but you have to be a warning." Rey asked.
"I haven't found out what's going on... But before Turner's accident, a bounty hunter investigated the usury incident. Maybe Turner's arrest was related to her. I'm planning to start an investigation from her. By the way, that bounty hunter seems to be well-known in the East District, called 'Arbitrator'”