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Dragon 2: Pupil of the Mourner

Chapter 13 Reward(2)

By Lisa J ThibodeauxPublished 3 years ago 5 min read
Dragon 2: Pupil of the Mourner
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The car stopped, five hundred meters from the south train station, and a yellow blockade was pulled in front of it. Under the scorching sun, this fine building now looks like some postmodern artwork, only a huge, twisted aluminum frame remains, extremely depressed. Cicadas chirped playfully and crows cawed hoarsely on the frame. The city government's conference to explain the "tofu-dreg project" was held in the afternoon in the city hall, and journalists had already rushed there, scattering papers discarded in their haste all over the floor. Police and security guards hid in the shadows, fanning themselves with their hats.

"Wow. ...... earthquake is that powerful? I did not feel it!" Lu Mingfei marveled. Only by standing in front of this ruin can one truly appreciate how majestic the force that destroyed this building is, and thus in turn feel their insignificance.

It was like two ants coming in front of a turtle shell that had been dead for thousands of years.

"It's hard to imagine. It's mechanically stable, resistant to strong earthquakes of magnitude eight, the aluminum frame is heat-treated, the internal tension has been removed cleanly, and the small earthquake this morning was a level three, so it's reasonable to assume wasn't even damaged. But it collapsed, with not a single piece of glass left intact." Trudy whispered, "I think Raymond felt like the sky was falling when he was in there."

"Follow me and keep your mouth shut." He pushed open the car door.

The security guard there had shouted, "Move the car! The front is closed!"

"Holy shit, the sky is falling." Lu Mingfei sucked in a cold breath.

Chu Zhang gave the security guard two packs of cigarettes, and said he was a seismology student, and wanted to come to take a few pictures for the graduation thesis, the security guard let them both in. At the moment Lu Mingfei stood on a ground of broken glass looking up at the sky, those aluminum beams present a distorted, unusual beauty.

Chu Zhang crouched down and slightly shook those pieces of broken glass inserted into the wooden bench, inserted very deep, you can imagine that standing in that glass rain did not end well.

"Blood stains," Chu Zhang pointed to a piece of ground, "Raymond was standing here."

"I say, senior brother, this ground of broken glass scraps, what can be seen ah?" Lu Mingfei followed Chu Zhang, like a little follower.

"You can not see, I can not see." Chu Zhang said faintly, "But someone can see, this is a kind of ability, can imagine the situation through observation, have this ability you know."

He snapped a baseball cap on his head, a high-resolution camera fixed on the brim, the camera was connected to his phone, and he opened a 3g video call.

"Nono? I need your help." Chu Zhang said.

"Norma has set up the task, I understand everything, now I need you to walk again along the route Raymond took at that time, I will try to recover the situation." Chu Zhang opened the hands-free function, and NuoNuo's voice was heard by Lu Mingfei.

Lu Mingfei was wondering whether to say hello to the little witch when he heard the little witch say, "Who is on your left?"

Lu Mingfei was startled, he did not appear in front of the camera at all.

"Lu Mingfei, he is the commissioner of this operation, and I assist him." Chu Zhang said, "How did you know he was in?"

"The reflection from inside the glass shards in front of you, although the silhouette is relatively small." Nuo said, "Let him flash away, he is there and will interfere with my judgment."

Lu Mingfei had to hide far away in the corner. The little witch's ability to capture details when "profiling" is so strong, of course, he has seen this and does not mind, but she did not have a little greeting to him happy birthday, business, can not help but let some people depressed.

Chu Zhang strolled in the huge space, every detail captured by the camera is transmitted to Nono's side, at the moment he is Raymond, into the South Station of the train that has not yet collapsed, with important documents, crisis, do not know where to hide the enemy.

"Stop, he should have paused here," said Nono, "at this time he just walked into the south train station, he is not familiar with this new station, he is bound to stop and look at the signposts."

Chu Zhang slowly turned his head and scanned the entire south train station.

"Good, Raymond's speech spirit ability is not visual, sweeping a circle probably just takes three or four seconds, so this time he was noticed," Nono said with certainty.

"Now go forward, stop and turn your head. Here Raymond should turn around and notice what's going on around him, it's his habit, and it fits with the Academy's scouting process." Nono said again.

Chu Zhang turned around and looked around as she said. Lu Mingfei watched the little witch and Chu Zhang plays this kind of murder scene game in the corner and couldn't help but be a little envious. Chu Zhang is a good player of this game, face paralysis calm, the little witch told him what he will do, somehow instead look a little cute, replaced by Lu Mingfei will only have a complex expression "is it", "really", " No way", looks very unpromising. But Chu Zhang that faction he can not learn, so dry envy.

"Raymond did not find any suspicious signs at the reconnaissance point, continued to move forward 15 meters to reach the ticket gate, where he found the South Railway Station to collapse," Nono said.

"Sure this is the location?" Chu Zhang asked.

"Sure, he must not be at the location of death when he found out that the south train station collapsed. The place where he died was very close to the bench, with the training Raymond had received, he would have hidden under the bench, but he did not do so, indicating that he found the danger in a place where he could not hide and then ran to the bench to try to take refuge, but it was too late, the most reasonable location nearby is where you are standing now." Nono said.

"Very good." Chu Zhang nodded his head.

"The conclusion is clear, no one could snatch the information from Raymond in such a short time, the information was lost after his death, and it was within minutes after that," Nono said.

"Why within a few minutes?"

Fantasy

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Lisa J Thibodeaux

l love writing.

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