Small Border City
Chapter 396 Small border city
Sun Hang opened a picture on his mobile phone, which was a real photo before Qiao Liu's "Qingzhu Bar" was burned.
This is a postmodern decoration style. The gray main color is like the owner of the bar. It is filled with a cold and cold style that keeps people from thousands of miles away. Even the chandeliers hanging from the ceiling emit. It also has cool colors.
Warm solid wood furniture is hardly seen in the bar, the cold metal texture and angular decorations set off each other, so simple that the wine list with only white and black letters says the name and price of the wine. The names of these wines are also simple. It's clear at a glance, it's not like most bars give a bunch of fancy names to those very common drinks.
If you want to talk about the most eye-catching part of the entire bar, you have to face the two floor-to-ceiling windows on the street. There are about 40 cm gaps in the middle, and two huge ecological fish tanks are embedded inside. , standing in front of the window, I feel like I am in the aquarium.
Against the backdrop of the light, the bubble columns used to supply oxygen in the ecological fish tank look extremely dreamy. The colorful fish shuttle between the aquatic plants and fake stones, and you can even see an octopus hiding in a large size as a decoration. Under the shell, several soft wrist feet are exposed outside, drifting with the flow.
Wait, octopus?
Sun Hang enlarged the picture and took another look. He could be sure that the one hiding under the shell was an octopus, a living octopus, not an octopus doll made of soft glue.
Whether it is octopus, squid or squid, all cephalopods are marine creatures without exception.
Cephalopods cannot survive in a freshwater environment, that is, the ecological fish tank of Qingzhu Bar... simulates a marine ecological and extraordinary freshwater ecology?
These colorful and beautiful little fish are actually all sea fish?
"Interesting." Sun Hang murmured to himself.
Marine ecological fish tanks are more complex than freshwater ecological fish tanks. In addition to the water in the fish tanks must be sea water with appropriate salt concentration, the temperature and water pressure also have high requirements... Unless they are a fanatical aquarium enthusiast, otherwise, they will only It is just used as an interior decoration for ordinary people, and ordinary people will definitely not choose an expensive and more difficult-to-maintain marine ecological fish tank.
"Does Qiao Liu mention her hobbies in her file?" Sun Hang asked.
"Host?" Yang Qi was slightly stunned. "She goes to the gym three times a week and signs up for yoga and Pilates training classes. In addition, she also likes to ride and has a big-name road worth more than 70,000 yuan. Car. She also taught herself French and would buy some English and French versions of books to read…”
"Does she like the ocean?"
"Ocean?" Yang Qi was obviously stunned for a moment in the face of Sun Hang's slightly nonsensical question, and then subconsciously shook her head, "It was not mentioned in the file."
"The ecological fish tanks in Qingzhu Bar are all full of sea fish." Sun Hang said again, "There should be few aquarium shops in Tianfucheng that are capable of installing marine ecological fish tanks... By the way, the things you just asked you to check are found. Is it?”
"I found it." Yang Qi said, "The decoration project of Qingzhu Bar is fully contracted by 'Tianfu Youjia Decoration and Decoration Company'. A colleague from the Public Security Bureau had just contacted the person in charge of the company, and the other party also admitted that he He did have business dealings with Qiao Liu. But when the company's head found the designer who designed the Qingzhu bar, the designer said that the ecological fish tank on the exterior wall was not designed by him. "
Yang Qi paused for a moment and continued: "The designer said that the entire bar adopts a postmodern decoration style. The embedded ecological fish tank in the glass wall near the outside of the street is indeed very attractive to customers, but this and the overall design The language is incompatible, and the properties of the bar cannot be highlighted. According to his original design plan, the floor-to-ceiling windows on both sides will be made into an embedded transparent wine cabinet and will be decorated with cool-toned metal artworks. But the customer strongly It is required to transform the floor-to-ceiling windows on both sides into ecological fish tanks..."
"The customer strongly requested it?" Sun Hang repeated the six words, "and then they changed it for her?"
"The customer's requirements are the highest priority, which is the original words of the designer." Yang Qi replied.
"Then was this marine ecological fish tank installed by this decoration company? Ordinary decoration companies should not be able to do such work. They probably have to outsource it to other aquarium shops or something."
"Well, it's not what they installed, but the aquarium shop responsible for installing the ecological fish tank was not contacted by them, but the customers themselves found it."
"Which aquarium shop is it?" Sun Hang continued to ask, "Even if it is not the person found by the decoration company, the two parties will always leave some information when they cooperate, right?"
Ye Xuan, standing in front of the one-way glass, looked at Sun Hang with a puzzled look on her face. She was a little confused. Why was Sun Hang so persistent about the ecological fish tank... The bartender might have just said it casually. After all, when people are in a daze, they always subconsciously stare at something.
If Qiao Liu likes to stare at the table and stare blankly, would Sun Hang still have to investigate the company that manufactures these tables and chairs?
In Ye Xuan's view, investigating Qiao Liu's real cause of death is far more important than investigating these two ecological fish tanks.
"They are still looking for those contract files. Those contract files have been around for a while, and I'm afraid they are not that easy to find... they have been found!" Yang Qi's tone suddenly became excited, "The name of that aquarium shop is 'Senyang Aquarium'!"
"Which block is this store?" Sun Hang asked immediately.
"No, it's not in Tianfu City!" Yang Qi's tone was a little excited, "I checked the business license of this aquarium store, and its registered address is in Jinlu County!!"
"Jinlu County!" Ye Xuan, who was still questioning Sun Hang last second, couldn't help but widen her eyes and looked at Sun Hang in surprise.
It’s Jinlu County again!
This is definitely not a coincidence!
This...is this a man's intuition? Ye Xuan looked at Sun Hang in shock.
Why can he grasp the key points of the problem from a casual sentence? Did this guy turn on a plug-in from the perspective of God?
"Are the bodies of these sea fish found at the fire scene in Qingzhu Bar? Even if it is roasted into coke, it's OK." Sun Hang asked again.
"I'll go and ask the sheriff in charge of on-site investigations from the Public Security Bureau."
Two minutes later, Yang Qi's voice sounded again in the communication channel: "They said no, and no corpses of aquatic creatures, including fish, were found at the scene."
"Even if the two fish tanks explode, the fish cannot fly out a few streets..." Sun Hang said, "There is only one possibility... the one who killed Qiao Liu and set fire to Qingzhu Bar. People took away the sea fish raised in the ecological fish tank of Qingzhu Bar. "
"Do you think those fish... have something to do with the A11 organization?"
"Since you can't find any abnormal communication and social records, you might as well guess whether these sea fish are the tools Qiao Liu used to communicate with the A11 organization?" Sun Hang said.
"Can this Qiao Liu talk to Yu?! This is so cool!" Fukada Miki's voice penetrated from the side.
"It's not necessarily talking to fish, there are too many ways to convey information... The color, number, and movement of fish can be used as codes for conveying intelligence. As long as someone can remotely manipulate these fish, he These fish can be used to convey information and orders from the organization to Qiao Liu. "Yang Qi's head has also turned completely. "The address of this 'Senyang Aquarium' is No. 591, Shengli Avenue, Jinlu County. I'll inform Wang Xiyi now and ask her to pay attention to this address! "
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A small town in the border area of Shuzhou, Jinlu County.
Wang Xiyi's wings were fully expanded, with a wingspan of nearly seven meters. The wing membrane covered with metallic scales cut through the rushing wind and glided at high speed in the sky.
The black windproof jacket and black wings almost blend into the night, only a flash of flame that flashes from time to time at the end of the tail occasionally reveals Wang Xiyi's whereabouts.
Looking from the ground, it is like a phore fire moving rapidly in the sky.
Wang Xiyi opened her eyes. She had completely adapted to this environment. Even without wearing goggles, the high-speed airflow would not have any impact on her field of vision. A transparent protective film made by hardening the secretions on the inner side of the eyelids covered her. Above her eyes... let alone the airflow generated during high-speed flight, even if she fired a pistol into her eyes, the bullet could not penetrate the film less than two millimeters thick.
Sun Hang said this was called "bullet-proof eye poop", but Wang Xiyi didn't refute it, just eye poop, just eye poop, anyway, it's enough to be wind-proof and bullet-proof.
She could vaguely see the outline of the city below - although Jinlu County is a small border town, to be honest, the economic development is not bad.
Before the whole city evacuated, the permanent population of Jinlu County was not the tens of thousands as Wang Xiyi imagined, but a total of 190,000.
There are a large number of high-rise buildings with a height of more than 50 floors in the urban area. The straight office buildings form a dense reinforced concrete forest. The commercial center, which is not small, can vaguely glimpse the prosperous scene before the evacuation.
There is only one reason why Jinlu County is located on the border and can develop to such a scale - there is a rare earth mine with not small reserves here.
According to the plan of the Disaster Countermeasures Committee, after the eternal night fades, Jinlu County will definitely find a way to recover it... But now, shrinking the defense line is their only choice. Resources like rare earth mines that will not be lost if they are left untouched will not have much impact on temporary abandonment.
After all, it is impossible for the weirdo to secretly hollow out this rare earth mine while the entire city of Jinlu County is evacuating.
"Damn, is Jinlu County that big?" Wang Xiyi muttered in her heart.
As the ace hunter of Tianfu City, she has also been to many places in Shuzhou to carry out missions in the past two years, but this is her first time here in Jinlu County.
Wang Xiyi slightly raised the height and avoided a towering office building. Then she turned around in the air and braked suddenly, diving against the glass curtain wall of another office building.
The wit watch on her wrist has been adjusted to the exact time. She decided to start searching from the most developed commercial area now, and then slowly cross the entire city from east to west.
At this moment, a beep sounded in her headphones.
It is a communication request from Tianfu City.
"I have arrived in Jinlu County, what's wrong?" Wang Xiyi connected the communication and spoke.
"Priority is given to the investigation of the 'Senyang Aquarium' located at 591 Shengli Avenue, and we found that this store may have some connections with Qiao Liu and the A11 organization," said Yang Qi.
"'Senyang Aquarium'? Do you mean... the two big fish tanks in Qiao Liu's shop?" Wang Xiyi had a very good memory. "Is this shop equipped with it?"
"Yes. We suspect that Joe Liu uses those fish to contact the A11 organization."
"Okay, I'll go there now!" Wang Xiyi responded.
She wished she would complete the task sooner, the better... Sun Hang hadn't come to find her for a while. As a human-shaped black dragon, Wang Xiyi's actual needs were much greater than that of normal humans.
She kept a suffocating in her heart, wanting to vent her vent on Sun Hang.
"It's better to finish the work before ten o'clock." Wang Xiyi said in her heart, flapping her wings and flew towards the north of the city.
Shengli Avenue is one of the four north-south main roads in Jinlu County. It passes through this bustling commercial area and flies along the road below, and you will soon reach the address Yang Qi sent.
As Wang Xiyi gets closer to the target location, the height of the surrounding buildings is rapidly decreasing - unlike the prosperous south of the city, the development level of the north of the city is very obvious different from that of the south of the city. Most of the blocks here are old and dilapidated. It is rare to see buildings with a floor height of more than six floors.
But even so, Wang Xiyi did not dare to lower the flight altitude too low - the number of telephone poles here is too dense, and if you are not careful, you may directly hit the wire passing through the street.
But these black wires are still difficult to distinguish with the naked eye under the shadow of the night...
"This place...is always uncomfortable..."
Just as Wang Xiyi was thinking this, the weird watch on her wrist suddenly exuded an extremely insignificant enthusiasm.
"Um?"
Wang Xiyi remembers it very clearly. Yang Qi said that the farthest sensing distance of this watch is one kilometer... That is to say, the target he is looking for is within a range of one kilometer?
Wang Xiyi landed on the ground and closed her wings.
"It seems that something really hides here." She murmured to herself, and instead walked forward.
The temperature emitted by the watch gradually increases, and this sensing function is two-way, and the other party can also sense that there is a "homologous object" approaching him... It is almost impossible not to alert the enemy.
But Wang Xiyi didn't care.
The other party can't escape.