Arknights, Suika's Messenger Journey

"Hmm? It's a bit like..."

Suika's expression was a little confused. She tried hard to recall the past. The words on the facehugger were indeed similar to the Chinese characters.

Xingxiong nodded. He was now certain that the girl in front of him had a learning talent similar to his own. She was the type who would fall asleep as soon as she read a book.

"I'm leaving first." After finishing breakfast, Xingxiong walked out of the house, leaving behind Suika, who was still wondering what the words were written on the facehugger, eating the breakfast in front of her bite by bite.

"Forget it, who cares what's written on that bug? It's just a dream, right, Star Bear...

Well, where are the people?"

By the time Suixiang came out of her thoughts, Hoshiguma had been gone for who knows how long.

She looked up at the time and found that she had been up for more than an hour.

"Oh!" After quickly finishing the food in front of her, Suixiang quickly picked up the messenger bag and ran towards the post office.

There were not many letters today, and it was past noon when she finished delivering them back and forth. After considering the invitation from Angel, she decided to take a look at Penguin Logistics.

The Emperor is a beast master who is relatively friendly to humans, and he is also very protective of his offspring. It is always a good idea to make friends with him.

I knocked on the door and walked in to see the emperor jumping down from the bar.

"Oh, my good half-sister, you finally came."

……

As soon as the emperor spoke, Suixiang felt that she might have come to the wrong place.

"Sorry!" He turned around and walked to the door, closed it, and looked at the sign. Yes, this was Penguin Logistics.

Suika then reopened the door.

The emperor was also confused by Suika's move.

"Sister, what are you doing?"

"Hiss, is your boss's brain?"

Texas was the bartender today, so the unemployed Exia was sitting not far away. Suika looked at her and pointed at her head.

The Angel suppressed his laughter and shook his head

Suika looked at the emperor who came to her and stretched out her hands to hold his shoulders (do penguins have shoulders?)

"Emperor, calm down..."

Once they sat down at the bar, the emperor recounted his miserable experiences of the past few days.

Ever since he drank Suika's wine and got drunk, he found that other wines tasted like chewing wax when he woke up. The wine that was originally quite good now seemed extremely inferior.

This made the emperor very uncomfortable.

You have to know that he is a rapper who needs alcohol to numb his nerves and increase the divergence of his thoughts.

But now, as soon as he drank the wine, he felt uncomfortable all over. How could he bear it?

The key point is that the dragon gate is not small. Even if we know that Suixiang is the messenger, it will be quite difficult to find Suixiang in such a big dragon gate unless we arrange people to wait for her.

Penguin Logistics is short of staff now, so he can't stake out the place, so he can only ask Texas and the others to pay more attention, and if they find Suika, invite her to the bar.

He was ecstatic when Exia and Texas came back yesterday and said they met Suika and extended an invitation.

Although he didn't see her last night, he was already satisfied to meet Suika the next day.

"So that's how it is. I understand..."

Suika nodded, then took the cup from Texas and poured a glass for the emperor.

After taking the wine, the emperor did not drink it all in a hurry. Instead, he smelled it first, felt the unique aroma of the wine, and then tasted it in small sips.

Seeing Texas's excited expression after smelling the wine, she picked up the wine gourd, shook it, and poured her a small cup.

"Would you like to try it? But this wine is a bit strong."

"You can try it. This small cup won't be a problem." The emperor took a glance and continued speaking with his eyes fixed on his own wine glass.

"Thank you!" Texas thanked politely before taking the glass.

"Let me try it, I want to try it too."

When the Angel of Power not far away saw this, he rushed over like a college student who saw his roommate brought food, not caring whether the food was delicious or not, he just wanted to try it first.

"Wow, so spicy!" After taking a lick, Archangel jumped up like a cat with its fur standing on end, covered his mouth, ran to the back, took a can of soda and drank it in one gulp.

In response to this, Suika could only say that although she didn't know how much the Angel of Death could drink, it was the first time she saw someone licking wine with their tongue like a cat.

Texas seemed to have gotten used to Exia's behavior. He picked up the licked wine and took a sip without changing his expression.

"Not bad, but this wine is a bit strange. It doesn't taste strong, but it makes you feel drunk."

After a brief moment of savoring it, Texas opened his eyes and said.

"Texas, you have good taste. This wine is indeed not as strong as the Shaodaozi from Yumen.

But the aroma and aftertaste are much stronger than Shaodaozi, and most importantly, it doesn’t burn your throat like Shaodaozi does.”

The Emperor took over Texas' words and praised him.

By the time Suika walked out of the bar, it was already past four in the afternoon.

Inside the bar, Exia and Texas were each raising their head and their feet, preparing to throw the once again drunk Emperor into the backyard...

Chapter 27: This Land Eats People Without Being Picky

A week later

As usual, Suixiang finished her breakfast and then strolled to the post office.

When I was picking out the letters, I saw one from Grandma Wang's family and a smile appeared on my face.

After putting the letter and other things into the small backpack, she walked straight back.

After receiving the letter, Grandma Wang seemed very happy and gave Cuixiang a small piece of sugar cube.

The next morning, everything was normal when she went out, but when she came back from the post office with the letter, she found a big fire on the street.

She quickly ran to check the situation.

Arriving at the fire, Suika's face turned pale.

Because the house that caught fire was Grandma Wang’s residence.

She quickly ran towards Wang Po's breakfast shop, hoping that she would still be taking out breakfast as usual this morning.

But when I got here, I found that the dim sum shop was empty. Grandma Wang didn't sell dim sum at all this morning.

By the time she turned around and went back, the people from the Longmen Fire Department had arrived at the scene and the fire was put out half an hour later.

But the place where Grandma Wang and her family lived had been burned so badly that no one could be seen.

The Guards officers who arrived later took over the area.

When she saw Hoshiguma, although Suika was still anxious, she did not disturb the actions of the Guards.

Instead, he stood there from a distance and watched everything here.

At this time, she couldn't understand why Grandma Wang's house caught fire in the daytime, and it happened that she hadn't set up her stall in the morning.

All of this seemed so strange to Suika.

When Xingxiong went outside to get some fresh air after inspecting the scene, he saw Suixiang standing not far from Daidai.

She came over and rubbed Suika's head.

"Go back first, don't stand here stupidly."

"Is Grandma Wang dead?" Suixiang asked.

Xingxiong thought for a moment and whispered

"I'm not sure, but two charred bodies were found in the house. The forensic doctor is still performing an autopsy, but..."

Suika took a deep breath and tried to calm down.

"I understand. I'll go deliver the letter first."

When turning around to leave, Xingxiong saw the crystal tears in the corners of Suixiang's eyes.

Suika has always believed that she is a strong person. Even though she was transported to the unfamiliar Terra and turned into a girl, she was able to face it calmly.

But she found it hard to accept the death of Grandma Wang.

She was obviously a good person and she had done nothing wrong, so why did she die suddenly? And her death was so inexplicable and so tragic.

At this moment, she began to understand the saying from the game called Arknights: "This land is not picky when it comes to eating people."

However, she is not a professional criminal police and knows nothing about the relevant content. She can only wait for Xingxiong to come back and see if she can get any clues from her.

She wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, delivered all the letters in her hand to their destinations, and then went straight home.

Sitting in the house, she picked up a book and used it to suppress her somewhat impatient heart.

In the evening, Xingxiong came back exhausted.

She sighed when she saw the light in the room.

Because this is the community where she lives, after hearing about the fire, she volunteered to come here.

She was also a little surprised when she saw the house that was burned down.

Wang Po is an old lady living on this street. She and Uncle Wang have lived here for many years.

The two old men have always been kind to others. I have never heard of them arguing with anyone or getting angry with anyone.

The only concern for the two old people is their children who are away.

Unexpectedly, these two elderly people who were loved by the neighbors suddenly died in the fire.

After arriving at the scene, she instinctively noticed something was wrong.

Because the movements of the two bodies that died in the flames were too normal, they did not show the instinctive contraction that a living person would show after being burned by fire.

After examination, the forensic doctor determined that the two people did not die in the fire, but were strangled to death before the fire.

It is obvious that this is a homicide case in which the person was killed and then the body was destroyed by fire.

But the scene had been burned to the point where nothing was left, and because there were residents all around, it was difficult to find any traces on the ground.

Today, she and her teammates reviewed all the statements collected in the afternoon but did not get any useful clues.

We can only speculate from the autopsy report that the other party sneaked into Wang Po's house late at night last night, strangled the two elderly people to death on the bed, then sprinkled flammable liquids all over the house, and finally used some methods to set the house on fire in the morning.

The rapid outbreak of the fire meant that even if the surrounding residents noticed it, they would be unable to rescue the people in the house.

I could only watch the house burn to ashes.

Thinking of the other party's care for Suixiang these days, and the fact that Wang Po's family was the most familiar people to Suixiang on this street, she didn't know how to explain it to Suixiang.

After entering the room, she saw Suixiang sitting on the sofa, and on the table in front of her was a one-meter square wooden board. She was staring at the board in front of her in a daze.

When I walked over, I found "Wang Po" written on the wooden board, and there were several notes stuck on it.

He took down a note that said "Motive?"

Then she took down another one, which read "Method of Committing Crime?"

"Are you so sure that Wang Po and her family were murdered?"

Xingxiong looked at the other notes again, and they were basically all related guesses.

"That's right, because it's too strange and too coincidental." After coming to her senses, Suixiang sat up straight and looked at Xingxiong.

Hoshiguma walked over to the wooden board, picked up a note and handed it to Suika.

"Tell me how you think the probability of homicide is over 90%."

She wondered if Suika could inspire her and help her find a new direction when her own investigation ran into obstacles.

Suika took the note and it was written in her own handwriting, which said "The probability of murder is more than 90%."

"It's very simple. When I left home this morning, there was no movement here, which means the fire started in the morning.

Then Grandma Wang is a very punctual person, and she loves her morning tea business very much.

Except for the day after she was injured when she couldn't open the shop, her morning tea shop usually opened on time regardless of rain or shine.

When I arrived at the scene of the fire, I found that it was Wang Po's house that was on fire, so I went to her shop to check, but she was not open today at all.