Arknights, Suika's Messenger Journey

Chapter 38: The human heart is unpredictable

Xingxiong breathed a sigh of relief and nodded to Suixiang.

"I'm glad you're okay. Go back first! I'll bring you something delicious tonight."

Suika spread out her fingers and pointed at the door not far away

"The guy inside said you can't leave the Guard Bureau until you decide to come out!"

"What!

That's right, after all, you're still a key target until the results come out."

Xingxiong was startled at first, then she remembered that since she was being treated so solemnly, it would be better for her not to leave everyone's sight until the results came out.

"Then let's sit in our office. There are people coming and going outside. In case something gets bumped into..." Chen pointed to the office not far away, then walked in with Xingxiong and Suixiang.

"By the way, Suixiang, do you know how to write your name?" Sitting down at his seat, in order to prevent Suixiang from getting bored, Xingxiong gave her a newspaper and let her read it by herself.

Chen Kan, who was standing next to her, was reading the newspaper with great interest and was curious whether Cuixiang could really write her own name.

"certainly.

I can write both the Daien and Toukoku scripts, including Ibuki Suika! "

After saying that, Suixiang picked up the pen and paper handed over by Chen and wrote (Ibuki Suixiang いぶきすいか)

"Ah, is this Suika?" Chen said in surprise after taking the paper.

"Yeah, it's always been this Suika... Wait, you guys aren't..."

Suixiang thought of something and looked at Chen. Chen took out a file bag and as expected, it said - Ibuki Suixiang.

She had anticipated this.

After all, in the previous life, it was common to write the name Cuixiang as Cuixiang, a name that is so full of oriental rural flavor.

"How do you pronounce your Dongguo name?" Chen asked curiously.

"It's pronounced Ibuki Suika, or just Suika, which means Suika..."

When Suixiang was explaining the pronunciation to Chen, Xingxiong, who was worried, looked up.

"Watermelon? What are you talking about? It's still winter."

"What?"

Chen was confused. Wasn't he discussing Suixiang's name with her? What was Xingxiong talking about?

Why does it feel like everyone is not on the same page?

"Oh, Hoshiguma is saying Suika. This pronunciation means watermelon in the Eastern language. It's easy for Eastern people who hear my name for the first time to misunderstand it as Ibuki Watermelon!"

After saying this, Suika habitually touched the Ibuki trifle at her waist, then picked it up and placed it on the table.

As she moved, the eyes of people around her turned to look over.

"Do you want to do something?" Suixiang asked weakly, feeling the gazes from all around.

Chen immediately leaned back because she remembered Suika's strange spell. It was work now and the serious crime team was gathered in the office drinking. If this happened, everyone would probably lose their jobs.

"Don't worry, I didn't pick up the Ibuki bowl or open the bottle cap, so I'm not trying to persuade you to drink.

Just asking out of habit."

Seeing Chen's actions, Suixiang was stunned at first and then laughed out loud while lying on the table.

"That's good. Don't show that stuff in the police station. It's scary."

Chen Shun rubbed her chest and said frankly, she was really scared just now.

When a few people were chatting, the air pressure in the other side of the room was very low.

First of all, the person who brought Suika into the room had a very ugly expression on his face.

After all, a grown man, and a captain known for his bravery, was defeated by a little girl in one move. If this matter were to spread back to the army, he would probably lose all his face.

Secondly, he was originally assigned to protect several adults inside, but it turned out like this. He must have failed in his duty. It was only the leading adult who stopped his behavior, otherwise he would never have let that girl off easily.

“Send a copy of the video footage from inside the house to Governor Wei and get his opinion.

Captain Li, please help notify the people here and ask them to send us some food."

After saying this, the leader lowered his head and continued to flip through the files in his hand.

If Cuixiang was here, she would find that everything she had done from the time she entered Longmen until recently was written clearly on it, even the fact that she helped Wang Po to take revenge was recorded. Although the word "suspected" was written on it, it also showed that Dayan's ability to collect intelligence was far stronger than she imagined.

At this time, the leader was reading the report of Wang Po's first attack by gangsters, and then pointed at the ending of those gangsters and said

"If this is true, then this little fellow named Suixiang may have mastered a Originium technique that is very good at assassination and concealment."

"It's impossible that the Royal Guards are protecting that child. I see in the records that these two officers seem to have a good relationship with this girl, and one of them is even her temporary guardian."

The person next to him raised his objection.

“No, look at the time this happened, it was the second day after she arrived at Longmen.

Even if Officer Xingxiong had a close relationship with her and provided her with cover, Officer Chen had no relationship with her at all, so how could he possibly provide assistance to a murder suspect?

The leader pointed to the time on the intelligence and said.

"Your Excellency is right. I missed it." After hearing this, the man clasped his hands together and bowed to the leader.

As for why the man surnamed Chen would not protect Cuixiang, it was naturally because everyone knew Chen Huijie's identity.

After knowing the other party's background, the few people did not dare to make up stories without any concrete evidence to prove that Chen Huijie was protecting Cuixiang.

After all, this person is of royal blood. If she had not been kept by Wei Yanwu, she would have been a county lady at the very least.

If the nonsense I say here gets out, my career may be over.

Wei Yanwu also received analysis and video footage from the Guard Bureau.

He looked up at Mrs. Wenyue beside him.

"There is a place called Oeyama in the East Country."

"Dajiang Mountain? I haven't heard of it. However, the names of many places in the Eastern Kingdom were not standardized between the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Plus, there are so many mountains. If it's just an inconspicuous hill with this name, it's normal even if I haven't heard of it."

Madam Wen Yue thought for a while before speaking.

Wei Yanwu nodded

"Come and see what to do with this little guy."

Wei Yanwu handed the documents and videos to Mrs. Wen Yue.

Mrs. Wen Yue did not refuse, but carefully looked through the information in her hand, and then watched the video of the confrontation between Suixiang and the captain.

"This little girl's ability is quite interesting.

If it is true that it can create food, then it is a strategic-level existence.

No one will go hungry as long as she is there.

Are you really willing to leave it to me to decide what to do with her?"

Wen Yue handed the document back to Wei Yanwu with a smile.

Chapter 39 An Unpredictable Ending

Wei Yanwu wrote a line of comments after finishing the document. Wen Yue couldn't help but widen her eyes after reading it.

On the other side, Suika didn't know that her result had been decided. Instead, she found a corner in the office, took a book on "Criminal Investigation", held Ibuki Hyō, and flipped through the book while opening the wine gourd from time to time to take a sip.

Regarding her behavior, the people around her were hesitant to speak, but considering that a "helpful" operator had just tried to stop her from drinking and was drunk by her, they finally acquiesced to it.

Xingxiong was also helpless about this. He was about to speak just now, but before he could say anything, he saw Cuixiang cunningly picked up the wine gourd and stared at him with her small eyes, as if if he dared to speak, he would force him to drink. In the end, Xingxiong had no choice but to make the choice of letting his friend die rather than letting himself die.

In the afternoon, after having a delicious meal in the cafeteria of the Imperial Guard Bureau, in order to prevent Suika from getting several colleagues drunk again, Xingxiong had to take her to an empty office on the upper floor at Jiu's suggestion.

"You can play here. If you get tired, you can sleep on the sofa. I've brought you the sheets. You can read the books here as much as you want, but don't tear them up."

"Don't worry, I'm not sick, why would I tear up the book?" After saying that, Suixiang walked into the house, found a place to sit down, and thought about what happened today.

At this moment, she thought about what happened in the afternoon and always felt it was a little strange.

If you want to unload your belongings yourself, you should have told them at the door.

In that situation, there was no way I could refuse.

But he just refused to do so. He had to send Xingxiong away and then go into the house before bringing up the matter.

It looks like he is deliberately looking for trouble.

Moreover, the man at the door had been hostile from the beginning. Now it seemed that he was deliberately looking for trouble and wanted to start a conflict.

Recalling what happened afterwards, Suika became even more certain of her thoughts.

Because if they were really worried that these chains and wine jugs would cause harm to those people, they should have been cautious when they sat in front of them.

After all, he captured their guards in front of them.

Even if I took some shortcuts here, it still proves that my strength is not bad.

But the expressions on those people's faces were indeed exactly like that.

So they anticipated from the beginning that the man could not beat them.

His initial surprise was not because he did not expect that he would dare to take action in front of the Guard Bureau and on such an important occasion, but because he was surprised that he defeated that person so quickly.

Plus, he never mentioned the matter again afterwards.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but snort coldly. They were indeed a group of scheming people. They arranged everything for herself so clearly.

At first, I was so proud of myself for defeating the enemy with one move, but now I think it may not be as simple as I thought.

However, there is always a way out. Since I can't outsmart these guys who are always struggling with conspiracies and intrigues, I'll just take it one step at a time.

Through the experiences during this period, Suika has become much bolder from her initial cautiousness.

Now she is very clear that her own strength is not bad.

At least when facing ordinary people, his abilities were at an absolutely overwhelming level.

Wei Yanwu couldn't allow himself to sacrifice his life for those traitors or thugs.

So she is actually much more relaxed than Xingxiong.

The next morning

Xingxiong's face looked very ugly after he took the results of the matter regarding Suika handed to him by Jiu.

Jiu patted her shoulder

"Don't overthink it. At least Governor Wei has given you some time."

Chen Heshi Huaiya also sighed after watching the results.

"There's nothing wrong with this. There's still half a year left, and there's such a huge sum of money as a reward. Xingxiong, don't look so gloomy. It's scary." Shi Huaiya said comfortingly.

Xingxiong felt particularly irritated when he saw the words "departure within a specified period" written on the result report.

Although there was a time limit of half a year, there was still a full 500,000 Lungmen coins as a reward for Suika to capture the spy.

But Xingxiong still felt bad.

"Let's go, it's time to tell the kid the news.

I think Suika is quite strong and will definitely accept it faster than you."

Chen patted his partner's shoulder before speaking.

Several people came to the room where Suika was resting. When they opened the door, they saw Suika standing on the table, holding a wine jug across her chest with one hand and covering her eyes with the other hand.

"One bag of rice has to be carried up several floors, one bag of rice has to be carried up two floors... spicy Tianzheng!"

Just after he shouted in a very powerful voice, he heard the door being opened with a click. Xingxiong and others were staring at him in amazement outside.

"Zizi!" In an instant, Suika felt her face getting hot and smoke coming out of her head. She probably turned into a steam girl.

Xingxiong, who was originally worried about Suika's affairs, was also left in tears and laughter by her nonsensical behavior.

"Ahem, you didn't hear anything!"

Suika jumped down from the table, raised her Ibuki miyabi and threatened the three people who entered the room with gritted teeth.

"No, no, no, I definitely didn't hear anything about Kangmi going upstairs, right Chen..." Shi Huaiya's body twitched, and she looked like she was about to hold back her laughter.