Nicole ran back to the front desk with her water glass and toothbrush.
And compared to when she left, she had a light yellow file bag under her arm, which seemed to contain only a few pages of documents.
"Stay away."
Ronald was reminded that the investigator girl did not intend to go around from the side.
Holding the table at the front desk with one hand, she turned over directly from the top of the counter.
The counter, which is just over one meter long, will not be an obstacle in any sense for Nicole.
Land easily and stand firm.
She first stuffed the toiletries in her hand into the cabinet at the front desk, and the investigator girl immediately started rummaging around again.
The cabinet at the front desk, the corner on the floor, the quilt on the bed.
It's as if something was left behind while sleeping.
Soon, Nicole found what she was looking for.
Under her crooked pillow, she pulled out a small, similarly wrinkled card.
With a proud smile on her lips, she handed the card to Ronald with a smile:
"Here, take it."
"What is this......"
Ronald curiously took the card handed over by the other party.
The card was the size of a driver's license, and he saw the words "Level 1 Borrowing Authority" written on it.
"Borrowing permission..."
Ronald murmured in his mouth and turned his eyes towards Nicole.
"hey-hey."
The investigator girl showed a bright smile.
She bumped Ronald with her shoulder, as she would in a conversation between friends.
"The library card I got for you last night."
"Take this and go to the data warehouse on the second floor. You can find some things that are of little importance or that are of entry level and take a look at them. Just use it as a recreational time."
Ronald raised his eyebrows and sounded a little surprised:
"Is there really no problem?"
"I'm just a temporary worker. I go to look at the information from the Bureau of Investigation. Isn't this a bit too much?"
"Don't worry."
Nicole gave her a look that said, "Don't worry."
"The first-level library card can only read some of the most basic files, which is a little better than the stuff in the police station next to it. The books on the mystery side are only entry-level.
"For me, the best of the best investigators..."
"Hey, it's just a drizzle!"
After explaining the function of the library card, Nicole reached out and touched Ronald's head.
Standing up, the investigator girl walked unsteadily towards the door of the investigation bureau.
Walking to the door, she looked at the umbrella cabinet at her feet.
"Lend me your umbrella and I'll return it to you when you change your shift in the evening!"
While talking, Nicole pulled out the umbrella that Ronald had put in not long ago from the cabinet, then simply pushed the door open and left the investigation bureau.
Just like Ronald knew.
The investigators at the Burrenwich Bureau of Investigation have been very busy recently.
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Before I knew it, it was approaching noon.
Ronald has read all the newspapers at hand, and he has a general understanding of today's current news.
so......
Should I go out to have something to eat now, or should I take the library card in my hand and investigate a few libraries to get the news?
"Let's have something to eat..."
Without thinking for too long, Ronald stuffed the crumpled library card into his pocket, patted it, counted a few nars and walked out.
Because there is a police station next to it.
There are many restaurants near the investigation station.
Ronald randomly bought a piece of pasta in a paper bag and then returned to the Bureau of Investigation headquarters.
Back and forth, the whole process doesn't even take more than 10 minutes.
Back behind the front desk, he was careful not to spill the sauce on Nicole's bed.
This pasta…
How to describe it?
The taste is on the sweet side, but the taste is pretty passable.
In other words, as a piece of food sold on the street, it is worthy of its price.
But compared with the landlady's obedience, it's far behind.
After eating about two-thirds of the food on hand, Ronald felt eighty percent full.
"Let's do this for now."
He tore a page from the notepad at the front desk and wiped his hands casually.
He turned and walked towards the second floor of the Investigation Bureau, heading towards the document warehouse that Nicole mentioned.
Walking up the stairs, the Investigation Bureau is still sparsely staffed.
There were a few doors that were not closed, but you could still hear people talking in a hurried tone inside.
Ronald walked directly to the door of the penultimate room next to the window without squinting.
It's on the upper left side of the door.
A metal tag says [Document Storage Office].
Ronald stretched out his hand and knocked on the door.
Bang bang bang——
"Please come in."
Hearing someone answer the door, Ronald turned the handle and walked in.
After entering, Ronald looked around.
The light in this document warehouse is obviously much darker than outside.
The database of the Burrenwich Bureau of Mystery Investigation is much more pitiful and spectacular than the previous railway station.
As far as the eye can see, on the left are densely packed volumes filled with bookshelves next to each other; while on the right are volumes that basically look like books.
Looking back from Ronald's position.
This division completely runs through the entire room. Rows of bookshelves are connected end to end. If you go between any two bookshelves, you can go all the way to the end, or you can only go all the way to the end.
The connected bookshelves are directly pushed up from the entrance to the wall at the end of the warehouse, even if they are used as partitions, there is no problem.
Considering the warehouse area is not small...
The amount of information stored here is already worse than that of ordinary small roadside bookstores.
In front of Ronald, a gray-haired old man was sitting on a chair.
The head that was leaning on his arms was slightly raised, and he glanced at Ronald who walked into the room.
"newcomer?"
"Yes, sir."
Responding to the other party, Ronald handed over his library card at the same time.
After taking it, the old man simply looked at it and said with certainty without further confirmation:
"You are the newcomer introduced by that little girl Nicole."
"Okay, keep an eye on it."
Immediately, the old man raised his arm and gestured behind him:
"You can go through the middle corridor. You can read the files and various books on the left and right sides. There is no problem in taking them down to the hall, as long as you don't leave the investigation bureau."
"Of course, you have to remember it's just the middle one."
"I see."
Ronald had no intention of explaining to the old man that he was just a temporary worker and not an official newcomer to the Bureau of Investigation.
Nodding and walking around the old man, he walked to the back.
Not to mention the complicated files on the left side, on the right side of his body, there are more than a thousand books that almost fill the entire space, such as "Burrenwich Almanac", "Plant Research Illustrated Book", "Noble Family Seal Encyclopedia",
Books such as "Map of the River Joise" abound.
Just like this, I walked past about half of the bookshelves.
Ronald's pace gradually slowed down.
Because from here on, titles such as "Recommended for Beginner Investigators", "Basic Knowledge of Occultism", "Flower Talk in the Secret Garden", and "Secret Keeping Manual" gradually appeared on the bookshelf.
The content involved is neither profound nor confidential.