Sitting across from her was a well-dressed young lady. She wore a black fur coat, a soft pink long-sleeved shirt underneath, and a thin gold necklace tied around her fair neck.
This woman named Yan Jing is the wife of a large business owner in Crystal City and is currently on vacation in Yaocheng.
It took a lot of effort for Bullock to find this opportunity to meet her.
Yan Jing gently stirred the tea in the cup with a silver spoon, as if she was recalling something. Her young and smooth face showed a confused and clueless expression, and her lips could not help but pursed slightly.
This beauty is Vasily's former lover.
Yan Jing said: "You are a werewolf, right? Do you work in the [Investigation Bureau]?"
"No, I am not a werewolf, nor am I an agent of the Bureau of Investigation."
Bullock was used to this kind of question. He declared to the other party: "I am an orc from Zhoudao and a private detective."
"Orcs...canines?" Yanjing suddenly asked: "Why do you ask about Vasily? What happened to him?"
"I was entrusted by my employer to find Mr. Vasily. Because Mr. Vasily has been out of contact for a long time, I found you, Miss Yanjing, after making inquiries."
"Can you tell me who hired you?"
"It concerns the employer's privacy and cannot be disclosed."
"Can you tell me if you are a man or a woman?"
"Feel sorry."
Yanjing seemed to realize that this was a bit rude, so she said instead: "I have no other ideas, I just haven't contacted him for a long time. I don't know how he is doing now. Is he married?"
"Not that I know of."
Bullock said patiently: "Mr. Vasily seems to be focusing on studying magic talismans and his private life. You have not heard that he has other lovers since then."
"Is that so? That's the kind of person he is... completely devoted to it and doesn't care about it."
Yan Qing's face showed a certain expression of pleasure and relief.
Bullock knows very well that if you want to obtain intelligence, there must be information exchange with each other.
Therefore, he was not stingy in answering Yan Qing's questions.
It can be seen that this ex-lover of Vasily still has some kind of affection for him. This is not necessarily love, it can be a subtle nostalgia between friends and lovers, or it may just be a kind of possessiveness.
Bullock has deep experience with this.
"In my memory, Vasily was always easily distracted. He would talk to me and then suddenly freeze up. Sometimes when we were sitting in the car, he would be alone in a daze, which was hard to predict."
Yanqing took a sip of tea.
"If you ask him what he is doing, he doesn't know. Sometimes he forgets everything around him. We met in the engineering school. That afternoon I was looking at the newly planted roses in the school, and he was looking at it.
And when I was about to drive home at night, I found him still there watching."
"He has been like this since he was a child. He can enter the daze time at any time, most of the time unintentionally. He can also actively adjust to that state, thinking about nothing, not caring about anything, and just letting himself become blank."
"That is a kind of talent. When you are unhappy and troubled in life, you can empty yourself like this and cut off the connection with the surroundings. It is really enviable to be able to escape so effectively and quickly."
A sweet smile appeared on Yan Jing's face.
Bullock said: "Can I ask, how do you know Miss Yanqing?"
"Rose, rose."
She spoke in a relaxed tone.
"I majored in [Trade] and [Theology] at school, and the elective was [Rose Horticulture]. Vasily also took rose classes. The roses he planted were very strange. Those roses grew like spiral structures and were colorful.
.However, he was also scolded by the teacher because of this, saying that this method of grafting, transplanting and magic energy transformation would cause the roses to become deformed and might mutate into unpredictable varieties, which would bring danger."
"The shape of flowers is related to the soil and the angle of light. Vasily used this method to turn the roses into that wonderful look... The rainbow rose, although it is not the same variety, but it impressed me deeply. I think it is very
It was interesting, so I went to ask him for advice, and we got to know each other that way.”
"Vasily had a blind sister Yelena. His sister always dreamed that she saw rainbow-like roses, but the child was born blind and had neither seen a rainbow nor a rose. Vasily
I want to grow rainbow roses and give them to my sister when she regains her sight."
Yan Qing leaned on the chair, gold-rimmed red rose earrings swaying lightly under her earlobes.
"Vasili is a very courageous man. After he met me, he quickly told me with a rose that he liked me and hoped that I could fly with him."
"I remember that he took a wand modified from many red rose petals. It was not very big, but it was big enough for us to sit on it together. He proudly showed this result to me, hoping to get my evaluation.
"
She recalled: "When the wand flew, it would scatter petals like the tail of a meteor. It looked very beautiful, but it just couldn't fly too far."
"When he said he was going to fly, he was really just flying... Later, we made an emergency landing in the mountains to repair the wand, and we got soaked in the rain."
"It's very relaxing to be with him. It's a joy to meet such a person, even if we just walk a distance together."
"But don't get me wrong, I didn't miss Vasily, and I was the one who broke up with him later. He is a very good lover. If I stay eighteen forever, then I will probably be with him forever. But if I want
If you get married, he is definitely not a good partner."
Brock nodded.
The young lady in front of me knew exactly what she wanted.
It is not easy for many people to be able to calmly express what they need and confess their desires.
"Vasili has a kind of worry. He always feels that the sky will fall."
When saying this, Yan Qing had a serious expression: "He feels that this world has become prosperous and constantly expanding because of the existence of gods. If there are too many needs for gods, gods will be tired... Because Lord Yao Shen
In the past, spiritual manifestations were common, but now the oracles are less and less frequent. The reason is that Yao has too many worlds to take care of. Just like a gardener tending roses, the gods will also get tired."
"Vasily is obsessed with magic talismans. He wants to use the power of magic talismans to observe the gods."
"He also wanted to suddenly appear in front of the god Yao and surprise the god. This is what he wanted to do."
"Later I broke up with him, and he went to study there after receiving a scholarship from the [Magic Monastery], presumably for his sister. For him, the most important thing is to restore his sister's sight... You said he disappeared?"
Block said: "Yes, Mr. Vasily stayed in the monastery for 5 years and then disappeared."
"Disappeared? Left without saying goodbye?"
"No, one day, he disappeared into a room in the monastery, leaving only the [Rose Magic Talisman] he wrote - which has been determined to be an amazing invention."
"Rose Talisman? He still likes roses so much..."
Yan Qing couldn't help laughing, her focus was not on the magic talisman.
"This is indeed something that Vasily would do. He usually looks very ordinary, even a little silly. But sometimes he will suddenly appear, and it is always difficult for people to forget him."
These words reminded Bullock of another person he met.
That's Vasily's sister, Yelena.
Her description of her brother was completely different from Yanjing's.
"He is obsessed with that woman, but that woman is just playing with him. Just listening to my brother's description, I can feel that she is not a good woman."
Yelena's eyes have been cured.
She has slender, yellowish hair, but her eyes are very sharp, and her long-term blindness cannot be seen at all.
She showed unabashed hostility and dislike towards her brother's lover.
"What my brother thinks is that if he can make a great magic talisman and get approval from the gods, then Yan Qing will be able to stay with him for a long time without any worries, and he won't have to worry about the pressure from his family."
"But that woman was just playing with his feelings."
Yelena snorted.
Bullock changed the subject: "So, when was the last time you saw your brother?"
"At the end of December last year."
Yelena recalled: "At that time, there was a small dried flower exhibition in the Resurrection Kingdom. I was a horticulturist and was sent there by the flower manor that hired me. I met my brother. He seemed to be in good spirits at the time, but he was as thin as ever.
, but it doesn’t look like he’s malnourished.”
"He told me about the progress of the magic talisman, saying that the [Rose Magic Talisman] can help many people who don't understand magic talismans at all, so that they can use it immediately. Because he has made functional sentences in it, as long as those sentences are
By replicating it, many functions can be realized.”
The girl spoke softly: "He wants to use magic talismans to make many jewelry-like tools to make casting spells very simple, and even complex spells can be completed with just the movement of fingers."
Bullock asked again: "In other words, Vasily has no signs of leaving."
"No. Where can he go?"
The orc detective nodded and wrote down all these contents in his notebook: "Have you seen that Miss Yan Jing?"
"When I regained my sight, they had already separated, but I had seen that woman's crystal appearance. She was indeed beautiful, otherwise she wouldn't have fascinated my brother so much... My brother has always been obsessed with her.
.If you look for that woman, you might know something."
Yelena suddenly said: "Is my brother dead?"
"It's just missing at the moment."
Bullock said.
"Then who hired you to find out what happened to my brother?"
"Sorry, this is employer privacy."
The detective stood up and lowered the brim of his hat: "Well, thank you for the information. Do you have Feng Mu?"
"Yes." Yelena took out a shiny stone from her small backpack.
Now it is the most popular communication tool among the Yao people.
The wind mothers of both parties touched each other and left a sound. As long as the sound is triggered, both parties will know that the other party is looking for them.
"Then, if you have any news, please inform me."
Bullock said goodbye and left.
Yelena didn't seem to know.
The treatment she received, as well as the source of funds behind the treatment - and even the direction of the project that funded Vasily in the monastery, all came from Miss Yanqing.
This is also the message given by the employer.
Bullock's job this time is mainly to determine one thing.