Lu En's first reaction was that they would not give up and put pressure on the Baimon family. However, after looking at Malos's face, which was solemn but not too panicked, he immediately knew that the matter was not as serious as he thought.
Sure enough, Malos then spoke: "This time, the search team from within the Red Gloves came. Their strength is not as good as the war department, but their status is very high. They come from the Imperial Capital."
Although Bernlode, the capital of the Federation, is officially called Xinjing, many people still use the title that has lasted for hundreds of years. It has a high status and is the economic and political center of the entire Federation. The headquarters of Red Gloves is also
in it.
In other words, people from the imperial capital are looking for me?
Lu En was a little confused and glanced at Malos: "Can I turn it down?"
"This is an instruction directly issued by the Spiritual Religion Group. The Baimen family does not have that much influence."
Malos shook his head slowly. The Baimon family was powerful, and its predecessor was just a count family. Although it was already a behemoth in the eyes of ordinary people, in the Spiritual Religion Group, let alone the top, it could barely rank among the second-rate.
The Spiritual Religion Group implements an elder-council system, and each family can elect its own spokesperson. Although there are conflicts with each other, they are always controlled within a reasonable range. Unfortunately, no one in the Baimon family is an elder or a councilor.
"Then let's meet."
Lu En sighed, becoming more and more eager to break through the bottleneck.
...
“The air quality here is so bad.”
In a gorgeously decorated room, a man in his twenties wearing a gray-black uniform frowned and closed the window, then picked up the wine on the table and took a few sips, smacking his lips: "It's far worse than the Imperial Capital!
"
"Did you come here to travel?"
A middle-aged man leaning on the sand gave him a sidelong glance: "This is work. Do you understand work? You should thank God for not asking you to hunt down those corroders all day long."
"I'd rather face those corroders!"
The young man shrugged his shoulders: "At least you don't have to follow a clue and run half way across the federation. Just do it and you're done."
"Let's talk about it after you've done it, you weakling!"
The middle-aged man snorted, turned around and stuffed the grapes on the table into his mouth with a toothpick, chewing them deliciously.
"Hey, don't underestimate people, it's just death. How can I, Suomi..."
"Shh!"
The middle-aged man's expression suddenly changed, he sat up seriously and raised a finger: "Someone is coming!"
The expressions of the two of them returned to calmness and concentration at the same time. They watched quietly as the door was pushed open. Malos walked in first, followed by Lu En. They immediately looked at each other covertly. Suomi nodded slightly, and the middle-aged man immediately stood up.
He stood up and stretched out his hand towards Lu En, with a stiff and formulaic poker face on his face.
"Hello Mr. Luen, I am Agent Barron of the Special Branch Investigation Team, and this is my partner Agent Suomi."
Very polite, not like he was looking for trouble.
Thoughts flashed through Lu En's mind, and he stretched out his hand to hold the other person's hand, neither humble nor overbearing: "Hello, Agent Barron."
The muscles in the palms are loose and weak, and the standing posture looks standard but is actually sloppy. Judging from the calluses on the palms, it seems that the gun is often held, and the food spirit reaction is weak, two weak chickens!
Lu En showed a warm smile and did not feel any threat.
"I don't know what Agent Barron wants to see me for. Is he here to arrest me?"
he said with a smile.
"Chasing corroders or evil spirits is a matter for the war department!"
With a straight face and no expression, Barron took out a stack of paper from the document bag at hand: "We are here for other reasons. Mr. Luen, have you seen this person?"
He took out the top sheet and handed it over. Lu En took it and took a look. His pupils suddenly shrank, and he was a little surprised. Half of the paper on it was printed with an ordinary-looking young man who could not be found in a crowd.
.
"Nim, what's wrong with him?"
The man with the red gloves is not here for himself, but for Nim?
Lu En did not deny it. Since Red Gloves came to the door, it means that they have confirmed that Lu En and Nim know each other, and now it is just a formality.
"We are just friends, not very close, and I haven't seen him for a long time. You know, the Lucas Gas explosion!"
Lu En returned Nim's mugshot to Barron with a calm expression. The latter's expression did not change at all, as if Lu En's answer was already expected by him: "Then when was the last time you saw him?"
, who are you with, and have you ever been told to go somewhere else?"
"What's wrong with him, Mr. Agent?"
Lu En did not answer directly, but asked Barron.
"He's missing."
Barron glanced at Lu En and replied simply: "We are looking for him. If you can provide any useful clues, you will gain the friendship of the Special Branch and even meet some of your reasonable requests."
"This is so unfortunate."
Lu En sighed: "Unfortunately, Agent Barron, we are just ordinary friends. The last time we met was to play video games together. He also lost miserably. Later, he went on a date with his neighbor Miss Delina. Maybe you
You can go find her."
"Delina is also missing. They appeared in Hanno City and some unfriendly things happened. Did he really not say anything to you?"
Barron suddenly turned around mid-sentence and stared into Luen's eyes and asked.
"No, we are just ordinary friends."
Luen didn't hesitate.
"Thank you for your cooperation, Mr. Luen."
Barron was silent for a few seconds. Seeing Lu En's sincere face and showing that he couldn't ask any more questions, he said, "If you think of anything later or contact him again, please be sure to tell us!"
"We have no ill intentions towards him. On the contrary, we will do our best to protect him!"
Barron seemed to be convinced that Nim and Luen had some connection, or that their involvement in the outing incident together had been found out, but he did not expose or force Luen, but instead released a kind of goodwill, which was not against Luen.
Well, it's about Nim.
"I'd like to ask, what's the reason?"
Lu En was a little curious. He felt that what he had done was big enough. The Baimon family had worked hard to clean up his tail, but Nim actually directly alerted the investigators at the Red Gloves headquarters?
What great thing did this guy do again?
"This matter is confidential, please forgive me!"
Barron did not hesitate to refuse to satisfy Lu En's curiosity, and as if the routine was completed, he politely said goodbye to the two of them, and walked out with his partner Suomi, who was silent throughout the whole process. It took nearly ten minutes to leave under the guidance of the servants.
When I arrived at the gate of the manor, I got into a black car without a license plate.
"how?"
After getting in the car, Barron was the first to ask. It seemed that he was the one in charge between the two, but in fact Somi was the real killer. Before joining the Red Gloves, this seemingly frivolous and unruly young man was well-known.
detective.
"Something is true and some is false. He doesn't look like a student."
After closing his eyes and going through the details of the scene in his mind, Suomi opened his eyes half-closed and said, "But the thing about Nimu should be true. He didn't lie. Let's mark it first just in case."
He took out a black pocket watch-like instrument from his pocket and threw it to Barron.
"Also, tell those idiots in the war department to increase Luen's danger level by two levels. Is this the believer level? The detector is about to explode, okay? Do you know that I was so scared that I almost peed just now?"