Just as he was thinking about it, he saw Lin Xi walking out of the hut, holding two cups of coffee in his hand.

"I'm sorry, we only have instant ones." She said, and then she saw Zhou Yan standing at the door.

Zhou Yan clearly saw a trace of murderous intent flashing through Lin Xi's eyes.

"It's over, it's over, my wages may be deducted!"

Fortunately, when Lin Xi looked at the old man again, he returned to smiling.

"Oh, this is my assistant. I asked him to go out and do some things just now." Lin Xi found a step for Zhou Yan.

Fortunately, it would be embarrassing if it gave the client an image of "employees not actively working" right from the beginning.

Zhou Yan sat back to his seat angrily and bowed to the old man: "Hello, my name is Zhou Yan."

At the same time, he also took the opportunity to observe the old man.

He is about 60 years old, a little fat, and his clothes are loose, but he is definitely not cheap. His beard has been taken care of, and it is not messy at all. However, his cane is a bit old, and he looks like a nostalgic person.

"Haha, my surname is Zhang, you can call me whatever you want." The old man said casually: "I heard from Jingxiang that you are a very powerful detective agency around here."

"It's just a false reputation." Lin Xi said with a smile.

"Hey, where did our reputation come from? We have just been open for two days." Zhou Yan yelled in his heart.

However, his face still looked very serious: "Uncle Zhang, I wonder what your entrustment is..."

"Well, I won't give in." Old Uncle Zhang said: "Actually... it's not a case, it's just... I have something that I haven't been able to figure out.

That all happened decades ago. I don’t know what happened in the past few months. I keep thinking about it. The more I think about it, the more I can’t stop. It makes me unable to eat or sleep well. Now my body is like this

It’s not working anymore, so I want to solve this mystery so that I will have less worries when I leave.”

"I wonder...what is it?"

"This is a long time to mention..." Mr. Zhang said: "It goes back to more than 40 years ago, when I was just in high school.

My family lives right across from Shizuka’s current home.

Haha, even though it is an old and unsightly apartment building now, when I was a child, it was one of the top high-end buildings in this city.

My family was quite wealthy at that time, so we settled there.

And my father had a big safe.

Don't laugh at us. In that era, people were not willing to deposit money in banks, so my father locked all the valuables in the family in a safe.

That safe could be said to be the strongest type at the time. It was absolutely impossible to open it without the password.

So our family is very relieved.

But...one day, my house was robbed."

Zhou Yan frowned: "Someone opened the safe and stole everything inside?"

The old man shook his head: "No, that man moved the entire safe."

"...Good guy~" Zhou Yan thought to himself.

"So...you want us to track down a theft case that happened more than 40 years ago?" Lin Xi also looked a bit bitter.

"No, my family called the police directly at that time, and the thief was caught half an hour later!"

"Oh~ It turns out that the police in this world were already so efficient more than 40 years ago." Zhou Yan muttered in his heart, and then he was stunned: "But...since the case has been closed, what are you still doing?

What do you need to entrust us with?"

The old man frowned slightly, seeming to have fallen into some deep thought again. While thinking, he also said:

“The reason why we were able to catch the thief so quickly was because we discovered it early.

I remember that it was a weekend and our whole family was going to the amusement park. But after we went downstairs, my father found that he had forgotten something at home, so he quickly drove back to get it.

When they got home, they found that the door had been pried open and the safe was missing.

The time from when we left home to when my father came home to pick up the things was actually only a short fifteen minutes.

The safe in my house is so heavy that it takes four people to lift it.

I remember that when we moved, it took more than two hours to move it upstairs. The movers were exhausted and said they would have to pay extra.

Then, it would take those thieves five or six minutes just to pick the lock.

So how did they move such a heavy safe in less than 10 minutes?"

"This..." Zhou Yan thought for a while: "So, which floor is your home on?"

"The 16th floor." The old man replied.

"Is there no elevator?"

The old man nodded: "Yes, there is no elevator. Although the apartment building now has an elevator, it was only after the reconstruction more than ten years ago. When I was a child, the only way to go up and down the stairs...

Just climb the stairs!”

"Okay~" Zhou Yan paused for a moment in silence for the poor residents who lived above the 10th floor in that era.

At this time, Lin Xi spoke:

"Then let me sort it out a little now. It only took you and your family a total of fifteen minutes from leaving home to coming back again.

During this period, it takes about five minutes to pick the lock.

So...the thief needs to remove the safe within 10 minutes, right?"

"Yes." The old man nodded.

"Well..." Lin Xi pondered: "If it takes more than two hours for movers, then it is indeed impossible to move it in 10 minutes...

So, could it be that the thieves first hid the safe somewhere in the corridor where it is not easy to notice, such as the corner of the stairs on the 17th floor, and then covered it with something.

Or, these thieves originally lived in that building, or even downstairs from your house.

So, they actually just moved the safe down a floor and hid it in their own house?

Then when no one noticed, they tried to slowly carry the safe downstairs."

But when it comes to this, Lin Xi seems to have discovered that his idea may not work.

Sure enough, the old man shook his head: "That's not the case. I can be sure that when our family returned home, the safe must have left the building.

Because there is only one entrance and exit in the whole building. After my father went upstairs and until the police arrived, my mother and I were waiting in the car. In front of us was the exit of the building. If someone carried him

When the safe comes out, we will definitely see it.

After the police arrived, the entire building was cordoned off.

Because there was really a lot of money in the safe, the police did not dare to neglect and immediately surrounded the apartment building. Therefore, no one could smuggle out such a large safe under such circumstances.

The most important thing is that just half an hour later, the police at the highway toll station caught the thieves. At that time, they drove out of the city with my safe in their car.

And the drive from that toll station to my home is just over half an hour.

In other words...it was during those 10 minutes that they moved my safe down the 16th floor of the building!"

The old man spoke very quickly. It was obvious that this process had been repeated in his mind many, many times, to the point where he could repeat it without the need to organize the words.

But... what he recounted...

It seems to be simply impossible!
Chapter completed!