The Mysterious Case of the Young Detective

  "How's it going? Have you figured it out?" Zheng Hanfei hastily asked the two as he entered the conference room. Although he could now give them some hints to help one of them unlock the hand, he didn't want to do so. After all, he couldn't always be giving them hints; only by solving the puzzle themselves could they make progress, grow and become detectives like him.

  "No way!" Nan Ruo Xun sighed, then looked at Zheng Han Fei with big, shining eyes and said pitifully, "Please, give me a hint."

  "Huh?" Zheng Hanfei hesitated, somewhat annoyed and scratched his head. It had to be said that Nan Ruoxuan's move was very lethal, leaving Zheng Hanfei, who had an emotional intelligence close to zero, unable to think calmly.

  "That's enough, Xiao Xun!" Just as Zheng Han was about to agree, Gu Jie said in a timely manner, "Do you want Xiao Fei to help you forever? Can't you think for yourself?"

  "But I couldn't think of it, besides, didn't I pass the first test all by myself?"

  "Keep thinking, keep pondering!" Gu Jie shouted at her, "You still have the face to say that you solved the first test on your own? If Xiao Fei hadn't given you a hint, could you have answered smoothly? Remember, the tests are prepared for us, not for Xiao Fei. Xiao Fei has the ability to join the Detective Society, but we don't, so we need to show our abilities to the people in the Detective Society and make them acknowledge us."

  "I was wrong!" Nan Ruo Xun apologized and sat down to continue thinking, the smile on his face had long since disappeared without a trace, replaced by calmness and composure.

  "Not bad, huh." At this time, Katie appeared at the door of the conference room and whispered to Zheng Hanfei in praise, "I thought your two friends would rely on you, but I didn't expect Gu Jie to find the problem."

  "Don't underestimate them." Zheng Hanfei gave her a white eye, saying in a loud voice, "Gu Jie observes carefully and is good at analyzing people's psychology. He must have seen my expression and analyzed what I was thinking."

  "Oh?"

  "But...," Zheng Hanfei continued, "he's not good at analysis and organization, which led to him gathering both useful and useless clues together, making it impossible for him to find the truth."

  "What about Nanruo Xun?" Kitty asked curiously.

  "What about her?" Zheng Hanfei smiled slightly, "She usually looks very childish, but at critical moments she is very reliable. She is good at calculation and is lively and active. It's precisely because of these two points that she can find some hidden clues."

  "She sounds more like a boy."

  "Ah, indeed, she sometimes seems more like a boy." Zheng Hanfei acknowledged that Katie's words were right, but the next moment, he retorted, "But I still treat her as a girl. She looks strong, but is actually fragile inside, and often needs to rely on others and be cared for. Don't these points prove that she is indeed a girl?"

  "Hehe, quite thorough analysis, isn't it? You're indeed a good friend." Katie flashed a playful smile, intentionally emphasizing the three words "good friend".

  "Of course." Zheng Hanfei didn't catch the underlying meaning in Katie's words and said matter-of-factly, "Since we're good friends, we should see through each other completely."

  "This guy is hopeless! I didn't think his EQ would be inversely proportional to his IQ. Katie sighed and glanced at the two who were still deep in thought, asking: "What are you going to do? Not give them any hints? Maybe they'll lose their chance to join the Sherlock Detective Agency because of this."

  "I respect their choice. Otherwise they would have answered based on my hint, even with a smile on their face, but deep down they wouldn't be happy."

  Katie laughed twice, she was looking forward to their performance.

  ……

  Damn it! I still can't figure it out! Gu Zhe recalled anxiously, there was no secret passage in the conference room, but Di Luo had vanished into thin air, leaving behind only the clothes he wore...

  "Xiao Jie!" Nan Ruoxi suddenly spoke up, "There's something that's quite suspicious."

  "What's wrong?"

  "Why did Diro leave his clothes here? Since it's an escape room, he could have just disappeared from this locked meeting room. Why go the extra mile and take off his clothes before disappearing?"

  "He must want to prove he's a transparent person." Gu Jie joked.

  This joke is too cold. Zheng Hanfei shook his head helplessly on the side, but he was relieved because this prank had a bit to do with Di Luo's method, and he just hoped someone would remember something from 'Invisible Man'.

  "Hurry up!" Kitty suddenly reminded, "There's still an hour and a half."

  That's great! Zheng Hanfei's heart was screaming with excitement. Katie's reminder was timely, as long as they could move towards...

  "What? Time has passed so quickly?" Nan Ruo Xun exclaimed in surprise, then looked out the window and complained, "It would be great if the sun could rise slowly."

  Hey! What's with this theory?! Gu Jie helplessly shook his head. The passage of time is like the rising of the sun...

  Finally figured it out! Zheng Hanfei finally let out a sigh of relief. Seeing Gu Jie's stupid expression, he knew that Nan Ruoxuan's words had already found the clue called "note" for him. Next, as long as he progressed step by step, he would be able to discover the evidence called "staff" and combine it into the melody called "truth".

  "Xiao Xun, come out with me for a moment." Gu Jie patted Nan Ruoxun and asked in a low voice.

  "What's wrong?"

  "It's like this..." Gu Jie whispered a few words in her ear, and Nan Ruo Xun readily agreed, pulling Gu Jie to run out the door. In an instant, the two of them vanished.

  "They...this..." Kitty pointed at the small sofa chair and then at the door outside, her eyes full of questions.

  "Don't ask me!" Zheng Hanfei said leisurely, sitting on the sofa with his eyes narrowed. "I don't know what's going on with them either, but one thing I can be sure of is that they've already found the key to this technique."

  "What? You think..." Before the words were out, Gu Jie and Nan Ruoxuan suddenly appeared at the door, their excited roars scaring Katie to the point of almost fainting, and even Zheng Hanfei almost fell off his chair.

  "I've figured out how Dilo disappeared!"

  "Keep your voices down! Calm down!" Zheng Hanfei rebuked the two, thinking to himself: Good grief! It's just a simple technique, do you have to get so excited? If I got this worked up every time I cracked a tough case, I'd be dead from excitement by now. How embarrassing, I'm embarrassed for you guys!

  "Hurry up, time is running out!" Seeing that the two people's emotions had not yet calmed down, Zheng Hanfei could only take a look at the time and remind them, "If you continue to get excited, soon it will be your turn to cry!"

  "Ah, then I'll say it!" Gu Jie took a deep breath and said, "Actually, we've all been deceived. Di Luo has been in the conference room all along!"

  "Oh?" Katie asked, "Then tell me, where exactly is my brother in the conference room? I'd like to declare in advance that there are no secret passages in this conference room..."

  "Hold on!" Gu Jie stretched out his hand to interrupt Katie's words and said confidently, "You heard it wrong, I said the conference room."

  "Right, isn't this the conference room?"

  "Of course not! Although everything here is just like the conference room, it has one flaw that exposes its true identity - it's not in the East but in the South."

  "I'm sorry to interrupt your fun, but there's something I have to say," said Kitty. "When you came back from the bathroom, didn't you feel the dazzling sunlight with your own eyes and see the sun slowly rising? If this isn't the east, why did you see those things?"

  "Use a mirror!" Nan Ruo Xun sneered, saying, "As long as you use a large mirror and place it at the end of the north corridor, using the extra space at the end of the corridor to tilt the mirror, you can reflect the scene from the east window."

  "But if you do that, you'll also appear in the mirror, won't you be exposed then?"

  "So you had a fight with Xiao Fei!" Gu Jie exclaimed.

  "What?!"

  "In fact, the sunlight was already making it hard for us to open our eyes, but you deliberately picked a fight with Xiao Fei to distract us and draw our attention away from what's in front of us. And that's exactly how your trick was exposed."

  "So you think I'm Dior's accomplice, or in other words, a stooge?"

  "Of course!"

  "Alright, let me ask you," Kady continued to argue, "If Nan Ruo Xun wasn't in such a hurry to go to the bathroom, would my move have succeeded?"

  "No!" Nan Ruo Xun said, "Even if I didn't go to the bathroom, you would still find a way to get us to go up to the second floor, and then guide us to walk down another staircase, which is exactly what happened when you persuaded Xiao Fei and us to go to the bathroom together!"