In the morning streets, the sun is shining, and there is still some water mist, and the potted plants of the street residents are beginning to sprout, which makes life here a little comfortable.

Suddenly, just as Rita was walking down the street, she couldn't help but notice a figure dangling like her from the corner of her eyes, causing a scene from her subconscious to flash into her mind.

"!"

Rita turned around and looked around.

In front of her, the young man in white clothes turned her back, walking in the cold morning wind.

Deserted, firm, mysterious, silent...

That back figure, gradually, is exactly the same as the oil painting "The Back of Sherlock Holmes" painted by Shiina Masashi...

Chapter 317 Li Yan's "True Face"

In the early morning, it was cloudy and the temperature was 5°C. On the corridor glass of the apartment building, wet water drops flowed down the glass.

In Room 505 of the apartment building, Li Yan, who finally went back to his apartment, went out soon, his face was rather bad.

Just after Li Yan returned from sleepless night, he expected that the kitchen was basically messed up, and all the ingredients, canned food, and sauces in the refrigerator were gone, and even the salt was wet and inedible. However, the cause of food poisoning has not been found. The food stored in his kitchen and refrigerator is absolutely safe. Even with a good chemistry, he can't figure out what dark dishes Alice and Victoria have synthesized by alchemy. , So that they can all be sent to the hospital.

Fortunately, this afternoon, Alice and Victoria were able to be discharged from the hospital, so he first came back to clean up the room so that the house would not be unusable after he came back.

When I just took out my bicycle from the bicycle parking place, the bicycle made a metal cracking sound, the whole front wheel was distorted, and the metal screw fixing the wheel was finally overwhelmed and broke in half.

"..."

Standing at the door of the apartment, Li Yan stared blankly at the bicycle he had fallen apart. He always felt that these few days were not suitable for traveling.

While Li Yan distressedly checked his bicycle that he had used for less than a year and a half, Rita in a hidden corner of the apartment building was secretly staring at the figure of this oriental man.

"Very good, it seems like going out..."

Rita watched in secret, thinking silently.

After all, she is also an excellent professional art student. In the British art schools, her grades are second only to Shiina Masaki. For the current students, she is already regarded as a high school student, but her roommates and classmates are. Shiina Mashiro... has begun to hold exhibitions in various countries, a desperate genius. Therefore, it is easy to recognize the prototype of "The Back of Sherlock Holmes" that Zhen Bai started to be interested in recently.

"Back of Sherlock Holmes", although it is not the best of the true white paintings in terms of art, it seems to have spent a lot of effort to create a new work. The black is mixed and matched with a bit of dark red. Although the structure is simple, but at first glance , That indescribable impact made Rita still remember it, as if oil painting has become a channel connecting painting and reality...the world is gloomy, the gloomy unknown, and the back figure in the white coat is bravely blending in. Struggling, this kind of oil painting that beats the audience's hearts no matter how many times she recalls, Rita once again sees a chasm that is difficult to catch up...

This person is the man standing behind Shiina Mashiro...

So, no matter what, she wanted to understand the oriental man himself and the relationship between him and Shiina Mashiro.

However, now it seems that Li Yan's luck seems to be bad...

She waited in the corner for several minutes, looking helplessly at the foreign student who could repair a bicycle by herself, always feeling that she couldn't understand the value of repairing this broken car.

After Li Yan determined some of the bicycle parts that needed to be replaced, he finally put the bicycle back to its original position again, and officially set off on foot.

7:25 minutes.

Rita waited again for several minutes, watching Li Yan who didn't know what she was doing.

After handling the bicycle, the university student turned to an unmanned parking lot and muttered to himself with a black car.

"...What is going on? Is it too lonely to cause such strange behavior... I always think it looks dangerous." Rita, who was hiding behind the telephone pole, thought with some worry and fear.

However, this period of time is also very fast. Li Yan patted the black supra and then left. If it looks like this, Rita is also relieved. The short-term actions of people talking to themselves about objects and animals are nothing. , Is considered a kind of loneliness and hope to have partners in psychology.

"!"

However, when Rita was about to follow, inadvertently, the black supra parked in the parking lot of the residential area suddenly flashed its lights twice, causing Rita to be taken aback and looked at the unmanned car. Supra in the car.

"...Illusion?" Rita thought.

What's going on... The flashing just now, it looks like this car is saying goodbye to Li Yan...

At 7:41, after boarding the tram and coming to an unfamiliar Tokyo street, Li Yan, who walked on his own in the front, and Rita, who followed sneakily behind him, have always attracted the attention of passers-by.

In such a situation, it is extremely easy to guess that it was a live broadcast of the hatchet incident.

However, Li Yan seemed to encounter a new situation on his way to the supermarket.

The face of this foreign student suddenly became astonished, and he fled into the alleys of the residential area at the fastest speed, hiding himself tightly.

"Huh?" Rita looked curiously at what happened to Li Yan in front of him.

However, she quickly noticed that there were no conspicuous passers-by or scenes in front. Some, only two black and white police cars were parked on the side of the road, and a group of police officers were standing on the street talking about things. One of them was one of them. A serious and hideous middle-aged male police officer, and a beautiful female police officer who looked gentle and serious around him.

Li Yan's nervous performance made Rita suspicious.

"It's so dangerous..."

Officer Saito and Officer Miyazaki, the few police officers in the Koto district who are accustomed to reading novels, unexpectedly appeared in this area. It really made Li Yan know that he was not going out smoothly today, and that he would be able to meet again from such a long distance. Li Yan thought silently.

Although the road ahead was a shortcut, after careful consideration, Li Yan could only go around the original road to the shopping destination.

Rita saw that Li Yan had obviously avoided the police and blinked.

...Why did you avoid the police suddenly? !

How could she not suspect that Li Yan's background is tricky.

She once again remembered Chihiro's cousin Chihiro Chihiro who was once Zhenbai. In order to explain Zhenbai's experience of studying in Japan, she took a plane to Jinbai's home in London to explain the passage. In the words of teacher Chinishi, she talked about the foreign students in Yiyuan Apartment. Things.

When Mr. Senshi rushed to the airport, Jin Bai was taken to the company by the staff of Sanhe Library. Without the permission of Mr. Senshi as the temporary guardian, Jin Bai signed a cooperation contract. More importantly, there is a kind of Jin Bai, who was tricked into signing the contract, did not get the job of Uesugiyan's new illustrator, which is what Rita is most dissatisfied with. What is even more doubtful is that Zhenbai suddenly refused to stay in the student dormitory attached to the Suimei Art High School, and moved directly to Shinjuku, which is a long way away. In the words of Nanami and Senshi, he is indeed inseparable from this foreign student...

"Sure enough, Mr. Li's background is not just as simple as an international student..."

At the end of the wet street, Rita stood in a hidden spot, staring at Li Yan frowningly. The girl who had been hostile for a long time didn't want Li Yan to be too close to Shiina...

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[Boom boom boom! 】

Near eight o'clock, Qihai who was ready for breakfast knocked on the door of Zhenbai Studio and said, "Zhenbaichan, get up, have breakfast."

After waiting for a while, Qikai Aoyama, who was wearing an apron, opened the unlocked door and walked in.

Under the golden stillness, the working room was messy as always. White paper and a pile of girly clothes were all over the floor, and even the pink bra was thrown under the chair.

"It's still the same, I like to sleep naked..." Qihai's cheeks flushed a little, thought.

However, what is a bit special today is that there is a special piece of clothing that Qihai picked up and took a look.

This is clearly a square cotton trousers that men like to wear, but it is a reduced version, which looks out of place in this pile of cute clothes of girls...

"...Why did you buy this?" Qingshan Qihai looked at it with an awkward expression and asked.