“I see. ” After hearing what Marcus and Kevin reyed to him after the iation, Captain Ko went silent for a while on the video call. Before Marcus or Kevin could follow, he stood up and walked to the window of his office step by step with the phoill in his hand. The sunlight reflected on his face as he id his hand down before him, the camera pointing upwards to the side of his cheek. The sounds of driving cars, pedestrians and wind could be heard ing from the microphone.

  “What - what do you want us to do?” Marcus asked finally after staring at the captain’s face for a few seds.

  “Do you think the identity of this Luo Zhuge is important? How important?” The captain asked.

  “He’s clearly someone who knows quite a lot. And - ” Marcus snapped his fingers and smacked himself on the head: “Holy shit! I think I just had an idea ohe money went.”

  “Money? What do you mean?” Captain Ko asked.

  “No disrespect for your, uh, your friend there.” Marcus scratched his nose: “But - while we were interviewing the neighbors, and they all kinda mentiohat the man, although he’s always c his face, he often works for the local people on hire as well. Doing all kinds of small to medium sized handy work as a means to earra cash. ”

  “And, being arical engineer in S&S Corp itself is quite a lucrative occupation, while the rent of this pce is ly high. Even with all the anti-iigation measures he took, this is a rge k of money going somewhere.”

  “But - that’s not THAT much money, is it?” Captain Ko frowned: “Dealing with these old people would still be quite risky for someone in hiding.”

  “But it looks like it’s a pretty good iream.” Kevin nodded: “I asked around for the works he did for them, and how often he did them. It’s at least a couple of hundred dolrs per month. It’s almost enough to justify the rent.”

  “Yet, it’s not enough for his rent, right?” Captain Ko asked: “Which means he has some other use of the pce. Marcus, what have you found out about the scapegoat doll?”

  “Not much.” Marcus shrugged: “Should I take a look? I mean - I still o get in touch with someone before I - I DARE approach that thing. And I told the nddy to find an exorcist. I am irely sure if she would do it. That exorcist she mentioned may not be good.”

  “No, maybe nht now. If you know something that’d be great. But if you don’t - let me see if I find anyone who actually knows. It’s not gonna be easy since most of the experts don’t work with us.”

  “What do you think this means, captain?” Kevin asked.

  “I think this means that we might need some expert help. Because I am not familiar with how they work. I just know it’s not something to treat lightly.” Captain Ko let out a long sigh before hanging up the call: “Alright, get back as soon as possible when you’re done.”

  “Hey.” Just when they hung up the phone Keryn and Pahaik came to them.

  “What’d you do with those who followed you?” Kevin asked, with a ed look on his face.

  “Nothing, they’re just some iigators from the unity collective.” Keryn shrugged: “We frohem. And they just told us they are looking for a potential fugitive in this area. They started following us because they thought we were looking for the same guy.”

  “And who are they looking for?” Kevin scratched his nose and asked again.

  “They wouldn’t say. They just said a fugitive suspected of some - ritualistic crime.” Pahaik shohoto on his phoo Kevin and Marcus. Two men in typical South-Eastern unity collective uniforms and armbands stood in front of the camera, visibly frustrated and angry.

  “Yeah, let’s go check with captain, and if possible check with Tyler as well.” Kevin sighed.

  “What’d you find with your follower? You got one man following yht? Who is it?” Pahaik sent the picture of the two unity collective iigators to Marcus and Kevin.

  “It’s Brooklyn PayHE Brooklyn Payne.” Kevin chuckled: “And - looks like he o set up a deal. So - ”

  “This - this is a bit disturbing.” Pahaik said with a heavy frown: “So this means, everybody’s chasing the tail of this Luo Zhuge.”

  “Let’s get bad see what the captain says.” Keryn shrugged.

  Kevin took a few pictures of the neighborhood and its surrounding area before following Marcus to their squad car.