Cold Water

Part 08 - Realized

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Narration
"Conversation"
Special matter
(Translator's ramble)

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Xuan Lu invited Zhan and Yibo into her private room. Like the other rooms, Xuan Lu's private room looks very luxurious but seems vintage. The large, polished reddish brown wooden table was right in the middle of the room with several gold-colored objects and several tools that Zhan had never seen before. Beside him there are also wooden chairs with unique carvings. While in the corner of the room there is a large clock as high as about 2 meters.

"You two sit down"  Xuan Lu invited Yibo and Zhan to sit.

"So you brought the object you mean?"  She asked. Yibo immediately took out a box from under his jacket. As soon as he opened the box and showed its contents, Xuan Lu was a little surprised but her expression calmed down after a few seconds later.

"You two look here,"  Xuan Lu told Zhan and Yibo to move towards where she was placing the earring on a microscope-like device.

"Isn't the shape and detail of this earring a little strange when viewed on a scale this big?" Xuan Lu showed the earring, zooming to a scale several times larger.

"I thought about it when I saw one of the earrings. The shape is indeed a bit strange than ordinary earrings that are made and sold in the market"  Zhan said while looking at the earring.

"This earring was made especially in this place, so no one can match its shape. Not only the shape is unique, but there are things that make this earrings special. There is one special and secret function that this earring has," said Xuan Lu, taking a tablet from the wooden desk drawer.

She did something on her tablet, a few moments later a smile adorned her face. She handed over the tablet to Zhan, on it's screen showing a picture with some writing.

"Actually this is a company secret, but because it concerns safety altogether I think I should tell you this," She said. Yibo and Zhan immediately checked what was written on the picture.

'Red Devil Earrings are specially designed with secret technology, one of the main functions of these earrings is to be able to record a person's voice and function as a tracker tool. This mode will run when one of the pair of earrings is released from the owner by force.' Zhan read the info written in the picture.

"Wait wait, so what you mean is that this earring will automatically record sound when a bad incident happens to its owner and can detect where it happened?" Zhan concluded.

"That's right. One month ago this earring was deliberately bought by a wealthy businessman as a gift for his daughter named Lu En Jie on the grounds that he could monitor where his daughter was going. And coincidentally a few days ago it was reported that his daughter disappeared without a trace after being taken away by her boyfriend, even though the news was not clear enough but I think this information might help you." Said Xuan Lu.

At the same time, Zhan's cellphone rang loudly, he immediately checked it and it was his team leader Zhuo Cheng who called him. Zhan immediately picked it up.

"Yes, Cheng-ge?"

"We have found out the identity of the corpse, so you guys can return soon," - Zhuo Cheng

"She's the daughter of a wealthy businessman right? Incidentally we both have also found an explanation about the earring. After getting other information we will return soon" Said Zhan.

"Okay. Always be careful. Our enemy this time is no ordinary person," said Zhuo Cheng, ending the call.

"Miss Xuan Lu. Can you help us check what recordings have been successfully recorded accidentally when a bad incident happened?" Zhan asked. She just smiled.