Elstein's carriage drifted away and slowly disappeared into the night, just like when he came, Master Cat lay back in the armchair again, and Wang Xu continued to play his poker.
"What do you think?" Master Cat broke the silence.
"What do you think?" Wang Xu didn't look back and continued playing poker.
"Don't pretend to be confused by pretending to understand. According to the story in Romance, even if Zhou Yu is a bit slower than Zhuge Liang, he is still Zhou Yu."
Wang Xu smiled: "Isn't it rare for you to compliment me?"
"I'm not flattering, I'm just telling the truth. Since your two souls merged, you've grown a lot in every way... Furthermore, during the time since your little girlfriend disappeared, your strength has improved a lot. , I have already noticed it, it seems that you have studied Guigu Taoism well; and you did not continue to develop your own spiritual ability, but instead practiced spells, is it because you got something wrong from the "other you" What information should I know..."
Wang Xu sighed: "About that information... we just need to be clear in our hearts. If we talk about it on the table, we may really be struck to death by lightning."
Master Mao said: "Then let's stop talking about that, and you don't pretend to be innocent, just tell us your opinion."
Wang Xu replied: "What else can I say? That Elstein must still be lying."
"Go on."
"This man is definitely not as easy to deal with as he looks. He is actually very scheming and good at acting. He has been testing us since he came in. First, we need to see if we can see through his fake identity. As you said, If you can't even see through this point, entrusting the matter to us will inevitably result in failure.
Then, his performance continued, and after being seen through, everything he performed was extremely realistic. There were almost no flaws in his eyes, movements, and tone of voice. What he said... Seven points are true, three points are false, this is the highest. Ming Lie. But I can still basically know which parts are bullshit and which parts are true. "
Master Mao said: "Very good, let's continue."
"First of all, the things about his real identity and his family must be true, because we can verify these through third-party channels, and the things between him and Miss Jones are likely to be nonsense , I don't know how you judged it immediately, but you didn't let him finish the nonsense that he had already made up, so you already knew this at the time...
So skipping the love story he made up, then he hits the point - let's find out where 'something' is, you followed his line of thinking and just assumed it was a love letter or something, and he didn't either Negative, following what you said, in the end it was an envelope, which contained a love letter from an invisible person and a photo of an even more invisible person.
If my reasoning so far is all right, he lied about two things, first, that woman wasn't in love with him at all, but had a relationship with something else, and second, what he wanted It is indeed an envelope, but the contents inside... If the first point is true, it is definitely not a love letter or a photo, but something else. "
Master Cat applauded: "It's wonderful, you are definitely worthy of being my assistant."
"Bah! Then I used to be a handyman?"
"It's not a handyman, it's a follower."
"So many people died, why don't you die..."
A decadent expression appeared on Master Cat's face again, ignoring Wang Xu's complaints again: "I didn't expect this first case to be much more complicated than it seems on the surface... It's really troublesome..."
"Is there any trouble, isn't this 'Shi Yuliang'? It's easy to solve."
"Hehe... I didn't say you should intervene in this case."
Wang Xu turned around at this time, with a surprised expression on his face: "Ah? Are you going to do it alone? Why are you talking so much about me?"
"It's boring. There is no TV or Internet these days. Cultural people just write books, read books, and listen to concerts, and ordinary people just pick up girls, drink, and gamble... I, who came back from time travel, don't talk nonsense to you, why don't you go get some drugs and taste it?" ?”
Wang Xu thought for a while and said, "Alright, if you want to do it alone, I don't have to work too hard. I can go pick up girls, drink, gamble..."
Master Cat's next words immediately shattered his illusion: "You don't have that much free time, I have a job for you, the job of a ghost hunter."
"Oh shit! After a long time of trouble, you're going to meet that Miss Jones alone, and I'm going to fight Frankenstein, right?"
"You are not good at dealing with women, and you are not as fluent in English as I am, so it is very reasonable for me to divide the labor like this. Besides... picking up girls, drinking, gambling, etc., for a virgin, poor drinker, and bad character like you, It’s better to do less.”
Just as Wang Xu was about to refute a few words, Master Cat threw a newspaper at him, not giving him a chance to speak at all: "There is a very strange thing in this evening paper, you should read it first, yes, it is there, the first Second edition."
Wang Xu caught the newspaper, searched for the report Master Cat said, and glanced at it briefly.
"Between 9:00 and 10:00 last night, a policeman on duty near Waterloo Bridge suddenly heard the sound of calling for help and falling into the water. Rescue was not possible. The alarm was sounded immediately, and the combined efforts of the water police recovered a body. It was identified as that of a young gentleman named Stan Penshaw, who lived near Horsham. The body did not contain any traces. The traces of violence, no doubt the deceased lost his way due to the dark night, accidentally stepped on the edge of the pier and fell into the water, and this incident is enough to call the municipal authorities to pay attention to the situation of the riverside pier... "
The following content has nothing to do with the incident itself, so Wang Xu didn't continue to read it. He raised his head and said, "What's wrong? It's normal? It was an accident."
Master Cat shook his head and said, "There is a train station near Waterloo Bridge, between nine o'clock and ten o'clock, there happens to be the last train. The deceased lived in Horsham, so he probably wanted to take the train from downtown London." Going back, but the problem is... Would a person who is in a hurry to catch the train run to the edge of the pier to see the scenery on a rainy night? Lost? Hehe, this reporter can justify himself. It's possible, but he's not.
If there is something unreasonable, it is considered strange, so I asked Mrs. Hudson to get some old newspapers and looked through it, and the results confirmed my judgment. In fact, four people fell into the water in the nearby watershed within two months. This kind of so-called 'accident' happens almost every day, but it will never become a sensation like the case of Jack the Ripper... "
When Wang Xu heard this, he already understood: "So... the police can't take care of that, so I have to take care of it?"
Master Cat picked up the coffee: "You can do this on your own. Get in touch with ghosts and monsters from other countries to gain work experience."
"Hmph... you want to see how far I have improved my strength recently..."
Master Cat didn't answer this question. He finished his coffee, got up and entered his living room, with an imperceptible smile on his lips.