thump thump—
A knock on the door brought Zuo Yan, who was staring at the TV in a daze, back to his senses.
After hesitating for a second, he walked towards the door and said through the door panel, "Who are you looking for?"
"Excuse me, sir, I'm the waiter at the bar." The voice of the waiter who had talked with Brother Jue came from outside the door.
"Oh... what's the matter?" Zuo Yan replied.
"Excuse me, have you lost a cat?" the waiter asked.
Hearing this, Zuo Yan's expression changed slightly, and then he took a look at the cat's eye behind the door; through the glass, he saw Vidok who was being held in the arms of the waiter with a displeased expression on his face.
The next second, Zuo Yan opened the door without saying a word. He looked at the waiter and smiled awkwardly: "Hehe... I'm sorry, he slipped away when I didn't pay attention, and I was looking for him too..." Suddenly, he reached out to pick up the cat, "Well... where did you find him?"
"A Mr. Feng found it in a bar. Mr. Feng said you were his friend, so he asked me to bring the cat." The waiter handed the cat to Zuo Yan and said, "Here, sir , if there is nothing else, I have to go back to work."
"Okay, thank you." Zuo Yan took the cat and said politely, "I'm sorry to trouble you."
After a brief exchange, the door was closed again, leaving a person and a cat in the room, looking at each other...
"Stop talking." Vidok stared at the dead fish eyes, and sent a message through his heart, and said this sentence to Zuo Yan.
"I haven't said anything yet..." Zuo Yan responded with a half-smile.
"That's right, I sometimes miss too." Vidok knew what the other party was going to say, so he didn't even want to hear it, "But... this time it really wasn't my carelessness..."
"Oh?" Zuo Yan could hear what he meant, so he just responded and waited for him to continue.
"Although from an objective point of view, I seem to be just unlucky, but... I have a vague feeling that Feng Bujue, who calls himself a 'detective', is far from being as simple as it seems on the surface..."
...
The words are divided into two ends, and then look at the bar.
"What's the matter? Dude." Feng Bujue looked at Sam suspiciously and asked, "Your complexion doesn't look good."
After returning from the toilet, Sam's expression became very strange. It didn't look like the expression after a successful crime, and it didn't look like an emotion disguised for some reason.
Feng Bujue quickly saw through the truth behind this expression—the crime that Sam was committing, an accident occurred during the process.
"I..." Sam only said one word, and then fell into hesitation and thinking again.
Obviously, some kind of unexpected change disrupted his original criminal plan, so all the rhetoric and acting skills he had prepared in advance... all lost their meaning.
Not everyone can adapt to the situation with an almost terrifying reaction like Feng Bujue. As an ordinary person, Sam naturally has to think twice when faced with such a situation where he may be killed if he says half a sentence wrong. , be cautious in words and deeds...
"Could it be... Is there any bad news on the phone?" Feng Bujue saw that the other party didn't reply, so he used introductory words, trying to pry Sam's mouth open.
"Uh..." Sam's eyeballs rolled half a circle in their sockets, and then he picked up the small glass of spirits on the table that he hadn't finished drinking, raised his neck, and drank it all in one gulp, "Huh..." This half After drinking a glass of wine, he seemed to have made up his mind, "Brother Feng..." He looked at Feng Bujue and said, "It seems that something happened to my family."
[The current task has been completed]
The moment Sam said these words, the system voice also rang in Brother Jue's ears.
Feng Bujue took advantage of the opportunity to open the game menu and looked at the task bar; at this time, the second sub-task under the main task [Waiting for the case to happen] was checked next to it, and a third sub-task appeared below it. Task - [Intervene in the investigation of "John Herbert's Murder Incident"].
"What?" Feng Bujue was startled when he saw this task, "'John Herbert's murder incident'?" He couldn't help complaining secretly, "Shouldn't this guy be the victim?"
Through the "visit" on the island in the afternoon, Feng Bujue had undoubtedly heard about the inheritance dispute of Herbert's family. He also saw Sam's photo at that time; therefore, when he met Sam at the elevator door Only then can Feng Bujue recognize him.
The reason Jue Ge and Vidok came to the conclusion that "Sam is likely to be involved in some kind of criminal incident" is that...they both saw the money in Sam's jacket pocket.
It was a very, very thick wad of money...
It was so thick that it couldn't be stuffed into the inner pocket of the suit or the trouser pocket, so Sam could only put it in the outer pocket of the suit and try to cover it with his hands while walking.
Under normal circumstances, this kind of cover is enough. Except for pickpockets, no one will stare at other people's pockets all day long.
However, in front of characters like Feng Bujue and Vidok, this must be revealed.
Anyone who comes into their line of sight will become a "reasoning sample"; this is their instinct... They have developed the habit of "observation" and "reasoning", and their proficiency has reached the level of ordinary people even if they put their heart into it It is also difficult to achieve a realm. For them, the deductive method is a normal sense to communicate with the world, no different from breathing.
So, that brand new hat, that hasty gait, that wistful look, that thick wad of cash, and the very identity of "Sam Herbert"... all are collected in one quick glance The information received, within a few seconds, has evolved into the same conclusion in the minds of Feng Bujue and Vidok—this guy wants to do something.
However, at that time, Vidok reasoned more than Feng Bujue, because he knew more about the inheritance case.
In the next few hours, between the time when Feng Bujue entered the room and before he came to the bar, Brother Jue also used his mobile phone to go online to further investigate the Herbert family's inheritance case. Fan, and finally came up with the same set of inferences as Vidok, which can be regarded as catching up with the opponent's progress in terms of intelligence.
So far, the two parties have come to the same starting line, and have unanimously constructed a hypothesis of "the younger brother buys the murderer to kill".
However, the actual development of this matter is beyond everyone's expectations... including Sam himself.
"Don't panic..." Three seconds later, Feng Bujue quickly calmed down, put on a very righteous and reliable look, and said to the man who "meeted by chance" in front of him, "What's the matter, you first tell me Say..."