Elstein's carriage gradually moved away, slowly disappearing into the night, just as it had come. Master Cat lay back in the armchair, and Wang Xu continued to play his poker game.
"What do you think?" Mr. Cat broke the silence.
"What do you think?" Wang Xu didn't look back and continued playing poker.
"Don't pretend to be confused because you understand. According to the legend, even if Zhou Yu is half a beat 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 the fusion of your two souls, you have grown a lot in all aspects... Furthermore, during the period after your little girlfriend disappeared, your strength has improved significantly.
Da, I have already noticed it. It seems that you have studied Guigu Taoism carefully. And you did not continue to develop your own spiritual power, but instead practiced the magic. Is it because you got something from the 'other you'?
What about information you shouldn’t know…”
Wang Xu sighed: "As for that information... we just need to know it in our hearts. If we put it on the table for discussion, we might really be struck to death by lightning."
Mr. Cat said: "Then let's stop talking about that, and don't pretend to be innocent. Let's talk about your opinion."
Wang Xu replied: "What else can I say? That Elstein must still be lying."
"Go on."
"This person is by no means as easy to deal with as he seems. He is actually very scheming and good at acting. He started testing us from the moment he came in. First, let's see if we can see through his fake identity. As you said,
If you can't even see through this, leaving the matter to us will definitely result in failure.
Then, his performance continued. Everything he did after he was discovered was extremely realistic. His eyes, movements, and tone of voice were all flawless. What he said... Seventy percent was true, and three percent was false. This is what he did.
The most brilliant lie. But I can still basically tell which parts are bullshit and which parts are true."
Mr. Cat said: "Very good, go on."
"First of all, the things about his true 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 probably nonsense.
, I don’t know how you used to judge it immediately, but you didn’t let him finish telling the lie he had already made up, which shows that you already knew this at the time...
Then he skipped the love plot he made up, and then he said the main point - let us detect where 'something' is placed. You followed his train of thought and directly speculated that it was a love letter or something like that. He also
There is no denying it. Following your explanation, in the end, it was an envelope, containing a love letter from an invisible person and an even more invisible photo.
If my reasoning so far is all correct, he lied on two points. First, the woman and he were not in love at all, but had some other relationship. Second, what he wanted.
It is indeed an envelope, but the content inside...if the first point is true, it is definitely not a love letter or a photo, but something else."
Mr. Cat clapped his hands: "It's wonderful. You are definitely worthy of being my assistant today."
"Bah! Then I used to work as a handyman?"
"I'm not a handyman, I'm a follower."
"So many people died, why don't you die..."
Master Mao once again had a look of decadence on his face, and once again ignored Wang Xu's complaints: "I didn't expect that this first case would be much more complicated than it seemed... It's really troublesome..."
"Is there any trouble? Isn't this a 'temporary Yuliang'? It can be easily solved."
"Haha... I didn't say I wanted you to intervene in this case."
Wang Xu turned around at this time with a surprised look on his face: "Ah? Are you going to go it alone? Then why are you talking to me so much?"
"It's boring. There is no TV or Internet these days. The educated people just write books, read books, and attend concerts. The common people just pick up girls, drink alcohol, and gamble... I am a person who came back from time travel. If I'm not going to talk nonsense to you, why don't I go get some poison to taste?
taste?"
Wang Xu thought for a while and said: "That's fine, if you want to work alone, I don't have to work hard. I can go pick up girls, drink, gamble..."
Cat Master's next words immediately broke his illusion: "You don't have that spare time, I have a job for you, the job of a ghost hunter."
"Oh shit! We've been having trouble for a long time. You're going to go meet that Miss Jones alone, and I'm going to fight Frankenstein, right?"
"You are not good at dealing with women, and your English is not as fluent as mine, so it is very reasonable for me to divide the labor like this. Besides... picking up girls, drinking, and gambling are all things that are difficult for a virgin like you, who has a poor drinker and a bad character.
, it’s better to do less.”
Just as Wang Xu was about to retort, Master Mao threw a newspaper at him, without giving him a chance to speak: "There is something very strange in this evening newspaper. You should read it first. Yes, that's right there. Chapter 1
Second edition.”
Wang Xu caught the newspaper, searched for the report that Master Mao was talking about, and took a brief look at it.
"Between nine and ten o'clock last night, a police officer on duty near Waterloo Bridge suddenly heard the cry for help and the sound of falling into the water. It was dark at night and a heavy rainstorm was raging. Therefore, although several passers-by came to help,
It was impossible to rescue. The alarm was immediately raised, and through the joint efforts of the water police, a body was finally recovered. It was identified as that of a young gentleman named Stan Penshaw, who lived near Horsham during his lifetime. No trace of anything was found on the body.
There are traces of violence. There is no doubt that the deceased got lost due to the darkness of night, accidentally stepped on the edge of the pier and fell into the water, and suffered an accident. This incident is enough to draw the attention of the municipal authorities to the situation of the riverside pier..."
The following content had nothing to do with the incident itself, so Wang Xu didn't continue reading. He raised his head and said, "What's wrong? It's quite normal? It was an accident."
Master Cat shook his head and said: "There is a train station near Waterloo Bridge. There happens to be the last train between nine and ten o'clock. The deceased lived in Horsham, so he probably wanted to take the train from downtown London.
Go back, but the problem is... Would a person who is eager to catch the train run to the edge of the pier to see the scenery on a rainy night? Get lost? Haha, this reporter can pretty much justify it, if he is an old man or a child
It's possible, but he's not.
Anything that is unreasonable is regarded as something fishy, so I asked Mrs. Hodson to get some old newspapers and look through them, and the results confirmed my judgment. In fact, four people have fallen into the water in the nearby river basin within two months.
Such so-called 'accidents' happen almost every day, but they will never become as sensational as the case of Jack the Ripper..."
Wang Xu already understood after hearing this: "So... the police can't handle that matter, so I have to take care of it?"
Master Mao brought up the coffee: "You can complete this matter independently. You can gain more work experience by getting in touch with more exotic ghosts and monsters."
"Hmph...you want to see how far I have improved my strength recently..."
Mr. Cat didn't answer the question. He drank the coffee, stood up and went into his living room with an imperceptible smile on his lips.
