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: "Who are you looking for?"
"Excuse me, sir, I'm the waiter at the bar." The voice coming from outside the door was that of the waiter who had previously spoken to Brother Jue.
"Oh...what's going on?" Zuo Yan responded.
"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 peephole behind the door; through the glass, he saw Vidoc, who was looking unhappy and was being held in the arms of the waiter.
The next second, Zuo Yan opened the door without saying a word. He looked at the waiter and smiled awkwardly: "Haha... I'm sorry, he slipped away when I wasn't paying attention. I was looking for him too...
"As he spoke, he reached out to pick up the cat, "Um...where did you find him?"
"A gentleman named Feng found it in the 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 nothing happens, I have to go back to work."
"Okay, thank you." Zuo Yan took the cat and said politely, "Sorry to trouble you."
After a brief exchange, the door was closed again, leaving one person and one cat in the room, looking at each other...
"Stop being so verbose." Vidocq glared at Zuo Yan and spoke through his heart, saying this to Zuo Yan.
"I haven't said anything yet..." Zuo Yan replied with a half-smile.
"Yes, I also make mistakes sometimes." Vidocq 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, it seems that I am 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..."
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Let’s split the conversation into two parts and look over at the bar.
"What's wrong? Man." Feng Bujue looked at Sam suspiciously and asked, "Your face doesn't look good."
After returning from the toilet, Sam's expression became very strange. It didn't look like the expression after a crime was committed, nor did it look like an emotion disguised for some reason.
Feng Bujue quickly saw through the truth behind this expression. During the crime Sam was committing, something unexpected happened.
"I..." Sam only said one word, and then fell into hesitation and thinking.
Obviously, some unexpected change disrupted his original crime plan, so all the rhetoric and acting skills he 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 a situation where he may be killed if he says even half a sentence wrong.
, be careful in your words and deeds...
"Is there... any bad news on the other side of the phone?" Feng Bujue saw that the other party didn't reply, so he used guiding words, trying to pry Sam's mouth open.
"Uh..." Sam's eyes rolled half a circle in his sockets, then he picked up the small glass of liquor on the table that he had not yet finished drinking, raised his neck, and drank it all in one gulp, "Huh..."
After half a glass of wine, he seemed to have made up his mind, "Brother Feng..." He looked at Feng Bujue and said, "Something seems to have happened at home..."
[The current task has been completed]
The moment Sam said these words, the system voice also sounded in Brother Jue's ears.
Feng Bujue took the opportunity to open the game menu and looked at the taskbar; at this time, the second sub-task [Waiting for the case to occur] under the main task had been checked, and a third sub-task appeared below it.
Mission [Intervention in the investigation of the "John Herbert Murder Case"].
"What?" Feng Bujue was shocked when he saw this mission, "'John Herbert Murder Case'?" He couldn't help but secretly complained, "Shouldn't this guy be the victim?"
Through his "visit" on the island in the afternoon, Feng Bujue had undoubtedly heard about the inheritance dispute case of the Herbert family. He also saw Sam's photo at that time; therefore, when he met Sam at the elevator door
, Feng Bujue could recognize him.
The reason that Brother Jue and Vidoc came to the conclusion that "Sam was probably involved in some kind of crime" was... they both saw the money in Sam's jacket pocket.
That's a very, very thick wad of money...
It was so thick that it couldn't be stuffed into the inside pocket of the suit or the trouser pocket, so Sam could only put it in the outside pocket of the suit and try to cover it with his hands when 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 Vidocq, this is bound to be revealed.
Anyone who enters their 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 that ordinary people can use their intentions.
It is a state that is difficult to achieve even if you do it. For them, deduction is a regular sense to communicate with the world, no different from breathing.
Therefore, that brand-new hat, that hurried gait, that thoughtful look, that thick wad of cash, and the identity of "Sam Herbert" itself... these were all taken away at a glance.
The collected information had evolved into the same conclusion in Feng Bujue's and Vidoc's minds within a few seconds. This guy was going to cause trouble.
However, at that time, Vidocq deduced more content than Feng Bujue, because he knew more about the inheritance case.
In the following hours, when Ji Feng Bujue entered the room and when he arrived at the bar, Brother Jue also used the mobile phone he had on him to go online to further investigate the Herbert family's inheritance case.
He finally came to the same set of inferences as Vidocq, and finally caught up with the opponent in terms of intelligence.
At this point, both parties came to the same starting point, and unanimously formulated the hypothesis that "the younger brother paid for the murder."
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 particularly loyal and reliable look, and said to the man in front of him who had "met him by chance", "What is going on? First tell me
