Chapter 941: A Special Companion
During lunch, Tim Haggis, who didn't understand how Xiao Yao counted cards at the gambling table, couldn't help but ask Xiao Yao how to count cards. Xiao Yao generously introduced the principle of card counting and the theoretical knowledge involved to Tim Haggis.
Although Tim Haggis has changed from a commando in charge of armed operations to an agent who needs more brains and is mainly responsible for solving crimes, whether he was in New York or now in Los Angeles, Tim Haggis is in the robbery team, dealing with criminals who are still mainly violent crimes. Improving your odds of winning through knowledge of mathematics and probability is easy to understand, but when it comes to specific mathematical theories and probability problems, Tim Haggis is a little difficult to understand.
As a result, Tim Haggis just heard Xiao Yao say a Montihall paradox, so he reluctantly stroked his forehead and shouted to Xiao Yao to stop.
Xiao Yao knows Tim Haggis's career and has a certain understanding of Tim Haggis's specialty, so he will share his knowledge of card counting with him so selflessly. Xiao Yao was mentally prepared for Tim Haggis's reaction, and as soon as Tim Haggis shouted to stop, Xiao Yao stopped with a smile.
After lunch, the two of them took a short break and then went to the other casino they had planned for the day. In this casino, Xiao Yao still gave Tim Haggis 50,000 chips and asked him to play with him.
Tim Haggis had given up on watching Xiao Yao count the cards and focused on his own hand from the start. However, Tim Haggis did not seem to have had as much luck in the afternoon as he did in the morning. Tim Haggis no longer pays attention to Xiao Yao's card counting, and at the beginning he no longer only bets the minimum amount, and as a result, he only won nearly 1,000 yuan in the afternoon, and the results were far less good than in the morning.
In the afternoon in the casino, Xiao Yao won nearly 300,000 again. But Tim Haggis knew that Xiao Yao won by card counting, so he didn't compare with Xiao Yao at all. As far as Tim Haggis himself is concerned, he has people who pay for food, housing and transportation, and he has won money at both casinos, and Tim Haggis is in a pretty good mood. However, Tim Haggis's good mood did not last long, and in the evening, Tim Haggis was depressed.
In the morning, because of the question of whether to exercise early, Xiao Yao and Tim Haggis agreed to have a fight. Since there was no boxing ring in the hotel gym, the two agreed to find a boxing gym to fight at night. After dinner, the two went to the street to find a boxing gym.
It is not difficult to find a boxing gym in Las Vegas, a world-renowned comprehensive entertainment city, but it is slightly difficult that Xiao Yao does not want the process of the two to be seen by others. However, this is only slightly more difficult. This kind of problem is not a big problem in front of money. The hotel restaurant can be chartered, and the boxing gym can also be chartered.
The boxing gym that is temporarily looking for is also a temporary charter if you want to charter it. Customers or students who were practicing at the gym at the time may have opinions. In addition to the cost of chartering the venue, Xiao Yao will give out a few thousand dollars more, and those customers or students will definitely be willing to suspend training for one night in exchange for a few hundred dollars. Anyway, Xiao Yao is not bad for money, and he has won a lot in the casino during this time, and giving an extra few thousand dollars is nothing to him at all.
Because of the question of whether Tim Haggis has to get up early every morning to go to exercise with Xiao Yao in the morning, Tim Haggis will not release water, and he also thinks that Xiao Yao knows that he will not release water. Xiao Yao asked for a charter, and Tim Haggis thought that Xiao Yao was afraid that others would see him being beaten in the ring, so although Tim Haggis did not think there was a need to charter the match, he still did not speak out against it. As a result, what he didn't expect was that the two competed in the boxing ring, and the one who was beaten down would actually be himself!
So, Tim Haggis was depressed.
After Tim Haggis moved from a commando to an agent, his fitness and fighting skills have decreased to a certain extent, but Tim Haggis admits that he has not declined much. Although Tim Haggis knew from several cases a few years ago that Xiao Yao's skills were very powerful, no matter what, Xiao Yao is an acting star whose main business is singing and filming, and he is a professional. Being beaten down by Xiao Yao in the ring, Tim Haggis was a little hard to accept.
Seeing that Tim Haggis was in a bad mood, Xiao Yao didn't say anything to comfort or explain, and directly dragged him to a bar for a drink. In the ring of the gym, both men wore helmet protectors, and Xiao Yao made a measured move, plus basically did not greet Tim Haggis's head and face. Although Tim Haggis was beaten down, he was not seriously injured, and he recovered after a little rest, and there were no obvious injuries on his head and face, so it was okay to go to a bar for a drink.
Of course, because the two of them were traveling by car, and Xiao Yao was afraid that Tim Haggis would be depressed and drink too much, and he would have to work hard to get him back to the hotel, so Xiao Yao suggested that the two go to the bar of the hotel where they stayed, and did not go outside.
That night, Tim Haggis drank too much. As a guest of his own hotel, Xiao Yao said that the hotel sent two waiters to help Xiao Yao send Tim Haggis back to his room. Watching the two hotel waiters almost carry Tim Haggis out of the bar and send him back to the bed in the bedroom, Xiao Yao was very glad that he had chosen to drink at the bar of the hotel where he stayed after tipping the two waiters.
Matt's hired private investigator continues to follow Xiao Yao.
The private detective followed him for a few days, but he was not discovered by Xiao Yao, and his ability must be good, but he only followed Xiao Yao when he went out, and he did not reach the level of listening to Xiao Yao's phone calls. In addition, private detectives also have to sleep, and generally after Xiao Yao goes back to his room to rest at night, the private detective's work for the day will end. Therefore, the private investigator did not know that Xiao Yao contacted Tim Haggis, nor did he know that Xiao Yao went out of the room in the early morning to pick up people in the hotel lobby, and did not see Tim Haggis for the first time.
The private detective has figured out the laws of Xiao Yao's life and actions. There is no value in tracking and observing when you go out to the hotel gym in the morning, only if there are many people in the gym, the possibility of something happening is greater. The private detective observed Xiao Yao's performance in the hotel gym in the morning, and went to the gym in advance to squat.
The next morning, when the private detective went to the hotel gym to guard Xiao Yao in advance as usual, he was surprised to find that Xiao Yao had an extra male companion by his side.
Xiao Yao had an extra companion by his side, and the situation changed quite a bit, and the private investigator immediately contacted Matt to inform him of the incident. However, during the day, the private detective still had the task of continuing to follow the two, and it was not until Xiao Yao and his companions went back to the room to rest in the evening that the private detective met with Matt and explained the situation observed by the follow-up today. Of course, Nicky Thompson was also present, and the place where the three of them met was in the living room of Nicky Thompson's suite.
The private detective didn't follow Xiao Yao late at night, and was afraid that Xiao Yao would check out and leave at night, so he bribed a night receptionist at the front desk of the hotel and the gate security guard, asking him to pay attention to Xiao Yao's check-out information and whether Xiao Yao left. Xiao Yao retired from his original room and changed to a suite to live with Tim Haggis, the room he lived in was changed, and the reception at the hotel front desk also secretly notified the private detective. However, Xiao Yao just changed the room and did not leave, plus it was early in the morning, and the front desk hotel did not contact the private detective at that time, but told him in the morning. As for the gate security, Xiao Yao didn't go out in the early hours of the morning, so naturally he didn't even say anything.
When following Xiao Yao and Tim Haggis back to their room tonight, the private investigator confirmed that Xiao Yao had changed rooms, and also informed Matt and Nicky Thompson at this time.
"Changed rooms, two people live in a suite, and stay together all day?" After listening to the private detective's report, Matt smiled, "This Jan can't be really..."
"The suite has two bedrooms!" interrupted Nicky Thompson, "I said, he won't be G!"
"Maybe it's to hide people's eyes? Who knows if they're going to have one bedroom or two. Matt deliberately shook his head and said, "Unexpectedly, he was not interested in the beautiful and sexy gambling girl who took the initiative to send it to the door, but he found a man himself!".
"Hey!" Nicky Thompson said dissatisfied, "don't talk nonsense!"
"How do you know I'm talking nonsense!" Matt laughed, "Why are you reacting so much?"
The private investigator knew that Matt was deliberately provoking Nicky Thompson, and said, "I don't think that man is what Mr. Dino said he was, he should be a professional in a special profession!"
"Professionals in special occupations, what special occupations?" said Matt, smiling and asking the private investigator with interest.
"Not only did the man look strong, but he also behaved a little differently from ordinary people, and I felt that he should be engaged in a dangerous job. "If I had to guess, I think he might be a soldier... I mean mercenaries, policemen, or bodyguards!"
"Bodyguard?" said Nicky Thompson, "because he met Tiger yesterday and they were in trouble with him, so he hired a bodyguard, and for the convenience of protection, the bodyguard shared a suite with him?"
"That's too careful, isn't it?" said Matt, "Although he met Tiger yesterday and they made trouble for him, didn't he win against Tiger?
"But he didn't know that Tiger was hired by us!" said Nicky Thompson, "Didn't Tiger's girlfriend say that she wanted to blackmail him because she saw her come out of the casino? He's very good at fighting, but what if the other party is holding a gun?"
"Miss Thompson has a point," said the private detective, "but I don't think the man is the bodyguard he hired." ”
"Why?" asked Matt and Nicky Thompson at the same time.
"Because they just went to the hotel bar. The man was drunk and was helped back by the hotel waiter. "How can a bodyguard be so drunk while on duty to protect his employer?"
"When I followed them today, I noticed that they all ate at the same table when they ate, and they talked very naturally and seemed to know each other very well. The private investigator continued, "I think the two of them should be friends! Even if the man is really a bodyguard, he is here to protect Young, and it is not a simple employment relationship." ”
"Can you find out what that man does?" Matt asked.
"I've been looking it up. "I managed to buy off the hotel's night reception and asked her for the check-in information of the man who lived with Young." The man's name was Tim Haggis, an American, and his driver's license was registered in Los Angeles. I've asked a friend in Los Angeles to check it out for me. ”
Speaking of which, the private detective's cell phone rang. The private investigator took out his mobile phone and opened it, with a very surprised expression on his face.
"What's wrong?" asked Matt and Nicky Thompson, noticing the change in the private detective's expression.
"See for yourselves, I just received the news!" the private investigator handed Matt the phone in his hand, "This is the companion who was with Jan today!"
"FBI?" said Matt, who took it and looked at it, also startled.
A person's information on the screen of the mobile phone, in which the three letters of FBI are very conspicuous.
"Does Jan have FBI friends?" said Nicky Thompson.
"It seems that there is. The private investigator thought for a moment and nodded, "In the robbery and kidnapping case of New York Fashion Week, the first person to notify the police was an FBI agent. At that time, he was interviewed by reporters, saying that he was a friend of Yang and was invited by Yang to watch the press conference. If he didn't guess wrong, he should have been the FBI agent at the time. ”
"But the New York Fashion Week case happened in New York, and the FBI agent should be a New York agent, right?" Nicky Thompson wondered.
"Look down," said the private investigator, "he was transferred from New York to Los Angeles two years ago. The case at New York Fashion Week is more than two years away. ”
Ma nodded his head to approve of the private detective's words, and sighed: "I didn't expect that guy to have friends who work in the FBI in the United States!"
"Mr. Dino," said the private investigator, "it's not the same as following an FBI agent and following a celebrity. Based on my observations today, it is likely that this FBI agent will stay by Young's side all the time, and my job will be much more difficult. ”
"I understand," Matt said, "do you want to end this job, or do you want to add money?"
"As a private investigator, of course I like money!" said the private investigator, "but to be honest, I've been following Jan these days, and I haven't found any tricks on him other than knowing that he goes to the casino more often and more often." Now that he has FBI agents by his side, Young is less likely to do anything out of the ordinary. I don't think there's any need to continue this work. ”
"Okay, I agree to end the commission, and tomorrow I will send someone to settle the payment with you!" Ma nodded his head.
"Okay, thank you!" said the private investigator, standing up, "Then I'll go first!"
"Matt, Jan has a friend who works in the FBI, are we going to continue with the plan we talked about yesterday?" After the private investigator left, Nicky Thompson asked Matt, "in case he knows that we planned it..."
"Of course we have to continue!" Matt said, "what if he has friends at the FBI? The media reported the facts, and we didn't break the law." Even if he and his FBI friend knew, what would he do? Don't worry about his FBI friend using his job position to help him get revenge on us, I have friends at the FBI too. ”
"The most important thing," Matt continued, "is that even if we regret it now, it's too late." Young's report has been sent!"
"What?" said Nicky Thompson, "has it been sent?"
"Yes," said Marcellu, with a smile, "haven't you read the news of those famous gossip news sites today?"
"Nope. Nicky Thompson shook his head and said, "I didn't expect you to move so fast when it was decided yesterday!"
"Ha," Matt smirked, "I've always been so efficient!"