Elstein's carriage faded away and slowly disappeared into the night, as he had come, and the cat lay back in the armchair, while Wang Xu continued to play his poker.

"What do you think?" The cat broke the silence.

"What do you think?" Wang Xu didn't look back, he still played poker.

"Don't pretend to be confused, according to the romance, even if this Zhou Yu is half a beat slower than Zhuge Liang, he is also Zhou Yu."

Wang Xu smiled: "It's rare for you to compliment me?" ”

"I'm not complimenting, I'm just saying the truth, since your two souls merged, you've grown a lot in all aspects...... Moreover, in the period since your little girlfriend's disappearance, your strength has improved greatly, and I have already noticed it, and it seems that you have studied the Guigu Dao Technique well; And instead of continuing the development of your own spiritual powers, you went to practice magic, is it because you have received some information from the 'other you' that you shouldn't know......"

Wang Xu sighed: "About that information...... Let's just know it in our hearts, if we put it on the table to talk, we may really be killed by thunder. ”

Master Mao said: "Then let's not talk about that, don't pretend to be pure, let's talk about your opinion." ”

Wang Xu replied: "What else can you think? That Elsstein must still be lying. ”

"Go on."

"This guy is by no means as easy to deal with as he seems, he is actually very scheming and very good at acting, and he has been testing us since he came in. First of all, let's see if we can see through his false identity, as you said, if you can't even see through this, handing things over to us will definitely be a failure.

Then, his performance continued, and all his performances after being recognized were extremely realistic, with almost no flaws in his eyes, movements, and tone...... Seven points are true, three points are false, and this is the most brilliant lie. Still, I can basically know what's and what's true. ”

The cat said: "Very good, go on." ”

"First of all, the things about his true identity and his family must be true, because we can all confirm them through a third party, and the matter between him and Miss Jones is very likely, I don't know how you used to judge it at once, but you didn't let him finish the nonsense that he had made up a long time ago, so you already knew it at the time......

So skip the love plot he made up, and then he said the main point - let's find out where 'something' is placed, you followed his train of thought at the time, and directly speculated that it was a love letter or something, and he didn't deny it, and followed your statement, and finally said that it was an envelope, which contained love letters from invisible people and pictures of even more invisible people.

If my reasoning so far has been correct, he lied on two points, first, that the woman had never been in love with him at all, but had had some other relationship, and second, that what he wanted was indeed the envelope, but the contents were ...... In the case of the first point, it's definitely not a love letter or a photo, it's something else. ”

The cat master applauded: "It's very exciting, you are definitely worthy of being my assistant today." ”

"Phew! So I used to be a miscellaneous worker? ”

"It's not a chore, it's a follower."

"So many people died, why didn't you die......"

The cat master had a decadent look on his face again, and once again ignored Wang Xu's complaints: "I didn't expect this first case to be much more complicated than it seems on the surface...... What a hassle......

"What's the trouble, aren't we 'momentarily bright'? It's easy to solve. ”

"Huh...... I didn't say I wanted you to get involved in this case. ”

Wang Xu turned his head at this time, looking surprised: "Huh? Are you ready to go it alone? So why are you talking to me so much? ”

"It's boring, there is no TV and no Internet these days, cultural people write books, read books, and listen to concerts, and ordinary people just pick up girls, drink, and gamble...... I'm a cross-traveler, don't talk nonsense with you, why don't I get some poison to taste? ”

Wang Xu thought for a while and said: "It's okay, if you want to do it alone, I don't have to be busy, I can go to pick up girls, drink, gamble, ......."

The cat's next words immediately shattered his illusions: "You don't have that much spare work, I have a job for you, a job as a ghost hunter." ”

"Oh! It's been a long time, and you're going to meet that Miss Jones alone, and I'm going to fight Frankenstein, right? ”

"You're not good at dealing with women, and you're not as fluent in English as I am, so it's very reasonable for me to divide the work this way. Again...... Pickling girls, drinking, and gambling are still good for people like you, who are virgins, have poor drinking, and have poor character. ”

As soon as Wang Xu was about to refute a few words, the cat master threw a newspaper at him, not giving him a chance to speak at all: "There is a very strange thing in this evening newspaper, you read it first, yes, that's it, the second edition." ”

Wang Xu picked up the newspaper, searched for the report that the cat master said, and looked at it roughly.

"Between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. last night, a police sergeant on duty near Waterloo Bridge heard cries for help and overboard. The alarm was immediately issued, and through the concerted efforts of the water police, a body was finally recovered. It was identified as a young gentleman named Stan Penshaw, who lived near Halsham. There was no sign of violence on the body, and there is no doubt that the deceased had been lost in the darkness of the night and had fallen into the water by mistakenly stepping on the edge of the pier, which was enough to alert the municipality to the situation at the riverside pier......"

The rest of the content has nothing to do with the incident itself, so Wang Xu didn't continue to read it, he looked up and said, "What's wrong?" Pretty normal, huh? Accidents. ”

The cat shook his head and said: "There is a railway station near Waterloo Bridge, between nine and ten o'clock, there is exactly the last train, the deceased lives in Holsham, so he probably wants to take the train back from downtown London, but the problem is ...... Would a person who is in a hurry to catch a train run to the edge of the pier on a rainy night to see the scenery? Wrong path? Hehe, this reporter can quite justify himself, if he is an old man or a child, it is still possible, but he is not.

If there was something unreasonable, it was considered strange, so I asked Mrs. Hudson to get some old newspapers and rummaged through them, and the results confirmed my judgment. Four people had already fallen into the water in the nearby watershed in two months, and this kind of so-called 'accident' happened almost every day, but it never ended up being a sensation like the case of Jack the Ripper......"

Wang Xu already understood when he heard this: "So...... If the police can't handle that, I have to take care of it? ”

The cat master took the coffee: "This matter is done by you independently, and you can get in touch with foreign ghosts and ghosts, and you can also accumulate work experience." ”

"Hmph...... You want to see how far I've gotten lately......"

The cat didn't answer the question, he finished his coffee, got up and went into his living room, with a subtle smile on the corner of his mouth.