Chapter 720: Chapter 617: The Self-Cultivation of a Qualified Tool Person
After confirming the deal with Xu Shuo, Mr. Lei patted his buttocks and stood up, no longer sitting on the ground with a face full of dejection, feigning world-weariness.
“How’s your prey doing?” he asked curiously.
“Already caught.”
Xu Shuo said indifferently and turned to walk towards the Fragrant Residence Bar.
Mr. Lei was momentarily stunned, then quickly caught up and said, “So you can focus on helping me now? That woman is very slippery; I haven’t even confirmed her identity yet.”
Although they had clashed twice already, just as the woman hadn’t been able to do much to Mr. Lei, for the time being, he also couldn’t pin down the woman to check her identity.
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Now that Xu Shuo’s own goal had been reached, he should be able to spare some time to deal with another case, right?
Even if it was just to help out with Inspector Berrod’s deductive reasoning, right?
Mr. Lei was somewhat expectant.
Reluctantly given tasks to perform, Xu Shuo vaguely replied, “We’ll see, my end isn’t finished yet.”
Mr. Lei rolled his eyes.
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This script had two cases, somewhat entangled, which could possibly result in ambiguous clues.
However, the two “Case Officers” joined forces at the earliest opportunity, separating the clues of the two cases with decisive speed, ensuring they did not interfere with each other.
After all, Mr. Lei had recently been courting Miss Jenny, fitting the profile for the perpetrator in the “Jenny incident” perfectly.
Even the clue about the differing modus operandi couldn’t completely absolve him of suspicion.
Strictly speaking, this could be considered a dual cooperation script.
Two murderers, two seekers of murderers.
As for the bar owner…
That unlucky child was destined to be unlucky.
Though Xu Shuo and Mr. Lei were not ruthless by nature, when it came to their main tasks, they would use any means necessary, resorting to the mildest methods like coercing the bar owner into confession.
On the other side, judging by the chaos created by those two murderers, it was likely they employed a similar approach.
The strongest weapon the bar owner had was Jenny, the Android.
But Jenny, at the center of the storm, was also the most important source of evidence for moving the clues forward; in other words, whoever gained control of the bar owner first would gain the upper hand in this script.
Moreover, the introduction to this script had already laid out the most crucial condition for success, clear for all to see.
Unfortunately, it seemed the two murderers hadn’t realized this at the first opportunity.
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Now, Jenny was in their hands.
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“Is this the stunning beauty, Jenny?”
Seeing Jenny’s new appearance, Mr. Lei was so shocked he might as well have seen an Abyss Creature dancing.
Not just him.
The police officers from Luona District had been dumbfounded for a full ten minutes, still unable to recognize the hideous, fierce Android before them as the breathtaking Miss Jenny from half an hour ago.
Xu Shuo instructed the bar owner to stay put, then called his subordinates to pick up the person, clearly leaving Jenny no time to conceal anything.
Concealment was unnecessary, anyway.
After tonight, the Luona District would no longer have a woman of unsurpassed beauty.
It’s just that Jenny’s current appearance was indeed a sorry sight.
Glancing at her, Xu Shuo tapped his dazed assistant and said, “Call a mechanic to fix her up; having her appear as a witness looking like this is unseemly.”
The assistant: “…”
Your concern is that she’s too ugly?
Alright, we were all quite concerned about how Miss Jenny turned so ugly, but what was even more shocking was that Miss Jenny turned out to be an android!
However, after the shock, most people felt a sense of relief mixed with regret.
The relief stemmed from the thought, “So there really is no mortal beauty that can be so breathtaking,” and the regret also came from, “So there really is no mortal beauty that can be so breathtaking.”
After reflecting on these sentiments, some people couldn’t help but start getting ideas in secret.
While the deputy was taking down the bar owner’s statement, he even sneakily asked where to buy an android with Jenny’s level of beauty.
The bar owner: “…”
Would you believe me if I said I crafted the face myself?
The human aesthetic ceiling is no joke, and as the police officers were going through another wave of shock, the Uptown District companies that sold androids were shocked as well.
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In the chaotic Fragrant Residence Bar.
The familiar number three booth.
Mr. Lei sprawled across the sofa with abandon and lazily said, “My buddy has already investigated the company that sold Jenny, and they’ve agreed to send someone to testify in the Midtown District. However, they want a copy of the bar owner’s android cultivation data.”
Xu Shuo, who was looking through some documents, casually asked, “What cultivation data?”
“Androids are new technology, their sales are still in the experimental body phase. After hearing about the Fragrant Residence Bar incident, they got curious about how the owner raised this android and want to come over to copy Jenny’s appearance data. In the future, Jenny will probably be everywhere on the streets.” Mr. Lei chuckled with a leer, as if he could already envision a scenario in the Uptown District where every wealthy person had a Jenny maid at their fingertips.
Unfortunately for him, he guessed he wouldn’t be able to enjoy such a luxury.
Though beauty lies in the skeleton and not in the skin, no one truly despises a breathtakingly beautiful vase-like figure; such beauty, even just to look at, can be pleasing to the eye.
Hearing this, Xu Shuo looked up at the impeccably seated Jenny not far away, her expressionless face being repaired by the Mechanic.
She lacked a soul.
Even though she had appeared so stunning and seductive, enticing countless people into mad infatuation, a single program change could render her stiff and mechanical, turning her into a doll for humans to manipulate at will.
Although Xu Shuo always liked tool-like people.
He did not like this kind of tool-like people.
A tool-like person without their own thoughts and strategies was doomed not to be a qualified tool-like person.
Even Pei Sheng, who was so seasoned that he almost seemed pickled in his ways, had his own thoughts and paths when it came to certain decisions.
Xu Shuo withdrew his gaze from contemplation.
He continued to review the information that the deputy case officer had organized for him during this period, which mostly included information about the bartender and some of Mr. Lei’s tracks in the Luona District.
“Did you discover anything?”
Mr. Lei leaned in, seeing Xu Shuo sliding through photos of him with various dazzling ladies, cooing and whispering sweet nothings, with some photos even being carefully looked at multiple times.
He was not embarrassed but rather a bit proud.
Even though he hadn’t personally wooed these beauties himself, it was the character he had taken over who did, which by his reckoning, rounded up to being his own conquests!
After looking for a while, Xu Shuo finally pinpointed a woman with soul-capturing eyes and a tender and charming demeanor.
“Do you suspect her?” Mr. Lei quickly asked.
“Not sure yet.”
Xu Shuo just recalled that when he scanned the bar patrons earlier, he seemed to have seen such eyes, and the woman in question was one of those who had thrown flirtatious glances at him.
The woman dressed provocatively and beautifully, her face covered with a purple veil, dressed as an exotic dancer.
And the woman in the photo, getting cozy with Mr. Lei.
Her identity was also that of a dancer in the night market.
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