Chapter 724 -619: Bartender: I think I’ve Got It Again!_2
Recovering her senses, Miss Champagne looked at Xu Shuo, the smile completely gone from her face, replaced by a hint of apprehension in her eyes.
Too fast!
She truly hadn’t reacted in time, and by the time the dagger was nearly in her face, it was too late to stop it.
Miss Champagne’s face was fully exposed.
Realizing they could now see the beauty’s true face, the customers squatting at a distance began to stir, craning their necks in hope, but unfortunately, they were quickly subdued by the police and prevented from getting any closer.
Booth Number Three.
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After Mr. Lei was taken aback, he frowned.
The visage of Miss Champagne was exceedingly ordinary.
Despite her high nose bridge and plump lips, without any feature being crooked, the combination of her facial features was just too mundane.
The only redeeming feature were her sparkling, large eyes that were akin to a natural-born seductress, exceptionally enchanting. Perhaps that was the reason Miss Champagne wore a mask?
After all, some people with a mask on are the resplendent flowers of the mortal world, but once the mask is removed, they become man-eating flowers.
Miss Champagne, wishing to make money in the entertainment venues, naturally had to find ways to enhance her assets. If not for that, it’s doubtful she would have attracted so many patrons.
However…
The reason Mr. Lei frowned.
Was not because she was too plain-looking.
After all, their earlier guess was that Miss Champagne was his disfigured ex-girlfriend; however, this face was not only completely different from his ex’s, but it also bore no traces of disfiguration.
Could it be… cosmetic surgery for restoration?
But would someone go through surgery to become this unremarkable?
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If she wanted to make money dancing, wouldn’t it be better to craft a face like Jenny’s?
The reality was far different from what he had expected, and Mr. Lei’s expression darkened as he fell into deep thought. The idea of submitting his task now seemed uncertain.
After all, if it turned out not to be her, he would indeed have to make his way to the Abyss Battlefield.
“Sir, you’ve gone too far!”
Miss Champagne seemed to finally snap out of her daze and immediately lifted her hand to cover the lower half of her face, glaring at Xu Shuo indignantly, “If you want to see, I could show you in private, but unveiling my mask here is ruining my act!”
Xu Shuo observed her, not only offering no consolation but also adding insult to injury, “Indeed ugly.”
Miss Champagne: “…???”
You’re not just a straight man, you’re Iron Man.
Her chest heaved up and down with anger, her brows furrowed in displeasure, and those eyes even began to mist up, looking coquettish and pitiable.
“Put your hand down.” Iron Man said without mercy.
“…” Miss Champagne reluctantly lowered her hand covering her face and glared at him without a word.
“So, is it because you’re ugly like this that you want to cover your face with a veil?” Xu Shuo tilted his head and asked.
Miss Champagne couldn’t help but roll her eyes, which under normal circumstances would be a petulant gesture from a beauty, but now, with her facial features combined, it was just uninspiring.
In a subdued voice, she said, “Sir, you’ve now seen my face. Is there anything else?”
Xu Shuo suddenly stood up, and with his movement, Miss Champagne’s body instinctively tensed and leaned back, then she subtly relaxed again.
When this man walked straight towards her, she felt the same oppressive aura the bar owner had experienced before: this person was like a cold steel wall, bringing with him an onslaught of frost and snow.
Xu Shuo looked down from his height at the nervous Miss Champagne, then reached out, lifted her chin, and closely examined her face.
Miss Champagne’s face showed distress and panic, her moist eyes fixated on him.
But as their eye contact lengthened, Miss Champagne appeared to gradually shed her nervousness in his presence and began to flirt again, with her red lips slightly parted and breathing out a fragrance.
“Sir, have you had your fill~”
She spoke in a coquettish tone, even lightly blinking her right eye, twisting her shoulders in an alluring manner.
Mr. Lei on the other side rubbed at the chill bumps on his skin.
Xu Shuo moved his fingers, stroking her delicate and soft cheek, a slight smile curling at the corner of his mouth, “Not a great looker, but quite adept at seduction.”
As his words fell, Miss Champagne was stunned, and Mr. Lei’s eyes widened in startled horror.
The former didn’t expect the other to play along with the flirtation, and the latter never imagined there would be a response to it.
Your character’s breaking down!
After saying that, however, Xu Shuo reverted to his indifferent demeanor, let go of her face, and sat back down on the sofa, a picture of listlessness.
“That’s all, you can go back now.”
“Huh?” Miss Champagne was somewhat puzzled.
“You may go back now; stop disgracing me here,” Xu Shuo said again.
“…”
Miss Champagne’s mouth twitched slightly as she looked at him, apparently convinced he didn’t plan to question her further. She stood, walked to the wall, removed her dagger, then took off her veil and put it back on.
Then, she looked suspiciously at the young man: “You called me here for this case, didn’t you? Now you’re not suspecting me anymore?”
Xu Shuo smiled at her: “We don’t suspect ugly people.”
Hearing this, Miss Champagne pretended to be furious, squeezed her fist at him, then huffed and turned to leave.
The assistant gave a questioning look, and Xu Shuo gestured with his hand to indicate there was no need to stop her.
So, Miss Champagne left the bar without any incident. She stood at the entrance, her expression indecipherable beneath her veil.
Glancing back at Fragrant Residence Bar, Miss Champagne’s eyes darkened, and she quickly turned and left.
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Inside the bar.
When Xu Shuo said to release her, Mr. Lei was already stunned, hesitating for a long time,
not until the woman had left the bar did he finally speak up, “Why did you let her go just like that? Isn’t she the murderer? Are you sure there’s no problem? She seems very suspicious to me!”
Xu Shuo laughed: “She probably is the murderer, because that face of hers is fake; there are traces of disguise, though quite well done.”
If it wasn’t for the fact that the bartender had demonstrated wearing four faces in front of him, and that he had used Alpha Psychic Power to detect the material of the disguise, he probably wouldn’t have noticed anything strange about Miss Champagne so quickly.
Mr. Lei frowned upon hearing this: “Disguise? Are you sure?”
Xu Shuo nodded: “Fairly certain. If you look carefully, you’ll notice her eyes are very similar to those of your ex-girlfriend. Plus, she has a peculiar scent about her, almost identical to what the waiter described.”
“If there really is an issue, then why did you let her go? Didn’t we agree that you’d help me catch her?” Mr. Lei asked, confused.
“Can’t you submit it without catching her?” Xu Shuo looked at him.
“Either way, I need to confirm it again…” Mr. Lei mumbled.
“Tsk, I thought you were brave.”
“Just kidding! I’m super brave, okay!”
“So you’ll submit now?”
“… Let’s see.”
In the end, Mr. Lei chickened out.
But coming back to his senses, he asked with knitted brows, “Wait, why are you changing the subject? You haven’t clarified why you let her go. Can’t you catch her, or what? If you can’t catch her, I’ll do it!”
Xu Shuo smiled faintly: “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket; they might explode.”
Mr. Lei was taken aback: “What do you mean?”
Xu Shuo pointed in the direction of the bar office.
Even when Miss Champagne came, Xu Shuo never took his attention off that area, which is why he seemed somewhat distracted and aimed for expediency in his actions.
After all, there’s a saying that goes, don’t worry about problems that aren’t yours.
Miss Champagne wasn’t his mission target. He’d help a little, but he wouldn’t neglect his own matters to attend to someone else’s.
The bartender was planning to escape.
Having learned from previous events, Xu Shuo had no intention of letting these two suspects, who seemed to be collaborating, stay together, although he figured it wouldn’t take much effort to deal with both of them.
But why bother complicating things by putting all the eggs in one basket.
Let’s see what the bartender is planning to do first.
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In the bar office.
The bartender didn’t know how long he had been unconscious.
But once he came to, he waited roughly ten minutes, patiently, for the character card’s time limit to expire.
His eyes flashed with murderous intent as he planned numerous escape routes during those ten minutes and how to destroy all traces of this bar afterward.
As soon as the ten minutes were up.
The bartender quickly released the shackles on his hands, staring coldly at the door with a vicious look on his face!
No matter who that young man was before, this was a classic genre without Supernatural Power; surely, the other party couldn’t have two character cards at the second level, could they?!
After the first confrontation, he knew the capabilities of Inspector Berrod. His strength wasn’t great.
This fight was on!
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