Chapter 962: Bluff

"Since identifying Harry Kaufman's lineage does not directly help our case, what else can we do next?"

Sergeant Grayson looked at Professor Moriarty eagerly, expecting the resourceful Mr. Professor to give him some advice.

"Joan, what do you think?"

Professor Moriarty seems to be more willing to leave the opportunity to challenge difficult problems to his students as a kind of thinking training.

Ever since the instructor pointed out that "true seeing" could not prove whether a person was guilty, Joann changed his mind and tried to find a solution that was the best of both worlds, which could not only deeply investigate Harry Kaufman, but also conform to Sheriff Gleason's insistence. procedural justice.

"Mentor, I think of a way, but it's not mature enough." Joan hesitated.

"Let's talk about it first. If it is really feasible, all of us will help you improve it."

Professor Moriarty encouraged him persuasively.

"The method I came up with is simply a bluff."

"To implement this plan, Sergeant Gleason needs to use all the police force to block all the entrances and exits of the 'Happy Palace' hotel with great fanfare, and require hotel guests and staff not to go out for the time being."

"If someone asks the reason for the blockade of the hotel, all police detectives must speak with one voice and voluntarily disclose the following information."

"First of all, I would like to inform people that there was another murder in the wetlands in the outskirts last night. Fortunately, Mr. Pinkerton, the great detective, made a timely move to repel the swamp man and save Mr. Donald who was almost killed."

"Secondly, all the Boggards who revealed to people that they were involved in the murder have been arrested, but there is still a main culprit who colluded with the Boggards and has not been brought to justice."

"According to the testimony of the boggard man and Mr. Detective, the police are convinced that the principal culprit is an insidious and evil shapeshifter. Last night, he disguised himself as Mrs. Josephine to lure Mr. Billy Donald to go out at night, and was nearly killed. Going back to Hot Spring Town, he is probably hiding in the Happy Palace Hotel now."

"The reason why the police sealed off the hotel was to find out this shape-shifting monster that was in the crowd."

"In addition, we should also confess to the public that since doppelgangers are proficient in camouflage, ordinary people cannot distinguish their true colors. Fortunately, the scroll of 'True Sight' provided by Professor Moriarty can see through the camouflage."

"The police investigators, in the process of appeasing the hotel guests, must repeatedly emphasize that Sergeant Grayson and Mr. Pinkerton will arrive at the scene soon with the 'True Seeing' scroll."

"At that time, Mr. Sheriff and Mr. Detective will use their 'true seeing skills' to personally identify all the guests and hotel staff present, and investigate one by one until the doppelganger hiding in the crowd is found!"

"There was a lot of trouble, and David Kaufman was not there. Harry Kaufman, as the hotel manager, had to come forward to deal with the police investigation."

"When he learned the above-mentioned information that was intentionally leaked to him from the investigators, he might not be able to calm down."

"If he thinks he has a clear conscience, or is determined enough to stand up and admit that he is a shapeshifter, and at the same time firmly deny his participation in the murder, to be honest, we really have nothing to do with him."

"But Harry has to consider the consequences of revealing his privacy. This will not only make him an important suspect in the serial murders, but also indirectly admit that he is not David Kaufman's biological son, and he will lose millions of dollars. Inheritance."

"What's worse, revealing his life experience will make him a monster in people's eyes. He will always be under people's strange eyes, and he will no longer be able to blend in with the crowd as before and pretend that he is a normal person."

"If Harry is really a descendant of the doppelganger, this last point is precisely what he can't bear the most."

"What an alien who has integrated into human society fears the most is that people will know that he is actually a monster and treat him as an alien, making him realize a cruel reality—no matter how hard he tries to disguise himself, human society is doomed to be without him. Shelter."

Joan's tone was low and her eyes were lonely.

When he tried to analyze Harry's mental activities, he was actually analyzing his own inner world.

Joan put herself in the shoes of others, convinced that Harry would not dare to expose his doppelganger heritage, to admit publicly that he was a monster pretending to be human.

Like he wouldn't dare to do that either, because he's also a monster pretending to be human.

"The police round-up seems to be menacing. If Harry has ghosts in his heart, he must be trembling and anxious to protect himself."

"If he doesn't want to lose everything he currently has, he must change into a disguise before the sheriff and detectives arrive with the 'True Seeing' scroll, try to escape the police blockade, avoid the limelight, and then think about the future what to do."

"If Harry Kaufman decides to flee and takes action, it will give the police a good chance to catch him..."

Joan sighed, and with a trace of complicated and unspeakable emotions, he concluded the trapping plan he had conceived.

"By then, he's finished."

...

On May 29, during the whole day, countless gossips and rumors hung over the town of Hot Springs like a storm cloud.

The "Happy Palace" Hotel is located at the center of this storm.

Since this morning, there have been rumors that the hotel owner David Kaufman and his fiancée have been arrested by the police.

When people were still half-believing, an even more astonishing change took place before their eyes.

When the sun was about to set, all the police detectives of the Wenquan Town Public Security Team received a notice from their superiors, put on combat equipment, armed with a police dog, and immediately dispatched to block the "Happy Palace" Hotel, prohibiting anyone from leaving the hotel gate.

There were 40 to 50 people in the entire security team, except for the sheriff who issued the order, the rest of the detectives were fooled.

Before the dispatch, Deputy Sheriff Michael specifically asked Sergeant Gleason for instructions on behalf of the brothers, why did he make such a big move and use all police forces to blockade the area?

The most luxurious hotel, this will inevitably offend the millionaire David Kaufman...isn't it appropriate?

In order to appease the morale of the army, Sergeant Grayson had to reveal that, according to reliable information, one of the masterminds of the serial murders was actually a shapeshifter, and he was hiding in the "Hot Spring Palace" hotel at this moment.

In order to find out this monster who is good at changing faces, so as to prevent more innocent people from being harmed by him, the police had to take thunderous measures to seal off the hotel and check the hotel guests and staff one by one until they caught the shapeshifter.

Sergeant Gleason specially emphasized to all the detectives that this operation must be kept secret, and the news that the doppelganger is lurking in the hotel should not be disclosed, so as not to cause panic.

In front of Sergeant Grayson, all the police detectives swore to keep it strictly confidential, but the only ones who could really keep their mouths shut... probably only those police dogs who couldn't speak.

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