Strange Life of a Cat

Chapter 280 - 280 273 68

?Chapter 280: Chapter 273 68 Chapter 280: Chapter 273 68 Jing Gui knew that Liu Ba wasn’t short on money, what he lacked was interest and fun. Recently, he only took orders that interested him. Having run into trouble and nearly lost his life, Jing Gui managed to get the vacationing Liu Ba to come help him out this time. Liu Ba neither agreed nor refused outright but, out of consideration for his old friendship with Jing Gui, he came to check on Jing Gui’s injuries and took the opportunity to learn about the case Jing Gui was working on.

However, after listening to the details of the case, Liu Ba was underwhelmed. He had encountered such situations plenty of times before. Competitions between mistresses and the confrontations among their illegitimate children were all too common for him. The first couple of times it was interesting, as if he was involved in an epic drama of court and domestic strife, where he played a crucial role in controlling the plot, even influencing pivotal changes. This could pique Liu Ba’s interest and allow him to experience the excitement and novelty, and he could even observe, as a bystander, the unsightly behaviors of the main and supporting characters behind the scenes.

But having been in touch with these types of incidents too often, they had become dull.

Therefore, from his interactions with Liu Ba over the past few days, Jing Gui had clearly sensed Liu Ba’s reluctance. If he were interested, why would Liu Ba act so lazily all day? Now, this text message had successfully sparked Liu Ba’s interest.

Thinking back to the content of that text message, it informed Jing Gui of the current whereabouts of the evidence left by the person who attacked him with a knife that night—information that was indeed crucial for Jing Gui. For the past few days, under the pretext of recovering, he had rejected some of the employer’s unreasonable demands. They were private detectives, not kamikaze detectives. Since they had realized that the case involved some complicated characters, it was necessary to investigate further or even re-evaluate their approach to figure out which aspects were safe to probe into and which to avoid. As for the number that had sent the text, Jing Gui only glanced at it briefly; it was an unfamiliar one. He figured it was probably from someone he knew trying to do him a favor, or perhaps from the opposing camp due to an internal dispute. However, clearly, the situation was different from what Jing Gui had thought, as evidenced by Liu Ba’s reaction—there was something unusual about this number.

“Do you recognize it?” Jing Gui asked.

Liu Ba shook his head, “No, but I heard someone mention it a while ago.” Although Liu Ba wasn’t in Chuhua City or even in the province at the time, he liked to keep an eye on interesting affairs, including this very number with four sixes. He had always felt that there was a fascinating secret behind this phone number and had intended to wait until the number made waves again before getting involved. Unexpectedly, he had now stumbled upon it.

“You don’t mind if I use your phone, do you?” Liu Ba asked, shaking Jing Gui’s mobile phone.

Jing Gui waved his hand, nonchalantly saying, “Go ahead.”

Liu Ba looked at the number and then dialed it. As expected, the other party had already switched off their phone.

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