please don't believe me

"Do you know, Matthew, you have the same likable trait as Shen Xiuyuan, that is, you don't talk nonsense when it matters."

Matthew was dumbfounded.

He saw everything that happened with his own eyes - Dai Bowen didn't know what to do with his hands, but after only three words, Katrin suddenly fell down as if unconscious, and Dai Bowen helped her lie on the bed.

Then Dai Bowen smiled at him, and softly said the previous "comment".

All of this was as magical as a movie. Matthew opened his mouth, and as soon as he spit out "I", Dai Bowen put his index finger between his lips, signaling him not to speak.

It can be said that the young man was startled by Dai Bowen's "supernatural skills". When the other party asked him to be quiet, he could only blink and pant.

Dai Bowen's index finger moved away from his lips and landed on Katrin's forehead.

"I'm talking to you...you know I'm talking to you." Dai Bowen slightly bent down and asked the girl in a low voice, "Answer me, what's your name?"

Because of his concentration, even though Dai Bowen's voice was very soft, Matthew still heard it.

The girl's chest rose and fell slowly, and Dai Bowen was not in a hurry.It took a while before her voice sounded: "... Katrin."

"...No, it's not that name." Dai Bowen kept his index finger on her forehead and said in a low voice, "Recall carefully, who are you? What is your real name? Come to think of it, and then tell me."

There is a strange rhythm in his speech rate, as if mixed with invisible temptation.To Matthew's ears, these sentences were just some attractive fluctuations, but in the girl's mind, they were like an irresistible order, constantly whirling and roaring.

Tell me who you are.Tell me who you are... tell me who you are!

The girl's shallow voice seemed to be a sigh: "...Eileen."

The man looked down at her with a triumphant smile on his lips.

Matthew rolled his eyes.He stared at the two people on the opposite bed, and involuntarily pieced together the words he picked up in his head, his face full of disbelief.

What the man is asking and what the girl is answering, he can understand every word, but it is difficult to understand when they are connected into sentences.Why did Dai Bowen say she was not Katrin?Why does Katrin call herself "Elaine"?Who is Elaine? !

Matthew was stunned, Dai Bowen just glanced at him lightly, and he almost held his breath.He watched the man leaning over to the girl's ear with an extremely intimate gesture.Even though he had been Katrin's—or this "Elaine"—boyfriend, even though he had trouble hearing the man's next words, even if the man hadn't done anything to him at all...he felt like he couldn't move, his voice sounded like It's stuck in the throat and can't come out.

"... Elaine." Dai Bowen whispered into the girl's ear, "I'm talking to you, Elaine. Tell me, where are you from?"

There was a string of air sounds from the girl's lips, not to mention Matthew, even Dai Bowen couldn't tell them apart.He asked the girl to say it again, then stared at her lips, and finally read out a location.

Seems a bit familiar, not sure where exactly.However, even if you don't know where it is, it's not a big problem.Rather than saying that the problem is not big, it is better to say that it is just as Dai Bowen intended.

He squinted at Matthew, who was sitting on the opposite bed, and Matthew was taken aback by his look, and suddenly became at a loss.Dai Bowen smiled, stretched out the index finger of the other hand towards him, and swiped it across the air.

Matthew immediately turned his head knowingly.

Sure enough, he's as sensible as Shen Xiuyuan... Dai Bowen thought to himself, then turned back to the girl.

The man stared at her lips and asked softly, "What brought you here?"

The girl's lips trembled slightly, and she answered silently: "...the system."

Dai Bowen raised his eyebrows and continued to ask, "What are you here for?"

"……Task……"

"What mission?"

"Tell me, Elaine, what does the system want you to do?"

"Help... Matthew, enter the Zhiyuan Group and become the controller."

Dai Bowen raised the corner of his mouth silently: "Good boy."

Municipal police station, inquiry room.

A middle-aged man with brown hair and brown eyes sits at a table with his hands on the table.His figure is not tall, but his eyes are full of courage when he stares at people, as if as long as he is held in such a way, there will be nowhere to hide.

"Ms. Lesman, the police have obtained the communication records between you and Carlos. Do you have anything else to say?" The man looked at the blonde woman on the other side of the table, "If you know what I do, I hope you Just tell the truth and don't waste everyone's time."

Meera's eyes flickered, and her fingers moved unconsciously.She didn't know the man, but she knew the work badge he was wearing.Shen Xiuyuan's lover, as well as the young man who went to Mei La's house, all wore such things.

The man in front of him looked sharper than the previous two.

Her throat swallowed unconsciously.

On the other side of the one-way mirror in the interrogation room, Shen Xiuyuan, Officer Hart and another police officer were observing the situation in the interrogation room.There is a monitor next to it, and the camera is fixed on Meera's upper body, showing her reaction in detail.

"Is this useful?" The police officer looked at the two people in the interrogation room and whispered, "The results of the polygraph test cannot be used as evidence in court."

"Although she has a relationship with Carlos, according to the communication records, she has never contacted Carlos since Matthew was kidnapped. She doesn't know Carlos' whereabouts and whereabouts..." Hart The police officer said, "It's probably just being used."

"Aren't you guys still following up on Carlos?" Shen Xiuyuan lowered his eyes and looked in the direction of the inquiry room, "And this woman, if there is no more evidence, even if she was in contact with Carlos before, it can't be settled. her guilt."

But it would be different if she herself admitted the conspiracy.

Officer Hart twitched the corners of his mouth: "You invited Russell here, it seems that you don't intend to make her feel better... The X City Anti-drug Squad has been watching Carlos for a long time, if this woman can tell any useful news, we can count it by the way Pick it up."

Shen Xiuyuan didn't speak anymore, but just moved his eyes away from the one-way mirror, and turned to the monitor next to him, with a hint of sternness in his eyes.

Hart glanced sideways at him, then looked back ahead again.

The president of the Zhiyuan Group, when he realized that his lover was being attacked yesterday, he suddenly became violent and smashed his own mobile phone.Rich and powerful guys, the more they know the law, the harder it is to provoke them.

A woman's voice came from the camera: "Carlos and I are just ordinary friends, I don't know..."

"Ma'am." Eric Russell interrupted her, "I'll give you a chance to repeat it, but please don't lie again, okay?"

City Police Department, Forensics Division.

Various instruments and screens were flickering. A mountain of documents was piled up on the table in the center of the room, and evidence bags of different sizes were neatly arranged in the baskets on the side.A young man sat on a swivel chair, typed a few keyboards in front of this instrument, and then clicked a mouse in front of another computer, taking time to glance at the data being analyzed to see if the results jumped out on the screen.

On the table, the screen of the mobile phone plugged into the base suddenly lit up, and the equipment connected to the base suddenly sounded a notification tone.The young man who was sitting not far away turned his head and slid to the screen with a kick of his feet.

However, this is not the ringtone that has been parsed.

"The new news... comes from the previous blackmail number!"

The young man read the prompt that popped up on the screen, grabbed the mouse and quickly clicked on the content of the letter.

With just one glance, he quickly picked up the landline on the table and dialed the internal line in twos and threes.

"Hey Tim, this is Keith from Forensics. It's an emergency..."

Officer Tim Hart hung up the phone.

"Mr. Shen." Hart patted Shen Xiuyuan and motioned him to speak in the corner of the room.Shen Xiuyuan glanced at the interrogation room, then walked to the corner with him.

"how?"

Hart whispered: "Mr. Shen, are you preparing 200 million cash?"

"Actually, it's ready." Shen Xiuyuan's voice was calm, but Hart knew the storm that the man was hiding under, "I just don't know who and how to give it to... What's the matter?"

There was faint anxiety in his words, implying dissatisfaction with the police, but Hart could only ignore it.On the one hand, the family members of the victims in the kidnapping case basically share this sentiment. On the other hand, after all, the role of Carlos, Meera and even Katrin in this case is only at the stage of logical deduction. There is no substantive evidence.

In the current situation, unless the current situation is caught, even if Carlos is standing in front of him now, they can't arrest Carlos for this matter.

But that's not the point, Hart said in a low voice, "Meera's phone has received a new extortion message."

Shen Xiuyuan's eyes sharpened.

"The other party asked for a ransom increase to 300 million." Hart looked at Shen Xiuyuan, "This at least shows that Mr. Dai and Matthew were kidnapped by a group of people... The more hostages, the more obvious the target, and the easier it is to get the tip arrive."

Hart didn't know how to comfort this man. Now it seemed that nothing was useless, he could only tell the truth.

A young man knocked on the door and came in, holding out a mobile phone with a light rubber gloved hand.The screen of the phone lights up, showing the content of the received message—it is Meera's phone.

Officer Hart didn't have gloves, so he didn't answer.He stepped aside to show Shen Xiuyuan the content of the message.Although I don't know what reaction I will have if I show it to him, I can be sure that if I don't show it to him, I won't be able to get out of this door.

——"Your lover is with Matthew, and the ransom is increased to 300 million."

Attached below is a picture of two pairs of shoes.To be precise, they were the same two pairs of shoes that Matthew and Dai Bowen wore when they disappeared.

"There is still no time and place to redeem the hostages..."

Shen Xiuyuan squinted his eyes, took out his mobile phone, and took a picture of the screen.

Then he glanced at Meera who was still in the inquiry room, staggered away from Hart and the young man who had just entered, and walked quickly towards the door.

"Excuse me."