Chapter 28 Victory or defeat
With the information obtained earlier, Su Chen has found the surveillance and obtained the video of the traitor from the video. He is not interested in the identity of the traitor, but is thinking about a question: If Cui Yu's goal is surveillance, why doesn't Black Card take the surveillance to protect the traitor? Unable to figure out this question, he dare not rashly assert that the answer to the second question is surveillance.

In the prisoner's dilemma, if Yu Ming betrayed Cui Jian, Su Chen would have won. If Cui Jian betrayed Yu Ming, Su Chen would have considered it a tie. There is another possibility, that both of them survived to the end.

Cui Jian also thought of this, and he felt that he could not hold on to the end. Because in this way, Su Chen, who was forced into a desperate situation, would definitely bet that the answer to the second question was surveillance. Because surveillance was Su Chen's biggest suspect at the moment. Then both he and Yu Ming would lose.

Two hundred million! Cui Jian realized how good people in the industry are at making money. They can easily ask for two hundred million. I don't know if Su Chen noticed it, but when Cui Jian heard that Su Chen was willing to offer two hundred million, his eyes turned green for 0.1 second. This situation can't be blamed entirely on him. He hasn't received any rice for almost a year, and he is forced to work 24 hours a day in the wilderness to support himself. He is a killer, a top killer, a super killer who kills ten people in one step and leaves no trace in a thousand miles.

Cui Jian then recalled the high-five scene when he and Yu Ming became best partners after their cooperation, and he felt somewhat sad. A top killer and an independent investigator, the two of them should have cooperated to commit a crime, which should have been seamless, but Su Siba, who wore a suit and drank black tea, had them under control. Are they really the best partners? Should I go and have my horoscope calculated later? Am I the one who is doomed to be alone? It was so hard to make a friend, but I didn't expect that they were friends who were incompatible with each other.

Cui Jian's mind was full of thoughts. Although he was doing the most dangerous job, he kept a happy mind. If he had not been abducted in his childhood, he could have become a best-selling novelist, or a screenwriter. At the very least, he would have been a Level 5 online writer.

This is also one of the reasons why Cui Jian lacks concentration. When he starts to think freely, his mind will be scattered and he will not pay attention to details. Only when he is concentrating on doing things or sensing danger will his attention be immediately tightened. The housekeeper thinks this is not a shortcoming because it helps Cui Jian maintain an optimistic and positive attitude.

Yu Ming's weakness is his lack of decisiveness, which is of course relative to his strengths. He always likes to find the path to maximize benefits, think comprehensively, and be more focused. This is related to his own background. As a commoner entering the circle, he lacks experience, so he must consider everything clearly.

Yu Ming was thinking deeply, Cui Jian was unrestrained. While Su Chen was quietly waiting, he had already made the worst plan in his heart. Time passed by, and there were only 20 minutes left. In addition to the surveillance, Su Chen had no other information. This was also Su Chen's shortcoming, he was too confident, and his confidence came from underestimating Cui Jian.

When Su Chen and Cui Jian confronted each other, he already had a bad feeling. Due to the emergence of uncontrollable factors, his judgment was further affected. Smart people are suspicious, and he began to suspect that his mind was not open and was limited to monitoring this single object.

Li Ran, Ai Li and Lin Chen were waiting quietly in the corridor. Lin Chen was not an insider, so he could only feel some tension. Ai Li was half an insider, and she had already smelled the gunpowder of the game. As an insider, Li Ran knew that this was a war in which Su Chen was determined to suppress Yu Ming. Although Yu Ming was a small fish, he was an investigator after all, and was extremely delicious to Su Chen.

Li Ran was more surprised by Cui Jian. Like Su Chen, he did not understand how Cui Jian could survive Su Chen's interrogation. He checked Cui Jian's information on his phone and found that he lived in the United States in his early years and only went to high school. He went to his grandmother's house for treatment due to mental illness, and then joined Dayin with the help of a woman. After being fired, he was unemployed for several months and then joined the Lin Group.

A more reasonable explanation is that Cui Jian’s mental illness makes his behavior different from that of ordinary people, so he can withstand Su Chen’s interrogation and the game.

After observation, Li Ran found that it seemed to be consistent with his guess. Cui Jian had fallen into his own mental state. He was not nervous, not thinking, not weighing, just like a student who was distracted in class with no focus.

Li Ran's purpose of observation is of course to select people for his team. Cui Jian has successfully attracted his attention, so he dare not jump to conclusions for the time being. As for Yu Ming, Li Ran is not interested, because Li Ran knows that Yu Ming will not be a bodyguard unless his own job requires it. It is possible to get to know him. In the future, when working in Hancheng for a long time, business dealings with investigators should be indispensable.

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When the time was up, the two prisoners finally did not make a choice. Su Chen asked indifferently: "Why?"

The answer he got was the same, even if the benefits were not equal, they could not betray their friends, and at the same time they accepted their friends betraying them. Su Chen was so angry that he replied, you are not friends, but accomplices.

But to Cui Jian and Yu Ming's surprise, Su Chen did not guess an answer, but admitted defeat seriously: "You win, but I can't agree to cancel your afternoon physical training class. But you can skip all physical training classes, and even all practical classes in the afternoon." Yu Ming asked puzzledly: "You can bet on an answer, and you can only have one answer."

Su Chen said proudly: "This is the difference between a detective and your private investigators. I must be responsible for every conclusion I make. Even if I am 99% sure, I will not fill in the answer. My name is Su Chen, and I mean what I say... Your name is Cui Jian, right?"

Cui Jian replied: "Yes, instructor."

Su Chen: "Yes, if you have the opportunity to learn more from Instructor Li Ran, you will have a bright future. Go back to class."

After the two said goodbye and went downstairs, Cui Jian asked: "It was obviously us who won, but why did it feel like he won?"

Yu Ming was unhappy: "This is the difference between drinking black tea and drinking cola. People who drink cola are simple and honest, while people who drink black tea are the most pretentious."

Cui Jian smiled and asked, "What's wrong? Are you unhappy?"

Yu Ming shook his head: "He put a lot of pressure on me and made me very uncomfortable. I hate him labeling us as detectives and private detectives. What a joke!"

Cui Jian said: "Are you arrogant?"

Yu Ming said noncommittally: "I hate it anyway."

Cui Jian recalled his previous thought explosion and asked, "Do you think we are the best partners?"

Yu Ming said confidently, "Of course. The main reason why we were so embarrassed this time was that we didn't know who our opponent was. The secondary reason was that we didn't make an action plan, and even the provocation was a spur-of-the-moment decision."

"Reporting in." Cui Jian and Yu Ming stood at the door.

"Take your seat." Li Ran watched the two of them walk up the stairs and sit down in the back row. He asked, "Did you win?"

Yu Ming replied: "It's a shame even though I won." There was a hint of unconvincedness in his calm face. It was obvious that he still wanted to compete with Su Chen if there was a chance in the future.

Li Ran took in his expression without commenting.

(End of this chapter)