168 War (1/2)

Chapter 168: Pet King War

Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

After Xiao Yan and Captain Sheng left, Zhang Zian continued to clean up the garbage in the shop.

He was refreshing his mind of Xiao Yan's positive feedback of Captain Sheng, carefully thinking it over again. Initially, he thought that after this incident, he would not have any further interaction with Captain Sheng. That was why he didn't pay much attention to his appearance.

Now, in his retrospect: Captain Sheng was somewhere in his late 30's to early 40's, in the prime of his life. Because of long-term implementation of outside tasks, his cheeks were tanned into a dark brown. But the clear shape of his face made him look serious. He probably needed a lot of alone time to think hard when handling cases; there was a heavy cigarette smell that exuded from his body. Those cigarettes were obviously not the high-grade ones. His hair was short and sharp, like steel needles, some of which had turned grey already.

Zhang Zian did not know the captain's full name. Last night, Captain Sheng did show him his police officer card, but at that time, it was so dark, and he was not in the mood to pay attention to this detail. Anyway, he was not a fake policeman, that much was certain.

Cat trainer...

Zhang Zian just heard a little about it before, but knew nothing about it. If Captain Sheng really believed what he had said and came back to him for assistance in some cases in a few days, then he would continue to lie to him - but probably would not be found out.

This animal crime was not uncommon in detective novels.

In the world's first true detective novel, ”Moog Street Murder”, written by Ellen Slope, the atmosphere was rendered horrific and weird: The victim's body comminuted intense fracturing, and then was forced into a chimney. What kind of human could have such power? After the final mystery was revealed, the killer was actually a reddish-brown orangutan.

It was unexpected but reasonable.

Reddish-brown orangutans' power and agile actions were superior to humans. Their strong upper arms could cling to your body and contraction of the muscles could break a human's entire sternum. Before one died of asphyxiation, his heart may be pierced by broken ribs.

The answer seemed to be too complicated, far-fetched and deliberately bizarre, but this was this type of detective novel with no coincidence, as no one would like to read boring novels.

Not only did Ellen Poe write animal novels, but many other famous detective novelists did too.

The world's first detective, Sherlock Holmes, suffered a ”Spotted Tape Case”, in which the victim died within the Chamber of Secrets. The murderer was a British doctor that used to live in India and was a secret snake trainer. He used a whistle to guide a highly poisonous moorland viper to kill his stepdaughter.

In the waves led by these two detective novel masters, all kinds of animal killers debuted. There was nothing they could not imagine. Some of these stories, of course, sounded a little far-fetched, but no one could completely deny the possibility of their occurrence.

In these so-called suspicious cases, many of them were planned from the dead corner of human thinking.

Zhang Zian did not think that the captain would like to solve these types of suspicious cases. Honestly, although the captain was a very capable policeman, he was not qualified to solve these kind of cases, which existed in novels and theories.

Captain Sheng had probably confirmed, or at least suspected, that this might be an animal crime, but could not find the main suspect, so instead he showed great interest in Zhang Zian, calling him a cat trainer.

Think of this, Zhang Zian suddenly shuddered.

The reddish-brown orangutan in ”Moog Street Murder Case” would not become the common conception because of the faith of those detective fans, right? After all, this novel was the ancestor of detective novels, which seemed qualified enough...