There's definitely something wrong with this murder mystery game-Chapter 736 - 629: You Hit the Car√

Chapter 736: Chapter 629: You Hit the Car√

The two of them had a delightful conversation over lunch.

Angela not only gleaned a great deal of news about the studio from him but also learned what they had been working on recently and that he had an employee named Los.

To be honest, Angela was quite keen to throw a spanner in the works and have this youngster fire Los.

Perhaps such an act wouldn’t cause the other party much trouble, but she would enjoy the hassle it created.

However, Pei Sheng, both overtly and implicitly, praised this competent employee highly and a simple provocation didn’t seem likely to be effective; it would only work if she could whisper into his ear while he slept.

But that was out of the question.

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“Speaking of which…”

Suddenly, Angela changed the topic.

She spoke with some distress, “I just returned to Yang City not long ago and am still not very familiar with the area. I was hit by a car right when I stepped out and haven’t been able to locate the person responsible.”

Upon hearing this, Pei Sheng immediately tensed up, “You were hit by a car? Was it serious, were you hurt anywhere?”

“Actually, it wasn’t too bad, just a scrape on my leg, and it’s already healed,” Angela replied.

As she spoke, Angela subtly extended her left leg to show him, a barely visible scab on it.

Looking at the snow-white thigh wrapped in hot shorts, even Pei Sheng, who was accustomed to seeing beautiful women, couldn’t help but blush, yet he had no intention of shifting his gaze away.

What’s the big deal about being embarrassed?

I want to look!

But after admiring, Pei Sheng didn’t forget the matter at hand and immediately frowned, “Even a small injury counts as a hit-and-run. Do you remember the license plate number? I can help you find out who it was.”

Angela hesitated a bit, “Should we let it go? Wouldn’t it be too much trouble?”

Pei Sheng immediately said with conviction, “It’s not trouble! Rest assured, with the power of the Pei Family in Yang City, no one dares to disrespect me. They dared to hit you, I must find them and have them apologize to you!”

“You’re really awesome~”

Angela complimented him and then pretended to think before saying, “If that’s the case, I remember the license plate number is Yang A…”

Pei Sheng began listening intently, but after hearing the entire plate number, he suddenly felt that something was off.

“That, are you sure about that plate number?” he asked, perplexed.

“Hmm~” Angela blinked at him.

“Wait… let me check…”

Pei Sheng, who had been confident just moments before, was now truly unsure.

The license plate number sounded strangely familiar to him, yet looking at Angela’s innocently seductive expression, he wondered if he might have remembered it wrong.

Pei Sheng quickly pulled out his phone and sent a message to Xu Shuo.

[What’s your license plate number?]

[Figure it out yourself.]

A cold retort came from the other side.

Although Pei Sheng was annoyed, he was used to it by now. He simply opened his photo album and scrolled till he finally found a photo with the car in it.

The license plate in the photo…

Strangely familiar.

Holy shit, is it really that car?

Pei Sheng looked up at the beautiful woman across from him, his expression slightly odd as he asked, “What color was that car, and do you remember the make?”

Seeing his expression, Angela knew he must have found something.

So she continued in feigned contemplation, “It seemed to be a silver-gray body, I don’t understand car makes, but I remember the emblem was triangular with red letters inside.”

Pei Sheng: “…”

It matched the description perfectly!

Holy shit, was it Xu Shuo involved in the car accident?!

Why hadn’t that guy mentioned it before?

But on second thought, Pei Sheng recalled there had been two or three days during that period when Xu Shuo indeed didn’t drive to work, and his car wasn’t parked in the company’s rented space either.

If his car had been damaged and gone for repairs then, wouldn’t that match the timeline?

Pei Sheng glanced at the smiling beauty, then with a mix of emotions, brought back his gaze and swiped his phone to the messaging interface to send another message.

[Weren’t you in a car accident a while ago? How come you’ve never mentioned it?]

[Didn’t die.]

[.]

Not only did he not die, but he also continued to work, looking refreshed and breezy, without a trace of languor from being isolated for nearly half a month.

At this moment, Angela across from him spoke up with concern, “What’s wrong?”

Pei Sheng put down his phone and looked at her with a strange expression, “Nothing serious, just found out who that person is, but how did you end up hitting his car?”

Angela paused, “…?”

For some reason, Angela felt that there was something off about this sentence.

It seemed to her that just a moment ago, he had said, “He actually dared to hit you,” but now it had changed to, “How did you hit his car?”

Although the stated event hadn’t changed, the subject and object switching made the meaning of the sentence entirely different!

And this change clearly occurred after the other party found out who that person was.

This meant that the other party’s position in the company must be pretty good, right?

Angela mulled this over in her mind.

Due to being detained for a long time, she wasn’t very familiar with the rules of the outside world. Though she had been working hard to learn about this world in the past few days, her ability to investigate was limited.

She first learned about Los’s workplace through Luofu and then continued to investigate that company.

Radiant Game Studio was founded with investment from the Pei Family of Yangcheng, a fact almost universally known in the Yangcheng business circle.

This was why she came into contact with Pei Sheng.

As an investor, his position in the company must be quite high, she guessed?

Generally speaking, directly approaching a target’s high-level executives to obtain information is the most convenient and fastest channel.

As long as she had control over the leader, what was there below that she couldn’t find out?

For example, she knew about the projects that Radiance Studio was working on, although such superficial news wasn’t exactly trade secrets.

And for instance, Pei Sheng often complained about Los wanting to develop semi-holographic equipment in this world because the games proposed in the planning case were best presented using holographic effects.

“He’s really interesting. What else about him is fun?” Angela pressed.

“Although the kid looks particularly handsome without his glasses, he dresses like a bumpkin every day, nothing like a team leader should. What’s more important is that he likes to carry a pot of succulents everywhere, even to and from work, which is quite odd.”

Angela listened and laughed at the time.

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She was truly overjoyed to hear these embarrassing stories about Los, and she even discreetly turned on her phone’s recording feature, planning to share it with her friends at the Sixth Palace later.

Angela also took the opportunity to incite: “Since his work ability is so good, couldn’t you just assign more work to him in the future? Then he wouldn’t have the spare time to do those strange things.”

Pei Sheng, lust clouding his judgment, declared, “Good! Tomorrow I’ll have him redo that planning case!”

…

That was the scene of Pei Sheng losing his common sense.

But now.

Angela was finally ready to probe the target she was genuinely interested in, but it seemed like she had just started and already encountered difficulties?

“What’s wrong?”

Angela thought a lot, but her face remained impassive as she said with concern, “It really is too much trouble, isn’t it? Maybe we should just let it go. After all, I wasn’t really injured; I was just a bit angry at the time.”

Pei Sheng looked at her with complicated eyes, “Troublesome, it isn’t really, but…”

Although Xu Shuo sometimes acted a bit extreme, appearing very laissez-faire but in fact not one to be trifled with, he could be fiercer than anyone when provoked.

Back in high school, he even dared to draw a blade against a gangster’s neck, completely unlike his usual top student demeanor, leaving Pei Sheng, who was beside him, utterly stunned. At that moment, Pei Sheng thought that if this guy got serious, he could definitely kill!

But in this well-regulated, law-abiding society, the other person actually knew quite a bit about restraint.

Like hit-and-run…

Pei Sheng didn’t believe Xu Shuo would do something like that.

Therefore, Angela was probably lying.

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