Weird Live Broadcast: I Can Deduce Endlessly

Chapter 184: Dark Street Trading (2)

Gu Yi put on his clothes, feeling a lingering fear as he touched his buttocks.

The supervisor looked quite normal, but unexpectedly, he really did as he said and probed. Even more surprising was that a miner actually had hidden a piece of ore in his buttocks.

Without high-precision detection equipment, it is very difficult for robots to find ore hidden inside the human body, so the supervisor had to manually check.

This inspection directly caught 2 miners violating the rules.

"You have violated rule A-001," the overseer said with his hands on his hips. "Personal property is sacred and inviolable. I have already called the police robots to come here. Just wait here."

In less than three minutes, 6 police robots arrived at the mining area and took away the workers who had hidden the ore.

Gu Yi carefully observed his coworkers, noticing some of them always avoided eye contact.

His exceptionally high mental power told him that these people definitely also stole ore, but their methods were more sophisticated, so they had not been discovered yet.

Gu Yi guessed that they might have swallowed the ore to hide it.

The people of the Wapeng could swallow dream fragments whole, so presumably, swallowing raw materials wouldn't cause them much harm either. As long as they left the mining area, they could find a way to vomit the ore or find it in the toilet the next morning.

However, Gu Yi was not worried at all. His orb had a very high priority, and the items hidden inside it would definitely not be discovered by NPCs.

After work, Gu Yi hurried to the Dark street.

To secure a good spot and not have it taken by others, Gu Yi quickly found cardboard boxes to make a bed, preparing for sleep tonight.

As the sky gradually darkened, for safety, Gu Yi sat against the wall, closed his eyes, and began to deduce.

(The deduction begins!)

(You rest for a while, waiting until 10 PM.)

(You arrive at the designated location as instructed.)

(Er Gou is squatting in the corner smoking.)

(You take out a bag and put all the ore into it, totaling twenty pounds.)

(You: This is what you wanted.)

(You throw the bag in front of Er Gou.)

(Er Gou checks it.)

(Er Gou: Did you get all of this yourself?)

(You: Yes.)

(Er Gou: How the hell did you get so much?)

(You: How much will you give me?)

(Er Gou: It's too much, this will definitely attract the big guys.)

(Suddenly, you hear a chaotic flurry of footsteps around you.)

(Er Gou turns pale, stuffs the bag into your hands, and runs away.)

(You don't understand but run in the opposite direction like Er Gou, casually putting the bag into the black orb's space.)

(A group of police robots blocks your way.)

(You can't escape the robots' encirclement.)

(Robot: You have violated rule A-001.)

(You: Do you have any evidence?)

(The robot immediately plays footage of your transaction with Er Gou.)

(Robot: This is the evidence, where did you hide the ore?)

(You end the deduction!)

Gu Yi opened his eyes, touching his chin.

Did he betray me?

No, if he had betrayed me, why would he run? Judging by his expression before leaving, it didn't seem fake.

Er Gou dared to make the transaction there, surely he had taken counter-surveillance measures.

Could it be because the amount of goods was too large, and that's why the robots discovered us? Would it be safer if we traded less?

"Let's try again."

(Backtracking deduction begins!)

(You suspect that the reason you were targeted was that you took out too much ore all at once.)

(So, you only take out a little bit of ore and hide it in your pocket.)

(You find Er Gou.)

(You take out the ore, and Er Gou checks it.)

(Er Gou: Twenty years.)

(You feel very angry, feeling that Er Gou is taking advantage of your ignorance.)

(You: That's too little. I've put in a lot of effort and risked breaking the law to get this for you. Look at the quality of these ores, they're as good as freshly mined. Isn't twenty years a bit too little?)

(Er Gou hesitates for a moment.)

(Er Gou: Fine, twenty-five years.)

(You: At least ten thousand years.)

(Er Gou: Ha, ten thousand years? Then go find someone else, and see if anyone dares to buy from you. Either sell or don't. There are plenty of people in this world coming to me for trades.)

(You fall silent for a moment, but ultimately compromise.)

(You: A little more?)

(Er Gou: Thirty years, that's the most I can do.)

(You complete the transaction.)

(You want to talk more, but Er Gou waves his hand.)

(Er Gou: Get going, I have other things to do.)

(You: I have some questions for you.)

(At this moment, footsteps are heard from outside the alley.)

(Er Gou quickly stuffs the ore into your hands and turns to run.)

(This time, you choose to run in the same direction as Er Gou.)

(Er Gou's speed and agility far exceed yours, you can't catch up at all.)

(You are quickly caught by the robots.)

(You end the deduction!)

Gu Yi silently shook his head, realizing that being caught had nothing to do with the amount of ore; it was entirely a setup.

Er Gou could block the detection of robots, but if they traded in front of the robots, not even the Emperor could save them. Moreover, Er Gou was not a loyal person; he ran faster than anyone else at the sign of trouble. Expecting him to help was simply unrealistic.

Additionally, since the casino was within Er Gou's territory and the processing workshop was nearby, why didn't he just trade within the casino?

Er Gou's casino and the police station were only separated by a street. With such boldness and connections, how could Er Gou be afraid of the police robots? Why would he make things so unnecessarily complicated?

Gu Yi shook his head, deciding not to dwell on answers he couldn't figure out for the time being.

The safest method now was not to trade with Er Gou tonight.

But if someone kept interfering, how could he continue to advance the plot?

After pondering for a while, Gu Yi closed his eyes again.

(The deduction begins!)

(You observe around the Dark street but don't spot any suspicious individuals.)

(Er Gou is not in his shack, so you visit the casino, only to find that Er Gou is not there either.)

(You return to the Dark street.)

(Er Gou is neither early nor late. You don't know where Er Gou goes before the transaction is completed.)

(You remember the two robots at the entrance of Er Gou's workshop.)

(Those two robots have bionic skins, and if it weren't for your use of psychological suggestion on them, you wouldn't have been able to tell they were robots.)

(To keep secrets, Er Gou not only uses a hidden door but even employs robots as workers, which costs more than thirty times as much.)

(Something is really fishy here.)

(Could it be that Er Gou has been betrayed a long time ago?)

(You wander around the dark street.)

(Around 9 PM, you indeed see many police robots converging from all directions. They possess optical camouflage, perfectly hiding in corners, invisible to the naked eye.)

(If you hadn't arrived early, you wouldn't have known they were always hidden in the streets around you.)

(You end the deduction!)

Gu Yi reopened his eyes.

Now that he knows the exact time the robots will surround the area, instead of passively defending, it's better to take the initiative. He planned to find Er Gou before he returned to the dark street and inform him about the situation there.

But...

Where exactly could that old rascal be?

After pondering for a while, Gu Yi realized there was another place he hadn't visited yet.