Kill someone to vent your anger.
Dean drove from dusk to deep midnight, running four to five hundred miles, leaving Nebraska and entering Des Moines, the capital of Iowa.
Late at night, the clear and silent Des Moines River flowed through this bustling city, which also soothed the last trace of irritability in Dean's mind. He drove along the riverside road looking for hotels, such as Hilton, Westin, Waldorf Astoria, and IKEA. Home passes...while passing a small family hotel.
A Chevrolet appeared in the small parking lot outside the hotel, its pure white shell illuminated by the bright and warm light of the street lights next to it.
Isn't this the car of Leo Bernard's family?
What a coincidence, right?
He drove non-stop for a whole day at full speed before arriving in Des Moines, and from his conversation with the family yesterday, Mike learned that they planned to rush to Purdue University and travel along the way, so they shouldn't be in such a hurry.
According to common sense, they should be left behind.
"Did they lie like me last night?"
Dean grinned, parked his car, entered the hotel and rented a room.
The hotel was not big, with a total of five rooms close together. He turned on the God's perspective to search through the wall, and soon discovered a warm scene in the corner room.
On the bed on the left, Camille was leaning on her husband Leo's arms and hugging his waist tightly. On the other bed, her daughter Julie was sleeping with her back stretched out, pouting, her bare feet playfully coming out. Got the blanket.
The three of them were sleeping soundly, with regular and gentle snoring echoing in the bedroom.
"This is fate. Tell Leo the truth tomorrow morning."
Dean thought this and entered the room to rest.
…
Early the next morning.
Dean premeditatedly creates a chance encounter in the hotel restaurant.
"Leo, Julie, you guys live here too? What a coincidence!" Dean ate an omelette in one bite and waved to the father and daughter walking down the two-story wooden stairs.
"Huh? Asian Detective, why are you here?" The girl in a pretty yellow dress rubbed her confused eyes, her soft and fluffy blond hair curled inward on both sides of her neck, looking like a doll, "You didn't go inside Yellowstone National Park tour in Nebraska?”
"I changed my mind," Dean took a bite of bread.
"Man, are you following us?" Leo joked, walking to the left of his table and sitting down, and ordered two more breakfasts from the busy administrator at the front desk.
"You guessed it right." Dean grinned, showing his big white teeth, "It's not easy to find a kind person who is willing to order three breakfasts for me, so naturally I have to hug him tightly."
The girl folded her hands across her chest and groaned, giving Dean a big eye roll to express her strong dissatisfaction with his shameless behavior.
But Leo smiled nonchalantly and said generously,
"Then I will continue to treat you to breakfast today."
"Being respectful is worse than obeying orders." Dean smiled even more happily, "By the way, where is Mrs. Camille?"
After he fell asleep last night, he didn't notice when the woman left the room.
"She hadn't exercised for a week, so she went out for a morning jog around the Main River at five o'clock. Well, she had always maintained the habit of morning jogging." Leo said proudly,
"So self-disciplined? No wonder you can maintain a perfect figure."
The three of them chatted while eating breakfast, and Dean asked about yesterday's doubts.
"Yes, we shouldn't have been in a hurry," Leo took a spoonful of fruit cereal, shook his head and sighed, "but Camille inexplicably canceled the plan of sightseeing along the way and asked me to drive as hard as possible to reach Purdue University as soon as possible, a woman's The idea is spring weather. But who makes her the president of the family?"
Leo shrugged self-deprecatingly, "Deputies like us can only follow orders."
"I was promised a wonderful graduation trip, and I have to stay in each state for a few days!" Julie stirred the biscuits in the cereal angrily, complaining, "Now it's less than half the journey. It’s a boring doze trip, if I had known this, we should have just taken a plane in California!”
"Dear little Julie, why don't you beg your mother later?" Leo looked at his daughter with a half-smile.
The other party stopped stirring the cereal, bit his pink lips and said angrily,
"Leo! You are a man, so you can't be tough and argue with your wife and take the initiative to help your daughter realize her little wish? Camille has never been so unfaithful before!"
"Do you want to lose your father forever?"
…
Dean smiled and enjoyed the scene of the father and daughter bickering, with thoughts and hesitation in his eyes. After a moment, he interrupted,
"Leo, your family has such a good relationship."
"Thanks for the compliment."
"Especially you and your wife." Dean raised his voice,
"Haha, to tell you the truth, Camille and I have been married for twenty years. Every day we are as passionate as if we had just met. We are on honeymoon every day. We are kissed by love in the morning and evening, and we almost never have a quarrel..." Leo was showing off endlessly, and his eyes behind his glasses were filled with excitement, "Dean, have you got a girlfriend at a young age? Do you need me to teach you some tips?"
"I'm listening."
"You have to constantly improve yourself. Like me, you have a perfect figure, rich knowledge, and the most important ability to make money. When the time comes, you don't need to strike up a conversation. Women will naturally fall for your personal charm and become obsessed with you. …”
"Just put it on your face," Julie tapped the glass cereal bowl with a spoon, rolling her eyes like a flood, "Camille often said that you are not romantic enough and lack passion, and you always like to compete with her as a woman. Win or lose!”
Leo's face turned red as if there was phlegm stuck in his throat. He glanced at Dean nervously, and then looked at his daughter imploringly, as if begging her to save some face for him.
Julie pursed her lips, looked up at the wall clock on the wall of the dining room, and whispered, "It's half past seven, why isn't Camille back for breakfast?"
"Maybe the scenery in Des Moines was so beautiful that she forgot about time?" Leo thought optimistically,
Dean's eyes moved between father and daughter, and he cleared his throat.
"Ahem, Leo, you are older and have rich life experience. Can you help me solve a doubt?" Dean put the knife into the smooth mirror plate and looked at the man sincerely.
"Little brother, just ask."
"It's like this. I just met a friend recently. He married a beautiful wife who is as good as a beauty pageant champion. He built a happy family and has a lovely daughter. He and his wife have been married in love and harmony for many years. People are envious." Dean said carefully,
"But then one day, I accidentally saw this friend's wife cuddling with another strange man outside a hotel..."
"You mean a wife cheated on her husband?" Leo frowned, his eyes were disdainful, and he blurted out a sentence of contempt, "Cheating is the most shameful act."
Julie took a sip of juice and offered the opposite opinion innocently,
"There are more cheating scumbags in school than there are girls who fall in love with each other, so what if I forgive the girl once?"
"You haven't even had a boyfriend, what do you know?" Leo reprimanded his daughter in a rare and serious manner, and came to a decisive conclusion, "Betrayal is never allowed between husband and wife. Once it happens once, there is no other way except divorce. .”
"Please listen to me continue," Dean took over. "This friend has always been proud of being able to marry such a wife and thinks he is the happiest man in the world."
"Then should I tell him the truth and break his peaceful and happy life?"
After this question, the restaurant fell into an eerie silence.
Leo touched the glasses on the bridge of his nose, lowered his head and fell into deep thought.
The girl tucked her blond hair behind her ears, and pointed her finger at Dean's mouth.
"Don't say it, more than ten years have passed peacefully. As long as the husband doesn't know anything about it, they can still live happily and the family will not be affected in any way. Sometimes ignorance is also a kind of happiness."
"You are wrong," Leo corrected his daughter's wrong thinking with a serious face, "No normal man would want to be kept in the dark about such a scandal. Even if it becomes very painful, he will 100% choose to know the truth. !So Dean, you should take the initiative to tell that poor man the truth."
Dean stared into Leo's eyes and nodded meaningfully,
"I thought so too, but I was afraid that telling him directly would irritate him, so I could only remind him in a tactful way and told him a story in front of him, hoping he would understand what I meant."
"Your considerations are not unreasonable," Leo smiled brightly, obviously appreciating Dean's handling method. "As long as this man is not too stupid, he will definitely understand what you mean."
Julie next to her suddenly realized the problem, her face was full of astonishment, her mouth opened into an "O" shape, and she could fit an egg in it.
When Leo turned around and noticed his daughter's extremely shocked eyes, he suddenly got stuck. His gentle cheeks turned the color of liver, and the beard at the corner of his mouth trembled.
"Is this idiot friend of yours named Leo Bernard?"
Dean nodded heavily.
"Nonsense! Bad guy!" Julie stood up like a furry cat, walked to Dean, and waved her pink fist at him viciously, as if to give him a slap, "You are slandering Camille, she is the world The best mother and wife, she will never try to be in the same boat!"
"Many cheating men and women behaved like model husbands or model wives in family life before they were caught." Dean calmly refuted the girl's words.
And the person involved, Leo, struggled and smiled,
"Man, you have such a sense of humor, are you kidding me?"
Dean shook his head sympathetically.
The man was stunned as if he was being tapped. He gasped, covered his chest and leaned on the back of the chair.
Julie glanced at her father distressedly, and then asked Dean loudly,
"You say my mother cheated on you, you have to provide evidence!"
"Evidence?" Dean pointed to his eyes, "The night before yesterday, outside of Daddy Mac's Hotel, I saw Camille flirting with a strong man wearing suspenders and jeans."
"The man in denim overalls?" Leo's voice trembled like untuned strings, his face full of frustration, "Driving a red Ford pickup truck, right? He was also at Mike's that night. We had dinner, so he seduced my Camille in front of me?"
Dean nodded.
Leo covered his face with his hands and asked loudly incomprehensibly,
"Why? Why? You betrayed your relationship for more than ten years just to hang out with a wild man you met on the road. What kind of magic power does that guy have?"
"Who can say for sure? People's hearts are the easiest to change." Dean stood up and patted his shoulder, his eyes full of pity for the wronged person, "Cry, man, it will feel better if you cry!"
"Shut up!" Julie cut out Dean with her eyes like knives, but remained stubborn, "I remember that guy looks like a chimpanzee, with lots of hair and smelly body. How could Camille fall in love with him!"
Julie couldn't help but hugged her father's neck from behind, and pressed her soft little face against his rough, stubbled face.
"Do you just believe Dean's words? Aren't you willing to wait until your mother who loves you the most comes back and confront her face to face?"
"Confrontation?"
Leo took a deep breath, his face turned red and white, his eyes were changing. After a long time, he suppressed the pain in his heart and looked at the clock on the wall, seven forty-five.
…
The father and daughter ultimately decided to stay put and wait for their family to return.
Driven by intuition, Dean stayed with them in the hotel.
But things turned out unexpectedly. The three of them waited patiently for more than two hours, from 7:45 to 10 o'clock, without even a shadow of Camille.
"Camille never runs for so long. She should have been back at eight o'clock!" Julie walked to the door of the hotel and looked at the busy long street with people coming and going. She said worriedly, "She will never let us Worry for nothing!”
Leo frowned and temporarily suppressed his dissatisfaction with his cheating wife.
"Listen, Julie, you stay at the hotel and wait while I go around the Des Moines River to look for it!"
"No, I'll go with you!"
"You two, listen to me..." Dean's words made the father and daughter tremble. "Camille's long absence may have something to do with the man in the denim suspenders."
"You mean that guy kidnapped Camille? Camille is in danger?" The plots of countless crime thriller movies suddenly popped up in Leo's mind. He turned around in a panic and hit his left palm with his right fist. "Call the police!"
"I understand the efficiency of the COP. Adults with normal physical and mental health will not be dispatched easily unless they are missing for more than 24 hours."
"What should we do?" Julie restrained her dissatisfaction and looked at Dean pitifully.
"You two know that I also work part-time as a private detective." Dean's eyes flashed, and he put his right hand into his black trench coat and took out the private detective's license he had just received from the space, and his thumb happened to cover it. Nevada's state name, "Now will you hire me to find someone?"
The father and daughter, one large and one small, were stunned for a moment by this strange scene, and then nodded subconsciously,
"It's settled, man, you go out with me to find Camille!" Leo couldn't wait to pull him out. "By the way, do you want to sign the contract? How much should we pay you?"
"For treating me to breakfast, I'll give you a 0.1% discount." Dean slowly glanced at the father and daughter and smiled mysteriously, "One hundred dollars."
After this sentence.
Dean saw the system prompt as he wished——
You proactively triggered a new event—the cheating wife.
The Leo family launched a graduation trip for their daughter. But during the happy journey, his wife Camille had an affair with an unidentified man, and she did not return to the hotel after leaving early this morning.
Now, you have to help the father and daughter find out the whereabouts of their favorite family member and rescue Camille intact.
…
Event Difficulty: Medium
Progress (5/100)
Deadline: 24 hours
Reward: 130 experience points + special rewards
Penalty: None
…
Dean curled his lips. It felt good to actively trigger the event, but he also had a hint of surprise. The difficulty was medium and there were supernatural elements.
So his encounter with the family again was a function of the Law of Supernatural Convergence?
(End of chapter)
