novelhk Chapter 152 The Self-Created Secret Chamber: The Intent of the Mastermind
Chapter 152 The Self-Created Secret Chamber: The Intent of the Mastermind
Chapter 162 A Self-Created Secret Room: The Intent of the Mastermind
Pogaman entered the office with an air of superiority, not even glancing at Miss Goth, who was posing aggressively. He then hopped onto Officer Jenny's desk and began gesturing at the detective.
"What's going on?" Officer Jenny frowned, unable to understand the situation.
Suddenly, noisy footsteps sounded outside the door again. Several police officers in beige uniforms hurriedly passed by the office. When they noticed that there were people inside, they were all dumbfounded.
"So Officer Jenny is at the police station. We've been looking for you for a long time."
The lead officer peeked out from the doorway and reported to Officer Jenny inside: "Two foreign Pokémon were causing trouble all over the police station just now, making a mess of the downstairs area... Ah, one of them was this Piplup!"
Pointing to the table, the officer instinctively wanted to grab Bogarman, but then he saw the little penguin standing obediently in front of his superior, seemingly with no intention of escaping further, so he hesitated.
"You can't even catch a beginner Pokémon like this?"
Officer Jenny glanced at the petite Pogaman, her gaze on her subordinates growing increasingly stern.
“This is, after all, inside the police station, with lots of tables and chairs everywhere. Those two little ones are very agile and nimble, making them really hard to catch,” the leading subordinate replied shyly.
She couldn't help but glance at Bogarman, who was standing with his hands on his hips on the table, and then Officer Jenny frowned and asked, "Since such a mess has occurred, why didn't you just come to my office? Even if the office door was closed, you could have knocked or called, couldn't you?"
"But isn't there a sign like this hanging on your office door?"
Another officer asked with equal confusion, pointing to a small plastic sign hanging on the wooden door of the office, on which was written in neat printed letters: “Out of town, please call for emergency.”
"And we couldn't get through to you on the phone either. We thought your phone was malfunctioning, officer," another officer added.
Officer Jenny's face was now extremely pale.
Her phone was perfectly fine in her pocket; there was no way it could be malfunctioning. The only reason she couldn't make calls was because someone was deliberately interfering with the signal in the area.
During this period, there was only one person who could hang a sign outside the door and also block the signal inside the room...
The detective in the white coat who stood in front of her and talked eloquently for over an hour!
What exactly is he trying to do?
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Hugo was not the kind of detective with an excessive desire for self-expression, so he certainly wouldn't give a long, inexplicable speech for no reason.
Long before the detective stepped into the gates of Liyong Police Station, he had already planned his entire operation—to distract the attention of the police station's senior officers and allow Bogarman and Chimchar to conduct another investigation within the police station.
Within the police station, there were very few high-ranking officers above Officer Jenny. Before knocking on Officer Jenny's office door, Hugo had already checked the other offices on the same floor and confirmed that no one was in the other sheriffs' offices—meaning that at this idle off-duty hour, Officer Jenny was the only high-ranking person left who could command the police station.
If they can keep her occupied, the Li Yong Police Station will be leaderless for a short time. This will allow Bogarman and Chimchar to smoothly carry out their investigation.
That lengthy lecture on reasoning was precisely designed to distract the policewoman.
It even included some elements of pandering to his preferences—the moment Hugo entered, Officer Jenny deduced from the smell of smoke that the detective was an infiltrator from outside the police station.
This keen reasoning ability can sometimes be a weakness; those who rely on logic are naturally more easily swayed by elegant theorems and inferences. Faced with eternally correct reasoning, even a skilled investigator like Officer Jenny couldn't remain unmoved.
The reason why we discussed the issue of later detective novels was because Miss Goethe's lie detection ability gave Hugo new inspiration—since language can be verified or disproven through lie detection, does the evidence discovered in the process of reasoning need to undergo such identification?
Yes, the so-called three principles of later detective work were entirely a theory Hugo improvised on the spot. It was nonsense, rambling, sophistry, deception, and pure jest. It was by no means the "magic key" that guided him to solve numerous bizarre cases!
There's no such thing as a convenient deduction technique in the world. Even Detective Hugo himself was nothing more than a diligent three-necked bee.
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"Yes, I did it all."
Hugo nonchalantly sat back down in his chair in front of Officer Jenny and the police officers, who were on high alert.
"I deliberately released Piplup and Chimchar who caused chaos at the police station. I placed that small board before knocking on the door. The reason I couldn't receive a signal in this room was because I used this thing to block the signal."
Hugo took out a white device the size of a matchbox, pressed a button somewhere, and casually tossed it onto the table.
As communication was restored, Officer Jenny's phone in her pocket began to vibrate, but there was no longer any need to turn it on to check it.
"By the way, just in case, I deliberately loosened the telephone line connection when I used the landline earlier. You'd better reinstall it afterwards."
Right under Officer Jenny's nose, the detective casually pointed to the telephone receiver he had used earlier; the jack was indeed almost completely loose.
In other words, even if someone had just made a phone call using wired communication that works normally without a signal, the message still wouldn't have reached Officer Jenny.
What a meticulously planned arrangement!
What's even more chilling is that after Hugo entered the office, he was under Miss Goethe's lie detector test the entire time. But this self-proclaimed detective never showed the slightest bit of guilt or cowardice!
"Why did you go to this extent?" Officer Jenny, suppressing her anger, questioned Hugo, "What exactly are you and your Pokémon trying to do?"
Hugo answered with utter calmness, as if the tense atmosphere before him had nothing to do with him.
“Officer Jenny, my previous reasoning was absolutely correct. Based on the clues and doubts that have been sorted out, the purpose of my actions should be very clear.”
Officer Jenny glanced at Gothic behind her, and the Pokémon that could only detect lies nodded tremblingly.
At this point, the sheriff had almost completely lost faith in the lie detector's conclusions, but her years of honed rational thinking kicked in. After a few deep breaths, Officer Jenny found the crux of the problem—
"You believe a mastermind has been spreading extremist ideologies to the Electric-type Pokémon through Arno; you also pointed out that the extremist Team Plasma planned to storm the police station to steal evidence; and now you've personally come to the police station as a detective and caused a scene... Does this mean that if there really is a hidden conspiracy, then your current location is..."
Even Officer Jenny couldn't believe her own sudden flash of inspiration...
The storm that started at the Liyong Power Plant has quietly shifted its center.
Hugo said earnestly, "Your reasoning hits the nail on the head—the Plasma Group is an ambitious organization, and they would not allow their important officers to cause a ruckus at the police station and then leave empty-handed, as this would seriously damage their reputation among their followers."
Bogarman nodded repeatedly in agreement beside the detective in the white coat, muttering "Bogarman, Bogarman."
Hugo continued, as if translating for his Pokémon: "Therefore, they must have planted someone inside the police station—to put false evidence in the evidence storage room, in order to further frame the Pokémon League!"