Nobody can stop me from drawing cards in Gotham!

Chapter 98 Detective Burke and his assistant Jaeger

Jaeger's statement was, of course, based on evidence.

But before he could explain further, a familiar card table suddenly flashed before his eyes, along with a card that appeared out of nowhere:

You have triggered a special event card!

[The Dinner Party Assassination has been added to the game table]

[Description: A politician died a violent death at a dinner party.]

A gunshot rings out in the darkness, a waiter is wounded by a stray bullet, and a crystal chandelier falls and shatters...

What truth will the undercurrents following this dinner point to?

Objective: To uncover the true method behind the dinner murder case.

Unexpectedly, besides the fun event cards, there's also a proper special event card here...

Of course, if the event cards do not involve card folding, there will usually be a settlement reward after the event is resolved, so Jaeger is really looking forward to it.

Two event cards, two rewards!

Great!

Is this one of the benefits of starting to advance the game's storyline, with the frequency of event cards being triggered increasing?

However, it is worth noting that the goal this time is not to find the real culprit in the dinner murder case, but rather the method of the crime.

For a moment, I had the illusion of playing a detective game.

However, triggering the event card doesn't affect what Jaeger wants to do now, since he originally intended to solve the case anyway...

At most, it strengthened their resolve to forcefully extract the truth from the culprit through beatings if all else fails.

In Barbara and Jason's view, the brief moment when Jaeger snapped out of his reverie at the poker table was simply a moment of deep thought, perhaps as he was organizing his thoughts.

Then he spoke up: "Hmm... because it suddenly occurred to me, assuming the chandelier and the shooting are indeed related, and the shooter didn't conceal the gunshot, what would the situation be like?"

"No concealed gunshots?" Barbara asked doubtfully. "That's impossible. After all, it's impossible that none of us heard the second gunshot, right?"

"Or perhaps..." Jason was also thinking hard, "Wait, you just said that things aren't as they seem—so, we thought the second shot didn't happen, but that's not actually the case?"

“That’s right.” Jaeger nodded. “But let’s not rush this question. Let’s think about this first… Assuming the chandelier was indeed shot down, why would we assume it was a second shot that brought it down?”

Barbara immediately replied, "That's because the first shot has already been fired—wait."

After all, she was a top student at school and a very intelligent bat girl.

After hearing what Yege said, she suddenly understood what Yege was trying to say.

And why did they insist on taking her and Jason to find that waitress?

"Is there something wrong with that waitress?" Barbara asked suspiciously in a low voice.

Jason lowered his voice as well: "Why are you suddenly talking like that?"

Barbara: "Because it's more mysterious, like solving a case."

Jason: "..." So it was all for the sake of creating a certain atmosphere?

Faced with this, Jaeger nodded: "In any case, let's go find that waitress and ask her a few questions, and the answer will come out."

—That's right, just as Barbara said. In Jaeger's opinion, there must be something wrong with that waitress.

However, Jaeger doesn't possess any "detective's intuition," or any strange deductive ability to deduce things as if he had a script just by glancing at the scene...

He knew this purely because Burks had put in the effort.

Just now, perhaps heartbroken over the $100 he lost in the betting game, Burks secretly used his tail to write on Jaeger's wrist.

This was to tell Jaeger that it had discovered an important clue related to the case, but it needed Jaeger to return its $100 before it could tell him...

This is essentially like getting something for free, because the money is essentially earned for free.

Jaeger didn't adhere to the principle of not using cheat codes when making deductions, after all, he wasn't a real detective.

Furthermore, if Burks didn't lack the "detective deduction" ability, Jaeger wouldn't mind acting out a scene with Burks called "Detective Burks and His Little Assistant Jaeger"...

So he happily accepted the deal and learned from Burks a clue that was indeed very important and even directly reversed the entire course of the case.

That is--

Burkes quietly wrote down his diagnosis of the waitress:

[Jaeger, that waitress...she didn't have any gunshot wounds at all.]