Chapter 14 Beginner's Luck
Chapter 14 Beginner's Luck
"Horie, we've arrived."
Lin Yeming parked his patrol car in the Holiday Inn parking space, woke up Horii, and took out the fishing gear he had prepared in advance from the trunk.
"Ok?"
"We've arrived."
"Phew, I had a great sleep. Thank you, Yeming."
After taking a nap, Horii rubbed his eyes and felt much better.
He opened the car door and looked at the two fishing tackles that Lin Yeming had taken out, somewhat puzzled.
"Ye Ming, what are you doing with your fishing gear?"
"Fishing, of course! What else could we do?"
Lin Yeming answered as a matter of course.
"fishing?"
Horii looked at Lin Yeming, somewhat doubting whether he had misheard, but when he thought about what Lin had said that morning about going fishing, he couldn't help but laugh and cry.
"Ye Ming, we're here to investigate a case, not to fish for us."
Is there a conflict between investigating a case and entrapment?
As Lin Yeming spoke, he stuffed the fishing gear into Horii's arms.
"This……"
Horii looked at the fishing tackle in his hand, opened his mouth, but didn't know what to say.
"Stop here, hurry up and follow me, we're going fishing at the beach."
As Lin Yeming spoke, he walked towards the seaside on his own.
Horii watched Lin Yeming's retreating figure, feeling conflicted, unsure whether he should follow.
However, thinking of his responsibilities, he gritted his teeth and followed after them, carrying his fishing gear.
"Ye Ming, are we here to investigate a case, or to fish for us?"
"Of course it's about investigating a case, but entrapment is also part of the investigation."
"what?"
Horii looked at Lin Yeming with a face full of doubt.
Seeing Horii's bewildered expression, Lin Yeming smiled and said, "I'm in charge of this operation. I'll take responsibility for anything that goes wrong."
“I have seen the identities of the people who reported the case yesterday. They are a couple who came here for tourism.”
"For anglers, at this time of day, all they can do is fight for a good spot on the beach."
Horii looked at the uniforms the two were wearing and felt something was off. They were wearing GUTS uniforms and carrying fishing rods; they didn't seem like normal people. "But shouldn't we go to the hotel and ask first?" he said.
Lin Yeming shook his head and said, "We're wearing these clothes, so the people at the hotel definitely won't say anything."
“If they find out there’s a problem, will they still be able to do business?”
"So, your plan is to first confirm whether what the two fishermen said is true or false."
"Not bad, you've gotten smarter."
Lin Yeming gave Horii an approving look.
“If there really is a problem, they might not dare to speak up while we're wearing these uniforms.”
“If we don’t wear uniforms, the hotel can’t tell us our guests’ information.”
"So, you plan to reach them by fishing."
Horii then understood Lin Yeming's plan.
"But that doesn't make sense. If it really was a monster, the couple should have run away by now."
Horii thought about it for a moment and felt that there were some loopholes in Lin Yeming's words.
"Not bad, being able to think of this shows you're not too stupid."
Lin Yeming gave Horii an approving look, then explained, "If they had seen a monster, they would have run away long ago."
"However, the monster theory was actually determined internally by us. As ordinary tourists, they might just think that something went wrong with the place, but overnight, there was no news, so it obviously wasn't a big problem."
"We've arrived, this is the place."
Standing on the shore, Lin Yeming could see a couple leisurely fishing not far away.
In the far distance, the outline of a building appeared, and it knew that was the power plant.
"Hana-suke, it's been an hour, why haven't any fish taken the bait yet?"
"They weren't scared away by the noise last night, were they?"
The two who had just approached exchanged a glance upon hearing this, and Lin Yeming said calmly, "I heard someone mounted a giant creature here."
"Did you two find anything?"
The Hara couple were clearly taken aback when they saw the two men wearing Victory Team uniforms and carrying fishing rods.
Wasn't it said that the Victory Team had very few members?
Why can we see people here?
He recognized the Victory team's uniform, but he didn't know any of the team members.
Looking at their faces, they look like they're from an anime.
I thought to myself, "These otaku guys these days are so daring, they actually dare to cosplay as GUTS."
"You might not believe it, but we were the ones who caught that giant fish!"
Lin Yeming looked at them in disbelief, then said something that made them blush.
How big is it? Do you have any photos?
As he asked the question, he forcefully threw the fishhook out from a short distance away.
Yuan Jie blushed slightly and said awkwardly, "I...I didn't catch anything."
Horii glanced at him and said, "Tch, you didn't even catch anything."
"Wouldn't that mean the Air Force?"
Mrs. Hara muttered, "If it weren't for the power plant explosion yesterday that startled them, we would have gotten the fish."
Lin Yeming looked at him with a suspicious expression: "Look at you, still trying to fool us."
"The power plant is perfectly fine; there's no sign of an explosion."
Yuan Jie couldn't hold back any longer and began to recount what had happened the previous night, with his wife adding to the story from time to time.
"That's it, the sound was incredibly loud, and it was accompanied by flames."
"But when I called the police, they just said that the power plant was conducting a fire drill."
After he finished speaking, he saw Lin Yeming's fishing hook move and quickly reminded him.
"Quick, don't rush to lift it, let's wear down the fish's energy first."
Upon hearing this, Lin Yeming secretly used his Ultra-Enhanced Arm and with a strong pull, he lifted out a large fish.
He glanced at Yuan Jie and said, "There really are some huge fish here. Even a fishing novice like me can catch one. It's not that difficult."
Yuan Jie swallowed hard as he looked at the fish on Lin Yeming's hook.
My heart was filled with envy, damn it.
This damn newbie luck.
The thought that this fish might be the same one he had hooked before made him grind his teeth to dust.
Seeing that the other party had taken the bait, he suddenly said, "Have you seen anyone else here recently?"
The man looked at the two of them warily, before he could refuse.
His wife said, "So, there really is."
“A tall, handsome man swam in the beach below.”
She looked around. "But he's not here yet."
Hara looked at his wife with a surprised expression.
The woman quickly said, "Yuan Jie, don't misunderstand."
“I happened to run into him when I went out. He was staying at the same hotel as us, and there was a beautiful woman with him at the time.”
Upon hearing this, Harasu angrily exclaimed, "What!"
"You went to see the excitement without telling me."
Lin Yeming: ...
Horii:...
woman:...
Good grief, is this what you're paying attention to?
Lin Yeming nodded to Horii, who caught a small fish and released it back into the water. Lin Yeming then put away his fishing rod.
"Thank you both for the information. You can have this fish!"
He thanked him and offered the fish he was holding.
When Yuan Jie saw the fish, his breathing quickened instantly, and he nodded to his wife.
"I'm sorry, sir."
Just as Lin Yeming was about to leave, the woman called him back and told him that she had seen the man go up to the elevator on the seventh floor.
Lin Yeming nodded slightly, then turned and left.
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