There's a chat group for pets in my neighborhood.

kindness?

Shouldn't the sheriff be comfortably lying in his cat bed in his room right now?

Why would someone suddenly add me as a friend on their own?

Although Lu Fang was somewhat suspicious, he did not look at the police chief, fearing that the chief might notice something amiss.

So he decided to hide in the living room first.

Lu Fang opened the door and plopped down on the sofa.

Qin Zhuyan hadn't finished showering yet, and the sound of the dripping water didn't make his mind wander.

There was no way around it; the sheriff's sudden addition of him as a friend was just too bizarre.

Has it discovered its true identity?

That doesn't make sense.

If the sheriff discovered that a human had infiltrated the group chat, his first reaction would be to issue a public notice in the group and kick the user out. How could he possibly contact them privately?

No matter how much I speculate, it's probably better to just ask directly.

Lu Fang took a deep breath to calm his nerves and clicked the button to accept the friend request.

The calico cat's avatar appeared in his friends list. Neither of them spoke; they simply waited quietly.

After a long period of calm.

A crisp WeChat message notification sound rang out.

Lu Fang subconsciously opened the chat window.

"Why are you hiding in the living room?"

Upon seeing the sentence clearly, Lu Fang's pupils suddenly contracted.

Did the sheriff really see through it?!

He was unsure whether this was a test or if the other party had already seen through his identity.

Since we're unsure, we might as well play dumb.

"What are you saying? I don't understand."

"I was just about to tell you, Brother Li and the others are a bit worried about you and want to see you. They're planning to come over tomorrow."

"Unfortunately, I have to go on a trip, so I might not be able to join you. But don't worry, I'll leave the door open for Tanuki. Have fun!"

The sheriff, who was lying in the cat's bed, chuckled when he saw these messages and turned his gaze to the closed door.

Someone once told him that when a suspect feels guilty, he will change his usual taciturn demeanor and instead talk incessantly to cover up his unease.

At this point, you just need to quietly watch the other party perform, and their psychological defenses will crumble on their own.

Then you can kill it with one blow and easily get what you want.

I really miss it.

Back when we fought side by side.

only........

"Stop pretending. You don't want me to expose your identity in the group, do you?"

As the message notification sounded, Lu Fang was completely stunned.

Are you kidding me? I've been hiding it so well, and the sheriff actually saw through me?!

How can this cat be smarter than a human?!

As if knowing what Lu Fang was thinking, the sheriff sent another message.

"What, you're allowed to have smart people, but we're not allowed to have smart cats?"

It's like seeing a ghost.

Just as Lu Fang was sighing, his bedroom door opened silently, and the next second, the sheriff, with his eyes narrowed, poked his head out, looking rather arrogant.

The sheriff stared straight at him, clearly confirming his identity.

But for some reason, it wasn't announced in the group chat; instead, it was sent via private message.

"Tell me, when exactly did you find it?"

Lu Fang sighed, too lazy to type anymore, and asked directly.

"I had my suspicions for a long time, but I was really certain after the incident at the old steel mill."

The sheriff walked out of the room step by step. He was about to jump onto the coffee table, but the movement aggravated his injury, causing him to wince in pain. In the end, he could only sit on the floor helplessly.

Despite this, her posture remained elegant.

"I'm all ears."

I didn't see the sheriff make any move, but messages kept popping up in the chat box on my phone.

"At the very beginning, no one had any doubts."

"After all, many of the members in the group have never met each other. They only know a few familiar faces. For example, I know Brother Li, Brother Li knows someone with legs that are 1.8 meters long, someone with legs that is 1.8 meters long knows that you pay for a dog walk and that you pay for a dog walk and that the cherry blossoms in our hometown are blooming."

"Although I've never seen the cherry blossoms bloom in my hometown, I roughly know what kind of dog it is."

"The group is basically connected through this kind of one-to-one relationship."

"But I did some research that day, and nobody knew you. You were like an isolated island that suddenly appeared in the group."

"When did you start to think there was something wrong with me?" Lu Fang asked curiously.

"After the pet snack incident, logically speaking, you claimed to be a veterinarian dog in the group, and you led everyone to participate in a tasting event at a pet store. Logically, there was no reason for you not to be there. But I waited for several days and didn't see any unfamiliar dogs. From beginning to end, you were the only human busy around. That's when I started to have doubts."

"What if I'm the kind of dog who doesn't like going out?" Lu Fang couldn't help but argue.

"Don't you want to listen to what you're saying? Everyone thinks you're very intelligent because you're a Border Collie, and you haven't refuted that. Are there any Border Collies in this world that don't like going out?"

For some reason, even though the sheriff's expression didn't change much, he could tell that the other person rolled his eyes.

"Then how did you confirm my identity?" Lu Fang pressed.

"The old steel mill."

The sheriff's expression softened slightly when he mentioned the place name.

"Haven't you considered this: the dog you were supposed to be playing had something come up and couldn't make it to the event, yet you were able to communicate with us without any problems. Don't you think there's something wrong with that?"

"What could we do!" Lu Fang sighed. "I knew we might be exposed, but if I hadn't acted in time, the dark-skinned PE student would have really been killed."

"I know." The sheriff nodded. "That's why I'm sitting here talking to you, without revealing your identity directly in the group chat."

Seeing Lu Fang's sincere expression, the sheriff hesitated for a moment before saying, "By the way, do you remember I asked you to turn off the power?"

"Of course I remember. Gray Rat couldn't go, right? If I didn't go, Scarface and his gang would have really succeeded." Lu Fang scratched his head, wondering why the sheriff suddenly brought this up.

"Actually, Gray Mouse had already arranged for rats to lurk in the power switch room. I told him not to say anything in the group chat, just to test you out."

"What?!"

Lu Fang never dreamed that the police chief's probing would begin at that time.

Isn't this a pure intellectual crushing defeat?

"Wait a minute, if you ask the gray rat to cooperate with your act, won't it suspect my identity?" Lu Fang quickly realized something was wrong.

Unexpectedly, the sheriff looked at him like he was an idiot.

"The gray mouse is a rat, not a person. Why would it think so much? If we give it some good food, it can reproduce for generations. It won't care about such things at all."