"I... premeditated murder?" John looked at Brother Jue in disbelief, repeating, "Me? Premeditated? Murder?" He raised his tone with each word he spoke.

"That's right." Feng Bujue's finger was still pointing at John. "It's you!"

"Heh..." John laughed out of extreme anger. The dry laugh was squeezed out of his throat, sounding like someone had stepped on his kidney. "Okay... fine... then you explain to me... this 'victim', Miller..." As he spoke, he raised his hands to make quotation marks. "Why would he sneak into my house in the middle of the night, carrying a weapon, and attack me from behind?"

"Good question." The fact that Feng Bujue could say those three words indicated that he had already thought of the answer. "Actually, it's easy to explain... First, he didn't sneak into your house, but you let him in; second, he didn't bring a weapon, the fishing line was also placed there by you; third, he didn't attack you from behind, but you attacked him from the front."

This time, even Zuo Yan couldn't understand, and John, Sam, and Doster were even more confused.

"Uh... Brother Jue..." After all, Zuo Yan's mind was faster than the other three. After a few seconds, he was the first to ask, "Then in my reasoning... about the part where 'Miller came to murder Sam', isn't that all denied by you?"

"'In the end... the two different versions of reasoning we just heard are just speculations made in the early stages of the case, when the investigation and evidence collection work have not been fully carried out.'" Feng Bujue repeated John's words from a few minutes ago verbatim, and then cast a cheap, mocking glance at John. "You said that, right?"

"Huff..." John needed to exhale a long breath before he could respond to the question. "Yes..."

He didn't want to say another word, so he gave a concise answer.

"We might as well re-analyze the 'parts' of my reasoning now." Feng Bujue glanced at everyone and continued, "Is Miller's motive for murdering John... really that sufficient?"

Hearing this, Zuo Yan was also shocked by Brother Jue. He thought to himself, "My god... to play a reversal to the point of overturning his own reasoning... this is the first time I've seen it..."

"Think carefully, can the recording he has in his hand really be used as capital to threaten Sam?" Feng Bujue continued, "What can be proven by just that one sentence?" He spread his hands, shrugged, and said, "Anyone can record a segment on their phone or some other device, saying that they are going to meet someone... For example, I can record a segment now, saying that I am going to meet the Queen of England later. After recording, I can go out and randomly kill someone, and then take out the recording. Can that prove that the Queen ordered me to do it?"

"Uh..." Doster thought for a moment, "The way you put it... it makes sense."

"So, the truth is, Miller didn't have enough motive to kill John." Feng Bujue went along with it and gave a conclusion.

"Tch... isn't 'hiring a hitman' a motive?" Vidocq in the dark wouldn't be led by Brother Jue. His thinking had been clear from beginning to end. At this moment, he immediately complained in his heart, "First, he uses a piece of reasoning to overturn the part of my reasoning that you don't want to admit, keeps the part you want to use, and then uses another piece of reasoning to overturn the things in your own reasoning that you don't intend to keep; in essence... this guy is just using logical means to repeatedly prove things on the basis of 'speculation', giving people the illusion that it is reasonable and well-founded, and ultimately peeling off a 'truth' that he had thought of from the beginning..." Thinking of this, Vidocq couldn't help but smile. "Heh... Feng Bujue... you are definitely the most rogue detective I have ever seen, but you are also very likely the most capable one I have ever seen so far."

Vidocq didn't tell Zuo Yan this monologue through telepathy. He didn't want to show Zuo Yan this feeling of "meeting a worthy opponent".

Therefore, no one could hear the cat detective's analysis of Brother Jue.

"Then... how should we explain the series of events that happened yesterday?" On the other hand, Doster asked a relatively constructive question.

"It's easy to explain." Feng Bujue said, "If we look at it from the perspectives of the three people involved, things are very clear; first, let's look at Sam—he was being blackmailed by Miller and came to the island to pay the money. But after arriving on the island, Sam temporarily decided to make peace with John, so he visited John during the day yesterday, gave Miller the money at dusk, and then drank at the bar in the evening, where he met me.

"Then there's Miller—he was blackmailing both Sam and John. Why did he let Sam come to the island to give him money this time? Because he happened to have something to do on the island these days. What was it? Naturally, it was to find John to negotiate, wanting to blackmail even more.

"At dusk, after Miller took Sam's money, he waited at his residence, and he didn't go to Herbert Manor until late at night.

"From here, let's start from John's perspective—John had been blackmailed by Miller for a long time, and Miller had asked him to add more money more than once in the past year; John felt that it wasn't a solution to drag this matter on. His life's secret was in the hands of someone like Miller, and the blackmail would be endless... In order to 'solve the problem' once and for all, John agreed with Miller to negotiate about this matter one more time.

"And so... at around ten o'clock last night, Miller came to this mansion as agreed; of course, John wouldn't let Miller go in through the main entrance, so he left him a route to come in—this was easy for the owner of the house to do.

"During the conversation between the two, John, who had been prepared for a long time, suddenly launched a violent attack and pounced on Miller. At that time, he may have prepared other weapons, but what he didn't expect was... this collision directly killed Miller on the corner of the table.

"Just at this time, Sam's phone came; because he was worried that the ringtone would attract the staff in the house, John had to answer the phone immediately. After hearing Sam's voice, John had an idea and thought of a plan to frame him...

"So, John began to imitate the sounds of two people fighting alone; anyway, he was just panting and didn't need to speak, so even if the recording was retrieved later, nothing could be found out.

"After finishing this act, John hung up the phone, disposed of the weapon he originally wanted to use, got a fishing line from the house, left strangulation marks on his neck, and created the illusion of self-defense.

"After he had settled everything, he picked up the same phone, dialed Sheriff Doster's private number, and tried to use his relationship with the sheriff... to lead the case in the direction he wanted from the very beginning; in this way, a lot of evidence unfavorable to him would not be preserved, or would be buried for various reasons in the end.

"Just like... the inheritance case back then."