“I took note of that detail and continued to listen to your statement…”

“Your analysis of the case and your interpretation of the psychology of the various people involved are indeed reasonable and excellent… However, in certain parts, you still used words like ‘I estimate’ and ‘speculate,’ which makes me wonder how much information the recording can actually provide.

“Why, after having such solid evidence in your possession, did you still need to rely on so much logic instead of straightforward information to support your explanation?

“Until you said to John—‘The available evidence has basically been obliterated, and whatever we say here can only be speculation, which is why you can maintain this attitude of being unafraid.’

“This sentence of yours, though not directed at Sam, gave me inspiration; I immediately understood… that recording was actually a trick.

“In reality, that recording, from beginning to end… only contained one sentence.

“Miller only recorded this sentence before seeing Sam, at six o'clock in the afternoon, to prevent anything unexpected from happening to him during his meeting with Sam.

“According to his idea… once he encountered problems in his negotiations with Sam, he could bluff and threaten the other party by saying… ‘I already made a recording before coming… If you don’t follow the agreement, or plan to simply kill me to silence me, the recording will be made public,’ or something like that.

“But ‘after’ meeting Sam? Miller didn’t ‘supplement that recording’ as you said.

“Admittedly, Miller is a cautious person, but his scheming is far from reaching the level you described… things like ‘contingency plans after being arrested,’ ‘situations where he is caught by people other than the police’… If he could consider problems to that extent, he wouldn’t be a criminal with a ‘pile of criminal records, almost ending up on the streets,’ but rather a successful person who had rebuilt his fortune through crime.

“As long as you detach yourself from your train of thought and think about it carefully, you will understand… Miller’s level wouldn’t allow him to leave a recording of the type you described, one that ‘recounted the entire transaction between him and John from beginning to end.’

“The reason you said this was to try to trick Sam; after hearing what you called the ‘beginning of the recording,’ if Sam was really guilty, he would naturally feel despair in the face of such ‘ironclad evidence.’ If you were lucky, he might directly confess under pressure.”

Speaking of which, Feng Bujue smiled again and looked at Sam, “Fortunately… the innocent are innocent, and Sam is innocent in the first place, so he won’t be fooled.”

“This guy was already hooked! You forcibly pulled him off the hook, okay!”

In that instant, Zuo Yan and Victor both roared this sentence deep in their hearts.

But… it was also a fact that they were cheating, and they couldn’t easily lose their temper on the surface.

“Heh… hehe…” Having narrowly escaped death, and still a little frightened, Sam was now in a state of emotional “resurrection.” He couldn’t help but laugh and wipe the cold sweat from his forehead, “Right… right! Mr. Feng is right! I was innocent in the first place! Hahahaha…”

His “hearty” laughter sounded extremely jarring to John's ears: “You’re talking nonsense!” John immediately shouted, “Then how do you explain… you suddenly came to see me yesterday afternoon and asked me for the phone number in my bedroom? And the two calls you made to me afterwards… I happened to be attacked during the second call?”

“Coincidence.” Before Sam could answer, Feng Bujue抢着 said an almost shameless and bizarre answer.

“What?” John couldn’t believe his ears; his voice soared and he shouted “Huh.”

“Is there anything wrong with Sam coming to see you?” Feng Bujue said, “The inheritance case has been over for seven or eight years, it’s normal for him to come to you to reconcile, right?” He paused, “In fact… the fact that you let him in yesterday during the day, had tea and chatted with him, and even left him your phone number… already shows that, at least yesterday… you also thought that this was the case.”

“Are you trying to say… that on the very day he came to reconcile with me, I was attacked by Miller, and the attack happened to occur at the same time he called me for the second time that day?” John asked, suppressing his anger.

“No, no, no… there’s only one coincidence.” Feng Bujue said, “That is… the day Miller came to attack you happened to be the day Sam came to reconcile with you.” He spread his hands and put on a self-righteous expression, “I think this is also very normal… because the ships to this island don’t come every day, they took the same ship to the island, so the incident happened on the same day… is there anything strange about that?” He paused for half a second, then said, “As for the phone thing… it’s not much of a coincidence; we might as well think of it this way… Miller was originally lurking in your bedroom, preparing to find an opportunity to strike. Suddenly, the phone rang, and he had an idea. He hid behind the curtains not far from the phone, wanting to take advantage of you answering the phone and being distracted to strike.”

“Good… good.” John nodded, “Then I have to ask… why… in the past seven years, when Sam didn’t know my background, he didn’t come to reconcile with me, but after he learned from Miller that I was not related to him by blood, he came to reconcile with me instead?”

“Who said he learned about your background from Miller?” Feng Bujue answered one question with another question.

“This…” John instinctively cast his gaze at Zuo Yan.

“I said it.” Zuo Yan still seemed relatively calm, “Of course… you can say that everything I said was inference, but… Sam confirmed it, didn’t he?”

“No.” Feng Bujue said, looking at Sam, “Have you confirmed anything?”

“Uh…” Sam didn’t know what to answer anymore.

Feng Bujue didn’t need this level of teammate to answer; before Sam could finish the sound of “Uh,” Brother Jue搶道 himself: “If you’re referring to his sentence—‘John’s true background is Miller’s trump card. If I encounter obstacles in the process of inheriting the inheritance, he can use that to turn the tables; also, when he first came to me, he had already anticipated… that as long as he showed me that trump card, I would help him.’…” He repeated Sam’s original words at the end of Chapter 26 verbatim, and then said, “…then I have to remind you that that sentence was just a ‘reasoning plot’ that Sam was muttering along with your train of thought. I and John have also said such sentences today… but that doesn’t mean we agree with what you said.

“Don’t forget, after he finished saying that sentence, you took the opportunity to ask him, ‘Are you admitting that you hired someone to kill?’ And facing that direct question, he didn’t give a definite answer.

“You still need to figure out the difference between ‘agreement’ and ‘answer,’ okay?”