Chapter 87 Information Asymmetry

Upon hearing this, Fatty suddenly became excited. Sure enough, doctors never let people down. Orphans had keen eyes.

Playing tricks in front of a doctor was really asking for trouble.

"Doctor," Fatty licked his lips excitedly, "Tell me what's going on."

"Don't know," Jiang Cheng replied calmly.

Fatty was stunned, "You don't know?"

"Of course, I don't know." Jiang Cheng pouted unhappily, "I'm not an encyclopedia; how could I know everything?" He changed the subject, pointing at Xia Meng, "If you don't believe me, ask her. Ask her if she knows."

Fatty turned to look at Xia Meng.

"I only saw that An Xuan deliberately let that person go." Xia Meng fiddled with her water glass, her fingers rubbing it incessantly, as if she were also puzzled. "I'm not sure what his specific purpose is."

"Yeah, I also think it's strange." Frowning, Fatty said suspiciously, "That person doesn't look like he's here for the first time. He might be a clue. How could he..."

As if he suddenly thought of something, Fatty immediately raised his head and said, "Doctor, could it be that An Xuan wants to let him go first, and then wait for us to leave before catching him back for a private interrogation?"

"That way, he could have the clues all to himself!" Fatty spoke quickly.

"We five almost let him escape even after he exposed himself. You think An Xuan would go catch him alone in the middle of the night?" Xia Meng said, "He must be crazy."

"Maybe he has accomplices!" Fatty said, "That Qin Jian, and... and that You Qi doesn't seem right to me either! Maybe... maybe they still have information we don't know..."

"He wouldn't take such a big risk." Jiang Cheng said.

Hearing this, Fatty immediately shut up. He might argue with Xia Meng because Xia Meng might make mistakes, but the doctor wouldn't. He was as cunning as an old dog.

"But you're right about one thing." Jiang Cheng looked towards the door as if he could see the outside scene through it, "They must have clues we don't know."

Xia Meng straightened up and glanced at Jiang Cheng, "It shouldn't be information that was passed down. It's probably some physical object, like... something very special."

"Something that changed in some way over a period of time, or suddenly disappeared, or appeared strangely," Xia Meng added, "Anything is possible."

Fatty blinked, feeling that Darwin's theory of evolution seemed to have loopholes in his case again.

He first looked at Xia Meng, but she ignored him. Then, he looked at the doctor with pleading eyes.

"Remember when An Xuan brought people over in the afternoon?" Jiang Cheng asked.

Fatty's eyes flickered, and then he immediately realized the problem. "You mean... An Xuan wanted to come into our room to take a look?"

"Not just ours, he went into the other room too." Xia Meng said.

"He was making a comparison!" Fatty seemed to have figured out the connection. "Something unusual appeared in their room, so he wanted to come to the other two rooms to see if the abnormality only appeared in their room or in all of our rooms."

"If the abnormality only appeared in their room, then that means..." Fatty said in one breath.

"It means they're being targeted." Xia Meng said, narrowing her eyes.

"So..." Jiang Cheng tilted his head to look at Fatty, paused, and suddenly said, "Do you think he found anything unusual in Zuo Jing's room?"

"No." Fatty shook his head and replied without thinking, "If they had found anything unusual in Zuo Jing's room, they wouldn't have looked so anxious to see our rooms."

When An Xuan came, although he hid it well, the faces of the people behind him said everything.

"But..." Fatty paused and raised his head in confusion. "Doctor," he asked, "You don't think the strange things happening in their room have anything to do with that person just now, do you?"

"Who knows?" Xia Meng rolled up the sleeves of her opera costume and squinted her eyes.

Xia Meng was relatively thin, and the oversized opera costume looked good on her, but it kept falling down, which was very uncomfortable. She had to pull it up from time to time.

Just like now, she pulled up the front of her clothes very unnaturally.

But just after she pulled it up, she suddenly found Jiang Cheng looking at her, and in a very lecherous, perverted way.

Xia Meng thought for a while, and after a moment, she looked at him with the same lecherous eyes, and then said gently, "Is it pretty?"

"Hey," Jiang Cheng said, "You know, if you don't look closely at this outfit, it's actually quite pretty."

The lingering fear brought about by the paper figure and the weirdness dissipated unconsciously in a few words between the few people.

Jiang Cheng went to sleep first as usual, leaving Fatty to keep watch with Xia Meng.

But with the doctor gone, Fatty didn't dare to offend Xia Meng, so he sat far away. The two of them stared at each other until the doctor got up to take over.

Unexpectedly, just as Xia Meng was about to go to sleep for a while, she heard Jiang Cheng yelling in a strange tone, "Fatty," he asked pretentiously, "Why is my belt loose?"

Fatty chimed in with great tact, "I don't know, Doctor. I just went out to pee. It couldn't be..." Fatty looked towards Xia Meng's location with a start.

"Miss Xia." Jiang Cheng stretched his neck and said to her, "Please restrain yourself next time."

After thinking about it, he continued, "The reason why humans are different from beasts is not only that humans can skillfully use tools but also that humans can restrain their desires."

Hearing this, Xia Meng sat up straight from the bed.

After a long while, Fatty got up quietly and came to Jiang Cheng, who was keeping watch, and whispered, "Doctor," he pursed his lips, "I was staring at her the whole time. There was nothing unusual."

"Mm." Jiang Cheng narrowed his eyes and looked at Xia Meng lying on the bed. The two beds were far apart, so he couldn't tell if Xia Meng was asleep.

Swallowing, Fatty glanced at Xia Meng. Seeming to think it wasn't safe, he put his face close to Jiang Cheng's ear and asked quietly, "Doctor, why do you always suspect..."

Jiang Cheng held up one finger, and Fatty immediately shut up.

Then, Jiang Cheng stretched his neck and said a few words in Fatty's ear.

A few seconds later, Fatty's originally confused eyes were instantly smoothed out. He stared at the doctor, his mouth slightly open, and he didn't say a word for a long time.

Until Jiang Cheng nodded slightly.

Early the next morning, Jiang Cheng, who was still lying on the bed and catching up on sleep in a strange posture, was pulled up directly. "Get up quickly!" Xia Meng shook him and said loudly, "Something happened!"