New Gods of North America.

Chapter 468 Chaos
After dealing with the little episode, it was already dark.
Wayne also asked Sanders to continue investigating at the bar with Inissa.

The murderer had been to several bars that he frequented in the past few days.
This one tonight is the best among them. Judging from the visits, the murderer has been there the least number of times, so it is ranked last.

Compared to the mass bars before, this place is more like a date place for middle-class or upper-class men and women. The environment is overall clean and quiet, with a little style, a bit like a "high-end restaurant".

There is also a large performance stage in the corner of the bar. It seems that there are not many drunkards causing trouble here, otherwise no normal bar would dare to put out something like a grand piano that has nothing to do with durability and cheapness.

The player sitting next to the piano at this moment was not professional enough. She was pretty and smart, but it was obvious that she had not studied hard before, so she played a little unsteadily.

The originally soothing and gentle music was accompanied by discordant notes from time to time, just like a ghost suddenly jumping out to scare people in a horror movie.

Despite this, there were still people who supported the performance. After the song was over, a man clapped and presented a rose. The other guests also showed their respect, cheering and applauding a lot, with some scattered applause.
After Lina took the rose, she smiled shyly with her head down, and returned to her seat with the man under everyone's attention. Then the serious performers came back on stage.

How did we meet here?

We haven't dealt with that guy yet.

Wayne did not delay Lina's normal work. He went to the bar and asked the bartender for two glasses of wine. Then, he continued to inquire about the news as usual.
The bartender also seems to be a victim of Puritan conservative ideas. After accepting the label of "not bound by worldly ideas" that Wayne forcibly put on the murderer, his expression was shocked, giving people a feeling of "an old driver said I really haven't watched this episode."

But soon, the bartender seemed to have thought of something and looked towards Lina:
"If that's the case, then that beauty is not as lucky as the one next to you. The person you are talking about and the gentleman over there once came here to date... no, to have a private conversation."

oh?!

Is there such a thing?
The known information matched each other, and Wayne quickly completed part of the "puzzle of facts" in his mind. It seemed that Mr. Morrie was indeed the target of the murderer's group's actions before.

I continued to ask the bartender to recall more details. A waitress in the bar seemed quite straightforward - the kind who would slap you in the face if you touched her after drinking - and was also a witness at the time. After overhearing a few words from the side, she took the initiative to help add some details.

With the testimony of the bartender and the waitress, more details began to emerge as the two were shocked by the "same-sex love" that had not yet become popular in America.
The murderer seemed to have been here only twice before. Once it seemed like an "accidental encounter", but in fact he had been waiting in the bar for a long time. The other time it seemed that he came here with Mr. Molière.

After Wayne heard this, his level of certainty soared to 99%.
So in order to extract more information from the bartender and the waitress, he gave them a new label, saying that he actually suspected that they were an intimate "couple", and the reason they didn't seem like one at first was probably because they had a quarrel at the time.

Talk about love,

“Fighting and killing” is not surprising, and “breaking up and getting back together” is also normal.

After all, the bartender was a well-informed person, so he quickly calmed down after being shocked, and then seemed to be thinking about continuing to charge "information fees".

Instead, the waitress, who had been busy going back and forth between the bar and different customers, and occasionally came back to add a few words, seemed to be gradually becoming a little angry.

When the waitress ordered another glass of whiskey and suddenly poured it on Mr. Molière's face,

Not only was Mr. Morrie, who failed to dodge completely in time, filled with surprise, shock and anger, but even Wayne was stunned by this sudden accident.

Then the waitress pulled Lina's wrist without saying anything and led her to the bar. Lina's sense of belief was quite strong. She was able to maintain her image as a "weak rich girl". She looked so soft that she would fall down if pushed.
After arriving here, the waitress explained to Lina with a look of "very disgusted": "That man is an emotional liar! Don't believe his lies. This gentleman and this lady can prove that what I said is true."

Let's not talk about the waitress who bravely stepped forward to help, the angry Mr. Molière who chased after them, and the bartender who held his forehead and sighed to the waitress, "Catherine, you're going to work for nothing again this week."

The three partners of the detective agency were inexplicably dragged by outsiders to meet again.

After seeing the two people sitting at the bar, Lina tilted her head and looked over, her eyes slightly narrowed, with a half-smile on her face, as if to say, "You better explain to me what's going on."
Inesa blinked her eyes, and after observing this strange and complex environment, she chose to hold the cup with both hands, lowered her head and sipped it, leaving the task of explaining to Wayne.

Wayne looked around, thought quickly, and could only try to make an encrypted call:

"I'm sorry, we were just having a normal conversation, and we didn't expect Ms. Catherine to be so excited...

"But Miss, what Ms. Catherine said is correct. It seems that this gentleman has been here with other same-sex couples before, and more than once. It is said that the gentleman's name seems to be Carl."

Lina's eyes rolled slightly, and the micro-expressions on her face changed rapidly, showing "anger" and "refusal to believe".
But after turning around, she looked at Mr. Molière who was wiping the wine stains off his face with a handkerchief, his face showing "grievance after being deceived":
"Is what they say true? Molière, you already have a partner? A gentleman?"

Mr. Molière's anger from the liquor was instantly extinguished. "Sisteria, don't listen to their nonsense. I don't know any Karl at all."

Isn't this the name of Miss Greenspan from our Blackstone Town...

Lina, your alias is quite confusing.

Wayne was fine. When the bartender and the waitress heard Mr. Molière's denial, their expressions turned hostile.
The waitress immediately argued with Mr. Molière, "I saw it with my own eyes when you came here before, and he can testify to that."

The bartender pointed at by the waitress seemed a little helpless, and was forced to be involved in the dispute:

"Hey... sir, you can recall it again. The gentleman was about 30 or 40 years old, wearing glasses, and looked gentle, but in fact he was quite strong.

"You and he have come to our place twice. I heard from these two guests that he was probably a clerk in a trading company before?"

Mr. Molière snorted reflexively during the argument, but after thinking about it for a moment, his eyes widened a little, "He and I don't have that kind of relationship at all!"

Naturally, Lina would not give him time to calm down, and immediately joined the battle. Then the scene at the bar looked like a very routine "couple quarrel", and there was also the "man's defense" which was not too surprising in a bar.

The noise attracted more and more guests to watch. Wayne and Inissa, who were standing next to them, held their cheeks with their hands, sitting neatly in their original positions, watching the three-way fight between the four of them from a close distance.
From time to time, Wayne would say a few "fair words" as a pure passerby, silently helping Lina "highlight the key points" so that she could ask Mr. Morrie for a more detailed explanation.

Well……

How could it turn out like this when we were trying to gather intelligence?

(End of this chapter)