Hearing this, Undying Path immediately formed a guess.
He smiled faintly.
"Heh heh, interesting. You're here to participate in the Phantom Moon Game?"
"The Interastral Peace Corporation's most wanted criminal came to hire a down-and-out detective."
"I've read plenty of stories like that."
With his hands on his hips, he said leisurely,
"Next, I'll be helplessly dragged into some grand conspiracy and start running for my life, right?"
"Quit being paranoid." Silver Wolf cut off his wild imagination.
"I came to find you because I hacked into the Public Security Bureau's criminal case archives and took a look."
"You never know until you investigate. Once you do, it's a real shock."
"Among all those strange and baffling police cases, you've been hired an awful lot."
Silver Wolf listed them one by one.
"The Harmony Order Communion Mystery, the Ghost Swiftblade Dragon Train Case, the Ghost Repeated Resurrection Incident, the Odd Laugh Hall Hyper-Discontinuous Locked-Room Murder Case... you helped solve them all."
"You might not be the most famous, but you should be the most capable detective around here, right?"
Seeing that Silver Wolf had even hacked into the Public Security Bureau, Undying Path felt rather troubled.
But he still acknowledged his own abilities.
"Ah, does anyone have any privacy left? Go on, then. How did the mask get lost?"
Silver Wolf began recounting the story.
"Today was supposed to be the day we met with the Common Wish Gang..."
Undying Path interrupted with a smile. "All right, then let's discuss the commission fee."
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Silver Wolf frowned. "I haven't even finished talking."
"True, but a real master detective can grasp the entire case without ever leaving home."
Undying Path tugged his top hat lower and struck what he thought was a very handsome pose.
"That's me! I may look like