Cyberpunk: 2075

"In the past, I always thought that the food in hotels would not be too strong because they had to cater to the public's taste, and the hotel meals I had eaten were generally the same, but now it seems that I was wrong."

Sitting by the window in the restaurant on the fourth floor of the hotel, Carl admired the night view outside the window and said to Jack who was following him: "I forgot that the restaurants in the hotel are not all buffet-style. Some hotel restaurants can also order meals."

"So are you satisfied with today's dinner? You didn't eat anything in the bar before."

A glass of lemonade was placed in front of Jack. He looked at the empty bowl in front of Carl and asked: "Do you want another serving? I think this bowl of beef and rice is a bit small."

"Just fill your stomach."

It's actually quite normal to have a Japanese standard meal of beef and rice in the territory of military technology. After all, food is something that even the vendor downstairs of the apartment where Carl and his friends live in Night City can make eighteen kinds of dishes by himself. It would be strange for a hotel that receives foreign guests from all over the world not to order foreign food, but don't expect it to taste authentic and delicious.

"Forget about another serving. This beef and rice has too much sauce. It's greasy."

"How about some pizza?"

"I only saw Hawaiian pizza that can make Italians furious. Are you sure that's what I, an Italian, should order?"

"Okay."

Jack thought for a moment and asked tentatively, "Are you hungry?"

"I've already filled my stomach. I won't be hungry. If you really want to eat, there are other things you can order. But forget it. The food in this hotel tastes average."

Carl sighed. The people in Military Technology are not British. The food is not too extreme. But he originally thought that the food in this hotel would be delicious. He planned to come to the restaurant to enjoy it himself. As a result, he found that the food here was not delicious, which made his expectations go down the drain.

"V and Oliver should be gathering intelligence now. Let's try to sit down and order some drinks to pretend to chat, and listen to what the guests around us are discussing."

Eavesdropping on other people's conversations in a restaurant is indeed a common and widespread practice as a means of intelligence collection. However, due to its prevalence, the important information obtained in this way is often rare.

In Carl's memory, there are indeed a few cases in history where key intelligence was accidentally heard during meals, which led to major events, but compared with the countless meals that take place every moment in the world, the probability of accidentally hearing important information is very small.

In contrast, the possibility of being struck by lightning may be even greater, not to mention that there are very few guests dining around Carl and Jack, and the probability is even smaller.

"Wait till I order a drink and then we'll go."

Carl chose to sit down in the restaurant, on the one hand because dinner time was approaching and he hoped to get some useful information from other guests' chats; on the other hand, he was indeed hungry. However, the reality was obviously not as he wished, and it was not so easy to get valuable intelligence from these casual conversations.

Carl and Jack had been trying to listen to the chats of the guests around them, but the guests around them were not big mouths, and people who could enter this hotel still had basic vigilance. Carl and Jack listened to the chats of the guests around them in low voices for a long time, and at most they heard some small comments on the restaurant food, and the information content contained in it was...

Probably about the same as the beef content in the steak that Jack and his friends ate today.

"Okay, dinner is over. "

After ordering another after-meal drink and drinking it, Carl, who still didn't hear any valuable information, was ready to get up and leave.

In general, there are not many people coming to the restaurant to eat even at mealtime. Carl suspected that most of the guests might choose to have the hotel waiters deliver the meals to the suites. Seeing that the meal time was almost over, there was no point in staying any longer.

Seeing Carl get up, Jack, as a bodyguard, naturally got up and followed. Just when the two walked to the door of the restaurant, Carl noticed that the restaurant's delivery elevator was open, and a male waiter who seemed to have just delivered the meal walked out.

With a quick glance, Carl noticed many things.

The waiter pushed the dining cart downstairs, and there was still something left on the cart. There was some soup left, maybe it was accidentally tilted when carrying the food. Considering that the waiters in this hotel are generally professionally trained, such a mistake obviously requires carrying a large amount of food at one time, paying attention to the food on top not falling and ignoring the dripping of the soup below.

The waiter's hand was not equipped with any prosthesis, which means that such an accident is not impossible. The color of the few drops of soup on his wrist that soaked into the cuffs is also similar to the color of the soup on the dining car, which means that it is indeed a trace left by carrying a large amount of food at one time.

What information can be obtained from carrying a large amount of food at one time?

In simple terms, two points can be analyzed.

The food on the table is all for the guests in a suite, because if the table is for each guest, then the waiter only needs to move the food one by one, and there will be no dripping marks on the cuffs that only the hands are below and held with both hands.

The second point is that the guest in the suite must be very familiar with the waiter, and may even be a guest who has lived there for a while. If a hotel waiter is not familiar with the guest, even if he needs to take a large amount of food, he can't just move it quickly and finish it hastily;

This behavior will give people a feeling of perfunctory or insufficient service attitude, but this waiter did so, which means that his action was tacitly approved by the guest, or that the guest asked him to do so.

You put all the things over there and leave quickly. ,

Or.

It's you, put the things over there. ’

No matter what the attitude is, the waiter and the guest must have more than one aspect of familiarity, because without being witnessed, the cover of putting a large amount of food at one time, but can do many things, only after establishing basic familiarity can such things be done.

Long-term stay, a lot of food will be eaten in the suite at one time, and the number of guests is unknown.

"Write it down first.

After a glance, Carl walked out of the restaurant.

'List it in the list of suspicions.

Although there are still many details to be considered, for speculation, only one suspicion is enough.

Carl is not handling the case, he does not talk about evidence, only suspicion.