sinovels Chapter 90 Unveiling the Mystery!
Chapter 90 Unveiling the Mystery!
Chapter 90 Unveiling the Mystery! (7/10)
late at night.
In a residential building in a classically decorated community, Chen Zhenghai sat alone in a dark room.
This is his study. All the other rooms are dark except for the computer screen in front of him.
Streetlights mixed with moonlight streamed in through the windows, spilling onto the floors of the living room and study.
The room was completely silent. You could vaguely see a red dot flickering on and off near Chen Zhenghai's mouth; it was the cigarette he was holding.
A short while later, a very faint creak came from the living room outside the study.
"Chief, since you're here, come out. There's no need to hide."
Chen Zhenghai remained calm and stubbed out the remaining half of his cigarette in the ashtray.
Footsteps sounded in the living room, and the person slowly walked to the door of the study and stopped.
This man was tall and slightly overweight; he was Meng Chao, the director of the Wangchuan City Investigation Bureau.
Meng Chao looked slightly surprised: "You knew I was coming?"
Chen Zhenghai nodded: "I guessed it was you."
"Why can't it be someone else?" Meng Chao laughed.
He then glanced at a comfortable fabric chair by the study door, strolled over and sat down, giving the impression that he was just an ordinary visitor.
"Because among your group, you know me best," Chen Zhenghai replied. "So you'll most likely clean up this mess yourself, and then let the others deal with Li Jiuhe."
Meng Chao's smile gradually turned cold: "I don't quite understand, how can you be so sure?"
Chen Zhenghai sat up straight: "Because if Li Jiuhe and I don't go to the shelter tonight, this should be your second plan. In short, your plan, Director Feng's plan, and the one lying in the Y-01 shelter have reached this point. We have to wrap things up tonight, otherwise things might change."
Meng Chao's smile vanished: "I underestimated you."
"I underestimated you too," Chen Zhenghai said. "What benefits did the people in the Y-01 containment chamber promise you that would make a director of the Investigation Bureau willingly become their accomplice?"
"Him?" Meng Chao sneered. "He's not worthy."
Chen Zhenghai's pupils contracted slightly: "So he's not the mastermind?"
"The less you know about this, the better," Meng Chao said. "I originally thought you would keep it a secret—"
Before he could finish speaking, Chen Zhenghai interrupted him: "Hide away and live a life of obscurity? I'd rather be a ghost who knows the truth! In the entire Wangchuan City, Director Meng is the law. Now that I'm in your hands, I can't imagine where I can hide. The only thing I want to understand is why you did this? Why did that guy in the shelter want those three items?"
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Meng Chao let out a soft sigh: "This could have been done without anyone noticing, even flawlessly. Everyone would have been happy, we could have continued to play our roles well, and had unlimited futures. Wouldn't that have been great?"
"So you're after that limitless future?" Chen Zhenghai grasped the key point in that sentence.
Meng Chao nodded and said, "Of course, that person has already proven to me that if this space-time can be destroyed, a super divine being will descend! Ordinary people might not even see such a great fortune in their entire lives, let alone receive it."
As he said this, he raised his head, clearly longing for that moment to come.
"At that point, let alone a mere municipal investigation bureau chief, even a regional bureau chief or the head of the national bureau would be nothing but a pile of stinking dog shit in my eyes!"
Chen Zhenghai was utterly terrified at this moment.
But he forced himself to remain calm: "So the three things you need are the 27 Morning Bell, because it can see through the gaps in time, the watch, which may also have some kind of relationship with time, and the Tongue of the Dead."
I don't see what use this thing could possibly have.
He paused, then frowned. "As far as I know, Li Jiuhe's sequence ability can define a certain spacetime as a mission, so it should also carry some spacetime power, and he's the person directly involved. So why can't it be him?"
Meng Chao laughed and said, "I don't have your insight, nor do I have the energy to think about so many 'whys.' I just need to follow the instructions of the super god and eventually obtain the tiny bit of divinity that the god gave me."
After saying that, he raised his hand to check the time: "It should be about time."
Chen Zhenghai said thoughtfully, "So you've come to kill me, while the one who split the soul is going to kill Li Jiuhe?"
Meng Chao shook his head: "You underestimate Li Jiuhe. Aside from that person, no one can kill Li Jiuhe. The role of the soul splitter is merely to act as a bridge." Because of his powerful mental strength, as long as he's willing and can pinpoint the exact locations of both sides, he can briefly connect Li Jiuhe's home to the Y-01 containment chamber. Although the time is short, it's enough for Si Mingyu to complete the absorption."
Chen Zhenghai's expression changed: "Since the Soul Splitter was hiding this ability, why didn't they do it before? Why wait until now to make their move?"
"Because doing so would leave traces that can't be manually removed, and it would take a month for them to slowly fade away. During this time, there's a risk that our superiors might discover some clues, exposing my and Director Feng's identities. But there's no other way now. Since you're not going to the shelter, this is the last resort. At worst, I'll sacrifice my special operations team. They know that themselves."
As Meng Chao spoke, he slowly stood up and patted his clothes.
"Alright, you've barely fulfilled your purpose. Your cause of death will be determined as being killed by Yu Minmin, who escaped from the containment room. It's considered a duty-related death. I'll take good care of your wife and children. Room 707, Hongyunlai Hotel, right?"
Chen Zhenghai's body trembled violently, his face turned ashen, and he stared intently at Meng Chao, who had stood up.
"Before you kill me, I want to know the one last thing—the last thing," he said, his voice trembling as he tried to suppress his fear.
Meng Chao sighed and turned his gaze to him again: "For the sake of being colleagues, speak."
What happened to Li Jiuhe's daughter?
Meng Chao looked at him in surprise, then laughed: "Zheng Hai, Zheng Hai, you haven't changed even when you're about to die! My Tian Shu Kingdom has lost such a competent investigator, it's my fault. Hehe, at this point, don't you beg me to spare your wife and children? You actually ask this! Fine, I'll tell you, so you can die knowing why."
As he spoke, he turned and walked to the study door: "Li Jiuhe's daughter—is dead. She was home alone that day, while Li Jiuhe was at work. Yu Minmin strangled her from behind. That woman was too ruthless; she almost broke the girl's neck, leaving only a thin layer of skin connecting it."
"Where's the body?" Chen Zhenghai asked blankly.
With his back to the study, Meng Chao turned to look at Chen Zhenghai: "The Wangchuan River in our city has a constant, swift current that has never dried up. Hmm, the body has already sunk. Now, let alone Li Jiuhe, even we ourselves can't find it."
After saying that, he didn't look at Chen Zhenghai again.
Instead, he slightly raised his right hand, gently straightened his loose fingers, flicked them backward, and then walked away without looking back.
In the study.
Chen Zhenghai's body and the surrounding air instantly froze, as if they had turned into a single, transparent, crystalline layer of ice, sealing off the entire space.
Two seconds later, the stiff Chen Zhenghai, along with the chair beneath him, shattered as the ice cracked, turning into scattered pieces of his body, which were encased in transparent ice shards and scattered on the ground.
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