MMB Chapter 98 The Group of 3
Chapter 98 The Group of 3
Chapter 98 The Trio
You should know that the entire area has become Tongcheng's "stage". To enter the stage without being noticed, you would have to be stronger than Tongcheng.
Either this person has exceptional skills in entering other people's territory, enabling them to secretly infiltrate the area covered by the stage without his permission.
However, after Tong Cheng spotted the person in the corner, the blurry figure quickly disappeared and never reappeared.
"The sequencer in the Y-01 containment chamber is dead, and the person who appeared on my stage was not him, but someone else."
"Tong Cheng analyzed."
At this point, he looked at Li Jiuhe: "The enemy you are facing now is too powerful for you, and they are lurking in the shadows. If you are willing, I can lend you a mask. The mask will allow you to enter my stage, be protected, and sever all ties between you and the original Li Jiuhe. For a short time, no one will associate you with the Li Jiuhe of the past."
Li Jiuhe glanced at Luo Shuo, whose face had been covered with a mask. The other man's appearance had not changed because the mask was an illusion.
He hesitated before asking, "If I wear your mask, will it affect my ability to use sequence abilities?"
Tong Cheng shook his head: "No. But I will know your location, and unless it was dropped by some other accident, only I can remove this mask."
"It's nothing," Li Jiuhe said.
He knew very well that Tong Cheng wanted to protect himself through this method, and was also seeking his opinion; if he was unwilling, the other party would not force him.
Tong Cheng's way of applying facial makeup to people is somewhat similar to Gao Jingting's severing of cause and effect.
However, the ability to sever cause and effect is very direct, and is subject to many other factors such as timeliness, but the effect of applying a face mask is more significant than severing cause and effect.
Ultimately, this creates a kind of shielding effect.
By directly applying a Facebook profile picture, Li Jiuhe's information and outsiders' perception of him are blocked, making it impossible for these people to connect the current Li Jiuhe with the people from before, even though they want to find him.
After a moment's thought, Li Jiuhe agreed to Tong Cheng's suggestion.
Tong Cheng grabbed his face and threw it at Li Jiuhe. Li Jiuhe immediately felt as if a soft, thin veil had been placed over his face.
When I reached out to touch it, there was nothing there, and I quickly got used to the strange feeling.
From this moment on, even if someone sees him, they will not connect the Li Jiuhe of the past with the Li Jiuhe of the present.
He was still an investigator, still a colleague of Xu Wei and others, but just an ordinary Li Jiuhe.
The incident of his daughter's murder or disappearance, as well as the major events that led him to join the Investigation Bureau and later become involved with the No. 7 Detention Center, are all no longer related.
This is the result of Tong Cheng's intentional adjustment to help Li Jiuhe get into character through facial makeup.
In other words, Li Jiuhe can now be considered one of his actors.
However, it made no difference to Li Jiuhe himself. On the contrary, he was able to free up his hands and feet to investigate properly without worrying too much about being targeted.
Before long, Tong Cheng received all the information and data about Si Mingyu in Y-01 containment room. He then handed the data to Li Jiuhe and Luo Shuo for them to read.
From now on, Tong Cheng will consider the three of them as a small team.
The reason was simple: the "abandoned wooden hut" bound them together, even though Luo Shuo did not do it voluntarily.
"As order restorers, there are more than a dozen sequencers like Si Mingyu across the country. Their brains can be seen as having undergone a violent mutation. However, no one will mutate again, except for Si Mingyu," Tong Cheng said.
"Is he dead or not?" Li Jiuhe asked, puzzled.
Tong Cheng did not answer, but looked at Luo Shuo.
Luo Shuo immediately closed his eyes and began to fumble for the yellowed pillow that had just been delivered to Si Mingyu.
After a moment, he spoke: "He's not dead. But I can't pinpoint his location either, because what escaped was his consciousness. It has no fixed form and can disperse to any corner in an instant."
"He will definitely find a vessel," Tong Cheng said confidently. "Let's search for him again after some time."
"Okay." Luo Shuo nodded.
"And who was that person who sneaked into the stage to watch the play?" Li Jiuhe asked again.
This time, Tong Cheng stopped looking at Luo Shuo and answered directly: "My stage is an independent space. Luo Shuo can't track it because that person disappeared directly from the stage."
Soon more police officers and staff from the nearby investigation bureau arrived, while Li Jiuhe and the other two returned to Wangchuan City in Liu Qian's command vehicle.
Since Director Meng Chao of the Wangchuan City Investigation Bureau was brought to justice, Deputy Director Lin, who was originally on a business trip but rushed back immediately, temporarily took over the position of director and handled the bureau's affairs.
Tong Cheng told Deputy Director Lin that he would transfer Li Jiuhe to headquarters, and the procedures would be completed in a while.
As for Luo Shuo, they were the ones who first completed the onboarding procedures before being transferred to headquarters to work under him.
Deputy Director Lin complied without asking any questions.
That evening, Li Jiuhe tidied up Li Yi's room and let Tong Cheng stay there, while Luo Shuo slept on the sofa in the living room.
At the same time, Li Jiuhe fulfilled his promise and told Tong Cheng about the origin of the rune pattern on the silver dagger. He also explained in detail the effect of the rune on suppressing sequence ability through silver objects, which Yu Minmin had told him when she impersonated Li Yi.
After learning the whole story, Tong Cheng shook his head and said, "Si Mingyu may not even know the true origin of these runes. On the contrary, the guy who was peeking from the stage might be the real mastermind."
"That person possessed the rune patterns and also some information about my future," Li Jiuhe said. "This Si Mingyu..."
Meng Chao and Feng Jinwen may both be his pawns.
"When will it be time for you to come back to the capital with me?" Tong Cheng asked.
Li Jiuhe said, "Three days from now, I want to take care of a few things in Wangchuan City first."
"Perfect timing. I'll take a few more days to find out the results of Cao Rong and his men's interrogation of Feng Jinwen." Tong Cheng nodded.
One day later.
Wangchuan City, Beiya Prison.
Li Jiuhe sat in the warden's office, his expression slightly surprised, staring at a stack of prisoner files in his hand.
All of these documents belong to one prisoner—Wang Mingqiang.
This guy was the one who killed his wife in a truck accident. He was later convicted of endangering public safety by dangerous means and imprisoned for eleven years.
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After experiencing a series of bizarre events, Li Jiuhe is increasingly convinced that his wife Lin Fengya's death may not have been an accident.
Now that most things here have come to an end, he is determined to meet Wang Mingqiang and see if he can extract more hidden clues from him.
For this reason, Li Jiuhe even called Liu Qian over and asked her to use illusions to interrogate her if necessary.
Of course, Liu Qian did not know why Li Jiuhe did this, and thought that he was just investigating some suspicious points in the case of his ex-wife's death.
But when the two arrived at the prison, they learned an unexpected result—Wang Mingqiang was dead!
This guy suffered a sudden heart attack last month and died in prison, without even waiting for the prison's emergency doctor to arrive.
At this point, Li Jiuhe had no choice but to become a complete conspiracy theorist.
He believed that Wang Mingqiang's death was by no means an accident.
The bodies of the Ghost Eye Person and the Invisible Person, who were taken away for investigation after being promoted, have also been found.
Both men were killed by the special operations team. Now it seems the scene was obviously staged, giving the impression that they resisted while trying to escape or evade capture, and were then killed on the spot by the special operations team.