Interested

"Yeah! Why didn’t I think of that? I’m going to teach that little bastard a lesson!"

Le Erya’s eyes lit up. She snatched the movie tickets from Wu Mengchen’s hand and trotted out.

She was a Telekinesis user. Although her ability had yet to stabilize completely, creating a few coincidences was incredibly easy for her. Anyone she set her sights on was bound to suffer terribly.

"Hey! Xiao Ya!"

Lin Qinghe failed to grab her in time. Le Erya had already charged into the cinema behind Gu Sheng and the others.

"Mengchen, why did you give Xiao Ya an idea like that? If someone finds out, won’t we be—"

Her tone was rather sharp. It was no wonder she was angry. Their superior had repeatedly warned them not to expose themselves and, preferably, not to use their abilities in public. With so many people in a cinema, causing a panic would be disastrous.

"Qinghe, you also think this little brother has a problem, don’t you?"

Wu Mengchen smiled faintly. "This Gu Sheng is far too calm and natural. Even someone with nerves of steel couldn’t act this naturally, could he?

"Every response was perfectly measured. He even took the initiative to let his female companion answer the questions about Zheng Shaotian. As luck would have it, she knew Zheng Shaotian, and that led to the fact that his girlfriend had recently had a conflict with Zheng Shaotian.

"Don’t you think all of this is just a little too coincidental?"

"You think it has something to do with him, but we already checked his background during our last investigation."

Lin Qinghe furrowed her delicate brows. "Gu Sheng is an orphan. His whereabouts before the 12/25 major pileup were completely clear. He was just an ordinary person. We investigated him several times and found nothing suspicious.

"It really was a coincidence that he got involved in Tang Lie’s affair. The day after he was hospitalized, Tang Lie went to the hospital to seek revenge on Yao Lin and killed Yao Xingxing on the roof of the inpatient building.

"There was one strange thing. Tang Lie didn’t damage many doors in the hospital, but most of the ones he did damage were rooms where Yao Xingxing had tried to hide. Only one was different.

"Yao Xingxing ran straight past that room, but for some reason, Tang Lie stopped there. He damaged the door, paused for a while, and then left. That room was Gu Sheng’s ward.

"Ya’er and I also encountered him while investigating his ward. At the time, he was lying alone in the hospital bed, extremely nervous and frightened.

"One thing puzzled me. He had a storage disk in his hand, and it was the same model as the one Tang Lie took from the Yao Family. I remember that when I asked him about it, he seemed rather nervous about the item.

"But at the time, we had no clue that the hard drive was important, so we didn’t think much of it. We asked him a few questions and left. When he was discharged that day, we even escorted him to school.

"But the very next day, we ran into him again at the Public Cemetery. This time, he was with a woman—his current employer, the designer Liu Daimei.

"During our subsequent investigation, we discovered that before 12/25, the two of them had never had any contact. There were no electronic messages, letters, or anything else between them. It was during that chance encounter that he mentioned having a girlfriend in high school.

"Thinking about it now, there are plenty of suspicious points about him, but all of them can also be explained as coincidences.

"Just like he complained to us, he’s practically a disaster magnet. He got into a car accident on his first day, then became involved in a murder case on his second. His luck is truly incredible."

"Is that so?"

The corners of Wu Mengchen’s lips lifted slightly. She pushed up her glasses and gave Gu Sheng’s back an amused smile. "A disaster magnet… It does seem like there’s such a saying. I’m interested in him now."

"Don’t look back!"

Huang Anqi had been pulled along by Gu Sheng for a while. Curious about Lin Qinghe and the others’ identities, she instinctively tried to turn around and look, but Gu Sheng stopped her with a shout.

"They’re Criminal Inspectors, right? They came specifically to investigate Zheng Shaotian’s case. How do you know them? Are you working together?"

Huang Anqi asked in a low voice, her heart full of curiosity. After emerging from the shadow of fear, she had grown bold again, and her curiosity had returned. She wanted to know everything clearly.

"They’re Criminal Inspectors. They were at the scene yesterday and came to investigate today. Don’t let anything slip…"

Gu Sheng thought for a moment before answering Huang Anqi’s questions. He then earnestly reminded her not to give herself away. At that moment, he was calculating how to extricate himself and the others from this Whirlpool.

Although Lin Qinghe and the others had let him off so easily for now, once their investigation reached a dead end, they wouldn’t overlook a single clue.

The trouble was that Chu Xin’s matter was very likely the only trouble Zheng Shaotian had caused in recent days. He still couldn’t determine whether anyone else knew about Zheng Shaotian sending those thugs after Chu Xin. If someone did, things would become troublesome.

The police would certainly investigate faster than a lone man like him. If they discovered that Zheng Shaotian had hired people to teach Chu Xin a lesson before his death, that those people had all disappeared, and that Chu Xin was still perfectly fine, their peaceful days might be shattered.

"Got it. I’ll be careful. Even if something happens, I won’t give you or Xin’er away."

Huang Anqi nodded solemnly, but she was somewhat uncertain inside. She couldn’t be sure whether she would regret it again when the time came.

"No need!"

Gu Sheng shook his head. "If things really become dangerous, just tell them to come find me. If there’s something in this world I can’t handle, then hiding won’t mean anything anyway."

Gu Sheng wasn’t boasting. His current strength had reached the Fourth Star Mid-Rank. Among the Reincarnators, he stood head and shoulders above the rest; in the real world, he was an unsolvable BUG.

At his level, explosives and ordinary conventional weapons were already useless. With the Bronze Mirror in his possession, even sending in the army would be futile. If even he couldn’t resolve the matter, there would be no point in continuing to hide.

"Show-off!"

Huang Anqi curled her lips, but the heavy stone in her heart fell away. Her opinion of Gu Sheng improved as well, and she took the initiative to link her arm through his right arm.

"What are you doing~~"

Gu Sheng felt awkward. With Huang Anqi pressed so tightly against him, he felt as though he were cheating on someone. He grew nervous, worried that he would be caught during a surprise inspection.

"Look, all those couples are holding hands. I just don’t want you to lose face!"

Huang Anqi pointed at the couples beside them. Quite a few were acting even more intimately than they were. There was no denying that couples nowadays were truly bold.

"They’re—forget it~~"

Gu Sheng was speechless. They were couples, so they had probably done even more intimate things. But what were he and Huang Anqi? They had known each other for less than forty-eight hours, and they were already clinging to each other. Wasn’t that moving a little too fast?

"He-jie, Chen-jie, look! They’re hugging! They’re hugging! Those two are hugging! I told you they weren’t innocent! They really are having an affair!"

Le Erya adopted the manner of the great detective Sherlock Holmes and pointed decisively at Gu Sheng’s back. "There’s only one truth.

"That Gu Sheng is a scumbag playing both sides. First, he got together with Qi Qi’s best friend, Xin’er, and then he hooked up with Qi Qi. How awful! He’s a heartless man who deceives girls’ feelings. He deserves to face justice."