The Lord God’s Methods

"If I’m not mistaken, the thing inside Tang Lie is another part of Xiao Yu. The original crescent moon has become a full moon."

Gu Sheng lay back against the headboard, thinking to himself. "The part inside him should be the ability that just appeared—Attribute Power!

I really did get lucky! Tang Lie didn’t have any powerful cultivation techniques on hand and had only learned the modern world’s Baji Quan. If he had obtained an Inner Force technique, today would have been much more interesting."

Gu Sheng secretly congratulated himself. He had known how powerful Attribute Power was from reading novels in his previous life. With unlimited points to assign, given enough time, it could become outrageously strong.

"But it looks like he managed to play himself to death!"

Gu Sheng subconsciously glanced at his system account. His Luck Points were still at four thousand. Logically speaking, killing Tang Lie should have earned him Fortune Points.

However, he hadn’t received even the slightest bit of luck. Using Attribute Power required consuming his own luck—in other words, Fortune Points.

He had learned some crucial information about Fortune Points from the system. They represented a person’s own luck. If they were completely depleted, a person’s luck would become terrible—so terrible that even drinking water could make them choke.

Thinking of how Tang Lie’s strength had surged during his final outburst, it wasn’t difficult to imagine what he had done beforehand.

On the hospital rooftop, police officers and forensic examiners were securing the scene. Two strikingly beautiful women stood near where Gu Sheng and Tang Lie had fought.

The two women had well-proportioned figures and attractive features. One was a short-haired beauty who looked fresh and capable, appearing around twenty-five or twenty-six. After standing at the edge of the rooftop and looking down, she turned to the slightly younger woman and asked, "Xiao Ya, have you found out the victims’ identities?"

"He-jie! We have. The one who died at the entrance to the inpatient building was Yao Xingxing. The one who died in the hospital restroom was Yao Lin. They were father and son, and Yao Lin was the chairman of Yao Corporation."

The woman called Xiao Ya looked about twenty years old. Her long hair was coiled up and tucked beneath her cap, while her round, baby-fat face made her look even younger.

He-jie knitted her delicate brows slightly. "Yao Lin? The one who was stabbed and hospitalized a few days ago?"

"Mm-hmm! The incident where he was stabbed in public caused a huge uproar. He even used his connections to suppress it and paid the other party quite a bit of money before things finally died down!"

Xiao Ya asked curiously, "He-jie, is there some hidden story behind this?"

"Little girl, don’t be so curious!"

He-jie shook her head without speaking. How could she not know about that incident? She had personally handled the case. A rich second-generation heir had hired someone to kill, and the victim had retaliated with a knife. If news of that got out, not only would Yao Corporation be in trouble, but the authorities’ credibility would also be called into question.

The problem was that Tang Lie was a clever man. He had committed the crime while Yao Lin was attending an event, bringing the incident into the open—and several major media outlets had been present at the time.

If the higher-ups hadn’t sent an important figure to personally speak with several reporters, and if Yao Lin hadn’t voluntarily said he would not pursue the matter, negotiated compensation and a settlement, and obtained Tang Lie’s agreement, they never would have managed to suppress it.

"Oh!"

Xiao Ya cheekily stuck out her tongue. She had only been assigned here as an intern this year, and He-jie was her mentor. Since her mentor had warned her like that, how could she not know there was something fishy going on?

Xiao Ya suddenly said, "Oh, right, He-jie. Were these two incidents done by the same person?"

"That’s right! We began investigating as soon as we received the Yao Family bodyguards’ report."

He-jie nodded and sighed. "During the operation, we confirmed the attacker’s identity. It was Tang Lie."

"Captain Lin!"

At that moment, a forensic examiner jogged up from downstairs to He-jie and Xiao Ya. Holding a report, he said to He-jie, "We have the results of the preliminary examination. The one in the restroom had no external injuries. He probably wasn’t killed directly by the murderer.

"The one who fell at the entrance to the inpatient building was already dead before he was thrown from the building. His jaw had been crushed by external force, causing suffocation and massive blood loss. Then someone forcefully hurled him down!"

"What kind of grudge could they have had? Did they really have to go this far?"

Xiao Ya shuddered as soon as the forensic examiner mentioned the entrance to the inpatient building. The condition of that corpse had been horrifying.

"Understood!"

He-jie nodded and gave a nearby officer a few instructions to protect the scene. Then she turned to Xiao Ya and said, "Let’s go downstairs and take a look."

"Okay~"

Xiao Ya’s body trembled, and her little face instantly went pale. It took great effort for her to suppress the churning in her stomach. When they had first come up, they had noticed that someone seemed to be on the rooftop, so they hadn’t carefully examined the scene below and had merely swept past it. Although she had retained some impression of it, it hadn’t yet been enough to overwhelm her.

But now that they were going back down for a detailed examination, Xiao Ya subconsciously pictured the mangled corpse. Looking down from upstairs hadn’t felt like much, but the thought of approaching it at close range made her feel sick.

Still, since she had chosen this profession, she had never considered backing down. There might be many more incidents like this in the future. She might as well treat this as an early adjustment.

"The Lord God’s secret is actually this!"

Inside the hospital room, the outside world was in complete chaos, but Gu Sheng was lying safely on the bed. His eyes stared blankly ahead, while his heart surged with turmoil.

Just now, he had learned from the system that the skills and techniques in his memories that had never been authenticated had not been erased or weakened as the Lord God claimed. Instead, they had been sealed deep within his soul.

Furthermore, the skills he had authenticated also had sealed shackles on them. The only difference was that those shackles had been opened.

He felt that he now understood the truth behind authentication. Authentication was a trap set by the Lord God, a method for controlling the Reincarnators.

The abilities Reincarnators obtained in other worlds should have been perfectly fine in themselves. The Lord God had merely placed restrictions on them to control them, then left behind a way to undo those restrictions—authentication.

Through this method, the Lord God had effectively seized control of everything belonging to the Reincarnators. From beginning to end, Reincarnators were nothing more than pawns who could never fully possess their own power.

"Sigh! Between the Lord God and the system, it looks like the system is still more reliable!"

Gu Sheng sighed inwardly. He didn’t know that deep within his sea of consciousness, a petite pink fairy was constantly flying about and releasing streams of light. After hearing his thoughts, a delighted smile appeared on her little face.

"He-jie, how could Tang Lie be so strong? He crushed someone’s jaw with his bare hands. Is he even human?"

A clear, youthful female voice rang out in the corridor. When Gu Sheng heard someone mention Tang Lie, he immediately pricked up his ears.

"I don’t know! The last time I saw him, he seemed extremely agitated, but otherwise there was nothing unusual about him!"

Another female voice rang out, accompanied by the tapping of approaching footsteps.