Synchronization on the fifth day

Lin Chaoying stood up and looked down at Chu Tang, whose pale face bore terrible wounds. It was the first time she had seen Chu Tang show such a surprised expression.

Kong Yue seized the opportunity, took out a syringe, aimed it at the spot behind her ear, and injected a sedative.

Lin Chaoying squatted down, watching her gradually lose strength, and provocatively asked, "Your face is injured. Will this scar remain even when you change your body and appearance?"

Chu Tang struggled a few more times before slowly closing her eyes.

Qin Ming and Qian Fei let go at the same time, collapsing to the side exhausted. They took off their sunglasses, their bruises making them look even more pitiful.

Kong Yue complained, "So why are you two wearing sunglasses?"

Qian Fei chuckled, "The boss said this way we won't get brainwashed..."

Lin Chaoying was speechless. "Do you know that when you two were just beaten out, your glasses were knocked askew and you looked really pathetic?"

"I don't care." Qin Ming casually pushed up his glasses and said, "As long as I win, I'll maintain a cool ending pose!"

Lin Chaoying: "How did Wang Shao persuade the villagers to let you go?"

Qian Fei: "What could he say! Of course, he would say that he would lock us in the warehouse first, wait to discuss a better punishment, and then secretly release us."

Kong Yue snapped her fingers a few times and said, "Boss! What do we do now?"

Qin Ming: "On the way here, I contacted the people in Qingzhou Twelfth Street. They should arrive this afternoon. Let's rest here for a while." As he spoke, he sat down on the ground, took Qian Fei's rope, tied one end to Chu Tang and the other end to his own arm.

Jiang Chuan Gu found it absurd and asked, "Are we really just going to wait here? Wang Ge's body is still in the old house!"

Qian Fei squatted down helplessly, took off his sunglasses, and said resignedly, "Do you know there are still a few coffins on the back hill that we dug up, with the bodies exposed, and we haven't had time to deal with them yet..."

"Forget it." Lin Chaoying felt a headache coming on. "Why don't we go inside and compare information from both sides? At least not in the yard?"

After the others agreed, Jiang Chuan Gu locked the courtyard gate. Qin Ming carried Chu Tang into the room. Looking at the remnants of the fight and the broken door, he smirked, "What's the difference between this and being in the courtyard?"

Qian Fei said heartlessly, "At least there's a ceiling!"

Lin Chaoying had Jiang Chuangu take out his phone and play Wang Ge's complete testimony video, which started with Xiao Mei's incident and went on to discuss the Ghost Gate's "Creation God Project." This elicited a series of unpredictable expressions from the other three: a bewildered Qian Fei, a terrified Qin Ming with wide eyes, and a solemn Kong Yue...

"Damn it!" Qin Ming cursed, frantically pulling out his phone. "Send it to me right now! I'll forward it to the internal team and call a few more people over!"

Kong Yue's breath caught in her throat as she murmured, "If that's the case, then the Ghost Gate started their plan decades ago? How many villages were destroyed? And how long did they lie in wait?"

Qian Fei: "My parents always said that working on 12th Street wasn't easy, but after taking the job, I felt quite happy every day. I always felt uneasy, and it turns out that this was what was waiting for me!"

Lin Chaoying: "Twelfth Street needs to quickly come up with a response to this matter."

Qian Fei angrily pulled the unconscious Chu Tang, who was lying on the ground, closer to the group and placed her in the middle. "This time, I won't let you get away! We'll surround her and keep a close watch on her!"

Qin Ming said, "I need to get my colleagues in Fengcheng to go and check out Yanmen Village as soon as possible!"

Lin Chaoying: "My home is in Fengcheng, but I have absolutely no recollection of Yanmen Village. Guimen really knows how to find things! If we give them more time, will our country's territory expand even further...?"

Jiang Chuan Gu wondered, "I've never understood why Shi Zan and I haven't been able to activate our superpowers even though we have superpower crystals?"

"To put it bluntly, your generation has too much freedom in your life choices," Kong Yue said. "Take Wang Ge for example. His parents died when he was young, his grandfather died when he was young, he finally got married in his twenties and found a new lover and spiritual support, but he died again when he went back to the village. Add to that Xiao Mei's message to him before she died, and the discovery that his uncle was the murderer. The Ghost Gate also created a life environment full of hatred for him, and the malice hidden in his heart was instantly aroused."

Lin Chaoying nodded in agreement, saying, "The Ghost Gate may have initially been inclined to look for children who might go astray, but later found that the uncertainty was too great, so they had to raise a batch of children themselves."

Qin Ming shook his head frantically, exclaiming, "This isn't creating a god, it's creating an army of superpowered beings!"

Kong Yue frowned deeply and said, "Does the Ghost Gate know that there are too many talented people in Twelve Streets these days, so they've started to take precautions?" She thought for a moment and realized that the timing didn't make sense. "The Twelve Streets election was five years ago. That's when everyone learned about the specific situation of these younger superhumans. The Ghost Gate started the God Creation Project. Considering the ages of Wang Ge and Jiang Chuangu, they must have taken action at least twenty-five years ago?"

Qin Ming: "This matter needs to be discussed thoroughly with our internal staff."

All five eyes were fixed on Chu Tang, scrutinizing this ghost general from the Ghost Gate. Kong Yue pulled out a few tissues, wiped the blood from her face and neck, and asked Lin Chaoying, "How did you guess she was Chu Tang?"

Lin Chaoying pointed to her eyes and said, "Her eyes, at first glance they seem normal, but if you go back and think about them carefully, something always feels off. Maybe it's just intuition." Then she asked, "By the way, how were you arrested?"

"Hahaha!" Qian Fei chuckled a few times, then stared at Qin Ming and said angrily, "I don't know who it was! They suddenly led a bunch of people to the back mountain! Now everyone knows we went to dig up graves!"

Qin Ming explained, "I went to find Wang Yu. His wife and son said he didn't come back last night. I couldn't find any trace of him in the whole village. Finally, I found the clothes he changed out of yesterday at Wang Shao's house. But Wang Shao denied it, so I had no choice but to go to the back mountain to look for you first. Lin Chaoying and Jiang Chuangu went to other people's houses to gather information, and I can't just get involved!"

Qian Fei grew angrier as he listened: "If you're coming, then come! Why did you bring up the back mountain when you were arguing with Wang Shao?!"

Qin Ming felt a little guilty. "I genuinely suspected he had been murdered, which is why I questioned him about whether he killed Wang Yu and hastily buried him in the graveyard behind the mountain. The conversation just flowed in that direction; it wasn't intentional..."

Lin Chaoying asked Kong Yue, "So what did you find in the back mountain?"

Kong Yue sighed and said, "Of course he couldn't find Wang Yu, because Wang Yu was in Wang Gao's coffin. Not only that, guess what else we found?"

Lin Chaoying and Jiang Chuan Gu exclaimed in surprise, "What?"

Kong Yue: "Wang Yu and Wang Gao are in one coffin, and the bodies of two women and one man are in Wang Lin's coffin..."

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Qian Fei showed the photos, saying, "We took pictures. You have no idea, I almost kowtowed to each of the mounds on the back hill before I dared to dig them up!"

Lin Chaoying flipped through several photos and asked, "Didn't they say that the Wang family's graves aren't on the back hill?"

“That’s right,” Qian Fei said. “Zhuang Huan and Wang Ge’s parents’ coffins are not in the back mountain. Only Wang Lin’s is in the back mountain. At first, I thought it was an empty coffin. I wondered if it had been moved later. This place hadn’t been touched, so maybe it was where the Book of Immortality was kept. Who knew that when I opened it, there were more corpses inside than in Wang Gao’s coffin!”

"Two women and one man?" Lin Chaoying's gaze fell on Chu Tang in the middle, and she said, "Could it be Wang Sui's family?"

Kong Yue: "It's possible, but before we could even see, Wang Shao arrived with several burly men. They surrounded us, and suddenly everyone lost consciousness. It must have been Chu Tang who did it."

Qin Ming: "Anyway, the mastermind behind the whole village is right here. Let's keep a close eye on him, and we'll deal with the rest when the police and our colleagues from Twelfth Street arrive this afternoon."

Strangely, during the several hours of silence in between, neither Wang Shao nor anyone else came to Wang Sui's house. It seems that Wang Shao and his puppets really trust Chu Tang. Not only do they not doubt her actions, but they also do not disturb her without her permission.

The group stayed by Chu Tang's side without eating or drinking, enduring until the afternoon. The sound of police sirens was like pleasant music. When the colleagues from Qingzhou Twelfth Street pushed open the courtyard gate, it was as if divine soldiers had descended from the sky.

Qin Ming introduced the fair-skinned, more composed-looking man as Luo Shu, and the dark-skinned, more exotic-looking man as Mi Fu. Officer Zhang, who was also assigned to the task, was one of the detectives who frequently collaborated with the 12th Street police on cases, so the group first discussed the Taoyuan Village murder case and Chu Tang's resettlement.

With police and superhumans guarding the entrance, Kong Yue finally had a chance to return to the hotel to retrieve her first-aid kit, intending to treat Chu Tang's facial injuries and Jiang Chuan Gu's back wounds. Jiang Chuan Gu led several policemen to the old house, while Qian Fei led the policemen to the back mountain.

Now, only Lin Chaoying and Chu Tang remain in the room.

Having not rested for two days and one night, and with her mind still tense, Lin Chaoying lay exhausted on the floor, her eyes almost closed, staring helplessly at the people exchanging information at the door, wondering when things would finally come to a conclusion.

A soft laugh came from beside me. "So relaxed? You dare to sleep next to me?"

Lin Chaoying's vision went black, she rolled her eyes and sat up, looking at the relaxed woman, she sighed heavily, "You actually woke up so quickly? It seems the dosage of the medicine was still too low."

Chu Tang curled the corners of her lips, "At least I can't use my superpowers right now, so you've won a round. Now we're even."

Lin Chaoying: "What tie?"

Chu Tang: "I win if I escaped right under your nose the first time, but you win the second time if you cut my face."

Seeing her relaxed demeanor, Lin Chaoying calmly asked, "Chu Tang, do you still think you can escape?"

Chu Tang looked up at her and said, "Don't worry, I said you won this round. I'll find an opportunity to run away when someone else is around."

"Think about your face first," Lin Chaoying sneered, leaning back against a cushion on the floor. "If you have scars on your face, will you have scars next time you change your face?"

Chu Tang remained unmoved, laughing as she said, "You're already looking forward to our next meeting? Once you join the Ghost Gate, you won't just see this scar again, you'll see it every day..."

Lin Chaoying rolled her eyes speechlessly. "So, you know who killed my brother, right?"

"You dare to guard me alone?" Chu Tang rolled over, her limbs locked, and could only sit up with difficulty. She directly exposed her, saying, "Isn't it just that you want to find out who caused your brother's death?"

Lin Chaoying remained expressionless and silent.

Chu Tang: "I can tell you, but there's only one condition: you have to join the Ghost Gate."

Lin Chaoying really wanted to crack open her head and stuff a few pieces of pig brains inside to make her feel better. "How many people have you killed? How many families have you ruined? What makes you think I would join a group like yours?"

Chu Tang added with extra insistence, "Believe me, I'm the only one among these people who can help you get revenge. You'll see later that my promise is more reliable than those half-baked superhumans and the male celebrities who follow you around all the time."

Lin Chaoying laughed in anger, and retorted sarcastically, "So, you're going to use the same old trick again? Like Chai Yan, kill me first to replace me? And then avenge me? Tell everyone that you saved me... Are you an actress? Where do you get such a strong acting addiction?"

Chu Tang's feignedly kind expression suddenly changed, gradually turning ferocious.