Chapter 308 Napoleon of the Criminal World
Crazy.
This was Lu Shan’s biggest feeling after hearing Chang Yue’s proposal.
He glared at Chang Yue, as if trying to see some other thoughts from his nonchalant face.
Unfortunately, Chang Yue didn't give him this opportunity. He leaned forward slightly and said, "Five months later, the Huaxia Special Management Bureau will also send representatives to assist in the opening of Prometheus. Your General Administration has already submitted a list. It's Mo Qiao, the director of the Engineering Department of the Tianhai City Special Management Bureau. Ask her to bring Li Muhan along."
"Minister Mo's situation is different from Li Muhan's! Minister Mo is a descendant of the Mo family, and her brain is arguably one of China's greatest treasures. That's why we'll let her participate in the Prometheus Project for the benefit of all mankind. But what about Li Muhan?! He has so many demons in his body. Have you ever considered how much damage it would cause to Prometheus if he were controlled by those demons?!"
"If we assume everything, then humanity will never develop again. Lu Shan, I'm warning you again. Li Muhan is not a demon, and he won't be controlled by a demon. I guarantee this. Also, if Moriarty gets his hands on Prometheus, then humanity is truly finished. Do you understand?"
"Hmph, Li Muhan may not be able to catch Moriarty. He can now hide in the world of data and the Lingbo Prison. In our Chinese world, even the aliens from the underworld cannot set foot in the Lingbo Prison. How can you let him..."
Lu Shan was halfway through his words when he suddenly realized something. He looked at Chang Yue coldly and said, "Could it be that... you want to..."
"Hey, old man, our Chinese Special Management Bureau once captured two demons. One was Beelzebub, whom I caught, and he has now been crippled by Li Muhan. The other one is in the Forbidden Demon Prison of your Special Management Bureau. He can just help Li Muhan cross the Spirit Prison."
"...Chang Yue, I hope you understand what you said. Is it really right to continue to let him gain more demonic power?"
Chang Yue spread his hands, looked at Lu Shan and said, "Moriarty, Li Muhan, you choose."
Lu Shan didn't say anything, just looked at Chang Yue's hands.
"If it were me, I would choose Li Muhan." Chang Yue said while the iron was hot: "I believe in him."
Lu Shan looked straight at Chang Yue, and finally sighed helplessly and nodded.
......
"An alien born from a book?"
Li Muhan looked at Lin Ze in surprise. After meeting Xia Yue at the hospital gate, Lin Ze had someone call him over. He originally thought it was a follow-up to the previous incident, but he didn't expect Lin Ze to mention the battle between him and Chang Yue at all, but instead turned the topic to Moriarty.
"James Moriarty, he can be regarded as a very special kind of outlier,"
Lin Ze pulled a Sherlock Holmes collection from the bookshelf and handed it to Li Muhan. "His name comes from this detective novel written by Conan Doyle. Of course, you should know these things better than me. After all, who doesn't know the famous Sherlock Holmes?"
Lin Ze's face was once again covered with her usual indifferent smile, which was a kind of barely noticeable alienation and calmness.
However, when she looked at Xia Yue, she was frightened by the unconcealable anger in the other's eyes.
Only then did he remember that although Xia Yue did not cause him any trouble, he was still dissatisfied.
So Lin Ze took out a box of exquisite desserts from the table and placed it carefully on the coffee table. Xia Yue's eyes lit up instantly, and her smile bloomed like a spring breeze, and her happiness poured out without reservation.
"You are born in the Year of the Dog, right?"
Li Muhan gently pinched Xia Yue's cheek, with a playful tone of doting.
Xia Yue seemed extremely hungry. She took the dessert and began to devour it. While eating, she glared at Li Muhan, her mouth puffed up as if in silent protest.
"I haven't eaten much these days. I'm really starving." She explained with a hint of grievance in her voice: "After hearing about you and Chang Yue fighting, I was already thinking about where to bury you..."
"...Is it that exaggerated?"
"Hmph." Xia Yue raised her lips in a proud arc when she heard that, but she didn't intend to respond to Li Muhan. She just focused on the food in her hands, letting the chewing sound echo in the air, as if that was the only thing she cared about at the moment.
"Okay, let's get back to Moriarty." Now that he had appeased Xia Yue, Lin Ze looked at Li Muhan and continued, "Most of the outliers in this world have traceable origins, whether it's beliefs, deeds, or even some absurd urban legends. But Moriarty is different. He's a non-existent being created by humans. Logically, he shouldn't exist."
"It turns out that he really is the crime professor in the book. I thought it was just cosplay." Li Muhan scratched his head. He seemed a little unbelievable after hearing that he had actually fought with the Napoleon of the criminal world.
"That's not quite right." Lin Ze seemed to deny her previous conclusion. She shook her head slightly and corrected herself, saying, "In fact, many outliers are born from faith. As long as there is enough faith, some outliers will be born. Moriarty can actually be classified as this."
"You mean... a lot of people like Moriarty, so they made him materialize?"
Li Muhan tried to guess, but Lin Ze shook his head again: "You're wrong. If it were that simple, wouldn't so many popular literary characters have spread all over the world long ago? It was he himself who brought them into our world."
"Him...himself? I...I'm confused."
"Moriarty deceived the world, exploited the rules, and shaped his own life."
Li Muhan took a deep breath. This... was too exaggerated... Even a god might not have such power.
"Ever since he arrived in this world, his behavior has been quite puzzling. Indeed, he's just like what's described in the book: a gentle and refined man, polite to everyone. His intelligence and logical abilities are beyond ordinary people. Wu Qin was one of his students."
"But this situation was broken ten years ago. He began using his intelligence and rhetoric to seduce the aliens, shaping their personalities and secretly helping those with ulterior motives to carry out their criminal plans. He was eventually expelled from the Tianhai City Special Management Bureau and imprisoned in the Forbidden Demon Prison. Once inside, he seduced an entire floor of the Special Management Bureau guards and orchestrated a riot, which involved a ground dragon. That ground dragon was arguably the ancestral dragon of southern China, and its power was incredibly formidable, far beyond the reach of that fat guy running the assassin training class."
When Li Muhan thought of the fat man, he felt a chill on his back. When Lin Ze pulled off the fat man's real body, the earth dragon's head, with his bare hands, the murderous aura was even more terrifying than Chang Yue's.
"So... Director Lin, did you kill the leader of that Earth Dragon?"
Li Muhan asked cautiously, fearing to offend the older girl in front of him whose age and strength were unknown.
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