Chapter 62 Everyone has a secret (bug fix)
Under the black night, Li Xiaogou and the gray-haired man stared at each other in silence.
Finally, the man spoke up. His lips pursed slightly, his brows furrowed tightly as he asked unhappily, "What do you mean by 'small number'?"
Sure enough, he took the bait.
Li Xiaogou chuckled: "Have you forgotten the Li family girl by Yunqing Lake?"
The man's eyebrows moved slightly, and suddenly golden light flashed from his eyes. He kept scanning Li Xiaogou up and down.
Li Xiaogou suddenly felt as if something was wrong. He heard the man's voice trembling as he asked, "Are you my son?"
You are my grandson!
Of course, Li Xiaogou didn't say this out loud. He tried to keep a smile on his face and replied, "You're so wise and powerful, but you don't look like one."
The man then withdrew his gaze and his expression returned to its cold state.
"Although I don't have that blessing, you do have a biological son, who is now in Yunqing. I believe you have already learned about my situation before you came. You should know that I have special abilities and know many secrets that others don't know."
The man's profile was half hidden in the darkness. He was silent for a long time before saying, "Give me the address."
Li Xiaogou sneered: "That's not how a deal is negotiated."
"You don't have the capital to negotiate a deal with me. I can take your life at any time. After that, I can search Yunqing thoroughly and find my bloodline."
Li Xiaogou pushed the knife from his neck away. "Of course you can, but if I die, even if Team Yun doesn't have the evidence to arrest you, it'll be easy for them to stop you from finding your son."
"Even if it takes you ten or twenty years to finally find your son, the memory of how you abandoned him and his mother, and the countless sins your Yuchi family carries, will likely be deeply engraved in his mind, a mark of his consciousness."
Yuchi Hong curled up his fingertips behind his back, and this time he remained silent for a longer time. Then he waved his hand, and those men in black retreated into the surrounding darkness as quickly as shadows.
"Speak now, I won't kill you again." Seeing that Li Xiaogou didn't move, Yuchi Hong frowned, "My reputation is much more valuable than the life of a junior like you!"
"It's not that I don't believe you, but I have another request."
"Don't push your luck."
"The news of a useless man plus my life in exchange for the news of your only heir is quite reasonable."
Yuchi Hong snorted coldly and turned away.
That's consent.
"You should already know that He Si was arrested."
"I know. My important partner was also captured by you. How could I not know?"
Li Xiaogou's lips twitched: "That's not the point."
"Oh."
"...The key point is that since He Si has been captured, there's no way he'll be released again. Information about a discarded pawn isn't an unreasonable request."
Yuchi Hong looked at him with a smile.
Li Xiaogou was acting like a rogue, and both people present knew it.
"Okay, but I will only answer one question for you. No more than that." Yuchi Hong finally took a step back.
"Master Yuchi is quite magnanimous," Li Xiaogou asked hurriedly. "I'd like to know He Si's origins. His body looks very young, but I know he's almost a century old. After much thought, the only reasonable explanation is that he used his skills to take over someone else's body. However, I can't find any information about his origins, so I'd like to ask you for some advice."
As he spoke, he carefully observed Yuchi Hong's expression.
Not surprisingly, Yuchi Hong's expression gradually became distorted, and by the end he was filled with uncontrollable anger.
[Soul Transfer] This kind of supernatural power is too incredible. By constantly taking over other people's bodies, a person can achieve immortality. However, this cannot be unlimited. Otherwise, the man standing in front of him must have changed his body with the help of He Si long ago, and he would not be so concerned about the heir.
After discovering that the Yuchi family was protecting Yuchi Deng, Li Xiaogou thought of this: He Si must have concealed some of the effects of his supernatural powers from Yuchi Hong.
Yuchi Hong's reaction said it all, his guess was correct.
The anger was only for a moment, and Yuchi Hong quickly regained his composure. He looked at Li Xiaogou with an increasingly profound gaze: "You are very good at winning hearts and minds. It seems that Yunlou has a successor."
"Never mind. In this world, the younger generation always surpasses the older generation. It's no shame to be schemed against by an outstanding younger generation. The fact that you thought of asking me about the origins of He Temple is enough to show that you are not a simple person. I'll tell you as a good relationship for the Yuchi family."
"Let go of our deputy captain!" A shocking roar cut through the long night. Li Xiaogou and Yuchi Hong simultaneously raised their heads and looked towards the horizon.
The man, who almost blended into the night, fell from the sky and landed precisely next to Li Xiaogou. He took a step forward, opened his arms, and stood in front of him.
"Wang Bo?" Li Xiaogou asked in surprise, "Why are you here?"
Wang Bo gave him a look that said "don't worry," then narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at Yuchi Hong threateningly, saying, "Li Xiaogou is now the deputy captain of Team One. Are you ready to pay the price in blood if you attack the captain of the Special Investigation Bureau?"
Li Xiaogou looked at Wang Bo's straight back, shrank into his shadow, and tapped the ground with his toes silently.
Too childish, too shameful.
Wang Bo was completely unaware and continued, "I'm not the only one here this time. If you want to fight, then fight. If Li Xiaogou dies, you'll never leave here alive!"
"that……"
"Don't worry, we will definitely get you out!"
Wang Bo took a desperate stance, and Li Xiaogou held his forehead.
Yuchi Hong raised the corner of his lips: "Although I don't know the reason, it seems that you are more important than I expected."
Before Li Xiaogou could answer, Wang Bo replied, "Of course! Not only Captain Yun, but even the director is very optimistic about Xiaogou and is training him as the future director!"
Li Xiaogou was shocked. He was bragging without thinking.
Unexpectedly, Yuchi Hong nodded and seemed to really believe it.
"He Si was born in Funing Village, just below Jigu. My great-grandfather was kind enough to give his father a meal, and that's how they met. At the time, the entire world was in turmoil, including Daxia. Funing Village was situated at the border between two countries, and there were few peaceful days year-round. He Si had been a ruthless person since childhood. My great-grandfather was willing to give him and his son a full meal, but it was by chance that he saw He Si bite off half of the ear of a young man who had bullied him."
"What do you mean by suddenly saying this?" Wang Bo asked suspiciously.
Yuchi Hong didn't answer him, but looked past him at Li Xiaogou: "I've already given you the answer you want. Who do you want?"
"No. 102, Chuanmin North Road. His current name is Han Jing."
After getting what he wanted, Yuchi Hong did not linger any longer and quickly disappeared into the night with his bodyguards.
Silence returned to the alley. Li Xiaogou patted Wang Bo's shoulder and said, "Don't worry, they won't bother me again. Let's go home."
Wang Bo lowered his jaw in shock and followed Li Xiaogou like a follower, asking him questions one after another.
Li Xiaogou stopped and Wang Bo almost bumped into him head-on.
"Have you finished asking?"
Wang Bo nodded obediently.
Li Xiaogou sighed: "Okay, then stop asking questions from now on. I will answer you one by one."
"But what about the other people you mentioned?"
At this moment, a figure fell down in response, it was Jiang Mu.
"It's just the two of us, and I was the one who called Wang Bo's bluff."
Li Xiaogou recounted the entire confrontation between him and Yuchi Hong in detail. Wang Bo suddenly understood, but then he felt extremely disappointed, his shoulders slumping. "Then didn't we just make things worse?"
Jiang Mu also looked at Li Xiaogou apologetically.
"What are you thinking?!" Li Xiaogou put his hands in his pockets. "If it weren't for you, Yuchi Hong would have probably told me fake news. He already knew the situation of Team One and naturally knew about Jiang Mu and your abilities. He didn't dare lie to you because you said everyone in Team One was here."
"Really?" Wang Bo still didn't believe it.
Jiang Mu: "Yuchi Hong certainly didn't lie just now."
Wang Bo immediately became proud again: "I told you we are famous."
Li Xiaogou: "Opened a dyeing factory? Yuchi Hong didn't dare to lie because he was afraid of Jiang Mu, and secondly, thanks to your boasting, he believed that my position in the Special Investigation Bureau allowed me to participate in He Si's interrogation, so naturally he didn't dare to lie to me about He Si's background."
Jiang Mu said worriedly, "After he finds his son, will he really not come after you? Although I read his mind and found that he really has no intention of killing you, there is no guarantee that he will not have the intention to kill you again."
Li Xiaogou slowly raised the corners of his lips, his smile cold. Wang Bo unconsciously rubbed his arms: "You look like a villain."
"Don't worry, he won't have time to bother me after he finds his adopted son."
"Han Jing's mother was very kind to him, but she passed away when he was in junior high school. She had fallen ill but had no money for medical treatment, and she kept it a secret from Han Jing until she was found out and it was already incurable. Before she died, she told Han Jing about Yuchi Hong's existence and the dirty things the Yuchi family had done to them. Han Jing hated the Yuchi family from the bottom of his heart and was determined to avenge his mother."
"Will he go back with Yuchi Hong?" Wang Bo asked curiously.
"Yes, but I'm afraid that the loving father and filial son that Yuchi Hong imagined will never happen in this life." Li Xiaogou smiled mysteriously.
Without wasting a moment, Li Xiaogou returned to the bureau and went straight to the Information Department.
It was confirmed again from Mo Shang that Funing Village was indeed a lawless area during the war between the two countries, and it is still not peaceful even today.
"I advise you not to go there to investigate on your own. That's Yuchi Hong's sphere of influence, and the organization has been rooted there for a long time."
"Is there anyone in the bureau who knows a lot about that place?"
Seeing Li Xiaogou persisting until there was no way to dissuade him, Mo Shang sighed.
He searched the system for a while and suddenly stopped.
"Any discovery?" Li Xiaogou was also stunned after seeing the words on the screen clearly.
"What a coincidence?"
Someone from the Special Investigation Bureau had been stationed in Funing Village for more than ten years, and they were all familiar with that person.
"But when he heard about Funing Village just now, his expression didn't change at all."
"That was before we found Jiang Mu. Maybe it was because it was too dangerous there, so after we decided to adopt Jiang Mu, Jiang Yao came back."
The agent who was stationed in Funing Village was Jiang Mu’s adoptive father Jiang Yao.
"Well, maybe everyone has their own secrets." Li Xiaogou looked at Mo Shang deeply.
After leaving the Special Investigation Bureau, he thought about it and decided to visit Jiang Yao. He felt that the reason why Jiang Yao came back from Funing Village might not just be Jiang Mu.
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