Chapter 68 You Proved Your Worth
In an instant, the air in the room seemed to freeze.
With a snap, the popsicle in Wang Bo's hand fell to the ground.
Wang Bo did not have the intelligence of an eagle, but he had the sense of smell of a dog. He smelled the atmosphere of an impending battle and his feet automatically walked to Li Xiaogou.
2 to 1.
"Is this how you control Tao Qi?" Li Xiaogou asked.
Xiaoyao intertwined her fingers, clasping her hands together to stretch her muscles. "If you want to fight, just fight. Why are you talking so much nonsense?"
Li Xiaogou noticed something was wrong and shouted, "Go!"
Unfortunately, they were still a step too late. The door slammed shut from the inside, and the floor where they were standing suddenly turned into a sticky, quagmire-like substance that tightly wrapped their feet.
"Is this your ability?" Wang Bo looked at the bottle in Li Xiaogou's hand, "Then what is this?"
"It's just a common drug. I want to control Tao Qi, not actually sleep with him." Xiao Yao's shy and naive demeanor faded, her delicate face filled with sarcasm. "To be honest, I'm surprised there's such an innocent boy in the Special Investigation Bureau."
"Are you from the organization?"
"Yeah." Xiao Yao walked to the edge of the pool, her slender white fingertips gently passing over a row of kitchen knives before selecting one. "The front lines have their battles, and we who are responsible for logistics naturally have our own logistics work to do."
His brows suddenly became fierce, he threw the knife up, grasped the hilt with his backhand, and rushed straight towards Li Xiaogou and Wang Bo.
The speed was so fast that the air was distorted, shaking and leaving afterimages.
When the knife was about to hit Li Xiaogou's face, Xiaoyao suddenly raised his arm, and the blade of the kitchen knife flashed a cold light upwards.
There is no doubt that such force can easily cut his throat.
However, the blade just brushed against Li Xiaogou's skin tightly without leaving even a trace of red mark.
"How is that possible?"
Xiao Yao was stunned. In just a second, the initiative fell into Li Xiaogou's hands.
His movements were extremely agile. He ducked down and passed under Xiaoyao's body, then delivered a powerful punch that had been accumulating power for a long time and hit his lower abdomen.
Xiao Yao felt as if all his internal organs had exploded at that moment, and blood rushed to his throat. He couldn't help but spit out a thick blood mist.
"How is it possible..."
Xiaoyao asked the same question for the second time.
Li Xiaogou understood what he meant. He walked up to Xiaoyao, looking down at him from above, a hint of sarcasm on his lips. "I'm sorry, your information is wrong. My ability also contains some brute force."
Xiaoyao stared into Li Xiaogou's eyes, and suddenly, he smiled slowly.
The laughter grew louder and louder, and the ground under Li Xiaogou's feet changed again.
This time, the ground beneath their feet turned into a huge scarlet tongue, and the sticky juice emitted a strange fishy smell.
Li Xiaogou was originally standing in front of Xiaoyao, but in the blink of an eye, he was sent away by the movement of the tongue.
These tongues are actually controlled by Xiaoyao!
Li Xiaogou sensed something was wrong. He raised his arms and used all his strength to strike at the tongues under his feet. However, the force that could have sent Xiaoyao flying had no effect on these tongues.
They were still squirming, as if trying to move them to a fixed position.
At this time, Li Xiaogou noticed that the walls around them had also changed.
The wallpaper, which was originally covered with light blue wall cloth and exuded a warm and lovely feeling, had turned flesh-pink at some point and was covered with granular bumps, which were also slowly wriggling.
From time to time, mucus would seep down from the flesh-pink wall. When it dripped onto the tongue, it would make a crackling sound, followed by smoke rising up. The tongue, which had been unable to withstand the brute force, was actually burned with a huge hole.
"The mucus on the wall is corrosive, don't touch it!" Li Xiaogou loudly reminded Wang Bo on the other side.
Wang Bo's eyes widened as he saw the same scene that Li Xiaogou had seen. He immediately screamed, "But this thing is going to stuff us into the wall!"
Li Xiaogou followed Wang Bo's gaze, but his sight had been blocked by Wang Bo before, so he could not see the scene behind Wang Bo clearly.
Behind Wang Bo was the intersection of the two walls, which was also the bonding point.
But the joining point between the two walls was different, with a concave portion that was just big enough for two adult men to fit in.
A tiny drop of mucus can be so corrosive that if a whole person is stuffed in it, there won't even be a bone left.
"Let's talk!" Li Xiaogou looked at Xiaoyao. "You must have some motive for controlling Tao Qi. I'm the deputy captain, and I know more about the Special Investigation Bureau than Tao Qi does."
Xiao Yao burst into laughter. He was wearing women's clothes, but his voice, which was not deliberately disguised, was full of masculine power. The whole audio-visual picture became weird and distorted.
After laughing for a long time, with the corners of her eyes tinged with a faint red, Xiao Yao finally spoke, "Boss has praised you a lot in front of me. Let me think about it, you're rational, smart, firm, and decisive. Oh, and most importantly, once you make up your mind about something, you're stubborn and won't change it. You can also hold your liquor quite well."
"Do you think I will believe you and turn your back on me?"
Xiaoyao's expression suddenly turned cold: "Don't treat me like a fool."
Li Xiaogou narrowed his eyes slightly: "It seems that your boss knows a lot about me."
"Yes, so I have to prove to him that he has made a mistake this time. You are just one of those mediocre agents. You are of no help to what he wants to do."
"Then why don't you come to me directly, but instead want to harm Tao Qi? The target of your mission is not me, but Yunlou."
Xiaoyao's eyes changed slightly: "You are indeed not that stupid. Yunlou is too difficult to deal with. I can only start with the people around him."
"Then have you ever thought that if something happens to Wang Bo and me, you won't be able to explain it to Tao Qi when he comes back later?"
Xiao Yao sneered, "What explanation do I need? He's completely captivated by me now. If I say 1 plus 1 equals 3, he won't have any doubts. I can just make up an excuse and say that you two suddenly received a special mission and left early, right?"
Wang Bo stiffened his neck and said, "If we don't go back to the Special Investigation Bureau, Tao Qi will find out tomorrow!"
"Don't worry. Tomorrow, Tao Qi will be on his way to Jigu with me. He won't have time to go to the Special Investigation Bureau to discuss any final matters with you..."
Xiao Yao was halfway through his words when his pupils suddenly contracted. He lowered his eyes in disbelief and looked at his belly. There, a hole had been stabbed there by Li Xiaogou with a kitchen knife. Donated blood was flowing out, soon dyeing the small area of ground where he was standing blood red.
It was cold. Xiaoyao felt like he was frozen by the boundless cold. His teeth were chattering, and it seemed that his vitality was desperately escaping from his body along with the heat.
His thick eyelashes lifted, and he looked at Li Xiaogou with difficulty, and asked with his last bit of strength: "How did you see through me?"
Li Xiaogou smiled and said, "It's very simple. I know what Tao Qi's ability is. What you just used was just the most basic version of Tao Qi's ability. Since it's impossible for you to master two abilities at the same time, the only reasonable explanation is that you don't have Tao Qi's ability. This is all just an illusion. I'm standing right in front of you."
Xiao Yao lowered her eyes, looking fragile as if she would die at any moment.
Wang Bo walked over to Li Xiaogou, leaned over, and snapped his fingers in Xiaoyao's ear: "Hey, wake up."
Xiao Yao woke up as if from a dream. He looked down in astonishment. There was no pool of blood anywhere, and even the thick smell of blood lingering in his nose was gone.
"You used my illusion to deceive me!" A gentleman can be killed but not humiliated. Xiao Yao was extremely angry.
"Hey, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want. What do you mean by illusion? This is my special ability, okay?" Wang Bo glared at him, wishing he could stare two holes in him.
"Illusion versus fear, it seems Wang Bo won this round. He aroused the most fearful thing in your heart, so that you, a person who practices illusion, did not realize that you were under an illusion." Li Xiaogou said as he handcuffed Xiao Yao.
Having been caught, Xiao Yao actually relaxed. He asked, "When did you discover my true ability?"
Li Xiaogou shook the bottle of white pepper in his hand and said, "It started when I asked you what this is."
"Do you really think I can't recognize this as Haiyan? You even dare to say that you used this to control Tao Qi." Li Xiaogou resisted the urge to roll his eyes and continued to complain, "And even if I didn't recognize this as Haiyan, your words don't make logical sense. Tao Qi has been under your control for a long time. At the beginning, you were still in an online relationship and had never met in person. How did you drug him? How did you control him if you didn't drug him?"
"None of this makes sense, and you still think I'll believe it."
Li Xiaogou's taunts were at their maximum, and Xiaoyao's expression was extremely complicated, from anger to speechlessness to the point where she wished she could sew Li Xiaogou's mouth shut so that he could never speak again.
Suddenly, he stopped and stared blankly in one direction.
The plastic bag in Tao Qi's hand fell to the ground with a snap. He ran forward two steps anxiously, but was stopped by Wang Bo.
"Xiao Gou, what are you doing? I said, my resignation has nothing to do with Xiao Yao, don't make things difficult for him!" Tao Qi's anxious expression was extremely real. Li Xiao Gou did not answer him, but slowly lowered his eyes to observe Xiao Yao's expression.
Xiaoyao's tears came suddenly and filled her eyes in an instant.
His pupils were already large and black, and he looked even more pitiful with his tearful expression.
It’s a shame that this acting skill didn’t enter the domestic entertainment industry, Li Xiaogou thought to himself.
Just when he was about to look away, he noticed that the corners of Xiaoyao's lips were slightly pressed down. It was a very subtle movement, and perhaps even he himself did not realize that there was some sincerity in his sadness.
"Stop it." Li Xiaogou shouted in a deep voice, successfully stopping Tao Qi's struggle to get close to Xiaoyao.
Li Xiaogou remained calm and said, "It was Yunlou's idea to arrest them, and Wang Bo and I couldn't resist. If you have any questions, you can come back with me and ask Captain Yun in person. He promised me that he would give you an honest answer."
Tao Qi lowered his hands, stood there thinking for a long time, then nodded slowly and solemnly.
Wang Bo looked at Li Xiaogou with admiration. His acting skills were worthy of being an Oscar-winning actor. He had mastered the art to such an extreme that he could lie without batting an eyelid.
If he had not been with Li Xiaogou the whole time, everyone would have thought that Li Xiaogou had accepted some secret mission from Yunlou.
Xiaoyao obviously didn't quite believe what Li Xiaogou said, but before Xiaoyao could say anything, Li Xiaogou said to him in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "Don't you want to see Yunlou?"
This sentence successfully shut Xiaoyao up.
Xiao Yao obediently followed Li Xiaogou to the Special Investigation Bureau.
But Li Xiaogou never claimed to be a gentleman, so naturally he was not bound by any shackles that required him to keep his promises.
As soon as he entered the Special Investigation Bureau, he had Xiao Yao restrained and locked him up. Then he smiled kindly and reassured Tao Qi: "Don't worry, Xiao Yao will stay in my office for a while. I promise he will be fine."
Only then did Tao Qi wait outside Yunlou's office with peace of mind, with Wang Bo accompanying him.
They said they were accompanying him, but in fact they were monitoring him. After all, no one knew to what extent Tao Qi was controlled.
Li Xiaogou told the two that he would go in first and explain the whole story to Yunlou, after which Yunlou had something to ask Tao Qi.
Yunlou's order to arrest someone was a complete lie, so naturally there was no way he could ask any questions.
Li Xiaogou walked into the office and told the whole story, including how he had cheated Yunlou and put all the blame on him.
Yunlou didn't react much after hearing this, at least no intense emotions could be seen on his face.
He looked at Li Xiaogou calmly: "You should have something else to ask me, right?"
On the way here, Li Xiaogou had already gone over the entire incident in his mind several times. He was absolutely certain, "Boss's ability is related to illusion, and Xiaoyao's ability is similar, so Xiaoyao is likely someone with some weight in the organization. He himself revealed that the target mission target is actually you, so the organization has already set their sights on you, a captain-level figure."
"I don't think the enemy would be able to break through the defense so easily when the battle on the front is going smoothly, march all the way into our base camp in triumph, and even target our most important captain."
Yunlou raised an eyebrow: "So?"
Li Xiaogou took a deep breath and asked, "So, what's the situation on the front lines?"
Yunlou pondered for a moment, as if weighing the pros and cons. He looked up at Li Xiaogou several times, and finally succumbed to his stubborn look.
"Forget it, you guys are such a troublemaker. Instead of letting you guys run around investigating outside and who knows how much trouble you'll cause me, I might as well tell you now."
Having said that, Yunlou's expression suddenly became silent.
This is a feeling that is hard to describe. Li Xiaogou seemed to have just seen something invisible pressing heavily on Yunlou's shoulders, causing his body to collapse in an instant and look much older.
Yunlou said in a hoarse voice, "As you expected, the situation on the front lines is unclear. Du Tu has been out of contact for over 48 hours. Wang Zheng's team was ambushed before Du Tu could rescue them, resulting in heavy casualties."
Li Xiaogou clenched his fists, his throat seemed to be tightly strangled, and his voice became involuntarily tight. He had a very ominous feeling. There was a voice circling in his brain, telling him "Don't ask any more questions."
But he still heard his own voice firmly ask: "What are the specific casualties?"
Yunlou raised his eyes and glanced at him: "Wang Zheng is dead."
These four light words are worth a thousand gold.
"In order to protect his team, he chose to cover the rear, and ultimately died in an enemy ambush."
"When did it happen?"
"Two days ago, the same time as Dutu's disappearance."
"Two days?!" Li Xiaogou's eyes were red. He punched Yunlou's desk hard. Even if the wooden board was well-made, it could not withstand such a blow and a deep crack spread out.
"In the past two days, haven't you ever thought for a second that Wang Bo is still in the bureau and that he has the right to know?"
Yunlou calmly endured Li Xiaogou's questioning, facing Li Xiaogou's angry gaze, and replied firmly: "He was not only Wang Bo's father, but also a soldier. His death is a secret. I couldn't tell anyone two days ago."
"Then how can you tell me now?"
"Because you captured Xiaoyao, you proved your worth and can be trusted."
Li Xiaogou slowly stood up straight.
"So, before we caught him, we weren't trustworthy?" He thought all this was ridiculous.
"Where are you going?" Yunlou asked with a frown.
Li Xiaogou put his hand on the door handle and whispered, "Secret."
He was going to find Jiang Mu and Jiang Yao. He had no one to trust now and could only trust himself.
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