Chapter 153 Living Room Interrogation
Cheng Sinian sighed, resignedly took out the cleaning tools from the space, and prepared to clean up the living room, but Jiang Zhan stopped him.
Cheng Sinian was puzzled. "Why keep it? Could it be that you haven't admired your masterpiece enough?"
Qiao Yu showed a helpless expression, "Isn't there still one person who hasn't been tried yet?"
Cheng Sinian suddenly realized. Oh, keep it to scare him.
Jiang Zhan's lips curled up into a gentle smile, and he kissed Qiao Yu on the face, his tone very happy, "The one who knows me best is Ayu."
Then he looked up at Cheng Sinian again, his eyes filled with naked disgust.
“…”
Cheng Sinian put the cleaning tools back into the space, silently returned to sit next to Luo Zhenzhen, and pouted a little aggrievedly.
After Cheng Sinian left the man, Jiang Zhan immediately controlled the wind and slapped the man twice, waking him up.
The man who had just woken up was still a little dazed. He felt pain all over the back of his neck, cheeks, hands and feet, and his nose was filled with the sticky smell of blood.
The glaring light took him two seconds to see his surroundings clearly.
—Blood. All blood!
He found himself tied up with ropes, lying in a pool of blood, with several heads and headless bodies lying on the ground.
He didn't recognize those faces, but without exception, they all had expressions of fear on their faces and died with their eyes open.
They had obviously suffered a great shock before their death.
“Woo… woo…woo!”
The man opened his eyes wide in horror and began to struggle hard.
The blood beneath their bodies was still slightly warm, indicating that these people had died not long ago.
What's going on? Isn't he on his way back to the villa? Where is he now?
Who kidnapped him?!
Just as the man was about to switch forms to break free, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his brain, as if he was being constantly pricked by needles, making it impossible for him to concentrate on mobilizing the power of the crystal core.
Then someone came over, turned him over with their foot, changed his direction, and tore off the tape on his mouth.
He knew this man.
——It’s Cheng Sinian of the Pendulum.
Only then did he realize that the five people he met in the evening were all sitting on the sofa in front of him, looking at him silently.
"What...what do you want to do?! Why are you arresting me?" The man tried to calm himself and asked in a low voice.
The pain in his head seemed to ease a little, but once he tried to use the power of the crystal core, the pain would instantly intensify.
He was a little panicked. He had never encountered such a situation before, and his ability was malfunctioning.
Could it be that these people did something to him?
Qiao Yu seemed not to notice the fear on his face, and spoke as if he were just chatting: "What's your name?"
The man suppressed the pain and fear, pursed his lips slightly, and answered honestly: "Meng...Meng Chao."
Qiao Yu nodded, "Meng Chao, has your team ever offended anyone?"
Meng Chao was confused by Qiao Yu's question, but he drooped his eyelashes and shook his head slightly, "...No, no."
"Yeah?"
Is it that there are none, or are there so many that it’s hard to tell?
Qiao Yu raised the corners of his lips, and narrowed his eyes slightly, as if he wanted to see through all his thoughts, "...Then how could Qi Yong be killed?"
"What did you say?!" Meng Chao raised his head in horror.
The captain is dead?! How is that possible?! The captain was fine when he left...
Meng Chao gritted his teeth, his eyes bloodshot, "You... killed the captain?"
Cheng Sinian frowned upon hearing this, looking confused. "Do you not understand what people are saying, or are you unintelligent?"
"If we had done it, would we still be here talking nonsense with you now?"
Meng Chao choked, his expression softening slightly, "Then why are you... asking this?"
A hint of impatience flashed across Cheng Sinian's face. "Just answer the questions honestly. Why so much nonsense?"
Upon hearing this, Meng Chao lowered his eyes again, hiding the emotions in his eyes.
These people's attitude towards him was not good, but not too bad either.
But Meng Chao really couldn't figure out why these people were asking about their enemies.
We just met by chance, it's impossible that you want to help them get revenge, right?
"I...I don't remember us having..."
"OK, it doesn't matter if you don't remember. Let me change the question. In addition to accepting tasks issued by the Mercenary Hunter Center, do you have any other ways to make money?" Qiao Yu interrupted Meng Chao with a very calm expression.
Meng Chao's eyes suddenly flashed with panic when he heard this. His eyelashes trembled, and he tried his best to steady his heartbeat, trying to hide his abnormality. Then he shook his head, "No...no."
"Really?" Qiao Yu suddenly laughed. She pulled out a notebook from her space and flipped to a page with a jagged tear. She continued to talk to Meng Chao, "The first dozen or so pages of this notebook have all been torn out, but based on the pen marks on this blank page, it's pretty certain the last torn page contains a group of names."
"Can you tell me where these people came from and where they are now?"
Calling this notebook a "notebook" didn't seem quite accurate. Judging by the handwriting, Qiao Yu felt a more appropriate name would be "account book."
Because behind each name is the date, gender, whether it is a different person, another name, and a number.
Based on the position of the other person's name and the size of the number, Qiao Yu guessed that they should represent the buyer and the number of crystal cores sold.
——This group of people are engaged in human trafficking business.
Upon hearing this, Meng Chao suddenly opened his eyes wide and looked at the notebook in Qiao Yu's hand with a complicated expression.
This was indeed the captain's notebook. He had never expected that these people could actually get hold of it.
Looking at the smile on Qiao Yu's face, Meng Chao gritted his teeth and said, "I really don't...ah——"
Before Meng Chao could finish his words, a strong wind swept through, leaving a long wound on his body that was so deep that the bone could be seen.
He groaned in pain. For some reason, the pain in his body seemed to be much stronger than before. The wounds that he could usually just endure, now felt so painful that it seemed to penetrate deep into his soul.
What's even more terrifying is that he didn't even see how they did it.
"Mr. Meng, you don't have to answer so quickly." Qiao Yu still looked at him with a smile, but his tone was full of danger. "I advise you to think it over before you speak."
Qiao Yu didn't want to meddle in other people's business. But she happened to find a very familiar name in this unclear list.
——Lu Zixian.
In his previous life, he was the vice president of the Research Institute of the Survivor Base in City B, and also... Han Ming's confidant.
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