After leaving Banban’s house, Josh said, "There’s sothing wrong."
Rob asked curiously, "What did you sense?"
Josh: "Both of them have guilty consciences, one more than the other. Especially when I ntioned Banban in front of Li Xiaoping, her guilty emotions were overwhelming, almost making my legs go weak."
Rob asked again, "And what about Feng Zhe?"
Josh: "He’s no better."
Yuze: "It ans there’s definitely a big issue with Banban’s death, but to investigate, we can only start with these two."
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Josh nodded: "Indeed, she died at ho, and at the ti, only these two people were there. There’s no surveillance around here, so besides them, there’s no other way in."
Yuze: "Li Xiaoping is a bit more weak-willed, we can start with her."
Josh thought for a mont: "We are on the sa page. When I touched Li Xiaoping earlier, I sensed her guilt as well. It seems she can be our starting point. We need to find a ti to separate her from Feng Zhe."
Rob: "But they livestream every day, they do nothing else besides that and don’t leave the house. How are we going to separate them?"
Josh looked up and saw the bright moon hanging in the air, squinting his eyes: "Who said we have to find a way to separate them? At night, don’t they automatically separate?"
"How do they... ow!" Rob’s eyes suddenly lit up halfway through his sentence: "You an when they are asleep!"
Josh approvingly patted his head: "Our Rob is getting smarter~"
Rob grinned and rubbed against Josh’s hand.
Yuze: "..." What a disgraceful thing.
Rob, flattered, seed energized, and quickly asked: "But how do we ask her at night? Everyone’s asleep in the dead of night. If we disturb her now, she’s less likely to cooperate, right?"
Yuze agreed: "Interrogating her at midnight might not yield anything."
Josh grinned: "I have my ways."
*
Late at night.
The alleys and streets quieted down, with a few flickering street lights adding an eerie atmosphere to the crowded alleyways.
A few indistinct figures flitted through the alleyway.
The last of the figures accidentally stepped on a holess person sleeping in the alley.
The holess person cried out and woke up instantly.
The blurry trio stopped imdiately, and the leading skinny figure rushed up and punched the holess person, knocking him unconscious.
The two tall figures paused for a mont before following the smaller figure forward.
Three rustling figures appeared behind Banban’s old building.
"Will this work?"
"Don’t worry, it’ll be fine, just don’t fiddle around and make any noise."
"I can’t help it! Who’d have known soone was sleeping in that rundown alley, not to ntion the rancid sll that’s making my eyes water." Rob whined, covering his nose.
Josh’s mouth twitched slightly, "If I hadn’t reacted quickly and knocked him out with one punch, we’d be discovered."
Rob couldn’t help but retort, "I think your punch didn’t just knock him out, it killed him."
Josh: "Is there a difference?"
Rob: "Isn’t there?"
Josh: "... I don’t think so."
Rob’s face turned dark: "... You’re just like the captain."
The shadow beside him raised a hand and flicked the back of his head: "What am I like?"
Rob clutched his head, crying: "Just like you are right now."
The three of them bickered while still doing what they needed to do.
Josh threw the prepared anesthetic into Li Xiaoping’s room, then after a while, tid it just right and used Spider Silk to carry her down.
They didn’t go far, just found a secluded corner and took out a prepared human silicone mold.
They did a crude makeup job to resemble Banban.
Rob threw out a smoke bomb that Josh had given him.
Yuze woke the person up.
Josh used the Spider Silk to control the mannequin to stand up.
Li Xiaoping opened her eyes dreamily and saw a woman with disheveled hair, in a white dress, head lowered, not far away.
She was startled, fell onto the ground, and her eyes widened in terror.
"Mom... Mom... It’s , Banban, don’t you recognize ?"
Li Xiaoping’s face turned pale with fright, her fingers trembling: "You, you, you... weren’t you dead?"
"Didn’t you miss dearly... I ca to find you... Mom..."
Li Xiaoping backed away, horrified: "No, no, no! I didn’t! It wasn’t ! Stay away, it’s not my fault."
"Banban’s" body paused montarily and moved forward, wanting to get closer, but its legs seed unable to support it and it fell with a thud, leaving only two bloody hands outstretched in front.
Li Xiaoping saw her blood-stained fingers and shook her head even more frantically: "It wasn’t ! It wasn’t ! Don’t co near, it’s none of our business!"
"Banban" moved closer: "Mom, why didn’t you save ? My hands hurt so much, the door won’t open..."
Li Xiaoping was terrified out of her mind, tears of fright stread down her cheeks, leaving her in a wretched state: "I didn’t an to, I didn’t an to! You, you, you... go find..."
Before she could say the na, a figure suddenly descended and dragged Li Xiaoping away.
Yuze chased after from a distance.
Josh and Rob erged from hiding and quickly followed.
Of all monts, it had to be now!
Li Xiaoping was taken away, her whole body bounced up and down, and the scenery in front of her eyes kept spinning. She couldn’t hold on any longer and passed out from fear.
Yuze was about to step forward but was blocked by Million and Lulu and others.
Josh and Rob chased up and confronted Million’s team of five.
Overwhelming vines spread from the ground, the alleys, and the rooftops, trapping the three.
They clearly didn’t intend to have a frontal confrontation with Yuze and the others, but only to slow them down and quickly took off.
Yuze used his cat claws to cut through all the vines. The blades he swung were reflected back when they hit so sort of barrier.
"No need to chase," he stopped and stopped his two teammates.
Rob was anxious: "But that’s our witness!"
Yuze: "God R is helping them; we can’t catch up."
Josh frowned, can this person’s power extend to reality as well?
Rob was furious: "That guy! Why does he always oppose us?"
Josh looked at the hard-earned clue that was whisked away, his expression also grim.
A beeping sound ca from his wrist.
Josh raised his hand, opened the ssage, and saw Lulu’s note.
Yuze: "What does it say?"
Josh: "They want us to help them steal Banban and Er Miao’s bodies out, in exchange, they’ll return Li Xiaoping to us."
Rob spat: "Disgusting strategy! They can’t do anything on their own so they resort to these tricks."
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