Where the night had settled in the Yang mansion, it was just starting to dawn at a particular house where a young woman picked up her VR headsets.
A hand caught her wrist and she looked up with her brows slightly furrowed.
"Where are my headsets?" Huojin’s eyes narrowed. "And don’t give an excuse like last ti that you forgot."
Beiye pouted. "I had genuinely forgotten."
"Yeah, sure. Hand over my set now."
She slightly clicked her tongue and took out another pair from her bag. "You are quite the player, are you not?"
"I just play so-so."
"I am not talking about Survival Grounds."
"Then?"
"Your beautiful neighbor is interested in you."
"Excuse ? Mrs. Zhong?" He blinked, confused. "She is married."
"Doesn’t an she cannot have the hots for you. She was giving quite the stare, you know~ Hostile stare."
He grimaced. "I would prefer you rather pay attention to the ga."
"I like paying attention to you though," her eyes twinkled.
"Should I pay attention to you too?"
She bead. "Of course!"
"Then how about I make you wear the handcuffs? Which I should have at that charity night."
"But you didn’t."
"You work at Quantum Gas and you were at the gathering. I wasn’t gonna lose my golden egg of information."
"But you didn’t tell your cop friend."
"I will eventually tell her. She would be more in favor of taking you into custody whereas I think you will do a fine job in being a double agent," he smiled.
"What if I double cross you?"
"My handcuffs will reach you faster than that thought would pop up in your head."
"I wouldn’t mind if you have sadistic fetishes," she smiled.
His brow twitched.
Why is it increasingly getting difficult to talk to her?
Beiye wore her headset and asked, "Is it only because you wanted to be your spy that you let go?"
"What do you an?"
"Didn’t you plant Zexi as your informant?"
His eyes squinted. "She is there too. But sohow, you made your way into that private gathering. I want to know how."
"I told you that. I am a part of She. I think you also saw my tattoo. I wouldn’t mind exposing my neck for you once more~"
"How did you get into She?"
"Through the ga," she blinked. "I told you this too. I have already answered all your questions."
"You haven’t answered as to why you are so specifically focused on playing the ga with that teen. LordKnight18, is it?"
"Teen?"
"The sa teen we caught that evening. The one who was harassing Jia and his father ca to bail him out. Lang Yu. We got to know that many cult mbers have been playing this ga and he told us his ga ID. And for so reason, you are really sticking to his side, leveling up with him."
Beiye inched closer and whispered. "Is this jealousy I sll, Inspector?"
Huojin ignored her flirting and said, "There is sothing you want to know. You are not in the cult because you believe in that leader’s gibberish about won and what not. I don’t think you agree that a woman’s genitals should be mutilated."
"Won can also be very nasty towards other won, you know."
"But you are not one of them."
She frowned. "The tattoo is literally on my neck."
Huojin stared at her. "You are not even capable of leaking Geng Anhe’s middle school picture to take revenge on her. You made her admit her wrongdoings, including what the guys did to Yong at the karaoke. She did it because you forced her and you forced her because you didn’t want to take the last step yourself."
He shook his head.
"You never wanted to leak that picture because you know you don’t want to stoop to her level. There was no need to make her admit about Yong’s harassnt. Only your justice should have been enough for you. But you did it anyway because you wanted to see Yong getting justice too. As a woman yourself, you connected with her on a very basic level about what she went through. I don’t think sobody with that ntality will think of joining such a cult which does the exact opposite of your beliefs."
Beiye chuckled. "You give quite the nice spin."
"It’s the truth," he remained firm. "I am not here with you just to figure out about Quantum Gas and She’s connection. Now, I want to know what you want to know in this ga. There is sothing more that we are not seeing yet, but you know it exists. That’s why you play with Lang Yu so often."
"I am playing because you want to play."
"And also for your own answers."
She said nothing.
Huojin placed his VR headset against his eyes and clipped it at the back of his head.
"Hopefully, I will find what you are trying to find too. Let’s start, shall we?"
—
Zhang Feiyu tiredly returned ho after the trip from hospital. His eyes were red and aching. There was still no improvent in Zhang Luqi’s state and everyday felt more painful than the previous one.
He dragged himself to the bedroom and his gaze fell on his wife’s office bag. He wiped his eyes and unzipped it to find her laptop. He rembered how Zexi had called him one day to enquire about it.
Is her laptop that important...?
He slowly opened it and switched it on. A login screen popped up before him. Her userna was already filled in.
Password...What password would Luqi keep? He blankly thought.
He tried so combinations and to his surprise, his na and birthdate pair hit the mark after quite so tries. That only made his heart swell further.
Luqi...
Zhang Feiyu started browsing through her laptop in hopes to understand what was going on. But he couldn’t find any file or folder worth checking out.
A faint mory visited him of his wife laughing heartily.
You are so bad at hiding things Feiyu. That’s why you are so cute! But you should learn sothing from . You hide things where it is least expected to be found.
Zhang Feiyu blinked.
Yeah...if Luqi had to keep sothing secret then...
He saw a long night ahead of him.
I will have to comb through everything.
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