Lu Siya thought about it and said, "Are you thinking that the people from Spirit Creation Creatures were the ones who exposed the case last night?"
"I don't know. Based on your understanding of Xie Xiaolei?" Meng Chao shook his head.
"It's possible."
Lu Siya was deep in thought. "Xie Xiaolei is really good when it comes to publicity. He's always liked to do things that are unconventional. If he believed that he was innocent, he would definitely not let go of this chance to increase his exposure. But if he took the initiative to expose himself, doesn't that mean that he's innocent? It doesn't seem to have anything to do with us looking for the real murderer who killed Jin Yongqiang. "
"True. Looks like we can only wait for Shen Yupeng's results."
Meng Chao suddenly stopped moving as if he remembered something.
Lu Siya quirked her eyebrows. "What is it?"
Meng Chao touched his stomach and asked with a red face, "I'm sorry, Big Sis Ya. Are there any … cheap goods here?"
"Cheap goods?"
"Hard dishes. The kind where you can eat to your heart's content and eat like a tornado."
"… Didn't you eat to your heart's content and eat like a tornado just now?"
"No. I thought that these are cold dishes before the main course. I waited for a long time, but I didn't see any hard dishes on the table, so I asked you."
Meng Chao just could not get used to eating in private restaurants with memberships.
In the end, he returned to the trash street in Nine Sands University City to eat to his heart's content.
He did not expect that Lu Siya would follow him, which made him a little sneaky. He did not want his classmates to see him, or else he would have to waste a lot of time explaining himself.
There was an Ultimate Style Experience Center in Nine Sands University City that was open twenty-four hours a day.
Meng Chao lay in the cultivation cabin and let the gene medicine and high-calorie nutritional fluid slowly enter his mouth and nose.
The medicinal fluid flowed through his nose and mouth and slowly into his lungs and stomach. Then, it seeped into his capillaries through his 36,000 pores.
He entered a deep meditative state and allowed the bioelectric current and the sparks of his thoughts to shine.
When he received Shen Yupeng's call, it was no longer late at night, but five in the morning.
He was not eating supper, but breakfast for the next day.
Lu Siya insisted on sending Meng Chao over.
She even intentionally let Shen Yupeng and the others see Meng Chao get out of her car.
Shen Yupeng did not know whether it was as if he was declaring his sovereignty to Shen Yupeng, as if he was telling him that Meng Chao was his man.
Meng Chao dismissed it with a smile.
If it were an ordinary university student, they would definitely have a bashful sense of self-esteem when it came to sucking up to a rich woman. They would easily worry about gains and losses and think about all sorts of things. They would not be able to treat it with a normal mindset.
But Meng Chao was someone who had returned from the apocalypse.
He had seen billions of destructive stars bloom in the sky above Dragon City.
He had seen cities built by tens of millions of people over half a century being razed to the ground.
He had seen countless splendid buildings collapse in an instant, and before the collapsed concrete hit the ground, it was blown into ashes by the storm that was ten thousand degrees high.
He had seen humans turn into human-shaped charcoal, wailing in the raging flames.
He had seen countless souls spurting out of broken bodies, only to be instantly washed away by the tides of spirit energy. There was not a single trace of their past laughter, tears, joy, or sorrow.
Meng Chao had seen all of this, and at certain times, from a certain perspective, he had an incredibly mature and profound heart.
To save Dragon City and create a beautiful future, he could ride on Lu Siya's coattails without any mental burden or change in his expression.
He could also ride on Lu Siya's coattails while still being wary of her ambition and recklessness.
Once he set Lu Siya up, he could calmly ride on her coattails again.
As for riding on both Lu Siya and Shen Yupeng's coattails at the same time, it was a piece of cake for him.
However, riding on their coattails was one thing. No matter how much he tried, he would remain true to himself. He would be a good citizen who loved Dragon City, defended his home, contributed selflessly, and had noble sentiments.
Meng Chao walked into the porridge shop he had agreed to meet Shen Yupeng at.
"Did Ms. Lu send you here?" Shen Yupeng asked. "She wasn't angry about what happened yesterday, right?"
Meng Chao nodded. "She was."
"Then …" Shen Yupeng hesitated. "Won't that be bad and affect your cooperation with her?"
"Ms. Lu didn't work together with me because I'm honest or humorous."
Meng Chao shrugged. "Before my abilities and conditions that are worthy of working together disappear, I believe that we will continue working together, right?"
"Meng Chao, you're really interesting."
Shen Yupeng could not help but laugh and let Meng Chao into the shop.
At five in the morning, the sky was still like a block of gray ice. There were not many people on the streets. The boss of the porridge shop was curled up in a corner and snoring softly. There was only one table of customers in the shop, and they were two women and a man with fierce expressions.
They had washed off the paint on their faces.
The sparkle in their eyes allowed Meng Chao to recognize them at first glance. They were one of the secret police officers and adjudicators who had followed Shen Yupeng into Golden Tooth Lair the previous night.
If they could become secret police officers or adjudicators, they naturally had strength that was above average.
Even though they had intentionally suppressed their vitality magnetic fields, Meng Chao could still sense the spirit energy ripples around them dancing and jumping rhythmically as they breathed.
"Red Tea, White Leaf, and Orchid. They're my right-hand men and my right-hand men.
Shen Yupeng smiled and said, "I don't need to introduce Meng Chao, right?"
The three names were clearly just codenames.
The girl called Red Tea looked to be in her twenties. She had a buzz cut close to her scalp, and when she entered the porridge shop, she kept chewing gum. Her military-green vest was bulging, and each of the pockets was filled with guns and ammunition. The arms protruding from the sides of the vest were bulging with muscles. She had a belt on her waist and black combat boots on her feet. She looked like a gun maniac.
The one called White Leaf was a middle-aged man in his thirties with a rather elegant air. His facial features were very faint, as if they had been drawn with diluted ink. If Meng Chao looked away, he would forget what he looked like. If he blended into the crowd, he would definitely not be able to find him.
Orchid, on the other hand, was a slender and elegant woman with a pair of slender eyes. She looked very scholarly and mature.
Her eyes occasionally shone, but there was a mysterious rhythm to them. She was like a clock that kept swaying in the hands of a hypnotist. Meng Chao could not help but be immersed in her and trust her.
'One of them is a gun expert, one should be a tracking and information specialist, and the last one is skilled in mind techniques. All three of them are at least at the peak of Earth Realm. They might have even reached Heaven Realm.'
With that thought in mind, Meng Chao sat down beside the four of them and said with a smile, "Hello, everyone. Honestly, this is the first time I'm so close to the legendary secret police and adjudicators. It feels strange. I didn't expect that you'd also drink century egg and lean meat porridge."
His words caused Red Tea, the gun maniac with the buzz cut, to laugh. "What do you mean? Are adjudicators supposed to be otherworldly?"
"No, I'm just …" Meng Chao thought about it.
Meng Chao thought about it. "I've heard too many stories about the secret police and adjudicators since I was young. Compared to the hunters who kill monsters, the information about you is always incomplete. It's hard to tell the truth from the lies, which adds to your mysteriousness. I heard that your identities are top secret, so it's fine if you reveal your true faces to me, right?"
"It's not as exaggerated as you think," Shen Yupeng explained.
"The adjudicator court is a law enforcement organization that specializes in dealing with internal matters. Many of the suspects we capture are famous superhumans who have great fighting strength. If we go to them openly, it'll be very easy for us to bring unnecessary trouble. That's why we don't publicize our identities as much as the hunters, but we don't go as far as to say that we're top secret either."
"Besides …" Red Tea's lips curled up.
"Black Tea" curled up the corners of her mouth. "How do you know that what you see is our true colors?"
Her temperament was a little carefree.
She was like a heartless tomboy.
Meng Chao was about to answer.
Suddenly, he saw White Leaf's hand through the corner of his eye.
White Leaf was using his chopsticks to pick up a beef meatball from his bowl.
When he saw Meng Chao staring at his hand, he could not help but say, "I'm sorry. I worked through the night and was really hungry. I didn't wait for you and ate for a while. You don't mind, right, Meng Chao?"
"I don't mind."
Meng Chao looked pensive. "But have you investigated me before?"
White Leaf was stunned, and his pupils shrank.
Shen Yupeng looked at Meng Chao with great interest. "Why do you say that?"
"I've seen your hands before, Big Brother White," Meng Chao said.
"During the northern offense, I went to the cafeteria twice during the last few days of the east lake base in Shattered Starlake. His face was a little sallow, and he sat near me.
"Even though he was half a head shorter than you, and his hands were as rough as sandpaper, the way you held your chopsticks was the same.
"This is a very professional posture. It doesn't look like you're holding chopsticks, but like you're holding a pen or a carving knife. Besides, when he picked up a meatball, he liked to turn it half a circle to the left before he picked it up so that the meatball would be covered in gravy. That should be you, right, Big Brother White?"
Great surprise appeared on White Leaf's indifferent face.
Shen Yupeng smiled and said, "Meng Chao, there are thousands of people eating at the same time in Shattered Starlake's cafeteria. Don't tell me that you remember all the people's hands and the way they pick up food?"
"Of course not," Meng Chao said.
"But if someone is spying on me, I can still sense it. It's not too difficult for me to remember the characteristics of the person watching me. Strange. I'm just a normal freshman, and I've barely reached two-star superhuman. What's so special about me that the secret police would pay attention to me?"
Shen Yupeng cast a glance at Black Tea, White Leaf, and Orchid.
The four of them were silent for a few seconds.
Black Tea was the first to be unable to hold it in. She laughed and pointed at White Leaf. "Old Ye, you said that your disguise and tracking skills are peerless and that you can change your appearance dozens of times in a short day. You can even talk to the same person without them noticing you. But it turns out that you're just bragging! Hahahaha!"
White Leaf's expression was one of regret and admiration. He looked at his hands, which had exposed his disguise, and smiled wanly. "Meng Chao, if you do this, I won't dare to eat beef meatballs anymore."
"Don't mind me, Meng Chao. This isn't the first time we met," Shen Yupeng explained.
"But at that time, the target of the investigation wasn't you. It was Lu Siya, because you were hired by her before. We were just doing our job."
"Lu Siya?"
Meng Chao was a little stunned. "Why?"
"Of course it's because of the mysterious deaths of my cousin Shen Yulong's entire team in the depths of Raging Waves."
Shen Yupeng smiled and said, "Isn't this matter worth investigating carefully?"
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