Book 4: Chapter 61:1: He Who Knows Fate Tricked You, Part 1
“So, how is it, my great prophet? How is my luck for the next few days?” Nightingale teased when she saw Chen Heng open his eyes.
“Cough! Cough! Your luck for the next few days is excellent. You will get everything you want. Furthermore, I predict that Exusiai’s first words later will be ‘Ahaha! Texas, it’s your turn! Madam Ch’en is truly strict, even though we are all familiar with each other already.’”
“Weren’t you predicting my luck? How did Exusiai get involved?”
“Isn’t it so I would appear more reliable?”
“You say it like it is true.”
Coincidentally, Exusiai came out right then.
“Ahaha! Texas, it’s your turn! Madam Ch’en is truly strict, even though we are all familiar with each other already.” Exusiai rubbed her head, yawning as she spoke.
After Exusiai said that, Texas, Skadi, and Nightingale looked at Chen Heng in shock.
“Huh?”
“Huh?”
“Huh?”
“Huh? Why are you all staring at He Who Knows Fate? Did something happen? Also, Texas, it’s your turn.”
“Alright, got it.” Texas was Texas, after all. She quickly adjusted her mental state, then stood up and entered the interrogation room.
However, only she knew whether she had recovered from her shock.
“What’s wrong with Texas? I rarely see her this shocked,” Exusiai curiously asked Chen Heng after sitting down.
“I only played a small psychological trick on her.”
Skadi: “…”
Nightingale: “…”
“I have a pen and paper in my hand right now. Think of a number, and I’ll simultaneously write a number on the paper. Do you believe the two numbers will be the same?” Chen Heng took out a pen and paper from somewhere and showed them to Exusiai.
“I don’t believe it.”
“Then let’s give it a try.”
“Alright, I—Exusiai—have lived a long time, and I have never heard of such a thing being possible.”
“Alright. Think of a number now. After you think of it, write it on this piece of paper.” Then Chen Heng took out another pen and paper and handed them to Exusiai.
“Don’t peek.”
“Alright, alright, alright. I won’t peek. Come here, Skadi. Cover my eyes with your hands.”
“Ah! Oh!” Skadi felt a little at a loss when Chen Heng called her name. However, she quickly followed his instructions, covering his eyes with her hands.
Exusiai watched as Skadi covered Chen Heng’s eyes. However, still feeling uneasy, she picked up the uniform jacket Texas left on the chair and draped it over Chen Heng’s head before writing a number on the paper.
“…Exusiai, do you have to go to that extent? Never mind. Are you done?” Although Chen Heng knew from his Precognition that Exusiai would cover his head with Texas’s jacket, he still could not help complaining. Strangely, Texas’s jacket had a Pocky smell to it….
“I’m done! I’m done!” Exusiai clutched the paper after she finished writing.
“Alright, Skadi, you can let go and take the jacket off my head.”
“Alright.”
“Wait a second. No need to let go. I’ll call out the number directly. Nightingale, bring the paper over and show the number to everyone. That way, Exusiai can’t deny it.”
“Really? Why would I deny it?”
“Everyone has seen the paper already, right? I’ll say the number now. The number is 1314, right?”
“How…how miraculous! You guessed right. Oh! He Who Knows Fate, you used an Originium Art, right? You must have used one, right?”
Chen Heng patted Skadi’s hand, indicating for her to let go.
“Of course I did not use an Originium Art. This psychological trick is quite amazing, right? There will be an even more amazing thing later. I know what Texas’s first words after she comes out will be.”
“What are they? What are they?”
“Later, Texas will say, ‘Exusiai, I have something to tell you later.’”
“I don’t believe it.” Exusiai still felt skeptical. Even if Chen Heng had guessed the number she wrote, she did not believe he could guess Texas’s words.
“It’s up to you whether you believe it. I don’t just know what Texas will say; I also know she will say this about 20 seconds after leaving the interrogation room.”
Exusiai wanted to say something when the interrogation room’s door opened. Then Texas silently returned to her seat. After that, the guard came out and brought Skadi in.
Texas only spoke about 20 seconds after exiting the interrogation room.
“Exusiai, I have something to tell you later.”
“Texas said exactly what you guessed she would say. He Who Knows Fate, did you collude with her to trick me?”
“How could that be? Think about it. Is Texas such a person?”
“That makes sense. He Who Knows Fate, you are incredible. Can you teach me this psychological trick? I would like to learn.” Excellent, Exusiai got swayed. She even believed the lie I casually spouted.
“…” Texas looked at Chen Heng before looking back at Exusiai. Then she guessed what had happened.
“Sorry. This psychological trick is a secret of my Chen Clan, the kind that is passed down to only males and not females.”
“Tsk! I don’t really care for it anyway.”
Chen Heng had to be the only person to use a high-ranked ability like Precognition to intimidate a young person like Exusiai.
Penguin Logistics’s lawyer arrived only after the fives had been interrogated. After a lengthy discussion, the Lungmen Guard Department finally let Chen Heng’s group go.
Emperor truly lived up to his reputation. His connections were really solid to be able to take people away from the Lungmen Guard Department directly.
[TL Note: Emperor is the founder and CEO of Penguin Logistics. Here is more information on him: /wiki/Emperor.]
After leaving the Lungmen Guard Department, Chen Heng, Nightingale, and Skadi parted ways with Exusiai and Texas. He used his Absolute Precognition to find a comfortable hotel they could stay at without getting into trouble for seven days.
If these seven days were compared to a game, Chen Heng was the person with the completion strategy. He knew where every side story would be and what rewards he would get. Since he already knew the results, he had to choose the most perfect ending.
Chen Heng booked three rooms in this five-star luxury hotel for an entire week.
If he had picked another hotel, some minor unpleasantness was possible, like there being just one room left. However, Chen Heng was already mentally fatigued, and he was afraid romantic events might happen.
For the sake of not being called a scumbag who only flirts but never commits, he did not intend to go down the paths of these side stories.
Of course, Chen Heng had chosen this hotel for another reason—its proximity to the Lungmen Guard Department. They arrived at this hotel after just a few steps.
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