Chapter 388: Chapter 387: Looking for You to Take Revenge
Ruan Boyang briefly assessed his current physical body, then looked at the flashy suit man and nodded with satisfaction.
"Are you that Vice President Zheng?"
Hearing this inquiry, President Zheng appeared particularly excited and responded incoherently, "Yes, yes it’s me, I’m so honored that you still remember this small person like me."
"You’re too modest, this Can Society here still needs talents like you to keep things running."
After Ruan Boyang gave a hollow compliment, he got straight to the point: "The reason I’m here this time is to find someone."
"May I ask who you’re looking for?" Vice President Zheng was extremely obsequious, almost as if he wanted to bury his head in the ground.
"He goes by Lv Bai, you can follow this lead to..."
"Who?!"
Perhaps too surprised, Vice President Zheng couldn’t help but interrupt Ruan Boyang.
Fortunately, Ruan Boyang wasn’t offended and graciously repeated, "Lv Bai."
"No problem, rest assured, if this Lv Bai is indeed in Shelter Number 9, our entire Can Society will spare no effort to bring the person before you."
Vice President Zheng kowtowed thrice with loud bangs, "We’ll go arrange things first."
Ruan Boyang waved his hand, "Go ahead."
"As you command!"
Vice President Zheng stood up respectfully.
Nobody noticed that the moment he turned around, his obsequious expression instantly disappeared, replaced by an intriguing gaze.
To be fair, though called a society, Can Society’s structure is more akin to a religion.
And a common trait of religious higher-ups is that it’s best if the "Master" never actually comes to the human world.
The room door opened, and light pierced through the crack into the dark room.
Vice President Zheng took the lead, guiding the many Can Society members out of the room.
...
"Take them for questioning first."
The bald man directed his subordinates to take the neighboring residents from the crime scene away.
Currently unable to find any reliable direction for solving the case, they’re forced to use this clumsy approach to try to find new clues.
Li Shan held a tablet, watching the surveillance footage from each floor of the Habitable Tower.
The house-to-house investigation was still ongoing, as a Habitable Tower could house as few as one to two thousand people, or as many as tens of thousands.
Combing through everything thoroughly would be a huge task, impossible to finish today.
Feng Yixuan wandered down the hallway, looking quite bored.
Perhaps she was truly too bored, as she couldn’t help but lean beside Lv Bai and quietly ask, "Captain Lv, if you have any leads, just let them out, so we can wrap up the case sooner and get off work early, right?"
Lv Bai pondered for two seconds and said, "I really don’t know who the culprit is, but I’m sure the opponent is definitely elusive and unpredictable."
Feng Yixuan: "... That’s the same as saying nothing, isn’t it?"
Unwilling to give up, she pointed to Li Shan beside her and continued, "Captain Lv, even if you don’t pity me, at least pity your senior. Look at him, clueless and just being dragged in."
Lv Bai glanced at Li Shan, a little amused, "What’s his situation? Do you know where the most competitive place is?"
"Are you about to say school? Or the workplace? Captain Lv, at this point, spare me the motivational speech, okay?"
"The answer is the Mummy Museum."
Lv Bai flexed his wrist, walking towards the elevator, "Did you think I was going to talk about the wrappings on the mummies? No, what I meant was, there’s plenty of work done there."
In this underground shelter without a Mummy Museum, no one could understand his cold joke.
Li Shan just noticed Lv Bai’s movements and looked up to ask, "Junior, where are you going?"
"Catching the culprit for this case is your task. It’s no use for me to stay here."
After realizing the culprit was cultivating a demonic technique involving blood, Lv Bai quickly concluded that since Death Fighters’ blood isn’t much different from ordinary people, the culprit, if sensible, wouldn’t target Li Shan and others.
Lv Bai figured Li Shan and his team weren’t in any real danger, so he planned to explore other places.
On his way out of the Habitable Tower, no unwise security personnel dared stop Lv Bai.
Although most of the security personnel didn’t know Lv Bai, they could deduce from their bald supervisor’s attitude that Lv Bai’s identity was significant.
Seeing Lv Bai, these security personnel did nothing besides salute and didn’t even dare to engage him in conversation.
Lv Bai was happy to enjoy the peace, acting as if there were no stowaways, and continued his visits throughout Habitable City as usual.
He soon found himself at lunchtime.
Lv Bai randomly chose a roadside restaurant, ordered his meal, and sat at the entrance, observing the passing pedestrians.
Anti-surveillance tasks take systematic learning; since the stowaway comes from the Cultivation Realm, it means they can’t be flawless in this regard.
Considering the situation from the opponent’s perspective, Lv Bai reckoned the stowaway might hide in the shadows, or at the very least, follow him to find out where he lived.
After finishing a meal at the roadside restaurant, Lv Bai intentionally strolled to crowded areas to facilitate the stowaway’s tracking.
What surprised him was that when he reached the second commercial street, he began to feel a vague sense of being watched.
"So anxious?"
Lv Bai didn’t look back to determine the source of this feeling, instead calmly walking towards a less crowded area.
Even in places with high population density, there are still remote nooks and crannies.
Lv Bai walked away from the crowd, taking several turns into the back alley of a convenience store.
This was a dead-end alley, so when he reached the end, Lv Bai turned around, leaned against the wall, and quietly waited for the stalker to emerge.
Surprisingly, who came out around the corner wasn’t the stowaway he imagined.
Instead, it was a guy he could barely consider an acquaintance.
"Brother Murphy is as sharp as ever."
Vice President Zheng swaggered over to Lv Bai.
Lv Bai lowered his eyes and, without asking why it’s you, he inquired, "What do you want from me?"
Vice President Zheng took out a clipped cigar, lit it, took a deep drag, and then sighed, "I’m a bit curious, what exactly did you do in the Death Arena, Brother Murphy?"
"Why ask like that?" Lv Bai was puzzled.
Vice President Zheng carefully chose his words, "The Death Fighter you offended in the Death Arena has come for revenge."
Hearing this, Lv Bai was even more puzzled.
He wondered if any of the Death Fighters he offended in the Death Arena were still alive?
Suddenly, he realized, "A clone?"
