Apocalypse: I Can See the HP Bar, Killing Monsters Drops Loot

Chapter 1033: Chapter 412 Three Pieces of News_2

Chapter 1033 -412 Three Pieces of News_2

Wang Tao’s tone was very gentle.

Li Xin bit her lip and thought carefully, subconsciously shaking her head.

“I really didn’t—”

Suddenly, as if thinking of something, Li Xin’s pupils dilated sharply.

“It seems you’ve thought of something…”

“Didn’t—”

Li Xin habitually denied.

Wang Tao’s hand slid down from her cheek, slowly touching her fair neck, and gently grasped her throat.

“Can’t even tell me?”

Li Xin’s body trembled slightly.

“I, I really haven’t hidden anything…”

Wang Tao had intended to scare her by putting a little pressure on her throat, but seeing her HP start to drop again, he immediately withdrew his hand from her neck and stood up.

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Li Xin lost her support and fell to the ground.

She didn’t care about the bump on her head, and quickly crawled and scrambled to grab Wang Tao’s legs.

“Mr. Wang, I really didn’t lie to you…”

“Alright, I believe you. I’ll find you a place to have a good bath and eat some food… You are too dirty.”

Wang Tao was somewhat disgusted.

“Ah? Thank you, thank you!”

Li Xin cried with joy, and upon hearing Wang Tao mention her dirtiness, she felt a chill around her crotch, and realized that her pants were wet somehow. She instantly blushed crimson.

“Can you stand up?”

“I can…”

Li Xin squeezed her legs and slowly stood up, rubbing and shuffling.

Wang Tao took her out of the interrogation room and asked Jiang Hui to call a female officer to take her to wash up.

“Arrange a decent place for them alone, but don’t let them go, I still have matters to ask them about later.”

Wang Tao told Jiang Hui.

“Yes!”

Although this didn’t follow the police station’s rules, they were dependent on the person… Plus, no one at the police station was willing to take on this task, Jiang Hui was forced to take over, so he had a great deal of autonomy, and anyway, if anything went wrong, it was his own responsibility.

“That… ahem, Mr. Wang, did you find out anything?”

Jiang Hui asked somewhat awkwardly.

“There’s a bit of lead, I suspect they didn’t subjectively participate in the assassination of Yao Guodong…”

Wang Tao didn’t mention the Dusk Church, but shared the information he learned from Qiu Rong.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Hui was initially puzzled, thinking Wang Tao really liked Qiu Rong and Li Xin and was looking for an excuse to get the women out. However, he quickly realized, when Wang Tao mentioned they hadn’t subjectively participated, could it mean that they did participate in fact but were unaware of it?

Sure enough, Wang Tao continued:

“They must have been used by someone. Wang Tao guessed that someone had exploited them to deliberately get Yao Guodong drunk… Yao Guodong had just become an Ability User and was very excited, plus with their little tricks, it was easy to get him to drink. Perhaps something was added to the drinks, or some other method was used, which made Yao Guodong somewhat confused, and then he went out. As he stepped out, someone was ambushed outside, making Yao Guodong instantly fall in the snow and freeze to death…”

After hearing Wang Tao’s speculation, Jiang Hui felt it made sense at first, but on further thought, found it hardly convincing.

So Jiang Hui frowningly said:

“Yao Guodong was already an Ability User, even if just Level 1, but his physical condition had greatly improved compared to before, he wouldn’t have gotten drunk so easily, especially since Yao Guodong could hold his liquor… So it’s unlikely he was drunk, which means there was something wrong with the drinks! However, I have a question, we didn’t detect anything wrong with their remaining drinks, and even if there was a problem, it would have been simpler to poison Yao Guodong directly, why go through such trouble…”

“That’s what you need to investigate.”

Wang Tao gave him a look.

“Yes, yes, yes! I will investigate thoroughly!”

Jiang Hui snapped back and hurriedly nodded.

Wang Tao actually hadn’t made it clear, he suspected this was all the work of the so-called “Holy medicine.” There must be some hallucinatory substance in this Holy medicine!

If Qiu Rong had taken out the Holy Medicine and had all three of them drink it, after Yao Guodong drank, he might have experienced some hallucinations and then been led out by some means, followed by a Mental Attack, and directly fell down in the snow.

While Qiu Rong and Li Xin might not have drunk as much, so after drinking, they didn’t wander off and went straight to sleep… This could also explain why they didn’t notice Yao Guodong had died outside all night.

However, it might also be that the murderer didn’t intentionally attract them but specifically used some method to lure Yao Guodong out.

Thus, Wang Tao believed someone used the two women, Qiu Rong, to kill Yao Guodong, and this person was very likely associated with the so-called Councilor of the Dusk Church.

Thinking even more meticulously, the one who enticed Qiu Rong and Li Xin into joining the Dusk Church was probably the murderer, and he most likely did it to ensure he had a fallback to kill Yao Guodong.

Wang Tao thought this because it was clear to any discerning eye that this incident was no accident. It must have been due to the murderer’s lack of preparation, leading to a hasty action.

And the reason the murderer suddenly took action at this time, Wang Tao felt, was very likely related to Yao Guodong suddenly becoming an Ability User!

If that was truly the case, then Wang Tao believed the murderer might really be the deputy mayor, Gu Yun, and those people. Because originally, Yao Guodong being older was going to step down soon, but his sudden Awakening meant he could continue for another three to five years, which those eyeing his position couldn’t tolerate, hence the decision to act…

Of course, all of Wang Tao’s conjectures were based on the premise that the murderer’s sole intention was to simply kill Yao Guodong.

If the murderer’s intention was bigger, like what he had speculated before—that the murderer wanted to provoke reforms at the base—then that was a different situation.

Regardless, no matter what, even if the true murderer were found, the ramifications of this incident were likely just beginning.

“Then Mr. Wang, how do you think the murderer made Yao Guodong fall to the ground? Our forensic scientists examined the body, and there were no wounds on him…”

Just then, Jiang Hui suddenly said.

“Obviously, it was an Ability, like a Psychic Attack.”

“Ah? A Psychic Attack?”

Seeing the perplexed look on Jiang Hui’s face, Wang Tao was a bit puzzled.

“You haven’t seen it?”

“Forget seeing, I haven’t even heard of it…”

Jiang Hui hadn’t even encountered a psychic-type Ability User up until now. He was totally unaware of such matters…

“…”

Wang Tao realized he might have overlooked a detail—he had seen many Awakeners within the base, but it seemed none was of the psychic type, which showed how rare psychic types were.

Although Psychic Abilities were more common compared to Awakenings, it was only relatively speaking.

And within the entire realm of Psychic Abilities, those with attack capabilities were even rarer; not to mention others, even Wang Tao hadn’t encountered many… so many people were unaware of Psychic Abilities and Awakenings.

However, scarcity also had its advantage—it could narrow the search scope.

If someone capable of Psychic Attacks were found, they would at least be a suspect, which was better than searching aimlessly.

After explaining Psychic Abilities and some of his speculations to Jiang Hui, Jiang Hui looked hesitantly at Wang Tao and said:

“Mr. Wang, should I start searching from the higher-ups?”

“Go ahead.”

Wang Tao nodded.

“Then… Mr. Wang, you can’t abandon me! I’ve had no way out since I took on this task—if I can’t figure it out, I’ve got to pack up and leave; if I do figure it out, I might wind up headless…”

Seeing how pitiful Jiang Hui was, Wang Tao thought for a moment and said:

“How about this, come to my house, and I’ll have a snake follow you.”

“Hiss—could it be that Fourth-order Boss!”

Jiang Hui was instantly excited.

In Wang Tao’s eyes, Blacky and the others were just pets, but in the eyes of people like Jiang Hui, this was not a mere pet; this was a Fourth-order Black Snake Boss!

Jiang Hui drove and followed Wang Tao to the villa, where Wang Tao lent Blacky to Jiang Hui.

Jiang Hui carefully got Blacky into his car. He told Wang Tao to wait for good news from him. He actually had some methods but hadn’t dared to use them… Now that he had a target and backing, he could fully utilize them.

And the very next afternoon, Wang Tao received three messages.

The first two were from Jiang Hui.

One was that Li Xin wanted to meet Wang Tao to tell him something important. The other was that after Jiang Hui started using his full capabilities, he indeed uncovered a crucial clue.

The third message was from Gu Yun, saying she wanted Wang Tao to take a position at City Hall, pleading for his definite acceptance…