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Chapter 450 The show begins

More than two days have passed.

Located in the Shi Family Manor, Cheng Lejia and Jin Ping'an were glued to their computers, their eyes glued to the screen, meticulously filtering through proposals that didn't clearly indicate the destination of funds or were for unknown projects.

If you're thirsty, there's a beverage machine and a coffee machine in the room; if you're hungry, just make a phone call and a dedicated nanny will come to deliver your meals; if you're sleepy or tired, just lie down on the sofa, and when you wake up, continue your research.

For two whole days, they didn't step out of the room.

But in Jin Ping'an's eyes, all of this was worthwhile.

Through exhaustive screening, they actually found a suspicious project concerning the outer city of Jiuhua.

The project partner was a little-known small company.

According to the search results, this company went bankrupt several years ago.

Shengjia Group is a large and powerful company. How could a small company like this possibly get close to such a powerful entity? Let alone discussing projects with the head office, it's doubtful they could even get in touch with one of its subsidiaries.

Jin Ping'an followed the clues and discovered that the legal representative of the company happened to be one of the people who had recently died.

He immediately handed the file over to Tian Hao and others.

The two were incredibly unlucky; they had to review almost all of Shengjia Group's questionable projects over the past few years before they came across this document.

Jin Ping'an collapsed onto the sofa, exhausted: "Phew... After working for so long, I can finally catch my breath. All that's left is to wait."

All the relevant information had been reviewed, but Cheng Lejia's hands were still scribbling on the paper.

Jin Ping'an asked in confusion, "What are you still writing?"

"It's nothing, just arranging some things just in case."

Cheng Lejia put down his pen and stuffed everything into a file bag: "We've been inside for so long, let's go out for a walk."

Upon hearing this suggestion, Jin Ping'an reacted strongly: "What's going on? Going out is too risky, no way!"

“Ping An, we’re inside the manor. There are sixty people guarding the main building, and hundreds more guarding the outside. We’re not leaving the manor; we’re just taking a walk in the courtyard.”

"But……"

Jin Ping'an wanted to say something more, but when he saw Cheng Lejia looking exhausted and all alone, he immediately shut his mouth and stopped trying to persuade her.

After a long while, Jin Ping'an, unsure how to comfort his friend, finally managed to stammer, "Going out for a walk... is a good idea."

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The exterior of the manor.

On a small hillside a few meters high.

The mental puppet controlled by Ai Liang was sitting on it, quietly waiting for the performance to begin.

After an unknown amount of time, Xia Qiyuan appeared beside him.

"Can you see the inside of the manor from here? Or should I take you to a higher place?"

“Seeing doesn’t necessarily have to be done with sight,” Ai Liang said.

"Okay, okay, whatever you say," Xia Qiyuan replied dismissively.

He then looked at the magnificent estate and exclaimed, "I wonder what it would be like to live in such a luxurious estate."

"I don't think you still care about these worldly pleasures. You and I can both use our mental abilities to directly possess the body of a wealthy person or their descendant. Money doesn't mean much to us."

After listening to Ai Liang's explanation, Xia Qiyuan paused for a moment and said, "Of course you don't care. In the past few years of seclusion, who knows where you and Mu Si have been gallivanting off with those underworld bosses' money? I haven't even experienced the life of a rich person yet."

"Then go and enjoy it, no one's stopping you," Ai Liang replied calmly.

Xia Qiyuan scoffed: "Who said no one stopped me? At most, I'm just a top henchman in the Countermeasures Bureau. I don't have the high position and power you imagine."

Ai Liang maintained her indifferent attitude: "That's your own problem. Nobody forced you to obey those rules."

Faced with Ai Liang's sarcasm, Xia Qiyuan smiled and said, "Alright, we're all foxes from the same mountain, don't try to provoke me."

Seeing that her indirect approach had been seen through, Ai Liang was not embarrassed at all.

Anyway, it was just a casual probe to see how the Countermeasures Bureau actually treated these top combatants.

For ordinary armor users, this can be explained by remotely controlling the armor.

Fusion Warriors, due to their bizarre corruption, are inseparable from the Countermeasures Bureau.

However, it is inexplicable why Xia Qiyuan, a top-tier combatant who is unaffected by strange phenomena, would serve the Countermeasures Bureau.

It should be noted that Xia Qiyuan was not someone they had cultivated internally, but rather an outsider who had taken over He Jun's body.

Xia Qiyuan didn't say anything, and Ai Liang didn't press the matter further.

No one could guess what Xia Qiyuan didn't want to say.

Xia Qiyuan looked at the dark figure not far away and reminded him, "Fang Donghai is here."

Ai Liang stood up from the hillside: "I know."

Xia Qiyuan gave Ai Liang a deep look: "It seems your mental perception range is quite large... What do you think of Fang Donghai?"

"It's just a mask, what can you possibly think about it?" Ai Liang said expressionlessly.

This time, it was Xia Qiyuan who spoke first to probe Ai Liang.

Speaking is an art, and language itself has many flaws.

When Xia Qiyuan was still a criminal police officer in Nevada, he was known as the "mind-reading detective," and that's exactly what he used.

Logically, when two people are talking about a stranger, they wouldn't use a specific subject.

For example, Li Si and Wang Wu were watching TV when they saw Zhang San's wanted poster being broadcast on the news, and they started talking about it.

Li Si, who doesn't know Zhang San, might watch the host introduce the murders Zhang San committed and exclaim in righteous indignation, "This man is utterly depraved!"

Wang Wu, who knew Zhang San, would chime in, saying, "He's simply inhuman!"

The word "he" alone reveals your connection with others.

Words like "he" or "that" are only used when talking about someone you know well.

"I don't know him" means I do know him; "I've never seen him" means I have; "What does that have to do with me?" means it's related to him.

Countless criminals have prepared their statements in advance, only to have them exposed as lying to the police because of these few words.

Some say it's because they're nervous, and some say it without thinking.

Ultimately, it comes down to low psychological resilience and low intelligence.

Using bait-and-switch tactics to get information out of those blindly loyal, stubborn, but not very bright guys is much more effective than torture.

This is called tailoring your approach to the individual.

Xia Qiyuan wanted to use this method to test whether Ai Liang knew Fang Donghai.

Ai Liang is no longer the novice he was when he first debuted. He knows everything Xia Qiyuan knows, so how could he fall for this kind of trick?

"We're all foxes from the same mountain, so let's not test each other here."

Ai Liang returned to Xia Qiyuan what he had just said.

Then he turned his attention to the manor: "The show is about to begin."

(End of this chapter)