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Chapter 787 This is the truth

"It hurts so much!" Jia Youzhi screamed from his hospital bed. "Director Li, that shady clinic is shady. It feels like my heart has been ripped out!"

"Your heart has been ripped out, how can you survive?" Wu Wei put on her coat. She trusted Li Sansi completely, and although she had doubts, she didn't ask any more questions.

The lilac in the corner, draped in a veil, looked down at the gruesome stitched wound, as if a centipede were crawling on her chest.

For some reason, Gao Ming's words at the underground clinic flashed through her mind—"To the innocent of us?"
Are there any innocent people in this city?
"Get dressed. It's not time to rest yet. I'll take you to see the truth." Gao Ming's face and body were wrapped in thick bandages. The wound on his chest was equally gruesome, with each stitch sewn into the flesh, the black thread carrying a deep sorrow.

"Director Li, actually I'm not that eager to know the truth." Jia Youzhi, still lying in bed, said sincerely, "Living like this is quite nice."

"Get up quickly. Do what Director Li tells you to do, and stop whining." Wu Wei grabbed the thin, scrawny Jia Youzhi and lifted him up. After moving her arms and legs to make sure the wound wouldn't affect her, she casually picked up the heavy camera: "Director Li, where are we going?"

“Go to the place where I grew up, and I’ll show you my past.” Gao Ming glanced at the silent Ding Xiang and tossed her a set of cleaning clothes.

After dressing neatly, the group left the refugee camp. Bai Ehou had already prepared a car, and Wansheng Hall Master, who had been transformed by Gao Ming, sat in the driver's seat, ready to personally drive Gao Ming away.

"You three can squeeze in the back." Gao Ming sat in the passenger seat, the door locked, and began to listen to Bai Ehou's report.

"The gangs in the Eighth District robbed the hospital in the City Council building. The Fifth District was under information blockade and became an isolated island. We don't know what's going on inside. As of now, three councilors have been killed and two are missing. The negative impact of the out-of-control restricted area is still expanding, but only the Tzu Chi Foundation, cleaning companies, and a small number of councilors are actively engaged in disaster relief."

"Any movement over in the thirteenth block?" Gao Ming asked casually, leaning back in his chair.

"We have received reliable information that the Montenegro restricted area has basically returned to normal. The 13th district is the headquarters of the municipal council, and they will not allow chaos there for long."

"So fast?" Gao Ming frowned slightly. He had entered the Black Mountain Forbidden Zone before. The so-called Black Mountain was actually the massive flesh and blood of the Dark Shrine's master. Since the Dream Ghost wanted to take over the Dark Shrine, the Black Mountain Forbidden Zone was on the list of things that had to be destroyed. "Is there any other news?"

“There’s a serious disagreement within the municipal council, but I can’t find out the specifics. Oh, and there’s new information about the Fire Seed organization that you asked me to keep an eye on.” Bai Ehou glanced at the rearview mirror, as if worried that Jia Youzhi and his men might leak information.

"It's okay, we're all family."

"With the collapse of the three major gangs in the Seventh District, the Fire Seed organization emerged as the biggest winner. However, instead of expanding further, they went into hiding, contrary to their usual behavior. Now, the Seventh District has no municipal council hall or gangs; it is entirely governed by the citizens themselves, and reconstruction work has begun."

"The spark hasn't gone into hiding; it has instead permeated the citizens of the Seventh District, burning in the hearts of everyone." Gao Ming rarely showed a smile. When he first came into contact with the people of the Spark Organization and found that they were all wearing strange armbands, he guessed who the mastermind behind the Spark Organization was.

It was precisely because Gao Ming guessed the other party's identity that he sent An Luan's head and Li Sansi's mother to the Seventh District, so that they could become new sparks.

The vehicle entered the second block and arrived at the entrance to the underground water network. The journey was unimpeded. Nowadays, even cleaning companies would not arbitrarily block the vehicles of Tzu Chi Foundation executives.

Showing his credentials and stating the purpose he had fabricated three minutes earlier, Gao Ming instructed Bai Ehou to guard the entrance to the underground water network while he led three subordinates deeper into the network.

The lights above their heads went out and came on again, and occasionally a startled rat could be seen scurrying by. Gao Ming and his companions trudged through the slippery moss, enduring the stench emanating from the sewage beside them, and made their way deeper into the underground water network.

"Director Li, there's a sign saying 'No Entry' here. This is a restricted area!"

"Director Li, there's a corpse floating in the water!" "Holy crap! I saw a snake over ten meters long!"

"Let's go back. Wait, why has the road changed? I don't remember there being any forks in the road here!"

After passing through mountains of garbage, crawling into pipes, and passing abandoned monitoring stations, Gao Ming did not encounter the madwoman named "Auntie" this time. He led his subordinates to continue into the darker place.

The First Forbidden Zone is the final destination of countless interwoven trains of life, but this underground network of water seems to have no end in sight. There is always a darkness deeper than darkness itself, and evil seems to have no limits.

The sound of flowing water gradually grew louder, and the bandages wrapped around Gao Ming's face loosened slightly. He didn't look at them, letting Li Sansi's malice envelop his body.

Something seemed to be calling to him from the depths of the water network, drawing him to merge with it. Gao Ming no longer resisted, but focused his will and strength on his heart, guarding the still powerfully beating heart of flesh and blood.

"Coming."

"Where am I? Director Li! I can't see anything!"

The air grew increasingly humid, filled with a foul stench that was hard to describe—not the usual smell of a corpse, but something that seemed to be rotting even the memories themselves.

The black water flowed slowly, burying all the unsightly aspects of the city beneath the darkness.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, the bandages on Gao Ming's face slowly slipped off, revealing that his eyes were now just two dark holes.

Just as those two holes were lifted, Gao Ming saw a deep black pool.

Countless pipes crisscross overhead, carrying the city's sewage. Secrets discarded by people and those they don't want others to see fall into the deep pool through these pipes, becoming part of the darkness.

A faint light appeared as Wu Wei turned on the light attached to the camera, and her three subordinates also saw the deep pool in front of them.

Something seemed to have been touched in his mind, and even the usually talkative Jia Youzhi became quiet.

With his hands extended from his sleeves, Gao Ming's arms bulged with malevolent black veins. Overusing the flesh-and-blood demons and Li Sansi's malice, he and Li Sansi had merged together. In other words, he would slowly become the puppet of the master of the dark shrine, or a spare body.

"This is the truth, do you see it?"

Following the direction Gao Ming pointed, the female celebrity's photo was soaked and ruined, and a pale, bloated corpse floated in the sewage. From her clothes to her appearance, one could still vaguely see a resemblance to Ding Xiang.

Next to the female celebrity's body was a tall, robust woman wearing a custom-made suit, with a physique similar to Wu Wei's.

Next came a emaciated corpse dressed head-to-toe in designer brands, its face rotten from being soaked, and its skeleton almost identical to Jia Youzhi's.

“The three of you died a long time ago, killed by my own hands.” Gao Ming said to himself, “How could anyone be willing to stay with a monster like me? The only one who will stay with me is myself.”

(End of this chapter)