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Chapter 866 Four Suspects

There are many mental patients in Xinhu, and normal people occasionally experience various minor brain problems. This has led to the rapid development of neurology in Xinhu. In addition, they are really willing to use patients for experiments, with a large number of volunteers. Almost every once in a while, new neurological technologies are improved.

“I’ve investigated all the top neurosurgeons in Shanghai, especially those who are knowledgeable about brain-sharing technology. I’ve identified them as key targets for investigation, but…” A hint of fear flashed in Xu Huan’s eyes: “I feel that none of them are the murderer. None of them have any motive for killing me. They have no grudge against me. Why would they specifically use brain-sharing to kill me?”

"Perhaps it was a random killing?"

“How could a random killer kill me twice, once in the past and once in the future?” Xu Huan immediately retorted. “I can feel that the killer’s eyes are always on me. Even now, he is watching me, ready to hunt me down again at any moment! It’s just that he seems to be worried about something and has not made a move yet.”

With his hands crumpling his suit jacket, Xu Huan went further, speculating, "I even suspect that the murderer has already realized I can time travel. He knows he can't really kill me right now, which is why he hasn't made a move. When he finds me again, it means he's found a real way to kill me!"

Xue Se picked up her water glass and took a sip. Just listening to Xu Huan's description, it felt like a battle of gods. One was a victim who was impossible to kill and could time travel; the other was a terrifying murderer who had completely hidden his identity and was even prepared to kill the time traveler.

"How do you know the murderer already guessed that you could time travel?"

"After I was killed in the future, I traveled to the present and tried my best to change some tragedies, such as the forest incident." Xu Huan's words were tinged with sadness: "I knew what happened to the daughter of the Director-General of the Human Rights Commission, and I went to great lengths to become her husband and arrest the people who planted the forest in advance, but they changed the planting site. I also tried my best to resolve the conflict between the forest and the people and develop medicine to save the forest, but it seems that they also knew everything and set the forest on fire in advance."

Slumped in his chair, Xu Huan rested his arms on the armrests: "In the future I traveled to, the forest will be set ablaze a month later. The fire will engulf the Autopsy Avenue and the First Rehabilitation Hospital. Many critically ill patients who were imprisoned will escape in the chaos, while others will be burned to death. Shanghai will fall into chaos. People will become increasingly dissatisfied with the Human Rights Commission and the Ethics Oversight Group, storm the judicial system, and various infectious diseases will break out. It will take three years for a new order to be established."

"The future you envision is truly bleak."

"What's worse is that even though I tried so hard to change things, all those things still happened. The forest was burned, the First Rehabilitation Hospital was attacked, the imprisoned critically ill patients escaped, and various infectious diseases lurked in the dark corners of Xinhu, ready to break out at any moment." Xu Huan said that he had the ability to time travel, but the price of each time he time traveled was that he had to experience the pain of death. What was even more despairing was that even if he traveled to other time periods, he could not change the final outcome.

"Let's not talk about those distant things. I hope you can help me catch the murderer. I don't know who the murderer is, but he's definitely connected to the darkness lurking behind the city! Catching him will be the key to uncovering all the conspiracies." Xu Huan was very sincere: "You're different from other police officers. I've seen your ending in the future and I know all your experiences. You didn't participate in the transactions between the three major organizations, you've always maintained a clear mind, and most importantly, you possess terrifying combat power, making you almost impossible to defeat."

"Why do you say that?"

"I saw it in the future. You single-handedly slaughtered the source of infection in the Death Time Community. No matter how badly you were injured, you could persevere. Your physical body is extraordinary, and your brain development is ridiculously high." Xu Huan is the kind of person who will stop at nothing to achieve his goals. As long as he gets Xue Se's help, he would kneel down without a problem. He doesn't care about his reputation at all.

"I don't even know what you're talking about myself." Xue Se's face twitched. Apart from being able to see the color of souls, he wasn't as supernatural as Xu Huan described. However, it was precisely because Xue Se could see the color of souls that he listened to Xu Huan's rambling for so long, because Xu Huan's soul was a faint and illusory thing.

"It's true, everything I said is true."

The interrogation room fell silent. Xue Se stared at the water in his glass. After receiving the call from the bureau chief, his first thought was to lead a team to investigate the Death Time neighborhood himself, turning it upside down, to rescue the informant and capture all the monsters who had borrowed lifespans—those who should be imprisoned, and those who should be executed. This perfectly matched what Xu Huan had said. The monsters in the Death Time neighborhood certainly wouldn't sit idly by. Without the support of headquarters, if the situation got out of control, he would most likely resort to violence to suppress them.

With a sigh, Xue Se put down her cup: "Tell me, how do you want me to help you?"

"Don't cause trouble for the Death Time neighborhood. Protect yourself first," Xu Huan said earnestly.

"Interesting." Xue Se didn't tell Xu Huan that the cannibalistic room in the Death Time neighborhood had specifically instructed him to kill or drive insane a person who was impossible to kill, but this "immortal" person ended up wanting to protect the Death Time neighborhood.

“The monsters in the Death Time neighborhood are not our real enemies. Our real enemy is the murderer who killed me.” Xu Huan was very certain. He took out a lot of information from his bag: “I screened all the people who could access the shared brain, plus some famous neurosurgeons I saw in the future, and finally determined this list. There are four people who are the most suspicious.”

"The first one is the director of the New Shanghai First Rehabilitation Hospital. Only the top leaders of the three major organizations have seen him. He is very mysterious. He is fully capable of committing the crime, but I can't find his motive. He and I are like two people living in the sky and the mud."

"Secondly, Mr. Shiku, the deputy head of the Moral Supervision Group. This old monster wants to turn the entire city into a deformed place in order to seize power for the deformed people. Don't be fooled by his high position in the Moral Supervision Group. In the near future, this guy will bring great disaster to Xinhu."

"The third one is your bureau chief. I can't see through him, whether in the past or the future. The police have the most secrets and maintain order in Shanghai, but he has absolutely no reason to kill me."

"The fourth one is Dr. Gao, the only neurosurgeon at the Human Entrance Hospital."

"Wait a minute." Xue Se coughed. "Isn't the difference in status and position between this fourth person and the previous three too great?"

"In the future, Dr. Gao will be the most famous neurosurgeon in Shanghai, with a perfect resume. He has developed many brain technologies and is a genius that comes along only once in a century. Most importantly, he was also at the hospital where I had my physical examination when I was killed in the past!" Xu Huan stared at Dr. Gao's name: "This Dr. Gao is highly suspicious."

“But the problem is…” Xue Se spread his hands: “He’s already dead, but the police have blocked the news. We’ve even recovered his brain.”

"died?!"

Xu Huan sat in the chair in disbelief. The future he had envisioned had changed. If Dr. Gao died, many brain technologies might not exist in the future, and patients with brain mutations might have to endure more pain and despair.

(End of this chapter)