Strange game designer.

Chapter 867 Doubt is the Greatest Cage
The prime suspect is dead and could not possibly be the murderer.

"Could I have predicted the wrong direction?" Xu Huan's pupils contracted. "Was Dr. Gao also killed by the mastermind behind the scenes? Could my killer also be a time traveler? Did he foresee the enormous role Dr. Gao would play in the future and kill him ahead of time? No! This can't be right!"

“You were killed once in the past and once in the future, but now Dr. Gao is dead, so he is definitely not the one who killed you in the future.” Xue Se looked at the other three suspects on the list. These three were all of higher status and position than the last, making the investigation extremely difficult.

Putting everything else aside, he wasn't even qualified to investigate Director Xue.

On the other side of the table, Xu Huan was still immersed in the shock of Dr. Gao's death. The future he saw might be greatly changed because of the death of a key figure, and some predictions might not be so accurate.

“If Dr. Gao is also a victim, then there are only three suspects left. Although it’s tricky, at least we have a direction to investigate.” Xu Huan paused for a long time before speaking: “I’m worried that it’s another situation. Dr. Gao is an accomplice. They realized that I could travel through time and deduced that the future had already been seen. They decisively used their own deaths to disrupt my prediction of the future and bring both sides back to the same level.”

"No one should be that smart and ruthless, right?" Xue Se shook his head. He had seen many criminals, and the proportion of so-called high-IQ criminals was negligible, because a high enough IQ would allow them to reap more money within the rules than from committing crimes.

"I've already managed to time travel, so perhaps other people's brains will also mutate into some strange abilities." Xu Huan looked at Xue Se with a pleading expression: "Could you take me to see Dr. Gao's brain and his corpse?"

"The body is fine, but the brain is not. His brain contains the seeds of the forest and part of the truth, which has been classified as top secret." Xue Se waved his hand in refusal.

"I want to try sharing my brain with Dr. Gao. If I can share my brain with him, I can understand..."

"Don't even think about it." Xue Se didn't give Xu Huan a chance to finish speaking: "His brain has been crushed by the collective will of the forest. At most, he will completely collapse after one more brain-sharing session. How could the director possibly give you this opportunity? Didn't your human rights committee take away the brain of the core patient of the forest? Her brain can still undergo three brain-sharing sessions. Let your father-in-law try to get it for you."

"Is it really not possible?" Xu Huan was still unwilling to give up. To be honest, he felt that Dr. Gao was the most suspicious person, but now the other party was dead.

"How about I kill you now and let you travel to other time periods to see if there's a chance?" Xue Se believed part of what Xu Huan said, and he stuffed the documents on the table into his pocket: "What are your plans next? Or rather, who do you plan to start investigating?"

Xu Huan took a long time to raise his head: "Eat."

"Why him?" Xue Se felt that the identity of the ghoul was very sensitive. The other party represented the entire deformed group of people in New Shanghai, and a single move would have far-reaching consequences.

“The director of the First Rehabilitation Hospital is nowhere to be found. The hospital was breached by trees in the forest, and the fire caused such massive damage, yet he hasn't shown up. It's illogical. My father-in-law also warned me not to ask about the director's schedule; in his eyes, neither his daughter nor I are as important as the director.” Xu Huan gave a bitter laugh. “As for your bureau chief, he's even harder to approach. In comparison, Shishi is a good entry point. We can use the public's dissatisfaction with deformed people and the Moral Supervision Committee's subsidies for them to make a fuss, and find others to test Shishi.”

Xu Huan then took out another document: "I have compiled information on twenty-seven deformed people. They are the tentacles of the cannibalism reaching into various industries. There should be someone among them who can become a breakthrough point."

After glancing at the information, Xue Se nodded. Xu Huan was indeed a time traveler; he had more comprehensive information than the police.

"I'll have to trouble you now, Officer Xue. Remember not to let anger cloud your judgment, and never step into the Death Time Community. Our real enemy isn't the source of those infectious diseases, but a deeply hidden and terrifying entity." Xu Huan repeatedly warned him. He had made various deductions based on what he saw of the future and calculated that Xue Se was a crucial link. That's why he was willing to risk exposing himself to cooperate with Xue Se.

"Okay." Xue Se's reaction was calm: "If there's nothing else, you can leave." "Leave?" Xu Huan waved his hands repeatedly: "Officer Xue, I've said so much, even revealing my identity as a transmigrator, just to gain your complete trust. From now on, I will stay with you, and except for a few special times, I will not leave your sight."

"Are you crazy?" Xue Se's eyelids twitched; he didn't want to live and eat with a madman.

“I could be killed at any moment. Staying with you might help you find some clues.” Xu Huan had been killed twice, and now he was not afraid of death; he just wanted to die in a more meaningful way.

Unable to be driven away, unable to be chased away, and unafraid of death, Xu Huan was like a regenerating plaster, which made Xue Se even more irritated.

"I'll keep an eye on you to prevent you from doing anything impulsive and to keep you from going crazy again." Xu Huan wished he could snatch Xue Se's handcuffs and cuff the two of them together.

"Do as you please." Xue Se walked out of the interrogation room, with Xu Huan following closely behind. When he returned to his office, he saw the naked Old Ma again, and felt a headache coming on.

"Who is this?"

"I am Dr. Gao's horse."

"Dr. Gao? He really does look handsome." Xu Huan was delighted at the sight of him and approached Lao Ma as if admiring a work of art.

"You flatter me, you flatter me. I've lost a lot of weight in the Death Time neighborhood," Old Ma said proudly.

"Quiet, quiet!" Xue Se closed the office door, sat down in a chair, with all the documents provided by Xu Huan in front of her and the director's transfer order on the other side.

His informant was trapped in the Death Time Community after rescuing him. Xu Huan, who claimed to be a time traveler, forbade him from entering the Death Time Community, saying that he and the monsters in the community were not enemies and wanted to ease tensions between them. The problem is that the monsters in the Death Time Community want to kill someone who is impossible to kill. Based on the information they have now, Xu Huan is very likely the person the monsters in the community want to kill.

Whom should we believe?

"This is too chaotic!" Xue Se frowned, when Chen Bing and several police officers suddenly rushed into the house.

"Xue Se! Gather the brothers and set off immediately! The First Rehabilitation Hospital needs reinforcements!"

"Wasn't the fire at the First Rehabilitation Hospital all put out?"

"Patients have rioted! Several critically ill patients have escaped in the chaos!" Chen Bing's expression turned unusually serious: "Damn it, there are several serial killers among them! There have already been deaths at the hospital!"

(End of this chapter)