From the end of the world

Chapter 109 Interrogation 3
It was an ordinary night, and he attended the drinking party of the dignitaries as usual. Although he sat at the same table, he could only smile and toast, and he had no way to talk back when he was scolded and lectured.

Born in the underworld, he is not truly trusted by the powerful. Many people are polite to him on the surface, but secretly treat him as an "untamed dog". As long as he is still willing to be an obedient tool, he can continue to sit at this table; once he loses trust, he will be kicked off the table, or even served on the table.

And precisely because he was born in the lower class, he had a strong sense of inferiority and self-esteem when facing those wealthy and powerful people. This inferiority and self-esteem became extremely distorted after suffering humiliation from the powerful and powerful people, making his heart filled with anger and resentment like poisonous fire.

He felt that his career and life had hit a ceiling that was invisible to the naked eye but extremely clear. It was impossible for him to truly cross the class barrier in his generation through personal efforts. He analyzed the reasons day and night, sometimes attributing it to the environment, sometimes to his background, and sometimes even to his wife.

Yes, he would even blame his wife, and the idea was not groundless.

In Xianshui City, there is a politician named "Ying Lingyun", who is said to be from the grassroots like him and is about the same age as him. He has also been involved in shameful underground social activities.

In stark contrast to him, the politician hooked up with the daughter of the local hidden wealthy family "Zhu Family" when he was young. He relied on the daughter of the Zhu Family to achieve class leap and then smoothly entered the political arena. The black materials left over from his involvement in the underworld did not affect his career at all. Even many local dignitaries who bossed him around had to flatter the politician, and the latter used to treat him as a small person and trampled on him at will.

They both came from the grassroots, so why was it that the other person could rise to prominence while he could only swallow his anger? The anger and resentment in his heart became more and more twisted and swollen, and finally bombarded the wife who had accompanied him from the countryside to the city.

This is the truth behind the dramatic change in Goldfish's parents' relationship after he graduated from elementary school.

After the drinking party that night, he stumbled on the way home, reeking of alcohol and feeling extremely humiliated.

At this moment, a figure wearing a silver mask appeared in front of him like a ghost.

It was a night that changed my life.

"Do you want power?"

"...You mean, power?"

"It has nothing to do with power and wealth, fame and background. It is a power that can easily surpass those mundane things and is beyond the comprehension of mortals..." The other party's voice echoed in his ears like the whisper of a devil, "real power."

"The real power..."

To a normal person, the other party's words sounded like crazy talk, but incredibly, he understood and believed them.

Once he agreed, he would become a being other than human, and would have to feed on human souls from now on. He understood and believed this. The voice seemed to have an incredible charm that helped him skip the stage of questioning and doubting. He began to seriously consider whether to accept the power granted by the other party.

What a joke, there is no need to hesitate when such a good thing comes to your doorstep. He nodded without hesitation.

From that night on, he was no longer a human being, but a monster.

After becoming a weirdo, he began to prey on the powerful and influential people who had humiliated him in the past and the marginalized groups in society that no one cared about.

In order to avoid being tracked down by the official forces, normal people would definitely pay great attention to the post-processing of the bodies even if they wanted to kill the powerful, and it would be best to treat them as accidental deaths or disappearances. However, his thinking was completely opposite. Out of revenge and confidence in his own supernatural powers, he deliberately made the scene where the victims died without a complete body, making the powerful people panic all day long.

At the same time, he still couldn't let go of his past ambitions and desires, and wanted to push his human identity to realize the dream of class crossing. Therefore, he found a nightclub owner who had a strong voice and connections in the local upper class, and forced him to obey him.

He specifically chose the role of a nightclub owner as his "collaborator", which seems puzzling at first glance, but there are actually two reasons for this.

First, the reason why the nightclub owner has such a strong voice and connections is because she has a lot of dirty information about local dignitaries. This matter is an "open secret" among the local upper class. The shadow-changing weirdo, who is tired of being used against others, is eager to stand in the position of using dirt on others.

Second, the Shadow Changer is a frequent visitor to this nightclub. He took a fancy to a worker in the nightclub and wanted to "buy out" the other party's "right to use" as soon as possible. For this reason, he did not hesitate to reveal his weirdo form in front of the nightclub owner.

The object of his fancy is the youngest girl in this nightclub. The shadow-changing monster has a perverted tendency to like girls. In the past, he was brought to this nightclub by other dignitaries to play, and the first one he chose was this little girl.

At first, he chose this girl just for excitement, but after forcing the girl to take off her mask and seeing her true face, he immediately fell in love with her. After that, he would choose this girl every time he entered the nightclub, and even bring clothes that fit her body shape for her to wear, or take out accessories such as hairpins from somewhere to dress her up carefully.

In the past, Jinyu relied on the fact that the staff in the nightclub had the right to refuse customers' requests to take off their masks, and based on this, she made a plan to frame her father. Facts have proved that many dignitaries who are guests do not care about this rule, and will not be held accountable even if they break the rules.

As for most of the interactions between the Shadow Changer and the little girl at night, Lu Youxun, who was interrogating and reading the Shadow Changer's surface thoughts, of course did not elaborate on them to us, but he told us that the Shadow Changer did not seem to be truly inhumane.

The Shadow Changer has some basic sense of guilt as a human being for beating his wife and daughter in the past, and for killing people everywhere as a monster, causing many families to be broken up. In addition, he also has a lot of sadness and regret for the rough life he has experienced over the years, which he cannot tell others.

He told all these things to the thin and timid little girl as if he was confessing to a nun, and asked the little girl to hold him like a mother holds her child during the process.

He acted like a child, acting coquettishly towards the other person, and even buried his face in the other person's chest like a baby.

The shadow-changing weirdo who was forced to reveal these secrets by Lu Youxun's magic was like an internet user whose browser history was displayed in public with a projector. His eyes were red with anger and he shouted in great shame, "You bastard... You bastard!"

Zhu Shi showed an expression as if his brain had stopped working. After a while, he finally uttered a word: "...What?"

"It's understandable, actually. Since ancient times, men have had two major fantasies. One is to sacrifice one's life for justice and ideals; the other is to be unconditionally loved and forgiven by a pure girl." Lu Youxun sighed, "Many men will fantasize about seeking maternal love from younger girls after encountering sad things. For example, I used to..."

Seeing that such a well-dressed man actually expressed empathy, Zhu Shi looked at him with more and more disgust, and Ma Zao quietly moved away from him without saying a word.

I interrupted him politely, "Lu Youxun, have you read too much of the Shadow Changer's surface thoughts and your thinking has been affected?"

"...Ahem!" Lu Youxun woke up as if from a dream. He coughed twice and said, "Sorry, I'm off topic. It seems that this glove tool used for interrogation does have some side effects. Reading other people's thoughts for a long time will have this kind of effect. It's really dangerous. I almost got influenced by this pervert who likes girls."

Zhu Shi squinted and said, "Although excessive use of the mind-reading ability is indeed susceptible to the influence of the object, but you..."

"What do you know?" The Shadow-Changer seemed to want to save some dignity, and began to speak some sophistry that was hard to listen to, "Every mature woman grew up from a young girl. If you can't fall in love with a little girl, it's like you can't fall in love with a complete person..."

"You better shut up!"

Lu Youxun seemed to have cast some magic through his hand that was grabbing the shadow-changing monster's head. The latter immediately showed a look of pain on his face and was unable to continue speaking.

Not only that, the whole body of the Shadow Changer also underwent a drastic change. It quickly shrank from a demonic monster to a human form of only about 1.7 meters.

After watching him use the monster form for a long time, it was visually strange to see him suddenly change back to human form. And the silk bathrobe he was wearing was completely burned to ashes by me. Now he was naked and tied to the tree trunk by the flaming palm, which was really unsightly.

"My power!" he cried out in disbelief.

"Well... you were rejected by the Heart Seed." Zhu Shi observed with a penetrating look and said in a tone of judgment, "Although Ma had pulled back the Heart Seed that wanted to leave you earlier, it doesn't mean that the Heart Seed will accept you again. The reason why you didn't remove your monster form right away is because the Heart Seed hasn't run away yet.

"But as long as you apply some strong external stimulation like just now, your monster form will be popped like a bubble, and you will never be able to return to your original form."

The Shadow-Shadow Man had an expression as if the sky was falling.

(End of this chapter)