Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 681 The Murderer... It's Me!
Less than half an hour after Zheng Fan and Lin Yilin left the Modish family mansion, news of the entire Modish family being wiped out spread like wildfire.

The once-powerful family in the Central District vanished without a trace, and the topic of the murderer immediately became a hot topic in every corner of the Central District, but no matter which channel it came from, no one could give a specific explanation.

Given the recent situation in the Central District, this is clearly not a good sign for most people.

Many groups closely associated with Modish are now living in fear, with some even packing their bags and fleeing. No one can predict whether they will be next. If the Modish family can disappear so cleanly, what chance do most forces less powerful than Modish have?

The value of the Prism program has once again been questioned. This was the perfect opportunity for them to make their mark, yet they couldn't even retain one of their biggest financial backers.

At the same time, calls for the liberation of the Disposal Bureau quickly emerged: the Disposal Bureau had just been completely restricted in its operations, and then such a big incident occurred. Doesn't this indirectly demonstrate the importance of the Disposal Bureau?

Some factions within the central interest groups also hesitated.

Everyone initially thought the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics was unreliable, but now it seems at least a little more reliable than those scheming Prism units.

At this moment, the police have intervened in the investigation, but as everyone knows, most police officers are just doing their jobs and appeasing the public; they have no chance of finding anything in the Modish family's estate.

Meanwhile, the Prism members at the Prism unit's outpost behind the police station were also somewhat bewildered.

They were all in high spirits early in the morning, but now some of them have come back from lunch and find that the situation seems to be turning around.
What does it mean that their value is seriously questioned? What does it mean that the dog they keep is suspected of devouring its owner? What does it mean that it would be better to lift the restrictions imposed by the processing bureau and let the processing bureau take over?

"Half-immortal, explain yourself clearly," someone demanded sharply of the still complacent fat man.

Although most of the core members of the Prism Unit were recruited with their own ulterior motives, there were also some who genuinely felt proud of their status after joining the Prism Unit and believed that they were already superior to others.

Some people only see this place as a temporary refuge, but others genuinely feel that this platform is very important.

The group of people now appearing before Jian Banxian are just like that. Most of them are descendants of certain families in the central government who are relatively ignorant and incompetent.

Of course, legitimate descendants with high expectations wouldn't be sent here. Even if they were, they wouldn't be core members; at most, they'd be doing odd jobs on the periphery.

To say their abilities are bad is an understatement; they're not too bad if they can pass the basic screening, but they're clearly not up to par.

“What outsiders say doesn’t matter, but the family and the group are questioning us! This is a major issue that threatens our very foundation!” someone emphasized.

Bai Qiangwei and Hei Rang stood behind Jian Banxian, looking somewhat helpless.

They both obeyed Jian Banxian's orders and were considered his confidants, but they were also surprised by the current development of events.

"The news spread too fast. Even some of us only found out about it relatively recently. There must be someone behind this, and it's definitely targeting Prism! Jian Banxian, you have the closest relationship with Mordish, you must know something! We didn't bother with your mysterious ways before, but it's different now!"

Such a scandalous piece of news certainly couldn't have been released by the Prism team themselves.

Even if they were to pull a classic trick of turning black into white and pin the blame on Lin Yilin and Zheng Fan for breaking into the Modish mansion, or shift the blame to the underworld, although it would be easy, the focus of the problem that is being intensified behind the scenes is not that.

The Prism forces failed to protect one of their biggest financial backers, and the Modish family was wiped out without anyone noticing.

This is the biggest problem. White Rose and Black Soil glanced at Jian Banxian with some tension.

However, the Modish family was killed by the Prism Force captain, Jian Banxian, and there is no reasonable explanation for this.

"Everyone, please calm down..."

"Enough nonsense, Jian Banxian. You're the one who killed the Modish family, aren't you? What exactly do you want?" A man stepped forward, his power surging, already prepared.

"Oh?" Jian Banxian's smile remained unchanged, but he was curious about how this person had obtained this answer.

Many members of the Prism unit around were also taken aback by this statement. Although many people had their doubts about Jian Banxian, it was truly courageous of them to stand in front of him and point it out so directly.

"Dae-tae, isn't this a bit too much?" Some centrists still didn't want things to get so tense within the military at this critical juncture. Directly accusing the other side of being a mole was a bit too extreme and risked causing division.

Da Tian didn't end it that simply: "It's not an exaggeration. Rather, if we exclude other exaggerated accidents that fall from the sky, there is a more realistic possibility in front of us."

His eyes were fixed on Jian Banxian, as if trying to see right through him: "You are the member among us who is closest to the Modish family. You are basically a member of the Modish family, frequently visiting their mansion. It is obvious that you are valued and trusted by them. To be able to prevent the Modish family from launching a major retaliation, to catch them off guard, to ensure that so many people failed to escape the mansion, and to make our Prism Force, which should have reacted, only realize this after others leaked the news... Within our known scope, isn't only you, Jian Banxian, capable of doing all this!?"

For a moment, no one spoke, but many people believed Da Tian's words to some extent, and some even agreed with them.

This speculation is reasonable and well-founded.

In the case of any other murderer, Mordish would clearly have put up a significant and swift resistance. Such a large manor house, with its numerous security measures, what circumstances could have prevented even one person from escaping when faced with an enemy?
Where are the Prism troops who are supposed to protect Modish, and why are they not responding to this?

The Mordish family's most trusted Prism Force members were only Jian Banxian and his close associates. Naturally, the Prism Force members responsible for protecting the Mordish family could only be Jian Banxian and his men.

Leaving aside the possibility of a mysterious expert silently crushing the Modish family and then leaving without a trace—a scenario that, while not impossible in Dadu, is not worth discussing—Da Tian's skepticism is quite credible.

No evidence is needed. The Prism team is not an evidence-based organization. As long as Jian Banxian cannot convince them, they will definitely impeach him at this critical juncture, or even take direct action against him.

After the scene quieted down a bit, Jian Banxian slowly opened his mouth and smiled, "Yes, you guessed right. The murderer is me."

Da Tian had already planned how to continue his attack if Jian Banxian refuted him, so as not to let the other party evade the issue.

But no one expected that Jian Banxian would admit it so easily.

So here's the question: knowing that revealing one's identity as the murderer would put them in a very disadvantageous position, why would the murderer still reveal their identity...?

What will the other characters present face?

Everyone immediately felt a bone-chilling cold pierce their minds.

(End of this chapter)