A Scientific Urban Detective.

Chapter 219 Gufa Meiwei's Plea

"So," after talking to the guard teacher for a few words, the telepathic reader asked again, "Where is the underground arena? And when is the so-called next season?"

Shibata Saburo shook his head. "I don't know... No, I'm not hiding it, I really don't know. The location of each competition is different, including the address, time, how to get there, and passwords. All of this information is highly confidential. It's only sent to us in encrypted form via anonymous email 24 hours before the official start of the competition. Before that, no one knows anything."

"Your mobile phone and email accounts are now all taken over by the security forces." The guard in charge of the interrogation said immediately.

Shibata Saburo nodded, then shook his head: "Of course there is no problem with this, I've been arrested..."

He raised his hand to show the handcuffs on his hand, and then continued, "But I think it's highly likely that I won't receive the email—the organizers must have known about my arrest a long time ago. They can't risk being discovered and continue to contact me."

For some reason, Saburo Shibata now seems much more relaxed, no longer as tense and hysterical as before.

It's like, after entering the prison, you feel safe.

"You seem afraid of them?" asked the guard.

"Of course," Shibata Saburo admitted without hesitation. "How could an organization capable of hosting such a horrific tournament be some kindhearted little white rabbit? It's said that the organizer possesses enough power to suppress all competitors, which is why they're able to dominate the entire underground arena."

"Also..." Shibata Saburo said with lingering fear, "I also heard that a certain partner once tried to leak information about the underground arena, but disappeared a few days later. No one has seen that person since."

Therefore, after realizing that the situation was hopeless and he could no longer escape the sanctions of the guard forces, Saburo Shibata went to the other extreme and decisively demanded to be imprisoned immediately.

——Facing the assassination attempt by the organizer of the underground arena, perhaps the prison of the guard force is the safest place.

"In the end, we still failed to obtain any substantial intelligence." Gufa Meiwei said with regret.

After the interrogation, Lin Wuming and the other three, as key figures in solving the case, also accepted the record-keeping investigation by the security forces.

It was not until the afternoon that we left the guard force headquarters.

Lin Wuming asked, "Is Gufa also investigating the underground arena?"

"Yes, actually..."

Gufa Meiwei no longer concealed anything and told everyone what he had discussed with Jixiong Shetani and Mianliu Kurozuma yesterday.

Through a series of events today, she realized that Lin Wuming was quite talented in detective reasoning, so she could ask him to help search for clues about the "underground arena".

Lin Wuming heard her thoughts and smiled bitterly, "You think too highly of me, classmate Gufa. He did such a good job of keeping it a secret that I have no clue what he was doing."

Gufa Meiwei wasn't too disappointed, but continued to ask, "So where should we start investigating next? Does Wuming have any suggestions?"

Lin Wuming said: "The idea is actually very clear. First of all, we have to find that underground arena - otherwise, nothing can be done. Since Saburo Shibata may have been discovered and arrested by the other party, then we can change the target and let him 'take us' to that arena..." In fact, the idea mentioned by Lin Wuming is exactly the next direction of the guard unit's investigation.

Because now they have obtained the key information - the source of the underground arena's prize money.

The organizers chose to use "life insurance" to "raise" the prize money. In fact, they don't have to pay any price, which is equivalent to getting something for nothing. Such a useful plan certainly cannot be declared over because of the loss of a partner.

It is certain that the organizer of the underground arena must have the same cooperation with other insurance companies.

Therefore, the next line of investigation is very clear. We will investigate all insurance companies in Academy City, through inspection, or let them conduct self-inspection of the internal flow of funds in the company. As long as the flow of funds involves tens of billions of scale, we can basically identify the target.

It is probably impossible for the insurance company itself to do such a loss-making business, so there must be insiders like Saburo Shibata who were lured by the organizers to become their partners.

As long as we can find these people, we can get to the underground arena through them without attracting the attention of the organizers.

Therefore, although a fairly large-scale investigation has been launched, in order to avoid alerting the suspects, the entire investigation is conducted in secret.

Lin Wuming and others who came up with the same idea were also asked to keep it confidential and not disclose the operation to the outside world.

Moreover, because it involves an investigation into a large enterprise, it has long exceeded the authority of the Discipline Committee, and Lin Wuming and others have no reason to continue following up on this case.

Lin Wuming and Hu Feng Toumi didn't care. They were just a little curious, but they didn't have much obsession with the "underground arena" case itself.

But Gufa Meiwei is different. Her former partner has been dragged into the underground arena and is still missing. Moreover, she is also shouldering the expectations of Kurozuma Mianliu. She must use the channels of the Discipline Committee to gather more valuable information to prepare for the rescue of her companions.

After realizing the dangers of the underground arena - especially the mortality rate of over 99% - Gufa Meiwei could no longer sit still.

She didn't care about too much, put aside her face and dignity, bowed her head and begged Lin Wuming for help, and thought about whether there were other breakthroughs for investigation.

Lin Wuming also felt a headache about this. It wasn't that he didn't want to help, it was really...

"I've already said it, I'm really not a detective," Lin Wuming said with a helpless smile, "I can't offer any valuable suggestions!"

That’s right, it’s not that he doesn’t want to help, but Lin Wuming really can’t think of any more ideas.

"Stop being so modest, Wuming-san!" Gufa Meiwei was unconvinced. "Your judgment and reasoning skills are obvious to all. You played a key role in this '100 million yen theft case'. You even figured out the next step faster than the security teachers every time."

"Also," Gufa Meiwei had also done a lot of research, "didn't those operations before you joined the Discipline Committee also accurately destroy multiple illegal experimental institutions without any intelligence, saving so many innocent children?"

Gufa Meiwei looked at Lin Wuming with expectant eyes.

(End of this chapter)