Genshin Impact: Ningguang is still a pitiful little thing, I invested in her.

The head chef sensed something was off and instinctively told him that it was best not to linger there.

Just as he turned to leave, Paimon and Ying blocked the doorway.

"You can't leave!" Paimon, in his guise of justice, shouted.

The head chef's smile froze: "No, we can't leave? Why can't we leave?"

"Alright, stop acting." Fang Xun stood up and said bluntly.

“We have located the Fools’ camp and found a great deal of evidence pointing to your betrayal of the Fools.”

"It's a misunderstanding, this must be a misunderstanding. How could a cook like me know anything about fighting and killing?"

"Treason is even more impossible. Our group has lived on Haiqi Island for generations. There is really no reason for us to defect to the enemy."

The head chef's answers were reasonable and well-founded, and he would occasionally cast a pleading glance at Chizuru Sangokami.

However, Chizuru Sangokami ignored it and waved her hand, signaling the soldiers to arrest the head chef.

"You've arrested the wrong person! I haven't been to the cave!" the head chef shouted.

"Did I say cave?" Fang Xun asked back.

The head chef was speechless for a moment.

"You tricked me?" Realizing the situation belatedly, he became furious and embarrassed.

Once his mask was removed, his previous smiling demeanor vanished, replaced by indifference and resentment.

"The evidence is conclusive; I just want you to admit it yourself," Fang Xun replied casually.

With things having come to this point, the head chef gave up resisting.

He took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "I admit it, I have indeed joined the Fools."

"Why did you do this? Neither Coral Palace nor Umijima Island should have mistreated you." Coral Palace Chizuru asked incredulously.

"They certainly didn't mistreat me, but the Fools gave me even more!" the head chef replied confidently.

"Look at my legs. I was injured and paralyzed years ago. The doctor said I would never be able to walk again for the rest of my life."

"It was Lord Dottore who healed my wounds, allowing me to maintain a normal life!"

Chizuru Sangokami had some recollection of this incident. At the time, the head chef was hanging things out to dry on the roof when he accidentally fell and broke his spine, resulting in paralysis of his lower body.

At the time, all the doctors gave the head chef a 'death sentence,' saying that he would be bedridden for the rest of his life.

However, just last year, to everyone's surprise, the head chef was able to walk again.

Although he walks with a limp, it's much better than being bedridden.

At the time, no one knew how he did it, but now it seems he had the help of the Fools.

"How did Dotole he treat you?" Chizuru Sangokami asked.

The head chef snorted: "Lord Dotole found me a special medicine from Sumeru, and I have been taking it every day for a month."

A miracle drug?

Coral Palace Chizuru was silent for a moment, her expression serious: "The special medicine you mentioned may be an illegal drug that Sumeru has long since abolished and banned."

"It can indeed help you get back on your feet, but the side effects are also obvious, and it will rapidly shorten your lifespan."

"How could that be? Lord Dotole said that the special medicine has no side effects. You're just trying to sow discord!"

“I am not trying to sow discord, but stating the facts.” Coral Palace shook its head.

"Actually, you should be able to feel the discomfort in your body even without me saying it, right?"

"I am sensitive to both cold and heat, have frequent headaches, and feel like insects are crawling all over my body in the middle of the night."

Sangokami Chizuru spoke each word carefully.

After he finished speaking, the head chef fell silent.

"Lord Dotore said that these rejection phenomena are normal and will pass after a while."

Sangokami Chizuru sighed helplessly: "The person who really lied to you is that guy named Dotole. He was using you from beginning to end and never cared about your life or death."

“That’s impossible.” The head chef shook his head.

It's less that he didn't want to believe Chizuru Sangomi's words, and more that he didn't want to accept the facts.

In the end, he sat helplessly on the ground, completely lost and dejected.

"Ask whatever you want, as long as I know it," the head chef said to Fang Xun.

He knew that Fang Xun must be very confused right now.

"How many people from the Fools have infiltrated Haiqi Island in total?" Fang Xun asked.

“Three. One soldier is already dead, and only Dotore and I are left.”

"What does Dotore look like?"

"I don't know. Every time I meet him, he appears through a projection."

"Judging from his voice, he's probably a middle-aged man around my age."

The head chef wanted to add more details, but his expression suddenly turned painful, and then contorted into a grimace.

Senpaku Chizuru realized something was wrong and immediately shouted, "Quickly, get a doctor!"

Fang Xun didn't want the children to see this scene and be traumatized, so he quickly asked the traveler to take the children away.

In just a few moments, the head chef had already lost all signs of life.

The doctor, who arrived late, ended up having to perform an autopsy on the head chef.

He died of acute poisoning.

He died of poisoning again, just like the soldier Fang Xun had interrogated before.

Did Dotore detonate some kind of device inside them nearby?

Fang Xun looked around, wanting to use his mind-reading ability to find Dotore.

But found nothing.

...

With everyone's auspicious words, the author has successfully drawn Fu Xuan, and will continue to update daily for the next ten days, including the National Day holiday.

Chapter 501 Too many coincidences, all premeditated.

"Fang Xun, didn't we expose the Fools' mole? But you don't seem very happy."

Pai Mengfei stood beside Fang Xun and asked with concern.

Although she is usually carefree and a little dim-witted, she is very perceptive and can sense changes in everyone's mood.

After the head chef died from poisoning, Fang Xun spent his time alone, looking thoughtful.

"I was thinking... I was just about to dig deep into the Fatui's spies, but the spies surfaced on their own."

"Was all of this a coincidence, or was it deliberately orchestrated?"

Fang Xun and his group had only been on Haiqi Island for a short time when Goro ran over and said that they had stumbled upon a hidden cave.

But was all of this really just a fluke?

It was as if an invisible hand was pushing them in a predetermined direction.

Fang Xun belatedly realized that something was wrong and that the whole thing couldn't stand up to scrutiny.

Too many coincidences make it seem like a premeditated scheme.

The traveler Ying next to him thought for a moment and said, "You mean, someone deliberately exposed the fact that the head chef is an undercover agent."

"It's pretty much a done deal." Fang Xun nodded.

"I think the mastermind is Dottore."

"He guessed my thoughts in advance and made ample preparations."

Fang Xun paused for a moment, then continued, "From the moment we landed on Haiqi Island, everything that followed happened exactly as Dotore had planned."

In other words, we are walking on a path that has been designed by someone else.

Dottore, the second executor of the Fools, codenamed "Doctor".

He was a mad scholar banished by Mount Sumeru, but also a once-in-a-century intellectual genius.

The most obvious characteristic is that it can make its prey fall silently into its carefully set traps.

"Wow, that Dotore you guys are talking about is terrifying. He's willing to sacrifice even his most loyal subordinates to achieve his goals."

Paimon took a step back in fright, looking extremely nervous.

"But why did he expose the head chef's undercover identity? What was his purpose in doing so?"

Faced with Paimon's question, Fang Xun and the Traveler exchanged a glance, and finally shook their heads in unison, having no clue.

Fang Xun tapped his fingers lightly on the table: "I don't know why Dotole would do this, but one thing is certain: he wouldn't do something that would harm his profits."

"Sacrificing the head chef in exchange for greater and more substantial benefits is inevitable."

After he finished speaking, the room fell into a brief silence.

After a moment, Traveler Ying broke the silence: "What do you plan to do?"

"Nothing."

"Do nothing?"

Fang Xun gave a soft "hmm": "I'm waiting, waiting for Dotore to appear in front of me on his own."

"But do you know who Dottore is?" Paimon blinked and asked curiously.

“You said before that Dottore has many prosthetic bodies, and each one is different in appearance and age. Even if Dottore appeared in front of Paimon now, Paimon probably wouldn’t be able to tell.”

"To be honest, I don't know who Dotore is either." Fang Xun shook his head slightly.

"But one thing is certain: whoever appears before us next will be Dotole."

As soon as he finished speaking, Goro pushed open the door and ran in.