Anti-fraud manual for the cultivation world

Chapter 89 Lie

"Niu Xin, Ma Zhi!" Cai Xinzi beckoned the two troublemakers to her side: "Zhou Sanfu was killed last night, but you two are still alive. You don't know why, do you?"

"We know!" The two troublemakers nodded. "Because we live with the Chief Constable, and there's a Foundation Establishment cultivator among us, they can't be so clean-cut, so they didn't dare to do anything reckless."

"Good to know." Cai Xinzi said with a dark face, "From today onwards, the two of you will be inseparable from me."

After saying that, he turned to Kailong and said, "I'm afraid I'm just a Foundation Establishment cultivator and I can't handle the situation. Why don't you move into my house tonight?"

Kailong shrugged: "The people the Demonic Sect wants to kill most right now are Niu Xin, Ma Zhi, and you. If I move in with you, it's like moving into a dragon's den or a tiger's lair."

Cai Xinzi said irritably, "Just tell me if you're coming or not."

Kailong sighed, "Come, come, you're my boss, how could I not come?"

The two of them started chatting awkwardly, while the other constables began to regroup. Teams of three to five people no longer felt safe; they needed more people to live together.

Li Gu and Zhang Yi did not face this predicament. Their residences were protected by defensive formations, and Hong Lin was also there to oversee things. It was obvious that the Demonic Sect would not choose to launch a direct attack on the government office.

However, as the instigators, the two inevitably have some thoughts about the current situation.

Zhang Yi lowered his voice and said, "We've dragged Zhou Sanfu and the others into this mess. We have to take responsibility for this. We can't just cower in a safe place and watch our colleagues fight to the death. We're both at the Foundation Establishment stage now, and we've mastered a certain level of external martial arts. We just need to get the hang of it. We're no longer as helpless as before. Now, we have the ability to do something."

Li Gu nodded: "I feel the same way, but what should we do? Should we sneak out of the yamen every night and go to inspect the homes of our colleagues?"

this----

Zhang Yi frowned.

There's an old saying: "You can be a thief for a thousand days, but you can't guard against thieves for a thousand days."

Patrolling the homes of various constables every night is equivalent to guarding against thieves for a thousand days, which is a very stupid and inefficient thing.

"How can we determine who the Demonic Sect's next target is?" Zhang Yi murmured. "If we could get even a tiny bit of information, we could set up an ambush in advance. I think—could we try asking around among other gangs? Ordinary gangs might not be willing to help, but the Justice Alliance might. However, it's very difficult for the Justice Alliance to obtain the Demonic Sect's action plan—"

She was just talking to herself, listing out solutions while simultaneously rejecting them—

As Li Gu listened, a flash of inspiration struck him—he had an idea!

I can't know the Demonic Sect's action plan, but I can use the system to help them create one.

"Senior Sister Zhang, let's go capture the members of the Demonic Sect."

Two hours later, in a dilapidated old house in the neutral zone.

A rogue cultivator was severely injured and fell unconscious by two members of the Demonic Sect. These two members of the Demonic Sect ended up in the hands of Li Gu and Zhang Yi.

These two gang members were peripheral members, not formal disciples of the Demonic Sect. They didn't even know the [Common Path Demonic Scripture], and their cultivation was all based on miscellaneous martial arts skills.

It's not even useful for smoking!

Li Gu and Zhang Yi could not move the two disciples of the Demonic Sect at will, otherwise they could not claim it was "self-defense" and they had to interrogate them on the spot. Li Gu took this opportunity to open Zhang Yi's mind: "Senior Sister Zhang, this is a small alleyway, and someone could come in at any time. You help keep watch at the alley entrance, and I will interrogate them about the Demonic Sect's next move."

Zhang Yi nodded: "These two gang members seem to be low-level scum. They probably don't know anything useful. If we can't get anything out of them, we'll think of another way."

She swiftly floated to the alley entrance and stood in the middle of the road, saying, "Official business is underway, the road is temporarily closed, and unauthorized personnel are not allowed to enter this alley at this time."

Wearing a constable's uniform, she uttered those words, and no ordinary person would want to venture into that alley.

Li Gu gained a brief moment, sneered, and grabbed the shoulder of a member of the Demonic Sect: "Now I'll ask you questions, and you'll answer. If you lie to me, you'll be charged with assaulting a constable and killed on the spot. If you answer properly and provide me with the information I need, I can spare your lives and only treat it as street fighting with injuries; you won't have to die."

The member of the Demonic Sect quickly said, "I will tell you everything I know, I only beg you to spare my life."

Li Gu: "Last night, your Demonic Sect killed three constables and wiped out one of their entire families. Did you know that?"

The group member looked embarrassed: "It was done by a junior disciple of our Demonic Sect, but I can't be a witness—otherwise my whole family will die. It's better if you kill me now, so only I die, and at least my wife and children will be treated well."

The system didn't issue an alarm, so this person was telling the truth.

"Bang!" Li Gu punched him in the stomach, making him curl up like a shrimp in pain.

"Fine, I'm not some cold-blooded villain who wants to kill your wife and children." Li Gu said, "I don't need you to testify in court. Just tell me, who is the Demonic Sect's next target? When will they act? If I can catch the Demonic Sect disciples at the scene of the crime, I won't need your testimony."

The gang member looked embarrassed: "Officer, look at me, what kind of person am I? I'm only at the third level of Qi Refining, an external gang member. How could someone like me possibly know something so important? I'm only qualified to search the streets for people the gang wants. There's really no way I could answer your question."

"Bang!"

Li Gu punched him in the stomach again: "You're lying."

In fact, the system did not issue an alarm, so these people were not lying at all.

But what Li Gu wanted today was to lie; if he didn't lie, Li Gu wouldn't be happy.

For those who are unwilling to lie, the best way is to force a confession through torture.

Li Gu asked a question, then punched one of the men hard in the stomach.

The gang member was indeed an honest man; he didn't lie even after taking more than ten punches. But if the beating continued, even the most honest man would be turned into a villain. The gang member couldn't take the beating anymore and had no choice but to say, "Officer, stop hitting me! I'll talk—I'll talk—I know, I know their next plan—stop hitting me—"

Li Gu stopped what he was doing: "Speak!"

The Demonic Sect member's forehead was covered in sweat, and his voice trembled as he spoke. Not everyone is good at lying. When someone who is not good at it lies, the wavering expression on their face makes it obvious to an ordinary person that they are talking nonsense. If Zhang Yi were here, he would never believe a word they said.

He said with great difficulty, "Eight days later, yes, eight days later—at four o'clock in the morning, the higher-ups will send men to attack Chief Constable Cai Xinzi's house—"

He probably felt that his lie was a bit too much, because Cai Xinzi was a Foundation Establishment cultivator, and it would be too difficult to assassinate a Foundation Establishment cultivator silently. If he did it head-on, it would cause a huge uproar, and no matter how he tried to cover it up, it would be impossible to hide it. The Demonic Sect probably wouldn't go that far.

But he had already started, so he had no choice but to finish speaking, or he would get beaten again.

[The Cultivation World Anti-Fraud Handbook Lv.1 reminds you: Zhang San's statement just now was entirely a lie. Do you want to force the lie to become the truth? Yes/No.]

Li Gu was just waiting for him to say this: Yes!

"You lied to me, you can't be allowed to live!"