Meng Guanghui coldly snorted: "You didn't go to Beichen Star to complain to the Senate, the Cabinet, and His Majesty the Emperor about our Special Security Bureau?"
"No, no... I was just confused for a moment... How could I... How dare I... I really just miss my husband and son..." Shang Qizhen said, bursting into tears again.
Meng Guanghui glared at her for a long while, then reluctantly said: "Alright, if you want to see, then see. If you had come a minute earlier, you might have seen them alive..."
"What does Colonel Meng mean?!" Shang Qizhen suddenly raised her head, tears streaming down her face, looking shocked. "Even if my husband and son were wrong, they didn't deserve to die, did they?! Your Special Security Bureau actually disregards human life!"
"Don't rush to accuse us. I'll take you to see how they died... We have videos and surveillance."
As Meng Guanghui spoke, he played the videos of Fan Chengqi and Fan Bowei's deaths.
Fan Chengqi's video was recorded by Meng Guanghui in the interrogation room.
Fan Bowei's was from the detention room's surveillance.
When Shang Qizhen saw the two of them as if someone was strangling their throats in mid-air, she immediately cried out: "Who? Who wanted their lives! You are the Special Security Bureau! How could you be infiltrated!"
Meng Guanghui showed her the suicide video of the assassin captured by the surveillance: "...This you have to ask yourselves... Who exactly are you cooperating with? Leading to this fatal disaster, this family extermination?"
Shang Qizhen was speechless, unable to say a word, only crying.
When Meng Guanghui asked her: "Where did your family's Private Starship go the third time it sent people away from Guiyuan Star? Who did it send?"
She could only helplessly spread her hands and say, "During the time you're asking about, I was visiting my parents' home on Beichen Star, I wasn't on Guiyuan Star..."
Meng Guanghui took a deep breath, vaguely understanding why Fan Chengqi and Fan Bowei were killed, but Shang Qizhen was able to live.
Because she, simply didn't know about that matter, right?
After Shang Qizhen left, Meng Guanghui had a video call with Huo Yushen.
He played the interrogation video from today, the surveillance video of Fan Bowei in the detention room, and the suicide video of that assassin.
Finally, he said: "Marshal Huo, it's my fault. I didn't anticipate that the other party would dispatch at least a Double Rank S Mental Strength expert to silence the Fan Family father and son!... This allowed the other party to succeed and cut off the only clue."
Huo Yushen silently watched those videos, not surprised at all.
He thought, he probably knew who it was.
The other party could actually extend their hand so far...
But why?
Was his sister that important to them? He always felt that something was wrong.
But then he thought, his mother was right, they only had one clue now.
Xia Chujian.
Or, their entire team.
Why didn't the person who took the girl away silence Xia Chujian's team?
Was it that he didn't want to? Of course not.
What reason made this person give up silencing this team?
Huo Yushen recalled the situation when they questioned Xia Chujian's entire team, and even took out the questioning videos from that time to watch.
Sure enough, in the answers of that team, no one mentioned that they had been unexpectedly attacked...
Huo Yushen suddenly understood where their misunderstanding lay.
"Xiao Meng, quickly go to Mulan City and question that Dark Night Hunter Team again." Huo Yushen pondered, "Except for Xia Chujian, asking her is useless."
Meng Guanghui: "Yes, Chief! What is the focus of this questioning?"
"The focus of this questioning is what happened after they killed the human traffickers and left the small building." Huo Yushen ordered in a cold voice.
Meng Guanghui was puzzled: "You want to ask what they did after they killed the human traffickers and evacuated from the small building?"
Huo Yushen nodded: "Yes, ask clearly, I don't believe that the person who can silence people all the way to the Special Security Bureau branch's base would let their team go!"
Meng Guanghui suddenly understood: "...So their team is the biggest clue! Marshal Huo, you are indeed wise! You had our people secretly protecting them all along, is that why they weren't targeted?"
Huo Yushen: "..."
He had the Special Security Bureau's field agents watch this team for a while, and the feedback was that everything was normal, so he had them withdraw.
Could it be that this was the reason, inadvertently causing the other party to be wary?
But that doesn't make sense. This person dared to kill even Fan Bowei and Fan Chengqi, the father and son duo captured from the Special Security Bureau branch's base. Would they be so merciful as to let that team go? Could the biggest reason be that the other party also knew that this team actually didn't know what was going on?
Therefore, on the other party's "hit list," this team's importance was very low, and the other party wasn't even willing to expend more resources to hunt them down.
They were in a "killing is fine, letting them go is also fine" position?
Analyzing it from this perspective, the fact that the other party dispatched Rank S or higher Gene Evolution powerhouse assassins this time to silence them proves that the Fan Family father and son held a very important position in the other party's mind.
This directly proves that the Fan Family father and son had not only met the other party but also knew who the other party was.
So, the people transported by their Private Starship for the third time were the masterminds behind this.
As long as he confirmed this point, he wouldn't be anxious.
In Huo Yushen's eyes, the Fan Family father and son didn't have such high importance.
He didn't even believe anything that came out of their mouths.
Because people lie, but the dead don't.
The assassin who committed suicide after killing further confirmed to him with his life who his opponent and target were this time.
Otherwise, he would have interrogated them immediately. Why would he have sent Meng Guanghui, whose muscles were better developed than his brain? And forcing the other party to dispatch the strongest assassins to the Special Security Bureau branch's base to silence them, making the Special Security Bureau lose face, was the best way to make the other party believe that all the clues had been cut off.
No one would know who was behind the scenes anymore.
No one would know who they had taken away.
This would allow the other party to rest easy and not continue to hunt down and silence people.
It could also divert their attention to the greatest extent, so they wouldn't turn their attention back to Xia Chujian and her team.
The other party didn't know that there was a weirdo in that Dark Night Hunter Team.
This weirdo actually saw clearly... the appearance of his sister.
This was the most important clue they needed to protect, and it was also the last clue.
Even he didn't know that his sister looked like this after she grew up.
Huo Yushen recalled the girl on the virtual display screen, drawn by the mechanical intelligence based on Xia Chujian's memories, who was unconscious and had bloodstains on her shoulders, and his face turned grim.
...
So, on the second day of the new year, when Xia Chujian and Xia Yuanfang happily went to the Exotic Beast Forest outside Mulan City to visit Aunt Chen and San Zong, Ye Shijie, Li Fu, Song Mingqian, and Ping Qiong were once again summoned to the Mulan City branch of the Special Security Bureau.
This time, the person questioning them was Meng Guanghui.
It was still in the same conference room they had been to before.
Meng Guanghui stared into Ye Shijie's eyes and suddenly asked, "Last November, after your team killed the human traffickers in Room 004, Floor 1, Building 334, West 089 District of Mulan City, and rescued the abducted victims, where did you go? What happened?"
His Mental Strength surged out, directly attacking Ye Shijie's brain.
Ye Shijie once again felt that sense of powerlessness of being imprisoned.
This time, he directly entered an unconscious state. No matter what Meng Guanghui asked, he could only rely on instinct to answer truthfully.
"We... we... returned to the Association branch's base to receive the reward..."
"On the way... on the way... we were ambushed... someone locked onto us with a Missile..."
"We... we... all fainted..."
Meng Guanghui's spirits lifted, thinking, as expected, they were also attacked! That's right!
The mastermind behind the scenes was so frantically silencing people, how could they have let this team member go! He hurriedly asked, "You all fainted? Then how did you escape?"
Ye Shijie's eyes were straight, and his lips were tightly pressed together, as if he didn't want to speak.
Meng Guanghui had no choice but to increase his Mental Strength a little more.
This slight increase in Mental Strength was just a drop in the bucket for him, but for Ye Shijie, it was the last straw that broke the camel's back.
He completely revealed the content he didn't want to say the most, the content he wanted to hide the most.
"At that time... at that time we were on the Flying Vehicle, we... our Flying Vehicle was invaded... we fainted again, but Xia Chujian didn't faint..."
"She... she... she doesn't have Mental Strength, so the other side didn't use Mental Strength on her..."
"Therefore, she first blew up the opponent's Missile... then... then used our Missiles... to lock onto the opponent's Flying Vehicle..."
"She... she... she's wasteful... used six Missiles... to saturate and destroy the opponent's Flying Vehicle..."
Meng Guanghui was dumbfounded, and muttered: "...This is too fierce... I don't believe it... Do you have a video?"
Ye Shijie nodded: "...Yes."
"Where is it?"
"At... at Xia Chujian's place."
"Why put it with her?"
"...Because... because she's the luckiest..."
Meng Guanghui: "..."
What the hell?
The luckiest, so the video is kept with her? Meng Guanghui made a mental note about Xia Chujian, and then asked: "You said your Flying Vehicle was invaded, what's going on?"
Ye Shijie's forehead was covered in sweat, but the expression on his face was very dull.
He said woodenly: "We... we suspect... there's a mole in the Association, who wants... wants to kill us..."
"There's a mole in your Dark Night Hunter Association? Why would they want to kill you?"
"Maybe... maybe... maybe I offended someone..." Ye Shijie was telling the truth at this time.
That attack really made him feel like he had offended someone and brought it on himself.
Meng Guanghui asked again: "And then?"
Ye Shijie babbled for a long time about their trip to the Association to receive the reward, and kept complaining that Xia Chujian wasted bullets...
Then they received the mission to the Exotic Beast Forest, and the team immediately went to the Land of the Far North in the Exotic Beast Forest.
At this time, Ye Shijie couldn't keep up with his breathing.
Under Meng Guanghui's long-term Mental Strength suppression, his brain was exhausted and about to collapse.
Seeing that his condition was really bad, Meng Guanghui didn't continue to ask.
Then, he separately questioned Li Fu, Song Mingqian, and Ping Qiong.
The same methods, the same questions, and the same answers were obtained.
Moreover, the Mental Strength levels of these three were not as good as Ye Shijie's, and before they even mentioned going to the Association to receive the reward, they were foaming at the mouth one by one...
So Meng Guanghui had to stop the questioning.
After they all left, Meng Guanghui reported to Huo Yushen.
"Marshal Huo, your reasoning is correct."
"The other party did not let this Team go, but attempted to silence them at the first opportunity."
"But this Team was lucky to have Xia Chujian as a teammate."
"Because she doesn't have Mental Strength, the other party didn't use Mental Strength attacks on her. This allowed her to take over the Flying Vehicle in time and use an all-round saturation attack to destroy the assassins sent by the other party."
"Then this Team immediately went to the Land of the Far North in the Exotic Beast Forest to carry out their mission. It is at least 100,000 kilometers away from Mulan City, the natural environment is very harsh, and the ground's magnetic field is abnormal, making it a very dangerous place even for high-level Gene Evolvers."
"Later, considering that their mental state was close to collapse, I didn't continue to ask."
"Moreover, I believe that if assassins had followed them to the Exotic Beast Forest, this Team would not have survived."
"But now this Team has not only returned, but also received a reward from the Dark Night Hunter Association, so I think the mastermind behind the silences should not have sent anyone to follow them to the Exotic Beast Forest."
The second update is at 1 p.m.
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