Chapter 302: 302

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Lu Siya thought about it and asked, “Are you thinking that someone from Spirit Creation Creatures leaked the case yesterday night?”

“I don’t know . What do you think, based on your understanding of Xie Xiaolei?” Meng Chao shook his head .

Lu Siya pondered it for a moment . “It’s possible . Xie Xiaolei is really good at promoting things . He also loves taking the deviant path . If he believed that he is innocent, he would definitely not let go of the chance to increase exposure . But if he exposed it on his own, doesn’t this mean that he doesn’t have any ulterior motive? It doesn’t have any connection with the true criminal who killed Jin Yongqiang . ”

“True . Looks like we will have to wait for Shen Yupeng’s results before we can do anything . ” Meng Chao suddenly stopped as if he had thought of something .

Lu Siya quirked her eyebrows . “What is it?”

Meng Chao touched his belly and asked with a red face, “I’m sorry, Big Sis Ya . Do they have… non-counterfeit stuff here?”

“Non-counterfeit stuff?”

“You know, food that actually fills your belly . The one that you can eat happily until not a scrap is left . ”

“… Weren’t you eating happily just now? I don’t see anything left on the plate . ”

“I mean, I thought that those were cold dishes served before the main dish . I’ve been waiting for a long time, but I don’t see any real food coming over, so I decided to ask you about it . ”

Meng Chao was not used to eating in a private restaurant reserved only for its members .

In the end, he went to the street food street in Nine Sands University City to eat to his heart’s content .

He did not expect that Lu Siya would follow him, so he had to sneak around to make sure that his university mates did not see him . Otherwise, he would have to spend a lot of time explaining things to them .

There was a 24-hour Ultimate Style Experience Center in Nine Sands University City .

Meng Chao lay down in the cultivation cabin and let gene medicine as well as high-calorie nutritional fluid submerge his mouth and nose .

The medicine slowly filled his lungs and stomach through his nose and mouth . Then, it seeped into the thin capillaries through the 36,000 pores on his body .

He entered a deep meditative state as bioelectricity and the sparks of his thoughts clashed against each other .

When he picked up Shen Yupeng’s call, it was no longer midnight, but five in the morning .

They were not going to eat supper together, after all . They were going to end up eating breakfast .

Lu Siya insisted on sending Meng Chao over . She also intentionally had him get out of her car in front of Shen Yupeng and the others .

Meng Chao did not know whether this was her staking claim over him in front of Shen Yupeng or whether she was telling Shen Yupeng that Meng Chao was hers .

He just smiled at this .

Any other normal university student would definitely have some sort of twisted ego after they managed to ride the coattails of a rich woman . They would feel like they were going to lose her at any moment, even though they had her at this moment . They would overthink things, and it would be impossible for them to treat the matter with a normal mind .

But Meng Chao had returned to the past from the apocalypse .

He had seen thousands of destructive stars shining above Dragon City .

He had seen the city built over half a century by tens of millions of people razed to the ground .

He had seen countless glorious buildings collapsing in an instant . Before the reinforced concrete could land on the ground, it was burned to a crisp by a tornado that was more than ten thousand degrees Celsius .

He had seen humans turn into charcoal after screaming their lungs out from pain .

He had seen countless souls escaping their torn bodies and instantly being wiped away by a spirit energy tsunami . In the end, not a single bit of them was left . Not even the signs of them laughing, crying, being happy, or being sad .

Meng Chao had seen too many things . At some point of time and from a certain angle, he had a really mature and profound heart .

To save Dragon City and create a bright future, he would ride Lu Siya’s coattails without any burden in his heart and without batting an eyelid . He could even do it in a righteous manner .

But he was also wary of her ambitious nature and recklessness .

Yet after he set her up, he could even calmly return to ride on her coattails .

As for riding on both Lu Siya and Shen Yupeng’s coattails at the same time? That was something simple and commonly seen .

However, riding their coattails was one thing . No matter, he still insisted on not changing his heart . He wanted to be a good citizen who loved Dragon City, defended his hometown, contributed to society selflessly, and had good morals .

Meng Chao walked into the congee restaurant where he agreed to meet with Shen Yupeng .

“Ms . Lu sent you?” Shen Yupeng asked . “Isn’t she angry about what happened yesterday?”

Meng Chao nodded . “She is . ”

“Then…” Shen Yupeng hesitated . “Isn’t that kind of bad? Would it affect your cooperation with her?”

“Ms . Lu didn’t work together with me because I’m honest, loyal, or humorous . ” Meng Chao shrugged . “Until my skills and qualifications that make me worthy of working with her are present, I think that she will continue working with me . ”

“Meng Chao, you’re really interesting . ”

Shen Yupeng laughed and led Meng Chao into the congee restaurant .

It was five in the morning, and the sky still looked like a gray layer of ice . There were not many pedestrians on the road . The restaurant owner snored lightly in a corner . There were only two women and one man sitting at one table . They looked like really skilful people .

They had already washed off the paint on their faces .

The bright light that shone in their eyes allowed Meng Chao to recognize them at first glance . They were some of the secret police officers and adjudicators who had gone with Shen Yupeng into Golden Tooth Lair .

If they could become secret police and adjudicators, it meant that they had above average strength .

Even though they had suppressed their vitality magnetic fields, Meng Chao could still sense the spirit energy ripples around them while they breathed . They danced and jumped about rhythmically .

“Red Tea, White Leaf, and Orchid . My right hands . They’re really skilled subordinates . ”

Shen Yupeng then said with a smile, “This is Meng Chao . I don’t think I need to introduce him to you lot . ”

The three names were clearly codenames .

The woman named Red Tea appeared to be in her twenties . She had a buzzcut, and her hair was really short, where the end of her hair was close to her scalp . After she entered the congee restaurant, she had never stopped chewing on a piece of gum .

Her army-green jacket was bumpy . Each of its pockets was filled with bullets and guns . Her arms were swollen with muscles . She wore a Sam Brown Belt around her waist and black combat boots . She looked like a gun maniac .

The one called White Leaf was a middle-aged man in his thirties and appeared quite elegant . His features were not prominent, as if someone had used diluted ink to draw his features . The moment Meng Chao looked away, he forgot what the man looked like . If White Leaf blended into a crowd, Meng Chao would never be able to find him .

Orchid was a pretty woman with long and narrow eyes . She gave off the air of a mature scholarly woman .

Her eyes occasionally shone at a mysterious rhythm . The sparks appeared like a coin that swayed constantly because of a hypnotist swinging it nonstop . No one could resist it and would just trust her .

‘Red Tea is a gun expert . The man should be a tracking and information expert, while the last one should be skilled in mind attacks . The three of them are all at the peak of Earth Realm or might have even reached Heaven Realm . ’

While Meng Chao thought of this, he sat down beside the four people and smiled . “Hello, everyone . Honestly speaking, this is the first time I’m in such close contact with the legendary secret police and adjudicators . It feels strange . I didn’t expect that you’d eat century egg and minced pork congee as well . ”

His words caused Red Tea, the gun maniac with the buzzcut, to laugh . “What do you mean? Do you think that adjudicators don’t need to eat?”

“No . I just…” Meng Chao thought about his words . “I heard of too many stories related to the secret police and adjudicators when I was young . Compared to the hunters who kill monsters, information about you guys is always in fragments, so you can’t tell the truth apart from the lies . It makes you guys really mysterious . I heard that your identities are supposed to be top secret . Is it really okay for you to show me your real face?”

“It’s not as exaggerated as you think,” Shen Yupeng explained . “The adjudicator court is a law enforcement organization that is used to deal with internal enemies . A lot of the suspects we capture are famous superhumans who are really powerful . If we approach them with guns blazing, we’d bring ourselves unnecessary trouble . That’s why we don’t promote ourselves as flagrantly as hunters, but our identities are not ‘top secret’ . That’s too much of an exaggeration . ”

Red Tea smirked . “Besides, how would you know that you’re looking at our real faces right now?”

She was quite the wild person and carefree as a boy .

When Meng Chao was about to answer, he suddenly saw White Leaf’s hand in his peripheral vision .

White Leaf was using his chopsticks to pick up a pork ball from his bowl .

When he saw Meng Chao staring at his hands, he could not help but say, “I’m sorry . I’ve been working through the night, so I’m really hungry now . I started eating before you even came here . You don’t mind, right, Meng Chao?”

“I don’t . ” Meng Chao appeared contemplative . “But you investigated me before?”

White Leaf was a little stunned and his pupils shrank swiftly .

Shen Yupeng stared at Meng Chao with interest . “What made you say that?

“I saw Big Brother White’s hands before,” Meng Chao said . “When I was at the northern frontlines and went to the cafeteria on the last few days I was at the east lake base in Shattered Starlake, I ran into a student whose complexion was rather waxy . He sat near me a few times .

“Big Brother White, even though he was shorter by half a head compared to you right now and his palms were as coarse as sandpaper, the way you hold your chopsticks is exactly the same .

“This is a very professional stance . You don’t look like you’re holding chopsticks, but like you’re holding a pen or a carving knife . Besides, when you pick up pork balls, you like to form half a circle to the left before you pick one up so that your pork balls are soaked in soup . That student should have been you, right, Big Brother White?”

Shock slowly appeared on White Leaf’s vague features .

Shen Yupeng smiled and said, “Meng Chao, there are thousands of students eating at the same time in Shattered Starlake’s cafeteria . You can’t have possibly remembered the characteristics of everyone’s hands and the way they pick up their vegetables, right?”

“Of course I can’t remember everyone’s habits,” Meng Chao said . “But when someone is sneaking looks at me, I can sense it, so I put to memory the characteristics of those who are watching me . It’s not something difficult .

“But I find this strange . I’m just a normal freshman and have just become a two-star superhuman . What exactly about me has caught the secret police’s attention?

Shen Yupeng cast a glance at Red Tea, White Leaf, and Orchid .

The four of them remained silent for a few seconds .

Red Tea was the first one to be unable to hold back . She laughed and pointed at White Leaf before she said, “Old Leaf, you even said that your disguises and tracking are second to none . You said that you can change into dozens of disguises in a day and talk to the same person without them noticing you, but it’s all talk! Hahahaha!”

White Leaf looked frustrated and impressed . He glanced at his hand, which was what had exposed him, and smiled wryly before he said, “Meng Chao, now that you’ve said that, I won’t dare to eat pork balls in the future . ”

“Don’t mind it, Meng Chao . This is indeed not the first time we met,” Shen Yupeng explained . “But at that time, the target of the investigation wasn’t you . It’s Lu Siya . Since you were hired, the procedure required us to investigate you as well . ”

“Lu Siya?” Meng Chao was slightly stunned . “Why?”

“Of course it’s due to the matter of my cousin and his entire team dying mysteriously under Raging Waves . ” Shen Yupeng smiled and said, “Don’t you think that this is something worthy of careful investigation?