Chapter 245
Chapter 245
“What does this have to do with Wang Xu?” Swan asked in confusion.
John rubbed his head and turned to her.
“Director, contact everyone you know and find out who proposed having Brother Liu livestream this. Hurry!”
Swan quickly called her uncle.
“Mm-hmm. All right, I understand.”
“John, the suggestion came from an adviser at Headquarters. He said they should evaluate Liu Ye’s abilities and, if he proved suitable, use him to deal with Fiends. But that man died several days ago.”
“Investigate him. He was probably connected to Wang Xu or the Illuminati.”
“Brother John, what exactly is going on?” Frog had never seen John behave like this before.
“That bastard Wang Xu knew that if he caused trouble in Huicheng himself, he wouldn’t be any match for Brother Liu. So he used his own past as bait to lure Brother Liu there.”
“Wouldn’t that be handing himself to Brother Liu on a platter?”
They all knew what Brother Liu was capable of. He would surely blow every last part of Wang Xu’s plan to pieces!
“No. That was merely his past. It might affect him personally, but it has nothing to do with what he intends to do now.”
“Brother John, I still don’t understand. He lured Brother Liu there. Isn’t he giving himself away for nothing?”
“Don’t forget that this mission is being livestreamed. In the past, everything we knew about Brother Liu’s strength came from what Xu Fei or I told you. Very few people have experienced it personally. This time is different. Tens of millions-perhaps even hundreds of millions-across the country are watching. Bureau Headquarters must be watching as well. Once they witness Brother Liu’s abilities, will they still allow him to wander freely around Huicheng?”
“Headquarters will definitely take Liu Ye away. They might even study him. And judging by Liu Ye’s recent behavior, he is, at least on the surface, a law-abiding citizen. If the authorities detain him, he certainly won’t resist.”
Swan understood those people’s conduct better than anyone. If studying Liu Ye could provide them with a method to deal with Fiends, they would not hesitate to sacrifice him.
The national government would not interfere with the Fiend Investigation Bureau’s arrangements, either. Specialized work was left to specialists.
“How could they do that?” Frog complained loudly.
“That’s why the bastard must be plotting something in the shadows. The moment Brother Liu leaves, he’ll put it into action. Once it truly begins, Brother Liu won’t make it back in time even if he can return.”
John could already imagine the people from Headquarters rushing toward them.
What a brilliant scheme. Even after figuring it out, they were powerless to stop it. Wang Xu had begun building Brother Liu’s reputation as early as Fortune-Telling Street.
Now that everything had erupted, they had no way to respond.
“Director, I resign.”
John tossed his badge onto the desk.
Swan immediately stopped him.
“John, don’t act on impulse. Doing this won’t help you save Liu Ye.”
To her surprise, John looked at her strangely.
“When did I say I was going to save Brother Liu? Besides, why would Brother Liu need me to save him?”
“Then why are you resigning?”
“Think about it. If they capture Brother Liu, they’ll definitely want to experiment on him, right? With his abilities, he’ll be perfectly fine. But wouldn’t that effectively make Brother Liu a member of the Fiend Investigation Bureau? Just think about everything that has happened around him lately…”
Swan fell silent.
So this bastard just wanted to run away!
Still, what John described was not impossible. If they really decided that Liu Ye worked for the Fiend Investigation Bureau…
The mere thought was terrifying!
“Director, something came up at my company. I’ll be going now!”
John had barely started to leave when Swan and Frog grabbed hold of him.
“Brother John, you can’t go! If you leave, we’re really finished!”
“John, if the Fiend Investigation Bureau is destroyed, the entire Xia Kingdom will descend into chaos. Those people at Headquarters may be rigid, but plenty of them genuinely get things done. You can’t simply watch them die!”
“This is moral blackmail! Besides, there’s nothing I can do!”
John struggled toward the exit. To prevent Brother Liu from unleashing his might back then, John had deliberately blown up his family’s ancestral home and driven his group to the brink of bankruptcy. That had barely gotten him through the crisis. But when it came to the Fiend Investigation Bureau, there was truly nothing he could do.
“So what if I’m blackmailing you?”
“How can the mighty director of the Fiend Investigation Bureau be this shameless?”
Ring, ring…
At that moment, John’s phone abruptly rang. He took it out and saw a string of asterisks on the screen.
Everyone’s expression instantly turned grave.
“Another Fiend has set its sights on you.”
They immediately scattered to their workstations. John placed his phone inside a device, and a moment later, Swan gave him an okay sign.
John answered the call.
“Hello?”
“Is this John? I’m Guiwa.”
John’s heart clenched the instant he heard the name. He had committed it firmly to memory because Liu Ye mentioned Brother Guiwa all the time.
Moreover, John had learned from Uncle Bai that Liu Ye’s family members were probably all extremely powerful Fiends.
“This is John. Brother Guiwa, what can I do for you?”
“You’ve been watching the livestream, I assume?”
“We have.”
“Good. You must take what I’m about to tell you seriously. Evacuate everyone in your entire province-and the surrounding provinces too-immediately.”
“Brother Guiwa, were you the one who sent us those messages earlier?”
“That’s right. There’s no time to waste. Get moving!”
“Brother Guiwa, we can’t. Headquarters rejected our proposal. Besides, even if you want us to evacuate everyone, you have to give us a concrete reason.”
John knew this was an excellent opportunity to learn more about Liu Ye’s abilities, so he asked at once.
“Huff… You saw the livestream, so you saw that brat Liu Ye turn small, right? Damn it, I don’t know which idiot did this. You’ve already encountered some of his abilities, haven’t you?”
“Yes.”
Even now, John could not understand why Brother Liu was so terrifying.
“Then let me tell you something. The abilities he has now are the result of being weakened many times over.”
Guiwa’s voice had already taken on a sobbing note. Heaven only knew how much effort they had poured into turning Liu Ye into his present self. Now, in a single instant, all their work had gone to waste.
John fell silent.
So did Swan.
Even weakened, he was already a walking nuclear warhead. What had he been like before he was weakened?
“Wait. Won’t he return to normal once he completes the mission and gets out?”
“Return my ass! If he decides he likes being this way, he can stay like that forever! That’s when the true disaster begins!”
Heaven only knew how much work it had taken to make Liu Ye grow up in the first place. As a child, Liu Ye had been nothing short of a bug in reality.
John caught something in Guiwa’s words and hurriedly asked,
“Brother Guiwa, could you… tell us what Brother Liu was like as a child?”