"[Six of Hearts]?" Chen Ling spoke blankly. "Vice Captain, what are you talking about?"
A professional Theatre God... no, a professional actor, could absolutely never easily give up The Role. Although Han Meng pointing out his identity indeed made his heart tremble a bit, not the slightest expression was revealed on the outside.
"In the beginning, actually I didn't suspect you too much." Han Meng slowly spoke.
"A First-Tier newcomer Enforcer, even if he wanted to be Wall-Top Grass, would fundamentally not dare to poke the backbone of another superior in front of the face of one superior... Of course, unless you are completely a Naive Youth who doesn't understand the ways of the world. So at this time I only had some doubts, and didn't think deeply.
And after I took you to District Three once, District Three became chaotic, and right at this time you went missing... If I still didn't suspect you for this, these many years of being an Enforcer I would have done for nothing.
As long as I slightly changed my train of thought I could discover, you promising to follow me, was nothing more than hoping to utilize me to enter the third floor. And the checkpoint leading to the third floor, specifically restrains Divine Path Possessors with the ability to disguise and change faces. This is also the reason why you had to rely on that companion who snuck into the experimental subjects, to destroy the checkpoint... Because your face fundamentally is fake.
Very coincidentally, I happen to know a person who is able to change faces..."
Chen Ling helplessly spread his hands. "So? Why do you feel I am exactly that person you know?"
"You originally could have borrowed the opportunity of transporting the corpse, to escape the base together with that companion, but you didn't do so... Because same as me, you also learned of the news of Zhao Yi's death.
Terrorist Attack, changing faces, and having a close relationship with the District Three Survivors... simultaneously satisfying these few elements, other than you Chen Ling, who else is there?"
As Han Meng's voice fell, the corridor with swaying candlelight, plunged into a patch of dead silence.
Chen Ling looked at that figure draped in a windbreaker before his eyes. A familiar sense of being seen through surged into his heart again... He smiled bitterly.
A thin and light facial skin followed his fingertips brushing past, scattering into nothingness. Chen Ling reverted back to using that face belonging to himself, a Great Crimson Theatrical Robe in the firelight seemed as if dyed by fresh blood.
"Then, Officer Han Meng." Chen Ling unloaded all his disguises, speaking indifferently.
"Are you going to try to arrest me?"
Although Han Meng had already guessed Chen Ling's identity, but when he truly saw that familiar face, his expression was still incomparably complex.
He was silent for a long time, not answering Chen Ling's question, but rather asking in return:
"During the time in District Three, why did you become an Enforcer?"
"Why?" Chen Ling chuckled lightly. "In order to disguise my identity as a Dusk Society member, in order to prevent you guys from tracing it onto my head, in order to acquire more intelligence... it's just that simple."
"Was Jiang Qin killed by you?"
"No."
"What about Xi Renjie?"
"Also no, I let him off."
"Why did you do so?"
"I do whatever I want to do, who stipulated the Dusk Society can only kill people and commit arson?" Chen Ling sneered. "However, the matters of killing people and committing arson I have also not done any less of... Do you want to know?"
What Chen Ling said was the truth. He blood-washed the Way of the Soldier Ancient Vault, he killed all the District Three Law Enforcers other than Xi Renjie, he utilized the District Three residents to enter the Aurora City, he leveled the Stars Chamber of Commerce, he planted evidence and framed a prosecutor, he shot dead a witness on the street in broad daylight, he blew up the Aurora Base's laboratories...
Any single one picked out from inside here, was enough to make Chen Ling be pinned with the crime of "Kill Order". Looking from the Aurora City's perspective, he was a crazy, bloody, sinister, and extremely difficult to arrest atrocious criminal!
Han Meng silently gazed fixedly at Chen Ling. A long time later, he slowly put down the pitch-black gun in his hand.
"...You go."
"Are you sure you aren't arresting me?" Chen Ling raised his brows, seemingly not surprised by this result. "Letting me go now, wanting to catch me again in the future... but it won't be that easy anymore."
"Not necessarily." Han Meng spoke calmly.
"We will still meet again... It's just, it shouldn't be in the Black Prison of the Enforcers."
Seeing this, Chen Ling also didn't speak more, turning around and then walking towards the direction of the elevator... If he didn't go now, in a while waiting for Qiong Xuan and them to kill their way back, the matter would be troublesome.
Han Meng watched with his own eyes as that red-clothed figure walked onto the elevator, his fingertips swiping at his facial skin, transforming into the appearance of "Chen Xin", waving his hand at him with a half-smile, his figure disappearing in the base along with the elevator.
Han Meng turned around and returned to the third floor. At this time the numerous Enforcers had already thoroughly killed the berserk experimental subjects, and were currently taking the White Coat Wearers to clean up the battlefield, inspecting which equipment could still continue to be used. However looking at those shattered and chaotic parts on the ground, it was estimated they were all completely scrapped.
"Vice Captain! There are new discoveries!" One Enforcer ran forward excitedly.
"What?"
"We caught an intruder!"
Han Meng blanked out for a bit, subsequently seeing another Enforcer, escorting a figure arriving before his face.
He only saw Wen Shilin still wearing the Law Enforcer clothes, his face full of dust and bruises, his expression incomparably sorry. Even so, he still grasped a camera, fury seemingly burning fiercely in his eyes.
"Just now he was over at the observation room on the third floor, taking pictures facing Laboratory Zero, and was discovered by us." That Enforcer repeated the course of the incident once. "But he seems to be an Ordinary Person, he was laid out without much resisting ability..."
Han Meng frowned looking at Wen Shilin before his eyes, always feeling he looked somewhat familiar. "Have I seen you somewhere before?"
Han Meng carefully pondered for a spell, finally recalling where he had seen this guy before. At the time when court was opened for the first time, he was sitting together with that Lin Yan, seemingly also a journalist.
Wen Shilin didn't plan to answer Han Meng's question. He didn't even plan to argue two sentences on behalf of himself. The him at this moment, was still immersed in the impact the things inside the Aurora Base gave him...
"I want to see Tan Xin!!" Wen Shilin gritted his teeth, speaking word by word.
Han Meng sized him up from top to bottom with a glance, calmly saying to the other people, "He shouldn't be the prime culprit of this invasion. Take him to the headquarters, let the people over there interrogate him a bit."
"Yes."
Wen Shilin was just taken away in handcuffs by the Enforcers like this. Even the camera was forcibly confiscated. Following his departure, the lighting above the crowd's heads swayed a bit, recovering its brightness anew.
"Electrical power is restored." The crowd finally let out a sigh of relief.
Relying on the lighting, Dr. Yi finally saw the patch of mess before his eyes clearly. His drunken intent also dissipated somewhat. With a complex expression he didn't know what he was thinking about.
Just at this time, an exclamation suddenly transmitted from the distance:
"The Lord of the Aurora... the Lord of the Aurora has disappeared!!"