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At this time.
In an inconspicuous shadow in the corridor outside the VIP box, a spider was silently clinging to the wall.
Wuji Domain??
Hearing these four words, Chen Ling's heart skipped a beat.
Since the performance ended and the guests were scared away, Chen Ling hadn't left. Instead, he had been secretly exploring every corner of this Cabaret. But just as he walked up to the second floor, before he could thoroughly search all the boxes, Li Ruohong also came up and walked straight towards the deepest box.
Chen Ling acutely noticed something was wrong. After all, with such a thing happening, Li Ruohong's reaction was a bit too calm... If it were an Ordinary Person, the first thing they would probably think of was ghosts and spirits, but Li Ruohong immediately came to VIP Box 001, seemingly to confirm the situation here.
Thus, Chen Ling silently moved outside the box, and then heard this conversation just now.
People from the Wuji Domain had already infiltrated the Red Dust Main City?
The most coincidental part was that Chen Ling had just randomly chosen a Theater House monitoring the Casino, and was inexplicably drawn into it. On his second day entering the Red Dust Main City, he ran into two secret agents from the Wuji Domain...
Could this be the effect of the [Imperial Fate]?
While Chen Ling was pondering, Li Ruohong had already stepped out of the box and walked straight down the stairs to send people to deal with the messy venue.
Chen Ling didn't try to sneak into the box. He could be certain that the two people inside were Divine Path Possessors, and their Ranks were uncertain. Entering rashly would be too dangerous... For him, knowing there were two spies from the Wuji Domain here was enough.
"What a pleasant surprise..." Chen Ling squinted at this deepest box, as if he had thought of something, and a faint smile appeared on the corners of his mouth.
After completely grasping the layout of the Cabaret, he quietly went to the back door, his gaze sweeping over a row of trash cans. After casually throwing a bag of things from his pocket in, he opened his umbrella and unhurriedly walked off into the distance.
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Red Dust Main City.
General Police Bureau.
A Police Officer hurried through the corridor and knocked on the office door.
"Enter."
"Chief, there's an emergency!"
The bureau chief, who was sitting behind his desk handling cases, looked up with a slight frown. This was an Old Man who looked to be in his seventies or eighties, yet had an unusually thick head of black hair. He wore the specific police uniform of the Red Dust Main City, his chest covered in badges. Just sitting there, his gaze revealed a sense of oppression.
"What is it?"
"It's Red Workshop Street..."
"Red Workshop Street?" Hearing these three words, the chief's face sank. "Is it that Casino? Has the stakeout yielded results? Did you find the movements of suspected Dusk Society members?"
"No... not the Casino. It's the Great World Cabaret not far from it."
"Cabaret?" The chief was taken aback.
"Yes, we just received over thirty reports simultaneously, all concerning that Cabaret... It's said a murder happened there, and..."
"And what?"
"And it's haunted!" The Police Officer took a deep breath and repeated the statements of those witnesses. The chief's frown deepened.
"Are you saying that during the heavy rainstorm, the dance hall's floorboards seeped blood downwards... And they also witnessed Li Ruohong with a blood-covered face, smiling ferociously as he sent a person flying over ten meters with one knife strike, smashing seven or eight tables and chairs, and the corpse disappeared in the blink of an eye?"
"That's right, everyone saw it." The Police Officer added, "Even our personnel staking out the Casino entrance saw with their own eyes bloody water flowing out of the door and into the sewer."
The chief stood up and paced around the office for a long time, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Chief... Could that Li Ruohong be a Divine Path Possessor?" The Police Officer asked cautiously.
"Based on the description, it's highly probable." The chief said in a deep voice, "Covered in blood, able to send someone flying over ten meters with a single slash—it sounds like the characteristics of the [Asura] Path of the Way of the Soldier God..."
"We did a brief investigation. This Li Ruohong is the nephew of Mu Chunsheng, the chairman of the Beidou Consortium. This Cabaret has also been open for several years... Before this, there were no signs of him stepping onto a Divine Path, and he acted arrogantly and domineeringly. On the contrary, he's been unusually low-profile recently, seemingly restraining himself quite a bit." The Police Officer stated truthfully.
"Previously arrogant and domineering, but suddenly low-profile recently... And he also gained a Divine Path?"
"Yes." The Police Officer seemed to remember something. "One of the people who came to report the case was his personal bodyguard. According to him, Li Ruohong didn't take the murder to heart at all, and right after it happened, he ordered everyone to let this matter rot in their stomachs, strictly forbidding it from spreading outward...
There's one more thing. According to him, Li Ruohong's whereabouts have been particularly mysterious recently. There is a VIP box in the Great World Cabaret where no one is allowed to enter, and no one has ever been seen coming out from inside. Even when delivering meals, he only has the manager leave the food at the door.
At first, they all thought Li Ruohong was probably keeping a lover inside, but later they realized something wasn't quite right... Because sometimes the things they were asked to deliver were very strange, like some kind of beast bone, or disgusting bug corpses, and things resembling human skin!"
"There's such a thing??"
The chief's expression changed instantly. He sat back in his office chair, his brows almost twisting into a knot, his expression changing repeatedly...
Something isn't right.
This Cabaret is more than 100% not right!
"What about that Casino? Have there been any anomalies found in the recent stakeouts of the Casino?" The chief suddenly asked.
"No... Still the same as before, no clues found."
"There hasn't been any movement from [Floating Life Painting] either, which means they haven't detected any fluctuations of Divine Path Skills in the Casino... Could our judgment really be wrong?" The chief muttered to himself, "After those Dusk Society people snatched their companion, they actually didn't hide in the Casino on Red Workshop Street... but secretly transferred locations, and are actually hiding in the Cabaret?"
"Chief, what should we do next? Should we conduct a comprehensive search of the Cabaret?"
"No, we can't!"
The chief immediately shook his head. "If that place really is a Dusk Society stronghold, doing so will only alert the snake in the grass, or enrage them... Just like the measures taken against the Casino back then, do not conduct any overt searches. Reassign some of the personnel originally responsible for staking out the Casino over there. Maintain good disguises and investigate secretly.
If I remember correctly, Mu Chunsheng's birthday banquet is coming up soon, and Li Ruohong will definitely go to offer birthday greetings... At that time, we can have our people try to infiltrate deeper to investigate, provided they ensure they won't be exposed.
As for [Floating Life Painting], I will go contact them and have them send people to keep an eye on the Great World Cabaret as well, to see if they can discover anything."
"Understood!"