From the end of the world

Chapter 101 Shadow Changer 4
What happened next was no surprise.

Although he could command his shadow clones, the man in the black suit who suddenly appeared was obviously an ordinary person. If it was really the real shadow-changing monster, I'm afraid he would run away as soon as he saw Zhu Shi, Ma Zao, and my face.

Maybe in Jinyu's eyes, the other party was a mysterious and cruel former professional killer with extraordinary killing skills, but those skills had no room to play here. As for the shadow clones that appeared around, they were only impressive but not threatening at all, which made them quite humorous.

I don't know when this person started eavesdropping, or how he understood our conversation. Anyway, he failed to understand that more than half of us are not ordinary people. Maybe he thought that since Changan didn't choose to ask us for help in advance, it means that we don't have the power to deal with the incident. What a huge misunderstanding.

I immediately released a large amount of flames, filling every inch of the private room. The surrounding shadow clones were reduced to ashes in the flames.

Zhu Shi seemed to have used a sound-blocking barrier just like he did last night. The sound of traffic on the street outside could no longer be heard. Presumably, the sound inside the private room did not reach outside either.

Chang'an was still able to accept the change in circumstances, but Jinyu's worldview seemed to be shattered, and he watched everything as if in a dream.

Under my control, the flames did not harm anything other than the shadow clone, including the man in the black suit. As expected of a former professional killer, he reacted immediately to this sudden change and wanted to turn around and rush out the door.

"--return."

Ma Zao put down the straw and Coke and pointed at the man in the black suit.

Just like that, the latter took a step back for some reason. He was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly tried to turn around and take another step. However, the strange power that hit him seemed to still be taking effect, and this time he took back only half a step.

He showed a horrified expression and tried to move again, but this time he couldn't even take half a step. He twisted his body back before he could even turn it around, and the horrified expression on his face disappeared as if it had been reversed. His struggle became even weaker, and all he could see was his body shaking inexplicably.

In less than a second, his body could no longer even tremble, and his facial expression was no longer changing, as if all his struggles had been canceled before they were officially started. He was frozen in place like a petrified victim of the Gorgon's gaze.

This seems to be one of the uses of Ma Zao's power of return.

"She is also a person with super powers?" Chang'an revealed a hint of envy in his surprise.

The goldfish was completely stunned: "What is going on..."

Even Zhu Shi looked surprised.

I am a person with some "low tastes". I like to see other people shocked by my strength.

Seeing that some of their attention was diverted by Ma Zao's "show of power in front of others", I was equally happy. Yes, my Ma Zao is so powerful - although I don't think so seriously, I may really have emotions close to this idea.

Why do I think so? Is it because I unconsciously regard myself as the first person Ma Zao has met in this era? I pondered my heart.

Ma Zao seemed to have no interest in the exclamations of others. She just concentrated on asking for my opinion: "What should we do next? Should we torture him to find out the true identity of the weirdo?"

I thought about it for a moment, then asked, "Can you get him to talk while keeping his body still?"

She nodded, and her raised fingers relaxed a little. Although the man in the black suit still couldn't move his limbs and torso, the part above his neck seemed to have thawed. He twisted his neck in panic, revealing an embarrassment of helplessness.

I stood up and walked forward, wondering where to start. First of all, I certainly couldn't expect him to speak honestly. Even if he did, there was no guarantee that he was telling the truth. He was a former professional killer, so who knew to what extent ordinary torture would work on him.

So I simply skipped those unnecessary steps and took out the black rope lock heart ring directly from my pocket.

The virtual right hand pierced into the chest of the man in the black suit and grabbed his heart.

I thought to myself, regardless of the stance, I really have to thank Lu Youxun for giving me this ring, it comes in handy now.

Ten minutes later, we had learned roughly all the information we could get from him.

Let’s talk about the most important part first. The shadow-changing monster is indeed in that nightclub, and he is now the invisible backer of that nightclub.

He appeared in front of the nightclub owner about three months ago and proposed cooperation. It was called cooperation, but in fact, he wanted to use force to unilaterally use the nightclub owner's connections with the local upper class. I have no idea about the connections of the upper class. According to the man in the black suit, although the nightclub owner is a woman who does this kind of dark business, she seems to have a lot of say in the upper class.

The real identity of the Shadow Changer seems to be a member of the local upper class, but the man in the black suit does not know his real identity, only the nightclub owner knows. As an invisible backstage, the Shadow Changer will also provide help when the nightclub business is threatened.

The shadow clones that appeared earlier were transferred to the man in the black suit by the Shadow Changer. The transfer procedure is not complicated. The Shadow Changer only needs to order the shadow clones with a certain degree of intelligence to follow the man in the black suit. The one who kidnapped and beat Changan two days ago was the shadow clone sent by the man in the black suit. The motive is simple. Changan's actions of collecting evidence of crimes in the nightclub have long been discovered, and the man in the black suit wants to settle accounts with Changan. Even if the actions of the shadow clones are exposed, they will not expose the nightclub. It is more appropriate to use them as chess pieces.

But before the reckoning, he needed to know to what extent Chang An had collected evidence of the nightclub crime and whether he had disclosed it to others. Therefore, the shadow clone he sent only beat Chang An severely instead of killing him directly.

His original plan was to beat Chang'an to the point of near death, so that his psychological defenses would collapse, and then the shadow clone would use Chang'an's phone to contact him and let him interrogate Chang'an remotely. Unexpectedly, before entering that stage, the two shadow clones he sent out inexplicably lost contact, and Chang'an reappeared two days later full of energy.

This is the truth about what happened in Changan two days ago.

"So that's what happened..." Chang An said with lingering fear, "Just in case, let me ask again, what is the liquidation method you mean by 'liquidation'?"

"Speak." I squeezed the black suit man's heart hard.

The latter showed a painful expression and could not help but tell the truth: "It depends on the extent of evidence you have collected and the extent to which you intend to do to us. If you are just a weakling who completely collapses after being beaten, and the previous things were just your youth and hot-bloodedness, then I will let you go home.

"But if you are really brave enough to go against us even though you know you will die, then I will have to admit that you are a real man and kill you as a real enemy."

"So you were planning to let me go. Aren't you a killer?" Chang'an was surprised.

"It's the 'former' killer." The voice of the man in the black suit revealed vicissitudes of life.

It sounded like he had some stories of his own, but now was not the time to listen to them. I pulled my right hand out and took off the black rope lock heart ring. Zhu Shi took out a sheathed long sword from the black guitar case and knocked the man in the black suit unconscious. In fact, I wanted to burn him to death on the spot, but since Chang'an was still watching, I had to stop for the time being.

I feel much better now. The mystery of the attack on Chang'an that had been bothering me for a long time has finally been solved. It really makes me feel enlightened.

It's a pity that the man in the black suit doesn't know the true identity of the shadow-changer. Although the nightclub owner knows, it's not convenient for us to break into the nightclub and interrogate the owner. Doing so rashly may irritate the shadow-changer. After all, it's the information that came to our door, so we can't expect more from him.

...Come to think of it, the reason why he came here on his own, couldn't it be because he was captured by Ma Zao's jinx physique?

I looked at Ma Zao and he blinked innocently.

"Brother, you should hand over all the evidence you have collected to your family, and then that nightclub will disappear forever." Zhu Shi said to Chang'an.

"Ah? Is our Zhu family so powerful?" Chang'an hesitated.

"A few years ago, a demon hunter family like ours really couldn't exert much influence on the secular society, and the same was true for nightclubs that involved many powerful people. But in the past two or three years, things have been different." Zhu Shi seemed to be explaining to me, "Now the relationship between the official forces and Luo Shan is tense. Once the nightclubs that even little girls use are exposed, it will become material for Luo Shan to criticize the legitimacy of the official forces. So the official forces will definitely be more eager to put it out than us, and they will use the most severe punishment possible."

"Is our family a family of demon hunters?" Chang'an was shocked.

Zhu Shi was stunned: "Ah? Grandpa didn't tell you anything?"

Changan said blankly: "He just asked me to stay in the room obediently..."

“Shouldn’t Grandpa explain the truth to you first?” Zhu Shi was puzzled at first, then seemed to think of something, “Could it be that he intends to directly lift the seal of your monster blood, so he went to do the preparations first? That’s right, as long as the seal is lifted and you can recall your childhood memories, there will be no need to explain and convince you…”

Hearing these words, the goldfish next to him showed an expression as if he had seen a large-scale performance of Chuunibyou, but had to believe that it was all real information. It could only be described as a mess in the wind.

Although this is the second time I have heard these things related to Chang'an, I have to say that these words do not sound like lines that should appear in the real world. Have I really not unknowingly traveled to the set of a magical battle story with Chang'an as the protagonist?

"Ah? Monster blood? Seal? Memory?" Chang An was shocked again, "I actually have something that sounds like the protagonist of a classic boy comic?"

"Okay, okay, now is not the time to talk about that." Zhu Shi sighed tiredly, "Let's discuss the matter of the Shadow Changer first. Assuming that the Shadow Changer is really in that nightclub now, what can we do to find it?"

Perhaps influenced by me, Zhu Shi also started to call that weirdo the Shadow-Changing Monster.

As for the current problem, I have an immature idea.

(End of this chapter)