I'm being held captive by a monster

Chapter 191 The fish has entered the pond, catch it first
"Liu Xu, your investigation results over the past two days are a bunch of shit."

"But fortunately, your investigation process was very thorough."

"Even better, you found this place."

Xu Zhe slowly opened his eyes.

But the ears did not change back.

"Have you figured out my question just now? Why would Taoyuan cover up for a dead person like this? Why on earth did he do this?"

Xu Zhe finished the last few cookies, wiped his mouth and asked again.

"Speak boldly, Liu Xu."

"You're smart, you've thought of it, but you're too timid."

"Don't worry, even if I'm wrong... I won't eat you."

Seeing Liu Xu hesitating, Xu Zhe also spoke encouragingly.

These words made Liu Xu swallow his saliva.

"Because... because... this six-year-old beast is not dead...? But..."

"Yes! No buts! There is only this one possibility! Only this one."

A gleam of light flashed in Xu Zhe's eyes.

"...But Boss... all traces of this beast have disappeared..."

"All the facts indicate that he is dead. The evidence is irrefutable..."

Liu Xu questioned timidly.

Xu Zhe waved his hand, "Who said he's never died?"

He looked at Liu Xu's puzzled expression, with an inexplicable excitement and frenzy on his face.

It's like I've finally figured everything out.

Liu Xu had only seen this look on Xu Zhe's face after the first Taoyuan incident.

"Liu Xu, sometimes, thinking about things requires some imagination."

"Especially when facing Taoyuan."

"His abilities give him computing power far beyond our limits. If we want to keep up with Taoyuan's thinking, we must be imaginative."

Xu Zhe stood up, looked around the entire coffee shop and said, then walked straight behind the counter.

He glanced at the cashier's computer.

Just with this one glance, the computer instantly made a sharp sound.

It was as if it was hammered by an invisible giant hand, or squeezed by space, and instantly turned into a perfect pancake shape!

He looked at the sweeping robot on the ground again.

"Oh!"

A second later, the sweeping robot twisted into countless pieces, and these pieces were squeezed together by the invisible force into a ball.

"Meow!"

The fat orange cat on the cat climbing frame seemed to sense danger, and its hair stood up!
"Be good, be good."

Xu Zhe reached out and held the trembling creature in his arms.

"Liu Xu, can't you imagine that this six-year-old child is Lin Xing'an?"

Seeing that Liu Xu remained silent, Xu Zhe's face showed a hint of disappointment.

"...But Boss, all of Lin Xing'an's information is available, and we have the minister's guarantee."

"That six-year-old human-animal is also 100% confirmed to be dead."

"What's more, Lin Xing'an is a gluttonous ghost. How could they possibly be... the same person?"

Liu Xu also stood up.

There was a flash of pain in his eyes.

It’s like facing a difficult math problem. No matter how hard you think, you have no idea how to solve it. No matter how hard you scratch your head, you still can’t figure out how to solve it!
"Oh, I don't blame you. This is really unbelievable."

Xu Zhe gently stroked the fat cat in his arms, and his ears kept trembling.

"Liu Xu, do you know why I said this six-year-old human-beast must be Lin Xing'an?"

"Only if he is Lin Xing'an can his 'resurrection' be explained."

"Because Lin Xing'an has that feather in his body, the feather that came from his mother."

Xu Zhe spoke calmly to Liu Xu.

Hearing this, Liu Xu was stunned.

"Six-year-old Lin Xing'an awakened his time-related abilities, but unfortunately, he was too weak at the time."

"So weak that even with Taoyuan's help, he couldn't escape and would eventually die."

"And after he died, he received a gift from his mother: a feather instead of a heart. This allowed him to shed his human identity and be reborn as a glutton."

Xu Zhe continued.

Liu Xu's eyes widened and his mouth opened little by little.

"If that's the case... then everything seems to make sense..."

He took a deep breath, his head buzzing!

Only Xu Zhe dared to doubt and think like this...

"Boss, but Lin Xingan and these..."

"Liu Xu, everything you found out about Lin Xing'an can be easily forged by Taoyuan, and it can be forged 100% perfectly."

Without waiting for Liu Xu to speak, Xu Zhe spoke.

"...But Boss, if Lin Xing'an was originally a human-animal...then why did Mother give him the gift?"

"That feather definitely doesn't belong to a two-winged or four-winged angel. It's at least from a six-winged angel."

"Also... Lin Xing'an is helping us kill Tao Yuan now. This is hard to explain..."

"Also, how did Taoyuan manage to delete the handwritten documents from the Coordination Department? That's a bit hard to explain..."

Liu Xu shook his head and asked with a puzzled look on his face.

Because the handwritten documents disappeared, he initially suspected that Tian Ming was hiding the traces.

But Tian Ming died two years ago.

According to Xu Zhe, these materials were erased and destroyed two years ago.

"The matter of the feather must be related to Yu Yu."

"...Yu Yu?"

"She is Lin Xing'an's mother."

Xu Zhe glanced at Liu Xu and said.

"...Do you know who Lin Xing'an's mother is?"

"I don't know, only the minister knows, but the minister won't tell us."

He rubbed the head of the orange cat in his arms.

The orange cat did not look comfortable at all. It was trembling all over and its facial expression looked extremely frightened.

"Then...should we tell the minister about Lin Xing'an's problem?"

"Liu Xu, is there water in your brain?"

Xu Zhe snorted coldly.

"Let's not talk about this being just our speculation. Even if it's confirmed, how would you tell the minister to help him deal with Taoyuan and get his candidacy for the committee? His best friend's child is a human beast in cahoots with Taoyuan? How would you tell the minister?"

"..."

His words made Liu Xu shudder.

yes……

Even if there is solid evidence, I can't say such suspicions...

What's more, they don't have any evidence at all.

"Boss, what should we do now?"

"Should we investigate in secret?"

Liu Xu swallowed and asked.

Since Xu Zhe has already told him to this extent, he now has no choice but to suspect Lin Xing'an together with Xu Zhe.

He had no way out.

"There's nothing left to dig up from the six-year-old human-animal line."

"Those fools you questioned in Xingfu Garden Community, Taoyuan could have easily killed them quietly and erased all traces."

"But he kept it secret on purpose, letting these fools provide you with clues..."

Xu Zhe sneered.

"...just to get me to follow these clues, only to find that none of these avenues lead to success?"

"We've wasted so much time and energy, only to end up with nothing and then get stuck in a quagmire?"

Liu Xu took a breath of cold air.

He finally realized that this was a trap set by Taoyuan...

"Taoyuan deliberately left some clues to let us see some clues, but in fact it was to divert our attention from Lin Xing'an."

"After all, the six-year-old human-beast is already dead, and Lin Xing'an is right here."

"He is buying time for Lin Xing'an." Xu Zhe said, staring at the photos on the photo wall that were missing people.

"So, Boss, the first thing we need to do now is... to verify Lin Xingan's identity as a glutton?"

Liu Xu asked tentatively.

"Even if humans and animals receive the Mother's gift, even if they can release the ghost realm, they will only become gluttonous ghosts on the surface, without possessing our unique instincts."

"So what you mean is...hiss...in that case, if we lock Lin Xing'an up with the awakened human and animal for a day, wouldn't he be able to tell anyway?"

"That's right. And if this human-animal is someone Lin Xing'an is familiar with and has helped him when he was young... then it would be even more perfect..."

Xu Zhe narrowed his eyes slightly and nodded.

"But Boss, we can't find anyone who has seen this six-year-old human-beast, or Lin Xing'an."

"Unless we return to North City and capture those people and animals."

"But at this moment..."

Liu Xu was silent for a moment and didn't say anything else.

At this time, all the people and animals in the North City are definitely gathered together.

Trying to catch a few alive... is too difficult.

"Yes, I can find it."

Xu Zhe's ears moved and a sneer appeared on his face.

"This person was right in front of us just now."

"In front of us?"

"Liu Xu, did you see where this boss went?"

"...Did you just take out the trash? But it took quite a while, maybe twenty minutes..."

Liu Xu frowned.

He hasn't paid for the coffee he ordered later.

"She's gone."

Xu Zhe put the ring back on slowly.

"Liu Xu, you just said that the previous owner of this coffee shop had a different image in everyone's eyes."

Seeing Liu Xu frowning and looking puzzled, Xu Zhe said quietly.

And his words...

Liu Xu was stunned and took a breath.

"Boss, what you mean is..."

"Yes, she was using her abilities the whole time. Even I couldn't spot any flaws. I only noticed a slight inconsistency by listening."

Xu Zhe's ears moved again.

"But...how could she be so bold? Besides, all the other people and animals have gone to North City, and she's staying alone in South City...isn't that just to give us something to use against her?"

Liu Xu said with a frown.

Xu Zhe also stood there in a daze.

yes……

Since this beast is related to Lin Xing'an, there's absolutely no need for him to stay here...

It's a complete flaw here.

Does Taoyuan think that he is not capable of finding this out?

Shouldn't...

He understood Taoyuan just as Taoyuan understood him.

With Taoyuan's computing power and behavioral logic, it can calculate the probability of each flaw exploding with 100%.

He even cleared out a group of taxi drivers two years ago...

Teacher Juzi, Liu Xiaole, and the group of people who went to North City were absolutely dependent on Taoyuan's help.

But Taoyuan left the coffee shop owner here alone...

What does it mean?

Is this another Taoyuan trap?
In an instant, all kinds of guesses flooded into Xu Zhe's mind.

That unpredictable feeling once again made him feel irritated.

"The fish have already entered the pond, let's catch them first."

There was a hint of bloodthirstiness in Xu Zhe's eyes, and he waved at Liu Xu.

He heard Yu Shi stop somewhere.

"Boss, do you want to come with me? Do you want me to stay here and guard you?"

"What if this is some kind of luring the tiger away from the mountain..."

Liu Xu picked up his coat and asked while standing at the door.

Xu Zhe paused.

"No, there's no bigger fish than this shop owner. We have to catch him alive."

"it is good!"

Liu Xu nodded and started the car.

"Ha ha……"

Before leaving, Xu Zhe looked at the shivering orange cat in the house and the big fat dog lying and sleeping at the door, and curled the corners of his mouth with a forced smile.

next second.

Without any warning, without any struggle or howl, the two pets turned into two balls of flesh out of thin air.

"Clap clap clap..."

Blood drips.

Xu Zhe stared at the two lumps of flesh, one big and one small, expressionlessly, licked his lips, and lowered his eyes.

"Snapped!"

Two lumps of flesh slammed to the ground.

Blood foam splattered everywhere, instantly dyeing the flowers in front of the entire coffee shop scarlet!
"Gudong..."

Liu Xu in the car looked at this scene, swallowed, and subconsciously gripped the steering wheel.

Xu Zhe opened the car door and sat in the passenger seat without even looking at it again.

"Now, follow my lead."

He closed his eyes and let out a light breath.

His ears moved, and it was as if there was a map in his mind, and the sound trajectory that had been locked on Yu Shi emerged.

Following this trajectory...

Until I heard the sound just now, it stopped...

Xu Zhe frowned.

"Go straight and turn right at the next intersection."

After a long silence, he opened his eyes and said

"Keep going, keep going, up the viaduct."

Xu Zhe looked out the window at the car scene in the south city at night.

It hit the ring on the finger, making a series of crisp sounds.

Liu Xu stared at the road in front of him and glanced at Xu Zhe out of the corner of his eye.

Judging from his experience of following Xu Zhe for so many years...

Although Xu Zhe appeared calm on the surface, his emotions were a mixture of violent excitement and irritability...

This is the reaction Xu Zhe would have when he couldn't figure out something.

"Liu Xu, Xingfu Garden Community, did you see anything unusual when you went to investigate?"

Xu Zhe leaned his chin against the car window and suddenly asked in a low voice.

“…There’s nothing unusual…”

Liu Xu thought about it and said suspiciously.

"Wait... this is the way to that neighborhood!"

Liu Xu didn't react until he was halfway across the overpass.

"Yes, that beast is in that neighborhood now..."

"at……"

Xu Zhe twisted his neck, making a crackling sound.

"Just waiting for us to come over..."

"It looks like they've prepared a feast and are ready to entertain us..."

A bloodthirsty light kept flashing in Xu Zhe's eyes.

"Taoyuan, is this your plan?"

"Okay, okay, come on then..."

The rings on his fingers rubbed against each other, making a sound that made his teeth ache.

(End of this chapter)