hsntnovel Chapter 148 At that time, we will lure you into the trap.
Chapter 148 At that time, we will lure you into the trap.
Unless Zhou Ye wasn't actually from the First Base... or perhaps he had ulterior motives and wanted to be the first player to clear the dungeon...
Li Can mentally eliminated many possibilities, and in the end, only this one was the most likely.
wrong……
He looked at his sister, Li Lan. Both Zhou Ye and Wang Defa had been confirmed and approved by her, so their identities on the surface couldn't be wrong.
He trusted her, just like rebel groups trust each other, so the problem isn't there.
"Zhou Ye..." Li Can silently went over the name in her mind.
Then he realized that he couldn't possibly be the mastermind behind the theft of the city lord's corpse. Someone who could eavesdrop through flowers, plants, and trees had all his abilities on full display.
With Li Lan by his side, he couldn't possibly expose himself completely. Besides, what difference was there between him and those old nobles? He, too, didn't possess the golden energy or the device blueprints.
What good would it do him to completely expose himself and oppose them at this point?
In this game, Zhou Ye was at best a pawn pushed to the forefront. His "wood-type" ability did not allow him to burrow underground and silently take the corpse away from the ground.
To bypass the door locks and the guards of the mechs, doing everything without anyone noticing... one must be a player from the same instance as them, and possess earth-based abilities.
Who is an earth-type ability user?
As for the other guys temporarily referred to as Xing Dong, Xing west, Xing Nan, etc., they were scattered survivors on the original Blue Star and did not have a base to rely on for support at the moment.
His ability level is far below the standard, otherwise the base would have taken him away long ago.
Anyone with even a little ability in the apocalypse is highly sought after by various bases.
Even without the base's intervention, he is still a very prominent figure among the survivors.
They are neither of those.
A superhuman with abilities that are just slightly stronger than the average person.
Therefore, it can be ruled out for the time being.
That leaves the "crazy teacher" who died, so we can rule that out.
"Wang Defa..." This was someone Li Can didn't really want to suspect, but all the clues ultimately pointed to him.
The resume given to him at the base included a brief description of his abilities. Although it didn't specify what type of ability he possessed, it did list a rating: "Level C".
He is a whole level above Zhou Ye.
Wang Defa belongs to the propaganda and security department of the First Base.
He usually keeps his identity hidden, and almost no one knows that he is an official spy.
This was something Li Lan mentioned to Li Can in secret.
It now seems that the person with the greatest suspicion and the best chance of getting close to Zhou Ye, who can eavesdrop through the flowers, trees and shrubs, and trying to get information out of him.
That's Wang Defa.
If Li Can wasn't mistaken, he estimated that Wang Defa had already fled with the old city lord's body and was no longer near the Baijie Hotel.
Before he entered the restaurant, he glanced at him and Zhou Ye from afar through the crowd. The two of them were standing on the street, mingling with the people from the lower town.
If he weren't there at this point in time, it would definitively prove his conjecture.
After investigation, he finally identified the exact target and breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, the vulture, now in its smallest form, was released from the puppet gashapon.
Switching to the puppet's main perspective, Li Can controlled it to flap its wings. Sure enough, in the field of vision, only Zhou Ye and ordinary people from the lower city remained on the street outside the Baijie Hotel.
Wang Defa was indeed not there... This result left him both silent and heartbroken.
He didn't understand why Old Wang, who clearly had a pass, could always successfully leave the instance no matter what he said or did.
What is he after?
You really just want to be the first to go out and get the quantity of orbs and the dungeon rewards?
Even if it means disobeying the base's mission and stealing the fruits of others' labor, is that selfish and short-sighted?
Once he actually leaves the instance and returns to Earth, will the base still accept someone like him? The answer is self-evident.
For Lao Wang himself, this was a dead end move—sacrificing everything for short-term gains.
If he hadn't been beaten so badly that his brain was completely damaged, practically no one would have made that choice.
There must be other hidden reasons... Li Can knew that there must be even greater interests and driving forces that compelled him to act this way.
As for what exactly it is, we'll have to wait until he's completely captured and interrogated to find out.
Li Can thought for a moment and decided to remain inactive for the time being, so as not to alert the enemy.
On the surface, they did not change their previous statements and continued to shift suspicion towards the old nobles of the upper city.
"Don't worry, everyone. I think they'll be even more anxious than we are. Once they have the body in their hands, it won't be long before they can't contain themselves."
"But..." Yang Mo had just started to speak when he wanted to say a few more words in rebuttal.
Li Can pressed down on his hands, then shook his head, signaling with his eyes not to speak.
Everyone was smart enough to realize that during the time Li Can was thinking and analyzing, they all figured out that the suspicions about the "old nobles" were actually unfounded.
Having doubts and wanting to explore further, seeing Li Can's reaction made everything clear.
The current scenario is no longer safe for conversations.
Yang Mo nodded slightly, gently lowered Li Can's hand, and tentatively asked, "Shall we go and capture a few old nobles for interrogation, and then detain all the suspicious individuals around here?"
"We can arrest a few representatives of the old nobles," Li Can replied approvingly. "That way, they'll have no choice but to panic. Secondly, we don't need to detain them; we can simply block off the street, preventing outsiders from entering and people from leaving."
"Okay." After resting, Feng Tian stood up again. After discussing with Yang Mo based on Li Can's suggestion, they arranged for people to carry it out.
Li Can watched them get busy, then added a sentence.
"Take me to Ah-Zhu's research institute. It's not safe there anymore; we need to increase security there."
Ah-Zhu was constantly researching the device, and there would be no shortage of personnel coming and going at the research institute. Even if Wang Defa wanted to commit a second crime and steal the energy from the test tubes and the completed device, it would be difficult for him to find an opportunity.
According to Li Can's subjective judgment, Wang Defa committed the crime alone, and apart from Zhou Ye, who was tricked into revealing information, he actually had no accomplices around him.
He wanted to move the body and also get his hands on other key items, but he couldn't do it all by himself.
There will be no continuous thefts for the time being.
If there is another chance to take action, it should be when A-Zhu has completely succeeded in developing it.
and.
Having successfully extracted information from Zhou Ye the first time, Old Wang was emboldened and would surely try again.
What I need to do now is to temporarily keep Zhou Ye in the dark, so that it will be easier for him to formulate a plan to capture Wang Defa later.
They gave Zhou Ye information to confuse him, and then he passed it on to Lao Wang.
When he learns that he has another chance to act, whatever his purpose, he will be unable to restrain himself.
That would be the perfect time to lure them into a trap.
However, before that, Li Can had to first set up his own "trap" in A-Zhu's research institute.
Even when talking to people around you, you should pay extra attention to the objects and scenes around you.
Whether something should be said or not, and whether it should be conveyed through writing, must be handled accordingly.