Enforcer Manual
Chapter 346: The Villain Dies from Talking Too Much_1

Chapter 346: Chapter 346: The Villain Dies from Talking Too Much_1

"The Mouse" knew nothing, and even if he really did know about the secrets of the Void, he had no intention of revealing a single word to the person in front of him wearing the clown mask.

He responded with silence, quickly turning the conversation chilly, leaving only the sound of flames burning.

The person in the clown mask seemed to have already anticipated "The Mouse’s" attitude. He didn’t get angry; instead, he changed the subject, "Mr. Mouse, to be honest, I admire the choice you made previously. In that experiment, everyone else but you used a knife to kill the person they were connected to."

For those in a crisis, killing someone weaker than oneself to gain freedom is the most prudent choice, and he who hesitates in face of such a decision will end up in a disadvantage.

"What exactly are you trying to say?"

"The Mouse" felt nothing but disdain for the person before him, a disgust that seemed almost innate, and he had no interest in paying attention to his long speeches.

But on the other hand, this seemed like an opportunity.

Villains die from talking too much.

Many had concluded this through the forfeit of their lives. At this moment, he hoped the Law Enforcers in District Seventeen were still keeping him under surveillance. With Director Lu’s decisive and swift manner, it was possible that as their current interlocutor pontificated, a special operations team had already surrounded them.

"I’ve come to a conclusion—fate can’t stand the test."

The person in the clown mask remarked, feeling much better each time he repeated the same notion.

At the same time, a conversation between Song Lan and Lu Xiang was also taking place.

"Are you okay?"

Lu Xiang asked with concern. The loud noise from the train station platform startled her, and just by the sound alone, she could imagine what was happening there.

"I’m fine. I’m acting dead,"

Song Lan lay sprawled on the ground, covered with some remnants of the train. He had seriously played an actor’s role. Indeed, for a dead fish, playing dead was an essential skill on the battlefield.

Even he hadn’t anticipated that the agents from Military Intelligence Section Seven would actually flip the train off the platform. If they hadn’t already replaced the passengers on the platform with the Shadow Guards, and had the Devourers take root at the platform in advance, the incident would likely have become the biggest casualty event in District Seventeen in over a decade.

This showed how truly desperate Military Intelligence Section Seven was.

And when one becomes hasty, they start making mistakes.

Director Lu, with her keen insight, did not let this opportunity pass. She speculated that the real agents of Military Intelligence Section Seven were hiding somewhere in the hospital. That’s why she "accidentally" revealed to Captain Doug, who was in charge of the hospital, that "The Mouse" would soon flee District Seventeen.

Then, someone whose disappearance was both unexpected and reasonable went missing.

This confirmed that her initial judgment was not wrong—the agents of Military Intelligence Section Seven were indeed hiding in the most informed place, the Gold Diggers’ Bar, and had always been in the most visible place.

Lu Xiang got more information from Ophir.

"The reason Ivan smashed the groom’s head when he got drunk was because it involved a murder case, and the victim of the murder case was his client,"

In fact, when Lu Xiang previously investigated Ivan’s background, she felt something was off.

Because the documentation she found didn’t mention anything about the bride, which made it difficult for her to determine whether Ivan’s motive was simply drunken disorder or something deeper.

Now she knew—the bride was dead, barely a couple of weeks before the wedding.

The local Law Enforcers’ report stated that the bride died from a wound to the heart; the perpetrator had struck swiftly and decisively with a single blow. The incident was ruled as a robbery gone wrong. Strangely, the groom did not question the Law Enforcers’ findings nor did he investigate the whereabouts of the murderer, and the whole case was coldly handled.

Because so much time had passed since the incident, and the local Law Enforcers had hastily closed the case, Lu Xiang found it very hard to reconstruct the true circumstances of the case through the available clues.

But judging by the method and the subsequent cold handling, it was definitely not a burglary but rather more like a corporate routine.

The groom whose head was smashed by Ivan happened to be a high executive of a company.

After connecting all the pieces of the investigation, Lu Xiang suddenly gained a new understanding of "fate".

The standoff between "Mouse" and the agents of Military Intelligence Section Seven was still ongoing. "Mouse" had made up his mind to remain silent, no matter what they brought up to him.

However, a voice that suddenly welled up from deep within made him change his mind on the spot.

He clearly remembered hearing a similar voice in the distant prison.

It was under the guidance of that voice that he had been forced to embark on the "spectacular" latter half of his life.

But this time, the voice did not induce him to launch an attack.

"Suppose..."

"Mouse" cleared his throat, hesitated for a long time, and then decided to follow the request proposed by the voice, "Suppose, you once had a person who was very close to you, she knew your secrets and made an unreasonable request of you, like, asking you to connect her with someone."

He could not see the expression beneath the other’s clown mask, but he could distinctly feel their body tense up.

Recounting the story brought up by the voice, "Mouse" felt like he had become a detective at that moment.

"Suppose you watched them return to the house, and in your original plan, it might have been a night full of romance. But an accident happened, and before you could undo your power, you saw the groom leave the building as if nothing had happened. He might even have been smiling and greeting passersby, but only you knew the only way to disconnect their linked status."

At this point, "Mouse" recalled his own encounter in the park.

Then, the Bear-Headed Man had handed him a knife and made him choose with the girl whose name he couldn’t recall.

"Perhaps out of anger or thoughts of revenge, you waited on the groom’s inevitable path home, drunk, holding a bottle. You smashed his head in, and just when you had made up your mind to be the assassin, the company’s security personnel stopped you..."

The person in the clown mask confirmed Lu Xiang’s speculation with their actions—before "Mouse" could finish speaking, he was sent flying out of the chair and slammed hard against the wall.

The wall behind him, like a magnet, pinned him there, immobilizing him.

This isn’t what I said!

"Mouse" felt turmoil inside him, acutely aware of the dangers of being a detective.

He was just playing the part of a repeater, yet the other’s rage was poured out on him.

"That’s why I said fate is not to be relied on."

Until death do us part.

That’s the most beautiful idea in those romance stories.

But in the real world, there are corporations, families, and Military Intelligence Section Seven, and even for lovers, some secrets cannot be shared.

Like, for instance, the groom was suddenly summoned by the company while in a connected state.

"Let’s talk about the real business,"

said the person in the clown mask, "This is the final task."

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