Frightening Joke: Above the Mist
Chapter 208 Suspicion

Chapter 208: Chapter 208 Suspicion

Rong Bridge Sky Street.

Wu Kuifeng, having just finished surveying, received a phone call.

"Captain Wu! The suspect is trying to escape, but we caught her. What should we do now?"

"What?" Wu Kuifeng looked at Liang Yan in surprise.

Didn’t he say that Cao Xiurong was already a fool?

"Don’t alert her, follow her, and report her position at all times!" Wu Kuifeng quickly ordered.

After hanging up, Wu Kuifeng said to Liang Yan, "You were wrong. That Advisor Bai was right."

Liang Yan shrugged, not offering any explanation.

The two got in the car and rushed to the suspect’s residence.

In the car, Wu Kuifeng received another call, saying the suspect returned suddenly and didn’t seem to want to escape.

What is going on? Does that woman’s mind really have issues?

By the time they arrived at Cao Xiurong’s home, it was already seven in the evening.

This was an utterly ordinary neighborhood, a two-bedroom, one-living room apartment, totaling less than seventy square meters. Regardless of the location, price, or decoration, everything was as ordinary as Cao Xiurong.

When Wu Kuifeng and Liang Yan pushed the door open, Cao Xiurong was sitting on the couch with a pained expression.

Wu Kuifeng frowned slightly. Her behavior at the moment was not like that of a fool...

Liang Yan was also somewhat surprised. Perhaps because she was back in her familiar home, Cao Xiurong’s mental state was noticeably better.

But he had clearly checked; Cao Xiurong’s memory was a complete mess, and she definitely shouldn’t be a normal person.

He couldn’t be mistaken, yet here was the normal Cao Xiurong sitting there, which was very puzzling.

Moreover, after seeing Wu Kuifeng and Liang Yan, Cao Xiurong seemed to have an emotional fluctuation, her whole body leaning back slightly.

"Don’t worry, now there’s no one else in this room but us."

Wu Kuifeng sat on the sofa in front of her, and Liang Yan took out a handkerchief to place under him before sitting down.

He eyed Cao Xiurong, trying to understand how this middle-aged woman managed to switch from being a fool back to normal.

Wu Kuifeng stared at her, questioning, "Why did you bomb Rong Bridge Sky Street?"

"No... not... not me!"

Cao Xiurong was emotionally agitated but managed to speak.

In terms of both expression and body language, she was obviously full of resistance towards the two people in front of her.

"I didn’t... it wasn’t me... it really wasn’t me..."

She lowered her head and began to mutter.

Seeing her emotions start to sway, Wu Kuifeng immediately comforted her: "Alright, I believe you..."

"But even if you were wrongfully accused, you still need to tell me why you were there at two o’clock and why you were holding a detonator. If you don’t speak, I can’t help you. The belief of us two is not enough; you need to convince more people."

"Why was I there..." Hearing Wu Kuifeng’s words, a clear confusion appeared in Cao Xiurong’s eyes. "Why was I holding a detonator..."

She kept repeating these two sentences, her voice growing softer and her emotions more peculiar with each repetition.

At this moment, Liang Yan, who had been silent all along, spoke up.

He looked at Wu Kuifeng and said, "You leave first; I’ll handle her."

Wu Kuifeng didn’t say much, immediately got up, and left, remembering to close the door behind him.

Meanwhile, the officers outside, along with Wu Kuifeng, didn’t go far. Instead, they closely monitored the development inside the room.

"Captain Wu, is that young Liang really capable of hypnotism?" a curious and puzzled officer asked. Rumors about that young man having hypnotism skills had been circulating since his first appearance.

"Don’t speak unnecessarily." Wu Kuifeng glared at the officer, offering no explanation.

But he knew that Liang Yan’s abilities were far more terrifying than hypnotism...

Inside the room now, Liang Yan had already extended his hand, pressing it onto Cao Xiurong’s forehead.

His senses felt suddenly stripped away, the entire world turning into a blank.

Then... he instantly appeared in another world!

A hazy, bizarre world—Cao Xiurong’s memory world.

There were images now...

Re-entering Cao Xiurong’s memory world, Liang Yan immediately noticed the difference.

Actually, in the interrogation room, he had already tried entering Cao Xiurong’s memory world, but all he saw was a valueless chaos.

Even a madman’s memory world would have fragmented memory pieces or various wild and fanciful images.

Only a fool’s memories are murky, unknowable, a formless chaos.

Thus, he concluded that Cao Xiurong was already a fool.

But now... her condition had clearly changed, and images were appearing in her memory.

"This place is..."

Liang Yan "opened" his "eyes" to see bustling crowds.

The sunlight from the sky was dim, warming the body without a sense of warmth. The wind stirred the treetops, yet no air movement was felt.

Glancing around because he had just been there, Liang Yan was sure.

This was Rong Bridge Sky Street.

He glanced at the symbolic clock on the largest office building at Rong Bridge Sky Street.

It was now... one forty-five.

He had entered a memory node.

One forty-five, in Cao Xiurong’s memory.

Good luck, this was the scene she remembered the most vividly today.

But now, she was already holding that detonator.

No... time needed to rewind.

Liang Yan reached out and pressed his hand against the wall, closing his eyes.

The surrounding scenes rewound rapidly, the whole world passing by like a shadow puppet show before Liang Yan.

Though most were blurry, some were quite clear.

Those clear spots were where Cao Xiurong’s gaze focused.

Each time he came across a particularly clear scene, Liang Yan would open his eyes to take a look.

Human memory is very strong, extraordinarily strong.

But realistically, the average person can only remember limited things. Most can only recall what they consciously try to remember or events that leave a deep impression.

Other things gradually fade with time.

For instance, if someone enters a restaurant, although their eyes take in the interior setting, after a short while, remembering the color of the tables may prove impossible.

Liang Yan wasn’t looking for those trivial details; he needed the real criminal information.

Rewinding...

One minute...

Three minutes...

Five minutes...

Six minutes... stop!

This is it.

Liang Yan’s hand left the wall as he reopened his eyes.

A smiling man stood in front of him.

He extended a hand, handing something resembling a remote control to Cao Xiurong.

And his appearance... upon seeing him, Liang Yan’s breathing momentarily halted, instantly pulling him out of the memory world!

The one who handed the detonator to Cao Xiurong was... that Advisor Bai?

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