Without waiting for a response.

Su Xin coldly added another sentence:

“Think it through before you speak. I’ve already determined that someone among you is involved. If you say you don’t know, then prepare to die here today.”

“If you confess, I don’t care whether you were involved or not, I’ll give you a chance to live.”

“I don’t need evidence to do my work.”

“I only need answers.”

The murderous intent in Su Xin’s tone made Yang Zhenghao, who had never experienced such a situation, tremble nervously, his teeth chattering loudly.

He was used to a pampered life, never mind facing a life-or-death threat up close—he hadn’t even been beaten or suffered setbacks before.

He didn’t dare to question Su Xin’s determination to kill, so he obediently said:

“I’ll talk! I’ll talk!”

“Regarding the two attack incidents, I indeed know some insider information. Someone offered a large sum of money for us to coordinate action at critical moments.”

“It was Police Chief Zhong Renquan. He took the money and secretly cooperated with their actions.”

“He tacitly allowed the destruction of surrounding surveillance facilities, the erasure of all surveillance data, provided intel like the investigation team’s whereabouts, coordinated police force assignments to reduce nearby security at critical times.”

“Including myself, a few people just knew about it. We absolutely did not participate.”

He named a few people and their respective positions.

Su Xin silently noted them down and said:

“Tomorrow morning, gather all these people together, and openly release this information with our investigation team. Any questions?”

“But…”

Yang Zhenghao hesitated for a while.

If this is disclosed, his political career is basically over. No one would trust someone who betrays his colleagues, not to mention he himself was involved, and if others exposed him, his fate wouldn’t be better.

But upon seeing Su Xin’s cold eyes, he quickly nodded and said:

“No problem!”

His political future couldn’t compare with the immediate need to save his life.

Faced with absolute power and an unreasonably forceful attitude, he had no hesitation in yielding.

“Alright, then you can go back.”

“Okay, thank you! Thank you!”

Yang Zhenghao quickly turned around, stumbled back to the car, and had the driver leave.

Everything went smoothly, lifting Su Xin’s mood as he soon returned to the city.

The next morning.

Yang Zhenghao obediently went with Liu Shaorong to say during an official media broadcast about Police Chief Zhong Renquan’s cooperation in the attack, and exposed a few others who took money, condemning their actions sternly.

Yang Zhenghao’s actions were so sudden that Baoping City’s other high-ranking officials were caught off guard, the police had no prior knowledge of this truth, and as the video started spreading online, some people still had no idea about it.

Until someone came with an arrest warrant personally signed by Yang Zhenghao, these people finally panicked completely. Some resisted, some tried to run, some hysterically cursed Yang Zhenghao, accusing him of taking money too.

Regardless of the response, none could escape being captured.

Then they faced judgment.

Given the severity of the two attack incidents, these people were facing at least life imprisonment, as several police officers had died during the attacks, and the public opinion impact was exceedingly large.

Su Xin did not demand the Dawn Association to judge them. Being tough when necessary and not excessively forceful otherwise was his approach—just ensuring the accomplices received due punishment.

As for what happens to Yang Zhenghao later, Su Xin wouldn’t care. As long as the real perpetrator of the attacks was found and accomplices punished, the mission was satisfactorily completed.

That afternoon, Su Xin’s group took a special plane back to their headquarters city.

…

“Ding! Triggered task [Memory Illusion]”

[Memory Illusion: Cause ten people to experience ten different memory illusions.]

[Current progress: 0/10]

While practicing boxing in Stealth State, Su Xin heard the system prompt tone.

Without changing his expression, he finished the entire set, and then started to research this system task.

A memory illusion refers to when people see something happen and suddenly have incorrect recollections, believing they’ve encountered the event before.

Or when visiting a place, seeing certain scenery, hearing certain words, they inexplicably feel familiar as if they’ve experienced it previously.

In fact, this illusion occurs because their brain sends wrong signals during the experience, recognizing them as previously occurred events, leading to the illusion.

The problem is—

The occurrence of memory illusions is uncontrollable; nobody knows when they’ll happen, nor how they occur.

Actively causing someone to experience a memory illusion is almost an impossible task.

At least Su Xin had no ideas.

After pondering for a while, he could only adopt a trial-and-error attitude, planning to find a target to test on first.

“What if the system’s version of memory illusion is different from my understanding…”

Thinking this, Su Xin immediately used the Rune Network to contact Zuo Shuanghui, saying:

“This is Su Xin. Didn’t I tell you yesterday that we encountered seven Divine Attendants from the Divine Realm? Arrange for people to thoroughly investigate around Baoping City.”

Su Xin spoke confidently, just altering the number from five to seven. Zuo Shuanghui didn’t immediately catch on, instinctively responding:

“Okay, I’ll arrange it now.”

“Don’t forget, all seven of them are from the Divine Realm, typically acting together. Use this as a clue for investigation.”

Su Xin reiterated seven people.

Zuo Shuanghui finally noticed this point and wondered, “Huh? Did Su say seven people yesterday? I thought it was five.”

His memory was indeed good, especially for things Su Xin talked about, recalling significant details like numbers after hearing them just once, so he asked in confusion:

“You mentioned five yesterday, didn’t you…”

Su Xin’s tone noticeably hardened, trying to pressure Zuo Shuanghui to distract him from thinking too deeply, saying sternly:

“I encountered seven people yesterday, how could you mistake something so simple?”

Indeed, faced with Su Xin’s harsh tone, Zuo Shuanghui became nervous and quickly said, “Sorry, Su, it’s definitely my mistake, it’s surely seven people.”

“Mm, go investigate.”

“Sure, sure!”

Sensing the disruption of the mind link, Zuo Shuanghui exhaled heavily, realizing only then that his back unbeknownst had started sweating slightly.

Su Xin’s previous ruthlessness, having killed many, had softened since establishing the Dawn Association, seldom taking lives, almost making him forget Su Xin’s brutality.

Facing Su Xin’s noticeably darker tone, he immediately thought of the destroyed bases from before.

“Seven it is then. Why argue with Su about this? I’m really foolish.”

“But I really remember Su said five yesterday, did I genuinely remember wrong?”

Zuo Shuanghui scratched his head in confusion but soon tossed the issue aside, following Su’s orders and issuing commands to the intelligence department.

Elsewhere.

After Su Xin manually disconnected the mind link, he waited, finally hearing a pleasant system prompt—

“Ding! [Memory Illusion] progress +1.”

“This really works!”

Su Xin’s eyes lit up, quickly thinking of more similar strategies.

If it was the previous understanding of memory illusion, it would genuinely rely on luck.

But if it merely meant leading others to think their memory of an event was wrong, it posed nearly no difficulty for him.

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