When they arrived at the prison entrance, Qian Wu discovered that Zhou Liu had blocked a man outside the door.
The man had no objections whatsoever and simply stood in place quietly, holding a book.
Hearing someone approach, Zhou Liu put away the iron rod in her hand, then turned to look at Qian Wu.
Qian Wu nodded slightly at her and smiled, “You go to his room first.”
Zhou Liu understood immediately and reached out to pat Qi Xia and Qiao Jiajin on the shoulders.
“Hm?” Both were somewhat confused.
“Tsk, you might need this in a moment.” Zhou Liu said in a deep voice, then turned and entered the prison.
Arriving at the window in the corridor, Zhou Liu hid to one side and said in a low voice, “This is a test, please do not answer. If you hear this, look toward the rear left.”
Qi Xia and Qiao Jiajin simultaneously turned to glance at Zhou Liu’s position. Zhou Liu nodded at them both, then walked toward Chen Junnan’s room.
“Yo? Zhoumo?” Chen Junnan smiled. “What’s up?”
“Tsk, I’m Zhou Liu, not Zhoumo.”
“Zhou Liu is Zhoumo.”
“Tsk, stop being a smartass.” Zhou Liu pulled Chen Junnan to the window with a serious expression. “Take a look at that person… Do you recognize him?”
After hearing this, Officer Li and Zheng Yingxiong also slowly walked to the window.
They saw a man wearing black-framed glasses standing by the entrance. Although he looked somewhat disheveled, he seemed relatively amiable.
“How the hell could I not recognize him?” Chen Junnan said with a furrowed brow. “Isn’t that person ‘Heavenly-Snake’?”
“Tsk! Heavenly-Snake?” Zhou Liu’s eyes widened immediately.
After hearing this, Chen Junnan looked at her and said, “Zhoumo, do you know? I have three wishes in this life.”
“Tsk, what?” Zhou Liu asked impatiently.
“My first wish is for world peace, my second is that there be no more suffering people, and as for the third…” Chen Junnan sighed. “I hope that my friend named Zhoumo can speak without starting with ‘tsk.'”
After hearing this, Zhou Liu moved her lips, wanting to speak directly, but discovered that without “tsk” she really couldn’t open her mouth.
“Tsk! How I speak is none of your business!” She reached out and punched Chen Junnan hard. “Can you talk about the actual matter? You know ‘Heavenly-Snake’?”
“Yes.” Chen Junnan nodded. “Zhoumo, you need to tell those people to absolutely not make eye contact with Heavenly-Snake. If they’re afraid of arousing suspicion, then stare at his nose.”
“Tsk, why?”
“Because that bastard can know what you’re thinking when you make eye contact.” Chen Junnan said. “Fortunately, this young master is clever and found a way to break through it.”
Zhou Liu felt that things were somewhat ominous. Qian Wu most likely also knew Heavenly-Snake, but both Qi Xia and Qiao Jiajin had quite a few secrets in their minds. Once discovered by a “Heavenly-level” in advance, there would definitely be endless trouble, so she immediately lowered her head and transmitted the message.
After the two standing behind Qian Wu heard Zhou Liu’s transmission, they calmly changed their line of sight.
After seeing clearly who was before him, Qian Wu silently took out a pair of old sunglasses from the pocket of his leather jacket and put them on.
“Oh you this…” Heavenly-Snake smiled bitterly with a somewhat reserved expression. “‘Twin Flowers,’ what are you doing… We’ve known each other for so many years, this is my first time at your territory, and you, your hospitality…”
“Heavenly-Snake, although you are a ‘guest,’ I cannot completely trust you.” Qian Wu smiled. “You fundamentally cannot control your own ability well. After all, the temptation of others’ secrets is too great for you.”
“Ah…” Heavenly-Snake smiled and then nodded. “Yes… that’s right. Although it’s very rude… I really can’t control myself…”
After saying this, he looked at Qi Xia and Qiao Jiajin behind Qian Wu.
“This might be a bit presumptuous… but these two are…?”
“Is it necessary to inquire so thoroughly?” Qian Wu said. “In any case, they’re my friends, staying with me recently. As for you, we have no connection, and you don’t look like you’re here to do business either. What brings you here?”
“I… I actually…” Heavenly-Snake rubbed his hands somewhat nervously. “I came to find someone…”
“One hundred thousand.” Qian Wu said. “One hundred thousand yuan, and we can help you find anyone within one cycle, ‘native residents’ excluded.”
“One hundred thousand…?” Heavenly-Snake paused slightly, then smiled apologetically. “Ha… it’s been so long since I’ve heard of this thing called ‘money’… Where would I have money?”
“Then it will be very difficult for us to help you…” Qian Wu said, feigning difficulty.
“See if this works…” Heavenly-Snake took a step forward and said in a low voice, “I recently have a new research achievement… which is making ‘native residents’ release ‘Echoes’… If you’re willing to accept, I can trade you this achievement.”
After hearing this, Qian Wu paused and pondered the feasibility of this matter. Very quickly, he felt something was amiss.
“Wait a moment…” Qian Wu shook his head. “The ‘native residents’ have almost no reason left. They can indeed release ‘Echoes’ with an extremely high probability, but they don’t know what they’re doing. Everything will follow their instincts. This matter sounds far too dangerous.”
“But ‘native residents’ are very easy to deceive!” Heavenly-Snake smiled. “Don’t you think so? We just need a few words, and we can coax them over like coaxing children, then use their ‘Echoes’ to achieve our goals…”
“But they are ‘people.'” Qian Wu took out a cigarette from his pants pocket, put it in his mouth, and lit it. “The only difference between you and me is that I won’t treat people as tools.”
“How… how can people not be tools?” Heavenly-Snake said with a puzzled expression. “People can not only serve as tools… they can also serve as weapons, as shields, as research materials and experimental subjects… People are the most worthless thing here!”
“Heh…” Qian Wu gave a cold laugh and spat on the ground. “I don’t want to hear your nonsense, but you can first say who you’re looking for.”
“Chen Junnan!” Heavenly-Snake shouted loudly. “I want to make that brat suffer a fate worse than death!”
“Ha…” Qian Wu’s expression instantly turned sinister. “Heavenly-Snake, I don’t care who you’re looking for here, and I don’t care if you want to use native residents for experiments, but you just happened to step on my landmine.”
“Step on your… landmine?” Heavenly-Snake didn’t understand at all.
“To actually say in front of me that you want to make ‘Da Wa’ suffer a fate worse than death…” Qian Wu walked toward Heavenly-Snake step by step. “Do you know why ‘Cat’ exists?”
Before Heavenly-Snake could react at all, Qian Wu grabbed his arm.
In the next second, Qian Wu’s form rapidly shrank, his height also decreasing considerably, ultimately becoming completely identical to Heavenly-Snake.
“You…”
Qian Wu wanted to say something more but suddenly felt his breathing was somewhat difficult. This body seemed to have very serious problems.
“What are you doing…?” Heavenly-Snake asked incomprehensibly. “Did you copy my body?”
