Chapter 13: The Investigation Team Comes Knocking

1: Choose Advanced Psychological Analysis Ability!

2: Choose Body Fitness +1 point.

Please choose your reward!

If possible, Xu Mo wants both reward options.

Having undergone a strengthening that raised brain cell activity by 2 points, he naturally knows how enticing these reward options are!

Unfortunately, he can only pick one.

Then the choice is simple.

This is a Cat and Mouse Game!

If Xu Mo wants to keep receiving rewards, he must be the cat, constantly toying with the Investigation Team members.

That's why he told Yang Jingxuan, "From now on, you're kidnapped!"

Since this so‑called "Sky Eye Operation" Program Crew can toy with him, why can't Xu Mo toy with them and play a big game?

You want to play, right?

If we play, let's make it thrilling!

He wants the Program Crew to understand that ordinary people have tempers too!

If it weren't for the sudden Cat and Mouse Game choice midway, Xu Mo could almost be certain that, in this situation, he would truly be the mouse—the one laughed at and toyed with on the show.

Until the program ends, he would be the subject of ridicule, a negative example.

How ridiculous.

The Program Crew has its goals, the female star seeks popularity, so… why can't Xu Mo keep playing for the reward?

As for the Investigation Team.

What they're after and what power they possess, Xu Mo doesn't yet know.

But now his mind is sharp enough.

However, his body fitness is fundamentally lacking.

Thus, Advanced Psychological Analysis Ability was quickly ruled out.

He chose the Body Fitness +1 point option.

"You have chosen Body Fitness +1 point."

"Enhancing your Body Fitness…"

"Enhancement complete."

As the voice in his mind finished the prompt, Xu Mo instantly felt the changes in his body; his lower abdomen and muscles seemed as if insects were scurrying, a hot current constantly surging through him.

He stood before the washroom mirror, lifted his shirt, and saw eight abdominal muscles appearing on his belly.

Although the definition wasn't sharp, before he only had a single abs patch there; he could feel his chronically code‑hammering, sub‑healthy body transform, now brimming with strength.

The feeling is simply fantastic.

Never before has Xu Mo's body felt such fullness.

He threw a punch and sensed a gust of force on his fist; his striking speed increased considerably.

So powerful!

Nothing is more exhilarating than this.

The bodily changes made Xu Mo's face radiate excitement.

If all rewards were like this.

He must keep playing this Cat and Mouse Game properly!

Be the cat, keep toying with the mouse!

With that thought, Xu Mo dropped his shirt, stepped out of the bathroom, and saw the female star Yang Jingxuan in the living room watching him nervously.

"Are you hungry?"

Xu Mo asked inexplicably.

Yang Jingxuan had just been terrified enough by Xu Mo's tactics to lose her appetite; she was bewildered by his question and replied irritably, "Not hungry."

"Alright then, I'll order my own takeout."

Xu Mo said lightly.

"Huh?" Yang Jingxuan was taken aback, "You're ordering takeout now?"

"Is that not allowed?" Xu Mo glanced at her.

Yang Jingxuan truly couldn't fathom what Xu Mo was thinking—first he said she was kidnapped, now he asks if she's hungry, and then wants to order takeout?

She felt her thoughts couldn't keep up with Xu Mo's.

What the heck is this guy up to?

Was his earlier remark just to scare her?

Yang Jingxuan suddenly recalled Xu Mo's words, "Aren't you always being kidnapped by me?"

A vague suspicion rose in her mind.

She agreed to be the "kidnapped" star precisely for exposure, for popularity, didn't she?

What is Xu Mo after?

Yang Jingxuan couldn't guess, but Xu Mo, seeing her pensive expression as if he'd read her inner waves, smiled, "Got it?"

His eyes truly seemed as if they could see right through her.

His intuition is oddly accurate.

Yang Jingxuan, being a modestly famous star, is naturally not foolish; she nodded, "I understand."

"Alright then." Xu Mo removed the Small Camera from Yang Jingxuan, and the Live Broadcast Room instantly went pitch black. He then said, "Now that you understand, just find any hotel and wait for me."

"Aren't you afraid I'll run away?"

After she figured it out, Yang Jingxuan's pressure wasn't that great anymore; although she was still bound by Xu Mo, her tone became considerably more relaxed.

"My intuition tells me you won't run," Xu Mo said with a gentle smile.

"Hmph!" Yang Jingxuan snorted; this guy was really confident.

But the fact was indeed so; she truly wouldn't run, and couldn't help reminding him, "Don't forget you're currently under Wanted Status!"

"So what of it?" Xu Mo replied with the same indifferent tone.

"So what of it?" Yang Jingxuan repeated Xu Mo's words a bit speechlessly, "If I'm not mistaken, the Investigation Team is about to arrive. You tell me, so what of it?"

"You're a hostage and you're still concerned about your captor," Xu Mo said with a smile, "The emperor isn't in a hurry, but the eunuch is."

Then he untied the ropes on Yang Jingxuan.

"You!!"

Yang Jingxuan was so angry she could spit blood, rolled her eyes and said, "Fine, you'd better get caught quickly then."

She said that, opened the door, and walked out.

He thought to himself that Xu Mo was truly beyond help.

As a kidnapped female star, she naturally didn't want Wu Chen to be caught by the Investigation Team quickly, because that would give the whole program very little exposure.

If Xu Mo couldn't hold out for even an hour before being captured.

Then what exposure would Yang Jingxuan have?

……

Watching the sound of her departure, Xu Mo's mouth curved into a faint smile.

Did he really think ordering takeout was for a meal?

Xu Mo walked to the kitchen, opened the microwave, and started it.

……

Meanwhile, the Live Broadcast Room was pitch black.

"Has Xu Mo gone mad, ordering takeout at a time like this?"

"Does he know he can't escape the Investigation Team and gave up?"

"Looks like those earlier actions were just Xu Mo's final Highlight Action."

"I don't get it, I don't get it, the Investigation Team is about to arrive, and he's still ordering takeout."

"You call him stupid, but he's actually quite clever—what on earth is this guy doing?"

"Xu Mo: I could run, but I won't, it's just a game."

……

Not only the Water Friends in the Live Broadcast Room didn't understand.

The directing crew in the studio also couldn't make sense of Xu Mo's actions.

Not running and still ordering takeout at this moment?

Isn't that courting death?

……

Twenty minutes later.

Live Channel 2.

Tangdong, Garden Community entrance.

Four people—three men and one woman—stepped out of two police cars; they were members of the Investigation Team, led by Han Fei, who looked toward the 24th floor of Building C in Garden Community.

"The lights are still on."

"Xu Mo didn't run?"

A few of them furrowed their brows in puzzlement.

"No, it's also possible he ran and didn't have time to turn off the lights."

"Let's go up."

In the meantime, the group entered the community, arrived at the building beneath Xu Mo's residence, and after reaching the first floor, Han Fei glanced around, noticing two elevators and a stairwell beside them.

He thought for a moment, then ordered, "Chen Ke, stay on the first floor and keep watch, so Xu Mo can't escape through the other elevator or stairwell."

"Got it," Chen Ke nodded.

Han Fei, together with Li Chen and Shen Manni, pressed the elevator button and waited for it to arrive.

Danmaku started flooding the Live Broadcast Room.

"Xu Mo really overreached this time."

"The Investigation Team has already arrived!"

"What a pity, I thought Xu Mo could hold out for a long time."

"That's so stupid, ordering takeout—laughing my head off."

……

Over at Xu Mo's side.

Why he ordered takeout was simple: to give the Investigation Team, who were about to meet him for the first time, a surprise.

"Cat and Mouse Game, Cat and Mouse Game, the rule is nothing more than the cat playing with the mouse."

The focus is on the word "play."

Only in this way can Xu Mo continuously earn rewards.

As for who is the cat and who is the mouse.

Xu Mo couldn't be sure either.

But that doesn't stop him from wanting to make a big play; the higher the risk, the greater the reward.

Thinking that, Xu Mo glanced at the microwave that was running.

At the same time.

A "ding" sounded.

The elevator in the hallway rang its doors opening.

Next came.

"Knock knock knock!"

Someone knocked on Xu Mo's door.