Chapter 489

Deng Zhen looked in the direction his finger pointed and replied:

"Oh, this was picked up by a team member from the sewer explosion scene; it's still unclear what this thing is."

Feng Ju's eyes narrowed slightly, revealing a thoughtful expression.

He slowly walked to the table, reached out, picked up the syringe, and held it before his eyes.

Feng Ju noticed that when his hand touched the syringe barrel, the particles inside suddenly all turned toward him, colliding against the glass pipe wall with a fine "click-click" sound, like living things.

The way those metal particles agitated inside the syringe made Feng Ju feel they desired to burrow into his body.

"This is…"

Feng Ju's heart shuddered; his heartbeat frequency actually sped up by 1 second.

From once every 10 seconds, rising to once every 9 seconds.

He froze for a moment, a thoughtful look appearing in his eyes.

Feng Ju turned his head to look at Deng Zhen, while very naturally pocketing the syringe barrel.

"The thing inside the syringe barrel is probably a bit dangerous,"

He looked deeply at Deng Zhen, saying in a brook-no-argument tone,

"I have to take it and hand it over to the Special Commissioner for handling."

Deng Zhen was only too happy to have one less troublesome matter; the mountain of pending evidence piled up in the Technical Division had long left them worried and frantic.

He waved his hand casually, the corner of his mouth pulling out a weary smile: "Understood!"

Feng Ju walked away with one hand in his pocket; the corridor's voice-activated lights lit up in succession with his footsteps, then gradually extinguished behind him.

Three minutes later.

The Technical Division's door was pushed open again.

Chang Erbing's face peered in, his nose tip still glistening with instant noodle oil:

"Old Deng, just heard Captain Feng came by?"

He leaned against the doorframe in a seemingly casual manner, asking with a chuckle.

Deng Zhen usually got along well with Chang Erbing, so he didn't conceal anything, telling the other party exactly Feng Ju's behavior just now.

Chang Erbing pulled a bottle of dark blue "Awakening Liquid" from his pocket:

"You've worked hard staying up late; this is new stock Captain Li got, here's a bottle for you to try?"

After Deng Zhen happily accepted the small blue bottle, Chang Erbing had already swayed out into the corridor.

The foolish grin on his face vanished in an instant; he pivoted and strode straight toward the innermost office on the fourth floor.

Light still seeped through the cracks of Li Shang's venetian blinds.

"Storage card fragments, plus an evidence item of unknown function?"

Li Shang narrowed his eyes, full of suspicion:

"What connection do these two things have with 【Mask】?"

Even Divine Detective Li couldn't deduce it; Chang Erbing was even more clueless.

Originally, Li Shang had barely escaped the 【Mask】 vortex; he couldn't be bothered with who 【Mask】 was.

But who would have thought things would suddenly take a dramatic turn — 【Mask】 was actually the son of former Green Wolf Gang leader Zheng Si, and moreover the fugitive murderer he personally locked down in the 3.18 case.

Current Green Wolf Gang leader Ma Bin was even his "life-and-death" brother.

This gave him the instant feeling of a "chamber pot" spinning as it flew a full circle, only to ultimately splash heavily all over himself.

Li Shang asked in a cold voice: "What's the situation on the Special Commissioner's side?"

Chang Erbing answered with a dark face:

"The Special Commissioner hasn't said anything yet, merely ordered Feng Ju at the meeting to find Zheng Hang as soon as possible, only…"

Li Shang looked at Chang Erbing, cold light in his eyes: "Only what?"

Chang Erbing gnashed his teeth:

"Only there's a rumor in the Police Station now saying Captain Li you're covering for 【Mask】, deliberately misleading Feng Ju's case-solving train of thought…"

Li Shang's face darkened; he said viciously:

"Their hearts are punishable; the person spreading this news wants me dead!"

Chang Erbing nodded, filled with righteous indignation:

"It's definitely Feng Ju's doing; he's afraid he won't catch Zheng Hang, so he preemptively shifted the blame to us at the Special Commissioner's."

This matter didn't need evidence at all; Chang Erbing bit down on it being Feng Ju's doing in one mouthful.

Li Shang let out a long breath:

"Our newly made good friend's dad is a treacherous petty person."

Chang Erbing didn't know how to respond; he could only nod silently.

Li Shang said in a gloomy, eerie tone:

"The Special Commissioner not moving doesn't mean he doesn't believe Feng Ju's slander; we must prepare early. This Special Commissioner is extremely petty and ruthless to boot — he doesn't treat our lives as lives."

Hearing this, Chang Erbing's mind instantly flashed with the Special Commissioner's pair of cold, ruthless eyes; cold sweat seeped down his spine as he asked apprehensively:

"What should we do?"

Li Shang pinched his brow hard:

"Have you told Ma Bin everything? What did he say?"

Chang Erbing nodded, his face growing even uglier:

"Ma Bin seems scared stiff; he's very afraid Zheng Hang might return to the Green Wolf Gang, and wants to apply to our Patrol Bureau for 'Witness' Protection."

Li Shang froze: "What thing, Witness Protection? What can he prove?"

Chang Erbing: "Ma Bin means he can prove Zheng Hang is 【Mask】?"

Li Shang sneered: "No need for him to prove it; Zheng Hang's already been on TV, the Nine Districts' masses aren't blind……"

However, Li Shang's words had only gone halfway when he suddenly seemed to have hit a pause button, his whole person freezing abruptly.

Immediately after, his eyes widened round, and he abruptly raised his voice, asking with a trace of shock and doubt:

"Wait! Ma Bin and Zheng Hang still have contact?"

Chang Erbing hurriedly waved his hands, anxiously explaining:

"That's not the case; Zheng Si's death can't be separated from him. However……"

Speaking, Chang Erbing took out his phone from his pocket, fingers swiping rapidly on the screen a few times, opened a photo and handed it to Li Shang, supplementing:

"Ma Bin said he just now went and sorted through Zheng Si's relics again, and discovered a parchment in the interlayer of a book."

Li Shang's brows furrowed slightly, he reached out to take the phone, lowered his head and examined it carefully.

Displayed on the mobile phone screen was a photo of a yellowed parchment; due to poor lighting when photographing, the image was somewhat blurry.

But one could still vaguely make out that on the parchment, dark red pigment depicted a bizarre sacrificial ritual; those lines twisted and entwined, looking like half a twisted human face, horrifying to behold.

Li Shang's mouth corner pulled into a cold laugh; Ma Bin's kind of ghost talk might fool a three-year-old child, but he naturally didn't believe it.

"This parchment was definitely found by him long ago, just kept hidden away and not produced; now he's been scared out of his wits by the bizarre strangeness Zheng Hang displayed on TV, so he had no choice but to produce it as a life-saving chip."

Li Shang reasoned through the joints of the matter; a glint flashed in his eyes, and he said gloomily:

"Go, we'll go find Ma Bin right now, go take a look at this parchment."

Same time.

Feng Mu at home, considerately filial helped Mother finish cleaning the restaurant.

After finishing cleaning, he then leisurely sat on the soft sofa.

The TV was broadcasting an emergency news insert, sound reverberating in the room.

Feng Mu slightly closed his eyes, planning to take advantage of this moment of leisure to properly sense the Three-Tomoe Bloodline Cursed Eye's specific changes, while also checking the system's belated rewards.

Just then, the phone in his pocket suddenly vibrated urgently……

(End of Chapter)