Chapter 36: 36 Who is the Devil (Part 2)

36 Who is the Devil (Part 2)

Amidst the Hearing Hearing Heishanyang's cursing, Li Ang, who was covered in sweat and acid, carried the wrapped Witch's Broom and followed the crowd to the gate of Charle Water Company.

However, he didn't rush in to start the investigation. Instead, he carefully observed the situation around him and walked around the outer wall of the Water Company several times.

Sure enough, in a shaded alley, Li Ang found a large number of people in ragged clothes who "looked suspicious."

After listening to the conversations of those people for a while, Li Ang didn't ask about the situation directly. Instead, he mixed into them quietly, angrily cursing the shamelessness of the Water Company, which aroused the resonance of most people, and they all followed and cursed angrily.

After carefully recording the content of the curses of those people covered in wounds and collecting enough rich information, Li Ang carried the broom and walked back to the main gate of the Water Company, walking in with his head held high and big strides.

"Stop!"

When Li Ang was circling the Water Company, the gatekeeper had already targeted this suspicious-looking poor kid. Seeing that he finally entered the door, he stopped him without a word and threatened him with a fierce look:

"Do you know where this is..."

"Police Department."

After showing his credentials to the sturdy gatekeeper with a fierce face, glancing at the gatekeeper whose expression suddenly tightened, Li Ang said with a straight face:

"I'm here to investigate a case, take me to your security department manager."

"Ah? Okay, okay!"

Identifying the credentials and rank of public officials is a "compulsory course" for gatekeepers of such large enterprises. After confirming that the signature and seal on this credential were complete and didn't look like a fake.

Facing an assistant-level police officer, the sturdy gatekeeper who was full of vigilance just now became honest instantly, and took him directly to the office of the security department without a word.

And the security department manager, after reading the credentials issued by the Cleanup Bureau, also didn't... or didn't dare to doubt Li Ang's identity, but asked about his purpose with a smiling face.

Looking at the security manager's cautious appearance, Li Ang guessed that as long as he said "mission secret" with a straight face, he probably wouldn't ask more, but would just muddle through and let Li Ang in.

For no other reason, the Cleanup Bureau's credentials are really easy to use.

In the Kingdom's five-level civil service system of Executive, Action, Text, Assistant, and Common, although the assistant-level public office where Li Ang is located can only rank fourth, it sounds like nothing special, but it has actually entered the middle level of the civil service system.

If it is converted to the military department of the Kingdom, it is a lieutenant-level officer who can command a company of two hundred people. If it is thrown into a local county outside the Capital, it even has the qualification to fight for the position of deputy of a local real-power department.

Plus Li Ang's age of only sixteen or seventeen, and that surname that is quite bluffing, it is almost as if the words "not easy to mess with" are written on his face. Facing such a troublesome evil guest, the security department manager naturally didn't dare to stop him hard.

After all, if he really angered the other party, although Charle Water Company has a deep background, it might not necessarily stand up for a small manager like him. If people retaliate, he still has to bear it himself.

It's just...

Looking at Li Ang's face that was too young, the security manager, who was about thirty years old and had been smiling, twitched the corners of his mouth, and a hint of hidden contempt appeared in the bottom of his eyes.

He didn't dare to stop him hard, but if this "Level 3 Accident Handler" came with bad intentions and wanted to intervene in some things that were inconvenient to touch, there were plenty of ways to drag the other party!

"Hehe, actually, it's nothing big."

After reaching into the shopping bag and touching the Hearing Hearing Heishanyang's head, looking at the security manager whose soul was flickering between obedience and resistance, Li Ang's expression softened, and he smiled warmly:

"There have been a lot of people making trouble in your company during this period, and the department is worried that you can't appease the emotions of these people,

leading them to impact the Water Company, so I was specially sent to run a trip to check the situation."

Hearing that Li Ang was here to ask about the water supply, the security manager's heart suddenly thumped, and he put away the smile on his face and said with a difficult expression:

"This... it's not that I can't say it, mainly the company has regulations for us..."

"Old brother, I'm not playing virtual with you."

After interrupting the security manager's prevarication, Li Ang reached out and took out a soft paper "Gao Te" cigarette box, skillfully knocked the bottom of the box and popped out a cigarette, then learned the honest smile of the coffee stall boss, and amidst the Hearing Hearing Heishanyang's painful cursing in his mind, he smiled and handed the cigarette over.

"Just say it directly. What exactly is the situation with the public water pipe? I just want an answer. Can you suppress this matter?"

"This... it must be possible."

After looking at the high-end cigarette that cost three silver wheels per pack, the security manager suppressed his itchy heart and laughed:

"It's just that it still takes some time, and the final appeasement situation depends on what the compensation plan is..."

"You'd better tell me the truth!"

After glancing at the soul that was gradually disordered under the tug-of-war, Li Ang narrowed his eyes and suddenly raised his volume to add pressure:

"I've already seen what it looks like outside!

Although the people blocking your gate were driven away by you, the words 'Either pay us for medicine or come out and drink feces' on the wall haven't been shoveled clean yet! Do you think I'm blind?"

"This... sorry, I'm just a security manager. I really don't know how many people were affected and how to compensate for these things!"

"You don't know, but after you take me in, you can help me find out."

"This... although you are from the Police Department, these things belong to the company's secrets. No matter what, I am also the manager of the security department, so I can't..."

"The reason I came to you and not someone else is because you are the security manager!"

Li Ang silently took half a step forward, stared into the eyes of the somewhat panicked security manager, lowered his volume again, and whispered softly:

"I thought these things didn't need me to remind you, but you don't seem to have much self-awareness?

Old brother, use your brain! If something really happens later, if the mob impacts the Water Company, will the higher-ups let you let them in? Or will they let you take people to stop them?

If you see blood in the process of stopping people, or if those patients who were carried over to ask for money because they couldn't afford medicine die, do you guess that in the end, this matter will become your own claim as a security manager?"

"This..."

After hearing Li Ang's assumption, the security manager's expression changed, and sweat appeared on his forehead.

"I'm just acting according to regulations, and... this... it doesn't necessarily mean it will make trouble, and the company doesn't necessarily..."

"Don't talk about this or that! A company that can pour feces into public water pipes for the sake of cost savings, will it care about the life or death of a manager like you?"

Glancing at the extremely unstable soul flame of the other party, and judging that his psychological defense line had been shaken, Li Ang grabbed the security manager's palm, forcefully stuffed the whole box of cigarettes into it.

Then he broke his fingers one by one, pressed his palm to slowly clench the cigarette box, then leaned closer, and whispered softly in a volume close to ear language:

"Old brother, think about it carefully. This matter is actually not that difficult. The result is nothing more than two kinds."

"The first kind, I investigate seriously, and you cooperate well."

"If something really happens later, our Police Department can also be prepared to control the situation early. You might even get a credit for timely notification and good cooperation."

"The second kind, you deliberately conceal the situation of the Water Company and delay my investigation."

"Once a big mess happens, the department will lose face, I will have to take the blame, and you will carry the pot of causing violent conflict, be fired from the Water Company, and your whole family will go to the slums to pick up trash."

Through some verbal techniques, Li Ang secretly limited the other party's thinking range to yes or no. Looking at the security manager who was sweating profusely in front of him, Li Ang, whose heart was beating extremely fast, described it softly and unhurriedly:

"Old brother, have you been to the slums of the Capital? Have you seen how people there live?"

"If you don't know, then I can tell you. They wear rags picked up every day, and even wear shrouds stolen from funeral companies."

"They have to fight with crows and wild cats for garbage in the trash can, and dig in the toxic alchemy waste pile for a day, just to find a few pieces of old metal that can be exchanged for half a copper wheel."

"And every winter, as long as there is a heavy snow, the next day on the garbage pile of the Road Administration's cleaning truck, there will be a few more thin bones that even wild dogs can't gnaw..."

"Old brother, think about it carefully. If you choose this path, will you and your family become one of them this year?"

After describing his beautiful future for the security manager, looking at the soaring black flames on his soul, Li Ang, who judged that the heat was enough, suddenly took half a step back.

"Wait! Wait!"

Boom!

The gray-white defense line in the security manager's soul, which was already thinner than an eggshell, was completely burned through by the surging black flames below.

Li Ang's sudden withdrawal without warning seemed to directly remove the last barrier between him and the slums. The pale security manager instinctively followed, grabbed Li Ang's arm tightly, and said stammeringly:

"You... I can take you to some... some places that are not so important, but you can't betray me! If you betray me, I... I will... I will..."

"Hehe, you can rest assured about this."

After observing the other party's soul state again and confirming that he had completely "broken the defense," Li Ang, who looked stable on the surface but whose heartbeat was already fast to one hundred and sixty, smiled and asked:

"Do you think betraying a security manager like you has any benefit to me?"

"In order to let you fight to the death and give me a knife? To let the higher-ups know that I used improper means to obtain information? Or to make it easier for the Water Company to complain about me stealing secrets?"

"Rest assured, I'm not a fool. How could I do such a thing that has no benefit at all and is even full of trouble?"

"You... you..."

Looking at the young man smiling gently at him, the security manager only felt his eyes blur slightly, as if he saw two sharp sheep horns lingering with black energy on the other's head.

After shuddering, he didn't dare to look at this young devil who smiled very honestly, and hurriedly turned his head, slightly hunched his back, and took Li Ang to the archives room.

【Tsk tsk tsk... resentment, betrayal, jealousy, fear... you kid are amazing!】

Looking at the security manager's soul that was almost burned black, the Hearing Hearing Heishanyang couldn't help but widen its eyes and marvel in Li Ang's mind:

【Just listening to you say a few words, how did his soul get stained black? You... don't you have other anomalous objects? But I didn't feel it!】

【This is not the effect of an anomalous object, but the result of observation and judgment.】

Taking out a small bottle of loose inferior liquor from the shopping bag containing the sheep's head, Li Ang took a big gulp while enduring the pungent smell of alcohol, activated the 【Martyr of the Wine Country】 badge, felt the fear and tension in his heart gradually dissipate, reached out and pressed the Hearing Hearing Heishanyang's forehead, and explained calmly:

【Senior Ai Ma told me that no matter what the situation, never ignore the importance of information. Careful observation, calm thinking, and cautious judgment are the reasons why she can stay in the Cleanup Bureau safely for six years.】

【And before I came in, I carefully observed the injuries of those people who came to protest and found that they were all hitting the fleshy parts, proving that the security department had been instructed to control the intensity. And the person most likely to do these things is the security manager who will likely be treated as a discard after a serious incident.】

【From here, I found that although he is part of the Water Company, his interests are not completely consistent with the Water Company. As long as you focus on attacking the places he is afraid of and dismantle his interests from the Water Company, you can make him our helper.】

Good guy... not to mention those, have you already learned to communicate with your soul? You kid is really a natural devil!

Feeling the intention transmitted to his soul through his fingers, the Hearing Hearing Heishanyang felt a little jealous of Li Ang's "devil" talent and couldn't help but raise the bar:

【Guessing! You only met for the first time, how do you know he didn't do it lightly because he couldn't bear it? Also, how do you know what he is afraid of?】

【If he couldn't bear it, he wouldn't do it himself, and after completing the purpose of driving people away from the door, he continued to chase and beat those unarmed people with weapons.】

【As for what he is afraid of... his collar is clean, his trouser lines are straight, there is a family photo in the photo frame on his desk, and there is a polo club in the corner. He is obviously the kind of person who lives a stable life, has a happy family, and has the energy to pursue his hobbies.】

Recalling the man who held his wife and children in the family photo and smiled very warmly, and the protesters who were beaten all over the body in the alley, Li Ang shook his head with a complex expression and continued to summarize:

【This kind of person is generally most afraid of the stable days being broken and the fall of his own class.】

【So as long as you forcibly link the result of not cooperating with me to these, and keep interrupting his words without giving him time to think, he will naturally surrender little by little.】

【...】

Damn! You kid is really... compared to you, I, this devil, am like a fake!

After thinking about it with his not-so-bright brain and finding no obvious mistakes, the Hearing Hearing Heishanyang couldn't help but smack its lips in frustration, feeling that it was really a waste of being a devil, but soon, it recovered and asked with excitement:

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【Li Ang Li Ang! When you betray him later, can you take me with you?】

【Hey hehe, because of his own weakness and cowardice, he didn't withstand the temptation of the devil and was knocked down to hell from the stable human world... This is really interesting! I really appreciate you more and more!】

"..."

【Why don't you speak?】

After waiting for a long time without seeing Li Ang's answer, the Hearing Hearing Heishanyang couldn't help but pause, then said angrily:

【You wouldn't be considering that he also has a wife and children, so you're soft-hearted, right? F***! Can you be more sober? He is a running dog of the Water Company! He has led people to beat those who came to ask for compensation!】

【Kid! Don't you want to punish evil and promote good? Then do it! After investigating the Water Company's problems, turn around and report him and sell him out!】

【Then step on his head with your shoe sole, arrogantly tell him the reason why you did this, and then let him taste what despair is in the human hell!】

"..."

【Look at the situation and talk...】

After shaking his head slightly, Li Ang sighed:

【You can also see his soul, right? Although he is not a kind person, the dark side of his soul is not much larger than the average person, basically floating at the same level, and even revealing a warm feeling.】

【If I find out later that he has done a lot of dirty things for the Water Company, then when it's time to sell him, I will definitely not be soft-hearted. But in the case of not even knowing his name, directly destroying his life and even his family's life, I feel it is still a bit too rash... What's wrong with you?!】

Looking at the dark flames rising suddenly in the soul vision, and feeling the strong desire surging from the depths of the Hearing Hearing Heishanyang's soul, Li Ang just wanted to ask, but a hysterical scream from the Hearing Hearing Heishanyang suddenly sounded in his mind:

【Heart! My heart!】

【Don't care if it's rash or not! Turn back quickly! Someone touched my heart in that room just now!】 ===== CHAPTER 37 =====