Chapter 531: Dungeon

"Li Ang?"

Seeing Li Ang walk out carrying things less than ten minutes after going in, the female police officer "on duty" at the entrance couldn't help but be slightly startled, asking with some surprise:

"You've finished asking your questions?"

"Yeah."

Li Ang nodded and said:

"I didn't have many questions to ask, so it didn't take long... By the way, that Director of your Secret Investigation Bureau, is there anything strange about him?"

Huh? Why ask this suddenly?

Hearing Li Ang's question, the female police officer hesitated slightly, then spoke up:

"Anything strange... does his personality count? Although he doesn't like taking on burdens, he's actually quite reliable when it comes to critical moments..."

"That's not what I'm asking."

Li Ang shook his head and said:

"When I say strange, I mean something more special, like physical ability clearly exceeding an ordinary person, or having completed some impossible missions, that sort of thing."

"This... doesn't seem to be anything too special..."

After thinking for a while, the female police officer shook her head and said:

"If I really have to say, the Director's combat level is very strong, almost no worse than mine, and his shooting scores are also quite good, plus he is very skilled at making arrests..."

Wrong.

Upon hearing this, Li Ang couldn't help but shake his head.

These all sound like things within the "ordinary person" category and are unrelated to anomalous objects. The scarred strong man's ability is likely not any of these.

Hmm... thinking about it carefully, it makes sense. The Cleanup Bureau is just in a corner of the Police Department, separated from the Secret Investigation Bureau by only a few buildings.

Although his own Bureau Director's perception ability doesn't seem very strong, in a situation where they are so close, if the other party had really used an anomalous object within this distance, they would definitely have been caught by the Director long ago...

Watching Li Ang, who was frowning and clearly pondering something, the female police officer couldn't help but ask curiously:

"What did you say to her inside? Why did you suddenly ask about the Director?"

Li Ang hesitated slightly, then laid it all out directly:

"Because your Director is a traitor."

"..."

"Traitor might not be accurate. He probably didn't betray the Secret Investigation Bureau; he was likely a spy who infiltrated your Secret Investigation Bureau from the very beginning."

"..."

"Stingy!"

Meeting the gaze of the "pretentiously serious" Li Ang and recalling how he had demanded to interrogate the prisoner alone and refused to let anyone listen in, the female police officer couldn't help but wrinkle her nose and say:

"Forget it if you don't want to say. I wouldn't pester you about it anyway, why use such snarky remarks to brush me off?"

"I'm not brushing you off. Your Director really is a spy."

"Yeah, yeah."

Seeing that Li Ang was still joking with her, the female police officer had no choice but to cooperate by making a "Wow, so that's how it is" expression, then said huffily:

"Let's go, let's go. Since you've finished your business, we should go find the 'spy' to return the warrant. If it takes too long... why are you pulling me?"

Looking at Li Ang, who was holding her arm with an exceptionally serious expression, the female police officer finally reacted. The look on her face changed repeatedly, and then she said in utter shock:

"You... could the Director really be...?!"

"Yeah."

Nodding to give a definite answer, Li Ang pulled the female police officer and walked out quickly. After reaching the registration area, he first showed her the name on the warrant, then explained what he could, though because it was inconvenient to tell her about the existence of anomalous objects, the explanation was really quite far-fetched.

But the female police officer had seen Li Ang's "performance" with her own eyes and knew he possessed monster-like interrogation abilities. After hesitating repeatedly, she finally believed his words reluctantly, muttering with a complex expression:

"No wonder... no wonder the rebels seemed to have eyes in the sky. For the past two years, they've always been able to avoid our encirclements in advance, and only the Director could barely catch their tails... So that's why..." So you've been played for fools for the past few years.

After mentally filling in the second half of the sentence for her, Li Ang instructed:

"Just keep this to yourself for now, but don't act rashly. That Director of yours has some... hmm... special aspects. The Secret Investigation Bureau alone can't handle him. For the sake of safety, I plan to go back to the Cleanup Bureau first to call for help. You wait here for a bit..."

When he reached this point, seeing the female police officer looking dejected and clearly having suffered a huge blow, Li Ang paused slightly. Worried she might act impulsively, he quickly changed his words:

"Forget it, you'd better come with me!"

"Okay..."

Having been a secret police officer for a full few years, always fighting against rebels causing destruction everywhere, only to turn around and find out her own Director was a rebel, the impact the female police officer suffered was truly too great. Her brain had basically shut down, and when Li Ang reached out and pulled her, she followed subconsciously.

However, when the two walked into the stairwell one after the other and climbed several flights of stairs, preparing to leave the dungeon, they both froze in place.

There was no other reason; when they pushed open the door to the stairwell and walked out, what appeared was not the spacious and bright lobby on the first floor of the Secret Investigation Bureau, but a dim and narrow corridor.

The table with the registration book was not far to their right, and Li Ang even saw the signature he and the female police officer had just left.

"..."

Alright, no need to guess this time. The scarred Director's ability must be exactly this.

"This... how is this possible?!"

Li Ang, who roughly understood what had happened, was pondering how he had "exposed" himself, while the female police officer, seeing an anomaly activated for the first time, was completely stunned by the situation before her.

After pulling Li Ang's hand and rushing into the stairwell, only to see the registration book on the table again, she, unable to understand this situation, was completely bewildered.

"What exactly is going on? Why are there so many identical dungeons?"

"It's not that there are many identical dungeons, but one dungeon repeating infinitely."

Pointing at the registration book on the table, Li Ang rubbed his temples and said:

"Before we went up the second time, I folded the bottom right corner of the registration book... Look, the crease is still here, so what we're seeing should be the same dungeon."

After finishing his preliminary judgment, Li Ang reached out to pick up the registration book, then took the initiative to pull the female police officer into the stairwell again.

After the two "went down a floor" again, looking at the table that had already lost the registration book, Li Ang couldn't help but shake his head with slight regret.

"Confirmed, it shouldn't be the kind of dungeon that can replicate infinitely. It's most likely that the top and bottom of the same dungeon have been connected. We should have been trapped by your Director."

The top and bottom of the dungeon... have been connected?

After barely understanding what Li Ang meant, the female police officer said in utter shock:

"So... this is the Director... this is the special aspect of that person?!"

"Yes."

Without saying much more, Li Ang walked from one end of the dungeon to the other and entered the interrogation room again to take a look. Finding that the female prisoner had already disappeared and there were only the two of them left in the entire dungeon, he couldn't help but blink thoughtfully.

"Hold my hand and step back to the side."

After pulling the female police officer to the wall, Li Ang reached out to pinch the Holy Spirit pendant on his chest, then took a deep breath, condensed an invisible giant hand, and slammed it fiercely against the dungeon wall!

"Boom!!!"

Accompanied by a wave of invisible sonic booms, the wall beside them exploded, and a large amount of broken bricks mixed with dust splashed everywhere, revealing a huge hole in the wall.

Carefully poking his head out and looking out along the hole in the wall, but not seeing another identical dungeon, only seeing a deep pit full of mud, Li Ang's long-furrowed brow finally relaxed.

I thought it was some amazing ability... just this?

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 532 =====