Chapter 483: The Truth Behind Jibeiweng's Death

At the entrance of Paradise, the atmosphere was unusually tense.

Huo La looked at the Xiao Gang and Xiaoyin before him, both wearing Limiters, and shook his head helplessly: "Xiao Gang Ge, Xiaoyin is young and impulsive, getting captured is one thing, but you, so steady, how did you fall as well?"

Xiao Gang let out a helpless sigh, "I didn't see this coming either. As soon as Aimeijiao heard you went to Zhuoyue Gongsi, he didn't say a word and launched a covert ambush; we had no time to react."

Beside them, Xiaoyin still wore a defiant expression, completely unconcerned about being captured.

"Are you done talking? If so, hand over what I want," Aimeijiao said evenly, while Hanbeier stood quietly beside him.

Huo La turned to look at him, pulled out the Ancient Spirit Ball, and idly toyed with it in his hand.

Aimeijiao stared at the Ancient Spirit Ball, a flash of eagerness in his eyes, then asked, "Why is there only this one? Where's the Terapagos?"

Huo La lowered his head, looked at the Pokeball in his hand, and said lightly, "You seem to know quite a bit. It looks like someone in the Explorer Team secretly tipped you off."

Aimeijiao remained silent, offering no reply.

Huo La continued, "We trade people with one hand and keys with the other. You have two hostages in your hand, I have two keys that open Paradise; it's only natural to exchange them one for one."

Aimeijiao thought it over, found the logic sound, yet something still felt off. After a moment of inner conflict, he stepped forward and removed the Limiter from Xiaoyin.

Xiaoyin glanced at Xiao Gang, saw Xiao Gang nod at her, and stepped toward Huo La.

Huo La didn't hesitate and tossed the Ancient Spirit Ball straight to Hanbeier.

Hanbeier reached out, caught it, examined it carefully, and after confirming it was fine, nodded at Aimeijiao.

Aimeijiao immediately urged, "And the Terapagos."

Huo La pulled out a plain red-and-white Pokeball, "This one contains the Terapagos; release the hostages."

Aimeijiao raised his hand at once to stop, "Hold on, I can't verify its authenticity."

He stared at the Pokeball and continued, "The Ancient Spirit Ball is unique and never fails, but with such an ordinary Pokeball I can't confirm whether it truly holds a Terapagos."

Huo La looked at the unremarkable Pokeball in his hand, also feeling a bit helpless.

Indeed, storing a Terapagos in such a common Pokeball would inevitably raise doubts. He didn't waste words and pressed the Pokeball's activation switch directly.

A flash of Red Light, and the Terapagos's figure materialized between them, clear and real.

After confirming it was correct, Aimeijiao finally relaxed and untied the restraints on Xiao Gang.

Xiao Gang hurried to Huo La's side, successfully freeing himself.

Huo La didn't rush to retrieve the Terapagos nor hand over the Pokeball immediately; instead, he turned to Hanbeier and asked, "Hanbeier, do you know that Jibeiweng was killed by Aimeijiao?"

Hanbeier froze for a moment, then snapped his head around, staring coldly at Aimeijiao, "The Captain's death is connected to you?!"

Aimeijiao's complexion changed instantly, and he hurried to defend, "It wasn't me! It has nothing to do with me! That was all Spinel's doing; don't listen to his nonsense!"

"Nonsense?" Huo La raised an eyebrow, confident, "I have the Surveillance Footage from that time; want to take a look?"

The words barely left his mouth before Huo La tossed the Pokeball in his hand straight at Hanbeier.

Hanbeier instinctively reached out and caught the Pokeball containing the Terapagos.

At that moment, Huo La's voice rang out slowly, "Hanbeier, the two keys that open Paradise are now in your hands; you are the one who can decide everything now."

Hanbeier lowered his head, looked at the two Pokeballs in his hand, his fingers tightening slightly as he silently tucked them behind his back.

He looked up at Aimeijiao, his tone chilling, "Is the Captain's death really connected to you?"

Aimeijiao furrowed his brows and quickly defended, "Hanbeier, don't listen to him; how could I possibly cause my own grandfather's death?"

Hearing the word "grandfather," Hanbeier's tense expression softened a bit, and a hint of hesitation rose in his heart.

But at that moment, Huo La spoke again, a single sentence exposing the key point, "Indeed, you didn't act personally. The surveillance captured everything clearly."

Hanbeier immediately sensed the issue, his brows furrowing tightly.

Huo La deliberately emphasized "personally," indicating the matter was far from simple and hidden motives lay behind it.

"Since you have the surveillance, release it; I want to see the truth with my own eyes," Hanbeier said gravely.

Aimeijiao panicked instantly, rushing to block, "Hanbeier, don't trust him!"

Hanbeier snapped his head toward him, his gaze cold and resolute, "You told me before that the Captain was killed by Spinel. All the bad rumors about you that circulated, I always thought Spinel deliberately framed you. I have believed you from start to finish, but now I need solid evidence."

"No problem," Huo La said simply, nodding. "The truth should be laid out and clarified from the start."

After speaking, he snapped his fingers lightly; the Rotom Phone beside him rose automatically, hovering in midair. The screen instantly played a clear surveillance video, a recording that Spinel had previously copied for Huo La.

In fact, Huo La had long prepared, and everything unfolding before his eyes was exactly as he had anticipated.

Hanbeier stared intently at the screen, his complexion sinking ever deeper.

In the surveillance footage, Aimeijiao and a mysterious figure cloaked entirely in black robes entered Jibeiweng's hospital room together.

The two whispered a few sentences, their words indistinct, and then the black‑robed man suddenly produced a syringe and injected it into Jibeiweng's IV Tube.

Within seconds, the Vital Signs Monitor beside the bed, which had shown steady data, suddenly spiked, indicating abnormally vigorous life signs. Yet in an instant, all readings dropped to zero, turning into a straight horizontal line.

Jibeiweng, thus, lost his breath and died completely.