Chapter 369: Interrogation

"You've been here for ten minutes?!" Hou Ping felt a surge of horror in his heart. As a dignified Grandmaster, he hadn't even noticed someone invading his office.

"Chen Fan, what are you doing here?" He stared at Chen Fan, his tone unfriendly.

A few months ago, during the Qingcheng Incident, Chen Fan had publicly executed the pseudo-human Li Zhi.

After Hou Ping took office, he had sent people to summon Chen Fan for questioning, only to have them directly blasted out by Chen Fan.

He had personally gone to confront Chen Fan, and the two had even fought, but neither could do anything to the other.

This incident had made his hostility toward Chen Fan even deeper.

"Chen Fan, you are not welcome here!" he said coldly.

"Heh, Mayor Hou, don't blame me for speaking bluntly. I've come this time carrying an Imperial Sword; you must fully cooperate with my work."

"Who do you think you are? Get out, or don't blame me for being impolite!"

"Impolite to me? That's the funniest joke I've ever heard!" Chen Fan lazily stood up from the sofa.

A powerful aura radiated outward; that pressure, rivaling a Grandmaster, instantly left Hou Ping unable to catch his breath.

"You! How did you become this strong!" He stared at Chen Fan in utter shock.

"Compared to those who stand still, I am much stronger." Chen Fan smiled faintly.

"It's time to answer the phone."

"What do you mean?" Hou Ping was somewhat confused.

But the next moment, the landline on the desk in front of him began to ring.

He glanced at the displayed number and shuddered instantly.

"Provincial Governor Guo, are you looking for me?" His tone was extremely respectful.

The voice on the other end was filled with authority: "Mayor Hou, Shanhai Pavilion has called. Chen Fan will come to see you in a moment. He is carrying an important mission; you must fully cooperate with him and follow his orders."

"Yes, Provincial Governor Guo."

Hanging up the phone, Hou Ping looked at Chen Fan, remaining silent for a long time.

He couldn't understand how, in just a few months of not seeing him, the youth before him had already attained heaven-reaching influence.

Chen Fan chuckled: "Mayor Hou, can you follow my orders now?"

"Ye... yes." Although unwilling, Hou Ping still nodded with difficulty.

"Now, tell me about the explosion case at the Yunxiang Group a few days ago."

Hou Ping organized his thoughts and laid out the entire sequence of events.

After hearing this, Chen Fan couldn't help but laugh. It turned out that Hou Ping and his team hadn't managed to extract any useful information from the two Beast Worship Cult members at all.

Claiming publicly that they were conducting terrorist activities was merely to provide an explanation to the public.

Hou Ping couldn't help but smile bitterly: "We also want to know the true purpose of the Beast Worship Cult, but the mouths of their members are harder than stone. They won't talk even if they die, and we have no way to deal with that."

"Are those two still alive?" Chen Fan asked calmly.

"Alive, though they are near death. I threw them into the detention room, and they haven't been fed for three days."

"It's fortunate you didn't kill them. Let's go, take me there now." Chen Fan decided decisively.

Hou Ping couldn't help but frown: "What's the use of you going? They swallowed Beast God Pills; it's impossible for them to confess. The number of cases worldwide where secrets have been tortured out of Beast Worship Cult members can be counted on one hand."

"Less talk. Just because you have no way doesn't mean I don't." Chen Fan stood up, and the next moment, he transformed into the appearance of an ordinary staff member.

He instructed Hou Ping: "Externally, do not reveal my identity to anyone."

Hou Ping looked at him, hesitating: "What mission are you actually executing by returning to Qingcheng City this time?"

"Top secret!" Chen Fan dropped the two words coldly.

Ten minutes later, the two appeared in a heavily guarded detention room.

The stench of rotting flesh mixed with excrement in the air rushed straight to their heads.

Chen Fan pinched his nose and observed the two Beast Worship Cult members lying on the ground.

Both of their legs were a bloody mess, their eyes hollow, and they were nearly at their last breath.

"Truly miserable," Chen Fan couldn't help but mutter to himself.

He looked at Hou Ping behind him and said: "Find a clean interrogation room, wash one of them up, and bring him over."

"Fine!" Hou Ping felt that Chen Fan was doing useless work; they had already used all sorts of methods and hadn't been able to pry their mouths open.

But he had to carry out Chen Fan's order.

Soon, two subordinates walked in and carried one of the Beast Worship Cult members out.

Ten minutes later, in an interrogation room, Chen Fan sat opposite the Beast Worship Cult member.

Hou Ping also brought a stool and prepared to sit down, but was scolded by Chen Fan.

"You get out too, cut off the recording and surveillance here, and don't let anyone eavesdrop!" Chen Fan ordered coldly.

"You!" Hou Ping hadn't expected Chen Fan to exclude him from participating.

"Get out!" Chen Fan spoke again.

He was about to conduct an experiment and absolutely would not allow anyone else to see it.

Hou Ping slammed the door and left, while Chen Fan summoned the Turtle Spirit Beast.

"Help me enslave him."

"Yes, Master." The Turtle Spirit Beast immediately activated the Soul Contract Totem.

This Beast Worship Cult member was only a Tier 3 Ability User and, having no power to resist, was directly enslaved by Chen Fan.

"What is your name?" Chen Fan asked the first question.

"Master, this lowly one is Zhu Yu."

"Hmm, what was your purpose in digging through the gas pipeline?" Chen Fan asked again.

At the same time, his soul entered Zhu Yu's body through the soul contract.

"Shield of the Sea of Consciousness!" he shouted clearly, and a mental barrier protected Zhu Yu's sea of consciousness tightly.

He wanted to test whether this skill of his could block the Beast God's sensing.

At this moment, Zhu Yu began to answer his question.

"Master, digging through the natural gas was just an accident, our purpose was, ah!!!"

Before he could finish his sentence, a ball of blood-colored thunder struck his soul.

Zhu Yu immediately clutched his head and wailed.

Chen Fan did not intervene to save him, just watched quietly.

"It seems I thought too much. The Shield of the Sea of Consciousness can only help me block soul intrusion, but it can't help others."

He did not use the power of the Primordial Beginning Thunder Soul to disperse the blood-colored divine thunder.

Because if he did that, he worried about drawing out the 'Beast God' once again, and then the other party would know he was in Qingcheng City and what his purpose was here.

A moment later, Zhu Yu's soul scattered, and he collapsed to the ground.

Chen Fan walked out of the interrogation room, looked at Hou Ping, and said: "Have someone take the corpse away, then wash the other one up and bring him in."

"The person is dead?" Hou Ping was somewhat surprised.

He couldn't help but mock: "I thought you had some brilliant methods; it turns out you just forced the person to death."

"Less talk, go do it quickly." Chen Fan frowned and urged him.

He didn't intend to conduct any more experiments and prepared to directly feed him the antidote to the Beast God Pill.

Ten minutes later, two of Hou Ping's subordinates brought in another member of the Beast Worship Cult.

Chen Fan still chased Hou Ping out of the interrogation room.

He had previously discussed with Liang Zhongshu that the existence of an antidote for the Beast God Pill should not be made public for the time being, otherwise, it would easily attract the attention of the Beast Worship Cult, leading them to improve the Beast God Pill.

At this moment, Chen Fan looked at the Beast Worship Cult member in front of him and said, "I can give you a chance to start over. Do you want it?"

"Hehehe, don't waste your breath. It's impossible for me to betray the organization," the Beast Worship Cult member said weakly, slumped in the chair.

Chen Fan remained silent and directly took out a pill.

"Swallow this, and it can remove the Beast God Pill from your body."