Chapter 989

Is this Li Keji causing trouble again? Franca took a light breath.

She reflexively wanted to go and check, hoping to prevent more dangerous things from happening in time, but as soon as she moved her body, she remembered that she was still in a sick state and didn't have that ability at all.

Jenna couldn't go either. She still had to watch Lu Mianna and not let her run around... Anthony had other tasks... Lu Mianna couldn't go either, the ending would be either Lu Mianna covered in mushrooms or Li Keji getting pregnant... Franca thought back and forth and decided to wait, wait for Lu Mian to return to the dream city and go personally.

Li Keji is a friendly force, no need to worry too much... Li Keji is a friendly force, no need to worry too much... Franca kept muttering such words to herself.

She planned to forward this news to Lu Mian so that the latter would know what happened as soon as he returned to the dream city.

Franca had just clicked the corresponding option when she suddenly froze:

Damn, almost slipped...

Isn't the current Lu Mian Lu Mianna?

This illness is really making my brain not work well...

Fortunately, I woke up in time...

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Inside the Tianyue Hotel, next to Zarathustra's room.

The two bodyguards who had originally followed Zarathustra appeared here. Standing in front of them was an old man with white hair and a youthful face.

This old man wore a white martial arts uniform, had his hands behind his back, and paced back and forth near the wall, saying:

"Still no clues about the murderer?"

"No, we can only be certain that a 'Witch' was definitely involved," one of the bodyguards replied.

The old man in the white martial arts uniform pondered for a while and said:

"Zhou Mingrui couldn't have appeared at the Shujin Renjia hotpot restaurant for no reason. It's not that coincidental.

"Check who invited him there, or rather, who induced him to invite people to eat there.

"Luo Shan and Luo Fu, who were eating hotpot with him, are key investigation targets."

"Yes, Mr. Cui," the two bodyguards responded in unison.

The old man known as "Mr. Cui" deliberated for a few seconds and added:

"Be careful when investigating Luo Shan. The previous feedback was that Luo Shan belongs to an extraterrestrial evil god and is a partner who can be cooperated with, possessing not-weak strength."

The two bodyguards agreed and walked out of the room.

After Mr. Cui paced for a long while, he brought his own bodyguard, opened the door silently, and went out.

He deliberately didn't tell the two bodyguards before that he would also go to investigate Luo Shan and would secretly follow them. If they stepped into a trap or encountered an accident, he would happen to be able to glimpse the truth—the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.

After leaving the room, Mr. Cui walked along the corridor paved with thick carpet toward the elevator area at a moderate pace.

Inside a certain ventilation duct on the corridor ceiling, a pair of eyes was quietly watching him.

Those eyes were dark brown, completely blending into the darkness.

They belonged to Zhou Mingrui.

Zhou Mingrui didn't know when he had lurked into the ceiling of the corridor, observing every move of Zarathustra's bodyguards and attendants, observing Mr. Cui's situation.

This was because when he got up this morning and opened the door to get some good breakfast, he found that someone had stuffed a letter into the door crack. The envelope surface had a printed piece of paper pasted on it, with the four characters "Zhou Mingrui Receive" written on it.

At that time, Zhou Mingrui opened the letter in confusion and found a photo inside—a photo of "Mr. Cui" being secretly taken.

On the back of the photo, there was also paper and text:

"This is Zarathustra's assistant. He will inherit Zarathustra's legacy and do some things against you."

After reading the content on the back of the photo, Zhou Mingrui's spirit tightened instantly.

He believed this was a reminder given to him by the group that shot and killed Zarathustra last night. He even suspected that Luo Shan inviting him to eat at the Shujin Renjia hotpot restaurant was to let him witness Zarathustra's death.

"What exactly does Zarathustra's group want to do to me? And what does the group that killed him want to do?" Zhou Mingrui couldn't think of an answer and finally decided to come and observe the target person secretly to see if he could discover any clues.

He used this to confirm that Mr. Cui, who lived next to Zarathustra and superficially had no connection with Zarathustra's negotiation team, really was in the same group as Zarathustra.

"He really has a problem," Zhou Mingrui nodded gently in the darkness inside the ceiling.

At the same time, he also noticed some other oddities:

He originally thought he would be green and unfamiliar with things like drilling through ventilation ducts, crawling through ceilings, and secretly monitoring, making many mistakes, but when actually operating, he had a strange sense of familiarity and completed the intended purpose very smoothly.

This relied not only on the power of an "Assassin."

"Yesterday too, I wasn't nervous or flustered at all when I saw Zarathustra being shot and killed, I was very calm... Is this the psychological quality of a qualified 'Assassin,' or is there another reason?" Zhou Mingrui fell into deep thought.

He vaguely suspected that what he didn't understand enough wasn't just this world, but also himself.

Mr. Cui took his bodyguards, took the elevator, and arrived at the first floor.

Just as he walked a few steps toward the revolving door, he suddenly raised both hands and covered his neck.

He felt the arrival of rapid marionettization and also felt the rejection of the dream.

His breathing then became difficult, and his whole person was like being thrown into a void without anything.

How could this be? Mr. Cui's pupils dilated. He didn't dare to hold on and took the initiative to exit the dream.

Thump!

His bodyguard suddenly fell down and died suddenly on the spot.

A small insect flying nearby also fell to the ground with a slap and didn't move.

Inside the temporary parking lot at the entrance of the Tianyue Hotel, Anthony, who was carrying Ludwig and sitting in the driver's seat, watched this scene calmly.

The other "Seer" pathway demigod mentioned by the Magic Mirror Arrodes had also been kicked out of the dream!

And once the other party's marionette lost control, it was essentially a dead person.

Lu Mian and the others, who had information provided by the Magic Mirror Arrodes, hadn't ignored the "Seer" pathway demigod who lived next to Zarathustra and had helped Zarathustra discover infiltrators. But they all understood that before solving Zarathustra, it wasn't suitable to take action against Mr. Cui, as that would startle the snake. Therefore, they only secretly took a photo of Mr. Cui and, after the hotpot restaurant action ended, had Anthony, the only one who could still act normally, stuff the prepared envelope into the door crack of Zhou Mingrui's house the next morning.

—With Lu Mian kicked out of the dream, Franca seriously ill, and Jenna needing to look after two people, Anthony clearly couldn't deal with Mr. Cui on his own and could only "invite" Zhou Mingrui to help.

Anthony watched the hotel staff who were hurriedly coming over to check on the fallen bodyguard and Mr. Cui, who had a blank expression. He didn't push the door to get out of the car to take the opportunity to solve the latter's dream image.

It wasn't that he didn't want to, but after observing just now, he discovered that there were police personnel secretly deployed near Mr. Cui. Once he took action, even with psychological invisibility, it would be impossible to escape.

That would mean he was confronting the dream's main consciousness, and the consequences might be even more serious than being kicked out of the dream!

Anthony waited patiently and never found an opportunity, so he decided to wait until Lu Mian returned to the dream city before taking action.

When it came to killing secretly, Lu Mian was more skilled than him, Jenna, and Franca!

Anthony chose to go back to rest last night and wait until the next day to stuff the letter, rather than going directly, in order to create a time difference:

Under the premise that the corresponding dream image hadn't been killed, the time interval for those kicked out of the dream to return was about the same. If Anthony had reminded Zhou Mingrui last night, then Mr. Cui's return to the dream city and regaining control of his dream image wouldn't be much later than Lu Mian's, at most a few hours later. And in those few hours, Lu Mian might not find an opportunity to make his dream image die unknowingly.

Now, after Lu Mian returned at seven or eight in the evening, he would have nearly a day to murder Mr. Cui's dream image.

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Dechuang Garden, inside Room 2303.

Just past seven in the evening, Franca and Jenna, who had been watching Lu Mianna, saw this beautiful woman suddenly change her image and become a man.

Lu Mian then took the "Lie" earring and let his appearance change in a direction that didn't look too much like Li Ming.

Franca took the opportunity to tell him about the Red Moon Hospital mushroom set meal.

Lu Mian nodded:

"I'll go deal with the other side first."

As he spoke, he stood up.

Franca endured her laughter and pointed at him:

"Change your clothes first, don't wear Jenna's nightgown away."

Lu Mian lowered his head and discovered that Lu Mianna had actually been wearing Jenna's nightgown the whole time.

By ten o'clock at night, inside a white sedan parked on the side of the road, Lu Mian played with his phone as if bored, as if waiting for someone.

—They had rented a new car because the previous car was registered under the name "Luo Fu," and if the car rented by Luo Fu coincidentally appeared near the scene of Mr. Cui's death, then the suspicion on Franca would be strong enough to be arrested on the spot.

Lu Mian waited for a while and saw through the rearview mirror that Mr. Cui was walking alone, preparing to cross the intersection and return to the Tianyue Hotel.

When Mr. Cui passed his vehicle, Lu Mian's eyes suddenly became stained with silver-white and black colors.

"Eye of Disaster"!

Before Mr. Cui had crossed the rearview mirror, he had already found the tributary of fate that would lead the other party to a death calamity.

The next second, Lu Mian hid his left hand wearing the "Ring of Binding" and raised his right palm slightly.

He touched Mr. Cui's main trunk of fate from a distance and pushed it violently toward the tributary that appeared black.

His spirituality poured out crazily, his expression didn't have any changes, and his movements were all as usual.

Mr. Cui's dream image didn't sense this at all, and the police monitoring him from a hidden place didn't discover any abnormalities either.

Mr. Cui continued to walk forward for ten or twenty meters and stepped onto the crosswalk.

It was already truly night, and there weren't many people on this road, nor were there many cars.

Suddenly, a sedan driving from afar seemed to be out of control because of its excessive speed and drove straight through the red light.

Mr. Cui saw this scene, his pupils dilated suddenly.

Bang!

He was knocked flying, his head hitting the ground heavily.

Immediately after, he was run over by the out-of-control sedan, dying completely.

PS: Wish everyone a happy Mid-Autumn Festival~

(End of chapter)