I Wanted To Be A Good Person Once - Chapter 40

Chapter 40 Artifact — 22-Winged Angel

Thinking of this, Fang Ze didn’t hesitate anymore. He went to the toilet to wash up. Then, he lay on the bed and began to sleep, preparing to go to the Late-Night Investigation Room to summon Wang Hao.

Fang Ze didn’t know how much time had passed, but when he woke from his dream, he was in the investigation room.

He walked slowly to the chair and sat down. Fang Ze turned on the lamp and tapped the table with his right index finger.

A moment later, a list of people that could be summoned appeared in front of Fang Ze.

Fang Ze glanced past Miao Miao. Although Fang Ze was still very curious about her, tonight was not her “show date”.

After finding Wang Hao’s three-dimensional image and adjusting the layout of the room, Fang Ze officially began his investigation for the night!

Wang Hao had had a hard and tiring few days.

This was because he didn’t know why the task force was suddenly in a mess.

First, he and the agents were called in separately for questioning.

This was followed by the sudden murder of an agent in custody.

Then, there was the big sweep by the Security Bureau and the secondary screening.

As the focus suspect, he went through two rounds of questioning and multiple rounds of probing.

Furthermore, the shadow of the agent’s death hung over him.

Therefore, he was physically and mentally exhausted.

Honestly, right now, he really missed his days in the red-light district.

He found it too difficult to work for the Security Bureau. Not only was it dangerous, but it was almost fruitless.

He had worked so hard that he had almost been arrested, let alone become an Awakened…

In contrast, he found it easier to tell stories to the mystery man.

The reward was also to become an Awakened, and it was easy. There was no danger.

Therefore, if he had a choice, he would rather become an Awakened with the help of the mysterious man.

Unfortunately, much of the story had progressed, but the mystery man had not summoned him. He wondered if he had been forgotten.

After all, a big shot like that must be busy with many things to do. His story might not necessarily attract him.

Therefore, he could not help but feel a little anxious.

However, because the initiative to meet was completely in the hands of the mysterious man, he could only wait patiently.

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“Are you awake?”

Hearing the familiar, husky, mysterious voice in his ear, Wang Hao woke up groggily.

Then, to his surprise, he found himself in the place he had been thinking about for the past few days.

It was still the same room, the same luxurious arrangement, the same entire marble floor, the same dazzling collection, and the same mysterious and powerful Sir.

Retracting his thoughts, Wang Hao quickly stood up and said in surprise, “Sir, we finally meet again.”

The mystery man sat on the sofa, toying with the bird disaster creature from the other day. Then, he smiled faintly and said, “Yes. We meet again.”

“From the look of you, I’d say your story has made a pretty good development.”

Wang Ze nodded vigorously at the mysterious man’s words. “Yes. A lot has happened to our task force lately.”

At Wang Hao’s words, the mysterious man raised his hand slightly. “Sit. Speak slowly.”

As he spoke, the room shook slightly. A moment later, two arms made of marble extended from the marble floor. They intertwined and twisted to form a stone chair, supporting Wang Hao as he sat down.

When Wang Hao saw this magical scene, he touched the marble chair under his butt in surprise. Then, he looked up at the mysterious man and spoke slowly.

“Sir. A lot has happened to our task force in the past few days…”

As a backup candidate for the Security Bureau, Wang Hao knew more insider information than Fang Ze.

After hearing him slowly explain what had happened over the past few days, Fang Ze finally understood what Wang Hao, Cui Xuemin, Shan Hui, and the others were up to.

According to Wang Hao…

That day, he’d suddenly been summoned to the secret base of the Security Bureau and given a simple interrogation.

The contents of the interrogation were also very simple.

First, they asked if Wang Hao was an undercover agent of the criminal organization.

Second, they asked whether Wang Hao had told anyone about Officer Bai Ling.

Third, they asked about Wang Hao’s attitude to this case.

Wang Hao answered all the questions truthfully. He replied “no” to the first two questions. As for the last question, he replied that he wanted to solve the case as soon as possible and catch the real culprit.

Furthermore, after he finished answering the questions, his interlocutor walked out with a piece of paper. Then, they told him that the test was over and he had passed.

Wang Hao actually didn’t quite understand why he was being asked these questions. Although his interlocutor hadn’t explained it directly, since Wang Hao had passed the test, they vaguely said that the Security Bureau had discovered that it was very likely that there was a mole from that mysterious organization in the task force, so they were investigating it here.

Although he was a little angry that he was actually listed as a mole candidate, it was the Security Bureau after all. Wang Hao didn’t dare have any objections.

Thus, he turned his attention to the test and asked what it was. Was it a polygraph? His interlocutor explained that it was indeed a lie detector test. Furthermore, it was done with an extraordinary artifact.

According to the interlocutor, this lie detector artifact was called the “22-Winged Angel”.

It was a magical artifact created by experts from the Security Bureau. It was shaped like a statue of an angel with 11 pairs of wings.

After it was held and used on a selected target, its wings would break if the target lied.

However, there were also conditions and costs to use this artifact.

The interlocutor did not say what the price was, but they did state the conditions for using it. Every time this artifact was used, the user had to tell the target the test results.

In other words, this artifact could not be secretly tested for lies. It had to be tested publicly.

Moreover, this artifact could only be used a limited number of times.

It could only be used at most 22 times. After asking 22 questions, the statue would shatter.

Therefore, it was considered a very precious disposable artifact.

To be honest, Wang Hao felt that this artifact was indeed quite interesting, but he didn’t quite understand why this artifact was used on him despite how important it was.

How was he like a mole?

After that, things became even more bizarre.

The day after the polygraph test, Han Kaiwei suddenly died mysteriously.

The entire task force was at a standstill and in a state of panic.

Wang Hao and a few key suspects were called in to be questioned again.

After all, he had just been questioned yesterday, and then Han Kaiwei died. This was too much of a coincidence! It was so coincidental that… It was as if someone had framed them.

However, after answering the questions for the second time, judging from the expression on the faces of the people from the Security Bureau, Wang Hao felt that they still hadn’t found the murderer.

Furthermore, because of Han Kaiwei’s sudden death, even if there was no problem after testing all five of them, the Security Bureau no longer trusted them.

Therefore, when he went to his interlocutor for information again, he was simply turned away.

After that, it was the third day.

Perhaps because there really were no leads, the Security Bureau began to expand the detection range to the entire task force. Furthermore, something horrible had happened.

Everyone had passed the 22-Winged Angel test.

This was a slap in the face to the Security Bureau.

If everyone was fine, did Han Kaiwei commit suicide?

Therefore, they began to suspect that there was something wrong with the artifact.

However, under normal circumstances, it was impossible for anything to happen to the artifact.

This was unless someone happened to have an extraordinary treasure that could restrain the lie detector.

This made the entire case even more bizarre.

At the end, Wang Hao said with a frown, “The Security Bureau is very nervous right now.”

“Artifacts are very valuable. If the other party is carrying an artifact, then the other party is very likely an unknown Awakened.”

“Furthermore, the Awakened have all kinds of strange abilities. Once an Awakened really sneaks in, the entire task force will be in great danger.”

After patiently listening to Wang Hao’s story, Fang Ze leaned back on the sofa. He remained silent on the surface, but his mind was racing

He had a rough idea of what had happened.

Furthermore, the thing that caught his attention the most was the second of the three questions the Security Bureau had asked Wang Hao.

“Has any information about Bai Ling been leaked?”

“From this question, it appears that the Security Bureau determined that there was a mole in the task force because they discovered that the information about Bai Ling had been leaked.”

Fang Ze froze at the thought of this.

Then, he quickly calculated the time.

After that, he couldn’t help but hesitate.

“Why do I feel that I have something to do with this?” After pondering for a while, an idea flashed through Fang Ze’s mind, and he was shocked.

Could it be that his second accomplice was a little vigilant and confused because he had reported Agent Han, his “accomplice”?

Furthermore, because he had to act that day, he was especially calm when facing Bai Ling. It was a little unreasonable.

Moreover, there were some things he didn’t notice.

This led the Security Bureau to suspect that he knew about Bai Ling and suspect that her information had been compromised by a mole. Thus, they began investigating the mole.

As a result, this happened to hit the sensitive nerve of his second accomplice.

This was because the second accomplice and Han Kaiwei knew each other. Furthermore, the second accomplice didn’t know that the matter was caused by Fang Ze and was worried that Han Kaiwei had divulged a secret or leaked some information. Thus, Han Kaiwei was silenced.

The more he thought about it, the more Fang Ze felt that his theory was probably right.

At that moment, he really wanted to say, TWTF?!”

Was he such a useless teammate?

He had crippled his allies even before meeting them.

One was dead, and the other was probably going to be exposed and captured soon.

After all, Fang Ze did not think that the other party would cause such a huge mess. If he killed Han Kaiwei publicly, the Security Bureau would not let them off.

Fang Ze changed perspectives. If he were the Security Bureau, he would definitely have set up a trap to prevent these 20 agents from leaving. Then, he would investigate them one by one.

With the entire country behind them, the Security Bureau was more daring than a small criminal organization.

Thinking of this, Fang Ze suddenly felt that something was wrong. Huh… If he knew such a simple logic, how could his accomplice not?

However, he still killed people to silence them. He even left behind a strange, suspected logo of the organization.

This was a blatant provocation.

What was his accomplice planning to do…?

Were they planted?

Was there some compelling reason?

Alternatively, did they have some trump card that could turn the tables?