Chapter 91: The Truth of the First Layer (Three)

After leaving the bar, Rose did not take the elevator back to the fourth-floor staff dormitory.

She was in an exceptionally wonderful mood today. Humming a tune, she took the stairwell, climbing up step by step.

Tonight, she was going to meet someone.

A very important person she had met last night.

"Click—clack—click—"

The sharp tap of her high heels against the steps echoed through the quiet stairwell.

"Beep! Beep!"

Suddenly, an unfamiliar sound rang out in the darkness.

Rose stopped.

She looked behind her in confusion.

He had told her to make sure no one saw them meet; he didn't like having other people around.

Rose didn't like it either. She leaned out over the railing and looked down, checking the stairwell over and over.

"All clear!"

Nodding in satisfaction, she continued upstairs.

An alert girl like her—no wonder he had fallen for her.

Now that the bomber had been caught, they no longer needed to worry about any accidents ruining their rendezvous...

Lost in her wandering thoughts, she soon reached the seventh floor.

This was the VIP breakfast dining room.

She had never been here in her life, but today was different. She had been invited!

The man was exactly like the perfect lover from her dreams.

A faint blush spread across Rose's face.

Because it was night, the breakfast dining room was unlit. In the darkness, the figure she longed for sat at a table.

Even though she couldn't see his face clearly, Rose felt he was smiling at her.

"Good evening."

She greeted him sweetly.

The man didn't speak. He simply waved, motioning for her to sit beside him.

Suppressing her excitement, Rose walked toward him.

But suddenly, a figure slipped out from behind her and delivered a sharp chop to the back of her neck.

Under the heavy blow, Rose's vision went black and her body went limp.

"It's over, Mr. Yu Mo."

As Yan Jing spoke, the overhead lights instantly snapped on.

Sitting at the table opposite them was none other than Yu Mo of Dandelion Manor.

"You!!!"

Yu Mo stared at Yan Jing, who stood by the door in the guise of the Cameraman. A vicious gleam instantly flared in his eyes, but it vanished just as quickly. He said flatly, "I don't understand what you're talking about."

"I simply invited this lady to the dining room for a date."

Faced with Yu Mo's denial, Yan Jing smiled. He picked up Rose's limp body and tossed her out the doors behind him.

"Actually, I was just making a joke."

Yan Jing said with a smile.

"Is that so? Well, you just knocked out my date. Why don't you take her seat?"

Yu Mo patted the seat beside him.

Yan Jing neither stepped forward nor answered the invitation. Instead, he smiled and said, "You're actually afraid, aren't you, Mr. Yu Mo? Afraid of what you'll do when Rose wakes up."

Yu Mo's face darkened completely. In an instant, that vicious gleam reappeared in his eyes.

Pretending was useless. The only witness was lying right behind Yan Jing.

Right now, the most crucial thing was to kill Yan Jing.

Facing Yu Mo's murderous intent, Yan Jing didn't look panicked in the slightest. He slowly said, "Everything was supposed to be perfect, Mr. Yu Mo. If you had stopped after the first explosion, all of this would have been a perfect outcome for your Dandelion Manor."

Yu Mo's heart skipped a beat. He looked at Yan Jing in disbelief.

He had thought Yan Jing had merely discovered he was the mastermind behind the scenes.

He never expected Yan Jing to directly expose such a deep secret.

Yan Jing maintained a smile, his tone calm.

"But you were too impatient with the subsequent explosions, making the whole affair very sloppy."

"First, the biggest suspicious point remains the motive. If the killer really was Yu Wen, why would he detonate Sun-Swallowing Tower? And why would he send an Advance Notice?"

"If he wanted to kill someone, he only needed to quietly prepare the bomb and wait for his target. If he wanted to take revenge on society, why would he risk angering Sun-Swallowing Tower a second time just to blow up a single employee?"

"There are simply too many holes in all of this."

"A series of actions without a clear motive. If you insist on pinning the case on him, there's only one possibility—he was a madman."

"He was a madman!!!!" Yu Mo stood up, glared at Yan Jing, and snarled. "Because the residents of our 'Life' Pathway interbreed, our brain structures are highly prone to mutations. Not only are we weak against mental manipulation, but we also frequently suffer from auditory hallucinations. Therefore, going mad is a common occurrence!"

"Didn't you investigate properly? He went mad a long time ago!!!"

Yan Jing smiled and nodded.

"I actually learned about that piece of history today. But what I didn't expect was for you, Mr. Yu Mo, to be so intimately familiar with the matters of your Pathway."

"Not only do you know about the Flesh Bomb, but you also know about the brain mutation issue."

"This is the Pathway of our Domain, after all," Yu Mo said with a dark expression. "If I didn't even know this much, I could never have reached my current position."

Yan Jing finally heard what he wanted to hear.

His smile turned radiant.

"So, why didn't you and Ms. Yu Mu notice that the injuries were caused by a Flesh Bomb when you first treated Elder Kindness?"

Yu Mo's pupils suddenly shrank.

He hadn't expected the flaw to be here.

This hadn't originally been a flaw at all.

If the Order Management Bureau hadn't come knocking later, no one would have suspected Dandelion Manor.

And the secret of the Flesh Bomb wouldn't have been exposed.

But those damn bastards had somehow gotten their hands on an audio recording, ultimately dragging the secret of the Flesh Bomb out into the open.

And when he treated that old geezer, this man across from him had just happened to be present.

That was why Yan Jing suspected their manor had known about the explosion from the very beginning, or had even orchestrated it themselves.

He felt he had figured everything out.

"We genuinely didn't recognize those injuries."

He said calmly.

So what if he outright denied it? Yan Jing had absolutely no proof.

But Yan Jing's smile was gentle.

"Is that so? Then it seems I guessed wrong about that. However, I couldn't have guessed wrong about what you were planning to do to Miss Rose. Once she wakes up, we can just ask her to find out exactly what's going on."

Yu Mo's face turned exceedingly grim.

He finally realized Yan Jing had been leading him by the nose.

Indeed, what Yan Jing had just presented were merely reasons to suspect Dandelion Manor's involvement in the bombings. It wasn't the most pressing issue right now, nor did it require any evidence.

The evidence proving he was the mastermind was lying right behind Yan Jing!

He glared fiercely at Yan Jing. One by one, fleshy buds bulged and sprouted along his arms, ultimately transforming into thick, fleshy tentacles that thrashed wildly in the air.

"Your biggest mistake was coming here alone."

He snarled.

But Yan Jing blinked.

"I don't recall saying I came alone."

???

As Yan Jing spoke, several dark beams shot out from the shadows behind him, streaking toward Yu Mo.

Yu Mo's expression changed, and he hurriedly retreated to dodge. But at that moment, a figure charged into the fray like a thunderbolt and grabbed one of the fleshy tentacles. With mountain-uprooting strength, the immense force yanked Yu Mo completely off the ground and slammed him heavily against the wall.

Before he could react, the opponent closed the distance in a flash and unleashed a frenzy of punches!

The opponent's boxing technique was incredibly seasoned. With every move and stance, Yu Mo was beaten so badly he couldn't fight back at all.

Under the relentless barrage of punches, those fleshy tentacles were quickly pulverized into a rain of blood.

"Argh..." Yu Mo roared at the ceiling in furious defiance. Weird Energy surged throughout his body as he prepared to self-destruct.

But the click of a camera shutter rang out.

In an instant, the world spun, and his surging Weird Energy dissipated involuntarily.

Just like that, Yu Mo fell unconscious in despair and bitter resentment.

When he woke up again, he only felt intense pain and complete exhaustion. The Weird Energy inside his body felt frozen, completely immobilized.

He looked down, only to find his entire body had been pierced by wooden stakes, pinning him to the wall.

"Old man, are these stakes of yours reliable?"

A calm voice rang out.

"Relax. With my acupoint-sealing nails driven in, if he can still use his Weird Energy, I'll drop to my knees and kowtow to him twice."

An aged voice replied.

"Oh? You're awake."

Yu Mo watched Yan Jing walk up to him and forced a smile onto his lips.

"You actually didn't hand me over to the Order Management Bureau. Are you trying to make some kind of deal with me?"

"Of course not."

Yan Jing shook his head. "Officer Lu Miao and the others aren't here because they went to do something much more important."

"But Mr. Yu Mo, even now, haven't you noticed anything abnormal?"

Abnormal?

Yu Mo's expression froze.