Chapter 122: Faceless Person

“Later, I thought about it. A while ago, Han Cheng and Hu Zhou had a war of words online, didn’t they? Hu Zhou kept attacking Han Cheng, but never provided any reliable evidence. In the end, they almost took it to Court. I guessed… this commission was probably done by the forces behind Hu Zhou… And I had no choice left. I had to take on this commission…”

“To make sure this commission went off without a hitch, I booked a room next to the one Han Cheng was about to stay in. I personally arranged many things at the hotel, including bribing more than a dozen people at the Jinda Hotel from top to bottom. Before Han Cheng even checked into the Jinda Hotel, I had already installed many hidden cameras in his room…”

“These past few days, apart from following you, boss, a few times during the day as Director Zhang ordered, I spent most of my nights in the hotel room watching Han Cheng. But I never noticed anything unusual about Han Cheng until… until… until last night…” As Ji Zhen said this, a look of fear appeared on his face, as if he was recalling something extremely terrifying.

“What did you see last night?” Lü Yang pressed Ji Zhen.

“I… I saw… I saw Han Cheng… he… he… he tore off his own face… the whole thing!”

“He tore off his face?” Sun Haibo moved his head closer, his face full of surprise.

“Yes… he… he tore off his whole face. After he tore it off… his face became completely blank. Eyes, nose, mouth… there was nothing… not even nostrils… just a pair of ears… just that blank… You have no idea… how scared I was when I saw that scene…” Ji Zhen’s voice began to tremble.

A chill also ran down Lü Yang’s back. This was the first time he had heard of someone tearing off their entire face. Was this the effect of an Eerie Card? At least up until now, Lü Yang hadn’t heard of anything like a face-tearing card or similar.

In the Real world, being seen doing such things and having memories of it didn’t seem to fit the rules of the Mysterious Domain.

But did the Mysterious Domain even have rules? Even if it did, Lü Yang didn’t know much about them. The rules he thought existed were just summaries based on his own limited experiences.

“After Han Cheng tore off his face… he took out another face from his body… He placed that face over where his original face was… Then… he completely turned into a different person!”

“Who did he turn into? Do you know him?” Lü Yang asked Ji Zhen.

“No, I don’t…”

“What did the person he turned into look like?” Lü Yang asked another question.

“Thick eyebrows, big eyes, a rather dark face. Very different from his original scholarly look, more like a rough person… Later, he put on a wig, changed clothes, wore a hat, and held a cigar. His image completely changed. If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I would never have believed it was Han Cheng…” Ji Zhen described it to Lü Yang.

Hearing Ji Zhen’s description, another person’s image immediately came to Lü Yang’s mind…

Liu Yin!?

This… was just too damn ridiculous!

“I was completely terrified at the time… It took me a long while to come back to my senses. Later, I thought… this might be the evidence my client wanted, so I organized the video footage I recorded then… Who would have thought… the video didn’t capture anything at all, not even Han Cheng’s shadow… This whole thing… this whole thing… was just too Strange Point!” As Ji Zhen said this, his lips started to quiver.

“About what time was it when you saw that scene?” Lü Yang thought for a moment before asking Ji Zhen.

“It was probably around nine o’clock last night?” Ji Zhen thought for a bit before answering Lü Yang.

“Nine o’clock…” Lü Yang narrowed his eyes. Last night, Liu Yin and Zhou Ling came to find him at around ten o’clock… The person who came with Zhou Ling was actually Han Cheng?

Was Han Cheng actually Liu Yin? Or did Han Cheng kill Liu Yin and impersonate him?

If everything Ji Zhen said was true, then Han Cheng was very likely the Death Killer! He just didn’t know how Han Cheng tricked Yi Ya into coming and then captured her.

“What happened next? After you discovered such a Strange Point thing, why did you still dare to stay in the hotel?” Lü Yang questioned Ji Zhen.

“I didn’t want to either… I was forced… If I had known things were this complicated from the start, I wouldn’t have dared to take that commission even if you killed me… I didn’t record the evidence, so I couldn’t report back to that mysterious client. So I decided to try again tonight…”

“To avoid the recording equipment having problems again, I even set up a camera in front of the monitoring screen… But tonight, Han Cheng never came back… until just now…”

“As soon as he entered his room, I started getting busy. Soon… an even more Strange Point thing happened…”

“Han Cheng on my monitor was sitting properly in the chair in his room, drinking tea and talking to the people around him… But… suddenly someone tapped my shoulder… I looked up and found that the person who came was actually Han Cheng! He… he… I don’t know when he entered my room… And… how could there be two Han Chengs?”

“I was scared out of my mind at the time. I kept apologizing to him… I knew he definitely wasn’t a normal human. I did all these things to him, so he definitely wouldn’t let me off…”

“Later on… he looked into my eyes and seemed to say something to me… Then I felt like I was drunk, everything was spinning… And then… when I woke up… I… appeared in that Internet Cafe…”

Ji Zhen’s account ended here. Lü Yang’s mind was completely tangled up…

If everything Ji Zhen said was true, then it was certain that Han Cheng was the Death Killer. After Ji Zhen heard whatever Han Cheng said to him, he was forcibly pulled into this Mysterious Domain. This meant that this Mysterious Domain was most likely created by Han Cheng, which also matched the fact that the Death Killer pulled Lü Yang into the Mysterious Domain.

But, if this Mysterious Domain was created by Han Cheng, why would he use Ji Zhen’s mouth to tell all of this to Lü Yang?

The Death Killer was cunning and very arrogant, liking to show off his intelligence. If he wasn’t Han Cheng, then… all of this was very likely a trap he set to focus Lü Yang’s attention on Han Cheng, thereby completely losing the right direction.

But it also couldn’t be ruled out that the Death Killer was Han Cheng himself, intentionally using this method to make Lü Yang think the information was obtained too easily and therefore wouldn’t believe it, thus falling into a maze and losing the correct direction…

Twists and turns, true and false, what was actually worth believing!?

Damn!

…

“Did you get anything out of him?” Lü Yang turned his head to look at Sun Haibo beside him, who was currently sitting on the quiet glasses-wearing man.

“Uh… I got so absorbed listening to you two talk… I forgot to ask…” Sun Haibo quickly turned his head back, glaring fiercely at the quiet glasses-wearing man. Then he opened his mouth wide, raised his fist high, but forgot what he actually wanted to ask.

“What do you want to know? My name is Wang Zixian. I’m Young Master Han’s assistant. Wouldn’t I know what kind of person Young Master Han is? This so-called detective scammer… you actually believe the nonsense he just spouted?” The quiet glasses-wearing man, Wang Zixian, looked at everyone with a strange expression.

“Nonsense!? Isn’t this Internet Cafe nonsense!? Aren’t these rounds of games nonsense!? The Death Killer is Han Cheng. As his assistant, you should know this very clearly!” Lü Yang got up and came over, pressing the gun barrel against Wang Zixian’s forehead, questioning him viciously.