novelThe Interrogation and the Truth
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Translator: Sparrow Translations Editor: Sparrow Translations
"Meow!" Matcha screamed with his eyes blazing furiously. Under the bright moonlight, his claws seemed sharper than ever as he activated his power.
Zhao Yao immediately stopped Matcha and said, "Calm down! Calm down! I'm going to get this off of your body."
"Don't stop me, Zhao Yao; I'm going to tear Dust Ball into half and kill it."
A few seconds later, Zhao Yao activated his extradimensional belly power and absorbed all the rubbish from Matcha's body. However, Matcha was not pacified, and he remained raging with anger.
After vomiting for half an hour, the pile of garbage accumulated in front of them grew larger and larger. Suddenly, they noticed a shadow flashed past and saw a naked man landing on top of the pile of garbage.
The man stood atop the pile of rubbish and looked at the night sky in amazement. He quivered in excitement as he had finally returned to the normal world.
"I'm out; I'm finally out!"
After being stuck in the extradimensional belly for 24 hours, the man thought that he was going to die inside it.
However, as Zhao Yao had suspected, his ability to turn into spirit form had been deactivated after the 24-hour mark.
Elizabeth immediately took control of his body while Zhao Yao interrogated him, "Speak, who are you? Why did you possess Luo Hao's body?"
Specter noticed that he had lost control over his body and he was face to face with the man who defeated him in Xiao's manor.
Zhao Yao knew that Specter was not going to divulge any information so easily. Hence, he pointed towards Dust Ball and sniggered, "My black kitten over here has quite a bad temper. If you continue to keep your mouth shut and make her wait, I'm afraid she might absorb you back into that dimension."
Dust Ball co-operated with Zhao Yao by stretching her mouth wide open and activated her extradimensional belly. The rubbish around her was getting sucked back into her mouth.
Specter's body shook violently at the sight of it. He did not want to go through another 24 hours' worth of solitary conferment with a massive pile of trash.
Inside the extradimensional belly, there was nothing except for all the trash, Zhao Yao's Panamera and himself. It was totally dark, and this was the most dreadful experience that he had even gone through. He almost went crazy when he saw Dust Ball reactivating her power.
"I'll talk, I'll answer all your questions."
One hour later, Zhao Yao picked up his phone and contacted Inspector Ho.
"Hey, is this Zhao Yao? Are you asking me out for a sauna data?"
However, Zhao Yao's voiced sounded extraordinarily stern and serious on the line, "How much information do you have regarding the incident at Xiao's manor? Is Ho Hao Cang behind all these?" During the interrogation, Specter had divulged all the information he knew to Zhao Yao.
Inspector Ho was equally helpless on his side. He told Zhao Yao, "We know about the situation between Ho Hao Cang and the Xiao family. This is going to be a very tricky matter. I suggest you stay out of it."
"Does it mean that you guys cannot do anything against Ho Hao Cang?"
"We cannot settle the dispute with Ho Hao Cang over a fist fight. Do not be rash and act alone."
"Don't be rash?" Zhao Yao chucked as he replied, "Obviously I'm not going to do anything stupid. However, I hope that you can resolve this matter as soon as possible. If not, I might have to intervene."
"We are trying our best, " Inspector Ho continued, "But the situation is not as simple as you imagined."
Half an hour later, Inspector Ho sent someone over to take over Specter from Zhao Yao. On the other hand, Zhao Yao was busy thinking about the entire incident.
"Ho Hao Cang, " He scratched his chin and reflected, "The guy who came to the café in the afternoon also knew about Specter. Is he Ho Hao Cang? Or maybe..." He suddenly remembered that guy's invitation for Zhao Yao to join his team. Zhao Yao's eyes squinted into a line, and he concluded, "He must be Ho Hao Cang!"
Zhao Yao recalled Specter's description of Ho Hao Cang's power. Zhao Yao did a careful analysis and thought, "Given my current power, not many people would be capable of killing me. However, taking down Ho Hao Cang is a different story."
After awakening his power, Zhao Yao had won every single fight somewhat comfortably. Even Inspector Ho praised him as the strongest apostle in Jiangmen city.
However, the concept of all these powers was somewhat strange. Even though his power had been effective against the opponents he had met, there might be one apostle out there, whose power was extremely effective against Zhao Yao's. In essence, this apostle would be Zhao Yao's Achilles' heel.
To fight against Ho Hao Cang, Zhao Yao had to ensure he had the abilities to defeat Hao Cang confidently before Zhao Yao would go knocking at his door.
Zhao Yao pondered, "I guess I won't be getting my RMB fifty-two million anytime soon. I should come up with some ideas to improve the café's revenue. If I can upgrade my BOOK by two or three levels at the end of the month, I would definitely be more confident going against Hao Cang."
On the other side, Inspector Ho put down his phone as he scratched his bald head. Inspector Ho thought about Zhao Yao's words as he opened his WeChat. He looked through the information supplied by Shi Yu and saw Hao Cang's photo which Shi Yu took.
He grabbed his head and thought, "Why must the two most troublesome apostles meet under such circumstances? Luckily, they didn't recognize one another."
He looked at Hao Cang's photo and decided, "I should warn this guy. He is going a little too far."
Meanwhile, spirit cat had stalked Zhao Yao all the way back to his apartment.
Spirit cat did not intend to intervene when Inspector Ho's subordinates took Specter away. Firstly, it was not confident in defeating the three supercats and Zhao Yao alone. Secondly, it did not even like Specter. It only lent its power to Spector to obey Hao Cang's instructions.
Furthermore, spirit cat believed, "I have an even more important mission at hand. I must continue to monitor Zhao Yao. I need to collect more intel and identify his weaknesses."
Spirit cat followed them into the apartment and saw the usual sight. Zhao Yao lay on the sofa while Matcha returned to his massage throne and Elizabeth stood near the window.
Spirit cat noticed that Elizabeth had started watching "1 Liter of Tears" and was trying its best to resist the temptation to watch.
However, it realized that it could not will its body to levitate. There seemed to be an invisible force restraining its movement.
"D*mn it, I should return to Ho Hao Cang now so that I can save all these cats which are poisoned."
"But, I cannot let Elizabeth fall to this poisonous temptation alone."
"D*mn it, why can't I control my body?"
It gave in to its temptation as it floated to Elizabeth's side.
"1 Liter of Tears" talked about a fifteen years old girl, Aya Ikeuchi, who contracted an incurable illness – Spinocerebellar Atrophy. The television series revolved around how she fought against her illness to live her life meaningfully and to live with no regrets.
Just by the name of the television drama, any ordinary humans would have known that it was going to be an incredibly emotional show. When the television drama went on the big screen, millions of viewers flocked to it and left crying after witnessing Aya Ikeuchi's determination and strength.
When Elizabeth and spirit cat saw the scene where Aya Ikeuchi looked at the doctor and asked why the devil chose her, Elizabeth began screaming again, while spirit cat burst into tears.
Elizabeth knew that Zhao Yao had lied to her. This was not a comedy but a show which would turn anyone into a crying mess.
However, Elizabeth could no longer control her temptations as her white paws clicked on the button for the next episode.
Behind Elizabeth, spirit cat reminded itself, "I'll leave after the next episode."
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