Once, I wanted to be a good person

Meanwhile,

In the surveillance room, the old man and his deputy who had been watching Master Fenda and Fang Ze the entire time, fell into silence.

A moment later, the deputy coughed and said, "I'll go right now and return the items we found on Fang Ze to him."

No sooner had he finished speaking than the old man slightly lifted his hand.

He looked at the monitor with a profound gaze and said, "Easy does it. Let's watch on."

"If Master Fenda can't even handle this, then he doesn't deserve his reputation."

Upon hearing this, the deputy also halted his steps, then lifted his head to look at the images on the monitor.

And indeed, just as the old man had said, in the surveillance footage, Master Fenda recovered his composure right after that momentary pause.

He still appeared like an enlightened monk, smiling gently at Fang Ze and saying, "No matter, Lay Buddhist Fang."

"If you don't have one, I can give you one first. Then you can give me one in return."

With that, he reached into the inner layer of his kasaya, pulled out three coins, and handed them to Fang Ze with deliberate slowness.

Fang Ze didn't take the coins right away.

He looked at the coins in Master Fenda's hand, then at Master Fenda, "What if I don't want them, is that not allowed?"

Master Fenda just smiled at Fang Ze without saying a word, but his meaning was clear to everyone.

Seeing this, Fang Ze had no choice but to accept the coins.

And surely enough, as soon as the coins touched his hand, the gray mist that had almost dissipated in front of him grew dense again.

Upon seeing Fang Ze accept the coins, Master Fenda smiled gently, and then he asked, "May I inquire, Lay Buddhist Fang, whether you know the identities of any of the other Yang Transformation stage experts? Even just one?"

It was the exact same question as before, down to the phrasing.

However, as he asked the question, the gray mist in front of Fang Ze dramatically intensified.

Fang Ze's anxiety surged accordingly.

Seeing this, rather than answering directly, Fang Ze replied with a jesting tone, "Is your interrogation technique always so obvious?"

Master Fenda said nothing, simply holding his prayer beads and looking amiably at Fang Ze.

Finding no escape, Fang Ze could only repeat his earlier answer, "It's still the same answer as before, I only know the dead guy seemed to be from the Jiang Family and at the Yang Transformation stage, I don't know about the others."

After hearing Fang Ze's response, Master Fenda smiled, made a courteous bow to Fang Ze, and asked, "May I request a vegetarian meal from Lay Buddhist Fang?"

With his question, Fang Ze felt a force of the Power of Laws enveloping him, guiding him to hand the coins in his possession to Master Fenda.

Strangely enough, although Fang Ze handed over the coin flatly, whether heads or tails, it should have remained flat.

But when the coin reached Master Fenda's hand, it slowly and eerily stood on edge.

At that moment, Fang Ze felt a chill run down his spine, and the dense gray mist before his eyes suddenly transformed into black, filled with a thick murderous intent.

Seeing the state of the coin, Master Fenda, paused for an instant, then looked at Fang Ze with a half-smile, "It seems... although Lay Buddhist Fang has spoken the truth, there is still something concealed."

"Boom!" A muffled thunderclap rang out in Fang Ze's mind.

His worst fears were coming true!

Actually, ever since Fang Ze was captured by the Defense Team, he had been worried about encountering a Mind Power User.

Because he had access to the Late-Night Investigation Room, he knew just how terrifying Mind Power Users could be.

They were an utterly unreasonable lie detector, with clairvoyant eyes, with telepathy.

No secret could escape the interrogation of a Mind Power User.

But Fang Ze wasn't someone who shrank away when faced with a challenge.

Moreover, having used the Late-Night Investigation Room many times, he was also aware of the shortcomings of Mind Power Users.

That is... even though they can directly know the answers from the interrogated person's mind,

they could be deceived, misled, or have things concealed from them.

For example, when eavesdropping on thoughts, if they don't direct the suspect's mind towards the secret, they can't eavesdrop on that secret.

For example, during lie detection, if the suspect doesn't realize that they unintentionally killed someone, then even if they're asked if they are the murderer and they deny it, lie detection can't catch the lie.

Therefore, Fang Ze had actively prepared for these shortcomings of Mind Power abilities.

Such as... spending his day thinking about numerous trivial matters, burying the matters of the Rejuvenation Society, Jiang Cheng, and his own affairs deep inside, cluttering his mind with thoughts to increase the difficulty for Mind Power Users reading him.

Such as... although he was protected by five individuals at the Yang Transformation stage, he completely avoided pondering their identities.

Indeed, with his wits, if he seriously analyzed the scene from that day, he could have almost figured out their identities.

At the very least... he could have figured out which one of them was from the Rejuvenation Society.

But he deliberately did not think about it.

Because once he knew the identities of these individuals, he would no longer be able to "lie."

And during the first round of interrogation by Master Fenda, Fang Ze managed to get by on this pretense.

Such as when asked whether he knew the identities of the other Yang Transformation stage masters,

Fang Ze did know that aside from a member from the Jiang Family, there was also someone from the Rejuvenation Society.

But... without analyzing the situation, he didn't know who it was.

So when he said, "I only know the dead guy seemed to be from the Jiang Family at the Yang Transformation stage, I don't know the identities of the others," it wasn't a lie, at most it was a concealment.