My dream connects to three thousand years later.

Chapter 76 Intelligence
"It's you..." Li Kang's sarcastic words were on the tip of his tongue, but he swallowed them back down—he naturally had Zhang Hai's contact information saved in his phone. After all, relationships are relationships, and work is work!

"Wait a minute, the information about interrogating Xue Laosan is out. Let me know through this phone!" Chu Zhu said calmly.

"Just for this..." Li Kang was a little confused. "Why don't you come to the police station tomorrow and check the intelligence summary on-site? Why do you have to make a phone call to communicate?"

What if we get a lot of information from the interrogation? Are we going to have to make a phone call for an hour?
"The second issue is the civil service exam tomorrow!" Chu Zhu said calmly, "Tell me the detailed procedures..."

Li Kang: "..."

Huh? You don't even know the process? Wait, what about those practice tests...did you do them? Will you even pass...?

Li Kang was stunned. He subconsciously began to explain the process, but as he spoke, he gradually understood. After finishing, his expression kept changing, and finally he said with difficulty, "I understand! I'll go have a drink with District Governor later."

"However," Li Kang said desperately, "it's not that I don't want to help you, but if you can't get in, I really can't pull any strings!"

"Don't worry, it's all covered!" Chu Zhu's attitude remained unchanged as she continued, "Now, let's get down to business..."

Li Kang: "???"

What? You're only getting to the point now? What were you talking about before?
“Tonight, I will be assassinated by an assassin,” Chu Zhu said calmly. “The assassin who will kill me is the same one who previously assassinated the guild’s high-ranking members!”

A dead silence.

"I'm coming right now!" Guan Fei's voice came through the phone, very urgent. Clearly, Li Kang was with his team members at that moment, and the call was on speakerphone.

"No need!" Chu Zhu shook his head. If they could apply for a forbidden artifact now, it might still be of some use, but he had already confirmed in the previous timeline that forbidden artifacts would put a strain on Li Kang's body and cause harm—

He would naturally avoid it if possible.

"Master Zhang promised to protect me, but there's a small problem!" Chu Zhu's tone was subtle. "If a fight breaks out and the commotion is significant, then perhaps some people nearby will witness supernatural power directly..."

This is also a lesson Chu Zhu learned from experiencing the previous timeline!

Li Kang: "...What do you mean?"

"If this really happens, don't forcibly arrest Zhang Hai, and don't use this as an excuse to attack the God Worshippers Association!" Chu Zhu said frankly. "Give me some face! Also, please come back afterwards and erase the memories of ordinary people seeing the supernatural..."

Zhang Hai: "..."

How could the other side possibly agree to such an outrageous condition?
Zhang Hai barely managed to keep a straight face. "Hmph! You think you're Li Kang's own son? I'm only giving you face..."

“No problem.” Li Kang replied without the slightest hesitation.

Zhang Hai: "?"

Holy crap, she actually agreed... Zhang Hai finally couldn't hold back anymore. He stared in disbelief at Chu Zhu, who had hung up the phone and handed it to him.

As he shakily caught it, he was pondering a very serious question: Shouldn't he also scold his own son a couple of times?

You're his biological father, aren't you?

“Now,” Chu Zhu gazed into Zhang Hai’s eyes, “you won’t have any more reservations, will you?”

"You've gone to such lengths." Zhang Hai pursed his lips, somewhat eager to try. After all, if something goes wrong, the annoying Commandant Si will take the blame... That would be too satisfying, wouldn't it?
But in the end, he restrained himself and said, "Don't worry, I will try my best to control the scale of my forces and won't cause you or Captain Li and the others too much trouble!"

Chu Zhu nodded. So, honest people are just that easy to deal with.

……

After one hour.

Zhang Hai's phone suddenly rang.

As expected, it was Li Kang calling. Chu Zhu immediately answered the phone and began to listen as Li Kang earnestly explained the information he had extracted from her through interrogation... However, the more Chu Zhu listened, the stranger her expression became.

"Uncle Li! Xue Laosan is lying to you..." Chu Zhu was both amused and exasperated. This was the real reason he wanted Li Kang to extract information from him and then communicate with him.

Chu Zhu knew Xue Laosan all too well; he understood just how cunning the other party was.

The reason Chu Zhu was able to extract information earlier was simply because he knew the other party too well. He knew that smart people like to overthink, so he used a lot of information to crash his brain beforehand... But even so, Xue Laosan reacted immediately.

He said, "The undercover agent isn't Judge Yuanhua from the Dali Bureau at all! The real undercover agent should be Judge Xu Xun, who was just transferred from the Dali Temple to the Dali Bureau in Jinghai City..."

Li Kang: "...Huh?!"

"By the way, Deputy Captain Hai of the Second District is indeed a bit problematic! He's the force behind the Pleasure Street... But he doesn't know about the Omnipotent Society! The one he's connected with is actually the Joyful Union Society... How should I put it? It's a bit shady, but Xue Laosan implicated him, probably to use someone else to do his dirty work!"

"My personal suggestion is that if you really want to take down Captain Qi in the future... you can cooperate with Deputy Captain Hai first. Deputy Captain Hai is from a prominent local family! If you really have leverage over him, taking down Captain Qi, whose position is not stable, shouldn't be a big problem. After you've taken down Captain Qi, if you don't like him, you can turn around and stab Deputy Captain Hai in the back! Don't worry, you can ask me directly then... I have dirt on him."

Li Kang: "...No?"

"And another thing! And another thing! What you told me about... the former ruler's daughter being suspected of being involved in this matter! That's also false... The former ruler's daughter only attended the masked ball. Yes, she knew nothing about the Omnipotent Society! She was just a scapegoat who was dragged into it..."

Chu Zhu spoke eloquently, "Her life is indeed quite decadent, but considering she lost her husband at forty and is now quite old... that's normal! Don't worry too much. Apart from her private life issues, the biggest problem is that she's been taking Five Poisons Powder. You could say it's serious, but compared to being deeply embedded in the Shoe Cult, it's not that serious!"

"Also, the old ruler isn't really clear on this matter... He's getting a bit senile... Don't worry! The old ruler isn't that stubborn. Even if he were in front of me, I would say the same thing: he doesn't have the confidence to argue about what his daughter did... Don't worry, it won't be to the point that the old ruler has to kill his daughter in tears. Just report it directly. There's no need to worry about offending the old ruler with this kind of problem that can be solved!"

"Even if you could be ruthless, you might be able to get a favor from the old regime... Fine, fine, fine, I knew you didn't have the guts! Fine, fine, I won't say it."

"Oh, right, and one more thing..." Chu Zhu gestured dramatically, her words flowing freely. Eighty percent of the information extracted from Li Kang had been cut... the remaining twenty percent, well, that's true!

That's normal, though. If it's all fake, who would believe it?
Even if it's 80%, it's still only half true... For example, the Judge Yuanhua mentioned at the beginning, his background is definitely not clean either. If Li Kang really confronted him, his first reaction would definitely be to cover it up!
In this way, Li Kang would definitely not doubt the intelligence was false; he would only think that the other side was hiding it very well! And then he would confront them...

"..." To be honest, Zhang Hai was initially very engrossed in listening, but as he listened, he noticed something was wrong, and by the end, he was sweating profusely.

No, brother, is this something I can hear? When you're discussing classified information... could you please keep it away from me, an outsider? Anyone who doesn't know better would think you're trying to force him up the mountain!

At the same time, Zhang Hai's emotions, unusually, resonated with those of Li Kang, who wasn't on good terms with him, on the other end of the phone...

Both were thinking about the same question almost simultaneously—

How do you know everything?

And since you know everything, why did you still insist on having Li Kang torture you?
Inside the police censor's interrogation room.

After hanging up the phone.

Li Kang's face was as black as the bottom of a pot. He flexed his wrists and stared at Xue Laosan, who was trembling all over, covered in cold sweat, and had a blank expression.

Because the phone was on speakerphone, Xue Laosan heard it too, and his heart sank to the ground.

He felt like he'd truly seen a ghost! Could the other side possess some kind of memory-reading ability? But that was impossible; under the Lord's protection, he was immune to those kinds of abilities—hypnosis, control, and memory reading were the real threats…

Moreover, what Xue Laosan couldn't understand the most was that some of the intelligence he made up was completely fabricated, yet the other side was able to supplement it with correct information based on his fabricated information... What did that mean?!

Xue Laosan felt like a greenhorn in front of Chu Zhu... No, he even wondered whether the other side was the All-Round Society or he was the All-Round Society.

Li Kang took several deep breaths before he could barely regain his composure, but his voice still sounded like it was being squeezed out from between his teeth.

"Guan Fei... bring out the set meal we ordered earlier! Treat Mr. Xue Zuqiang to another meal..."

"Eat until he's stuffed!!!"

"……Yes!"

……

At Chu Zhu's home.

Time passes bit by bit.

Finally, Chu Zhu's gaze sharpened. Because the time for yesterday's assassination had arrived.

Zhang Hai clearly noticed the change in Chu Zhu's attitude, and his body tensed up accordingly. Then, one minute, twenty minutes, one hour, two hours...

Zhang Hai: "...?"

"I'm going to sleep now," Chu Zhu said, getting up, stretching, and yawning. "I'll leave the night watch to you!"

"?" Zhang Hai's face twisted in pain. "You looked so serious for hours, and now you're telling me you're going to sleep?"
Are you even human?
Are you kidding me?!
But in reality, Chu Zhu was lost in thought. The timing of the assassination had changed—

Is it because the other party realized Zhang Hai's strength, and therefore was unwilling to make a move?
That’s trouble!
He couldn't keep Zhang Hai by his side forever.

but……

Since things have come to this, let's get some sleep first!

Chu Zhu naturally didn't plan to go back to the guest room to sleep. He planned to spend the night on the sofa so that Zhang Hai could keep watch over him.

Before going to sleep, Chu Zhu remembered something, "Also, if nothing unexpected happens, the enemy should be within a kilometer of us right now. You must be a cultivator, right? Can you sense them?"

Zhang Hai pondered for a moment, then his body emitted a faint white light that spread outwards in wisps, but it was very thin, like a veil of light.

At the same time, the light, after passing through the wall, resembled twinkling fireflies. Although quite conspicuous in the night, it appeared perfectly normal.

“…It’s normal that we can’t detect it for the time being,” Zhang Hai said. “Cultivators in the dark realm, especially assassins, are very good at hiding.”

“…Hmm.” Chu Zhu didn’t say anything more. After washing up, she lay down on the sofa and closed her eyes.

……

It was the same familiar apartment room.

It was still the same familiar six o'clock in the morning.

Chu Zhu stretched and opened the screen window. "Good morning, world!"

All the breakfast shops on the street have already opened.

After washing up, Chu Zhu left the apartment to go for his exercise. He bought two steamed buns for breakfast on the way...

"Yesterday, it didn't feel like a reset... which means I wasn't assassinated yesterday?"

(End of this chapter)