Defeat the system! Kiss my little monster!

Pei Du went up to the second floor. After he got back, he locked all the doors and also added an alarm.

Sheng Shixian was able to break free of the iron chains last time, and maybe he can do it this time too. Pei Du felt a pain in his ear, frowned, and walked towards the bed.

The black book was still in the drawer. Pei Du picked it up casually, rubbing his temples as he sorted out his thoughts.

Ling Yu is tentatively designated as the master, and An Jia as the dog.

Although Sheng Shixian inexplicably grew dog ears today, there are many inconsistencies with the "dog's" confession. Pei Du hesitated for a few seconds but still ruled out the possibility that he was a dog.

Sheng Shixian is a distractor.

Pei Du crossed out Sheng Shixian's name and continued to assign the roles of Ling Yu and An Jia to the master and dog, respectively.

Ling Yu's information security system was very tight, and with the help of the White Ball system, Pei Du could find very little information about him online.

Pei Du then shifted his focus to An Jia.

An Jia's information wasn't as difficult to find as Ling Yu's; it could almost all be found online. Furthermore, given the close relationship between Pei Du's parents and An Jia's elders, Pei Du inquired with several elderly people and learned that An Jia had indeed been ill at the age of nine and had been sent to a remote mountain village in City A for treatment.

The environment there was beautiful and the temperature was pleasant. Although the location was remote, a highly skilled traditional Chinese medicine doctor lived there in seclusion, and An Jia stayed there for a year for treatment.

Pei Du determined the exact location of the small mountain village from this information and immediately contacted a private investigator to investigate information about "Ling Shu".

Ling Yu concealed his personal information very well, and Pei Du could not find any useful information about him, so he had to find another way and start with Ling Shu.

Moreover, judging from the contents of the black book, Ling Shu and Ling Yu have a close relationship, and Pei Du doesn't believe that Ling Yu could hide all his information so perfectly.

I don't like Ling Shu, and of course, Ling Shu likes me even less. He's mentally unstable; he likes to talk to himself. He should be sent to a mental hospital.

Ling Shu has a dog. It's a completely black stray, tall and strong-looking, and looks fierce, but unlike Ling Shu, it's not lively and energetic; it seems very affectionate. I occasionally run into this dog on the street. It waits for Ling Shu by the roadside every day, and they walk home together after school.

Ling Shu named it Dafu, which also means "great wealth." With both fortune and wealth in its name, Ling Shu loved it very much, but that was all he loved. Ling Shu used the money he had saved for a year to buy Dafu a thick winter coat, because that winter was very cold.

That winter was very cold. My neighbor next door made dog meat soup. The skin of the black dog hung on the wall, black and grimy, with blood dripping down the wall from the mess. I glanced at it and couldn't help but look away.

Ling Shu stood to the side, still wearing that ill-fitting overcoat.

I think he was sad, but his face was expressionless, without even the slightest hint of emotion. It was as if it were truly just the death of an insignificant stray dog.

Pei Du paused in his flipping through the papers, lowered his eyelashes, and continued reading.

Ling Shu is a cold-blooded person. He has no emotions, or rather, he has no emotions towards people. He has a tail, and he sees himself as a wild beast.

The butcher next door fell into the frozen lake that winter. The lake was frozen over, and his struggles on the ice cracked, eventually drowning him.

Villagers said that Ling Shu was also there at the time. He stood on the bridge and watched the butcher's body sink until he finally died.

He didn't save him; the butcher ate his dog.

Pei Du felt somewhat disappointed after reading it; this Ling Shu seemed to be a little different from what he had imagined.

A long-tailed alien species, living on the fringes of society. To Ling Shu, that dog was no longer just an ordinary "dog." It wasn't an animal; it was a life, a being that had grown alongside Ling Shu and been his long-time companion.

He used the money he had saved for a year to buy his dog a winter coat.

The group of people were chewing its flesh.

How sad.

Pei Du's phone vibrated twice, pulling him out of his book and picking up his phone to look at the documents.

The private investigators he hired were very efficient; as long as Pei Du paid them enough, they could get information at a time that Pei Du didn't expect.

Sure enough, they found out what would normally take nearly a month to uncover in less than a day.

It is said that the entire detective agency was mobilized to investigate, searching through almost all the files in that mountain village, and also asking many locals.

"Ling Shu's information was also encrypted. He has connections, so his information is kept completely secret. We were lucky; the people in charge of security were lax a while ago, which allowed us to infiltrate..."

Pei Du had absolutely no interest in how they had infiltrated; he simply asked, "Have you found out yet?"

"Of course we found out. I'm not bragging, there's no one in this world we can't find out." The person on the other end of the phone spoke as they walked, with the whistling sound of wind occasionally escaping from the receiver.

"Just send me the files and results. You guys take a couple of days off, then go check on a few more people for me." Pei Du scrolled through the apps on his phone screen, opened his computer, and typed a few letters on the keyboard.

"No problem! Oh, Young Master Pei, we don't need to rest, we work all year round! Just give the order and we'll investigate immediately!"

Pei Du was speechless. He had plenty of money, like an ATM. A little bit of gold that slipped through his fingers could cover a detective agency's monthly salary.

"Okay, the sooner the better, and give me double the bonus in advance." Pei Du said, typing on the keyboard and listing the names of the people he suspected.

The bouquets of roses in his house, the inexplicable smell in his room.

Very few people were allowed into his home; almost all of them were acquaintances. Pei Du recalled everyone who had been to his home before and wrote down their names one by one.

An Jia, Qi Sheng, laboratory assistant Lu Zifan, and director Gong Yuanshen.

Pei Du paused, his gaze lingering on Director Gong Yuanshen's name for a long time before finally deleting it.

The director was Pei Du's mentor and, in a sense, his adoptive father. Gong Yuanshen had no children of his own; Pei Du was his son.

Pei Du understood Gong Yuanshen's character. For so many years, he had withstood pressure from the military to help conceal Pei Du's alien identity, so Pei Du had no reason to doubt him anymore.

Pei Du then typed Ling Yu's name onto the screen and sent the message: "Try to find out as much information as possible about Ling Yu, but it doesn't matter if you can't find it. The main thing is to compile a list of the people mentioned earlier, including their birth, relationships, schools they attended, hobbies, special skills, etc., and give it to me."

The other party quickly received the message and assured Pei Du, "Don't worry, Young Master Pei, we know the rules. We'll find out and hand it over to you within a week, at the latest within a week."

"Row."

Pei Du ended the call with them.