Chapter 302 - Secret Police Squad (2/2)

Shen Yupeng laughed and led Meng Chao into the congee restaurant.

It was five in the morning, and the sky still looked like a gray layer of ice. There were not many pedestrians on the road. The restaurant owner snored lightly in a corner. There were only two women and one man sitting at one table. They looked like really skilful people.

They had already washed off the paint on their faces.

The bright light that shone in their eyes allowed Meng Chao to recognize them at first glance. They were some of the secret police officers and adjudicators who had gone with Shen Yupeng into Golden Tooth Lair.

If they could become secret police and adjudicators, it meant that they had above average strength.

Even though they had suppressed their vitality magnetic fields, Meng Chao could still sense the spirit energy ripples around them while they breathed. They danced and jumped about rhythmically.

“Red Tea, White Leaf, and Orchid. My right hands. They’re really skilled subordinates.”

Shen Yupeng then said with a smile, “This is Meng Chao. I don’t think I need to introduce him to you lot.”

The three names were clearly codenames.

The woman named Red Tea appeared to be in her twenties. She had a buzzcut, and her hair was really short, where the end of her hair was close to her scalp. After she entered the congee restaurant, she had never stopped chewing on a piece of gum.

Her army-green jacket was bumpy. Each of its pockets was filled with bullets and guns. Her arms were swollen with muscles. She wore a Sam Brown Belt around her waist and black combat boots. She looked like a gun maniac.

The one called White Leaf was a middle-aged man in his thirties and appeared quite elegant. His features were not prominent, as if someone had used diluted ink to draw his features. The moment Meng Chao looked away, he forgot what the man looked like. If White Leaf blended into a crowd, Meng Chao would never be able to find him.

Orchid was a pretty woman with long and narrow eyes. She gave off the air of a mature scholarly woman.

Her eyes occasionally shone at a mysterious rhythm. The sparks appeared like a coin that swayed constantly because of a hypnotist swinging it nonstop. No one could resist it and would just trust her.

‘Red Tea is a gun expert. The man should be a tracking and information expert, while the last one should be skilled in mind attacks. The three of them are all at the peak of Earth Realm or might have even reached Heaven Realm.’

While Meng Chao thought of this, he sat down beside the four people and smiled. “Hello, everyone. Honestly speaking, this is the first time I’m in such close contact with the legendary secret police and adjudicators. It feels strange. I didn’t expect that you’d eat century egg and minced pork congee as well.”

His words caused Red Tea, the gun maniac with the buzzcut, to laugh. “What do you mean? Do you think that adjudicators don’t need to eat?”

“No. I just…” Meng Chao thought about his words. “I heard of too many stories related to the secret police and adjudicators when I was young. Compared to the hunters who kill monsters, information about you guys is always in fragments, so you can’t tell the truth apart from the lies. It makes you guys really mysterious. I heard that your identities are supposed to be top secret. Is it really okay for you to show me your real face?”

“It’s not as exaggerated as you think,” Shen Yupeng explained. “The adjudicator court is a law enforcement organization that is used to deal with internal enemies. A lot of the suspects we capture are famous superhumans who are really powerful. If we approach them with guns blazing, we’d bring ourselves unnecessary trouble. That’s why we don’t promote ourselves as flagrantly as hunters, but our identities are not ‘top secret’. That’s too much of an exaggeration.”

Red Tea smirked. “Besides, how would you know that you’re looking at our real faces right now?”

She was quite the wild person and carefree as a boy.

When Meng Chao was about to answer, he suddenly saw White Leaf’s hand in his peripheral vision.

White Leaf was using his chopsticks to pick up a pork ball from his bowl.

When he saw Meng Chao staring at his hands, he could not help but say, “I’m sorry. I’ve been working through the night, so I’m really hungry now. I started eating before you even came here. You don’t mind, right, Meng Chao?”

“I don’t.” Meng Chao appeared contemplative. “But you investigated me before?”

White Leaf was a little stunned and his pupils shrank swiftly.

Shen Yupeng stared at Meng Chao with interest. “What made you say that?

“I saw Big Brother White’s hands before,” Meng Chao said. “When I was at the northern frontlines and went to the cafeteria on the last few days I was at the east lake base in Shattered Starlake, I ran into a student whose complexion was rather waxy. He sat near me a few times.

“Big Brother White, even though he was shorter by half a head compared to you right now and his palms were as coarse as sandpaper, the way you hold your chopsticks is exactly the same.

“This is a very professional stance. You don’t look like you’re holding chopsticks, but like you’re holding a pen or a carving knife. Besides, when you pick up pork balls, you like to form half a circle to the left before you pick one up so that your pork balls are soaked in soup. That student should have been you, right, Big Brother White?”

Shock slowly appeared on White Leaf’s vague features.

Shen Yupeng smiled and said, “Meng Chao, there are thousands of students eating at the same time in Shattered Starlake’s cafeteria. You can’t have possibly remembered the characteristics of everyone’s hands and the way they pick up their vegetables, right?”

“Of course I can’t remember everyone’s habits,” Meng Chao said. “But when someone is sneaking looks at me, I can sense it, so I put to memory the characteristics of those who are watching me. It’s not something difficult.

“But I find this strange. I’m just a normal freshman and have just become a two-star superhuman. What exactly about me has caught the secret police’s attention?

Shen Yupeng cast a glance at Red Tea, White Leaf, and Orchid.

The four of them remained silent for a few seconds.

Red Tea was the first one to be unable to hold back. She laughed and pointed at White Leaf before she said, “Old Leaf, you even said that your disguises and tracking are second to none. You said that you can change into dozens of disguises in a day and talk to the same person without them noticing you, but it’s all talk! Hahahaha!”

White Leaf looked frustrated and impressed. He glanced at his hand, which was what had exposed him, and smiled wryly before he said, “Meng Chao, now that you’ve said that, I won’t dare to eat pork balls in the future.”

“Don’t mind it, Meng Chao. This is indeed not the first time we met,” Shen Yupeng explained. “But at that time, the target of the investigation wasn’t you. It’s Lu Siya. Since you were hired, the procedure required us to investigate you as well.”

“Lu Siya?” Meng Chao was slightly stunned. “Why?”

“Of course it’s due to the matter of my cousin and his entire team dying mysteriously under Raging Waves.” Shen Yupeng smiled and said, “Don’t you think that this is something worthy of careful investigation?