47: Twenty years as an undercover agent? I'll play along!

Time, it seemed, was completely frozen at this moment.

The air solidified into ice, and within that ice were sealed the faces of everyone in the command center, contorted by extreme shock.

The cigar Zhao Dahai was holding in his mouth dropped to the floor with a "pat," and though the sparks burned through his trouser leg, he remained completely oblivious.

Su Qingxue's hand was pressed tightly against the sidearm holstered at her waist, her knuckles turning a deathly pale white from the force.

Director Qian, who came from the Provincial Department, had a face usually brimming with arrogance, but now it was left with nothing but a comical blankness, his cognition utterly overturned.

Everyone's gaze, like iron filings drawn by a magnet, was fiercely fixed on the young man standing before the main console.

Doubt, confusion, horror... and a trace of undeniable, betrayed fury!

In the livestream chat of the Human Court, the bullet screen comments exploded after a brief moment of silence!

"Holy crap?! What's going on? Is Officer Gao telling the truth?"

"The sole eyewitness? Chen Mo was there at the scene?!"

"He watched those two people get buried alive? And hasn't said a word for twenty years?!"

"Coward! If this is true, he is an absolute coward! He doesn't deserve to be a police officer!"

The image Chen Mo had just personally elevated to godhood was, in this moment, brutally shattered by Gao Fan, this ghost from hell, with a single kick.

On the screen.

The face of the digital "Gao Fan" showed the compassionate yet cruel smile only a victor possesses.

He looked at the billions of viewers in front of the screen, yet it was as if he was looking at the silent figure in the command center.

"Chen Mo, do you have anything else you want to say?"

"Is there anything... you need to explain?"

Like a true prosecutor, he cornered his opponent into a dead end with no chance of survival.

In the command center, everyone held their breath.

They looked at Chen Mo's back, at his shoulders which seemed especially thin due to blood loss.

They waited for him to refute, waited for him to roar, waited for him... to break down.

However.

Chen Mo simply stood there quietly.

A full dozen seconds passed.

Just when everyone thought he had conceded everything.

A low, hoarse laugh, filled with endless mockery, emerged from his throat.

"Heh... heh heh..."

"Hahahaha!"

He laughed.

He laughed so hard he bent double, his shoulders shaking violently!

That laughter, in the dead silence of the command center, seemed particularly strange, particularly... manic!

"Chen Mo!" Zhao Dahai's eyes instantly turned red. He thought the young man had finally been driven insane by the immense pressure!

On the screen, "Gao Fan's" smile froze for the first time.

He didn't understand.

He didn't understand why this man, who should have been begging for mercy, was laughing.

Chen Mo's laughter stopped abruptly.

He slowly turned around.

His eyes, burning with cold fire, swept over every astonished face in the command center.

Finally, his gaze landed on the equally astonished "Gao Fan" on the screen.

"Explain?"

The corner of his mouth curled into a cold, devilish arc.

"No."

"I have nothing to explain."

In front of the entire city, he spoke the words that silenced the whole world, using a tone so calm it was infuriating.

"Because, he is not wrong."

"Twenty years ago, that rainy night."

"I truly... was at the scene."

BOOM!!!

The entire command center felt as if it had been struck by an invisible nuclear bomb!

Zhao Dahai's body swayed violently; he couldn't believe his ears!

Su Qingxue's hand dropped powerlessly. For the first time, the emotion named "despair" surfaced in her usually icy eyes!

It's over!

Everything is over!

On the screen, "Gao Fan's" face revealed a look of ecstatic, triumphant joy!

He won!

He finally crushed the man who had been looming over him beneath his feet!

However.

Chen Mo's next sentence was like a red-hot branding iron, searing his virtual face!

"But, it seems you got one thing wrong."

Chen Mo stepped forward, staring intently at the face on the screen, the flames in his eyes burning even more fiercely!

"I wasn't an eyewitness."

"I am not a coward."

His voice was like a drawn sword, filled with sharp killing intent!

"I am the secret operative the Jiang City Municipal Bureau planted within the 'Emperor' organization twenty years ago..."

"Undercover agent!"

Undercover agent!

These two words struck the heart of everyone present like actual bullets!

Zhao Dahai's pupils suddenly constricted!

Su Qingxue's breathing instantly froze!

Director Qian, who was slumped on the floor, had his mouth open wide enough to fit an egg!

On the screen, "Gao Fan's" ecstatic face shattered piece by piece, like a statue struck by a heavy hammer!

"You... what did you say?"

"I said!"

Chen Mo's voice suddenly rose, like a completely enraged lion, letting out a deafening roar directed at the entire city!

"I watched that couple get buried alive because that was my mission! It was the only bargaining chip I had to gain Lin Yuan's trust!"

"I endured humiliation and carried the stigma of being a coward for twenty years, all to wait for today! To wait to uproot this massive criminal empire!"

"Gao Fan!"

Chen Mo suddenly pointed at the face on the screen, which was already distorted by shock!

"You thought you glimpsed the truth?"

"No! What you saw was only what we wanted you to see!"

"You, and the self-righteous 'Emperor' behind you, stepped into a trap we set twenty years ago, right from the start!"

These words had no proof, no corroboration!

They were all spontaneous, wild lies!

But at this moment!

They were more shocking than any truth could have been!

In the command center, you could hear a pin drop!

Zhao Dahai looked at Chen Mo's back, watching his shoulders tremble slightly from excitement.

His heart, which had almost stopped beating, suddenly sprang back to life!

He understood!

He understood everything!

This kid... he wasn't lying!

He was using a bigger lie to cover up another lie!

He was using the most insane, most impossible way to forcibly snatch the initiative of this trial back from the devil's hands!

In the Human Court livestream chat.

After ten long seconds of silence, the bullet screen comments exploded with a force a hundred times more intense than before!

"Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap! A twenty-year undercover agent?!"

"Oh my god! What kind of legendary plot is this! Movies wouldn't even dare to film this!"

"I knew it! How could Team Leader Chen be a coward! He carried so much burden!"

"I'm sorry! Team Leader Chen! I misjudged you! You are the real hero!"

Public opinion completely reversed in an instant!

The hero image that had just been trampled into the mud was, at this moment, personally draped by Chen Mo with a layer of even more tragic and legendary... divine glory!

"No... impossible..."

On the screen, "Gao Fan" let out an inhuman roar!

"You're lying! You must be lying!"

"Lying?"

Chen Mo's lips curled into a cold sneer of mockery.

"Then tell me, if I wasn't an undercover agent, how could I solve those cold cases, sealed away for over a decade, one after another in just a few days?"

"You think it was luck?"

"No, that's because..."

His voice was like a sledgehammer, smashing hard against the hearts of "Gao Fan" and the "Emperor"!

"Those cases, from the very beginning, were the road signs... personally laid out by me!"

"It was I who, step by step, guided you all to today's judgment seat!"

"And you, Gao Fan."

Chen Mo's gaze was like two scalpels, firmly fixed on Gao Fan's face.

"You thought you achieved eternal life?"

"No, you are merely a pawn thrown out by the 'Emperor,' a pitiful ghost used... to test me."

"He has already abandoned you."

"And now..."

Chen Mo slowly raised his hand, like a true judge, and pointed at the screen.

"It's my turn... to judge you."