25: Shouldn't he have already been cremated? Why is he back?

Chen Song didn't know why, but just being looked at by Lin Pei earlier had given him an inexplicable sense of panic.

But hearing those words now, he clearly didn't believe it at all.

Chen Song chuckled.

"It's useless to hypnotize me because I don't know anything."

"Go ahead and try, try all you want..."

Before he could finish, Lin Pei reached into his clothes for his glasses.

He realized he didn't seem to have them on him.

He simply pulled up the zipper on his jacket and waved it in front of the middle-aged man.

A zipper would work too, though it was a bit short.

"Say no more, I'll grant your wish."

Next, a magical scene unfolded in the interrogation room.

With a dull gaze and a mechanical tone, Chen Song revealed his entire criminal process.

This included the location of the hidden body, information about his accomplices, and more.

The eyes of the Police Officers outside the door were wide with shock.

This guy was not only skilled with flying daggers, but he even knew hypnosis.

Just who on earth was he?

Xu Feng immediately called a colleague.

"Xiao Li, go check under the bridge on Xiaotang Road."

...An hour later, Xiao Li reported back.

"Captain Xu, there really was a body buried under the bridge, along with a hammer..."

"We've already had the Forensics Department compare them; the fingerprints on it belong to Chen Song, and the other person is someone named Xu Jie."

This perfectly matched what Chen Song had just said.

With this, the murder case was essentially solved.

For a moment, the entire police station was shaken.

Everyone instantly understood.

It turned out that hypnosis hadn't been used in interrogations not for any other reason.

It was simply because someone with skills as superb as Lin Pei's had never appeared before.

Xu Feng looked at Lin Pei with quite a bit of excitement.

"Lin Pei, would you consider staying in our Criminal Police force to be a Police Officer?"

"With talent like yours, I really don't want to let you go."

Hearing the latter half of the sentence, Lin Pei felt a bit nervous.

He was truly afraid that Xu Feng would keep him here.

"Captain Xu, I can't be a Police Officer. In this life, I only want to be an actor."

Having lived another life, he found that being an actor still held the most fatal attraction for him.

Xu Feng felt a bit regretful and walked Lin Pei to the entrance of the police station.

"Come on, I'll take you back to the Film Crew."

...the disguiser Film Crew.

After a scene was finished, everyone was taking a short break on the set.

The set seemed quiet, but everyone's hearts were far from peaceful.

Everyone was still immersed in the shock brought by Lin Pei's 'execution.'

People were gathered in small groups, whispering to each other.

"Lin Pei's execution must be over by now, right?"

"Probably. It's been so long; he's likely gone."

"Definitely. Someone just saw a hearse from the crematorium coming from that direction."

"Heavens, someone we saw this morning is already gone. Life is so unpredictable."

"Ah... indeed, I saw that vehicle too."

"I don't know what crime Teacher Lin Pei committed, but I thought he was quite good in the Film Crew. I just hope he rests in peace."

Everyone began to murmur, "Teacher Lin Pei, rest in peace."

..."Everyone, I'm back."

A familiar voice suddenly came from the entrance.

!!!

Everyone looked toward the entrance of the shed together, and as a result, they were nearly scared to death.

Wasn't the person at the entrance Lin Pei, who was supposedly already executed?

Logically, by this time, he should have been taken to the crematorium and turned to ash.

Everyone's faces turned pale; once they regained their senses, they screamed and scattered in all directions.

"Holy crap, is this a reanimated corpse?"

"Wasn't he already cremated? Where did this body come from?"

"Maybe they didn't have time yet?"

"Dammit, it could also be a ghost."

"..."

Facing this reaction from everyone, Lin Pei didn't understand at all.

It had only been a few hours since they last met; was it necessary for his Film Crew colleagues to be this excited?

And even if they were excited, it shouldn't be this kind of reaction, right?

It was as if they had seen a ghost.

Song Tie was the only one brave enough to stand up and walk over to Lin Pei.

Her expression was complex; along with her confusion, there was a hint of crying with joy.

"Teacher Lin Pei, weren't you executed?"

Lin Pei was even more confused.

"Executed?"

"What execution?"

What heinous thing had he done that required him to be executed on the spot?

After Song Tie explained, he finally understood what was going on.

It was caused by the live stream again.

Why was there a live stream everywhere?

The thing he had been worried about back then had happened after all.

First he was mistaken for a murderer, which he had just cleared up, and now this was happening.

Lin Pei scanned the scene and indeed saw a familiar figure.

The Streamer still couldn't tell if he was a human or a ghost; she trembled when she met his gaze.

"It wasn't my live stream. I've been with the Film Crew the whole time and didn't go to the Criminal Police station."

"We saw you in someone else's live stream. At that time, you were being blindfolded, and it looked like you were about to be executed."

"Then the stream cut off..."

Lin Pei sighed.

"It just cut off like that?"

So the precious footage of his heroic display and every dagger hitting the target wasn't captured at all?

What a pity.

Seeing the doubt on everyone's faces, Lin Pei spoke up to explain.

"Everyone has misunderstood. That wasn't an execution; I was showing the police how to throw flying daggers while blindfolded."

"..."

Everyone was half-believing and half-doubting.

Lin Pei really didn't look like a reanimated corpse at all.

But whether he had escaped from the police station was hard to say.

The Streamer asked, "Teacher Lin Pei, isn't that black cloth used for death row inmates?"

Lin Pei coughed, "Well, it actually is..."

There was no way to refute it.

Who told the police station to just happen to have that thing?

At this moment, the Streamer looked down, her eyes suddenly widening as a flash of surprise crossed them.

"Oh, so he really was playing with flying daggers..."

Just now, she had clicked on a video link shared by a netizen in the live stream chat.

In the video, Lin Pei's eyes were blindfolded.

He raised his hand and daggers flew—one to the left, one to the right... every single one hit the bullseye!

The Streamer blurted out.

"Holy shit, that's so cool!"

Before long, a crowd gathered around the Streamer.

"Damn, Brother Lin really was playing with flying daggers."

"So cool! This is practically a modern version of 'Little Li Flying Dagger'."

"Does this level of skill really exist? Wouldn't a normal person have to practice for decades? How old is Brother Lin?"

"We misunderstood Teacher Lin Pei. Look, the police are even cheering on the side."

"..."

Within the circle, a head leaned in.

"The throwing was pretty good, right?"

Everyone nodded.

"Not bad."

"It's fantastic."

"Excellent."

Seeing the person who asked, everyone's expressions were inevitably a bit sheepish.

"It's Teacher Lin Pei... cough, you're really too amazing."

"Sorry, Brother Lin, we misunderstood you."

"It was mainly because of that black cloth for death row inmates; it was really misleading."

"..."

Song Tie's face turned slightly red, her expression shy.

"I knew it was a misunderstanding. Teacher Lin Pei, you really give people surprises every day."

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