Hidden Motives, the Puzzle Pieces of Truth, and External Threats

Upon hearing Lin Yu's words, Fu Luo couldn't help but look at the beautiful "girl".

"Saying she's not good at solving puzzles... she's actually quite clever, no wonder she's part of May's social circle!"

Lin Yu waved his hand. "I'm not good at solving puzzles, but if you've given me this much hint, I can still figure it out."

Fu Luo gave Lin Yu a thumbs up when he heard his humble words.

"No matter what, he's got some skills!"

"At least your coordination with me during the torture was perfect just now... Baron, you shouldn't have anything to say now!"

Fu Luo looked at Baron Coleman with a smug expression.

Even Pankto couldn't help but speak up for the two Player.

"Coleman, I don't know how much you've changed over the years, but if you want to clear your name... you should be honest first."

"At the very least, you shouldn't hide it from the person who helped you clear your name."

Pankto's words made Coleman sigh silently.

"Okay, okay, I'll tell you."

"Their suspicions about my motives are simple... it's not that I have a grudge against Reed Christopher or anything like that."

"But at that time, I..."

Coleman sighed as he spoke, "After discovering the dead bodies here, I just quietly slipped away."

"They ran away?!"

Before Lin Yu and Fu Luo could complain, Pankto's voice suddenly rose. "You really are a genius, Coleman... How could you run away from something like this? Do you think the company wouldn't thoroughly investigate the death of a former B-Class Independent Researcher, who had served as the deputy director of an independent laboratory and was just one step away from being promoted to A-Class specially appointed researcher?"

Coleman pinched the bridge of his nose and said with a headache, "No, Pankto, you've lost your Memory and don't understand... As A-Class supervisor, and as the deceased was, as you said, in a high position of power, my first reaction was to realize that someone was setting a trap to target and frame me. My most appropriate reaction was to escape and try to erase my access control records."

"In fact... you, who had also been promoted to team leader at the time, later agreed with my approach."

"My only miscalculation was not clearing the access control swipe records."

Baron Coleman spoke, Pankto sighed helplessly.

"But in hindsight... your escape actually played right into their hands, didn't it?"

At this moment, Lin Yu spoke again.

"Anything else? It's not just that!"

There's no point in hiding this.

It's true that you only say half of what you mean...

Lin Yu was all too familiar with this method of "lying".

Could a Profession Fraudster like him really be fooled by this baron?

Hearing Lin Yu's words, Fu Luo nodded. "That's right—you omitted some details, didn't you?"

Coleman looked at the two of them, his expression one of utter helplessness.

"It seems that bringing you two here was really the right decision. I was just trying my luck at first... but now it seems that you might actually have the ability to help me prove my innocence."

"I did hide something just now... that's what I really wanted to hide."

"My 'greed' and the overly urgent 'situation' led me to make a foolish judgment."

Baron Coleman pointed to an instrument in the corner.

"Before I left, I casually copied all of Reed's experimental data."

"I was very careful; I originally thought I hadn't left any traces."

"But who would have thought—while I was copying documents, this device would automatically read the Identity card I was carrying and record my identity!"

Baron Coleman said with a wry smile.

Lin Yu sighed upon hearing this.

"No wonder you wanted to hide it... It was truly a shameful and foolish act for you."

He said it without any politeness.

Fu Luo chuckled, speechless. "Then you deserve to be considered a murderer by the Truth Company in some way..."

Lin Yu nodded again and added, "No wonder Researcher Reed's friends and colleagues are hostile to you. Even if you're not the murderer, your crimes of failing to report a crime, neglecting to help someone in distress, and stealing classified information are undeniable."

Baron Coleman was thoroughly insulted by the two men, who were working together in a coordinated attack. Unable to refute them, he could only endure it and sigh helplessly.

"It was indeed a foolish thing of mine eight years ago... However, I absolutely did not kill anyone."

Pankto said regretfully, "It seems that during the years I lost my Memory, you simply became worse, not more cunning and treacherous."

Coleman had been relatively calm just moments before, finally broke down upon hearing Pankto's words, clutching his head with one hand and speaking out.

"That's enough, that's why I wanted to keep this a secret... This kind of thing has nothing to do with the Truth, right? After all, it's just the reason I was wronged!"

Baron Coleman's tone remained calm, but Lin Yu and Fu Luo could tell he was on the verge of collapse.

Fu Luo quickly said, "No, quite the opposite. Your action, this action that serves as your 'motive' for becoming the prime suspect, is precisely the key to uncovering the Truth."

"I'm not trying to comfort you... Right after you told me your motive, I touched upon the whole 'Truth' —only one more piece of the puzzle remains to find the killer from back then and crack his methods!"

Fu Luo spoke with certainty, looking towards where the corpse was.

"Now, the final mystery is..."

Where is the murderer?

As soon as Fu Luo finished speaking, the entire laboratory began to tremble violently.

It wasn't a physical tremor like an earthquake, but rather the entire laboratory seemed to briefly "distort," with noise and shaking appearing in the scene!

"What's going on?!"

"Pankto asked warily."

Baron Coleman's expression turned grave. "This is a sign that the [Ancient Notebook] have been interfered with... I'm afraid we've been attacked outside!"

Meanwhile, inside the Despair Train.

Three fully armed combatants appeared in the number one carriage of the Despair Train.

They entered the carriage through the overhead maintenance passage and quickly discovered the [Ancient Notebook] and the four unconscious people.

Although there were two Sentry robot around the four, the three combatants were clearly not very concerned.

"Introduce jamming; take out the sentries first."

Following the leader's command, the three of them simultaneously pulled out some kind of metal sphere and threw it in that direction.

The metal sphere emitted a flashing yellow light after landing, illuminating the interior of the carriage and slightly dimming the light of the Ancient Notebook.

Not only the Ancient Notebook, but even the brilliance of the "Despair Furnace" seemed to have dimmed somewhat.

The two sentries, who had initially appeared alert and alert, had become considerably less observant.

"Interference complete, power reduced to minimum, begin clearing."

The three men advanced in a triangular formation, simultaneously raising their primary weapons that had been hanging on their chests.

But the moment they picked up their weapons, the three realized something was wrong.

Our weapons... have disappeared?!