Fu Luo's Peculiarity

Even without Fu Luo's reminder, Lin Yu and Li Nian had already realized something was wrong when Baron Coleman suddenly started yelling.

As soon as the robot appeared, the two of them prepared to run away.

Before Fu Luo could finish his sentence, the two of them had already squatted down next to him.

Subsequently, the swarm of robotic bees experienced a series of explosions.

The tiny, small explosions occurred rapidly and in rapid succession, making it seem as if everyone was wrapped in a string of thousand-shot whips.

"How come you recognize all these things? What's your position at Truth Company?" Li Nian exclaimed. "This thing doesn't look like it has much explosive power!"

Lin Yu looked directly at Fu Luo: "So what's so scary about this thing?"

Seeing that the two seemed to underestimate the size of the explosion, Fu Luo quickly spoke up.

"It doesn't kill its target with explosive force... it's not even Physical Attack!"

"This thing attacks the mind—many of Truth Company's weapons are like this; they don't look very powerful, but they're actually aimed at the brain and soul!"

Fu Luo finished speaking, the explosion stopped.

The field agents from Truth Company all collapsed as if they had lost their minds, their behavior appearing extremely sluggish.

This terrified Lin Yu and Li Nian.

"This thing is really ruthless."

Li Nian muttered to herself.

Lin Yu quickly looked at Fu Luo: "Does this thing cause continuous damage, or is it safe after it explodes?"

"It'll be safe after the explosion."

Having received Fu Luo's answer, Lin Yu immediately stepped forward.

Li Nian, somewhat puzzled, "What are you going to do?"

"Prepare to mediate the fight—we just went in to investigate the 'Truth' and saw some things that might cause the two brothers to quarrel..."

Lin Yu sighed and looked at Coleman and Pankto had been fighting side by side just moments before, but had now immediately confronted each other after the enemy was dealt with.

Judging from Baron Coleman's actions of simply summoning these robots to literally "blow these armed men into idiots," the baron must be seething with anger.

Although it was interrupted time and again—first the time in the [Ancient Notebook] ended, then upon returning, it encountered enemies at the front...

But now that everything was settled, Baron Coleman had Leng Jing a bit and was less impulsive, but his anger and resentment had not diminished in the slightest.

He looked at Pankto, his eyes cold.

"So... you did it back then?"

"No wonder you were so proactive in sealing off the scene after your accident!"

"Pankto, Pankto von Valetti —I considered you a close friend!"

This is indeed a drama of old friends turning against each other because old grievances resurface, but the situation is a little special.

Faced with Baron Coleman's accusations, Pankto could only lower his head helplessly.

"I'm sorry... I..."

"I don't remember."

Pankto's reaction infuriated Baron Coleman.

He felt like he had punched a cotton ball.

People are shaped by their Memory — Baron Coleman, as the former head of the independent research lab at Truth Company, knew this better than most.

The Pankto has lost his Memory is not the same δ team leader who killed his colleagues and betrayed his friends.

He was just a young man who had just joined the Truth Company, full of ideals and wanting to investigate the Truth behind the disappearance of his Grandfather, which had troubled his Grandfather and father all their lives.

Baron Coleman clenched his fist, then slowly released it.

He sighed.

"Never mind... at least in the end, you stood by my side again and went with me to assassinate Paris."

Baron Coleman had no choice but to accept it.

But Pankto's own pain and resentment were no less than his; after Baron Coleman's relief, he gritted his teeth instead.

"No, it shouldn't be said so casually... This has been bothering you for a long time, hasn't it?"

"And another colleague of mine died—Reed Christopher, he died at my hands."

Pankto grabbed his hair hard.

"Damn it, damn it... what have happened to me all these years?"

Why did I become like this?! What happened to me, and what have I forgotten?!

Pankto was on the verge of collapse.

He covered his head with his hands and shouted.

Coleman looked at his pained expression and sighed again.

He didn't offer any words of comfort to his old friend, but instead looked at Li Nian, Lin Yu, and Fu Luo again before speaking.

"There's another injustice against him, but now I'm not sure if it even counts as an injustice back then," Coleman sighed, pointing to Pankto. "He was once accused during a field mission of blowing up a mansion in City That Never Sleeps, killing three residents—who, of course, were actually the mistress and two illegitimate daughters of one of our Truth Company Board Members."

"This incident led to his dismissal and confinement—because he told me he was innocent, so I personally intervened to get him back."

"I used to believe what he told me, but..."

Baron Coleman paused. "While I still want to believe him, I can no longer rationally judge whether the 'Pankto' of ten years ago would have lied to me."

Pankto looked up, opened his mouth, and finally uttered, "I... I don't know either."

"If I really do end up in that disgusting state a few years from now, it would feel like retribution."

He said with a sigh.

"So, should we check it again in that notebook?"

Li Nian stroked her chin and said.

Lin Yu looked at Fu Luo, Fu Luo shook his head.

"The bombing, four years ago, killed three women of high status but shrouded in secrecy, two of whom were minors, is that right?"

"I know about this case. If the file I reviewed is correct, wasn't the crime scene the top floor of 'Heer Apartments'?"

Baron Coleman looked surprised.

"You... you actually viewed this file? You have such high authority?!"

"No, in your fifth year here, Board Members Kidd fell from power—and it was President Paris who did it."

"So the case file about his lover's death was also declassified. I glanced at it," Fu Luo nodded, "And then I stored it in my head."

Li Nian was shocked. "You have a Bu Wang memory? You remembered everything after just one glance... Is there really Memory Palace? Or do you Hyperthymesia?"

"No, actually I... memorized it on purpose."

"I just glanced at it" means I looked at it casually, not that I actually only glanced at it.

Fu Luo said embarrassedly.

"Why are you carrying that thing?"

Lin Yu looked at Fu Luo and asked.

Fu Luo said embarrassedly, "That case was presented as evidence against that Board Members, supposedly as evidence that he was using the case to attack others. I thought the case seemed a bit suspicious, so I wrote it down. I plan to practice my reasoning with it before bed sometime, as a kind of logic exercise."