Lin Yu's Strategy

"Although there was no resistance, the mastermind behind this definitely didn't use something like hypnosis," Lin Yu concluded as she summarized the patterns in the three disappearances and reached what could currently be considered a fairly certain conclusion. "This guy's professional standards are far below Old Zheng's... If it were you, you definitely wouldn't have left behind so many flaws."

Lin Yu was certain that if this had taken place on Old Zheng's home turf and he had been the one arranging everything, Old Zheng definitely wouldn't have let Liu Chengyang lose control of his emotions and get the chance to fire a signal arrow.

Moreover, the Player's memories definitely wouldn't have been preserved either.

Even if he were limited to tampering only with NPC memories... Old Zheng would at least have cleaned up those NPCs' memories thoroughly.

There was absolutely no way Yue Zhenqiao and the other escorts would still remember something as serious as the "total number of people," nor would he have let Yue Zhenqiao realize that there was something unreasonable about him being unable to have sent only one person.

Old Zheng would definitely have fabricated an entire set of false memories, briefly altering their cognition as well, making Yue Zhenqiao firmly believe that everything was completely normal. Otherwise, even with exceptional strength, he would inevitably have been suspected, hated, and guarded against by Yue Zhenqiao and the other escorts.

Old Zheng also accepted Lin Yu's praise. "Indeed, boss... That's why I think this further proves that the existence directing all these disappearances truly lacks the ability to use mental methods or alter people's cognition and memories on the level of the soul. It isn't some fellow with Mental Power higher than mine using a method I couldn't detect. Rather, he took another route to make