Secret
"You're from Capital City. You've never left, let alone been abroad. That foreign name you mentioned is just a nickname you picked in the game." Xu Huo set down the mirror and picked up the medical file. "I know how much you yearn for life abroad. You've praised foreign countries on social media more than once, saying how wonderful they are and that you wanted to move there. You even asked your parents to sell their house to fund your move."
"Your family wasn't well-off, though, and both your parents were seriously ill. When they refused to sell the house, you killed them. Their bodies weren't dug out of the walls until the new owner started renovating."
After finishing, Xu Huo paused and asked, "Do you remember any of it?"
David Pierce looked bewildered. He tried desperately to remember, then fell into anguish again, his expression twisting. "I don't know... I don't know..."
Xu Huo sighed. "When you were arrested, you said you'd been given a mission and had no choice but to kill your parents. In your eyes, they became landlords who'd accidentally discovered you meeting with a spy."
David Pierce's expression kept changing. Gradually, he seemed to accept the truth. He gagged and let out a pained howl. "I didn't want to kill them... I didn't mean to!"
Of course, Xu Huo had made the whole story up, but Pierce followed it and successfully began to imagine a "false" past for himself, recounting it in fits and starts.
From his account, Xu Huo learned a little about the underground organization hiding in Capital City.
In short, these people had been undercover spies all along. After the Evolver incident broke out, their mission had changed—or rather, it had been forced to change. Since its establishment, the Special Defense