"Li Fan is the Night Watcher, and the Night Watcher is Li Fan." Smiling, Gu Ze swept his gaze over everyone present and spoke slowly.
The entire venue fell silent in an instant, as though every sound had been sucked away.
The awakened investigator agents present all wore expressions of shock and confusion as they stared in disbelief at Gu Ze and Li Fan on the podium.
Li Fan's heart jolted. He had no idea what Gu Ze was trying to accomplish by exposing his identity at a time like this.
And how exactly had the other man discovered his identity as the Night Watcher?
Had it been from the anomalies caused by his use of the Night Watcher's divine power earlier, and the leakage of its aura?
Things had completely exceeded his expectations. He could only adapt to the situation.
Li Fan immediately smiled faintly and said:
"Director Gu, that isn't a funny joke. The Night Watcher is Director Zhen, the honorary director of our Southwest Bureau. Everyone knows that, and plenty of people have met Director Zhen, the Night Watcher. He's a middle-aged man. He has nothing to do with me."
As he spoke, the Night Watcher divinity within him slowly began to circulate, ready at any moment to split off an avatar to deal with this crisis of identity.
By now, the venue had erupted into an uproar. People began whispering among themselves, speculating about Li Fan's identity and Gu Ze's earlier words.
The young investigators from the Southwest Bureau, meanwhile, were all grinning, convinced that Gu Ze was just spouting nonsense as a joke.
Who would have thought the director of the Central Bureau was this unserious? What kind of nonsense was he pulling?
Fang Hao said loudly:
"Director Gu, you can't just say things like