The moment the Money Power hypothesis was proposed, everyone in the room was stunned.
"A Meng, did you discover Money Power through Synesthesia too?" Seeing Ke Meng nod, the leader of another investigation team wore an utterly dumbfounded expression.
This shocked team leader had scored 90 in Gnosis, placing him in the top tier in Whale City.
But a score of 90 was no match for Ke Meng's score of over 100. The team leader felt something he had only experienced as a student, like a struggling student facing a straight-A student.
It was the feeling of being utterly outclassed.
A struggling student would glance at a problem and spend ages scratching their head.
A top student would immediately see what the question was testing and quickly calculate the final answer in their head.
As Ke Meng used Synesthesia on the words "Money Power," he recounted the story of banknotes turning into a person.
The story was short. After his interview ended, Galixi sensed danger and used banknotes in the parking lot to create a double indistinguishable from the real thing. It drove home for him, then conducted a sacrifice to draw everyone's attention and buy him time to escape.
As for how Galixi himself had escaped, Ke Meng was not sure. There was only so much information he could glean from the video.
At this point, he could only guess blindly.
Ke Meng guessed that Galixi had used Money Power to alter his appearance, but how he had evaded the Investigation Bureau's surveillance cameras remained baffling. A blind guess was still just a blind guess.
The members of the three investigation teams listened, and the more they heard, the more they sensed that this might really be what had happened.
Their Gnosis was weaker than Ke Meng's, but that