By evening, Xu Le and the others had regrouped at the hotel.
Ai Li remained elegant and composed, and Wang Shu looked fine too. Gu Beichen, however, looked rather travel-worn.
"Let's talk about what we each found. We weren't expecting much on the first day, but finding something is still much better than nothing, isn't it?"
Xu Le's mood was somewhat strange. Noticing that he seemed distracted, Ai Li prompted him.
"What's wrong? Something on your mind?"
Xu Le thought back over his entire encounter with Mo Chen that afternoon. He kept feeling that the deliberate arrangement... had been a final declaration.
While he wanted to kill Xiong Zemo, Xiong Zemo wanted to kill him too.
Just as the man had said, he had already tried his best, so...
"I wonder whether his real name is Xiong Zemo or Mo Chen. If it's Xiong Zemo, that's one thing, but if it's Mo Chen, then what was Luo Juya to him...?"
Xu Le did not dwell on that question. After collecting himself, he looked at Ai Li and the others.
"All right, I'm fine. Go ahead."
Seeing that Xu Le was all right, Ai Li nodded and took out a file on Xiong Zemo.
"Xiong Zemo's records were easy to get. I only spent a few dozen bribing some teachers and community workers to get a copy from the local orphanage. They're very detailed, covering everything from his birth to his parents' deaths, his adoption by the orphanage, and then his self-taught education and joining the Night Watchers. None of that history was concealed. It was very easy to find."
Ai Li had brought out a great deal of information, all of it detailed. Whether you examined it normally or otherwise, there seemed to be nothing wrong with it.
But Xu