Shocking! The Real Culprit Who Manipulated Silver Dragon and Hundred Demons Nurarihyon Are Jueying (Lin Ying)!
Zhou Keyu slowly said, " Noon Horse · Jueying, real name [ Lin Ying ], president of the Jiangcheng No. 1 High School Journalism Club, your junior."
"Is Jueying Lin Ying?"
Su Hang was shocked because his younger sister, Jiang Sui, was about to enter Jiangcheng No. 1 High School. He specially accepted Lin Ying's home interview and even extended a gesture of goodwill, asking her school to take care of his sister, Jiang Sui.
"If the accuracy rate of the other core members' real identities is 99%, then the accuracy rate of Jueying's real identity is 100%."
Zhou Keyu said confidently, "After all, I am the vice leader of the Wu Horse Alliance. I deal with the leader, Jueying, almost every day. Getting information out of him is incredibly easy for me."
Su Hang's shoulders trembled slightly. "Ever since Silver Dragon Phoenix Mountain Lord rebelled and left the team, Jueying has been my most loyal core member. You must be mistaken; he couldn't possibly be the real culprit who bewitched Silver Dragon."
"I know you can't accept it emotionally, but all the other core members of Imperial Crown have been ruled out as suspects, leaving only Jueying."
Zhou Keyu sighed, "As Holmes once said, when all other possibilities are eliminated, what remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
"That Jueying couldn't possibly be Lin Ying either." Su Hang clenched his fist, veins bulging on his forehead, and said, "The rules, regulations, organizational structure, and management model of the Imperial Crown... were all formulated and perfected by Jueying alone."
" Jueying professional skills and rich social experience. He is either a senior executive of a large corporation or a leading young government official, and he must be at least thirty years old."
" Lin Ying is only eighteen years old, just a high school student. The two portraits don't match at all."
Zhou Keyu's next sentence left Su Hang stunned.
" Lin Ying is a child prodigy."
Su Hang's body trembled. "A prodigy?"
Zhou Keyu nodded. "Looking at history, both ancient and modern, there have been many child prodigies, such as Cao Chong from the Three Kingdoms period. At the age of five or six, his mind was comparable to that of an adult. I don't need to elaborate on the story of Cao Chong weighing the elephant, do I?"
Su Hang asked in a daze, " Lin Ying is a child prodigy like Cao Chong?"
There's no need to be so surprised.
Zhou Keyu raised an eyebrow and said, "You are also a true prodigy, even more so than Lin Ying. Not only is your gaming talent unparalleled, but your mental maturity during childhood is something that even adults would be ashamed of."
Su Hang was speechless.
Zhou Keyu said meaningfully, "Judging from your reaction of not being able to accept the facts, I guess you're grooming Lin Ying as your successor."
"Hmm." Su Hang's face turned pale, then flushed. "I've already decided that Jueying will be the new captain of Imperial Crown."
Zhou Keyu suddenly became serious and earnest.
"Just like when the Three Emperors' Rebellion, you didn't hesitate to banish the Silver Dragon Phoenix Mountain Lord. I advise you to expel Jueying as soon as possible, because he has intricate connections with the Hundred Demons Team."
" Hundred Demons Team?"
Su Hang jolted awake, and when he looked up again, his eyes were fierce and terrifying. "Explain yourself clearly."
Zhou Keyu knew perfectly well that Su Hang deeply loathed the infamous Hundred Demons Team. " Jueying is very likely the chief vice-captain of the Hundred Demons Team— [ Nurarihyon ]!"
Su Hang trembled violently. " Jueying is Nurarihyon?"
Nurarihyon is the most evil member of the Hundred Demons Team, whose methods and schemes far surpass those of the Hundred Demons captain, Shura; he is utterly despicable.
Zhou Keyu nodded. "Nine years ago, your Imperial Crown Team expanded rapidly and aggressively, absorbing many former members from the Hundred Demons Team. It was around that time that Jueying, under the alias Nurarihyon, secretly infiltrated your Imperial Crown team."
"That's impossible," Su Hang gritted his teeth. "I remember clearly that those former members of the Hundred Demons faction who joined our Imperial Crown were all top-tier players who had been persecuted by the Hundred Demons, and their identities were verified through multiple rigorous processes."
"It's absolutely impossible to let them into the upper echelons of the Hundred Demons."
He could accept that Jueying was the real culprit who instigated Silver Dragon to seize power, but he simply could not accept the arbitrary conclusion that Jueying was Nurarihyon!
Zhou Keyu took out his phone and said, "Although the conclusion that Jueying is Nurarihyon is just a bold speculation based on various clues, in order to be rigorous, I still went to Jiangcheng No. 1 High School Middle School, where Jueying is located, to conduct an on-site investigation."
Su Hang was stunned. "This is why you came to Jiangcheng?"
Zhou Keyu nodded and pulled up a photo, saying, "This is the weekly newspaper of the reporter club of Jiangcheng No. 1 High School, with Jueying as the president. The title is '[On Japan Yokai Culture - Nurarihyon, the King of Hundred Demons ]'."
Su Hang's eyes widened.
"Isn't that interesting?" Zhou Keyu sneered twice. "The high school newspaper had so many topics to choose from, why did Jueying specifically choose Japan yokai culture, and even specifically pick Nurarihyon?"
Su Hang's voice trembled slightly, "Perhaps... it's a coincidence."
Zhou Keyu swiped through the photos and said, "I arranged to meet with two key members of the reporter's agency to conduct a side investigation into Jueying. It was them—one was White Fatty, and the other was a girl with Wanzi hairstyle."
Su Hang's heart skipped a beat. He recognized these two people. They were the ones who accompanied Lin Ying when Lin Ying led the Jiangcheng No. 1 High School Journalism Club to his home for an interview. The girl with the Wanzi hairstyle among them had even been harassed by Yin Long, who was obsessed with sex.
Zhou Keyu recounted, "I treated them to dinner as an actor to build rapport with them until they completely let their guard down and asked the Nurarihyon question about the newspaper's story. Their answers were very direct."
"When they were debating who the yokai should be, between Xue Ji and Nurarihyon, the president, Zekage, made the Jueying and chose Nurarihyon."
His reason was --
Su Hang's breathing quickened. "What is it?"
Zhou Keyu's words were as firm as iron. " Jueying likes Nurarihyon, the King of Hundred Demons, because Jueying's QQ alt account uses Nurarihyon as its profile picture!"
Su Hang's anxiety finally subsided.
"These are all the findings of my investigation over the past week while I was undercover at Imperial Crown." Zhou Keyu put away his phone and said, "To summarize, the real culprit who bewitched the Silver Dragon is Jueying, and he is extremely likely to be Hundred Demons Nurarihyon."
Su Hang was pale and weak.
Nine years later, he was betrayed again by a core member of the Imperial Crown, none other than Jueying, the trusted Jueying he had once taught and nurtured with all his heart and soul. The feeling of being pierced by a thousand arrows was simply too painful.
Zhou Keyu's eyes showed sympathy.
He understood perfectly well that Su Hang was fearless, not even of death, but he was terrified of betrayal, of those loyal to him betraying him.
" Su Hang, betrayal is the true nature of this world. No one will remain loyal to you forever. The absolute loyalty you seek can perhaps only be achieved in a utopian world."
Su Hang's fingernails dug deep into his palms, his heart filled with utter coldness. "All I want is loyalty. Is that really so difficult?"
"It's human nature to betray. Although I don't know what you've been through in the past, the fact that you value loyalty so much suggests you've suffered a betrayal that was worse than death."
Zhou Keyu stroked his chin, trying to empathize with the character, and said, "That unforgettable betrayal made you completely lose hope for life. You desperately longed for eternal death, to vanish from the world."
Su Hang's body trembled.
"Yet, you are still alive." Zhou Keyu's gaze was piercing, striking straight to the soul. " Su Hang, aren't you also betraying your past self? That self that should have died is still alive in this world."
After a long while.
I'm a little tired.
Su Hang closed his eyes, pinched the bridge of his nose, and said, "Let me have some peace and quiet."
"Good."