Of course, all of this was predicated on Tang Cheng's presence, and his actions were consistent with Li Xingkong's own thoughts, which is why Li Xingkong did not take action himself.
If Li Xingkong reports this matter back and it doesn't cause a ripple throughout the Divine Land, then don't blame Li Xingkong for personally uprooting these people. He has no scruples when he takes action; anyone even remotely connected to this matter will be eliminated.
As for this guy's interrogation, Li Xingkong obviously understood how uncomfortable Tang Cheng was. Threats wouldn't work on him, and he couldn't take physical action because of his status. He could only use some decent methods to interrogate him, which would drag him into an endless waste of time.
He might not have much trouble spending a year or six months in prison, but Tang Cheng clearly didn't have that much time to waste. At this point, Tang Cheng didn't completely trust any of the people in Dragon City, and he didn't know who had connections with this force. He definitely couldn't afford to waste time on this.
Therefore, it's more convenient for Li Xingkong to deal with this kind of person.
With Li Xingkong's current level of Divine Sense cultivation, extracting information from a person's head would be a piece of cake. Although the concept of the soul is still somewhat beyond Li Xingkong's current understanding, memory is not only related to the soul. According to some modern scientific theories, a part of the human brain is specifically for storing memories.
What Li Xingkong needed to do was also very simple: use his Divine Sense to forcibly search for the neurons related to this person's stored memories and directly read them.
"Okay, it's up to you, Brother Li."
Tang Cheng lifted the man by the neck and placed him in front of Li Xingkong.
Although the man recognized Tang Cheng and knew that Tang Cheng was from the Inspection Department, he had never seen Li Xingkong before. If Li Xingkong attacked him, he had no idea what the consequences would be.
But since Li Xingkong had decided to take action, he didn't give him a chance to back out. He directly raised his hand and pressed it on the top of the man's head, his Divine Sense penetrating through his palm and into the man's brain.
The Divine Sense traveled through the person's brain, echoing everywhere, constantly searching for memory-related structures. Once it found one, it copied the entire memory within that structure and transmitted it back to Li Xingkong's Hexagram.
The Hexagram then sort, filter, and reduce these transmitted memories.
The memory storage in the human brain is not orderly, but very chaotic. Only when the brain retrieves the memories can it know the order of those memories. Even when a person is asleep, they cannot correctly access their own memories. The memories are mixed together, forming all kinds of strange and bizarre dreams.
If reading one's own memories is so difficult, imagine how challenging it is to read others' memories. Just sorting out the memories correctly is a huge undertaking.
As for Li Xingkong and Tang Cheng, they only needed the memories of the person behind this man and the events related to Zhang Ru; the rest was useless and they didn't care. Therefore, a large part of the memories they read were not useful.
My Divine Sense circulated through that person's mind several times, and finally pieced together a few fragments of the relevant memories.
After confirming it one more time, Li Xingkong finally let go. The person, due to Li Xingkong's forced reading, had already fallen unconscious.
After all, there's only one channel for accessing memories in the human body. If someone occupies it, others can only wait to get through. Li Xingkong's methods are even more powerful; he directly cut off the original path and connected it to his own.
When the brain malfunctions, the subconscious mind starts to self-check, and this self-check can completely shut down the person.
However, having obtained what they wanted, the man was no longer of any use to them; his only remaining value was awaiting sentencing.
Once the memory fragments were organized, Li Xingkong pointed in the distance, and the fragments were transmitted in video format to the computer next to Tang Cheng.
"All the memories related to this matter in his mind are here."
Li Xingkong pointed to the computer and said.
Tang Cheng immediately turned on the computer, and sure enough, there were some more videos on it.
I clicked on the first one, which was presented from a first-person perspective. In this video, the person was standing at the door of an office, as if waiting for something. After looking around several times and finding no one there, he knocked on the office door.
"Come in"
A voice came from inside, and the person opened the door, entered the office, and closed the door behind them.
" Xiao Chen, what's your decision?"
In his memory, a very obese person appeared before him.
"I've made up my mind. I'll be relying on your help from now on."
"Ah, that's more like it. A wise person knows when to yield. At this time, going it alone won't work. We need to unite to have the strength to fight against others."
"You're right, I think so too."
"Alright, then you just keep doing your work. Just do your job well, nothing serious will happen."
The first segment is abrupt and incomplete; it's just a meeting between one person and another. However, the gist of it is clear to everyone present: this is about Xiao Chen paying homage to his patron.
Then Tang Cheng clicked on the second video.
" Xiao Chen, there's a small favor I need you to do."
In his memory, Xiao Chen was in a restroom, talking on the phone with someone, and the person he was talking to was the fat man who had paid his respects to the boss in the previous memory fragment.
"This afternoon, go and release the person in cell number xxx. Be careful to do it discreetly."
"But the Inspection Department is so well-managed, with all sorts of surveillance equipment. How can I possibly take action?"
"Don't worry, the server storing the surveillance footage will be under maintenance today. As for the cameras, although you can cut off the power, they have built-in solar panels, so it won't help if you cut them off. Just knock them off when you're doing your work."
"But..."
"What are you doing, you big man, being so fussy? Once this is done, I happen to need an assistant, what do you think..."
"Okay, I'll take care of it right away."
This second segment clearly gets to the crucial point; things suddenly become clear, at least Xiao Chen's supplier has been found.
Although these people usually kept their relationships very secret, and it would be quite troublesome to investigate them using ordinary methods, they did not expect that someone would be able to perform this soul-searching method now.
Faced with this Soul-Searching Technique, most people have no secrets.
"Go and find out who this fat guy is."
With a clue, things became much easier Tang Cheng immediately captured the man's image and sent someone to gather information.
Then Tang Cheng clicked on the last video, which was the memory of Xiao Chen opening the door and letting Zhang Ru go.
It was exactly the same as what was captured on the camera, except that in the camera footage, it was impossible to hear what he and Zhang Ru were saying. However, in Xiao Chen's memory, the conversation between the two was quite clear.
Putting aside the gossip, there was one important sentence in Zhang Ru's words that he said to the camera as he was leaving.
"You have your clever plans, and I have my countermeasures. Although the general trend of cultivation is irreversible, these are still times when many ants can kill an elephant. With the combined strength of my Zhang Family, we may very well be able to rise to high positions. Today I am a prisoner, but tomorrow may be a different story."