Hunter of Immortals

Chapter 292: Thilan

Chapter 292: Thilan

The police officer's deep-set eyes resembled a pair of vortexes, and Ryan was immediately struck by a rush of dizziness as he looked into them.

After that, he fell unconscious, and the group of special psychic police officers entered his psychic world.

These police officers were all from the southern congress, and they were clearly more powerful than the other special psychic police officers recruited from society.

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As the side that had emerged victorious from World War III, the southern congress was the more powerful of the two congresses. Even though the weight of public opinion had been against them recently, they were still more than capable of launching investigations into matters like this.

The public pressure against them was a hindrance, but it certainly wasn't going to result in their downfall.

After entering Ryan's psychic world, the group of police officers quickly found what they were looking for.

"This should be the psychic module that contains his memories from the day before. Should we hide?"

"No, don't disrupt the natural progression of events in the psychic world. We're here to gather information, not to disrupt his psychic body."

It seemed that the man with the deep-set eyes was the one calling the shots, and he was a man of Indian descent by the name of Thilan.

In contrast with the prison director, who was a useless slob from an established political family, Thilan came from an ordinary family, but was an extremely capable individual, and he had previously worked as a private investigator prior to becoming a special psychic police officer.

During his time as a private investigator, he just so happened to have taken on a job from an important figure in the southern congress. The employer recognized his ability and potential from that job and absorbed him into the organization.

His investigative skills were outstanding, and he quickly rose up the ranks, even earning himself the nickname of "Little Holmes" in the southern congress.

At this moment, he was lurking in the distance while observing the interrogation room like a hawk.

His psychic body possessed very potent scouting abilities.

Not only were his eyes capable of seeing things clearly from dozens of kilometers away, they were able to see through walls, so buildings proved to be no hindrance to him.

Even though he was situated outside the prison, he could see everything that was unfolding in the interrogation room.

"What happened? Was the guy killed by Adam?"

"Not according to Ryan's memories," Thilan replied with a shake of his head, providing a rather ambiguous response.

It wasn't a clear-cut yes or no answer. Instead, it seemed that there were some implications behind his words.

The other police officers had already been working with Thilan for some time, so they were well aware of how capable an investigator he was, and they knew better than to doubt his judgment.

"Are you saying there's something wrong with his memories?"

"I can't see anything amiss. Everything seems to be normal, but it's a little too normal, and my instincts tell me that there's some fishy business going on. It just seems too suspicious that someone who had managed to survive in prison for so many years would suddenly drop dead right after meeting someone from the northern congress."

"What do we do then? Ryan's the only one in the prison who came into contact with Adam yesterday."

"No, there's someone else. Call Li Xiang over to see me."

Soon, Li Xiang was also brought into the room at Thilan's behest.

Li Xiang was the warden who had been on the same shift as Ryan, and he was the only other warden to have seen Adam the day before.

However, he had no idea what had happened in that interrogation room, and after examining his memories, none of the special psychic police officers were able to find anything amiss.

A tall woman standing beside Thilan shook her head as she said, "The memories completely match up. We won't be able to find anything at this rate."

"No, we've already found something!" Thilan declared as a sharp gleam appeared in his hawk-like eyes.

Not only was he able to see things with extremely high levels of clarity and details, his eyes also allowed him to replay scenes that he had witnessed before.

Thilan was a natural observer, and he was 10 times more perceptive and sensitive than Hook. Finding out the truth and unearthing secrets was his biggest passion, and it was also his lifelong pursuit.

The image that was being projected out of his eyes depicted the moment when Ryan had left the interrogation for the final time, where he had immediately run into Li Xiang upon exiting the room.

"There! In Li Xiang's memories, a horrified look had appeared on Ryan's face as they ran into each other outside the interrogation room. This scene in Ryan's memories is rather blurry, and he doesn't recall his own expression at the time."

"So what? This isn't exactly a groundbreaking discovery."

The other police officers were rather perplexed.

"Generally speaking, there would be nothing wrong with this. After all, everyone's memories are fuzzy to a certain extent. You may not even be able to clearly recall what you had for dinner the day before. However, this memory is very clear in Li Xiang's mind, which means that this expression on Ryan's face had left a deep impression on him."

Sure enough, Ryan's face was very clear in Li Xiang's memory.

"This tells me that at the time, he clearly realized that something wasn't right, but he decided not to pry into the matter, perhaps because he wanted to avoid trouble, perhaps because he didn't want to get his colleague into trouble."

"Even so, we still don't know anything!"

"At the very least, we can confirm two things from this observation, the first of which is that Adam definitely had something to do with Sima Kai's death, and the second thing is that there's a very good chance that a memory alteration expert from the northern congress has gotten involved in this.

“According to my knowledge, there are extremely few adapters capable of altering the memories of others, and the only one in the northern congress that I can think of that could do such a seamless job is Wax Figure. Similarly, we can use this knowledge to extrapolate more information.

“It seems that Adam is more important to the northern congress than we imagined. If he's just a popular public figure, then there's no way that Wax Figure would get involved so easily.

"Another thing is that prior to coming here, I've seen some footage of Adam's past battles, and through them, I've noticed that his rate of development is a little too fast. Of course, there are exceptional prodigies in this world with extremely developed neurons, and those people are able to make rapid progress under the right circumstances, such as Hebi no Miko and the director, or some of the top adapters working for the two congresses.

“However, their rate of development has always been consistent, albeit rapid, yet Adam's rate of development is anything but smooth and consistent."

"How have you managed to identify that?" the tall woman asked. "If I recall correctly, he didn't display much of his powers in the footage we've been provided."

"Prior to coming here, I sent someone to Shadow City to purchase some illicit resources, and those resources contain many pieces of footage of his past battles. In Shadow City, he participated in many arena battles, and the spectators had always thought that he had been hiding his power, but during a few of his battles, he had come very close to death, so I don't think he was hiding his power.

“In any case, I'm sure that he's harboring a huge secret. It's much more fun to think about how to unearth this secret, rather than to investigate this case."

Thilan fell into deep thought as he spoke.