Paranoid Doctor Only Loves Me
Chapter 630 - 587 The High Priest is a Woman (1st update)

Chapter 630: 587 The High Priest is a Woman (1st update)

Just when the experts repeatedly faced setbacks in their attempts to open Lin Menmen, the grand witch’s mouth, Lu Han arrived.

Lu Han didn’t come empty-handed; he brought them late-night snacks and a new assignment.

"You’re kidding, right? Doctor Lu, we eat your late-night snack and still have to do extra work for you?" He Zhendong’s subordinates clamored noisily upon seeing the refreshments, their eyes lighting up instantly, but when they saw the task in the following cowhide bag, they instantly lost their appetite.

"It’s not for me, but for your own good. It’s just that I know the people inside; they were Tongtong’s foster parents who died in an accident a few months ago."

"I just want to know if it really was an accident and if it wasn’t, whether the case is related to ’Player’s World’ or not?"

He Zhendong stretched out his hand and grabbed the bag, "Understood. In exchange, inside there’s another tricky task that requires your presence. All the specialists on our team have failed; we can’t pry open that woman’s mouth."

"Haven’t I already arrived?"

"..."

He Zhendong arranged for his subordinates to eat and rest a while to replenish their strength before they got back to work.

Then he personally escorted Lu Han to the door of the interrogation room.

"Do you need any help?"

"No need, everyone withdraw and take a break. You’ve all worked hard."

"That’s only right, you’ve worked hard too."

"It’s also my duty."

After the two men exchanged courtesies, He Zhendong turned and left, and Lu Han pushed open the door and entered.

The moment Lin Menmen saw Lu Han come in, her eyes turned blood-red. She glared fiercely at Lu Han, her whole body struggling. She wanted to break free and charge at him like a wolf, to viciously bite into Lu Han.

"Lu Han, you dare to come, you actually dare to come."

"Why wouldn’t I dare? The heinous acts that defy all conscience weren’t committed by me, and I’m not the one who has to pay with life for murder. What have I to fear?"

Lin Menmen understood; he was taunting her.

Ha—

What about paying for murder with one’s life? She wasn’t afraid. If she were, she wouldn’t have dared to do what she did.

"You’d better be capable enough to keep me here for a lifetime. Otherwise, the first person I’ll go after when I get out will be Tang Su."

Lin Menmen knew how to provoke Lu Han; Tang Su was Lu Han’s weak spot.

Lin Menmen thought Lu Han would get angry, or, in a rash impulse, he would get so irritated that he’d rush over to strangle her. Then, she would have a chance to take action.

On her person, she still had the biggest Poisonous Insect, which the High Priest said was the Parasitic Poisonous Insect. Its life was intertwined with its host in a bond of life and death.

Such a Parasitic Poisonous Insect had more energy than ordinary Poisonous Insects. If the Parasitic Poisonous Insect died, the host would surely die as well.

If the host were to die first, and if the Parasitic Poisonous Insect was strong enough, it could seek a new host to live on.

At this very moment, the person Lin Menmen hated the most was Lu Han, because his intervention had ruined the plan she was about to succeed in executing.

She wanted to kill him using the last weapon on her.

"Didn’t you send Ouyang Jingjing after her?" Lu Han reminded her.

Why did Ouyang Jingjing die?

Did Lin Menmen truly have no responsibility for it?

Lin Menmen froze abruptly: "..."

That’s right, she had almost forgotten about that incident with Ouyang Jingjing.

Indeed, she had sent her own painstakingly raised Poisonous Insect to Ouyang Jingjing as a tool, but who would have thought that idiot Ouyang Jingjing would have an accident and be bitten to death by her Poisonous Insect?

Could it really have been an accident?

Did Lu Han have a masterful way to deal with the Poisonous Insect?

Who... exactly is he?

"Remember anything? Have anything to tell me? I really don’t like prying things out of you like squeezing toothpaste from a tube, because, after all, I know you are not the king of ’Player’s World’."

"..."

Lu Han knew about ’Player’s World’ too?

Heh, no wonder he kept saying that she should reveal the person behind her actions, as someone of her grade wouldn’t even catch Lu Han’s eye, right?

Wasn’t this too humiliating from Lu Han?

"Not talking, huh? Shocked? Is it because I know too much, or because you think I shouldn’t know these things?"

"..."

The crimson in Lin Menmen’s eyes slowly faded. From her initial agitation to now, she suddenly realized that Lu Han was indeed a formidable opponent.

If Tan Lixin and Lin Jiaojiao didn’t have Lu Han by their side, then manipulating the two of them would have been a breeze.

Her plan would have surely been a success in the end.

"Fine, if you won’t talk, I’ll leave. But before I go, one last thing, you in ’Player’s World’ are just like Ouyang Jingjing is to you: you’re both just tools for those above you, and once you lose your value, you’ll be eliminated."

"Just like not long ago, that king you all worshipped so devoutly, who killed indiscriminately, pushing an innocent woman onto the Road to the Underworld, this time you won’t be able to leave."

"So, Lin Menmen, shall we guess what your king will do when he finds out you’re trapped and have lost your value?"

"Lu Han, you don’t need to scare me." Lin Menmen’s brows were tightly furrowed, Lu Han knew indeed much more than she had imagined.

But so what?

Death is not scary.

"Hmm, I’m not scaring you. I know you’re not afraid of death, you are fearless, a heroine. Since that’s the case, I’ll just consider today’s visit a waste. From now on, I won’t come again. You just wait."

After saying that, Lu Han stood up, ready to leave the room without hesitation.

"Lu Han—"

Once again, in the game of wits with Lin Menmen, Lu Han won.

This time, Lu Han had just taken one step out.

"How exactly did you find out about my secret chamber?" Lin Menmen had many questions, but the biggest was how her secret chamber had been exposed.

She had tested many people and even intentionally led people close to her secret chamber, but those fools, without exception, just thought it was a wall, never suspecting that there could be a room inside.

She had hosted many gatherings at home, claiming it was to teach Rongrong to socialize from a young age, as she was Tan Lixin’s granddaughter, and even though adopted, she was acknowledged by Tan Lixin and added to the Tan family tree.

Thousands have come and gone to their home, if not ten thousand, and yet no one had any suspicion.

So, how exactly did Lu Han find out?

He had only visited their home a few times, hadn’t he?

"Do you really want to know?"

"What else?"

"Okay, I can tell you, but we need to trade, don’t we?"

"That mysterious person you want to know about, she’s called the High Priest. Every time we have a video call, she’s wearing a mask, and she never wears the same mask twice. She never repeats a mask. I can also tell you, the High Priest is a woman."

"..."

Lu Han had not considered this possibility; he had always assumed the person to be a man.

It hadn’t occurred to him that Lin Menmen, who had never seen the other person’s true face, could be so certain it was a woman?

What, not willing to trade, so deliberately throwing out a smoke bomb to confuse him?