Then let them offer their loyalty!

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But Qiu Tu, confident in his abilities, remained completely calm. Ignoring the strange looks from everyone, he strode confidently into the elevator and arrived at the office of the investigation team for the "August 8.16th Pharmacy Robbery Case".

His subordinates were already waiting there.

They probably already got the news from Cao Dabiao, so when they saw Qiu Tu coming, their eyes were all burning with excitement!

Qiu Tu smiled and glanced at them. Without any hesitation, he went straight to his desk, sat down, and took out his key to open the drawer.

Inside the drawer were the new identification cards, epaulets, and promotion documents for all the members of the investigation team that he had picked up from the personnel department yesterday.

Qiu Tu took out all the certificates, epaulets, and documents and laid them on the table, then began to call them out one by one.

"Cao Dabiao!"

"To!"

"Willow Floating Duckweed!"

"Here!"

"Chen Feng!"

"To!"

As names were called out one by one, everyone whose name was called came to Qiu Tu in turn and received their promotion documents, new certificates, and new epaulets from Qiu Tu!

When they saw that everyone had actually been promoted one level, the joy in the eyes of all the confidants was almost impossible to contain.

Upon learning this morning that Jia Shu had been arrested, Qiu Tu's worries about being neglected by Yan Chen vanished!

Self-interest is always the easiest thing to unite people's hearts!

And this brings with it a whole wave of loyalty notifications!

Chen Feng, Ding Xiaoliu, Zhu Huoyan... Loyalty +9

After promoting everyone, Qiu Tu did not let the matter end there.

He had his confidants bring him the records of yesterday's interrogations of the man in the suit and Wang Xi, and then sent them all away.

Since he was already prepared to slap Yan Chen in the face and test her, Qiu Tu didn't mind going all out.

If you get promoted, you should go out and show off, so that the whole department can share in the joy, right?

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Chapter 175 The Truth About the Man in the Suit (1.1 words, please subscribe)

Soon after, strange scenes began to appear on the 1st, 2nd, and 9th floors of the Investigation Department's office building...

For example, on the first floor. Eagle and Ah Kun went to the Special Operations Department's training ground arm in arm.

Upon arriving at the training ground, the two remained silent, simply circling around Atai and Fang Ming's team.

Just as Fang Ming was completely bewildered, and Atai was about to punch him with his fist the size of a sandbag, Akun gave a cheerful hint, "Captain Fang, Brother Tai, come to our promotion banquet tonight sometime!"

Upon hearing Ah Kun's words, Ah Tai, Fang Ming, and their special operations team members suddenly realized that the gold flower on the eagle's and Ah Kun's shoulder patches had turned into two!

Fang Ming was alright, but Atai's eyes widened in disbelief as he asked, "How did you guys get promoted?!"

Hearing Atai's words, the more reserved Eagles were alright, just a slight smile on his lips, while Akun couldn't hide his smugness, "How else could he get promoted? Of course, it was Tu-ge who applied for it!"

"See? You still have to follow Brother Tu to have a future!"

Upon hearing this, Atai didn't say anything, but his eyes kept glancing at Fang Ming.

He glanced at it, glanced at it again, and glanced at it once more...

He didn't stop until he had Fang Ming completely speechless.

However, their conversation had already attracted the attention of other members of the Special Operations Department. So, it wasn't long before the news of Qiu Tu's entire team being promoted spread throughout the department, becoming the latest gossip...

Similar to Lao Ying and A Kun, Cao Dabiao, Song Qing, Ding Xiaoliu, Zhu Huoyan, Li Xian, and others went to the security office on the second floor or the political department on the ninth floor.

Anyway, the goal was very straightforward: grab any colleague you could, stop them, and start showing off.

Honest guys like Zhu Huoyan and Li Xian were alright; they just chatted with their colleagues and patiently waited for them to notice the change in their epaulets. Hmm... if they didn't notice, they wouldn't let them leave...

Social terrorists like the teenage girl Song Qing are much more direct.

She skipped around the interrogation office, grabbing anyone she saw and pointing to her epaulets, asking, "Look what this is?"

"Two golden flowers! Have you ever seen them before!"

But the most ruthless of them all is Cao Dabiao. He's not as composed as Zhu Huoyan or Li Xian, nor as carefree as Song Qing. Instead... he's incredibly flamboyant.

After leaving the investigation team, he went straight to the operations department. Then, with his hands behind his back, he adopted the air of a superior and began to survey everyone he knew.

After the other person looked at him with a strange expression, he looked at them seriously and asked in a calm tone, mimicking Qiu Tu's manner of speaking or asking questions, "How did you know I was promoted to deputy section chief?"

The colleague he asked the question was completely baffled: ?

However, this was a joyous occasion after all, and since Cao Dabiao had become the deputy section chief, they did need to curry favor with him, so they could only offer one compliment after another against their will.

At these times, Cao Dabiao would simply smile and nod slightly, displaying the nonchalant demeanor of a superior.

However, perhaps because there was always an undisguised arrogance in his eyes, he gave off a somewhat smug and petty impression...

......

And so, through these waves of boasting by Qiu Tu's confidants, it wasn't long before almost the entire Investigation Bureau knew about the collective promotion of Qiu Tu's subordinates.

This news really made most of the agents envious.

After all, besides having enough to eat and wear, what else is the ultimate goal in life: to get promoted, receive a raise, and reach the pinnacle of success?

Working under Qiu Tu means you'll be protected when things go wrong, and you'll get promoted immediately after you make a contribution.

This is already better than 99% of the superiors.

Many agents were puzzled: why did Yan Chen block Qiu Tu's promotion path one day, and then promote all of his subordinates the next?

But they also have to admit that following Qiu Tu really can lead to promotions and raises!

Therefore, Qiu Tu's influence, which had just been suppressed by Yan Chen, suddenly surged again, even more dramatically than before....

At this moment, besides the ordinary detectives, even the section chiefs and directors of the investigation department were somewhat confused.

Although they knew more inside information and had more knowledge than ordinary agents, this did not help them analyze the situation better.

On the contrary, this made Qiu Tu's actions even more incomprehensible to them than those of ordinary agents.

After learning from the personnel department that the list of promotions was finalized yesterday, they knew that this large-scale promotion was not at Yan Chen's behest.

Yan Chen remained very cold towards Qiu Tu.

Then the strange thing happened. Logically, after Qiu Tu angered Yan Chen, the highest-ranking officer of the Investigation Bureau, he should have quickly tried to win back Yan Chen's favor.

How come... he ended up fighting Yan Chen in a ring?

A section chief versus a department head? Is he crazy, or is the world crazy?

This bizarre change left most of the section chiefs and department heads completely baffled.

Adding to the fact that these are turbulent times, with even the inspector arriving, they all immediately shrank back, hiding their heads and cautiously observing the situation...

Therefore, with just two simple tricks, Qiu Tu stabilized the morale that was almost collapsing and restored his influence within the Investigation Bureau that was on the verge of collapse....

However, after responding to Yan Chen, Qiu Tu did not remain focused on this game of power. His attention returned to the case.

In chaotic times, the most important and direct way for someone to win the favor of those in power is to demonstrate their abilities!

Whether it was Dai Yukang from the military or Committee Member Jiang from the municipal government, weren't they all drawn to Qiu Tu because of his abilities?

Therefore, the best way to gain more points with these two big shots and make a deep impression on the three important figures, including the inspectors invited by Tang Feifei, is to solve the [August 8.16th Pharmacy Robbery Case] ​​and obtain as many clues as possible related to the evil god!

With that in mind, after sending his subordinates out to carry out "propaganda work," Qiu Tu began to review the interrogation records of Wang Xi and the man in the suit.

During the two interrogations, the man in the suit was not very cooperative. No matter what Cao Dabiao asked, he just smiled and said nothing.

Cao Dabiao used various means, but apart from getting the information from him that "God will definitely descend and punish the world," he got almost nothing.

In contrast, Wang Xi was much more honest.

They may have witnessed Qiu Tu's methods, or Liu Fuping's interrogation skills were indeed exceptional.

Anyway, he told almost everything he knew in detail.

According to him, he met the masked man in the suit about six months ago.

At that time, the New Territories City had been established for seven months, and the New Territories City Exploration Department was undergoing its second round of recruitment.

As it happened, he fled from the disaster area to the New Territories.

Because of his knowledge of pharmacology and ability to concoct potions, and because he gave the selection officer a small yellow croaker, he was successfully selected for the Investigation Bureau and assigned to the interrogation section of the Political Department as a pharmacist.

After successfully securing a government job, Wang Xizhi was overjoyed and spent his time outside of work indulging in eating, drinking, and merrymaking in the New Territories.

Then... one day, he met a very beautiful woman at a bar.

That woman was truly beautiful and had a captivating charm. He fell in love with her at first sight and began pursuing her.

At first, the woman didn't pay much attention to him, just casually brushing him off. It wasn't until she learned that he was a pharmacist and an agent in the Political Department of the Investigation Bureau that she finally smiled at him.

So, after two days of sweet talk and a money offensive, he finally won the heart of the beauty.

Little did he know, this would be the beginning of his nightmare...

The next morning, when he got up, he found a man with red hair and wearing a clown mask sitting next to his bed.

Wang Xi was startled and almost thought he had slept with someone else's wife the night before and was being chased to his home by the victim.

Later he found out... that he had slept with him.

That's right... The beautiful woman Wang Xi was pursuing so desperately at the bar that night was actually an alter ego of the man in the suit.

When Wang Xi recalled this memory, his expression was very calm, as if he didn't mind the relationship he had with the man in the suit.

This doesn't align with the typical straight man's attitude towards same-sex relationships, so Liu Fuping curiously inquired further.

Surprisingly, she actually managed to extract an important piece of information.

According to Wang Xi's explanation, the reason he didn't mind having a relationship with the man in the suit was because that woman was actually a puppet controlled by the man in the suit using his cataclysmic abilities.

The man in the suit's cataclysmic ability is likely derived from a mysterious source, and is related to devouring and puppetry.

Therefore, the man in the suit wants to create more clones, but unlike Wang Xi's cataclysmic ability [mitosis], he cannot directly split off another body.

Instead... you must select a target, devour and reassemble its soul, and then spit out a soul completely under your control!

This soul will reunite with its original body, begin to connect with the man in the suit, and become an individual who is both controlled by the man in the suit and possesses a certain degree of independent thought...

So... although he did sleep with the man in the suit's alter ego, you could also say he slept with the original beautiful woman.

Although the man in the suit may have been the one manipulating the beautiful woman's body that night, and he was having sex with her, he was still manipulating the body of the real beautiful woman.

So he's still straight!

Wang Xi's statement stunned Liu Fuping and Song Qing, who were conducting the interrogation, for several seconds, almost making them forget about the interrogation altogether...

Compared to the explosive beginning, the rest of the story is quite simple.

Just like in countless stories, when someone with extraordinary powers appears in front of an ordinary person and claims that they can also give you extraordinary powers, most ordinary people cannot resist such temptation.

Thus, Wang Xi gradually fell into the trap set by the man in the suit.

The man in the suit first had Wang Xi help him concoct some ordinary potions; then he had him concoct some catastrophic potions with magical abilities; and then he took Wang Xi to use these catastrophic potions to steal and rob...

After Wang Xi gradually became entangled, he began to extract information about the Political Department from him; then he made Wang Xi gather intelligence on the Political Department's secrets for him; and finally, he began to convert Wang Xi to an evil god...

Using this slow, insidious method, Wang Xi gradually sank into the trap. By the time he finally realized something was wrong, it was too late to turn back...

So when the man in the suit told him that he would do one last job and then quit, he had no choice but to follow the man down a path of no return...

Thus, the two of them created the shocking "August 8.16th Pharmacy Robbery" that rocked the entire New Territories, as well as the subsequent evil god incident!

After reviewing all the interrogation records of the man in the suit and Wang Xi, Qiu Tu's face was filled with realization, feeling that he had gained a lot.

For example, he finally learned the secret of the man in the suit: why the man in the suit could create so many clones with different appearances and genders, and why each of them was so powerful.

Looking at it now, this should be a unique effect of his cataclysmic ability.

'To devour other people's souls and create puppets in another form?'

'That's really powerful....'