"Son of a BITCH!!"
Cole Dempsey cursed as he came to his senses.
"The fact that he can still curse means he’s still lucid."
Sherry Renner raised her hand and slapped him back and forth a few more times. SLAP, SLAP.
"So, what does that Talisman Paper of yours do...?"
Nina Jacobs couldn’t help but ask.
’He looks like he’s been slapped silly...’ she thought.
"It makes him obedient, so we can get the answers we want."
Seeing Cole Dempsey’s dazed expression, Sherry Renner knew the Talisman Paper was taking effect.
"Is this an interrogation? Don’t just mess around. Hmph."
Myron Sinclair scoffed.
’Just as I thought, a charlatan,’ he mused. ’With her Yellow Talismans and feeding people paper. The same old tricks.’
"I don’t think so. That Talisman Paper just ignited in her hand, but I remember she’s a Water Element Superpower User."
Shirley Lucas didn’t know if this Sherry Renner could be trusted either.
In any case, she certainly seemed a bit unreliable.
"Something’s not right with Cole Dempsey’s state. Don’t forget, he wasn’t like this during the previous interrogation."
Myra Lawson observed intently.
Cole Dempsey’s expression was more like that of a drunkard.
But before, even when they used electrocution on him, he remained perfectly lucid.
"Anyone Nina trusts must have some real skills."
Ian Chandler didn’t really understand the situation.
But he had unconditional faith in Nina Jacobs’s judgment.
"Waaah...
When I was little, I pushed the neighbor’s kid into the river and he drowned, but I was so scared I said he slipped and fell in on his own...
I also shaved a female classmate’s head, and I put a toad in someone else’s backpack..."
"After I started working, when my fake diploma was discovered, I ran over that damned boss of mine with a car and killed him..."
Cole Dempsey kept talking, as if he was spilling every secret he had ever buried deep in his heart.
Sherry Renner glanced at Nina Jacobs and gave her a nod.
Nina Jacobs walked over, sat down across from Cole Dempsey, and asked:
"Where is the Superpower User Alliance headquarters? Who is Hughes? Besides Area A, where are the strongholds in the other areas?"
She took out the voice recorder Shirley Lucas had given her and placed it to the side.
Cole Dempsey took a moment to process her words before answering:
"The headquarters... The headquarters is at Quinn Pharmaceuticals... Hughes? Hughes is Tyson Hughes, Hughes is really powerful. The entire City D will be his someday, and I’m going to be a regional director... Besides Area A, there are three other strongholds, located at..."
Nina Jacobs listened intently.
Although this Cole Dempsey appeared to be in a non-lucid state, his answers didn’t seem false.
At the very least, he clearly stated the addresses of the three other strongholds.
"Who do you know on the headquarters’ membership roster?"
Nina Jacobs asked again.
"Members? Well, there’s me, and Hughes, hehehe... Hughes said I’m his most capable assistant. Scott Stone wants to go to the headquarters too, but I’ll never let him, hehehe..."
"Looks like he doesn’t know the full member list,"
Sherry Renner commented from the side.
"Is Tyson Hughes a Superpower User? What’s his Superpower?"
Nina Jacobs thought for a moment, then asked another question.
She suddenly remembered something.
’In her past life, before Simon Abbott joined them, he seemed to have worked for someone else. It was only after that person died and the team disbanded that he was forced to find another way to survive. He had said it was a powerful Thunder Element Superpower User. He didn’t say much at first. But later, during a drunken ramble, he mentioned a ’Junior Hughes’ from a pharmaceutical company.’
"He’s the most powerful Superpower User,"
"He’s... He’s a Thunder Element Superpower User,"
"I want to have the Thunder Element too..."
Cole Dempsey answered.
"I’ve asked everything I needed to."
Nina Jacobs opened the door.
Meanwhile, Cole Dempsey’s confessions grew more and more outrageous.
Including, but not limited to, his bedroom escapades with every female partner he’d had...
It was just as Sherry Renner had said: he was spilling everything, whether it should be said or not.
"I can’t believe it. Our people couldn’t find a single clue about any of this."
Myra Lawson was still deep in thought.
They had heard everything from outside the door.

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