Under the mask, Wang Ye revealed a cold smile.

With the perspective of the Golden Eagle, he naturally noticed the sniper holding a rifle on the rooftop long ago.

With his hearing, he could also clearly hear the conversation between Daniel and the sniper.

So he knew perfectly well what Daniel intended to do next. Yet, his heart neither felt cautious nor apprehensive because Daniel’s actions were perfectly within his expectations.

Everything Wang Ye did earlier,

was to guide Daniel into taking this next step.

This would allow him to shed suspicion, like a cicada sloughing its skin.

He stopped, slowly merging into the darkness.

Due to the countless stray bullets from the battle earlier, the car’s headlights were destroyed.

Now, the district was dimly lit, and one had to squint to barely see silhouettes.

This conveniently allowed Wang Ye to switch places. In an instant, his form moved to the left at a speed of 0.8 Mach. His doppelganger instantly replaced him, slowly stepping out from the shadow.

No one realized that Rein had already been swapped out.

They only heard mysterious explosions in the dark.

Assuming Rein had launched another attack.

Detectives cautiously raised their guns, with most of their arms still trembling.

Seeing Rein calmly walking straight ahead, they sighed a bit in relief.

Though the problem wasn’t truly solved, at least Rein hadn’t started killing yet.

At this moment, Daniel, crouching in the rear, swallowed, slowly raising his Glock G17, aiming at Rein’s head dozens of meters away. He tightly gripped the gun, his finger slowly squeezing the trigger.

Click!

The next moment, he fired,

a copper-colored bullet shot out, spinning rapidly toward Rein’s forehead!

Whoosh!!!

But that Rein turned to the left, as if he had foreseen the attack.

Meanwhile, a sniper bullet shot from his left!

The bullet came exceptionally fast, three times faster than the others.

In an instant, it struck Rein’s mask, knocking off half of it.

Thunk...

The shattered mask hit the ground, revealing Rein’s mysterious features to everyone. Ash-blonde hair, pitch-black eyes, a high nasal bridge, deep eye sockets, and paper-thin lips—a textbook Caucasian look!

In a flash, the entire district erupted in an uproar.

The mysterious Rein, his mask was knocked off?!

At this moment, both police and gang members looked surprised at Daniel and the sniper in the shadows, some casting approving glances, some hateful, but mostly shocked that this collaboration forced the nearly invincible Rein to reveal his true face.

"Success!" Daniel exclaimed excitedly,

"Quick, get the camera, capture his face! This might be our most substantial evidence!"

The surrounding detectives awakened from their daze, immediately pulling out cameras to capture Rein’s half-exposed face.

Click! Click!

Although Rein realized and covered his face, the cameras had already captured his features. After the shoot, the detectives, following Daniel’s orders, quickly cleared the area.

Though the cars were riddled with bullets, being police-modified, they were robust and speedy even when shot up, disappearing with a few drifts under full throttle.

Once the detectives’ vehicles were completely gone, Wang Ye slowly emerged from the darkness.

The other gang members, seeing two Rein, were dumbstruck.

"This is...?"

"How are there two leaders?"

"Was the previous leader real or fake?"

"So was the previous leader a stand-in? How could a stand-in be so powerful?"

For a while, all the gang members started chattering.

The informed core members, like Terry Little Jack, quickly dispersed the members back to the turf, meanwhile clearing the corpses and wounded without leaving room for discussion.

Quickly.

The entire district was left with just Wang Ye and his doppelganger.

At this moment, the doppelganger looked like a robot, with no change in expression or movement.

He wouldn’t act unless Wang Ye commanded.

Wang Ye approached the doppelganger, slowly squatted, picked up the half mask on the ground,

Checked there were no traceable DNA residues,

Then confidently led the doppelganger back to the turf.

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The next day.

In the police bureau.

Daniel sat at his desk, flipping through several photographs in front of him.

In the photos,

Was the genuine appearance of Rein captured yesterday.

This so-called Rein had the ash-blonde hair common among Caucasians,

And very ordinary facial features, with nothing special visible.

Only those pitch-black pupils were particularly striking.

In the United States, the most common eye colors should be brown, gray, and blue.

Globally, such pure black eye color is extremely rare.

Though Asians often claim to have black irises, most Asian irises are just dark-toned. Under strong light, they appear deep brown. However, Rein’s eyes in the photos were pure pitch-black. During shooting, they specially used lighting, and the camera’s resolution was very high, typically used for crime scene photography. Thus, clarity was guaranteed.

Looking closely, even Rein’s subtle iris patterns, cheek pores, and facial hair were distinct.

Seeing the eye color in the photos, Daniel exclaimed in surprise, "This guy... truly has pitch-black eyes. I thought it was the shadow of the mask giving them that color!"

"If it’s not innate black irises, then he’s wearing contact lenses to mask the eye color, making it difficult to track... Didn’t expect Rein to be so cautious. However... we have the rough facial structure, and finding Rein’s true identity isn’t difficult. One can identify him by features based on the process of elimination."

Daniel murmured while flipping through photos.

While analyzing Rein’s physique and facial features, he suddenly thought of Wang Ye, who visited the prior morning. During the investigation, Wang Ye solved a riddle that puzzled them for days, arguably contributing 70% to their investigative success.

Yet, Daniel couldn’t shake his suspicion of Wang Ye, as he and Rein had strikingly similar builds, and shared certain aura and traits. Before seeing Rein’s actual face, Daniel regarded Wang Ye as a prime suspect.

However, having seen Rein’s actual visage—though partial—it’s nearly enough to clear Wang Ye of suspicion. Though Wang Ye physically resembles Rein, his irises aren’t pitch-black but blue. This alone is enough to clear him, despite blue irises being rare among Asians. Nevertheless, both blue and brown iris colors differ by a mutation, and the photo depicts Rein as Caucasian, making Wang Ye an unlikely match.

"Guess it wasn’t him after all..." Daniel shook his head, ceasing his thoughts about Wang Ye.

He refocused on the case work at hand.