Death Game: Starting as a fraudster, pretending to be a god.

Chapter 254 Baron Coleman's Past

For Fu Luo, he has gradually begun to get used to the feeling of having his opinions ignored.

Looking at Lin Yu, Coleman and Ponkdo, Fu Luo sighed.

"Depend on you, come on, then stay."

He leaned back against the wall of the carriage and sighed, "So... one or two of these so-called 'wrongful convictions' must have happened to you, right?"

Baron Coleman nodded. "Of course, if you're talking about a wrongful conviction, then Ponkdo and I both have our own injustices we've carried for years."

Punkto was stunned for a moment: "Me? Me too?"

"I really forgot so many things."

Punkto rubbed his temple and said with a painful look on his face.

"Speaking of injustice... Could it be that the assassination of the president of that Truth Company wasn't done by you two?"

Lin Yu asked.

Baron Coleman denied Lin Yu's question: "No, it was indeed done by the two of us. It would be better to say that the reason I decided to assassinate the president was because of the injustice I had suffered."

He looked at Fu Luo.

"No one who has been slandered would not want their reputation to be proven innocent. Since you have come here to redress the injustice done to me, I will tell you..."

Baron Coleman cleared his throat and then spoke.

"Eight years ago, after I was promoted to the head of Independent Laboratory No. 7 in the R&D department of Truth Corporation and obtained A-2 clearance, I discovered some loopholes in the laboratory's log files—a discrepancy between the funding accounts and the actual project funds."

"At first, I thought it was just the former supervisor or some researchers in the lab who had misappropriated funds, but then I thought about it and realized something was wrong."

"Because if it was embezzlement... the people who entered the lab were all smart people, so they wouldn't have left any flaws that I could see at a glance. Especially since I joined Lab 7 as a legitimate transfer and promotion—this means that before I became the head of this lab, the previous head and anyone else who had the authority to tamper with project funds had at least two weeks to balance the accounts and make everything look perfect."

“So, at that time, I thought of two possibilities.”

"One is that someone deliberately left this loophole in order to recruit me, the new supervisor, into their group. As long as I don't report it, they will contact me."

"And since the flaws are so obvious, it means they've already prepared a 'scapegoat'. They likely have backers within the company's board of directors and top executives. So they're not afraid of me not cooperating. Even if I report them, it won't hurt them too much."

"This is like a very 'obscure' invitation... so I decided to accept it."

Hearing this, Punkdo on the side couldn't help it.

"Jerry Coleman Hunt...how did you become so...so smooth a few years after I remember you now?"

Punkto couldn't help but call out the other person's full name.

Baron Coleman is not a nickname, but a real honorific title - although the city that never sleeps has advanced technology, its system is relatively backward and there are still many powerful people and aristocrats.

His mother was of prominent birth, so he inherited the title from his mother.

His real last name is actually "Hunter".

Because of some past events in his family, people who interact with him rarely call him by his full name.

Punkto shouted like this, obviously he was really shocked and impliedly disagreed with him.

Baron Coleman smiled in response and addressed his old friend by his full name: "Punkto von Valetti, if you want to call me cunning and slippery, you don't have to be so subtle."

"You only need to know that we were already close friends during that period. Our personal relationship was almost as close as brothers."

"You guys are not clean even there."

Although he had a smile on his face and spoke in a calm tone, Lin Yu could hear the anger in Coleman's words.

"Am I changing so fast too?"

Punkto said in disbelief.

Fu Luo couldn't help but interrupt: "I'm not saying anything, but if you were a good person... you wouldn't be chosen and undergo the transformation of the 'Eightfold Disaster'."

"What is that?"

Punkto scratched his head in confusion.

"Okay, don't interrupt. I'll talk to you later," Baron Coleman interrupted abruptly. "Anyway, after waiting for three days and no one came to see me, I realized... this was actually a different situation."

"Someone still deliberately left this loophole, but it's not an invitation, it's a hint."

"It's not that someone's trying to drag me into some small, profiteer-friendly group that's embezzling public funds. Rather, there's a ghost project operating within Lab 7 that even my A-2 clearance isn't enough to know about. It's directly under someone at the very top."

"So... I went to investigate."

Baron Coleman said.

"Wow, you actually went to investigate. Curiosity kills the cat."

Fu Luo sighed, "Based on my opinion of the Truth Company, you should have turned a blind eye."

Lin Yu glanced at Fu Luo and wanted to complain, "How dare you say that curiosity killed the cat?"

But "Zhu Ming" and Forbolo were not familiar with each other after all, so Lin Yu still held back his complaints.

"That's the tone of Truth Company, but I'm not," Baron Coleman said, looking at Lin Yu, "and what I'm going to find out next can also answer your two questions, ma'am."

"Why was I spared, and...why did I end up with Punkto and ultimately choose to assassinate President Paris?"

"Because, I spent about three months figuring out what that ghost project that was eating up a lot of funding was. To be precise, it wasn't just a ghost project affiliated with the independent laboratory No. 7."

“3、6、7、8、12……真理公司的十二个独立实验室，其中有四个我发现了和7号一样的账目问题，甚至在3号和12号实验室还出现了‘幽灵员工’——有几多出来的B级权限账号、不属于我已知的任何研究员。”

“This is just the part I found out.”

"If you combine these people and the money, you get a whole new...ghost lab."

"Some well-connected board member, executive decision-maker, or top executive secretly established a laboratory to study a 'taboo' topic, which other senior executives might not allow."

"When I got to this point in my investigation, I realized... I seemed to have touched upon something truly significant. Although I was nervous at the time, I didn't feel I was on the verge of collapse—after all, I still thought I could join."

Coleman said, pausing.

"But that naive idea stopped when I learned what they were actually studying."

"The project created by this ghost lab originated from a research topic and technology that was ordered to be stopped fifty years ago..."

Coleman looked directly at Lin Yu: "All of that technology comes from an A-level researcher, Professor Dot."

"Professor Dort has only one proud student in his life, whose name is..."

"Vill Valetti."