Su Bai pulled his police cap down a little to hide his face, but soon, he smiled because he saw his reflection on the window of the door keepers office. His face was sohow changed; now he looked very plain and had so qualities that belonged to an older age.
It seed that these were all set in this story world. So, the audience in that car earlier those couldnt be their original appearance; they must have been altered as well.
What was their task?
To catch the murderer?
To stop or catch the real Silver serial killer?
If so, it indeed did not seem dangerous to him at all.
As long as he could lay low and fit in the social environnt, he could simply be a watcher, staying safely at the police station all the ti until those five audiences finished their task, and then he could just leave.
Liu Yang, why are you late? Director Zhou is already waiting there! Youd be lectured if you dont go now! A cop patted on Su Bais shoulder and said to him.
Su Bai turned around, looked at this cop and nodded.
He ca to a eting room. Right now, there were over 20 cops sitting in the room already, n and won, young and old.
The one sitting in the first seat must be Director Zhou. He was holding a cup of tea; after seeing Su Bai co in and sit down, he coughed but didnt ask anything about his late arrival. Instead, he spat out the tea leaves in his mouth onto the floor, dropped his cup down heavily and said:
Comrades, I believe you all clearly know about the atmosphere in our local community, and you all understand how anxious and scared our people are. After all, you need to go ho and live with your families as well. Peoples police originates from people; thus, you are all closely united with this society.
The murderer, who committed two cris and killed two people a few years ago, has showed up again!
He has killed another person!
But we cops can do nothing about him! We havent found any useful clue yet! It has beco a huge negative influence on the social stability of our local community as well as the living of our people and even caused so social panic to so extent!
This is our duty, our mistake and our misconduct!
Therefore, I now announce the establishnt of a special investigation team on this case. Everyone present is a mber of this team, and I am the team leader. All of you are required to drop what you were on and start to work on this case with all your efforts!
Now, lets welco Captain Qin to go through these three cases in details for us.
A middle-aged man with a stubbly beard stood up, nodded to Director Zhou and then everyone else, walked to the small black broad in the room and started talking while attaching so photos one by one to that black broad:
The first case happened on
The eting continued until noon. During that ti, tasks and responsibilities were assigned, and Director Zhous cup was refilled several tis; at last, when the eting ended, he drank up all the tea and picked up his hat:
Dismissed!
Su Bai picked up the notebook in front of him, walked out of the eting room and headed to the other large office on the sa floor. This large office was now set as the temporary working location for the special investigation team, which indicated that the higher authorities were dedicated to solving this case with all their might.
Co on, lets have so lunch first.
Lunch ti!
All the other cops dropped their stuff and went to lunch in small groups.
Su Bai also put his stuff on his desk and went out.
The ss hall of the police station wasnt big, and the food prepared in large pots seed undoubtedly tasteless for soone from the future. Luckily, Su Bai wasnt picky. After getting his portion, he looked around, sat beside so co-workers in the special investigation team and started to eat with them.
There was so sort of depression in the team; everyone was eating quietly without talking to one another, and all they wanted was to finish the al sooner so they could get back to work.
So it was a quick lunch. Su Bai went back to his dormitory room in the police station. It was a room for two, but the bed opposite to his was empty; clearly, he was the only one staying here for now.
On the bed, Su Bai found a diary; he started to read at will.
After reading it, Su Bai had a rather thorough knowledge of his own identity. He had graduated from a police training school. At this ti, a police training school graduate would be considered a phoenix when he got to a local police station; as long as he behaved well without making huge mistakes, at least he would have a promising future career.
He was from a single-parent family his mother died early, and he had lived with his father, but they hadnt been talking very much after his father remarried. Therefore, he stayed in the police station all the ti.
He felt a little funny when he found out that he had a girlfriend.
But they couldnt be very close; they might have just started their relationship.
Su Bai shook his head. This story world was indeed very interesting; it gave him a brand-new identity, but for what?
Just to protect him, an experiencer, from becoming the at on the real audiences chopping board[1]? Just so rediation of a bug?
He felt sleepy; he picked up a thermos in the room, poured out a glass of hot water for himself and had a few sips. Then he walked out with the glass and headed towards the building where the special investigation team was located.
Su Bai was one of the earliest arrivals. Right now, there were only three or four mbers in this office; when Su Bai ca in, they just looked at him, nodded as a greeting and went back to work.
Most mbers of this special investigation team were out at work after lunch, as assigned during the eting in the morning. Su Bai was assigned to a group for data collection.
At this ti, digital working was not very popular yet; even in the police station, there were not many computers. Therefore, case data and related information of interviews had to be filed manually, which was a great amount of work.
Su Bai walked to his desk. But the look in his eyes froze: he had put his notebook on the desk before lunch, but he had this habit of putting the pen upside down on the notebook; now, the pen was placed aside.
He picked up his notebook, looked through it and found obvious marks suggesting it had been read: several pages were newly folded.
Su Bai had certain habits that could even be described as paranoid. For example, he would never fold any page of a book or a notebook; he didnt care about the price, it was just a style he had ford since he was a kid.
Apparently, soone had gone through his notebook intentionally. In this notebook, there was only so key notes and contents about the eting held in the morning.
Su Bai left his desk and went to several other desks. Those notebooks seed to be read as well. One of the notebooks seed to be stuffed into the folder in a hurry; it was slant and crooked, but everything else was in great order, which indicated that the owner of this desk had a good working habit as well. If he had put it himself, it wouldnt be stuffed so casually like this.
Su Bai took out this notebook and went through it. Then he was surprised to see that there wasnt much about todays eting; of course, there werent many words, but all the content was well summarized.
There were circles, one after another, with marks and arrows; the handwriting was lively and swift, and the pages were covered with spots and tags. Apparently, the owner was thinking thoroughly during the eting.
Then Su Bai turned it to the first several pages. It was a used notebook, similar to how Liu Yangs or to say right now, Su Bais notebook was..
But everything written on the first several pages of this notebook was ticulous, detailed and tidy. It could be told that the user was a doctrinaire; therefore, the notes of todays eting couldnt be more inharmonious with the previous contents.
Suddenly, Su Bai seed to have realized sothing; he looked at those co-workers who were still concentrating on the files with their backs towards him.
Was there another experiencer apart from him?
Or, was he an audience?
Then who was this person going through everyones notebooks looking for clues on identities?
What was his purpose?
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Being the at on soones chopping board: A Chinese phrase describing that soone has the rights to decide whether you live or die while you can do nothing about it.
Authors Notes:
Audience: Those who have gone through three experience tasks and started real story worlds of the Dreadful Radio. According to the number of stories they have been through, audience can be classified as: newbie and veteran.
Experiencer: Those who are still going through their first three experience tasks. Even if they are lucky enough to gain so story points, they will not be able to make ordinary exchanges, unless they find sothing disregard the exchanging rules, like Su Bais Broken Vampire Blood.
An experiencer is an audience-to-be, as described in the previous chapters.
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