Kaidan Game Train: A Chapter 2135: Bait of the Killer

Chapter 2135: Chapter 2135: Bait of the Killer

"Do you have concrete leads?" The middle-aged man among the two wasn’t entirely convinced by Xu Huo and asked for definite evidence instead.

"No concrete proof for now," Xu Huo replied, "But I heard it from a friend in the law enforcent bureau. If you think it’s not worth the exchange, you can leave."

The middle-aged man, with a weathered face, hesitated for a while but eventually handed over the docunts he brought, also giving Xu Huo a contact thod, asking him to inform them if there was any new developnt. The Fellowship Club had quite a few people good at decoding and solving cases, and any clue could be crucial information.

Xu Huo agreed, took a piece of information from the other person, and concluded this one-to-many eting.

He found a hotel to stay in and used the newly bought terminal device to read the information.

The three surveillance records were almost identical, all starting from when the victim’s family called the law enforcent team after the incident, detailing the subsequent search process. Not only were the municipal governnt’s surveillance devices involved, but nearby residents were also visited one by one. Naturally, the corpses weren’t seen, but one person secretly infiltrated the cri scene. Judging from the bloodstains on the ground, the victim had lost a lot of blood. The blood marks on the wall didn’t seem to have been directly sprayed from the victim but rather accidentally flung there by sothing, even extending to the ceiling.

The three docunts weren’t long, and Xu Huo quickly finished reading them, then imdiately accessed the storage device of that middle-aged man.

The nearly full projection of files genuinely astonished him, with data on nearly fifty cases ticulously categorized, including so surveillance records before incidents, municipal governnt investigation announcents on murder cases, and details disclosed by player organizations. So specific speculations about how the murderer infiltrated the victim’s ho, conducted interrogations in the adjacent room without being detected by pervasive surveillance devices and ard robots. Zone 008, of course, also had privacy permissions; although current surveillance devices could explore building interiors, most citizens hadn’t activated this permission. Ho interiors mainly relied on self-equipped devices, but after frequent murder cases, many people had activated this permission. Monitoring devices responsible for neighborhood public safety and ard robots gained permission to probe into residents’ hos. Apart from preventing murderers from committing cris again, certain other security issues had responses even quicker than residents’ self-equipped devices.

Under such circumstances, many believed the murder cases would definitely cease, but unexpectedly, the murderer did not stop, maintaining the original pattern, killing soone every few days even under overlapping municipal governnt surveillance devices.

Because of this, municipal governnts and player organizations examined both formal and informal channels for device sales. Several cities upgraded surveillance devices and ard robots to the latest versions in response to this situation. If they still couldn’t find anything, it either ant soone purchased corresponding shielding or interference devices from companies specializing in such instrunts, or it was the work of so Artifact Makers active in the underground market.

The municipal governnt released so data. If cases could still happen under updated device surveillance without being caught, the perpetrator was most likely an extrely skilled player, which would explain how the murderer ca and went without a trace and managed to evade monitoring.

However, player organizations did not agree with this view, as such a thod of killing was too roundabout for players. Nurous activities and gatherings occurred in Zone 008, and if players took action, they could easily gather these people together and deal with them in one go. Tracking the "Declaration" was even simpler, and using so potions, no one would resist. They believed the murderer exerted so much effort precisely because of limited conditions.

This theory also made sense, so the municipal governnt and player organizations provided a summary of this murderer.

First, the perpetrator might be a player but definitely not a strong advanced player. Since they possess a prop or device to shield surveillance, one might consider the Artifact Maker.

Secondly, the goal is the "Declaration," so the murderer might have participated in so collective event six months ago and was a mber of a certain organization.

Thirdly, given that the murdered individuals didn’t know each other, and lacking overlapping features, it could only be that they had all been to the sa place, making them targets.

Finally, the actions predominantly occur at night, suggesting the murderer is likely soone with a legitimate job.

These conclusions were made after integrating various factors, and the existence of the "Declaration" led both the municipal governnt and player organizations to believe the murderer belonged to a certain organization. However, the nearly identical thod of murder and interrogation made them lean towards the idea of a single murderer rather than a group.

Regarding the speculation of the murderer’s identity as an Artifact Maker, it both ets the hard conditions of holding a surveillance-shielding device and fits the legitimate job ti deduction.

With a relatively clear characteristic, the next step is to delineate when and where the victims simultaneously appeared six months ago. Considering the possibility of the murderer being within this range and possibly killing unrelated people to cover their identity, both the municipal governnt and player organizations have designated any place where more than six deceased were present together as a target for investigation.

Of course, this ans the number of people needing investigation is imnse. Zone 0081’s transportation is so convenient that even a family outing can swiftly take them from monkey teasing at the zoo in the morning to lining up at a restaurant in the neighboring city before lunch. If the kids want specialty ice cream after als, parents might cross multiple cities to buy it, then head to amusent parks for high-altitude rides, and later join intercity parades, jumping across more than a dozen cities in one breath...

Based on the cities where the deceased were located, there were over a hundred sites where more than six people appeared together. After narrowing it down, more than thirty sites with over ten people remained. After excluding those with lower ti correlations, twelve locations were finalized, including the nearby Rabbit Ear Playground, intercity spaceship, evening square, high-altitude concert venue, grand theater for musicals, religious parade activities, and more. The Rabbit Ear Playground and intercity spaceship were the places with the most victims, especially a specific intercity spaceship six months ago, where more than thirty deceased took the sa journey.

Such key places must be prioritized for investigation, and every passenger on that intercity spaceship was cross-referenced by the municipal governnt and player organizations. Thanks to Zone 008’s advanced Collection of Information Terminal, this scale of investigation didn’t take too much ti, yet in the end, it yielded nothing — except for the departing players, all the permanent residents of Zone 008 lacked the conditions for committing the cri.

So this was a bait.