“Junior Schoolmate, don’t go.”
Seeing that Lu Bai was about to leave, Li Shan hurriedly spoke up to stop him: “You’re part of City Martial Direct after all, co with us to check it out.”
Lu Bai turned his head and glanced at him.
It seed he read sothing in his eyes, thought for a mont, and still decided to accompany the two of them to the cri scene.
The reason was actually not complicated.
Don’t forget, in the previous crisis involving the Heavy Elent Reactor, in order to intercept that missile, Lu Bai had conveniently stripped Li Shan of his 【Wind Riding】 ability.
As a result, Li Shan’s current strength had been greatly discounted.
But for the sake of helping Lu Bai keep it secret, Li Shan had not reported the fact that he had lost his ability.
Yet City Martial Direct was still judging Li Shan’s work ability based on past experience, so in this situation, the missions assigned to him sotis inevitably exceeded his scope.
It was a result he had caused himself after all; if he hadn’t run into it, fine, but since he had, accompanying them to take a look was no big deal.
……
Downstairs of the Yiju Building where the incident occurred.
The Security Departnt personnel guarding outside the yellow tape saluted upon seeing Li Shan: “Third Seat Li, Sixth Seat Feng.”
Clearly, City Martial Direct had already sent the notification ahead of ti, so these Security Departnt security personnel knew who was coming.
At the sa ti, a sowhat bald middle-aged man dressed like an officer ca out to greet them, with two pistol-ard security personnel following behind him.
“Third Seat Li, Sixth Seat Feng, you’ve finally arrived.”
The bald middle-aged man was very enthusiastic, hurrying over to shake hands: “If you didn’t co soon, I wouldn’t know what to do.”
After Li Shan politely responded, he didn’t bother introducing Lu Bai and got straight to the point: “What’s the situation now?”
Sensing Li Shan’s work attitude, the bald man swallowed his words about building rapport, turned around to lead the way: “Then let’s head straight to the cri scene, talk while walking.”
“According to the information we have, this case involves supernatural power, which ans it involves a Death Fighter, and that’s why we called you here.”
“As of now, although we’ve only found this one victim, we suspect there are other undiscovered victims.”
Hearing this, Li Shan paused his steps: “Reason?”
“Though it sounds strange, you can tell the murderer’s thods are very practiced; it absolutely can’t be his first ti committing a cri, at least he wouldn’t only strike once.”
“Actually, you’ll know once you see the corpse: the blood in the deceased’s body was drained by so ability in a short ti. The autopsy results show that before the blood was completely drained, the victim hadn’t lost vital signs, aning the deceased was still alive after the blood was drained.”
The group entered the elevator, and after the bald man pressed the floor button, he continued: “From the evidence collected by the technicians in the criminal technology section, this is the first cri scene; however, after checking the entire Yiju Building, we found no trace of the deceased’s blood.”
“The murderer is collecting blood?” Death Fighters’ abilities were bizarre and varied, so Li Shan didn’t show much surprise.
Abilities that required consuming blood to activate, or growth-type abilities, were all possibilities.
Feng Yixuan suddenly spoke up: “Have you interrogated the deceased’s social relations?”
“We have. Ordinary white-collar worker, unmarried, single; the deceased’s social relations were simple. According to colleagues, the deceased was amicable, never argued with anyone, and after work would just go ho to play gas; no one heard of any conflicts.”
As they spoke, the elevator door opened; there was no strange sll, not even a bloody sll.
Li Shan stepped out of the elevator, scanned left and right, and finally fixed his gaze on the cara at the end of the corridor: “What about the surveillance records from the corridor cara?”
“Uh…… this.”
Hearing this question, the bald man was a bit embarrassed and lowered his voice slightly: “The cara is still under repair, Third Seat Li, you know how surveillance in Yiju Buildings is generally troubleso to fix.”
Li Shan gave an understanding “oh.”
In fact, every month a batch of caras in various Yiju Cities would be reported for repair, and the City Association would allocate funds depending on their mood.
It wasn’t that the City Association was irresponsible or didn’t want tighter control, but because only ordinary civilians lived in Yiju Buildings; managing them had no kickbacks, so they skimped wherever they could, which had almost beco an unspoken rule.
So when the City Association received such repair requests, they defaulted to it being extra pay for the managers and sotis just didn’t bother, since it wouldn’t actually get done anyway.
Li Shan didn’t dwell on it and quickly entered the room where the deceased lived.
The deceased’s house was very clean; it was clear he had been particular about hygiene when alive.
Passing the entrance hall, they saw a dry corpse stiffly placed in the living room, which was about ten square ters in size.
The recording equipnt on the tripod flashed a green light indicating normal operation, while technicians busily collected evidence in the crowded room as much as possible.
Lu Bai, who had remained quiet throughout, involuntarily raised an eyebrow upon seeing this dry corpse.
This corpse……
Gave him a sense of familiarity.
It wasn’t that he knew the deceased or that the thod reminded him of sothing; he just felt that sothing on the dry corpse was extrely familiar to him, yet he couldn’t pinpoint what it was.
Li Shan wandered around the room and casually picked up a ga cartridge scattered in front of the television: “I don’t even have this legit cartridge.”
“Tsk tsk tsk.”
Feng Yixuan showed none of a girl’s usual delicacy; she crouched by the dry corpse with interest and even poked it with her index finger: “If this isn’t a revenge killing, then just simply killing soone—what kind of savage ability could make it this exaggerated? Not a single good bone left on the body.”
“Exaggerated? Isn’t it just draining the blood?”
Lu Bai looked at the position of the dry corpse, then at the direction of the entrance hall; there was no obstruction between them.
Li Shan noticed Lu Bai’s gaze, his expression shifting slightly: “Looks like the murderer knocked to get the deceased to open the door, then drained the blood right there in the entrance hall, casually tossed the corpse into the living room, and left. Random killing?”
The strike was too clean; he hadn’t even entered the door, so naturally no traces of the cri were found in the room.
“No, it should be called random foraging.” Lu Bai’s voice was very soft.
He already knew what that sense of familiarity was, but that only made him feel a wave of disbelief.
Feng Yixuan stood up with hands on hips: “No clues at all, how are we supposed to handle this?”
At that mont, a commotion suddenly ca from the other end of the corridor, imdiately drawing everyone’s attention.
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