With her heart beating like a drum, Bohemia pressed her body against the wall. She decided that as soon as the man showed himself, she would immediately punch him in the nose. Just as she was waiting anxiously for the figure behind the door, she heard the footsteps suddenly stop inside the door.
Then, the man closed the door with a click.
It was a false alarm. With the sound of the door closing, Bohemia's heart suddenly fell back into her stomach. She let out a long sigh of relief, as if most of her strength had been drained away.
"What a lucky dog. He didn't come out," Demon Cartesian said.
Bohemia rolled her eyes at him.
A flickering light came from under the door. The man must have turned on the flashlight. Since she had already taken out the things, Bohemia was not afraid that he would search through them. Seizing the opportunity, she inched her way to Beef Secretary's office and slipped into it.
She was exhausted after going back and forth between the two rooms. Ever since she entered the game, her energy level had dropped to the level of an ordinary person.
With the help of the moonlight, she glanced at the clock that had been thrown to the ground. There were at least three hours before dawn. Bohemia tried to lock the doors and windows as quietly as possible. She sat behind the door and listened to the sounds coming from the other side of the corridor. She could not leave the building, so she had to wait for the man to leave first.
"... I think the key to the problem is, how did that man know the password to your safe?" After a moment of silence, Demon Cartesian suddenly spoke.
"It must be Beef Secretary. He must have seen it and told someone else —"
"Impossible. You had your back to him and you shoved me into the safe, so I happened to be facing Beef Secretary's direction..."
"You even have a front and a back? Aren't you just a ball? "
"The point is! He had his back to you, and there was nothing in front of him that could reflect his shadow. So, he couldn't have seen the password! "
"Why are you angry?" Bohemia mumbled. "I thought the password was Sandy Winters' birthday.
After all, 1127 looks like a date... But the passport doesn't show this birthday. "
Tonight, two unidentified people came in to spy on her. One of them was targeting her, and the other one was targeting Secretary Beef. Looking at the bank accounts filled with money, it seemed that she, as a civil servant, was not clean. Even if someone came to investigate her, it would not be surprising … But why did they want to investigate Secretary Beef?
"Just try to deduce it. So far, as far as we know, Secretary Beef has only done one dishonorable thing, and that is to cooperate with Agent Gurr to kill Prisoner Helsing. If someone came to investigate, they would definitely be investigating this matter … After all, this is the only thing worth investigating on him. It's impossible to find out why his standards for choosing a spouse are so low. " Descartes thought carefully for a moment and said, "This isn't real life. This is a game. We just need to consider the information given by the game."
Bohemia did not realize the meaning of the sentence that she had deliberately placed in the middle.
She fell into deep thought and did not speak for a long time. After a while, she said in a low voice, "… Isn't that a little too fast?"
"Hmm? What's too fast? "Descartes suddenly floated up." Do you have an idea? "
Again, Bohemia did not say anything. This time, she seemed to have grasped a very important clue. She stared at the documents scattered on the floor and thought deeply. She did not even hear Descartes's taunt, "Is it because you don't have enough memory? You can only run single-threaded tasks?"
A few minutes later, she let out a low sigh.
She did not expect that Descartes' words would give her such a great inspiration. Her thoughts went deeper, and gradually, she felt that the fog began to disperse, and the key points became clear.
"Say something. What are you thinking about?" Descartes floated up and down on her knees anxiously. "Do you know who is in front of you?"
"Why don't you go and take a look for yourself?"
"Then what's the point of thinking?" Descartes spat. "You see the answer, but you don't have the most wonderful thinking process. It's like you don't know the taste of delicious food when you are full. Hey, say something! "
At this critical moment, Bohemia did not say anything. The dungeon master urged her, but she did not reply. He looked at her and found that she was thinking of something. His face suddenly turned pale and he cursed, "Damn it! Shit! "
"What's wrong?"
"Quick! Help me clean up the floor! Oh, right, you are useless. Let me do it!" Bohemia did not have time to explain. She hurriedly grabbed the scattered documents and put the chair and the clock back to their original positions. Descartes, who did not know what was going on, floated in the air and stared at her blankly.
Almost as soon as she finished cleaning up, the door of the warden's office across the corridor opened. Bohemia did not dare to make the same mistake again. Before the sound of footsteps could be heard in the corridor, she had already rushed to the window. Outside the window, under the moonlight, stood a tall construction ladder. It was left behind by the man who came to investigate the beef secretary and was smashed by her.
When the footsteps came to the door of Secretary Beef's office, Bohemia hastily stuffed all the documents into her clothes, opened the window, and climbed up the ladder. It was not until the clatter of keys came from the door that Descartes floated over in a panic. He poked his head out of the window and asked, "What's going on? How did you know he was coming?"
Before her voice died away, Bohemia, who was standing on the ladder, reached out her hand and pulled the window shut with a swoosh. Of course, this did not stop a mosaic-like Cartesian sprite. It "peeked through the window and caught up with Bohemia, who was climbing down the ladder." I didn't know you could climb as fast as a mouse, "the sprite complained.
Fearing that the sound of the window closing would be heard by the man, Bohemia had no time to pay attention to him. She moved as fast as she could, wishing that she could turn into a blur. As soon as her feet touched the ground, she dodged to the side and hid behind a protruding wall.
"Is that person looking out of the window?" she asked in a low voice. "Look! Who is it?"
Descartes, who was floating in the air, couldn't help but glance at the window on the second floor out of curiosity. "It's an old leather shoe! It's an old leather shoe! Oh, it's really him! In fact, I've been suspecting this old man for a long time — "
"It's really him. Cut the crap, "Bohemia was not surprised at all. She took a deep breath and pulled the documents that were about to slide down from her clothes." Is he gone now? "
"Wait, there's still a flashlight in the window …"
"I need to get in now!" Bohemia looked around, gritted her teeth, and ran around the corner of the wall toward the entrance of the first floor. "The rule is that I have to stay in the building for one night without being discovered. If I stay outside for too long, the game will deem me invalid. That would be so unfair!" Bohemia said.
Fortunately, she made up her mind quickly. When she rushed into the first floor, the voice of the dungeon host rang out. Coincidentally, as soon as the voice stopped, the footsteps of an old leather shoe came down the stairs. He probably thought that there was no one in the building, so he was not as careful as before. Every step he took could be heard clearly by Bohemia who was downstairs.
"Conference room!" Descartes shouted. He and the dungeon host hurried into the conference room.
Standing behind the half-closed door of the conference room, Bohemia listened to the footsteps of the old leather shoe getting further and further away. When she could no longer hear it, she let out a long sigh of relief. This little game of hide-and-seek had finally come to an end. All she needed to do now was to wait for the sun to rise. Since no one knew that she was here, even if someone wanted to kill her, they would not come here. She should be safe for the time being.
"You can tell me now," Descartes urged, "What did you find just now?"
Bohemia pulled out the documents and laid them on the chair. She felt that all the strength in her body had been drained.
“Sandy
Winters isn't a clean person, and he has a close relationship with the prisoners. Maybe my role is an important link between the inside and outside of the prison … The FBI agents are here for this matter, and the person who just entered my office had a gun, so it wasn't hard to guess that the person was Old Leather Shoes. "
"But how did he get the password to the safe, and how did he get the key?"
"I don't know the password for the time being, but the key is very simple." Bohemia snorted through her nose. "Have you forgotten? When Old Leather Shoe was talking to the secretary on the phone, the secretary spilled everything out. He said, 'Stay in the room next door for the night, and keep the key for yourself.' "
"Wait a minute, he was referring to the room keys in the medical department, right?"
"Of course we would think so." Bohemia's face did not look too good. "Because that bullshit secretary hoped that I would misunderstand that the keys he sent were only for the medical department. But the truth is, he sent the backup key to the office right under my nose. Old Leather Shoe got the office key, so he could come and investigate my office secretly at night. "
"Why did he give him the key?"
"He and Old Leather Shoe have been in contact for a long time. Maybe he is the informant that Old Leather Shoe used to spy on me. Agent Gerl's death happened so suddenly that neither of them expected it. If you ask me, Secretary Beef must have kept Agent Gerl's death a secret from Old Leather Shoe. What a two-faced bastard! But Old Leather Shoe is quite smart. He immediately took advantage of this opportunity to attack my office. He was probably the one who searched my trash can in the afternoon! "
Descartes thought for a moment and asked, "How do you know that they were in contact?"
"Also because of the key."
Bohemia pouted at the door of the conference room. "Do you remember what Secretary Beef said? How did he secretly lock Old Leather Shoe in the conference room? He said he inserted the key into the lock early in the morning, turned the cylinder, and locked the door when the door was closed. It sounded reasonable, but the more I thought about it, the more I felt that something was wrong. Just now, when I thought of the other set of keys, I suddenly understood. "
"How so?"
"According to his method, no one in the room would notice when he locked the door, but he still had to pull out the key! After the door was closed, the sound of the key being pulled out was very clear. How could the people in the room not hear it? Especially since he is an experienced detective … "
At this point, Bohemia felt a little uncomfortable in her chest and throat. She coughed twice and continued, "So obviously, he must have lied to me —"
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