Seeing that everyone had entered the building, Feng Yuan lit another cigar and walked slowly to the steps in front of the building. He adjusted the hem of his coat and sat on the steps in silence. After puffing the cigar a few times, he turned his head and looked at Lan Luo who was in a suit not far away.
"When this case is over, apply to be transferred to Division 2. I'll talk to the leader. It shouldn't be a problem for you to be approved."
"Boss, this case was originally accepted by both of us. If anything happens, both of us should bear the consequences together. I don't care about going to Division 2. I'll follow you wherever you go. "Lan Luo rejected Feng Yuan's kindness.
"I want to get married and have kids. You want to marry me? Do you even have the ability to have kids? "Feng Yuan teased him.
Seeing that Lan Luo did not dare to talk to him, he took a deep puff of the cigar and exhaled the smoke slowly. "The one who died was Li Jinbiao. I'll take responsibility for this case. There's no need to drag someone else into this. I'll retire in a few years. You're still young. If you're really loyal, listen to me. Don't get involved in this mess. Make a name for yourself in Division 2. When I'm old, I'll have a place to get food and drinks. "
"Boss …"
"Alright, don't waste any more time. This matter is settled. If you dare to resign, I'll be mad at you. Don't blame me for not knowing you when we meet again. "Feng Yuan stared at his old partner who had been with him for almost 20 years and said in all seriousness.
Lan Luo seemed like he wanted to say something. However, their Emperor's Heart Rings vibrated at the same time.
When the communication page popped up, they saw the same person projected in front of them.
"Boss!" Lan Luo immediately stood up straight.
The middle-aged man in the short-sleeved checkered shirt in the projection was their boss.
Principle Feng calmly extinguished the cigar in his hand before slowly standing up. Without waiting for the projection to speak, he rushed to say, "I will take responsibility for this matter alone. Lan Luo …"
The man in the projection glanced at Feng Yuan and interrupted him, "The one who died was not Li Jinbiao. It was just his substitute."
Both of them were stunned when they heard this. After a while, they came back to their senses and heaved a sigh of relief.
"But this matter isn't over yet. Although it was only a substitute who died, Li Jinbiao was furious. He felt that the murderer was targeting him. A few minutes ago, he contacted the Coalition government headquarters in Division3. Now, the headquarters are exerting pressure on me. Within three days, we must find the real murderer, or you two will be waiting for unemployment benefits! " The short-sleeved man's originally emotionless face now looked even more solemn. His gaze swept over the two of them, and after silently scrutinizing them, he turned off the video call.
Watching the projection of the short-sleeved man disappear, Feng Yuan immediately took out another cigar. "I didn't expect this to be good news. Li Jinbiao isn't dead."
"Why don't I think it's good news? Boss, did you miss something? The leader said that if we can't solve this case in three days, we'll both lose our jobs. "Lan Luo still had a bitter expression on her face.
"Do you think he'll fire us for a substitute?" Feng Yuan laughed.
"That shouldn't be the case." Although Lan Luo gave this answer, her tone was not very certain.
"Alright, I'm going home to sleep. See you tomorrow! " Feng Yuan stood up and waved his hand without turning his head. He then put his hands back into the pocket of his trench coat, stepped into the portal and disappeared.
"Another mess left behind." Lan Luo shook her head helplessly. She turned around and looked at the brightly lit Chenxing Building.
…
On the 186th floor of the Chenxing Building, Room 1 was brightly lit.
The living room was more than 300 square meters, and it seemed a little crowded with more than 50 people. However, most of them only stayed in the living room for a while before rushing to the bedroom.
There were two bodies in the living room. Both of them were well-built, and both of them were wearing black suits. One of them was lying on the sofa, and the other was lying on the floor beside the wine cabinet. It was obvious that they were bodyguards.
After the crowd dispersed, Lin Huang went forward to check the bodies. The bodies were already black, and it was obvious that they were poisoned.
As he was not sure what kind of poison it was, Lin Huang did not dare to check the bodies. Maintaining the scene was not the most important thing. If it was a poison that could penetrate into the pores of the body, he would be in deep trouble.
"Can you tell what kind of poison it is?" Lin Huang asked Bloody through voice transmission.
"It could kill an immortal-level rank-9 in such a short period of time. It's most probably the poison in an imperial-level monster's body. However, we'll only know what it is after we test it." Bloody's knowledge was much more than Lin Huang's. When Lin Huang was a teacher at the Martial Arts Academy, he would release Bloody whenever he went to the library. Its reading speed was a few times faster than Lin Huang's. It had memorized almost all the books in the Martial Arts Academy, including the usage of various poisons. "However, for the sake of safety, let's wait for the autopsy report."
"Looking at where the two of them were, the poison must've taken effect very quickly. There weren't any signs of struggle. The sofa, the coffee table, and the wine cabinet are all intact. The poison is terrifying. " Since he could not find any more information from the dead bodies, Lin Huang shifted his attention to other places. Soon, he came to a conclusion based on the details around him.
"From what I know, there are 11 types of poisons from imperial-level monsters that can do that and cause death. These are just the original poison that was extracted. I haven't included the compound poison that was synthesized from the original poison. " Bloody was not interested in the two dead bodies as it could not get any more useful information. "I can't confirm whether the poison in the two dead bodies is contagious. I can't tell by looking at it with my naked eyes. Let's go to the bedroom to look at the main victim."
Lin Huang nodded and did not stay any longer. He turned around and walked towards the crowded master bedroom.
In the master bedroom, many people had left after observing the dead bodies. Even so, it was still extremely crowded.
Lin Huang squeezed through the crowd and arrived next to the dead body. Finally, he saw the "fresh" dead body.
"It's terrible." That was the first thought that came to Lin Huang's mind when he saw the dead body. Although he had seen many dead bodies in the past two days, he still gave such an evaluation.
This somewhat plump corpse was no longer humanoid. There were at least a hundred holes all over its body, each about the size of an adult's eyeball. All of them had pierced through the corpse's flesh. The naked corpse looked like a human-shaped beehive.
"The fatal injury was the attack that pierced through both of the eyeballs. The attack pierced through the eyeballs and came out from the back of the brain. The victim's brain was smashed into pieces," Bloody said through voice transmission after observing in Lin Huang's sleeve.
"If it's the same killer, this guy has too many ways to kill people. Is he trying to show off by using different methods each time? "Lin Huang mumbled softly.
A couple of people were using detection skills next to Li Jinbiao's dead body. Lin Huang suddenly thought of something. "This guy has been dead for less than half an hour. I remember there's a chain rune that can restore the scene within a certain period of time."
"You're talking about the Backtracking Mirror, right? How long can you backtrack?" Bloody recalled that there was such a set of Witchcraft rune, but it had a strict requirement. The rune had to be activated at the place where the incident happened and it had to be used within 24 hours of the incident. Moreover, people with different levels of energy could backtrack for different lengths of time.
"I've tried it once. It's not a problem to backtrack for half an hour. If I try my best, I should be able to do it for an hour."
"Let me do it then. I can backtrack for about three hours." Bloody was not showing off. "It's better if fewer people know that we're experts in Sorcerer Dao. After all, Sorcerer Dao is related to the floating land. It's easy for the Coalition government and other organizations to target us. We'll perform the Backtracking Mirror after the rest leave. "
Most of the investigators left one after another after observing the dead body.
When it was past one o 'clock, Lan Luo, who was in a suit, brought a couple of staff in protective gear into the room. There were only seven to eight investigators left at the scene.
"Everyone, we're going to collect the dead bodies." Lan Luo glanced at Lin Huang and the rest. She did not chase them away. Instead, she nodded at the staff.
A couple of staff in protective gear took out body bags and began putting the dead bodies into them.
The rest of the investigators did not want to stay any longer and soon, they scattered.
"I'm going back to sleep. Aren't you leaving?" Xia Hou could not help but yawn.
"You can go back first. I'll take a look." Lin Huang pretended to stand in the bedroom and stared at the mattress. He did not want to leave.
Lan Luo looked at him in surprise. However, she did not think too much about it. She gave him a simple warning, "Don't destroy the scene." She then left with the staff.
"I think that fella will be back in a few minutes to protect the scene. We must hurry." After sending off the rest of the people in the room and watching them leave through the surveillance of the Leech Pods, Bloody and Lin Huang then returned to the bedroom.
Unlike Lin Huang's Book of Sorcerer Dao, Bloody's Book of Sorcerer Dao was purple in color. After flipping it open, Bloody inserted its Life Power into it and performed the chain rune of the Backtracking Mirror.
The runes lit up in the air one after another. Eventually, all of them collapsed and turned into a fast rewinding image.
Soon, Bloody captured the image that Lin Huang wanted to see more than an hour ago.
In the image, a semi-transparent monster with a fluid body entered the room through the window. It walked to the back of the couch and spat a gush of white mist that was so faint that it was almost undetectable behind the neck of the first bodyguard. The white mist entered through the bodyguard's nose and mouth. After inhaling the white mist, his entire body seemed to become sluggish, but this sluggishness only lasted for less than three seconds. His skin began to turn black from top to bottom, and he finally died silently. The whole process took less than ten seconds.
Soon, the semi-transparent monster appeared behind the second bodyguard without making a sound. Another gush of white mist was released from the back of the bodyguard's neck. Soon, the second bodyguard fell to the ground.
After that, the translucent monster slowly floated into the bedroom and floated above the sleeping "Li Jinbiao" in a spherical shape. After that, its spherical body shape began to change rapidly. In just a few seconds, it changed from the original spherical form to a human form. It looked almost no different from Li Jinbiao.
After the transformation, the monster slowly opened its mouth and extended its tongue that was as thick as an adult's forearm. The soft tongue extended a meter away like a venomous snake that extended its upper body. It was hovering less than ten centimeters away from 'Li Jinbiao's' fat face.
Suddenly, the tongue split into two and pierced through 'Li Jinbiao's' eyes like an arrow.
After killing 'Li Jinbiao', the monster let out a strange cry and its body changed again. It kept growing tentacle-like spikes and pierced through 'Li Jinbiao's' dead body …
After watching the entire process, Lin Huang frowned as he searched for information about the monster in his head. However, he could not find anything. "Bloody, do you know what kind of monster this is?"
"I don't know. There's no such thing in the monster guide that I've read." Bloody was certain. "However, we can basically confirm that this thing has Supreme Intelligence and mimicry abilities."
"Before I saw the rewinding image, I always thought that the murderer was a human. I can't believe that it's a monster." Lin Huang shook his head and forced a smile. "It has Supreme Intelligence and mimicry abilities at the same time. Moreover, it has endless attacks. It's extremely difficult to kill it."
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