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Chapter 5 The Murderer Is Among Us
"What are you doing?"

Hearing what they were muttering here, Bone Spur, who was smoking ten meters away, turned his head and shouted impatiently.

"The door is locked... and no one has answered?" Bullock knocked on the door anxiously, but there was still no movement inside.

"……Step aside!"

Bone Spur also realized that something was wrong, so he gritted his teeth, threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stamped it out, walked quickly, and kicked the door of the room angrily.

And the scene that followed made everyone's hearts sink: the worst scene that was expected was still presented in front of them.

The sin-eater, wearing a green hood and a long coat, was already dead in the room.

He fell to the ground together with his swivel chair, blood soaked his chest.

"Damn it, how—hey! Echo, Elke! Get the hell out of here!"

Bone spur rushed to the corpse, was stunned for a moment in disbelief, and then burst into a roar of grief and rage.

Hearing the commotion here, the remaining two accomplices in the house also hurried over.

One of them came running from another corridor on this floor—he was wearing a helmet with only the left eye hole, and a pair of high-tech-looking mechanical gloves.He is Echo, a former Hydra member.

The other was a black sniper named Elke who aimed at He Nan and his party on the third floor.

"What's the matter? Bone spur—ah! This..." Echo arrived before Elke, and after witnessing the tragedy of the boss, he immediately wanted to touch the corpse in shock and picked him up.

But this behavior was stopped by He Nan in time.

"Stinky boy... what are you doing?!" Hui Yin was very dissatisfied with his behavior, and in a rage he even pulled out a pistol and aimed it at his head: "It's not your business to dictate!"

"I'm not pointing fingers, but you will only destroy the scene if you move the corpse casually..." He Nan tried to reason with him in as calm and peaceful a tone as possible, and calmly stretched out his hand to suppress Echo's pistol: "Don't you want to know the food How did the criminal die? I am a detective, so I can help you!"

"That's right." Miyano Shiho has already checked the surrounding windows: "They are all closed, and the curtains are drawn... There is no trace of bullet holes. It is obvious that they were not shot from outside."

"Then leave it to you—it's best to find out the results for me!" Elke also hurried over with a sniper rifle at this time, looking at the scene with a distorted and dignified expression: "Who did this? ...? Boss was alive not long ago!"

"Not long ago...? How long was that?" He Nan put on his gloves and squatted in front of the corpse to check the blood status and various death reactions of the deceased: "The death time is less than 5 minutes..."

"How can I remember the exact time? It was probably not long before his death—because I just came here to meet him, and you came after returning to the third floor post!" Elke said with gritted teeth.

"...The door was locked just now, so it can basically be regarded as a murder in a secret room." He Nan frowned: "Does your boss have the habit of locking the door? If not, this is obviously an abnormal behavior."

"No." Bone Spur said in an irritable tone, and lit another cigarette: "But as long as you have a key, you can lock it from the outside... Only the boss has it. You usually carry it with you."

"I haven't found the key on the body yet." He Nan flipped through the only two pockets on the deceased's body, and hurriedly pointed to the desk: "Who is going to check the drawer?"

"...I didn't find it either." Eddie Brock came to check it for him, but found nothing: "So someone entered the room, killed him, took the key and locked it outside...?"

"It must be so. Since I carry it with me on weekdays, there is no reason to give it to others." He Nan nodded. After opening the wound and carefully inspecting the internal trauma, he turned his attention to the swivel chair and the ceiling.

The many clues discovered gradually turned into fragments, and the truth was pieced together in his mind.

Miyano Shiho obviously noticed this too, and exchanged glances with He Nan.

"Does each of you have a 9mm pistol with a silencer?" He Nan asked, pointing to the bullet soaked in blood in the wound.

This got a negative reply from Bone Spur.He said only the Echo and Elk had such guns.

Therefore, this basically ruled out the suspicion of bone spurs.

"What was your course of action in the last 10 minutes? Have you met each other on the way?" He Nan asked a new question.

The answer is as follows.

Bone Spur claimed that he had never left the first floor, and had been guarding near the entrance and the stairs on the first floor.I heard Elke going back and forth from the third floor to the second floor, and the sound of Echo walking up and down the three floors.He also added that there was only one staircase in the house.

Echo said that he was patrolling back and forth between the first floor and the third floor, first he saw bone spurs, and then bumped into Elke coming out of the boss' room on the second floor, and then he went up to the third floor but saw no one.He was going to the bathroom on the second floor when he finally heard the bone spur kick the door.

After Elke came out of the boss room on the second floor, he went straight up to the third floor and returned to his sniper post by the window to monitor the outside world.I saw an echo on the way.I haven't seen anyone else on the third floor since then.

"...So that's how it is." He Nan looked out the window to confirm the location, and he knew it all: "I already know who committed the crime - the murderer is among us!"

"Ha! It must be him!" Echo immediately turned to Elke and said angrily, "Only he entered the boss's room! It must be that time..."

"Stop wronging people!" Elke was emotional: "I have always been loyal to him!"

"That's right, it wasn't Elk who killed him." Pointing to the wound on the corpse, He Nan said after a moment of silence, "It looks like he was sitting behind the table and was cut open on the chest by the person in front of him. A shot, right? But in reality—the dead man fell sideways to the right, and the chair was overturned by it. So, it must be the bullet fired from the ceiling. The gap over there, the angle is just in line with speculation .”

He took out his flashlight and shined it on the ceiling near the entrance.

Although faint, you can indeed see the cracks where the planks were broken due to the old structure.

"So...the murderer is someone who went up to the third floor—and even went back to the second floor to lock it!" He Nan stretched out his finger, pointing at Echo seriously: "This person can only be you, not Er gram!"

"What?!" Hui Yin heard it, and his tone was filled with anger: "Why do you say that?!"

"Because the death of the deceased was within 5 minutes of discovery. And when we got to the side of the yard, the time of his death was not too far away. At that time, we had already seen Eric standing guard behind the window on the third floor facing the main entrance ——But the sin-eater's room is on the opposite side of the second floor, and the backyard is outside the window. According to the testimony of Bone Spur, Elke couldn't complete the act of shooting on the third floor before going to the second floor to lock it. Sufficient to constitute an alibi."

He Nan said so, then pointed to the gap in the ceiling, stared at the other party's movements and explained: "The silencer cannot completely eliminate the noise, if you are too close to Elk, he will hear the gunshots. And your positions happen to be far enough apart... that's it, Hui Yin, do you have anything to argue about?"

"..." Echo's only eye, which was faintly exposed from the mask, was staring at He Nan, full of hatred.

And the voice of the system also sounded from his mind.

"The murder case of the sin-eater secret room has been solved. Reward 500 experience points."

"Congratulations, you have been upgraded to LV2. There are still 3 experience points before LV1000."

"You have 1 unused skill point. Please choose one of the following three rewards."

"A: Shuichi Akai's car skill enhancement LV1: Improve the driving skills of the car. The upgrade can give a strong effect."

"B: Conan's Solar Skateboard LV1: Upgrade to enhance speed."

"C: Kidd's Hang Glider LV1: The upgrade can increase the speed and firmness of the gliding."

The moment he was distracted because he didn't know which one to choose, Echo beat the bone spur that was about to punch him in anger, and released a sound wave from the glove, shaking everyone around.

Then, throwing down a vicious curse, jumped out of the window and fled.

"Catch him—that guy must be related to my wife's case!" Eddie Brock yelled hoarsely, covering his head after being hit by the shock wave.

Before he finished speaking, He Nan threw a skateboard shaped from particle light through the window, turned over to the second floor, and chased it up.

(End of this chapter)