Chapter 573

In Shiler's office at Cat Getan University, Victor stepped on the stool under his feet, stretched his arms hard, and twisted the lightbulb on the ceiling.

He took the old, broken lightbulb down, looked at it in his hand, and then said: "If Cat Getan were to build a museum, I must donate this lightbulb. It could at least stay in the main display cabinet in the lobby on the first floor, because it has condensed the corpses of more than 20 generations of bugs..."

Anna, who was shining the flashlight from below, revealed a look of disgust and said: "Can you stop talking about such disgusting things? I haven't eaten breakfast yet."

"Did you hear the siren?" Shiler, who was also looking up, said: "From just now, three police cars have already passed by here. Although this isn't strange in Cat Getan, the frequency is too high, right?"

"A murder case happened at Cat Getan University. Although dying a person in Cat Getan doesn't count as anything, someone daring to act blatantly in the student dormitory building, the nature is different."

"The godfather feels that the Elliott family is provoking his majesty. Recently, the Falcone family and the Elliott family have been tit-for-tat, and the situation seems a bit tense," Anna frowned and said.

Victor, who was changing the new lightbulb, sighed and said: "Actually, my impression of Thomas is very good. He is not bad, polite, and more attentive to study than others. How could he..."

"By the way." Shiler suddenly opened his mouth and said: "That dead Doris was a student in the chemistry department. Have you taught her?"

"She is already a senior this year, and spends very little time taking classes at school, so I don't know her. However, in the courses I teach, there are a few girls who are members of her group. I have heard of her from their mouths."

Victor's hand movements paused, and he recalled: "They gossiped about Doris's boyfriend during the break, saying he was young and promising, and very handsome. He is a likable young man. No wonder Doris was so obsessed with him."

"I heard that Doris's boyfriend works at the Central Research Institute in Metropolis?" Shiler asked.

"That's right. And he is young, following a very famous mentor to do research. I heard that after this year's project is done, he can be promoted from an intern assistant to a regular one. This isn't easy."

Anna widened her eyes in surprise. She asked: "How old is Doris's boyfriend? Being able to directly become a regular assistant at the Central Research Institute, this can indeed be called young and promising."

"Yeah." Victor said full of memories: "Originally, I had a colleague who also came out of the Central Research Institute in Metropolis. Talented people gather there. If you want to occupy a place there, you must have real skills."

"I heard from Lex, a freshman who came from Metropolis, that he called the Central Research Institute and found Doris's boyfriend, David. But David expressed indifference and wasn't even willing to come over to take a last look at Doris," Shiler sighed and said.

"What a strange thing. I heard from those girls that the relationship between the two of them was very good. Especially David, for Doris, every time he came to Cat Getan to find her, he had to bring a large bouquet of flowers. The tone of those girls was full of envy," Victor shook his head.

"The world is always so impermanent. Therefore, I often advise my students not to put their focus on falling in love." Anna walked to the side, threw the books in her hand onto the table, and said: "Young love is always impulsive and unreliable. If Doris hadn't died, she should now be crying and howling for her boyfriend's indifference."

Shiler looked up at Victor's movements and said: "Is it done? You are the most famous cryogenics expert in the world, why is changing a lightbulb so troublesome?"

"What does a cryogenics expert have to do with changing a lightbulb?" Victor coughed twice from the dust on the lampshade. He waved in front of his face to disperse the dust and continued to focus on fiddling with the lightbulb.

"This interface is very insensitive. I am cleaning it. If I don't clean it up, it will still be easy to have problems after screwing it on... Oh, fine, I've screwed it on. Anna, you turn on the power switch and see if it's bright..."

Anna walked outside the room, opened the door of the electrical box, and then lifted the power switch. Instantly, the room returned to brightness. Victor and Shiler both breathed a sigh of relief. Shiler reached out and supported Victor as he came down from the chair.

But just at this time, with a "pop," the lightbulb went out again. Victor staggered on the chair and almost fell down. Fortunately, he was supported by Shiler. Anna walked back in with a flashlight, and Victor had to stand on the chair again to check the lightbulb.

After screwing the lightbulb down again to check it, he said: "No, it's not the lightbulb's problem. It seems to be a power outage."

At this time, it was early morning. The room without light was pitch black. Anna walked to the door and glanced at the corridor, saying: "Fine, it seems our building has had another power outage."

"What exactly is going on recently?" Shiler frowned and walked out the door, came to the window of the corridor, and said: "There have been seven power outages in three days, and every time it's our building. Even during the snow disaster, it wasn't this serious. What exactly is the power management department doing?"

"The First Cause of All Worlds"

"This can't blame the power management department. Buildings other than Cat Getan University are normal. Last time I stopped the electrician who came to repair, he said it was because the circuit was aging. This is an unsolvable excuse, no one can help it," Anna shrugged.

"It can't always be like this. It has already affected normal teaching." Victor also walked out and said: "Let's go, let's go to the power distribution room to see. If it's really circuit aging, I should have a way."

"Aren't you from the chemistry department? You also understand electricity?... Oh, the device you used to freeze your wife was all made by yourself. Don't tell me you also have degrees in physics and mechanical engineering?" Anna raised her eyebrows and asked.

Victor smiled, took the lead in walking in front. When he was about to reach the stairwell, he turned back, leaned his elbow on the handrail, and said with a smile: "You guessed right. Besides that, I also have degrees in materials science and engineering..."

Anna shook her head, shrugged, and followed Victor up the stairs quickly. And Shiler paused slightly at the window, because he saw a police car parked on the east side of Cat Getan University, which was outside the west gate of the gymnasium.

The power distribution room wasn't far from the teaching building. The three of them soon walked into the gate of the power distribution room. It could be seen that there were also traces of having just been inspected here, but it didn't have any effect. None of the three electrical boxes inside were working normally.

Victor started to check one by one. Even Anna could give a hand on the side. And Shiler could only watch. Because after the electrical box was opened, there were conservatively hundreds of wires inside, and all of them were in a mess.

"If you ask me, this electrical box should be donated to a museum. I have seen at least five generations of technical iterations in here. This wouldn't be made by Europeans, right?" Shiler said somewhat incredulously.

"It's not that exaggerated." Victor said while organizing those wires: "Actually, it just looks messy. It will be fine after organizing it. If you feel that the dust here is big, go outside and wait..."

"Fine, I..." Shiler was just about to turn and walk out when with a "pop," the door of the power distribution room was opened. Several police officers rushed in, pointing their guns at the people inside. Shiler frowned, but subsequently saw the familiar Gordon in the crowd.

Gordon saw that it was Shiler and Victor and them, revealed a look of surprise, hurried over from the crowd, pressed down the hand of the police officer in front who was holding a gun, and asked: "How could you be here?"

"This is the question I want to ask you, Detective Gordon. What are you doing here?"

"It's like this..." Gordon explained very calmly and methodically: "About half an hour ago, we received a report that another murder case happened at Cat Getan University. The crime scene is in the lounge of the gymnasium."

"The victim, Karina, is a sophomore at Cat Getan University and also a member of the cheerleading dance troupe. Just about half an hour ago, someone strangled her with a belt."

"At the time of the incident, the members of the cheerleading dance troupe were rehearsing next door. In just five minutes, Karina lost her breath, and there were no witnesses. The reason is, at the moment of the incident..."

"Power outage." Shiler received. It was about half an hour ago that their office also had a power outage, so they came here to check the power distribution room. And clearly, these police officers thought the same as them.

Gordon put his hands on his hips, sighed, and said: "Technical personnel checked the light in the gymnasium lounge. The lightbulb was newly changed and there was no problem. The power switch was also working normally. The only place that could have a problem was here."

"Hey! Someone help me!" Victor suddenly called out. Shiler wanted to walk over, but Gordon gave a wink to his subordinate beside him. The young police officer walked over and then took the flashlight from Victor's hand.

Half of Victor's body was drilled into the huge electrical box, seemingly checking something deeper. After a while, he straightened his waist, gathered his somewhat messy hair, and then said: "The recent power outages weren't accidents, nor were they because of any circuit aging, but man-made."

Hearing this, Gordon and Shiler both squinted their eyes. Clearly, they both thought of one thing, and that was the murder case. If it was said that a power outage was beneficial to whom, it could only be the murderer of the murder case.

Perhaps in other places, students might hope for a power outage at school, so they wouldn't have to attend class. But at Cat Getan University, even if they didn't have to attend class, there was nowhere to go, because it was too dangerous outside.

And not attending class, staying in a school without electricity, was simply a kind of torture. So no student would go to break the equipment in the power distribution room because they didn't want to attend class.

Victor turned his body and probed in again, then pointed inside and said: "The pipelines might age, but a controller wouldn't appear here out of thin air. Someone added a remote control switch here. If I'm not mistaken, all the power facilities here have been added with this thing."

"What's the use of this?" Gordon actually didn't see what Victor was pointing at at all, and he was sure that even if he saw it, he wouldn't understand, so he asked directly.

"Clearly, it can make the school lose power. I suspect this can even control a certain building or even a certain room to lose power."

Victor touched his chin and said: "Actually, to make the school's buildings and rooms lose power, it doesn't need to be so troublesome. Just come here, find the electrical box, and operate it slightly, and you can do it."

"He needs to make such a device, which means, I'm afraid he can't always come here, so he can only remote control it," Shiler said.

"Then he shouldn't be a student or teacher at Cat Getan University. It's possible he's an outsider," Gordon speculated. He seemed to have some ideas, then looked at Victor and said: "Professor Victor, trouble you to check this device, see if you can find the person holding the remote control along the signal. I'll go retrieve the surveillance of the guard, see if there are any suspicious people."

After speaking, Gordon sighed. He drove the other police officers out. When only he and several professors were left here, he opened his mouth and said: "The murder case that happened at Cat Getan University makes the godfather very dissatisfied. He thinks this is someone provoking him, so my pressure is also very great."

"If you have any clues, you must tell me. The students are innocent. I don't hope for such a tragedy to happen again."

Just as he said this, a police officer rushed in and shouted: "3rd floor! Someone was attacked on the 3rd floor again!

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