Chapter 291

The group chatted for a while at the entrance of the interrogation room, naturally without reaching any conclusion.

At this moment, a rustling sound of footsteps came from the darkness inside the iron door. Hearing the sound, everyone looked over, and Suxi walked out from inside with a puzzled look: "What's wrong? Didn't you say we were going to act together? Why aren't you coming over?"

Dejin Hansa exchanged glances with the three team members, and they tightened their grip on their guns in tacit understanding.

They had no evidence to prove Suxi was a ghost, but they unconditionally believed in Princess Pulu Meiliya's judgment. If the Princess said Suxi was a ghost, then she must be. Sheriff Ebnick might still be unable to accept the situation, but they would never doubt the Princess's judgment.

Ning Zhe, lying on the cabinet, nodded slightly: "The professional quality of this group is indeed excellent."

Several of the investigation team members should be veterans who had followed Ascenders to handle more than one strange event and were already well-versed in the ways of survival.

"What on earth is wrong with you?" Suxi looked confused, watching the muzzle of the gun in Dejin Hansa's hand faintly pointing at her, and frowned: "Sir, this is not funny."

"Raise your hands and let us check your fingers," Dejin Hansa said, his expression unchanged and without the slightest wavering: "I am not joking with you."

Suxi was stunned, and just as she was about to say something, all her words were blocked by the sharp gazes of the four men.

"Didn't you already check them just now? Why check again?" Suxi curled her lips, raised her right hand to show everyone, and even flipped her palm and the back of her hand several times to make sure everyone could see clearly.

"Have you seen enough?" Suxi said with a speechless expression: "If you've seen enough, let's go quickly. We still haven't found my brother and the others who went missing."

Seeing this, Sheriff Ebnick also said: "That's right, finding people is more important now..."

At this moment, Housekeeper Mei Lin's voice came through Dejin Hansa's earpiece: "Check his left hand, immediately."

The English words "he" and "she" have different pronunciations. Dejin Hansa immediately heard the change in Mei Lin's word choice. He raised his gun muzzle without hesitation, pointing it at the speechless Suxi, and roared: "Extend your left hand!"

The remaining three investigation team members reacted quickly and simultaneously aimed their guns at Suxi's chest without asking another word.

"Ah?" Suxi was stunned for a moment and frowned: "Isn't it men's left and women's right? Men check the left hand, women check the right hand. You have already checked my right hand, haven't you?"

Dejin Hansa's expression was indifferent. In the earpiece, Housekeeper Mei Lin's voice was still sounding:

"I just contacted the County Police Department and pulled the family records of Suxi and Su Nake. The two of them were not sisters and brothers at the beginning, but brothers."

"Suxi's original name was Su Bo'er. In his second year of middle school, he was diagnosed with gender identity disorder, believing himself to be a woman born in a man's body. With the support of his family, he underwent full gender reassignment surgery at the age of 18, changed his name to Suxi, and the gender registered on his ID card was also changed to female."

"But his original gender remains male."

No matter what is written on the ID card, or what colleagues and friends call them in society, a man is a man, and a woman is a woman. Ghosts don't care about this or that; ghosts are rules.

Rules are rigid, rules are absolute, and rules never talk about political correctness.

As Dejin Hansa adjusted the earpiece mode to speaker, several team members and Sheriff Ebnick heard Housekeeper Mei Lin's original words, and the nearly frozen air immediately fell into dead silence.

Housekeeper Mei Lin's voice was calm and soft, reaching Ning Zhe's ears from afar, leaving the pure young man who had won the "Three-Good Student" award every year at school stunned on the spot. He felt that his English listening comprehension and physiological cognitive functions had been somewhat challenged.

Everyone's eyes turned involuntarily to Suxi's left hand, which was pressed against her side—earlier, when checking downstairs, her left hand had been intentionally or unintentionally tucked into her sleeve, and after the check was completed, she had put her gloves back on. But because she was a "woman," everyone hadn't paid too much attention.

"I'm sorry, Ms. Suxi, but now I need to see your left hand." Dejin Hansa maintained a standard shooting stance, his shoulders unwavering: "I will repeat this one last time: extend your hand!"

In the tense atmosphere, the expression on Suxi's face slowly disappeared bit by bit: confusion, speechlessness, surprise, annoyance... various expressions belonging to the living sank into the water like stone statues and disappeared, leaving only a pale, dead face without any expression, her eyes staring at everyone in front of the room with resentment.

Suxi retreated slowly with a blank face, backing into the darkness behind the door, leaving only a narrow corridor emitting a foul odor, like the gaze of an abyss.

"Squad leader, why didn't you shoot just now?" a team member asked.

"It's meaningless," Dejin Hansa shook his head. "Without locking onto the necromancer's true body, all our attacks are futile."

Suxi was merely a servant of the "necromancer." Killing her would not cause any harm to the necromancer and would easily add unnecessary variables.

"Then what should we do next?" the team member asked again. "Should we chase in? It seems very dangerous inside."

He had no memory of the previous time they entered the interrogation room, but since the Princess had taken back the move, it meant they must have encountered danger.

No errors in the content, read it at a glance!

"Do not go in."

After a long silence, Housekeeper Mei Lin's voice finally came from the speaker on Dejin Hansa's neck:

"The new investigation results have arrived. 'Europa Telecom' cooperated with us to pull the call records of Suxi and Su Nake. They had a phone call an hour ago. I will now play the call recording for you."

As soon as the voice fell, a burst of noisy environmental sound came out. During the recording, the person making the call seemed to be walking.

The call recording was not long, only a few minutes. The content was roughly that Su Nake was calling his sister Suxi, who was in the laundry room at the time, from the third floor of the clock tower, asking her to come to the third floor, saying he had found some clues.

Suxi wanted to report the finding of the clues to the sheriff, but was stopped by Su Nake, who only told his sister to hurry over.

Out of trust in her brother, Suxi made an excuse to go to the bathroom, left the team, and left the laundry room alone, returning to the team about 15 minutes later.

Due to physiological reasons, women take longer to go to the bathroom than men, so Suxi's team members didn't notice anything unusual.

"It seems that as early as that time, Suxi, who was tricked to the third floor by a phone call from Su Nake, had already been killed by the ghost and turned into a ghost." Ning Zhe tucked in his wings and found two suspicious points.

1. How did the initial Officer John turn into a ghost? Why was only he killed by the ghost, while Officer Carmack, who was with him, was still alive?

2. Now, the known officers who have turned into ghosts: Suxi, Su Nake, John... What do the things that happened before their deaths have in common?

(End of chapter)