Chapter 814: Troubles Continuously

For Duanmu Ai, the biggest benefit of this cleaning was that she made a friend. At least in her opinion, Fang Zexia was a pretty interesting girl, at least she wouldn't gossip like those idiots in her class. I heard that Fang Zexia was also a gymnast and was busy training every day.

Well, Duanmu Ai was once again convinced that the main reason for bullying was less homework.

All students should be given more homework until they can't sleep before twelve o'clock, so they won't have time to bully others.

However, Duanmu Ai's luck seemed to end here.

She had just returned to the office, and before her butt was warm in the chair, the phone rang, and then Dot's voice came from the other end of the microphone.

"Hurry, Duanmu, there's a case!"

"At least let me drink some water, I just picked up the garbage from that damn park!"

"Murder case."

"I'll be there soon."

Duanmu Ai was going to complain a few more words, but when she heard about the murder case, she immediately took it back, and then she left the office without even drinking the coffee brought by Lumiel.

After all, murders are very troublesome no matter where they happen to be.

Moreover, murders that require one's help are usually related to electronic demons.

When Duanmu Ai arrived at the scene, a cordon had been set up, and there were people watching the excitement everywhere. The police turned their backs to the scene and stared at the onlookers. Duanmu Ai showed her ID to the police officer on duty outside, who took her into the crime scene, and then Duanmu Ai saw it at a glance...

"Wow."

Looking at the telephone pole in front of her, Duanmu Ai was speechless.

"Although I admit that electronic demons are quite creative in killing people, this is too creative, isn't it?"

No wonder Duanmu Ai sighed like this, seeing that above the telephone pole in front of her, a corpse was hanging upside down, with its arms spread out, as if it was entangled in the wires, and its legs were also spread wide apart, just like this, maintaining an upside-down posture with its head down and legs up, and the whole body was in pieces, as if it had been scratched by some large animal.

"Hey, you're here."

At this moment, Dot also came over. He deliberately avoided the telephone pole that was bleeding profusely, and watched several electronic demons carefully pulling the body off the telephone pole... Well, this thing is basically rotten.

"What's the situation?"

"It's not clear yet. In short, the only thing we know is that the victim died miserably."

"You don't need to tell me that."

Duanmu Ai complained.

"Tell me something useful, for example, why did you call me here?"

"Does that outfit look familiar to you?"

Dot pointed at the corpse, and then at the uniform on Duanmu Ai. The latter raised his head and looked back and forth between the corpse and himself several times.

"Don't you say this is a student who has shown off?"

"Unfortunately, I guessed right."

As he spoke, Dot handed over a blood-stained student ID.

"The deceased is named Saki Konishi, a third-year student at Shujin. We just contacted her family, who didn't even know she was missing. According to them, Saki Konishi went home normally last night, and there was nothing unusual. This morning, her family found that she was not in the bedroom after getting up, but they didn't care, because she said yesterday that the school was going to the park to clean up, and they thought Saki Konishi was just participating in the school's social activities."

"That idiot principal will be very happy to hear this news."

Duanmu Ai silently complained, and then glanced around.

"Isn't this a redevelopment zone? So someone took Saki Konishi away in the middle of the night, killed her and put her here? Or did they kill her directly here?"

The so-called redevelopment zone is a description of the edge of the city. After all, because of the Doomsday, the human population of this world has been greatly reduced. A city is enough to accommodate millions of people, and now there are only a few hundred thousand people here at most. In this case, large tracts of abandoned urban areas have been temporarily closed off to be used for development and transfer when the population increases in the future.

Because of this, there are almost no people here, which may be the reason why it has not been discovered until now.

"Wait, who called the police?"

"Over there, go ask yourself."

Dotte pointed to the river, Duanmu Ai turned his head and saw several girls with dark green long hair in the river not far away, clinging to the rocks in the water, looking at this side anxiously, their fish tails on the lower body slapping on the water surface, drifting with the current.

"… Mermaids."

Duanmu Ai sighed silently, then stood up and came to the shore, and seeing her appearance, the mermaids also came over like carp.

"Did you call the police?"

Looking at the mermaid in front of him, Duanmu Ai asked—the reason why electronic demons are called electronic demons is because the forms of these electronic demons in the world are almost the same as the monsters in myths and legends. I don't know whether they can only form this form, or they are like this. Of course, this is something for electronic demon experts to study, and Duanmu Ai doesn't care about it.

Mermaids are relatively easy to get along with among electronic demons. They are relatively kind and will not kill people at will. Most of the time it is still safe.

Well, of course, this easy-going nature is the conclusion you draw after comparing leopards and lions.

"Yes, yes."

Hearing Duanmu Ai's question, the leading mermaid nodded timidly.

"Can you tell me what happened?"

"Of course..."

The leading mermaid looked at her companions, then looked at Duanmu Ai and said.

"Actually, it's nothing serious. Last night, we sisters went to sing in the nearby river..."

"Well..."

It's not a big deal that mermaids like to sing, but the problem is that they can't be heard by people. There are stories in history that sailors were fascinated by mermaids' singing and then the ship was destroyed and people died. In reality, this group of electronic demons also reproduced this classic. The mermaid's singing is beautiful, but it depends on whether you have the life to listen to it.

So mermaids are strictly prohibited from singing in human gathering places. If you want to sing, find a deserted place in the wilderness and dance by yourself.

"We had been making a fuss all night and didn't come back to rest until the early morning. But it was so foggy outside that we couldn't see anything, so we all fell asleep on the river bank. We didn't know how long we slept before we woke up and found water drops hitting our heads. Then we looked up and saw..."

Speaking of this, the mermaid's face was pale.

That is, anyone who wakes up and looks up to see a torn corpse above their head will be scared, and the electronic demon is no exception.

"So you didn't hear anything? Fighting? Or the sound of flapping wings? The sound of car tires?"

"No."

The mermaids shook their heads. The electronic demons are not humans. If there were really any sounds, they would definitely hear them. Although mermaids are not the kind of race with particularly keen hearing, they are much better than humans.

"So didn't you find anything unusual when you came back last night?"

"No, if I have to say, the fog was very heavy, but it has been like this here for a while, and we are used to it."

"Well..."

Duanmu Ai glanced around. Even now, there was still a faint fog here. By the way, has it always been like this here? She didn't know, after all, the redevelopment area was basically abandoned and undeveloped. Generally, only electronic demons lived here. Occasionally, if someone got lost here, the electronic demons would send them back.

Of course, this was for those who followed the rules. Those who didn't would have been killed long ago.

After all, this was no longer the chaotic era.

Duanmu Ai shook her head helplessly, then stood up. At this time, she also saw Dot walking towards her with a lion - it was an electronic demon that looked like a living stone lion, and was considered to be quite pro-human, comparable to the electronic demon version of a police dog.

"What did you get?"

"The Lion said it found nothing, no footprints, no tire marks, nothing, it didn't even find any clues about the victim."

"So, she was brought here by a flying electronic demon?"

"I asked Pixie and Huapo who live nearby, and they didn't see any electronic demons flying over here."

While speaking, Dot pointed to a place not far away, and Duanmu Ai then saw a group of elves that were about the size of a palm and had transparent wings like insects, curiously sticking their heads out and looking over here.

By the way, don't look at this thing that is small and exquisite. You can crush it to death with one hand. A lightning strike from it will directly burn you.

Once again proves that any electronic demon is not easy to mess with.

"What a troublesome case."

"Yeah............"

Duanmu Ai also sighed.

"So you came to me..."

"We're from the same school, so you can investigate in the school to see if there are any clues or rumors about Konishi Saki. Since you're a student there, it should be easier for you to investigate this kind of thing than for us police officers."

"Of course I can investigate, but don't forget to pay the commission fee. I'm not doing charity."

"I know."

Dotte replied casually, and then he looked at Duanmu Ai.

"By the way, how is the case of the Phantom Thieves going?"

"There are some clues, and the rest depends on when we can catch the thieves red-handed."

"That's good."

Dotte nodded, with a worried look on his face.

"Hey, there have been so many troubles recently... I have a bad feeling, maybe this is just the beginning."

"You'd better pray that this is not the case, otherwise it will be a big trouble."

Hearing Dotte's sigh, Duanmu Ai directly complained, this is simply setting a flag for himself, and he is afraid that his death is not miserable enough?