Chapter 291 Some Challenges

Several people talked at the door of the torture room, but naturally nothing was achieved.

At this time, there was a rustling sound of footsteps coming from the darkness inside the iron gate. Everyone looked over and saw Susie coming out with a puzzled look on her face: “What’s wrong? Didn’t you say we were going to act together? Why don’t you come over?”

Dekin Hansa and the three team members looked at each other and clenched their guns in tacit understanding.

They had no evidence to prove that Susie was a ghost, but they unconditionally believed in Her Highness Plumeria’s judgment. If Her Highness said that Susie was a ghost, then it must be so. Sheriff Ebonik might still not be able to accept the situation before him, but they would never doubt Her Highness’s judgment.

Ning Zhe leaned over the cabinet and nodded slightly: “This group of people are indeed very professional.”

Several members of the investigation team should be veterans who have followed the Upgraders to deal with more than one strange incident and are already familiar with the ways of survival.

“What’s wrong with you?” Susie looked puzzled, looking at the gun in Dejin Hansa’s hand faintly pointing at her, frowned and said, “Sir, this is not funny.”

“Put your hands up so we can check your fingers.” Dejin Hansa’s expression remained unchanged, without any hesitation: “I’m not kidding you.”

Susie was stunned. Just as she was about to say something, she was blocked from speaking by the sharp looks from the four people.

“Didn’t we check it just now? Why do we have to check it again?” Susie curled her lips, raised her right hand and stretched it to everyone, and turned her palm over several times so that everyone could see it clearly.

“Have you seen enough?” Susie said speechlessly, “If you have seen enough, then leave quickly. They haven’t found my missing brother yet.”

Sheriff Ebonick also said upon seeing this: “Yes, it is more important to find someone now…”

At this time, the voice of housekeeper Meilin came from Dejin Hansa’s earphone: “Check his left hand, immediately.”

The English words ‘he’ and ‘she’ have different pronunciations. Dejin Hansa immediately recognized the change in Meilin’s words. He raised his gun without hesitation, pointed it at Susie, who had a speechless expression on her face, and shouted, “Put out your left hand!”

The remaining three members of the investigation team reacted quickly and pointed their guns at Susie’s chest without asking any questions.

“Ah?” Susie was stunned for a moment, frowned and said, “Isn’t it that men check the left hand and women check the right hand? Men check the left hand, and women check the right hand. You have already checked my right hand, right?”

Dejin Hansa looked indifferent. In the headset, the voice of housekeeper Meilin was still ringing:
“I have just contacted the county police department and retrieved the origin and family information of Susie and Sunak. They were not siblings at first, but brothers.”

“Susi’s original name was Su Boer. He was diagnosed with gender identity disorder when he was in the second grade of middle school. He believed that he was a woman who was born in a man’s body by mistake. With the support of his family, he underwent a full set of gender reassignment surgery at the age of 18, changed his name to Susi, and changed the gender registered on his ID card to female.”

“But his original gender is still male.”

No matter what is written on the ID card, or how colleagues and friends address each other in society, men are men and women are women. Ghosts don’t care about you. Ghosts are the rules.

Rules are rigid, rules are absolute, and rules are never politically correct.

As Dekinhansa adjusted the headphone mode to external speaker, several team members and Sheriff Ebonick heard the original words of Housekeeper Mary, and the almost frozen air fell into dead silence.

The voice of housekeeper Meilin was calm and gentle, reaching Ning Zhe’s ears from afar, making this innocent boy who won the Three Good Students Award every year in school stunned. He felt that his English listening and physiological cognitive functions had been challenged.

Everyone’s eyes were simultaneously cast towards Susie’s left hand which was pressed against her side – during the inspection downstairs, her left hand had been intentionally or unintentionally tucked into her sleeve, and she put on her gloves again after the inspection, but because she was a ‘woman’, no one paid too much attention to it.

“I’m sorry, Ms. Susie, but I need to see your left hand now.” Dejin Hansa maintained a standard gun-holding shooting posture, his shoulders motionless: “I repeat one last time, stretch out your hand!”

In the stalemate atmosphere, the expressions on Susie’s face slowly disappeared bit by bit: confusion, speechlessness, surprise, shame…all kinds of expressions and looks that belonged to a living person were like stone sculptures sinking into the water and disappeared, leaving only a pale dead face without any expression, staring at everyone in front of the door with resentful eyes.

Susie slowly backed away expressionlessly, retreating into the darkness behind the door, leaving behind only a narrow corridor that exuded a foul smell, like a gaze into the abyss.

“Captain, why didn’t you shoot just now?” asked a member of the investigation team.

“It’s meaningless.” Dejin Hansa shook his head and said, “If we don’t lock onto the necromancer’s body, all our attacks will be in vain.”

Susie is just a servant of the Necromancer. Killing her will not cause any harm to the Necromancer, but will easily add unnecessary variables.

“So what should we do next?” the team member asked again, “Should we chase them in? It seems very dangerous in there.”

He had no memory of entering the torture chamber last time, but since His Highness regretted his move, it meant that they must be in danger.

“Don’t go in.”

After a long silence, the voice of housekeeper Meilin finally came from the speaker on Dejin Hansa’s neck:

“New investigation results have been delivered. Europa Telecom has cooperated with us to retrieve the call records of Susie and Sunak. They had a call an hour ago. I will now play the call recording for you.”

As soon as the words fell, a noisy ambient sound came out. During the recording, the person who called seemed to be walking.

The recorded call was not long, only a few minutes. The content was roughly that Sunak called his sister Susie, who was in the laundry room on the third floor of the clock tower, and asked her to come to the third floor, saying that he had found some clues.

Susie wanted to report the clues she had found to the sheriff, but was stopped by Sunak, who only asked her sister to come over quickly.

Out of trust in her brother, Susie left the group and left the laundry room alone, using the excuse of going to the bathroom, and returned to the group about 15 minutes later.

Due to physiological reasons, women take longer to go to the toilet than men, so Susie’s team members did not notice anything.

“It seems that as early as that time, Susie, who was tricked by Sunak’s phone call to the third floor, had been killed by the ghost and turned into a ghost.” Ning Zhe shrank his wings and found two suspicious points.
1. How did Officer John become a ghost? Why was he the only one killed by the ghost, while Officer Carmack, who was traveling with him, was still alive?

2. The police officers who are now known to have become ghosts: Susie, Sunak, John… What do the things that happened before their deaths have in common?

(End of this chapter)