Chapter 1167
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Chapter 1167 No Survivors
“Li family massacred?!”
Upon hearing Lin Qiye’s account, everyone in the [Night Curtain] team froze in place.
“That’s right.” Lin Qiye nodded slightly, “Last night, I did go to the Li family estate, but when I went there, this disaster hadn’t happened yet…”
Saying this, Lin Qiye turned to look at Jiang Er who was floating in midair, “Jiang Er, did you also go to the Li estate last night?”
Jiang Er was startled, lowering her head slightly, like a child who had done something wrong, “I…”
“I asked her to hack into the Li Group’s internal network,” An Qingyu spoke up voluntarily. “I thought, since we couldn’t directly take action against the Li family, we could delete all their materials related to the Old Town project, and also warn Li Jian Bai. Even if we were discovered, we’d just face disciplinary action at most. But when we took action last night, Li Jian Bai was still fine…
Oh, except his psychological defenses were somewhat fragile. He fainted after Jiang Er just said a few words.”
Lin Qiye looked at An Qingyu and Jiang Er, sighing helplessly.
“Why did you have to do this?”
“Um… actually, the two of us went too,” Bai Li Pangpang cautiously raised his hand.
“You and Cao Yuan? When did you go?”
Bai Li Pangpang and Cao Yuan recounted everything that happened last night.
After listening, Lin Qiye couldn’t help but laugh, “So, last night the five of us went in three separate waves, each taking turns to warn Li Jian Bai?”
“Chronologically speaking, Jiang Er and I were the last to act, and at that time the Li estate was still intact,” An Qingyu took the photos Lin Qiye handed over and passed them to Jiang Er for identification. “The two of us should be the last people to have seen them.”
Jiang Er’s gaze swept across the numerous photos, pointing at Li Jian Bai lying in the ditch, saying:
“That’s right, when I scared him unconscious last night, he also fell by this ditch.”
An Qingyu pondered:
“So when the Li family was massacred last night, Li Jian Bai hadn’t actually woken up from his unconscious state?
Then the person who wiped out the Li family must have acted shortly after we did. Generally, someone who faints from fright doesn’t stay unconscious for too long, so we can roughly estimate the time of the Li family massacre… around 2 to 3 AM last night.”
“No need to calculate so meticulously,” Lin Qiye calmly said,
“If I go to the scene, I’ll know everything that happened last night.”
…
Li family estate.
Led by Shi Wenxuan, Lin Qiye and the other four crossed the police line and entered the estate grounds.
As soon as they entered, Lin Qiye smelled the strong scent of blood. The vast estate was deathly silent, with black crows circling overhead, emitting piercing cries.
“After the case was transferred to us Nightwatchers, we immediately sealed off the scene. I brought Qian Duoduo to look, but unfortunately, we didn’t find anything substantial,” Shi Wenxuan led everyone through the courtyard, walking directly to the devastated mansion.
The top of the mansion had been sliced off at one corner, with debris scattered on the ground near the building. Judging from the cut marks, it looked like it had been sliced by some kind of blade. This scale of destruction was definitely not something an ordinary person could achieve.
An Qingyu squinted at the slash mark on the top, with one hand supporting his chin, as if deep in thought.
“Did you discover something?” Seeing An Qingyu’s eyes flicker, Jiang Er knew he must have found something and asked curiously.
“The direction of this slash is strange…”
“What’s strange about it?”
“This slash came from top to bottom,” An Qingyu extended his palm, making a horizontal cutting motion in the air toward the broken section of the mansion roof, as if simulating the scene at the time.
“To create such a cut, either someone jumped up with a blade to slash down, or they descended from above, slashing downward with momentum.”
“Descended from above?” Jiang Er blinked. “Are you saying they came by airplane?”
“…I’m saying they might not be human,” An Qingyu shrugged, his gaze falling on Lin Qiye who had already walked into the mansion. “Let’s see what Seven Night has to say.”
Lin Qiye walked through the messy reception hall, stopping in the center of the mansion.
His gaze swept across the blood-splattered walls around him, and he spoke softly:
“Black Pupil.”
A black shadow instantly crawled up his body, and the next moment, a crimson eye opened on Lin Qiye’s forehead!
In Lin Qiye’s vision, everything around him rapidly rewound. Under the gaze of that crimson eye, the veil of the past slowly lifted…
In just a moment, time was rewound to shortly after the party had begun. The mansion, walls, ceiling, and furniture were all intact. Footprints rapidly appeared on the floor, and crystal-like wine glasses floated and moved in the air, as if held by invisible hands moving through the party.
The Black Pupil’s secret-peering eye couldn’t directly observe living beings, and Jiang Er had hacked all the surveillance cameras in the area last night, making it impossible to review the footage. So Lin Qiye could only judge what happened last night based on the movement trajectories of these objects.
Soon, Lin Qiye’s gaze locked onto a wine glass that was floating upstairs.
The wine glass floated by the second-floor wall for a while, then suddenly fell to the ground, shattering into pieces. The footprints on the first floor paused simultaneously, as if the guests were wondering what had happened on the second floor.
Lin Qiye knew that was when he had used his [White Slash] ability to drag Li Jian Bai directly to the underground wine cellar.
Less than ten minutes later, the entrance to the wine cellar opened, and a set of footprints staggered up to the ground. Just as they were about to walk into the mansion, a thick wooden stick floated up behind the head position, striking hard at where the back of the head would be in midair.
Then a long mark was dragged across the muddy ground – that was Bai Li Pangpang and Cao Yuan dragging Li Jian Bai under a tree, hanging him up, and then beating him severely.
After that, Li Jian Bai’s shoe prints struggled back to the door, then a phone flew out, and the person collapsed on the ground.
“Here it comes…” Seeing this scene, Lin Qiye narrowed his eyes.
According to An Qingyu’s calculation, the person who massacred the Li family should have appeared during this time. His gaze swept across the surroundings, not missing any detail.
Where would he, or it, appear from?
Lin Qiye waited in place for more than ten minutes. Suddenly, a beam of light came from above, and the top of the mansion was directly slashed open!
Lin Qiye’s eyes contracted slightly as he quickly opened the door and walked into the mansion. Under the gap in the ceiling, he saw a pair of huge three-toed footprints pressing deep into the broken tiles.
Not human, three-toed feet, and very heavy, possibly with flight capability.
Lin Qiye quickly summarized the effective information.
After this shadow descended, the floating wine glasses frantically scattered in all directions. Then several slash marks tore through the walls and floor, countless silhouettes fell onto the tiles, and blood spread frantically across the tile surface.
