Chapter 26 The Murderer Provokes the Police
Chapter 26 The Murderer Provokes the Police
Rosalie shivered in fear, hiding behind Zeke. She couldn’t bring herself to look.
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Stephen was the first to enter the room. He was limping along slowly.
I couldn’t tell if it was just my imagination, but he seemed to be trembling.
ut I wasn’t sure if this trembling was out of fear or excitement.
“Madeline…“his voice was hoarse and unpleasant. The destruction of his sound chord rendered his voice harsh to listen to
“Is it Madeline?” Zeke frowned. He called out as he switched on his phone’s flashlight.
Bang! With a thud, the woman standing there collapsed to the ground.
Zeke’s expression darkened as he quickly grabbed a stick from the ground. He scanned the surroundings vigilantly and found that the woman was a corpse. that
*Arghh!” Despite her resilience as a medical student, Rosalie had never seen such a sight. She screamed in fear, covered her eyes, and crouched down..
It took her a while to finally lower her hands. She tearfully pleaded, “Zeke, my legs are numb. I can’t look at her. Please check if it’s Madeline”
She dared not look at the body, fearing it might be me.
And neither did I.
Taking a deep breath, I summoned the courage to approach that corpse with Zeke.
Zeke exhaled a breath of relief as soon as he saw
saw the face clearly. However, my body became tense.
It wasn’t my body.
Stephen retreated and fell to the ground, his gaze erratic and his eyes gradually heating up. Suddenly, as if going mad, he ran out of the dormitory, shouting at the surroundings. “Come out!)
“Show yourselves!”
I watched Stephen in horror, but unsure if he was mentally unstable and possibly suffering from dissociative identity disorder.
Could it be that he didn’t know he had killed so many people?
“It’s not Madeline” Zeke dropped the stick. He furrowed his brows as he called the police station. Soon, the sound of sirens filled the air.
Rosalie sat despondently on the ground. She suddenly broke down into tears.
“Maddy! Where’s Maddy?”
She couldn’t bring herself to look at the body, yet she felt relief knowing it wasn’t me
Zeke went outside to look for Stephen as the police and coroner arrived at the scene, but he was not there.
stopped struggling and slumped onto the ground.
And I wondered when this killing spree would come to an end.
The victim appears to be around 23 years old. Her skin remained elastic, suggesting she died around ten minutes ago. She was calm before death, possibly under the influence of drugs. The coroner briefly analysed the scene and added, “The victim had no car piercings. They forcibly inserted the earrings while she was still alive. They removed and reattached her nails, which were probably not her own.
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Chapter 26 The Murderer Provokes the Police
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Listening to the coroner’s analysis, I weakly smiled. How could she have died just ten minutes ago, when it took Stephen half an hour to bring us here?
Suddenly, I looked up and started trembling all over, Could it be that there was more than one murderer?
Does Stephen have an accomplice? Or were there two perpetrators with strikingly similar methods?
Following his colleagues back to the station, Zeke immediately ordered a search for Stephen
“Eind him, but don’t startle him. Just bring him back.
“From his behaviour, he knows there’s a body at the orphanage, but he doesn’t know the exact location. Rosalie shivered as she held a cup of water and had a coat draped over her shoulder.
I sat beside her and leaned on her shoulder.
If she knew that souls truly existed in this world, would she be scared to sleep at night?
I chuckled weakly as I rested my head against Rosalie’s shoulder, lost in thought.
All of this felt like a nightmare.
When I woke up, where would I go from here?
“Captain Palmer! The results are out! None of the fingernails on the corpse belong to the victim. After conducting the test, we determined that the fingernails on the corpse did not belong to the victim. It belonged to… His colleague hesitated to
continue.
Zeke frowned and urged, “Go on.”
“They belong to Madeline.
I watched as Zeke dropped the cigarette butt he was holding, sparks flying as it hit the ground.
His colleague’s shock was probably because they suspected me of being the killer few days ago.
What kind of killer would pull out their own nails and place them on the victim’s body?
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