บท 103: You are fired! (2)
Warning! There is intense gore in this chapter. Read at your own risk or skip to the next chapter.
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After arriving at the police station and delivering the bulky man over to the police, we went back to the blown-up hotel with some backup since it wasn't time to reveal our abilities yet. It was a rainy evening and the fire that had engulfed the hotel was nearly extinguished.
"Why am I here? Shouldn't I be locked up? I think that would be better than leaving cuffs on my hand, no?" Ellias asked, showing off his cuffs that dampened his abilities.
"You will be evaluated based on your performance in the coming days, and the resulting rating will determine your eligibility for the FBI. While passing this test won't guarantee your acceptance, it will influence the decision-making process of the higher-ups," I explained, watching the cleaners clear out the debris.
"So this is like an entrance exam?" Ellias asked.
"Sort of," I replied.
"Sir we found something!" a cleaner called out, waving in our direction. "There is some strange metal under this hotel!"
"Move back, let me have a look," Chief Martian ordered. Yeah, that's the name I came up with at last; Chief Martian fits him well.
Chief Martian cleared out the rest of the debris in a minute by transforming his arms into sweeping tools and putting the debris aside in a pile, revealing what looked like a door to a fortified bunker from underneath.
"Looks like they prepared well for this," Chief Martian stated.
I expected this much from him, the one who is pulling the strings from behind the pirates; however, it's good that I didn't choose to come here instead of running out of the front door. This fortified bunker would have taken me a minute to break into if Wally had put a virus in the door lock and allowed it to open by itself.
"I will go inside to check it out, Allen, Illiya, follow me, officer can you please look after that kid? Although he won't run away, we can't be sure if they will try to assassinate him again," Tommy spoke.
"I will take care of him, don't worry," Chief Martian spoke, allowing us to go ahead and check out the bunker.
"I smell blood, it's a possible murder case," Tommy murmured under his breath, knowing that he was loud enough to let us hear it. "Did they kill their own to remove all the evidence?"
The outside door of the bunker that lay flat on the ground was easily ripped off by Sylvia, which shocked a couple of the officers. This was the first time they saw us use any sort of powers and expected her to be a Strength Force user or something.
The door led us opened a way to a staircase which had another door at the end of the other side. After walking in, Sylvia tried to rip it off as well, but due to her being in disguise, she backed off after showing the others that she couldn't break it. It was a wise decision indeed, I would have done the same in her place.
"Six digits code with all kind of signs, Wally hack it," I ordered as Wally climbed down from my shoulder, still in his invisible state, to hack the door and open the door. Since it would automatically lock down if I put in the wrong code it was a good idea to back off and let Wally find it out.
From the perspective of the officers outside, it would seem like I was the one opening the door but from a close range, it would be a different case.
Creak
The door slid open revealing the horrific massacre inside the room...
Five dead bodies lay at different positions in the large room made of extraterrestrial alloy. It seemed to have been built for a one-hour stay, so they didn't have any supplies.
There was blood splattered at every corner of the room. The horrific sight of the exploded head almost made Sylvia and Tommy barf as soon as they saw it, but they were able to control themselves and walked out of the bunker coughing heavily while I walked inside with a look of wonder on my face.
"Chief Martian, don't send anyone down here! I will run a blood splatter analysis!" I shouted from inside the bunker.
Maybe they were too shocked to see two FBI agents walk out of a crime scene while staggering that they couldn't say anything to me.
I looked across the room at first to see if there was a way out other than the main entrance but found none, and since the door was locked from the inside, it was likely the work of a meta with teleportation ability or the murderer was still hiding inside the room. It couldn't be the work of a mage since there were only stab wounds on the victims.
"Wally check for life signs in the bunker," I ordered, looking around the room.
"One life sign detected, and that is yours, Mr. Allen," Wally reported.
'Great... So we are dealing with a teleportation-type meta as well,' I thought.
The murder had happened from different angles since the drops of blood fell further away from where it could reach if the weapon hit the victim from a long range. It seemed as if someone brutally stabbed the man at the entrance hallway in his neck from the right side, right side lung and leg, indicating that the murderer was left-handed.
The first victim was pushed back and held with an arm from below because his clothes were pressed up high leaving a small fold in them, and since the victim was six feet tall, the murderer would be smaller than six feet, probably around five feet or less.
The pattern was also note-worthy as it seemed like the one navy soldiers used to strike their enemies dead with a surprise. It left a clear indication of his previous job.
The surprised look of betrayal on the face of the second victim, whose neck was cleanly cut in a single strike, testified that the victim knew the murderer, which meant that he/she was probably a co-worker or a person she knew.
The murderer was also the last person to walk in the room because the people inside were either stunned, frozen by his actions, or tried to run away from the door, except one who might have done the opposite.
In conclusion, the murderer walked in with his first victim, suddenly pushed him and held him against the side of the wall before stabbing his neck, lung and leg and letting him bleed to his death. He/she then moved to his second victim who was standing completely frozen in the middle of the room, stunned by his/her actions, to deliver a clean cut at her neck, killing her instantly.
He/she then moved instantly to the back of the third victim who tried to back off to a corner and stabbed his heart, before instantly reappearing somehow on the top of his/her fourth victim's head who was diagonally on the other end of the room from his/her third victim and stabbing him through the skull.
He/she finally moved on to the last victim who stupidly thought that he could escape the room only to meet the worst fate in their bunch. The murderer had pounced on him from above and made him fall to the ground before turning him around and watching him scream in pain as he/she stabbed his stomach three times, and his heart two times before brutally stabbing his head through the right ear and ripping it off at such strength that it slipped away from the weapon and hit the wall, only to explode on impact, leaving the whole room splashed with its parts.
I narrowed it down pretty easily after running the blood splatter analysis and came to the conclusion that the murderer was a five feet tall, left-handed ex-navy soldier with a teleportation-type meta ability who seemed to have joined the pirates to kill as many as he wanted, fully embracing his psychopathic nature and becoming a full-fledged serial killer.
The corpses were fresh and didn't give off any smell, indicating that they were likely killed after we had left. So, the murderer got the order to eliminate them after we walked out alive and made it out of their trap without a single injury.
'He got rid of any sources of clues that we could get from them by killing all of them. I wonder if he wanted to keep them alive in the first place, this place is only large enough to shelter ten six to seven people, it doesn't have any supplies, not even any water. He might have been planning to let them starve to death if they ever lost their usefulness. Cruel but efficient, I like his method, not that I will actually apply it though,' I thought.
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