The Death Knell

Both the orangutan and the little jelly beans were quick to answer, and Su Ming had nothing to add. He was studying the pulpy brains and various bone fragments on the wall.

It is true that the bullet was fired from the mouth, and the posture did not change much. The angle of incidence of the bullet penetrated the entire skull from bottom to top. The large-caliber Magnum bullet completely destroyed the brain tissue.

Strangler licked the white slime on the wall, but there was no clear memory to read.

"Lori, come here, I need your help next." Su Ming stood up and moved a little away. This small hole could not accommodate too many people.

Black Alice came over. She looked at the body on the ground with some doubts: "What can I do?"

"There is a small spell in the shadow magic called 'Shadow Magic', which can deduce the shadow changes that happened here before in reverse time. I need you to use this magic now." Su Ming turned the God Killer in his hand into a The lantern was then thrust towards the ceiling of the cave above his head.

The light source is now available, perhaps a little stronger than when the murder occurred, but the sight is also clearer.

"Ah, yes, there is this magic." After being reminded, Lori recalled that Eve had indeed used similar skills: "Give me some time, I will recall the spell."

She knows too many magic spells, and because she can copy anyone's spellcasting ability at will, she memorizes all the magic spells by rote.

Although I don’t usually use it, so I can’t remember it clearly, but that’s not a problem.

First mobilize the shadow energy in the body, and then follow the feeling, feel the power contained in the shadow dimension and the low voice, and feel the ubiquitous entrance to the passage.

Where there is light, there is shadow, and her shadow begins to twist as if it comes alive in an instant, and the passage leading to the shadow plane connects her soul, and she feels that Eve's thoughts are on the unknown other side.

Communicating and communicating took place on a higher level, Eve taught her the magical spells and gestures, and then the girl's image disappeared with the shadow.

"Come, shadow, reveal yourself in the light!"

Use it as soon as you learn it. Lori made the hand seals very skillfully and issued orders in conjunction with the spell. As a user of shadow magic, that is, the master of the shadow world, she can now order all shadows to obey the command.

All the shadows in the cave began to sway under the illumination of the God Killer's lantern, as if they were boarding a small boat in the waves. They began to roll and boil, and then gradually formed an incorporeal shadow.

The shadows floated like dust, and then quickly merged together, becoming more three-dimensional and clearer, and then began to deform like plasticine.

A few seconds later, two more people appeared in the cave. They looked like two light black people. They were light and floating among the people like ghosts.

From the dark tunnel where everyone came from, the cold air seemed to fill the air.

"Let's begin." Su Ming took a few steps back, leaving a larger space for the actor, and quietly observed.

"Let's begin." Lori repeated the word and gave the order to Shadow.

The two dark figures began to move. First, a small figure who seemed to be carrying a flag behind his back walked into the cave and said something to another figure who was already in the cave.

You can see the shadow's mouth moving, but you can't hear any sound. The scene is like a mime projected in VR.

The exchange between the two didn't seem to be pleasant. The figure who was originally lying on the pile of animal skins sat up, dancing and making various gestures, while his mouth kept growing, as if he was making a long sound.

Then the two communicated for dozens of seconds, and they didn't know what the result was. Both parties calmed down a lot, and then they sat together against the wall where the body was found.

They were still communicating in low voices, their heads shaking slightly, probably talking about relatively peaceful things, such as shared memories.

One of the black shadows basically overlapped with the body on the ground now, but the other shadow was still moving.

First they got together and said something. The second shadow shook his head in disappointment, then took out a gun from his waist, stuffed it into the first shadow's mouth and fired.

The spray-like shadow fragments flew up the wall and overlapped with the brains and bone fragments. The other shadow lowered his head and was silent for a while before standing up, putting the weapon in his hand into the corpse's hand, and then stood on the same spot. in a daze.

The shadow man couldn't see the eyes and other body details, and could only see his mouth trembling. A few minutes later, the shadow carrying the 'reliance flag' left the cave, but suddenly disappeared at the entrance of the cave.

"Is it teleportation?" Bobo had already figured it out, and he filled his pipe thoughtfully.

"It should be so. It appeared and disappeared suddenly. The safety door disguised as a water pump on the outside was still locked from the inside when we came." Diana pinched her chin, as if she understood a lot of things.

The orangutan looked at the silent death knell and added: "The corpse spots have already appeared, but rigor mortis has just begun. This means that the murder occurred within two to four hours. In view of the fact that the virus carriers were sent to the scientific research department of the Hall of Justice Judging from the time, Gluck should have been killed shortly after leaving the hall and returning here."

"Hey, dear friends, I wonder if you have noticed something."

Harry not only hugged Diana, but also stretched out his hand to hold Lori's waist, with a playful look of hugging her from left to right:

"Our dead caveman has no means of transportation, and it is a full 41 kilometers away from the Hall of Justice in a straight line. Although he is wearing a leather jacket, he has no money, no bus pass, no bicycle, and no superpowers. If you just come back here by running..."

"The time doesn't match up, right?" Bobo answered, he knew.

The distance of the full marathon is 42.195 kilometers, and the world record for ordinary humans is one hour and fifty-nine minutes.

The straight-line distance between here and the Hall of Justice is 41 kilometers. Whether you take the streets or sewers, the actual distance will only be much longer than this number.

Even if Gluck could run back here within three hours, if he was killed immediately after strenuous exercise, the body would immediately produce rigor mortis due to the accumulation of lactic acid in the muscles, which would contradict the results of the autopsy.

"Can we think that the murderer brought him back here?"

Diana looked at Lori, hoping that she could use magic to push the traces of the first figure's existence further forward.

At the beginning of the shadow play just now, the victim's shadow was lying on the bed at the beginning, and it was hard to tell where it came from.

Lori tried again, but something strange happened. In the shadow's performance, Gluck had been sleeping on the pile of animal skins for several hours. It was impossible to go to the Hall of Justice.

"Alibi? This is interesting." Bobo showed a detective's smile, took a deep breath from his pipe, and said in the smoke: "The clues left by the Hall of Justice led us here, but here The new clue refutes the previous one, so what’s the problem?”