Chapter 42 'we didn't call you”

42 “we didn't call you”

The game system continued to display new prompts.

"[Mission Content]: Investigate the cultist murder case."

"Detection of the investigation target's death; your mission is considered completed."

"[Investigation Progress]: 100%."

"You remained calm and collected in the face of a murderer with super abilities, turning a passive situation into an active one and executing the mission target on the spot. Throughout the mission, you have demonstrated an extraordinary level of perception, calmness, and intelligence, and your tactical abilities are beyond the reach of ordinary people."

"You have excellently completed the mission. As a lone wolf without any teammates, you are the only winner of this mission." The initial posting of this chapter occurred via Ñøv€l-B!n.

"Based on your mission performance, you have been awarded the title [Pursuer]."

"[Pursuer]: You are a hunter with a keen intuition, and no prey can escape your tracking and hunting once targeted. You can use this title when speaking in the forum. If you use the title, your forum nickname will be prefixed with 'Pursuer.'"

Jonathan took a deep breath. The decision to personally kill Semanuick was one he had made, and so far, it seemed to be an exceedingly correct choice.

Once a player dies, their information will be reported in the forum. From the moment Jonathan decided to remove the pollution around him, he had contemplated how to kill while avoiding being reported in the forum.

He thought for a long time, planning to take a little risk and try to create an accidental death. He couldn't kill someone with his own hands but could use something else to kill his prey, like drowning or falling from a height. However, Jonathan didn't know the game system's judgment criteria. If the system considered human factors in causing death, his plan would be ineffective.

So Jonathan needed to take a risk and test the game system's judgment criteria to see if he could avoid the death reports.

However, Semanuick's super ability thwarted Jonathan's plan. If his ability was related to loading and saving progress, then it was worth stripping him of his superpower.

With such a super ability, Jonathan would have even greater security for survival.

He valued his life immensely. He had no way to properly protect himself in a dangerous situation like the Second World. Life is a game with no second chances, and he doesn't want to risk his own life. But Semanuick's Death Reincarnation could give him another chance, increase his fault tolerance, and provide an opportunity for a desperate counterattack and restart in extreme situations.

Jonathan hoped he would never trigger Death Reincarnation. He hated death, and if he ever triggered Death Reincarnation, it meant he was cornered and facing an unprecedented crisis. Jonathan wanted his life to go smoothly and keep any threats to him at bay.

Jonathan could imagine that after Semanuick's death was reported, the forum would undoubtedly experience another wave of commotion. But before checking the forum on his phone, he needed to deal with the corpse.

After visiting the Xenobiotics creature specimen gallery in the basement of the investigation building, looking at a human corpse didn't disturb him much.

Just as Jonathan reached out to move the corpse, a blood bubble emerged from Semanuick's skin. Sensing something was wrong, he suddenly pulled his hand back and retreated to a considerable distance.

The corpse's skin continued to bubble with blood, and in a short time, the corpse melted into a pool of blood. A few blood-soaked clothes lay silently on the ground.

"Is this... the natural disintegration that occurs after Heterobloods is killed?" Jonathan was stunned.

Martin had mentioned this to him: only Heterobloods who had highly assimilated the divine blood would experience automatic disintegration after death. However, these Heterobloods still couldn't escape the curse of bodily mutation and death.

After returning home, Jonathan takes off his clothes and takes a shower. He then boils a pot of water, throws in the clothes he wore when he killed someone today, and the knives he used, and boils them in hot water.

In various horror movies and crime dramas, killers often dismember and boil their victims to prevent the victim's genetic information from being identified by the police using technology, thus determining the victim's identity.

16:00

Jonathan is now doing the same thing, boiling the clothes and knives with bloodstains or human tissue, completely destroying any remaining material.

After boiling the clothes, he will air dry them and tear a few holes to make it look like they accidentally got damaged and can no longer be worn, then throw them in the garbage can downstairs. As for the knife, he will leave it open in the kitchen. Of course, he won't use this knife to cut vegetables.

He finds the pot used to boil the clothes and knife repulsive, and in the future, he will keep it unused on the bottom shelf of the cabinet. Several spare cooking utensils are at home, which are enough for cooking.

While waiting for the clothes to boil, Jonathan checks the forum to see what's going on. However, his phone suddenly buzzes a few times, and a call comes in.

As soon as he sees the caller ID, his heart skips a beat.

"Hello, is this Mr. Jonathan? This is..." The male operator on the other end of the phone gives the address of the police station on the street where Jonathan lives.

"Hello, do you need something?" Jonathan politely asks.

"Well, we found through the city surveillance system that you followed a man for a long distance behind him when you passed Broadway this morning. The man is about 1.8 meters tall, muscular and sturdy, wearing a gray shirt, black pants, and a sun hat... Do you remember him?"

"...Yes," Jonathan chooses his words carefully and says, "I thought that man was suspicious. He looked a bit like the killer reported on the news, so I followed him for a while to observe him. But he turned around and questioned me why I was following him. I saw he was confident and didn't look like a killer, so I stopped following him... He's not really a killer, is he?"

"He is," the operator confirms. "Please try to recall the suspect's direction after he left and tell us. This will be a significant breakthrough for our case."

"I only remember that he went south," Jonathan says.

"Is there any other information?" the operator asks.

"No," Jonathan lies without changing his expression.

The operator asks a few more questions, and Jonathan answers each one vaguely and indistinctly, seeming confused.

"Thank you for providing this information. If there is any other situation that requires further questioning, we will continue to call you," the operator says.

The call ends, and Jonathan falls into contemplation. Before he can think for three seconds, another call comes in.

To Jonathan's surprise, it is still the local police station number. He answers the phone curiously and hears a female voice saying, "Hello, we are from the Broadway police station, and this morning you ..."

"Um." Jonathan pauses, "Didn't your colleagues just call me?"

The female on the phone confusedly responds, "Wait, sir, our police station didn't call you."