21st Century Necromancer-Chapter 783 - 779: The Delayed Suicide (Subscription and Monthly Tickets Wanted)

Officer Maori didn’t wait for the autopsy report to be finished before he headed back to the police station. A report like this would indeed not be ready in just a day or two. Since he couldn’t immediately obtain the relevant clues, Officer Maori could only start his investigation at the station with the available leads. freeweɓnovel.cѳm

Fortunately, it wasn’t entirely without clues— at least he now knew that the victim in the acid disposal case was a man, and the victim in the burning case was a woman, contrary to the genders initially suggested by the cases.

But this was no less arduous. Although the nature of the previous cases was atrocious with backbreaking difficulties in solving them, at least the identities of the victims were relatively clear. By following those identities, one would eventually yield some results. However, now that the identities of the victims had been overthrown, the previous clues were not entirely useless, but the direction of the investigation definitely needed to be adjusted. It was as if the investigations of the past few days had been in vain.

Moreover, the new investigation into the true identities of these two bodies was giving Officer Maori a headache; he felt that he would probably have to work overtime the entire month.

Just as Officer Maori was feeling troubled, the police station received another anonymous emergency call. There was another body in a certain warehouse.

This call immediately made Officer Maori groan; with three cases in hand, he feared he wouldn’t be able to return home for two consecutive months.

Yet as much as he groaned, as little as he wanted to work overtime, Officer Maori ultimately resigned himself to leading his subordinates towards the warehouse mentioned in the emergency call, even as he prayed that it was just a prank and someone was making a false alarm.

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Meanwhile, outside the warehouse mentioned in the emergency call, a man dressed in a professional suit who looked like a corporate slave was painfully entering the warehouse, clutching a briefcase.

He was diagnosed with advanced gastric cancer a few months ago and had since developed a death wish, preparing himself to commit suicide.

But just as he was about to open the warehouse door to enter, a little girl’s voice suddenly came from behind him, "Mister, do you know where this is? I can’t find Rai!"

The corporate-looking man turned his head upon hearing the voice and saw an adorable little girl wearing a white blouse and a dark blue skirt, with cute black shoes nervously fidgeting. Her chestnut hair was pinned with a cute hair clip, and her slightly shy look was especially heartwarming.

Faced with such an adorable child asking for help, it would be difficult for anyone to remain indifferent. Even though he had decided to kill himself, the man thought he should first get the child away before he proceeded, as letting such a small child witness his death here might leave her with a lifelong psychological scar.

So the man squatted down in front of the little girl and asked her, "What’s your name, little sister? Is there anything I can do to help you?"

"My name is Dian. Rai and I went out to buy watermelons, but we got separated." The little girl was Dian, and her voice carried a sob, making her sound as though she was on the verge of tears, "I was waiting for a traffic light to cross the street, Rai was ahead of me, but when I crossed the road, I couldn’t find her! Can you help me find Rai?"

"Your name is Dian? Don’t cry first, and tell uncle where you and Rai got separated." Although the man found it odd that parents nowadays would name their children Rai and Dian, he still tried to calm Dian’s emotions first, and help her find her lost companion.

Dian sobbed once, but under the man’s consolation, she still explained intermittently.

As the weather gradually moved into summer, the temperature within the Necromantic Space did not rise, but Rai still suggested that summer called for eating watermelon, and she convinced Akatsuki to use the previously saved pocket money as funds for the 6th Destroyer Squadron to buy a watermelon.

Worried that Rai might encounter some mishap on her own, Dian volunteered to accompany her.

The two were also fine on their way to the market selling watermelons, but when crossing the street, Rai, who was faster, crossed first, while Dian was a little slower and got stopped by a red light.

Good girl Dian didn’t run the red light but obediently waited on the other side of the road until it was green before she crossed.

However, when she had crossed the street and was chasing after Rai towards the market, she lost sight of Rai and couldn’t find her anywhere.

In her anxious search, Dian began looking around, but unfamiliar with the place, she not only failed to find Rai but also ended up getting lost herself after wandering for a while.

After listening to Dian’s explanation, while comforting her, the man looked around and found a grocery store. He took Dian to the grocery store, bought her an ice pop with the change he had, and then said to Dian, "Little sister, did you bring a mobile phone when you went out?"

Nowadays, most elementary school children have phones for parents and teachers to easily contact them, so the man specifically checked with Dian, figuring it would be much easier to find someone if they had a mobile phone.

Dian nodded obediently and pulled out the latest model smart phone, which was adorned with an official limited edition case for the 6th Destroyer Squadron.

The phone was something Chen Yu had bought them when Rai insisted on playing the Ship-girl game, and each member of the 6th Destroyer Squadron had one. The phone case was merchandise Akatsuki bought at an expo last time.

Seeing Dian pulling out her phone, the man was envious that a child could have such an expensive phone but quickly had Dian dial Rai’s number.

Through the phone contact, the man soon confirmed Rai was at a fruit market not too far away, and she too had noticed Dian’s disappearance and was waiting anxiously for her.

The man instructed Rai to stay put over the phone, and he planned to take Dian over and then return to the warehouse to proceed with his suicide.

However, Dian declined his kind offer.

"Mister, you must have something very important to do, right? I already feel bad for keeping you for so long, I can go on my own, you don’t need to trouble yourself for me!" Dian politely expressed her thanks to the man and at the same time insisted she could find Rai without his escort.

Seeing that Dian was confident, and considering it was broad daylight and she had a mobile phone, and had now confirmed contact, and he even drew her a map, it shouldn’t be hard to find her companion. The man did not insist.

But by the time he had bid Dian farewell and returned to the warehouse ready to proceed with his original plan for suicide, Officer Maori had already arrived with the police. They caught him just as he was about to kill himself and confiscated the drugs he had prepared for the act.