At this moment.
Outside Professor Tao's office.
Metal frames held up enormous sheets of reflective fabric, like a box made of cloth wrapping around the room. The lights were harsh and blinding.
Duan Hua and Officer Tao Wutian stood within it, waiting silently.
A full ten minutes had already passed.
Tao Wutian could no longer endure it. He could not understand why someone of Officer Duan's rank would blindly trust a student named Liu Di.
And why he had so quickly requisitioned surgical shadowless lamps from the surrounding hospitals to construct such a bizarre scene.
This was too absurd!
It looked like some kind of ritual altar!
How could this possibly find the murderer? How could it possibly bring them to justice?
In all this wasted time, the murderer had probably already vanished without a trace!
"Officer Duan, we can't go on like this!"
Tao Wutian was furious. Ignoring his superior's orders, he strode forward and pushed open the office door!
However.
The instant the door opened.
Tao Wutian froze.
The room looked as though it had been slashed apart by countless blades. Books and furniture of all kinds lay shattered.
The young man named Liu Di stood quietly against the glow of his father's reading lamp. His snow-white shirt was covered in bloodstains and tears!
Tao Wutian swept his gaze over the walls again.
The ceiling, walls, and even the floor were covered in black silhouettes. Their long blades lay scattered about; some had lost their heads, while most had been torn to pieces!
Black blood like ink was splattered everywhere.
They were all corpses, twisted and crooked like vivid ink-wash paintings, filling the entire room!
Duan Hua entered as well and was immediately stunned.
"What... are these?!"
Tao Wutian had gone completely rigid. The sight before him was