Lin Yu's Different Judgment

The elites from the Security Department of Truth Company were indeed quite "professional." After only a few rounds of exchanges, they had already identified Li Nian's biggest weakness.

Lacking powerful attack methods!

When facing a "living creature" of similar size, Li Nian's offensive options are extremely limited.

But even so...

The three from Truth Company were unable to do anything to Li Nian for the time being!

After all, Li Nian's strengths are almost as obvious as her weaknesses.

She was as agile as a slippery eel; although her attacks were almost ineffective against these fully armed and modified combatants, however...

It would be difficult for these combatants to harm Li Nian in a short period of time!

However, it was impossible to ignore the girl and directly attack the group who were daydreaming.

After all... although Li Nian's attack methods aren't strong, she can steal things.

The Deputy Team Leader had a gut feeling: if they shifted their attention slightly away from the girl, or if they didn't press her so hard...

That means you're very likely to lose a few more items!

Therefore, a delicate balance was reached between the two sides inside the carriage.

Although neither side could defeat the other, neither dared to let their guard down!

The Deputy Team Leader was even deliberately stalling for time.

"Although communications have been cut off... as long as the team leader notices that my communications are still silent, he will definitely bring people to provide support!"

"Although the three of us can't do anything to her for now, restraining the three of us is probably the limit of her ability... If the team leader brings Reinforcements, she will have the advantage in numbers, and she won't be able to steal the Reinforcements' weapons, so she will definitely die!"

After making his assessment, the Deputy Team Leader confidently continued stalling with the other party.

Thinking of this, the Deputy Team Leader glanced at Li Nian was currently jumping around and being incredibly annoying like a fly, and sneered inwardly.

Although she's difficult to deal with, she's just a grasshopper in autumn; she won't be able to hop around for long!

But Li Nian on the other side thought the same thing!

"Although I didn't manage to intimidate them, the good thing is that I fired the gun when they weren't paying attention at the beginning... Now we can just stall for time."

"As long as we wait for those two NPCs who look really weird and Zhu Ming to wake up... or for Brother Wang to come back with his wife after getting what they want, we can definitely take care of these guys."

Li Nian's thoughts raced as she looked at the Deputy Team Leader, who was still relentlessly pursuing her like a hunting dog, and she sneered inwardly.

These guys are troublesome, but once Zhu Ming wakes up with the two powerful figures from the Truth Company she tricked, or Brother Wang arrives, they'll be nothing but chickens and dogs!

They exchanged a glance, their cold eyes meeting, their faces bearing a chilling smile as if they were looking at a dead man.

"You'll be sorry!"

"It's actually stabilized?"

Within the "past" constructed by [Ancient Notebook], Pankto looked with some surprise at the surrounding environment that had stabilized again.

Baron Coleman nodded and said, "It seems that your 'friends' have been of great help."

Upon hearing Baron Coleman's words, Lin Yu quickly offered a few polite words on Li Nian's behalf. "Not at all, your sentries were certainly the ones who deserved the most credit."

Baron Coleman shook his head. "No, I know very well... if we inside this notebook have already been affected, it's because the 'Sentinels' have been dealt with."

"Once they are breached, they are unlikely to be of much use anymore."

Baron Coleman said seriously.

Lin Yu nodded upon hearing this.

"Is that so... it seems A Nian does have some skills after all."

"However, let's put those aside for now. Our top priority is to find out the Truth what happened back then as soon as possible."

As Lin Yu spoke, he looked at Fu Luo.

Fu Luo scratched his head. "I'm basically healed, but as I just said... there's just one last step."

"But this last step is particularly difficult to handle."

"The killer attacked Reed Christopher from behind, and the murder weapon is the knife left here," Fu Luo said, stroking his chin. "All of this happened right after Baron Coleman swiped his card to enter. The front door was locked from the inside, and you didn't see anyone going in or out of the back door the whole time. According to the explanation of the locked room... there are only two major possibilities: one is that the killer is still inside this laboratory, and the other is that he left before Reed Christopher died."

"But if it's the former, where could he have hidden, and when did he leave? If it's the latter... how did he manage to do that without being discovered by Baron Coleman and the subsequent investigators?"

"Even if Coleman was in such a hurry that he didn't notice, we're standing here now... and we still haven't found any suspicious traces."

"Even if the old man committed suicide, there should at least be something wrong with the knife—everything was done too cleanly."

"That's right, and there's one more crucial point," Baron Coleman said in a deep voice, listening to Fu Luo's analysis, "My decision to come here that day wasn't carefully planned... I arrived here shortly after finding the list."

"Even if the other party started plotting to frame me after discovering I was heading here, their actions were far too swift... and that's still the best-case scenario."

"In reality, the time it took him to decide to kill Reed Christopher, frame me, and carry out the plan was probably only about ten minutes, which wasted my time carefully investigating inside the tunnel!"

Yes, time.

The biggest question right now is the timing—if this is a frame-up, and Coleman was in the passageway the whole time, then there's very little time left for the killer.

Unless...

"Unless the killer has more time than we think!"

Fu Luo's eyes flickered as he looked back at the corpse slumped on the table. "Baron, didn't you just say... the Forensic Doctor could only deduce the approximate time of death, which coincided with the time you entered—shouldn't they be able to pinpoint the minute in a situation like this? What interfered with the Forensic Doctor's judgment?"

"The temperature in the laboratory is usually very low to ensure experimental results... This leads to a certain degree of error in determining the time of death."

Baron Coleman said, then realized what he meant. "You mean, there's a problem with the time of death?"

"Of course... since the 'time of death' detection technology in this world is still affected by temperature, there are too many ways to tamper with it—changing the temperature control facilities and then changing them back would make it difficult to determine the time of death of a corpse."

"So his time of death may have been much earlier than you expected, with an margin of error of about an hour."

Fu Luo announced calmly.

"Now there's only one problem..."

Baron Coleman understood Fu Luo meant. "Even an hour isn't a long time... How did the murderer ensure I'd be here within that hour?"

"I don't know for the time being either, but even without knowing these details, it's enough to narrow down the 'scope' of the real culprit."

Fu Luo made his judgment.

Lin Yu shook his head, refuting Fu Luo.

"No, while I agree with the first part, I think the latter part is wrong."

"I don't believe anyone intentionally framed Baron Coleman, at least not at the time of the incident."