Eileen Parker lived in a well-located apartment building. When Ivette arrived by taxi, she happened to see two police officers coming down from upstairs with helpless expressions.
She went to Room 805 on the eighth floor and knocked on the door. Then she saw the pale-faced Miss Eileen open it and say, "You finally came, Miss Nameless!"
Without caring whether they were familiar with each other, Eileen gave Ivette a tight hug, then held onto her and ushered her into the apartment before closing the door.
Ivette understood how she felt, so she did not mind. She asked, "I just saw the police. What did they say?"
The moment she received the voice message, she had told Miss Eileen to call the police immediately. No matter what, the police could get there much faster than she could. Even if they stayed on a voice call, all she could do was use her hacking ability to remotely control nearby networked objects—such as hovercars—and see if she could create some obstacles for the Werewolf Killer.
"The police said not to call them before anything actually happens in the future. They said they aren't twenty-four-hour bodyguards, and told me to hire another bodyguard myself..." Irene said gloomily. It looked like she had even been scolded by the police.
Ivette was not surprised. The Werewolf Killer had committed so many crimes that the police could not protect one possible target around the clock. Tennyson could easily feint one way and attack another target instead.
"Tell me what happened," she said.
Miss Eileen walked to the balcony and pointed at an apartment building of similar height across the street. "I was standing here looking at the view earlier... Then I noticed someone on roughly the same floor of the opposite building, watching my apartment from