With housing in short supply, the average living space in Machine City was quite small.
This three-story building should have housed three families, each with their own floor.
When Qingxue slipped in through the top-floor balcony, she found that the stench of blood was even stronger inside. The place was clean, though, with no corpses or bloodstains left behind.
She lowered her gaze to the floor where the stench originated, and a blue glow gradually spread across her eyes.
The clean floor soon revealed large, dark stains in her vision, along with several faint handprints. These were the source of the smell of blood.
Just from these traces, Qingxue could already picture what had happened.
A monster had broken into the residence and easily killed all three families in the building. The victims had struggled before collapsing, their blood spreading across the floor.
The bodies and blood had been cleaned away, and even the floor had been wiped spotless.
But the oxidase in the blood could seep into the floor after only brief contact, and ordinary cleaning couldn't remove it.
A little dihydrofluorescein would be enough to detect it.
Qingxue knew nothing about chemistry, of course, but she could use sorcery to tell whether blood had once flowed here.
The residents of this building had probably met with misfortune.
As a monster, she wasn't particularly moved. She quietly made her way downstairs.
The second-floor living room was a complete mess. The two suspects were lounging on the sofa. One was playing a game on his phone, while the other used a laptop to upload the photos he had taken online.
Qingxue noticed a lot of household rubbish in the living room. It seemed the two had been hiding here for some time.
The one fiddling with the computer soon finished