Cheat Dad, You Finally Came! (Thanks to Night's Glory for the Alliance Leader Support!)

Under the violent surge of emotion.

A Blood Moon phantom flashed through Brian's crazed eyes, then vanished in an instant.

The next moment.

Everything before him disappeared.

Brian's hands were empty. He looked around in confusion.

The icy hand was gone.

The cold sensation on his body had vanished as well.

The detonator in his hand was gone too.

The two mangled female corpses lay quietly in their body bags, their hands tucked inside, without the slightest sign that they had ever moved.

Everything just now seemed like an illusion.

Feeling the weakness in his body caused by the intense emotional fluctuation, Brian could not tell reality from illusion for a moment.

He pulled open his clothes and checked the detonator still inside the strip pocket. Then he could not help touching his face, which still wore that crazed grin, and murmured uncertainly, "Did I have another episode just now?"

But there were only two tragically dead female corpses here.

No one could give him an answer.

After resting for a moment.

Brian first glanced toward the small room where his colleague Tom was. Seeing that Tom had not heard anything and come over to check, he finally relaxed. He got up, returned to the camera, and pulled up the footage from earlier.

In the footage, Brian opened the body bag, took two looks, then froze in place as though he had suddenly gone mad.

No corpse had grabbed his hand.

And he had not made any movements at all!

Brian's expression darkened.

It seemed he really had suffered an episode just now.

He could not help sighing.

The threats from his uncle, the burden of supporting his adoptive parents, his body pushed nearly to its limit, and his worsening mental state.

With so many debuffs stacked together.

Brian did not know how much longer he could hold on.

But before he sent off his adoptive parents and dealt with those clansmen who had once threatened to bury him alive.

No matter what, he could not fall!

Brian clenched his fists and forcibly suppressed the oppressive emotions in his heart. He swiftly removed the camera's memory card, physically destroyed it, hid it on his body, and only then calmly replaced it with a new card.

Luckily, this thing had not yet been filed away.

Otherwise, his mental abnormality would have been difficult to explain.

After finishing all that.

Brian turned on the camera and looked again at the two corpses lying on the morgue carts.

The moment he looked.

Brian's pupils contracted slightly.

"There are actually two floating red spheres above the corpses?"

Brian pinched his thigh.

It hurt.

He looked at the camera again, only to discover that the two red spheres did not appear in its footage at all!

This was not an illusion this time!

Could it be...

A memory that had lain dormant for decades awakened from the depths of his mind.

Thinking of that possibility, Brian's body trembled uncontrollably with excitement!

Calm down!

Calm down!

After taking several deep breaths and suppressing his excitement, he pretended not to see the spheres. Following the normal work procedure, he took out a camera and photographed the external condition of the two female corpses. Then he took out a form and cataloged and registered the items Tom had brought back.

After finishing all that.

Brian stepped forward, preparing to zip the body bags back up and wait for the forensic examiner's arrangements tomorrow.

After moving closer.

Only then did Brian carefully examine the two red spheres.

The two spheres were about the same size.

The sphere above the corpse on the left was much darker in color than the one above the corpse on the right.

Moreover, red smoke continuously drifted out of both spheres. The dissipation was extremely slow, and it could only be seen clearly from up close.

Brian withdrew his gaze. Under the camera's recording, he normally zipped up the body bags. Then he removed the camera's special memory card, recorded the card number on the computer beside him, and sealed and filed it away together with the items that had been brought back.

After all that was done.

Brian immediately returned to the two corpses.

For safety's sake.

He took a deep breath and extended his gloved hand toward the paler red sphere on the right.

The instant Brian's finger touched the sphere.

The motionless red sphere silently transformed into countless tiny points of light and all of them poured into his eyes.

A realization rose in Brian's heart: fulfill the corpse's final wish, and you will receive the gift bestowed by the corpse.

Besides that realization.

A strange obsession also appeared in Brian's heart: kill that bastard Andreas!!!

Fuck!

Fuck!

Fuck!

Even with Brian's current state of mind, he was so excited that he nearly could not stop himself from howling aloud!

A cheat!

It really was a cheat!

Cheat Dad, you finally came to see me!

Do you know how I spent these twenty-three years?

At this moment.

Even Brian, who had always been strong, felt tears welling up in his eyes.

In his previous life, he had been a socially anxious waste who drifted through life, living off the inheritance left behind by his parents.

Since being reborn.

The first eight years had been fine.

Although his parents in this life had not had much money, they treated him very well.

After he entered that Children's Home.

There were many experiences.

That Brian did not want to remember.

Perhaps back then.

His heart had already become sick.

After growing up.

To repay the family's support.

He gave up his life plan of becoming a dentist and endured the discomfort of working at the Forensic Bureau.

Only to suffer blow after blow.

The only two pillars of family affection in his life.

One betrayed him, and one fell.

But all of this.

Was over!

Because Cheat Dad had arrived!!!

Thinking of the novel plots he had read in his previous life.

Brian was truly happy.

His weak, overdrawn body.

His twisted mental state.

Both could be saved now!

Brian felt that his life was filled with hope once again!

After being excited for a while.

Brian suppressed the distracting thoughts in his heart and turned his attention back to the dead woman's obsession he had just obtained.

"Kill that bastard Andreas!"

"Who is Andreas?"

Brian glanced over the corpse before him and then realized.

Since killing Andreas was this deceased woman's obsession.

Then she must have known this man named Andreas!

When his colleague Tom returned, he must have collected information on the victims as required for work.

He could just ask him for it later.

Putting away those thoughts.

Brian turned his attention to the sphere on the left.

This sphere was simply too vivid in color.

"Could the intensity of the sphere's color represent the strength of the deceased's obsession?"

With that guess in mind.

Brian repeated what he had done before.

The rubber gloves did not affect Brian's absorption of the sphere.

Just as before.

The instant his finger touched it.

The vivid red sphere transformed into countless points of light and poured into Brian's mind.

This time, there was no realization like before.

There was only an incomparably powerful obsession emerging in Brian's mind: protect Ellie. Ellie absolutely had to survive safely!

"Ellie?"

Brian shrugged.

Another unfamiliar name.

"I hope Tom can give me the answer."

After pushing the two morgue carts into the freezer, Brian changed his gloves and headed toward his colleague Tom, who was still busy in the small room.

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Boss Night had already been incredibly generous with that detective novel. Anyway, when I was tallying the donations, I was completely dumbfounded.

Much gratitude!

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