Accident

Chapter 272: Accident

There were three chairs around the table.

Two of them had not been pulled out, instead pushed beneath the table with only their backs exposed.

The third chair, however, had been pulled out.

Not only had it been pulled out, but there were footprints in front of its legs.

Following the footprints, Qin Ran spotted the several dozen books.

Moreover, he was quite familiar with those footprints.

They belonged to the corpse lying dead at the second-floor stairway.

Almost instantly, an image formed in Qin Ran's mind: the man had discovered the attacker, hurriedly set down what he was holding, and rushed out of the secret room, intending to stop the attacker.

But he had completely underestimated the attacker's strength. Not only had he failed to stop the attacker, he had been killed with a single slash.

Or rather...

"The attacker knew he was here all along and deliberately let him discover him?"

Recalling the footprints the attacker had left on the sofa, Qin Ran became increasingly certain of his guess.

"This attacker is even more familiar with this place than I imagined!"

"Who is he?"

The more certain Qin Ran became, the more puzzled he felt.

However, he soon turned his attention to the pile of books.

Judging by the traces left behind, after discovering the attack, the victim at the second-floor stairway should have hidden something here.

"I hope it hasn't been taken."

Looking at the neatly arranged books, Qin Ran silently thought to himself.

Starting from the top and working down, then from left to right, Qin Ran searched through stack after stack of books.

After Qin Ran gave him a brief explanation, Shiqi joined the search as well.

As for why Qin Ran could see footprints that he could not see at all?