Zhao Xun narrowed his eyes slightly.
That night, both the security guard players and the cleaner players had finally appeared.
"Tell me everything in order first," Zhao Xun said to the Pygmy Marmoset. "Start from when you left the ward."
The Pygmy Marmoset nodded, recalling what had just happened as it spoke. "Taking the elevator wasn't convenient for me, so I went down the stairs. I soon saw the two bodies outside the stairwell door on the third floor."
Its little paws gently kneaded a corner of the blanket. "A man and a woman were lying together. The female cleaner's arm was resting on the male doctor's leg. Judging by their positions, the male doctor died first, followed by the female cleaner."
"Both of them had terrified expressions. I felt like they'd been scared to death, but they both had finger marks on the backs of their necks, like..." The Pygmy Marmoset racked its brains before finally finding a suitable description. "Like something had grabbed their necks hard from behind."
"Were their necks broken?" Zhao Xun couldn't help asking.
"I didn't have time to check carefully before those two Security Guards showed up." The Pygmy Marmoset looked at Zhao Xun aggrievedly. "So I'm not sure whether their necks were broken."
"When you saw the bodies, did their positions look unnatural?" Zhao Xun tried phrasing the question differently. "For example, were their necks bent at an angle that normal bones couldn't bend to?"
The Pygmy Marmoset thought back carefully and nodded. "Yes! Both of their arms were bent in really strange ways, but their necks looked pretty normal."
"Their arms..." Zhao Xun sought confirmation from the Pygmy Marmoset. "Those finger marks on the backs of their necks-are you sure you could tell they'd been grabbed from behind, rather than from the