Chapter 57: It Was You All Along
Bang!
Jake kicked the door open heavily.
A person he never expected appeared before him.
"This…" He looked down at the corpse on the ground, then at the figure holding the knife, his brows furrowing deeply. "It's you?"
It was a question, yet it contained a wealth of information.
The other person nodded without speaking.
"Why?" Jake's brows furrowed even more; he couldn't understand why.
The figure didn't answer, but walked to the window and pulled back the curtains. Sunlight streamed in, revealing the killer's face.
Blood clung to a pure and innocent face, along with a neat ponytail.
This was someone Jake could never have imagined—Emily!
"Why did you kill Hannah?" He stared intently at Emily. This girl was terrifying; she had lived as an ordinary girl without any flaws.
"Was it because you liked him?" Seeing the other person remain silent, Jake pointed to the completely lifeless corpse on the ground—Mark, whom he had just met.
But now his eyes had completely lost their luster, and he had collapsed to the ground, blood pouring from his wounds, filling the uneven tile floor.
"How could I like a man like that!" Emily said with disgust. "Someone who treats the online world as reality, who would attack his own friends over a game, is worse than trash!"
"Since it wasn't because of him, and Hanna wasn't really your friend, why did you kill her?"
"Friend? Heh," she laughed maniacally. "When did I say she was my friend? Oh, I think I did. But girls who can lie are cuter, aren't they? Jake—!"
The voice that used to sound so pleasant now disgusted Jake.
"Pretending to be a sweet girl is truly disgusting. For a while, I even pretended to be an ordinary college student," she slowly walked towards Jake, explaining as she went. "But that day, I just couldn't keep up the act anymore, so I killed that bitch! We talked about new clothes, watched reality TV together—it was utterly disgusting!"
"Weren't you afraid of being discovered when you did it?" Jake looked at the girl getting closer and closer. The girl in front of him—no, she was a monster—was more terrifying than most people, more like a devil in human skin.
"Of course I was afraid," she said, feigning terror. She used to look pitiful, but now she was repulsive. "But couldn't I just blame it on the Invisible Man?"
"Those stupid cops even used a polygraph on me? That's just a toy," she scoffed.
Jake was now absolutely certain that the girl before him was no longer the Emily he knew. "Why did you kill Hannah?"
"Because of what? Because that bitch was living such a good life!" she roared, her pretty face contorted with rage. "Why was I raped by my stepfather on my 14th birthday, while she got her first iPhone? Why did I have to pretend to be a good girl, while she deliberately screwed around?! Why could she live a perfect life that I never had, yet still whine and complain?!"
"So you killed her?"
"Not me," Emily shook her finger, stopping her roar, and then lowered her voice to whisper, "The Invisible Man did it."
"This is a killing method I perfected," she said, pointing to the corpse lying on the ground. "Just one cut in that spot, and in two seconds, the blood vessels near the heart are severed, cutting off the blood supply and causing a person to die completely. I used this method to kill that bitch in three seconds; she didn't even realize who killed her." She laughed, exaggeratedly, maniacally, and sinisterly, yet her laughter was silent.
"On my 15th birthday," she seemed lost in memories, slowly saying, "I actively seduced my stepfather, who had been keeping me captive and raping me. I brought him to climax in bed." She suddenly raised her face in a smile, a pure smile that was actually quite sinister, "and then killed him using this method!"
"If that's the case, shouldn't you have let me stay downstairs when you came to kill Mark? We don't seem to have any grudge against each other," Jake asked.
"Heh!" She chuckled, head down, her ponytail cascading down her shoulders, looking like a vengeful spirit. "You're no different from the man who raped me. Pretending to be so gentle and considerate, aren't you just after my body? Disgusting!"
Jake hadn't expected his kindness to elicit such a reaction.
Shaking his head, Jake continued, "If you kill me, how can you clear your name? There were no eyewitnesses."
"Who says there weren't!" Emily glanced to the left, and Jake instinctively turned his head, only to find nothing. At that moment, Emily charged forward with a knife!
The blade was swift and precise, aiming for his chest!
However, Jake grabbed her wrist with his left hand, and she couldn't pull it away no matter how she twisted.
"So there were no eyewitnesses," Jake breathed a sigh of relief. "If that's the case, then I can do something."
Emily was incredibly strong, her knife skills were precise and ruthless; it wouldn't be surprising if an ordinary man were killed in one move. However, she had met Jake, and the two were on completely different levels.
"Actually, you're not the only one who can fake it in this world," he said, his left hand still gripping Emily's knife-wielding hand. With a flick of his right wrist, a Cleric's pistol slid from his sleeve into his palm. "I'm not an ordinary person either."
He fired without hesitation.
This might be the first time he had killed a woman, but he couldn't guarantee it wouldn't be the last.
Moreover, Emily's existence in Jake's mind had transcended the concepts of woman, or even humanity. If he had to find a description, "monster" might be a better fit.
A tragic person with a twisted mind.
Holding Emily's body, Jake instantly activated his time-travel ability.
He buried the body on the cliff edge in the world of [Point Break], where the male protagonist had just appeared and was engaging in extreme sports.
Jake didn't mourn the psychotic Emily; he only buried the kind-hearted version he'd once known.
Back in the real world, he moved Mark's body there and buried it as well.
However, when he returned to the real world, he found Detective Rivera searching frantically. Upon seeing Jake, she decisively lunged, using a restraint technique to bind his hands behind his back. "Tell me, where did you put that girl's body, and Mark's body? And is the invisible person related to you?!"
Jake easily broke free from the detective's grasp, then nimbly twisted his body and grabbed her instead, staring intently into her eyes.
Hypnosis always works unexpectedly well.
Under the control of hypnosis, Jake learned the police's current understanding of the case, especially relieved to hear that it hadn't been reported to the media yet.
However, there was also something unexpected: "The invisibility card?"
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