How did Jin Xueli know the clerk had been murdered with just a single glance?
How did she know it wasn't an accident or a death by natural causes? How did she know he wasn't just born with a tragically dead-looking face and was merely slacking off on the job?
The answer was simple.
Jin Xueli stared at the clerk's corpse—no, 'corpse' wasn't the right word, but she hadn't yet figured out what to call a conceptual aggregate—and for a moment, she even suspected she'd fallen into a trap.
A small red alarm bell was floating above the "corpse," casting a pool of red light all around. A ring of bright white LED text was displayed on the bell, spiraling around and around, making the red light flicker restlessly.
When Jin Xueli pushed open the door, the ring of white text on the alarm bell had just happened to shift into a human language:
"I have unfortunately been murdered"
"Aged 3.5, unmarried"
"The murderer is"
"Be right back"
