Genshin Impact: Dance of Sinners

After coming out of Leosley's office, Link went directly to the first scene of the murder.

The relatively spacious lounge was filled with a faint smell of rust. Link frowned slightly and carefully looked at the two corpses leaning on the sofa.

Deluna still kept smiling, while the maid had a cold expression... But there was a deep knife incision on each of their necks, accurately cutting into their vocal cords, reaching almost one-third of the depth. Two necks, the whole head needs to be cut off.

Neither of them showed any expressions of surprise or pain before they died, which may indicate that the perpetrator was extremely powerful and killed both of them at the same time in an instant.

Link took a deep breath and slowly looked around the room.

There is a table in the room surrounded by three sofas. There are also some simple snacks and fruits on the table, as well as three cups of tea. Two of the cups were placed close to Narud, while the other cup was placed opposite the two.

A long time passed, and the warm tea in the cup had already cooled down.

Overall, except for the two corpses on the sofa, the room was no different from an ordinary lounge. It was very neat and there were no signs of fighting.

...............

Link's brows furrowed, and he had already noticed something was wrong.

There are three cups on the table, corresponding to Linny, Narud, and the maid. This seems reasonable at first glance. The two cups near the body obviously belonged to Narud and the maid. What made Link wonder was, why did the cup corresponding to Linny appear directly opposite Narud?

That position...should belong to the person who was talking to Narud at that time. As a bodyguard, Linny would definitely not sit in that position.

In the room... there might have been a fourth person besides Linny, Deluna, and the maid.

Link closed his eyes lightly, and after assuming that a fourth person appeared in the room, another question was placed in front of him.

Where did Linny's cup go?

.....................

"Huh? Where's Femini?" Link turned around and suddenly found that his "teammate" had gone somewhere while he was just thinking about the case.

"A prison guard just came and asked Femini to fill out a visitor registration form." Linnette said quickly, "I saw you were so absorbed in thinking about the problem, so I didn't tell you."

Just as Linnette was talking, Femini had already ran in from the door.

"Lin... Sir Link, is there any progress in the case?" Femini was panting, obviously very concerned about Linni's situation, and hurried back after filling out the form.

...visitor registration form?

Link's eyes couldn't help but narrowed slightly.

"Fimini, take me to where you fill out the form."

"Ah...Okay, okay!" Although Femini didn't know what happened, she nodded quickly.

Although Linnette didn't know why, she hurriedly followed Link's footsteps.

Following Femini through a long corridor, Link turned a corner, walked through another long corridor, and finally came to this remote archives room.

The archives were a little messy, as if they hadn't been organized for a long time, and a well-mannered male prison guard was sitting at the table reviewing something, and seemed to be the administrator of the archives.

"Huh? What's the matter?" The male prison guard looked at Femini with some confusion, wondering why Femini brought two people up after he left.

"Hello, I had a friend who filled out the visitor registration form incorrectly and asked me to come over and help him take a look." Link said with a smile on his face.

"Um...what's your friend's name?"

"Call Seranasque Las Vegas."

"I... I'll help you look for it." The male prison guard looked strangely and took out the stack of forms under the table and flipped through them carefully.

"When did your friend come?"

"He came yesterday."

"Hmm... There is no such name. Did your friend make a mistake?"

"Well...because his real name is too long, he might use some abbreviations or something like that. How about I look for it myself?"

"Okay, here's this for you. Yesterday's forms are all here." The male prison guard didn't think much and handed a stack of forms directly to Link.

"Were you on duty here yesterday?" Link asked pretending to be nonchalant while flipping through the form.

The prison guard raised his eyebrows slightly and immediately became alert, "Don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask."

"Sorry, sorry." Link smiled apologetically while taking out the visitor registration form with the names of Deluna, Ailing, and Linny, and handed it to Femini and Linnette to see.

Link did not speak, but took one of Femini's hands and wrote on his palm,

"Is it Linney's handwriting?"

Femini was stunned for a moment, then nodded vigorously after identifying it carefully.

Link nodded slightly, then gave Linnette a wink and pointed at the male prison guard beside him.

Lynette looked confused, and it took her a long time to react. She glanced at Link aggrievedly, but still made a cute and innocent expression, and came to the male prison guard's side obediently.

"Brother, will it be hard for you to handle so many documents every day?"

The elegant male prison guard was stunned. He looked at the beautiful and pure girl beside him with her beautiful eyes blinking. His slightly green face couldn't help but blush slightly, "It's...it's not very hard."

"Then you, why did you come to Merlo Petersburg to be a prison guard?"

"Oh, it's a long story..." The male prison guard laughed triumphantly, as if he thought his luck was about to come...

Seeing that the prison guard's attention was attracted by Linnette, Link began to look at the entire archives room with confidence.

There are rows of cabinets in the archives, filled with all kinds of information. Perhaps because Mero Peter can't get in the sunlight, there are no windows here, but there is a clock.

In Merlot Petersburg, almost every room must have a clock, because here people cannot judge the time of day through sunlight. Over time, their sensitivity to the passage of time has become much worse, and they need the assistance of clocks.

...?

The time shown on this clock is... 6:37? ?

Link touched his chin. When he came out of the dormitory, it was almost 7:00. Then he came to the office area and talked with Duke Leosley for a while. It should have been 8 by now. :00.

It's impossible to turn back time, so...there's definitely something wrong with the clock in this room.

Link glanced at the peach-faced male jailer, but still didn't ask the question in his heart. Judging from this man's previous behavior, Link could be sure that he deliberately wanted to hide some secret. If you raise the issue of clocks at this time, you may not get any help, and may only alert the enemy.

Link quietly walked under the clock, then stretched out a hand to the clock hanging on the wall...

"Hey, I said don't move things! Have you finished the form? Once you've done it, get out as soon as possible!"