Sequence Highway Survival: I Upgrade Supplies in the Apocalypse-Chapter 224: Incident Investigation

When that man raised the knife and swung it at his own neck, Chen Ye’s first reaction was not to save him, but to scan the surroundings warily.

He did not recognize the man in front of him;if he died, so be it.

Chen Ye always put his own safety first!

In that instant just now, Chen Ye had felt as if he stood on the edge of an abyss, as though a huge hand had reached out from the pitch-black void to drag him into darkness.

A trembling ran through his whole body.

This was the instinctive reaction superhumans had when anomalies appeared.

That reaction was different from the pathfinder’s sense of anomalies.

But it lasted only a moment, and then everything returned to normal.

Except for the corpse lying in a pool of blood on the street.

When Chu Che saw that the man’s head had been hacked until only one layer of skin barely clung there, he froze.

He never would have dreamed anyone would go that far right in front of him.

A scene that only existed in horror movies had somehow appeared in real life.

That moment would probably stay vivid in Squad Leader Chu’s memory for many years.

Chu Che had seen dead people before.

But he had never seen anyone die like this. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

A flash of sword light, a flying sword circled Chen Ye and Chu Che, then hovered and was caught by a small hand.

Pink-haired Girl’s sword control was getting more and more proficient.

She jumped down from the rooftop and glanced around alertly.

Her gaze quickly landed on the corpse;her delicate brows drew together slightly.

Just now, she too had sensed a powerful anomalous aura for an instant.

At that moment she had felt the hair on the back of her hand stand up in a flash, goosebumps prickling all over her body, and a chill shot from her feet up to the roots of her hair.

It was as if the entire Divine Elephant Village were full of anomalies.

But it lasted only a moment…

After that instant, everything returned to normal.

That made Pink-haired Girl doubt whether it had been a hallucination.

Yet as a superhuman, reason told her something was wrong!

Hearing movement over here, Pink-haired Girl appeared in an instant and saw Chen Ye and Chu Che standing in the street.

That bastard Chen Ye was hiding behind Squad Leader Chu, looking extremely nervous.

“Squad Leader Chu… what is this…”

Chen Ye glanced at the stunned Chu Che and asked, “An anomaly?”

Pink-haired Girl gave the two a serious look, then fixed her gaze on the corpse in the distance.

Chu Che shook his head and said in an uncertain, hesitant tone, “I don’t know. I didn’t sense an anomaly from this man!”

“Not sure? Could it be he actually killed himself?”

Chen Ye furrowed his brow. Thin wisps of Smoke Breath slowly diffused around him, and a humanoid shadow wielding a Death God scythe materialized behind him.

“Ah… I never thought it would be him who died!”

At that moment, a loose, slovenly figure appeared, a big gun wrapped in gray cloth slung across his back.

It was a Divine Elephant Village superhuman, the Slovenly Daoist Priest!

After appearing, the Slovenly Daoist Priest cast a casual glance at the simulated Smoke Breath Death God that stood beside Chen Ye like a bodyguard.

“Do you know him?”

“This man worked in construction before the apocalypse. In Divine Elephant Village he handled house repairs.”

“He was usually very honest, gentle with people. If told to do something he would do it, and I never heard of him having disputes with anyone! He was well-liked in the village, but I didn’t expect…”

There was an indescribable sadness in the Slovenly Daoist Priest’s voice.

Clearly he had been on good terms with the deceased man.

Chen Ye and Chu Che exchanged a look. The whole matter just felt increasingly strange.

Fifteen minutes later.

Except for Ding Dong from the planting base and Big Monk, plus the Village Chief who was in the temple, and Iron Lion who was guarding the seed stock, everyone who could make it had arrived.

The situation was more serious than they had imagined.

It was not only that the man before them had died.

Even the man’s “family” were all dead.

The cause of death was knife wounds, as if someone had hacked them repeatedly with a blade.

It was obvious the murder weapon was the knife in this man’s hand.

The man’s family was a rebuilt household formed after the apocalypse.

The dormitory where the bloodshed occurred had two bedrooms.

The perpetrator and his girlfriend lived in one bedroom.

The other bedroom was occupied by another recomposed couple.

Because resources were scarce in Divine Elephant Village and the population large, many houses had living arrangements like this.

In short, in that dormitory where the bloodbath happened, counting that man, every person had died.

According to investigations by convoy assistant Xiao Zheng, the four people in the dormitory had gotten along well;the two couples often helped each other.

Before the apocalypse they might not have known each other, but in Divine Elephant Village neighbors said they had a good relationship.

The man and his girlfriend’s relationship was also very good.

He had been a very trustworthy man.

Yet this family of four, who got along well, all died at the same time.

If anyone claimed there was nothing odd about that, no one believed it.

Chu Che also went to see the dormitory where the murders occurred. Apart from the corpses strewn across the floor, Chu Che found no sign of anomalous presence.

Chen Ye inspected both inside and outside the room for a long time and also found nothing amiss.

Convoy assistant Xiao Zheng even brought the village’s Security Officer to examine the scene.

According to Xiao Zheng, this Security Officer had more than ten years of criminal investigation experience before the apocalypse.

After checking the traces at the scene, the Security Officer concluded the killer was that man.

That man had killed everyone, including himself.

Hearing that conclusion, no one at the scene spoke.

They only felt the air grow slightly chill.

A normally good man, with no apparent problems, had suddenly slaughtered all his housemates.

No matter how you looked at it, this case betrayed oddness and strangeness!