Chapter 1769: Chapter 1015: Hasegawa Hideji Killed Me
"Where is she?" Everyone looked at Hasegawa Hideji, who lived on the 4th floor with Takagi Sayo.
Hasegawa Hideji was also stunned, but immediately denied it: "Why are you looking at me? I haven’t seen her, and I’m not living with her!"
At this moment, everyone felt a sense of foreboding. Until now, they had never had two people die in one night, perhaps Mitsuo Takeda breaking the glass and releasing that ghost was a mistake.
"Leave a few people to watch the body, the rest come with me to find her." After Mitsuo Takeda’s death, Qingshui Cangjie gained more influence within the team and seemed to become the leader.
Qingshui Cangjie, Yang Xiao, Tong Han, Beiyu Ye, Hasegawa Hideji, and Shibuki Naoko quickly ran up to the 4th floor via the safety passage.
Everyone tacitly avoided the side of the safety passage where Mitsuo Takeda had encountered the ghost, choosing instead to take the other passage upstairs.
"Takagi Sayo!"
"Takagi Sayo!"
...
The group called out Takagi Sayo’s name in the corridor, but after half a minute, there was no response; the rooms on both sides of the corridor were dead silent.
"Which room does she live in?" Tong Han looked at Hasegawa Hideji and asked.
"I don’t know, we just agreed on a shift exchange time." At this moment, Hasegawa Hideji was also a bit uneasy. He hadn’t expected Takagi Sayo on the same floor to have an accident during his recent shift without him noticing.
"You’re a veteran player, she’s new; you didn’t even help her find a safe room?" Tong Han questioned.
"It’s not your place to question me!" Seeing himself being treated like a criminal, Hasegawa Hideji couldn’t hold back his resentment.
"Everyone, shut up. Did you hear anything unusual before Mr. Takeda had his accident?" Qingshui Cangjie looked at Hasegawa Hideji.
"No, absolutely not." Hasegawa Hideji was confident about this; he was also a veteran player and quite experienced.
"What now?" Shibuki Naoko instinctively looked to Qingshui Cangjie for advice.
"What else can we do? Check room by room; she should still be on this floor." Beiyu Ye looked towards the end of the corridor, "We’ve got people on all floors, the first-floor lobby is always guarded, she can’t escape."
Takagi Sayo is missing, facing two possibilities: either she ran away or hid, or she was killed by a ghost. Yang Xiao and the others leaned towards the second possibility, considering Sakurai Miyuki’s tragic death had already warned Takagi Sayo that running away would end miserably.
The six of them split into two teams, starting to check the rooms on that side of the corridor one by one. Most room doors were unlocked, and they quickly figured out which rooms were locked, knocking on each, but receiving no response.
"Break down the door!" Qingshui Cangjie ordered.
The four men took turns crashing into the doors, quickly breaking the first one open. But it was an empty room, with not even a shadow inside, and the bedding was all clean.
Next was the second door, then the third...
Compared to Yang Xiao and the others, Beiyu Ye lacked physical strength. He prided himself on being a smart general, and battles between Angel Envoys often centered around corpse control; he had never suffered like this before, treated like a mule. After several door crashes, his poor technique left him dazed.
Qingshui Cangjie advised him to rest, yet Beiyu Ye gritted his teeth and continued. This time he broke open the door, but not in time to steady himself, he fell face-first onto the ground.
The next second, everyone outside the door was shocked by the scene: a corpse was hanging from the back of the door.
There was blood on the floor, along with a toppled chair, suggesting Takagi Sayo stood on the chair to set the hanging rope, put her head into the noose, before kicking away the chair to hang herself.
"She committed suicide..." Shibuki Naoko was full of disbelief, her eyes swelling with grief; another vibrant life was gone.
Luckily, Beiyu Ye was used to seeing corpses, otherwise, an ordinary person encountering such a "door surprise" might just be frightened to death.
"Come look at this!" Beiyu Ye stood in the bedroom, eyes fixed on the wall.
As the others entered the room, carefully avoiding Takagi Sayo’s corpse, Yang Xiao looked at her face; a beautiful girl now twisted with veins bulging from her forehead, eyes wide open in terror and despair, but more intensely in rage.
On the bedroom wall, blood had inscribed: Hasegawa Hideji killed me. With him here, no one will leave alive. You all must die!
The red blood words on the white wall were shocking, and Hasegawa Hideji’s face turned pale. Not from the threat of the dead, but from the fear these words would make him a target, "That bastard, what does her suicide have to do with me? It’s her own failure!"
"She’s trying to frame me, to incite a conflict among us!" Hasegawa Hideji defended loudly.
Hasegawa Hideji never imagined, that this seemingly weak, incapable newcomer would give him such a trap, digging a pit even in death.
"You damn bastard..." Furious, Hasegawa Hideji grabbed a dagger hidden at his waist, ready to vent his anger on the corpse.
But after taking only two steps, he was stopped by others. Seeing Yang Xiao, Tong Han, Beiyu Ye blocking his way, Hasegawa Hideji panicked, yet forced himself to shout: "What are you doing? Can’t you see she’s framing me? She’s accusing me!"
"Accusing you with her life?" Yang Xiao glanced at the blood words on the wall and then coldly stared at Hasegawa Hideji, realizing this guy was the real troublemaker.
