When they opened their eyes again, Mia and Mi'er found that they had appeared in a closed room.
"This is!"
Mi'er secretly became more vigilant.
The game in Nora's holographic cabin requires players to confirm each time before entering, but this man in black robe actually transferred them here directly.
In other words, it must be an illegal method to skip the game cabin agreement.
I tried to use my consciousness to call up the menu, and sure enough, the system menu didn't respond either.
It seems that they are trapped here and cannot get out before continuing the mission.
The room is not big, it can even be said to be narrow. There are two doors, one closed and one open. It looks like it should be a bathroom.
A man's corpse was hanging from the ceiling, dangling. An arm stretched out from the bathtub in the bathroom. It was so pale that it seemed to be the arm of a woman's corpse.
"Mike and Maggie are a young couple who were found dead in their apartment yesterday afternoon. Please find out the cause of their death." The voice of the man in black robes sounded from around him.
"After confirming the cause of death, you can enter the next room."
"Then let's check the scene?" Mi'er said after the black-robed man's voice disappeared.
"Yeah." Mia nodded.
She circled around the hanging man and said quickly:
"This is a working-class guy."
"Oh?" Mi'er asked, "So fast? How could you tell?"
"There are traces of a watch on the wrist." Mia looked at his right wrist, "Look, this piece of skin is obviously whiter than the surrounding areas. Does it look like the shape of a watch? It's obviously because he has been wearing a watch for many years to get this tan.
.”
"An open wardrobe with more than a dozen ties hanging on it is also one of the typical features. This is because these people usually pay attention to how they dress every day and are unwilling to wear inferior suits to lower their style, and they cannot afford multiple sets of high-end suits to rotate every day.
, so I had to rely on a lot of ties to ensure a change in image."
"You're so understanding." Mi'er complained.
"Of course, I'm the best at quickly identifying the target's social class." Mia found the watch on the bedside table, with a delicate chassis holder underneath. "Look! I knew he was
Someone with a watch.”
"Well..." Mi'er watched Mia stuff the watch into her pocket and couldn't help but remind her, "This is a game."
"I know!" Mia blushed and argued forcefully, "I am preserving evidence!"
"Is there any way to determine the cause of death?" Mi'er asked.
"Then you have to say? He was hanged." Mia put the body down from the noose and checked the other party's neck bones and strangulation marks. "It must have been hanged."
Mi'er came to the bathroom and saw a female corpse slumped in the bathtub. There were no wounds on her body, only medicine bottles and small pills scattered in the bathtub.
It's a sleeping pill.
After carefully opening the mouth of the female corpse, Mi'er smelled a medicinal smell.
"He probably died after swallowing a large amount of sleeping pills," Mi'er analyzed.
"So, the case is solved?" Mia looked around and said, "Both people committed suicide, right?"
"This is only part of the cause of death." The voice of the man in black robes sounded, "Would normal people easily choose to commit suicide? The cause of death you want to explore must not only include the factors that caused death, but also explain the reasons that drove them to death."
"Then you didn't say this before!" Mia protested.
"I will give out the rewards, and of course I will decide the rules of the game." The man in black robe didn't take it seriously.
Mia, Mier:………………
"It's actually not hard to find. The room is only so big, so just search every corner carefully." Mi'er found a large number of scattered bills from the shoe cabinet next to the door, "Water, electricity, gas, phone bills
, and...the rent. Mainly the rent bill. The couple has been in arrears with the rent for three months."
"I found their accounting book." Mia dug out a small yellow notebook from under the pile of socks in the closet drawer, "Let me take a look. Well, their monthly income and expenses this year are
It’s decreasing, so maybe it’s a problem with family finances.”
"Huh?" Mi'er reached out and flipped through the account book, "Did you notice? They had two incomes every month last year, namely the salary bonus of the male owner Mike, and the salary bonus of the hostess Maggie."
"But starting from this year, only the hostess has a salary. What about the male host's salary?"
"Could it be that I didn't send it?" Mia asked.
"It's impossible. If you look at the account books, the payday is always on the 10th of every month, and the income of the male protagonist and the female protagonist are all recorded on the same day. It's impossible that there is an error only in this six months. Unless..."
"He resigned!" Mia shouted.
"He was fired." Mi'er corrected, "Look at his body. There is obvious beard stubble on his chin. It must be that he hasn't shaved for several weeks."
"A man who cares about his image so much that he keeps more than a dozen ties at home would forget to shave his beard? This is obviously unreasonable." Mi'er looked at the electronic calendar on the wall and scrolled forward a few times.
Page, said, "Also, look at the calendar."
"Since January this year, there have been many days marked in red on the calendar, and the memos basically say 'interview'. How could a person who resigned voluntarily change jobs without finding a good job? He was obviously hired by the company.
Dismissed."
"From January to March, there were fewer and fewer days marked as 'interviews', indicating that his job opportunities were also decreasing. From May onwards, there was not even one interview invitation, which led to his mental breakdown and giving up on taking care of his image. And
, the accumulating bills and the overburdened family finances are probably the direct reasons that drove the male host to death."
"If you want to say so, I also discovered it." Mia continued to flip through the ledger and said, "Last December, both the male and female owners had salary income, but on the 21st, only the female owner's year-end bonus was recorded in the account, while the male owner
There is no record of income from year-end bonuses.”
"If we rule out the possibility that the company where the male protagonist works does not pay a year-end bonus, then the male protagonist was fired by the company that month before receiving the year-end bonus."
"I think so too." Mi'er pulled out a stack of documents from the bookshelf, which contained the labor contract of the owner of the house. "You see, both of them work for a company called 'Tonkin Lucena Financial Firm'
, the male protagonist is a software system engineer, and the female protagonist is a human resources management specialist.”
"So, since the hostess got the year-end bonus, the reason why the male host didn't get this income can only be because he was fired before that."
"Wait a minute, you said the mistress is in charge of human resources?" Mia said in disbelief, "So it was this Maggie who personally dismissed her husband? There was a marital discord?"
"What are you thinking!" Mi'er said speechlessly, "It's not the human resources that have the absolute final say on layoffs. The boss wants to lay off people, so what can the human resources do against the boss? The boss must be the one who wants to lay off her husband!
"
"I understand." Mia nodded and said, "Just like Sister Nora is in charge of the financial power of our team, if you want to advance your salary, you must get her approval. But if I can convince Captain Asker, then Nora will not
There is a way to stop it."
"Your metaphor is weird. Isn't Sister Nora very easy to talk to?" Mi'er said, sighing, "Even so, it is too cruel to ask a wife to fire her husband."
The two continued to look for other clues. Soon, Mia dug out a pile of torn scraps of paper from the trash can next to the cabinet.
"This is... a sticker?"
"I know this." Mi'er said, "These are letters cut out from newspapers. Then they are put together in order to form specific words and sentences. They are glued to letter paper and sent out. This can avoid being criticized for handwriting problems.
The other party is counter-tracking.”
"So what was written in the letter?" Mia became interested and began to try to restore the torn letter, "... intolerable... despicable... curse..."
"It's a threatening letter." Mi'er watched her restore most of the original content and said, "It seems to have been sent by an employee she fired. It called her an inhuman bastard and threatened to kill her.
.”
"Hey, didn't you say that layoffs were decided by the boss?" Mia said strangely.
"Different companies have different situations." Mi'er replied, "For example, the boss has issued a layoff target for each department. The manpower must complete this goal, but there is a certain degree of autonomy in who is laid off."
"In this way, the grievances of laid-off employees will be transferred to the human resources." Mia said thoughtfully, "Wow, so insidious! How do you know so much, Mi'er!"
"Watch the workplace TV series." Mi'er said, "Haven't you watched the movie "Bankrupt White Collar"?"