Chapter 6: An Accident Or A Murder?

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

An Accident Or Murder?

Perfectionism was a general term used by the website to describe the top-notch killers.

These killers had already earned enough from the website, and they did not care about the amount of the reward.

They only cared about the mission completion rate in their account.

Therefore, in order for them to have an account that had a 100% mission completion rate, they would re-register a new sub-account to complete the missions.

In this way, they would be able to create a sub-account with a 100% completion rate.

Of course, it was extremely difficult to have the prefect completion rate in sub-accounts.

After all, it required the right time, location, and people for the assassinations to complete.

Even the top assassins would make mistakes sometimes.

Plus, the higher the level, the more difficult the mission would be.

Especially for the highest level, the level 10 assassins.

No assassin could enter the rank of a level 10 assassin with a 100% mission completion rate in their accounts.

Thus, that was why some top-notch assassins would register new sub-accounts, trying to accomplish this seemingly impossible feat.

It was obvious that Hughes’ actions completely corresponded to the identity of a perfectionist.

With this explanation, everyone was relieved.

After all, he was a top-notch assassin. This explained how he killed Jerry Mac without anyone noticing.

However, they started to wonder about another thing.

Out of all the top-notch assassins on the website, which one of them was Hughes?

Although there were a lot of registered accounts on this website, the majority of them were basically rookies. 

Less than 100 of them were high-level assassins.

Among these hundred people, there were even fewer who matched with a perfectionist.

Even so, the management of the website had a headache trying to find out the real identity of Hughes.

Actually, it didn’t really matter. Since these perfectionists liked to accept such high-difficulty missions, they could just let them do it.

However, the management of the website immediately made a decision.

The big boss who was sitting in the middle of the meeting room immediately gave the order. “Regardless of this Puppeteer’s real identity on the website, we must pay great attention to his account.”

“It’s best if you all can come up with a plan to communicate with the Puppeteer.”

“This kind of assassin might have a very strange temper. So, whoever is in charge of communicating with him, you must lower your attitude and pay attention to your tone. You must not anger him.”

“Otherwise, our website will be in danger!”

Listening to their decision, everyone nodded in agreement and started to formulate a corresponding plan for Hughes according to the big boss’s request.

At this moment, Hughes did not know that his assassination had attracted the attention of the website.

They even formulated a special plan to communicate with Hughes.

If he knew, he would definitely explain it to the bosses of the website.

They were indeed mistaken. He was just a rookie.

…

It was not just the assassin website that paid great attention to Hughes’ assassination.

In fact, the police department was also very concerned about the death of Jerry Mac.

Although they publicly announced that he had accidentally fallen into the sea after drinking, this was more of a result of helplessness.

After all, the shocking news of the death of a public figure like Jerry Mac had provoked public opinion.

Therefore, they had to make a corresponding report of the case immediately.

The most important thing was that the report could not be too outrageous. Otherwise, it would cause panic and chaos in society.

In desperation, the police announced the report of Jerry Mac falling into the sea by accident to the public.

However, there were still different opinions within the police department.

Although most people felt that the public announcement was not a big problem, there were still a few people who felt that the situation was different.

This included the most famous criminal investigation officer of the Gotham Police Department, Ben Alice.

Although Alice was a young policewoman, as a professional criminal investigation officer, she had already solved countless important cases.

Before she was in her twenties, she had already entered the most mysterious organization in Gotham City — the FBI.

Those who could enter the FBI were said to be the elites of the police force.

Alice had already taken up the position of director in the FBI’s Criminal Investigation Division.

Whether it was Alice’s observation or her judgement, they were all professional.

The male police officers in the police station were all very impressed with Alice’s accomplishments in solving cases. Many of them were even Alice’s fans.

In the FBI conference room, the chief of the police department looked at Alice helplessly.

“Alice, can you tell us your opinion about Jerry Mac’s case this time?”

As the highest-ranking officer of the FBI, the Chief did not really believe that a public figure like Jerry Mac would slip and die in the sea.

But the problem was that there was nothing wrong with the surveillance or the investigation and analysis of the case.

Even if he did not think it was simply an accident, he could not find any evidence to prove it.

In addition, due to Jerry Mac’s identity, they were not given enough time for further investigation.

They had no choice but to disclose the news of Jerry Mac’s death as an accident to the public.

However, there were some of them, especially Alice, who would find this statement unscientific.

At the moment, in order to completely resolve the disagreement in the police station, the sheriff had to call for this meeting.

Facing the Chief’s question, Alice put down the documents in her hands and said seriously, “Sir, although the results all point to an accident, I feel that there is definitely something wrong with Jerry Mac’s death.”

“First of all, Jerry Mac does not have a history of alcoholism.”

“But according to his autopsy, Jerry Mac drank at least five bottles of champagne before he died. For a person who is not an alcoholic, why would he drink so much champagne all of a sudden?”

“Secondly, based on my speculation, Jerry Mac must have wanted to go to the bathroom that late night after drinking so much. I have checked the layout of his yacht room. The bathroom was clearly just a few steps away, but the door to the exit was far more than that. If Jerry Mac really had to go to the bathroom, why would he want to go for the door?”

“So…”

At this point, Alice uttered solemnly, “I am 90% sure this is a homicide.”

“But the killer’s methods are so good that he has completely fooled us.”

“This…”

Listening to Alice’s logical analysis, the Chief could not help but take a deep breath.

A murder?

A sophisticated murder?

As the chief of the FBI, he did consider this possibility before.

But in the end, due to insufficient evidence to support this conclusion, he vetoed it.

But after Alice’s statement, he had to reconsider it.

As mentioned before, Jerry Mac was a well-known figure in Gotham City.

If his death was wrongly announced to the public, once the truth had been found out, the impact towards the police force would be inconceivable.

Murder?