《Mr. X》
Chapter 1 – The 33rd Case – Part 1
Chapter 1 ¨C The 33rd Case ¨C Part 1
Wednesday, August 3rd, Year 9989, Balien Calendar.
10:30 PM, Lawrence, Kansas, United states.
Five police cars could be seen speeding along the highway, before stopping in an alleyway near the banks of river Kansas. Inspector Johnson gets down from one of the cars, and moves towards an old house nearby.
No. 413, House of Miss. Emily Jordan.
The house was in complete disorder. One could see signs of intense struggle inside. If one looked closely one could even see signs of someone desperately searching for something. It was unknown if the thing they were searching had been found or not.
In the middle of this chaos, you could see a middle-aged woman lying on the ground. There were no signs of life on her body; she was lying there as if she was in eternal sleep.
Inspector Johnson enters the house, and starts to investigate his surroundings. First thing he notices is, none of wounds on Emily¡¯s body were bleeding, clearly there was not even a drop blood left in Emily¡¯s body. From her neighbors¡¯ statements, it was sure that Emily had been alive a couple of hours back. Therefore, there was no possibility that all her blood was lost naturally. The only other alternative could be that whoever killed her took all of her blood with him/her. Second, he notices bite wound on Emily¡¯s neck, probably from where all her blood was extracted. Third, clearly Emily was serving tea to somebody, because there were two teacups on the ground, even though they were shattered right now, from the residual tea in the cups, he could still make out that there were two cups served. This meant that, she clearly knew her assailant.
At this time, Sergeant Matt comes into the house after checking for clues outside the house. Noticing Matt coming in, Johnson asks, ¡°Did you find anything?¡±
Matt sees inspector Johnson observing the bite wound, and says, ¡°No Sir, and there¡¯s nothing to look at, it¡¯s the same as the other four, we have a gluttonous blood sucking vampire in town!¡±
Clearly similar crimes have already occurred in Lawrence before. Four to be exact!
¡°Yes, Sargent, this does seem like it¡¯s done by the same person!¡± says Johnson. Thinking of the previous four murders, he tries to remember as much as possible about them so that he can find some connection between them.
First murder, Mr. Adam Walsh, a successful Entrepreneur, he was killed outside his own firm in the Northern parts of Lawrence.This book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.
Second, Mr. Lawson, Unemployed, was found dead in an alleyway in Southeast Lawrence.
Third, Miss. Ivory Simson, Student, studies class X in Central Junior High, was found dead right next to Highway 40, west of Lawrence.
Fourth, Mr. Charles, Lawyer, Found dead in his house in the southwestern part of Lawrence.
Now, this was fifth, Miss. Emily, Owner of a shopping mart near Central Junior High, found dead in her own house, northeastern Lawrence.
Other covering the entire Lawrence, there are two things in common among these murders he can think of, first being that, all victims lost entirety of their blood, not even a single drop was spared. Second, except for Mr. Lawson, all others had some connection with Central Junior High!
All these murders started after Mr. Adam visited the junior high as judge for some science festival. Miss. Ivory was a student there, Mr. Charles saved couple of students who were caught for an accident case and Miss. Emily owned a shopping mart near that same high school.
Obviously, this fact has not avoided Johnson¡¯s keen eyes. They had even tested everyone from Central Junior High to find out if any vampire was hiding in there; however, this effort was also in vain. After that, they even made investigations to find if any other type of super human entity was present in or close to the school, such as mages, beasts, etc. but nothing worked out and now they seem to have hit a dead end.
Unable to find anything useful, Johnson gets up and walks out of the house. Then, he lets out a long sigh, and says, ¡°We cannot solve this case! These supernatural beings are out our comprehension. We have to report it to the higher ups and let them send some expert who has experience in dealing with these.¡±
Matt stares at Inspector Johnson¡¯s helplessness and sighs. He has worked with this Inspector for more than five years now, and he has never seen he superior asking for assistance from anyone!
However, he keeps his thoughts to himself, and says, ¡°Yes, Sir.¡±
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Next Morning, Police Station.
¡°Sir, I have already sent all the information from our investigations on the five murders to the head office. We will be getting a replay shortly,¡± reports Matt.
¡°Ok,¡± was the only response from Johnson.
As they were conversing, ¡®Beep!¡¯ sounds from Matt¡¯s computer. Matt, who was sipping his morning coffee, goes to his computer to check the message; however, after reading the message the cup in his hand falls down, with Matt staring at his computer screen in utter shock!
There was only two lines to this message. It read,
¡°Mr. X has accepted the case.¡±
¡°He will be boarding flight this weekend, and will be in Lawrence by Monday, August 8.¡±
Who doesn¡¯t know Mr. X? He is a Wind elemental Archmage and the most famous detective in the entire world. An Archmage! There are only a handful of them in the entire world! He has taken up 32 cases until now, and not one of them was left unresolved. In addition, he himself would approach the police department for the cases he is interested in, and no one knows how he gets the case info or where he lives or how he looks; not even what his real name is! The most important thing is, in all these cases the culprits would be found in different states, some would be dead where as some wound have lost limbs, it¡¯s like he personally administered justice upon them. Some would call him a demon, some say he is a hero of justice; however, the government does not care about any of it, not if they are getting support of an Archmage, and as for the states of these criminals are concerned, they could not care less about it. The only thing that no one can refute is that this Mr. X is a true Genius!
Chapter 2 – The 33rd Case – Part 2
Chapter 2 ¨C The 33rd Case ¨C Part 2
Friday, August 5th, Year 9989, Balien Calendar.
9:30 AM, Class X, Junior Central High, Lawrence, Kansas, United states.
The class has just started, when two people walk into the classroom. One was a thin old man, and other was a slim, slender girl who seemed to be around fourteen years old. Obviously, the old man is the headmaster of the school.
They both stand next to the board, ¡°Good morning everyone, this is Xi Bi, and she will be joining your class from today. She has recently moved to US from China, so she might need help adjusting here, and I hope you guys will do your best to assist her, I will leave it to her the introduction part then,¡± says the old headmaster and exits the class room.
¡°Hello everyone, I am Xi Bi, I am from Hong Kong, China, I just arrived here because of my parents¡¯ transfer, I would have to depend on you for help in the future,¡± says Xi Bi.
The homeroom teacher, who was next to the teaching desk, says, ¡°Welcome to Junior Central High Miss. Xi, please take the empty seat next to Miss. Alice, and Miss. Alice help her to settle up please and if you could help her on the classes she¡¯s missed, that would be perfect. Now since that¡¯s settled, lets continue the class.¡±
After that, the classes went on and on; it was not until lunch break that Xi got to meet her classmates. Alice introduced some of her friends, ¡°Hi Xi, this is Noah, Mia, Jacob, Emma, and Olivia, they are all from our class.¡± With Alice and her friends, Xi roamed around the campus for half an hour, and got lunch from the cafeteria. They all became friends quickly, and at 1.30, they went back to class for afternoon classes.
After classes were done, Xi left the school with Alice, while they were going Alice asks, ¡°Hi Xi, Where are you staying?¡±
¡°I stay with my family near Rock Chalk Park, you?¡± asks Xi.
¡°I am staying near Walgreens, that¡¯s down the road,¡± says Alice.
¡°Hi Alice, can I ask you something?¡± asks Xi.
¡°Yeah, sure, what do you want to know?¡±
¡°It¡¯s like this, I read somewhere that one of our students was murdered some days ago, is that true?¡± asks Xi.
¡°Yes, her name was Ivory, she topped the class previous year, and she was nice to everyone, I have no idea why someone would kill her like that,¡± says Alice, grief could be found in her voice.Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.
¡°Then, is it safe to go to school at a time like this? What if someone else is attacked? I think the school should be called off until the culprit is caught,¡± says Xi.
¡°Ok, Ok, the police must be doing their best; let¡¯s have some trust in them.¡± says Alice, after a momentary silence, she continues, ¡°Hi, how about coming to my home? Let¡¯s hangout it will be fun.¡±
¡°No, not today, I can¡¯t return home late on my first day, can I? Let¡¯s do it like this, let¡¯s hangout tomorrow, it¡¯s Saturday, so we will have lot of time to hangout as well, and lets invite Mia and Emma too, how about it?¡± asks Xi.
¡°Sure, let¡¯s do it like you said,¡± says Alice, and takes out her cell and texts Mia and Emma about the plans. Within a minute, she got replay from them saying they will also be joining.
¡°They will also be joining it seems, so, let¡¯s meet tomorrow then,¡± says Alice, and the two part ways.
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8:30 PM, Inspector Johnson¡¯s house.
Johnson was sitting on his sofa staring at the board in front of him. On that board, you could see a detailed map of Lawrence, and there were six locations marked, they were the five locations where the murder happened and the last was Junior Central High!
Even now, Johnson could hear his subconscious screaming, that these murders had something to do with this junior high; however, he could not just understand to what these evidences were pointing to. It was as if, he was just inches away from the truth, but could not touch it, which was maddening.
At this time, something comes from his window, and strikes the board so hard that it gets struck there. It looked similar to playing card, but one side was completely filled by a big X character, and on the other side was a message. Looking at the card Johnson immediately understood from whom this message has come. Therefore, he immediately pulls the card out, and starts to read the message.
¡°Rooftop, 2 min.¡± were the only words on it.
Johnson rushes to his rooftop, after reaching there, even before he could catch his breath, he sees someone sitting there. That figure was wearing a black suit; there were thousands of wind blades swirling around him. His entire body, which was behind those wind blades, appeared completely obscure, it was as if he was the divinity of wind, the scene was too shocking for Johnson. The wind hid him so well, that one could not make out any of his facial features; not even, if he was a male or female.
¡°Are you Mr. X?¡± asks Johnson.
¡°If I say Yes, would you believe me?¡± asks the blurry figure, his was hoarse, obviously not his original voice. To which Johnson nods. ¡°Then I am Mr. X,¡± says the figure.
¡°Why are you here? And the department said you will be coming on Monday, how come you are here so early?¡± asks Johnson.
¡°I couldn¡¯t possibly wait, since there is a chance that another person might die right?¡± says Mr. X.
¡°You came here, and not to the station, which means you didn¡¯t want to alert the criminal right? And you would not come here without a reason, what do you want from me?¡± asks Johnson.
¡°You sure are smart Inspector, and you are right, I do need something from you, I need you to help me keep people away from school perimeter tomorrow evening, I don¡¯t want people getting hurt accidentally, and you were right on one more thing, the murderer is in Junior Central High!¡± says Mr. X.
¡°You said the murderer is in Junior Central High? Don¡¯t tell me you already found out who did all these? Did I miss any clues left by him?¡± Johnson had a look of utter disbelief on him.
¡°Yes, I did find out who did it, and it is not a he, it¡¯s a She,¡± says Mr. X, and disappears.
Chapter 3 – The 33rd Case – Part 3
Chapter 3 ¨C The 33rd Case ¨C Part 3
Saturday, August 6th, Year 9989, Balien Calendar.
6:30 PM, Lawrence, Kansas, United states.
Xi, Alice, Mia and Emma were roaming the city. They went to shopping for all kinds of stuff: right from apparels to jewelry. After that, they went to watch a movie and even went to dinner together. After that, it was already 10.30PM, so Xi suggested, ¡°Hi, it¡¯s already late, so let¡¯s leave and head home for today.¡±
¡°Ok, Let us drop Emma and Alice along the way, and then I will drop you to your place,¡± says Mia.
¡°Won¡¯t you be late?¡± asks Emma, and continues, ¡°Let¡¯s take Uber and go, it will save all of us some time.¡±
To which, Mia says, ¡°That¡¯s fine, No one¡¯s home today, my mom and dad went out to my granddad¡¯s place. So, it¡¯s fine if I am a bit late.¡±
¡°Then we will do as Mia said,¡± says Alice.
So, all of them board Mia¡¯s car, and start towards Alice¡¯s house. After fifteen minutes or so, they reach Alice¡¯s house. Just as they drop off Alice and start moving, they hear a cold, emotion less voice.
¡°Why are you guys leaving so soon?¡± as the three girls inside the car turn to see the speaker, they were thunderstruck to see Alice covered in numerous light blue water elemental particles. Soon, the entire car was surrounded by snow; even the tiers were frozen and were glued to the ground by ice.
Seeing the state of her car, Mia was the first to scream, Emma was also scared out of her wits as well, while Xi narrows her eyes. She knows, from the amount of water elemental particles surrounding Alice, she should at least be an Intermediate Mage.
All three of them get out of the car, and stare at Alice, who now looked like a stranger to them. The amicable and smiling face was now gone, replaced by a cold and sinister face, which they found hard to believe, was their friend.
¡°Alice, what are you doing?¡± asks Mia.
Alice sneers, and says, ¡°Can you die for my sake?¡±
¡°Die? Are you the one who killed Ivory and all those people? Why? Why did you do that?¡± asks Emma, with grief and resentment.
¡°No hard feelings, I just wanted to power up,¡± says Alice, with an emotionless face. ¡°And now, you can join Ivory too.¡±
Just as she finishes speaking, she waves her hand. Followed by her wave, all the water elemental particles surrounding her starts to condense into three Icicles, which are then shot in the direction of Xi and others.This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version.
Just when the Icicles were about to hit them, a strong wind blows past them, and all the Icicles are directly cut in half. When they look up, they see a figure dressed in black suit, and wearing a silver mask, hovering in midair. Seeing the figure in midair, Alice was about to say something, when she hears an excited shout.
¡°Boss, you came,¡± shouts Xi, and continues, ¡°I thought you were going to wait till I was dead,¡± Xi pouts with indignation.
¡°Yes, yes, I will make it up to you with whatever you like,¡± says Mr. X, and feels bad the moment he finishes, as sees the glint in Xi¡¯s eyes, and thinks, ¡°It seems there won¡¯t be money left from this case as well.¡±
¡°Boss, you are the best, I--¡± beams Xi, before finishes, an icicle come crashing down towards her; however, she moves to her left gracefully and dodges it.
¡°I would not underestimate her, she¡¯s my Retainer Knight after all,¡± says Mr. X, and points towards Alice before saying, ¡°You over there, I will give you once chance to surrender.¡±
¡°Surrender? You must be joking; however, it seems like I have seen you somewhere, but I can¡¯t remember it,¡± says Alice, after a momentary pause, she continues, ¡°Oh, I remember now, you must be that detective Mr. X I read about in paper, Did you perhaps know that it was me who killed those people? That¡¯s why you sent your retainer to my school?¡± asks Alice.
¡°How could I not know, if you leave your name on murders like that?¡± says Mr. X.
¡°Oh, you noticed it? Can you tell me what gave me away?¡± Alice stares in shock.
¡°Simple, first, when vampire drink blood, it would not be so clean, you didn¡¯t even leave a drop of blood around, the only other option would be a Water Mage, who has contracted with a blood spirit. Second, All those murders had one thing in common, that¡¯s your school, even though you tried to divert attention by killing that unemployed man who had nothing with your school, it was still pretty obvious. Third, you killed five people Adam, Lawson, Ivory, Charles and Emily, take first letter of all names, you will get, ALICE, it¡¯s like you were screaming ¡®I AM ALICE¡¯, how could I not notice. Lastly, Miss. Emily was drinking tea with her assailant, it was just a hunch, I mean who would care about names of their victims? So we asked around to see if she knew anyone named Alice, so there you were, an Intermediate Water Mage.¡± Says Mr. X.
¡°Clap, Clap, Clap, you are better than I thought,¡± says Alice, with a smile.
¡°Boss, what¡¯s a blood spirit?¡± asks Xi, interrupting Alice¡¯s words.
¡°When, a mage advances from Novice to Intermediate stage, they can sign contract with a spirit that¡¯s summoned by a summoning ritual,¡± says Mr. X, and continues, ¡°To summon a blood spirit, one should sacrifice the blood of another person, the stronger the person sacrificed, the stronger will be the spirit summoned. Like all other spirits, the blood spirit will also be very weak when someone first contracts it, they must also be powered up by letting them consume their elemental energy, for wind spirits its wind energy, and so on, for blood spirit, it must consume blood energy from leaving beings, that¡¯s why blood from her victims¡¯ bodies were completely extracted.¡±
¡°Yes, that¡¯s correct, my blood spirit needs human blood, that¡¯s the reason for these murders, so what? I know you are an Archmage; even then do you dare arrest me? Do you know which organization I belong? You will be hunted down by the syndicate if something happens to me,¡± says Alice, and then rips off the cloth on her right shoulder. There you could see a crimson colored star with five vertices, the stigma of the most dangerous organization of the underground world, ¡®The Crimson Star Syndicate¡¯.
Mr. X stares at the crimson star tattoo for a long time, before starting to laugh like a lunatic. Immense aura of an Archmage mixed with hate, madness and grief spreads out from him.
¡°After so long, after searching in 9 countries, I finally meet someone from Crimson star,¡± shouts Mr. X, and stares at Alice, like a tiger staring its pray, and continues, ¡°You should have said this sooner, now see, I wasted so much time.¡±
Hearing that a chill runs down through Alice¡¯s spine.