After Sophia was rushed into the emergency room, the drenched man walked into the corridor and made a call using the payphone with his back toward the surveillance camera.
Gemma immediately looked into the payphone’s call log based on the time of the phone call. After that, she managed to confirm the phone number he had dialed and its location.
Shortly after making that phone call, somebody came to pick the man up. The man entered Sophia’s ward and stayed inside for a few minutes. After that, he left the hospital without ever coming back.
The man had his back toward the surveillance camera the whole time.
Why would Michael investigate this incident all of a sudden?
The room was momentarily silent except for the sound of Gemma tapping her fingers on the keyboard as she searched for more information.
Michael frowned as he asked Sophia again, “Do you still remember how the man looked like?”
Sophia shook her head. “It was too dark that day, and there were no lights on the island; I really couldn’t see his face. I heard from a nurse in the hospital afterward that the man was strikingly handsome.”
When she regained consciousness back then, the nurse who had looked after her said, “Huh? Was the guy from yesterday your boyfriend? He is both very handsome and very tall! Not only does he have long legs and look handsome, he also has a pair of attractive eyes!”
However, she was too embarrassed to repeat what the nurse had said back then.
Michael asked after that, “Did he say something weird to you? Has he ever looked for you over these years?”
Sophia shook her head again. “He left before I regained consciousness,” she explained.
After that, however, she produced a stack of neatly-folded receipts from her Pikachu-themed pajamas’ pocket and added, “These are the bills that he signed back then.”
She had been keeping these receipts over the years in case she met the man again. After all, the man had saved her life.
Gemma immediately took the bills from her and saw the name ‘Dylan Lee’ written on them in an illegible and distorted manner.
She quickly found the person who had signed this name by comparing the handwriting. Soon after that, the large screen showed the photo of a person whose face looked as vicious as a demon as he held up a bleeding human head.
Gemma introduced, “He is Quill Lee, one of the top assassins working under the Phantom Wolf’s leader. He had been wanted in eight countries, but he was killed in a joint counter-terrorism operation conducted by Interpol. The phone number just now should have belonged to him, but it is already out of service.”
After another round of searching, Gemma continued, “Two doctors and three nurses were on duty in Lovely Hospital’s duty room on the late night of 15th of March. All the five people have died from different kinds of accidents within a year, which includes drowning, road accidents, and fires.”
Sophia’s eyes widened in an instant. The guy who had paid her bills was a terrorist, and all five doctors and nurses who had saved her life back then were dead? What on earth had happened?
Everyone else gasped in horror as well. Their next step was to find out who had been on duty in the hospital’s duty room back then. Since the Phantom Wolf’s leader was strikingly handsome, he must have made quite an impression on these people; they might’ve had a breakthrough in their investigations. However, little did they expect the Phantom Wolf’s leader to have murdered all the five people!
What a cruel man he was!
Michael walked up and patted Gemma on the shoulder before saying, “Please work hard tonight and look through all the surveillance footage near the scenes where the five people were killed to search for possible clues.”
Gemma nodded as she began her work without any complaints or regrets.
Then, Michael led a dazed and confused Sophia out of his study by holding her hand.
They went back to the bedroom, but the previously romantic atmosphere had disappeared without a trace; the sight of the shackle-like scar on Sophia’s ankle gave him a headache.
Why on earth would the Phantom Wolf’s leader leave his symbol of death on her ankle?
Feeling uneasy, Sophia asked him, “What’s wrong, hubby?”
Michael let out a sigh before he sat down and explained the whole story to Sophia.
After listening to his explanation, Sophia felt as though her world had been turned upside down.
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