"'Demon Hunter Chris'... So that's how it's done."

Lin Yu sighed with emotion.

If someone could use supernatural powers without relying on [items], and it just happened to be the "curse" type...

From an objective factual standpoint, this person's suspicion was indeed the greatest.

Regardless of motive, it was simply that "the capability was sufficient."

Fu Luo clearly thought the same.

"Even if he didn't do it himself, he's probably still involved somehow."

Lin Yu nodded, then looked back at Li Hua.

"Well, the questions about Captain Good Night are finished..."

Li Hua nodded in acknowledgment. "Do you have anything you want to ask me?"

"Of course. Just now, during your introduction, you said that although 'Paper Kite' is one of our 'Order' members, the original wording you used was 'but the suspicion is absolutely not small either'... Even though that included the two 'Hunters' Association' members, you singled out 'Paper Kite' specifically, which I find hard to ignore."

"Based on my observation of you, Comrade Li Hua... you are a very meticulous person. Plus, 'Paper Kite' is ultimately part of 'Order'. When you said his suspicion was also not small, to some extent, you've almost found evidence against him, haven't you?"

Li Hua let out a sigh.

"Yes..."

He looked Lin Yu up and down, somewhat impressed. "When Furbollo first suggested specially transferring you over, I had my doubts. After all, I had only witnessed your abilities in other areas before. But now it seems... your puzzle-solving ability truly doesn't lose to those whose profession is 'Detective'."

"Just this keen sense of yours is already comparable to the ability of a 'Detective' itself."

Fu Luo, hearing this from the side, hurriedly spoke up. "Actually, I noticed that too! I just didn't ask!"

But no one paid him any attention.

Lin Yu looked at Li Hua and spoke.

"So... what's the issue with Paper Kite?"

"He was the inspector for the East China region until a month ago. Last month, an investigation revealed he had been actively assassinating 'Players'. There are currently nine known victims. I reported this through special channels to headquarters urgently, and then he was demoted."

"Currently, he's been removed from his position as East China Region Inspector and is temporarily serving as a branch captain in Chengcheng in name only."

Li Hua pushed his tortoiseshell-frame glasses up as he said this.

Good Night frowned. "Shit, so Paper Kite's demotion was because of killing people... Wait, hold on. If he violated the rules and killed nine people, why was he only demoted?"

"Because every person he killed deserved to die," Li Hua sighed. "From the Southwest to North China, the deceased were all 'Players' who hadn't been delisted from the forum, and they even had good reputations. They were either mid-level members of various local organizations or well-regarded independents."

"But each deceased, upon our investigation after their deaths, was found to have engaged in sordid affairs. Either they used their abilities to secretly seek personal gain, targeting ordinary people, or they had taken underhanded actions in non-competition type dungeons."

"And he did it very cleanly. If he hadn't finally acted in the East China region and had the bad luck of running into me when I went to find him, this matter wouldn't have been discovered."

Good Night was very surprised. "Shit, is he some kind of Batman? A Dark Knight?"

"Batman doesn't kill people."

Lin Yu suddenly spoke up to remind him.

"Don't worry about such details," Good Night waved his hand. "But... if he's the murderer who killed Radish, are you implying that Radish Grandpa might not have been a good person like the rumors said?"

Fu Luo stroked his chin. "That shouldn't be the case. I feel this old man probably didn't have any dark past or two-faced hypocrite side..."

Lin Yu also nodded in agreement.

From his contact with Radish, even if Radish was putting on an act, it was probably the kind of act he'd maintain for a lifetime.

A gentleman is judged by his actions, not his heart.

Li Hua slowly began to speak. "I don't think Radish had any problems either, so the point of my suspicion isn't Radish, but 'Paper Kite' himself."

"The establishment of 'Order', or rather, this somewhat bloated organization that 'General' personally built for the 'Player community' in my view, needs such a complex organizational structure precisely because among the players, there will be 'super individuals' with extraordinary strength."

"Whether they are righteous or evil, altruistic or self-serving, without the restraint of 'order', such people acting according to their own beliefs would inherently lead to chaos. We are called 'Order' and not 'Justice' precisely because our enemy has never been evil, but chaos."

"He is just one person. Even if he didn't make a mistake the previous nine times, I wouldn't be surprised if he made one this time."

"Furthermore, with this individualistic hero style, even if 'Paper Kite' himself believes he is doing good, his underlying motivation may not be."

As Li Hua spoke, the other three caught on.

"Shit, you mean... he might simply enjoy killing people?"

"Although he kills guilty people, it might just be to 'convince himself,' right?"

Fu Luo also spoke in a low voice.

"There's a relatively simple and quick way to judge... How were those victims killed?"

"Are there commonalities between the corpses? Are there traces of deliberately inflicted pain?"

Li Hua sighed. "You've really hit the nail on the head with that question... Among the current nine deceased, six were shot by him. It wasn't a gunshot for the sake of efficiency, but clearly an 'execution'-style shooting at close range after the target had lost the ability to resist. Among these six cases, four were shot through the left eye socket."

Hearing Li Hua's description, Fu Luo spoke coldly:

"Then the current situation with this Paper Kite closely resembles a case I studied before..."

Li Hua looked at Fu Luo. "You're referring to the one who vanished without a trace, whose whereabouts are unknown, 'The Executioner,' right?"

Fu Luo nodded.

Lin Yu heard the familiar name and was slightly surprised.

'The Executioner'...

Wasn't that the girlfriend of Brother Wang from the 'Free Alliance' whom he met in that train dungeon before!

She wasn't missing now;she was just hanging around with a nominal position in the 'Psychological Society'—something Fu Luo also knew.

However, Lin Yu looked at Fu Luo. The other party didn't correct Li Hua's statement, instead continuing the topic.

"Then he is indeed a suspect... If we don't analyze him as an 'Order' member, but instead analyze him from the psychology of a 'serial killer,' Radish fits his 'victim' criteria—a famous 'good person'."

"It's just that the modus operandi differs from before. But he hasn't used the same method every time either, indicating that while he has a pursuit, he's not obsessive about it."

Lin Yu spoke thoughtfully. "So the two people to be interrogated next: one whose ability fits, and one with a prior record... Plus the two who had a grudge against Radish from before. This is getting interesting."

Lin Yu originally thought that although all eight people were suspects, a few must have just been padding the numbers.

Now it seemed...

Each person being suspected really wasn't too unjustified!