Rain is sitting on a sofa with his eyes closed, reviewing what he saw in the victim's house. He already had dinner and is staying in an apartment assigned by the town's guard.
After reviewing what he saw in the victim's house, he started reviewing photos of the previous victim's homes to find any common item in all the victims' houses. There are more than 180 victims, so he only looked at the images. So, the soul chip can find any common item.
He has to find a common item because there is nothing common among all the victims except they are residents of this town. The town even does not have a nice name and is named after the green ore found inside the town.
The green ore is 'Kostbares' and there is already a Tier 2 city of this name. So, the town was named Green Ore Town. He learned from the information, he found in the guard's servers the official name of ore is 'Kostbares' and the mine is small. And now it is nearly depleted like the life span of mine is around five years.
" So, if the town does not find any other source of income, it will be abandoned."
" In the Radiation world, after the cataclysm, all settlements are formed near some natural resources or strategic location."
" Only some town after their resources is depleted can transformed into a city."
" What am I thinking? The town is not my concern."
Rain starts to think of anything common among the victims, except the town the other thing common everyone's income is one way or another is connected with the mine.
Rain commands the Bit to find all the Victims' jobs and how they are connected to the mining operation. After a few seconds, it finds that all the victims' jobs are directly related to the mining operation. Some were repairers of the mining robots and other works related to the mining operation.
And they enter the mine at one time or another because of their job.
" The mine must be investigated to solve the case."
" Then tomorrow morning, I have to ask Senior Taek to take me to the mine."
"Now, I should start practicing." Thinking that Rain was sitting cross-legged on the floor, he started his practice.
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The next morning, at 8:05 a.m., he is sitting inside a restaurant eating his breakfast as he waits for Senior Taek to come. He is halfway through his breakfast when he hears the restaurant door chime and raises his head to see Senior Taek and Gale enter the restaurant.
Rain called out, "Senior Taek." After hearing him, they turned toward him. Rain watched them walk toward sitting in front of him.
Rain greets," Good morning, Do you want something to eat?" and takes a bite of his breakfast.
Taek greets back," Morning, I will have some coffee."
Gale," Good Morning, Senior Rain and I will also have a cup of coffee."
Rain nods and commands the Bit to place their order.
Taek asks," Rain, What clue did you discover?"
Gale with admiration," Senior Rain, One day did not pass, you discover a clue." Rain sees Gale looking at him with stars in her eyes.
Rain sees a robot coming holding two cups of coffee. He waits for them to take their coffee.
After that, he says," The Clue I discover may help us solve the case, or it will be of no use."
Rain continues," I will send the information to both of your Bits."
He commands his Bit to send them the clue he discover. After he sends his information, he watches Taek close his eyes to view the information whereas Gale takes out her Bit from her pocket and on the holographic screen reads the information.
Taek opened his eyes," Rain, there is nothing new, more than 70% of the people work in the mining operation."
Gale," Yes, Senior Rain, Except for a few hundred people rest work is connected with the mining operation."
Rain nods and takes the final bite of his breakfast," All of the Victim's jobs lead them to enter the mine."
Taek," Not all of them, there is a half dozen cooks who work for different restaurants. They are not connected with the mine and they would not be allowed to enter the mine"
Rain," Three months ago, they entered the mine to cook for a party inside the mine."
Taek," Who held a party inside a mine?"
Gale:" I went to the party. It was held by Councilor Carson to celebrate the 50th anniversary of opening the mine."
Rain," After we check the mine's security footage we can discover the reason for their suicide."
Taek drank his coffee in one gulp, and stood up," Let's go then." Seeing him, Gale also follows his lead and stands up.
Rain then follows them outside the restaurant, and gets inside his hover car.
Five minutes throughout the journey, Gale speaks," Senior Rain, How did you discover the clues?"
Rain," I discovered the clue because I am not part of this town."
Gale's face shows confusion she does not understand Rain but Taek understands and explains it to Gale," We are part of the town, we know everyone in the town's job is connected with the mine. So, we did not consider the mine as the common link."
Gale," Hmm! So, the victims are affected by weirdness inside the mine."
Rain," Maybe." Rain is sure the mine is somehow connected with the suicides.
Gale," Then me and my family enter the mine." with fear in her voice.
Taek," Nothing, will happen to you Councilor's house is protected by weird repelling devices. If you and any of your family members were affected, it would be been repel after we enter your house."
Rain sees the hover car enter the second underground floor and after five minutes the car stops in front of a security gate. Before the security can ask who they are and why? Rain sends his identity card and the gate slides open in the very next second.
Then the car stops in front of a building, and they get out of the car. The car then drove away to the parking space.
Before they reach the front door of the building, they are stopped by a female.
Rain looks questioning at the female. The female spoke," I was sent Chief Manager to lead Investigator Rain to his office."
Rain," We did not come to visit him." With that Rain walks away followed by Taek, Gale, and the female.
The Female walks quickly beside Rain and speaks," The Chief Manager wants to know the reason for your visit and will help you in any way."
Rain walked to the corridor of the security office after listening to Bit's instructions. Seeing them walk inside the corridor, the female understood their goal and stopped behind them.
Rain opens the door of the security office and enters, he sees two men staring at a screen covering a wall. The two men notice three people entering the security room.
One stands up," Investigator Taek and Guard Gale, why we are here?" and toward Rain," Who is this?"
Rain did not answer commands his Bit to take control of the security system and show on the screen the first victim's last time entering the mine and which part he walked.
He hears Gale behind him explaining who is he and Why they are here.
Rain is sure the first victim will enter the mine because the first victim's job is to be a safety inspector.
Rain's security clearance rose to C-rank after participating in the dead battlefield and showing his talent. Before he even advanced to C-rank his clearance was advanced because of his talent.
So, there is no twist and turn of his Bit taking over the security system.
A part of the screen changes to a video focusing on a male entering the building they enter. Rain check the time and data finds 23.59/ 16.6.1012.
Rain sees the man coming out of the building's backside to the entry gate of the mine. As the man enters the mine, the security door bangs open and Rain turns to see a Man with an angry face enter the room with the same female following behind him and closing the door.
Rain guess the man is the chief manager of the mining operation.
The Man's angry eyes trained on Rain. After taking a deep breath to calm himself, he spoke," Investigator Rain, My secretary asked you to go to my office so that I can help you."
Rain turns his eyes to the screen, and commands the Bit to reverse the video to where the Victim enters the mine. The screen again returns when the victim enters the mine.
He hears the chief manager," What are you doing? To check security footage, you need my permission. Stop the Video right now."
Rain did not pay attention to the man's anger even if the man's life level of initial C-rank. In a fight, he is not the opponent of the man but the man will not be able to kill him. If, the man has the guts to attack him.
He has the entire guard department behind and the man is a small town's mining operation senior manager. So without turning to face the man, Rain answers," See, if you can stop the video."
Rain hears the Man shouting to the two men in charge of the security room," Stop the video right now."
Rain sees the victim walking into a mine tunnel and looking at the walls, Rain guesses the mine's tunnel is newly dug. He then hears one of the two men in charge of the security room, speak," Sir, we cannot stop the video, we do not have security clearance."
The Chief Manager," Use my security clearance."
Again after a few seconds," Sir, Even with your security clearance we cannot stop the video." His and the Senior manager's security clearance is the same C-rank but he belongs to the Guard department. So, he is given priority in matters involving a case.
Rain smirks as he watches the video of the safety inspector checking the wall of the tunnel.
Rain hears the Chief manager asking him," Why is your security clearance at C-rank?"
Rain speeds up the video by 4times and answers back with one word," Talent." This simple word explains everything.
He hears the sound of Taek and Gale choking on their laughter and the Senior Manager," I will mention this to the councilor Carson." Saying this the Senior Manager with his Secretary exits the room.
Rain in the video sees the victim enter two other mine tunnels beside this tunnel after checking the tunnel. He leaves the mine at 4.09/ 17.06.1002.
Rain then commands the Bit to compare the victim's movement inside the mine to the other victims' movement, if their movement matches, as the Bit does the calculation.
Rain hears Taek," How is your security clearance at C-rank but mine still at D-rank? Our talent is similar."
Rain smiles, he does not want to brag but he asks for it. In his right hand, genetic energy surges out into the form of a small blade. D-rank cannot change genetic energy property to solid but Rain's understanding of sharp rule allowed him.
Taek was surprised," Your understanding of sharp rule...."
Gale not understanding," He did not advance to C-rank. How can do this?" Because a D-rank Genetic Warrior cannot manipulate their genetic energy into a bladed weapon.
The sharp side will be always dull. But, Rain's small knife gives a feeling of sharpness.
Taek explains," It is not solid, his understanding of sharp rule makes it sharp."
Gale admiring, "Oww!" They do not know his rule of blunt reaching the same height of sharpness. After breaking through the middle True body can rapidly advance to the late and reach the peak true body realm.
Rain sees the screen show every victim walking inside the three new mining tunnels except the cooks for the party did not enter the new mining tunnels but used the bathroom beside the new mining tunnels.
Taek from behind him sees this," We should check the three new tunnels."
Gale," Yes, Let's go quickly."
Taek says to Gale," Not you, only me and Rain." and speaks to the two men," Tell everyone in the three new tunnels to get out."
Rain speaks," Gale, you find the rest of the people still alive after entering the three new mine tunnels and scan them for weird auras in their bodies."
With that Taek and Rain walk out of the security room.