# 1166
Chapter 1167: No Survivors
"The Li family was exterminated?!"
Hearing Lin Qiye's retelling, all the members of the [Nightfall] squad froze in place.
"That's right." Lin Qiye nodded slightly. "Last night, I did go to the Li family estate, but by the time I arrived, this disaster hadn't happened yet..."
As he spoke, Lin Qiye turned to look at Jiang Er, who was floating in mid-air. "Jiang Er, did you go to the Li family last night too?"
Jiang Er was startled, lowering her head like a child caught doing something wrong. "I..."
"I was the one who asked her to hack into the Li Corporation's internal network," An Qingyu spoke up proactively. "I thought, since we couldn't directly act against the Li family, we could at least delete all their documents related to the Old Town District project. Also, I wanted to warn Li Jianbai— even if we got caught, it would just be a disciplinary matter. But when we acted last night, Li Jianbai was still perfectly fine...
Oh right, his psychological defenses were quite fragile. Jiang Er had barely said two words before he fainted."
Lin Qiye looked at An Qingyu and Jiang Er, sighing helplessly.
"Why did you two have to do this?"
"Um... actually, the two of us went too." Baili Pangpang raised his hand cautiously.
"You and Cao Yuan? When did you go?"
Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan recounted everything that had happened last night.
After listening, Lin Qiye spoke with a mixture of amusement and exasperation, "So last night, all five of us went in three separate groups and took turns warning Li Jianbai?"
"From the chronological order, Jiang Er and I were the last to act. At that time, the Li family estate was still intact." An Qingyu took the photo Lin Qiye handed her and passed it to Jiang Er for identification. "The two of us should be the last people to have seen them."
Jiang Er's gaze swept across the many photographs. She pointed to Li Jianbai lying in the drainage ditch and said:
"That's right. When I scared him into fainting last night, he fell right at the edge of this drainage ditch."
An Qingyu pondered thoughtfully:
"Which means, when the Li family was exterminated last night, Li Jianbai actually hadn't woken up from his faint?
So the person who exterminated the entire Li family must have struck shortly after we acted. Generally speaking, the time it takes to wake up from a fainting spell caused by shock isn't very long. With that, we can roughly estimate the time when the Li family was wiped out... around two to three in the morning last night."
"No need to calculate it so troublesome." Lin Qiye said calmly,
"As long as I go to the scene, I'll know everything that happened last night."
...
Li Family Estate.
Guided by Shi Wenxuan, Lin Qiye and the others passed through the police cordon and walked into the estate.
The moment they stepped inside, Lin Qiye caught the thick scent of blood. The vast estate was deathly silent, with jet-black crows circling overhead, letting out harsh, piercing cries.
"After the case was transferred to our Night Watch, we sealed off the scene immediately. I also brought Qian Duoduo to take a look, but unfortunately, there were no substantial findings." Shi Wenxuan led the group through the courtyard, walking directly toward the devastated mansion.
A corner of the mansion's roof had been slashed apart. Broken stones lay scattered on the ground near the house. From the fracture pattern, it appeared to be the result of some kind of blade cutting through— this level of destructive power was absolutely something no ordinary person could achieve.
An Qingyu narrowed his eyes as he studied the slash mark on the roof. He supported his chin with one hand, appearing to be deep in thought.
"Found something?" Jiang Er noticed the glint in An Qingyu's eyes and knew he must have discovered something. She asked curiously.
"The direction of this strike is a bit odd..."
"Where's the oddity?"
"This strike came down from top to bottom." An Qingyu raised his palm and made a horizontal cutting motion toward the broken section of the mansion's roof, as if simulating the scene at that moment,
"To create a fracture like this, either someone had to jump up while swinging a blade, or they came from the heavens, slicing down in one fluid motion."
"Came from the heavens?" Jiang Er blinked. "You mean, he came by plane?"
"...I mean, he might not be human." An Qingyu shrugged, his gaze falling on Lin Qiye, who had already walked into the mansion. "Let's see what Qiye finds."
Lin Qiye passed through the chaotic living room and stopped in the center of the mansion.
His gaze swept across the walls splattered with blood, and he spoke calmly:
"Black Pupil."
A shadow instantly crawled over his body, and in the next moment, a crimson eye opened between Lin Qiye's brows!
In Lin Qiye's vision, everything around him rapidly rewound. The veil of the past slowly lifted under the gaze of that crimson eye...
After a short while, time was traced back to when the banquet had just begun. The mansion, walls, ceiling decorations, and furniture all returned to their original pristine state. Footprints rapidly appeared on the floor, and glass-like wine cups floated suspended in the air, drifting about as if invisible hands were gripping them, carrying them through the banquet.
The Black Pupil's Eye of Revelation couldn't directly spy on living beings, and since Jiang Er had hacked all the surveillance cameras in the area last night, there were no camera feeds to rewind. Therefore, Lin Qiye could only judge what had happened based on the trajectories of these objects' movements.
Very quickly, Lin Qiye's gaze locked onto a wine cup that was floating upstairs.
The cup drifted along the second-floor wall for a moment, then suddenly dropped to the ground and shattered into fragments. Simultaneously, the footprints downstairs paused— those guests seemed to be wondering what had happened on the second floor.
Lin Qiye knew that was when he had used the ability of [White Slash] to drag Li Jianbai directly to the underground wine cellar.
Less than ten minutes later, the wine cellar entrance opened, and a stumbling footprint emerged onto the ground. Just as it was about to enter the mansion, a thick wooden club floated up behind the person's head and struck violently at the back of their skull.
Then, on the muddy ground, a long drag mark appeared— that was Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan dragging Li Jianbai to the tree, hanging him up, and giving him a brutal beating.
After that, Li Jianbai's shoeprints struggled back to the front door. Then his phone flew out, and he collapsed to the ground.
"Here it comes..." Lin Qiye, witnessing this scene, narrowed his eyes slightly.
According to An Qingyu's deduction, the person who exterminated the Li family should have appeared during this time frame. His gaze swept across the surroundings, not missing any detail.
He, or it— where would it appear from?
Lin Qiye waited at the scene for十几 minutes. Suddenly, a flash of light descended from above, and the mansion's roof was directly slashed open!
Lin Qiye's pupils contracted. He quickly pushed open the door and entered the mansion, only to see that directly beneath the gap in the roof, a massive three-toed footprint was pressed into the broken ceramic tiles, deeply sunken into them.
Not human. The sole had only three toes, and it was extremely heavy. It appeared to have flying ability.
Lin Qiye quickly summarized the effective information.
After this figure landed, the wine cups floating around went madly scattering in all directions. Then several slash marks tore through the walls and floor. Countless figures collapsed onto the tiles, and blood wildly spread across the brick surface.