Intertwined: Two fates

79 - Scapegoat

It was yet another sleepless night for the officers in Seoul Municipal Bureau.

First, the hospital's security guard had caught someone sneaking into the electrical control room to cut off the power to the entire building. That person's fighting skill was treacherous, sharp and not to be trifled with. In the end, it took five security guards to take him down and bring him under control. Even though the power was quickly restored thirty minutes later, the entire hospital had been plunged into unnecessary chaos and panic.

At the same time, the surveillance cameras in a few departments were down, the screen became pixelated and grainy like an old television which had lost its signal. It covered quite a large area, including but not limited to the Outpatient department, Neurology Department, Pheromones Department, even the VIP area was not spare.

Until now, the workers could not pinpoint the source of the problem. However, it was suspected that some sort of interference item was involved here.

These two events were already quite bizarre to begin with when investigated separately. At first glance, they did not seem to hold any correlation whatsoever. However, everything changed when a report came in from the isolation ward in the Pheromones Department.

Two police officers were knocked unconscious and the patient, whom they were supposed to watch over, had lost control of his pheromones and had to be kept under tranquilizer for the time being. And worse, the officers claimed that they had not sensed anything amiss before they passed out!

What did it mean?

It meant that whoever had snuck into Ruan's isolation room and caused him to lose control of himself was someone with superb fighting capability exceeding that of a trained Alpha!

Just as everyone in the Violent Crime and Narcotics Division was still reeling from this revelation, they received another shocking news.

The person who snuck into the hospital's electrical control room to cut off the main power had been identified and... it was none other than Li Yan!

"What?" Captain Namjoon was shocked once he heard the news. "How is it possible? Li Yan is our main suspect for Seo-won's murder. Why would he be involved with Ruan now?"

He just could not wrap his head around this fact. So far, Seo-won and Old Five's murders were separate cases that were not connected to each other. One was the victim of an obnoxious imposter who was suspected to be related to Shadow, whereas the other was a drug addict who was killed by his own son. But now, because of Li Yan's appearance... a solid line has been formed to link these two cases to each other.

Could it be... did Old Five's death have something to do with Shadow as well?

Namjoon's mind raced with countless thoughts.

Once, Captain Rong had relayed his suspicion that Old Five was silenced, but because of the lack of evidence, they could only focus their investigation on his son, Ruan, for the time being. If Old Five's death was related to Shadow, then wouldn't it mean that Rong Simo's suspicion was true?

Had Old Five really been killed in order to protect the identity of the drug lord in Seoul? But if that was the case, then they also had to suspect that there was a traitor in the Narcotics Division who had passed on the news of the ambush to the other side...

Chills ran down Namjoon's spine at the thought. "Where is Captain Rong?" He asked the officer who had come to relay the news.

"Captain Rong has been notified as well. He has expressed the desire to interrogate Li Yan in person. But so far, Director Bang has not given his approval yet."