𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑘𝑒𝑟 | 𝑌𝑜𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑖 𝐹𝑎𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑐

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"Then why is he up there if you don't trust him?" Ellie shouted. Her boss begins to chuckle at her as he knew why he did what he did. Walking up to the computer, he types in his password then log in to the upper floor camera system.

"One of my workers mentioned that he was spotted in weird area in the basement. Curious and suspicious, I wonder what was he doing back there. Now, when I tell my staff that the building is on edge— they look out for every single detail that is wrong in this building including people. Before you arrived at the office, I told my crew that you will be with me as Yoongi will be the one up here 'working' on things. They are not slow as they know what's wrong with their computers, by watching him closely, I would know if something is off. After Jennie's disappearance, something in my gut told me about him"

Ellie pouted out of amazement, Tae wasn't that slow after all. He knows what's wrong in his building and who acting off as well. So she wasn't the only one that feels something when around Yoongi, interesting. "Do you have the tape of what happened that night?" Ellie asked. Tae nodded and went to find it in a file case.

Smart, instead of keeping in the computer system— he kept on tape. "Did you ever look back on it?" She asked again. "No, didn't get a chance too... I didn't want to give it to the police either, they may want to search for this place. I can't have that with all my work down here. Addition to that, I got interested in the case myself once that first victim was killed"

He continued to search through the files to find that tape. Ellie went to sit down in a chair, maybe Tae could help as well, he probably knows about the bar that is close to us, she thought to herself. He went ah, as he lifted up the cd from the security cam... he slides in the cd into the desktop. "This captures the whole day, to the first person who comes in and the last person to leave out" Tae explain.

He rewinds the tape to the beginning, nothing unusual there as the secretary was the first person to enter. She did her routine as check the floor before the staff comes in, this was 4 am in the morning. An hour later, Tae walks in.... workers began to enter one by one as the hour went by. Ellie saw something "STOP! Who is that behind Jennie? He no company ID on him and I never seen him before" Ellie stated.

Tae squinted his eyes "Your right, I never seen him before either? I know faces of who works here... may not know every name but faces yes"
They continue to watch the video as the secretary didn't even see him walk by, he was so close to Jennie and blend in with the workers as they flood through... was that the person Evan mention in his interview?

No matter what video he was in Jennie was there, except in the office with her. That was a mystery "Where was he at when she went to the office?" Ellie questioned. "I'm looking through the back room now, it seems like someone mess with those cameras because they weren't like that before"

In the video, the cameras were turned away from certain areas, like the system room, security room, and any close corners in that hallway. "Someone back there, you can see something moving but we don't know who?" Ellie stated again. Tae explains that only maintenance staff and himself can go back there. That there's nothing but old machines and the main system.

"Why would you go back there?"

"Oh, shit... remember when I told about certain places that I go to get away from work, like here.." Tae said in a scared way. Ellie raises her eyebrow in curiosity.

"There's a secret room back there that leads to the ground floor. I keep plans back there, like building plans"

Ellie never reaction so fast before in her life, she and Tae raced back upstairs to check it out.

When getting out of the elevator, they sprinted to the back area, the workers blink their eyes as they felt wind pass them. "Where? Where's the door?" Ellie shouted. Tae pointed to the back hallway, it was a line in the wall that indicates where the door was.

"Wait a minute, you need a key to get in how in the hell?" Tae went inside to check the place out, it was a total mess. Papers everywhere, laptops were destroyed, and blood was splattered on a wall... this definitely looks like a crime scene that the police is looking for. Ellie's eyes have to witness this again but this time there's nobody.

"No fucking wonder, they couldn't find anything out here because it happened in here"

"We need to call the police... they need to see this" Ellie said.
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"It seems like they had a key to your door" Namjoon said as he examined it. "I see no break in and the camera lens is cover in black paint... no use of using that. The struggle happened in here definitely, and she possibly was stabbed to the blood but no trail leads to the stairway. Beaten? You guys stated there was a guy that was with her? Could he possibly be the one that was back here doing all of this? Setting up for the perfect escape?"

Taehyung and Ellie stared at each other with a blank expression. The other workers tried to see what was going on, even Yoongi was in the back of the crowd. Tae explains that he hasn't been back here yet, he only comes when changes to the building are made... since everyone was so busy during the time, no one seems him go back there. "This room is soundproof, it was meant to block out sound, so she was possibly screaming for help during this. Evan said he saw something in his vision but I guess it was too dark. Damn it man" Tae was pissed.

Namjoon thought for a moment, he didn't want to shut down the whole building due to this is a big company. Then he came up with this, that this floor will be close down for intense investigation— that he will have police offers here to help monitor the area. "I can have my crew on a different floor, the meeting rooms. Anything else, I can give you any information on the workers on this floor that time"

Namjoon agreed to the plan. He told the workers to head home as for today. As the team packed up and headed home, Ellie stays with Namjoon for a while. "So this the lead you need to find the person?" She said in an upset tone.

"This is something, this is huge. We can retrace the tracks to see how this begin, then work from there. Poor Jennie, she was scared for her life... trusted this person"

"Probably didn't know him, remember about the coffees. He probably dropped something in it and handed to her out of kindness" Ellie sat on a table near the door. Namjoon face popped up, he searched around the room. Looking through the trash, he found the cups. He gestured to his partner to put this in the evidence list, it may contain fingerprints.

When waiting, Ellie receives a text...

Unknown:
You are a quite smart Ellie, but are you smart where you think you can find me?

Ellie:
You are dumb texting me, knowing they can track you down 😊

Unknown:
We will see about that

Her phone shuts down then an electric shock went off. In pain, she dropped her phone, which causes it to break. "Motherfucker..."