Chapter 36: Possible Light

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5 in the afternoon, Black Shield Team's office.

Bambam is sitting in front of a computer, immersed in searching for all information related to the case. Cold Face has gone to the Branch Bureau Chief's office for a meeting, representing the Black Shield Team. Apparently, the Chief is having a fierce discussion on whether or not to continue waiting or to take action immediately.

Chatterbox is sitting across from Bambam and is also working anxiously.

All of a sudden, Chatterbox slaps the table and stands up. "All 8 profiles are complete!" he retrieves a stack of paper from the printer. Bambam rushes over to take them and starts reading them in detail.

T organized this competition anonymously, but he did not reveal the list of participants on the forum. Therefore, they've spent a lot of effort in confirming the participants' names and identities: tracking their addresses, decoding mailbox passwords, and probing other netizens and insiders......

Kang Min, male, 27 years old, a network engineer. He's single and has participated and won prizes in numerous real life CS competitions.

Iseul, male, 25 years old, also an engineer who is Kang Min's colleague. He's single as well.

Seulgi, female, 26 years old, works at a financial company. She's a long-time CS fan.

Sang Won, male, 28 years old, an interior designer (part-time). He's single and lives in the same neighborhood as Kang Min.

Yoo Joon, male, 27 years old, works as a freelance and is single. He also lives in the same neighborhood as Kang Min and Iseul.

Young Jae, male, 34 years old, a contracted librarian at the provincial tourism college (temporary job). He's single after divorce and has no children.

Hyun Ki, male, 26 years old, jobless, an avid CS fan.

Kim Dal Rae, female, 26 years old and has been dating Hyun Ki for two years.

It's hard to tell who's suspicious based on this information.

Chatterbox picks up a copy, "I'll take it to the Chief."

"Okay," Bambam carries his copy back to his computer. After he thinks for a moment, he puts his hands together suddenly and prays to the empty space in front of him, "Buddha, please give us your blessings! Please preserve us! Please bless and protect Leader and Lisa to be safe and sound."

He feels more at ease after saying his prayers. He takes a look at the list of names and then flips open another stack of paper on the desk.

Before Jungkook and Lisa left, he was asked to look up on all CS competition death related cases. He has three case files in his hand right now; they all happened in the past five years.

In the case, just prior to the day of the CS competition three years ago, a staff member suddenly fell from high grounds due to equipment malfunctioning. He has already contacted the competition's organizer and the supervisor of the criminal investigation team who were involved at the time. They've confirmed that the person was the only staff member at the scene at the time of the accident. Therefore, he can rule out the possibility of it being a murder case.

In the second case, some company had organized a CS event for their employees a year ago. A 50 or so year-old employee died from a sudden heart attack. Bambam has read the autopsy report conducted at the time and has not found anything out of the ordinary. He has also taken a look at the company's list of employees, and it does not contain any of the 8 participants from this time. Therefore, he can also rule this one out.

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