File #6: Investigation (1/2)

m style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;">"Appa! Umma!" A young girl screamed out in fear. She was remembering her mom's words, feeling really scared.

m style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;">"Eunjae... umma loves you a lot, and appa loves you too. Stay in this cupboard. Don't come out. Please don't come out." Her mom whispered through the cupboard. Little Eunjae was only nine, and she was really confused. Why was her mother asking her to sit in the cupboard?

m style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;">Eventually, her curiosity got the better of her and she walked outside the cupboard. Her hands trembling, she turned the door handle and walked out of the room. She slowly walked down the stairs.

m style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;">She reached the staircase on the first floor, and her heart had nearly stopped.

m style="font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;">Blood, blood everywhere. The horrifying scene was too much for a little girl like her to take, and it was one to scar her forever.<u>Incheon</u>"Eunjae, Eunjae-" Yongguk shook her violently. Her eyes shot open and she quickly sat up, breathing heavily and irregularly. She sat up in a crouched position, her head resting on her knees and her hands behind her head as she tried to calm herself.

"What's wrong?" He asked worriedly. She refused to speak, still breathing heavily.

"It's that dream, isn't it?" He understood. She nodded, still keeping her face hidden. He ran his hand down her back as a measure of comforting her.

All Eunjae could see in her head was blood, blood and blood."Ugh..." Junhyung rubbed his eyes sleepily.

"Wake up." Yoseob growled. "We're going to Gyeongju. Flight's at 8:00 AM."

Junhyung sat up, wondering how the fuck they got the tickets so fast.

"Courtesy of the chief inspector. He's gotten tickets for all of us." Dongwoon walked into the room, grabbing a few things from Junhyung's table. "Let's go."

"Unh." Junhyung grumbled and climbed out of bed.The door was opened by a brown haired boy. He looked Kikwang up and down, surprised by someone's appearance so early in the morning."Is Eunjae around?"

"Who are you?" Jongup crossed his arms, glaring at the person coldly. "I don't even know you, why are you here?"

"Look, I'm in bit of a rush. Where is she?"

"Answer the question." Jongup growled. "I don't want my sister to be abducted and shit."

Kikwang glared at him and drew out his ID.

"I'm a police officer. See my ID? Now where is she?"

Jongup's eyes widened but he managed to keep his cool.

"Noona!" He said loudly. Kikwang noticed the slight edge of fear in his voice. A few moments later, Eunjae appeared at the doorway, her hair dripping wet.

"Oh, hi?" She smiled.

"Get your stuff. We're going to Gyeongju." Kikwang commanded. "It's to do with the case."

"Okay." Eunjae rushed back inside and within five minutes, she came back with a bag and a jacket.

"Say bye to everyone for me!" Eunjae waved at Jongup and rushed off after Kikwang.<u>Gyeongju</u>At 8:30, almost everyone was at the China Blue hotel.

"Where's Kiki?" Yoseob asked, looking around.

"Coming. He wasn't going to come at first, so he had to take the train." Jaejoong spoke up.

"Is Moonjae there?" Junhyung asked grumpily, still sleepy.

"Present." Eunjae spoke up from behind them, followed by Kikwang. Doojoon rolled his eyes and looked back at the hotel.

"Look around for clues, interrogate hotel staff, you know the drill..." Doojoon looked at all of them. "We'll split into teams. Kikwang and Jaejoong, you guys can interrogate the hotel staff and we'll do the same. You three..."

"We'll check out the hotel room." Junhyung nodded. "We'll join you once we're done."

The eight of them stepped inside the hotel. Eunjae looked around in awe. The ceiling had a huge glass chandelier, which glittered and gleamed from the light. The walls were light coloured, and had swirls of designs on the walls.

"It's very artistic, right?" Junhyung spoke into her ear, snapping her out of her temporary trance. She slowly nodded. They all split up, leaving Eunjae standing under the chandelier. Eunjae looked around confusedly, not knowing what to do.

"Yah, Moonjae!" Junhyung called her. "Quit stalling, we got work to do!"

Eunjae hurriedly followed them to the elevator.The four of them walked into the hotel room, looking around.

"No signs of struggle..." Dongwoon said carefully. "It's odd, don't you think?"

"Not unless the murderer was somehow associated with the person..." Junhyung looked at them. "But that could only be applicable to the first circumstance, where he had sex with one of them."

"He can't have entered from the window, you can't unlock it from the inside." Yoseob peered closely at the window. "I see no signs of forced entry. The window hasn't been touched."

"Why are you reciting all possible assumptions?" Eunjae asked, bewildered.

"It works for us, trust me." Dongwoon smiled. "He can't have hidden under the bed, there are cameras outside the room-"

"Not unless they made the same piece of film loop over and over." Eunjae arched her eyebrows.

"Jaejoong thought of that. He checked the tapes and inquired about any unauthorised entry. Your theory won't work here." Yoseob shrugged, but Eunjae wasn't listening. Her attention was diverted by the ventilation panel above one of the beds.

"Pass me a pair of gloves." Eunjae held her hand out, her eyes flickering between the other ventilation panels and the one in question. As soon as she got them, she took off her shoes and jumped on the bed.

"Aren't the panels screwed to the wall?" Dongwoon arched his eyebrows as she fiddled with the panel.

"Generally, yes. But in order for the killer to come inside the room," Eunjae smirked as metal piece came into her hand. "This has got to be unscrewed."

"Nice work." Junhyung grinned, standing up on the bed. "Now, how would the killer have gotten back out..."

"I'm guessing someone Dongwoon's height." Yoseob assumed. Eunjae and Junhyung got off the bed while Dongwoon got on it.

"I'm pretty sure that if I jumped and twisted around, I could crawl inside." Dongwoon said after a while.

"So our killer is around 180 cm tall and pretty skinny." Eunjae concluded. "Yoseob, what are you doing?"

"This is one of my favourite little prototypes." He grinned as he held out a small monitor to Eunjae. He soon brought out a small car with a camera attached to it.

"A remote controlled car." Eunjae scoffed.

"It's not as simple as you think it is." Yoseob smirked. "For one thing, it stores all recorded data on it, AND it sends this data to my computer at home, and it needs a fingerprint to activate it. Three failed tries and it self destructs, therefore destroying all data on the prototype, but not on the computer."

"So you use it for-"

"Stealth. Places we can't go, this little beauty does." Yoseob patter the car reassuringly. "It's also got a movement sensor, we can pick up the movements on this radar here." He held out another monitor.

"Hey, get on with it." Junhyung rolled his eyes, grabbing the prototype from Yoseob.

"Hey, watch it! I just made some minor adjustments!" Yoseob shouted. Junhyung passed the car to Dongwoon, who placed it in the ventilation duct. Yoseob took out the remote control and tested the car.

"You." He looked at Eunjae. "I need you to monitor the car's movement. Look around for anything unusual."

"Okay." Eunjae nodded and squatted on the floor. A few minutes passed by with nothing interesting to be seen.

"Stop." Eunjae said suddenly. "Move back."

Yoseob did as she asked and moved the car back, looking into the monitor. A shiny object came into view.

It was a knife.

"Well well..." Junhyung said gravely. "Looks like we've found our murder weapon."

Yoseob pressed a button on the remote. Eunjae, who was looking into the monitor, was startled as a mechanic hand came out of nowhere and picked up the knife.

"Minor adjustments." Yoseob smirked, seeing the look on her face. When the car was back, Dongwoon brought it back down.

"We'll have to analyse this. Eunjae, take it and put it into a plastic bag." Dongwoon held the car towards her. Holding her breath, she took the knife and quickly put it into a plastic bag, as Dongwoon had told her to.

"Hey, guys?" Junhyung called them. "I'm not sure about y'all, but there's no fucking way I can fit my hand through this."

They all looked at him, bemused as Junhyung tried to put his hand through the gap on the cover of the ventilation panel.