The elites from Truth Corporation's security department were indeed quite "professional" individuals. After just a few rounds of exchanges, they had already identified Li Nian's biggest weakness.

She lacked powerful offensive methods!

When facing "living creatures" of similar size, the offensive methods Li Nian could rely on were extremely limited.

But even so...

These three from Truth Corporation couldn't do much to Li Nian either!

After all, her strengths were almost as obvious as her weaknesses.

She was as agile as a slippery loach. Although her attacks could hardly cause any damage against these fully armed, modified combat personnel...

It would be difficult for these combat personnel to harm Li Nian in a short time either!

And simply ignoring this young girl to go after the several people lost in thought was also impossible.

Because... although Li Nian's attack methods weren't strong, she could steal things.

The Deputy Leader had an intuition: as long as their attention shifted slightly away from this young girl, or if they didn't pressure her as intensely...

They would likely lose a few more items from their persons!

Thus, both sides reached a delicate balance within the carriage.

Although neither could do much to the other, neither dared to relax!

The Deputy Leader was even deliberately stalling for time.

"Although communications were cut off... as long as the team leader notices my communication has been silent for a while, he'll definitely bring reinforcements!"

"Although three people can't handle her temporarily, restraining the three of us might also be her ability limit... if the team leader brings additional reinforcements, we'll have numerical advantage on one hand, and on the other hand, she won't have free hands to steal the reinforcements' weapons. She'll definitely be doomed!"

After making this judgment, the Deputy Leader felt reassured and continued stalling with the opponent.

Thinking this, the Deputy Leader looked at Li Nian, who was currently jumping around like an extremely annoying fly, and sneered inwardly.

Although she was troublesome, she was just like a grasshopper in late autumn - she wouldn't be jumping around for much longer!

But Li Nian on the other side was thinking the same!

"Although I didn't bluff them successfully, at least I managed to disarm them when they weren't paying attention at the beginning... now I just need to keep stalling."

"As long as I wait until those two NPCs who look quite abnormal and Zhu Ming wake up... or when Brother Wang brings his wife back after getting what they want and takes a look here, they'll definitely be able to deal with these guys."

As her thoughts flowed, Li Nian looked at the Deputy Leader, who was still relentlessly pursuing her like a tenacious hound, and secretly sneered.

Although these guys were troublesome, once Zhu Ming wakes up with the two powerful Truth Corporation members she tricked, or when Brother Wang arrives here, these guys would be nothing but clay chickens and pottery dogs!

The two sides exchanged glances, both with cold eyes facing each other, wearing stern smiles as if looking at dead people.

"Just wait, you'll get what's coming to you!"

...

"It actually stabilized?"

Within the "past" constructed by the [Ancient Notebook], Pang Kedo looked somewhat surprised at the surrounding environment that had restabilized.

Baron Coleman nodded and said, "It seems that probably your 'friends' have been of great help."

Hearing Baron Coleman say this, Lin Yu quickly modestly responded on Li Nian's behalf: "Not at all, your sentinels must be the ones who deserve the most credit."

Baron Coleman shook his head: "No, I understand very clearly... if we inside this notebook have been affected, it definitely means the 'sentinels' have already been dealt with."

"Once they are breached, it's difficult for them to serve any further purpose."

Baron Coleman said seriously.

Hearing this, Lin Yu nodded.

"Is that so... then it seems A Nian does have some skills."

"But let's set that aside for now. Our top priority is to quickly investigate the truth of what happened back then."

As Lin Yu spoke, he looked at Fu Luo.

Fu Luo scratched his head: "I'm basically ready, but as I said earlier... I'm only missing the final step."

"But this final step is particularly difficult to resolve."

"The murderer attacked Reed Christopher from behind, the murder weapon was the knife left here," Fu Luo said while stroking his chin, "This all happened precisely after Baron Coleman swiped his card to enter this place. The main door was locked from inside, and you were at the back door the whole time and didn't see anyone coming or going. According to the locked room explanation... there are only two major possibilities: one is that the murderer is still within this laboratory, the other possibility is that he had already left before Reed Christopher died."

"But if it's the former, where could he hide, and when did he leave? If it's the latter... how did he accomplish this without being discovered by Baron Coleman and subsequent investigators?"

"Even if Coleman left too hastily to notice at the time, we're standing here now... and we still haven't found any suspicious traces."

"Even if this old man committed suicide, at least the knife should have something unusual about it - everything was done too cleanly."

"Exactly, and there's the most important point," Baron Coleman said solemnly while listening to Fu Luo's analysis, "My coming here that day wasn't a carefully prepared decision... I came here not long after discovering the list."

"Even if the other party started setting me up after discovering I was heading here, his actions would have been too swift... and that's under the most ideal consideration."

"Realistically, the time he had to decide to kill Reed Christopher, frame me, and execute this plan might have been only the ten-plus minutes I delayed while cautiously investigating in the passageway!"

Yes, time.

Currently, the biggest doubt is time - since this was a frame-up, and Coleman was in the passageway the whole time, then the time left for the murderer was too short.

Unless...

"Unless the murderer had more time than we imagined!"

Fu Luo's eyes flashed as he looked back at the body lying on the table: "Baron, didn't you say earlier... the medical examiner could only determine that the approximate time of death matched when you entered - logically speaking, in such cases, it should be precise to the minute, right? What interfered with the medical examiners' judgment?"

"The laboratory temperature. To ensure experimental results, the temperature here is usually very low... which leads to certain errors in determining the time of death."

Baron Coleman said, then realized: "You mean there's a problem with the time of death."

"Of course... since this world's 'time of death' detection technology is still affected by temperature, there are too many ways to manipulate it - changing the temperature control facilities then changing them back would make it difficult to determine the body's exact time of death."

"So his time of death might be much earlier than you expected, with an error margin potentially extending by an hour."

Fu Luo calmly announced.

"That leaves only one problem..."

Baron Coleman understood Fu Luo's meaning: "Even an hour isn't that long... how did the murderer ensure I would come here within that hour?"

"I'm not clear about that temporarily either, but even without knowing these details, it's enough to narrow down the 'scope' of the real culprit."

Fu Luo made his judgment.

But Lin Yu shook his head, refuting Fu Luo.

"No, although I agree with the earlier part, I think the latter part is wrong."

"I don't believe someone was intentionally framing Baron Coleman, at least not when the crime was committed."