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Chapter : 40 | 1 STEP AHEAD |

Chapter : 40 | 1 STEP AHEAD |

10 days later!

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Emu and the other FBI agents are under immense tension. Both killers have killed 19 people this month, and the FBI agents feel powerless.

Jebi said to them, "Don't be depressed! We at least have one thing to do now!"

Emu asked, "And what is that?"

Jebi replied, "As I said, we will be manipulating the letters! Yesterday, they both killed 1 person and left 1 letter. But we will be manipulating the letters!"

Emu responded, "Do as you please, but catch them. We have been under a lot of pressure!"

1 DAY LATER:

Richard has not gone to work until today. He is in his room, holding his mobile phone in his hand, reading the newspaper. He is aware that every time he and the other killer kill someone, they both leave letters for each other.

Richard is reading both of the letters!

There isn't any special information in the letter from his second personality. It means Grim Reaper's letter is the same as usual. It's his kill count!

But there is an interesting thing in the letter of Another Killer. Another Killer said something weird in his letter to Grim Reaper.

He said to Grim Reaper, "Gather at Auric Traverse, where emerald tendrils embrace, upon the zenith's kiss."

Robert is wondering what that means. He also mentioned something else:

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"The initial utterance veils the truth. Our convergence awaits at Quadruple Leo's Path."

"The illusion conceals 'couplet' in its intricate design."

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Robert thought to himself, these look like coded language.

There is different text at the end of the letter, with some numbers: 999।555

There are also some numbers at the start of the letter, like this: 192।168। Four. Seven. Nine. Eleven.

Robert is trying to figure out what this means!

Suddenly, his internet isn't working. He looks at his phone's network settings. It says, "Wi-Fi and other internet facilities aren't available for 4 hours. It applies to the whole country."

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Emu is also looking at the letter from Another Killer. She asks Jebi, "What did you write in the letter? It totally doesn’t make any sense!"

Jebi said, "Wait, let me explain it to you."

Jebi starts explaining, "'Gather at Auric Traverse, where emerald tendrils embrace, upon the zenith's kiss.' means something like this:

"'Meet me' becomes 'Gather'.

'Golden fish road' becomes 'Auric Traverse' (Auric relates to gold).

'In the forest side at 12 pm' becomes 'where emerald tendrils embrace, upon the zenith's kiss' (referring to the green foliage intertwining and the sun's peak position).

Overall, it means 'Meet me at the golden fish road, in the forest side at 12 pm.'

Now, for the other text..."

The initial utterance veils the truth. Our convergence awaits at Quadruple Leo's Path"

In this version:

- "First text is a deception" becomes "The initial utterance veils the truth".

- "You will meet me" becomes "Our convergence awaits".

- "In the 4th street of lion" becomes "at Quadruple Leo's Path", where "Quadruple" hints at "4th" and "Leo" refers to a lion, symbolizing the street.

Overall it means " First text is a deception. You will meet me in the 4th street of lion "

And for the last text.

"The illusion conceals -'couplet' in its intricate design."

In this version:

- "Deception" becomes "illusion".

- "Two" becomes "couplet".

- "In letters" becomes "in its intricate design".

Overall it says Deception - two.

And theres just the numbers.

(Emu)- Still i dont understand whats the meaning of this letter.

(Jebi)- You really are idiot. Let me break down it for you! Actually all the texts are deception itself. Take a closer look to all the text. 2nd text says first one is a deception. So first one is out. Now if someone think second one is right. He is a mad person. Because second text is incomplete. In the second text i didn’t mentioned the time. I didn’t mentioned when we will meet. So the second text is also false. Now look at the last text what is says. It says 'Deception-two'. Do you know what that means?

(Emu)-No....

(Jebi) - "As expected. Basically, the encrypted version of the last text is itself a code. The last text means two things. First, it means the first texts are definitely deceptions. Secondly, it means all the alphabets in these texts are deceptions. Look closely, it says 'Deception - Two.' Do you know why I wrote 'Two' and not '2'? It's because I want them to understand that the alphabets are deception. It's clear to the grim reaper that another killer wants to meet him. And the symbols are Morse code. The Morse code says, 'I have some information about you.' So most likely, the grim reaper will come to meet him. But at which place? At the letters' starting point and end, I wrote numbers. These numbers are actually the IP address of the location where we will meet him."

(Emu) - "But there's a problem. You didn't mention the time!"

(Jebi) - "You don't have to worry about it, because I already took care of it."

(Emu) - "How?"

(Jebi) - "I mentioned it in the Morse code!"