The Hair in the Stew: A Student Journalist Uncovers a Fog-Shrouded Town's Dark Secret in Mist Falls
👉 Previous Choice: You chose to smoothly pocket the sample and investigate further at your cabin.
The micro-spectrometer’s display flickered. Leo had painstakingly analyzed minute residues from the tarnished silver ring. A faint, almost invisible trace of organic matter glowed under the UV light. He cross-referenced it with an extensive database of local county medical files he’d acquired online.
A match. Suppressed county medical file #409-B. The file belonged to Dr. Evelyn Shaw, the former County Coroner. Leo remembered the whispers about her, dismissed years ago for “unprofessional conduct.”
His heart hammered against his ribs. The official cause of death for Sam Lawson, one of the missing tourists, had been drowning. But file #409-B detailed something else entirely: severe blunt force skull fractures, consistent with a heavy impact, not water.
The drowning narrative was a complete fabrication. Leo clenched his jaw. He needed physical access to the sealed county archive to corroborate this or find a desperate town insider willing to risk everything.
Choose your next action
Use specialized digital decryption tools to access Dr. Shaw’s offline medical backup. — Read Chapter 6 to continue
Stalk Arthur to the fog-shrouded municipal archive building downtown. — Read Chapter 7 to continue
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