Chapter 3030: The green trees are dense and the summer is long (38)
Chapter 3004 The green trees are dense and the summer is long (thirty-eight)
Brand took the doll from Miss Ritchie's hand. He saw the umbrella she was holding tightly in her hand, and naturally knew that this was what Schiller meant, so he sighed and faced Miss Ritchie.
He waved and asked her to come with him.
They went to the previous soul-calling scene, and there were still some ingredients left, just enough to do another soul-calling ceremony.
Just when they were about to start, Schiller came back. Brand seemed to be confused as to why he was here. Schiller shook his head without saying anything and motioned for him to start quickly.
After the soul-calling ceremony began, the light of the runes gradually lit up, and a transparent shadow appeared in the center of the magic circle.
Miss Rich immediately let out a sharp cry. She rushed over and tried to hug her sister, but she failed because it was just the shadow of a soul and had no entity at all.
The shadow of the soul was attracted by the rag doll, and he slowly bent down to pick it up, but his fingers went through the cloth. At this time, the soul suddenly woke up, as if he realized that he was dead.
She was about to cry resentfully, but she saw Miss Rich throwing herself in front of her. Brand sighed and said, "Hello, madam, we called you back because we want to ask you something."
Xuying didn't reply, but just stretched out his hand to help his sister up. At this time, Miss Rich finally became energetic. She stood up and wiped away her tears. She looked at her sister who was very similar to her and said, "Long time no see.
Mana, I'm sorry, but you are already dead. We performed a spiritual summoning ceremony and we called you back because we wanted to know how you died. Did that damn bastard kill you?!"
Xuying seemed to recall the pain of her own death, and her expression became ferocious with resentment. Blood began to flow out of her nose and mouth, almost flooding the entire room.
Brand immediately began to appease the resentful spirit, and the shadow calmed down again. She suddenly touched Miss Rich's forehead with one hand, and Miss Rich let out a painful scream, rolled her eyes and fainted.
The shadow soon dissipated, and Miss Rich stood up again with tears streaming down her face. She was trembling, she had never looked so weak, and was rubbing her arms as if she were cold.
"Did you see how your sister died?"
"He gave her an anesthetic, then put her in the bathtub, and she...she just drowned..."
Miss Ritchie burst into tears and hugged the doll on the ground. About ten minutes later, Brand helped the weak Miss Ritchie to the office.
After her emotions calmed down, she said: "My sister discovered what they were doing. She couldn't accept that her husband was this kind of person, but she decided to expose them and avenge those children."
"But God was not on her side, something went wrong, and that damn bastard found out her intentions, so he killed her and made this a cold case, never to be seen again."
"However, she did collect some evidence. In order to prevent the evidence from being destroyed, she hid the evidence. At that time, she had a premonition that something was not going to happen, so she had a backup plan. Before she died, another person she guided discovered the evidence.
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"The other person? Who?" Schiller asked.
"A worker in the Ward Ryder construction engineering team. In my sister's memory, he is a man with a very sense of justice. More importantly, he once bravely saved a child who fell into the water. My sister trusts him very much."
Schiller thought about the bodies of workers he and Pamela had dug up from under the soil at the site of the primary and secondary schools.
"It was ten years ago, right?"
"Yes, in my sister's memory, she succeeded. The worker should have seen the evidence, but then my sister died, so I don't know if he kept the evidence properly."
"He could be dead," Schiller said.
So far, all the clues have been connected.
Ten years ago, Nygma was tracked down by Edward for retaliating against Pari for committing the cloth bill. Fearing that the matter would be exposed, Nygma hired a Ward Ryder engineering team to dismantle the middle school and primary school in the Polokin community.
The wife of Bob, the manager of Wardled's engineering team, discovered that he had committed a crime of mutilating children. She silently collected evidence, but she was killed by Bob accidentally.
In order to bring this crime to light and make the murderer get the punishment he deserves, Bob's wife hid the evidence somewhere and led a worker to discover them.
After discovering the evidence, the worker felt very frightened and was in panic all day long. He may have been secretly investigating, and one day four years ago, he returned to the ruins of the middle school and elementary school, but was killed there.
The criminals who discovered that someone was still pursuing the matter believed that the demolition of the middle school and elementary school was not thorough enough, so they carried out a second demolition of the building site four years ago.
Maybe it was this incident that stimulated them and made them feel that no place was safe and there were insiders everywhere, so they started to silence them like crazy.
But at that time, the situation in Gotham was much better than it was ten years ago. It was not so easy to kill people at will and dump their bodies on the streets, so they built a crematorium in the Polokin community specifically to destroy the corpses and eliminate traces.
Just recently, Miss Richie, who had been investigating the truth about her sister's death, came into their sight. They wanted to send Miss Richie to a mental hospital just like Edward was sent to a mental hospital, so they found
Schiller.
But Schiller felt that Williams' choice of the resort in that location was not just for himself. He suspected that Williams himself was also dumping the body.
Because all the insider information so far revolves around Bob and Nygma, Williams seems to be staying out of it.
But in fact, I'm afraid it's not that simple. Williams' crime must have been discovered, but he may be the most powerful one among the three, and all the insiders have been silenced by him.
And maybe out of precaution against the other two people, Williams did not follow the path that the two of them destroyed, but opened up a new track on his own. Schiller suspected that he opened a resort by the lake, maybe
Just to throw the body into the lake.
In fact, in this kind of weather, throwing corpses into the water is really a good choice. On the one hand, the waterside is cooler and it is less likely to cause heat stroke if the corpse is thrown. On the other hand, as long as it is handled properly, the corpse that sinks into the lake has no smell.
, less likely to be discovered.
But he may not have thought that the lake was almost full.
Of course, the actual reason may be that he did not expect that the aliens in the Guardians of the Galaxy would not reason with him at all, and they would actually cause trouble. This disrupted his subsequent plans and exposed himself.
After getting clues from Miss Rich, Schiller felt that the worker who was guided by Bob's wife to find the evidence had not lost the evidence, but had probably hidden it somewhere else.
Because his behavior is very strange, it is completely understandable that he did not call the police ten years ago. At that time, the police in the Gotham Police Department were too busy to take care of themselves. After calling the police, the good results would be no results, and the bad results might involve themselves.
But by four years ago, the situation had improved. The Gotham Police Department had established a strong prestige. James Gordon's name was also sung in Gotham. Everyone knew that he hated evil and as long as the collected evidence was handed over to
Give it to Gordon, this case will be solved sooner or later.
In this case, the place he should go to is the police station, not the ruins of the middle school and elementary school. What is he going to do there?
Schiller felt that this should be related to the deeper secret he speculated. The mountain seemed not that simple.
At this time, Miss Rich had already picked up her umbrella. Both Schiller and Brand looked at her. Miss Rich gritted her teeth and said, "I will make that bastard pay the price! I will make him feel the pain of my sister!"
After saying that, she rushed out of the door. Brand looked at Schiller, who shook his head and said: "She has sense, she won't kill him."
Even so, Schiller followed her, and Miss Rich gradually calmed down and said, "Do you think I should hand him over to the police?"
"Do you think the police can punish him?"
"I have no evidence." Miss Rich said: "He didn't let me see the body, and he didn't leave any evidence. And it's been ten years. I'm afraid..."
"Actually, we have evidence, and something must be found in the air-raid shelter where we were once imprisoned, but we cannot reveal the evidence at this time, because in this way, some of them can blame the crime on one of them.
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"For example, if we let the bones of those children come to light now, there will be a lot of outrage, the Gotham Police Department will be under great pressure, and someone's evidence will be sent to them."
"If they don't make it public, someone will incite the people and accuse them of covering up. Once they make it public, everyone's attention will be drawn to this person, and others can be perfectly invisible and escape."
"Yes, the scapegoat being pushed out may be your enemy, your sister's husband, but the other accomplices will be at large. Is this what you want to see?"
Miss Rich shook her head.
"And if the scapegoat introduced is a dead person, then the matter will be even simpler. A dead person cannot refute, and people will also think that death is the biggest punishment for him. The degree of attention to this case will definitely decrease. Now you still hope
Kill Bob?”
Miss Rich sighed and said: "I understand what you mean. Even if you have locked the target and have certain evidence, you cannot arrest or kill one of them immediately, because then the other murderers will be freed."
"It's not just me, the police are always like this. In your impression, the police may always drag their feet and do nothing. They clearly have evidence but don't arrest people, and they still make excuses with the murderers. This is probably the reason." Schiller answered.
road.
"It's too complicated." Miss Rich hit her head with her hand, and then said, "I'm not a smart person. I will do whatever you tell me to do."
"Very good, miss, I'm more and more glad now that I helped you. You can go find Bob, or even tie him up, but don't do anything to him and make sure he lives, okay?"
Miss Rich squeezed the umbrella tightly and nodded. When Schiller turned to leave, she asked: "What are you going to do?"
"Investigate other clues and I will contact you after dawn. If nothing else happens, we will find out tomorrow."