"Do you have any good ideas to break the deadlock?" Eden asked symbolically. In fact, he didn't think Lynn could come up with any brilliant way to find the murderer when the security bureau was helpless.
"Hmm..." Lin En groaned, not in a hurry to answer this point.
He believes that the top priority is to confirm whether the murderer is a liquidator, and if so, what is his approximate rank.
If the other party is also a [Transcendent].
Well, everyone happens to have to perform tasks tomorrow.
If you decide to set the task to capture the murderer, but the other party happens to not show up for the task, it will be like a failure and another unknown task will be triggered randomly.
"It's okay, I understand how you feel, but I guess I won't be able to handle this case for a while." Eden thought that Lin was giving up, and enthusiastically gave him a step down.
"Do you have any other cases here?" Lin En asked first to be on the safe side if there was a second option.
"The other cases are all small and not too troublesome, but this one is simply provoking the Sheriff's Department and slapping us in the face," Eden said.
It seems that this is already the best choice.
Lin En nodded thoughtfully: "Then I want to see the files on this case."
"You want to try it? Do you have any ideas?" Eden's eyes lit up.
"There are currently no valuable ideas. We need to deepen our understanding of this case." Lin En didn't finish his words fully.
Eden cautiously confirmed again and again: "Lynn, are you sure? If nothing happens tomorrow night, someone will die on Kling Street. We can't take human lives for granted."
"I can't give you a definite answer now. Everything has to wait until I read the dossier. If I'm not sure after reading the dossier, I won't delay your handling of the case. If I'm sure, you can just trust me unconditionally.
." Lin En said.
"...Okay, then let's-"
"Let's go now. Time is not on our side. We'd better not waste a second." Lin En naturally wouldn't delay.
Lynn's efficiency made Eden a little unresponsive: "Your injury..."
"Don't worry, I'm very aware of my physical condition." Lin En stood up, picked up his coat from the hanger, put it on with a little pain, and said, "Let's go."
Eden was moved by Lin En's resolute and resolute behavior, and became more appreciative of him. He immediately slapped his thigh and stood up: "Let's go!"
…
As the two went downstairs, they happened to bump into the landlord, Old Noel, who was about to go upstairs in the stairwell.
"What are you..."
"I'm going to help Deputy Eden investigate the case. I should be back the day after tomorrow," Lin En said.
"Your body..."
This concern has been expressed many times by different people.
Linn was not impatient: "There is no serious health problem, and with Adjutant Eden by my side, those who want to attack me will not be able to hurt me so easily."
"That's right...I, I want to tell you something." Old Noel glanced at Eden, wondering if this matter was suitable to be said in person.
"A telegram?" Linn asked directly.
"yes."
"What did he reply to?"
Old Noel said: "He only replied with four words, waiting for good news."
Waiting for good news.
Reiner felt relieved about himself.
This is trust in your companions and their abilities.
"Okay, there's no need to reply. I'll go to the Sheriff's Bureau with Eden first." Linn accepted Reiner's words, went downstairs with Eden, and walked towards the car parked outside.
"What telegram?" Eden asked casually as they walked.
"Looking for a new newspaper." Lin En quickly found a good reason.
"I also read the detective novels you wrote during this period. They are very exciting. Now we have to see if you can actually deal with them and see if you can be as powerful as Sherlock Holmes in the story." Eden joked.
Half an hour later, the two returned to the Public Security Bureau.
The last time she came here, Linn learned about Arthur's death.
Now, he has to perform his mission here.
"Come, this is my office. You sit here first, and I will arrange for someone to get the dossier." Eden took Linn to his office and sat down, and called his subordinate to bring the dossier.
There is a lot of dossier information about the "Eleven O'Clock Ghost".
It can be seen that Eden has worked hard during this time.
Linn read through them one by one.
…
Time passed by and it became dark outside before I knew it.
Eden went out to pack two dinners and brought them to the office: "Still reading?"
"Yeah." Linn was reading it for the second time.
"Don't worry, let's eat first. I don't know what you like to eat, so I bought a bunch of meat. It's not like everyone doesn't like meat, right? Vegetarians usually only appear in those families above the middle class." Yi
Den put the two meals on the table in the reception area of the office.
Lin closed a document, stretched his muscles, and went to the reception area to sit with Eden and enjoy dinner.
Eden took a bite of meat and said, "How is it? Isn't it very tricky?"
"It's okay." Linn swallowed the food and replied.
Eden noticed this wording and asked, regardless of eating, "So, you are sure to find the murderer?"
"After dinner, I have to go to Klin Street. I want to know more about it firsthand." Lin En did not respond directly.
He had read all the files in detail.
First of all, from the scene of each case, the background of the deceased, etc., he determined that the murderer was a person from Clint Street, rather than someone from somewhere else who deliberately committed crimes frequently on Clint Street, deliberately diverting the attention of the Public Security Bureau away from the scene.
A place far away from myself.
Secondly, he found some commonalities among the five people who died so far, including but not limited to all of them living alone, all of them growing up on Kling Street since childhood, and all of them having no sense of presence in life.
In the end, he basically ruled out that it was done by the same kind of people.
The reason is simple.
According to the investigation report of the Public Security Bureau.
The first victim died from falling from a building.
The second deceased stabbed himself into the heart with a knife.
The third deceased fell into the sewer.
The fourth victim drowned in his bathtub.
The fifth deceased choked to death after eating biscuits.
It seems that he died of suicide, but there must be a mastermind behind such regular 'suicides'.
Cleanup personnel will be punished by cause and effect for killing people. Few people will ignore the increase in difficulty of the next task and the reduction in rewards and kill five people in a row in nine days. It seems that there is no intention to stop.
But the biggest problem is that Linn doesn't have a good idea yet.
How did the murderer, an ordinary person, make these five people die in different ways within the specified time?
Especially the last one, who choked to death after eating biscuits? No matter how coincidental it was, he wouldn't have choked to death at 11 o'clock that night, right?
Therefore, this case has caused panic among residents, and it is normal for them to believe that there are "ghosts".
"Is there anything we need to see over there on Clint Street? I have arranged for people to put the place under martial law before, and it is strictly forbidden for unrelated people to enter or exit." Eden asked.
"I want to take a look at these crime scenes and put myself in their shoes. If I were the murderer, how could I kill them quietly in such an environment without being noticed," Lin En replied.
.
Eden chewed the food and said vaguely: "I also thought about solving the case according to your idea, but I really can't figure out how the murderer pulled it off, so I said this case is weird."
"Wait for me to go take a look." Lin En said.
After eating, the two set off by car and arrived at Clint Street at eight o'clock in the evening.
The location of Crean Street is closer to the slums than the city center.
Because of this, Eden also thought about whether there were people from the slums mixed in to cause trouble.
"How many households are there here?" Lin En stood at the intersection of Kerin Street and looked at the residences and shops on both sides.
It was not too late yet, and most of the houses still had lights on, but there were very few pedestrians on the street. This made the place look both popular and deserted.
"Nearly four thousand." Eden put his hands in his pockets and looked at the dilapidated streets. "There are too many people. It is difficult to locate the murderer."
"Let's go to the first crime scene first." Lin En sniffed, not knowing whether it was for psychological reasons, but he always felt that he smelled a faint 'corpse smell'.
"Okay." Eden took Linn and two subordinates to the retired teacher's home first.
This place has been blocked.
No one is allowed to enter.
So after nine days, the house was covered with dust.
"That's where the old lady fell, but there's no trace of a fight here." Eden walked to the window of the living room and used 'fall' instead of 'jump'.
"Is everything in the house the same?" Linn stepped forward and looked around the house.
The house is very neat and simple.
All items are neatly placed.
It doesn't look like he died in a hurry.
"Basically everything is in place," Eden said.
Linn walked into the kitchen: "When you died, was there still food in the kitchen?"
"I didn't even think about the murder case at the time, and the sheriff who came to deal with it didn't pay attention to the specific situation in the kitchen." Eden followed into the kitchen, "later I realized something was wrong, so I came again, and when I came, the kitchen was full of chaos.
We are in a state of having very little food.”
There are no ingredients.
Linn frowned, a little confused.
Judging from the cleanliness of the house and the fact that the food in the kitchen was almost emptied before the death of the deceased, the deceased committed suicide and started making preparations a while in advance, rather than improvising.
Only when you have already decided to commit suicide will you reduce the purchase of ingredients. On the right day, you will clear out the ingredients, clean up the house, and calmly jump from the fourth floor...
"None of the neighbors said they found anything unusual?" Lin En walked around the house, feeling that the possibility that the murderer climbed in through the window, pushed the old lady down, and escaped again was extremely slim.
"No, I didn't find anything." Eden followed Linn, "I also did a survey on the nearby neighbors, and there was nothing unusual."
Something is so wrong.
Did this old lady decide to die a few days in advance?
Or did the murderer use unexpected means? After killing the old lady, he cleaned up the house and took away the ingredients before being discovered?
"How's it going?" After going around in circles for several times, Eden couldn't wait to see if Linn had come to any conclusion.
Lin En's eyes seemed to be filled with fog: "Go to the next crime scene."