"Go to the next one? Didn't you find anything here?" Eden followed Linn and walked outside the house.
"I made some discoveries, but there's nothing much to say just by looking at them. I have to look at others to compare." Lin En said as he walked.
Clint Street is not very big, and the group soon arrived at the baking house, which was no more than 200 meters away from the old lady's house.
The bakery is currently closed.
After the young apprentice committed suicide here, the bakery was greatly affected.
Later, people died one after another, and these people were unanimously believed by the residents to have died at the hands of ghosts and demons. The bakery was regarded as an ominous place, and its business directly disappeared.
"What a nice store. If we can't solve the case, it won't be as simple as one store closing down. The entire Kling Street might be emptied." Eden stood in front of the door, opened the seal, and sighed.
"Do you believe in ghosts, demons, or other unexplainable existences?" Linn asked.
"I don't believe it." Eden shook his head, turned on the flashlight, and pushed the door open.
"Why?" Linn followed in and looked in the direction of the flashlight.
Eden fumbled for the switch and turned on the light in the baking room: "Based on my current experience, all ghosts and rumors of demons are deliberately intended to scare people. The more you believe it, the more likely you will fall into the trap of someone with malicious intentions.
In the process, the opportunity to see the truth is lost.”
This is a pretty good point of view.
Linn glanced at Eden in surprise, not knowing whether to support his point of view or deny it.
If you support it, if Eden encounters a cleanup crew committing a crime in the future, he may miss the truth for the rest of his life.
If he didn't support it, he wouldn't have any good reason to convince Eden to believe in the existence of supernatural things. Even if he was convinced, he wouldn't be able to deal with it.
"Is it possible that you believe this? I don't think you are that kind of person. You are more realistic than me. You only look at things you see with your own eyes." Eden said.
"I don't believe it either." Lin En responded casually, ending the topic.
"This is it." Eden walked to the back kitchen and pointed to the place where the kitchen utensils were placed. "The young man returned to the baking room in the middle of the night, took a knife from the kitchen utensil shelf, and stabbed himself in the heart... This
The incident was much more unusual than the old lady falling, so we focused on investigating at the time. Unfortunately, there were no traces of a fight at the scene, so it could only be deemed a suicide. Later, the owner of the bakery cleaned up all the blood and other stains on the scene...
…”
Lin En walked closer to check: "Have the bakery owner and the apprentice's colleagues investigated?"
"It's all normal, and they all have alibis," Eden said.
Weird...
If the knife that stabbed the heart was not done by the apprentice himself, but was caused by another real murderer, it means that the murderer had been following the apprentice that day.
But why does the apprentice suddenly return to the baking room in the middle of the night?
"After the apprentice died, was there anything else in the bakery that was different from before?" Linn wanted to explore the apprentice's purpose of coming back late at night from the changes in the bakery.
"The boss said no." Eden blocked his train of thought.
"Apprentices live in the basement?" Lynn remembered this being mentioned in the file.
The apprentice lived in the basement of an apartment on Cline Street.
The rent in the basement is very low, and apprentices have lived there since childhood.
"right."
"There are many residents near him, right?"
"Yes."
Lin closed her eyes and thought.
Was the murderer worried that killing the apprentice in the basement would be discovered, so he chose to go to the bakery?
Did he lead the apprentice there late at night for some unknown reason? Then the two had a conflict there, and the murderer picked up the nearby knife and inserted it into the apprentice's heart?
The problem is that there are no signs of a fight at the scene.
There were no witnesses either.
Nothing can be confirmed and can only be speculated.
"How is it?" Eden asked again.
He was very anxious and wanted to catch the murderer immediately to prevent the tragedy from happening again.
"The murderer should have some interaction with the deceased. I suspect that the murderer guided the deceased back to the baking room so that he could kill him quietly." Lin En finally gave Eden some analysis, "You can think about how the apprentice was killed.
The murderer persuaded him to return to the bakery late at night."
"If you were the murderer, what would you say?" Eden asked, "I want to eat bread or cake? Then I shouldn't find an apprentice. The apprentice will definitely ask him to come back tomorrow morning."
"What if I give you a lot of money and want it now?" Linn added conditions.
"I would think that the other party has bad intentions, but when it comes to money, I don't know if the apprentice is as vigilant as I am." Eden was not sure he could figure out the apprentice's thoughts.
Lin En paced back and forth: "It's hard to explain, but I think if we solve this problem, I'm afraid we will be very close to the truth. Let's go to the next place first."
Eden took Linn and his subordinates to the edge of the street, which was no more than a hundred meters away.
There is a sewer there, but the manhole cover is now sealed.
"The third deceased, the female accountant, walked here at eleven o'clock and fell down." Eden stepped on the solid manhole cover. "At that time, this place was being repaired and the garbage blocked inside was being cleaned, and the manhole cover was opened.
. But there were very conspicuous warning signs around, and the female accountant was not drunk. She could not have taken the right path, so she had to kick the sign and jump in. And... even if she wanted to commit suicide, she wouldn't choose this way of death...
…”
"How was she found later?" Linn took a few steps back, looked at the manhole cover, and simulated the scene of the crime in his mind.
"Wasn't it cleaning the garbage? The cleaners came early in the morning and found the deceased. Based on calculations, we determined that her death time was eleven o'clock in the evening." Eden said.
Lin En stepped forward again: "Is it very deep?"
"It's about ten meters away." Eden lit a cigarette.
"Isn't it clogged with garbage? He shouldn't have fallen to death immediately, right? Didn't the surrounding residents hear the cry for help?" Lin En wondered.
Eden turned away his troubled face and said, "No, the residents didn't hear anything. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the cleanup workers to find the deceased early the next morning."
It's really weird.
There wasn't a single witness.
The deceased did not make any big noise before they died, and by the time people noticed it, it was too late.
This murderer is not simple.
With such superb means of committing crimes, his understanding of Clint Street must have reached an unattainable level.
"Why do you think the murderer killed?" Lin asked Eden and his two subordinates at the same time.
The subordinate stared with big eyes and said nothing.
Eden boldly guessed: "I haven't found any enemies of these deceased people. I suspect that the murderer is a psychopath who kills people randomly. Just to be safe, he specifically selected people who live alone."
"Don't kill early, don't kill later, choose to kill nine days ago, kill one every two days, and fix everyone's death time at around eleven o'clock... These must have a strong purpose
." Linn struggled to list the current clues, questions, and guesses in his mind.
"Adjutant Eden!"
At this time, a police officer ran over from the street.
"What's wrong?" Eden looked at his subordinates.
"Huh...huh..." the Sheriff gasped, "The cause of death of the fifth deceased was clear, it was not due to choking! He was allergic to peanut butter, and there was a lot of peanut butter on the biscuits. After he ate it, the allergy caused
His throat was swollen and he died of suffocation!"