At first, they appeared as prey among the three major forces.
Now it is not easy to turn the three major forces into prey and them into hunters.
After all, the relationship may be reversed, but it is an indisputable fact that the three major forces are as fierce as tigers.
"This is easy to say, but almost impossible to do." Reiner's excitement faded a bit, "Each of them is stronger than the other, and each of them is more refined than the other. We want to benefit from them.
It is difficult for them to reach the sky, let alone let them kill each other. We will become the biggest winner in the end."
"This has to be done slowly." Linn agreed very much with Reiner's words. He knew that this idea was bold and arduous.
"But I still support your idea." Reiner changed the topic, "We have to change from passivity to initiative, and we have to stay in the imperial capital to open up the situation."
Lynn The benefits of this idea are predictable.
The Divine Order and Ulysses are both enemies who want to change the world.
These two parties are fighting to the death, both sides will lose, and Lin En and the others have their chance.
After Ulysses died in the battle, the position of Director of the General Security Bureau was vacated, and Lynn and Reiner had room to support like-minded people to take over.
The divine gift will be destroyed, and the huge cancer hidden in the dark side of the imperial capital will also disappear.
"It may take a month or two to achieve this. We need time to intensify their conflicts and get them into a desperate situation. At the same time, maybe we will become stronger each other." With Reiner's support.
, Lin En felt a lot more at ease and had some confidence in accomplishing this thing.
"In a month or two, if everything goes well, I will be promoted to a divine enlightener." Reiner murmured.
【divine enlightener】.
This is like a natural chasm for the cleanup crew.
Only when you become a [divine enlightened person] can you be called a strong person and be qualified to influence some things.
[Awakened Ones] and [Transcendents], to put it bluntly, are just the bottom of the cleaning staff. Their iteration speed is very fast, and survival is their primary consideration.
Lin En said "Yeah": "When the time comes, my strength will have improved, and I will be able to fight with senior extraordinary beings. You have become a divine enlightened person, and you can also serve as an important guarantee of combat power. When everything develops to the extreme,
We may not be able to be hunters and become the final winners."
"The first thing to consider now should be the new task we are about to face." Reiner restarted the car and rushed to the hotel. "The clown murder case still has to be shelved. We can only start with the arson case on Hard Street. Cinder
Making a choice among a family’s tragedy.”
"Tomorrow, the soldiers will conduct an investigation in two groups. We will meet in the evening to summarize and set the final target. The day after tomorrow, we will concentrate all our efforts to prepare for the target and wait for the mission to be triggered. What do you think?" Lin En suggested.
Reiner has a slightly different view on this: "In the next two days, the God's Gift Society, the Scavenger Organization, and Ulysses will all come to us, right? Some want to further win me over, and some are eager to get some help from us.
While learning about the God’s Gift Society.”
"They're not that thick-skinned yet." Lin snorted, "There are only two days left before the start of our new mission. They don't allow us to prepare for the mission, but put their affairs first.
?Unless they want to worsen the relationship with us, no one will be stupid enough to find trouble with us in these two days."
"Too."
The reason is very simple.
The mission is a matter of life and death, and the things between them are much less important.
As members of the same kind, no one would ask the other to do things for them when a mission is imminent. To put it bluntly, they don't care about the other's life or death at all.
If you don't care about the other person's life or death, how can you expect the other person to do things for you in a down-to-earth manner?
"They will not come to us until we finish this mission. Just wait, on the 26th, if we sit in the office and don't move, these forces will come to our door." Lin En was very happy.
Definitely authentic.
The 26th was the first day after they completed the mission.
There is still a week before the next mission, and the time is relatively loose. This is the most suitable time for others to ask them to do things.
"Okay, let's focus on our own affairs first. I'll investigate the arson case, and you'll investigate the Sind massacre. How about that?" Reiner assigned the task.
"Can."
After leaving all the things to talk about on the road, and returning to the hotel, Linn and Reiner did not spend any time talking about anything, and went directly to their respective rooms to wash up and sleep.
Early morning of January 24th
The two got up and had breakfast together in the hotel, and then returned to the General Security Bureau. They first explained to Ulysses and Upton their work arrangements for the next two days to avoid conflicts on subsequent official duties.
Because they were of the same kind and understood how important it was to have two days approaching the start of the mission, Ulysses and Upton had no objections to their preparations for the mission.
With the acquiescence of their bosses and their biggest bosses, they can go about their business freely.
Before leaving Upton's office, as usual, Lynn and Reiner consulted him about the status of the other two cases.
Upton is also a [Transcendent], so if you don't ask him now, he will probably start preparing for a new mission later on, so he won't have time to answer it.
"Ahem." After hearing the two people's questions, Upton, who was looking good early in the morning, began to feel embarrassed, "The Hard Street arson case, the Hinde family tragedy... are also cases I have handled..."
What a lucky coincidence.
Several major unsolved cases were handled by Upton.
Now I just don't know if all the major cases have been assigned to him, or if there are many such cases, but the one assigned to him has not been solved yet.
"Let me talk about the Hard Street arson first." Upton broke the silence on his own, "The Hard Street arson happened on Christmas Eve last year."
Christmas Eve last year.
Linn couldn't help but recall the first mission he performed in Tswold City.
Upton continued: "A lot of people went out to eat on Christmas Eve. Hard Street is a commercial street, and the Garden Restaurant is one of the most famous restaurants, so there were many customers at that time, and it was almost full."
Reiner, who was responsible for investigating the arson case, carefully took notes in his notebook.
"Then at about 10:20 that night, witnesses said that all the lights in the Garden Restaurant suddenly went out, and they could only use the surrounding street lights to vaguely see thick smoke billowing inside." Upton said, "Then again
, within a minute, the smoke inside completely blocked the view from the outside in, and at the same time began to spread outward."
After quickly recording it, Reiner glanced at the photos included in the file.
After the incident, the Public Security Bureau took many photos, including the exterior of the restaurant, which was almost burned to the point of leaving only a dark frame.
Judging from the photos, the fire was quite large.
Burned everything that could be burned in the restaurant.
There are two doubts.
First, the Garden Restaurant was burned beyond recognition, but the businesses next door were all safe and barely affected.
Second, no matter how fierce the fire started, the guests sitting inside should have a certain amount of reaction time before dying. But according to the final on-site results, these customers still maintained their dining posture before dying.
"After that, the firefighters and we all received the report, rushed to the scene and started to put out the fire. In the end, it was recorded in the file. It was not found out who started the fire, how it was started, or even the location of the fire source.
It's hard to be sure. The most important thing is that the customers didn't move at all, as if they all died in a split second before they had time to react." Upton finished describing the situation as briefly as possible.
"But after autopsy, it was confirmed that there was poisonous gas produced by burning objects in the respiratory tract of some customers. This shows that they did not die instantly. Some of them did die of suffocation and poisoning." Reiner raised his hand and pointed out the contradiction.
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"Yeah." Upton scratched his hair depressedly, trying to recall the many doubtful points in this case. "It was because of the unexplainable things that we decided that this was not an accident, but someone deliberately set the fire on fire."
Lin En, who was observing, asked: "Have you gained anything after you intervened in the investigation?"
Upton nodded: "Because it was so bizarre, I instinctively suspected that it was done by someone of our kind, so based on the characteristics of this case, I checked other files. Then I discovered that within five days of this case,
A while ago, a self-immolation occurred in a household in the next block."
"Self-immolation?" Reiner narrowed his eyes.
"There was only one old man in the house. That night, the neighbors smelled the smoke and quickly confirmed that the smoke came from the old man's home. They contacted the firefighters and broke in to try to rescue the old man. But after they broke the door, they discovered that the house
There was no fire in the room, only the old man was sitting cross-legged in the center of the living room, already scorched."
"In other words, the smoke smelled by the neighbors came from the old man?" Reiner confirmed.
"Yes."
Reiner paused for a few seconds and continued to ask: "Then how can we judge whether this person died of self-immolation rather than being burned to death by others?"
"Because the door of the room was locked from the inside, it ruled out the possibility of a murderer going in to commit the murder and then leaving. Moreover, the old man's family was very poor, he had a good personality, and he had never offended anyone. Based on these points, I took the photos at that time.
So he couldn't think about it and closed the case of self-immolation. Of course, after I suspected that this matter was related to the Hard Street arson case, I have decided that this matter is not that simple." Upton analyzed.
"Do you suspect that this person's death was an advance practice for the Hard Street arsonist?" Reiner understood what Upton meant.
Upton didn't dare to be too sure: "That's how I feel. If you are determined to investigate this case, you may not know what you will find if you start with the previous small cases. Anyway, I didn't find anything at the time.
I can’t let it go.”
"I hope it's not the same kind of thing." Reiner sighed.
If the same type of crime is committed, things will be very difficult.
If the other party is alive now, there is a high probability that he is a [Transcendent].
In this way, the other party will also go on a mission tomorrow night, and the possibility of investigating the clues and catching the other party before dawn will be extremely low.