It's really scary to have murderous intent explode in an instant, and to hold back your murderous intent in an instant. To be able to control your own emotions and thinking to such a degree of freedom.
Linn even suspected that he was delusional.
Because something doesn't make sense.
Since the other party had murderous intent, why did it only erupt for that moment?
Is it possible that the other party knows that he has the ability to [perceive] hostility?
But if you knew you had this ability, logically you wouldn't have exposed it from the beginning.
Or is it because you turned around suddenly and startled the other person?
Lin En realized that his psychological quality was still not good enough. If he had calmed down on the surface when he first felt the strong hostility, then he could have successfully locked on the other party by maintaining the hostility for a few seconds.
As for whether this person is connected to the tragedy of the Hinde family, although it is not yet 100% certain, it is still an extremely important clue.
In order not to alarm the other party, Linn, who was thinking actively, returned to the car and drove to the next street.
Now the route to breaking the situation has been revealed.
First, you must enter the interior of the Old South York Hotel.
Once inside, if the person releasing hostility is not of the same kind, then the other party will definitely not expect that the Sheriff can detect hostility extremely keenly, and as long as he releases it again, Linn will definitely be able to capture him.
If this person is of the same kind, it would be even better. Lin En's [Peeper's Eye] is not for fun. The same kind of person stands out from the crowd and is the easiest to be targeted by him.
It's just that a big shot is visiting today, so we have to wait until tomorrow to get in.
Thinking of this, Linn frowned slightly.
Marquis Aldrich who visited the hotel today was also quite strange.
Living together in the Imperial Capital, why does he need to come to a hotel in the Imperial Capital to enjoy a day? Or is it a place where a major tragedy occurred not long ago and is labeled as a haunted place?
How come the hotel only serves one guest all day long, and even the Sheriff with a legitimate investigative warrant is refused entry?
What can you enjoy in an ordinary hotel?
Comfortable rest environment?
Exquisite dishes?
Just kidding, as a Marquis of the imperial capital, he definitely has no shortage of these things in his mansion.
What can the magistrate do to offend the powerful if he goes in to investigate the case?
Do you feel unlucky when you see the Sheriff?
Don’t want to be an outlier among the people who serve you?
Even more absurd, if the other party is really so sensitive, then just the unsolved tragedy that happened at the Old South York Hotel is enough to stop him.
That said, there is more to the Old South York Hotel than meets the eye.
Most likely, Marquis Aldrich did not come here for ordinary rest and enjoyment.
So, what is the other side of the hotel like, and what is Marquis Aldrich's real purpose here?
Why did the murderer transport the Hind family here from a few blocks away to kill them?
The fog was not broken, but the outline of the fog gradually emerged.
Lin En didn't believe in his intuition, but his intuition told him that these things may not be unrelated.
——The Hind family.
——Old South York Hotel.
——Marquis Aldrich.
——An unknown person in the hotel wants to kill him.
He wrote down several important points in his notebook and connected them with straight lines.
Then, before noon arrived, Linn went to the residence of the Hinde family and got a general understanding of the background of Marquis Aldrich.
The first is the residence of the Hinde family, which is also plagued by rumors of being haunted, and no one has taken over the empty house.
Not only that, several neighboring families also chose to relocate due to unbearable psychological pressure.
With a peace officer's certificate, Linn successfully entered the house and conducted an investigation.
Unfortunately, nothing was found.
This was mainly because countless sheriffs had come before, and many items in the house were taken back to the Sheriff's Bureau as evidence.
After so many screenings of the remaining items in the house, there really was nothing of investigative value.
But this is enough.
Linn didn't expect anything to be left here at all.
The murderer is a very thoughtful person, he is willing to commit such a big case, and some big shots may be involved in it, so naturally it is impossible to leave any clues at the residence of the Hinde family.
In comparison, the situation on Marquis Aldrich's side is much more interesting.
This person's background is indeed very strong, and he is a well-known person in the upper class society of the imperial capital.
It's just that his reputation is rather bad.
For example, the report about him a week ago was that he collaborated with the president of a bank to give false testimony in a credit case, which caused a bad impact. But in the end, the Imperial High Court acquitted him.
Another example is that three months ago, a singer in the imperial capital accused Marquis Aldrich of assaulting her after a drinking party. Unfortunately, because there was no evidence, the case was dropped.
Marquis Aldrich later publicly stated that he had the right to accuse the singer of falsely accusing him, but he was kind-hearted and decided not to pursue the case.
Just when everyone thought the matter had calmed down, just four days later, the singer hanged himself in the apartment where he lived alone.
All in all, the Marquis of Aldrich has been involved in many scandals, and on average a few of them hit the headlines every year and become the talk of the general public.
There is a scandal, which can be said to be a misunderstanding.
What about ten or a hundred?
Linn didn't like to arbitrarily judge whether a person was good or bad based on outside opinions, but to this extent, he was cautious and basically concluded that Marquis Aldrich was a complete bad person.
In addition to entering the Old South York Hotel, he also decided to find another way to deal with the Marquis of Aldrich.
At noon, Lin En, who had gained a lot, returned to the Public Security Bureau and waited in the office for about twenty minutes before Reiner came back.
"How about it?"
"How about it?"
The two asked each other in unison.
Then they looked at each other and smiled.
"I'm a little hungry, let's go to the cafeteria and eat and chat." Lin En suggested.
"Can."
After arriving at the canteen and ordering two of today's special dishes, Linn and Reiner chose a remote seat to sit down.
"Let me talk about it first." Reiner took a sip of water and said first, "The arson incident has been happening for too long. Although no other businessman has taken over the ruined restaurant in the prime location, the interior has almost lost its original appearance."
"Yeah." Linn took a bite.
Time is their common enemy.
"The original clues of the Public Security Bureau were limited, so I could only open up a new route to try to solve the problem. So, I decided to start investigating the self-immolation case mentioned by Upton. This case was also quite bizarre. The door of the deceased's house was locked from the inside.
The one above means that no one has gone in. There is no source of fire around him, and the fire seems to have naturally arisen from his body and burned him to charcoal."
Linn slowed down his chewing of food and listened carefully to Reiner's story.
"There was no fire source, and there was no scream when burning. I sat in the living room and died silently... Although the door was locked from the inside, there is reason to believe that this was a homicide. And if this case is related to the Garden Restaurant
If the arson case was committed by the same murderer, then our previous thinking may have been wrong."
"How to say?"
"Previously we thought someone set a fire inside and then ran away. But what if the people in the restaurant were like the first old gentleman and died of self-immolation caused by others?" Reiner said.
Self-immolation committed by others.
This is a somewhat awkward description.
But putting it here makes people feel suddenly enlightened.
Reiner continued his analysis: "This can also explain why so many passers-by didn't notice anyone escaping from the restaurant even though everyone in the restaurant was dead. The murderer didn't escape because he wasn't inside at all and the customers didn't escape.
It's because they set themselves on fire immediately and had no time to escape."
In a nutshell, this sentence means that the fire does not spread gradually, but burns on everyone at the same time!
If ordinary people hear this analysis, they will find it outrageous, absurd, and unrealistic.
But if you put the condition of cleaning personnel into it, everything can be explained.
Only extraordinary abilities can realize that no one can pass by, and a remote raise of a hand can make everyone in the restaurant burn at the same time.
"But the autopsy report showed that some of the customers died of suffocation, some died of carbon dioxide poisoning, and some died of organ failure caused by burns..." Lin En found something that didn't make sense. "If everyone self-immolated, then
Their manner of death should be the same."
"I have considered this." Reiner snapped his fingers, "So before I came back, I updated the truth on my own. Arson and self-immolation are actually deceptions set up by the murderer. This person's ability is not remote control.
Burning happens to others, but directly restricts and controls other people’s actions!”
Lin En nodded slightly: "It's possible."
"It makes people unable to move or make any sound. At this time, they artificially ignite part of the flame, and everything is done. This also explains why the first old man made no sound after burning, and why the door of the house can be locked from the inside. Also.
Explaining why the customers in the garden restaurant were burned to charcoal and never left their seats." Reiner gave the final conclusion, "I conclude that these are two cases committed by the same type."
"The same kind of thing is tricky. We don't know whether the other party is still alive or not, and we don't know how strong the other party is when he is alive. The most important thing is that the manifestation of extraordinary abilities is just a guess on your part. The other party may use other unexpected methods.
We have accomplished all this in the same way. For similar crimes, we basically have to give up the conventional thinking..." Linn sighed.
It's not that they don't want to investigate similar cases.
The problem is that there are too many similar cases.
Ordinary people want to commit a crime, and there are only a few ways to do it. After spending a little effort, they will eventually find something.
But the extraordinary abilities of the liquidators are countless. There are thousands of ways for the liquidators to complete the same case. It is really difficult for them to find the truth from tens of thousands of possibilities.
"Sigh... I'm fed up with the feeling of being powerless..." Reiner took another sip of water, "Tell me about your situation."
"I..." Linn put down the tableware and slowly raised his eyes to look directly at Reiner, "I seem to have discovered a huge secret."