This question made Ruf pause for a few seconds, and Victor noticed that his eyes swayed from side to side several times before he answered: "Because... because my uncle's condition is not suitable for a public funeral."
"What kind of abnormality can a dead person have that is not suitable for burial?" Henry frowned in surprise.
"Anyway, I told the police truthfully four years ago. They saw Joseph's body with their own eyes and ruled me out as a suspect. My uncle died of natural causes!"
Henry tilted his neck and glanced at Victor next to him, his eyes seeming to say to him: The guy inside refuses to admit his guilt. If you have anything else to say, ask him yourself!
Victor pinched his throat and asked in a calm voice: "Mr. Joseph's death record did not indicate anything unusual about his condition. This means that he was just an ordinary deceased. You said he was not suitable."
Hold a funeral? What does that mean?"
This...
Rufu was immediately speechless.
However, after a moment, he suddenly shouted at the wall in front of him: "If you don't believe it, you can check his body again."
"Just like the tomb robber, you dug up Uncle Joseph's grave and used your dirty hands to desecrate the peace of the deceased..."
"Yes! Yes! You must have known that a bastard stole his body, please be satisfied!"
"As the Inspection Bureau, why didn't you arrest the villain who harassed the undead, but instead came to threaten an innocent person?"
When Henry heard this, his face was full of suspicion. He glanced at Victor, trying to find out the truth from him.
Victor did not tell him that he dug Joseph's grave. It was precisely because there was nothing in the grave that he identified Ruf as the first suspect through investigation.
Even if Rufu brought it up now, Victor would not admit it.
He smiled and said to Henry: "Not long ago, Joseph's tomb was stolen. It's still unclear who did it, but because he was a seer, I upheld my duty and deliberately paid attention to the circus information, and found out
There were some strange places, so I found this guy’s head."
Henry then learned the "in and out" from Victor. But he was still very surprised: "Why did you first think of not investigating the tomb robber, but the cause of Joseph's death?"
Victor's face twitched, and he immediately calmed down and said: "You should know the three fatal characteristics, right?"
"Of course, I know it earlier than you do."
"Some strange things happened before Joseph died. I suspect that the cause of his death was fatal."
"Oh? How do you say it?"
Victor paused, and organized the words in his mind: "This guy did not hold a public funeral, which means that no one saw Joseph being buried after his death. If you think about it carefully, if Joseph died of a fatal disease, then forget it from exhaustion.
,What if it’s fear and fascination?”
As soon as he said these words, Henry understood.
The three fatal characteristics are quite terrifying death curses for both seers and ordinary people.
The difference is that if ordinary people are not affected by external forces, they may not be exposed to it in their lifetime.
But the seers are different. They cannot avoid this hurdle. As long as they study the secret of digestion and reach the threshold of the middle stage, they must face this nightmare that entangles them.
It's nothing more than failure. The worst thing is that the body's organ functions decline rapidly and lifespan shrinks instantly. People who originally lived for ten years may die suddenly after a month or two, and no matter what, it will not affect others.
But fear and fascination are different.
Learned from Victor in the outer data room.
What fear crushes is people's "mental body", and the consequences are that people become confused, go crazy, attack everything, and completely lose their mind, which is irreversible.
As for being fascinated... Victor and Henry had already seen several of them when they were in Missouri.
What the obsession brings is the infection of the mental body in the secret place, which will grow wriggling protoplasm. This mysterious creature will erode from the "upper level" to the "lower level", infecting the mental body, causing people to fall into a dream and coma until they are completely
After covering the mental body, the advent of the real world is completed with the help of the human material body.
When something like that comes, it poses a great threat to other people around you.
What Victor means is that we must find out the situation of Joseph before his death, and we cannot leave this kind of hidden danger in Renekton.
Henry finally "understood" Victor's intention, so he stopped asking any more.
Victor looks calm on the surface, but inside he is a mess.
He had just made up this lie, and he was lucky to be able to convince Henry successfully.
He would not tell the other party his true purpose. After all, he was secretly collecting secret information without telling the Anti-Suppression Department.
After asking Rufu a few more questions, the other party's answers were full of flaws, but he did not reveal any clues related to Joseph's body.
"We can only lock him up until the morning of tomorrow," Henry said.
After the interrogation, the two came to the corridor to get some fresh air. The wind was blowing very hard outside, but the rainstorm that was supposed to fall did not come.
Victor leaned against the window and took the cigarette from Henry.
"If there is no evidence, we can only let this guy go back." Henry continued, "Even from the interrogation just now, I can see that he is hiding the truth."
Victor looked at the Independence Square in the night without saying a word, with pedestrians running around in a hurry.
Under the bright oil lamp, a beggar with a dog on his back is extending his dirty right hand to people on the roadside.
Several officers from the Inspection Bureau came out from get off work and were stopped by him. They threw a 1 French cent coin into his bowl in disgust.
"This beggar works so hard, wouldn't it be better to find some other legitimate occupation when he has the time?" Victor glanced at the sky, "It looks like it's going to rain heavily. Isn't this guy afraid of getting the banknotes in the bowl wet?"<
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Henry also saw the beggars at the gate of the Inspection Bureau, and said in surprise: "Begging is not allowed here in Independence Square. Strange, where are the people from the square patrol team?"
Hearing this, Victor narrowed his eyes.
Henry went on to say: "It seems that this guy has never eaten the patrol's stick. Besides, what kind of person would ask for alms from an agent of the Intelligence Bureau?"
After he finished speaking, Victor suddenly turned around and patted him on the shoulder, and stopped talking about this topic.
"We still have a whole day, you can help me investigate this Rufu's situation, especially what he did in the days after his uncle's death."
After saying that, without allowing Henry to answer, Victor suddenly asked him how to get to the back door of the Police Bureau.
"Go downstairs from here, then turn left, enter the atrium and go straight... Why do you want to leave through the back door?" Henry asked.
"I don't want to go out and be pestered by this beggar asking for money."
After speaking, Victor waved his hand, said goodbye to Henry and left.
……
Not long after, he appeared in the street behind the Inspection Bureau, took a long breath, then lowered the brim of his hat and walked quickly.
"A beggar, right?"
Victor suppressed his laughter, as if he had seen a crappy performance.
"You were still working so hard before the storm came, and you specifically chose to beg in front of the police station... Are you begging? You are asking for information!"
From Henry's words, Victor thought of the guy who broke into the Incense Mansion.
If, as he expected, Ruf hired a private detective to investigate him, under the current circumstances, that guy should be quite anxious.
"Hahaha! You're investigating me, right?! I arrested your employer first, so you can't even get your commission. I think you're still doing nothing to investigate?"