Chapter 19 The name that was smeared
It took two top students, Emma and Enid, five minutes to determine that Milo could not pass the exam by cramming, and then spent the whole morning time to explore how to “find another way”.
Various routines, how can they be unreliable?
Milo didn't know what the two of them usually learned in Nanwei College.
If one day in the future a living treasure like Enid enters the ranks of law enforcement officers, it will be a real misfortune for the people of Nanwei City.
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The other side.
After the sewer incident, Rebecca completed the case report overnight.
From the murder of Daisy's family to the carriage murder to everything in the sewer last night, she recorded everything truthfully.
Including how Milo found Daisy hiding in the house at the beginning, and how he later, as a suspect, locked the location of the carriage in a very short time.
Later, when all the law enforcement officers were tracking the bloody smell of horse internal organs, Milo used his keen intuition to find the key clues. He used the black cloth as a guide to track, and finally found himself in the abandoned shelter. Daisy was found.
The end is the whole process of last night.
Daisy’s eyes were cut out under the eyes of the two of them, separated by a wall.
And the entire process of chasing the murderer was still secretly led by Milo alone.
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After Rebecca finished writing, she checked it again. There were more than ten pages of report documents, and Milo’s presence was found in almost every page.
And in fact, there are many details in Milo's entire case-solving process that even Rebecca can't figure out.
For example, why was he so sure that Daisy hid in the storage room at the crime scene from the beginning, and how he was able to pinpoint the location of the carriage accident after being locked in the room for a whole day.
Rebecca racked her brains and couldn't understand these doubts.
So in the report document she could only blame it entirely on "Milo's keen intuition".
So much so that the words "sharp intuition" appear many times throughout the document.
Rebecca was a little annoyed. On the one hand, it came from the frustration of being unable to detect the truth. On the other hand, Milo was mysterious from beginning to end, never sharing his ideas for solving the case, which made her The reporting document seems "brainless".
But on the other hand, she had to admit that without Milo's appearance, she really didn't know when this series of serial murders would end, let alone how many innocent citizens would die tragically. Down.
“Perhaps the inspector is right, law enforcement officers need talents like him.”
Rebecca looked at the densely written papers on the table and muttered to herself.
On the night of the carriage murder, Nero had already noticed the existence of Milo, the prison guard, so after Milo carried Daisy and Rebecca back to the law enforcement office, he directly wrote the document in hand Assessment notice.
At first Rebecca felt that Nero's decision was a bit too hasty.
Because Milo is still a person whose identity is unclear after all. 95% of his file information is blank. It is impossible to investigate him. People who become law enforcement officers must be absolutely clean. With his resume and correct thoughts, Milo is obviously not that kind of person.
“But he is still too weak.”
Rebecca shook her head again.
In her opinion, law enforcers must not only have the mindset to solve cases, but also have the absolute force to clean up evil, and Milo only has the first point.
In Rebecca's eyes, ten Milos are not enough for her to fight.
If Milo is really to be admitted into the ranks of law enforcement officers, he will have to undergo all-round training, including combat, cold weapons, and hot weapons training. There is still a long way to go.
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After finishing writing the case report, Rebecca bound several additional documents together.
This includes copies of some old documents that she had previously searched from the Nanwei City archives. Combining these documents, it is possible to roughly judge the nature of the truth behind the case.
Rebecca has never forgotten what Milo said: there is definitely more than one real murderer in the case, there are at least two, or more.
And this is indeed the case.
There are already two of the weirdos seen in the abandoned asylum, as well as Robben in the sewers. Only Robben has been killed so far, and there is also an unknown weirdo wandering outside.
Rebecca knew that after her document was submitted, there would be no public announcement about the case and that the document would only be viewed by a few executives in the law enforcement system.
So she had to peel off the cocoon as much as possible and present some clues, including her own conjectures.
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Nanwei City Law Enforcement Headquarters.
In the law enforcement conference hall, which is decorated with absolute black and gray as the main color, the relief of the law enforcement officer's sickle totem on the wall and the hard-core simple lines reflect the absolutely cruel aesthetic followed by the law enforcement system.
There were only three men sitting at the front of the huge conference table. These are the people closest to the ceiling in the current law enforcement system in Nanwei City, and Nero is one of them.
“You’ve seen it, what do you think?”
Nero had a cigar in his mouth.
The document spread out on the table is the case report submitted by Rebecca.
"Who is the detective whose name was blacked out?" A bald middle-aged man sitting opposite Nero picked up a piece of report paper. Many places on the report were covered in black, as if to cover someone deliberately. person's name.
And there are a lot of these little black dots on almost every page.
The name that was deliberately obscured was naturally that of Milo, and he was the only one who appeared so frequently in the reporting documents.
“For some reasons, I don’t plan to let too many people know his name yet.” Nero tapped his fingers on the table and replied calmly.
"Why? Is he in danger?" On the other side, a man wearing an eyepatch on his left eye asked Nero.
"You can say that." Nero nodded, and he gave the copy submitted by Rebecca to the two people in front of him:
"The law enforcement officer under me discovered some intriguing details, here. Previously, we integrated and compared the information of all the victims of serial homicides, and found no similarities. The age span, gender, occupation, etc. of the victims were very different. We could hardly find any similarities, which led us to suspect. The murderer committed a murder of passion..."
Nero took off the cigar from his mouth, blew a puff of smoke towards the ceiling and continued:
"But now we have found the common ground among the victim groups. Yes, these people whose eyes were poached are all survivors of the great plague."
The bald inspector sneered: "What are you talking about? There is no one in this city who is not a survivor of the great plague."
The one-eyed inspector held the list document in his hand, glanced at the other party's bald head coldly with his only right eye, and said in a gloomy tone: "He is talking about the survivors who recovered after contracting the plague."
< br>"Let me take a look." The bald inspector reached out and took the document.
The file is a comparative copy of Rebecca's cutout from the recovery list.
Counting from the first murder case, every victim was infected with the virus during the Great Plague and eventually recovered and survived.
One thing they have in common is that they have all received blood therapy from the Golden Rule Church.
This was an important discovery for Rebecca.
As early as the night of the carriage murder, Milo mentioned that the church's attitude towards the timing of serial murders was very strange, and their behavior was very much like wiping the murderer's mess.
It was this sentence that awakened Rebecca.
In addition, they later traced the rags on the carriage to the abandoned shelter in the valley. Everything showed that the murders were related to the great plague five years ago, and that there was a shadow of the church in them. .
So she looked up the list of patients from that year in the city archives.
It was finally determined that all the victims had been infected during the plague, and their recovery methods were based on the church's blood therapy.
Why does the church repeatedly interfere with law enforcement?
Why did the murderer choose patients who had recovered from blood therapy?
How did he target these victims?
What hidden truth is hidden in this?
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The three of them looked at the copied information in their hands and all fell into deep thought.
Obviously, the truth behind the murder has only revealed the tip of the iceberg up to this point.
As members of the law enforcement system, according to the sworn motto, they must pursue all evil to the end. But the problem now is that with the positions and classes of the three of them, and the power in their hands, Maybe it's not enough to shake the truth behind the case.
"This name should indeed be covered up." The bald inspector suddenly said: "I have read the case report. He was a talented person and should not have died too early."
From the moment the truth of the incident involved the church, even the three inspectors here now were unable to ensure their own safety, let alone others below them.
"It's unnecessary. The church has many more sources of information than we do. No one can hide what they want to know." The one-eyed inspector shook his head.
Nero bit his cigar: "Let's do this for now. I propose that the external statement of the case shall be based on the previous report without any modifications. As for the things on the table, only the three of us will have a look. Submit it when the time is right, or never submit it, and we wait for the church's next move. If they pretend that nothing happened..."
"It will not do any good to any of us to investigate. "The one-eyed inspector leaned back in his chair and said calmly.
"Looks like there's a little disagreement." The bald inspector had a playful expression on his face. His eyes wandered back and forth between Nero and One Eye, as if he was watching a good show.
"I don't plan to make any big moves." Nero moved his fingers without any emotional fluctuations: "This matter is just to let you two know. The ones who are more annoying recently are the bastards in the black market."
"Are you talking about the Solomon Gang? I heard they are fighting over something recently..."
"Should we send someone to sneak in to see the situation."
< br>"This has been arranged for a long time. The problem is, now that my undercover agent has been killed, we have to rearrange the layout..."
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At this point, the three inspectors all realized something, and their eyes all focused on the name that was obscured on the document at the same time.
(End of this chapter)