"Then you just-"
Pauler's face flushed red, and he couldn't say the second half of the words.
"Just now?" Si Lei was puzzled. She looked at the place where she was standing, "I was in a daze just now and didn't do anything?"
Pauler looked at Si Lei, unable to tell the truth or falsehood of her words for the moment, but it seemed that he had been stunned by this person's routine since the afternoon when Si Lei appeared in his office.
Although he felt a little uncomfortable, Pauler adjusted his sitting position without saying a word, and read the information prepared by Cheese Ray with others.
When the door to the conference room was opened again, the only sound left in the room was the sound of pages turning.
Only then did Si Lei sit down.
She fully understood why the case handling progress of the Tanyi City Police Department was as tactically diligent and strategically lazy as it was now - Pauler was nearly sixty years old and he would retire honorably at the end of this year.
During his tenure, there were almost no murders in Tanyi City. Therefore, the detection rate of major and important cases of the Tanyi City Police Department has always been among the best in the third district.
Now, Pauler is about to retire, but suddenly such a shocking change occurs that may put him in danger of death. Of course, he wants to push this case to AHgAs.
But that's okay.
It wasn't until this moment that Si Lei truly relaxed into his own rhythm.
It was up to her to take care of this hot potato in the eyes of others.
She desperately needed this opportunity.
…
At midnight, Chiba saw the day's case update from Tan Yi Police Station through his own information channel.
After just a cursory glance, Chiba's anger surged up again: Si Lei established a special investigation team for the 'Hoffman case' this afternoon. At the same time, she made a request to AHgAs in the name of the investigation team, hoping that here Details of Jane Hestad can be given as soon as possible.
Because, according to the testimony of Viscount Rich and others, Jane Hestad, who entered the Mercury Needle Reserve Training Base in Tanyi City many years ago, is suspected of committing a major crime.
Fernan from Ni Province died, and Ava said it was Jane who killed him. Now that Tan Yi's Hoffman is dead, people there also insisted that Jane killed him - fortunately, Office No. 004 gave Si Lei a reply that night. :
Jane Hestad is performing a special mission. It can be considered that she has not been active in the habitable area of the Third District recently. Please exclude her from the suspects.
Chiba laughed when she saw it. It seemed that she really had to thank Ava——
If Ava hadn't imprisoned Jane early, there's no telling what charges would continue to fall on Jane in the future!
However, Chiba really couldn't understand the reason: since the turmoil in 4623, the name Jane Hestad and herself had completely disappeared from public view - this even included many subsequent cross-region conflicts. In order to strictly keep the secret of trapping the aberrations, Jane's identity is kept secret internally.
But why are so many people and so many incidents suddenly pointing the finger at Jane?
Chiba forced herself to calm down and read the relevant documents from the police station. After reading the first page, she had to leave the studio temporarily and went to the balcony alone to enjoy the cold wind for a while until she felt that she had calmed down a little. Then he continued to sit back at his desk and read through the entire article.
After repeatedly reading the relevant records of the police department, she noticed some information that might be useful:
First of all, Viscount Rich and others insisted that the murderer of Fernand and the murderer of Hoffman must be the same person. These are two clear vendettas and they must not be treated as two independent cases.
Although these people's identification of Jane has been denied by Office 004, this piece of information can be used.
After all, if the murderer in both cases is really the same person, then proving that Hestad was not in a condition to kill Hoffman would be equivalent to proving that she was not the murderer in the Fernand case.
During this period of time, Ava's imprisonment of Jane ensured Jane's innocence in the Hoffman case.
However, the problem with this logical chain is that the Viscount and others are vague about "why they insist that the murderer of the two murders is the same person." They just make crazy curses but refuse to disclose any details.
The nobles in these livable areas obviously deliberately concealed many things. For example, it is clear that the only victim of the murder case is Hoffman. However, Viscount Rich and others are certain that they will soon follow Hoffman's example. Following in his footsteps, he died suddenly after receiving 12 photos.
They repeatedly emphasized that 12 is an important number.
But why is it important?
The men were tight-lipped about it.
Chiba quickly included this matter in his important to-do list.
Secondly, it is Si Lei's reasoning on the existing clues.
The Viscount was greatly frightened after receiving the first photo. He deployed strict security inside and outside his residence that day. Perhaps for this reason, the second photo sent by the murderer did not appear in the mailbox of the Viscount Mansion. It was handed over to him through the hands of a tavern owner he was familiar with.
It can be seen that at that time, the murderer was very concerned about whether the Viscount had received the photos.
However, in the next few days, the murderer did not choose the similar "must-deliver" method to send photos - it seemed that at this time, the murderer did not care much about whether the Viscount received the photos.
Si Lei has several speculations about this:
First, perhaps what the killer cared about was not the photo itself, but the continuity of the first two photos.
If nothing happened after the Viscount received the first photo, then neither the police nor he could tell whether this was a replica of the Hoffman case or a simple prank.
Therefore, it is very important whether the first two photos can successfully reach the hands of the Viscount.
Secondly, another fact is: only two photos from the four days of October 24th to 27th have been found. Maybe the murderer’s delivery was interrupted, maybe he left the photos in some strange place, the Viscount and The police have yet to find him.
But no matter what the possibility is, we seem to be able to make this judgment for the time being: Although the murderer prepared the trailer photos in advance, when Viscount Rich started to be heavily armed and Tan Yi police searched for the suspect throughout the city, the murderer temporarily I chose the latter between "taking the risk of delivering the photo to an obvious place" and "prioritizing protecting myself from being discovered".
Since the main purpose of sending the photos is to send a definite warning of torture to the victim, the current two photos have achieved their purpose. Whether the Viscount can see the photos in time is not so important.
However, if the content of the photo itself is not important, why did the murderer choose the form of "photo" as a clue?
Judging from the existing photos, every photo taken by the murderer of the victim has a strange angle and is very random. The pictures in some photos are simply blurry, and sometimes even the person who is the subject of the picture is incomplete.
For example, in several of the photos Hoffman received, only part of the frame was in the frame and other parts were not captured. If it were not for multiple confirmations of clothing, location and the person's movements that day, the police may not be able to determine who the person in the photo is.
However, every photo here contains very clear geographical information: even in the close-up of Hoffman sitting slumped in the back seat of the car with his head tilted up, the murderer deliberately took the photo of the nearby dark blue street lampposts— —Since it is a street lamp style only found on the main road along the central axis of Tan Yi City, the police quickly used this clue to confirm the location where the photo was taken.
This is Si Lei's third inference: the murderer is trying to convey some information through the picture.
This photo is like a string of ciphertext without a key, and no one can decipher its plaintext yet.
People only know that the murderer's terrifying and vicious face is hidden behind these pictures.
He was in the silence, making sharp ridicule to everyone.
