In the cemetery, Tanglar was sitting on a bench by the roadside to rest. Zoe and another mercury needle stood four or five steps away from him, paying attention to the surrounding movements.
Danglars was wrapped tightly in his coat in the wind. At this moment, he recalled Eureka's reminder in the morning, and couldn't help but feel angry again - what did she mean by those specious words?
Is it just a literal meaning?
"Hello." Tanglar heard Zoe behind him answer the phone, "Yes, it's me, you tell me."
After a moment of silence, Zoe's voice became alert, "Why?"
This sudden inquiry made Mercury Needle and Tanglar beside them a little nervous at the same time.
After a while, Zoe frowned and nodded: “Okay, I understand, let’s bring him back now?
"...Okay, that's fine. I'll see you later."
She hung up the phone and turned around and said, "Teresa called just now and said that she had something to ask the Viscount face to face. Let's not leave him even half a step from now on until she and Officer Si Lei come over."
"What happened?" Tanglar stood up.
"It's hard to explain on the phone," Zoe grabbed Tanglar's shoulders and pushed him back on the chair, "You will know when they come, don't ask any more questions."
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Across the city, Si Lei had just driven Teresa on the road.
"Do you know Gray's other identity?" Si Lei asked.
"I know," Teresa replied, "but is this man related to the assassin?"
"I'm not sure yet, but I'm sure there's something famous about it," Si Lei said softly. "On the day Nightingale died, I learned from Gray's servant that Gray had been using a controlled substance that ordinary people couldn't get. of."
"I've also heard about this. It's a receptor commonly used by mercury needles in combat."
"Yes, this kind of thing is rarely circulated in habitable places, and the control is strict. As far as I know, it is only stocked in a few biological laboratories related to chelation disease - this is also the main channel for Gray to obtain medicine. one.
"According to Gray's servants, after Gray used the receptors, they need to strictly recycle the empty syringes, because each receptor has an independent number, and they need to return these things to the supplier before they can exchange them for the next one. A batch of medicines.
"So, if Gray's disappearance was really planned by him, that is, he did leave District 3 for some reasons that are temporarily undisclosed, then before he drove the car to the wilderness and left alone, he would definitely All used empty syringes were returned to the carriage - but we now know that no such thing was found either in the carriage or in the nearby wilderness, and his servants have not received any related packages so far."
"Maybe he didn't use the sensory agent at all and just took it with him?"
"It's even more impossible." Si Lei replied flatly, "Gray is an ordinary person, Ms. Theresa. Although he is indeed a bit special, he is not exempt from carrying dangerous goods like your mercury needles - any large area The customs will not allow him to enter or leave with such drugs. Once discovered on the way, he will immediately lose his entry and exit qualifications. He will not do such stupid things."
"...It is indeed a bit strange to think about it this way, but what does Gray's matter have to do with the assassin?"
"Listen to me," Si Lei said quickly. "I have been thinking about this issue for the past two days. Until this morning, I saw a group of new police officers filling out welfare forms in the police station. A blank form fell on the ground. I picked it up and handed it to the person closest to me.
"I said, 'You dropped something,' and she said, 'This is not mine.' I said, 'Can you check again? There is no name on this thing, but it fell at your feet.' She still insisted, saying 'This is definitely not mine. Look, there are only seven forms in total, and I don't need any of them' - when she told me this, I figured it out immediately!"
Teresa almost held her breath, but she was also confused, "Have you... figured something out?"
"You were also there that morning when Villefort found the blank photo paper, right?" Si Lei glanced at Theresa, "Do you remember Danglars' first reaction at that time? He jumped up and shouted 'Yes' Death notice, the Duke has received a death notice!'—but how did he know?
"The book is indeed signed by the Duke as a gift, but this book was given to Danglars by him more than ten years ago. Seriously, the first owner of this book should be Danglars, not Villefort. Right?"
Teresa's eyes lit up, "Yes... I remember that Victoria asked Villefort at that time. There was nothing on the photo paper, but Villefort also insisted that the death notice was for him, so I didn't have it at that time either. Think too much——”
"That's right!" Si Lei interrupted Teresa, her eyes were bright, "Facing twelve blank photo papers, a person as afraid of death as Tanglar didn't have any panic, and didn't doubt himself at all. , instead insisting that these unnamed death notices belong to another person - isn't this strange?
"I think either he had received the death notice but for some reason did not tell us, or he had some kind of agreement with the assassin and he knew in advance that these things were not sent to him."
Teresa couldn't help but let out a sigh-like admiration, "Officer Si Lei..."
"There's another thing," Si Lei held the steering wheel tightly. "So far, the assassin has indeed sent death notices to every deceased person - but this means that she will definitely do the same next time. Of course, she can always play by the same rules of the game, but what if she suddenly throws them away?"
Before Teresa could answer, Si Lei had already continued speaking on his own.
"If she does this, then the so-called 'death notice' will immediately become a perfect cover-up to attract everyone's attention - everyone thinks that the person who will suffer next is Villefort, so it will be placed in Tangla There will be less attention on you, which greatly reduces the difficulty of her committing the crime - I'm afraid this person never thought about reconciling with you from the beginning, and all her efforts were directed towards killing people."
Teresa listened silently and frowned again, "Your reasoning does sound reasonable, but I still have a question, how could Tanglar make a deal with the assassin? This kind of thing is to seek skin from a tiger. ——”
"What if the assassin used Gray's name to get close to him?"
Teresa was startled.
"Isn't this all connected?" Si Lei smiled fiercely, her eyes were bright, and a hunter's excitement ignited in her eyes.
"I think that after meeting Tanglar, the whole matter should be clear to me."
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