Rorschach tilted his head. He didn't like the government either, but was it really okay to label the government like this?
"That has nothing to do with the government. It was done by the crazy scientists at Star Laboratory." Rorschach explained.
"Star Laboratory, if I remember correctly, it is an industry of the Wayne Consortium, and Kay Wayne is closely connected with the White House." Huggins said with a sneer.
Rorschach really didn't know how to explain it for a moment. After all, what Huggins said made sense.
Booth smiled sheepishly at Rorschach, then grabbed Huggins and let him go to work. In New York, talking about Kai like this in front of Kai's men is like seeking death!
Not to mention that the Huggins family's Huggins Industries is only the third largest private company. Even Tony Stark, the richest man in the United States, would not have an easy time facing Kai.
When Zach saw Rorschach, he lowered his head in fear, and then walked away silently.
Soon the ice was sawed open.
They found a device under the ice that could keep the ice frozen and would not thaw. Very amazing little device.
Obviously, the ice cube and the people inside were deliberately brought into this state.
"Can I know the time of death?"
Rorschach asked.
As chief medical examiner at the Jefferson Forensic Laboratory, Camille shook her head.
"It's difficult. After all, the body has been frozen, so it's difficult for us to guess the specific time of death."
"It's very simple." Xiaogu, who was watching Huggins break the ice, suddenly interrupted.
"Xiao Gu?" Camille looked at her colleague and friend in surprise.
"Huh?" Xiaogu obviously didn't realize what he said.
"It's very simple? How to do it?" Camille was also a little curious. After all, they are all in this industry and they all know about the pioneering technology in this industry.
"Look at your watch!"
The victims appeared to be a family, a man, two boys aged fifteen or sixteen, a little girl and a woman. None of the three children wore watches. The woman had some jewelry but no watch. Only the man had a watch on his wrist.
The time was a month ago.
No one noticed such a simple thing except Xiaogu.
Rorschach looked at Xiaogu in shock.
You should know that this kind of thing seems simple, but in fact, there are really not many people who can actually see this scene and observe the details calmly.
At this time, forensic investigators from New York also came over and reported that they found traces of recent life in this house. There was even a bottle of red wine that was opened. From the analysis of the remaining wine, this bottle of wine had not been opened for a long time.
In other words, after that bastard killed someone, he still dominated here for a long time!
abnormal!
Even among serial killers, this is rare.
Living with the victim's corpse for such a long period of time... is really perverted.
Are you really afraid that this family will become ghosts?
"Can you collect any more useful clues?" Luo Xia asked Xiaogu.
Xiaogu shrugged: "I can't do anything, these corpses have meat."
"Meat?" Rorschach didn't understand what it meant.
This was Xiaogu’s best friend Angela coming over and saying, “Xiaogu is only responsible for the bones, there is nothing you can do about the corpses with flesh.”
"But we must find the murderer quickly. Maybe there are some clues on the corpse that can help us find them as soon as possible!" Rorschach didn't have that many informants in New York, and he wasn't interested in searching for people all over the city. He believed more in scientific methods.
"Let Huggins do it. He should be able to bring you some surprises!"
Xiaogu thought for a while and said.
She is responsible for the bones. If you want to get clues from her, you must first understand the clues on the corpse. Only when the flesh and blood of the corpse is turned into white bones can she show her talents.
But this takes time. Just collecting clues and dissecting the corpse cannot be completed in a day or two!
It is better to measure trace particles first.
soon.
After about several hours, a group of men finally freed the body from the ice.
These victims are the owners of this house. The man is Mark Yoder. He is a network engineer. He established a website a long time ago. Before the Internet bubble, he sold the website and achieved financial freedom. Now he works at A technology executive at a large Internet company.
He had planned to travel with his family this month.
So after his family disappeared, no one called the police or came to check on the house.
So, the family was frozen here for a month, and no one noticed.
Soon, with Zach’s help, he began collecting tiny particles, such as pollen, spores, and other particles.
People from the forensics department also collected as many particles as possible from everywhere in the room.
For Huggins to analyze.
Around night time.
Huggins finally got results.
"I found a footprint in the flower bed next to the pool, and in the footprint I found coal, iron, chromium and some hyacinth pollen, and I saw some fragments of American black walnut."
"What can these explain?" Rorschach asked.
This stuff is very common in New York!
Neither hyacinth nor walnut are uncommon in New York.
Especially American black walnut, Americans like this wood very much. American black walnut is only produced in North America, and it is not uncommon to find it all over the United States.
"Of course these don't mean anything, but I found something on the hostess's body - leaded gasoline! Although it's very small, I still found it."
"Leaded gasoline...but the sale of this kind of gasoline was banned as early as 1986."
As for the reason, it is because leaded gasoline affects the IQ of Americans...
In the United States, people whose IQs are lowered due to lead pollution are mostly middle-aged people born in the 1960s and 1970s, or older people.
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by researchers at Duke University and Florida State University shows that lead pollution can reduce adult intelligence over many years. Childhood exposure to lead gas (car exhaust) has reduced the IQ of nearly half of the U.S. population (170 million) today by an average of 2.6 points per person. In total, lead has stolen more than 824 million points from the IQ of 170 million Americans.
In 1986, the United States decided to stop selling all leaded gasoline. Correspondingly, lead concentrations in Americans' blood dropped by 80% almost immediately.
Because this lesson is so profound, there is now no leaded gasoline in the United States.
"And, is this related to the case we are investigating?"
Rorschach still couldn't figure out what these nerds were doing.
"Don't worry! Don't underestimate the information contained in these little things." Huggins immediately turned on his computer: "As long as all these data are input into the computer, we can determine the murderer based on the difference in trace particle content in various places in New York. Passed by there, stayed there.”
Huggins said while typing: "Although this may not allow you to catch the murderer immediately, it can at least give you a direction."
Soon the computer gave the answer.
Brooklyn City of Industry!
Industrial City is located in the Sunset Park waterfront area on 2nd Avenue and 36th Street in Brooklyn. It includes the Brooklyn Army Terminal, etc., with a total area of 213 acres, including 16 buildings such as industrial piers, factories, and large warehouses. It has been the largest in New York City for a century. Private industrial park.
The predecessor of Industrial City was Bush Dock. Between 1906 and 1928, Bush Dock was built with rows of six-story factory buildings, many smaller brick warehouses and other buildings, as well as docks and railway systems.
But unfortunately, the glory is in the past, and now this is New York's largest 'Rust Belt'. From the 1960s to the early 1990s, New York's manufacturing industry showed an unprecedented decline, which had a huge impact on Bush Terminal. Statistics show that between 1966 and 1991, employment in the New York garment industry decreased by 64%, and industrial jobs in textiles, rubber and plastic products, transportation equipment and various products industries decreased by about 2/3; some industry sectors, including paper products, metal Processed products, stone ceramics and glass products, household and household equipment, food, electronic and electrical equipment, instruments and related products, industrial machinery, leather and leather products, and primary metal products have experienced employment contractions of 70% or more.
By the 1970s and 1980s, Bush Quay became a popular dumping ground for illegal industrial toxins (such as "sludge"), and illegal activities such as prostitution and drug dealing also spread here.
Later, in 1986, the Bush Wharf property was acquired, and the new managers decided to revitalize Bush Wharf and gave it a more prominent name - "Industry City". The Industrial City has formulated plans to resume production in order to bring vacant buildings back to life!
In order to protect the city's industries from total extinction, New York City designated the city's "Industrial City"-like manufacturing areas as "Industrial Business Districts." The New York City government believes that manufacturing should provide protection to all kinds of people. After entering the new century, science and technology industries such as art studios, technology companies, and small manufacturers were introduced to the industrial city.
Unfortunately, deindustrialization is in full swing in North America, let alone this being New York! People are not willing to develop so-called industry at all.
So up to now, the occupancy rate here is still less than one-third. The art studios and technology companies that first settled here have gradually begun to move away from here, resulting in the place still being dead... many factories that were abandoned in the last century , still standing there unattended.
"They are hiding here?"
"At least they've been there," Huggins replied.
"Okay, I'll take someone there right away!"
Rorschach didn't hesitate.
It would be nice to have clues.
…
Soon in the industrial city, Rorschach and the others discovered a pile of corpses again!
These corpses were piled together and pieced together into a... painting?
They were all cleaned up, and a kind of paint was applied to their bodies to make their skin look very... healthy?
Yes, that’s right, that healthy complexion, and it even has oil on it.
Jefferson's forensic doctors went straight to 007.
When they arrived, they were so shocked that they were speechless when faced with this scene.
They're technicians, and they're not really that...enthusiastic about solving crimes. They do it more to help others than out of self-gratification.
Therefore, they felt strong physical discomfort at the scene in front of them.
Only the small bones remained unmoved.
She looked at all the victims one by one: "They are homeless people. Many of these people have not brushed their teeth for a long time. In addition, they all have certain health problems. But I don't understand why the murderer did this?"
"What's wrong?"
Huggins asked, covering his mouth.
"He cleaned their bodies and even did their hair, making them in very good condition. In addition, judging from their condition, they had been dead for a while, but their bodies showed no obvious signs of death. Rotting, they have all been embalmed...I don't understand at all, what is the point of him doing this?"
Xiaogu is a scientist, so she doesn't like guessing, let alone unfounded guessing. She insists that everything must be based on science!
Evidence is evidence!
"It's pity!" Rorschach happened to be a good at reasoning, and he was familiar with those sinful thoughts: "He was pitying them."
Rorschach pursued three cases in a row. At the same time, he also read information about Jesse the Trickster in Los Angeles.
This is a typical antisocial lunatic.
His cognition is completely different from normal people.
He feels that the real society is a cannibal society. People clearly promote morality and advocate morality, but in fact everyone is doing the exact opposite of what they claim!
This is sick and twisted.
So Jesse thinks he should change this situation!
Obviously, staying in a mental hospital for these years did not alleviate Jesse's condition, but made him become more seriously ill.
It even produced sublimation!
Why can't the doctors in those mental hospitals help?
Damn it, they always send patients in, and then continue to send them out... and they come out as patients...
"He dealt with them in the most decent way he thought, and gave them unimaginable...how to describe it, it should be regarded as a kind of help, or a kind of sublimation, allowing them to use another more perfect and more decent way. way to exist.”
"How did you know?"
"I've seen the prisoner's profile."
Xiaogu nodded disdainfully: "These speculations of yours are baseless."
Booth interrupted quickly.
"I'm sorry! Xiao Gu... doesn't believe in psychology."
Rorschach didn't mean to be angry: "Many people don't believe it."
"Then do you believe it?" Xiaogu suddenly asked Luo Xia.
"Xiao Gu!" Booth reminded Xiao Gu. After all, Booth also had Rorschach's information. Booth was very understanding of his situation. Rorschach's psychological problems are... serious.
"What's wrong?" Xiaogu obviously didn't think there was anything wrong with his question.
"I believe it. I myself am a patient with mental illness." Unexpectedly, Rorschach did not shy away from this at all.
"Then why don't you undergo psychological treatment?" Xiaogu asked curiously. She didn't think it was anything. Others admitted it, but I couldn't ask?
Not only did Rorschach not dislike Xiaogu's character at all, but on the contrary, she felt very comfortable with it.
No need to hide or beat around the bush.
"I need to...stay angry!"
(End of chapter)
