Chapter 31 / Su Zuo's speculation (2 chapters today)
Ps: The revised 3,000 2...is equivalent to another 5,000 written today...Tsk...
Three months have passed since the Wings of Truth attacked the new district.
At least on the surface, this is the rumor. No one knows what the real purpose of the Wings of Truth attack is. And few people know that there was once an alchemist of the archmage level who died silently deep in the auditorium of the security station.
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Then, winter came to the land of Nanling.
It snows at night and melts during the day. This cycle repeats almost every week in Nanling in early winter. However, as winter gets deeper and the weather gets colder, the snow that falls at night no longer melts during the day. In late winter, it also
It has officially arrived.
Raven's Golden Lock's winter boots have anti-slip iron nails on the soles, but even so, it is still quite difficult to walk on the ground that is as cold as steel plates.
Su Zuo sometimes feels that at times like this, it would be better to just use the Spider Walking Technique. However, considering that the winter is still long and his magic power is limited, Su Zuo still endures the urge to move and honestly
Walking on the streets deep in the snow-covered Wenning District.
Convenient tools often become the source of laziness, just like some people in previous lives advocated walking to work. Su Zuo believes that for the sake of health, it is better to use magic as a "super convenient" tool as little as possible unless it is absolutely necessary.
At this moment, Su Zuo suddenly saw a familiar golden-red figure wearing a gray uniform in front of the snow-covered road.
"Yo!" A white breath was exhaled from his mouth and nose, and Su Zuo shouted from a distance. The assistant security officer who was standing at the entrance of the alley, oh... it was the police lieutenant Vigil Nochakin, and he followed the voice and twisted.
Turning around, when she saw it was Su Zuo, she couldn't help but frown, turned her head and ignored him, continuing to stare into the alley.
Shortly after the Wings of Truth incident, Vigil was promoted to an official Sheriff Lieutenant, leading 9 non-commissioned officers.
Su Zuo jogged a few steps, got close to Wei Jie'er, and looked into the alley. The scene he saw made him feel uncomfortable.
In the alleys dyed white by the thick snow, human bodies are blooming like flowers, and scarlet roses are stretching their bodies to their heart's content. Although the smell of blood has been frozen due to the cold, the beautiful and beautiful flowers are still there.
The red ice crystals give people a greater visual impact.
"Tsk...Is it completely chopped this time...What time is this? Miss Sheriff?"
"You kid, you just went to play and came to watch a joke?" Supervising his subordinates' investigation of the scene, Wei Jier was not angry at Su Zuo's conversation.
"Don't worry... I don't mean to laugh at you." Because of the previous Wings of Truth attack, Su Zuo and Wei Jie'er were already very familiar with each other. Because of Wei Jie's security work, the two of them met from time to time.
We would meet each other on the streets of Wenning District, and Su Zuo would often greet her and get close to her, so now, regarding the little brat Su Zuo's attitude towards his captain, even Wei Jie'er's attributes
Everyone has already turned a blind eye.
"You see, it was agreed before that the Crow's Golden Lock and the Public Security Bureau would jointly patrol. As a result, such brutal murders still occur. We at the Crow's Golden Lock are also very angry."
Suzo's current job is quite akin to Galt's personal attendant. Whenever he has something to do, he will be called to the study or the reception room by the crow man to "stand", and then he will not avoid conversations with Midel's manager or other people.
Because of him, Su Zuo was very aware of the intentions and thoughts of the upper echelon of Crow's Golden Lock.
"At least it's not you who are embarrassed publicly..." Wei Jier's words sounded a little angry. Ever since she was promoted to Sheriff's Lieutenant, and left Cromwell's side and went to the front line of security, Wei Jier's expression has changed.
His condition is getting worse and worse, and now even the dark circles under his eyes have appeared lightly, and his temper is becoming more irritable and irritable than before.
Su Zuo had noticed Wei Jier's changes from the beginning, so he sighed and comforted her: "Okay... During the day, we are exploring the site, and at night we have to patrol and keep vigil. I believe someone will notice it."
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Weijier interrupted Su Zuo: "When did you even say such self-deceptive words?"
Su Zuo looked at the sullen Wei Jier, looked away, and shrugged: "I don't want to comfort you..."
Weijier looked at the scene in front of her, subconsciously put her thumb in her mouth, bit her fingernails hard, and said bitterly: "This is the 114th case... It also includes 6 of my colleagues...
I swear I will never let him go..."
"Six colleagues!?" When Su Zuo heard this, his face became serious for the first time, "When did you die?"
"...At the very beginning...don't tell it." Realizing that she had let something slip, Wei Jier rubbed her forehead and decided to tell Su Zuo the truth, "Two weeks after the Wings of Truth attack, we and the Crow
Didn’t the night patrol in cooperation with Golden Lock officially begin? Then in the first week of the night at our police station, three two-person teams were sacrificed in succession."
"Is that why in the second week you will suddenly learn from our Crow's Golden Lock and change into a group of four..."
Recalling the situation at that time, Su Zuo suddenly felt enlightened.
"I have to say... that crow man's judgment on the psychology of the corpse-dismembered killer is quite accurate. Since the group was changed to a group of four, no one among the sheriffs has been victimized. However, the number of troops deployed has also begun to catch people.
I'm so confused... Damn it, why are there still so many people wandering around in Wenning District at night even though a curfew has been issued!"
Wei Jier stomped her feet vigorously, like a little girl losing her temper in front of Su Zuo.
But Su Zuo looked at the frozen ice, but it was broken by her kick, and the broken ice flew everywhere. He felt sad, but he didn't dare to compare the anger of the high-level magic swordsman in front of him with the anger of the little girl.
Put an equal sign.
"Well... there are always a lot of jobs in Wenning District that are not suitable for doing during the day... In fact, from what I heard, for the patrolling police officers, more people feel that they are specifically targeted at themselves, such as thieves
Ah, home invasion robbers, smugglers, illegal traffickers and so on."
Su Zuo teased jokingly, attracting Wei Jier's attention.
"But... I think that even if there are relatively large deficiencies in defense, he has not even seen a crime scene in the past three months. This murderer seems to be very lucky, right?"
Su Zuo crossed his hands and raised them above his head, stretching his waist.
"Is it a provocation to dare to target the Sheriff in the first week, or is it the boldness of a highly skilled person?"
"And..." Su Zuo looked at the tragic murder scene in front of him, "Should it be said to be literary or psychological, it seems that it is not something that can be done in a short time to create such a tragic situation.
.There must be other reasons why we don’t attack teams with more than 3 goals——”
"For example, in winter, if too much time is wasted in handling the corpse, the corpse will freeze, making it difficult to dismember the body and making people lose interest?"
"However, I think the most important point is that in the 114 cases of murder and body dismemberment over a period of three months, more than half of the bodies were dismembered in each case, but they were not discovered. How big is the general theory?
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"——Without the patrol layout plan inside the police station."
Su Zuo raised his head and looked at the stunned Wei Jie'er, showing a cheerful smile, the neat teeth between his lips shining with silver luster.
"Judging from the freezing conditions of corpses in winter, assuming that the killing time of an ordinary road killer only takes 1 minute, then this corpse-dismembering killer must spend at least 10 minutes each time to dismember the body, and then
As the number of homicides increases, the risk of exposure will increase significantly."
"You see, it seems that this time the corpse is completely broken into pieces, and there are also cases where two corpses are evenly broken into half, so the murderer compares the two corpses, cutting off a section of this, and then a section of that? Definitely not.
He must have considered the possible exposure time and allocated the time evenly. When he had enough freedom, he would completely dismember the body. When not, he would try to make full use of the spare time, so he could not be discovered at all.
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"You mean...this murderer comes from within our police station?!"
Wei Jier finally digested Su Zuo's speculation.
But Su Zuo shook his finger: "There is no need to avoid it. There is a high possibility that the murderer came from within our Crow's Golden Lock. After all, our two organizations cooperate with each other. Through one party's patrol route map, we can roughly
Infer the movements on the other side. However, in addition, we must also consider the possibility of the patrol map being exposed, so we cannot rashly assume that the problem is definitely within us, but even so, the scope of suspicion has been greatly reduced.
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"...Then I'll go back and talk to Chief Cromwell..."
Wei Jier was moved by the possibilities raised in Su Zuo's words. She couldn't wait to leave for this possible breakthrough.
Su Zuo was startled after hearing Wei Jier's words. He rushed forward and hugged Wei Jier: "No! Wei Jier, wait! Don't tell other people first!"
After coughing twice, Su Zuo let go of Wei Jie'er and looked at Wei Jie'er who turned around and looked at him with a puzzled expression. Su Zuo said to her seriously: "Promise me, you can only do this.
I will investigate it in private, and I am not allowed to tell anyone else, including Cromwell."
"Why?" Wei Jier didn't understand.
Su Zuo stared at her golden eyes seriously: "Have you ever thought about why Cromwell killed Kabala Hill Taylor with one sword?"
"Although he deserves to die, we still don't know for what purpose he wanted to attack Lady Sydney and her daughter, who is the person or organization behind him, and what is the purpose of this person or organization. Cromwell has always
The sword killed him. The truth has been buried with the death of Kabala, and the initiator of this ambiguous situation is Cromwell, so I'm sorry, I can't trust him."
"Maybe Commander Cromwell at that time... couldn't hold back..."
Weijier, who witnessed that scene with her own eyes, now recalls the scene, and her defense is so weak that even she can't believe it.