Chapter 24: front page headlines
"Mystery: Key of the Star(
"But the recent newspapers... well, there's no big news." Jennings frowned.
"Have you read today's newspaper?" Joshua asked rhetorically.
"Not yet." Both Jennings and Igna shook their heads blankly.
Ignat's situation was a little worse. He only arrived in Backlund yesterday and only read the Daily Observer when he was resting at night. There doesn't seem to be any particularly interesting news in it.
Today's Daily Observer doesn't seem to be there either. Ignatius shook hands with Jennings.
"Is there something in the paper, Joshua?" Jennings asked.
"Yeah." Joshua squeezed a syllable out of his throat, and the sadness on his face became more intense. He took out a damp-soaked newspaper from his arms and handed it to someone closer to him. Jennings Wenzel.
At a glance Igna saw the headline in bold.
And Joshua also repeated the words without hesitation: "4! Another gentleman was killed in an abandoned house, the fourth bizarre 'suicide' case this month, similar to the similar situation, is it really suicide? How exactly does the Siviras Field ensure the safety of the people?"
"The newspaper reported it, and it also asked us to step up our investigation of the truth of the matter."
Jennings, who was reading the newspaper, froze, while Igna frowned subconsciously.
He is somewhat familiar with the third "bizarre suicide", and in yesterday's "Daily Observer", he read a related article. However, the case happened three days ago, and reporter Mike only reviewed the doubts in the case and expressed doubts about whether the case had the possibility of serial murder. I didn't expect that today's newspapers would directly define him as "similar situations, similar encounters".
"The fourth incident happened yesterday." Ignatius said.
"Yes." Joshua rubbed his forehead, "Originally, it was handed over to another team after the third case. We have been assisting in the investigation. After three consecutive days, the fourth case still occurred."
"Yesterday's case also happened in my jurisdiction, so we also assisted in the investigation last night. After the investigation was over, the police inspector who was mainly in charge of the investigation let us rest for a while."
"But I can't sleep." Joshua whispered, "Yesterday's scene, the previous scene was too weird. Even I couldn't help but doubt myself..."
Jennings and Igna stared at each other. They all saw surprise in each other's eyes.
What kind of scene could scare the well-informed police officer Backlund into being unable to sleep?
Moreover, Igna is very clear that if the case involves extraordinary factors, it will be handed over to the extraordinary.
Logically, it should be resolved soon.
Currently, the official Beyonders in Backlund are Nighthawks and Punishers.
Judging from the progress of the incident, Igna felt that there is a high probability of being the punisher. On the one hand, Igna had seen the efficiency of the night watchman, and on the other hand, because sleep was a domain blessed by the goddess, the night watchman had no reason to let his own Cooperative police can't sleep well.
"What was the scene like, was it scary?" Jennings asked. "I read only brief reports in the newspapers, saying that all the people died in uninhabited houses. They were all dressed in bright clothes, and they seemed to be brought directly to the wilderness by ghosts from the downtown area. Is this true? "
Joshua's expression changed, but he didn't answer immediately.
"There's a confidentiality clause involved, isn't it?" Jennings said quickly after checking himself for a slip of the tongue.
"Well." Joshua nodded, with a bitter smile, "I haven't joined the job anyway, so it's okay if I don't know these things."
"Anyway, it's good to have a roommate." Joshua gave Igna a deep look, "Don't be alone during this time."
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However, it turns out that things don't always go the way one would hope.
Jennings Wenzer was asked to start the job early the next day due to a sudden illness of the previous forensic doctor. Igna can only continue to follow the instructions of the crystal ball to arrange the itinerary in addition to expressing deep concern and sympathy.
Today's horoscope is still "possibly an opportunity in a familiar place" but the time has become afternoon. Igna also conducted a divination on the "opportunity". This time the opportunity is the same as the last time. "It seems to be a loss in the short term, but it is beneficial in the long run", but this time the opportunity is more suitable for active action. .
With yesterday's experience, Igna decided to arrange the information related matters in the morning, and wrote a part of the manuscript and sent it to Miss Forth Wall. Then, sit at home and wait for the opportunity to come.
Igna always remembered that he came to Backlund for only one purpose. But finish it, obviously can not rush for a while. If you want to work in Backlund in the name of a novelist, you still have to come up with relevant works.
Hmm... Looking at the relevant information about the detective "Sherlock Moriarty" sent by Miss Fors on the table, Ignatius has roughly guessed the true identity of Miss Fors Wall.
In addition to being Abraham's morning star, Mr. Fool's favored person, and a well-known novelist by Ruen.
She is also a "magician", a participant in the Tarot Club, and a witness to the miracle of Mr. Fool.
Miss Forth Wall was probably entrusted with what kind of task to write a novel and biography related to Mr. Fool's favored ones. Otherwise, why did she recommend "Sherlock Moriarty" and "Dawn Dantès" for writing themes, and she also made a guarantee that as long as biographies were written under their real names and deeds, they would be published?
This is unreasonable, both in terms of advice and motivation.
Taking detective literature as an example, in fact, for unknown novel writers The cases handled by Detective Sherlock Moriarty are very mysterious and legendary, but the heroic detective Abner Bryan Obviously a better option.
In addition to the title of hero detective, Abner Bryan is also known as the dull detective. The cases handled by Detective Abner are equally legendary, but Abner's story is obviously more topical, and it is in Ignat's current interest to write his story.
But even so, Ignatius picked up the pen and wrote the "Sherlock Moriarty" story.
Because Igna thought that since it was entrusted by the "magician", there must be her reason. Moreover, Igna also has an inexplicable closeness to Sherlock Moriarty, the beloved of Mr. Fool.
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Writing is selfless.
Ignat was busy until three o'clock in the afternoon when he remembered that he hadn't eaten lunch.
Grabbing the sandwich Mrs Hudson brought him around twelve o'clock, Ignat decided to give Chris the first three chapters of "The Sherlock Moriarty Collection" to check again for grammar and spelling mistakes. Miss Ting.
But Igna did not expect that at this time, someone opened the door with the key.
"Den, Deng pedal - Deng, Deng pedal -"
A very characteristic footstep sounded.
Ignat immediately recognized that the footsteps belonged to Jennings, his footsteps were hurried, as if in a hurry.
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The case has a prototype. Anyone who has seen it should know at a glance which case it is in (it is a film and television work I like very much, so don’t spoil it if you know it! If you really want to say it, we can communicate in English ( ???).
I crypticized his background, motives and tactics. If there are friends who don't know, I will publish the prototype of the event after the case is over.