During lunch, Lin Huang quickly read through the information.
Looking at the detailed information, the 16 victims were not related to each other. Basically, they came from different footholds and there was no connection between their family members. He could not find any clues from the victims' itineraries and phone records in the past month.
"How is it? Is there any useful information?" Xia Hou asked in a muffled voice as he chewed on a piece of medium-rare roasted meat with his mouth full of grease.
"No." Lin Huang shook his head. He was even more confused about the information.
"What should we do next?" Xia Hou asked as he swallowed the grilled meat in his mouth.
"Let's go to the crime scene later." Lin Huang had no other ideas at the moment.
After lunch, both of them rushed to the crime scene.
The sequence that Lin Huang chose was the chronological sequence of the crime. The first crime scene that they went to was the first crime scene that happened 16 days ago. It was located in a small alley with many low-rise houses.
Soon, both of them found the exact location according to the coordinates provided by the Coalition government.
The small alley was completely isolated by the Coalition government with a supreme relic. There were only two guards. Xia Hou and Lin Huang were allowed to enter the alley after they showed their investigation passes and assistant passes.
The ground of the alley was paved with green stones. It looked like it had been there for a long time. The entire alley was about 30 meters long and less than 1.5 meters wide. Although the houses on both sides were not tall, they were at least seven to eight meters high. It was inevitable that the alley was a little dark.
"What did the victim want to do in such a small alley in the middle of the night? Was he looking for a place to pee? "Xia Hou mumbled.
"You didn't read the information, did you?" Lin Huang turned around and looked at Xia Hou who was behind him. Without waiting for him to answer, he continued, "The black market is less than 300 meters away. The victim was killed there. He must have just come out of the black market in the early morning when the black market closed. "
"Didn't he use the Dimensional Portal to leave the black market?" Xia Hou asked immediately.
"You really didn't read the information … He stayed nearby. It was a guesthouse. It's only a few minutes' walk from the black market, so there's no need to use the portal. "
As they spoke, they arrived at the place where the victim died. The outline of the body was outlined by the staff of the Coalition government using white lines.
Under the cover of the relic, the lines were not washed away by the rain. They were as clear as they were half a month ago.
According to the sketched lines, the corpse fell to the ground when it died, and the decapitated head rolled a meter away.
The blood stains on both sides of the walls and the ground nearby covered an astonishing area. As soon as Lin Huang saw the scene, he could almost picture the tragic scene of the victim's death in his mind — being beheaded with a knife, and then the headless corpse spurting blood crazily from the carotid artery.
"Beheading with one strike. What a tragic way to die," Xia Hou muttered.
"In such a narrow space, if a stranger were to walk over late at night, I would definitely be on my guard. However, looking at the corpse and the autopsy report, the victim did not show any signs of fighting. He was beheaded from the front without any resistance. This means that the murderer is either very familiar with the victim and caught him off guard, or the murderer is so fast that the victim could not react in time … "Lin Huang said as he filmed the scene." That's right, the murderer is so fast that the victim has no time to react … "
After observing and recording the first scene, they did not stay any longer. They immediately rushed to the second scene as soon as they got out of the alley.
The second murder scene was in a high-end hotel room.
Due to the case, the entire hotel was closed. Other than the investigator and the assistant, no one was allowed to enter or leave.
After Lin Huang and Xia Hou passed the guard's inspection, they took the elevator to the 91st floor and found room 091021 where the crime happened.
Other than the corpse not being there, the room was still the same as when the crime happened. Even the bed sheets and pillows were not moved.
"It's so clean, did someone clean this place?" Xia Hou shouted as soon as he entered the room.
In the living room, everything was as clean as new, and it did not look like a murder scene at all. However, Lin Huang had just finished reading the information not long ago, and there were indeed no signs of a fight at the crime scene.
Seeing that Xia Hou began to read the case information, Lin Huang did not say anything and walked straight to the master bedroom on the right side.
As soon as he stepped into the bedroom, Lin Huang saw the bed where the crime happened. The bloodstains on the bedsheets had already turned into black stains, covering almost three-quarters of the entire bed.
The moment he saw the scene, Lin Huang's mind almost formed the image of the victim's death — his head and limbs were cut off in his sleep, and he did not have time to react at all.
"This guy is worse than the previous one. He was dismembered while he was asleep." Xia Hou also slowly walked into the bedroom. "If he had slept a little later, he might not have died."
"It has nothing to do with whether he slept or not. He'll still die, but the location of his body will be different." Lin Huang had a different opinion. "The murderer always kills at midnight, which means that the victim must have been chosen beforehand. No matter where the victim is or what he's doing, the murderer will definitely kill him when the time is right. "
"Based on what you've said, the murderer must have chosen the victim beforehand." Xia Hou nodded in agreement. He paused for a while and then continued, "However, there's something that I don't quite understand. There are very few immortal-levels in a B-grade foothold like Martel City. I think there are less than 100 of them, and including those who come and go, there would definitely be less than 300 of them. However, there are more than 60 million people here. In other words, under normal circumstances, the probability of the murderer meeting an immortal-level in Martel City is less than one in 200,000. The probability of meeting an immortal-level rank-1 to rank-3 is even lower. With such a low probability, how did the murderer find the victims? It's impossible for him to meet them on the streets. "
"I've thought about that as well." After reading the information, Bloody had already mentioned that and Lin Huang had a secret discussion with it. "There are two possibilities. The first one is that the murderer has the registration list of Martel City's teleportation portal. The second one is that the murderer has been lurking around the teleportation portal in Martel City. "
"I don't think the second possibility is likely. There are two teleportation portals in Martel City, and they're thousands of kilometers apart. How could the murderer be lurking around both portals at the same time? Even if he has the ability to clone himself, it's impossible for him to maintain the cloning function when he's thousands of kilometers away. Even an imperial-level can't do that, "Xia Hou objected.
"Who told you that he's lurking around by himself? Can't he have an accomplice? Can't he spend some money to hire someone to lurk around? "Lin Huang asked while smiling.
"Erm, alright then." Xia Hou was speechless and immediately changed the topic. "So, the first possibility that you mentioned just now, does it mean that the murderer is someone from the Coalition government?"
"I don't think so. There are three possibilities for the murderer to get the teleportation list. Firstly, the murderer has an accomplice in the Coalition government. Secondly, the murderer hacked into the relevant departments of the Coalition government and got the list. Of course, there's also the last possibility – the murderer is someone from the Coalition government. "
"Do we still need to look at the crime scene?" Xia Hou asked again.
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