Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 187 Analysis
For the enforcement team, it was destined to be a long night.

As some people have said, the peaceful and tranquil days are gone forever. Now, in Nanwei City, a murder could break out in any corner.

The funerals of seven law enforcement officers had just ended when someone hung a body under a bridge.

Some might interpret such blatant behavior as a demonstration or a provocation against the law enforcement system.

But Milo wouldn't see it that way.

Since joining the law enforcement system, the cases he has handled have almost all involved certain special religious rituals. Whether it is gouging out eyeballs or sacrifices in the town of Iqlam, they are all examples of ordinary people seeking some unrealistic breakthrough through some taboo means.

The body at the Confession Pier has an extremely strong religious feel to it.

The wounds on her body, the way she was bound, and even the location where the body was dumped all have explanations, which essentially ruled out the possibility that a mentally ill person committed the crime.

If it were simply a murder or a crime of passion, the killer would have tried every means to hide the body, rather than risking being witnessed by displaying it in this way.

The woven object found under the bridge, resembling a birdcage or a small altar, explains everything.

Milo knew that this case couldn't be solved using conventional methods.

He needs to figure out the perpetrator's intentions.

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"Perhaps they are right, this city is terminally ill."

Behind Milo, old Theon slowly walked over.

I don't know when it started, but he stopped staring blankly at the canal, his fingers holding the cigarette stopped trembling, and his eyes became focused again. The calm and wise old man he used to be had returned.

Old Theon took the gloves from his colleague and put them on, then squatted down next to the body and began to help and guide the evidence collection work to proceed quickly.

"After we've made sure we have all the evidence from the scene, we need to get the body back as soon as possible. This awful weather could rain at any moment, you know how it is."

"Yes!"

The law enforcement officers on site dared not be negligent.

Milo, on the other hand, felt that Theon's previous words sounded familiar, as if he had heard something similar not long ago.

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"The exact time of death may need further laboratory testing to confirm, but as I said, the child has been dead for at least ten hours, or even longer. There is a lot of moisture on the surface of her body, which may be due to the fog on the river at night, or it may be because the body was refrigerated. In that case, the time of death would have to be pushed back by about ten hours."

"Furthermore, such a large project cannot be completed in a short period of time."

"There were signs that she had touched up her makeup. The makeup was too traditional and not the style that a girl her age would put on. It was the murderer who did it."

"There are no obvious wear marks on her toes and heels, which means she rarely wears high heels, or you could say that her profession requires more comfortable flat shoes, that is, a profession that requires frequent movement."

"Furthermore, given how badly the body was damaged, whether the deceased was sexually assaulted before her death is something that will have to be left to the laboratory team."

"As for the antlers on its head, I'll hand them over to the testing team as well. I need to know what breed of deer they belong to and roughly what hunting grounds they came from."

"Before the corpse's skin necroses, I want to obtain a complete replica of these symbols and patterns. I want to see all the patterns completely presented in the notebook, which would be more intuitive."

"Issue a notice to find out about a white woman who has been missing for the past 30 hours. She is estimated to be between 20 and 25 years old, about 175-178 cm tall, with brown hair, and her occupation is likely..."

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Old Theon truly lived up to his reputation as the most experienced enforcer on the scene.

No matter how far he has fallen, his accumulated consciousness, way of thinking, and keen sense of smell over the years are incomparable to those of a novice.

No one can doubt his professionalism, not even Rebecca.

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Milo stood beside him, listening intently to every word of old Theon's analysis. Just as he heard the speculation about the deceased's profession, a bad feeling suddenly flashed through his mind.

"Occupations that require frequent movement."

Milo muttered something to himself.

He asked his colleague for a wet cotton swab, squatted down, and carefully scraped the corpse's fingers, palms, and other areas several times with one end of the swab. Finally, he carefully examined the swab under the kerosene lamp and even sniffed it a few times.

"The taste of whale blubber."

Milo squinted.

The question of who would have traces of whale blubber on their hands is already quite obvious.

He instructed his colleagues to put the cotton swabs away, and then walked straight towards the outside of the cordoned-off area.

Although Milo had this suspicion running through his mind ever since he first saw the body, he didn't believe that such a coincidence was possible.

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"Yan, come in here."

Milo waved across the police cordon towards Yan, who was maintaining order on the street.

Yan trotted over excitedly, ducked under the police tape, and asked Milo, "What do you mean?"

Milo's expression was somewhat serious: "I think you should come in and take a look; it might be helpful to our investigation."

"Okay, sure." Yan could tell that Milo wasn't joking, so he nodded in agreement.

If it were anyone else, even if they were dragged along, Yan would never step into the crime scene. In his words, it was "bad luck," and it would make him lose all his money playing cards for the next month.

...

Milo led Yan into the sealed-off area.

He was shown the mangled female corpse.

Before Yan saw the female corpse, Milo specially had someone find a shroud to cover the area below the neck of the body, leaving only the face exposed.

...

As it turned out, Milo's prediction was correct.

There are just some coincidences in the world.

He and Yan traveled so far, making a special trip to Yaden Village, and even cut off someone's finger.

After wandering around for ages, they finally found the body of the person they were looking for on their way back.

Yes, the young woman who was hung from the bridge platform in a bizarre manner was the lamplighter Yan was looking for, Aya Ferguson.

...

It was as if fate had played a cruel joke on them.

The person they had been searching for most of the night was actually already a corpse, with countless symbols and patterns carved on his body and horns driven into his skull.

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Milo didn't know this woman named Aya, and he knew she wasn't a good person, but for a moment, he still held a tiny bit of hope that the deceased wasn't Aya Ferguson.

Because that would be really messed up.

(End of this chapter)