【Cae Detective PARO】Red Dahlia

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I'm not sure about automobiles. With all their speed forward they may be step backward in civilization. --Booth Tarkington

[Booth Tarkington (American novelist and playwright): I have reservations about cars. As cars speed up, civilization may be stepping backwards. 】

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2017. 8, 3

Lecture Room No. 4, School of Life Sciences, Ouyang City Public University Time 8:16

Bump City Public University is the largest university institution in Bump City and even the entire province. It is divided into three different campuses. The main campus includes their main office building, as well as their liberal arts college and their law school.The second campus is located in the southwest of the city, including their School of Medicine, School of Public Health and School of Life Sciences, and the third campus is on the west side of the city. The School of Engineering, School of Art, School of Media and Communication and School of Education are all over there.

It was 08:30 in the morning when Abby drove to the medical school, and her best friend had been waiting for her at the gate.

"Abby, I appreciate you coming."

"What are you talking about, Helen, I will definitely help you with this."

Abby received a call from her college classmate yesterday afternoon when she was still in the forensic office (by the way laughing at her brother being identified as a girl). At that time, Abby had a public class on bacteria and viruses in the Department of Biology, and Her deskmate happens to be Helen Zhang, who is now the director of the School of Life Sciences at Ouyang City Public University.

Helen told Abby that she originally had a public class that would explain the human skeleton in detail, and it would be given by a professor specially invited from Switzerland by their college. Unfortunately, the assistant of the professor made a mistake. I missed the flight time to Bump City, so that the professor has not arrived at the school yet, but when the professor notified the college, the college has already issued a notice, and many leaders will also come to attend the class. Under such circumstances, Helen, the director, thought of Abby, who is now the director of the forensic office of the Bump City Police Department, so she immediately invited Abby to attend the first public class, and then discuss the next step after the professor arrives. .

"I'm very grateful that you were able to ask for leave. After learning about the terrible case in the park, I guess your police department is very busy."

"Actually, it's okay, my brother is mainly in charge of it now."

"Oh, it's been a while, I haven't seen Amy in a long time, how is he?"

"He's fine, that's all."

"You know, if I hadn't known he hated lectures and all, I'd have brought him over with me."

Amy called Abby an hour ago and told her that she had explained the situation to Director Daniel and asked for a leave of absence. Daniel also kept an open mind, as long as he returned from class and continued to work, he would be fine.The two walked into the spacious lecture hall, and Helen skillfully turned on the air conditioner and the light switch. Abby glanced at it, and there was a tablet computer and a bottle of drink on each position, and on the podium, there was also a tablet for the teachers to use for public use. laptop.

"The times are changing. Compared with when we were studying, this condition is really true."

"The school allocates a lot of the budget to us, so we have the money to do these things."

A huge projection screen and a high-resolution projector, and a complete human skeleton were placed next to the whiteboard. Abby walked to the side of the skeleton and took a look.

"Isn't it the kind of mannequin that is half muscle tissue and half skin?"

"Oh, the kind that was complained by many students, saying it was too scary, so it was removed."

"That's it."

Abby looked at the skeleton thoughtfully.She and Helen went around the lecture theater, and then prepared for the lesson.When Abby was about to check the markers in the desk drawer, she opened the drawer and found...

A red dahlia is sitting securely in a drawer with markers.

"...Helen."

"Huh? What's the matter, Abby?"

Abby looked at the dahlia, and the uneasiness in her heart continued to expand.

"Has there been any murder or injury in the school recently?"

"Ah? No, why do you ask that?"

"nothing..."

Why is this dahlia here?While Abby was still wondering, two male students walked into the classroom carrying a skeleton.

"Teacher, we have brought the skeleton you asked for."

"Ah, what are you doing?"

Helen looked at the skeleton brought by the two male students with a strange expression, and the two male students also looked at Helen with a confused expression.

"Well, just now our class teacher said that there is no skeleton in this classroom, so we moved this skeleton from the teaching room."

"Are you kidding? Our academy only has one skeleton, and the other skeleton was put away when it broke last week. Where did you get it from?"

"We don't know, this skeleton is in the materials room."

"How is it possible, where did the skeleton in the classroom come from?!"

While Helen and the two boys were still arguing, Abby understood her uneasiness and walked up to the skeleton.She stared at the skeleton carefully, looked at the whole skeleton, and understood what...

damn it...

"Helen, quickly seal off the entire academy!"

"Huh, Abby?"

Abby hurriedly took out her mobile phone and called the headquarters where Jin was located.

"This is Kim, Abby? Aren't you in class?"

"Jin, hurry up and call Lei Shi and An Mixiu to the School of Life Sciences of Outu City Public University!"

"Huh? What's the matter?"

Abby glanced at the skeleton and said.

"I found the fourth body, at least... what's left now, the body is already a skeleton."

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2017. 8, 3

The office time of the serious crime team of Outong City Police Department is 7:31

Lei Shi and An Mixiu spent the whole night investigating the issue of the victim's direct relations. Now that these (temporarily) can be investigated as individual cases, they will check to see if the victim has a deep hatred. However, The only person who knew the identity of the victim so far was Sarah Besson, and this single person really gave them a headache to death.

Lei Shi and An Mixiu looked through all her information and all her social media. They contacted Sarah's former classmates and teachers, Sarah's former neighbors or friends of her parents, and all they got was the same result. , Sarah is a loner, she doesn't care about others and doesn't want others to care about her, and everyone who knows Sarah also denies the possibility of her falling in love.

After working for a long time, when both of them felt sleepy, they couldn't hold back their trembling eyelids.In this way, Kelly, who came to work the morning shift the next morning and wrote a report on her actions last night, saw the door of the crime department office open and thought that the police station had entered the police station, but when she went in, she saw Lei Shi and Ann Mixiu was lying on the sofa in the office, hugging each other and sleeping together, she closed the door silently, and then put a sticker on the door of the office saying "no entry for idlers".

"I should have taken a picture."

That's what Kelly thought after she closed the door.

It was half an hour after the two of them woke up, and the first thing they did after waking up was to go downstairs to buy coffee.

"Coffee doesn't work..."

"Next time I'm going to get that Starbucks espresso..."

"That stuff sucks...my temple hurts like hell."

The two of them sat on the sofa as if they were hungover, but the coffee in their hands didn't play its due role at all. An Mixiu rubbed his temples, while Lei Shi was drinking coffee and rubbing his eyes.

"I didn't do this when I went to an Internet cafe all night before..."

"We're all old, Thunder Lion...I don't want to drink anymore."

An Mixiu threw the coffee into the trash can, Lei Shi put the coffee aside and took out his mobile phone.

"Camille said he was late, let's get on with our business first."

"Let him bring a breakfast or something on the way... Forget it, I don't have an appetite, so I won't."

Just as the two were sitting on the sofa decadently, Jin walked into the office of the crime team.

"What's the matter with you two? ...Aren't you sleeping?"

"Checked the relationship of the third victim in one night...a headache."

"From the way the two of us (yawns)...investigated...really haven't found anything."

"Then can you still drive?"

"what?"

Jin reached out to hand over a report, and Lei Shi took it.

"this is?"

"Abby just contacted command that an unidentified skeleton turned up at the College of Life Sciences at Bump City Public University and the dahlia was found and she sent me a photo of the skeleton's teeth... I'm based on dental records The dead were found."

"Sicily Eilson...Damn it!"

"Is it finally here...the fourth one."

The last thing they want to see happened. If there is no fourth corpse, then all of them can take the provocative letter in the director's mailbox as a joke, but now, the appearance of the fourth corpse changed all that.

Looking at the photos and information of the young woman in the file, and the fact that the file showed that she had been missing for four days, the deceased was turned into a skeleton within four days, which shows that the murderer not only has superb medical technology, but also lacks humanity. Without further ado, the two cheered up, grabbed the car keys and ran outside, pressing the elevator to the underground parking lot.Kim yelled loudly before the elevator doors closed.

"I have given you all the preliminary files about the female deceased. I will contact you again if I have any more detailed information."

"Thanks, Kim!"

Seeing the elevator doors slowly closing, Jin was about to call Amy and ask him to rush to the School of Life Sciences of the Bump City Public University as soon as possible.

"Sir."

"what happened?"

An Internet police officer under him hurried over, so Jin could only hang up the phone temporarily.

"The headquarters just received a call from Montezuma, the leader of the traffic department. The body was found on the No. [-] Panshan Highway, and there were dahlias in the pocket of the body. Now the traffic team is asking for support."

Does anything really have to come together to be perfect...

Jin complained in his heart, and followed the Internet police back to the headquarters.

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2017. 8, 3

Time 8:21 on Panshan Expressway No. [-] in the outskirts of Aotu City

The No. 20 Panshan Expressway in Outong City is the only way to enter Outong City from the east. Although there is a tight and complex traffic network in and out of Outong City, the east side of Outong City is mountain peaks and forests, and it is also a national nature reserve. As one of the districts, it has not been developed and has been preserved until now.So if you want to enter the city from the east, there are no other ways except for this expressway that was built almost [-] years ago.

And that road has always been a favorite place for drug dealers and human smugglers. It is deep in the mountains, old forests, and uninhabited.It is precisely because of this that this place has always been a key observation location for the Traffic Division, Population Issues Division, and Drug Enforcement Division.

At 07:30, the traffic department received a report about a Cadillac parked in the parking area of ​​the Panshan Highway. A mother and son drove to the nature reserve in the mountain at 5 o'clock in the morning, waiting for them to go shopping down the mountain. At that time, the car was still parked there, and the mother was afraid that the owner of the car was suddenly unconscious or something happened, so she immediately called the police.

Originally, Montezuma would not usually go out in person for this kind of thing, but in view of the fact that there are so many things in the bureau recently and her side is not enough manpower, she still chooses to go into battle in person.

"Sir, you are here."

"Ah."

Zuma parked the car next to the cordon. At this time, two or three police cars from the traffic department had arrived, but they did not make any movement except for cordoning off the Cadillac.

"Has anyone checked on the situation?"

"No, we're worried about accidents, so..."

The reporting officer explained the reason to Zuma before her colleague pulled out the loudspeaker from behind and handed it to her.

"People in the car, please pay attention. This is the Aotu City Police Station. Now please get out of the car and cooperate with our inspection work, thank you."

There was no response, no getting out of the car and no voices coming from inside the car.

The two male police officers carefully pulled out their pistols, and they walked to the left and right sides of the car.

"Team leader, there is no one in the driver's seat, but there is a woman lying in the back seat!"

"Try to see if you can wake her up, and get ready for the broken car."

Three or four police officers with crowbars also rushed to the car, and they were ready before Zuma gave an order.But Zuma went to the car herself, she patted on the window and shouted.

"Ma'am, ma'am, can you hear me?"

Countless questions failed to wake up the lady lying in the back seat. After Montezuma gave an order, the door of the back seat was forcibly opened, and then a pungent smell came from the car.

pigment?

This is Zuma's first thought after smelling it

A police officer quickly checked the "unconscious" woman's neck for her pulse, but was unable to do anything

"Leader..."

"Investigate the surrounding area and block the entire road. Anyone passing through here needs to be checked!"

"Yes!"

The police officers began to disperse, leaving only Zuma and another policewoman. The two of them looked at the dead body and the condition of the car and discussed.

"Team leader, there is no obvious wound, could it be a natural death?"

"Not sure, we'll have to call the medical examiner to find out... what is this?"

The deceased was a young woman, wearing a blue top and white trousers. At first glance, one could tell that she had no obvious trauma. Could it be that she was poisoned...Zuma carefully observed the body, and then found the victim's body. The jacket pocket was bulging, as if there was something inside it, she put on the gloves, took the clip she carried with her, and clamped the foreign object out.

It was a bright red dahlia.

"Team leader...this..."

"Notify the headquarters and call Lei Shi and An Mixiu, these are the victims of the Dahlia case."

Did you run into it yourself in the end?Zuma looked at this expensive Cadillac and thought.It is estimated that this car is a stolen car in all likelihood, and it would be good to be able to find out the time when the owner lost it at most, and since there is no reliable evidence left in this series of cases, Zuma is not I don't think any valuable clues can be found in this car.

The most urgent task is to get all the surveillance video of this expressway for a week first, and then check the suspicious vehicles and suspicious persons one by one.

You know, this is a winding mountain highway.It would take at least 10 hours for anyone to walk back to the city on their legs without the help of a vehicle, so the murderer must have other vehicles.

He should have put his vehicle nearby first, and then after driving this Cadillac over, he abandoned the body and the car here before returning to the city.

Of course, the possibility of having an accomplice cannot be ruled out, and it has never been a rare thing in the history of crime to have someone take over.

"Team leader, I just contacted the headquarters."

"Thanks for your hard work."