【Cae Detective PARO】Red Dahlia

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You may leave school, but it never leaves you. - Andy Partridge

【Andy Patje (Maltese singer, composer): You may leave school, but school will be with you all your life. 】

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2017. 8, 4

Time 13:00, No. [-] Experimental Middle School, East Block, Ouyang City

The biological clock is really unclear. Although everyone didn't go to bed until two or three o'clock in the morning, everyone opened their eyes on time at 06:30 in the morning. I can't sleep anymore.On the premise that all the instant coffee in Lei Shi and An Mixiu's house was consumed, everyone finally woke up.After eating the leftover supper in the early morning for breakfast, the next step is to assign tasks.It is far from enough to rely on the information that Jin found in the information database and the Internet, and now they must start the next work after knowing all the information about the victim and ask relevant people.In a group of two, they freely formed a team to go to different places to inquire about different people. Lei Shi and An Mixiu chose to go to the movie city of Bump City to test the female star who will hold a movie fan meeting there today. The fourth deceased, Sicily Eilson, had a fierce quarrel with Patricia Lal. As for Sicily Eilson’s newspaper office, it was the target of Yin Jue and Garder Rose. Kelly and An Lijie went to the women's association of the fifth deceased, Anne Williams, to take a look. After all, only women were allowed there, and the two capable policewomen were naturally the most suitable candidates.The place Red and Montezuma chose was also related to the fifth deceased, Annie. The law firm under her name, Zitang Huan and Abby teamed up to visit Margaret Zabo, the second deceased worked. The Fourth Hospital of Ouyang City to understand the situation.According to the plan, Palos and Perry went to the location of A6 in the opening of Spain, which Camille deduced from the map, and explored the tourist farm for tourists to pick fruits and experience rural life.Jin and Gray chose the Aotu City Art Museum in the city center. One was to check Sarah Besson’s traces in the art museum, and the other was because the art gallery was located in the city center, not too far from the police station. Jin was okay. Go back to the police station and assign some work to the Internet police under him.

The place that Camille and Amy chose to investigate was the dead man with only a head left, the school of mathematics teacher Emily Wacker, the No. [-] Experimental Middle School in the eastern district of Bump City.

There are many reasons for choosing this place. As a university professor whose occupation is similar to that of a teacher, Camille will be more familiar with the school environment. In addition, both Camille and Amy have the ability to get candy from the old grandma. Face, for a crowded place like the school, it should be much more convenient to investigate.

There is a direct subway to the school, so they didn't have to spend much effort. After passing through the subway that was not as congested as during the rush hour, the two of them walked to the No. [-] Experimental Middle School in the eastern block of Aotu City.Observing the whole school from the school gate, Camille felt that the quality of this school should be okay. The signboard of "The Third Experimental Middle School" was hung above the place where the two of them were standing, and the neon text board at the main entrance was over and over again. The names of the top students in the high school entrance examination and the top students in the college entrance examination are displayed over and over again. The trees are shady and the road is clean. From a distance, dozens of students can be seen frolicking and playing on the football field.Amy first showed her police officer's ID to the fierce security guard at the door. After seeing Amy's ID, the security guard said that he would call the leader immediately, and then he was too busy calling the two of them.

"The security guard at the gate said that the dean will come."

"Then I guess they'll be here soon."

After all, any school would value their reputation, and a sudden police visit would certainly attract the attention of high-level school officials.Soon, a bloated man in his 40s came out of the campus in a hurry. After seeing Camille and Amy standing at the door, he quickly ordered the security to let them in, bowed his head and greeted the two.

"Hello police officer, hello police officer, I am the dean of this school. Charles Bullard."

"Hello. I'm the forensic doctor of the Bump City Police Department, Amy, and this is the...criminal psychology expert of the Bump City Police Department, Professor Camille"

"Hello."

The two shook hands with the dean respectively, and the greasy, sweaty hands made both of them a little unhappy. Camille handed her handkerchief to the dean on the way when the dean turned around and led the two into the school. Gave it to Amy.Amy took it and wiped her hands without anyone noticing, and also took Camille's wrist and wiped his palms for him.Along the way, the dean complained from time to time about his beer belly turning into a general's belly after getting old, and from time to time he was there to inquire about Camille and Amy, curious about their purpose of coming here, but what happened to the two of them? The tone is so tight that the dean can only give up the idea of ​​asking.

Passing through the playground and one or two teaching buildings, dormitory buildings and other buildings, he led Camille and Amy to an apparently newly built building. Looking at the middle-aged men and women coming in and out, they both knew What is the place here.The office building in the school took the elevator to the fifth floor. Under the curious eyes of countless teachers, they walked to a magnificent office.

A middle-aged woman was sitting on the boss's swivel chair, and there was a teapot and a Western-style teacup on the desk in front of her. She saw Charles Brad leading Amy and Camille in, got up immediately, walked to He shook hands with them in front of them.

"Hello, I'm the vice principal of this school, Jane Mocker."

She invited the two of them to sit on the two sofa chairs in front of the desk, took out two teacups and filled them with black tea, and handed them to Camille and Amy.

"So, officers, what can I do for you, I believe you have something to do with our school."

"Yes."

Amy took a sip of her tea and put the cup aside.

"We're here for Emily Wacker, do you know her?"

"Of course, she is an excellent math teacher here, but she hasn't come to school to teach the students for almost a week... God, is it..."

Jane Mok showed a surprised expression. She opened her mouth wide, covered her mouth with one hand, and put the other hand on the table.

"We are sorry to tell you that she is dead. We found her body."

"Oh, God..."

The dean, Charles Bullard, who had been standing behind him all the time, also showed a surprised expression. He leaned against the wall beside him and wiped his sweat with a paper towel.The vice-principal, Jane Mok, closed her eyes and kept shaking her head, muttering the words "I can't believe it".Camille, who was silent all the time, looked around after silently drinking black tea. This office is very large and luxuriously decorated. It is decorated in the European style of the [-]th century, and the price must be expensive.There are two transparent glass cabinets on the left and right, which are full of various trophies and certificates. The labels on the trophies are all written about what kind of achievements Jane Mork has made in academics or in There are so many achievements in the thesis.On the desk, a certificate of Jane Mok's master's degree in biochemistry from Columbia University was placed in the most conspicuous position. After observing the certificate, Camille got up and took out her mobile phone.

"Sorry, I have to make a call."

With that said, Amy and the other two teachers left the vice principal's office before they could react.The following inquiries were all conducted by Amy alone, and the questions asked were relatively the same. How is Teacher Wacker doing in this school, whether she has conflicts with her colleagues around her, whether she has enemies or other things to get along with Bad teachers students and such.The result was unsatisfactory. The principal basically adopted an attitude of knowing nothing about Amy’s question. He said that he was the vice principal, but he only knew that there was this teacher and that she was doing a good job because she had been selected as an excellent teacher. , She doesn't know anything about her relationship in the school and how it works in the school, and the dean next to her has been doing the work of nodding to everything the vice principal said, and his only The information provided was that the teacher was a middle and high school teacher, and she had math teachers who participated in teaching in every grade. He didn't know anything about the relationship between colleagues and students.When asked whether he could visit Emily Wacker's office, the vice principal objected.She said that searching any one teacher's office would be a psychological burden on the other teachers, and that unless there was a warrant or something, she would not let the police come in and search Mr. Wacker's personal belongings.Amy knew that now she had finished asking all the questions, and she had no time to sing. After politely rejecting the dean's request to send him away, he took the elevator that came over and went downstairs. Camille was standing at the door and talking on the phone. What seems to be spoken in it is English?

What is he doing?

Amy was full of curiosity about Camille's sudden departure and the English call just now. He walked up to Camille and patted him on the shoulder. At this moment, Camille said goodbye to the phone.

"Finished?"

Camille put away her phone, and Amy nodded and shook her head.

"The principal didn't give any useful information. She didn't know anything about it, and said that unless we had a search warrant, we wouldn't let us investigate Emily Wacker's office."

"For a professional liar, she did a pretty good job."

"Um...eh?! Professional liar?"

"Well, that's Jane Mocker. She's a professional liar."

Camille explained to Amy that from the moment he entered that office, he felt that the headmistress showed a great sense of vanity and arrogance.Putting the trophy in the most prominent position and decorating one's office in such a luxurious way is a way to show off to the people who come in, telling how great one's achievements are and how successful one is.Originally, Camille didn't want to care about the headmistress's psychological show-off, but when he saw the master's degree certificate from Columbia University, he knew that he and Amy were dealing with a professional liar.Columbia University's school badge will be printed on every certificate they issue. Their school badge is on a blue shield with three white crowns that can be connected to form a triangle on the line. On the scroll-shaped pattern below the school badge, With their school motto [InlumineTuovididebimuslumen] (Borrowing your light, you can see the light).However, on the Columbia University emblem on the graduate certificate of the female principal Jane Moore, the words videbimos were typed.For Boston University, where Camille works, Boston University has always had educational resource exchanges and cooperative education projects with many universities in the United States, so Camille just left the president's office to confirm with the professors he was connected with at Columbia University Whether or not Jane Moore attended Columbia University is of course obvious.

"No record of Jane Mork at Columbia University was found, and that certificate was forged."

"And those trophies?"

"It is estimated that most of them are street stalls or bought from Taobao."

"If that's the case, if she puts the fakes in such an obvious place, isn't she afraid that someone like Camille will expose her details in front of her?"

"She's very powerful."

As the saying goes, if you have nothing to go to the Three Treasures Hall, the people who enter the principal's office either want to ask the vice-principal or want to have a good relationship with her. Few people like Camille and Amy come to ask merits.Generally, the people sitting in the position in front of her will basically try to please her to get what they want, so those trophies in the cabinet and certificates on the table are undoubtedly the best compliment props, Even if someone with sharp eyes finds out that these things are fakes, they will not easily point them out. After all, how could you choose to tear down other people's platforms and lose your good chance of getting the most benefits?Jane Mok took the position of vice-principal, which showed that besides being a professional liar, she still had some real skills.A person who knows the goods can completely use the psychological model of others asking for her to prevent her carefully woven lies from being exposed, and a guy who doesn't know the goods will also believe it is true under the influence of so many fake trophies and fake certificates, thinking that she is looking for something. She has chosen an absolutely reliable person, no matter what happens, she will have nothing to lose.

"Isn't she afraid that the parents of the students will find out about this and report her to the Education Bureau?"

"The relationship table for the position of vice principal must be very powerful. It is estimated that there are people in the Education Bureau who can help her."

"...If it is reported, it will be the parent and his child who will be unlucky."

"Yes, this woman is a master in this school. If we want to get all the information on Emily Wacker, she may let us go through every hurdle in the legal process."

"And by that time, all the evidence that is estimated to be valuable and should be destroyed will also be destroyed."

The two were walking on the campus. It was already [-]:[-] in the afternoon. It was the recess time. Many children in school uniforms ran out of their classrooms, and the campus suddenly became bustling.

"Go back?"

Camille watched the scene where the students were playing, and asked Amy who was also watching the students.

"Well...stay a little longer. Let's see what kind of school this school is."

Camille nodded, and together with Amy, began to look around in this experimental school that combined a middle school and a high school.Ordinary classrooms, canteens, basketball courts, football fields, playgrounds between classes, biology classrooms, chemistry classrooms, teacher's office.The two walked slowly in this school. When they passed by these places, they would stand quietly outside the window or beside them for a while, watching the figures of the students before leaving.This made Amy think back to his high school life. His high school was a well-known key high school in Bump City. He studied there for three years and experienced a difficult and meaningful period of life. Mi's attributes have always been marked with the word "student master" in high school, and because of this, he is a top student among the top students who are strictly guarded by teachers. He enjoys tuition and miscellaneous fees in the best and best classes And living expenses, every teacher has high hopes for him. His parents and sister are also very optimistic about him. Because of this, Amy's three years of high school can be said to be a real study.Looking at the children reading in the classroom, he seemed to see himself sitting in the first row in his school uniform, carrying the knowledge of physics, chemistry and biology on his back.To be honest, I kind of miss it...

"There's something wrong with this school."

Amy, who was still immersed in the memory, was brought back to reality by Camille's words. Camille looked at the students in the classroom and "sucked" in his mouth.

"what happened?"

"...I have to make further observations before I can draw a conclusion."

"Then I'll go to the bathroom first."

Amy and Camille separated on the third floor of the teaching building. Camille then went upstairs to observe what he found was wrong, and Amy went down to the first floor to find the bathroom.Strange to say, it stands to reason that a building like a school should have a public toilet on every floor, but I just found one on the first floor after a few rounds of shopping. When Amy finished using the toilet, she received Camille A text message told him to wait for him on the first floor for 10 minutes, and he came down immediately.

Amy didn't care, so she simply walked around on the first floor again.There are no classrooms on the first floor of the teaching building. There is a security room, a toilet, a canteen and two large infirmaries.When Amy walked to the door of the infirmary, a girl in school uniform was squatting sobbing at the door. She looked only fifteen or six years old, and she was very cute.It's just that now she has an ugly wound on her forehead, and her left knee is still oozing blood, and she looks scarred.

"What's the matter? Classmate, are you okay?"

Amy squatted next to the girl, who rubbed her eyes and said in a crying voice

"...Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu...the teacher in the infirmary is not here..."

Pushing open the door of the infirmary, I found that none of the school doctors were working inside.What's wrong with this school... Did even the school doctor go fishing?Seeing the girl's painful expression because of the constant pain from the wound, he bent down and said to the girl.

"Well, I'm a doctor, can I do something for you?"

"...Eh...Is that...big brother a...doctor?"

Amy nodded. In fact, she should be regarded as a different doctor, because most of the people she treated were dead... Pulled the girl into the infirmary, let her lie on the bed steadily, and began to treat She does some basic processing.During the process, Amy also discovered that the school's drug reserves were far from perfect.There were only Po Chai pills, red syrup, band-aids and other things in the medicine box, and even the most basic iodine tincture was not found.In desperation, Amy could only use red potion to sterilize the girl's two wounds, and then put more than a dozen band-aids on the girl's wound. During these processes, she had stopped crying, and from time to time she would cry because of the potion. It was nothing more than gasping for the stimulation of the wound. In the end, Amy took a cup of hot water from the water dispenser in the school infirmary and handed it to the girl. Only then did some basic operations be completed under the poor conditions here.

"I still recommend you to see a regular doctor."

"The hospital... is too expensive. Mom and Dad must not agree."

Looking at the shabby school uniform and cheap sneakers worn by the girl, Amy guessed that she might be a child from a poor family.

"What's your name?"

"Lily...Lily Holiday. 15 years old, second grade."

"Just call me Amy."

After a short rest, the girl was about to leave, and just as she was about to leave, Amy stuffed a card into her hand.

"Eh? Big Brother, this is?..."

"Don't be afraid, I'm a forensic doctor. You can understand that I work with the police. I'm here for Emily Wacker, that is, Teacher Wacker."

"...Ms. Wacker, she...I don't know...what are you talking about, big brother..."

Seeing the girl's hesitant to speak, Amy guessed that the vice principal and dean must have done work in advance to prevent the police from asking about the students.You know, sometimes the students' ability to gossip is better than the teachers, especially the adolescent children, who are really good at intelligence.

"When school is over, I will wait for you at the door with another big brother wearing a red scarf. Can you come and answer some questions? Please..."

"I really didn't know you were..."

"Although I'm not a doctor in the hospital, I'm not so stupid that I can't recognize how certain wounds are caused. The marks on your knees are the blood stains left by spiked shoes, and the marks on your forehead show three wounds. Get hit by a solid blunt object four times, I guess the corner of a desk, unless you fall three or four times in the direction of the desk, and you're left with someone pulling your hair Bumped into the corner of the table and stepped on you, right?"

As the girl's face turned bluer and bluer, Amy sighed helplessly.Lily nodded, tears welling up in her eyes again, and Amy stroked her hair to comfort her a little.

Amy guessed right, inside this school, hides a terrible, bullying behavior.