Whispering Poems

Whispering Poems Chapter 631

2022-01-29

Chapter 629 The Castle Chamber of Secrets
Shade left the large library in the basement, and then returned to the third floor to see you again To Professor Dunn:

"Professor! Has there been a murder in the Academy recently?"

"Is this related to lost antiques?"

Professor put it down unexpectedly Pen:
"It's not impossible if you want to know, but for the reputation of Fort Midhill Mechanical Academy, please don't say it. Yes, a student was killed recently, right here. A castle."

"Women?"

"How do you know?"

Because the clothes on the woman Evil Spirit lying behind Mr. Wahl, very Like the standard school uniforms of the students here.

"I have my own source of intelligence, so is the pitiful person who died has something to do with Henry Wahl?"

The professor was more puzzled about this question, but still thought After thinking:
"At least I haven't heard of any connection. The homicide happened last Monday, and it has not been solved yet. The school prohibits the students' gossip, and the newspaper has not published the news for the time being because of the Academy's relationship. I'm thinking of waiting until the police have solved the case before reporting it."

"Do you know the details of the case? For example, the location of the body, the appearance of the body, or the location of the fatal injury."

The professor shook his head:
"I just heard about it with my colleagues at lunch... If you want to investigate this case, I suggest you ask the police, there are very few witnesses, and the students Being strictly forbidden to discuss this with anyone, you can't ask for any information here. Of course, the police at Fort Midhill are very rude, and you can't necessarily get the information you want."

It seems that Professor Dunn has a deep prejudice against the local police.

It's certainly not easy to find out the details of an undisclosed murder from the police, but fortunately, Shade still has the pendant given by Lecia.

So, Shade first went to Captain Radees, who was monitoring Henry Wahl in the library, and told the captain that he was leaving the Academy for the time being, so that the captain could investigate at will in the Academy:

"I'll be back in about an hour or two. The goal of your investigation in the last two hours is to find out the details of the murder here."

The captain agreed.

Afterwards, Shade took the carriage to the police station in Fort Midhill, and it took some time to meet Deputy Chief Gurus. After showing the pendant with the royal family crest, the deputy director immediately offered to help.

It took some time to go through the case file, but Shade still saw the full details of the case.

The dead young schoolgirl was found last Monday morning. The cause of death was that someone strangled the neck with a rope, resulting in suffocation. The body was severely damaged. After an examination by the local coroner, the abdomen of the body was cut open by the murderer, and the liver in the internal organs was missing.

"Actually, this case is not announced because we think it is a case in a serial murder case."

The middle-aged deputy director, holding his hat, was very worried said.

"Serial homicide? Yes, I've heard about it. So other homicides, are bodies also gutted?"

Shade curiously asked, Gu. Deputy Commissioner Ruth nodded:

"Yes, including the corpse that was accidentally discovered by hunters on Mount Sikar, five bodies have been found that lost their hearts, livers, lungs, large intestines, and kidneys. The corpses are gone. All five corpses are female, between the ages of 19 and 27. The wound marks show that the knife used by the murderer is the same, but there is no obvious connection between them. This kind of bad case is really It's a headache."

"Is that so?"

Shade dismissed the case and closed the file:
"Is there a reward?"

"Of course. Yes, the City Hall and the Police Department jointly offer a reward, providing clues with a maximum reward of 20 pounds, and finding the murderer is 100 pounds."

"So much?"

"Serial killers are worth this Price."

Shade thought for a while, thinking that he must not miss this kind of thing that drops gold pounds in the sky:
"It's 3:30 in the afternoon. In about an hour and a half, please send someone Go to Fort Meadhill Mechanical Academy and go to Captain Radeth, yes, Captain of the Imperial Family Army of Windward Path, and he'll find the real murderer."

Shade returned the dossier to Gu. Deputy Director Ruth wanted to return to the Meadhill Fort Mechanical Academy immediately, but hesitantly asked:

"Yesterday there was a vicious shooting at the Sikar Hotel near the Fort Meadow train station, Do you know?"

He still didn't forget that the deceased was the receiver with gray gloves, and the businessman who was taken away with two guns was probably also the receiver.

"Of course I know, this is a pretty vicious case."

"Is there a follow-up?"

"Yes."

Talking about this matter, Deputy Director Gurus covered his head again and expressed a headache. He sat at his desk full of files and complained to Shade:
"The murderer, that is Carson. Rick's businessman, Bain Bennett, committed suicide in the early hours of this morning."

"Suicide?"

Shade, feeling less surprised, asked again:

"Suicide at the police station? Are you sure it was suicide?"

"Yes, he died by hitting the wall directly in the interrogation room. This is a huge scandal, but fortunately it is still alive now. It didn't explode. Also, the body of the shooting victim was moved, and the evidence in the case was also lost."

"What's missing?"

" The murderer's pen."

Shade nods the fountain pen without further questioning.

There was no intelligence inside that pen, he confirmed. That is to say, the incident that happened in the Sikar Hotel, which is suspected to be the infighting of the Grey Gloves, has already killed two receivers. Now that the pen has been stolen, it means that in addition to the current two deceased, they should have a third companion.

And that companion has a high probability and doesn't know the details such as the time and place of pickup.

The last companion, Shade is almost certain, is professor of linguistics scholar Higgins from Carson Rick, who lives across from the two "businessmen".

"But everyone who knew the pick-up location is dead, and there is no intelligence in the pen. If everything is normal, then the people of Kasenrik will not be able to receive those goods."

Shade sighed in his heart, and then put the matter behind him again.

(Xia is running.)

The internal organs of different people were taken away, which is in line with the characteristics of some illegal ceremony. And the soul of the dead schoolgirl haunts Henry Wahl, who is suspected of stealing the antique bronze jar, which has already revealed who the real culprit is.

Back at the castle where the Academy was, Shade wanted to find Henry Vale immediately. He didn't care about the evidence, and if he pressed the other side, there was no moral pressure on Shade.

But Henry Wahl was gone, and even Captain Radeth, who was supposed to investigate inside the castle, was gone.

"I was gone for an hour and ten minutes."

But fortunately the folklore professor, Professor Dunn, was still in his office when Shade knocked on the door to enter, Professor Dunn thought Shade had found the bronze jar.

"No no no, I just want to ask, is there a secret passage or a secret room in this castle? That jar must be hidden in a place where people can't see it."

Shade asked, and the professor immediately nodded:

"Of course there is. The predecessor of this castle was the defensive fortress on the frontier of the Delarion Kingdom. There are secret passages and secret rooms here, I'm afraid. Only the Delarion military knows how many there are. But for sure, the place you're talking about definitely exists."

It takes space to hide that huge bronze jar, and if Shade's thinking is right, a serial killer The murderer of the case is also Henry Wahl, so he must have a large enough secret space inside the castle.

Professor Dunn has no other clues here, but when Shade opened the case file at the Fort Midhill Police Station, he had already seen the specific place of death. Although the deceased was strangled by a rope, and there was no obvious bloodstain, since there was a cruel caesarean section afterwards, the blood must be very obvious.

Until he knew where he died, Shade couldn't tell which bloodstain he was looking for in such a large castle. But now that the specific location is known, and even a few brutal black-and-white photos of the scene were seen in the dossier, the next thing would be no problem.

After all, before Shade's spells were upgraded, he was able to distinguish the bloodstains from a hundred years ago in his basement, so as to find the hidden wall.

Farewell to the professor and went to the southeast corner of the fourth floor of the castle. At the door of the women's bathroom, he saw a large amount of blood traces on the walls and the ground very smoothly.

Shade is thankful that the bloodstains are moving towards the stairs and not towards the inside of the bathroom, otherwise he'd be in serious trouble.

The clear red halo led Shade from the southeast corner of the zigzag castle, all the way through the stone corridor on the east side, and came to the classroom area on the west side of the castle. Then I went up the stairs to the fifth floor, past the offices of the noisy math professors - the voices in the door were discussing the different expressions of the remainders developed by Morse, the quiet Rhodes Club - the door was closed With a note saying "Club for three months due to suspected illegal gambling", students came in and out of the office of the Daily Academy of the Academy - the non-profit newspaper published by the Meadhill Fort Mechanical Academy itself, red halo actually Enter the broom room.

(end of this chapter)