Chapter 133: An Empty Shell
After a moment of silence, Chris spoke first:
"I didn't expect this to be so complicated...... Will you report Officer Andre's crimes?"
Paul was silent for a moment, and said in a somewhat condensed tone:
"I don't want to...... What about you?"
"I don't know. Chris was silent for a moment, looked at Lizzie lying on the couch, and suddenly said, "Let's just because we never came." β
Paul looked at Chris silently, and the two of them smiled at each other.
And when Officer Andre walked out of the courtyard gate, the reporters outside the door had already chased Mrs. Athena's body and dispersed.
Looking up at the dazzling sun in the sky, he remembered the two familiar shadows that appeared on the ground under the reflection of the sunlight under the curtains, and muttered:
"Being able to be invisible is really the most mysterious department in the police department. No matter what you decide, I will not blame you, after all, I am guilty. β
Ever since his daughter Emma committed suicide for love, Andre has been silently watching Lizzie.
Fortunately, the other party never really treated Emma at all, so he never met Emma's father, Andre Green.
Just a few days ago, with some of his influence in the police station, he found out that Lizzy had secretly returned to Federenburg on the night he left Fedlenburg on the steam train.
What is striking is that he did not go straight home, but stayed in a cheap hotel.
This aroused Andrei's suspicions, so he quietly followed Lizzie, and naturally discovered that Lizzie was secretly following his wife's sister, Ms. Mona.
As a veteran police officer, Lizzie couldn't find Andre's tracking at all.
In this way, AndrΓ© followed Lizzie and found out that Mona had gone to the pharmaceutical factory to buy poison.
He didn't know what Mona was trying to do with those poisons, and if he had known early on that it was used to poison Lady Athena, maybe he would have stopped it in time.
Because of his hatred for Lizzie at the time, as well as some other thoughts, Andre did not show up, but continued to monitor the two in the dark.
Therefore, when he saw Lizzi bribing reporters, anonymously sending letters to the police station, and Mrs. Athena died, Lizzie secretly entered the door to replace the cups on the table and so on.
Andrei knew that it was Lizzi who had killed Lady Athena by the hand of Mona, just as he had done five years earlier.
So he hurried back to the police station and pretended to take over the case inadvertently, but he didn't expect the special operations team, which had never accepted such ordinary cases, to meddle in the case.
However, Andre couldn't control so much, and he had a plan in his heart, he pretended to go to the second floor to check, but in fact secretly observed Lizzie's every move.
As he left Lizzie's living room with the police, Andre deliberately went to the end.
After seeing Lizzie and Mona go up to the second floor, they quickly changed the water cup on the table with the one in the kitchen cabinet.
Just like Lizzy before it.
I thought that if I hadn't been blinded by hatred, if I had exposed Mona and Lizzi earlier, maybe the kind philanthropist Lady Athena would not have died.
This also made Andre feel very guilty now, looking at the hat in his hand, he suddenly felt a little hot.
So, if those two little ones go to the police station to report themselves now, he will admit it all and be ready to take off this glorious garment.
In the same way, he hopes that Emma can forgive him, and he also hopes that he can let go of his obsession and let the past pass like this.
......
And in a nearby hospital, the coroner pushed Mrs. Athena's body into a room, and seeing that there was no one on the left and right, he suddenly spoke:
"There's only so much I can do for you, there's clothes and hats in the cupboard, you'd better get out of here today on the steam train. β
I saw that Athena, who should have been dead, suddenly opened her eyes, lifted the white cloth on her body, looked at the coroner and said:
"Now that this matter is over, I will naturally leave here quietly, but what about the organization?"
The coroner turned his head to look at Athena, who was still pale, with a trace of indescribable emotion in his eyes, and said softly:
"Since you've always wanted to get rid of the Order, I'll report your death to the Order. You should take this hard-won opportunity to completely forget all this, change your identity in another city, and start a new life. β
With that, the coroner turned around and prepared to leave.
"Thank you, Thompson. Athena looked at the man's back and whispered.
The coroner, who heard this, smiled slightly, pushed open the door and left here.
Seeing that the people were gone, Athena immediately got up and walked to the cabinet, neatly changed into the coarse cloth clothes that Thompson had prepared in advance, put on a wide lady's gauze hat, and left the hospital unobtrusively.
The dirty things of her husband and sister, she has naturally seen them in the past few years.
As a well-informed female capitalist, from the first day she was with Lizzie, she knew what kind of man the other party was.
But it doesn't matter, as long as he doesn't stay with Mona, a stupid girl, for which she does not hesitate to marry this fake man who is handsome on the surface, but in fact only has gold pounds in his heart.
She thought it was for Mona's good, but she didn't expect that her sister, who she brought up, would want to kill herself for such a man.
It didn't matter, so Athena took advantage of the plan of the two of them to join forces, successfully faked her death, and took the opportunity to break away from the organization.
She even secretly exposed Lizzi's secret actions to Officer Andre through some other channels, otherwise Andre would not have known Lizzie's secret so easily.
She also naturally knew about his daughter Emma's suicide for love.
As for his sister Mona, he never thought of killing her, so let her stay in prison and live a guilty life.
The huge inheritance left by her father has been slowly transferred by her to all parts of the country over the years, and what remains in Federenburg is just an empty shell.
This is also the reason why she is active in charity, facilitating money laundering and transferring money.
On this point, Mona was right.
She is indeed not genuinely passionate about charity, and philanthropy is nothing more than a means for her to disguise and accumulate fame and transfer money.
At the moment of riding the steam train, Athena turned her head to look at the city where she had lived for 30 years.
Thinking that he was about to completely draw a line with this place, a tear couldn't help but fall from the corner of his eye.
In the midst of the bustling crowd in the distance, Thompson watched Athena walk into the steam train, shook his head and sighed, and disappeared into the crowd.
On the second floor behind the police station in the West End.
At this time, it was already noon, and Wayne, who had rested, had already arrived at the police station, and Elton and Jeffrey had not yet returned from their outing. James, Bert, and Bonnie were all here, looking at the file on the table.
Seeing Chris and Paul returning, James patted Chris on the shoulder and asked:
"How's the case going this time?"
Chris only felt that his shoulder blades were about to fall apart, and he bared his teeth:
"The case has been solved, and the murderer is the sister of Lady Athena. And Mrs. Athena's husband, Mr. Lizzie Kirk, had just died because of the misuse of a cup smeared with poison. β
Wayne on the side sighed slightly, obviously also hearing the news of Lady Athena's death, and sighed:
"It's a shame that she's always been my idol. β
"And will all of her estate be used for charity?" asked Bonnie, who was sitting in a chair.
"It's not something we can decide, let's see the court's decision. James explained.
"Alright, when Elton and Jeffrey come back in the afternoon, we'll go to church together to pick out the two magical items we applied for. β
When they arrived at the office this morning, James had already given a brief account of the case given to them by the corps.
Just now, several of them were still discussing and analyzing this case.
Chris and Paul sat together on the couch and listened to James, who was leaning back on the table, say:
"Since this mission is in a small town, I'm afraid the clues will be difficult to find. As we just discussed, Jeffrey, Paul, and Chris were in a group, Wayne, Elton, and Bonnie were in a group, and Bert was in a group with me. What do you think?"
"Agreed. β
"Agreed. β
Everyone expressed their opinions.
When Elton and Jeffrey returned at four o'clock in the afternoon, James informed them of the assignment of the three groups, Paul went to call a carriage, and the group rode again to the church on the Southside.
In the same room last time, there were still more than a hundred magical items in the spacious room, which showed that the church was strong.
The general functions of the magical items to be selected this time had already been discussed on the carriage, so two items were quickly selected.
One is called the "Ring of the Mind", which is a set with three silver-white rings, and this is also the first time Chris knows that it turns out that magical items can also be multiple combinations.
The extraordinary ability of the "Soul Ring" is that the three people who wear these three rings at the same time can simply and quickly transmit some messages, which is very convenient in this kind of group activity.
The side effect is that the three people who wear it for a long time will mix with each other's thoughts and produce errors in their own cognition.
Fortunately, there are two or three people in each group, and they can wear them alternately to avoid this mental illness.
Chris thought to himself, this is simply one of the most ordinary mobile phone functions in his previous life, but he didn't expect it to be a very precious magical item here.
The other is called the "Five Senses Magnifying Glass", which is an ordinary magnifying glass on the outside, but the extraordinary ability can magnify any of the five senses of the holder.
The five senses are shape, sound, smell, taste, and touch. That is, the five sensory organs of the human being: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
This is chosen for Bert, after all, in a strange town, Bert's extraordinary ability to hear the inner voice of others in a strange town is simply not too convenient.