"There is a transcendent factor...... Klein's eyes returned to normal, and he looked sideways at Leonard and Fry.

Leonard suddenly laughed:

"It's very professional, and it's worthy of being a soothsayer. ”

You seem to be hinting at something...... Crane muttered without making a sound.

Frye opened the suitcase, took out the silver knife and other things, and paused for a few seconds and said:

"The corpse told me that she had indeed died of a sudden heart attack...... Do you have a way to divinate the details?"

Klein nodded seriously and said:

"I can try a combination of 'channeling' rituals and 'dream divination', hoping to get something out of Mrs. Lawvis's remaining spirituality. ”

Frye remained cold and restrained, and took two steps back:

"You try first. ”

He glanced at Klein, and suddenly sighed in an unfluctuating tone, "You're getting used to this kind of occasion." ”

I don't want to...... Crane felt the urge to cry, so he took out the hydrosols, essential oils, and herbal powders to be used one by one, and quickly completed the arrangement of the "channeling" ritual.

In the center of the spiritual wall, he recited the name of the goddess of the night and offered an invocation in Hermes.

Soon, the wind was whirling around him, and the light was getting dimmer.

Klein, whose eyes were already completely black, seized the opportunity to repeat the divination sentence silently:

"The cause of Mrs. Lawvis's death. ”

"The cause of Mrs. Lawvis's death. ”

......

He stood and entered the dream, "seeing" the transparent spirit that wandered in the blur, hovering around the corpse.

Then, with his illusory right hand, he touched the remnants of Mrs. Lawvis's spirituality.

In an instant, light and shadow exploded in front of him, and one picture after another flashed.

It was a yellow-skinned, tattered woman busily pasting matchboxes;

It was her sudden pause, clutching her chest;

It was her talking to two children;

It was her body shaking slightly, panting for air;

It was when she went to buy black bread and was suddenly patted on the ground;

It was a sign that she had heart problems again and again;

That's when she felt so tired that she went to bed and never woke up.

Klein scrutinized every detail, trying to find traces of the presence of the supernatural element.

But by the time it was all over, he still hadn't gotten a clear clue.

Blurred and hazy shattered, Crane exited the dream and returned to reality.

He lifted the spiritual wall and said to the waiting Fry and Leonard, who was watching the play:

There is no direct symbolism, and most of the images reveal that Mrs. Lawvis had a heart disease, except that Mrs. Lawvis was slapped from behind, and her hand was white and slender, and it seemed to belong to a woman. ”

"For families like this, they don't go to the doctor easily until the worst of their time, even if they just queue up at a free charity medical organization, they can't afford to lose time, they don't work one day, and they may run out of food the next day." Leonard sighed in a sentimental tone like a poet.

Frye then glanced at the corpse on the bed and exhaled softly.

Without waiting for Klein to speak, Leonard quickly switched states and said as if thinking:

"You mean that the transcendent factor exists when Mrs. Lawvis is photographed, from the lady or lady with the slender hand?"

Klein nodded and replied:

"Yes, but that's just my interpretation, divination is often vague. ”

He and Leonard didn't discuss it further, and each stepped back to the other side of the bunk, allowing Frye to remove the assistive devices and materials from the suitcase undisturbed for further examination.

They waited for a moment, and Frye packed up his things, cleaned up and covered up, and then turned to say:

"There is no doubt that the cause of death was a natural heart disease. ”

Hearing this conclusion, Leonard paced back and forth a few steps, and even walked to the door, and it took a long time before he spoke:

"Let's go to the West End Workhouse to see if we can find any other clues, to see if the two deaths can be linked together. ”

"Well, that's all there is to it. Crane agreed, holding back his doubts.

Frye picked up the suitcase and half-walked half-jumped through the two bunks, without stepping on the quilt of others.

Leonard opened the door, walked out first, and said to Lawvis and the tenant:

"You can go home. ”

Klein thought for a moment and added:

"Don't rush the body to be buried, wait another day, and maybe a thorough examination. ”

"Okay, okay, officer. Lawvis bowed slightly, replied hurriedly, and then said half-numbly and half-dazedly, "Actually, in fact, I don't have the money to bury her for the time being, I have to save a few days, save a few days, fortunately, fortunately, the weather has been cool recently." ”

Klein blurted out in surprise:

"You're going to keep the corpse in the room for days?"

Lawris squeezed out a smile and said:

"Well, it's okay, it's good that the weather has been cool recently, so I can put the body on the table at night, and when I'm eating, I'll carry her to the bed......"

Before he could finish his sentence, Frye suddenly interrupted:

"I left the cost of the burial next to your wife. ”

Then, as he dropped such a bland remark, he ignored Lawvis's stunned expression and the ensuing thanks, and walked briskly to the door of the apartment.

Klein followed suit and kept thinking about a question:

If the weather remained hot in June and July, what would Lavis do with his wife's corpse?

Find a dark and windy night and secretly throw the body into the Tasok River or the Hoy River, or dig a pit in a random place and bury it?

Klein knew that "burial in the cemetery" was a law enacted by the Seven Great Churches and royal families more than a thousand years ago, at the end of the last era, to reduce and eliminate water spirits, zombies, and ghosts.

This is done by providing free land by the States, guarding or patrolling by the Churches, and charging a small fee for cremation and burial to cover the necessary labor costs.

But even so, the real poor are somewhat unaffordable.

After leaving 134 Lower Iron Cross Street, the three night watchmen separated from Beech Mountbatten and silently turned to the West End Workhouse, located in a nearby street.

As soon as he got there, Klein saw a long line coming over, just like the situation of the people in the big food countries on the planet lining up Internet celebrity stores, people were crowded, people were crowded.

"That's more than a hundred, no, close to two hundred. He whispered in astonishment, seeing that the queue was all dressed in tattered clothes and numb, and only occasionally looked anxiously at the workhouse door.

Frye slowed down, and said in a cold and gloomy tone:

"Each workhouse can accept a limited number of homeless people each day, and they can only be selected in the order of the queue, and of course, the workhouse will do the screening and do not allow those who do not meet the conditions to enter. ”

"There's also an element to the downturn in recent months...... Leonard lamented.

"Those who don't get in line can only figure it out on their own?" Klein asked subconsciously.

"They can try their luck at other workhouses, which open at different times, but there will be the same long queue, and some people will be waiting at two o'clock in the afternoon. "Most of the rest of the people will go hungry for a day, so they will lose the ability to find work and fall into a vicious cycle of death, and those who can't bear it will give up their insistence on goodness......"

Klein was silent for a few seconds, then exhaled and said:

"Newspapers never publish these ...... Mr. Fry, it's rare to hear you say so much. ”

"I used to be a priest in the Goddess's workhouse. "Frye was still in that cold state.

The brightly dressed trio made it to the door of the West End Workhouse, showed their ID to the gatekeeper who was arrogantly watching the queue, and was ushered into the workhouse.

The workhouse was a converted old church, with cushions and hammocks hanging from the Mass hall, and the smell of sweat mixed with the smell of feet filled every corner.

There were many homeless people inside and outside the hall, some wielding hammers and breaking stones, and some carrying thin wool from old ropes, and no one was idle.

In order to prevent the poor from becoming dependent on alms, the Poor Law of 1336 stipulated that each poor person could only stay in the workhouse for a maximum of five days, after which he would be thrown out, and during these five days they would also have to labor, knocking stones or picking ropes, which was the inevitable task of the prisoners in the prison. Frye introduced Klein and Leonard without emotion.

Leonard opened his mouth, and finally said sarcastically or descriptively: "If you leave this workhouse, you can go to another, and of course, you may not be able to live in it again...... Oh, maybe in the eyes of some people, the poor are equal to criminals. ”

“...... Pick up the rope?" Klein asked in silence for a moment, not knowing what to ask.

"The fibers in the old rope are a good material to fill the gaps in the boat. Frye stopped, finding signs of blackened ground.

They waited a few minutes before the workhouse director and priest arrived, all men in their forties.

"That's where Sauls set the fire, and he only burned himself?" Leonard said, pointing to the mass on the ground.

The director of the workhouse, a man with a broad and slightly convex forehead, swept his blue eyes in the direction pointed by Inspector Mitchell, and nodded affirmatively:

"Yes. ”

"What was the anomaly of Sauls before that?" Klein added.

The workhouse director thought for a moment and said:

"According to the people who slept next to him, Sauls kept saying things like 'the Lord has forsaken me,' 'The world is too filthy and dirty,' and 'I have nothing left,' full of resentment and despair, but no one expected that he would actually plan to break all the kerosene lamps and set fire to this place while everyone was asleep, and thank the Lord that someone had discovered and stopped his evil deeds in time. ”

Klein and Leonard successively found several poor people who slept next to Sauls last night, and found the guards who prevented the tragedy, but they only received answers that were no different from those in the documents.

Of course, they secretly used vision, divination, and other methods to confirm whether the other party was lying.

"It looks like Sauls' thoughts of revenge and self-destruction have long been in place, a case that seems normal. Leonard asked the dean and pastor to leave, and spoke first.

Klein pondered and said:

"My divination also tells me that there is no supernatural influence in this case. ”

"The Saulse arson case is temporarily ruled out. Leonard concluded.

At this moment, Frye suddenly spoke:

"No, there may be another possibility, for example, that Sauls was instigated by someone else, and that person was extraordinary, but he didn't use supernatural means. ”

Crane's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he immediately chimed in:

"Possibly, like, the previous instigator before!"

"Instigator" Tris!

But this has nothing to do with Mrs. Lawvis's death...... He thought with a slight frown.