"Right fingers?" Lance repeated, "which finger of the right hand? or all the fingers?"

Lestrade raised his eyebrows together, his face serious, "...... here," he took the folder that Lance had placed on the table and flipped it over and spread it out on the table, "It's the index finger of his right hand, I'm sorry." The sheriff suddenly closed the folder apologetically, he just remembered that there was a topic of Lance's rejection of corpses in the topic they had just talked about, but when it came to clues or something, he forgot about it for a while.

"The confirmed cause of death was a blow to the head with a heavy object. Red answered, "There are other tests, but there are no signs of poisoning, and there are no obvious injuries on the body." ”

"Our original characterization of the case was that he was approached for stealing and then had a verbal altercation and was accidentally killed during the conflict. "But now it may take more thought to think about it, as you know that a large percentage of people who have their fingers cut off are punished for stealing, except in accidents." ”

"Oh, I know, just as gambling gets your hands cut off, and lying gets your tongue plucked out, and by the way, at a certain time and in a certain area, if you cheat in marriage, you will be locked up in a cage made of bamboo and thrown into a river and drowned. Lance shrugged.

Lestrade looked dazed, "Where, is this a custom from a long time ago?"

"Trust me, you won't want to know. Lance sighed.

"No, I want to know, wait! Well, I don't want to know that now, I want to know what you guys think about this case. "We'll prioritize homicides, but if they don't go unsolved, they'll become unsolved." ”

"Hanging high above like a secret hidden in a gem?" Lance squinted, "We've already said the clues we can provide, and if you want to be offended, just one person died, and we can't tell the connection between more of the dead and this case, if separated...... Last night's surveillance is gone, but what about the night before yesterday?"

"The place where the body was found was a small alley, not close to the jewelry store, and the security was not very good, and the surveillance there was normal, but there were no useful clues. "But now there's a little bit of a clue, but it's just complicating the case." ”

"Could that be some coincidence?" Lance continued, his fingers bent inward in a head-scratching motion, "it just so happened that an unidentified man, who happened to have a little affair with the owner of a fancy jewelry store, was attacked for some reason and had his finger cut off and died shortly after threatening him, and he had nothing to do with sapphire...... What are the odds?"

"0.03 percent. Red answered.

Lestrade frowned, "How did you figure it out?"

He just wanted to show that the odds were very small. Lance waved his hand, "Did we just say his index finger is missing?"

"And then we're talking about what's going to be the result, or the punishment. ”

"yes, did you find his finger?" Lance nodded, "Maybe his finger revealed some important information, and the killer cut it off to keep us from knowing." ”

"A search has been carried out at the scene of the crime, and at that time it was found that the broken finger was new, and it was carefully searched nearby. Lestrade crossed his hands and looked deeply, "In this way, it was the murderer who took it." ”

Lance suddenly had some kind of not-so-good prediction in his head, it seems that he has not encountered such a case of 'eating' in England for so long, but it seems to be quite common in country A? at least he has encountered it many times in BAU, and the reason is unknown......

However, even if there was such a conjecture, Lance would not say this, and the autopsy would have examined the trauma, the fatal wound of the deceased, and the mouth, tongue and throat, and if he had been forced to swallow his finger as he had guessed, the larynx would have had obvious lacerations.

Although he did not read the autopsy report, since Red did not put forward such a conjecture, it means that there is no such wound, and it is not of much use to say it.

Lestrade was also very distressed when he didn't get the key information he wanted, but at this time Sherlock was recuperating and couldn't bother him, who knows if the little man of the British government would jump out of bed directly when he heard such a case, and then bypass everyone and do something dangerous alone.

He always did.

"So......" the distressed sheriff rubbed his brow, "what about the case of missing children?"

Lance is not very good at missing children, and cases involving children are second only to the bloody serial murders in his mind, because he already knows the information about the murderer but has to follow the procedure step by step, and children's cases because most of the time his ability does not seem to help.

Red didn't know what Lance was thinking, but seeing the way he frowned, he knew he must not be easy.

"Are you going to follow up on this case yourself?" Red said quickly, speaking too quickly for Lestrade to look at him.

"In fact, there are not a few cases that really let me follow up, and I can't juggle many of them alone, so I'll let Sally follow up on this case. "Every time I have a big case, I feel like I have too few people. ”

Red pursed his lips, then sat up straight and took the file on the table about the missing child case, flipped through one page and quickly slid down the words printed on the white paper, then to another paper, and handed it to Lance in just over a minute.

Lance glanced sideways at Red, "You didn't turn over that case that very quickly. ”

Red shrugged his shoulders.

"So what can you see?" Lestrade raised an eyebrow.

"Ahem, the abducted children are all five-year-old, boys, well-to-do and well-buried. Rhett looked into Lestrade's eyes, "Children of this age are usually accompanied by adults, and the places where they disappeared are also in their own neighborhood, and the scope is also in the city of London. ”

Lance also nodded, "So, it is almost certain that the same or the same group of people committed the crime, and it is correct to call it 'serial', the good thing is that it seems that the body of the child who disappeared at the beginning was not found, and the probability that they are still alive is very high." ”

The file also wrote that the parents of the missing child said that they had not received blackmail calls or other information, indicating that for the time being, it can be considered that the purpose of abducting the child is not because of money, but the frequency of the suspect's abduction of the child is too high, and the child's condition is not optimistic. ”

"What do you think you do?"

Lance lowered his head and looked at the little angel with a bright smile in the red hat in the file, "The suspect's information, his age range, education level, living environment, mental condition. ”

"So accurate?"

"Just for reference, I think Sherlock's deduction is something that's amazing. Lance closed the file, "So, if you can guarantee that your subordinates won't do that to me and Spencer, they will be able to put up with the 'layman' pointing fingers." ”

Lestrade raised his head with a sideways face, "Before the special documents applied for from the British government come down, you will start the investigation under my control." ”

The coffee in Scotland Yard is not unpleasant but not particularly delicious, holding a cup of coffee and tilting his head to look at the file in his hand, with the noisy sound of police officers coming and going, as if he had returned to a police station in country A to ask for help from BAU for help. However, he originally went abroad with all the hardships to continue to serve the people in another country, obviously for friendship, life and future, and prepared to deal with the evil forces!

I am still ready to wait for the thing to be done, change my identity and go back to country A, and after completing the final mission easily, I will eat and wait for death with my □□!

"Who would have thought that such a peaceful world could be filled with disgusting evil. Lance narrowed his eyes slightly, and muttered a sentence that was incomparably secondary.

Red didn't hear Lance's words clearly.

"Nothing. Lance shook his head.

Lestrade was quite clear, and the sheriff of Scotland Yard glanced at the coffee next to the file, "So there has been a 'police' since the beginning of society. ”

It is not known whether there was a 'policeman' at the beginning of society, but there must have been a 'criminal' as defined by later generations. 166 Reading Network