Chapter 35: Cats
Early in the morning, the door to Kulo L. Malcolm's office was about to be knocked down, and his assistant Okita couldn't stand it anymore and walked towards the door. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"Don't open the door," Kuro said to Okita, reading the retro paper version of the paper, "it's going to be quite a boring case again." ā
"Forgive me. Okita, who was an assistant, opened the door first, and a police officer rushed in, panting. Seeing this, Okita poured a glass of water for the officer.
"Thank you, Deputy Sergeant......" The officer drank the water from the cup, and without waiting for himself to breathe, he continued, "Sheriff, there's a big case." ā
"What's the big case?" said Kuro with his feet on his desk and leaned back, looking uninterested.
"The government's coffers...... Ransacked!"
Okita raised an eyebrow, slightly surprised. He has been cleaning up the mess with the junior sheriff for a long time, and he has encountered all kinds of strange cases, but it is the first time he has met such a bold criminal, and he is so bold that he uses the government's crooked brains.
"Robbing a bank?" said Kuro disdainfully, "Then why bother me as a sheriff for such a low-level and boring case?"
"No...... That's the government treasury!" said the officer, anxiously, "and it was the one from above who named you to take over the case." ā
"Let's go and take a look," Okita also persuaded with a smile, "After all, it's the government, so you still have to give some face." ā
"Ah, trouble!" said Kurlo, dropping the newspaper on his desk and grabbing his hat over his head.
"Oh yes, this case must be kept secret from the outside world, otherwise it will ......"
"I know. ā
With a flick of her trench coat, Kuro left her office.
The Hyper Rendezvous Urban Security Bureau brings together all the functions of the previous police stations, such as criminal investigation and security, to redefine the urban security organization. Kuro L. Malcolm was the sergeant of the Security Bureau, graduating from the Central Police Academy with honors at a young age, and then assigned to the Hyborondo Security Bureau, where he solved many difficult cases and became the sergeant of the Security Bureau.
A typical case of genius, since it is a genius, there must be people who are jealous of its talent. Okita Nenghu, this Oriental man with black curly hair and a mediocre appearance, as the first graduate of the Central Police Academy, has not had outstanding achievements since he joined the Hybo Longdu Security Bureau, and his sense of presence is extremely low. As a senior, of course, he is jealous of the junior who became a sheriff in one fell swoop, but the strange thing is that Okita has always been very cooperative with the work of the sheriff, and was promoted to deputy sergeant by Kuro, and he has never complained when he has been cleaning up Kuro's hands all day. Their outstanding performance is regarded as a symbol of the Security Bureau, and their retro dress is even more popular with the people who promote the historical and cultural revival movement, although the sheriff is out of his own preference, and the deputy sergeant is forced to do so.
Okita drove a rather low-key sedan and carried Kuro to the administrative district. Just two days ago, the government treasury behind the administrative building was looted by unknown people, and a total of 100 million robans were lost (Luolian common currency, 1 roban = 2 yuan, non-governmental).
"Here we are, Sheriff. ā
"Okita, go take a look, I'll take a nap in the car. ā
"Don't be kidding, sheriff?" Okita smiled bitterly, "Excuse me, I'm begging you." ā
"Alas...... All right. ā
The two got out of the car, and the administrative building had already set up a cordon, and even people who worked nearby were not allowed to get close to check. Seeing Kuro and Okita coming over, the police officer in charge of protecting the scene saluted them.
"Scene investigation, sheriff?"
"Well, I've been entrusted with it. ā
"That's great!" the officer said, relieved, "this case really has to be handled by the sheriff." ā
Okita frowned slightly, he had a hunch that things were not simple.
"So, did you find anything?"
"This ......" the police officer's face immediately changed, as if he had just gone to the cinema to watch a horror movie and was still in shock, "I'm very sorry, we didn't find any useful clues, and asked the sheriff to go to the scene to check it himself." ā
Kuro didn't say anything, and crossed the cordon with his hands in his pockets. She has so far not taken the bank robbery seriously.
Until she went to see the scene.
There were a total of four bodies at the scene, one was found in a dumpster in the alley behind the administration building, and the other three were moved to the vault and locked up. The theft of the vault was discovered by the cash carrier who came to pick up the cash truck the day after the incident, because he found that the cash truck had disappeared inexplicably and was still being searched.
When he saw the corpse, Kuro was as shocked as Okita, and the tear mole under his right eye was throbbing slightly.
The corpses found in the garbage bins in the alley were hanging weakly with their necks, and Okita could only guess an approximate one, and the cause of death of the three corpses in the vault was very obvious, one was shot in the head and died, and the other two were twisted and their necks were twisted, and their heads were rotated 180 degrees directly backwards.
He now finally understood why the police officers at the scene were trembling.
"Hmm......" Kuro crouched down and leaned closer to examine the body, "Handled without leaving a trace......
"Have you checked the surveillance?" Okita asked.
"Yes, the surveillance did not find anything, and the surveillance that night...... Nothing. ā
"Nothing out of the ordinary?" Okita confirmed.
"Yes......"
"How can there be no one in the surveillance? What kind of IQ are you......" Kulo couldn't help but complain, "Under normal circumstances, the surveillance should capture people on duty at night." ā
"Sheriff, what do you mean......" Okita asked back, "Someone has tampered with the surveillance footage?"
"Or else?"
"So...... Is there a possibility that the guards will steal by themselves?"
I said...... The guards are all normal people, right?"
"Uh......" Okita felt that the sheriff's question was stupid, and he didn't know how to answer it for a while.
"Normal people...... Can you kill someone like that?"
Kuro gestured to the corpse.
It's really impossible to do.
"The marks on the neck look like they were pressed by a hard object, so I can't rule out the use of props," Kuro said, "I haven't seen anyone with that much arm strength within the scope of common sense, and I can twist my neck 180 degrees in an instant......"
"Ah, by the way," the officer added, "a bullet casing was also found at the scene, which was identified by the Identification Section as a 7.62 mm rifle bullet. ā
7.62?If you think about it, this information doesn't seem to be very useful...... Today's firearms still use the same bullets as before.
"Is that so...... Then I had to carefully examine the condition of the bullet casings, and the four bodies to be taken for autopsy, and then give me a detailed summary of the report. ā
"Yes!" the officer saluted and fled the scene quickly.
"Okita, what do you think about this case?"
"There isn't a lot of advice to refer to......"
"Then come and hear me. ā
The two of them came to the alley behind the administrative building, and stepped on the damp lawn to the barbed wire, where they could see that a hole had been broken in the barbed wire, and it was probably from here that the prisoners entered.
"This is where the prisoners come in, take a closer look at the hole in the barbed wire," Kuro said, pointing to the barbed wire and drawing a circle, "The shape of the hole is irregular, and the way the barbed wire is opened is more inclined to deform by external force than to cut." ā
Okita also compared it with his hand, and for a moment he couldn't think of how the prisoner had opened it.
"When the prisoner entered, he crept up behind the guard guarding the entrance to the alleyway, killed him, hid the body in a garbage bin, and then made his way to the atrium. ā
Okita followed Kuro's train of thought and footsteps to the atrium.
"Here," Kuro said, pointing to the broken street light bulb, "because of the light, the prisoner couldn't get close to the guards in the light, so he had to shoot him with a gun. I guess the cash truck blocked the view of the two men guarding the vault gate, so they didn't notice the guard's death. ā
"Wait," Okita interrupted, "what's the matter with the broken light bulb?"
"The prisoner did it on purpose," Kuro explained, "to draw the attention of the guards guarding the gates of the vault and to create a gap between them." He couldn't deal with two people at a time. ā
I see...... But in this way, although the method was simple and crude, there was no valuable evidence left at the scene that could be used.
"Another important point is that the door of the vault and the surveillance footage," Kuro said, "both of which were in the possession of the prisoner, and the surveillance footage that night was tampered with by the prisoner, and the door of the vault was opened and locked, which shows that the prisoner has a high level of hacking technology." ā
"But it's also possible that someone who knows the password is colluding with the person in charge of monitoring, right?"
"If that's the case, then the prisoner can prepare the vehicle in advance, collude with everyone on duty, and empty all the money in the treasury, and there is no need to go to great lengths to kill and steal, and then use a cash truck to move 100 million, and I don't need to come here, just need to find someone within the government and check according to the list." ā
Okita was stunned for a while, and he had to submit to the sheriff's reasoning every time.
"And think about it," said Kurlo, "the hole in the barbed wire." ā
Okita struggles to recall......
Yes, no matter how you think about it, it's like someone stretched it out with their hands......
"Do you mean...... Is the prisoner a monster?"
"No, there are no demons and monsters," Kuro straightened his hat, "but there are people as dangerous as monsters. ā
Her eyes sparkled with excitement.