Chapter 99: Reversal of Roles
Donald wants to help Anthony.
How can it help?
Do you want to get involved in the case and force the inform, or do you just find a way to find Anthony and ask to be part of his plan?
Anthony's reluctance to get Donald involved in his plan may be because he doesn't want Donald to wade into troubled waters, but it is not ruled out that he thinks Donald will affect the plan.
At this time, forcible intervention will not only not help, but may become more and more helpful.
Good intentions do bad things, this situation must be avoided.
It never occurred to Donald that he was going to do something special right away to achieve something or change a situation.
Because he's not sure what Anthony wants to see and what he doesn't want to see in the current situation.
Then the best thing to do is to wait and see.
It's not about sitting on the sidelines, it's about gathering information and not disrupting the development of anything that exists.
Donald wants to know what kind of inside story is hidden in this disappearance case, and guarantees that he can follow the case and help at any time.
"Stephanie, go home!"
Donald stood on the corner of the street, calling out to Stephanie, who was talking not far away, followed by Lilo and Finger.
"I'm sorry, my family is looking for me, it's a pleasure to talk to you, it's been a wonderful experience. β
Smiling goodbye, Keppel's neighbor stood under the lamppost, watching Stephanie's departing back, refusing to turn around.
Although the two are cooperating for the first time, they still have a tacit understanding.
It's getting darker, and the daylight hours are getting shorter as the days go by.
The two were standing on the corner next to a tavern, from which Donald had just come out with two cookies and grilled sausages in his hands.
"Did you find anything?"
The snacks were handed over, and since Stephanie had offered to give them to her, Donald went to the tavern to buy them as a sign of trust.
"Keppel Leonard was involved in a team or organization of the families of the victims of the severed fingers, and that's for sure, and the person I just asked said that there was a time when Keppel's home was even a private gathering of this organization...... It's a misnomer, it should be said to be a secret base to talk about the situation of the case, and people often come and go in the middle of the night. β
Let Donald hold his things for a moment and open his notes, which contain some of the key messages he had asked earlier.
"Is this still the case?"
took a bite of the grilled sausage, and gave the rest to Finger, who stood up next to him and pulled up his pants.
"No, it ended half a year ago, and that time was almost the time when the Tallinn District Police Department began to give up on the idea and discussion of continuing to investigate the case, according to Keppel's neighbors, during that time Keppel often had drunken drunkards in his house, even Keppel himself often got drunk, and at the same time, the number of people in his family began to decrease until 5 months ago, when this situation completely disappeared and Keppel Leonard returned to normal. β
Stephanie inquired in great detail, and she wanted to prove her ability in this area.
"In the case of the police department's decision to stop continuing to search this case, some people have no hope of solving the case, and then choose to give up is normal, as Murtley said before, people always have to look forward, and Keppel's return to normal, we can understand that he also came out of the shadows and began to meet the future with a good attitude...... Do you think that's a big possibility?"
Eat her own portion of cookies and sausages, stuff some greasy bags into the trash can next to her, and take Stephanie's notes to herself so she can eat with her hands free.
"I don't think that when we met with him yesterday, Suzanne just inadvertently resigned to his violent reaction, and when we went to the building later in and found that someone had entered and said that he was going to apply for a re-investigation, his emotions were a little abnormal...... I mean, if he had let go, he wouldn't have had this unusual reaction, and apparently he was still haunted by the finger severance case. β
"So it seems that the return to normal five months ago may have been something else, and at that time, he knew that this was not the end of the matter, but that there was a better solution, so he would return to 'normal'. β
Some things can be deduced by reverse extrapolation, and Keppel was really unlucky, first meeting Donald, who was interested in the case, and then meeting Stephanie, who could make an average man tell him how old he was to wet in bed in a matter of seconds.
"So we're going to go to Cappel next? I can get him to speak. β
Stephanie thought that the next step would still be the interrogation, leaning on the street lamp, crossing her legs back and forth, and posing in a standard S-shaped pose, full of confidence.
"No, don't bother him, what we need to do is gather information and come with me. β
If Donald was the investigation team of the Investigation Bureau in charge of this case, he would definitely use Stephanie's method to ask everything out.
But he's not.
Keppel wants to reopen the severed finger case and is a victim himself, and Donald doesn't think he'll be on the opposite side of that person.
Pretending to pass by the door of Kepel's house casually, the palm of his hand brushed the street lamp outside, and there was an inscription flickering on the back of his hand, and a pattern very similar to his eyes appeared on the black lamppost, which could not be found without looking closely.
"What is this?"
Stephanie was close to Donald and naturally noticed his movements.
"Level 2 Inscription - Scouting Eye, I've set it up on Keppel's doorstep, and it will record everyone who appears on Keppel's doorstep for the next 8 hours. β
The skillful engraving of the three inscriptions, the wolfhound, the ice trap, and the quick recovery of these three inscriptions allowed Donald's inscription skills to improve rapidly, and there were 7 types of level 2 inscriptions in the inscription notes that Abbott left him, and the Scout Eye was one of them.
"Record everyone, the image? Then this inscription is too powerful for surveillance detection. β
"Haha, if you can really write down all the images, then it will be...... Well, this is a Level 2 inscription, and by record I mean that it will leave behind the faces that appear on the door of Cappel's house, and when activated again, it will allow it to reveal these faces, and that's it. β
Donald wanted to say that it was a camera, but after thinking that the word should not have appeared in this world, he had to vaguely cover it.
"Okay, Donald, how am I doing today? β
Donald had only asked Stephanie to gather information about Keppel, but now it was a complete one.
"It's amazing, but I'm not going to revisit you. β
The expression suddenly became serious, and Donald's words made Stephanie stop, and the smile on her face completely dissipated.
"Why, is there something I'm doing that isn't good enough? If you feel that there is a defect, you can just tell me and I will correct ....."
Stephanie couldn't understand why Donald still wouldn't admit his abilities.
"No, no, no, you misunderstood, I mean, you've always been a capable person with me, and I never doubted your intelligence-gathering ability, because you've proven it to me in Red Cliffs, just to tease you. β
Seeing that Stephanie's eyes began to redden, Donald quickly waved his hand and explained.
Now they know that Keppel Leonard may be behind an organization that wants to revive the severed finger case.
If it is the kidnapping of an ordinary person, let alone a finger, it is a finger thrown on the ground at the scene of the crime, and the police department will probably not think about it or deliberately refuse to think about it.
And the kidnapping of Mathil Tate made the police department have to think about the finger severance case back then.
Their first purpose has been achieved.
"Why did they kidnap Mathil Tate, is it just a coincidence? In the past two days, I have read a lot of newspapers, although most of the news on it is chasing after the wind and shadows, and there is not much reference value, but the various conjectures made by the news agency on some established facts are very interesting, such as why Matiel was caught by the kidnapper in the toilet, judging from the situation at the scene, the other party was not following in, but had been waiting inside, he calculated that Matiel's stomach would be uncomfortable, and it was the kind of discomfort that must be solved immediately, we ruled out that the kidnapper is a special existence of the prophet, and we can find that the kidnapper is confident that he can wait for Matil in the toiletγ β
Pure fact-telling is always boring, and what the news agency has to do is to process and conjecture about these facts, so that an ordinary thing can become eye-catching, and this divergent conjecture can sometimes provide people with some new ideas.
"At that restaurant, I remember Mathil Tate complaining about her portion of the steak being bitter during the meal, and then changing her to a new one, when her friends were normal. β
"Yes, I was reading the newspaper when I noticed a news story that someone had tied up the chef of the restaurant where we were eating and disguised himself as him and cooked for three hours without anyone noticing. β
"So the kidnappers must be very good at cooking, and the chef of that kind of restaurant should be considered the top chef in Dmingham, right?"
"That's not the point. β
Donald thought about Anthony's craftsmanship, only to feel that his stomach that had just eaten a snack became hungry again, so he changed the topic in time,
"The point is that he does this means that his target is Mathil Tate, why? If he just wants to expand the image so that the police can re-investigate the case, Tallinn is not without influential figures, and the original place of the finger breaking case is in Tallinn, isn't the kidnapping here more proof of the fact that the man-eater still exists?"
There is only one reason.
The Tate family has a lot to do with the severed fingers.