"Are there any useful clues for Lieutenant Colonel Xiuz lately?"

The day after the start of the work, the staff and the main person in charge of the three groups began their busy work.

"There's not any valuable intelligence yet, Inspector General McDowell."

As the first team, that is, the investigation team, Elle and Xiuz are naturally the busiest people during this period.

"yes, that's fine, what about Major Armstrong?"

"The Major is going to the archives today to get the rest of the offender's files from the past few years, and will be back with the Inspector General at noon."

"Is that so? I see, and Lieutenant Colonel Xiuz, you don't have to call me Inspector General, you can just teach me Ellie. I'm too old to show it. ”

"Okay, I get Miss Ellie."

"Remove the young lady, or it's a bit too much."

“…………”

Early this morning, the two investigation team leaders, a man and a woman, who have a strong jump in thinking, and at the same time belong to the law and the case, began to bury themselves in a large pile of papers.

As an analytical investigation team.

The central nervous system of the entire capture operation.

It is crucial that they analyze and aggregate the intelligence they obtain.

Characteristics of Locking PrisonersAnalyzing the actions of prisoners are two of them that need to be considered, and this is often the most difficult part of arresting prisoners.

So, naturally, this part of the work should be the responsibility of the first group, but ......

"Inspector General, Lieutenant Colonel, I'm back."

"Huh? Major Armstrong? How did you come back so quickly? ”

"Because the information was taken away the day before yesterday, I didn't get it."

"Huh? Who is so fast? Faster than us?! ”

Ellie, who had been buried in the sea of files, raised her head and shouted incredulously

In her opinion, her speed should be fast enough.

"Dong Long-yo~ How are you doing today? ~”

But apparently, an efficiency maniac is one step faster than they can move.

And this person is naturally ......

"General Estes (Captain)?! How did you come to the first group?! ”

Seeing that it was not yet noon, Estes rarely carried a briefcase to the first group's work room.

Several of the leaders of the first group were surprised.

"Accident?"

Pulling a chair from the sea of rolls, Estes sat down and looked at his subordinates in bewilderment.

"What's the surprise?"

"Isn't the captain supposed to stay in the squad at this time? It doesn't seem like a good thing to run to the intelligence analysis and investigation team at this time, right? ”

Ellie's voice was a little low, and there seemed to be no expression on her face.

This is normal.

When his job is at a loss, a boss with a glorious face runs to his own turf and screams, needless to say, it must be ......

"I'm not here to waste your time."

Like a victor, he opened the briefcase, took out the file, shook it proudly, and put it in front of the three of them.

"I thought I had read all the information you need to investigate yesterday, and I have already screened the people who need to be specifically screened and investigated, a total of nine suspects who have the possibility, strength and time to commit the crime."

Estes said

"These ...... These ......"

This is Armstrong, sweaty and surprised

"Really detailed......

This is a careful reading of the text with a serious face

"What a captain."

This is Elle, who has some opinions about the captain's overstepping

"Through the investigation of files and materials, the only people who can be screened out are these nine people. See if there are any objects that you think need to be further focused on. ”

As he spoke, Estes pulled out a water cup from the pile of books on the table and found the kettle in the corner.

Pour yourself a cup of hot water and make a cup of instant coffee to refresh yourself.

Since yesterday, she has not rested for a whole day and night, and although she is in good health, she is still a little tired.

"If you need to investigate, just go and bring someone to screen it."

This is also the characteristic of Estes, who can't be idle.

Although he is specifically responsible for arresting and arresting as the person in charge, the action group is the most boring in the initial stage when there are no clues.

And Estes hates boredom the most, so she just came out like that.

"Nope." *2

After quickly reading the information, Elle and Xiuz gave this reply almost at the same time.

"I don't think there are any prisoners among these people that we need to find."

Putting down the information that Estes had put together, Elle felt that the prisoner was not here.

"Why?"

"Because if we look at these people separately and put together the people they killed, we can't find out the ...... they killed."

"Motivation"*3

Yes.

Estes, Xiuz, and Elle spoke in unison.

It is unlikely that these nine people were the cause of the prisoners.

The prisoners' money and belongings were not lost, and the prisoners' careers, living environments, backgrounds, and personalities were so different that they could not be connected at all.

Eleven of the most miserable victims were killed by a strange technique.

And the only thing these people have in common is that they have national alchemist qualifications.

"I think now we should go in the direction of anti-state and institutional investigations."

Xiuz has long been part of the National Heavy Accident Investigation Team of the Judge Advocate General's Section.

There is an astonishing intuition and judgment about this serial act of murder that is clearly impersonal and hateful.

"I think the goal of the prisoners is to eliminate the state alchemists. The purpose is clear. ”

"And what about the underlying purpose?"

Estes asked

"Is it because of the enmity with the alchemy of the country? Is it employed by other countries to destroy our country's human resources? Is it for some political purpose? Or is it something else? ”

Estes gives several possibilities

"I don't think it's very likely to be employed in another country."

Then spoke of Ellie

"The hired killers were basically in it for money, but when we investigated the victims' bodies and the condition of their homes, we found that none of their belongings or valuables had been taken, and five of them had the keys to the family safes with them."

The national alchemist is very wealthy because of the state subsidy, and once he has a heavy research project, the money in his hands is even more than he can count.

If the murderer is in it for the money, then why not just go and get it?

If one person's money is swept away, it is enough for one person to live a very dirty life and wait for death.

"What about the assassination of the political purpose?"

If not for money, it is not impossible for the country.

"It's not very likely."

Shuz took out the information of the third national alchemist who had been killed.

"The third victim, the alchemist of the electric light, Laellet de Laman, director of the National Research Center for High-Precision Alchemy Equipment and Appliances. He was attacked and killed in his car on his way home from a research meeting, and the top-secret national document he was carrying with him was found intact and had not been taken away when it was later discovered, and the sample of the real Yàn-type concept oriented alloy bearing he carried with him was a key part of a certain secret weapon in China, and there was no sign of being looked through or stolen. ”

"The fifth victim, Platinum's alchemist, Ravel Hough, Deputy Minister of Finance, was killed in his home, just as he had taken his servants to inspect the State Treasury Files. At that time, his materials were placed with him, and the prisoner had plenty of time to take the materials with him, and when our people arrived, they found that there was no trace of the state financial secrets. ”

The assassination of an alchemist of a hostile country is usually a matter of political interest, and how many people would not be interested in such classified material?

If you really come to assassinate for your own country?

"Could it be that the other party doesn't know the goods?"

It's also a possibility

"It's unlikely. Someone who can kill people so efficiently without even leaving clues or looks must be professionally trained people who have a meticulous grasp of the target's actions, and it is too likely that they don't understand anything. ”

From the perspective of national politics and assassination, this is not tenable.

"In other words, whether it is for personal monetary purposes or for the benefit of the state, judging from the existing clues, it is untenable, right?"

In fact, for the national alchemist, such a hated person, Estes already had an eyebrow in his mind.

"Yes, whether from the point of view of the state or money, I can't see the motive of the other party to do this"

Either way, it's definitely the people who do it in the end.

If people do this kind of thing at risk, then there must be a purpose.

It's not money, it's not the purpose of state politics. Naturally, it can't be talked about honor, so the biggest possibility......

"Is it really still a personal vendetta? The purpose of the assassination? ”

"Hmm." *3

In fact, from the very beginning, several people have thought about this possibility, but what kind of personal feud is it that requires such a Cheng dù revenge?

You must know that the other party is a national alchemist, a precious talent protected by the state, so if you are so unscrupulous, aren't you afraid of causing death?

"But it's too early to say for sure it's revenge."

After the group finished speaking, Estes concluded

"On specific issues, we should still speak according to the facts, based on facts and evidence."

Supervisors are easily misled, and facts may be falsified, but the facts and evidence are more credible.

"But Captain."

Xiuz said

"The timing of the murderers was good, and the witnesses were almost all patrol officers and gendarmes who came later, and these people were killed."

"Not necessarily."

At this time, Elle suddenly thought of something and interjected

"There was also a gendarme who was in a coma with serious injuries on the day the ninth victim was killed, and just woke up from a coma yesterday. I was about to go and ask about the situation. ”

"Seriously injured comatose gendarme? How did I not know? ”

As a member of the military system, Xiuz doesn't understand why the military doesn't know such news, but Elle, who is a police system, does.

"Because of this reason for the gendarme's injury, it was reported as an injury sustained by a fall down the stairs. It wasn't that he was injured in battle. So the file was left by the district police station before it reached the gendarmerie headquarters at all. ”

The police station in District 2 is now under the control of Ellie.

"Why did you notice this soldier?"

Estes knew that Ellie, a clever and rebellious young lady, had the acumen and skepticism of a detective and the cunning of a politician. He has an extraordinary sensitivity and skepticism about some human things.

This is also the reason why she thinks that this person can do something in the police world

"The reported injuries were caused by falling down stairs, and the hospital reported a fractured fibula in the leg, a head contusion, a broken shoulder blade in the upper body, an ulnar radius in the arm, a ruptured tendon in the thigh plus a soft tissue contusion."

As she spoke, Ellie had a playful smile on her face

"I asked the doctor, and he said that this situation would not occur unless a person intentionally jumped from the window above the second floor."

Then he took the duty report submitted by the duty squad of the divisional police station that day, and the personnel who had obviously disappeared from the list of officers on duty that day, as well as the gendarmes who had just woken up from falling down the stairs less than a few dozen meters away from the scene of the murder at an inopportune time......

"Such coincidences and dissonances make it hard to believe that there are no ghosts in it, am I right? Captain? ~”

"Well, that's true."

Estes also smelled of intrigue and betrayal from it.

"Let's go see this gendarme now, in which hospital is he now?"

"A tertiary hospital in the western suburbs."

"Why would a gendarme be placed there?"

"Then we'll only know after we've been there."

——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————

Today's third update~

Ask for recommendations~

That's it for today~