"What?! Derek: They're all dead? How is this—how is this possible? Tony, are you mistaken? Hoffman asked incredulously.

"Boss, to be honest, I couldn't believe it when I saw the corpse in that place, but, but this is the truth, maybe tomorrow the police will start investigating this matter." Tony, who reported the news, replied with a bitter face.

"Police? Could it be that now the police have found out? Bill on the side asked in a panic.

Tony shook his head and said: "That's not yet, but so many dead bodies, such a big smell of blood, even if no one finds out tonight, someone will definitely find out tomorrow, how can the police not investigate at that time, after all, this is more than a dozen lives!" ”

"Derek, how did they die? Could it be that Mark Twain brought a machine gun? Hoffman asked, frowning.

Tony hesitated for a moment, then replied, "You may not believe it, half of the people see that the wound was hacked to death with a knife, and the other half seem to be, as if it is ......"

Looking at Tony's slurping ink look, Derek couldn't help but urge: "What the hell is going on, hurry up!" ”

"They—they seem to have been bitten and caught to death by wild beasts!" Tony replied with an embarrassed expression.

Hearing this answer, Hoffman simply doubted his ears: "What?!" Killed by a beast? What are you kidding? Where did the beast come from in New York? ”

"But, but that's how it looks at the wound, I grew up in the mountains when I was a child, and I'm too familiar with these beasts to be mistaken, and I'm sure it must be a tiger!" Tony quickly explained.

But unfortunately, no matter what Tony tried to assure, Derek didn't believe him, but said to him in a tone of pity: "Oh, my poor Tony, you should be frightened by the scene of corpses at the scene, you better go back and sleep well, and wait until tomorrow when you wake up to tell me about it." ”

Although Derek insisted that Tony was talking nonsense, the next day he asked his familiar police friend and was shocked to learn the answer: "What did you say?!" Were those people on the outskirts of the city really killed by wild beasts? ”

"At least from the scene, it is true, at least half of the wounds on the body of the deceased were caused by the teeth and claws of the beast, or by the murder weapon similar to the teeth and claws of the beast, but I don't think anyone would be so bored to make this kind of murder weapon, because the other half of the wounds were obviously caused by a long knife, I don't think anyone would use that boring murder weapon at the same time as the knife, right?" The officer replied casually.

"But, that's ridiculous, isn't it?" Hoffman still finds it incredulous.

"Don't talk about you, even we find it unbelievable, but unfortunately, that's what happened." The officer replied with a shrug.

"Do you have any clues to find the murderer now?" Hoffman asked.

"Not yet, by the way, why are you so interested in this case? Doesn't that have anything to do with you? The officer asked curiously.

Hoffman waved his hand again and again: "How can it be related to me, I, I'm just curious." ”

The officer gave Hoffman a deep look, and then kindly reminded: "It's better that this matter has nothing to do with you, otherwise you will be in big trouble!" ”

After coming out of the police station, Hoffman ordered his subordinates to strictly investigate everything about Mark Twain, because he always felt that this matter was inseparable from Mark Twain, but what surprised him was that Mark Twain was not in New York now, but was said to have gone to Washington, which made Hoffman secretly sure that he was the murderer, otherwise why would he flee at this time?

And Downing rushed to Washington because he was inspired by Derek's "Who says we're not going to deal with Lincoln?" It suddenly occurred to me that President Lincoln's assassination had happened in the last few days, and Downing had a good impression of the American president, and since it was the right time, he should do his best to try to save his fate.

Normally, it would be very difficult to ask to meet with the president of a country, but fortunately, Downing had recently gained a reputation for openly supporting blacks, and this was consistent with Lincoln's political views on the Emancipation Proclamation, so Lincoln made an exception to meet him.

Even after meeting, he smiled and said to Downing: "Mr. Twain, I have read your "I Have a Dream", it is very exciting! ”

"Thank you for your appreciation, but I'm here today to remind you of something important!" Tangning said straight to the point.

"Oh? What's the matter? Lincoln asked cooperatively.

Tang Ning looked left and right for a moment, and then whispered, "Recently, someone wanted to assassinate you!" ”

Unexpectedly, Lincoln was unimpressed: "Oh, this is normal, since I took office, there have always been people who want to kill me, and this is nothing new!" ”

Hearing this answer, although Tang Ning was a little depressed, but after thinking about it carefully, it was indeed the case, during the Civil War, the Southern regime must have sent many people to kill Lincoln, and there was already an American president who died in an assassination before, so this is really nothing new for him, and it seems that he can only burst his hole cards, so he continued to ask: "Mr. President, are you going to a theater to watch a show at night these two days?" ”

"How did you know about this?" This time, Lincoln's face was not so relaxed, after all, his itinerary was absolutely secret, and it was impossible for outsiders to know.

"Leave this alone, anyway, I know that the murderer will shoot at you while you are watching the play, and I will choose to shoot you at the climax of the play, when the applause and laughter of the audience are most concentrated, because this will block out the gunshots." Tang Ning patiently explained, because he still had a deep impression of this scene, it is said that after the murderer fired, not to mention the guards, even Lincoln's wife did not hear it, which shows the timing of the murderer's choice.

Originally, Downing thought that Lincoln would cancel this trip to the theater after getting his own warning, but after thinking about it for a while, he decided to go on the same itinerary as usual, and invited Downing to go to the theater with him, which made Downing puzzled.

PS: Today is April 14th, and the day of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination is April 14, 1865, since it is just in time, I will temporarily change the plot to let the protagonist come over to save President Lincoln's fate.