Chapter 728: On-site Investigation
The recent rise of Philos is so fierce that even if it has no intention of suppressing other families, it will make it difficult for them to sleep.
At the forefront of the Industrial Revolution, the Philos family quickly grew into an unprecedented financial giant in a near-monopoly manner, completely changing the economic ecosystem of Pi City, turning the multi-pronged situation into a single powerhouse.
Its success is popular with everyone, but this success is difficult to replicate.
It is impossible for them not to be afraid, after all, if they fall behind, they will be beaten.
And this time Jagu was killed, which was misinterpreted by people with intentions as the crocodile of the Philos family, which finally couldn't hold back its ambition and showed its fangs to others, and if the rest of the family did not unite, it would be devoured by the giant crocodile one by one.
Therefore, public opinion is pointed to the Philos family, suspecting that the Philos family is hiding the murderer.
In the face of the rumors, Da Keer made a positive response: Please see the essence of the matter, and don't let the provocateurs get their will.
But as long as the murderer is not caught, the rumors will not be stopped.
The extended families pressured Caitlyn to lead her officers to investigate the Philos family as soon as possible. But the Picheng garrison is hiding dirt and dirt, hiding the eyes of the major families, and the devil knows if those police officers with evil intentions want to plagiarize the new energy design in the name of search.
Caitlyn knew that she couldn't follow the wishes of the major families to search the Blue Smoke Manor, otherwise once the bottom line of the Philos family was touched, it would set off a financial war without gunpowder.
When the gardener no longer likes the colorful garden, and is determined to eradicate the dissenting and leave only a monotonous color, the progressive city will surely usher in a depressed era of reshuffling in the midst of bloody turmoil.
Only the people who know nothing will suffer.
Therefore, for the sake of the stability of Leather City, Sheriff Caitlin resolutely stood up and used the seat under the ass to guarantee the reputation of the Philos family.
She made a proposal to get the families to give in slightly: if she didn't find the killer within three days, then she would voluntarily give up her position as the Sheriff of Peel City, and what the Peel City Guards would do afterwards was none of her business.
After staying in this position for a long time, it is time for her to understand something. Either go all out, or be wise to protect yourself.
Soon, she went to the scene of the accident to collect evidence.
The theater was baptized with ammunition, and the walls of the auditorium were mottled and riddled with bullet dents.
There was also a cavity in the ceiling, with rubble falling on the audience, caused by Jagu's bodyguards firing back.
The victim had been carried to the morgue, and four bullet holes appeared in the leather seat where he was sitting before his death, and it was initially believed that someone had shot the audience from behind the scenes with a firearm during the play, but the bullet casings were missing.
Hundreds of spectators witnessed the murder, and Caitlin picked out a few witnesses with relatively innocent backgrounds to get an idea of the situation.
Several eyewitnesses spoke of the dancers.
Yes, dancers.
A solo dance was taking place on the stage, and Jagu was sitting in the front of the VIP seat. As the dancers danced to the passion, gunshots rang out in the quiet theater.
Then I saw Jagu's fat body suddenly explode, and beautiful smoke came out of his body, attracting everyone's attention, as if the murderer wanted to present this murder to everyone.
Gunshots rang out one after another as the dancers moved, and soon the eerie colored smoke emanated from Jagu's body into the air, filling the theater.
In the panic, the accompanying bodyguards pulled out powerful Hex's weapons and opened fire in the smoke to deter them, but the aimless and indiscriminate shooting further exacerbated the situation, killing some spectators.
This made Caitlyn very concerned, why did the bodyguards dare to shoot before the murderer was confirmed? Could these professionally trained bodyguards not know that this would hurt innocent people?
But eyewitnesses explained it for this reason.
She said that Caitlin did not witness it at the scene, because she did not know how much shock Jagu's death had brought them, so that her heart was shocked, and every time she closed her eyes, she would recall the terrifying scene.
Jagu's death was so eerie and cruel that it was like a humanoid firework, accompanied by the dancer's dance movements, his limbs twisted at an eerie angle, bursting out of the deepest part of the artery.
The bodyguards sitting not far from him saw it most vividly, such a brutal murder was something they had never seen before. With professionalism shattered by an extraordinary cognitive onslaught, and the sound of gunfire echoing through the smoke around them, it is not incomprehensible to lose their minds in that situation.
Caitlyn calms the witnesses and asks more if anyone has seen the killer, but the results are disappointing and people don't even see the killer.
When Caitlin finds the most suspicious dancer, she finds him crying.
Because everyone said that the gunshots were accompanied by her dance steps, as if she was murdering Jagu with eye-catching magic.
But Caitlyn knew that the Miss Dancer was the least likely murderer, because everyone was her eyewitness, and they knew at a glance whether she had killed someone with a gun or not, and the so-called magical murder was just self-consolation.
To Caitlin's surprise, the young dancer was actually deaf and mute, who had been poisoned in her early years in Zaun and had lost her throat and both ears.
This caused a lot of trouble for the investigation, and Caitlyn wanted to use her unique perspective to find the traces of the murderer, because she was the only one facing the audience at that time.
Miss Dancer's next performance schedule was terminated, which almost killed her. In order to prove her innocence, she expressed her willingness to cooperate fully with Caitlin's investigation. She is literate and can communicate in words, and that's easy to do.
Caitlin asked her why she continued to dance at the time of the shooting, couldn't she hear the gunshots and couldn't see the smoke?
Miss Dancer said that she was facing away from the audience and did not see the smoke for the first time, so she continued to dance for a while until she turned around and saw that she was dead, and then stopped dancing and collapsed to the ground, and she thought that the brilliant smoke was a stage effect.
"With your back to the audience? Isn't that right behind the scenes? It just so happened that Caitlin initially guessed that the killer was shooting behind the scenes.
Caitlyn asks Miss Dancer if she has seen anyone behind the scenes, but she shakes her head and refuses.
She said she did not see any fires fired and that there were no bullet holes in the curtain.
Caitlin's conjecture was overturned in an instant, and the only clue in her hand was gone. In fact, she also knew that this guess was not reliable, because once her guess was confirmed, the police should have found the bullet casings around the victim.
Just as she was struggling with her nerves, the autopsy report came out - all four bullets had come out of her body, no bullet casings or shrapnel left in her body, and the smoke was not gunsmoke, but some kind of vaporized energy.
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