Chapter 315: Digging Deep [2]
As Amp pondered the question, he wandered around the shops selling luxury goods in the city, and when he found a third one, he finally saw a similar lighter on the counter. He smiled and handed the lighter to the teller, "I picked up a lighter from the side of the road, I think its owner should be very anxious, I wonder if you can return this lighter to its owner?"
After checking the lighter handed by Amp, the teller gave Amp a positive reply, "Thank you very much, you are an honest person, I believe the owner will be very happy when he finds out." Do you need to leave a contact information? Such a lighter costs more than 200 yuan here, which is already quite a luxury, and maybe the owner will give a little payment.
Finding the owner may be difficult for the person who has found the item, but it is much easier for the merchant. Each luxury item has its own unique number, and at the moment it is sold, they will keep at least one contact information for the buyer so that the after-sales service can be carried out normally. Just check the number under the lighter to find the owner of the lighter.
But Amp declined the teller's request, waved his hand and left the shop, and the moment he left, he ran away and rushed to the telegraph office in Illian.
He gasped as he showed his ID and made a request, "I want to spy on a number, is there a problem?"
After making a phone call to the police station, the telegraph office let Amp enter the house where the telephone was installed, and the telephone at this time could not be connected automatically and had to be done manually. When a light is on, answer the dialing information of this line, and then link the two terminals together according to this dialing information, and the wiring work is completed. If it's a long distance, it's even more troublesome, and you may have to go through three or even four lines of operator work before you can dial a number from another place.
Amp said the name of the luxury store, and the operator quickly found the registered line. After waiting for about five minutes, the line light came on. The operator glanced at Amp, and after Amp gave him an order to do as usual, the operator answered the message and connected to another line.
"Now you can listen. The operator plugged the headset into an empty slot, and Amp sat in his place.
He didn't have to wait long before he heard voices on both sides.
"Hello, this is Sea Cliff Durin Manor, I'm Dove ......"
"Hello, Madam Dove, I have here a lost item registered as Mr. 'Doolin', is Mr. Doolin there? If he is convenient he can come and collect his lost lighter, if he is not convenient, we can also send the lost property to you. ”
"I'm sorry, Mr. Dohrin has gone out of town, if you can, please send it over. ”
"Okay......
Amp frowned and returned the headset to the operator, he thought it would be Durin who answered the call, but he didn't expect Durin to leave Illion. Where did he go? Did he abscond, or did he go to do something else?
He left as he thought about it, subconsciously touched his pocket, and took out the cigarette case. When I opened the cigarette case and was about to take out a cigarette, I realized that the cigarette had been smoked. When he was about to throw the box away, he was stunned for a moment.
Cigarette case!
Yes, cigarette packs, there were a lot of cigarette butts at the scene of the crime, and the chemical tests on Juan's tongue also proved that he smoked a lot of tobacco before he died, so where is the cigarette box? The cigarette box looks small, but in the absence of any direct evidence at the moment, Amp has to take all the problems into account, the lighter is there, so what about the cigarette case? If the lighter is Doolin's, then will the cigarettes also be provided by Dorin? Amp immediately thought of the grimace mushroom, a terrifying poisonous fungus that can make people hallucinate, maybe Juan just smoked a cigarette containing the mycelium of the grimace mushroom, and then hallucinated and fell off the rooftop!
He first ran to the scene of the crime, picked up some cigarette butts on the ground, and then went to the police station. If cigarettes contain grimace mushrooms, then those cigarettes must have been "processed". That is, pour out the shredded cigarette of the cigarette, add the mycelium of the grimace mushroom and then put it back in, and there will definitely be residual grimace mushroom mycelium in the cigarette box!
Once the hyphae of the Grimace mushroom can be found in it, then Durin will not be able to escape from a second-degree murder charge. With such a crime, he had more time to dig into the details of Durin, and strive to solve the fraud case at the same time, but also solve the gold robbery.
He went back to the police station's evidence room to look at the evidence collected at the scene of Juan's suicide, and among the bits and pieces, he found a cigarette case that had been burned. He sat in a room next to the evidence room, carefully examining the cigarette case in his hand. This cigarette case is not much different from the cigarette box of most high-end cigarettes. The cigarette box itself was glued from very thin pieces of wood with a layer of wrapping paper attached to it, but the cigarette box had been burned out, and one of the pieces had a large area of burnt paste.
Then he looked inside the cigarette case, and was surprised to find that the tin foil used to wrap the cigarette inside was missing, he looked back and forth several times, returned to the evidence room, and checked everything found from the scene and Juan again, "What about the tin foil in the cigarette case?", he took out the burned cigarette case in his hand, and also took out his own cigarette case, "Look, there is a layer of tin foil in it?"
The officer shook his head and said a little impatiently: "Everything is here, if there is it, if there is it, if there is not, then there is none!"
Amp was silent for a moment, then returned to his room and continued to play with the cigarette case.
At this time, although the tax on tobacco was far less than that of other commercial taxes and liquor taxes, many people believed that tobacco taxes would also become an important source of tax revenue for the empire in the future. At this time, people are still accustomed to growing their own tobacco or buying it from other farmers, which can solve a large expense. But as the empire's economy is recovering rapidly and the power of capital is expanding wildly, the future industrial industry will inevitably squeeze the agricultural industry, and more and more people will go into the factories instead of farming in the countryside.
People who lose their cheap enjoyment of tobacco have to spend more money on cigarettes, which makes the cigarette industry swell rapidly.
At this time, the cigarette case was made of thin pieces of wood like a piece of paper, glued into a box, and the outside was pasted with wrapping paper. The cigarettes are then wrapped in tin foil, stuffed into a cigarette case, and finally the whole pack is immersed in oil wax to prevent the tobacco inside from getting damp and water. He looked at the burned cigarette case and pondered a question.
What can a palm-sized tin foil do?
Convey the message?
Or was someone already doing it after Juan's death?
But that's not right, if it's really as he thinks, adding grimace mushrooms to the shredded cigarettes, taking away the tin foil, but leaving the cigarette butts, what's the point?
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that there were too many things hidden behind Juan's "suicide". He held a pen in his hand and traced the burned cigarette case, and then returned the cigarette case to the officer, and the first thing he had to do was to analyze whether there was a grimace mushroom in the cigarette butt.
If there is, Doolin will have to face trial.
If not, then he reconsiders whether the burned cigarette case was intentional or accidental.
After spending a "rush fee", at about nine o'clock in the evening, he finally got the chemical analysis report of the cigarette butt, and among the hundreds of chemicals, no component of the grimace mushroom was found, which made Amp briefly confused about the direction of the investigation of this case again. (Of course, I know how much chemical composition tobacco has when it burns, and I also know how much chemical composition can be produced when tobacco is burned in another world, so this is not a clerical error)
When they returned to the hotel, the agents were all exhausted, and Amp put the matter aside and looked at the agents.
"How's the investigation of the demonstrations?"
The agent in charge of this matter shook his head, "There are no clues for the time being, the provincial Ya people who organized and initiated at that time all died in the 'gang vendetta', and the police station doesn't seem to care much about this case, there are no detailed investigation records, no further follow-up, and even some evidence has been disposed of." It's like ......"
Amp didn't wait for him to finish, and then went up and said, "It's like the police department knows the truth about this, so they gave up the investigation!"
"yes, that's what it feels like. The detective thought he had found a confidant and patted the edge of the table.
There is no doubt that the initiators of those groups have been killed by Doolin, and it is likely that the police have played a less glamorous role in this. Amp has been to many places and solved many cases, and he understands very well that in some places, in order to "cover the lid", even the city hall has taken the initiative to stand up and help some people and certain things take the initiative to clean up.
The death of a group of people is not reluctant to be characterized by a gang vendetta, but reluctantly because there is no follow-up to the case, and it is a local protection policy!
To exchange the lives of some poor people for the political lives of politicians, despicable, and shameless!
He looked at the other one, and the man shook his head.
There are still many theories about the involvement between the Carter family and the Fleurs family, involving the death of Carter's daughter and little Flears. There is evidence that Carter's wife left Illion out of grief and went back to her hometown, and that the old Flears family also left here, and there were witnesses to both events, and they all saw these men leave Illion. The agent who spoke paused, took out a cigarette and lit it, "I have been to the villa of the Flauce family, it is very clean and tidy inside and out, all the furniture and decorations are covered with dust cloths, and they are properly packed, not like they left in a hurry." ”