Marcy's fingers flicked slightly around the edges of the three-dimensional hologram, and the entire data mass spun slightly, turning some of the hidden data outward. Ed was silent, with his eyes half-closed and his hands folded in front of his chest, watching Marcy's movements seriously.

"You already know most of the situation," Marcy said, her voice completely businesslike, "living in Bakitardon XVI. The couple at 2,174 Main Street was indeed addicted to drugs after investigation, and had a long history of drug abuse. They did have a fifteen-year-old child, a girl named Susan. This girl's parents started to take drugs when she was a few years old, and she can be said to have grown up in a rather chaotic environment. ”

Marcy sighed as she said this.

"If I were her," she said, "I'm afraid I'd have slaughtered such parents long ago." No matter how bad it is, I will run away from home, and I would rather be displaced than go home. ”

"That sounds like your style." Ed tilted his head and poked the photos of the two dead couples in the light and shadow data cluster with his chin in the air, "Have you found out the cause of their deaths, and did they really take drugs before they died?" ”

"The autopsy report has not yet come out, and the procedure has not been completed." Marcy said, "But after the forensic identification at the scene, the two were indeed in a nervous state of excitement before their deaths, close to madness." No drugs or drug paraphernalia were found at the scene, so we deduced that they most likely cleaned up everything while they were awake and then lay down in bed and fell asleep, chatting while sleeping. Then, they may have talked about something that neither of them liked, and it just so happened that at this time, the poison had an attack, and they jumped up from the bed arguing and cursing, and then killed each other with a perfect move, and at the same time they were killed by the other party. ”

"Terrific inference." Ed said dryly, "That's amazing." ”

"It's sneering, isn't it?" Marcy glanced at Ed on the side, "So big detective, you come and tell me, what are your thoughts?" The results of the forensic examination at the scene showed that regardless of whether they had taken drugs before their deaths, the fatal injuries on their bodies were the same two places that were visible to the naked eye - the scissors in the man's eye, and the woman's smashed back of the head. There is nothing to question. ”

"I don't have any ideas. Unless I was there at the time, watching the two of them roll the sheets, I wouldn't be sure of anything. At least not yet. Ed said, then looked at the other photos in the holographic data cluster, "Have you found out the identities of those people?" ”

"You mean the guys who fight you during the day."

"They beat me badly."

"What I see is different, and it's not what they say."

Marcy glanced at Ed's side face. Marks of the blow could still be seen on the edge of Ed's temple, but they were not noticeable. This man has a body that is very resistant to beatings and falls, and he has been tempered a lot.

"They said you beat them up."

"They're lying." Ed is serious, serious, serious, and breathless, "I just won by luck." They almost killed me. ”

"I hope so."

"I wish you could talk less nonsense." Ed glared at Marcy. Marcy chuckled.

"It's not that I don't say it, it's that there's nothing to say." Marcy pulled up the photos of the four people, including sunglasses, enlarged them, and then leaned back in her seat, exhaling a little helplessly, "We don't know who they are...... I don't know who the fuck they are! ”

“……”

The first time he heard a dirty word from Marcy's mouth made Ed squint his eyes and look at her for half a minute, holding his breath for half a minute. It wasn't until he felt a little breathless that his chest shook and his Adam's apple moved up and down.

"What do you mean?" He asked, "What do you mean you don't know who they are?" ”

"They don't say anything." Marcy waved her hand, her brows furrowed, and her expression gloomy, "My mouth is like iron, and I would rather be punished than confide in half a word." We don't know more than you tell me. For the rest, they didn't even tell us who they were and where they lived. ”

"Didn't you look it up for yourselves?"

"Checked. As a result, there is nothing wrong with everything found on the surface, and all of them have their own legitimate jobs, legitimate occupations, and normal lives...... Except that none of them have families, no close friends, and no real connection to each other. ”

Raising his eyebrows, Ed looked at Marcy and nodded slowly. He understood, understood. What did Marcy mean, understood why her face was so ugly, and understood why she suddenly let go of her sweet words.

The city office, located in the center of the city of Stuttgar, is the highest level of law enforcement in the city of Stuttgar, the highest level of law enforcement in the local government, is the "biggest cannon", "the hardest gun", "the sharpest saber" in the city, and has the power and strength that no unit organization in the city can match.

But the answer to Marcy's question now is as shit as a joke - if those four people were really ordinary people with their own legitimate jobs, proper occupations, and normal lives, if they really happened to have no family, no friends, and no real contact with each other, Marcy would have jumped into his car all the way north and crashed to death on the border barrier!

"That's not small, these guys." Ed said indifferently, calmly concluding, "I underestimated them. ”

"It's not like this hasn't happened before." Marcy looked at the photos in the data group, "As a rule of thumb, they should belong to a large, highly sophisticated organization, which could be the secret department of a conglomerate, or it could be a gangster. ”

"If it's a gangster, it will definitely not be a petty fight, and it is likely that it has touched the high-level management of the underground kingdom." Edmore rubbed his chin, "That would be trouble." ”

"Whoever they are, one thing is certain." Marcy said suddenly.

"What's the matter?"

"They're probably not the same people who supply drugs to our outlaws." Marcy turned her head and looked at Ed as she looked at him, "The reason these people are involved with the two who died is not drugs. Drugs were the family's own problem for a long time, and those people would come to them because of something else. ”

"Ah...... That's right. Ed nodded thoughtfully, "'That thing.'" ”

"We still don't know what 'that thing' is."

"If you know, then things might be simpler. And things are never so simple, just simple. Ed said, looking at the data mass that was constantly moving like an ocean current, and suddenly frowned, "What about another person?" ”

"You mean, the doctor." Marcy's face suddenly became strange.

"Of course," Ed said, looking at Marcy, "she's a key person. Now the girl from that family is missing, and witnesses say she took her away. You're not going to miss her, are you? ”

"Of course you can't miss it." Marcy also frowned slightly, and gritted her teeth and inhaled, as if thinking about something, "But this is the most serious problem I want to tell you about today...... The eyewitness—the old lady from the door, the doctor she was talking about...... It simply doesn't exist. ”

“…… What are you talking about? Ed asked. His face sank.

"I know what you're thinking." Marcy wasn't surprised by Ed's reaction, "I looked like you when I first got the news, but that's exactly what happened. Mrs. Bing's description of the female doctor is detailed, and we went all the way to a remote clinic in a converted private house in the Wheelner district northeast of the city center, where there was indeed a registered physician who had been working there for three years. But the house itself was not hers, but belonged to a father and daughter, and the doctor himself rented only half of their place for business. Based on the description of the father and daughter, it seemed that the doctor was indeed the person we were looking for. But she's gone, and she's been missing since last night. ”

"I feel like you've found a lot of it." Ed asked, "Why do you say the doctor doesn't exist?" ”

"Because she just doesn't exist." Marcy glanced at Ed, "After digging deeper, we found out that the identity she used to register was fake, and it popped out of nowhere three years ago, as if it were one person who appeared out of thin air. Until then, the record of this identity was blank, clean as a homeless man's pocket. All we know is one name. ”

"What's the name?"

"'Tithes.'"

“……”

"That's the doctor's name." Marcy took a breath, "I can say that to you...... Whoever this 'tithe' is, relative to the official power of the city...... To 'us', she is a ghost, a ghost like an urban legend. ”

Ed rubbed his nose and was silent, staring at the data image projected on Marcy's phone, sticking out his tongue and licking his lips. He pressed the right side of his chest, reached into his arms, pulled out his cigarette case, and lit a cigarillo for himself.

Marcy watched Ed's movements, snatching the humidor before he could take it back. She glanced at Ed as she looked at the familiar lines on the cigarette case, then unceremoniously pulled out one and put it in her mouth.

She dug into her pocket, but searched all over her pockets and couldn't find what she wanted. So she reached out directly to Ed, all the way to Ed's face.

Ed bit down on his cigarette and put the lighter on the palm of his hand without saying a word.