Chapter 262: The Key Question

"Raumi, I'm from Sweden." The girl replied, licking her lips.

Seeing that the other party was still a little uneasy, Zhang Heng took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to her, the latter thanked her, and it was not until she put the cigarette to her lips that she remembered a question, and said vigilantly, "You...... How do you know I smoke. ”

"It's a simple question, although you haven't smoked in a while, your teeth are yellowish, and you have small holes in your clothes that have been burned by cigarette ash." Zhang Heng said, but when he said this, he paused first, he found that he had probably lived with Sherlock Holmes for a long time, and now the way he spoke was becoming more and more like the latter.

Of course, on the other side, Sherlock Holmes was also influenced by him, and now he has practiced rock climbing, and by the way, he also asked Zhang Heng about the body of martial arts.

Raumi's exclamation pulled Zhang Heng's thoughts back, "Oh, what are you doing, this observation is too sharp." ”

"Detective." Zhang Heng said, "Actually, I came this time to investigate Bernice's accidental death, oh, and the two people before." ”

"You're a detective?" Raumi seemed relieved, "No wonder you're there, but I heard from the men at the tavern that the police hadn't already locked up the suspect, and they all said that the demon's good days were over." ”

Zhang Heng is inconvenient to comment on this, this has always been the usual practice of Scotland Yard, first release some vague scenes to stabilize the situation, because if you don't say so, then the pressure from the people will be greater, but in fact, only they know how far the investigation has been.

Therefore, Zhang Heng could only say, "I'm just helping to contribute, before the murderer is really caught, I advise you to pay attention to safety." ”

Raumi didn't care about this, "During this time, not only the girls who do this line of work are panicking, but there are also a lot fewer guests, everyone hates that guy with their teeth, and now it's not easy for me to get guests, how can there be so many air traffic controls, of course, if everyone is as generous as you, our life will be much better." ”

Zhang Heng didn't say anything more, but chose to change the topic, "Do you know all the three victims?" ”

Raumi hesitated, "Just like I said, the maid is also the territory of the maid, the first and third people are not familiar with me, but the second person, I live relatively close to her, and sometimes I will meet her." ”

"Edna?" Zhang Heng quickly retrieved the information related to the second victim from his mind, "What do you know about her?" ”

Raumi thought for a moment, "I heard that she had an Indian boyfriend who worked in a glass factory, but he was not good to Edna, he was a heavy drinker, and he would beat Edna when he got drunk. ”

Zhang Heng raised his eyebrows, this is a new clue, the police also found Edna's boyfriend, but they didn't know the latter's violent tendencies, and they didn't know that there had been a conflict between the two, but the possibility that Edna's boyfriend was Jack the Ripper was very small, because the police did a good job, Jack was drinking with people in the tavern on the night of Edna's death, and there were more than a dozen witnesses.

But this is a good sign, it seems that his previous decision to contact the group of maids can indeed help him, so Zhang Heng continued.

"Any other information?"

Raumi shook his head, "I don't know Edna very well, and my understanding of her is limited, in fact, this line of work is like this, everyone usually takes care of themselves, and they don't have time to take care of other people's affairs, oh, by the way, I don't know if this counts...... I heard that Edna had a child before she met her current boyfriend, but she sent her back home. ”

"Oh?" Zhang Heng was really interested this time.

Later generations have summarized the common denominator among the victims of the Whitechapel serial killings, except that they are all maidens, the vast majority of them have moderate to severe alcoholism, have cohabitants, and have children.

In the three homicide cases that Zhang Heng is experiencing now, although the name and age of the victim have changed to a certain extent, the characteristics of alcoholism and having cohabitants are still there, only the fact that he has children, and the second victim is different.

But now the information provided by Raomi has added to this link.

Zhang Heng can now be sure that Jack the Ripper does not just choose his target to see how easy it is, he does abide by a certain set of strict guidelines when hunting, or at least in the early stage of the crime, his target is carefully selected, and he may relax certain standards after being forced to a certain extent by the police in the later stage.

So the question is, how does he get the information about the target?

As Raumi said, even among the maids, there is a division of territory, and the maidens in different territories are not familiar, and the area where Jack the Ripper committed the crime is not small, not to mention that not many people know about the second victim Edna's child, or it only stays at the stage of rumors.

Even in the mixed East End, the women are at the bottom of the social ladder, and the men who live here need their services, but no one cares about anything outside of their bodies, and even if you see them every night, you still don't know anything about their living conditions, family health, and relationships.

If there were men who had deliberately collected this information, it would be difficult not to attract the attention of others, and although the officers in Scotland Yard were not as good as Sherlock Holmes in ability, they were not bad at diligence, and they checked carefully enough, if such a person really existed, it was impossible not to be discovered by them.

Interesting.

Zhang Heng realized that if he could solve the answer to this question, then he might not be far from finding Jack the Ripper.

Seeing that Zhang Heng stopped, as if he was thinking about something, Lao Mi on the side was a little apprehensive, and said, "I'm sorry, I'm stupid, and I don't have any friends, didn't I be able to help anything?" ”

"No, you're doing a good job, are you at the place to eat, you can have dinner first, and then we won't talk about homicides, let's talk about your daily life."

"My daily life?" Raumi was stunned, she had been doing this business for so long, and she had encountered a thousand strange requirements, but no one had ever been asked this most ordinary question, but then she seemed to realize something, and showed a look of sudden realization, "Oh, you want to hear ...... me and other guests"

"No, no, no, it's just your hobbies, the places you go every day, the people you meet, and so on, I don't need the details." Zhang Heng explained that he just wanted to understand the living conditions of the group of servants through Raumi, so as to find out how Jack the Ripper chose his prey.

Derpy said

Thanks to Brother Sauce, I'm really embarrassed to watch the pirated version, and the reward of Xi's eternal juggernaut children's boots~