Before meeting the Security Bureau, Leo had always thought that the guards and city guards in each city of Seventh Lake were one, but now it seems that the two belong to two different departments, despite their very similar uniforms.

The best way to distinguish is that the city guards are all people with obvious ancestral state of the body, while the guards are not obvious from the ancestral state of the body, and there are many guards who are even ordinary people.

The two are also in charge of different things, one is in charge of public security, and the other is in charge of cases, there is no difference between the two, just because most of the ordinary civilians in the dream world advocate ancestral statehood, and the more obvious the ancestral state of the organ, the easier it is to gain respect and fear, so under the effect of this mentality, the prestige and status of the security bureau in the people are more than a step worse than that of the city guard.

Over time, even the agents of the Security Bureau themselves felt inferior to the City Guards from the bottom of their hearts, so that the assigned office building was only one-third the size of the adjacent City Guard, and it was very dilapidated, and it seemed that it had not been repaired for a long time.

Marek ushered Leo into the old five-story building of the District 23 Security Bureau and led him to the basement.

Although Marek is the director of the Security Bureau, there is no respect for this director within the Security Bureau, let alone standing up and saluting Marek, and he doesn't even want to look at Marek more, and even some people in senior guard clothes look at Marek with naked hostility.

"You don't seem to have a good relationship with your men?" Leo said bluntly to Marek, who was leading the way, when he saw this.

Malek didn't seem to care about the relationship with his subordinates, and said: "No one likes a head of the security bureau who appears out of thin air, especially those who think that they may be in the position of director, they are not willing to fail like this, and they dare not attack me, they can only take various opportunities to spread rumors about me, and finally become what I am now." ”

Leo laughed again: "Do you tell me that you are the only person in the entire security bureau who really wants to investigate the case, and the others just want to wait to see your jokes, right?"

"Yes. Marek readily admitted Leo's guess, then pushed the basement door open, led Leo in, pointed to a corpse that had been placed on the dissecting table, and said: "This is the corpse you need to decompose, I used some connections to say that the Novitsky family will take the corpse out for examination, so you should move faster, after three ticks, the Novitsky family will come to take the corpse, it is best not to let them see what we are doing now." ”

Leo didn't rush forward to check on the body, but took a look at his surroundings. It was clear that this morgue had been specially built at the suggestion of Peter Alcott, as he had seen many shadows of the Earth Federation's Paleo-Earth era forensic autopsy sites, the cold winter barn used to freeze corpses, the surgical lights used to increase the brightness, and the water pipes and waterways around the dissecting table to clean blood, etc.

Malek took the initiative to explain: "The room was modified according to Peter's request, and it has not been used yet, and I originally wanted him to check if there was anything missing, but he was nowhere to be seen, which is really a headache." ”

Leo put the suitcase in his hand on the table next to the morgue, then took off his coat, hung it on a hook on the side, took off a doctor's gown that covered his whole body, put it on, put on leather gloves, walked to the morgue, opened the suitcase, took out the dissecting tools one by one, and placed them on the table one by one.

Marek walked across from Leo and stood quietly, waiting for the results of the autopsy.

Leo is no stranger to human anatomy, which was a compulsory course during the Earth Federation, but forensic anatomy and human anatomy are two different things, and he doesn't know what the specific steps are, so he can only suggest the next step in the analysis of the paracerebral system.

This corpse is an obvious descendant of a nobleman, and the reason why Leo judged it this way is because the ancestral state on his body presents a stable hidden state, and only the ancestral state of the body of some aristocratic families that have been inherited for more than three generations will completely turn into a hidden state. In this way, the nobles will look like ordinary people in normal times, and only when necessary will they stimulate recessive ancestry, just like some variants of the Earth Federation's genetic mutants.

These secrets about the nobility originated from the books previously collected from Peter Alcott's hut, and although Leo had only recorded the contents of the books and had not read them all himself, the parabrain system was able to include them in the data analysis sequence.

Upon closer inspection, Leo discovered that the deceased's fatal wounds originated in the chest, and that the knife-like weapon had pierced the heart at close range, killing him instantly, without even having a chance to resist. Later, the body was torn open and four organs were removed: heart, lungs, stomach and kidneys.

When Leo saw the hollowed-out chest, he was stunned, as if he had thought of something, and did not continue to dissect the corpse to investigate the cause of death, but stopped and pondered for a moment.

Malek on the side wanted to ask Leo about the situation several times, but he couldn't help it, because he was worried that he would interrupt Leo's train of thought, and according to his past experience working with Peter, the consequences of interrupting his train of thought would be serious.

After a short time, Leo recovered from his contemplation and did not explain, but continued to dissect until the final dissection was completed, and then carefully examined the various parts of the corpse, down to the toes.

After the inspection, Leo stopped, carefully cleaned the various dissecting instruments one by one, and put them back in the suitcase.

After taking off his gloves and clothes, he changed into his own clothes and said to Malek, who was already showing a look of anxiety: "The fatal wound of the deceased was in the chest, and the sharp weapon penetrated the heart directly at close range, killing him on the spot. After death, the organs of the deceased were removed, but the person who removed the organs was very rusty, and the parts of the knife were wrong, so the organs he removed were somewhat incomplete. ”

"The technique is rusty?" Malek was stunned when he heard Leo's words, and leaned over to the dissected corpse to take a closer look at the hollowed-out chest, but he couldn't see anything abnormal, so he walked to the side of the refrigerator, opened a cabinet door, dragged out a female corpse that had been dissected and frozen in ice, and said, "Is it the same as the method used when the organs of this corpse were removed?"

Leo stepped forward, looking like he was carefully examining the frozen corpse, but in fact, he had already obtained the results of the subbrain analysis at a glance, and his attention was now focused on the Turing root on the freezer.

This Turing root is not complicated, it is made up of more than 20 basic roots, and it is easy to remember, but the arrangement of these basic roots and the connection symbols between each root are very different from what Rembrandt said. This allows Leo to recognize the roots, but only by the meaning of the individual root roots is that the basic utility of the Turing root is to absorb heat, rather than release cold air as he had guessed.

"How's it going? Isn't it the same?" Seeing that Leo didn't speak for a long time, Marek asked impatiently.

"It's not the same. Leo pulled his attention back, stretched out his hand and pointed to the surgical scar of the internal organs of this corpse, and said: "The person who handled this corpse is very familiar with the dissection, the knife is accurate, there is no superfluous knife, he knows all parts of the internal organs very well, and the organs removed are also complete. As he spoke, he said in a deep voice: "If you want to investigate the murderer of this corpse, it is best to find it from the point of being proficient in decomposition, there are very few people in the Apothecary Association who know how to decompose organs, and even fewer people who are proficient. ”

When he said this, Leo appeared in front of his eyes a list of the latest academic reports of the Pharmacists Association, almost all of the academic reports are the improvement of pharmaceutical prescriptions, and the medical academic science related to surgery is only the same, that is, how many times can the bridge of the nose be rubbed to clear the nasal congestion, so decomposition or anatomy is also an unpopular medicine in this world.

"What about the corpse?" Like most people here, Marek was not interested in the cause of a prostitute's death or finding the murderer, but in the question of the nobleman's body.

Leo could feel that the identity of the heir to the Novitsky family made Marek feel particularly nervous, so he said simply: "I can only tell you that the murderer who killed him, the person who dissected his internal organs, and the person who killed this woman are not the same person. ”

"What?" said Malek's face grimaced.

"There's one more thing that might work for you. Leo added, "The place where that nobleman was killed is not the same place as the place where the guts were dismantled, and there are traces of a lot of movement on this nobleman's body. The place where he fell was supposed to be a garden, and there were some grass clippings and flower petals in his hair, which was not common in the outer cities, let alone in the 23rd District. In addition, it was only three standards after his death that the ring was disassembled and the internal organs removed. ”

After hearing Leo's analysis, Marek quickly seemed to think of something, and his face became extremely ugly.

"Need I give you a suggestion?" Leo said as he straightened his clothes, picked up his suitcase, and turned to a grimacing Malek.

"Suggestions?" Malek hurriedly said as if grasping at a life-saving straw, "Any good suggestions?"

Leo smiled and said, "Either leave this matter alone, even if you are demoted, you have to withdraw from this matter, or you can close the case as soon as possible, and you must not delay." ”

"You ......" Malek looked at Leo with a slight shock, and said urgently, "Do you know anything?"

"Isn't this an obvious thing?" Leo looked at the corpse on the autopsy table and said: "Family infighting, one party assassinates the other, and then uses the murder case in District 23 to let his subordinates transport the body to District 23, disguise themselves as those victims, and finally find another ......"

"Don't say it!" Marek interrupted Leo, and then said solemnly to Leo, "In that case, I want to stay in this room only, and now you can go." As Leo reached the door, he added, "Thank you, Mr. Dodd, for your advice. ”

"You're welcome!" Leo replied indifferently.

After coming out of the basement, Leo temporarily put Malek behind him and began to think about the body of the victim of the murder.

For Marek and the others, it is not clear why the murderer took the four internal organs of the victim, but Leo is well aware that the murderer who created these murders is to resurrect someone, and those internal organs and kidnappers should be sacrificed.

Leo didn't know why he would have such thoughts after seeing the corpse with the entrails hollowed out, and it was certain that there was no mention of resurrecting others by means of four methods of entrail and human sacrifice in any of his memories.

But even if he couldn't find any reason for this thought, Leo was sure that he was right, which made him feel a little confused and displeased.

Confused because he had never encountered such a thing, unhappy because things seemed out of his control.

"The book of Peter Alcott. Leo quickly thought that maybe there was a place that could help him.

Thinking of this, he quickened his pace and walked back, in order to rush back as soon as possible, he did not walk to the main street where he came, but after identifying the direction, he collected the surrounding terrain data through the spirit network, and walked directly through the labyrinthine alleys in the center of the city, traveling in a straight line.

Because the current time is the early morning of the world of Velon, the city guards who used to patrol back and forth in the alleys have gone back to rest, the prostitutes who stood in the alleys to solicit guests have returned to the house, and those pleasure seekers who can't control their lower bodies have also left, which makes the alley, which is not crowded with people, become more and more deserted, and Leo walked more than a dozen streets in an alley without meeting a single person.

Instead, swarms of rat-like creatures emerge from their hiding places and search the alleys for all sorts of food.

Leo slowed down after the spirit web sensed these rat-like creatures, the reason why these creatures attracted Leo's attention was because they were the second flesh-and-blood creature that Leo had seen since he came to this dream world.

After coming to this dream world, Leo saw the most dream spirits, although these dream spirits look no different from flesh and blood creatures, but if you perceive them with a spirit net, or observe them with a spiritual vision, you can see that they will show a very special kind of spiritual energy fluctuations.

However, now these rat-like creatures walking through the alleys do not have any psionic fluctuations, and the spiritual web can easily penetrate into their bodies, seeing their internal organs and flesh and bones.

The reason why they say that these are just rat-like creatures is mainly because although their form is very similar to that of rats, their limbs are relatively long, and they do not run on all fours, but run on their hind limbs like humans, and their forelimbs are free to hold things, and there are even some rat-like creatures wearing human-like clothes, and they talk to each other in a special rat sound, and people who see them can easily feel that they are intelligent creatures.

"Big guy, what are you looking at?" Just as Leo was caught in the attention of the rat-like creatures and stopped to take a closer look, a shrill voice came from beneath his feet.

Leo looked down and saw a rat wearing leather armor and leather boots standing at his feet, with a toothpick-sized bayonet sword pinned to his waist, and what was surprising was that both the leather armor, the bayonet sword, and the rat itself emitted bursts of psionic energy fluctuations.