"Inspector Harold, why are you here? I heard on the way that another poor man had been murdered? ”

It was Mrs. William who spoke.

"That's right, my esteemed lady...... As you said, I'm here for this case. Inspector Harold graciously gave Mrs. William a hat salute.

"Oh?" Mrs. William let out a puzzled sound, and her eyes couldn't help but look at Zhou Daoan who was standing aside.

Before she could ask, Inspector Harold explained:

"Your apprentice – this Mr. Stephen Chow – he has a special interest in the case, or rather, some special gifts. So, I decided to bring in Stephen as a special adviser to help the police solve the case. It just so happens that you're here, and I need your approval, as he's nominally an apprentice here. Inspector Harold lifted the brim of his hat again, making a request.

"Stephen? Special Advisor? Mrs. William was a little surprised, and Dr. William couldn't help but raise her eyebrows. However, they didn't ask too much questions, but after a little hesitation, they nodded and said, "It is the duty and responsibility of every citizen to assist the police, and if Stephen can help and he is willing to do so, I don't think we have any reason to stop it." ”

"Great, thank you for your generosity! Well, for the rest of the day, Stephen will stay with me for the time being, until we catch the murderer, or ...... The killer reappears. Inspector Harold lifted the brim of his hat again and saluted.

In this way, Zhou Daoan packed two clothes that he had purchased later, and left the clinic with Inspector Harold.

I have the impression that the Ripper's crime time is relatively intensive. It could be as short as a week, ten days, or as long as a decade or a month, so he thought he was just leaving the clinic for a short time, and he didn't say a formal goodbye to Dr. and Mrs. William.

"You're going to follow me for the rest of your time, or...... Frank! As soon as Harold left the clinic, he lowered his voice and said in Zhou Daoan's ear, and also beckoned the young police officer who came with him, "If I'm not there or busy with other things, you will follow him all the way!" Anyway, Stephen, you can't act alone right now, understand? ”

Faced with such a simple and crude verification method, Zhou Daoan shrugged his shoulders and agreed.

Harold was in a rage and immediately took this "consultant" to the police station. At this time, the victim's body was left in the police station to be examined repeatedly, and as soon as Harold returned to the police station, a forensic doctor handed over a thick report.

Harold flipped through a few times, then frowned and said, "Nothing new?" He went straight to the morgue. Zhou Daoan quickly followed - since he wanted to help, catching the murderer was undoubtedly the best way to improve his favor, so he also wanted to take a look at the corpse, expecting to find out something.

The two female bodies were placed on the post-mortem bench. One of them was already an old corpse, but because the murderer was not caught, and the victim had no relatives to bury the body, it was kept in the freezer. However, this time when he pulled it out, corpse spots and corpse odor had already appeared on the corpse, and Zhou Daoan followed the example of everyone else, smearing it under his nose with spicy cool oil before he could get close to the corpse and observe.

The corpse had been cleaned up, but the open chest and abdomen and scratches all over the place made Zhou Daoan still sick to his stomach. If it weren't for the fact that he had been in the clinic for a while and had seen a lot of horrific trauma, he would have vomited directly this time.

He suppressed his nausea and carefully walked around the two corpses, occasionally getting closer to see the details. After reading this time, he also roughly had points in his heart.

To be honest, Zhou Daoan did not systematically study criminal investigation, even if he read a few detective novels in his previous life, he was far from practice. It's just that he comes from a similar world in the post-era, and he has some understanding of the case of the ripper, and can use the speculation that has been formed later to corroborate the corpse, so under the observation of the direction, there is indeed something to discover.

As the autopsy report shows, both of the deceased had signs of pregnancy, especially the second victim, Marlene, whose baby was even formed. The two female corpses had pregnancy spots on their abdomen, indicating that they had at least one child before.

The wounds were mainly knife wounds, and the first corpse had a particularly large number of knife wounds, the exact number is thirty-nine cuts, of which nine slashes were cut through the throat - only eight slashes could be distinguished, but if you look closely, there is a relatively shallow trace of the knife, which coincides with one of the slashes, so it was ignored before.

The second body had far fewer knife wounds, only eighteen. However, the victim suffered a severe blow to the face, nearly a third of his teeth were lost, his left and right cheeks were high and swollen, and his eardrum showed signs of rupturing, apparently caused by a slap.

As for the knife on the corpse that pointed most at the ripper—the wound in the abdomen—as Zhou Daoan knew, the knife in the abdomen of the first corpse was one and a half feet, but the knife was not deep enough to completely dissect the abdomen. The second corpse was cut about a foot by a foot and completely cut open the abdominal cavity.

Harold was also very serious, he carefully compared several details of the report and the corpse, and had to admit that the forensic examiner had done his best and did not miss anything. But from these alone, it is impossible to derive effective information about the murderer.

After looking at this circle, Harold's brow was already deeply locked. He didn't look for another place to talk in detail, but directly in this morgue and asked Zhou Daoan.

"Mr. Inspector, the forensic report is indeed very detailed, but there are two places that may still be slightly missing." Zhou Daoan didn't go around the bend, and directly said two problems that he "newly discovered".

"First, you can keep an eye on the wounds on the necks of the two corpses. Especially the first corpse, which had nine stabs in the neck. The second is much less. This point mentioned in the autopsy report that it is suspected that when the first victim was murdered, he was likely to have been directly stabbed, but several knives were not enough to be fatal, so that the murderer kept 'mending the knife'; But ......"

While explaining, Zhou Daoan approached the corpses, pointed to the two stab wounds on the two corpses, and said to Harold: "You might as well take a closer look at these two places, Mr. Detective, what do you find?" ”

Harold raised his eyebrows, looked closer, and saw that these were two sets of stab wounds at the lateral carotid artery, and the reason why they were called "groups" was because the stab wounds in both places consisted of two intersecting cuts. In particular, the location of the knife wound of the first corpse is where the "eight knives" were previously re-approved as "nine knives", and if there is no new ninth knife, the eighth knife and the seventh knife will form a "V" shaped wound, but with the small knife in the back, this wound becomes a fork.

"This is ......" Harold looked at for several seconds, his eyes widening the more he looked, and finally blurted out, "Cross!" ”

That's right, although the knife wound is irregular and looks crooked, it is precisely because of the ninth knife that the wound is out of the category of "arbitrary" and shows a deliberate component. And the group of knife wounds on the second corpse was obviously more comfortable - the two intersecting knife edges were crisp and neat, forming an oblique cross.

The cross wound cut on the carotid artery of the deceased is a clear sign of religious significance, and it also confirms that the murderer intended to "take revenge" - only for the sake of "revenge" will he deliberately leave a ritual mark on the corpse.

"Don't worry, Mr. Inspector." Zhou Daoan didn't wait for Harold to say anything else, and directly pointed to the second suspicion, "Look at it here." ”

In the second place, the hair of two prostitutes. The first Lisa's hair is black - although there is a lot of gray hair, it can still be seen that the original hair color is black. The second Ma Lian's hair is blonde - a very popular hair color in the West, but Zhou Daoan is pointing to the root of Ma Lian's hair. There is already new hair of a different color of one or two centimeters that has grown because it has not been dyed for a while.

"Dye your hair? What does this mean? Harold didn't react for a moment. It doesn't seem wrong for older prostitutes to dye their hair to hide their gray hair, or to make themselves more popular because of their hair color.

"Original hair color, Mr. Inspector. Her original hair color was also black. Zhou Daoan prompted.

Is it a coincidence that both of them have black hair? But if you combine the looks of these two people...... Their eyes are deep, and the bridge of their noses is high, even a little hook-like – especially Marlene's nose, which also has a distinct bulge at the bridge of the nose. This kind of physiognomy makes the two women look a little too tough.

However, such typical facial features, combined with black hair, also point to a nation.

Zhou Daoan didn't know what people called this nation in this world, so it was difficult for him to directly name this term. But fortunately, Inspector Harold finally reacted and blurted out:

"Semites! They were Hebrew Semites! ”

"Isn't there such a thing as 'Jew' in this world? Well, the Jews were originally a Semitic tribe, but they originated in the Hebrew land. At this point in time at the end of the 19th century, the Semites in a broad sense had been diluted, but the Jews had become the most representative part of this ethnic group, so the world did not specify the name......" Zhou Daoan explained.

However, from Inspector Harold's abrupt expression, Zhou Daoan has already sensed that this nation is also an "unflattering" existence in this world.

"So what? I have to admit that these two details you found are really things that we overlooked before...... But, the revenge plot plus the victims of the Semites...... Can the details you have found help us catch the murderer? At this moment, Inspector Harold looked at Zhou Daoan with burning eyes.