Chapter 90: The Orphan of the Fog (42)
It was shorter than Zhou Dao'an imagined, but in just 5 minutes, Fred woke up from this "fugue" state!
His lips trembled unconsciously, he grabbed the glass of water on the table with both hands, frantically filled himself with a full glass of water, and then poured the remaining little water on his face!
"It's more complicated than we thought, Stephen ......," Fred said, almost "gritting his teeth," as if trying to control the shock inside. Then, with great difficulty, he stood up on the table, didn't even bother to put his shoes on, poked them casually, and said, "We have to do it now!" ”
"You see Mrs. William...... action? Zhou Daoan was also anxious.
"No, I didn't see what she was going to do, I saw what she was going to do!" Fred limped out of the office as he summoned most of the officers in the police department, including the medical examiner.
"Urgent, everyone come with me!" Fred's expression was serious, and he definitely looked like something big was happening.
Although he still wanted to ask Fred what he saw, looking at the hurried appearance of the group, Zhou Daoan also knew that Fred had no time to explain at this time.
Next, the huge team of police officers did not go to the apartment agreed by Elizabeth, but went to a place that Zhou Daoan was also familiar with - the home of Dr. William and his wife!
When he came to this relatively remote single-family building in the East District, Fred instructed the police officers to pick the lock with iron bars and wires before saying to Zhou Daoan:
"The note left by Mrs. Wilhelm reads: Go home, I have a gift for you...... That's what I just saw! 'Foresight' is not only to see what will happen in the future, but on the contrary, if there are no 'bloody' events in the future in a short period of time, we will go back in time and see the 'bloody' events that have happened in the past. That's ......how I saw Aaron Kosminki and the bodies of the victims."
"So, what do you mean...... It's not what Mrs. William is going to do, but what she has done?! Zhou Daoan tasted it a little and pondered it! This couldn't help but make a layer of sweat break out on his back - oh my God, he had underestimated the extent of Mrs. William's inner twist, and the face of another character, who was about to be forgotten by him, gradually became clear!
He actually didn't want to extrapolate from this aspect! Because both Dr. William and Mrs. William are in this world, and there are few people who are relatively close to him, and even say that they are kind to him. Their relationship has long gone beyond that of an employer and a domestic helper.
What Zhou Daoan wanted to do most was to stop Mrs. William's possible criminal behavior, so that he could save the situation and eliminate the deep misunderstanding between the couple. But if Mrs. William has ...... Zhou Daoan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, praying in his heart that he would not develop as he imagined.
Seeing that Zhou Daoan had already understood, Fred didn't explain more, and it just so happened that one of his police officers had already picked the door lock, and immediately, a group of people poured into the house.
This is a two-story building, but only four rooms and a small living room, according to later generations, it is a small building. Although the area is not large, it is neatly cleaned and clean, showing the cleanliness of the owner as a doctor.
Just this morning, Zhou Daoan had been here, and Mrs. William had taken out a good set of clothes from Dr. William's closet so that he could follow him to the ceremony. At the moment, he was still wearing this dress, but the purpose and mood of coming here were completely wrong.
"Cellar!" No matter what Zhou Daoan was thinking at the moment, Fred had already led the people straight and walked towards the kitchen.
Although Dr. and Mrs. William's house has a kitchen, the occupancy rate is extremely low. Since the two men moved to the East End, they may have fired no more than 20 times in more than three years. They usually eat in cheap clinics, or buy cooked food, which is a bit of a single white-collar worker in later generations, for a simple reason - Mrs. William's ten fingers do not touch the spring water.
As a result, their kitchens are equipped with only very simple utensils, and now the utensils used for cooking tea and water are covered with a thin layer of dust, apparently not used in recent times—yes, even these utensils have been shelved since Lilith returned to the country.
In this era, there are no refrigerators, so people often yearn for a cellar when they live at home. And this one-story "building within a building" has this configuration. However, according to common sense, since the kitchen is not fired, the cellar has become the ear of the deaf - the ornament.
And because the cellar is unused, it is even more neglected – especially for the owner of the cellar.
When Fred pointed directly at the cellar and several agents immediately stepped forward to open the wooden gate of the cellar, Zhou Daoan felt a sense of foreboding.
"Illumination!" The first agent had already leaned down, asked his colleague for a wind lamp, and stuck his head into the cellar.
After a few minutes of watching, the agent stood up again, then shook his head, signaling that he didn't see anything.
"Nothing was stored, and it was all sanitized – a smell of lime. The whole floor is grayish-white, presumably paved with lime......"
"Lime!"
The speaker is unintentional, but the listener is intentional! The word lime touched Zhou Daoan at once, and in an instant, he thought of a few days ago, when he was counting the inventory of the clinic pharmacy, he found that there was not much left of a warehouse of more than ten kilograms of quicklime when he was counting the inventory of the clinic pharmacy!
He reported the matter to Dr. William, who took over and said that she had given a considerable amount of lime to a patient with bronchitis. Because in the era when medicine was not developed, lime was indeed used to treat bronchitis. In addition, Mrs. William has always been characterized as "not knowing the price of firewood and rice", and she has always been generous, so neither Zhou Daoan nor Dr. William took it seriously at that time.
However, as we all know, lime can do a lot of things! Medicinal use is only part of it, one of the more extensive uses is embalming! It masks the smell well, evaporates the water, and keeps the lifeless flesh intact.
Zhou Daoan, who was beating in his heart, didn't say a word, and directly stepped forward to grab the wind lamp, and then jumped down from the cellar by himself!
Sure enough, the bottom of the cellar was covered with a thick layer of lime, and as soon as it hit the ground, my feet stepped on it, as if I had stepped on a solid earth. However, the cellar is not large, and when you look around, a thin layer of lime is covered here, and a few kilograms of lime are enough. But if more than a dozen kilograms of lime are used here, it can only mean that the layer covered by the ground is thicker than imagined!
"Shovel!" Zhou Daoan shouted at it, and soon, a small shovel was handed down.
Zhou Daoan took it and went down directly with a shovel against the lime layer in the middle......
"Bang-" There was a muffled sound, and the shovel did not take any special effort to shovel the lime that had not yet been blended into a solid form, one shovel, two shovels...... Only the third time, Zhou Daoan clearly felt that the tip of the shovel had touched a foreign object.
Cold sweat broke out on his forehead, but still, waving his shovel, he sped up to turn over the lime-covered area.
For a while, the cellar was full of dust, but Zhou Daoan, who was standing in it, couldn't take care of it.
The scene in front of him was like a heavy hammer, knocking on his heart.
It was an intact, broken corpse. It is said to be in good condition because it is covered with lime and is in excellent condition; It is said to be broken because the body itself is mutilated-
The corpse was completely unarmed, and the abdomen was directly dissected, and the wound was extremely long and huge, making the entire abdominal cavity open!
The internal organs of the corpse were still in place, except for the uterus, which had been completely cut off, and was missing.
Yes, it's a female corpse! And it's someone Zhou Daoan knows-
Lilith, who had been away from the clinic for a while, was told by Mrs. William to resign and go back to the countryside on a blind date, the ordinary-looking, even a little wooden, and a maid with a very low sense of presence.
As the body was excavated, Zhou Daoan closed his eyes in pain.
Things really went in the direction he didn't want to see, and that was - Mrs. William had committed murder.
"Ah, sure enough, there's a corpse, this wound...... Sizzle, it's the ripper! A police officer who then poked his head into the cellar to observe, was already yelling.
Fred was obviously still relatively composed, after all, he had already witnessed this scene in "foresight", he quickly arranged for his men to take out the body and all relevant evidence, and at the same time, began a detailed investigation of the entire room.
After a while, an agent returned to the kitchen with a grim face and handed it to Fred.
Fred didn't say much, and just flipped through it quickly, but the more he flipped through it, the slower it became...... In the end, he took a long breath before handing over this retro and exquisite book to Zhou Daoan, who was sitting on the floor without saying a word.
With three points of numbness, Zhou Daoan silently took the notebook, opened the title page, and a line of graceful and sharp handwriting was displayed in front of him:
Liz Constantine's private diary, don't look at it.
Constantine, the surname of Mrs. Wilhelm's family before she got married, and the fact that she used her real name here to write a diary, in addition to being very early, shows that she has a deep sense of autonomy and is an independent woman.
"I got into the Royal College of Physicians, and from today onwards, I want to record my life full of hope. When I'm old, I'll be able to reminisce about my youth on the fire......"