Chapter Ninety-Five: The Orphan of the Fog (47)

St. Mary's Cathedral is a landmark building in the eastern district of Wudu, with a radius of five kilometers around it, all of which are called cathedral areas.

And in this area, not far from the stately building of St. Mary's Cathedral, a vicious murderer has committed four shocking and vicious crimes.

Yes, today, in the early hours of September 30, 1888, the body of the fourth victim, who died at the hands of "Jack the Ripper", is displayed in tatters in the episcopal square south of St. Mary's Cathedral.

When the police arrived at the scene, only three patrol officers were on the scene - of course, there were no crowds of onlookers at this point.

Everyone's faces were not good-looking. They have been mentally stressed all this time, and every day they are guarding against the repetition of the ripper Jack. However, this time, most of the police force was transferred out of the St. Mary's Cathedral area, so that the murderer had a keen sense of smell to find a breakthrough.

"Where's Frank?" Fred arrives at the scene and does not see Frank.

"Frank went after the suspect - this was the closest we've gotten to that bastard! Damn, let him escape from under our noses......" said one of the patrolmen through gritted teeth.

He then briefly recounted the case: Shortly before 2 a.m. – because the bell tower's chiming clock was heard about 10 minutes later – a group of patrol officers who had been patrolling the area found an earring on a street corner 500 meters from the Patriarch's Square. The light from the fake pearl accessory on the earrings indicates that the cheap piece of jewelry is likely to belong to the kind of cheap prostitutes.

The patrol immediately called another group of patrol officers led by Frank, and the four of them followed the earrings, and found another earring, bracelet and other fragmentary items one after another, which took them around the Sect Leader Square for half a circle.

At this time, Frank immediately suggested that it was likely that someone did it on purpose - because when the patrolmen passed by here at half past one, there was nothing unusual, and in just 10 minutes, there were suspected jewelry of selling women, and one was left every other way, which was obviously with ulterior motives. Because if these jewelry were left by the victim, then it means that the victim still has the ability to act, why didn't she just call for help? It can't be the clues left by this prostitution girl to the patrol officers in order to track the suspects, right?

In other words, it is likely that this was deliberately left by the murderer to divert the tiger from the mountain. And Frank also knows that most of the manpower in the bureau has been requisitioned at the moment, so he is seriously understaffed at the moment. And this area—near the Patriarch's Square—is an area with relatively dense buildings and a staggered mix of large roads and small roads, and if these patrolmen were scattered, it would be impossible to block all the exits.

Frank is not a brave and unscrupulous person, but he followed Zhou Daoan before, and his thinking was a little sluggish. He immediately recalled the route he had taken, and immediately made a decision, leading the patrolmen straight to the center of the circle, the Sect Master Square. It was the only place in the area that was spacious and unobstructed by buildings, and it stands to reason that the killer should avoid such an area, otherwise it would be easy to be seen from a distance. But the so-called reverse thinking, the Sect Master Square is exactly the place that the patrolmen tend to ignore! As long as the murderer has a time difference, according to his "skillful" methods, he will soon be able to complete the murder case!

A few minutes later, Frank and his four colleagues had already rushed to the Sect Leader Square, and under the illumination of the searchlight, a black shadow immediately flashed in the center of the Sect Leader Square! Rush towards the patrolmen in the opposite direction!

Frank immediately took the lead and rushed straight over, passing by the center of the square, and sure enough, a "fresh" female corpse was lying on the ground - the murderer had already completed the crime in a few minutes.

Without bothering to look at the body, Frank could only leave one patrol officer to watch the scene, and the other three continued to chase after him.

Some time later, the other two patrol officers also returned to the scene one after another. The reason is that the suspects who are tracking seem to have already designed an evacuation route, trying to find some places with many forks in the road, and there are only three patrol officers, and they can only chase separately when they encounter a fork in the road. The two returning patrol officers found that the road had come to an end after chasing for a while, but they still did not catch the suspect, so they could only return depressed.

Now, only Frank has not returned, and it is unknown where he has gone. Fred immediately sent his men and scattered to find Frank's traces.

Zhou Daoan and Fred were silent and walked over to the corpse to inspect it. At a glance, Zhou Daoan knew that this was indeed the "masterpiece" of the Ripper-

A typical Semitic woman over forty years of age, her eyes glaring in horror, her mouth gagged with her own obscene pants, so that she could not make a sound. The hands and feet were rigidly tied, and the hemp rope was stuck in the flesh, indicating that the deceased had struggled violently, but to no avail.

The victim had a shocking cross-shaped wound on his neck, which completely rolled the flesh and ruptured the artery, causing him to die of massive bleeding.

Her blouse had been rudely cut, her lower skirt was missing, her neck was completely bare, her shriveled RU room was as empty as a water bag, and her lower abdomen covered with stretch marks was lifeless......

A long knife opened the abdominal cavity and exposed it to everyone, and the intestines dragged up to the right chest, emitting a pungent odor.

The medical examiner immediately went to check on him, and soon he reported to Fred that three-quarters of the victim's uterus had been cut out and one kidney had been missing. This time, the murderer's knife technique once again showed great progress, and all the cutting marks were very smooth and neat, indicating that the murderer had completed the torture and dissection in a very short time.

Tied up like a stick, sitting on the ground in the open air, and open on all sides—this should be the scene that Fred foresaw!

But what if Fred foresaw it? They still didn't stop the crime.

"At least, we saved Elizabeth...... Fred said comfortingly, he sighed and looked ahead, "Now, we can only wait for Frank to see if he can bring good news......

Said Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived. As the shouts of several patrolmen came, Frank was helped and limped over.

"Are you alright, Frank?" As soon as he saw this posture, Fred knew that Frank's tracking was fruitless, but he didn't dwell on it, quickly adjusted his mentality, and cared about Frank.

“F…… K! Frank snorted in frustration, looking discouraged, "I'm really close to him, I almost caught this bastard......"

Frank then recounts his pursuit - the suspects had lost track of each other after they had taken a few forks in the road with the patrolmen. But Frank is obviously not a person to give up easily, and after chasing the murderer separately with several companions, he finally finds the suspect on Goldston Street by feeling.

At that time, the suspect was scribbling something on the recruitment wall of Goldon Street, the street where Zhou Daoan first looked for a job, and where there was a "recruitment wall"! Seeing the reappeared detective, the suspect immediately turned around and fled. But one is from stopping to starting, and the other is already running, so Frank immediately closes the distance between him and the suspect.

Just as Frank was about to pounce on the suspect from behind, a wooden stick suddenly flew out of the darkness and struck directly on the shin bone of Frank's calf. Suddenly, a heart-piercing pain came, and Frank fell to the ground screaming.

And the black shadow in front of him took advantage of this opportunity to quickly run away and disappear into the night.

"It can't be such a coincidence! This son of a mother is not a person who is sinning! Frank gritted his teeth, "I didn't see his accomplices, but that stick could not have been so coincidental at that critical moment!" ”

Frank's words made Fred frown again - the ripper was not acting alone, which undoubtedly provided a new way of thinking for the police. However, with accomplices, this also undoubtedly means that the arrest operation is more difficult. Moreover, Frank still did not find anything substantial this time, neither the appearance of the suspect nor anything that could point to his identity.

"What do you say, he scribbles on the 'recruitment wall' on Goldston Street?" Fred pondered for a moment, grasping another key clue.

"yes, it seems like a sentence was written in chalk, oh, my attention is all on the murderer, I can't remember a little......" Frank scratched his head.

Fortunately, since the murderer left traces, everyone can go and see it immediately. So, Zhou Daoan, together with Fred, went to Goldon Street again.

At this time, the eastern sky has already revealed the whiteness of the fish's belly, and it is more than 4 o'clock in the morning, and the end of summer day comes early.

There is no need for any lighting equipment, and in natural light, the handwriting on that recruitment wall is very clear -

“The Semus are the men that will not be blamed for nothing!”

Semu is a Semitic people, and the whole sentence means: Semites are not a people willing to be humiliated!

Seeing this sentence, Fred immediately asked Frank to confirm whether the suspect had scribbled on this sentence.

"Probably right!" Frank glanced twice and confirmed.

"Sir!" At this time, another police officer approached, and he was the same detective who later found the injured Frank. He was seen holding a half-cut skirt in both hands and reporting to Fred, "This was found behind the 'recruitment wall'!" ”

"Arnold, you've come just in time...... When you found me, did you notice the writing on this wall? Isn't that the phrase? Frank immediately grabbed the detective and asked.

The detective named Arnold also glanced at the handwriting on the wall twice, he frowned slightly, did not answer immediately, hesitated for a while, and then nodded and said, "That's right, sir." ”

"Good. Come on, wipe the handwriting off the wall immediately. Fred commanded.