Benjamin stood silently in the center of the reception room, and he thought for a long time before he finally spoke: "I don't know, do you know about the unexpected ...... of the mayoral race two years ago"

"The mayor of the metropolis is a very important position, and the state legislature tends to be very careful in selecting candidates, generally speaking, there are no more than four candidates, and as with all mayoral races, one or two of them are there to make up the numbers, and the rest are competitive."

"But the election for mayor of the metropolis was very fierce, with a total of 12 candidates, all representing different parties and forces."

Schiller frowned and looked at Benjamin and asked, "How can there be so many people?" How did the state legislature pass it? ”

Benjamin also looked at Schiller, and he stared into Schiller's eyes and said, "The reason why this election is being held is because the mayor of White's predecessor was assassinated, and this is an urgent election." ”

"The state legislature is concerned that there are not enough candidates and that they may be manipulated by people with ulterior motives, so they have relaxed the review criteria,"

"The state legislature thought that at least 10 of the 12 candidates were just trying to add a little luster to their resumes, and didn't really want to compete for this position, but who knows, they are all fighting for this position."

Benjamin's tone grew deeper and lower, and he said, "Perhaps from this time onwards, there has been a foreshadowing. ”

"In the beginning, it was just normal election competition, including speeches, votes, and attacks on opponents......"

"However, the situation has become worse and worse, bribery, rumors, harassment, revelations, and even two candidates have inexplicably suffered car accidents and have to be hospitalized."

"Seeing that the situation is out of control, the governor wants everyone to sit down and talk about it and not make it too ugly."

"And the method, just like the tradition for many years, is to hold a banquet and let the middleman talk to the right person at the right time, so as to eliminate the turmoil."

Benjamin turned his head back, looked the room up and down, and said, "In order to calm this group of people, and to convince the public, the state legislature has invited many prominent people, including the Met, the famous entrepreneur, the famous scholar professor, the artist, and the media." ”

"This is the place they chose for the banquet - the official residence of the mayor of the metropolis."

"And after that?" Schiller asked.

"After that, everything gets out of hand."

Benjamin turned his head to look out the window at the growing snowflakes fluttering in the storm like a white bird swimming upstream, turning into a rising and tumbling white mist at the end of the skyline.

As Benjamin spoke, Schiller also turned his head to look out the window, his gaze through the snow, as if he had seen another identical mayor's mansion, which appeared two years ago today.

The faint warm lights flickered in the blizzard, and the mayor's estate was full of people.

The light of the candles flickered on the silver candlesticks, the tassels of the ornate tablecloths fell, and the people in the gowns talked with their glasses, their faces full of elegant smiles.

The host of the banquet smiled and nodded at the small group of people who were chatting, they moved out of the way, the host stood in the center of the banquet hall, the host cleared his throat slightly, and everyone stopped what they were doing and turned to look at him.

"Ladies and gentlemen! Thank you for coming together on such a night! Although the wind and snow outside the window are very big, they are connected to our hearts! ”

"First of all, I would like to invite the organizer of this banquet, the vice president of the Delaware State Assembly, a well-known social activist, philanthropist, and author - Nelson Perez!"

There was a loud "bang", and a corpse fell from the sky.

Precise, humorous and full of drama.

Time flies through the snowflakes, through the hazy white mist, stops in the warm light from a window, looks through the glass with frozen flowers, and meets Schiller's gaze.

Schiller paused, turned his head back, and he heard Benjamin say, "...... Like a humorous joke, when the host read out the name of the deputy speaker, his body fell from the sky. ”

At this moment, Bruce turned his head to look at Schiller, Schiller moved his eyes slightly, and the moment he made eye contact with Bruce, he lowered his head and immersed himself in studying the pattern on the handle of his umbrella.

"But that's just the beginning......," Benjamin's tone became as cold as the weather outside.

"After the death of the deputy speaker, the police came, they cordoned off the scene, in order not to let the murderer run away, everyone was driven to the guest room, and soon, the second victim, the third victim ......"

"One after the other, the way to die is different......"

"In the end, out of 12 candidates, only 4 remained, and 8 of them were brutally killed."

"This incident alarmed the entire East Coast, and the FBI sent agents to investigate, but in the end, the conclusion was that the people who came to the banquet were mixed with spies from various countries, and in order to shake the political situation on the East Coast, they killed people."

Benjamin looked up, but lowered his eyes, turned his eyeballs downward, looked down at Onel's body, and said, "When it comes to spies, I was transferred to the Metropolitan to investigate the matter, and when the job fell to me, I realized that things are not so simple. ”

"The killer who killed the 8 candidates is not one person, and their goals vary, but there is no doubt that they are all the top killers, the most troublesome kind of high-IQ criminals......"

Benjamin's tone shuddered at the end, and it was clear that his mood was not calm, and even after two years, recalling the situation still made him feel stressed.

"In the subsequent investigation, I found that the mayor's estate at that time seemed to have become a hunting ground for those perverted serial murderers."

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"They use their best methods to create a series of fierce eucalyptus, and when intertwined, they form a mystery that cannot be solved by any investigation......"

Schiller's fingertips holding the handle of the umbrella paused, and he looked at Benjamin and asked, "So, did you find out anything?" ”

Benjamin was silent for a while, then he shook his head and said, "We can only speculate that there were four murderers, and each of them killed two targets. ”

"Have you found out who it is?"

Benjamin shook his head, he looked down at Onnell's body and said, "At that time, Luthor was also at the scene, and I think he killed Mayor White and Old Pike in order to imitate the murderer of the deputy speaker." ”

"He's so lame." Schiller spoke.

"Indeed." Benjamin affirmed this, saying: "Even if he hadn't admitted it in the bathroom, I would have locked him up, and the method he used was actually quite simple. ”

As he spoke, Benjamin looked up at the ceiling of the reception room, and said, "The roof of this old manor house is very high, and there is a space above the ceiling and under the roof. ”

"He bought the building next door to the mayor's mansion, infiltrated it in advance, set up a mechanism in the attic, and then knocked the target unconscious in advance and brought it in."

"The sound of people and music in the banquet hall muffled the sound of silencer pistol shooting, and there was a delay in the mechanism, so that when shooting and killing, Leonel could appear anywhere there were bystanders and make an alibi for himself."

"I'd like to call it a classic, but it's more of a cliché." Schiller concluded, looking at Benjamin and asking, "The agents must have found his murder weapon in the space above the ceiling, right?" ”

"Actually, sooner than you think."

Now, Benjamin didn't plan to pretend anymore, he just said: "We're not the FBI idiots, we won't wait until everything is over to talk at length there." ”

"Then why didn't you arrest him in the first place?" Selena frowned and asked, in her opinion, if Benjamin had done it earlier, maybe they wouldn't have been trapped in this manor.

Benjamin snorted coldly, and he said, "I'm telling you so much just to explain this. ”

"I didn't arrest Onel right away, just to see what he was going to do."

"I wasn't a witness to that incident two years ago, but in the investigation that followed, I found that the four murderers who killed people seemed to be looking for something."

"Luthor was at that banquet two years ago, and he seems to have gotten some clues from it, I don't know if he mentioned to one of you that he was looking for a treasure......"

"That's exactly what he got at that banquet, in the interval between the murders."

"Treasure? What is that? Schiller asked very bluntly.

Benjamin glanced at him meaningfully, and said bluntly: "There is no exact answer, but I suspect that it is the Philby list." ”

"You want to let Luthor go find that so-called treasure, and then arrest him when he finds it, so you can kill two birds with one stone." Schiller said, then. His gaze turned to Lennell, and he continued:

"But it looks like your plan has failed."

Benjamin also set his eyes on Lyonnell, saying, "That's because he's really an idiot." ”

"I saw him in the reception room, and he was cursing like he was going to lose his mind, and he wanted to attack me, so I knocked him out."

"But ......," said Benjamin, who turned his head to stare at Schiller, "in the conversation with Leonnell, he told me the truth, do you know what it is?" ”

"What?" Schiller also looked at him and asked.

"You're the one who killed the deputy speaker, and besides, you killed two people and dismembered one of them, as he saw with his own eyes."

In an instant, the atmosphere in the reception room condensed, everyone had different expressions, and a storm spread from between Schiller and Benjamin's sight, and the aura of the two began to hedge.

Suddenly, between the sound of the wind, the cold snow flakes are like knives.

Time rewinds again, back to when Selena knocked Onel to the ground

After doing all this, Selena left without looking back, and then, after returning to her room, she and Bruce pretended to be intimate and kicked Benjamin out.

Regardless of how Bruce and Selena carried out the plan to arrange the surveillance after that, Benjamin, who left the room, wanted to find Onel as soon as possible.

He called out to the agents who were manning the hallway, and the agents told him that Lyonel had gone to the reception room and had not come out yet, so Benjamin went to the reception room, and he wanted to talk to him.

When Benjamin arrived in the reception room, Onnell had barely gotten up from the ground.

Selena hit him in the face with the vase, although it seemed to be very moving, in fact it was not very lethal, except for the fragments of the wine bottle cutting the skin on his face, and the heavy blow caused his nasal cartilage to hurt, it did not hurt the skull and brain, and Lyonel lay on the ground for a while, then got up and began to look for something to stop the bleeding.

When Benjamin walked in, he was stunned for a moment when he saw this scene, and then he stepped forward and asked Onnell, "What's going on?" Someone attacked you?? ”

Leonel, who was wiping blood with a tissue, glanced at Benjamin, and Benjamin saw endless anger and malice in his eyes.

"Fuck off, you annoying fly!" Leonel has completely lost the disguise of honesty and kindness, and the irritability and greed in his nature are unmistakable.

Before Benjamin could say anything, Lyonel scolded: "You agents and police are the same! I pay so many taxes every year, but I only feed you bunch of waste, and I can't help me in the slightest, just buzz like flies! ”

"And that shit, and White! He had forgotten who had spent a lot of money to put him on the throne after the scandal of the assassination of the candidate! ”

"I just asked him to cooperate with me to kill a few people, and he dared to open his mouth and let me help him enter the state legislature?!"

"Does he think he's cherishing resources?! As long as I have money, I can put anyone on top! And he, not only his career, but also his life has come to an end! ”

"Oh...... Old Parker, that damn dealer! Lower prices every year! He's targeting a couple of my farms in Kansas! I know he took my competitor's money, but that's okay, I can kill him! ”

Leonel gritted his teeth viciously, all kinds of curses spilling out of his mouth, blood stains and unwiped vase fragments stuck to his face, making him look like a trapped beast that had been cornered, and he looked extremely embarrassed.