Chapter 608: Murder in the Eyes of a Child
"Human ...... Food ......," the troll butcher replied as he gritted his teeth and gasped as he covered his shoulder with his hand wounded by Catherine's gun. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Rogge exchanged glances with Catherine when he heard this, stepped forward and asked Gordon, "Where were you on the morning of Amanda's death?"
Gordon stared at Rogge hostilely and was silent, and the troll Grand Chief Amus on the side threw a stern look at Gordon when he saw this, Gordon felt the anger of the Great Chief, his attitude softened, and he replied reluctantly: "I'm cutting food, slaughtering tents, and chopping up large pieces of prey with a knife." ”
"Can anyone prove you?" Rogge looked at the butcher's face suspiciously, and Gordon hesitated for a moment, "Many of the people in the hunting party can attest that they handed over their prey to me, and from morning to evening, people came. ”
After hearing this, Rog turned his gaze to the Great Chief, Amus ordered someone to find the soldiers of the hunting team, and at the same time asked Gordon to be brought back for treatment, Catherine had the intention of asking Monica to help him heal, but seeing his vicious appearance, thinking of the mention he had just mentioned treating people as food, he hesitated for a moment and did not dare to speak.
She and Rogge followed the Great Chief back to the Chinese Army's big tent, and the soldiers brought all the troll hunters who had met with Gordon on the day of the crime to the Big Chief, and Rogge questioned them one by one, these hunters and Gordon met at different times, distributed in various times of the day, but they can prove that they have met Gordon in person.
After listening to the troll hunters' stories, a cloud of doubt rose between Rogge's eyebrows, and the facts of the case that were about to be clear in front of him seemed to fall into the fog again, he thanked the troll hunters, and after they dispersed, he said goodbye to the Great Chief, and left the Chinese military tent with Catherine, and came to a more secluded place to sit down.
"Things seem to be back to square one," he said, lighting a cigar and sighing sadly, "This case is more complicated than I thought, maybe I was too optimistic about the case at first, how did the murderer escape from everyone's eyes in a bloody suit after killing someone?"
"I think the butcher should be investigated," Catherine said to Rogge, recalling Gordon's vicious appearance, "maybe the people he said were just shielding him, or maybe they were his accomplices at all." ”
Rogge looked back at her when he heard this, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, Catherine was stunned for a moment, looked at him blankly, and only heard him laugh and say: "Did he scare you just now, you look disgusted with him." ”
"I'm just ......," Catherine bit her lip and heard Rogge say, "He does look suspicious, but we can't be emotional, we can't suspect someone just because he looks hateful." ”
"Judging from the current evidence, he did have enough alibi, and the Great Chief said that the troll hunters did not all know each other, and if they were all Gordon's protectors, then what were so many people who did not know each other for the purpose of protecting Gordon? The deceased had not lost any of his belongings, and Gordon could not have given them the spoils. ”
"But what are we going to do then?" Catherine looked at Rogge blankly, Rogge lowered his head and smoked for a while, then suddenly stood up and said, "Don't be discouraged, this may be a small setback, but it's not a failure, maybe we should go and see Sherlock and them, I don't know how they talked to the family of the deceased." ”
He and Catherine found the temporary residence of the deceased's husband, Leon, and their two children, and happened to see Sherlock and Dr. John standing at the door of the tent, and Roger and Catherine greeted them and asked them about their conversation with the deceased's family.
"I talked a lot to Leon about his wife, he loved her very much, the two of them had to separate soon after they got married, they were very concerned about each other, Amanda's death made Leon very painful, he didn't believe that his wife committed suicide, he thought that someone must have killed her. ”
Sherlock glanced back at the tent behind him, pulled Rogge aside and whispered, "I also saw two children, the eldest son Fred told me that he took his sister Jessica out hunting that morning, usually he went alone, but his sister always wanted to go hunting with him, so he took her with him that day." ”
They had been with the hunting group all morning and had caught some prey, and the siblings were very happy, until they returned to the tent and found Amanda's body, and all joy was gone. ”
"As for the youngest daughter, Jessica, she cried all the time, almost except when she fell asleep, so I didn't ask anything useful, Fred has been guarding his sister and letting Jessica sleep peacefully in his arms, and it can be seen that the relationship between the brother and sister is very good. ”
After introducing the situation he asked, Sherlock looked at the unsubsided worry between Rog's eyebrows with concern and said, "How are you over there, do you find anything on that butcher?"
"Unfortunately, no. Rogge sighed helplessly, and told Sherlock what had happened, and he said worriedly: "I have to admit, Mr. Sherlock, this problem is bothering me, I can't find the murderer's motive for the murder, and I don't have any clue about the way he entered and exited the scene, which makes me feel very lost." ”
"Maybe you should go talk to the kids," Sherlock said, encouragingly patting Rogge on the shoulder, "though I've talked to them, maybe you can find something from another angle, and nothing escapes the kids' eyes, maybe they know some clues, but no one has led them to say it yet." ”
After saying that, he passed by Rogge and left a sentence in his ear: "Besides, I'm going to look at the wounds of the dead again, and if you're interested, you might as well run again, maybe we'll miss something." ”
Rog looked back at his and John's departing backs, chewing on his words and vaguely hearing a hint of meaning in them, and he and Catherine came to Leon's tent and shouted softly, and a burly troll officer stepped out of it.
Rog and Catherine reveal their identities, and the troll officer tells them that he is the deceased's husband, Leon, and he invites them into the tent, where they see only a small amount of necessities, and a troll boy sits cross-legged in the corner of the tent with his sleeping sister in his arms, looking at them with wary eyes.
Rogge stood at the door and hesitated, and said to Leon: "It looks like the child is asleep, let's go outside and talk, don't disturb the child's rest, they have been disturbed a lot." ”
Leon appreciates his understanding and walks out of the tent with him, Rog and Catherine go with Leon to a nearby clearing and sit down on a few rocks, Rog asks Leon about his acquaintance with Amanda.
During the conversation, Rogge and Catherine can clearly feel Leon's pain and attachment to his wife, and when he asks Leon about the rumors of Amanda's suicide, Leon's attitude becomes very indignant.
He exclaimed: "It's impossible, Amanda wrote to me a month ago, I told her that I would be able to go home in a month, we made an appointment to eat the food she cooked for me, and we attended the campfire party in the camp together, and danced together, it was only half a month later, how could she suddenly commit suicide?"
"Do you think there's anyone to doubt about it?" Rogge asked as he calmed Leon's emotions.
"Probably not," Leon replied with a slight recollection, "Amanda didn't come here for a short time, she didn't socialize much with the people around her, and I asked the neighbors around me when I came back, and no one mentioned who she had an argument with or a grudge against. ”
"I see, thank you, I think I'd better go see Mr. Sherlock, and maybe take a closer look at your wife's body to make sure there are no clues missing that might find the murderer, Mr. Leon, we will definitely find the murderer, don't worry. ”
Rogge got up to say goodbye to Leon, and watched him turn around and walk to his tent, Rogge sat there and bowed his head in contemplation, Catherine leaned over and asked, "You don't suspect that there is something wrong with Leon, do you?"
"He looked very normal and I didn't have anything to doubt about him. Rogge rubbed his chin with his hand and stared at the yellow earth beneath his feet, "But as he said, Amanda has not been here for a long time, and she has not had any grudges, no property stolen or violated, so the murderer's motive is very strange." ”
At this moment, the little furball suddenly landed in front of Rogge from the sky, turned into a little Lori in the red light, knocked his head with her little hand and said: "Bad wolf, I'm back, I've talked to those two troll kids, they look so ugly, I don't want to talk to them!"
"What did they tell you?" Rog raised his head and looked at little Lori with concern, Lilith put her little head to Rogge's ear and muttered something, Catherine sat aside and looked at them curiously with Monica, and couldn't help asking, "What secrets can't we hear?"
"Don't mess with the stupid girl, I'm reporting to the bad wolf!" Little Lori raised her little head and shouted at her, and then lowered her head and muttered into Rogge's ear, Catherine and Monica looked at each other helplessly and smiled, patiently watching them, but noticed that the expression on Rogge's face became more and more solemn.
"Looks like he already knew this was the case," Rogge muttered meaningfully, and Catherine looked at him in confusion and asked, "What did you say?"
"Don't ask yet," Rogge said to the little Lori beside him while raising his hand to stop her, "Little villain, I still have a task for you, you go find some mud and do what I say......"