Professor Capek died, but ......... It doesn't end there.

Strictly speaking, Professor Capek was just the initiator, and there was still no trace of the Silvertwilight hut behind him, and there were other participants alive.

The Church of the Capek Study, which originally consisted of seven people, died and one of them, Mariabel, died, and the Society was temporarily dissolved. But after Xia Li joined, there were still four people in the entire research group. Now that Professor Capek is dead and Xia Li is in a coma, it means that at least two people are still in the school.

After that, Duanmu Huai packed Professor Capek's materials and handed them over to Sheriff Lestrade with clues and materials, which can be regarded as temporarily ending this series of serial killings. Sheriff Lestrade was somewhat relieved to this, although he didn't see the body, but since Duanmu Huai said so, it also means that there should be no similar serial killings on the streets of Wudu in the future......... The police can also breathe a sigh of relief.

Regarding the investigation of the Silvertwilight Cottage, Sheriff Lestrade has also made a promise, but he also hinted that Duanmu Huai is very difficult to investigate this organization, and the reason is also very simple, the Silvertwilight Cottage is ostensibly an upper-class private club organization, and these are fine to separate, but they are very fatal when put together. Not to mention that there is not enough evidence to prove that this series of murders was planned behind the scenes of the Silvertwilight Hut, and even if it can be proven, it may be difficult to arrest him.........

Duanmu Huai doesn't care about this and doesn't care, just kidding, the inquisition court wants to kill people, and it doesn't matter to you. What kind of noble and noble, but any heresy that has something to do with the evil gods, you are the queen and Lao Tzu will pout you. Just like Innsmouth, as long as you can't find evidence that I did it, then I don't do whatever I want?

So for Sheriff Lestrade's advice, he only nodded superficially, of course, not at all.........

Of course, Lestrade was also curious.........

"How did you steal Professor Capek's safe?"

The theft in Capek's office is also a great pleasure for the police department, after all, such a thief has never been seen, Duanmu Huai submitted a data report, of course, he had to explain the source of his information report. This is also the tacit understanding between the investigator and the official, you help me solve the case, and I will help you get rid of the crime. Now that there is conclusive evidence that Professor Capek was responsible for these serial killings, the crime of "theft" can naturally be offset.

But Lestrade is also very curious, after all, there are basically no clues in the on-site identification results, how did Duanmu Huai do it?

"Oh, that thing doesn't weigh up, I'm the ......... You have also seen that the hands are clumsy, and they can't do the work of sliding the door and picking the lock, so they just resist going back and smashing it. ”

“………………………”

If it were someone else, Sheriff Lestrade must have felt that he was lying, but looking at Duanmu Huai in front of him, he suddenly felt that how could this be so credible?

"Well, if you don't want to say it, don't say it."

Lestrade shook his head and threw the matter directly behind him, he didn't plan to think about whether what Duanmu Huai said was true or not now. If it's true, then his three views will be directly shattered, if it's fake, isn't this just bluffing, anyway, it has nothing to do with himself, right?

So far, the case is closed for the time being, and then it depends on the follow-up, if nothing like this happens in the next few months, then it means that the serial murder incident is over. Although there are still some intrigues planned by the Silvertwilight Hut, as long as there are no more situations like the previous ones, then it will be fine.

It stands to reason that Duanmu Huai can leave the fog capital and go back to Arkham now, but he thought about it and decided to stay, after all, there seem to be more things in the fog capital than Arkham, and he has a bunch of secret college students and teachers over there to grab business with him, and there is no Sherlock Holmes here, so there can't be anyone else to grab business with me.

In the next half month, Duanmu Huai was leisurely, and Mary gradually adapted to this rhythm of life, she would go to exercise with Lorena every morning and evening, visit Xia Li after school, and occasionally come to Duanmu Huai's residence to inquire about the progress of the investigation......... Of course, there hasn't been much progress in the investigation.

But soon, Mary brought a message to Duanmu Huai.

"You mean, something happened in the master's school?"

"Yes."

Mary's expression was a little uneasy, but she quickly told Duanmu Huai what had happened.

But in short, it wasn't Mary's experience, but she heard about it from her friend Ashelica.

According to Asherika, just a few days ago, on a bulletin board near the building of the Department of Mathematics, such a notice suddenly appeared, on which letters cut out of the newspaper were pasted and then formed into a sentence.

"Arrogant knight, tonight you will be killed——— the dead will be left."

At the time, everyone just thought it was someone's prank, and they didn't take it seriously, but the next day, a boy from the math department really disappeared.........

Because there are mostly boys in the mathematics department, everyone doesn't pay attention to this kind of thing, and just thinks that the boy is going home because of something——— after all, the children of the upper class, the nobility and the middle class go to school here, and it is not very strange if he leaves for a while because of something at home.

Not to mention that the strange notice letter didn't have a name written at all, so many people didn't think of it at first.

However, a week later, another notice appeared on the bulletin board, and the next day, another student did not show up for school.

In fact, now in the Royal Academy of Masters, there are already students privately discussing such a story——— a dead man disguised as a living person to infiltrate their school, and issued a notice letter and then killed someone.

Since Mary was a student in the Faculty of History, and now she either worked out with Lorena every day, or was busy attending classes and visiting Xia Li, she didn't pay much attention to these gossips, so it wasn't until she and Ashelika were drinking tea last week that she noticed the other party's sad face, and she asked Ashelica about the cause of the incident.

At that time, Mary just thought it was just a joke, and comforted Ashelika not to take it to heart.

Outcome............... Just this morning, the same notice appeared on the bulletin board of the Department of History.

So Mary couldn't sit still any longer, so she came to Duanmu Huai.

"How does this sound like a school ghost story, haven't you noticed anything unusual?"

"I'm sorry, I've been worried about Xia Li and haven't paid much attention to it, and I haven't met any particularly strange people or things in the schoolhouse."

This is also the reason why Mary has never been aware of the problem, plus the history department and the mathematics department are in different buildings, and everyone who goes to school knows that the average student rarely wanders around other classes and departments except for the places they are familiar with and used to going, just like the animal enclosure, everyone hangs on their familiar territory, and rarely goes to other places.

Some people have been in high school for three years and don't even know what's outside of their classrooms!

So Mary really didn't know what was going on in the math department, and if it weren't for the fact that Asherika was also in the math department, she probably wouldn't know anything about it.

“…………… Hmmm........."

After listening to Mary's story, Duanmu Huai frowned, and then he looked at Mary.

"Do you think this is related to the previous case?"

"I'm ......... Think so........."

"Uh-huh..............."

Duanmu Huai nodded and thought about it.

For now, this is not impossible, after all, it is not particularly strange that there is no such thing as a dead person or a corpse. But......... If you kill someone, you kill someone, why do you have to get a notice letter?

Could it be because the fog is the hometown of Sherlock Holmes, and the criminals here all have a sense of ritual or something?

I'm sick in the brain.

"I'll go back and look into it and see how it goes."

After all, there are still two people who have not been caught, according to the regulations of the Capek Research Association, the first one is dead, and the next one is made up, and now that Capek is dead, it means that the next person should also start to be a demon.

It's just that this one is really out of the ordinary.

You want to kill a few people unknowingly, Duanmu Huai didn't find out that it was really fooled.

You're sending a warning letter and a ghost story......... I'm afraid we don't know what's going on?

Now Duanmu Huai understands why those policemen in Conan hate Kidd so much, if he changes his words, he will not finish all the shotguns against this shameless bastard, and he will use a chainsaw sword to cut him into thin pieces, without a little fat in it!

After sending Mary away, Duanmuhuai turned around and called Sergeant Lestrade to inquire about the situation.

"About the disappearance of the Royal Master's Academy?"

Hearing Duanmu Huai's inquiry, Sergeant Lestrade was a little surprised.

"Could it be that this has something to do with the U-class case?"

"Do you think it's okay?"

Duanmu Huai was also surprised by Sheriff Lestrade's reaction.

"This ......... Truth be told, we think it's just a simple runaway. ”

“？？？”

After Sergeant Lestrade explained it to Duanmuhuai, Duanmuhuai finally understood what was going on. According to Sheriff Lestrade, they received a report from the missing parents and went to the Royal Academy to investigate, but nothing came of it.

The surveillance investigation showed that the missing students did enter the Royal Master's College, but they did not leave, at least the surveillance at the school gate only captured the picture of them entering, and did not leave.

Of course, considering the nature of the Royal Master's College, the police also dispatched a large number of police forces, and also sent police dogs to search, but nothing was found. Later, the police investigation was inclined to believe that ......... They may have run away from home.

This kind of thing is very common, and it is not impossible for a young man of this age to run away from home because of some trivial matters.

"And what about the teaser?"

"Preview? Ah, well, we think they did it themselves, but we didn't find any useful clues or marks on those weird teasers. ”

"So that means you think the two missing students are running away from home, and those notices are just a cover-up?"

"That's pretty much it."

After all, these advance letters are also vaguely written, such as some arrogant knight......... The ghost knows who he is talking about, so in the eyes of the police, this is a bit of a middle school boy who is idle and bored and crazy.

But there is no way, the disappearance case is like this, there is no one alive or dead, there is no body in the body, there is no clue in this case, and the police can't do anything. It's not like the previous serial killings, anyway, the corpses are there, and one or two people are missing, and the general media will not report it.

So the police could only temporarily determine the disappearance, and they didn't particularly care, if it wasn't for Duanmuhuai calling to ask, Lestrade wouldn't have taken this kind of thing to heart.

If ordinary people see someone missing, then they must subconsciously feel that this must be a big case, and the police will definitely chase after it. But in fact, 140,000 children go missing every year in this country alone, an average of nearly 400 children go missing every day, and that's just children, let alone adults. In a large city of a million people, the true number of disappearances is in fact almost too high. Some of them have lost contact for some reason, and some have never been seen again.

Therefore, in this state, if you want to solve every missing case, you can't do it by increasing the police force of the entire fog capital by a hundredfold.

Even homicide cases that follow the "murder must be solved" rule may not be solved in every case, let alone a missing person who is not alive or dead.

Therefore, the Wudu Police Department just put it away, filed it, recorded it, and then there was no more.

Because there really aren't any clues.

In fact, this is also true.

Just like the case file that Duanmu Huai got from Sheriff Lestrade, it was very simple.

First of all, the two missing students are both students of the mathematics department, and the first victim is relatively famous, which is considered to be a grass, and belongs to the kind of cattle who can socialize and sing and dance and flirt with girls and then write papers casually to pass the test. The second victim, on the other hand, was so withdrawn that he barely interacted with other people, according to police records, so much so that he disappeared for several days, and when his family came to look for the school, the school found out that he was missing......... Because he usually doesn't come to class, and he doesn't have many good friends.

All in all, in addition to this, the only thing in common is that both of them are top students in the Mathematics Department, and they are also members of the research society——— as mentioned before, only those students who are recognized by the professor as masters and bachelors are eligible to join the research society and become one of the great and glorious research dogs.

The two were no exception, and after class, they would go to the workshop to do their work, and then they would not leave school until eleven or twelve o'clock to go home.

And then herein lies the problem.

According to police records, on the night of the disappearance, other students and teachers of the workshop also said that they did participate in the workshop, completed their tasks, and then left to go home.

In other words, if the Institute's testimony is correct, then the two men disappeared between the time they left the Institute and the time they walked out of the school.

So...............

After flipping through the case file, Duanmu Huai thought about it for a while, and then made a decision.

Wait until the evening and check out the Royal Master's College.

(End of chapter)