amaotonovel Chapter 3004: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (38)
Chapter 3004: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (38)
Chapter 3004: The Green Trees Are Thick and the Summer Is Long (Thirty-Eight)
Brand took the doll from Miss Richie. When he saw the umbrella tightly held in her hand, he knew what Schiller meant. So he sighed, waved to Miss Richie, and asked her to follow him.
They went to the previous summoning site and found that there were still some raw materials left, just enough to perform another summoning ceremony.
Just as they were about to start, Schiller came back. Brand seemed to be wondering why he was here. Schiller shook his head and said nothing more, motioning for him to start quickly.
After the summoning ceremony began, the runes gradually lit up, and a transparent shadow appeared in the center of the magic circle.
Miss Richie immediately let out a sharp cry and rushed over to hug her sister, but failed because it was just a phantom of a soul and had no entity at all.
The soul's shadow was attracted by the rag doll and slowly bent down to pick it up, but its fingers passed through the fabric. Only then did the soul suddenly wake up, as if realizing that it was dead.
She was about to cry out in resentment, but she saw Miss Richie falling in front of her. Brand sighed and said, "Hello, ma'am. We called you back to ask you something."
The shadow didn't reply, but just reached out to help her sister up. At this time, Miss Richie finally perked up. She stood up and wiped her tears. She looked at her sister who looked very much like her and said, "Long time no see, Mana. I'm sorry, but you're dead. We performed a necromancy ritual and called you back because we want to know how you died. Did that damn bastard kill you?!"
The phantom seemed to recall the pain of her own death, and her expression became hideous with resentment. Blood began to flow out of her nose and mouth, almost flooding the entire room.
Brand immediately began to comfort the resentful spirit, and the phantom calmed down again. She suddenly touched Miss Richie's forehead with one hand. Miss Richie let out a scream of pain, rolled her eyes and fainted.
The apparition soon vanished, and when Miss Richie rose again her face was in tears, and she was trembling, weaker than ever before, and rubbing her arms as though she were cold.
"Did you see how your sister died?"
"He gave her an anesthetic and then put her in the bathtub, and she...she drowned..."
Miss Richie burst into tears and hugged the rag doll on the ground tightly. About ten minutes later, Brand helped the weak Miss Richie to the office.
After she calmed down, she said: "My sister found out about their activities. She couldn't accept that her husband was such a person, but she decided to expose them and avenge those children."
"But God was not on her side. Something went wrong, and that damn bastard discovered her intentions. He killed her and turned it into an unsolved case that will never see the light of day again."
"However, she did collect some evidence, and in order to prevent the evidence from being destroyed, she hid it. At the time, she had a premonition that things were not going well, so she left a backup plan. Before she died, she guided another person to discover the evidence."
"Another person? Who?" Schiller asked.
"He was a worker from the Wardlade Construction Engineering Team. In my sister's memory, he was a man with a strong sense of justice. More importantly, he once bravely saved a child who fell into the water. My sister trusted him very much."
Schiller thought of the bodies of the workers he and Pamela had unearthed beneath the earth where the elementary and middle schools had been built.
"It was ten years ago, wasn't it?"
"Yes, in my sister's memory, she succeeded, and the worker should have seen the evidence, but my sister died later, so I don't know whether he kept the evidence properly."
"He's probably dead," Schiller said.
So far, all the clues have been connected.
Ten years ago, Nygma was tracked down by Edward for committing the Brutal Act in revenge against Pari. Fearing that the matter would be exposed, he hired the Wardred Engineering Team to demolish the middle school and primary school in the Polokin community.
The wife of Bob, the manager of the Wardlade engineering team, discovered that he had committed the crime of child abuse. She quietly collected evidence, but was killed by Bob due to one mistake.
In order to bring the crime to light and make the murderer receive the punishment he deserves, Bob's wife hid the evidence somewhere and led a worker to find them.
After discovering the evidence, the worker was terrified and lived in a state of panic all day long. It is also possible that he had been investigating secretly and returned to the sites of the middle school and primary school four years ago, but was killed there.
When the criminals discovered that someone was still investigating the matter, they believed that their demolition of the middle school and primary school was not thorough enough, so they demolished the building ruins for the second time four years ago.
Perhaps it was this incident that stimulated them, making them feel that they were not safe anywhere and that there were insiders everywhere, so they began to kill people frantically.
But at that time, the situation in Gotham was much better than it had been ten years ago. It was no longer so easy to kill people at will and dump the bodies on the streets, so they built a crematorium in the Porokin community specifically for destroying the bodies.
Just recently, Miss Richie, who has been investigating the truth of her sister's death, came into their sight. They wanted to send Miss Richie to a mental hospital just like they sent Edward to that hospital, so they turned to Schiller.
But Schiller felt that Williams chose the resort there not just for himself, he suspected that Williams was also dumping the body.
Because all the inside information currently revolves around Bob and Nygma, Williams seems to be staying out of it.
But in fact it is probably not that simple. Williams' crime must have been discovered, but he may be the most powerful one among the three, and all those who knew about it were silenced by him.
And perhaps out of precaution against the other two people, Williams did not follow the path of the other two people to destroy the body, but opened up a new track on his own. Schiller suspected that he opened a resort by the lake, perhaps just to dump the body into the lake.
In fact, in this kind of weather, throwing the body into the water is really a good choice. On the one hand, it is cooler near the water and it is not easy to get heatstroke. On the other hand, as long as it is handled properly, the body sunk into the lake will have no smell and will be less likely to be discovered.
But he probably didn't expect that the lake was almost full.
Of course, the real reason might be that he didn't expect that the aliens from the Guardians of the Galaxy wouldn't reason with him at all and would really cause trouble as they said they would. This disrupted his subsequent plans and exposed himself.
After getting the clue from Miss Richie, Schiller felt that the worker who was guided by Bob's wife to find the evidence should not have lost the evidence, and it was very likely hidden somewhere else.
Because his behavior was so strange, it was completely understandable that he didn't call the police ten years ago. At that time, the police in the Gotham Police Department were overwhelmed with their own affairs. The best result after calling the police was no result, and the worst result might involve even himself.
But four years ago, the situation had improved. The Gotham Police Department had established a strong prestige, and James Gordon's name was also known in Gotham. Everyone knew that he hated evil and that as long as the collected evidence was handed over to Gordon, the case would be solved sooner or later.
In that case, the place he should have gone to was the police station, not the ruins of the middle school and primary school. What was he doing there?
Schiller felt that this must be related to the deeper secret he had speculated, and that the mountain did not seem to be that simple.
At this time, Miss Rich had already picked up the umbrella. Schiller and Brand looked at her. Miss Rich gritted her teeth and said, "I will make that bastard pay the price! I will make him feel the pain of my sister!"
After that, she rushed out of the door. Brand looked at Schiller, who shook his head and said, "She knows her limits. She won't kill him."
Even so, Schiller followed her, and Miss Richie gradually calmed down and said, "Do you think I should turn him in to the police?"
"Do you think the police can punish him?"
"I have no evidence," said Miss Ritchie. "He didn't let me see the body, and he left no evidence. And it's been ten years. I'm afraid..."
"We actually have evidence. We must be able to find something in the air-raid shelter where we were once imprisoned. But we cannot reveal the evidence at this time, because then some of them can put the blame on one of them."
"For example, if we were to uncover the bones of those children now, there would be outrage, and the Gotham Police Department would be under great pressure, as evidence of someone would be delivered to them."
"If they don't disclose it, someone will incite the public to accuse them of covering up the crime. Once they disclose it, everyone's attention will be drawn to this person, and the others can hide perfectly and escape."
"Yes, the scapegoat being pushed out may be your enemy, that is, your sister's husband, but other accomplices will go unpunished. Is this what you want to see?"
Miss Ritchie shook her head.
"And if the scapegoat is a dead person, then things will be even simpler. A dead person cannot refute his crime, and people will think that death is the greatest punishment for him. The level of attention paid to this case will definitely decrease. Do you still want to kill Bob now?"
Miss Richie sighed and said, "I understand what you mean. Even if you have locked on to the target and have certain evidence, you cannot arrest or kill one of them immediately, because then the other murderers will be able to escape punishment."
"It's not just me. The police are always like this. In your impression, the police may always procrastinate and do nothing. They don't arrest people even though they have evidence, and they even pretend to be in collusion with the murderers. This is probably the reason." Schiller replied.
"It's too complicated." Miss Richie tapped her head with her hand and said, "I'm not a smart person. I'll do whatever you tell me to do."
"Very good, miss. I am more and more glad that I helped you. You can go find Bob, or even tie him up, but don't do anything to him. Make sure he's alive, okay?"
Miss Rich tightened her umbrella and nodded. As Schiller turned to leave, she asked, "What are you going to do?"
"Investigate other clues. I will contact you after dawn. If nothing unexpected happens, we will know the result tomorrow."