Chapter 526 Mysterious Disappearance

Professor Capek is dead, but...it doesn't end there.

Strictly speaking, Professor Capek is only the initiator, and there is still no trace of the Silver Twilight Cabin behind him, and there are still other participants alive.

There were originally seven members of the Capek Research Society, but one of them, Maria Bell, died, and the Society became disbanded for a while. But after Xia Li joined, there were still four people in the whole 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, Duanmuhuai packed Professor Capek's information and handed it to Sergeant Lestrade with the clues and information, which temporarily ended this series of serial killings. Sergeant Lestrade was somewhat relieved about this. Although he did not see the corpse, since Duanmuhuai said so, it 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 Silver Twilight Cabin, Sheriff Lestrade has also made a promise, but he also hinted that Duan Muhuai, the investigation of this organization is very difficult, and the reason is very simple. On the surface, the Silver Twilight Cabin is an upper class For organizations in the nature of private clubs, it's fine to separate them, but it's terrible to put them together. Not to mention that there is not enough evidence to prove that this series of murders was planned behind the scenes of the Silver Twilight Lodge. Even if it can be proved, it may be difficult to arrest him...

Duanmuhuai doesn't care about this and doesn't care, just kidding, the court wants to kill people, and it doesn't care about you. Nobility, nobility, any heresy who has a relationship with evil gods, you are the queen, and I will stick you out. Just like Innsmouth, as long as you can't find evidence that I did it, then I can do whatever I want?

So he only nodded superficially to Sergeant Lestrade's advice, of course he didn't take it seriously at all...

Of course, Lestrade was also curious...

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

The theft from Capek's office was a great joy for the police. After all, such a thief had never been seen before. Duan Muhuai submitted the information report, of course he had to clearly state the source of his information report. This is also the tacit understanding between investigators and officials, you help me solve the case, and I help you escape. Now that there is conclusive evidence that Professor Capek was responsible for these serial killings, the mere crime of "theft" can naturally be offset.

But Lestrade is also very curious. After all, the on-site appraisal results basically have no clues. How did Duanmuhuai do it?

"Oh, that thing isn't heavy. I'm a person...you can see that, my hands are clumsy, and I can't do the work of sliding the door and picking the lock, so I just went back and smashed it."

“……………………”

If it were someone else, Sergeant Lestrade must have felt that he was lying, but looking at Duanmuhuai in front of him, he suddenly felt that this statement was so credible.

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

Lestrade shook his head, and put the matter behind him, he didn't intend to consider whether what Duanmuhuai said was true now. If it's true, then his three views will be shattered directly. If it's false, wouldn't it be a bluffing game, anyway, it has nothing to do with him, right?

So far, the case is considered closed for the time being, and the next step is to look at the follow-up. If nothing similar happens in the next few months, it means that the serial killings are over. Although there are still some plots and tricks planned by the Silver Twilight Cabin, as far as the police are concerned, as long as the situation like before does not happen again, then it will be fine.

Logically speaking, Duanmuhuai can leave Wudu and return to Arkham now, but he decided to stay after thinking about it. After all, there seem to be more things in Wudu than Arkham, and he has a lot of secrets over there. College students and teachers compete with me for business, and there is no Sherlock Holmes here, so there must be someone who competes with me for business.

In the next half month, Duanmuhuai was quite leisurely. As for Mary, she gradually adapted to this rhythm of life. Every morning and evening, she would go to exercise with Lorena, visit Xia Li after school, and occasionally come to Duanmuhuai. The residence asked about the progress of the investigation... Of course, the investigation did not make much progress.

But soon, Mary brought a message to Duanmuhuai.

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

"Yes."

Mary's expression was a little disturbed, but she quickly told Duan Muhuai what happened.

But to put it simply, Mary did not experience this incident, but she heard about it from her good friend Aselika.

According to Aselika, just a few days ago, on the bulletin board near the building of the Department of Mathematics, such a notice suddenly appeared, with letters cut from newspapers pasted on it, and then formed a sentence.

"Pride knight, you will be killed tonight—the dead stay."

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

Because there are mostly boys in the mathematics department, everyone didn't pay much attention to this kind of thing. They just thought that the boy went home because of something—after all, the students who go to school here are the children of the upper class, nobles, and middle class. It is not very strange to leave for a period of time because of something at home.

Not to mention that there was no name on the weird notice letter at all, so many people didn't even think of it at first.

However, a week later, another notice letter appeared on the bulletin board, and the next day, another student did not come to school.

It was only then that everyone realized that something was wrong. For a while, some people in the mathematics department were panicked. In fact, in the Royal Master's College, some students have discussed such a story in private——a dead person disguised as a living person mixed into their room. school, and issued a notice letter and then killed people.

Since Mary is a student of the history department, and now she is either exercising with Lorena, or busy with class and visiting Charlie, she doesn't pay much attention to these gossips, so until last week she had tea with Aselika When I was there, I noticed that the other party was frowning, so I asked Aselika about the reason for the incident.

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

As a result... 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 find Duanmuhuai.

"Why does this sound like a campus ghost story, don't you find anything unusual?"

"Sorry, I've always been worried about Xia Li, and I didn't pay much attention to it, and I didn't meet any particularly strange people or things in the dormitory."

This is why Mary has not noticed the problem. In addition, the Department of History and the Department of Mathematics are in different buildings. Everyone who goes to school knows that, except for the places they are familiar with and used to, the general students are not familiar with other classes. Departments seldom wander around, just like the animal enclosure, everyone wanders in the familiar territory, and rarely goes to other places.

Some people go to high school for three years and don't even know what's going on outside their own classroom!

So Mary really didn't know what happened in the mathematics department. If Ashelika was not in the mathematics department, she might not know anything about it.

"……………Um………"

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

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

"I thought so………"

"Um……………"

Duanmu Huai nodded, thinking.

As far as the present is concerned, this is not impossible. After all, it is not particularly strange that people are alive but not dead. But... If you kill people, kill them, why do you have to make a notice letter?

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

My brain is sick.

"I'll go back and investigate and see what's going on."

After all, there are still two people who have not been caught. According to the regulations of the Capek Research Association, the first one dies, and the next one will make up. 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 not taking the usual path.

If you want to kill a few people without anyone noticing, Duanmuhuai may have fooled you if he didn't realize it.

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

Now Duanmuhuai understands why those policemen in Conan hate Kaito Kidd so much. If it were him, he would not be able to use up all his bolters and use a chainsaw to deal with this shameless bastard. Thinly cut him into saozi, without any fat in it!

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

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

Hearing Duanmuhuai's question, Sergeant Lestrade was a little surprised.

"Is this also related to the U-level case?"

"Do you think it's okay?"

Duanmuhuai was also surprised by Sergeant Lestrade's reaction.

"It's... honestly, we think it's just plain running away from home."

"???"

After Sergeant Lestrade explained to Duanmuhuai, Duanmuhuai finally understood what was going on. According to Sergeant Lestrade, they received a report from the missing parents and went to the Royal Master's College to investigate, but nothing was gained.

According to the surveillance investigation, the missing students did enter the Royal Master's College, but they did not leave. At least the surveillance at the school gate only took pictures of them entering, and there was no sign of leaving.

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

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

"And what about the forecast?"

"Trailer? Ah, that, we think they did it themselves, but we didn't find any useful clues or imprints on those weird preview letters."

"So in other words, you think those two missing students ran away from home, and those notice letters are just a cover-up?"

"That's about it."

After all, these notice letters are also vaguely written, such as some arrogant knight... Who knows who they are talking about, so in the eyes of the police, this is a bit like a two-year-old boy who is idle and crazy.

But there is no way, the disappearance case is like this, no one is alive but no dead body, there is no clue in this situation, and the police have nothing to do. Unlike the serial killings before, the general media would not specifically report on the corpses lying there anyway, and the missing of one or two people.

Therefore, the police could only temporarily determine the disappearance, and they didn't pay much attention to it. If Duanmuhuai hadn't called to ask, Lestrade would not have taken this kind of thing to heart.

If ordinary people see someone missing, they must subconsciously think that this must be a big case, and the police will definitely pursue it. But in fact, 140,000 children are missing in this country every year, and an average of nearly 400 children disappear every day. This is only children, let alone adults. In a large city with a population of one million, the true number of disappearances is in fact almost uncountable. Some of them have temporarily lost contact for some reason, and some have never been seen again.

So in this state, if you want to solve every disappearance case, you can't do it even if you double the police force in the entire foggy city by a hundred times.

Even homicide cases that follow the rule of "Murder Cases Must Be Solved" may not necessarily be solved every case, let alone disappearance cases where no one is alive but no dead body is seen.

Therefore, the Wudu Police Department just collected it, archived it, and recorded it, and then there was nothing else.

Because there are really no clues.

In fact it is.

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

First of all, the two missing students are both students of the mathematics department. The first victim is relatively well-known. He can be regarded as a grassroots class. . The second victim was just the opposite. According to police investigation records, he was withdrawn and hardly interacted with other people, so that he disappeared for several days. When his family came to the school, the school discovered that he was missing... Because he basically doesn't come to class, and he doesn't have many good friends.

All in all, other than that, the only thing they have in common is that both of them are top students in the mathematics department and members of the research association—as I said before, only those students who are recognized by the professor as masters are eligible to join Join the Research Society and become one of the great and honorable Research Dogs.

These two people are no exception. After class, they will go to the seminar to do their own work, and then they will leave school almost until eleven or twelve o'clock to go home.

Then there is the problem.

All the surveillance footage captured the two entering the master’s college, but did not capture the footage of leaving. According to police records, on the night of the disappearance, students and teachers from other seminars also said that they did participate in the seminar and completed their assignments. task, then leave and go home.

In other words, if the testimony of the research association is correct, then the two disappeared during the period between leaving the research association and leaving the school gate.

So……………

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

In the evening, go to the Royal Master's College to have a look.