I really can't control myself.

Chapter 3491 Case

At dinner time, Asuna was taken to take a test as a student of the academy. Of course, she was also tested to make a few more dishes.

For ordinary students, such a high-intensity test may affect their performance, but for Asuna, it is not a problem at all. After all, no matter what state this guy is in, the food he cooks tastes the same. Even if you tell her that the earth will explode in the next second, her cooking taste will not change at all.

Since the exam was not difficult, Linton estimated that Asuna would have no problem, and sure enough, no unexpected situations occurred.

Soon it was the third day of the residential training. When Linton woke up in the morning, he was going to find someone to challenge and eat at the same time as yesterday. But before he started looking for someone, Aizen found him first.

"Have you found out the situation?" Linton asked Aizen who had returned.

"All the case files from two and a half years ago are here." Aizen handed over a dozen file bags containing things that should be case files.

Linton opened the first one and took a look. After just reading the beginning, he lost his patience and said directly to Aizen: "Just tell me directly."

Aizen probably knew this was the case, so he began to briefly recount the incident that happened two and a half years ago, which was probably a serial murder case.

"There are fourteen cases in total, with fourteen victims. They are roughly divided into three times." Aizen said, "The first to fifth cases occurred within six days in April two years ago, almost one a day. Then two months later, the sixth to twelfth cases occurred, and the interval this time was 20 days. Then the last two periods were about three days after a month. And until now, there has not been a fifteenth case."

As Aizen spoke, he began to spread case-related information and photos on the table next to him. The photos were mainly photos of the victims, some of them were taken at the scene, and some were personal photos. The piles of classification made Linton look like the scenes of solving a case in a detective movie, and he suddenly became interested.

At this moment, Linton suddenly noticed one thing, that is, the conditions of the victims in the murder scene photos were surprisingly similar in their death.

Seeing that Linton noticed this, Aizen said, "The most obvious feature of this series of cases is that the victim's mouth was cut open from the corner of the mouth by someone, probably with a sharp object like scissors, so this series of cases is simply called the 'Slit-mouthed Woman Incident'."

"Slit-mouthed woman?" Linton had heard some Japanese urban legends, and of course he knew about the Slit-mouthed Woman. He looked at the photo Aizen had put together, and it was really similar.

"The victims are 10 men and 4 women, with no obvious gender selection characteristics. The oldest is 61 years old and the youngest is 19 years old. There is no age selection characteristic. The victims have almost nothing in common and they don't seem to know each other. It seems that the crime was randomly selected." Aizen continued, "If we have to say what they have in common, in addition to the fact that they all live in Tokyo, after visiting the Jing party, we found that these people's character is not very good."

"For example, this guy is a member of a gang, responsible for collecting money. And this guy is a professional liar." Aizen pointed at the two victims and said, "The interpersonal relationships of these two people are quite complicated, and they have a lot of enemies. The investigation team at the time spent a lot of effort to investigate their interpersonal relationships and arrested several suspects, but they were all released in the end."

"Two and a half years have passed, and there is still no clue about the murderer. The investigation team has long been disbanded. This case has now been shelved," said Aizen.

"But the case file was specially sealed and stored, right? Why?" Linton asked. If it wasn't specially sealed and stored, Aizen wouldn't have noticed this case.

After all, although there are many victims, this case sounds like a serial murder case. Linton really can't understand why this case has attracted special attention from the higher-ups.

"It is said that there are situations in this case that cannot be explained by science." Aizen said, "In the twelfth incident, there was a survivor." "Are there witnesses? Did they see supernatural situations?" Linton asked.

"Yes, before this, this case had always been investigated as an ordinary serial murder case. It was not until the appearance of this survivor that the case was taken over by the people of the ZHENG government, and then it was directly sealed." Aizen said.

"What's the specific situation?" Linton asked.

"According to the survivor, the murderer is a tall and thin woman with beautiful appearance, except for her mouth. The corners of the murderer's mouth also seemed to be cut open with scissors. Not only that, this woman can open her mouth to a considerable extent like a snake. And this woman seems to have some particularly powerful strength. She can lift the twelfth victim weighing about 85 kilograms with one hand." Aizen said.

"Uh...like a real slit-mouthed woman?" Linton couldn't help but say.

"That's right." Aizen nodded. He then took out a piece of paper with a simple sketch on it. "This is the portrait of the murderer that was drawn based on the testimony of the witness at the time."

Linton took a look and it was probably a beautiful woman with long hair, but her mouth was quite hideous. It looked like the picture was painted based on people's imagination of a woman with a slit mouth.

"The Slit-Mouthed Woman." Linton touched his chin, "Is it the real Slit-Mouthed Woman? It would be great if it were true."

If it was really the Slit-Mouthed Woman, then we were in the right direction. But it was still too early to be sure. Linton thought for a moment and said, "Where is the survivor? Have you asked him?"

"That's him." Aizen pointed to another photo and said, "He is the thirteenth victim."

"What? That means he only survived for a month and then was killed by the murderer?" Linton said.

"That's right." Aizen nodded, "He must have been silenced."

"The murderer also wants to silence people. It seems he has no bottom line." Linton nodded. "Then assuming that this person is an investigator, what is his purpose in killing people? Does it have anything to do with investigation? What kind of world requires murder to be investigated? He can't just be a murderer."

As Linton thought about it, he continued to flip through the information on the table: "Has the victim's body been eaten? Or has his blood been sucked?"

"No, it's just a murder case." Aizen said.

"It's a headache. Judging from their behavior, this doesn't seem like something an investigator would do." Linton said, "Let's ask Asuna to come back and input the data first."