The long fairy road is wonderful

Chapter 599 Defeating Magic with Magic

Except for the victim of the first employee of the transportation company, Mei Li read all the files to Brother Lin. There are more than 20 people who have been found dead now, and it is not yet known whether the murderer will continue. Killed, or he had killed, but the body was not found.

With such a large number of homicides, Mei Li judged that it was an important evidence to unify the murderer. All the victims were pierced through the heart by a sharp weapon, some with knives, some with sharp metal fences. Law.

However, the first few victims were all found dead at home, but from the fourth onwards, the places where the victims’ bodies were found began to be strange, not only at home, but also in other hidden places, common The point is that there is a lethal weapon nearby.

In addition to these common points, there seems to be nothing worth noting between the victim and the victim.

The victims were not connected to each other, and their social composition and status were completely different.

The first victim was just an employee of a transportation company, who was considered a small leader in charge of loading and unloading, while the latest victim was the lobby manager of a jewelry store. The two had nothing to do with each other at all.

By the way, the photo of the lobby manager looked familiar to Lin Tianci, and then he remembered that he had seen this person when he went to the jewelry store to look for the extremely blue star on the first day he came to Nordhallan.

In just half a month of not seeing each other, the person is gone. Sure enough, the world is impermanent.

The identities of the victims are different, and they seem to have no connection with each other. What is the murderer trying to kill these people?
The apostle is the right-hand man of the demons, and the demons must be eliminated for the mortals in this world. Their status is basically equal to the virtues of evil cultivators in Eastern China, and everyone shouts and beats them more than street rats.

What was the purpose of the apostles in killing these people?
Taking a step back, even if it wasn't the apostle who did it, but a psychopathic serial killer, then there must be some reason for him to kill these people, even if it's just murderous to obtain pathological satisfaction, this is also a reason.

Looking at it this way, it does look a bit like killing people indiscriminately. No matter what your characteristics are, in short, it is unlucky to meet a murderer.

It's no wonder that the upper echelons of the Knights didn't pay much attention to this. Firstly, it was only Meili's one-sided opinion, and secondly, from the perspective of the victim, it seemed more like the actions of a pervert. The Knights were only responsible for dealing with monsters, not catching perverts. The upper echelon of the Knights didn't pay much attention to it, but used it to disgust Meili.

Just because the Knights don't care, doesn't mean no one cares. That's what the local police do.

Lin Tianci guessed that the police must have some clues and were following the clues. They just expressed their dissatisfaction with Meili, the guy who came down from the air, and didn't tell her anything.

But then again, the police didn't know who their opponent was, they thought it was a psychopathic serial killer, but he was actually an apostle.

It happened that Mei Li, who happened to know about this, was put on play again, it was really...

Brother Lin already felt speechless after sorting out the twists and turns. If Mei Li's report can be taken seriously, the police are cooperating with the investigation, and they might have been caught by now. How can we only turn to Lin Tianci for help like now? This layman.

The appearance of the demons is a big event for ordinary people in this world. Brother Lin estimated that the local royal family should have organized a manual investigation after getting the news, and it might be just a smoke bomb for the police to cooperate with Mei Li.

To put it simply, there are not only so few people investigating this matter on the surface, there must be other people also investigating secretly.

If it were Lin Tianci, he would definitely let it go after he learned that others were also investigating. I feel very uncomfortable being caught in the middle.

But after listening to the analysis, Meili said that no matter whether someone investigates again, she will investigate to the end...

All right, little brother Lin can only follow along.

After Mei Li finished reading all the files, Lin Tianci sat on the sofa with his chin in his hands and thought.

There are very few usable clues, and the dossier brought back by Mei Li is just a report after the on-site investigation. It will be more difficult to analyze the purpose of the apostle or the next target from this.

But not without a clue.

After Meili made two cups of coffee and brought them over, Lin Tianci said:
"I seem to have a clue."

"Really?"

"Well, first of all, the common ground."

Lin Tianci raised a finger and said:

"All the victims were living alone or without relatives, which can greatly delay the time for the body to be discovered after the murder, and according to the case analysis, the murderer is more and more likely to hide the body, and he is concerned about the body. Enchanted, it is difficult to determine the exact time of death."

"Maybe it's better for those who live alone?"

"It is indeed easier to attack, but I think there are other reasons for the apostle to choose them."

After rearranging the files on the desktop according to the order in his mind, Brother Lin said:

"If you don't follow the order in which the bodies were discovered, and rearrange all the victims in the order in which the former knew the latter, then it would make sense."

Seeing that Meili still didn't understand, Lin Tianci had no choice but to explain:
"Simply put, it's a civet cat for the prince."

"What is a civet cat?"

"..."

I almost forgot, the translator's translation ability is limited.

"It means replacement. I think that the apostle may pretend to be the victim every time he kills a person. In this way, all eyewitness testimony will be unreliable, because what they saw is likely to be the murderer himself. In addition, the death time of the corpse cannot be determined, which further shows that my guess is very feasible."

The art of transformation is not something too advanced. As long as Lin Tianci wants to learn it, he can go to the library to find it now, especially the art of changing from one person to another is even simpler. No major changes in body shape are required.

It's normal to have similar spells in magic. Lin Tianci alone knows several of them. This is all the information he got when he was in the west with Leidixia and the others.

"I understand what you mean. That is to say, the murderer kills the victim, and then puts on a disguise of illusion to live according to the behavior of the victim. That is to say, he is replaced, right?"

"Yes, this also shows that when we found the body, the murderer had been replaced by another person. This person must have known the previous person, not necessarily very close, but definitely the kind of person who often has the opportunity to meet."

"That's why you say that the files are arranged not in the order in which the bodies were found, but in the order in which one victim knew another victim..."

Mei Li thought for a while:
"Then what good does the apostle do?"

"All I can think of now is that the apostle intends to use this method to slowly approach the goal he wants to approach."

Mei Li was stunned:

"is it possible?"

"Of course it is possible."

In Lin Tianci's previous life, there was a theory called sextant degree (six degrees of division). Simply put, he knew all the people in the world indirectly through the order of friends of friends of friends.

The method the apostle probably used was similar to the theory of six degrees of separation, replacing the victim step by step, and finally approaching the target he wanted to approach.

This method is stealthy enough that, although inefficient, it is practical.

"I guess, the target that the apostle wants to approach must be a high-ranking and powerful person. He must be surrounded by a lot of bodyguards who are very closely guarded. The Art of Transformation must be very confident, otherwise it would not have chosen this method."

"Nord Harlan is going to say someone with a high position..."

Meili's expression changed:
"Heavenly gift, your monk's immortal technique is as miraculous as magic. Is there any way to use the immortal technique to find out the apostle?"

Lin Tianci spread his hands:
"Eldest sister, the magic of immortality is not omnipotent. I also want to use a method to get everything done, but it's not that easy."

Maybe the clever divination has some effect, but it's only a little bit.

Divination, like prophecy spells in magic, is very unreliable. It’s okay to sense whether there is danger nearby. Once it involves finding people, finding things or predicting the future, even if you can calculate something, basically It all depends on the monks to guess.

"If there is some medium or something, such as the items on the murderer, I may still try it. I don't have anything."

"Things on the murderer? I have other evidence here, you try."

Meili took out the suitcase she had been using to store documents from under the sofa, and opened another interlayer, where a dozen or so small cloth bags were neatly placed.

She pointed to the bags and said:
"It contains the physical evidence of this serial murder case, you can see if it is useful."

Eldest sister, you are too fierce, you actually brought physical evidence home...

It's no wonder that the police didn't work hard. Mei Li didn't understand this aspect at all. After investigating the scene, she directly asked to take away all the physical evidence and files. How could you let the police have no opinion.

Most of these physical evidences are not of much use. They are basically toilet paper to wipe the blood, or fragments of sharp weapons taken from the wound.

Brother Lin opened one cloth bag after another, but couldn't find anything suitable, until he opened the last one, and saw a few pieces that looked like clothes inside.

"This is a piece of cloth that was held in the hand of the last victim and may have been torn from the killer unconsciously."

It is less than four or five centimeters long, and the material looks quite high-end, not like the clothes worn by ordinary people, and one of them is still the kind of lightly woven lace.

Meili knows this better than Brother Lin, an outsider. She said:
"The original owner of the fragment must be a wealthy businessman or nobleman. I have checked the silk fabric on it. It is a special fabric that only a few clothing stores in the city can enter, but..."

"But there are a lot of suspects, right?"

Mei Li nodded helplessly.

This is Nordhallan, the capital. Naturally, there are many rich merchants and nobles. If you throw a stone on the street, you may hit a few rich people.

This clue is useless in Mei Li's hands. There are too many people to investigate, and the apostle will have achieved his goal long ago.

But it's useless in Meili's hands, but it doesn't mean it's useless in Brother Lin's hands, such as the thousand-mile tracking charm.

Although there is a saying that only magic can defeat magic, but using fairy methods...

It should be considered similar, right?
(End of this chapter)