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Chapter 237 Chapter 98 Jhin's target is me.

Storm Harbor is not as clean as the surrounding streets. Due to the waves around the harbor and the laborers who used to work here, the entire harbor looks a little damp. It doesn't look like a port standing on the sea, but rather like a whole submerged in the sea. .

Although it is sunny all day today, it is early spring and the temperature is not enough to dry out the wet harbor, so there is half-dry mud everywhere.

Although it is not enough to splash mud stars with one foot, the sticky muddy feeling is always unlikable.

After entering the interior of the port, Levi discovered that it was a medium-sized port made of stone slabs and reinforced concrete.

There are several ships moored at the port at the same time. Since it is the private port of the Gilaman family, there are no fishing boats here, and all of them are merchant ships.

Because it is an inland port, there is no lighthouse, but the surrounding area is brightly lit. Alchemy street lamps are also installed in the port. The warm white light illuminates the entire port, and the surrounding lights are always on.

If you look down from the sky, you will find that the entire Valoran continent has been plunged into darkness, and only Piltover is shining like stars.

Perhaps because of the Pilt River, a canal called Piltover's heart vessel, Levi discovered that these ports in the South District can be said to be the highest point in the South District.

If you stand at a higher place, you will see that the terrain of the entire southern city is gentle and gradually descends. At the end is the border market with Zaun, and then there is a huge crack like a wound on the earth.

Levi walked to the edge of the port and observed for a while.

The Pilt River is not as wide as the Rhine River in Demacia. It is only about one kilometer wide, maybe two kilometers.

In fact, it was only here that Levi realized what he always thought was so strange—why is Zaun under the Evolution Bridge instead of the Pilt River.

Because the Pilt River is not a straight river, it starts from the Sun Gate in the South City, bends like a north arc, passes through the North City, returns to the South City, and finally flows into the Sea of ​​​​Conquerors.

The cracked canyon under the Evolution Bridge should be the associated crack of the Piltwater. If Mrs. Piltover opens up the land on the east side of the Zaun Canyon, she will get another canal—of course, this will have to sacrifice all Zaun people.

In fact, when I chatted with Caitlin before, I mentioned that someone submitted this proposal in the parliament, but was rejected by all the members on the spot, and he was sentenced to commit crimes against humanity, and he was directly sent to the sea prison.

All the houses of Piltover acquiesced to the Parliament's approach.

This is to show Piltover's attitude, and it is also to appease Zaun.

After all, the construction of the canal has not started yet, and Zaun is about to declare war.

Cattle and horses rebelled, of course, this is what big families like Piltover do not want to see, and Zaun produces the steel minerals that Piltover needs, and many heavily polluting factories are also built in Zaun—including the Philos family faux hex crystal factory.

Zaun is gone, not to mention the immediate losses, these factories will be built in Piltover in the future?

The Philos family was the first to disagree.

Partially loaded goods in wooden boxes covered with green oilcloth on pier with Gilamann home

The people of the tribe are guarding.

Caitlin calmly swept over the members of the Gilaman family and kept observing the situation at the port. However, because there were too many people coming and going at the port, and the crime occurred on a ship, the port could not get much useful information.

Caitlin turned her gaze to the huge wooden ship in the middle of the harbor.

Catheranda.

This huge ship is more than 60 meters long and nearly ten meters high. One ship occupies a lot of space in the port. The springboard is a foldable steel ladder, which is spacious and durable.

There are even several hex-crystal powered conveyor belts strewn across the decks and ports, presumably to carry cargo.

The three of them boarded the Catheranda, and there was no peculiar smell on the deck, and the position and posture of the corpse could be seen drawn by white lines.

The corpses were basically collected by the guards of Piltover during the day, and now they are probably waiting for autopsy on the forensic doctor's operating table.

Caitlin's blue eyes were shining brightly under the light, and she was looking around.

After boarding the deck, Caitlin seemed to be a different person. She was concentrating on it, but her eyes seemed to be wandering. She looked here and then checked there, and finally showed a dazed look.

Finally, she glanced at the promenade inside the cabin, and then squatted on the edge of the cabin steps and observed it carefully with a magnifying glass for a long time.

There are seven steps, full of footprints, and the promenade is not very clean. There are human footprints everywhere, including the leather boots of the leather city guards, and the footprints of the crew of the Gilaman family.

"Crew?" Caitlin muttered in a low voice. She turned her head to look at Levi, staring blankly for a while. The Piltover guard stood aside and rolled her eyes. Levi saw his mouth move. It seems to be saying "mystery."

Levi was also a little surprised why Caitlin suddenly looked at him in a daze, and asked, "Did you find anything?"

Caitlin frowned: "The crew is unreasonable." Her words were a bit out of line.

After she finished speaking, she averted her eyes and wandered around the deck. Levi was stunned for a while. He had never seen Caitlin in such a gesture.

It turns out that Caitlin in detective form is like this.Li Weisi thought silently in his heart, and glanced curiously at the cabin.

There is an alchemy wall lamp in the cabin, which is enough for people to see everything clearly, but there is nothing on the promenade except for the footprints of a herd of buffaloes running.

what did she find

Sure enough, there is still a qualitative difference between amateur detectives and professional detectives.

Li Weisi thought a little shyly in his heart. He thought of the advertisements he once published in the newspapers, which seemed to be suspected of false advertisements...

He then followed Caitlin, and the two carefully inspected all the places on the deck. Finally, Caitlin found some half-dried mud stains and some footprints in a hidden corner on the edge of the deck.

She stopped and smiled on her more heroic face after makeup. She carefully identified the footprints and nodded slightly.

"Give me an evidence bag and gloves from the toolbox."

Caitlin stretched out her hand to Levi's. The originally slender and white hand was now slightly rough and the knuckles were larger than before. She completely regarded Levi's as an assistant.

Levi had no objection, he opened the suitcase and took out an evidence bag and a pair of rubber gloves from inside.

"Thank you." Caitlin said casually, put on gloves, pinched and sniffed the half-dried soil, and then put it all into the evidence bag.

"Okay, there's no need to check the deck, let's go to the cabin to have a look." Caitlin stood up and said, without giving Levi a chance to ask questions.

Li Weisi was also afraid of disturbing her train of thought, so he silently followed behind her without saying a word, faithfully performing the work of an assistant.

The Piltover guards did not refuse Caitlin's request to go down to the cabin, they only said not to touch them casually, and then led them down the deck and into the cabin.

Li Weisi frowned upon seeing this, which in his opinion was extremely unreasonable—it is impossible to allow idlers to enter a crime scene like Blue Star, so I can only talk about criminal investigation on Piltover's side Still quite behind.

The guards of Piltover entered the cabin first, and Levi heard a retch, Caitlin tiptoed to Levi's ear, her red lips parted slightly, and a familiar fragrance filled the air, with some moist and warm warm air.

"This is the Guardian of Piltover, that's why the detection rate is so low." Her tone was full of hatred.

But Li Weisi didn't pay attention here, so he didn't notice anything. He smiled: "That's just convenient for us."

As soon as he entered the cabin, a strong smell of blood mixed with the peculiar smell of the interior of ocean-going merchant ships hit his face, which was a kind of smell with slightly higher humidity.

But Caitlin just frowned slightly, and started to check the clues.

After walking down the cabin stairs, Kaitlyn glanced back at the seventh-floor stairs and said softly, "He took four steps."

"Him?" Levi noticed that Caitlin's words referred to men, and recalled the mud stains and footprints he had seen on the deck before: "You got the information from those footprints?"

"It looks like this at the moment." Caitlin looked at the promenade below the stairs, and Levi also looked over, but only saw a bunch of mixed footprints.

"Four steps?" Li Weisi repeated in a low voice, and he suddenly remembered Jhin's obsessive-compulsive disorder—everything he did had to be related to four.

Levi's took this to heart

During the incident, they first came to the captain's cabin and found nothing unusual. It seemed that no one had entered the captain's cabin when the incident occurred.

Several people left the captain's cabin. Levi looked at a cabin next to the captain's cabin with a seal on it. Caitlin took his hand: "Look at the other cabins first."

After that, Caitlin and Levi spent more than an hour inspecting the various cabins of the merchant ship.

Except for the crew's footprints and some blood stains in the cabin, no other differences were found. After the laborers put the goods on the conveyor belt, people from the Gilaman family moved into the cabin.

But the bloodstains are interesting. There are bloodstains everywhere on the ceilings and walls of some cabins, and it seems that they are indeed 'blooming'.

Indeed, it resembles Jhin's method of killing.

The Piltover guard who followed Caitlin and Levi's obviously recalled some bad memories, and stood in the corridor covering his mouth and retching for a long time.

"Gentlemen, I have to say that this is the cruelest criminal I have ever seen. If you had seen that scene at the time, your reaction might have been more intense than mine." The Piltover guard explained.

The Piltover seemed to have seen the corpse at the time, and Caitlyn had only heard about it, which always creates distortions.

Li Weisi thought for a while, and asked in confirmation, "Have you seen the scene at that time with your own eyes?"

The Piltover guard nodded with his handkerchief to his mouth.

"Sir, have you ever heard of a whale burst?" he explained. "I saw it when I was a child. It was an explosive shock that emanated from the body of a dead whale."

"But those corpses are different, as if there is some force that makes their flesh and bones slowly unfold from the inside, and the hard bones can't resist that force, turning into white petals—every corpse, although different There are differences, but they all bloomed."

"They died of bursting gunshots, but then unfolded in tenderness, vomit!" he said, retching again.

Flesh and bone, red and white unfurled roses.

It's really quite out of san.In Li Weisi's mind, his guess on Jhin's perpetrator was even more serious.

Finally, Levi's and Caitlin came to the cabin that had been sealed and not inspected just now. This cabin is in the corridor on the top floor. The things in it were repeatedly ordered by the Gilaman family not to be tampered with, and they were not allowed to enter. .

So the Piltover guards just stood outside the door and checked briefly, and then put a seal on it—in fact, even if they could go in, they probably wouldn't find anything.

This is what the accompanying Piltover guards said to Caitlin: "Mr. Kate, the Gilaman family does not allow anyone to enter this cabin."

"I'm the detective invited by the Gilaman family." Caitlin turned her head and said to the Piltover guards. She gave Levi a wink and glanced at the toolbox.

Levi was stunned for a second, and after opening the toolbox, Caitlin found a letter of employment from the Gilaman family.

The Piltover guard was a little hesitant. He took the letter of employment, checked the seal on it, looked at Caitlin again, and said awkwardly: "Mr. Kate, I can't make a decision."

"Then go find someone who can decide." Caitlin replied, "I will not go in until you come back, on the reputation of the detective."

The Piltover guard glanced at the seal on the door, nodded slightly, "Please wait a moment." He said and trotted away.

Levi looked around for a while, then leaned over to Caitlin and asked in a low voice, "Kate, did you find anything?"

Caitlin glanced at Levi's eyes that couldn't be concealed even with makeup on: "Don't you also claim to be a detective? Let me tell you what you found first."

Although Li Weisi didn't know enough about some professional knowledge, so that he couldn't distinguish the clues from many traces, he did have some ideas.

He pondered for two seconds: "I don't know if you have noticed that it is obviously not an easy task to let the flesh and bones bloom like the Piltover guard described."

"Bones are very hard things, but the guard of Piltover said that even the bones have turned into flower petals. This is true of all the corpses. There are 64 dead people in total. This project is not small and requires a lot of tools."

"With so many people on board and with so many tools, they will definitely be discovered. But judging from the response of the Piltover guards, the people on duty around at that time did not immediately notice the sound of fire, which is unreasonable."