"Then what do you think of those grave robbers?"
Xia De asked curiously.
"How else can I look at it? Stealing things in the place I am guarding, I can't wait to hang them directly! Moreover, disturbing the dead is a serious crime in itself, even if it is for food, you should not do this kind of thing. If you want me to say, dare to deal with the dead , You must be prepared to be strangled to death by the dead."
After finishing speaking, the old man spit on the ground in a very puzzled manner, holding the big scissors for building tree branches, as if he was going to cut all the tomb robbers he encountered to death.
The three stolen tombs are connected to each other, in the southeast corner of the No. 3 tomb area. Because the Tobesk Public Cemetery is gradually expanding towards the mountainous forests further east, the natural scenery in this corner is not bad.
From a distance, I saw mounds of earth, and when I got closer, I found that those mounds were left by grave robbers when they dug the grave.
The police at Ridwich Field have set up three no-approach notice boards here, and the notice boards are connected with warning lines. Iluna stepped over directly, and her little black leather shoes left inconspicuous footprints on the grass.
Xia De lowered his head and looked at the ground. Weeds were messy, but he still basically maintained the appearance of the first scene.
He came to the stolen tomb:
"The inner and outer coffins are still there. The tomb guard said that there were no traces of ruts. Did the prisoners carry the body away in a bag, or carried it away?"
"It's hard to say. I've read the records of the church. Some tomb robbers would even take away the corpse after being divided... What is it that smells so bad?"
Iluna shrugged her nose and complained, then squatted down to check the three tombstones embedded in the ground.
"This one belongs to Mrs. Fennell."
Iluna pointed to the one on the farthest edge, Xia De looked at it with his head, and there was nothing important written on the tombstone:
"Is the time of death of the other two corpses also recent?"
"Yes, they were all more than half a month ago, and they were all female corpses."
Iluna said with certainty.
"I remember that the case files said that they died at the age of 34 and 25 respectively, so what was the cause of death? Is it also a disease?"
Xia De asked again, blinking his eyes, trying to find the nearby blood or the soul residing here.
"It's not written on the file, but it's written on the tombstone. Let me see..."
"Let me see, don't get your hands dirty."
The other two tombstones on the ground were almost buried in the mud, Shad patted Iluna on the shoulder to get her out of the way. Then he put on his gloves and squatted down, scraping away the dirt on the ground:
"One hanged himself because he was abandoned, and the other... choked to death on Pacman? Oh, that's just bad luck."
Xia De shook his head:
"Apart from the time of death and gender, the three corpses have no common characteristics. However, it does not rule out that the other party did not simply steal the corpse, but had a grudge against one of the three. He insulted the corpse and was afraid of being found, so he stole it all at once. Three dead bodies to cover up."
"Detective, fortunately you are not a criminal."
Iluna was joking, but looked around with a serious face:
"How is it, is there any blood nearby?"
"Yes, but it's all blood left by animals or insects. Wait a minute, I'll take a look around."
Iluna continued to check the tomb. She also had thaumaturgy to find objects. Last time at the Lucky Southern Cross Club, she easily found blood. And Xia De walked around the nearby grass, expecting to see the marks left by the grave robbers. But the other party was lucky and was not injured throughout the crime.
"found it."
When Shad came back, Iluna pointed to the tomb in the center again:
"There seems to be something under the coffin that does not belong to the earth."
"Did the police not check?"
"I probably didn't expect there to be clues in this position."
Seeing that Xia De wanted to jump into the grave and lift the coffin, Iluna immediately stopped him:
"Don't bother."
She looked around, then raised her hand slightly towards the grave, and the solid wooden coffin immediately floated up. This is the spell [Moving Object], but Shade can't use this effect. Even though he already has three rings, he can barely lift Mia in the limit state.
Xia De bent down to look under the floating coffin, and what he saw was a rotten human head with maggots crawling in the eye sockets:
Because he was unprepared, he was indeed frightened.
Iluna thought there was some danger below, so she raised her hand and threw the coffin onto the grass beside her. After the heavy voice fell, she was holding the golden thunderbolt in her hand and wanted to drop it, but what she saw was a rotting corpse buried shallowly in the grave.
In order to prevent people from finding traces of digging in the tomb, the body was dismembered and buried below. because
The pit was dug in a hurry, so the body was not buried deep, which caused Xia De to see the rotten head at once:
"Oh, this is really..."
Xia De jumped out of the grave, not knowing what to say.
"Isn't this the stolen body?"
Iluna held her nose and said, the smell was not obvious just now, but after the coffin was moved, the stench of rotting corpses came up immediately.
"I don't know, let's see if the other two corpses are still there."
So Iluna covered her nose with her left hand, and directed the remaining two empty coffins to fly out of the tomb with her right hand, lying on the increasingly messy lawn.
Shade stood by the grave and bent down to look. In the grave of Mrs. Fennell they were looking for, there was indeed a corpse that had been badly decomposed and divided for burial, but the grave of the 29-year-old lady who hanged herself Nothing in .
"It seems that it may really be a deception. The real target is actually the body of Ms. Julian who hanged herself."
Iluna looked at the scene in front of her with an ugly expression.
"Perhaps the ghouls swapped the positions of the three corpses to confuse the public."
Xia De raised the possibility again. He looked at the buried corpses and really didn't want to dig them out by himself:
"Notify the gravekeeper, let me see if there are any rotten and clean clothes on these corpses. You can judge the identity through the clothes."
"What if the ghoul changed his clothes too?"
The seventeen-year-old girl also learned Xia De's way of thinking.
"Impossible, the clothes and the corpse are almost integrated. If I were a corpse thief, I would bury the parts of the corpse in a mess to confuse the audience. This is better than removing the clothes strand by strand. Simple. Moreover, it can also prevent experienced coroners from easily identifying the identity of the corpse through the skeleton and delaying some time for themselves."
Xia De frowned and said that he couldn't stand the stench anymore.
They quickly called the old cemetery keeper, who was surprised when he saw the corpse buried at the bottom of the tomb, and didn't even care about how Xia De and his coffin got out of the coffin.
He quickly ran to the church to call out, and then everyone dug up the corpses together, and tried to recover them on the lawn.
Obviously, the perpetrator didn't have as many thoughts as Xia De. According to the clothes and skeleton, the corpse at the bottom of the coffin was the one that should have been lying in the coffin.
In other words, the body of Mrs. Fennell that Iluna was looking for, and the poor woman who choked to death after eating beans, had actually been here all along, and the only one who was really missing was Anne You, who hanged herself because of relationship problems. Ms. Ryan.
For 2 shillings for the carriage, send into town for the detective at Ridwich Field. Although the police detective in charge of this matter did not find anything buried at the bottom of the coffin, at least they arrived at the scene very quickly.
The bearded detective Mario with his assistant in a brown leather coat was wondering who had intervened in the case he was in charge of, but after rushing over and seeing the certificate handed out by Iluna, he kept his mouth shut. The identities of Luna and Xia De obviously understand the relationship between the Church and the Police Agency very well.
"From this point of view, the next direction of investigation is to investigate Ms. Julian's social concerns. That damned guy, after I find him, I must give him a punch!"
Detective Mario said indignantly after hearing Xia De explain their investigation process just now and seeing the two recovered corpses. It is understandable that the police in this steam age hurt each other when they hunted down criminals. As for such a vicious body snatcher, even if he was killed by the police on the spot, I am afraid that Officer Mario would not be punished.
Compared with the agitated police detective, the seventeen-year-old girl seemed very stable when performing the task, she hesitated for a moment:
"Does that lady Julian have any relatives?"
"We investigated when we notified the victim's family~www.mtlnovel.com~ The detective asked his assistant for another notebook, and the young man with red freckles looked at Iluna secretly, but saw After reaching Xia De beside her, he lowered his head sadly.
"Ms. Julian's parents died early, and she grew up with her elder brother. Although she was 25 years old before her death, she was still not married."
In this era, it is very rare for a 25-year-old civilian girl to be unmarried. In addition to their own pressure, neighbors and relatives also gossip.
"Her brother, Toby Julian, is also in Tobesk. Although the two don't live together, they have a good relationship. After finding out that Ms. Julian hanged herself, her funeral is Toby Julian Mister Ryan did it. Here's his address."
Detective Mario, speaking with a Tobesk accent, tore off the notebook and handed it to Shad, apparently thinking that Shad was Iluna's assistant.
Xia De took a look. It was the address of the lower city in the north of the city, but it was not a slum.
"Then what about the man who abandoned Miss Julian and made her commit suicide? Who is he and where does he live?"
Iluna asked again, and Detective Mario shook his head in embarrassment:
"I know the name, but I don't know the address. When I took over this case, I thought it was just a simple tomb robbery case, so I didn't do a more detailed investigation into the social relations of these corpses before they were alive. But I think, the brother of the corpse, who Mister Toby Julian should know that."