"There is no doubt that the two dead were the work of the same group," Fujiwara said, putting down his ruler and speaking to Grigory, who was anxiously sitting in a chair and tapping his cane on the ground. "Although the deceased was not bitten through the abdomen by a rat like the previous male deceased (author: Cohen), we found the same special marks on her body as the previous deceased — that is, on the remaining skin, strangulation marks of a certain width, and the residue on the skin indicates that they were all once bound with similar kraft tape."

"So, has there been anything in the body of Deceased No. 1 (Cohen)?"

"It seems that some rodents, as they gnaw on No. 1's flesh, leave some of the debris that was left in the mice when they grind their teeth in the bones and other places, and we extract them from the ribs...... A paint with a very low lead content, I guess this should be a foreign paint. Hotaru replied. But even if you know about it, it's hard to figure out where it came from. ”

(In 1996, the Japan Paint Industries Association issued a declaration on reducing the risk of lead paint, but there were no requirements to reduce lead content until then.) In contrast, in 1978, the U.S. set a lead level of 600 ppm.)

"I didn't get anything from it, they found some fragments of sound-absorbing material from the silverfish found on the body of deceased No. 1, but even when combined with foreign paint, this is obviously not enough." Fujiwara sighed.

"Well, maybe you don't have some inspiration on your side for now, but I might be able to figure out why they're doing what they do - if that's what I think, they're doing a pretty funny job." Grigory threw a stack of copies of the pages in front of Fujiwara. According to some documents, this is a fairly common practice, at least in ancient India and Rome, and a decade ago in Brazil, which was said to have been under a military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985. However, if there is a specific branch, according to the iron basin he used, it was not Nero's iron basin, nor the iron pants like ancient India, but it should be inherited from the torture model used by Diederik Sonay during the Habsburg dynasty in Spain: a cage is placed on a person's stomach and then heated with charcoal to force a mouse to burrow into the human body. ”

"Torture, which means torture to extract confessions?" Fujiwara's reaction was quick. "Then he died of such a neat fracture of his spine...... Is it because the executioners have already got the information they need? ”

"Quite possibly, so...... To us—" As he said this, Gregory suddenly noticed Hotaru. "It's okay to count you among yourself, right? In short, for us, we need to assume that the other person probably already knows a lot of things that Number 1 might know, so the next one is busy. And...... The one who disappeared may become the one on the 3rd, and she will have the same treatment if she doesn't do it. ”

"But then again, what is the other party planning to do, it can't be that they hurt them at the aquarium some time ago, so crazy revenge, right?"

"Let's take a look first, after all, there are rumors that the relationship between the two is not very simple, so it may be that whether it is really an organizational matter remains to be considered." With that, Grigory refocused his attention on Chianti's grandmother. "Now the question is, what happened to this No. 2 deceased, who appeared in front of the murderer with her children, so she was killed together?"

"In this case, we also observed the same situation as No. 1, after a long period of chronic torture, a fatal blow. However, the old woman's punishment seems to be different. The chronic torture she suffered did not seem to be rat torture, but was repeatedly beaten with a hammer and other objects on the exposed bones, causing extensive bone cracks and fractures throughout her body, and finally the killer cut an artery from the larynx, killing her with a single blow. Fujiwara replied.

"This gap is inevitably a little too big, could it be that the executioner was tired of playing with rats on No. 1 before, and now he wants to try something fresh?" Gregory frowned. "Forget it, you guys...... If you look for any other information on No. 2 that can determine the place where they were held and tortured during their lifetime, I don't believe that he changed the torture method, changed the finishing method, and could change the place of execution. ”

"I suddenly wanted to ask a question," Hotaru interrupted them suddenly. "If this series of events has anything to do with you, is the bomb that was delivered to my house also caused by you? They had speculated that it might have been the same Kyosuke Kaze who had done it, but at noon I heard that it seemed that Kyosuke Kazato had said that my business had nothing to do with her. ”

"It may have something to do with us, but ......" Grigory nodded, but shook his head again. Seriously, the way this case was committed was strange, and the murderer seemed to lack a torture paradigm - if the person who put the tape on it could be the same person, then the torturer who was tortured twice didn't look like the same person's handwriting. Maybe we're facing an extremely sophisticated criminal syndicate...... No, isn't it a little strange that we say that the other party is a criminal gang? ”

"What's so strange," Fujiwara said with a look of course. "We are all decent people of the upper class, good citizens, and those who try to kill us are of course criminal gangs."

"Oh, yes!" Hotaru woke up from a dream.

……

That night, a certain hotel.

"Hmm...... It should be this room, right? Dressed in a coat that completely obscured her figure, and wearing sunglasses and a mask that covered her face (the one near chapters 730-735 before, who had an appointment with Fujiwara, remember) looked at the puppy pendant hanging from the door number and swiped the door open with her key card - the room was pitch black, but there was a fluorescent doll sitting quietly on the ground where she could see, expressing that there was indeed someone waiting here.

Today, this customer is really generous, he actually gave so much in advance, and promised to give more afterwards...... Wait a minute, he won't call a lot of people and plan to join a group to consume me alone, right?

Suddenly thinking of such a thing, Nami was a little worried-she didn't hear of someone who gave a high price to lure some girls to go happily, and then they were miserably taken turns to fight, although the money was made a lot, but that kind of bad work experience is really something that many girls don't want to face. "Hey, Mr. X, let me ask, you should have come alone, right? If it's a multi-person service, I think it should be ...... in advance."

Her words were interrupted by the sound of electricity. “！！！”