While Anpu was thinking about this problem, he wandered around the stores selling luxury goods in the city. When he found the third store, he finally saw a similar lighter on the counter. He handed the lighter to the teller with a smile, "I picked up a lighter from the roadside. I think its owner must be very anxious. I wonder if you can return this lighter to its owner?"
After checking the lighter that An Pu handed over, the teller gave An Pu a positive reply, "Thank you very much. You are an honest person. I believe the owner will be very happy when he finds out. Do you need to leave a contact information?" Maybe the owner will thank you in person." Such a lighter sells for more than 200 yuan here, which is quite a luxury item. Maybe the owner will give you some reward.
Finding the owner may be difficult for the person who found the item, but it is much easier for the merchant. Each luxury item has its own unique number. The moment it is sold, they will retain at least one contact information of the buyer so that after-sales service can be carried out normally. Just look up the serial number under the lighter and you can find the owner of the lighter.
But Anpu declined the teller's request. He waved his hand and left the store. The moment he left, he ran away and rushed to the telegraph office in Ilian.
While panting, he showed his ID, and then made a request, "I want to monitor a number. Is there any problem?"
After the telegraph office made a call to the police station, Anpu was asked to enter the house where the wiring machine was installed. At this time, the phone could not achieve "intelligent" automatic connection and had to be completed manually. When a light lights up, answer the dialing information of this line, and then connect the two terminals together according to this dialing information, and the wiring work is completed. If it's a long distance call, it's even more troublesome. You may have to go through three or even four lines of operator work before you can dial the number in another place.
Amp told the name of the luxury store, and the operator quickly found the registration line. After waiting for about five minutes, the line light came on. The operator glanced at Anpu. After Anpu asked him to do as usual, the operator answered the message and then connected another line.
"Now you can monitor." The operator inserted the headphone plug into an empty slot, and Anpu sat in his seat.
He didn't wait long before he heard voices on both sides.
"Hello, this is Dulin Manor, Haiya. I am Dove..."
"Hello, Ms. Dove, I have a lost item here that is registered to Mr. Dulin. Is Mr. Dulin here? If it is convenient for him, he can come and collect his lost lighter. If it is not convenient for him, we can also Send the lost items to you."
"I'm really sorry. Mr. Dulin has gone out of town. If you can, please send it over."
"OK… "
An Pu frowned and returned the headset to the operator. He thought Du Lin would answer the call, but he didn't expect Du Lin to leave Ilian. Where did he go? Did he abscond out of fear of crime? Or did you do something else
He left while thinking, subconsciously touched his pocket and took out the cigarette case. When I opened the cigarette box and was about to take out a cigarette, I realized that the cigarette had been finished. Just when he was about to throw away the box, he was stunned for a moment.
cigarette case!
Yes, the cigarette box. There were a lot of cigarette butts at the crime scene. The chemical test on Juan's tongue also proved that he smoked a lot of tobacco before he died. So where is the cigarette box? The cigarette box doesn't look big, but in the absence of any direct evidence, Anpu has to take all the issues into consideration. We already have the lighter, but what about the cigarette box? If the lighter belongs to Dulin, are the cigarettes also provided by Dulin? Anpu immediately thought of the Grimace Mushroom, a terrifying poisonous fungus that can cause hallucinations. Maybe Juan smoked cigarettes containing the Mycelium of the Grimace Mushroom, which caused him to hallucinate and fall from the rooftop!
He first ran to the crime scene, picked up some cigarette butts on the ground, and then went to the police station. If cigarettes contain the ingredients of Grimace Mushroom, then those cigarettes must be "processed". That is to say, pour out the shredded tobacco from the cigarette, add the mycelium of the Grimace Mushroom and then put it back. There will definitely be residual Grimace Mushroom mycelium in the cigarette box!
Once the mycelium of the Grimace Mushroom can be found, Dulin will not be able to escape the charge of second-degree murder. With such a crime, he would have more time to dig into Du Lin's background, and try to solve the fraud case as well as the gold robbery case.
He went to the evidence room of the police station again and asked the police officer to look at the evidence collected at the scene of Juan's suicide case. Among the bits and pieces, he found a burned cigarette box. He sat in a room next to the evidence room and looked carefully at the cigarette case in his hand. This cigarette box is not much different from most high-end cigarette boxes. The cigarette box itself was made of extremely thin wood chips, with a layer of wrapping paper stuck on the outside. However, the cigarette box had been burned, and there was a large area of scorch in one of the cigarette boxes.
Then he looked inside the cigarette box, and unexpectedly found that the tin foil used to wrap the cigarettes was missing. He looked back and forth several times, returned to the evidence room, and checked again everything from the scene and Juan's body. Everything he found, "Where's the tinfoil in the cigarette case?", he took out the burned cigarette case in his hand, and also took out his own cigarette case, "Look, there's a layer of tinfoil in it?"
The police officer shook his head and said impatiently: "Everything is here. If it is there, it is there. If it is not there, then it is not there!"
Anpu was silent for a moment, then returned to the room and continued to play with the cigarette box.
Although tobacco taxes at this time were far inferior to other commercial taxes and alcohol taxes, many people believed that tobacco taxes would also become an important source of tax revenue for the empire in the future. At this time, everyone was still accustomed to growing tobacco themselves or buying it from other farmers, which could save a lot of money. But as the empire's economy is recovering rapidly and the power of capital is expanding crazily, the industrial industry will inevitably squeeze the agricultural industry in the future, and more and more people will go into factories instead of farming in the countryside.
People who have lost access to cheap tobacco have to spend more money to buy cigarettes, causing cigarette companies to expand rapidly.
At this time, cigarette boxes were made of thin, paper-like wood chips glued together into a box, with wrapping paper on the outside. The cigarettes are then wrapped in tin foil and stuffed into a cigarette box. Finally, the entire pack of cigarettes is soaked in oil and wax. The purpose of this is to prevent the tobacco inside from getting damp and water intrusion. While he was looking at the burned cigarette box, he was thinking about a question.
What can a palm-sized tin foil do
Convey a message
Or is it that someone has already tampered with it after Juan's death
But this is not right. If it is true that what he thinks is true, grimacing mushrooms are added to the shredded tobacco of the cigarettes, and the tin foil is taken away, but the cigarette butts are left. What is the point of doing this
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that there were too many things hidden behind Juan's "suicide". He casually took a pen and drew the burned cigarette box, and then returned the cigarette box to the police. The first thing to do now is to analyze whether there is any component of the Grimace Mushroom in the cigarette butt.
If so, Dulin would have to face trial.
If not, then he would consider whether the burned cigarette box was intentional or an accident.
After spending an "expedited fee", at around nine o'clock in the evening, he finally got the chemical analysis report of the cigarette butts. Among the hundreds of chemical substances, no components of the Grimace Mushroom were found. This made Anpu more interested in this case. There was a brief confusion about the direction of the investigation again. (Of course I know how many chemical components tobacco contains when it burns. I also know how many chemical components are produced when tobacco from another world burns. This is not a typo.)
When they returned to the hotel, the detectives also came back exhausted. Anpu put the matter aside and looked at the detectives.
"How is the investigation of the demonstration going?"
The detective in charge of the matter shook his head, "We don't have any clues yet. All the provincial people who organized the organization at that time died in 'gang vendetta.' The police station didn't seem to care much about this case and did not conduct any detailed investigation." There was no further follow-up on the transcript, and even some of the evidence had been disposed of, as if... "
Anpu didn't wait for him to finish, then went up and said: "It's like the police station knew the truth about this matter, so they gave up the investigation!"
"Yes, that's how it feels." The agent thought he had found his soulmate and patted the edge of the table.
There is no doubt that the organizers of the organization have been killed by Dulin. It is very likely that the police also played a less honorable role in this. An Pu has been to many places and solved many cases. He understands that in some places, in order to "cover the lid", even the city hall has taken the initiative to help certain people and certain things.
It is not reluctant to characterize the death of a group of people as a gang vendetta. It is reluctant because the case has no further details and it is a local protection policy!
Using the lives of some poor people in exchange for the political lives of politicians is despicable and shameless!
He looked at the other one, who also shook his head.
"There are still connections between the Carter family and the Fullers family. There are many theories involving the death of Carter's daughter and little Fullers. Someone can prove that Carter's wife left Ilian because of sadness and returned to her hometown, and the old man The Fulers family also left here. There were witnesses to both incidents. They all saw these people leaving Ilian." The agent who spoke paused, took out a cigarette and lit it, "I have been there. The Fullers family's villa is very clean and tidy inside and out. All the furniture and decorations are covered with dust-proof cloths and packed properly. It doesn't look like they left in a hurry. "
(End of chapter)