Three days later, inside the Tokyo safe house.
Li Benzheng chewed a piece of sushi dotted with green mustard and looked at Zhao Yu in disbelief.
Looking at Zhao Yu, he had already transformed the living room of the safe house into a case analysis room. The walls, whiteboard, and table were all densely packed with information about the case.
"My Crazy Detective," Li Benzheng exclaimed, "It's been three days and three nights. You are so perseverant. I have given up investigating the rich people who bought Van Gogh's famous paintings, but you are still insisting on your art exhibition. …
"Hmm... so what? Still no clue?" Li Benzheng took a bite of sushi and puffed his nose and said, "How about we follow the murderer's footsteps and see if we can find any clues?"
"You really know how to talk," Zhao Yu said, "What time has it been? Do you think we should travel around the world?"
"But, this is not a solution, right?" Li Benzheng said, "Can we find the murderer just by relying on this analysis
"Look, after you've been looking for it for so many days, it shouldn't be an art exhibition, right? Nor is it a rich man," Li Benzheng said, "So, it should only be a business person!
"Should we reconsider this aspect?"
"Old Li Tou," Zhao Yu said, "stop talking nonsense. I asked you to check Luofu Road. Have you found it?"
"No, no..." Li Benzheng shook his head and said, "There are very few people who know this kind of witchcraft. Moreover, in your country, you can't find it. Where can I go to find it?"
"This kind of witchcraft is mainly used to cure diseases," Zhao Yu said thoughtfully, "Now, they suspect that Peter, who was involved in the red bathtub case, and Zhang Fengyi later believed in this evil witchcraft, and used the blood sacrifice of girls to Defeat your illness!
"Peter is not capable of being a man, and Zhang Fengyi is suffering from a blood disease... I now wonder if the left-eared murderer we are looking for also suffers from some incurable or terminal disease?"
"You mean, these people have gone crazy?" Li Benzheng said, "Are they all fools? If you kill one or two, you should know that they are all lies. Why do you still kill so many people
"Especially this left-eared killer, 19 of them! This is obviously killing for the sake of killing!"
"Yes," Zhao Yu said, "I have seen many cases like this. At first, he might have wanted to save himself, but when he found out that it didn't work, he became addicted and couldn't extricate himself!
"Just like the Left Ear Killer, he was doing it for blood sacrifice in the front, but behind it, he might be doing it for his own desires!
"Old Li Tou, look," Zhao Yu pointed at the trajectory on the whiteboard and said, "The Left Ear Killer had a brief stoppage between 1995 and 1999!
"At that time, something must have happened to him! Either he went to jail, or was hospitalized, or... "
"Either he is bankrupt and has no money to go abroad!" Li Benzheng continued.
"Yes! That's what it means," Zhao Yu said, "I think this is our first breakthrough!"
"Oh? The first one?" Li Benzheng raised his eyebrows, "Is there a second one?"
"The second one is the last few cases. As the murderer gets older and the techniques for solving crimes improve, he will definitely leave important evidence in the subsequent cases!
"So, if it really doesn't work out, let's go to the places where the next few cases happened to check and see if the local police have found the identity information of the murderer..."
"Hey! Don't you need to go to such trouble?" Li Benzheng pointed at the whiteboard and said, "The case in 2001 happened in Paris. We only need to make a phone call to Senior Sister Tuoqiu, and we will know everything?"
"No," Zhao Yu shook his head and said, "I don't want to contact her anymore! Can't you hear it? When we met in Paris last time, Juliet's attitude was already very clear!
"If we go to her again, it might have a negative impact on her...
"Besides," Zhao Yu said, "it may also be detrimental to us!"
"Well," Li Benzheng said, "it's not that difficult anyway, I can help you do it! I'm afraid, the murderer didn't leave any clues..."
"No, there must be!" Zhao Yu pointed to the picture on the whiteboard and said, "In the case in Lisbon, the injuries on the deceased were obviously more serious than before. This shows that the murderer is older and no longer as controllable as before. !
"I guess this is why he stopped taking action after 2003, right
"Also, it seems to me that the murderer just has a stubborn disease, not a fatal disease," Zhao Yu guessed, "So, he may still be alive now! Even if he is no longer here, as long as we find him, we should know , what exactly does the successor want us to do!"
"Okay, maybe you are right!" As he said that, Li Benzheng stuffed a large piece of sushi into his mouth.
The smell of green mustard didn't seem to irritate him, and he was fine with it.
Seeing this, Zhao Yu also picked up the same sushi on the table and ate it like Li Benzheng. As a result, the pungent smell suddenly made Zhao Yu cough violently...
Ahem... Ahem...
I coughed so violently that even the sushi rice grains were sprayed out. It was so embarrassing...
Li Benzheng just wanted to laugh. However, just as he raised his lips, he suddenly remembered something. He opened his eyes wide and said to Zhao Yu:
"Zhao Yu, Zhao Yu! Stop for a moment and listen to me..." Li Benzheng said hurriedly, "Have we discussed the differences and similarities between the Zuo Er case and the Red Bathtub case before?"
"Ahem... Ahem..." Zhao Yu's face turned the color of mustard. He was speechless and could only make an OK gesture.
"We speculated at the time that the Zuoer killer was also the apprentice of that Luofu Taoist wizard? So he, like Peter, and Zhang Fengyi, all used blood sacrifices to kill people in order to get rid of their stubborn diseases and seek immortality?"
"Ahem... Ahem..." Zhao Yu opened a bottle of mineral water and rinsed his mouth before finally speaking, "What exactly do you want to say?"
"I want to say, why didn't Peter and Zhang Fengyi cut off their ears, but why did this left-ear killer do it?"
"This..." Zhao Yu still didn't know what he meant, but instinctively felt that Li Bencheng's words were important.
"Zhao Yu!" Li Benzheng grabbed Zhao Yu's arm excitedly and said, "He cut off the deceased's ear. Could it be that he has one ear?"
"Ah?" Zhao Yu was startled suddenly and could no longer speak.
"For a long time, because of the sunflowers and that report, we all associated the murder with Van Gogh, but have you ever thought that the murderer was not because of Van Gogh
"Pingcheng Nougat just happened to die in a sunflower field? The deceased in Seoul happened to have sunflowers with him. Didn't he never see sunflowers in other cases?"
"One ear..." Zhao Yu frowned and said, "You mean, the murderer also has one ear? Because he is missing one ear, he wants to grow another one in this way? This..."
"Well... yes..." Li Benzheng and Zhao Yu thought together, "It seems that there is no need to kill so many people for one ear, right?"
"Unless... unless..." Suddenly, Zhao Yu thought of a possibility, "The murderer's ears are very important!!!"
"Oh? The murderer's ears are very important?" Li Benzheng was puzzled, "What... what do you mean?"
"Holy crap!" This time, it was Zhao Yu's turn to suddenly widen his eyes, clapped his hands and said, "Old Li Tou, do you think this murderer is a musician?!"
(End of chapter)