Chapter 527 Mysterious Disappearance


    Professor Chapek was dead, but... the matter did not end there.


    Strictly speaking, Professor Chapek is just an initiator, and the Yinmu hut behind him is still missing, and there are other participants alive.


    There were seven people in the Chapek Research Association at first, and later, Mariabel, one of them, died, and the Research Association temporarily became a disbanded state. But after Charlie joined, there were still four people in the entire research association. Now that Professor Chapek is dead and Charlie is in a coma, it means at least two people are still in school.


    After that, Duanmu Huai packaged Professor Chapek''s information and handed over the clues and information to Sheriff Restrade, which temporarily ended this series of serial murders. Sheriff Restrade was somewhat relieved about this. Although he did not see the body, since Duanmu Huai said that, it means that there should be no similar serial murders on the streets of Wudu in the future... The police can breathe a sigh of relief.


    Regarding the investigation of Yinmu Hut, Sheriff Restrade has also made a promise, but he also hinted that Duanmu Huai''s investigation of this organization is very difficult and the reason is very simple. Yinmu Hut is an upper-class private club organization on the surface. It is okay to separate these people, but it is very fatal to put them together. Not to mention that there is currently no sufficient evidence to prove that this series of murders was planned behind the scenes by Yinmu Xiaofu, even if it can be proved, it may be difficult to arrest him...


    Duanmu Huai doesn''t care about this or not. Just kidding, the court wants to kill someone, and he still cares about you. Any heretics that are related to evil gods, you, the queen, will you beat you up. Just like Insmouth, as long as I can’t find the evidence, I will do whatever I want?


    So he just nodded on the surface for Sheriff Restrade''s advice, of course he didn''t take it to heart at all...


    Of course, Restrade was also very curious...


    "How did you steal Professor Chapek''s safe?"


    The theft case in Chapek''s office was also a big fun in the police station. After all, I have never seen such a thief before. Duanmu Huai submitted a report on the information, so of course he had to explain the source of his information report. This is also the tacit understanding between the investigator and the official. You can help me solve the case and I can help you get rid of the crime. Since there is conclusive evidence that Professor Chapek has done these several consecutive murders, the mere crime of "theft" can naturally be offset.


    But Restrade was also very curious. After all, there were basically no clues in the on-site appraisal results. How did Duanmu Huai do it?


    "Oh, that thing is not heavy. As a person... you have seen it too. You are clumsy and can''t do the job of sliding doors and picking locks, so you just resist and smash them."


    “………………”


    If it were someone else, Sheriff Restrade would have thought he was lying, but when he looked at Duanmu Huai in front of him, he suddenly felt that the credibility of this sentence was so high?


    "Okay, if you don''t want to say it, don''t say it."


    Lestrade shook his head and threw this matter directly behind his head. He was not planning to consider whether what Duanmu Huai said was true. If it is true, then his three views will be broken. If it is false, wouldn’t it be a fool? Anyway, it has nothing to do with him, right?


    So far, the case has been closed for the time being. Let’s look at the follow-up. If no similar happens in the next few months, it means that the serial murder incident is over. Although there are some conspiracies planned by Yinmu''s hut, for the police, as long as the situation similar to the previous ones no longer occurs, it will be fine.


    Logically speaking, Duanmu Huai can leave Wu Duan and return to Arkham now, but after thinking about it, he decided to stay. After all, Wu Du seems to have more things than Arkham. He has a lot of college students and teachers there to compete for business with him. There is no Sherlock Holmes here, so there can''t be anyone who competes for business with me.


    In the next half month, Duanmuhuai was leisurely. As for Marie, she gradually adapted to this rhythm of life. She would go to exercise with Lorena every morning and evening, visit Xia Li after school, and occasionally come to Duanmuhuai''s residence to inquire about the progress of the investigation... Of course, the investigation did not make much progress.


    But soon, Mary brought news to Duanmu Huai.


    "You mean, something happened in Master''s College?"


    "Yes."


    Mary''s expression was a little uneasy, but she quickly told Duanmu Huai about the incident.


    But simply put, this incident was not something Mary experienced, but something she heard from her friend Asherika.


    According to Asherika, just a few days ago, in the bulletin board near the Mathematics Department building, such a notice suddenly appeared, with letters cut from the newspaper, and then a sentence was formed.


    "Arrogant Knight, you will be killed tonight - the dead are left."


    At that time, everyone thought it was someone’s prank and didn’t take it seriously, but the next day, a boy from the mathematics department really disappeared...


    Because most of the boys in the mathematics department are concerned about this kind of thing, no one cares about it. He only thinks that boy goes home because of something - after all, those who go to school here are all children of the upper class, aristocrats and middle class. It would not be strange if he leaves for a while because of something at home.


    Not to mention that the weird trailer did not have the name written at all, so many people didn''t think of this at the beginning.


    However, a week later, another preview letter appeared on the bulletin board, and the next day, another student did not come to school.


    Now everyone realized that something was wrong. For a moment, some people in the Mathematics Department were panicked. In fact, within the Royal Master''s College, students have privately discussed such a story - a dead man disguised as a living person and mixed into their school, and issued a preview letter and then killed people.


    Since Mary is a student in the History Department, and now she either follows Lorena to exercise or is busy attending classes and visiting Charlie every day, and is not very careful about these rumors. So it was not until last week when she and Asherika were having tea, she noticed the other party''s frown and asked the reason for the incident from Asherika.


    At that time, Mary just thought it was just a joke, and she comforted Ashelica not to take it to heart.


    As a result... Just this morning, the same trailer appeared in the bulletin board of the Department of History.


    So Mary could no longer sit still and came to find Duanmu Huai.


    "How can you hear this like a campus ghost story? Haven''t you found anything unusual?"


    "Sorry, I''ve always been worried about Charlie and didn''t care too much, and I haven''t encountered any particularly strange people or things in the school."


    This is also the reason why Mary has never noticed the problem. In addition, the Department of History and Mathematics are in different buildings. Everyone who goes to school knows that in addition to the places they are familiar with and used to going to, students rarely wander around in other classes, just like the animal territories. Everyone sways on the territory they are familiar with and rarely goes to other places.


    Some people have been in high school for three years and don’t even know anything outside their classrooms!


    So Mary really didn''t know what happened in the mathematics department. If Asherica wasn''t also in the mathematics department, she would probably have no idea about it.


    "………Um……"


    After listening to Mary''s story, Duanmu Huai frowned, and then he looked at Mary.


    "Do you think this matter is related to the previous case?"


    "I thought so……"


    "Um………"


    Duanmu Huai nodded and began to think.


    As of now, this is not impossible. After all, it is not particularly strange that people will not be seen alive or dead. But... if you kill someone, just kill someone. Why do you have to get a trailer?


    Could it be that the fog is the hometown of Sherlock Holmes, and all the criminals here want to have a sense of ritual or something? I have a brain disease.


    "I''ll look back and check it out."


    After all, there are still two people who have not been caught. According to the regulations of the Chapek Research Association, the first one is dead and the next one is added. Now that Chapek is dead, it means that the next person should start to make trouble.


    But this person is really unpredictable.


    You want to kill a few people without knowing it, Duanmu Huai didn''t realize it, but he might have fooled it.


    You are sending a preview letter and a ghost story... I''m afraid we don''t know what''s going on?


    Now Duanmu Huai understands why the police in Conan hate Kid so much. If it were him, it would be impossible to shoot all the bomb guns against such shameless bastards. He also had to use a chainsaw sword to cut him into sautumn, without any fat inside!


    After sending Mary away, Duanmu Huai turned around and called Sheriff Restrade to inquire about the situation.


    “About the disappearance of Royal Master’s College?”


    Sheriff Lestrade was a little surprised when he heard Duanmuhuai''s inquiry.


    "Is this also related to a U-level case?"


    "Do you think it''s okay?"


    Duanmu Huai was also surprised by Sheriff Restrade''s reaction.


    "This... to be honest, we think this is just a simple runaway from home."


    “???”


    After Sheriff Restrade explained to Duanmuhuai, Duanmuhuai finally understood what was going on. According to Sheriff Restrade, they received a call from missing parents and went to Royal Master''s College to investigate, but they did not gain much.


    The surveillance investigation has been conducted and the missing students did enter the Royal Master''s College, but they did not leave. At least the surveillance camera at the school gate only captured the scene of their entry and did not leave.


    Of course, considering the nature of the Royal Master''s College, the police also dispatched a large number of police forces and sent police dogs to search, but found nothing. Later, the police investigation tended to think... they might have run away from home.


    This kind of thing is very common, and young people of this age are full of energy, and it is not unreasonable to run away from home because of some trivial matters.


    "What about that trailer?"


    "Preview? Ah, that, we thought it was their own fault, but we just didn''t find any useful clues and marks on those weird trailers."


    "So that is, do you think the two missing students ran away from home, and those trailers were just tricks?"


    “It’s almost that.”


    After all, these trailers are also written in a vague way, such as the arrogant knight... I know who it is, so in the eyes of the police, this is a bit like a middle-aged boy being bored and crazy.


    But there is nothing to do. This is the case of disappearance. If you don’t see anyone in life or die, you won’t see a corpse. In this case, there is no clue, and the police will have no choice. It is not like the previous serial murders. No matter how the corpse is placed there, one or two people are missing, the media will not report it specifically.


    So the police could only temporarily decide that they had disappeared, and they didn''t care. If Duanmuhuai hadn''t called to ask, Lestrade wouldn''t have taken this kind of thing to heart.


    If ordinary people see someone missing, they must subconsciously think that this must be a big case, and the police will definitely pursue it. But in fact, 140,000 children are missing in this country every year, and an average of nearly 400 children are missing every day. This is just children, and I don’t know how many of them are in adults. In a large city with a population of one million, the real number of missing cases is almost impossible. Some of them temporarily lost contact for some reason, and some people never showed up again.


    So in this state, if you want to solve every missing case, you can''t do it even if you increase the police force in the entire fog city by a hundred times.


    Even murder cases that follow the rule of "murder cases must be solved" may not be solved every case, let alone missing cases where no one can live or no one can die or no body can be seen.


    Therefore, the Wudu Police Station just closed it, archived, recorded it, and then there was nothing.


    Because there are really no clues.


    In fact, the same is true.


    Just like the case file Duanmu Huai obtained from Sheriff Lestrade, it is very simple.


    First of all, the two missing students were students from the mathematics department. The first victim was relatively famous and considered a classmate. He was a great man who could pass the test by socializing, singing, dancing, and flirting with girls and writing papers casually. The second victim was just the opposite. According to police investigation records, he was withdrawn and almost did not interact with others. So he disappeared for several days. When his family came to look for the school, the school found that he was missing... because he basically didn''t come to class and had few good friends.


    In short, apart from this, the only thing in common is that both of them are top students in the Department of Mathematics and are also members of the Research Association - as mentioned before, only those students who are recognized as master''s degree by professors are eligible to join the Research Association to become one of the great and glorious scientific research dogs.


    These two people are no exception. After class, they have to go to the research association to carry out their own work, and then they don’t leave school until almost eleven or two o’clock to go home.


    Then the problem is here.


    All surveillance cameras captured the scene of the two entering the Master''s College, but no pictures of leaving. According to police records, on the night of the disappearance, students and teachers from other research associations also said that they did participate in the research association and completed their tasks, and then left and went home.


    In other words, if the testimony of the Research Association is correct, then the two men disappeared during the period between leaving the Research Association and leaving the school gate.


    So………


    After reviewing the case file, Duanmu Huai thought for a while and then made a decision.


    Wait until the evening, go to Royal Master''s College for a look.


    (This chapter ends)