Mary's Nineteenth Century

Small hole imaging, simply speaking, requires a light source, small holes, and a light screen.

A circle of sackcloth around the construction site is a ready-made screen.The light source is the candle used by the murderer.

The traces of the scene were almost cleaned up, and the small hole props used to create ghost images were taken away, and no suspicious footprints were left, but the midnight crime inevitably left a few wax tears.

A few drops of wax tears showed flaws.

Kennan's death was not a sudden accident, it was inevitable that someone deliberately induced it.

The homeless man saw ghosts appearing for three consecutive days, and the murderer was probably adjusting the imaging position two days ago.

"I admit the speculation of pinhole imaging, but why did the murderer predict in advance that the Ouija board will display "SHAXBERD""

Taylor felt that the sequential logic was unreasonable, "Even if Kenan never concealed that he would use the Ouija board to recruit spirits, the murderer immediately knew that the Ouija board's prompt was "Shakespeare", so his first imaging It should also be the night of Kenan's death, and it should not have been arranged two days in advance. "

Unless the murderer is sure that "SHAXBERD" will appear on the Ouija board.

In connection with the spirit summoning that night, it was the crazy Benny who put her hand on the Ouija board that finally appeared this word.

"Could it be that the murderer is Benny? Benny is pretending to be crazy?"

Taylor was intimidated by this speculation, "Even if Benny can't sneak into the construction site, her brother Bailey can do it for him? Bailey's family has a grudge against Kenan and deliberately set up a scheme to kill him?"

This is the most direct inference.

After identifying the traces of wax tears, Mary approached Bailey.

"Bailey denied this inference. He solemnly stated that he had never induced Kenan to jump off the building, and that Benny's madness was not a fake, but real madness. If it was a fake, he would happily pay a Ten thousand dollars to anyone who can cure Bernie's disease."

Mary said this in a flat tone, but Bailey's actual words were much more intense.

Bailey had no witnesses other than servants, and he fell asleep at home.Because these days, when I open my eyes, I have to run around for my sister's madness.I don't have the energy to go out at night, so why talk about finding other witnesses.

Hearing the most direct inference caused by the imaging of the pinhole, Bailey was about to copy a knife to kill someone, because he exhausted a series of indecent expletives he knew, and cursed the murderer behind the scenes.

Mary summed up a bunch of swearing sentences starting with F, "Bailey insisted that it was framed with malicious intentions."

"Really?"

Taylor couldn't believe it. If it wasn't for this inference, could the murderer have the ability to predict in advance?

Mary can't guarantee that Bailey is 100% telling the truth, and she can't guarantee that Bailey is 100% crazy, but her credibility is already as high as 90.00%.

"Abandoning preconceived ideas, there is another possibility."

Mycroft pointed out the cognitive misunderstanding, "Persons with baldness and half-curly hair are very common. I think you all admit that it is common for British people to reach a certain age. Half-curly shoulder-length hairstyles are also common hairstyles in the past. Therefore, ghosts Shadow modeling is by no means Shakespeare's patent, is it?"

Taylor: Too good to argue.

Because several people first heard the hint of Shaxberd given by the Ouija board, and they were also familiar with Shakespeare's handed down portraits, it was inevitable that they would be seated when they first heard about the ghost image.

In contrast, the tramp who was the first witness of the ghost probably didn’t know Shakespeare’s portrait. When he described it, he didn’t mention who the ghost was, but only mentioned the shape of the ghost.

In other words, behind the scenes, a bald ghost was created, which could be Shakespeare, or anyone from that era.

The murderer may not have predicted the Ouija board's divination results. His original intention was to make a mentally unstable patient like Kenan go to hell.As long as you see a ghost, you may have various psychological hints and jump down to catch the ghost.

Mycroft explained.

The murderer is well versed in the knowledge of the spiritual and psychological fields. He adopted the inducement suggestion of creating ghost images, and sooner or later Kenan would inevitably jump.The reminder of the word "Shakespeare" appeared in Bai Ni's spiritual summoning ceremony, which accelerated Kennan's jumping speed.

This is an accident of necessity, but it will make people suspect that Benny is fake madness at the first moment.

"I agree with that possibility."

Mary agrees, "In any case, it is now confirmed that Kenan's death was induced by human spirit, and there is indeed a black hand behind the scenes."

Who is the murderer?

If he wants to be spiritually induced, at least he needs to understand Kenan first.

In the past few days, I asked Kennan's lawyer, but in response to Kennan's interpersonal characteristics as a patient with arrogance and delusional disorder, the lawyer said that he had never seen Kenan have close friends.

Soon after, Kennan's father arrived in New York to collect his son's body. He did not refuse to perform an autopsy for Kennan.But he is less concerned about the real cause of his son's death, and more concerned about how to operate and sell Ouija boards.

When asked whether he knew Kennan's mental state was unstable, or whether he knew that Kennan had contacts with people who behaved strangely, he didn't know anything.

Kennan went to Ohio after graduation. Regarding his specific whereabouts, except for the stupid method of visiting the local area to check slowly, there is currently no circumstantial evidence.

Is this weird?In fact, it is not surprising.

Without close family members, friends who communicate frequently, and self-records on paper, in this era without the Internet, it is really difficult to quickly figure out a person's past.

When there were no more clues in both Kenan's and Beni's directions, a piece of bad news came out.

"Here he is. That weird eared man, from pig ears to cow ears, has now evolved into human ears."

The Weasley reporter frowned with bad news that a cemetery in Blakelyn had been exhumed. "At present, it is estimated that six corpses were exhumed in three days, three men and three women, and twelve ears were pierced by sharp knives."

There is no gravekeeper in that cemetery.

The initial estimate is that the crime will continue within three days, because according to the memories of the herdsman who discovered the problem, the time interval between his two visits to the cemetery is three days.

"The bodies were not stolen, they were all abandoned in their original coffins after their ears were pierced."

Weasley described the known situation, "A herdsman took a shortcut to go home and cross the cemetery. He found that the situation in the cemetery was abnormal. Later, he organized people to open the coffin and found that six corpses had been destroyed. Now we can't Determine whether the Zarer dug the coffin six times overnight, or in batches."

This time I have to take a ferry to Branklin, and go to the slaughterhouse and the cemetery separately.Were the impaled pigs, cows, and human corpses destroyed by the same knife, and were there any suspicious traces left at the scene?

More importantly, what are the motivations of the Jars?

Will it go from animal corpses to human corpses, and then develop into harming living people?

The results of the on-site investigation point in the most disturbing directions.

The tool used to pierce the ears several times is the same sharp knife.It can be seen from the comparison.The slasher's knife technique has changed from blunt to skillful.Perhaps, in addition to the slaughterhouses and cemeteries where the abnormalities have been found, there are other animal or human corpses that have been pierced, but they are still unknown.

"There's a little bit of a difference between injuries on an animal carcass and a human carcass."

Mary holds a half-rotten pig's head in her left hand and an unrecognizable bull's head in her right, placing them on a pierced human corpse for comparison.Although the edge of the knife is difficult to clearly identify, you can get a general idea. "Have you found it? The number and strength of the knife drop are different."

Mary pointed out, "After piercing the pig's head and the cow's head through the ear, the piercing monster did not show excitement, but was a little disappointed. The pig's ear and the cow's ear were only pierced deeply on one side, while the other side was cut open hastily. "

Human corpses are different.

"After piercing one ear of a human corpse, the piercing monster didn't stop. Instead, he got emotional and pierced the other ear of the same corpse."

Mary continued, "He also put a knife in the head and pounded it, which is not the case with dead animals."

What does it mean to be treated differently?

Mycroft thought the Zaar was confirming something. "Craniotomy has been done since ancient times, and it used to be a common practice to make holes in the head to treat mental illness.

There is a saying that opening a hole in the head allows the devil that causes the disease to escape through the hole; there is another saying that the cause of mental retardation and madness in the Renaissance is that the brain grows a crazy stone, and taking it out Enough.but……"

However, the modus operandi of the Jars is unlike any previous absurd medical record.

Instead of cutting a hole in the head, the ears were pierced.Does the ear have some kind of symbolic meaning?

Or should we say, do human ears have a special meaning to the Zarge?

Inevitably, the news about the dead body piercing ears spread widely.

Even if the New York Daily did not publish it, other newspapers collected anecdotes and reported it.Because no living people were involved, it was impossible for such news to occupy the front pages.

Most people only regard it as a pastime after dinner, and they don't think too much about whether the goal of the Zaer monster will be further upgraded.

Although several suspicious footprints were collected near the tomb, the footprints were of little help in pinpointing the scope of the investigation.

The footprints are men's sports rubber shoes, a very popular US size 10.There is no specific brand for this kind of sole pattern, and most of them are cheap shoes bought by laborers at will.

Is it now certain that the Jars are male laborers?

I can't be sure, maybe it's because of the weird Zar'er.But it is certain that he is strong and agile, otherwise he would not be able to dig a grave, let alone steal a pig's head or an ox's head.

Other than that, no more clues.

From a comprehensive point of view, the madness of Bernie, the death of Kenan, and the haunting of the Jars have one similarity among the three.That is to say, there are clues in everything rather than ignorance, but when you want to investigate in depth, you find that you can't start.

Mycroft also paid attention to the fire at a garbage spot near his residence. After investigation, he determined that the fire was caused by a cigarette butt.

The person who threw the cigarette butts was quickly found, a street gangster, who is facing a large fine.

The street gangster said that he just threw it away, and no one instigated it.He was just in a bad mood and wanted to cause some damage, and the flammable materials piled up at the garbage station happened to be able to catch fire.

The arson case has also been revealed, and it should not be directly related to the case of Benny and others.

Perhaps, doubt is really a disease.

Mycroft took the time to ask the street gangster who was caught, to make sure that the other party was not lying.But he always vaguely felt that it was more than that, but there was no more evidence.

***

October [-], Saturday.

Half a month after Kenan's death, Kenan's father took over all his son's estate.Old Kenan even took advantage of the big news about his son's use of Ouija boards and his death, and picked up the hype to make Ouija boards go on sale as usual.

Is there really someone who buys this kind of thing that may cause the death of the undead?

Not to mention, many people have tried it.Some buyers even felt that Kennan's death proved the Ouija board's real effect, not the stuff that fooled people.

"It is said that the poison of a tiger does not eat its son. Old Kenan is not at all. This way of doing it is eating the bread of his son's blood."

Taylor was very angry after reading the newspaper. Even though he hated Kenan before, he didn't want people to fall into such a situation after death. "I'm starting to wonder if Kenan's father had a hand in Kenan's death."

"The possibility of him personally committing the crime is very low. Old Kenan has a boatload of time witnesses."

Mary has already investigated Kenan's father, who has been on the cruise ship for nearly half a month. "As for whether old Kenan knew the mastermind behind the scenes, according to the current inquiries, at least he did not betray Kenan subjectively."

The mastermind behind the scenes is proficient in mental psychology. Maybe old Kennan was caught up in the conversation unknowingly, and the scope of that is too broad.

However, the sale of Ouija boards seems doomed, with blood and death.

October [-], Monday.

At dawn, a man in a suit and leather shoes was found dead in a dark alley by passers-by.He had a newly purchased Ouija board in his hand, and both ears were pierced.

Early, eight o'clock.

There was a knock on the door of Mycroft's house, and a confidential letter was delivered to the door.Open the translation, the content of the letter made him frown.

"Wall Street No. [-], was killed. The murderer is suspected to be related to the recent strange case. Note: No. [-] was reporting the news three days ago. He discovered the recent changes on Wall Street. It seems that there is a huge financial undercurrent. Undercurrent level: SS"

"very good!"

Mycroft smiled kindly, but the letter was crumpled up in his hand.

Another Wall Street, another financial undercurrent.

There was a Ouija board next to the corpse, and the ears were pierced.

Why did such an informant encounter a serial killer?The death was not low-key at all, and it is bound to attract the attention of many parties.

Mycroft struck a match, lit a candle and burned the secret letter.Letters are easy to burn, but news can't be covered up. This No. [-] has crossed paths with him several times.

He was out the door in no time, and it was time to show the art of language.Instead of letting Mr. Minton discover something by following the clues, he should first clear up other relationships, and then choose to tell them.

Excuses are easy to come by.

No. Ⅴ is the stock broker he was looking for, and of course no formal contract has been signed yet.

get out of class at noon.

When Mary saw the rare visitors in front of the teaching building, she knew that something special must have happened.Sure enough, I heard from the other party that Toby, a Wall Street broker, was murdered.

I didn't want to, but here I am.

Broker Toby may have died from Zale's criminal escalation.

Although the possibility of the escalation of the crime committed by the Zaer Monster is within estimation, it is also unexpected. The victim happened to be a broker with the character of Mrs. Roman.

This coincidence makes people have to sigh with emotion.

"Mrs. Roman, your luck after coming to the United States seems a bit weird. I still remember that in Boston, you went to the cemetery to mourn your old friend, but the body of your old friend was stolen."

Mary said half-jokingly, "This time, a quasi-broker was killed again. To borrow a word from the East, have you ever thought that you might be incompatible with the United States?"

Mycroft: How can a man tell the truth?