"I doubt the murderer was going to silence the witnesses."
Chapter 50: Return to Dream City
As early as the day of the crime, Hitzfeld had thought many times that the timing of the murderer's actions seemed unreasonable.
Of course, it is also possible that, as others have said, he simply did not expect Alfred to die at that time, and was caught off guard and "ran into" their actions. This can more or less explain the timing of the murder.
This explanation itself was a bit forced. There was not a single part that could be used as a basis, and about 70% to 80% of it was based on guesswork... Hitzfeld had felt something was wrong at the time, and now she realized that there was indeed a motive for committing a crime in the world, and it required an eyewitness.
"Fake your death and get away."
There is no such word in Sara language, so the girl made one up by combining fixed words. "I think there is a possibility that the murderer who shot Gretzer and went to the corner tower to kill the Firewood Gang and the Charcoal Gang was Amra himself."
"He may have used some kind of technology, or wrapped something in his clothes, to give the outside world the impression that the 'murderer' was particularly strong. Then he looked for others to replicate the tattoos, mixed them in with the gang members and killed them together, and then deliberately smashed the heads of several corpses - especially the faces."
"This way, our attention will be diverted away from him." Xia Yibing immediately followed up with a sentence, "We will only check in the direction of 'strong', but he is actually a thin man!"
This is a gap in imagination.
Xia Yibing stared at her and shook her head repeatedly.
In fact, there were many times when she referred to the different performances of herself and Hitzfeld in the same case, trying to explore where the difference in their investigative abilities lay. In the end, she felt that there was no obvious difference between the two in terms of observation or inference ability.
She just couldn't understand. If there was no gap in these aspects, why was she always suppressed?
After all, she had been in the industry since she was a child, and had worked her way up to the age of 25. During this period, she had handled more than ten times as many cases as Hitzfeld. Given that their abilities were basically the same, it was obvious that the experienced party had the advantage.
But the reality was too different. Whenever she couldn't figure something out, Hitzfeld could always react faster, making her look stupid.
Hitzfeld knew that she was worrying about these things, and couldn't help but laugh to himself.
Imagination... to put it bluntly is "open-mindedness" and "jumping thinking". I am definitely better than Sara people in these aspects after receiving modern education, but the difference is limited. The most critical thing is the experience gap.
Yes, if Hitzfeld looked at this matter, she would say that the experience gap did exist, but Xia Yibing was not the one with the advantage. In fact, she was the one with more experience.
The reason was simple: in Xia's opinion, perhaps her more than ten years of professional career could be considered experienced, but strictly speaking, Shadow Lion could not have sent her to the front line to investigate cases when she was only a teenager.
In the past, it was training and teaching, and women had to start accumulating experience at the age of 17 or 18. That's less than 10 years today, so the time has been cut.
Secondly, although Namibia has a lot of "biological black technology", especially mysticism is far more developed than on Earth, it is an indisputable fact that its productivity lags far behind that of Earth.
The direct consequence of backward productivity is slow or even stagnant social development. The unchanging living standards, especially lifestyles, have led to murderers using the same few routines to commit crimes.
She wasn't talking nonsense, she had heard the files... The Security Bureau had a large number of case files from the past, and these women would occasionally pull her aside and talk for an entire afternoon when they were in the mood, under the pretext that this would further enrich her knowledge.
But in fact, how can the murders and criminal methods derived from Namiia, Changxia, Icarolina and Sara, where productivity is backward, compare with those on Earth, where productivity is extremely developed?
In particular, the backwardness of communication science and communication forms has led to low efficiency in information transmission and extremely high transmission costs. The experience accumulated by many detectives in their half-life can be directly exploded by a modern person living on Earth by reading a bunch of detective novels in a week.
The biggest difficulty lies in the characteristics of the crime, which is due to differences in ability, or world background and system.
For example, if one of the best modern detectives had just arrived and was faced with a Sarah murder case, he would certainly first make inferences based on his own experience and common sense.
His common sense did not include supernatural powers, so he would not take supernatural powers into consideration. Therefore, he was not as sensitive as the local police detectives in Sara.
But what if he gradually gets used to it?
If he further integrated the unique power of Namiia on the basis of his original rich experience and common sense, and took the supernatural, curses, evil spirits, and monsters into consideration, it is conceivable that his case-handling efficiency would be greater than that of most of the local detectives in Sara.
This is almost the case with Hitzfeld. She can be said to have been tempered now. When her subconscious mind has completely regarded herself as a nano-pressure person rather than an earthling, and when her thinking language has been switched to Saran for a long time, she will subconsciously take into account the local customs and practices when considering the case.
Coupled with her being a modern person, she has learned a lot of ideas and routines from various TV dramas and novels. In terms of "imagination", Xia Yibing can never catch up with her.
——She was very happy about this, even a little secretly pleased.
Let you bully others when you have nothing to do.
You must be so angry that you can't compare with me in the professional field...
Pussias was half a teacher to Hitzfeld. She unconsciously relaxed here, so her inner thoughts were reflected on her face to a certain extent. That smile had a slight mocking meaning.
"..."Xia Yibing narrowed her eyes immediately.
Her observation skills are not bad... Of course, it can be seen that Hitzfeld is deliberately showing off.
I don't feel it's awkward, instead I feel happy because "the person I like is willing to show a rare side of me."
But this joy could not overcome the unpleasant feeling caused by being mocked, which forced Xia Yibing to get close to the girl and whisper in her ear: "You know... the corridor outside is actually very quiet."
"!" Hitzfeld suddenly stopped laughing.
“It’s an empty, quiet, and long place. Maybe it’s just right for doing something.”
"..."
"Especially since it's really long, we can turn into the side passage and listen to the footsteps of others as they come in."
"..."
"They basically never forget to look to the side, and it's hard to see the dark shadows..."
With every word, Xia Yibing would get closer to the girl. Poor Hitzfeld was able to keep a calm expression at first, but in the end he had to put his hands on his chest, and then the woman interlocked his fingers, his left hand was frozen on his shoulder, and his right hand was pressed to the lower back, forcing her to raise her chest and head, and look at the woman with cold sweat.
She is really crazy...!
His lips gradually began to turn into wavy lines, and Hitzfeld stuttered and shouted deep in his heart.
Even if Daryl is not a human being, Pussy is still here...
This……
How dare she?
Tilting her head, she wanted to see the teacher scolding the other person harshly.
But she was destined to be disappointed: it turned out that Pusiangs' work had been finished long ago, and she was leaning back in the elevated chair, with her chin supported by her hands. Although the upper part of her face could not be seen, it was still clear that she was enjoying the little plot here with great relish.
In fact, she said that.
"Dont look at me."
"continue."
"I just like seeing you like this."
……
The familiar fall and rise ended, and Hitzfeld came back to his senses from his trance, his feet already stepping onto the iconic white stone square of Puslint.
Xia Yibing followed closely behind. She leaned forward and saw that the girl's eyes were still confused. She quickly said, "I think that old woman has been alone for too long, and she has become a little abnormal psychologically."
what……
Hitzfeld exhaled silently, repeating "etiquette, etiquette" to himself, and only then did he resist the urge to roll his eyes at her.
But sarcasm is inevitable: "Do you think it is good for your physical and mental health to develop perverted quirks, or is it better for your health to just hold it in?"
Ah this...
Xia Yibing opened her mouth.
That's obviously the first one.
Zafira actually emphasized this point before. Because this job is really mentally stressful, it is normal for you to have quirks.
It would be abnormal if you don't have any quirks, and you will be suspected of being corrupt!
But how could she say it directly?
She was originally trying to put the blame on the old woman, so wouldn't saying this be an excuse for her?
Can we coax that little angel?
"Don't think so much."
Hitzfeld said calmly.
"I'm not a child. I will get angry about this kind of thing."
But you do look unhappy.
Xia Yibing thought about it and decided to follow the instructions in the knight novels: "If you are sure that the other party also likes you, you must pester the angry girl."
No matter how Hitzfeld hinted and mocked her, or how he told her to go back and sort out the case based on the premise of "Amera's fake death", she just wouldn't leave and just hung around behind her.
She has her reasons too.
If a director needs to do everything himself, then isn't that a waste of time?
Villefort did not run around every day; on the contrary, he had plenty of time to meet with his lover.
Hitzfeld couldn't do anything about her, so he just wandered around the school, hoping that she would leave on her own after getting annoyed.
Xia Yibing refused. She wanted to use practical actions to tell her that she would rely on her today.
By the end of the journey, Hitzfeld felt dizzy. She suddenly realized that there were still many places in Dream City that she had not been to, and it was easy to get lost if she was not careful.
Just like now, she sat on the steps to catch her breath, looking up at a pure white tree in the yard, wondering how there could be plants in such a place.
"Do you know this thing?"
Pointing at the big tree, he asked Xia Yibing.
Xia Yibing shook her head: "How should I know?"
"Don't you read the files every day? There are things that Director Xia doesn't understand..."
"That's Bai Mu."
A voice came from behind.
The two turned around and saw a thin boy wearing a long robe, with disheveled black hair and black-framed glasses standing there, as if he had just come down from the stairs above.
Chapter 51: The Legend of Bai Mulin
"Bai Mu..." Xia Yibing was slightly stunned after hearing this word, "I seem to have heard this word somewhere..."
"Bai Mulin." The thin boy reminded her, "Bai Mu is like me, illuminating the future. The wind of time blew down Bai Mu's seeds. The more luxuriant Bai Mulin grows, the more far-reaching the blessing will be for the future generations of the family."
"So that's it."
The boy's description was so specific that both Xia Yibing and Hitzfeld remembered that there was indeed a plant called "Bai Mu".
This is a very magical plant. It never grows in the wilderness, but must grow in places with "popularity".
There is much controversy about what this popularity means, but generally speaking, all supernatural organizations and schools of spiritual studies believe that Bai Mulin's growth and formation are closely related to the "spirit" emitted by humans.
All things have spirits, but humans are the most spiritual. Human thinking is the most complex, and the spiritual thoughts that arise are the most complex and numerous. Some schools of spiritualism believe that the human body is a wooden barrel, and the spirit is the water accumulated in the barrel. When the water accumulates too much and exceeds the capacity of the barrel, or when the barrel itself has a leak, the water will escape, and the escaped part forms dreams.
In other words, Bai Mu can also be understood as a unique plant that survives by eating dreams.
Thinking in this way, it is easy to understand why Bai Mu appeared in the Dream City - he eats this, so is there any place that contains more spiritual thoughts than the Dream City?
You won't find any even if you search all over Sara. Let all the Bai Mu choose for themselves, they will definitely only want to grow in this kind of place.
Hitzfeld turned his head to observe the big white tree, especially the land where it was rooted, and found that there were indeed several slender saplings growing around it.
Squinting her eyes, she felt that something was not quite right.
Bai Mulin was born and flourished in pursuit of spirits. Putting aside the principle, in the eyes of ordinary people, it is just chasing after prosperity.
The more spiritual thoughts there are, the more popularity there is. The more popularity there is, the taller and bigger Bai Mu grows. When Bai Mu fully enters the mature stage, pure white flowers will bloom from the treetops. These flowers contain Bai Mu's seeds. When the flowers bloom and fall, the seeds are buried in the soil and continue to absorb popularity.
Here comes the problem - with the new little Bai Mu and the old Bai Mu who has always been there, there are more mouths to feed. If the family you planted Bai Mu in still has so few people, how can the popularity produced be enough to feed the family?
That’s why there are legends like “Bai Mu indicates the prosperity of the family”. In fact, the folks have reversed the order of cause and effect.
It's not that the more prosperous Bai Mulin grows, the more prosperous the family becomes, but the more prosperous the family becomes, the more talented Bai Mulin becomes.
The more backward the productivity, the more directly the standard for judging the prosperity of a family is linked to the population. Having more people means having advantages, whether it is to stick together to protect oneself or to pool together to do great things, the advantages of a large family are far beyond the reach of a small family.
So... since this Bai Mu is growing in a place like Dream City, and is nurtured and nourished by countless spiritual thoughts every day, it should have entered maturity long ago.
It does grow very big, but why is there no Bai Mulin around it?
Those saplings below seemed to have just grown up. Hitzfeld certainly didn't know how long Bai Mu's growth cycle was, but since there were such legends among the people, it couldn't be that they could have grown for decades, right?
If it takes that long to grow and mature, then don't even think about using it as a criterion for judging prosperity. Because many great clans rose and fell within a few decades, and reality changes too quickly.
Thinking of this, she stood up and politely asked the boy, "Can I ask you a question? Why is there no forest around this Baimu tree?"
“I don’t know the reason either.”
This boy must have some psychological problems. There was no expression on his face when he spoke, and his tone was very light.
