The same profession can bring a sense of security. He was no longer surprised why the other party knew these rules. He sat down opposite him honestly: "...What do you want to know?"
Bet right.
Hitzfeld grinned inwardly.
Sara's administrative system is imperfect, but it is not just the administrative system that is imperfect.
Forensic doctors were extremely rare even in her previous life, so they were naturally not available in Changxia Continent. Here, the task of examining corpses was usually shared by the autopsy officer, the coroner, and the funeral director.
Among them, funeral directors have the highest "appearance rate". In some rural and remote areas, the conditions are not available, and every time there is a murder case, funeral directors and police need to cooperate.
She chose to attack from the direction of "industry rules", which was very effective and easily broke through Binns' last psychological defense.
"I've already found you. What do you think I want to know?" Hitzfeld looked at him. "Just tell me how Bishop Lanno discussed with you... to help Mark Sinley fake his death."
Mark Sinley?
suspended animation……?
Ethan almost jumped up from the sofa - he never thought that Hitzfeld was investigating this!
"Well, I'm pretty sure I hit him that night." Hitzfeld noticed his shocked expression and explained to him in a low voice: "But he was fine... He didn't even bleed! I wondered if he was also a wooden man like Maps."
"but--"
"Yes, I know. It may not be a wooden man, but a prosthesis, or some other reason..." Hitzfeld nodded. "Anyway, I did think of the prosthesis, and then I wondered who would need a prosthesis? Who would be so angry about Brody's death that they would not even wait one night to kill Mrs. Sinley?"
"So you doubt that Maxine is alive? He did it?" Ethan's mouth was still wide open. "But why - didn't you say she might have died in the massacre?"
"The speed at which the news spread." Hitzfeld waved his hand. "In less than half a day... The people who knew about this stayed in the house until that evening, and her accusations against the church could not be spread at all. I only thought of this afterwards. Her cause of death could not be this... The only thing left is revenge and love killing."
"But the ghost—"
"This is not a ghost's method." She interrupted him. "Didn't you say it yourself? There can't be only one person, one party... People like Brody Sinley and Mallory Ponson... These people are ghosts, but it was a human who killed Mrs. Sinley, I am sure of that."
"And revenge and murder of passion." She paused again. "When I started thinking about this, I began to doubt Maxine."
Because Mrs. Xinlai has no open love affair.
Ethan immediately thought of the key.
In the eyes of outsiders, she was a chaste widow. Even if they speculated that she went to church frequently to do something with Father Vander...no man would care about it.
Except her husband.
Her serious husband, who in the eyes of outsiders has passed away.
"But do we have to kill her just because of this?"
Ethan was still a little confused.
He had seen Mrs. Sinley's body at that time... She had been shot more than a dozen times, probably by a Presley 92-type pistol. The other party had completely emptied the entire magazine - in order to do this, he even ignored Sheriff Daisy who was standing next to him.
Why? Why would you do this? This is not revenge for an affair... It's more like -
Ethan opened his mouth.
He was startled by another possibility that emerged.
"It's more like pure revenge, blood feud." Hitzfeld helped him put it out, "... because he guessed that the person who killed Brodie Sinley was his wife."
"..."
"..."
Now Ethan wasn't the only one who was shocked.
Even old man Bins next to him opened his mouth in horror.
"Oh..." He exhaled after a long while, "I also heard about the case over there, but I didn't expect this to be... the story behind it is actually like this..."
"So, there must be something wrong with Mark's car accident that year." His cloudy eyes gradually brightened up, "Lan Nuo wasn't forcing me on purpose...was he doing it to protect Mark?"
"Maybe he did it to protect himself." Hitzfeld nodded again, "and to protect you at the same time... You probably stopped doing this job because he forced you to do it, right?"
Binns nodded.
"Were you doing Mark's makeup?"
"Yes!" Binns affirmed.
"Make-up, suturing... burial, I did what a funeral director should do, and I also took care of what the doctor should do."
"Have you ever been a doctor?"
"Veterinarian..." Binns smiled, "A simple suture to stop the bleeding will be no problem."
"It's not easy to hide the serious injury patient's makeup from the police." Hitzfeld stared into his eyes, "Mark must have a secret. It is this secret that deceived the police and those hidden things."
"You're right, Miss Detective."
Binns' smile turned bitter.
"He is a Devourer," he continued.
"He inherited some of the Devourer's characteristics from his mother. His body... torso... from the neck down, the left side of his chest to his lower abdomen is completely hollow."
"Empty? Does it simply mean that there is no corresponding organ?"
"No... I don't know that."
Binston paused and swallowed.
"It's full of wriggling tentacles."
"Even if you smash that place, you won't die."
"..."
Ethan's scalp tingled.
"……so."
Hitzfeld sighed.
"Then I almost know..."
“Why did Bishop Lanno quit?”
Chapter 39: The Fear of Passing Away
Under the explanation of old man Bins, the events of many years ago were gradually revealed to the two.
Enling Road - when this street was not called this name, a widow named Nellie moved in one day.
She has no surname and no children. But she still insists on calling herself a widow, and she looks very rich, having bought a house instead of renting it, and can live well without working every day.
"She doesn't work, nor does she go out to work for others, but she can afford to subscribe to milk and newspapers, and she has also signed an agreement with the church to have vegetables, fruits and meat delivered to her home every day." Binns kept shaking his head when he said this.
"Of course, if that's the only reason, she wouldn't be so popular... Another factor is... She's too beautiful. Maybe it's a bit offensive for me to say this, but she... is much prettier and more gorgeous than you. Once you've seen her, you'll never forget her for the rest of your life."
Hitzfeld raised his eyebrows.
This contrast can actually be explained by different types...but she has always been straightforward in this regard, and what she thought in her heart was that you may not have seen my complete face.
"So you're obsessed with her, too," she said. "Let me guess, the house she rented is number 14, right?"
"You are so good at predicting things, Miss Hitzfeld." The retired undertaker sighed and nodded, "That's right! In short, she has met many people one after another, and they all went for her beauty. This matter is very famous. You can go out and ask around and someone will definitely know about it."
"She met Bishop Lanno and Prus-Sinlai during this process?"
"Yes... these two people, like everyone else, thought that 'widow' was just an excuse for her, a measure she had to resort to in order to avoid harassment." Binns squinted his eyes into the void, a look of reminiscence on his face.
"In the process of pursuing her, Lanno was in the lead. Although he was a little old, he was richer and more powerful than Pruss, and he spent a lot of time in the church every day doing nothing... Nellie went to church for a long time every day at that time, and they were really a perfect match."
"But this happiness ended the day Nellie decided to confess her life story to him. I think she was planning to marry him. She told him her biggest secret - she had the blood of the Devourer, and her body was different from that of ordinary people."
"I don't have much to say about this... I just know that late that night, around 11 o'clock, he came to me and shouted, 'Bins! Goddess! That's terrible!'... I thought at the time that he might have seen some evil phantoms, and wondered why he was afraid of these things after doing this for so many years. Later, I deduced some things from their changes... But I didn't expect things to end up like this."
This was undoubtedly due to Nellie's huge physical defects.
Because Binns had said it before... Mark Sinlai's chest cavity was empty, and the place where the organs should be was filled with tentacles. They both knew that if the blood of the God-Erosion was passed down, it would definitely become thinner with each generation. Even the next generation Mark was so serious, so it was conceivable what kind of body the previous generation - Mark's biological mother Nellie would have.
It was probably because of this body's fright that Bishop Lanno was forced to withdraw from the competition.
"So, Pruss-Sinlai made the opposite choice from Bishop Lanno?" Ethan asked cautiously.
"Yes." Binns nodded quickly. "Nelly must have been hit hard. She locked herself in the house and didn't see anyone. I asked Lanno about this matter, but he just told me not to worry about it and said, 'There is a reason why she is in this situation.'"
"Then it was at this time that Pruss found her. Because he had a good relationship with Nellie, I think he might have seen something and planned to seize this rare opportunity... Anyway, they got together like this, and they sold the house and left Ferrington..."
"Wait a minute," Hitzfeld interrupted. "They sold house number 14?"
"Yes."
"Sold to whom?"
"I don't remember it at all, miss... because the owner of that house died a few years ago. I can only vaguely remember that I did his makeup, but I really don't remember his name."
"He died in just a few years?" Ethan looked at Binns and then at Hitzfeld, frowning slightly, as if there was some key information hidden in it.
what is it then……
Most of the truth has been revealed by Hitzfeld... The one who killed Brody was Mrs. Sinley, and the one who killed Mrs. Sinley was Max Sinley, who faked his death and escaped three years ago. He has been hiding in the church under the protection of Bishop Lanno all these years, so he must have known - he knew that his wife was doing something with other men every time she went to church. He had long been very dissatisfied with Mrs. Sinley, and Brody's death just happened to overwhelm him, making him completely crazy...
But he still didn't understand why Mrs. Sinley wanted to kill Brody... and her own child?
According to Ethan's thoughts, he could only infer that... Mrs. Sinley was anxious to establish her relationship with Father Vander.
She wanted to marry Father Vander as soon as possible, and Father Vander didn't want her to have a child - only this situation could explain it a little.
But the logic is a little inconsistent.
One is that he has only seen a few times in his life where someone would kill his own child just for this reason.
The second is that, although superficial impressions cannot fully define a person's inner nature, if Father Vander was this kind of person, then why did he accept the connection with Mrs. Sinley at that time?
He knew Mrs. Sinlai beforehand, and he must have known that she had a child. When he accepted her, he should have taken the child into consideration, and he would not have rejected the child to this extent.
But if this is not a possibility, what could be the reason?
And there is a most crucial mystery that cannot be explained - the reason why they came to Ferrington after receiving the report, the ghost street hidden in the gray fog.
Ghost Street... Kill Brody and Mrs. Ponson's candy ghosts with two candy sticks.
No, that's not the case, there are holes in Hitzfeld's reasoning.
Ethan's brows have been furrowed since he fell into deep thought.
Mrs. Sinley was not around when Brody got into trouble. She was in the church... There are many people who can testify to this.
So she had an alibi, and based on this alone she could be ruled out as a suspect in the murder.
And even if she was the one who killed Brody...Mrs. Ponson was obviously killed in the same way, but Mrs. Sinley was already dead at that time. How could she have committed the crime under such circumstances?
None of this stuff can be explained.
"died?"
Just then he heard the girl's chuckle next to him.
"Hmph... just die."
"Hitzfeld..."
Ethan called her in a low voice, with a hint of urgency hidden in his tone.
He had no doubt that Hitzfeld was right, but he couldn't wait to find out why.
Why, her reasoning would seem to have holes.
"Oh, this is also considered a dark place under the lamp, right?"
The girl smiled.
"Do you remember when we went to Mr. Ponson's house, Mrs. Ponson warmly invited me to eat pie?"
"of course I remember."
Pie - actually a fruit pie, Ethan was deeply impressed by this because he and Darent thought Hitzfeld would refuse it.
She was very cautious and would never touch food or water handed to her by outsiders unless she had no other choice.
But she ate the pie in big mouthfuls, thinking she was just hungry.
Now it seems there is another reason.
