Chapter 22 Section VI Intersection

"There has been a lot of pressure from the General Administration? You know, it has been dragging on for so many years. Look, look - it's a good thing we didn't bring this case up!", Deputy Minister Fick held the The material fell heavily on the conference table. "An act of revenge, pure revenge!" Deputy Chief Pummel even shouted with excitement. I'm not quite sure what the purpose of this meeting is—I'm sitting in the most inconspicuous position in the conference room right now, flipping through the meeting materials handed out by Deputy Director Issel: This is basically what I went to The original report titled "Important Report on the March Serial Homicide Case" submitted on Friday, but the final signature was changed to "Isel Puppenmann (Puppenmann)".

"Agent Wenzel, you know—the one that even Jiegler has to admire. Did you give me some hints like this?" Deputy Director Issel flipped through the materials in his hand, and pulled out the information contained in it. I held up a few traffic zoning maps and gestured, "? Of course these are helpful to the final formation of this report." He looked at me, and the other people in the meeting followed his gaze— ——When he put down the few pieces of paper, everyone's eyes quickly retracted. "Therefore, I think we should also listen to his views on the specific deployment of this operation."

He looked at me again: "Wenzel, what do you think we should do?" he asked me, in a tone characteristic of a superior. I shook my head inwardly—he had already asked me this question in the office yesterday: but today, in order to fit in with his carefully organized meeting, I had to patiently re-explain it to the other leaders of the bureau. I want to resign more and more." Well, as Deputy Director Issel just said. Refer to the Bernhard-Kampel case—please take a look at the materials at hand, in the city's traffic zoning map Above, after we have successively connected Toyd Street Station and Ray Street Station, Venice Street Station and Seventh Police Station Station, the two straight lines intersect undoubtedly at the Far Mountain Trail Station—this is the same as I was asking about Kanpur. Gran's clues match up, so?"

"That? Detective Wenzel, we don't have much time? So, please just talk about your opinion on this operation." Deputy Director Issel interrupted me with some embarrassment— It seems that he probably didn't want anyone else in the room to know the process of my investigation (for obvious reasons, of course). "Oh? Then, I propose to completely block the bus stops in the area of ​​Bianca Street and Furor Street in Langlingen District in the early morning of the 19th of this month. For Bianca Street, based on past experience-open The parking lot and the underground passage are places that must be paid attention to. In addition, considering that the murderer may take public transportation, the section from the Volos Street subway station to the Sixth Police Station Station should also be fortified. There are 371 bus routes passing through Bianca Street. Road, 375, 79 and 772 special lines - during the corresponding time period, it is best to put plainclothes on the departure, and the driver should be replaced by a police officer."

"? Where do we get so many people?" Deputy Minister Keir muttered. "On this point, I think we should cooperate with the neighboring Sixth Bureau—the General Bureau must also respond accordingly?" "Enough, Wenzel? I mean, your opinion, that's enough." Deputy Director Issel interrupted my speech again. "How can we let people from other bureaus intervene? Such a good opportunity?" Deputy Director Pumol turned his head and added to me in a tone almost reprimanding. I fully understand their concerns: the credit for solving the "Romeo the Scythe" case can only be divided within the scope of eleven innings at most-they couldn't make it clearer.

"We will properly arrange the corresponding actions. Wenzel? Hey, Wenzel, where are you going? The meeting is not over yet!" I really want to just answer "I quit my job", but I can't do that just yet: "Oh, I have an appointment with Nanmen Prison—do you still owe part of the interrogation work?" I replied vaguely. "Really? Then you go first. If you have any new clues, don't forget to report to your superiors as soon as possible." Deputy Director Iser smiled at me. "Well, I will?" I nodded and left the conference room. As you all know, Kanpur is still being quarantined forcibly at this moment: without the object of inquiry, the "inquiry work" I just mentioned will naturally not proceed smoothly (of course, it is just that I want to escape from this so-called "high-level organization" as soon as possible. meeting” guise).

I don't know when the meeting will be over: I have to hide in the archives and light a fire in front of the piles of files-this is undoubtedly against the police regulations. Today is March 10th - nine days to go. However, my report has already been submitted.At least, for me personally, the "Romeo the Scythe" case is closed in a sense - in yesterday's conversation, Deputy Commissioner Issel clearly told me that the March 19th operation (regardless of their final decide how exactly to do it) I don't need to be involved.As for the specific arrangement of the general bureau's bonus, he also gave me a suggestion that seemed more reasonable - the bonus would be collected by him on behalf of the 11th bureau, and then distributed to me in private, plus an additional bonus issued separately in the name of the branch bureau bonus.

The reason for this, according to Deputy Director Iser, is to "give the honor to the whole Bureau" - and the actual situation, of course, involves the distribution and balance of power at the top of the Bureau: it is said that Director Brenfa Before Seoul City participated in the state's high-level police conference, it submitted a report to the General Administration to adjust the distribution of high-level positions in the bureau--my little detective has nothing to do with the distribution of power in the bureau.Rather than wasting the credit for solving the "Romeo the Scythe" case on me, it would be more practical to attribute it to the top of the branch.

And I was also compensated in terms of bonuses, plus I was about to resign and didn't have much interest in accolades and promotions: Therefore, I accepted the advice given to me by Deputy Director Issel at that time. "You can still consider it, after all? It's your honor." The deputy director was quite surprised by my straightforward concession. "That's okay, honor means nothing to me?" In fact, I don't think the report I submitted was of much value (not to mention any honor)-in that hastily written report, it only explained the secret of the station name, that's all!

Even these secrets were not discovered by me—Bourne had discovered it five years ago (perhaps in an accidental look out the window).From a certain point of view, it can even be said that the dead Bourne solved the case indirectly, and I just stumbled upon the clues he left behind. Ha, even Kanpur gave us enough hints in her special way.I once made a reasoning that puzzled me a little bit before—do you still remember when I revealed that I was not a reporter but an agent of the 11th Precinct? At that time, I even "Before I could say the word, Kanpur had already strangled me by the neck.

Kanpur’s second lapse was triggered by the “Eleventh Police Precinct” that I accidentally mentioned in the conversation. The discovery in Rua Theodor gives good reason for this reasoning: Schematic diagram of the connection between the Bernhardy/Kanpur case crime scene/the location of the abandoned head (taken from the meeting materials). The report I submitted was directly attached to the full-color "Freedom Traffic Zoning Map of Will City" (I got it at the information desk of the main train station) - Deputy Director Isser took out the part I marked, connecting each scene and the place where the head was discarded by a straight line , and integrated into the meeting materials: he still spent a lot of time preparing for that meeting (at least, it is much more convenient for us to check now). From the screenshot above, we can clearly see: Connecting Toyd Street Subway Station and Ray Street Station (that is, between Apennine Street Station and Chementeet Street Station, exactly between Toyd Street Station and Far Mountain Trail The station on the connecting line between the stations—although these small stations are not clearly marked on this traffic zoning map, they can easily be posted on the main railway station or the larger stations. After the Venice Street Station and the Seventh Police Station Station, the intersection of the two connected linear extension lines coincides perfectly with the location of the Yuanshan Trail Station.Going backwards, when we connect the Yuanshan Trail Station with the "Swiss Painters' Square" in May 1989, we will also find that the connecting line happens to pass through Kurre between the Candler Porcelain Factory and the Burtger Church Square Station - If Bourne hadn't been killed, the head of public servant Huck Bush would have been nicely placed in a trash can by the station. As mentioned above - the "Mountain Path" station, which is the hidden modus operandi of the closed Bernhard/Kampur serial murder case: if they ever planned a fourth case, the crime scene and the abandoned head station The connection between them must also pass through this station. For the "Romeo the Scythe" case, we can also get a similar wiring diagram: "Romeo the Scythe" case crime scene/discarded head connection diagram (taken from the meeting materials) ※The number connected to Miranda Square (5) indicates the order of occurrence of the cases - due to the location of the Eliza case and the location of Uranus There is no connection with the satellite, so I made the Arel Church the first scene: Of course, this arrangement is more in line with the actual situation. (As you can also see, even the ninth location "Cresda Street" and the tenth location "Des Demora Street" have been pre-marked-this is only what can be seen on the partial map Part of what I saw, and on the color map I submitted, I even marked the 15th "Parker" of Tianwei: Parker Street in this city is adjacent to the Wallenstein Zoo - it is as far away as half of the city of Liberty from this bureau .) Probably because the distance between Miranda Square and the 11th Bureau is too far, in order to avoid splitting the picture on two material sheets during material typesetting and affecting the influence of the picture, Deputy Director Issel chose Cut off the part that is too low, and add the words "※Connected to Miranda Square (5)" under the picture.What's interesting is that - even with such considerations in mind, Deputy Director Iser did not forget to give the "City Police Headquarters" that was completely unnecessary to appear in the screenshot an appropriate and eye-catching position: this is probably for the purpose of posting this The materials should be submitted to the General Administration for preparation—our deputy director really has the talent that ordinary people can't match in this respect. Now, let's take a look: The Arel Church case, where Father Palm's head was dumped at Triangle Street Station between Hamburger Platz and the Jewish Museum—the extension line between Arel Church Station and Triangle Street Station just happened to pass through the "Ten A police station". The Derek Pian police case, the head of police officer Derek Derek was found by two schoolchildren at the Little George Street bus stop between the Cindalore Hotel and the Three Fire Stations - the link between the Umbrella Street Station and the Little George Street bus stop. The line also passes through Eleven Police Precinct. Ronald Barron case, link between Titania Square station and Katschchu No. 1 school station - via Eleventh Precinct. Parade project for the 38th Art Festival, the connection between Oberon Square Station and Rooney Station - through the 11th Precinct. "Third Square" case, link between Miranda Square Station and Sand Station - via Eleventh Precinct. Diana Virginia case, link between Cordelia Street Station and Patty Station - via Eleventh Precinct. "Second Weekend Day Two" Case, Link Between Ophelia Street Station and Dalduham Station - Via Eleven Precinct. Yes, this is another modus operandi implied (and decisive) in the "Romeo the Scythe" case. On the traffic zoning map of the city of Liberty, there is no other station named after the famous shrew in "The Tamer of the Woman" except for the one in the Langlingen district, sandwiched between Volos Street Station and Six Police Station Station. The name of the place named after his sister - this is also reflected in other place names in the city named after Uranus satellites (or, in other words, characters in Shakespeare and Pope Alexander's works): These names are all unique on the city’s traffic zoning map—this may be a coincidence, but it may also be the only reason why the murderer chose this medium to explain his crime rules (or another word—"art"). Anyway, after connecting the Bianca Street station to the 11th police station, we can already predict which bus stop our shadow killer will drop a poor bloody head this year: it is, of course, Flower Street Station—As I said earlier, Bianca Street should be completely blocked if the tragedy is to be avoided. Even without notifying the General Administration and the Sixth Branch, if the manpower of the Bureau can be properly deployed, I believe that the shadow killer can be arrested and brought to justice on the night of the full moon this month—and Bianca Street is within the jurisdiction of the Sixth Branch , even if you don’t tell them the specific reason for the blockade, you can ask them for police support at the time of advance notice (for large-scale operations that reach the level of blockade and are not within your own jurisdiction, advance notice is of course necessary): Therefore, the proposals I made at the meeting today are actually not too difficult to implement-I hope they can finally adopt the action plan I proposed before after the "intense" discussion: Of course, the hastily proposed I am afraid that the plan will also be given a famous name such as "Operation Iser" or "Operation Pumol" after slight changes. Okay, now we can go back to the point of reasoning we made earlier about the cause of Kanpur’s second insanity—Kanpur’s two insanity actually related to her consciously or unconsciously recalling her It has something to do with the parody case that Byrne committed. The first time, apparently, as it has been said before, was due to Kampl recalling the horrors of the last mock case. Before the second time, Kanpur’s mood was already quite bad under the intimidation of Meppen’s baton—she was curled up in a corner and trembling at that time, the real world she lived in had probably become very blurred, and her memories were blurred. It was raging in her mind again—something she was trying to forget, of course; Bourne must have told her how he spotted the Shadow Killer wielding a knife on the traffic zoning map outside the window The secret (I'm afraid this is just my take for granted - Bourne's vision is probably not as good as mine, but we still have the right to believe that this situation is the truth), and how do they plan to apply this secret in exchange for acceptance by hell? On top of her cruel plan: only, Kanpur "thought" she had forgotten about it.So, after being arrested, she didn't mention it to anyone.Only since then, the words "Eleventh Police Station" and "Distant Mountain Trail" have become taboo words for Kanpur's memory. Kanpur's spirit probably became extremely fragile between deliberate forgetting again and again, and then gradually collapsed under the loneliness and indifference of real life-I touched the wound on my neck again unconsciously, a few pieces The scar is still hanging there stubbornly, but the corners have been gradually peeled off and rolled up: the wound will heal soon, but the scar carved in Kanpur's heart by that terrible memory is destined to be inseparable from life Then, I faintly noticed the joy of this poor person being rescued and the kindness of redemption. In this look, besides wanting to remind me of the connection between "Distant Mountain Trail" and "Eleventh Police Station" , seems to have other meanings, but I don't have time to understand it - on the large old wooden table in the archives, an unsigned press release is less than half written. The title of that manuscript was "Crime Behind Bars" This is one of the reasons why I left the meeting early.