Chapter 5 Chapter 2 Honkai-2

“Ils se sont mis d’accord.” “C'est une vraie ecurie.” (French: They agreed. The place is dirty!) Tuesday 8th October at 2:10 am. I finally got through the material, but didn't rush to start my car—I turned off the interior lights, opened the window, and lit a cigarette, but didn't rush to take the first puff.I let the cigarette burn like this, feeling the invisible smoke as I began to organize in my mind the new clues I had just acquired about the case. Start with the previous conversation with Dr. Gelt.In fact, we didn't get many useful clues in the conversation-but we at least understood a small part of the reason why the bureau kept this case secret: the tapes left by Ifante, called "Death Records" or more appropriate.As the doctor described before, Evante would turn on the tape recorder every time he committed a crime, and recorded the last "communication" (at least Evante would think so) between himself and the deceased in an almost performance way.His purpose for leaving the tapes on site was, according to Dr. Gelt's analysis at the April 16, 2001 meeting, an "extension of his childhood desire to express".

This desire for performance directly created the bloody scenes that aroused the indignation of tens of thousands of citizens: corpses with face organs and fingers brutally amputated, provocative words written with the blood of the deceased - the police chose not to disclose those "death tapes", obviously It is to alleviate the pressure brought by public opinion: concealment and cover-up, they are used to doing this as early as ten years ago. But I didn't expect them to be so bold this time—I only knew after reading the materials on the intranet that the media and the public were completely deceived about the Evante case.

Let's look at snippets from the minutes of these meetings: On Monday, April 23rd, Dr. Gelt: "We observed that Evante's approach to each case has not changed much from Cindy to Mary's case-this is different from those prisoners who commit crimes by accident and gradually become addicted. Evante chooses to complete these cases. He planned and expected it for a long time - so he didn't have to think about how to make people pay more attention to him. His strong anti-social psychology shows that he is probably a mental patient with a bright mind." On Monday, June 25th, Dr. Gelt:

"According to my previous hypothesis, the prisoner is probably an unnamed patient of mine: he first came to the Third Hospital in about June last year, when his hand was impaled by a wooden nail - I think He's supposed to be a carpenter." In the regular meeting on Monday, July 2, Jiegler: "Patrick and Michelle's surveillance work must be seriously criticized! I must emphasize again that even if it follows that the inferences given by the Doctor last week are correct - the prisoner's promise to voluntarily abstain from committing the crime is not credible, We should not use our silence to show our incompetence, I suggest adding more manpower to the plainclothes unit of the Third Hospital, and he will definitely get in touch with the doctor again."

July 4th, expedited meeting, Deputy Director Rucker: "We're running out of time, and since he gave us his house number on the tape, of course we should pay a visit! Trap or not, we're running out of time! ! " On July 5, in an expedited meeting, Deputy Director Cossar: "We might as well believe in his sincerity—this is the best way: he left Liberty City and he was shot dead by the police in Liberty City, it's all for the honor of the police department!" On July 9, 2009, a special high-level meeting, Chief Richard: "In order to show our sincerity to the media and the public, this plan is obviously better. Even if we need the cooperation of the courts, it is not too difficult to achieve - Mr. Gottwald has revealed that he needs some reforms. The fight for seats has been helpful."

Gottwald Jenners is one of the leaders of the city's Social Democratic Party - a smooth politician who has never been a good critic and has a lot of influence in the city's judicial circle. In fact, it can be said more clearly—according to the information provided by internal documents, the police station arrested Evante on July 1, 2001, and the state court wrote to the State Legislative Council at the end of July, requesting that the death penalty be restored within this week. , the trial of Yvant in absentia for several months, the execution on October 24th...these are all absurd performances of compromising and forbearance staged scene after scene.

Ifante was indeed a patient of Dr. Gelt's, as far as is known - he first appeared in the emergency room of the Third Hospital in June 2000.According to Dr. Gelt's description in subsequent meetings, although his hand injury has healed, he has maintained contact with the doctor: even if this connection does not seem too close-according to the doctor, he usually has a month Not even visiting him in his office once in a few months.If he happened to be busy at the time, the former patient of his would politely leave;According to the minutes of the meeting, it was topics such as "another cat died next door" or "the sound of passing cars is still loud at midnight".Dr. Gelt had long felt that this boring patient had some minor mental problems, but due to his busy schedule, he didn't pay much attention to it—after all, this "acquaintance" who was full of complaints and strange ideas came only once a quarter Just need a listener, he doesn't need to do anything superfluous.

As for why Evante came to him, the information did not clearly state that many details about the relationship between the doctor and Evante were omitted (I don’t know if it was the doctor’s deliberate omission, or the laziness of the data entry personnel).The only detailed description is the two visits by Evante on June 22 and June 29 (these descriptions are from the notes made by the doctor at the police station on June 29). Part about the visit on June 22: "He pushed open the door to my office - Aisha knew he was my friend, or he told her so; anyway, he came in. So many visits that he had nothing to do with the place, or me with him. Strangeness. Yet, ridiculously, I don't even know his name yet."

"He was still talking about some trivial things. He said that he saw a young female student smoking in a square last week, and he gave her a lesson. At this time, I was writing a report on drugs that promote the production of blood clotting factors. His description suddenly reminded me of the case of Lesser Perigueux, which made me stop what I was doing and look at him and his words carefully: I am ashamed to say that although he regards me as his friend, I have never had a heart-to-heart communication with him. Even before that time, I was very vague about his appearance-only in a few months' It seems that such a person should come again', it seems that I am indeed a little too indifferent to him. "

"This is a young man in his thirties, with tea-colored pupils and long, somewhat curly, lush blond hair—his clothes look cheap but not sloppy, and he looks haggard." "His accent is not like a local, even a bit like a foreigner-maybe I have deliberately amplified this feature, and I now think he is very French: although when I first met him, I only thought He's a home-grown, average-skilled carpenter." "He was very concerned about my attention at the moment, and he was a little reserved when he was used to talking about himself like no one else - I gave him a glass of water, and asked him half-jokingly: 'We have known each other for so long, my friend , I don't know your name yet!'"

"At first, I didn't expect him to leave his name immediately, but after hearing my question, he suddenly trembled like an epileptic - he didn't care about the etiquette in communication at all (in fact, before He didn't observe similar etiquette very well in his dealings), took the pen on my desk where I was writing a report, wrote something on a prescription letter, and then, without saying goodbye With one sentence, I turned and left my office." "I also seemed to be stupid at the time. After he left for about a minute or two-Aisha came in and asked if the next patient could come in, and I came back to my senses. Of course I picked up the one he just wrote. written prescription letter, bearing his name—Evante von Todd." "At the regular meeting of the police station this Monday, I submitted such a report with trepidation - I cannot rule out that it is the fantasy of a hypochondriac. After all, the photos of the scene of the case and the words written in blood The content can be consulted in any newspaper." Part of the 29th of July: "He pushed open the door to my office - which surprised me: I wouldn't have been so surprised or even embarrassed by the situation in the last week or even in the previous six months. My memory tells me, Outside the office there are two plainclothes people who are in charge of my security, I still remember their names are Patrick and Michelle. I have never been so nervous, but I keep telling myself, don't let him see me I'm nervous—'And it's all uncertain! He must be a hypochondriac.': I tell myself that, and try to calm myself down." "He looked a bit puzzled that I'd stopped what I was doing - because I'm not usually like that - but he sat down anyway: this time it was different, he didn't speak right away, and there was an awkward silence in the office. I want to pick up the microphone to inform Elsa and ask her to do something, but I dare not act rashly; I want to try to speak first, but I don't know what to say." "Finally it was he who spoke first—he asked me, 'You know my name? I know you read Current Affairs and the Observer, so that makes it all clear, doesn't it?'" "I was dumbfounded. At that moment, I felt that he would kill me immediately—although I kept repeating in my heart 'everything is not sure yet! He must be just a delusional patient' to comfort myself. As a clinical M.D. and an emergency room physician who has been practicing medicine for ten years, I have seen countless corpses, but at that time I was still afraid that I would become a corpse with organs cut off, not because of my profession and occupation Something has changed." "I didn't know what to answer - he seemed to know I was going to react, just gave me a look and went on, 'Don't worry, I won't hurt you, my doctor friend.', He gestured for me to sit down with his eyes - counting, I have known him for almost a year, but I have never heard him speak like this: any of his words and actions under such circumstances showed nothing. The persuasiveness of the question, I sat down." "He began to tell his own story, his depression and doubts about life - I noticed that his voice was not the same as those in those live tapes: but I didn't dare to raise my own voice on this question. He mentioned the girls he killed, but he didn't use the word 'kill', he said 'take her away' instead. He didn't mention the live recording - which made me 'think Syndrome's speculation was not completely denied until the end." "He talked for a long time alone, probably nearly an hour or even longer - for a period of time I even suspected that Aisha, Patrick and Michelle were all killed by him: I was at half past four this day There was a patient who made an appointment at that time, and it was almost five o'clock at this time; besides, although the emergency room in June is always a little deserted, but today is Friday, there are always some patients who visit unexpectedly?" "I was thinking wildly like this, and I didn't listen to much of the people in front of me who were still babbling - I just remembered him talking from his childhood: his hometown is Ussey, France, how his father and grandmother died, Why did he leave his home? His life in these years, according to my vague memory, should be very difficult: he said that he took many people with him, he said that he is now doing something 'shattering' Things—he had a very smug expression when he talked about it, and he was silent for a while." "At this time, I don't know where the courage came from. It may be that his long-term nagging made me a little numb and bored—I asked him, 'So, when will this big event be finished?'——He seemed to have never Waking up from the obsession with his experience at that moment, he replied shyly and awkwardly, "It will be soon, give me another week, it will be soon?" At this time, his tone and demeanor returned to normal. The way he used to come to me, with a little humility and nervousness." "He looked at the clock in my office and suddenly looked flustered - he didn't look at me, he just said to himself, 'Well, whatever, Mr. Gelt, whatever! Next week they Will you be satisfied? I'm leaving, sorry to bother you, it's been so long? Thank you for being patient with my nonsense, should I go? Wish you?'” "I didn't hear his last wish clearly. He got up and left my office in a hurry - I picked up the phone immediately, and Aisha complained, 'Your friend is really nagging, Mr. Smith has been waiting for a long time ’. I asked her about Patrick and Michelle, and they left by noon. After all, it was a Friday and no one was to blame.” Probably after the visit on June 29, Dr. Gelt went to the General Administration to complete the transcript. In the regular meeting on June 2, Patrick and Michele were severely criticized by Jiegler. Of course, it is also because of the contents of the transcript. If the time goes back to June 29 last year, and Dr. Gelt and I were reversed, I would also be inclined to believe that these conversations were deliberately fabricated by a patient with serious delusional disorder: the whole conversation did not mention Those death tapes that the outside world doesn't know about.Apart from a name, there is no clue to the identity of the visitor (even the doctor himself noticed that the voice of the visitor was distinctly different from that of the murderer in the death tape).Moreover, when Dr. Gelt asks questions, the client immediately appears tense, shy, and timid—very reminiscent of someone's lie being caught. However, the subsequent development of the matter is wonderful-a week after the last visit, on July 3, Ifante fulfilled his promise. In Pasteur's case, Ifante reported an address in the tape , he put it this way: "? That's enough. Welcome to Building B, No. 174 Paradise Street. There are gifts for you on the top floor. Say hello to Ms. Perdita." Then, according to the decision made by Deputy Director Lark at the urgent meeting on July 4, on the afternoon of the meeting, Jiegler led almost all members of the Second Serious Case Team of the General Administration to No. 174, Paradise Street; After the "Research", armed police, bomb experts and even helicopters were specially deployed to cooperate with the operation-I find it hard to believe that such a huge lineup will not attract widespread attention from the city's sensitive media.So one can imagine the scene of that day (although such an imagination is a bit exaggerated): armed police struggled to stop the swarming reporters, bomb experts were overwhelmed by the crowd in the corridor, and the helicopters of the TV station competed for a favorable camera position And compete with the helicopter of the police station? Our poor Jiegler and his sweaty subordinates, led by Ms. Perdita, came to a certain place in Ifant von Todd In the top floor room rented by a pseudonym, I found a pile of vials containing ears, tongue, nose and fingers and a letter left by the tenant who had just moved out when the owner had long been expected to be away: "e des e'inquie'ide" French translation: Homesickness clouded his eyes. And you frighten us. Anxiety gnawed at his heart. This gave me the idea of ​​traveling. Goodbye! According to the copy in the file, the handwritten farewell letter was signed with the name "Evante von Todd" at the end - proofreading the handwriting of the police and confirming that this signature is the same as that of Dr. Gelt on June 22 of visitors left the same signature: Although some people have raised suspicions that these signatures are obviously different from the bloody handwriting that Ivant committed each time, and that the bloody handwriting was not written in French each time, but according to the comparison of a large number of organs left in the room on the top floor, it is confirmed that these The carefully "collected" human organs did indeed belong to the seven victims of the Evant case (although there are still some missing - the police were unable to find Alice's thumb, and Cindy's nose); According to the testimony of Vent’s landlord, Ms. Perdita, the appearance of the person who rented this house is almost the same as the person in the transcript made by the doctor on June 29—the case seems to be completely clear up to this point. At the urgent meeting on March 5, Jiegler expressed his dissatisfaction with the deployment of his superiors in yesterday's operation. Unfortunately, our bearded inspector's dissatisfaction did not arouse any resonance. Yvant's hideout has been smashed, and the arrest of Scissors Fingers is imminent" in the news. The higher-ups are always unscrupulous to seek their own interests or a little tolerance from the media-they don't care if they let the criminals go.Under the circumstances that credit is difficult to obtain, it is necessary to try to please the media, and doing some superficial work is the natural strength of the city's bureaucrats. Poor Jiegler, it seems that he finally understands this now-thinking of Jiegler he saw at Dr. Gelt's house last night: a big gray beard, and his "take it on" The theory of "full pension" and thinking about the case we cooperated with ten years ago, I couldn't help but feel an inexplicable sadness in my heart. The meeting of the No. 1 has always been discussed around two topics-should Ivante be shot dead by the police?Or should we continue to abscond?Obviously, the latter assumption is not in line with "the honor of the city's police department."We should note that these are just hypotheses - it is as absurd to believe that a murderer who has not been arrested says that he intends to travel, as to believe that a wolf will become a vegetarian in the future; The high-level police discussed it carefully in an urgent meeting, and my sense of desolation became heavier. After basically deciding that Evante "should be shot dead by the police", the high-level staff encountered a difficulty-such a script was still implemented. There is a certain degree of difficulty: a scene of a hunt and a dead body obviously cannot be fabricated out of thin air. The media had of course interviewed Ms. Perdita, and they knew what Ifante looked like—it would be hard to justify it without a body like this. Of course, if you insist on directing according to such a script, the higher-ups must have their own good methods - at least judging from the performances seen so far: they should be called the most professional actors. A special high-level meeting was held on the 19th - the Director General, five Deputy Directors and several senior police officers discussed and slightly revised the plan and reached a strategic agreement (except for Deputy Director Brenfa who objected to the show, including the Director General All the top police officers voted in favour): As we have seen, on July 23, the police first announced that Yvant von Todd had been arrested by the police—previously 174 Paradise Street The incident of the 2009 incident has been well prepared, and the media could not find too many loopholes in the strict secrecy of the police on the incident. Then, at the suggestion of Deputy Commissioner Kossar—probably with the help of Mr. Gottwald Jenners—the state court wrote to the State Legislative Council at the end of July calling for the reinstatement of the death penalty.The media and the public immediately added fuel to the flames, and the focus of everyone's attention was drawn from the Evante case itself to the "reinstatement of the death penalty." The months-long trial in absentia has tested the patience of the public and the media. When everyone has somewhat forgotten about the case, they will disclose the news of the execution in a low-key manner—at this time, even if the public and the media cannot see Evante corpse, there will not be much complaints. The bureaucrats intuited the sensitivity of the "real situation of the death penalty", and then estimated that the public and the media would not have much interest in the execution of the death penalty itself-as long as Evante was executed, he deserved it, and he was filled with righteous indignation The spectators were also satisfied.Burying all the truth in an empty grave in the People's Cemetery is really the best way to defend the honor of the police department. The cigarette in my hand was already half burnt, I looked at the crystal fire, like watching the tears shed from the countless buried truths—shaking my head, without taking a puff, I threw out half of the cigarette butt Outside the window, the car window was closed. It was really cold at two o'clock in the evening. Poor Dr. Gelt, his wife became the last victim in the first half of the Ivant case-the police have obviously gone on a path that cannot be turned back. Can be interpreted as a car accident.The last case in the first half, should it be regarded as Evante's ruthless mockery of the police and bureaucrats?Or is it revenge for Dr. Gelt's cooperation with the police?Or both? We can imagine that even if these cases continue to happen, the police will continue to conceal them-they may say that they have created a clever "copy cat", which would be a good choice. Thanks to Mosman and Handik for their help, through these materials, I am finally on the same starting line as the police—unfortunately, this is only for the first half of the Evante case; for the second half of this case, According to the related case that Handik said, there are already five victims, there is no information already entered on the intranet: file entry staff who are accustomed to being lazy will probably wait until the entire case is closed before posting the rest of the data. something is entered. From this point of view, even though I was standing on the same starting line, I was a full lap behind! i need more clues "C'est elementaire!" "Il agit de maniere que l'on voit ses intentions." (French: This is basic common sense! He did it so that people knew his intentions) Even looking back at these "new clues" that are a little bit old, we can still find some rough, very uncomfortable I would like to straighten them out again in detail—at this moment I looked at my watch: there is still some time until three o'clock, and we still have time. First of all, and most importantly - there are too many coincidences in the whole case! Why did Ifant happen to be one of Dr. Gelt's patients? Even if there is such a coincidence, how to explain why Mr. Evante, who used to go to the doctor's office only once a month or even several months, went to the doctor's office on Fridays for two consecutive weeks after the case of Lesezy on June 17? What about visiting Dr. Gelt? Was it really "anxiety biting his heart"?Let us consider that the case of Marie Lorraine and the case of poor Alsace Carpignet were almost two months apart, and that of Alsace and Lesserzie was separated by a full month and a half. Fante did not show anxiety during such a long wait, why did he show anxiety in the last few cases instead? There were clear witnesses for the visits on the 22nd and 29th. Combined with the testimony of the landlord, Ms. Perdita, it was obvious that a young man in his thirties, with tea-colored pupils and relatively long, somewhat curly, lush blond hair? Clothes The character described as "cheap but not sloppy, rather haggard" does exist, but is this person Evante? No one can be sure - because this person has disappeared like a ghost (at least from my eyes). Signature questions. None of the eight scenes in blood was written in French, but the farewell letter on the top floor of 174 Paradise Street was in French—we cannot deny the slight handwriting discrepancy due to the size of the letters (apparently in Among the eight murder scenes, those that have been confirmed to be written with the blood of the victims' severed fingers are much larger than the French characters left by Evante in the room on the top floor), but according to the data Judging from the photos, the signatures of the two Ivantes even use different fonts: The signature on the letterhead is in beautiful slanted cursive, while the signature in blood uses a relatively blunt simple cursive. Ifante von Todt's signature comparison taken from intranet materials These are two very common handwriting cursives, as we can see in the profile photo - the font of blood letters is often used in poster design It is called "Blackadder ITC" and the letterhead signature font is called "Edwardian Script ITC". Obviously, the font style of "Blackadder ITC" is more suitable for writing large blood characters, but even if it is written on letterhead, it is not necessarily rude—anyway, Evante deliberately used two different fonts with different font sizes It also brought great difficulty to handwriting identification: at least the characteristic points in the signature became difficult to determine, and experts could not confirm whether the differences in stroke strength, relative spacing between letters, curvature of folded pens, and drawing direction came from The font changes, or the writer is not the same person at all-these troublesome things are quickly ignored by the higher-ups who want to close the case as soon as possible. We already know that it is not too difficult for one person to use two or more different fonts for different writing occasions-but our Ifante von Todd is neither a signature designer nor an invitation card ( Author's Note: People who write invitations are often asked to use different fonts to complete their work), why should they change fonts frequently? Noting that "Edwardian Script ITC" is the font Ivant used when using the pen (the signature left on the prescription letter and the letterhead on the top floor during the visit on June 22), one possible hypothesis is-these are the same as Ivan It is related to the current or former occupation: Ifant von Todt seems to be a poster artist (Author's note: This is a job that sounds very interesting, such as painting large-scale posters on the body of a bus Advertisement) because "his blood is very good"-this is what Jiegler said at the March 5, 2001 regular meeting.It is obviously quite difficult for a prisoner with no relevant experience to write down a neat and beautiful "Blackadder ITC" sentence with each letter half the size of a fist. What's more, it is a molding without any modification - we can guess that he should have at least three years of work experience and have received relevant training. Unfortunately, these assumptions are not mentioned in the internal documents - although they seem so obvious.Ms. Perdita also doesn't know what occupation her penthouse tenants actually have (actually, Ms. Perdita only checks at the beginning of each quarter to see if the tenants' monthly rent has been transferred to her account, and the rest is not at all. Can't be bothered to bother - she and her family don't live in a ghetto, and she only visits the property at 174 Paradise Street once or twice when someone wants to rent it, to get a look at potential tenants housing, moving in, and urging them to pay a quarterly rent deposit when they move in), and the poor neighbors who live in the same building are busy in their own way, and no one cares about what the people on the top floor are doing every day . "If there is anyone," said Mr. Watts Ramper, the seventh-floor tenant closest to the top floor, in the transcript, "it is naturally a guy who is so drunk that he can't speak." "? Because I have never heard any obvious noise upstairs. If it weren't for today,? Such a thing, I always thought that no one lived upstairs?" He made the above supplement to his hypothesis . Even the farewell letter itself is evocative: why use French only in the farewell letter?Just because it was written with a pen?Is it a coincidence that a typeface corresponds to a language?Or is it Evante's habit? Or was it written by a different person at all? I admit that such thoughts are derived from my professional experience-such as the case of old Jim and Mr. Rügenmann, such as our old friend Hans Muscarin's first in the case of Cockayne. What kind of assumption? Seemingly similar cases, but done by completely different people: I can cite many such examples. But if it was written by a different person, does it mean that the one who visited Dr. Gelt must not be Evante Scissorhands?The two judgments cannot be simply equated: for the prejudice caused by the assumption, in the absence of clues and evidence, it is better to temporarily mark it as "doubtful" (even if the assumption of "not the same person" I already had quite a few new hypotheses—a bunch of unsubstantiated ones). In fact, if the same person used the two fonts, the case would seem to be much simpler-similar to most serial killers who quit halfway through, Evante could not stand the temptation in the end, perhaps because of the temptation of the police in this city. Dissatisfied with the bureaucrat's handling of the first half of the case, he picked up the scissors again, but this time choosing people related to the first half of the case: such as Gottwald Janus, Lark Klaus (Lark Cruise) and Kosar Jason are a few familiar names -- at least, as we now know, Gelt Nagel is on this list. It can be inferred from this that the death of Dilser Heras should be regarded as a hint of what happened in the second half of the case—Evant may have known at that time that his trusted doctor friend was working for the police, Trying to arrest himself.He killed Dilser Heras is likely to be revenge-Ms. Dilser's age is very different from the age range of the victims of the previous seven cases, as well as the bloody content of the last two cases in the first half (“A Betrayer Goes to Heaven” and “My Doctor Friend, Poor Betrayer”—the latter being particularly obvious), made me think so. Moreover, the content of the blood in Dilser's case also gave a sufficient hint that the two fonts came from one person-who else could "my doctor friend" refer to besides Dr. Gelt Nagel?Unless there are other coincidences or conspiracies that are currently unknown to me. I started the car - it was time to go back to Dr. Gelt's house. Hope to find useful clues.