Part 2 The Faceless Man Chapter 200 The Visitors
Inside the Rice police precinct, which was responsible for Minsk and the surrounding neighborhoods.
Klein shook hands with the officer who escorted him out and said:
”This incident of threatening letters is definitely related to the previous serial murder case, the organizer at that time, the great detective Mr. Eisinger Stanton has been attacked this afternoon!
”I ask for your utmost attention.”
The officer withdrew his hand and said:
”Don’t worry Mr. Moriarty, we will certainly not ignore the possibility you raised and will report it to the top immediately.”
”Thank you all so much.” Klein put on his hat and walked out the door.
After seeing the two threatening letters and the provocation from the suspected demon dog owner, he didn’t hesitate to take the evidence and report the case to the nearest police precinct and secretly hoped that the matter would be forwarded to the Substitute Punisher or the Mechanical Heart Squad as soon as possible, placing himself under the protection of the official powerhouses.
Although he had no reason to necessarily retain his detective identity now, and was perfectly capable of abandoning his residence at 15 Minsk Street for a different place and a different identity, he suspected that this might be the purpose of the writer of the threatening letter:
To force himself to move during the night with the aid of the wild extraordinary’s fear of exposure, and then, in the process, to seize the opportunity to strike.
In fact, the way I reported the case is also very suitable for the strike …… before when I was at home as well …… That guy has other plans ah …… Klein both doubtful and cautious returned to Minsk Street.
As soon as he stepped out of the carriage, he saw a figure hovering in front of his house by the gas lamp, which was stained with a little rainwater.
Klein’s heart fluttered at first, then relaxed as he recognized who the visitor was.
It was Stuart, a private investigator with a bushy beard and a medium-thin build, an admirer of his own.
Can not be careless …… in case the follow-up of the “devil” has the ability similar to the “faceless man”? Klein gripped the cane, slowly approaching, and then tentatively shouted.
Detective Stuart turned around sharply, and said with a little bit of tension and a little bit of panic:
”Mr. Moriarty, I received a threatening letter that reads, ‘You’re all going to die!'”
”You received it too?” Klein said offhandedly, rather surprised and feeling justified.
The other man was one of the detectives Edsinger Stanton had assembled during the serial murder case.
Stuart’s eyes widened abruptly:
”You received it too?”
”Yes.” Klein nodded solemnly.
And it wasn’t the only one. …… He added silently.
”What’s to be done about it? I went to Mr. Stanton first, only to hear that he had been attacked, and I rushed to you, and oh, thank God, I almost left early!” Stuart said offhandedly.
Klein pointed to the door:
”Let’s go in first.”
Once inside the living room, he excused himself to go to the lavatory and hurried above the gray mist to do two divinations, one to confirm whether Stuart was himself, and the other to ‘ask’ if there was any greater danger tonight, which resulted in all positive revelations.
That is, Stuart was not an enemy change, and there was no small danger to-night.
Of course, that danger might not explode in front of Klein, and it was possible that it might be dissipated by whoever was secretly there, and that was the limitation of divination, that it could only gain a certain amount of revelation, and couldn’t cover the whole of it, and couldn’t get a precise answer.
And this limitation of the mystical realm could not be solved by technical means such as the method of elimination and dichotomy.
Back in the real world, Klein pressed the mechanical button on the flush toilet, and in the clatter of water, washed his hands and pulled open the door to his room.
”Stuart, do you want coffee or black tea?” Klein asked without a hint of panic on his face.
Stuart stood and shook his head:
”No, we should discuss the problem first, although I’ve received a lot of threatening letters before, none of them compare to today, and he must have written them in blood! My instincts tell me that he will certainly put it into action and has that power!
”By the way, he did the attack on Mr. Stanton, didn’t he?”
”I think so.” Klein said stoically, then sat down, “It would have to do with that previous serial murder case, the only common intersection you, I, and Mr. Stanton have is this one.”
Stuart’s reaction is slightly overreacting ah …… was shocked by the attack on Mr. Stanton? Meanwhile, Klein watched the other carefully.
Infected by his attitude, Stuart calmed down quite a bit, sat down again, and said thoughtfully:
”It seems really …… like that.”
Before his words fell, a clanking sound suddenly echoed in the room.
Someone had pulled the doorbell.
Stuart shivered for a moment, as if startled.
Klein frowned slightly at him and got up to walk toward the door.
He had just taken hold of the knob when the scene outside came to him.
The visitors were Detective Kaslana in her gray tweed coat and her assistant, the red-haired girl Lydia, as well as several other men who looked quite familiar.
All of them were the private detectives who had been summoned by Mr. Stanton that time …… Sure enough …… Klein had recognized the visitors after a brief flashback.
He fired the door of the room and pulled it open, taking two steps back at the same time.
Kaslana, who had thick eyebrows and slightly sagging cheek muscles, looked at Klein and Stuart behind him and said bluntly without pleasantries:
”We all got the same threatening letter, I assume you guys did too?”
”Uh-huh.” Klein responded solemnly.
Caslana exhaled unabashedly and said in a white breath:
”We were all summoned by Mr. Stanton to take Part 1n the solving of that serial murder case, that’s the only thing we have in common.”
”I thought so.” Klein pointed inside the room, “Come in and talk.”
Watching the six private detectives enter one after another, Klein quickly analyzed the intentions of the demon dog owner:
Making such a big deal, it would soon attract the high attention of the official extraordinary organization, there might be demigods and half-human powerhouses squatting in the vicinity, how could he still retaliate?
He was purely provoking, so that the military and the three major churches of the extraordinary people had to send people to protect so many private detectives, not only dispersal of power, but also exhausted, and did not dare to neglect, so as to retaliate against the main target of the action at that time?
In this process, there may be an opportunity to take out a few official extraordinary persons ……
The action against the private detectives will be launched a long time later, when the defense is slack ……
Of course, if there is an opportunity in such a test, he will not let it go ……
For the demons who can foresee danger, this is a method that is quite conducive to the play of their own characteristics.
But the three major churches plus the military and the royal family, there are many strong people, many seals, and there is even no lack of demigods and half-humans, and there is no lack of ‘0’ level and ‘1’ level seals, is the owner of that demonic dog sure that there is no ability or item that can restrain this aspect of his characteristics?
No, he would certainly not dare.
The official extraordinary forces, especially the Night Watchers, the Substitute Punishers, and the Mechanical Heart are all organizations that have been fighting against demons for years, and there is no lack of similar deeds in the Fourth Age, or even the even older Third Age.
Why would he dare to make such an attempt when the owner of that demonic dog was at best a Sequence 5, and could be torn apart by a demigod or a horrific seal with just the slightest of things going wrong, or even if nothing went wrong?
Or maybe he’s simply just teasing the official organization and not acting on it, over and over again ……
Well, there’s also the possibility that he got more than half of his targets together with the help of threatening letters, taking advantage of the formal organization’s tendency to check and balance each other, to be procedural and bureaucratic, and to play for time ……
The attack on Mr. Eisinger Stanton must have been handed over to the Mechanical Heart, which is in charge of supernatural affairs in the Hillsdon district, but it was mainly the Night Watch that killed the Devil Dogs last time, and the two sides certainly didn’t communicate in as much detail as they should have ……
Well, it may also be assigned according to Mr. Stanton’s beliefs …… Which deity does he believe in …… I never seem to know or see it ……
Anyway, with so many private investigators, living in different districts with different beliefs, the division of jurisdiction is a headache, and joint action is not so easy to reach.
At this moment, the ones taking over and secretly protecting us should only be two to three groups of official Extraordinary Ones, up to the deacon level at the most, and not using horrible sealing objects that are too powerful and dangerous, and the half-god, half-human High Sequencers aren’t so quick to cast their eyes this way.
This would give the demonic dog owner a chance.
Although three to four groups of Official Extraordinaires could definitely surround and kill one, or even more than one Sequence 5, there was still a not-so-small possibility that he could successfully disengage afterward as long as he grasped the timing well.
In just twenty to thirty seconds, Klein had speculated on two or three possibilities and given his initial judgment on each.
Associating the divination result that there was not a small amount of danger tonight, Klein nodded thoughtfully, closed the door of the room, entered the living room, and said to the detectives who were either sitting or standing:
”Have you called the police?”
Here almost half of the people who had gathered for that discussion …… he looked round, and murmured in his mind.
Caslana answered in place of the others:
”Some called the police, some tried to go to Mr. Stanton or a familiar friend, and finally we just gathered with each other and discussed visiting you, the great detective.”
Klein nodded gently and deliberately:
”Everyone doesn’t need to be too nervous, the person who sent the threatening letter should be trying to avenge that serial killer, but he is only one person, and at most he has one or two other companions, whereas there are a full eight of us detectives and all of us are good at fighting and shooting, so why should we be afraid of him?
”Besides, we were far from the only ones summoned by Mr. Stanton at the time, and surely so were those who received the threatening letters, only they didn’t run into you or pay me a visit.”
Hearing these words from him, Caslana and her assistant, Lydia, got skeptical looks on their faces, as if they were unsure of something.
The other detective took a breath and said:
”Mr. Moriarty, perhaps, as you say, we need not fear him.
”But he’s a sinister viper in the darkness, and no one knows when he’ll strike, there’s no way to prepare in advance, and he could hurt our families.”
”Family?”
”Oh, my wife!”
”No, my little angel!”
The detectives had a moment of violent mood swings, their reactions vaguely exaggerated.
Stuart, who was standing behind Klein, was even more trembling, scared and angry.
”No, I don’t want this ……” he muttered and whispered, his emotions close to being out of control.
Just as Klein and Caslana tried to calm them, Stuart suddenly drew his gun and aimed it at the back of Klein’s head!
His eyes went blank and his emotions seemed to have completely blown up.