Why it never ends

Chapter 279 The Police Officer
In the cemetery, Tanglar was resting on a bench by the roadside. Zoe and another mercury needle stood four or five steps away from him, watching the movements around them.

Tanglar was wrapping his coat tightly in the wind. At this moment, recalling the reminder from Eureka in the morning, he couldn't help feeling angry again—what did she mean by those specious words?
Is it just literal meaning?
"Hello." Tanglar heard Zoe pick up the phone behind him, "Well, it's me, tell me."

After a moment of silence, Zooey’s voice became alert, “Why?”

This sudden question made Shuiyinzhen and Tanglar beside him a little nervous at the same time.

After a while, Zooey frowned and nodded: "Okay, I understand, then shall we bring him back now?

"...Okay, that's fine, see you later."

She hung up the phone, turned her head and said, "Teresa called just now and said that she has something to ask the Viscount face to face. Let's not leave him half a step from now until she and Officer Su Lei come over."

"What happened?" Tanglar stood up.

"It's hard to explain on the phone." Zooey grabbed Tanglar's shoulders and pushed him back on the chair. "You will know when they come, don't ask too much."

……

On the other side of the city, Su Lei just drove Trisha on the road together.

"You know Gray's other identity, right?" Si Lei asked.

"I know," Teresa replied, "but is this person related to the assassin?"

"I'm not sure yet, but I'm sure there's something in it," Su Lei said softly. "On the day Nightingale died, I learned from Gray's servant that Gray had been using a controlled drug that most people couldn't get. of."

"I've also heard of this. It's a sensory agent commonly used in combat with mercury needles."

"That's right, this kind of thing is rarely circulated in the habitable area, and the control is also strict. As far as I know, there are only a few biological laboratories related to chelation disease. This is also the main channel for Gray to obtain medicine. one.

"According to Gray's servants, after Gray used the sensitizer, they need to strictly recycle the empty needle tube, because each sensitizer has an independent number, and they need to return these things to the supplier in order to exchange for the next one. A batch of medicines.

"So, if Gray's disappearance was really planned by himself, that is, he did leave the third district for some reasons that are temporarily inconvenient to disclose, then before he drives the car into the wilderness and leaves alone, he will definitely put All used empty syringes were returned to the carriage—but as we now know, neither the carriage nor the nearby grasslands have been found of this kind, and his servants have not received any relevant packages so far.”

"Or maybe he didn't use the sensory agent at all, and just took it away with him?"

"It's even more impossible." Su Lei replied decisively, "Gray is an ordinary person, Ms. Trisha, although he is indeed somewhat special, but he is not exempt from carrying dangerous goods like your mercury needles—any large region No customs office will allow him to enter or leave with such medicines, and if he is found on the way, he will immediately lose his entry and exit qualifications, and he will not do such a stupid thing."

"...Thinking about it like this is indeed a bit strange, but what does Gray's matter have to do with the assassin?"

"Listen to me continuing," Su Lei spoke quickly, "I've been thinking about this problem for the past two days, until this morning, I saw a group of new police officers in the police station filling out welfare forms. A blank form fell on the floor, and I picked it up and handed it to the person closest to me.

"I said, 'You dropped something', and she said, 'It's not mine', and I said, 'You double check? It's not written on it, but it just fell at your feet', and she persisted, saying 'It's definitely not mine, look, there are seven forms in total, and I don't need any of them' - when she told me that, I figured it out right away!"

Trisha almost held her breath, but she was also confused, "Did you... figure it out?"

"The morning when Villefort found the blank photo paper, you were there, right?" Su Lei glanced at Trisha, "Do you remember Tanglar's first reaction at that time, he jumped up and shouted 'Yes' Death notice, the duke has a death notice!'—but how did he know?

"The book is indeed signed by the Duke as a gift, but this book was given to Tanglar by him more than ten years ago. Seriously, the first owner of this book should be Tanglar, not Villefort. Right?"

Teresa's eyes lit up, "Yes... I remember that Victoria asked Villefort at that time, and there was nothing on the photo paper... But Villefort insisted that the death notice was for him, so I Didn't think too much about-"

"That's right!" Su Lei interrupted Trisha, her eyes sparkled, "Facing twelve blank photo papers, a person who is as afraid of death as Tanglar has no panic and no doubts about himself , but insisted that these unnamed death notices belonged to another person-isn't it strange?

"I think either he had received the death notice and for some reason didn't tell us, or he had some sort of agreement with the assassin that he knew beforehand that it wasn't for him."

Trisha couldn't help sighing in admiration, "Officer Su Lei..."

"There is another thing," Su Lei gripped the steering wheel tightly, "so far, the assassin has indeed sent a death notice to every dead person—but this means that she will definitely do the same next time Is it? Of course, she can always follow the same set of rules of the game, but what if she suddenly abandons the rules of the game?"

Before Trisha could answer, Su Lei had already continued talking on his own.

"If she does this, the so-called 'death notice' will immediately become a perfect cover-up to distract everyone's attention—everyone will think that the next person who will suffer is Villefort, so it will be placed in Tangra Er's attention is reduced, which greatly reduces the difficulty of her committing the crime—I'm afraid this person never thought of reconciling with you from the beginning, and all her efforts are aimed at killing people."

Trisha listened silently, and frowned again, "Your reasoning does sound reasonable, but I still have a question, how could Tanglar make a deal with the assassin? This kind of thing of seeking skin from a tiger -"

"What if the assassin approached him under the guise of Gray?"

Trisha was taken aback.

"Isn't it all connected together?" Si Lei gave a fierce smile, her eyes were sharp, and a kind of excitement that belonged to a hunter was ignited in her eyes.

"I think, after seeing Tanglar, the whole matter should be clear."

(End of this chapter)