Chapter 2994

Schiller went to see Edward again, but before seeing Edward, he first saw Cobblepot. Cobblepot told him the news about the nurse.

The situation described by the nurse basically matched the timeline Schiller investigated. Both discovered clues ten years ago, went to the construction site four years ago, and were unfortunately killed.

But the nurse provided an additional piece of information, that is, this worker learned about Edward through investigation and asked his wife to protect Edward.

How did he know Edward might be a witness?

Their life trajectories shouldn't have any intersection... No, Edward later went to the Bolokin community high school, and the worker should still be alive at that time, so did they have an intersection during this period?

Schiller felt that it was possible that Edward took the initiative to find this worker.

Back then, he could catch his uncle's flaws by observation, forcing him to destroy the evidence. It was not impossible to observe this worker's abnormality and use him to do some things.

Four years ago, the worker went to the ruins of the primary school and middle school departments. Could it be that he was instructed by Edward?

Now, turning around, the problem returned to the origin. Edward might know more than everyone, even much more than Schiller, who investigated the whole circle.

Schiller even suspected that Edward was also using him to do something. After hypnosis, Edward's performance was like hinting at this point.

Schiller saw Edward again. Edward still looked very happy, sitting on the bed by the window, staring at the outside motionlessly. The sea outside only had faint light, appearing exceptionally quiet and mysterious.

Seeing Schiller coming, he smiled and said: "You're here."

Schiller sat opposite him, looking into his eyes. Edward suddenly turned his head, staring at Schiller with bright eyes and said: "You must have many things to ask me, but I don't want to guess riddles now. I want to give you a riddle."

Schiller really hated the Riddler, but he felt that Edward was not like this. This was an overly smart boy. He should know what to do that was most beneficial to himself.

He heard Edward say: "It makes high mountains rise, it makes rivers dry up, it makes civilizations perish, it makes plants grow anew, it makes humans clear, it makes humans confused, it doesn't exist, it exists everywhere. What is the answer to the riddle?"

Schiller kept thinking about this riddle on the way back. He didn't feel that this was a word riddle, but should be describing something.

But the problem is, Edward's perspective is different from his own. The thing he describes with such words might not be so in his own eyes. He must substitute Edward's perspective to figure out the answer to this riddle.

The imagery of high mountains and rivers is very interesting. Schiller felt that this might be the literal meaning, because that forest was on the mountain, and civilization perishing might refer to the buildings of the middle school and primary school departments being pushed down, and plants growing anew refers to the plants growing again on the ruins.

Making humans clear and making humans confused might refer to someone learning the truth, but someone becoming a lunatic. It doesn't exist might refer to the truth not being revealed, and it exists everywhere refers to the crimes indeed happening.

Looking at it this way, the answer to this riddle should be this group of criminals, but Schiller felt it wasn't that simple. Edward might be hinting at the murderer behind this group of criminals with this riddle.

Then the riddle must be interpreted from another level, must put aside combining facts, and interpret from a more philosophical angle. Who can do all of the above?

When driving to the residence of the last suspect, Nigma, Schiller suddenly had the outline of the answer in his mind.

He turned the steering wheel, and the car drove in the completely opposite direction. Half an hour later, Schiller appeared at the foot of the mountain again.

The crematorium had no lights at all, and the mountain also only had thick shadows cast by dense tree clusters. The deep darkness before dawn almost swallowed everything.

Schiller followed the small path of the crematorium to the door of the air-raid shelter. After the door opened, the pitch-black cave was like a big mouth choosing people to eat. Schiller walked in slowly.

"Things are like this. We found many bones in there. I was a bit panicked, so I didn't bring them all out, but I think these are enough. Sheriff, you must..."

"Rest assured, Madam, so many bones are enough for us to file a case for investigation. May I ask if you have any other clues to tell us? Must be as detailed as possible, and say every person you suspect."

The Cat Getan Police Department was brightly lit. Wanda, Jarvis, Tim, Aisha, Helen, and the people from the New Warriors team and the Guardians of the Galaxy were all standing in the hall of the police station. Gordon stood opposite them.

"We investigated many things." Jarvis opened his mouth and said: "All clues can match."

After speaking, he handed the thick materials to Gordon and said: "Tim has conducted gene comparison on most of the skeletons and found the files of the missing children case ten years ago, but we cannot call the data of the police system. This depends on you, Sheriff."

"No problem, you wait a moment. Once there is a result, I will tell you immediately. And now I am going to apply for a search warrant to solve Williams's problem first. Are you saying you saw corpses at his resort construction base?"

"That's right." Nebula stood out and said: "I saw it clearly, and also took a few photos. Didn't show the front face of the corpse, but it can be seen that it is an adult, and has already died."

"Regrettable, Madam. Please submit the photos to us. Once the search warrant arrives, we will immediately go to arrest."

Ten minutes later, police officers wearing blue uniforms rushed out of the gate like a school of fish. Countless police cars sounded sirens, blocking major intersections at the fastest speed.

Reporters who moved with the wind arrived at the scene of the incident at the fastest speed, but were blocked outside the cordon set up by the FBI.

The person in charge of the FBI saw Gordon coming, nodded at him, Gordon showed his search warrant and said: "I know the lake corpse case is very important to you, but now, a more serious case has occurred. We now suspect that the owner of the construction site is related to over a hundred child disappearance cases..."

The person in charge of the FBI looked at the reporters outside the cordon with some vigilance, and didn't want to bear the responsibility of being an accomplice in child disappearance cases, so he had to let his subordinates move away.

Police officers filed in, not letting go of any details, and soon someone came to report to Gordon.

"Head, found it. A male corpse was buried about three meters deep. Now it's rotten very badly. Should I call the forensic doctor over?"

"Call all the forensic doctors over, and find if there is anything else."

Gordon just wanted to explain something else, but the phone rang. After he picked up the phone, he frowned and said: "What? Who reported the case? Nigma?!"

Half an hour later, Gordon returned to the Cat Getan Police Department facing the rising sun. Nigma, who had just been discharged from the hospital and was still pale, sat on the chair. Seeing Gordon coming, he even braced himself to stand up.

Gordon hurried to let him sit down, "If you want to die, don't die here."

"Sorry Sheriff, but I must tell you the clues of the child abuse case now, must be now..."

Gordon's expression became serious, and he said: "Let's go in and talk in detail."

Soon he brought Nigma to the reception room. Nigma said: "The matter has to start from when I was a principal in the Bolokin community. Yes, you must be very surprised, but I did serve as a principal in that district at that time, responsible for the teaching management work of the middle school and primary school departments."

"And the reason why I was transferred away is also because I discovered a certain secret. It's not that I didn't want to call the police, it's just that at that time Cat Getan was really..."

"Of course, I'm definitely not saying that the police have problems. You have already done well enough, it's just that when you faced gangs back then, you were so powerless, I faced this group of extremely vicious criminals, and I was so helpless and scared."

"So I could only tell the truth at this time. About ten years ago, I discovered that students in my school often disappeared outside the school. The number of disappearance cases was abnormally high."

"I have always held activities and courses to improve awareness of prevention in the school, but for some reason, it didn't improve, until one day a student told me that a group of people were wandering outside the school..."

In Nigma's mouth, Gordon heard another version of the story, roughly meaning that as a principal, he noticed the situation of children disappearing very early and was diligently investigating this situation.

And then because he attracted the attention of the criminal gang, he lost his job and encountered several assassinations, all of which he luckily escaped. Because he was worried about his own life safety, he didn't dare to expose their crimes until now that things made a big noise, he dared to stand up and point out.

From a theoretical point of view, this logic has no problems. After all, Cat Getan was so rotten before. If these people had some relationship with gangs, standing up to testify would be death without a burial place. Not daring to stand up is too normal.

And standing up now is not a mistake. After all, investigation also needs clues and evidence. As long as useful clues are provided and they are willing to testify in court, then it is considered a valuable witness and will also be regarded as having made a contribution to the solving of the case.

When Gordon began to ask him for specific evidence, he mentioned that crematorium, saying that there were a few ash urns in it, which were evidence of that group of murderers destroying corpses and eliminating traces. As long as the identity of the owner of the ashes is compared, and then check their movement trajectory, it is possible to find the real murderer.

But Gordon had already obtained the ashes long ago. Andre had already sent the samples of the ashes to his hands, and started comparing them a few hours ago. Now the result was almost out.

And then Nigma also indicated that a person should also be buried at the ruins of the middle school and primary school departments, which was an innocent person killed by the mastermind behind the scenes. But the corpse there had already been dug out long ago. If the police go again, they won't find anything.

Nigma finally indicated that the resort built by Williams was also not right, possibly for the purpose of destroying corpses and eliminating traces and throwing corpses into the lake.

At this time, the male corpse dug out in the resort was just sent to the police station. As for the corpses in the lake, they belonged to Amanda's Federal Shield, and all the corpses fished out currently were not recently dead.

And after discovering that all the clues he provided had no value, Nigma gritted his teeth and said: "I also know one person. She is the sister of the wife of the manager of the Wardraid engineering team. She might know her brother-in-law's secret. Perhaps you can go..."

He discovered that the serious and deep expression on Gordon's face opposite had disappeared, and his eyes only revealed contempt and mockery.

Nigma suddenly realized that he might have been fooled.

He had to bite the bullet and say: "I also know that Williams wanted to send the sister of Bob's wife into a mental hospital, making her testimony invalid. He targeted Cat Getan's most famous psychologist, Schiller Rodriguez. Williams must have looked for him."

"If you can contact this psychologist, you will know that what I said is all true!"

Gordon thought of all the sad things in his life, and tried hard to control his expression, not laughing out loud on the spot.