Cyberpunk: 2075

"In other words, Danger Girl had a detective who was tasked with investigating the deceased in this case, and then she disappeared while investigating the deceased?"

Listening to Karl's story, Jason probably understood what was going on.

"To add something more, when the detective investigated the person, the person was not dead yet."

Karl glanced at the bloody situation inside the cordon: "Now, this is getting interesting."

"The man the detectives were investigating was found dead in a downtown alley, and the detective investigating him has disappeared."

Jason murmured, feeling that this police dispatch was not as simple as imagined.

"It seems that my previous guess was wrong. This matter may not have been done by the scavengers."

Jason said that the scavengers in the city center had just been cleaned up recently, and the new scavengers were not capable of causing a detective from a detective agency to disappear mysteriously.

"Can I see the deceased's profile, Mr. Jensen?"

"Since this matter has already been involved... that's okay."

Jason handed the document in his hand to Karl without much hesitation. As for the rules, in fact, even the personnel involved could not do this, but the NCPD does not follow the rules on the surface now, not even Jason.

Karl looked through the file for a while, and after writing down the information, he handed the file back to Jason without thinking about showing it to Kenichi Shiro who was behind him as a decoration.

"The deceased was a native of Santo Domingo and had only been active in the Santo Domingo area in recent days. However, the place where he was found dead was in the city center...:. The document did not indicate that he was at a key traffic monitoring point. We saw surveillance footage of him leaving the Santo Domingo district on foot, which means..."

Karl thought about it and said: "Either he has the ability to block surveillance, or he came to the city center by car, or he might have been put in the trunk."

There are only a few ways to travel in Night City, walking, driving, or taking the subway. If you take the subway, you have a subway card that records your identity. As long as you take the subway, it will be recorded. So the deceased's method of leaving Santo Domingo is just that. Just walking and driving.

"Of course, it is also possible that he left Santo Domingo by float, but considering the financial situation of the deceased, this is unlikely."

The deceased's occupation was a delivery boy, just a low-level employee. Even the transport vehicle that delivered the goods still had more than two years of installments. The possibility of riding in the floating vehicle was too small. This possibility could only be As the last possible option after ruling out all other possibilities.

"What's the reason the Danger Girl detective is investigating him?"

Jason and Karl shared and thought about information and looked for breakthroughs.

"He seems to be having an affair with a married man. The husband suspected that his significant other was cheating on him, so he hired a professional detective to investigate. You know, most of the things detectives do are simply impossible. It’s about solving crimes, and routine investigations like this are the norm.”

"Cheating?"

Jason is not surprised that married men are free to fall in love. In this era where gender can be changed at will,

This kind of love can only be said to be very normal. What he is thinking about is the possibility of cheating.

"Is it possible that it was a vendetta? For example, the detective found out that the husband's other half was indeed cheating on him, so..."

"The employer is fine, and so is his significant other. After the detective disappeared, the firm collected relevant information about the employer. In this regard, it was just a misunderstanding. The married man cheated on him with another person."

“The possible clues have been broken again.

Jason frowned. To be honest, he was a good expert at solving crimes in the police station when he was young. However, it became useless to solve the case. No matter how much evidence there was, the suspect would always be released safely. I'm no longer obsessed with the investigation. It's useless anyway. It's better to fire a few more shots and try to kill the suspect before he can explain.

Practicing marksmanship instead of investigation has been neglected until now. It is a bit difficult to pick it up again and regain the sensitive feeling in the past.

Kenichi Shiro watched the two of them from the side, still silent, but his prosthetic eyes flashed from time to time, as if data was constantly flowing through them, transmitting the images he saw to where they were.

Karl, who didn't pay attention to his boss on this mission and knew it was some kind of test when he came, was thinking about it now, which was also a clue.

People born in Arasaka like to do trials and the like. He had already experienced it sideways last time. This time it was just a real experience. There is no need to pay too much attention to it. Compared with boring tests, Carl was really interested in this detective-like job.

It would also be nice to occasionally cosplay a great detective like Sherlock Holmes.

The external clues are gone, so why not start with the victim? Karl has already seen the autopsy.

But those checks left one thing missing.

Karl walked into the cordon, squatted down and began to stare at the broken meat, bones and blood stains on the ground. His attention reached its highest level, and everything he had learned and remembered in his mind began to be analyzed together.

Jason didn't disturb him, he just stood aside and looked at Karl, curious about what Karl could find.

His eyes kept scanning the scene, and after analyzing each broken bone to find its original location in the human body, Karl found the clues left at the scene.

Standing up and carefully walking around the edges of the bloodstains, Karl walked to a place and leaned down again. From the broken bones, he picked up a blood-stained bone that looked no different from the surrounding ones.

"I found something interesting."

Karl held up the bones and gestured to Jason: "These bones are not from the deceased."

"Not from the deceased?"

Jason walked closer and stared at the bones in Karl's hand: "Could it be that there is a second deceased person here?"

"No, it's not so much that this is the dead, it's better to say...

Karl pinched the bone with his index and middle fingers up and down, and then applied a slight force, causing the piece of bone to break into two pieces in his hand. Then he showed the cross section to Jason: "This is not at all Human bones."

"Not human bones?"

"Yes, others are not familiar with it, but I am quite familiar with this thing. I even dismembered it myself a few days ago."

After Karl smiled, he placed the two broken bones in Jason's open palm.

"These are pig bones."

"pig?!"

After being surprised, Jason fell into deep thought.

Here comes the interesting part.

It is not an easy task to transport pigs into Night City, and the euros spent will never be more than a few.

How could such precious meat bones be mixed with human bones at a murder scene?