[Comprehensive Classics] Detective Mary

Editor-in-Chief Hall finished his work and invited Mary to his office.

As soon as the two of them sat down, the editor-in-chief solemnly placed Mary's manuscript on the table, and said, "You can't come back from the dead, Miss Mary, please give me your condolences."

Mary: "...I'm sorry too, Editor Hall."

The editor-in-chief stopped, and he raised his eyes.

Even though there was still a polite smile on his face, the sadness and emotion in his eyes betrayed Editor-in-Chief Hall's true inner thoughts.He sighed: "It's okay. Although I don't know what happened in France, I know Franz. What he decided must be the most correct thing in his mind."

Mr. Franz Harvey did not return alive from France.

At that time, Mr. Holmes asked him to ignite the explosives placed in the Fuan Mine instead of Suvarin. He agreed and promised to do it himself.Even Sherlock Holmes himself never thought that when the reporter said "in person", he walked down the mine in person.

Maybe it was out of willingness to be used by Moriarty, or maybe it was because he was determined to resist and shed blood and since he led the workers, he had to lead the way. Whatever the reason, Franz Harvey’s final choice was to fight against failure. Together, rest peacefully beneath the mines of northern France.

Before leaving the Coal Mine of Montsour and returning to London from Paris, Mary also received a letter from the small town of Marchenne, which was written by Catherine.

In the letter, Katrin said that the past few months were like a dream. Her family members were killed and injured, but she survived intact.Before, Catherine was hesitant and entangled in emotional matters, but after the iron hoof of the army crushed one mine after another, Catherine and Etienne had no time or thought to think about the relationship between their children.

As the leader of the youth, Étienne could not continue to stay in the Montsou coal mine. He was expelled from the village by the general manager, Mr. Enebo - it was the greatest kindness not to hand him over to the army.But when he left, the surviving people from Fu'an Mine almost came out in full force, and even Chaval walked out of the wounded queue to send Etienne away silently.

Katlin said that after she settles everything and helps her relatives, neighbors and friends through the unbearable pain as much as she can, she also wants to leave Fu'an Mine. She said that she will tell the workers in other places what happened here, maybe It's the miners, or not, who make their sacrifices more meaningful.

Mary didn't know whether Katrin would do it. This girl usually had no ideas, but she was so clear-headed at critical moments.In fact Mary felt that it no longer mattered whether she acted or not.Katrin stepped out of the boundaries of the Monsou coal mine, which was the well-being of other workers and could only affect others.

To herself, to use Mr. Holmes' words - when Catherine decides to be useful, she already is.No matter where she is, she can always reflect her own value.

Mary looked down at the black ribbon on her wrist.

She didn't know Mr. Harvey's family, or the vast majority of the workers who had died under army guns, and that was the only way Mary could express her condolences.

"Fortunately, the case is over."

Mary breathed a sigh of relief: "Sherlock did what he could. As for the big conflicts in the current situation and society, not one person can solve them."

Editor Hall: "I hear Moriarty is back."

Mary: "That's not necessarily a good thing."

James Moriarty said to let the arrests go, and in fact he did.With the intervention of the British and French governments, the professor came back even earlier than Mary.

Once back in London, there will naturally be endless trials and debates.

Except for the illegal monopoly of foreign markets and interference in the politics of other countries, even if everyone knows that Professor Moriarty instigated other large and small cases, they cannot be convicted without evidence.For "political prisoners", the most appropriate option is exile.But how dare the British government exile James Moriarty?

Where are you taking him?No matter where she goes, Mary has no doubt that the professor can set off a frenzy and bloody storm in the local area.

Mr. Mycroft is said to be troubled by the matter.

Mary withdrew her thoughts, and forced the corners of her mouth to curl up.

"Anyway, it's not something I can intervene in," she said, "Let the capable people deal with it."

Editor-in-chief Hall also agrees with this view.

He opened the manuscript in his hand and said solemnly: "It's true, everyone has something within their own capabilities. As for you and me, it's better to read the next serialization."

Before Marie left Paris and went to the small town of Massena, she had conceived the general content of "Angel of Death", so after the case was over, she finished writing the manuscript on the way back to London from Paris.

Editor-in-chief Hall opened the manuscript and saw the first page, and smiled: "You really chose the previous thing."

"Isn't it right?" Mary asked.

"When people pay attention to the story of Philip Luther, they are paying attention to his experiences and cases," editor-in-chief Hall said. "As long as the case is attractive, nothing is inappropriate. And the foreshadowing made must be used."

As previously imagined by Mary, the story of "Angel of Death" took place when Philip Luther was a Scotland Yard detective.At that time, Mrs. Luther had not died of illness, and Luther himself was considered high-spirited, because he and his competitor and friend Detective Wilson solved two major cases in a row, which can be said to have a bright future.

At this time, Philip Luther received a seemingly "ordinary" murder case.

The deceased was a well-known rich man in London. He was not young, and he had been wandering back and forth between the sick bed and the coffin for several years.However, in the past six months, his condition has actually been gradually improving. A few months ago, he was even able to walk on the ground and participate in less intense and noisy social activities.

Just when his wife and children were relieved, the condition of the old rich man suddenly deteriorated again, and he died within seven days.

Although it is said that illness always comes like a mountain, but the day before the illness, the old rich man took a walk and chat with his daughter, promising to go out together in the spring, but the next day he lay in bed and couldn't get up again.No wonder the family members of rich people think too much. When a rich person dies suddenly, someone always suspects other causes of death besides illness.

This should be placed in the 21st century. How did he die? You can find out with a little research.But in the nineteenth century, figuring out how to connect clues was a headache for Mary for a while.

First, the autopsy methods in the Victorian era were not magical enough to present all the evidence; second, in this era, there was no such thing as an autopsy for decent people, and religious beliefs and social moral habits could not accept such behavior.

But on the other hand, this also adds a bit of twists and turns to Mary's story.

The other detectives at Scotland Yard didn't take the case to heart, and neither did Luther at first—the rich man died suddenly, either from a real illness or simply out of a fight over property.As a policeman, I have seen too many such things.But as the investigation unfolded, Luther found that things were not that simple.

There is no other reason, it is entirely out of Luther's experience.If it is said that the wife and children killed the rich man in order to compete for the family property, then the family atmosphere should be tense.But this family is not like this. The rich man has not incurred any romantic debts in his life, has known his wife since childhood, and treats his son and daughter very equally. The harmony between the family is completely different from that of other wealthy families.Luther probed a little, and found that such harmony was not pretended, but genuine.

But a good husband and father are not necessarily a good boss.

In the family, the deceased old man was a great pillar, an extremely responsible father and husband; but in business, he was also an unscrupulous investor.Not only does he have many competitors, but he also does not hesitate to play around the edge of the law in order to make money. He has taken risks many times, deducted the wages and benefits of his subordinates, and made countless enemies.

In this way, there will be many people who want to harm him.

The old rich man didn't die from being killed. If he didn't die of natural illness, he could only be poisoned.Since there was nothing to be obtained from the autopsy, Luther planned to start with the rich man's doctor and pharmacist.Assuming that there are no doubts or clues, it can be proved that the old rich man died of natural causes, and no one tried to frame him.

Luther went all the way to investigate, and there was indeed no doubt - at least there was no problem with the medical diagnosis and treatment related to the old rich man himself, otherwise...

Along with the investigation, Philip Luther found out what happened to the pharmacist when he was young.As an apprentice, the benevolent and kind pharmacist at that time accompanied his mentor to the training center for free consultations.The Victorian training institutes are even more slums than slums. Not to mention learning skills, the poor there may be normal people before being sent in, and there are not a few who starve to death after being sent in.

It can be said that it is quite a noble act to go to the teaching clinic for free consultation.But the problem is that Luther found that after the free consultation by the pharmacist, the death rate in the training center did not decrease but increased.

It is not strange for poor people to die in training centers, but more and more cases of sudden death, the managers of training centers can not hide it even if they want to, this incident alarmed the government, officials sent people down to investigate thoroughly, realized The government's annual appropriation has been embezzled by corruption, and then iron orders have been issued to rectify it.The treatment in the training center has finally improved. After the poor people are treated reasonably, the sudden death of the patients disappeared immediately.

Official records say that sanitation and food conditions improved, and that infectious diseases stopped.But the problem is... so coincidentally, after the old rich man's pharmacist left, the patient died?

Editor-in-chief Hall read this, showing a thoughtful expression.

"If it happened a long time ago, the corpses of the dead patients would have been buried long ago," said the editor-in-chief. "The poor can't afford to buy graves, and if they want an autopsy, it may be too late. Even if it is confirmed that the pharmacist is the murderer, the evidence It’s also pretty hard to find.”

"Yes."

Mary nodded: "Do you still remember the final outcome of this case, sir?"

The editor-in-chief paused: "...I probably understand your thinking, Miss Mary."

The story of "Angel of Death" took place before Philip Luther resigned as detective, so Mrs. Luther is still alive.At this point in the investigation of the case, the death of the poor man in the training center has nothing to do with the death of the old rich man. At this time, Luther is still a "civil servant". Of course, he can't use government resources to investigate with his own intuition. Unreal things.

However, he can't move around at will. Someone can, that is Mrs. Luther who is still alive.

Mrs. Luther, who was mentioned repeatedly in the first three stories, finally made her debut in this story.After hearing her husband's troubles, Mrs. Luther offered a proposal that Philip Luther could not refuse without even thinking about it: As a policeman, Luther can't investigate things that have nothing to do with the case at will, so it's better to act separately.

The couple quickly reached an agreement: Philip Luther continued to investigate the pharmacist himself, and Mrs. Luther handed over the matter of the training institute.

Mary did not devote too much ink and ink to describe Mrs. Luther's nature and habits. In her opinion, although Mrs. Luther did not appear until "Angel of Death", in the previous three stories she directly narrated The love story between Philip Luther and Mrs. Luther also highlights the relationship between the two and their daily relationship.She is a debut, yes, but an "old acquaintance" to readers of Philip Luther's adventures.

Therefore, Mary decided to let Mrs. Luther take over the important task of assisting Luther to investigate the case as soon as she appeared on the stage. She was afraid that Editor-in-Chief Hall would think that this was not appropriate, but when Editor-in-Chief Hall saw Mrs. Luther appearing on the stage, he just clicked. Nodding: "It's still in line with my imagination. It was shaped by the story of the Bartons before. Such Mrs. Luther does have the character that everyone expects."

Mary was relieved now.

The Luthers split up, but most of the story angle still falls on Philip Luther.After he noticed the clues of the case, he didn't tell anyone. Instead, he knocked on the pharmacist's door as a routine visit.

Ten years have passed since the "epidemic" of the training institute, and the apprentices of those years now have many rich people as customers.Pharmacist Billy Guest was in his prime, in his early thirties, and had a well-educated fiancée.

As soon as he saw Philip Luther and his wife, he knew immediately what the visitor was about.

Pharmacist Billy invited Luther into the house politely, without any guilt or fear at all.Even though he guessed why Luther came, he still listened patiently to Luther's story, and then expressed his deep condolences for the death of the old rich man.

Even though he was No. 1 on Luther's list of suspects, Luther was impressed by Billy the pharmacist's behavior and reaction.

Billy was a good character: patient, humble, with a look of compassionate composure on his comely face.If Luther himself was ill, seeing the character and face of the pharmacist who came to prescribe the medicine, he would definitely feel relieved and comforted.He speaks well, with the accent of a commoner in London, and he is neither humble nor overbearing. He has no intention of hiding shame. He quotes from many sources and classics when he speaks, but he does not drop his book bag to show off his knowledge.

It can be said that he is almost a model of a British gentleman who came from a commoner and struggled to achieve status through his own knowledge and ability.Even though Luther was vigilant and secretly threw a few words out to test him, he didn't get any inappropriate response.

When meeting for the first time, Philip Luther did not get any useful clues.

Not only did he have no clue, but Mrs. Luther didn't make much progress either.A cleanly dressed lady who goes to the training center is nothing more than being taken for a whim by the administrator.She said that she wanted to see the old people in the training center, and the manager agreed, but the poor people had already been put on clean clothes, and they had arranged a full meal in advance, and they might have been threatened by words. Mrs. Luther would not ask anything. refused to say.

It is impossible to go on like this. Without a breakthrough, the case cannot continue.Although Philip Luther wanted to directly define the death of the old rich man as a natural death, he always felt that something was wrong.

"Are you relying on your intuition to doubt others, Philip?" Seeing that her husband was so unwilling, Mrs. Luther asked.

"... I'm taking no different from Mr. Billy Guest," said Luther, "except that ten years ago he came into contact with the poor in the Institute, and the poor in the Institute died of undiagnosed diseases; Don't you think it's too much of a coincidence that he prescribes medicine for rich people, and now rich people are dying of 'unexplained diseases'?"

"So, the breakthrough lies in the teaching institute."

"Ok?"

Mrs. Luther said calmly: "It seems that it is impossible for you to find any flaws from the pharmacist Billy Gerst himself. I think you can shift your focus to what happened in the training hall ten years ago. You have a case in hand now, so it’s not easy to directly apply for an irrelevant search warrant, but it’s always okay to use your position to look through official files.”

After thinking about it, I really can only start to look up from what happened in the teaching institute ten years ago.

When Luther returned to the police station, he rummaged through boxes and cabinets, and finally found the dusty files in the file room.

In terms of the standards of ten years ago, the death cases in the training center were beyond the reach of the police-this was too common.In the training center, there are either homeless widows or widows, or homeless people with petty crimes and crimes that are not enough to convict.No one in the world cares about the life and death of these people. Death from starvation or illness is nothing more than wrapping up the corpse in a shroud and sending it outside for a hasty burial.

But now that the file of this incident has appeared in the police station, it proves that the police have noticed this incident ten years ago.

Deaths are normal in the Academy, but a large number of deaths is still unavoidable and noticeable.The file found by Philip Luther was much earlier than the government noticed the problem. That is to say, before the government rectified the training institute and characterized the death problem as an "epidemic", some police discovered the problem.

The most immediate problem is that it is said to be an epidemic, but the autopsy results are not.

Philip Luther held up a black teacup and flipped through the file. As he flipped through it, he saw useful information.

The first "patient" was an old man suffering from a serious illness. The conditions in the training center were harsh, but his life was extremely hard.He stepped into hell several times, and was pushed back by the god of death. The serious illness left him with an irreversible disability, and his daily life became extremely painful.His death occurred on the fourth day after Billy, the pharmacist, followed him to visit the training institute. The old man first got better, then his condition worsened, and he died in just two days.

When Luther saw this, his hand holding the tea cup stopped suddenly.

——This is so similar to the death symptoms of the old rich man!

He continued to look through the files and found that most of the subsequent deaths were the elderly and children who had difficulty surviving in the training center, but not everyone had been ill before.But they all have one characteristic: Even if they are healthy now, it is difficult to survive in the environment of the training center, especially the frail children and the elderly who cannot move. If they are not sick now, they will starve to death and freeze to death sooner or later.

Such characteristics made Luther look through the case file, inevitably feeling chills all over his body.

Assuming that the death in the institute was indeed man-made, whether it was Billy the pharmacist or someone else, the cruelty and indifference of this person made Philip Luther angry.

No matter how difficult the environment of the training center is, no matter how humble the poor people at the bottom are, at least they choose to live instead of giving up their lives in vain.And if there is a murderer, then this murderer regards all the widows who want to live and those who don't want to live as "death", and deprive them of their lives in place of God's duty.

The file recorded a number of death cases, but it didn't take long for the excessive death cases to alarm the government, and Scotland Yard suspended the investigation.The situation in the training center was classified as an epidemic. Although the real problem was not found, the forced rectification involved officials, staff, and the institutional environment of the training center. The living conditions are worse than the outside world.

Seeing this, and then contacting the old rich man's death method, even if Luther didn't want to doubt Billy the pharmacist, he couldn't do it.

He handed over the file to the chief of Scotland Yard at the time. After reading the file, the chief raised his head and said, "Where's the evidence?"

Luther knew that the director would ask such a question, so he said patiently: "The death case in the training center back then is so similar to the death of the old rich man now, and Billy the pharmacist was involved in it, so there must be something wrong with it."

Director: "What you said is suspicion, what I want is evidence."

Luther: "I—"

He was left speechless by the director's question: "I have no evidence, but—"

"Go find it without evidence."

The director of Scotland Yard said bluntly: "But I can't give you too much time, Luther. The incidents in the file are indeed related to the case in your hand, but this can only prove that the pharmacist you said is related to the case, it cannot explain It's what he does."

"……I see."

After receiving the order, Luther changed from his impatience and urgency just now.

After getting the investigation order, things are much easier to handle.

The dossier mentioned that the administrator of the training center was fired for dereliction of duty. Ten years have passed now, and Luther believes that this person should still be alive.In addition, Pharmacist Billy's mentor hadn't retired yet.

Luther first went to the training center with his wife in the name of investigation.Mrs. Luther's original plan was not to reveal their true intentions, but the new manager took a look around and said that he just took a perfunctory gesture to deal with the couple.Luther got impatient and simply showed his police badge.

It is more effective for him to flash his police badge and report his intentions than to conceal and inquire.

After all, he only got this job after the previous manager lost his job.When the current administrator heard that what happened back then might have been caused by human beings, but now that person reappeared ten years later, he immediately changed his attitude—in case a murder happened in the training center, this person would focus on the teaching staff again. So, that would be troublesome!

It is a pity that not many people in the training center ten years later know what happened back then.Several old people were either confused, or they arrived after the training center had been rectified.Mrs. Luther patiently asked several old people who had experienced death cases. One of the old women's cloudy eyeballs suddenly lit up after Mrs. Luther mentioned Billy Guest.

"Billy... Billy!"

As if she suddenly remembered something, she grabbed Mrs. Luther's hand.

Mrs. Luther said in surprise: "Yes, he is a pharmacist, do you remember, madam?"

"Pharmacist? No no."

The old woman moved her lips, and then corrected: "He is, he is an angel."

This sentence is enough to prove how much hope Billy, the pharmacist, brought to the training school in that year.

Could it be a mistake?

If Billy Guest was beloved, perhaps Philip Luther was paranoid.To be honest, Luther would rather be suspicious of himself. The case of the training center ten years ago and the death of the case ten years later were just coincidences. It is much better to make a mistake than to find a real murderer.

To find out, Luther turned to Billy's mentor.

Dr. Byrne was nearly fifty years old, and he was greatly surprised when he heard about Luther's intentions. He said that he did not believe that his beloved disciple was a murderer.However, Luther did not come here to persuade Dr. Byrne. His purpose was to ask the doctor for an autopsy.

The teaching center searched and found no specific clues, but the Luthers asked about the burial place of the deceased ten years ago.

The dead of the rich are not to be touched, but no one cares about the dead of the poor.

Even so, the autopsy had to be done secretly.In a country where religion affects life, the decency of a dead body is a matter of considerable importance.In order to restore his lover's innocence, Dr. Byrne thought for a long time, and decided to agree to Luther's "unethical" request, and opened the coffin in private for an autopsy to prove that the deceased did indeed die of natural causes.

In fact, this part of the content completely touched Mary's blind spot of knowledge.She is not a forensic doctor, nor does she understand medicine, let alone the pharmacology of drugs.Fortunately or unfortunately, most doctors and pharmacists in the Victorian era did not necessarily know more than Mary.Of course, there are exceptions such as Dr. Watson who has returned from the battlefield.

So she imitated Sir Conan Doyle's method and invented a sex of her own.The post-mortem part uses a material that the British cannot read and will not accept at present-the "Winning Injustice Collection" written by Song Ci, an official of the Song Dynasty in China.

There is an article in "Washing Wrongs Collection": "Before he was poisoned, his whole body would turn black and blue. After many days, the skin and flesh were still there, and they would also turn black. If the flesh and flesh rotted for a long time, the bones would seep into the bones, and the bones would ooze black."

In the 21st century, the reference value of this content is not too great, because different lethal drugs have different reactions, not necessarily all of them.However, "Winning Injustice Collection" was completed in the 700th century, which is a full [-] years from the time when Mary came.In Mary's opinion, this piece of content is not as valuable as the other pieces involving common poisons in the poisoning part of "Xinyuanjilu", but it is enough for her to use her imagination to carry out unconstrained literary creation.

Luther and Dr. Byrne waited until dark before taking their equipment and sneaking to the cemetery to dig out the bones from ten years ago.

But what they didn't expect was that Dr. Byrne was ready to bring back the bones for chemical experiments. After digging the grave, they found that it was unnecessary.

The coffins for the poor were thin and poor, and had long since rotted away.The rest of the bones lay in such a state of embarrassment among the dirt and other impurities. At first Luther thought it was because the night was too dark, which caused the bones to be stained black. Just as he was about to pick them up, Dr. Byrne grabbed them. over him.

"and many more."

The doctor approached with a lamp, and the two clearly saw that it was not the night that made the bones black, but the bones were originally black.

Not only that, because the coffin was rotten, the bones directly came into contact with the soil, resulting in no grass growing on the ground around the bones, and no insects or snakes underground.There is no need for Dr. Byrne to take a leg bone back at the risk of immorality. It seems that he died of poisoning!

Just in case, the doctor dutifully collected some dirt next to the deceased and refilled the grave.

After some inspection, the soil really contained toxins, and it was still harmful after ten years of volatilization.After getting this answer, Philip Luther did not hesitate any longer. While notifying Scotland Yard, he also found the family of the old rich man, and made a firm request: reopen the coffin!

Dr. Byrne determined that since the bones of the deceased ten years ago were black, it can be inferred from this that the corpse of the old rich man looks intact, and it may only be temporary.As the corpse decays, the toxins contained in it are bound to spread.

Hearing that her husband and the father of the children might have been poisoned to death, the wife of the old rich man passed out directly.Fortunately, his son is a college student who has accepted scientific knowledge. The old rich man's son discussed with his sister and agreed to Luther's request.

The result of opening the coffin confirmed Dr. Byrne's guess.

The moment the police officers pried open the coffin, the extremely choking stench shot straight into the sky. Besides the smell of corpses, there was also an inexplicable choking smell.After the coffin was pushed away, it appeared in front of everyone that it was a dead body that had become extremely black due to poisoning.

According to Dr. Byrne's test, the poison in the old rich man was similar to the poison in the deceased in the training institute ten years ago.

After getting the news, Philip Luther felt particularly heavy.

His guess was confirmed, but just like he doubted himself before, Luther hoped that his guess would not be confirmed.Especially ten years ago, the people in the training center died by the same person, which made Luther feel heavy and angry at the same time.

No one can pronounce the death of an independent man but sickness, the law, and himself.Even if the poor live in misery and are seriously ill, Philip Luther admitted that there may be some among them who want to die, but more people, more ordinary people struggling on the survival line, want to live.

Why are they easily labeled as "shouldn't be alive" because they "didn't live well"?

Walking out of Dr. Byrne's clinic, Luther lit a cigarette. Before he could take a step, he bumped into a familiar face.

It was the pharmacist Billy Guest himself.

He stopped, quite surprised: "Inspector Luther."

Luther: "..."

After the four eyes met, Luther thought that he would be angry when facing the suspect, but he didn't - looking at the gentle and handsome face of the pharmacist Billy, Luther really couldn't get angry.

"Come to visit your mentor?" Luther asked.

"Yes," Billy nodded. "What about you, Inspector? Is it for the case?"

"Yes."

Luther said coldly: "There are results."

Billy was thoughtful: "Is it the result you want?"

"of course."

"So……"

Billy paused slightly.

"I boldly assume that, through my teacher, you discovered that the deceased in the training center ten years ago and the deceased in the current case all died of poisoning."

"Varied--"

Even though Philip Luther had seen countless criminals, many of whom were vicious murderers, he didn't expect Billy to speak out the guesses in his mind.

Seeing Luther's shocked face, the pharmacist Billy smiled casually.

"I did it, Inspector," his tone was gentle yet terrifyingly calm, "When you first came to me, I guessed that you would be able to track down the result. It's not easy. After ten years, someone finally I can trace it to the end and find the truth.”

"you……"

At that moment, the string called reason in Luther's heart was completely snapped.

He grabbed Billy by the collar and pressed the handsome and slender man directly against the wall on the street.Inspector Luther's rough behavior caused exclamations from passers-by, and Billy, the pharmacist, laughed a few times when Luther raised his fist.

"It's not a good thing for the police to beat people on the street, Inspector Luther," he said. "Even if you are right, it is an attack on civilians. Besides, I know why you are so angry, because you have no evidence that this thing is my fault." made."

Luther clenched his fist, but he couldn't let go.

"I did it, so what? You can't find evidence, and you won't find it," the tone of Billy the pharmacist was still so confident and gentle, but at this moment it sounded extremely hateful, "After meeting you for the first time I knew you'd find the answer, but I also knew you wouldn't arrest me. Because you're a smart man with a bottom line, Inspector. Ordinary mediocrity might just lock me up and publish my name in the The newspapers said that I was the murderer, but mediocrity can't find this step, and you know very well that without evidence, it is useless to send me to court."

Everything Billy Guest said was true.

Luther was angry because he knew that he really had no evidence—the result of poisoning could only prove that the poison in the case ten years ago was the same as the current case, and it could not even prove that the same person did it, let alone pointing the finger at the same person. Leigh Guest.

"Why are you doing this?" Luther suppressed his anger and growled in a low voice.

"Don't you think the poor people in the training center are very pitiful?"

Billy said naturally: "The first time I went to the training center with my mentor, I was almost shocked by the situation of the poor. If hell is a place to punish sinners, if the poor people in the training center die and go to hell It's a relief from misery to hell. I do as much as I can to try to save them, to make the sick better, to cheer up the emaciated children, but how much can I do alone?"

When the pharmacist said these words, he let Luther hold his collar, and the people around him all looked at him in amazement and fear, but he cared about all of them.Calmness was written all over Billy's pretty face.

"Until one day, there was an old man who was dying—ah, that should be the first death that could be found. The old man grabbed my hand and said, 'Angel, if you are really an angel , a pain reliever, please kill me, I don't want to suffer any more'."

Billy closed his eyes, showing traces of nostalgia.

"I'm sad, and I'm shocked. I'm helpless, and I put my heart and soul into saving him while he wants to die," Billy went on. "What would you do, Inspector? Would you be indifferent? I Can't do it."

"So you killed him."

"Yes."

Billy frankly admitted his behavior: "A kind of poison from South America, the patient will die of organ failure within seven days after being poisoned, and the appearance is no different from ordinary death, and it will not appear until the body rots. Showing signs of poisoning. No one cares how poor people die, I risked being found out and injected poison into old people, you know, Inspector. I killed for the first time in my life, and the dead thanked me."

"you--"

Luther almost crushed his back molars.

"What about the others? The other dead, and the old rich man," Luther said through gritted teeth, "They don't want to die, and they don't even want to live in pain at all!"

"Damn them," said Billy Guest.

ten years ago