Chapter 424 The Death of the Mentor

"Thomas! Can you change your mindless speech?" Edward reprimanded with a straight face, "Even if Walter Lee has a bad character, it doesn't mean he deserves to be murdered!"

"Look at the way you speak, do you really think of yourself as a policeman? I can say whatever I like in private, and it's your turn to care? What are you!"

"Edward, to tell you the truth, I'm in a bad mood right now, very bad, don't make trouble!"

The smile was gone from Thomas' face, and the grumpy look in his eyes showed that he didn't mind a fight to vent his pent-up emotions.

"Okay, okay, you two stop arguing."

Joan had to appease the two emotionally impulsive classmates, trying to bring the topic back on track.

"When I came back just now, I saw patrolling police on campus. The police must have been involved in the investigation. Is there any news about the murderer?"

"Currently the case is still in the investigation stage, but there are already some clues. Master Rawls and Master Li were killed on the same night, and the same mark was left on the wall at the murder scene, which looked like an eight-section Golden snake."

"The golden snake that has been divided into eight sections..." Joan thought for a while, and his face suddenly changed. "This sounds a lot like the emblem of the Sons of Liberty association!"

Edward nodded lightly: "The police thought so too, so the day after the incident, the police raided the Leiden Post and took away Ms. Miranda Fisher, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper."

"As you probably know, the Leiden Post has always had an ambiguous relationship with the 'Sons of Liberty' association. It is said that smugglers will send money to the newspaper in private, and bribe the reporters and editors of the newspaper to speak well for them. It is said that Miranda Fisher I am a senior cadre of the organization."

"Of course, these are just rumors. At present, there is no definite evidence that Miranda Fisher is the murderer or the mastermind behind the murder of the two masters."

"Since there is no conclusive evidence, why is Ms. Miranda publicly arrested?"

Joan was deeply puzzled by what the police did.

"The sign of the Sons of Liberty association left at the crime scene does not prove that the Sons of Liberty were responsible for the two murders. Otherwise, if there was a piece of bread at the murder scene, would all the bakers in the city be arrested? stand up?"

"The actions of the police are indeed brutal, which may seem illogical at first glance, but are actually reasonable."

Thomas smiled sarcastically.

"The Chief of Police of Leiden Port is concurrently held by the Commissioner of Customs, and our Commissioner of Customs, Mr. Andrew Snow, formed a relationship with the 'Sons of Liberty' association at the beginning of his tenure. It is said that the 'Sons of Liberty' wanted to stop Snow Mr. Snow introduced a bill to crack down on smuggling, sent him more than one threatening letter, and threatened to kidnap his family, do you think Mr. Snow can swallow this breath?"

"Now that we finally have the opportunity to clean up the 'Sons of Liberty' association, Mr. Snow will certainly not miss it, even if he knows in his heart that Ms. Miranda, a newspaper leader who is quite prestigious in the cultural circles and high society, is unlikely to be a murderer. The murderer has no reason to murder two university professors who have never had any enmity with her or the Sons of Liberty Association. They still want to drag her into this scandal. The real purpose is not to solve the case, but to take the opportunity to beat Miranda The 'Sons of Liberty' association behind Ms."

"What's your father's attitude towards this case?" Joan asked Edward.

"The police and the military belong to different systems. It is inconvenient for my father to intervene in criminal cases. Besides, the police took Ms. Miranda away in the name of 'assisting in the investigation'. There is nothing wrong with the procedure." Edward shrugged and spread his hands.

Joan nodded anxiously, and couldn't help but recall the time when she accompanied Rebecca to the Snow Manor to exorcise her spirit.

In the haunted manor of Snow's family, he accidentally met Sister Meow, and through her introduction, he got acquainted with two high-ranking members of the "Sons of Liberty" association - "Mr. Fox" Joseph Adams and "Ms. Wolf".

Although "Ms. Wolf" never took off her mask that night, it is not difficult to see from the attitude she showed when she talked with Xiao Miao that this person may be Ms. Miranda Fisher, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper and Xiao Miao's immediate boss.

The "haunting" at Snow Manor was entirely the work of the "Sons of Liberty" association to terrorize Customs Commissioner Andrew Snow and his family.

Mr. Snow is also the police chief of Port Leiden. It is not difficult to find out the truth behind the incident. It is also reasonable to take advantage of the serial murders to take revenge on Ms. Miranda.

Joan didn't want to meddle in these nosy matters, but he couldn't tolerate Andrew Snow's negligence in tracking down the real culprit in order to avenge his personal revenge, which resulted in the real murderer of Rawls' mentor being free from justice.

"Thomas, where is the mentor's coffin? I want to see his old man for the last time." Joan looked lonely.

Compared with the death of his grandfather, the death of his teacher had a stronger mental impact on him.

Grandpa's health has always been poor, and his death was expected. However, Mentor Rawls was in his prime of life, and there was no sign of his death at all.

Apart from lamenting the cruelty and impermanence of fate, Qiao An didn't know how to express her grief that was almost numb.

"The case is still under investigation. It is inconvenient to bury the tutor's coffin. It is temporarily parked in the church of the seminary. I will go with you." Edward stood up.

"I'll go too." Thomas followed him downstairs.

I don't know when it started to rain, and the damp and cold air and gloomy sky made me feel depressing.

Joan opened an umbrella, accompanied by Edward and Thomas, hurried through the muddy campus, and came to the campus where the seminary was located. The most conspicuous milky white dome building facing her was the church of "Queen of Karma" Timothy.

Joan put away the umbrella and walked into the church.

Seeing the statue of the goddess displayed in the center of the pulpit, I can't help but have a question:

In the teachings of this goddess in charge of destiny, everything in the world is connected by countless causal chains, and there must be a cause for everything to happen. If we proceed from this theological idea, what is the root of Rawls' mentor's death?

Robert Rawls, a good old man with a simple personality and a kind heart, a happy bachelor, lived in an "ivory tower" campus for most of his life, and almost never offended anyone. What factors led him to become The murderer was so thorny in his eyes that he had to risk sneaking into Leiden Academy and brutally kill him?

After thinking about it, Joan really couldn't see any necessary causal connection between this murder.

He would rather believe that Mentor Rawls died at the hands of a mentally disturbed lunatic, and would rather think that the murder of his mentor was purely an accident, not because of something that caused him to die.

At least it would make him feel better.

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