The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Solander is a police officer of the Beiruk City Police Department, and the only female criminal police officer in the entire city police department. All other female colleagues in the police station are employed as assistants, secretaries and other auxiliary clerical jobs. When he graduated from the field, he joined the Beruk City Police Department with the first grade in the criminal investigation subject.

She still remembers that when she joined the job, everyone in the police station was surprised and disgusted by her request to join the criminal department. If she hadn't been famous at that time, a lot of newspapers would have stared at her, so those people in the personnel department of the city police department would not have done anything. Perhaps she will not be able to become a criminal police officer as she wishes, and now she is probably doing things like serving tea and organizing documents every day like other female colleagues.

However, even so, she is still a marginal person in the police station, and she can't get involved in any important cases. She is responsible for some small cases such as homeless theft, and the only benefit of these small cases is It was to make her familiar with the gang forces, homeless gathering spots, and street distribution in each block of Beiruk City.

From the first day she joined the job, she was assigned to work with an old-fashioned and lazy old policeman. He pretended to impart experience, but in fact this old policeman was more like a watcher and a restrainer. What he did was either dozing off or causing trouble for her. She was not allowed to do this thing or that thing, as if he wished to handcuff her to the seat all day long.

Solander knows very well that if she doesn't do something, then she will never be able to change the status quo, and will be confined to her current position for the rest of her life, and then become a negative example in the police station. Every time a new female police officer joins Every now and then, it will be mentioned again, mocking how a woman who wants to become a criminal policeman can't control herself.

"Maybe you can start with old cases." At a gathering of friends, a friend who was a clerk in another regional police station gave a suggestion after listening to Solander's complaints.

"The old case?" Solander looked at his friend suspiciously, waiting for her further explanation.

The friend explained: "I remember reading a document issued by the Federal Headquarters, which mentioned that the Headquarters hopes that the lower-level police stations can reduce some old cases, so they encourage local police to use their free time to continue investigating these cases, and Clearly instruct local police departments not to obstruct police investigations into old cases without affecting the normal work of police officers."

After listening to his friend's suggestion, Solander couldn't help but fell into deep thought, and lost interest in continuing the party, so he ended the party hastily and returned home.

The next day, after going to work, Solander didn't change much. He dealt with the cases of homeless theft, gangsters and other cases as he had done in the past few months, and waited until he got off work. He left the police station as usual, but went to the file room of the police station.

"What do you want to do? Why did you come to the archives?" Old Brown, who had already packed up his things and was about to go home, saw the object he was ordered to monitor behave so abnormally, so he followed him and asked suspiciously.

"Investigate the case." Solander said straightforwardly without hiding anything.

Old Brown was stunned, and couldn't help asking: "What case?"

"Those old cases that have not been detected and have been sealed." Solander quickly filled out a form handed over by the archives manager, and said.

Old Brown yelled extremely displeased: "What are you messing around with?"

Although it is a happy thing for a partner to be a woman, the premise is that the female partner is not so strong. This kind of strength is not only reflected in character, but also in body shape. A strong woman whose physique is not inferior to that of a man. It's the first time I've seen it.

When he first received the assignment, Old Brown thought it was a good job, but now it seems that his enemies in the police station want to punish him before he retires. I have to worry about it. The most thing I do every day is to stop my female partner who likes to make trouble everywhere. He has even been trained to have an intuition that is completely aimed at female partners. As long as the female partner wants to make trouble, his intuition will be will appear immediately, as it does now.

"I just want to use my private time after get off work to investigate cases that have not been solved in the past. This is requested by the General Administration, and an official document has even been issued. If you don't believe me, you can go and have a look." Solander said casually The speech was prepared a long time ago.

After hearing this, Old Brown curled his lips and didn't continue to say anything. He turned his head and left without looking for the document issued by the General Administration mentioned by Solander. He knew very well that since Solander said so, Then this document must exist, so it is useless to find it.

As an old cunning police officer, although he promised his superiors to monitor Solander and prevent Solander from investigating any major cases, those cases that have been sealed up are not among the major cases. In his opinion, he is about to retire There was no need to risk violating the orders of the General Administration to suppress Solander for those above, so he chose to turn a blind eye.

After the person in the way left, Solander searched among the unsolved old cases in the archives room, looking for cases that he was interested in and believed to have the hope of being solved.

The rumor that the only female police officer in the city bureau intends to solve the old cases in the city bureau spread in the police building the next day. Not only the male police officers in the city bureau would think that Solander's actions were against them. Provocative, even those female police officers who are clerks and assistants are disgusted with their colleagues, thinking that her behavior is really deviant.

However, Solander completely ignored the opinions of the outside world. She has been involved in various cases at the moment, looking for the cases that she is most interested in and has the most chance to solve, so as to improve her own ability. influence and voice.

However, as old cases, these unsolved cases have been repeatedly studied and investigated by many people for a long time, and they were classified as unsolved cases because they could not find any useful clues, so I want to Finding useful clues from these investigative documents is basically impossible.

Another two days passed, and Solander still hadn't found a suitable case. All the cases she had seen before were cases without any clues and clues. The case records are also very casual, and even the file management is very simple, so that many archives are either damp and rotten, or are bitten by mice or ants. She wondered if it was wrong for her to do so.

"Looking at those files is useless. The cases in those files were handled by lower-level police detectives from beginning to end. There was not even an investigation team established. People at that time didn't pay much attention to those cases, and the records of those cases were naturally very casual. Simple and simple.” The old police officer in charge of guarding the archives looked at the frustrated Solander, and although he also believed that women should be clerks rather than criminal detectives, he still treated Solander recently. I was a little impressed by the behavior for a few days, so I pointed out: "You should go over there to search, there are all cases where a joint investigation team was formed, and each case involved at least three different departments. The information is also very detailed and well preserved. It’s just that none of those people were able to solve the case back then, and I don’t think you can solve it either.”

Hearing the old policeman's advice, Solander thanked him and came to the row of filing cabinets at the deepest part of the file room.

Although I haven't looked at the files inside the cabinet, just because the cabinet is made of iron sheet with a special anti-corrosion coating, it can be seen that this cabinet is different from other cabinets around.

Solander looked at more than forty different filing cabinets in front of him, randomly selected the nearest filing cabinet, opened it, and took out a file to look through.

She just read the content of the first case statement, and knew that this case was exactly what she wanted, so she brought a trolley, took out all the files of this case and piled them on it, pushing I came to the reading area of ​​the archive room, found a suitable place, took out the scale card on my waist, inserted it into the slot on the table, rotated it half a circle, and then dialed the time roller on the table.

After adjusting the time, I heard a sound of ventilation coming from the pipe, and an unpleasant smell came from the lamp holder in front, followed by the sound of two flints snapping, and a ball of flame burst into flames. Burned at the base of the lamp, illuminating the dimly lit surrounding room.

Solander flicked the knob under the gas lamp, adjusted the size of the flame, then closed the transparent glass cover, refocused on the documents in his hands, and soon completely immersed himself in the case in his hands , time passed little by little, until the light of the kerosene lamp began to weaken and dim, she recovered from the document, and found that her daily gas quota had been used up, which meant that she had sat here and read at least six months. more than an hour.

She pulled out the scale card that had been reset to zero, and without turning off the very weak light, she quickly tidied up the documents randomly placed on the table, put them back into the filing cabinet one by one, turned and left the filing room.

Solander, who had left the file room, did not go home either. Instead, he slept for a few hours in a vacated interrogation room in the police station, and resumed his duty after work time.

During the whole day on duty, Solander seemed to be thinking about the content of the case he had seen yesterday, so he seemed very silent. As his partner, Old Brown also noticed that something was wrong with her, but he didn't ask any more questions.

After get off work, Solander didn't go to the archives again, and he didn't go home after leaving the police station. Instead, he walked a few streets and boarded the bus bound for the Great North Point area.

After getting in the car, Solander found a corner at the rear of the car and sat down. While looking at the moving scenery outside the window through the iron grille, he repeated in his mind the case he saw yesterday.

That case was a very famous case, which caused quite a stir in Beruk City at that time. Even the Federal Parliament mentioned this case in several meetings. The official name of this case is the case of collective disappearance of the Monte family. , and folks prefer to call it the black house case, because the house where the Monte family lived was completely black.

The Monte family is also considered an ancient family in Beruk City. This family can be traced back to the period of the Great Migration. The family has been a dignitary in Beruk City for a long time, but for some unknown reason, the whole family seems to be Tired of such things as fighting for power and profit, family members resigned from various public positions one after another, the family's properties in the urban area were also sold off, and the whole family moved to the manor villa in the suburban Great North Point area.

After that, the Monte family seemed to be cursed. Family members died of various diseases one after another, and many of the surviving family members became crazy. The dignitaries living in the Great North Point area also deliberately alienated for these reasons. As far as the Monte family was concerned, in the end, basically no powerful family continued to interact with the Monte family. It can be said that the Monte family was completely isolated from the social circle of Beruk City, and no one cared about the situation of the Monte family.

It was not until one month after a certain member of the Monte family talked with him for the last time that the Beirut City Council passed a proposal. A city with a long heritage, but also to gather the sense of belonging of Beiruk people, because as the economy fell into a downturn, many factories were closed, and many Beiruk people left their hometowns to work in other places, resulting in For a period of time, the population growth rate of Beiruk City turned out to be negative, so when there was no way to revive the economy and reopen factories, the city council could only use this method to increase the sense of belonging and retain the population.

Since it is a revision of the history, it is natural for those noble families who have played a significant role in the establishment of Beiruk City to revise their own family histories. Originally, this was requested by the nobles, but later the city council decided all The family histories of the ancient families are compiled together into the history of the city of Beruk.

Although the Monte family is not considered a big family in Beiruk City, it is definitely an ancient family. After the establishment of Beiruk City, twelve people who made outstanding contributions to the establishment of Beiruk City established twelve A stone pillar relief stands on the Parliament Square. This is also a twelve-pillar figure, and a member of the Monte family is one of them.

Therefore, since all the family histories of the ancient families have to be revised into the chronicles of Beruk City, the Monte family is naturally indispensable, so the city government sent some officials to the Monte family's manor villa, intending to borrow the Monte family's own family history .

However, when they came to the dark villa, they found that the villa was empty, and all the servants and masters of the Monte family disappeared.