The System Exploded And I Became The System

Guided by the map, it didn't take much time for Maud to arrive at Bertha's house.

Maybe it's because there aren't many people here and there's usually no movement.

When Maud arrived, a beautiful woman appeared beside his car.

"Chief Maude, why are you here?" Outside the car door, a woman in a floral skirt held a basin of laundry and asked in a confused tone.

Hearing the woman's words, Maude was sure that the woman was Bertha with just one glance.

There is only one house here, and the only resident is Bertha. In addition, the other person looks pretty good. Together, these factors make it easy to determine the other person's identity.

"Come to see Miss Bertha for some information." Maud opened the car door and got straight to the point.

While saying this, his eyes were also observing the woman's expression.

In this regard, Bertha looked confused: "You want to find out information from me?"

"Yes, it's about the mutilation case." Maud nodded, and then asked: "Miss Bertha, please tell me, have you had any unusual experiences these days?"

"Abnormal experience? No." Bertha behaved like an ordinary person who didn't understand anything.

It has nothing to do with the dismemberment case at all.

"What about Corey? Has he come to see you recently?"

"Corey?" Upon hearing this name, Bertha's eyes flashed with strong repulsion: "I have long since drawn a clear line with him and will no longer have any contact with him!"

The woman's words were full of dislike for Corey, which surprised Maude.

He thought the young couple were in love or even in a relationship.

Listening to the woman's tone, it doesn't sound like she's lying.

"Miss Bertha hates Cory?" Maud asked.

"He's so disgusting!" Bertha talked about Corey, her tone full of displeasure, and even her beautiful face looked a little sulky: "When I met him before, I thought he was a handsome gentleman. .”

"But when I invited him to visit my home, he actually confessed his love to me directly!"

"If it's just like this, it's okay. I will refuse. After all, the time between the two of us is very short, but I won't hate him."

"But the key is that while the guy was confessing his love, he was also taking off his clothes and trying to push me down!"

"Fortunately, he was timid and didn't dare to take the next step under my scream, but it was absolutely disgusting!"

"He's just a pervert wearing a mask!"

When Bertha spoke like this, her whole body was trembling slightly, as if she remembered the situation at that time, and emotions of fear and anger were derived at the same time.

"Is this Corey's true face?" Maude's eyes flickered, and she had a better understanding of the police officer under her hands.

"So Corey hasn't come to see you during this time?"

"No, after I warned him to cut off the relationship with him before, he would still apologize from time to time."

"He hasn't been here since about the middle of last month."

"Middle of last month?" Maude seemed to have seen some clue when she heard this time.

Isn't that around the time that Corey took the day off?

"Did Corey come to see you on July 17?"

"July 17th?" Bertha thought for a moment, then shook her head and said, "No."

"I wasn't feeling well at the time and rested at home. I didn't have contact with anyone or see anyone else the whole day."

Betty told the truth.

This information made Maud think deeply.

It seems that Betty really has no connection with Corey.

Even she herself didn't meet any strange people threatening her safety.

Then Corey couldn't have concealed the information to protect Betty!

Since he is not protecting the people he cares about, there is only one possibility.

protect yourself!

Corey definitely did something wrong by asking for leave that day!

If he confesses what he did wrong, he will definitely be punished or even suffer a more serious fate!

In order to protect himself, he did not reveal the information when Maud pressed him yesterday!

And the day Corey took leave happened to be the time when Berson lost contact!

According to the descriptions of the town residents in the information, some of them had seen Berson on July 16!

Haven't seen it since.

Until Berson's body appeared, and through forensic identification, it was found that the approximate time of Berson's death was in mid-July!

All doubts are once again piled on Corey!

It has even reached a point where the final decision can be made!

Just thinking about it carefully, there is something wrong with it.

Corey only had one day to take leave. It was easy to kill Berson, but it was impossible to cut his body into pieces and bury him in the soil. This series of operations could not be completed in just one day!

Unless Corey has other accomplices in the crime, or the murderer is someone else!

"Chief Maude? Is there anything else you need to know?" Bertha's questioning voice came.

Seeing Maud suddenly come to her senses, Bertha added: "If there are no other problems, I will go wash the clothes. It will take a long time to do so many clothes."

"Well, thank you for your cooperation." Maude nodded and gave way, and some information was collected.

only.

As he was making way for Bertha, he suddenly noticed the tub that Bertha was carrying.

To be precise, the clothes in the tub.

"Why do you have so many clothes piled up before you wash them?"

Generally speaking, children like Bertha are independent.

You will have a certain degree of self-discipline regarding your own food, clothing, housing, transportation and behavioral habits.

In addition, the creek outside her house is a very close laundry place. Generally speaking, she can wash and dry the clothes after stacking them for a day or two at most.

The weather was not sunny yesterday.

Maybe there is no sunny day in this world itself.

But the temperature yesterday was still very suitable for washing clothes.

Today's temperature is obviously lower than yesterday.

Even a lazy person who piles up a lot of clothes and washes them would not choose such a cold day.

So Betty is not lazy, but how could a non-lazy person pile up so many clothes?

"These?" Betty looked at the clothes in the tub with a look of helplessness on her face: "Originally, the clothes were put away for two or three days and were ready to be washed together yesterday."

"But yesterday I felt so tired for some reason that I fell asleep."

"It's been a day since I slept. It's the same as the 17th last month. I didn't do anything all day long. I woke up and felt sore all over at night. So today, there's a lot of clothes piled up."

"I feel like I'm sick. I must go see a doctor after I finish washing my clothes."

"Have you slept all day? When you wake up, your whole body is sore?" Maud suddenly frowned when he heard this.

Bertha had this experience on the 17th last month.

It happened to be that day, Corey took a day off.

And yesterday, this woman had this experience of sleeping all day long. It just so happened that Corey left the police station after just talking to him for a few words yesterday, instead of going to work!

"Can I come to your house and see you?" Maud asked.

This request, for a single woman like Bertha, has to be said to be somewhat disrespectful.

"Go to my house?" Bertha hesitated.

After all, her privacy is at home, and she is still a little unhappy about letting others in.

"Actually, I suspect the murderer is secretly watching you!"

"After all, you are a woman and you are still at home alone. If the murderer had not left the town, you might be among the next target group!"

"So I want to go to your house to understand the situation and see if the murderer is with you!"

When Maude spoke again, her words described a horrific scene.

After hearing this, Bertha was really frightened: "Then Chief Maude, I want to trouble you to solve the case as soon as possible!"

When things don't involve them and they have to cooperate, people tend to reject it.

But when things involve themselves, even if they are in trouble, people still hope that someone can help solve it.

Maud seized on this and took Bertha to her house without even having time to wash her clothes.

From the outside, this house looks pretty good.

A living room, two rooms, kitchen and bathroom.

Bertha inherited the house from her parents.

Over the years, there have been some years.

Some discoloration can be seen on the wooden boards on the ground. It is probably due to internal damage to the wood caused by water.

The door also gave off an old feel.

If someone wants to break in forcefully, there is no way to stop them.

"This lock is quite new. Where did you buy it?" Maude noticed the lock on the door of the house.

"Is it a lock?" Bertha put the tub on the stone slab aside: "This is the lock that Tokoli bought for me before."

"I didn't know what a disgusting person he was at the time, so I asked him to do this little favor for me."

"The lock that Corey bought for you?" Hearing this, Maud's heart skipped a beat and she took a deep look at Bertha, who still knew nothing.

I entered the house and stood in the living room observing for a while, then came to one of the rooms.

In the room in front of you, there are some unused sundries placed, and the layout is quite neat.

If there are guests, it can be tidied up and people can sleep there.

Nothing to see here.

Maud went to Bertha's bedroom.

Perhaps due to family conditions, the layout of Bertha's room is very monotonous.

A bed and a table.

On the table there is a mirror and basic items for dressing up.

After leaving the room, Maud went to the kitchen.

His eyes also instantly fell on a pot of water on the dining table.

"Chief Maude, did you find anything?" Bertha appeared behind her and asked tentatively.

To this.

Maud picked up the pot of water and turned to look at the woman: "Let's go to the hospital."

"Going to the hospital? Does this have anything to do with the hospital?" Bertha was puzzled.

"Let the doctor check your body and this bottle of water." Maude already had a guess in her mind.

This speculation still needs final verification.