The warden who guards the witches

In Rose Iron Prison, Aiden sat in the office and stared at the three photos on the table carefully.

"Are these three the previous victims?" Veronica stood at the desk and stared at the photo with Aiden.

In terms of personal experience in investigating homicide cases, Veronica, who had worked in the Mounted Police, was actually above Aiden, so Aiden specially called her over to discuss the case.

"Yes, the two victims are from the Empire, and this one is from the Autonomous Prefecture. They are all women, and their ages are 23, 19, and 21 respectively. The places where the crime occurred are the three cities on this map. It happens to be along the railway line from the Empire to the central part of the Autonomous Prefecture. The two victims in the Empire are locals where the crime occurred. Only the victim in the Autonomous Prefecture is from a suburban village and works in the city. "Aiden made a simple statement. In summary, "The murderer committed crimes very regularly. Each of the three crimes was one month apart. They all committed crimes on the 15th or 16th, which was the night of the full moon. After killing the people, he used necromancy to make zombies. The characteristics of the victims It’s also very distinct.”

"They targeted young women, and they are all pretty." Veronica glanced back and forth at the photos, "Sir, did the murderer rob property?"

"No."

"Then, when they were killed, did they..." Veronica paused.

"There was no violation." Aiden heard the question that the other party wanted to ask. "All the murderer did was pretend to be the victim in advance, then kill people, and finally use necromancy. It seemed that he simply derived pleasure from this behavior."

Transforming a recently deceased corpse into an active zombie is actually a relatively rudimentary form of necromancy, so it is unlikely that the murderer's purpose was to experiment with black magic. Moreover, wizards who actually conduct experiments on living people will select as many samples as possible in order to obtain the most accurate experimental results.

This murderer seems to satisfy himself by killing people, but it is indeed rare to select young and beautiful women to commit crimes without committing any sexual assaults.

"Could it be that the prisoner is a woman?" Veronica said suddenly.

"It's not impossible." Aiden nodded.

Serial murderers who target women are not necessarily men. When investigating cases, we must not be induced by inertial thinking, thus ignoring other subtle possibilities.

"These three people..." Veronica compared the three photos back and forth and suddenly narrowed her eyes.

"Did you find anything?" Aiden realized she had found something.

"No, it's nothing. I just feel that they are a little different in what makes them particularly good-looking." Veronica waved her hand.

"Be careful." Aiden became slightly more interested. Now he shouldn't let go of any clues, no matter how small.

"Well, the most beautiful thing about this person is his eyes, this person's nose, this person's lips... and his eyelashes." Veronica whispered.

"You are quite meticulous in your observations." Aiden commented.

"This... is just the envy of a woman, and I know it's not a useful clue." Veronica looked a little embarrassed, "Please don't ridicule me."

"I'm telling the truth." Aiden's first thought was that it was of no use, but he still took another look at the characteristics that Veronica just mentioned - indeed, like Veronica As said, these women are all beautiful, but the most prominent parts of their faces are not exactly the same.

Aiden briefly jotted down these prominent features in his mind. Suddenly, these features that came to his mind automatically combined inexplicably and turned into a face.

This was just a subconscious thought activity on his part. However, a familiar face appeared naturally. These facial features suddenly seemed like fallen parts that had found the original main body, and they all aligned themselves with that face.

Aiden stared and froze.

That's... Deborah's face.

"Sir?" Veronica suddenly noticed that Aiden's expression was different.

"Veronica, do you feel that the characteristics you just mentioned are similar to Deborah Irvine?" Aiden asked.

"Huh?" Veronica also looked over again and thought about it again, "Indeed..."

She nodded in agreement, but didn't feel much about it: "But sir, this can only be said that Miss Ivan's face has almost no shortcomings, and her facial features are just right."

When she said this, she tried her best to suppress the unwillingness in her heart and cover up her private emotions.

"Beautiful eyes are different, and certain facial features have different ways of looking good. But these characteristics of them are exactly the same as Deborah." Aiden said slowly, "If I tell you, this murderer not only tried to kill people in the past Deborah, and it is very likely that there is some connection with Deborah? "

Veronica unconditionally believed the clues Aiden said and reorganized her thoughts: "You mean...the murderer killed them because part of their facial features looked like Deborah?"

"I think it's very possible." Aiden nodded.

"Have you ever asked Miss Alvin what her relationship is with the murderer?" Veronica asked.

"She has no other impression except that she has fought against the murderer." Aiden shook his head.

"If the murderer chooses his prey based on such standards, wouldn't his next target be Miss Irvine?" Veronica woke up, "What happened to her in this city has already made the news!"

"It's possible, but not absolute. Deborah has the Word of God, and she once caused him to fail. He may not be able to kill Deborah." Aiden said, "Deborah was already on the news when she debuted in the Empire. She is not famous in the autonomous state, but she is still quite a topic in the Empire. The murderer also committed crimes in the Empire during that period. If he saw the news about Deborah, he would be murderous, and he would have targeted Deborah at that time."

"Then, do we still need to contact the cavalry to help search?" Veronica asked.

"Well, but we can narrow the scope a little bit now, that is, give priority to searching for those whose facial features are partially or completely similar to Deborah." Aiden replied, "Investigate their detailed information to ensure that when the murderer's target is confirmed, we can protect the target as soon as possible."

"But even if the scope is narrowed down like this, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no omissions. Silver City is so big that the police department cannot devote all its resources to help... After all, we don't have substantial evidence." Veronica looked solemn.

"We'll try our best to do what we can. After all, this matter concerns human lives. I've already asked the Inquisition for help. When the time comes... we can only rely on luck," Aiden said.