Lu Ban had seen this statement before, in some novel or movie. When the crime in a city needs detectives instead of police to fight it, it means that the evil in this city has become so rampant that it is difficult to contain.

The same is true for the abandoned city.

In this secret room, the sick woman's body is as brilliant as a blooming flower.

Lu Ban did not focus his eyes on the woman first, but looked around the dark room.

There were various medicines displayed on the shelf. Lu Ban picked up a bottle at random. He could see that it should be some kind of restricted medicine bottle. It contained addictive ingredients and could greatly relieve pain. He looked at another bottle, which was an anti-inflammatory drug that could cause serious damage to the body and was usually used to treat some fatal wounds.

In addition, there were several bottles of beautifully packaged wine, and it seemed that he sometimes drank secretly here.

Apparently, this darkroom was used by Dr. House for his "other" work.

"Is this the real crime scene?"

Xia came closer and moved her nose, as if trying to smell the special smell in the air.

"The bed is in a mess. It looks like this woman has been through a lot of torture."

Drizzt took in the appearance of the body and the messy, blood-stained bed.

"This is also very common. Gang members sometimes need to deal with some special patients, so they will ask doctors to deal with them privately. After all, there are too many people in the hospital, so it is inevitable that the news will leak out."

Since Dr. House helps Mrs. Martina do those things, it's no big deal for him to deal with this kind of problem for the gangsters.

"Did the doctor kill her?"

Xia looked at the dying woman quietly, the glass flower blooming from her body. It was hard to tell whether it was more beautiful or uglier than the flower blooming on Dr. House's body.

She saw some traces of paint or coating on the woman's body. These traces remained on her fingers and the hem of her skirt, as if she had been to a place where these things were produced.

"Does it smell like perfume?"

Seeing this, Trist looked at Lu Ban.

"No, at least not the kind that Dr. House has."

Lu Ban shook his head and began to examine the internal organs carefully again.

He saw some brown sediment, transparent alcohol, and a few pitiful-looking vegetables in the woman's stomach.

"She had eaten nothing before she died, only bread, wine, and vegetable soup."

"This is a call girl. They are active in the black streets and rely on selling their bodies for money. Sometimes they need to see a doctor because of violence from customers or other reasons. It seems that she was receiving treatment when Dr. House died."

Drizzt deduced.

"I don't think it was Dr. House who killed her or vice versa, it's certainly not something a human could do."

"But why did the other party move Dr. House to the first floor after killing two people here?"

Lu Ban was confused.

If it was a monster attack and the damage was caused temporarily, then the monster would definitely be irrational. It would only kill the two people on the spot and run away without dealing with the scene.

And if it was done by a human with extraordinary powers, why would he move Dr. House's body to the first floor for people to find it?

Because there must be a purpose for moving the body, either to hide it or to mislead. The body of the call girl has been here for two or three days. Even if the other party was thinking of hiding the body at the time, he should have found time to dispose of it now instead of leaving it here for Lu Ban to find it.

Very contradictory.

"Is there a possibility that their death was not caused by a monster attack, but by some kind of disease, a curse? The woman got sick first, and then the disease broke out when the doctor was treating her, infecting the doctor. He came to the first floor to seek help, and then died of the disease?"

Xia thought of the monsters in the Black Forest. When the demon tide came, some special monsters would live in the human body, spread like a disease, and eventually break out of the body, bringing death like a flower emitting pollen.

"Then in this case, wouldn't we..."

Lu Ban said this and looked at each other with the other two people.

"It should be fine. I haven't started growing grass yet."

Lu Ban said as he took a deep breath of the dry air in the dark room.

"Besides, if this glass flower is really contagious, then everyone in the funeral home should have blossomed. The fact that we are still standing here means that at least the corpse that has turned into a glass flower is not the source of infection."

"…You make a lot of sense."

Drizzt was relieved.

Lu Ban looks careless, but he is actually a meticulous person.

"Even if it blooms, I don't think it's a big problem. It will look better with a little embellishment."

Lu Ban added another sentence.

Trist felt that he should take back his evaluation of Lu Ban.

"It seems that this person is the person who died in the information obtained through the "Knowledge of the Madman" that you mentioned. So, there is also a gangster?"

Xia looked around the room and seemed to have found something to eat on the table. She put her nose close to it and sniffed it. It was a box of biscuits that had been there for several days. The box was open and the biscuits were damp.

The wizard girl picked up the cookie and hesitated.

when--

A bell suddenly rang from somewhere, Xia was startled, and in a panic she stuffed the biscuit into her mouth and hid it.

"Serial murders are actually simpler than single cases, because the characteristics of different cases can be used to profile the criminal's personality, but these two are too close..."

Drizzt noticed the change in Xia's expression and was a little confused, but when he saw that she had no special reaction, he continued.

"The paint and coatings in the factory might be a breakthrough. It's not a big deal if Dr. House himself was contaminated with it, but this woman was also contaminated with it. The source of this paint should be..."

As he was muttering to himself, he suddenly heard a sound.

The sound was slow, but it did break away from the silent space.

And this sound seemed to come from...the room.

The dim room, lit only by a kerosene lamp, suddenly became eerie.

Trist could feel that the light around him had become slightly dimmer, as if it had been swallowed up by something.

I felt a palpitation like a prey being targeted by a hunter.

Drizzt reached for his holster, ready to draw his revolver for self-defense.

At this moment, a head popped out from the door of the dark room.

"You are...Oh, my God!"

The police on duty came to check the situation and saw the body in the middle of the dark room.

Drizzt felt that the oppressive feeling suddenly disappeared, as if it had never existed.

He clenched his palms, then unclenched them, which were already covered in sweat.

If he had remained in that state for a few more seconds, he might have died. He was so sure of it.

"Comrade police, please believe us, we just discovered this as well."

On the other side, Lu Ban skillfully raised his hands and squatted down with his head in his hands.