It took some time to wait for the police reinforcements and forensic doctors to arrive at the scene, so the three of them checked the second floor as well.

The second floor is Dr. House's living room.

He has a cleanliness obsession and a rigorous attitude towards life that a man of his age should not have. The sink is spotless, the toilet is clean, the bed and quilt are neatly folded, and even the books on the bookshelf are arranged in order, which is pleasing to the eyes of a man with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

"There are very few people in Gray Alley who are so clean. I even doubt that he has ever masturbated himself."

As soon as Drizzt finished speaking, he remembered that Xia was still there, and he quickly changed his words.

"He is single and has no call girls. He has no scandals. The call girl downstairs should be his patient. She might have been attacked during the consultation."

"Would you look for a woman like this, Drizzt?"

Lu Ban asked the fatal question.

"No, of course not. My heart belongs to that lady. Don't think I'm that kind of person."

Drizzt immediately denied it.

"The lady?"

Xia leaned over to listen.

"...She is a singer, a real singer. She once performed in the theater of the abandoned city. The opera she performed about the Taoist Heming was her masterpiece. If you have heard it, you will become her fan like me..."

When it comes to this, Trist becomes more talkative.

"The opera of Taoist Heming?"

Lu Ban heard the key words and responded automatically.

"There are many operas about Heming Taoist, some of which are adapted from biographies left by him and his disciples. Ms. Charlotte, the lady I'm referring to, starred in a play called Heming Chronicles, which tells the story of Heming Taoist's experiences before he attained enlightenment. Although those operas are not very popular among the gentlemen in the upper class now, the common people in the Wasted City are happy to listen to them. She is a true artist."

Drizzt explained.

"Then do you know "The Legend of Heming's Ascension"? "

Lu Ban asked the name of the material he needed.

"'The Legend of Heming's Ascension'? No, I have never heard of this script or book. The most popular book about Heming Taoist on the market is 'The Legend of Heming Taoist', followed by 'Heming's Observations'. Only a small part of 'Heming Chronicles' is circulated. It is said that after the script was adapted, the theater bought back most of 'Heming Chronicles' in order to guarantee box office success."

Drizzt counted on his fingers.

"Won't the disciples of Taoist Heming protest against these scripts?"

When Lu Ban thought of some famous artists in the real world, he became dissatisfied with the adapted works based on his ancestors, and some even directly banned the adaptation.

"No, how could that be? The Heming Sect fell into decline a few years after Taoist Heming ascended to heaven. Some people say that they touched some taboos that shouldn't be touched, while others say that the bigwigs in the Wasted City wanted to block the path to ascension. In short, the Heming Sect no longer exists. The place where this name appears most often is in the mouths of scammers. Many people will claim that they are the true disciples of Taoist Heming and have a method of ascension, and then cheat people out of their money."

Drizzt denied.

"Then do you know Stormy Villa?"

Lu Ban asked again, with a local like Trist here, any extra money you can get is the better.

"I've never heard of Stormy Mountain Villa. Is this a wasteland? Have you been there on your mission?"

Drizzt frowned.

“Not yet.”

Lu Ban shook his head.

"So that lady and you are lovers?"

Xia interrupted the conversation between the two people about Heming Taoist, and asked relentlessly about Trist's personal feelings.

"Not really..."

Drizzt avoided the question.

"This is not the focus of this case. We should investigate the room carefully!"

He decided to change the subject.

Lu Ban had already fallen to the ground.

He looked under the bed in Dr. House's bedroom.

Under the dark bed, there was only a thin layer of dust due to lack of cleaning in the past few days, but there was no dirt.

“Very clean.”

Lu Ban commented.

"Rather, it's too clean."

Drizzt randomly pulled a book from the shelf, flipped through two pages, and stuffed it back.

"It's hard to imagine a normal man like this. Not to mention the toilet, even the bed is clean. This is not normal at all."

"It's clean under my bed."

Lu Ban replied.

"…I mean, there's no sense of life here, so either Dr. House doesn't sleep here, or he cleaned the house for some reason, or the murderer cleaned it for some reason."

Trist didn't want to pay much attention to Lu Ban.

"It's possible."

Xia nodded in agreement. She thought about it and then spoke again.

"I just thought that the murderer's purpose was to kill Dr. House. He wanted to torture the doctor and killed him. He had a deep hatred for this person. But according to what you said, this person doesn't usually make enemies. Even if someone wants to kill him, it's because he knows something he shouldn't know. This is different from the murderer's attitude."

"A pleasure offender?"

Trist touched his chin. This kind of criminal was really difficult to deal with because there was no logic in his killings. He just killed for the sake of killing.

In the abandoned city, the most difficult cases to solve are not those involving carefully planned plots or locked rooms. In these cases, as long as the suspects can be identified and their testimonies can be checked one by one, the murderer can be easily caught.

The most difficult cases to solve are random homicides.

Those pleasure criminals usually enjoy killing. For them, killing is not a means to achieve an end, but the end itself. They get happiness from killing, and they feel happy when they kill anyone who is a human being.

They may roam around the corners of black streets, randomly killing some homeless people, women walking at night, doormen on duty, etc. The bodies of these victims may not be discovered for a while.

When the bodies are found, due to identity issues, the police may not necessarily seriously investigate the cases of these deaths. Most of them will be attributed to gang fights and the blame will be put on the gangs.

"So, this person killed Dr. House and the call girl in the dark room, and then moved Dr. House's body to the first floor to be discovered. Does this mean that he killed the call girl by accident, and his real target was Dr. House. The murderer wanted to convey this message to people?"

Lu Ban suddenly had an inspiration.

"It's like when you want to mark who the murderer is in a novel, but you accidentally write two wrong names. In order to prevent the later readers from making the mistake, you write the real murderer's name again on the page."

"...You are such a wicked person."

Trist couldn't help but complain.

But on second thought, what Lu Ban said seemed to make some sense?