861: Choose direction, Berson's cause of death

Given the two possibilities and normal logic, Sheriff Mode should lean towards the first one.

Miss Bertha is the victim.

Regardless of whether the perpetrator is Corey or someone else, she is the victim.

However, Miss Bertha's sudden change in attitude just now gave Mo De an indescribable feeling deep down.

Assuming the second possibility is true.

That would mean Miss Bertha knew she had been drugged before, and that Corey had done that kind of thing to her!

But why did she still hold back from calling the police and only reveal the matter now?

Was it for the immigration certificate?

She could have made this request immediately after being humiliated at the time.

Miss Bertha is lying; this is an unfounded guess.

Mo De rubbed his head, feeling a bit swollen for a moment.

Despite the clear case progress laid out before him, he dared not follow the obvious clues.

Instead, he began to suspect and ponder the confusing clues.

It's also strange that the terrifying consequences of his wrong decision yesterday have left him with some psychological trauma.

If only he could directly tell whether what Miss Bertha and Corey said was true or false.

As he thought this, Mo De frowned and rubbed his chin.

Perhaps, his direction from the very beginning was wrong!

For the Bosen dismemberment case, he shouldn't interact with people and gather information from their conversations.

What people say, a mixture of truth and falsehood, will only drag him further away!

The direction he should explore is the dead, the inanimate objects!

He had been in this World for two days and three nights, yet he hadn't explored Bosen's cause of death at all, nor had he seen Bosen's body.

The information he currently knew was all from documents and collected from other people's conversations.

It's not that these aren't important, it's just that Bosen's cause of death and his specific circumstances, this information is more like the basics, like the setting.

If he didn't fully understand even these before talking to others to gather information, he would have no basis whatsoever to judge whether what people were saying was true or false.

For example.

Bosen didn't like smoking, he didn't know that.

When talking to others to gather information, if someone said he liked smoking, would he have a way to judge the truthfulness of that statement?

Of course, this assumption is very superficial.

But that's roughly the principle.

Mo De's lack of deep understanding of Bosen led him to see everyone as a potential suspect.

Ironclad evidence, facts, and incomplete evidence can be seen as an incomplete work of art.

Gathering information from others, making the case logical and expandable, is the process of gradually perfecting an incomplete work of art.

The first thing he needed to do was to learn more about the deceased, Bosen!

"Miss Bertha, please try to be strong during this time. I will handle the immigration certificate for you later," Mo De said, signaling the end of the conversation.

"Okay."

Miss Bertha resumed her sorrowful and despairing expression.

Under normal circumstances, this emotional shift would certainly not be noticeable.

But under Mo De's deliberate observation, he felt that the manifestation of these two emotions was truly disjointed!

Watching Miss Bertha leave the police station, Mo De glanced at the detained Corey and returned to his desk.

Now that he knew what information to collect, his actions were clear.

Inside the office, various pieces of information and case files about Bosen were gathered.

During this process, Mo De again pulled out the family photo of himself and his family that he had put in the drawer yesterday.

The photo was still the same.

A picture taken in front of the house gate with the couple holding their Hong Lei's daughter, Betty.

After looking at it intently for a while, combined with the answer that Hong Lei's daughter was family, Mo De finally understood.

There were indeed three people in the photo, but he had overlooked one thing.

That was the person taking the photo!

People always subconsciously focus on what they see and ignore the unseen key.

He indeed had a family of four.

The one who helped everyone take the photo... should be his younger Hong Lei's daughter, which is the Betty he had met these past two days, the one holding the doll!

Mo De dared to speculate this way.

It was because of the storybook he got last night.

According to his deduction, the stories in the storybook were about their Town.

Last night he had read a story about 'Sisters', and the content completely matched his Hong Lei's daughter's experience!

The girl sitting on her parents' laps in the photo was the older Hong Lei's daughter who had died!

The reason he kept this photo was probably that the original him was commemorating his older Hong Lei's daughter and Lin Yue's wife in the photo!

If he had thought of the existence of the person taking the photo earlier, he could have at least kept the prophecy card the System gave him last night.

However, being alive now was already something to be thankful for.

Putting the photo back in his pocket, Mo De looked at the information about Bosen.

Bosen: Male

Age: 37 years old

Occupation: Town Barber

Family: None

This was the information Mo De had seen on the first night after coming to this World.

He picked up the Materials below.

[Brawling Case]

Personnel: Bosen and Old Tang Na

Case Description: The two got into a big fight over a stray dog that had wandered into the Town. Bosen's arm was injured, but it did not reach the level of disability assessment.

Old Tang Na's cornea was damaged, assessed as a level nine minor injury.

Case Closure: Under Sheriff Mode's mediation, Bosen compensated Old Tang Na 1000 US dollars for medical expenses, and the stray dog was temporarily fostered at Bosen's home.

This case was very simple.

After reading it, Mo De felt a bit surprised.

These two fought over a stray dog?

He had received similar information before, saying that the two had a disagreement over a dog.

But he didn't expect it to be because of a stray dog.

Mo De didn't think these two rough men in their thirties or forties living in the Town would have the kind of feelings for a stray dog that would make them fight over it.

More likely, perhaps the conflict between the two had been accumulating for a long time, and that dog was just a fuse?

That's not right either.

At the end of this case.

Bosen compensated one thousand US dollars as medical expenses!

This was not a small sum!

Logically, Old Tang Na should have been very happy with this compensation.

But the various documents collected before clearly stated Old Tang Na's dissatisfaction with himself.

His attitude when he met him while buying breakfast yesterday morning could explain everything!

In the handling of that case, even 1000 US dollars did not satisfy him.

Comparatively, could it be that what he wanted was that dog?!

But could a stray dog be more valuable than 1000 US dollars?

Mo De secretly noted down this information, while picking up the integrated case file below.

There wasn't much else in the police station, but there was a lot of information about Bosen.

Fortunately, he had the identity of Sheriff in this instance, otherwise, if he were just a civilian, he would truly be completely in the dark and wouldn't know anything.

[Immigration Certificate Application]

While searching, Mo De took out this document.

This application was filed by Bosen.

Looking at the date on it, July 13th.

That was less than a week before his accident!

[Sheriff Mode, this is an immigration certificate application.]

[From being born in the Town until now, I have been to the Big City less than ten times in total. Every time I see it, I feel like it is like two different Worlds compared to our Town. It is too big and too beautiful. I want to move there and settle down, to see a new environment.]

[Now my two Tu are already capable of handling things on their own in terms of hairdressing. The Town will not lack barbers. Sheriff Mode and the others in the Town don't need to worry about hairdressing issues.]

[I know that without a valid reason and simply wanting to leave, I need to pay a high immigration certificate application fee. I have saved a lot of money over the years, and I think it is time to use this money to exchange for an immigration certificate.]

There wasn't much information on the application, but it was comprehensive.

Simply looking at the information, there was nothing wrong.

It was quite standard.

But it was this application time...

After making the decision to immigrate, he was tragically dismembered. Could this be the cause of death?

Simple immigration shouldn't cause anyone to harm him.

But this immigration certificate involved a high application fee!

Mo De knew that money was often the source of some tragedies.

If Bosen had indeed accumulated a certain amount of wealth over half his life, then after his death, being a person without relatives, the ultimate beneficiaries would be his two Tu.

He flipped through the documents next to it a few times.

Mo De found the amount required for the immigration certificate application.

Twenty thousand US dollars!

This was indeed a fortune that could make people take risks.

No wonder Bosen's two Tu were suspects; there were reasons for all of this.

He continued to look through the documents below.

These were some clues that the original him had investigated.

After the dismemberment case occurred and proved the deceased was Bosen, the original him conducted investigations and interviews with some suspects.

There were only two suspects in the investigation; the others probably hadn't been reached yet.

The current two were the statement of the only female suspect, Mara, and the statement of the biggest suspect, Old Tang Na.

According to Old Tang Na's description, he had been following a normal routine of forging farm tools and ironware throughout July.

It wasn't until July 20th that he took the ironware he had forged and went to the Big Town outside to sell his goods.

The last time he saw Bosen was on July 13th.

That was the day Bosen submitted his immigration certificate application.

According to Old Tang Na's description: "I had a big argument with him that day. That guy's hand injury healed so quickly, but my eye was injured because of him and I was left with a problem, yet he only compensated me 1000!"

"My ability to work has almost plummeted!"

"If you ask me, Bosen died well! I was so happy he died!"

"Of course, you should also understand that I just had an argument with him at the time, and then I went home to forge iron."

"Why don't you ask Officer Corey for his opinion, Sheriff Mode?"

This piece of information revealed not the situation between Bosen and Old Tang Na.

What it showed was the collusion between Corey and Old Tang Na.

It seemed Old Tang Na also knew that the bone cleaver might be the murder weapon and had been taken by Corey.

But he didn't tell himself, the Sheriff, directly.

Looking at it this way, Old Tang Na was also someone who couldn't possibly cooperate with the investigation.

Putting his emotions aside, Mo De turned to the next investigation.

This was the investigation result of the Town's prostitute, Mara.