874: Let Corey meet Bertha

“Sheriff Mode, I thought you weren't coming today either.”

At the breakfast shop, the Boss, Evangeline, familiarly handed two hot dogs to Mo De.

“Been a bit busy lately.” Mo De picked up a hot dog and took a bite, his gaze carrying a hint of scrutiny as he looked at the woman selling breakfast: “Ms. Evangeline, did you really see Old Tang Na forging the Gu chopping knife before?”

“Of course!” The woman's voice couldn't help but rise when the topic came to this: “I saw it with my own eyes!”

“Old Tang Na must be the murderer, Sheriff, you definitely can't let him go!”

Perhaps because Old Tang Na had cursed this woman before, on this matter, the woman also insisted that Old Tang Na was the murderer.

Mo De quietly watched the woman's emotions unfold.

Couldn't detect any abnormality.

“Where were you and what were you doing on the night of July 15th?” Suddenly, Mo De questioned Evangeline.

According to the extra strange talk rule information that appeared last night.

He had already met the murderer, so he needed to eliminate them one by one.

The possibility of Evangeline being the murderer was extremely small, but not zero.

“The night of July 15th?” Evangeline didn't expect to be asked this question and was surprised for a moment: “Sheriff Mode, don't you remember?”

“I was at the shop that night, didn't you come to my shop and order a sandwich?”

“I even made it fresh for you.”

Regarding this sensitive time in the middle of last month, Evangeline immediately thought of the Bosen case, and her memory of that day was also very clear.

Hearing this, Mo De's eyes flickered slightly.

He came here that night and ordered a sandwich?

In this situation, Evangeline definitely couldn't be lying, after all, as the Sheriff, he himself was the person involved.

No wonder this woman wasn't on the suspect list.

But why did he come here to eat a sandwich that night?

He clearly disliked eating sandwiches!

“Sheriff Mode, you don't think I killed Bosen, do you?” Evangeline seemed to realize the reason Mo De asked her this question, and her expression couldn't help but show a hint of displeasure.

“Sorry.” Mo De ended the conversation and returned to the police car.

Yesterday, he found a train ticket in the bag full of money.

The departure time on it was 23:30 on the night of July 15th, and the ticket buyer was Bosen.

From this, it could be roughly determined that Bosen was murdered during the time he was crossing the Redwood Forest to go to the waiting point.

And that night, he happened to deviate from his boring work routine and specifically went to eat a sandwich that he disliked.

His suspicious points seemed to have increased again.

However, there was one key point that could erase all the suspicious points on him!

[3. The house you live in is not your home. Before 12 o'clock tonight, take your only relative back to your real home. If you are late, the Owner of this house should come back.]

This was a new strange talk rule updated today.

If this rule was correct.

Then could it be considered that everything in the basement was not created by him?

All of that was done by the original Owner of the house, the guy who was very likely the murderer!

It was precisely because of the appearance of this point that Mo De felt a little fortunate that he did not use a lie detection opportunity on the first strange talk rule in group A last night.

It's just that he doesn't know who the original Owner of the house will be.

While pondering in his heart, Mo De glanced at the time.

Let's stick to the old routine.

Investigate the case in the morning, and deal with the crisis in the strange talk rules in the afternoon.

On the first day, he dealt with the sandwich in the afternoon, spent most of the second day looking for meat, and this afternoon he had to take his daughter, Betty, to find his real home.

If he could identify the murderer in the morning and kill him, he wouldn't have to worry about what came after.

Mo De exhaled a breath of stale air, and sitting in the car, his peripheral vision suddenly caught sight of something.

Storybook.

Almost forgot about this thing.

According to yesterday's strange talk rule hint, a story about what happened in the Town will be updated in the storybook every day!

Mo De had read the entire storybook before, but except for the story of 'Sister', the others didn't have much useful information.

He didn't know what valuable information the updated story would have.

He opened the last few pages of the storybook.

After seeing the new story, Mo De understood that the strange talk rule about the storybook updating stories was not lying.

This new story was called 'Twin Brothers'.

Once upon a time, there was a Town, and in the Town, there were two boys.

They were twins, and they had a very good relationship, but their interests were not the same.

The Older brother liked hairdressing, and the younger brother liked hunting and often went to the Redwood Forest.

After growing up, in addition to liking hairdressing, the Older brother also developed a liking for visiting the red-light district.

As for the younger brother, he became a senior hunter, and hunting became his sideline. He would often leave his wife at home alone and return late at night after staking out prey.

The content of the story was very brief.

Mo De frowned slightly as he read.

Twin brothers?

This should be talking about the only pair of twins in the Town, which were Bosen's two hairdressing apprentices.

The information about them was of no use to him.

After all, the murderer was someone he had met.

And so far, he hadn't met those two twins.

...

Driving the police car, Mo De turned around and came to the police station.

There were a lot of things to do today, and he needed a helper.

Inside the detention center.

Corey was wolfing down the hot dog Mo De handed him, looking like he was starving.

But he still had a lot left in the end, the portion was too big.

After eating his fill, he looked at Mo De with some uncertainty: “Captain, you mean, I can go out?”

“You also believe that I was framed, right?! Is the responsibility for this matter not entirely on me?!”

Corey's tone was excited, eager to hear the words he wanted to hear.

“Whether your involvement in the dismemberment case was a setup still needs to be verified.”

“The rape charge is stable.”

“Letting you out now is because we are short-handed.”

“I really was framed, everything I said yesterday was the truth! How can I bear the full responsibility?!” Corey said anxiously.

Seeing the other party's expression, Mo De's emotions didn't change.

Of course, he knew that Corey couldn't be the murderer. The biggest possibility for this guy was that he was a pawn used by the murderer. No matter which direction you looked at it, he was a pawn.

This was also the reason why Mo De would let the other party come out as a helper.

“If you really want to prove yourself, we'll go find Bertha in a bit and ask her clearly if she was really drugged that day and if someone really framed you through her.”

“Ah? We'll ask her face to face?” Corey instantly stammered.

...

Town edge.

Bertha's house was still next to this dirt road.

Mo De was sitting in the driver's seat, and next to him in the passenger seat was the restless Corey.

“Captain, why don't we reconsider this method? If I go with you, Bertha definitely won't cooperate.”

Corey had a look of difficulty and timidity.

Having done that kind of thing, he naturally didn't dare to see the other party again.

This was also the reason why Corey hadn't dared to actively see Betty since that day.

“Who said you had to go with me?” Mo De turned to look at Corey.

“I don't need to go with you?!” Corey was overjoyed when he heard this.

It was as if the stone on his shoulder had been thrown off with a crash.

However, Mo De's next sentence made him fall into the abyss again.

“Investigation and evidence collection, and asking about the course and results of the matter will all be done by you. I will not show my face.”

“What?!” Corey had been timid even when he thought Mo De would go with him.

Now Mo De actually said he had to go see Bertha alone and conduct an investigation into the situation that day. How could he do it?

“You don't have to go, but then it will be considered that you admit your guilt.”

“What mysterious person, what framing you, these baseless things are lies. I will legally imprison you and send you to court.”

“No, no, this won't do!” Corey quickly shook his head.

In his words, he also began to consider the plan to see Bertha.

After all, if he was really stuck with this crime, Corey himself saw no hope for the rest of his life.

Although in essence, he did commit a crime.

But in his opinion, he was framed, which was also what happened in essence.

He needed to fight for some opportunities for reduced sentences.

The sky gradually became a little dark.

Mo De sat in the car, watching Corey walking towards Bertha's house, then turned to look at the other side of Bertha's house.

That was the back door of the house.

After Corey went to Bertha's house, Mo De also got out of the car and walked towards the back door of Bertha's house.

Of course, he didn't expect Corey to be able to ask anything useful on his own.

Calling Corey over was mainly to attract Bertha's attention.

And he could take the opportunity to sneak into the other party's house and look for truly useful evidence!

In Mo De's eyes, Bertha was not a simple innocent person!