Chapter 917: Detective Link
No, there can never be two Eros.
Or maybe Eros used some kind of cover-up to deceive the macaw and Silver Hand while taking the time to set off with his real body and create this robbery?
Link was lost in thought.
The images in the closed-circuit surveillance in front of him kept repeating, from the appearance of "Eros" to the shooting and hitting the surveillance, it took only a short second.
Link turned his eyes to the side again, and on the wall not far away, there was a pink peach heart, which was the mark that Eros would leave every time he committed a crime, as a mark of his artistic crime.
Judging from the traces at the scene and the video evidence, it is certain that Eros did it.
But Macaw, Silver Hand and Eros are acting together. With the vision and strength of these two people, they are on equal footing with Eros, so they should not be easily fooled by sloppy eyes. This matter seems reasonable. But there's something weird about it.
After staying at the scene for a while, Link went home with the military police.
"Were there many ships that were looted by the Roswell Foundation before?" Link asked on the way back.
The military police next to him replied: "Many... not many, but it seems that there are indeed many. The Roswell Foundation is a medium-sized force, and it also has escorts and combat ships. How can ordinary chaotic forces dare to plunder! There are only strange thieves Eros was caught by surprise, and every month he was going to grab a handful of wool from the Roswell Foundation."
This sentence immediately caught Link's attention, "You mean that Eros will attack the Roswell Foundation once a month?"
The military police thought about it for a while, and nodded affirmatively as if to prove their own words: "Yes, that's right! Since last year, there have been basically the same registration every year and every month."
"Because of the registration system of Port of Stars,
However, all battles that occur within the territory must be reported and registered. So every month, people from the Roswell Foundation come to register, and we will arrive at the scene to keep records. "
Link's frown deepened, and he asked again: "It only started last year, didn't it happen before?"
The gendarme nodded again.
"When I get back, I will call up all the files registered by the Roswell Foundation. I want to check it." In what everyone thought was a normal routine registration, Link noticed something unusual.
The Roswell Foundation is the main force in the 3.0 version against the Cult of the Damned and the God of Plague, and has made heroic contributions in the process. Even in the following Alliance of Stars, because of its proper handling of the Plague God's invasion and its guiding status, it gained a good voice on behalf of the Morvor galaxy cluster in the Alliance of Stars, establishing its status as a large-scale foundation in the universe. When arresting and dealing with Eros, he also made a lot of efforts.
Fortunately, in the final stage of cooperation, the two sides smiled and dealt with the evil god together, and tacitly did not pursue the old grievances of the past.
Although Link has past life memories, the current situation is very abnormal, and he is really not afraid to speculate on people's hearts with the most sinister thoughts.
There are only a few situations in this situation right now.
The first one, Eros really robbed the Roswell Foundation ship, and killed wantonly, and concealed it from Macaw and Silver Hand;
The second is that someone pretends to be Eros to commit the crime, and the Roswell Foundation really suffers losses, and at the same time makes Eros bear a bad name and sow discord from it;
The third is that the Roswell Foundation directs and acts on its own, and frames Eros as a crime, with another purpose behind it.
Either way, this matter must be clarified.
If it is the first, then Eros has deceived everyone. Not an anti-hero, but a real thief who disappeared after experiencing a major incident, out of everyone's sight, and truly escaped justice.
In the second case, malicious instigation caused Eros to bear infamy, and he was charged with unwarranted crimes. Such a person, Link, will definitely find him out, and will never tolerate this kind of person who disturbs his sight and causes resources to be taken up! The Roswell Foundation and Eros, which correspond to the 3 and 4 versions, dare to put their hands on these two heads.
The third kind... To be honest, Link is the most afraid to think about this kind of situation.
After returning to the Gendarmerie Guard, the Gendarmerie immediately found all the report files of the looted ships of the Roswell Foundation from last year to this year.
Link started from the earliest one, and it has to be said that Chris has a good command of the army. These investigation reports are written in great detail and in a uniform format, and the key points of the desired information can be found at a glance.
"Okay, help me pack all these materials and send them to the mechanical fortress. I'll take them back and study them slowly."
Without any hesitation, the military police packed up all the files and followed Link to leave.
Just now, the average person took 300,000 for the front foot, and now their loyalty to Link is just right.
And Captain Chris also made it clear before leaving that when he is not around, Link is equivalent to the captain, and the gendarmerie can find him for anything.
The captain took the file back to check, and it was not against the rules.
After returning to the mechanical fortress, Link went straight back to the lounge with the file.
"Troy, help me copy and upload all the dossier information."
After Troy appeared, he quickly scanned the unfolded file, his eyes were like high-speed cameras, and soon all the information had been printed into the terminal database.
Link sat on the sofa, took a deep breath, and began to ask: "The date distribution of all crimes over the past year, please help me list them."
Troy raised his hand, and the data energy formed something similar to a holographic calendar in mid-air, and then a calendar appeared with 31 days in a month.
Then, the date of the crime began to appear, and the grids on the calendar were covered with colors, one after another.
When all the crimes were committed for more than a year, the three grids on the calendar have been painted with heavy colors, which are the 15th, 16th, and 17th.
Other than that, the other grids have no color at all.
This also means that for more than a year, all crimes were committed on these three days of each month.
Specific hands-on time.
Of course this doesn't explain anything.
As a medium-sized force, the Roswell Foundation has transport ships to and from Port of Stars every day. Eros itself is elusive, and the Arsonist of Heart is extremely fast. Find a fixed time to attack, even if you strengthen your defenses, it will not help. And from the point of view of the foundation's operations, this will actually lead to an increase in expenses. Not to mention whether it can prevent Eros, simply adding defenses to each transport ship is a huge expense for a force of the magnitude of the Roswell Foundation.
This expenditure is much more expensive than the goods on a single transport ship.
Link was silent for a moment, and continued to ask: "Have you counted the lost goods, and what is the value? What are they?"
Troy retrieved the screening information again, and then said: "There are records, please read it, President."
The holographic calendar screen in front of him suddenly turned and turned into a fan-shaped graph.
Daily necessities accounted for 38%, arms accounted for 35%, energy 25%, and the remaining 2% were medicines and some special supplies.
This is the total of all looted data over a year.
"Of course, these are Colby's declarations, which can also be confirmed from the remaining declarations."
Daily necessities, arms, energy, medicines and special supplies. Valley
There is nothing wrong with these things at first glance, but when you think about it carefully, these things are exactly what a predator like Eros needs. Everything is the most basic material for their survival.
In this way, Eros' suspicions deepened.
Link scratched his head, and continued to ask: "Does every looting kill people? What is the proportion of dead people to all employees?"
Troy continued to extract data, and then concluded: "People die every time. The number of transport ships employed is about 200, and the average number of deaths is 12. Over the past year, the total number of deaths has been 180."
Link chewed the data carefully, and lost more than 200 people every month, and more than 2,000 people in a year, which is definitely not a small sum.
"What happened to those who were taken away? Did anyone come back? Or did Eros ask for a ransom?"
Troy shook his head: "Unfortunately, there is no data in this regard."
Link frowned slightly.
There are generally only two purposes for taking people away. One is to sell people, and the other is to ask for ransom.
But if it was trafficking, there would be one or two people who would send news back from nearly 2,000 people. If it is asking for a ransom, there is no record now, which is self-contradictory.
These people seem to have disappeared out of thin air and evaporated from the world.
Is this reasonable?
This is very unreasonable!
"List all the photos taken at the scene, let me take a look. The focus is on the alchemy bullets, bullet marks, and the heart-shaped mark of the strange thief."
With a wave of Troy's hand, all the photos recorded in the file appeared in front of Link.
Link saw the latest issue all the way from the initial bullet marks to the markings.
The models of alchemy bullets are exactly the same, and the number of bullet marks and the effect of manufacturing have not changed much.
In the end only the heart marker remained.
Link looked at all the heart-marked photos in front of him, and said, "Troy, help me extract all the heart-shaped mark patterns in the photos, and then overlap them!"
"President, wait a moment."
After Troy finished speaking, the holographic image in front of him changed again, and all the heart-shaped patterns were extracted, and then they were arranged and overlapped in front of Link.
When all the patterns overlapped, there was only one pattern left in front of Link.
The edges of all the patterns coincide perfectly, without any gaps!
Link's eyes suddenly burst into a bright light, and he found the most unreasonable of these seemingly reasonable places!
Be aware that Eros' heart markers are hand-painted. As long as it is hand-painted, there will be errors. It is absolutely impossible for the pattern to be exactly the same a dozen times without any difference.
Only a machine can achieve the perfect accuracy with extremely low wear.
Although this evidence can't influence the result yet, Link found the biggest loophole, this mark was printed on purpose with a machine!
The current evidence can basically prove that someone wants to blame Eros.
"President, this is the only information we got from the file. Even if we can conclude that Eros was framed, we don't have any other evidence to dig deeper." Troy expressed his point of view.
"No, besides these, we have other evidence! Witnesses!" Link's eyes sparkled.
"Witness?" Troy didn't understand for a moment.
"Yes! You list the names of all the dead. We use the gendarmerie as an authority to investigate these dead. Although people can't speak after they die, what they did before they were alive can testify for them and become their stronghold. Strong testimony."
Link's words are firm, and everything else can be made, except that the experiences of these dead people cannot be faked.
Unless these people have been preparing for a conspiracy of big lies from the beginning of their birth, all of which are false, otherwise the real information will definitely be revealed.
Link dialed the communicator of the gendarmerie guards, and then asked directly, "Yunjun, can I trust you?"
When Li Yajun heard the consultant say that, he immediately understood that Link was planning to win him over as his own.
Li Yajun has been in the gendarmerie for many years, and now he is also a squad leader, with a group of soldiers under his command.
Today, when I went out with Link to carry out a mission, the generosity of this special consultant caught him off guard, and without batting an eye, he dumped three million to them.
Coupled with Captain Chris's favor for him, it was rumored that the top six also valued Link very much. The efficiency of alien missions is even more terrifying than that of bounty hunters.
All this shows that Link's future status in Port of Stars is definitely not low, and it can even be said to be prominent.
My Zhili boss has a promising future. Now when asked about whether he can be trusted, Li Yajun thought in his heart and nodded immediately: "Consultant, if you need me to do anything, you can speak up! From now on, Li Yajun will be your sharp sword. The blade moves according to your will!"
Even through the communicator, Link's system popped up a message of Li Yajun's loyalty, with an initial loyalty of 80 points.
Three million won a reliable subordinate, this wave is not a loss.
"It's not an important thing. I need you to investigate the background information of all the employees of the Roswell Foundation who were killed in the Eros looting incident from last year to the present. The more detailed the better. From life to work, As complete as possible. Of course, this investigation must not alert the Foundation, and must be conducted in private, do you understand what I mean?"
Li Yajun nodded again and again: "I understand, please don't worry, the consultant, I will definitely conduct it with my subordinates in secret, and never leak the news!"
"Okay, it's up to Captain Li. I believe Captain Li will not let me down!"
After the confession, Link hung up the communication, and then let out a long breath.
Now we just wait for the results of Li Yajun's investigation.
"Hope is the second possibility, if it's the third..."
Link couldn't help shivering, and his heart could be described as terrified.