New Gods of North America.

Chapter 490 Key Points
After re-confirming the testimonies of several arrested guys, Wayne found that the confessions of the murderer gang did not seem to provide more effective clues. He packaged the interrogation records and temporarily shifted his attention to finding and matching fingerprints.

Perhaps in the eyes of some police officers in the police station, the detective agency has entered a relaxed state of "successfully arresting the murderer gang members and waiting to complete the paperwork and close the case". They even purchased wine and food on the spot and held an informal celebration dinner in the police station.
But in fact, the detective agency has just entered the full-throttle stage. As boxes of wine glasses bought from the bar were moved back to the temporary base of the detective agency, the agents began to deal with a large number of marked wine glasses.

Tonight, the police officers at the police station were still marveling at the thoughtful service of Wayne Detective Agency, where new glasses were served every time they had midnight snacks. However, the detectives who acted as waiters and collected the glasses were not so happy. It took them a lot of effort just to quietly sort them out.

In the room, Wayne stated his opinion expressionlessly: "The key issue now is to find out the reason for the conflicting testimonies among the murderer's gang members. Even if it is finally confirmed that the murderer Carl did lie spontaneously, we must be able to objectively prove the reason or inducement for him to do so."

Inesa nodded in agreement, but she couldn't help but feel a little confused: "But judging from the current situation, shouldn't we continue to focus our investigation on the murderer Carl and the leader Avner, who are at the center of the conflict? Why did you call everyone back except for Connor and Shock to stay near the police station to monitor secretly? Did I miss some important clues?"

There is no omission.
It's simply because I was planning to "set fire to the mountain"...

In Wayne's opinion, the cathedral was not interested in Carl, the apparent murderer of the assassination.

Originally, as the passing standard, as long as Wayne caught the leader of the gang and the remaining gang members, then even if the cathedral was still not satisfied, the detective agency should be able to pass.

After all, the detective agency's mission is to solve cases. If they can find the "real murderer behind the scenes" through the apparent murderer, it can be considered as doing nothing on paper.

It’s just like investigating those murder cases where the direct murderer is caught, and then the person who hired or instructed the murderer is found. No matter whether there is a deeper layer of instructions behind it, at least at the "case" level, the logical chain has been closed.

As for whether the subsequent story can be filmed into dozens of episodes of political struggle or emotional ethics drama, that is none of the detective agency's business.

But to Wayne's surprise, the confession of the murderer's gang leader did not match the murderer's testimony.

Both sides remain steadfast in their version of the story, but the content contradicts each other.

The "cooked duck" turned into "half-cooked rice", how could Wayne report back?
It seemed easy and logical to put the blame on the murderer named Carl. He was indeed the one who committed the crime and was caught red-handed.
Now his unilateral statement is not supported by any evidence, and even his accomplices tend to believe that the assassination was his personal act. Even if he is given ten defense lawyers in court, his coffin lid will still be nailed shut.

But if Wayne was so foolish as to hand in the assignment, and if Bishop Corleone asked about it later, the murderer would say that the case was instigated by the leader of their gang, and the leader would say that the case was done by the murderer on his own initiative. If this problem could not be solved, then the first thing Bishop Corleone would probably suspect would be that "there is something wrong with the detective agency."

——Did they catch a scapegoat to fill the gap? Could it be that they are “covering up” for the real culprit behind the scenes? Is it because they are unable to find out the truth due to their limited ability, or did they choose to stand on the position of “fooling the cathedral”?
He was just a passerby investigating the case, but ended up identifying himself as a cheater suspected of collusion. This was what really gave Wayne a headache.

Why does it have to be like this?

After realizing this, Wayne immediately knew that his plan to slack off had completely failed.

Therefore, now it is not as simple as just investigating the case. Seeing that the fire is likely to burn the detective agency, Wayne doesn't care whether the real culprit behind the scenes did it intentionally or unintentionally. He thinks of simply adding some firewood. It is always happier for "everyone to warm themselves by the fire" than "the detective agency being smoked alone".

So now, no one who has anything to do with the case can escape. First of all, Sheriff William who secretly tipped off the police, secondly, the local spy organization who knew about it but didn't report it, and then there's that third party force that came out of nowhere. Even the police station has to go through it. If there's evidence, use it. If there's no evidence, check fingerprints. If you can set fire to one of them, that's it.
Anyway, if the good citizens like the detective agency can't sleep well, then the perpetrators who have a part in the story are obliged to suffer from insomnia as well.

However, there was no need to speak out such an unfriendly idea and pollute Inissa's database, so Wayne brought out an excuse he had prepared in advance: "From the perspective of solving the case as quickly as possible, I hope to provide some favorable conditions so that the real culprit behind the scenes can become more proactive. So I deliberately withdrew all the manpower in public, in order to see if the real culprit behind the scenes would jump out and kill people to silence them, and then I can follow the clues to make the case simpler again."

Doug was an example of someone who had been tainted. After hearing this, he thought about it and tried to come up with the simplest solution. "Since the problem now is that the murderer's testimony conflicts with that of his accomplices, can we spend more energy on him and get him to change his statement?"

An old hunter like Inissa who respected order did have her own criteria in mind. After listening to Doug's words, she frowned slightly, and seemed to disagree with such a distortion of the facts.

Although Lina didn't mind throwing dirty water on the murderer who was most likely going to be buried, she was the first to speak out against it: "The church often regards the crime of 'deliberate deception' as more serious than 'wanton killing'. If that guy changes his confession again or the church finds out that the testimony is false, we will be implicated for no reason, which is not worth it."

Wayne also disagreed with this proposal, but he felt that Doug was a teachable person, so he just waved his hand to indicate that he would not consider it. He then thought that if he planned to do something bad secretly in the future, he could let Doug do it quietly.

bad,

I think I understand why those stupid bosses like lackeys...

No wonder Emperor Jiajing refused to allow Yan to fall for decades; it turns out that happiness lies here.

Having set the tone, what the detective agency needs to do now is to continue digging and preserving the "sparks" involving other forces.
Chief Inspector William's fingerprints are now being matched first. By the way, we can check whether the police department is completely untrustworthy. If we have time, we can go to Mr. Beaton to stir up trouble. I believe there is no shortage of people in the political circle who want to take advantage of the opportunity to get promoted.

Before, Reverend Tyrell sold a contact person from a local spy organization to us. We can follow this line as well. Although we don't want to offend Senator Walter, as long as the organization becomes big, the food will have to be shared. He should be very good at "firing temporary workers". Anyway, it is a fact that they knew about it in advance but did not report it. At most, Wayne can pretend to be an innocent person and write an anonymous letter to report it himself.

Finally, Wayne felt that the most suspicious and most suitable person to deal with was the sneaky third party.

The detective agency has already scanned all the fingerprints in the home of Mr. Molière who was attacked. Now it depends on whether there are any clues that can help them find the right person. The big shots don't do things like detective agencies investigate cases. Bishop Corleone once said in person, "Sometimes speculation is fact."

They collected fingerprints and marked them for comparison until late at night, playing with the charcoal powder they had shaved off with small brushes. Some people's hands looked darker than those of slaves.

Even Mr. Molière, the idle financial sponsor, came over curiously and peeked a few times. Everyone thought he was in the way but there was no need to chase him away, so they just asked the injured man not to touch anything.

At dawn the next day, Wayne suddenly woke up from his sleep.
Wow! As soon as I opened my eyes, I saw the giant spider Peter standing in front of my face, almost completely occupying my field of vision. It looked so huge, with one of its long legs stretched out and not retracted, as if it was trying to smell my breath.

Wayne's head shrank, he turned over and saw that the head of the perpetrator, Lina, was hanging in the half-open door. She looked at Wayne shamelessly, then looked back and said, "It looks okay."

what's the situation?
Doug knew that Wayne had woken up, so he walked in carefully to report: "The agents discovered that the food they bought this morning was poisoned. Just in case, they wanted to check on everyone. At present, everyone in the temporary base, including you, is doing fine."

Ok? !

(End of this chapter)