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"As you wish."

The two then met Detective George, a thin man with a small mustache, in the study.

"Sir Sherlock, another murder occurred last night!"

As soon as the other party saw Eileen, he hurriedly got straight to the point.

"Let's go check it out right now!"

Eileen didn't procrastinate either.

Detective George, noticing that Xu Ming seemed to have come along as well, asked with a puzzled expression:

Who is this?

Eileen answered casually.

"He is my newly hired assistant."

"I see."

Detective George nodded and didn't pursue the matter further.

This Sherlock Holmes III certainly has enough influence to casually bring unrelated people to the crime scene.

It seems his idea was correct.

Being by Eileen's side, thanks to Holmes's name, brought many unexpected advantages.

Xu Ming couldn't help but think to himself.

Eileen is a decisive and efficient person.

Without any delay, the group, led by Detective George, immediately took a carriage to the scene.

"The deceased was named Peder Rose, 29 years old, and was a sex worker..."

As Detective George led the way, he explained the deceased's basic information to the two men.

After passing through the alley, an artificial river appeared before everyone.

Beside the artificial river is a body covered with a white sheet.

"The body was discovered by a cleaner who was sweeping the riverbank in the morning when he found a body in the river and notified the police."

Our investigation has ruled out the cleaner as a suspect…

Amid Detective George's incessant chatter, Eileen recklessly pulled back the white sheet covering the body.

A woman's gruesome corpse was suddenly presented to everyone.

The chest cavity was opened, some of the internal organs were turned inside out, and the body had been soaked in water all night, so most of the blood had been lost. A large pile of internal organs was a pale, mushy mess, looking like rotten, spoiled dead pig meat.

Upon seeing this, Xu Ming's brows twitched slightly, and after watching for a while, he couldn't help but turn his head away.

Eileen, however, made no attempt to hide it and immediately put on gloves and extended her hand.

After a while, she raised her head and said with a serious expression:

"The deceased's lungs are missing!"

She looked at Officer George.

"Have you investigated anyone who knew the deceased? Did you find anything?"

Officer George shook his head helplessly.

"The deceased was rather withdrawn and did not get along well with her neighbors. She didn't have many friends, and those who knew her said she was petty and calculating."

"That's jealousy or anger."

Xu Ming and Eileen exchanged a glance and immediately saw the same thought in each other's eyes.

Chapter 572 On-site Investigation

"and many more!"

Eileen suddenly frowned as if she had remembered something.

"I think a little girl fell into this artificial river about six months ago."

"Six months ago, this..."

Detective George gave an awkward laugh. It wasn't a major case; who would remember something that happened six months ago?

Seeing the slight displeasure on Eileen's face, Detective George quickly instructed his subordinates:

"You, go check the case files from six months ago..."

"No need, I remember it very clearly."

Eileen seems to have remembered.

"Six months ago, a little girl did fall into this artificial river. The London police closed the case as an accident. The girl's parents protested many times, but the case was eventually dropped."

Eileen's eyes suddenly sharpened.

“If I hadn’t been in Liverpool on official business at the time, I would have done everything in my power to prevent the case from being closed.”

There's clearly more to this case than meets the eye!

Detective George broke out in a cold sweat.

It is estimated that the London police did not consider this a major case at the time, and the deceased was not the child of a powerful or wealthy person. With the idea of ​​avoiding trouble, they hastily closed the case.

He's a veteran of the London Metropolitan Police, and he knows the ins and outs of the system. Even without knowing the inside story, what he thinks is probably similar to what I'm looking for.

"I don't want to dwell on the past. Now, I want to immediately investigate the connection between the deceased and the 'accident' six months ago. Please!"

Detective George immediately and meekly ordered his subordinates to launch an investigation.

The investigation indeed uncovered a problem.

George glanced at Eileen cautiously with the file in his hand, then said:

"According to the testimonies, Peder Rose was indeed seen near this artificial river six months ago."

Because the body had been submerged in water for too long, the exact time of death could not be determined; it could only be roughly estimated to have occurred within a week.

Moreover, many people had passed through the area during that week; Peder Rose wasn't the only one, and she didn't know the deceased at all, so she was ruled out as a suspect. Plus, plus…”

Officer George suddenly became hesitant and stammering.

"Add what else?"

Eileen questioned.

"In addition, Deputy Chief Roddick demanded that the case be closed as soon as possible to appease the newspaper reporters, so..."

Detective George chuckled awkwardly.

"..."

Eileen's face immediately turned ashen.

"If you can't determine the time of death, can't you at least investigate when the girl went missing?!"

Detective George immediately frantically flipped through the files, and after a while he looked up, looking embarrassed.

"The eyewitnesses saw Peder Rose on the same day the little girl went missing."

Furthermore, eyewitnesses also saw the little girl appear by the artificial river…

Detective George couldn't continue speaking after that point.

This is clearly a serious breach of duty by the London police.

"It seems that it can be basically confirmed that Miss Rose was responsible for the previous case."

A sharp glint flashed in Eileen's eyes.

"But what was the motive?..."

Detective George said cautiously.

He simply couldn't imagine why an adult would inexplicably push a little girl he didn't know into the river.

Eileen sighed, and suddenly uttered a rather philosophical remark.

"Everyone has a demon living inside them."

Detective George scratched the back of his head, somewhat puzzled, while Eileen stared intently at the ground.

The female corpse stared with cloudy eyes, which still revealed endless terror and despair.

What did she see before she died?

What was the killer's motive for torturing and murdering these special workers?

Is it really revenge for the abandoned infants and children who died?

Eileen frowned and fell into deep thought.

He inherited his grandfather's noble title and considerable wealth, and although he had witnessed the dark side of human nature while dealing with various cases, Holmes III was well aware of it.

But she clearly had no idea what the lowest rungs of society in London, or even the whole of Britain, were like.

The tide of the Industrial Revolution crushed countless destinies.

Among them, the fate of children from the poorest families is the most vulnerable. Some of them are crushed by the wheels of time before they have even seen a single day of light and hope.

When those traces of resentment and despair come together, something terrible is quietly born in the darkness...

Under Eileen's direction, Xu Ming did his job as an assistant to the fullest, taking photos and saving all the suspicious things at the scene.

Eileen then suggested going to the deceased's home.

The police may have assumed the victim was murdered by the artificial river, as they only conducted a cursory search of the room, finding nothing of value other than making the room even more cluttered.

However, thanks to Eileen's keen observation, she quickly found some clues.

"This is the coat the deceased changed into yesterday...this is the hair found on the deceased's bed..."

"Is there a problem, Sir?"

Detective George was somewhat puzzled.

Eileen, however, looked at Xu Ming.