The answer the group arrived at was ridiculous. A martial arts master who was also a Herrscher—if anyone else found out, they'd probably be laughed at for a good while.
But every member of the Snow Wolf Squad firmly believed in this answer.
Perhaps the truth wasn't a martial arts master, but the conclusion of a Herrscher was already set in stone. A Herrscher might have many ways to achieve such a situation, but only a Herrscher could achieve such a situation.
"This is the fourth body found, right?" The group tacitly took several steps back. This body no longer had any information to provide at the scene. Further investigation would have to wait for a professional mortician.
Taking this opportunity, the group prepared to tally all the currently known information.
"A total of seven people are involved, four found and three missing. I estimate that these three have also met with misfortune," Shigure Kira said, taking out all the information she had obtained from those high-ranking officials and sending a list of victims to everyone's phones.
"I can't see any pattern for a moment..." Nicholas leaned her long spear against her body, biting her nails with her sharp shark-like teeth, a bitter look on her face as she looked at the documents.
She wasn't good at this kind of information gathering and analysis... this kind of thing had to be left to Salome.
Salome knew what Nicholas was thinking without even looking, but she was also busy looking for a possible pattern in the seven files.
The sample was still too small. Seven individuals would lead to a bunch of forcibly conforming patterns.
"The victims are five men and two women, but the ones still missing are all men. Each victim died in a different way, but the common point is that they were all extremely cruel..." Salome quickly reported the points she had summarized.
While listening to Salome's report, the others were also thinking about whether these relationships were reasonable and valid. They had Salome do the report only because her ability to multitask was very suitable for browsing multiple documents and counting information at the same time.
"There is no connection in terms of gender, and the age range is also very large. Although four of the seven victims are between twenty and thirty-seven years old, one female victim's age directly crosses over to sixty-one, and there are two teenage victims who are only fourteen and fifteen years old."
Siegfried's hand suddenly clenched.
Fourteen years old... an age where they hadn't even finished middle school, yet they were caught up in a Herrscher incident and lost their lives?
Siegfried hadn't forgotten the "tragic state of death" written in those documents.
"The order is also chaotic. I can't see any preference pattern at all. If I had to say, it's that after a normal age, the next victim's age will have a large fluctuation."
"Returning to a normal age is also a large fluctuation..." Cecilia said coolly. Salome was stunned for a moment, and Shigure Kira quickly raised her hand to record this pattern.
[The Herrscher's targets have a large fluctuation in adjacent ages.]
"This victim is of a normal age." After recording, Salome enlarged a file.
"Hake Yisha, male, 36 years old this year, a local of the Middle Eastern desert, unemployed. He was arrested and imprisoned before the Great Honkai for frequently being involved in the gray area, and was sentenced to forty-seven years in prison..."
"Wait," Siegfried suddenly raised his hand. He looked at Salome in surprise and pointed at the complete white skeleton. "This guy was a criminal?"
Salome nodded. "Yes, and because the local law does not have the death penalty, that's why there is such a ridiculous sentence of forty-seven years in prison.
"After all, this guy was thirty when he was imprisoned. He would be seventy-seven when he gets out. Plus, the prison environment here is poor, and prison bullying often occurs. This guy would probably only live to his fifties and die in prison."
Siegfried nodded, then looked at the other people's files. "What about the others? Are they like this too?"
Salome did not answer immediately, but looked at this guy who had gotten the information first but still wanted her to explain, speechlessly.
"There are indeed two others with criminal records," Salome sighed, waving her hand and bringing up two more files.
[Salih Yaxin, male, twenty-nine years old, imprisoned for illegally smuggling a large amount of 'Drunken Dream' to obtain huge funds, and was sentenced to twenty-three years in prison.]
[Musa Ibrahim, female, thirty-one years old, imprisoned for kidnapping, extortion, human trafficking, and being accused by others, and was sentenced to seventy-two years in prison.]
"At the same time, this Miss Musa is also the one with the most tragic death," Salome added.
"How tragic?" Siegfried asked with a frown.
Salome opened her mouth, but in the end, she did not say the horrific thing out loud, but showed them a set of photos.
"Cause of death: intravenous injection of high-temperature molten iron."
A deathly silence erupted. Siegfried looked at the face that was so heavily made up that it was extremely distorted even through the photo, and suddenly felt his stomach churn.
Even he couldn't stand it anymore...
The woman's body was riddled with holes from the scorching red molten iron. She was like a leaky pot, with molten iron flowing out from many places. The molten iron solidified in mid-air into thin metal pillars. At first glance, it looked like a 3D printed work without the support frame removed.
Half of the woman's face was also burned through, and the exposed bones were plated with a layer of metal. And the remaining half of her severely burned face still had her fear etched on it.
This was obviously a person who had been tortured for a long time...
Although the thousand cuts were horrific, it was at least instantaneous. Perhaps the pain would not last long, but this woman... the group did not dare to imagine what kind of pain she had endured before she died.
"Forty-seven years... seventy-two years..." Cecilia still couldn't see any change. She just muttered the number of years, then looked at Salome, whose face was a little pale.
"If I'm not mistaken... Salih's treatment should be lighter than these two, right?"
Salome quickly adjusted her mentality, then nodded. "That's right... Salih's cause of death is indeed much easier compared to the first two..."
"How is it easier?" Nicholas asked, her face twitching.
"He was directly pierced from top to bottom by a long steel bar..." Salome brought up a simple photo. "The steel bar went through his brain, accurately destroying his brainstem and spine, killing him instantly..."
"I understand..."