Soland is a police officer of the Berk City Police Department and the only female criminal police officer in the entire city police department. All other female colleagues in the police department are as assistants, secretary and other auxiliary civilian jobs. Only when she graduated from Pickett, she joined the Berk City Police Department with the first place in the criminal investigation subject.

She still remembers that when she joined the company, the police station was surprised and disgusted by her request to join the criminal department. If she hadn't had a reputation at the time, a large number of newspapers were staring at her, so that those people from the Personnel Department of the Municipal Police Department would not have the chance to start, and perhaps she would not have become a criminal policeman as she wished. Now, like other female colleagues, she would do things like serving tea, pouring water, sorting documents every day.

However, even so, she is still a marginal person in the police station. She can't interfere in any important cases. She is responsible for small cases such as homeless people stealing. The only benefit of these small cases is that she is familiar with the gang forces, homeless people gathering points and street distribution in various neighborhoods in Belluk City.

From the first day she joined the job, the one who sent her to partner with a conservative and lazy old policeman, who was called teaching experience, but in fact, this old policeman is more like a surveillance and a restraining person. His daily things are either dozing off or causing trouble for her. He is not allowed to do this or that, and he wants to handcuff her to sit in his seat all day.

Soland knew very well that if she didn't do anything, she would never change the status quo and would be limited to her current position for the rest of her life, and then become a negative example in the police station. Every time a new female policewoman joins, she would be mentioned again, mocking a woman who wants to become a criminal policeman for being overestimated.

"You may start with the old case." At a friend's party, a friend who was a clerk at another district police station gave a suggestion after listening to Soland's complaint.

"Old case?" Soland looked at her friend in confusion, waiting for her to explain further.

The friend explained: "I remember reading a document issued by the General Administration of the Federal Government. The General Administration hopes that all lower-level police stations can reduce some old cases, so local police are encouraged to use their free time to continue investigating these cases, and clearly instructed local police stations not to stop police officers from investigating old cases when the police officers' normal work is not affected."

After listening to his friend's advice, Soland couldn't help but fall into deep thought and no longer has the interest to continue the party. He ended the party quickly and returned home.

The next day, after work, Soland did not change much. As he had done in the past few months, he handled thefts and gangster fights and other cases at hand. He waited until he got off work, and did not leave the police station as usual, but went to the police station's archives room.

"What do you want to do? Why come to the archives?" Old Brown, who had already packed up his things and was about to go home, saw that the person he was ordered to monitor made such an abnormal behavior, followed and asked in confusion.

"Investigate the case." Soland said straightforwardly without hiding it.

Old Brown was stunned for a moment and couldn't help asking, "What case?"

"The old cases that were not solved and sealed." Soland quickly filled out a form handed over by the archives manager and said.

Old Brown shouted in great displeasure: "What are you messing with again?"

Although it is a happy thing for a partner to be a woman, the prerequisite is that this female partner is not so strong. This strength is not only reflected in her personality, but also in her physical shape. This is the first time he has seen a strong woman whose physique is not inferior to a man.

When he first received the task, Brown thought it was a bad guy, but now it seems that it was his enemy in the police station who wanted to mess with him before he retired. In short, he was worried all these days. The most important thing he did every day was to stop himself, a female partner who liked to cause trouble everywhere. He had even been trained to have a completely targeted female partner. As long as the female partner wanted to cause trouble, his intuition would immediately appear, just like now.

"I just want to investigate cases that have not been solved in the past through private time after get off work. This is requested by the General Administration, and even issued formal documents. If you don't believe it, you can go and have a look." Soland casually said the words that had been prepared long ago.

After hearing this, Old Brown curled his lips and did not continue to say anything. He turned his head and left, nor did he go to the document issued by the General Administration mentioned by Solander. He knew very well that since Solander said that, this document must exist, so it would be useless to find it.

As a slippery man in the police station, although he agreed to monitor Solander and prevent Solander from investigating any major cases, those cases that have been sealed are not among the major cases. In his opinion, he, a person who is about to retire, does not need to risk violating the orders of the General Administration to suppress Solander for those above, so he chose to turn a blind eye.

After the person in the way left, Solander looked for cases that he was interested in and had hope of solving in the archives among the old cases that had not been solved.

The rumors that the only female criminal police officer of the municipal bureau planned to resolve the old cases in the municipal bureau spread in the police station building the next day. Not only the male police officers in the municipal bureau would think that Soland's actions were a provocation to them, but even the female police officers who were clerks and assistants also became disgusted with their colleagues, believing that her behavior was really deviant.

However, Soland completely ignored the various opinions of the outside world. She was now trapped in various cases, looking for the cases she was most interested in and had the most opportunity to solve, so as to enhance her influence and voice.

However, as old cases, these unsolved cases have been repeatedly studied and investigated by many people for a long time. They really cannot find any useful clues, so they are classified into unsolved cases. Therefore, it is basically impossible to find useful clues from these investigation documents.

Two more days passed, and Soland still had not found a suitable case. All the cases she had seen before were cases without any clues or clues. Most of the police detectives in charge of these cases were perfunctory, and the case records were very casual, and even the archive management was very simple, so many archive documents were either moist or rotten, or bitten by mice or ants, and searched for them without results for several days, which also made her doubt whether it was wrong for her to do so.

"It's useless to see those documents. The cases in those documents are investigated by lower-level police detectives from beginning to end. Even an investigation team was not established. People at that time did not pay attention to those cases, and the records of those cases were naturally very casual and simple." The old police officer in charge of guarding the archives looked at Solander, who was a little frustrated. Although he also believed that women were best to be clerks and should not be criminal detectives, he still admired Solander's behavior in recent days, so he pointed out: "You should go there to search. There are cases that have been formed on the joint investigation team. Each case involves at least three different departments. The information left behind is very detailed and well preserved. However, those people did not have cases that were able to solve back then, and I don't think you can solve them."

Hearing the old policeman's advice, Soland thanked him and came to a row of file cabinets in the deepest part of the archive room.

Although I haven't read the documents in the cabinet yet, just from the fact that the cabinet is made of iron coated with a special anticorrosion coating, we can see the difference between this cabinet and other surrounding cabinets.

Soland looked at the more than forty different filing cabinets in front of him, and casually chose one of the closest filing cabinets. After opening it, he took out a file file and started reading it.

She just looked through the first case statement and knew that the case was exactly the case she wanted. So she brought a trolley, took out all the files of the case and piled them on it, pushed it to the reading area of ​​the archive room, found a suitable position, took out the scale card at her waist, inserted it into the slot on the table, rotated it for half a circle, and then dialed the time roller on the table.

After adjusting the time, a ventilating sound was heard from the pipe, and a somewhat unpleasant smell came from the light mouth in front. Then, two clicks of flints were heard, and a ball of flames burned into the light mouth, illuminating the surrounding dim room.

Soland fluctuated the knob under the gas lamp, adjusted the size of the flame, then closed the transparent glass cover, and refocused on the information in her hand, and soon became completely immersed in the case in her hand. Time passed little by little, until the light of the kerosene lamp began to weaken and dim, she came back to her senses from the document and found that her daily gas quota had been used up, which meant that she had been sitting here for at least six hours.

She pulled out the zeroed scale card, but did not extinguish the very faint lights. She quickly packed up the randomly placed documents on the table, put them back into the filing cabinet one by one, turned around and left the filing room.

Soland, who left the archives room, did not go home, but slept for a few hours in an empty interrogation room in the police station. After working hours, he continued to work.

During the whole day of duty, Soland seemed to be thinking about the content of the case I saw yesterday, so she seemed very silent. As a partner, Old Brown also realized something was wrong with her, but she didn't ask too much.

After get off work, Soland did not go to the archives room again, and did not go home after leaving the police station. Instead, after walking a few streets, he boarded the bus to the Great North Point.

After getting in the car, Solander found a corner at the rear of the car and sat down. While looking at the moving scenery outside the window through the iron fence of the car window, he repeated the case he saw yesterday in his mind.

That case was a very famous case, which caused a great sensation in the city of Belluk at that time. Even the Federal Parliament mentioned this case in several meetings. The official name of this case was the Monte Family Collective Missing Case, and the people prefer to call it the Black House Case because the houses where the Monte Family lived were completely black.

The Monte family is also an ancient family in Belluk City. This family can be traced back to the great migration period. The family was the powerful and powerful in Belluk City for a long time. However, for some reason, the entire family seemed to be bored with things like fighting for power and profit. Family members resigned from various public offices one after another, and the family's industries in the city were sold. The entire family moved to the manor villa in the Great North Point District outside the suburbs.

Afterwards, the Monte family seemed to be cursed. The family members died of various diseases one after another. Many of the surviving family members became crazy. The powerful people living in the Great North Point area also deliberately alienated the Monte family for these reasons. In the end, basically no powerful family continued to interact with the Monte family. The Monte family can be said to be completely isolated from the social circle in Belluk City, and no one cared about the situation of the Monte family.

Until a month after a member of the Mont family talked with him for the last time, the Belluc City Council passed a proposal, which was to prepare to revise a set of founding history of Belluc City, so that others could not until Belluc City is a city with a long history, and to condense the Belluc people's sense of belonging. Because as the economy fell into a downturn, many factories were closed, and many Belluc people left their hometowns and went to work in other places, which caused the Belluc City population growth rate to be negative for a period of time. Therefore, when there was no way to revitalize the economy and reopen factories, the city council could only use this method to increase the sense of belonging and retain the population.

Since it is a revision of history, the powerful families that play a significant role in the establishment of Belluk City naturally need to revise their family history together. Originally, this was the one that the powerful people took the initiative to request, but later, the city council decided that all the family history of ancient families would be compiled into the history of Belluk City together.

Although the Monte family is not a big family in Belluc City, it is definitely an ancient family. After the establishment of Belluc City, twelve stone pillar reliefs were established to twelve people who made outstanding contributions to the establishment of Belluc City, and they stood on the Parliament Square. This is also the twelve pillars, and one member of the Monte family is one of them.

So since all the family history of the ancient families must be revised in the Chronicles of Belluk, the Monte family is naturally indispensable. So the city government sent some officials to the Monte family manor villa, intending to borrow the Monte family's own family history.
Chapter completed!