In the 19th century, there was a legend about the Anvil Man. Legend has it that the Anvil Man will appear every night and use a hammer to forge artifacts on the anvil. Every time he uses the anvil, one person will die.
"How many homicides has this been?" asked the inspector.
"The third time," the officer replied
The inspector glanced at the corpse that had been beaten to death and waved his hand: "Collect the corpse."
After finishing the work, Inspector Maud lit a cigarette. The serial murders that happened these days have made the Inspector a little mentally weakened.
The Verdean Inspector puts a lot of pressure on Inspector Maud
This put a lot of pressure on Inspector Maud. He knew that if he couldn't solve the case again, I'm afraid his career would be over.
In order to gain attention, the media carried out extensive reports under the headline "Anvil man committed the crime again", which made the citizens panic, and some people were so frightened that they even fled the city with their families.
The city authorities could only speak again and again to reassure the citizens, but to no avail.
Inspector Maud turned off the TV, and he was going to sleep.
When he woke up, it was already bright, and then he turned on the TV and saw the news was rolling: "Anvil man shot again, innocent people died." Inspector Maud was shocked, and soon the phone rang, and Inspector Maud rushed to the crime scene.
After arriving at the scene, Adjutant Holt briefed him on the situation: "Inspector, the deceased was attacked at a nearby subway station, but he did not die on the spot, but after climbing out of the subway station, he was chased by the murderer and then attacked and killed."
Inspector Maud asked, "Has the forensic identification been made? What weapon is it?"
Holt said: "It has been confirmed that it was injured by a blunt weapon, to be precise, a hammer."
Inspector Maud: "The Anvil Man!"
"It should be," Holt said.
Inspector Maud asked, "Any more clues?"
"The identity card and money on the victim's body disappeared, showing that the perpetrator wanted to hide the identity of the deceased," Holt said.
Without identification, this is very bad news for solving the case.
Inspector Maud continued to ask: "There should be surveillance probes in the subway, right?"
"Yes, but it was all destroyed by the perpetrator," Holt said.
"But the footage will be preserved," Inspector Maud said.
"We can give it a try," Holt said.
As a result, Inspector Maud and Inspector Holt analyzed the surveillance video of the subway station, and they found a masked man with a black hood entering the subway station, and his behavior was very suspicious.
By analyzing the footage, Inspector Maud and Officer Holt roughly determined the killer's stature and other characteristics.
However, these are still not enough to catch the perpetrator.
Inspector Maud had to return to his residence. He was lying in bed and could not sleep for a long time. As a police detective, he is unable to catch cunning criminals. How does this make him explain to the public? How to explain to Inspector Flender?
Thinking about it, he fell asleep.
As time passed by, the Anvil man continued to commit crimes, more and more people died in city everywhere.
City government and police department held overnight meeting to discuss countermeasures.
The mayor, the police chief, the police inspector, and senior officials of the city government all attended the meeting.
Although Inspector Maud was the main person in charge of the case, he was not invited to this meeting.
Mayor Wardle spoke first: "Murder cases are happening frequently in the city now, what are your police plans to do?"
Police Chief Kurtes is an incompetent villain who knows that he cannot give an explanation to the people of the city. So he put the responsibility on Inspector Flender: "This is because Inspector Flender is incompetent. He should resign to explain to the people of the city."
Inspector Flender blushed and said, "It's not like that, it's Maud, he didn't do it well, it has nothing to do with me."
Mayor Wardle interrupted the inspector: "But you also have the responsibility of the inspector's disadvantage."
Flender said: "I'm just a small inspector. I don't have any big power. The power is in the hands of Kurt. He is the police chief, and he should be responsible."
Kurtes retorted: "You are a person directly involved in this case, and you have never reported the case to me!"
"Yeah, because I can't find you every time." Flender said helplessly.
Kurtes was furious: "I don't have so much time to wait for you, you can handle your own affairs by yourself, don't always ask me to make up your mind!"
"You fucking..." Flender is furious
Mayor Wardle said quickly: "Enough! Enough!"
But no one listened to him.
The whole meeting turned into a scolding battle, everyone blamed each other, and the situation gradually got out of control, even Mayor Wardle could not control the situation.
The joint meeting of the city government and the police department did not make any progress, and finally Mayor Wardle had no choice but to ask the federal government for help.
The federal government doesn't have a good way to handle this kind of thing either.
They can only increase police presence in the streets, parks and subway stations, but the Anvils are secretive and often appear and attack in casual places.
As the death toll continues to rise, the panic among citizens is increasing, and the wealthy have chosen to flee the city, while ordinary people can only choose to go out less to avoid attacks.
A good and prosperous city gradually declined because of a gangster who was difficult to catch.
Not only that, but with the ever-increasing demand for safety, the demand for guns surged, arms dealers made a lot of money, and cities became less safe. In addition to the occasional killings of the Anvil Man, there were frequent shootings in the city, and the city government had a serious deficit in its finances. Even the President of the Republic had to pay attention to the public security situation in the city.
In view of the public security situation in the city, the President had to send a security advisor to assist the city government in public security management, and the army was also on standby at any time, ready to conduct military management of the city at any time.
Later, because gun violence in the city was so high, the president had to order martial law.
The army and the armed police took over the city, tanks and armored vehicles patrolled the streets day and night, and the Anvil man who killed without blinking disappeared instead.
Inspector Maud looked at the army and armed police in the city, and he suddenly realized: "So this is the ultimate goal that the Anvil Man wants to achieve."
Inspector Flender has been very uneasy since returning from the city government meeting, and he knows very well what kind of person the Commissioner is. Therefore, he must find a way to escape.
So he can only put pressure on Inspector Maud
A few days later, Inspector Flanders summoned Inspector Maud, who was on the verge of collapse, almost insane.
Inspector Flender said, "Dude, this matter is being investigated very closely now, we're afraid we're going to have a big disaster."
Inspector Maud was stunned and didn't know what he was talking about.
Inspector Flender continued: "Dude, as your boss, I have to admit that you did a really bad job in this matter, so you must resign, otherwise I can't explain it to my superiors."
Inspector Maud agreed: "Okay, okay, I understand."
Back home, Detective Maud was drunk.
After waking up, Detective Maud understood everything, he came to the lake. He quietly looked at the sparkling lake surface, He shouted from the lake: "Anvil man, Anvil man, you are a fucking bastard!"
He finally jumped into the water and died.
A few years later, a middle-aged man came to the lake, silently placed a bouquet of flowers, and left.
