I finally figured this out, and at the same time realized that Xiao Liu was going in the wrong direction. There will never be more than one murderer, there is only one murderer. Like an actor who brings himself into acting in order to play a better role, every time a murderer writes a story, he really regards himself as a victim.
A person who can do this is either a perfect actor or a complete psychopath, and we generally call this kind of psychosis-split personality.
Heraclitus once said that it is impossible for a person to step into two rivers at the same time, and similarly, it is impossible for a patient with split personality to speak the language of two different identities at the same time. We do hear several different voices speaking in the conversation, but never all of them appearing together at the same time.
It was as if the little girl's crying stopped when the man's voice came up. And if this is the case, it means that the murderer's split personality has reached an advanced stage. From my analysis of the situation in the sewer, there are at least four personalities in the murderer.
A young man, a little girl, a young woman, and a man named Yama. The mental illness of split personality is related to the living environment since childhood and the growth of one's own heart. When I can no longer face the problems I have encountered, and no one around can solve his problems, there will always be someone who will come out and say to you: "Don't be afraid, I am here."
And the person who said this to you is not someone else, but yourself.
If no one can help you, create someone who can help you.
Thinking of this, I turned around and said to Gu Chen: "Although Xiao Liu didn't tell us what the connection between the victims was, Xiao Liu found clues from those bowls. Do you think those bowls can tell Xiao Liu something? What, are there any secrets in those bowls, but at that time, we all saw the fragments."
Gu Chen leaned his whole body against the railing, rubbed his temples and said to me, "Except for being a little older, I don't see anything special about it."
"Then old and old are the characteristics of this bowl." I turned my back, leaned my whole body against the railing, and murmured, "Old and old."
Suddenly, a very crucial point came to my mind. Thinking of this, I rushed to the door of Sister Mary's dormitory and started knocking on the door. When I reached out to knock on the door for the tenth time, the door was finally opened, and Mary stood in front of me with an angry face, and then said, "What are you going to do? You can't let people sleep in the middle of the night." .”
I looked at Mary's messy hair and said with a gloomy expression: "Of course I called you up to save someone, and immediately check the origin of the victim. If my guess is right, these people are here." A few years ago or even ten years ago, they all lived nearby."
Sister Mary looked at me unhappily, then yawned a lot and said, "Then you'd better hope that your thinking is correct, otherwise, see if I don't blow your head off with one punch!"
Saying that, Sister Mary hooked her fingers and signaled Gu Chen and me to go in.
Sister Mary turned on her computer, which was casually thrown on the ground, and typed something on the keyboard.
I looked at the computer I picked up from the ground, and said in surprise, "Isn't this computer given to you by the Ministry? If you just throw it on the ground like this, you won't be afraid of breaking it."
Sister Mary looked up the information of several people, and said: "If this computer is so easy to break, it is not a good thing. Even if it is thrown from the sixth floor, this computer can still be used after being picked up, even under water. .And cold and heat protection, no matter the temperature is too high or too low, it can be used equally.”
While talking, Mary found out the information of several victims and set up a comparison object. I looked at the data running fast on the computer screen, and after a while, a map was formed, which appeared in front of my eyes in 3D.
In the first story, two white-collar workers of the company died. In the second story, a family of three died. In the third story, the residents of the three happy communities died. These people are scattered all over Dongxing City, and they don't seem to have the slightest connection.
After a while, three points appeared on the map, and we all understood that this was where several people lived before.
After looking at it for a while, Mary said: "Although they are all in Dongxing City, it can't be said that they live nearby. It takes an hour to drive for a distance of one centimeter on the map. In Dongxing City more than ten years ago, The city is still developing, and there are not many people with cars. If you walk or ride a bicycle, it will take two to three hours."
Having said that, Sister Mary stood up, and said to me gloomyly: "I said Wu Meng, don't wake up people in the middle of the night if you are uncertain about things in the future, don't you know that beautiful women always sleep out? Get out."
With a bang, the door was slammed shut, and Gu Chen and I stood outside the door looking at each other.
Gu Chen scratched his head and said, "What did you find?"
While pulling my hair, I paced outside the door: "But at least these few people are locals from Dongxing City, but if they were locals from Dongxing City, they would all be rich by now. The demolition money can make anyone a multi-millionaire, but none of these people is a millionaire."
Gu Chen patted himself on the forehead suddenly, and said to me: "By the way, Wu Meng, in the description of the third story, the murderer once mentioned the mentality of the residents of Xingfu Community. Although they want to be demolished, they have always been No one is interested in this area. The old city is even outside the Fifth Ring Road, as the story says, the prosperity of Dongxing City has nothing to do with the people in the old city.”
I frowned, and under Gu Chen's reminder, I suddenly remembered that this is indeed the case. In the story, the residents of Xingfu Community were all waiting for demolition, but they had never been demolished. In Dongxing City, only the oldest urban area has not been demolished. It is called to protect the old buildings, but in fact, it is because the old urban area is not close to the river or the sea, so it cannot be developed.
And the later Dongxing City, perhaps just continued to use the name of a Dongxing City. In contrast, the old city is more like a surrounding countryside.
But even if these people are all living in the old city, it will take at least an hour to drive, so what is the relationship between them? In the old city more than ten years ago, the murderer must have had some intersection with these people. But, what exactly is such an intersection.
In the second and third stories, those children were only six or seven years old, and the murderer was at least in his twenties, so what kind of intersection did these children have with the murderer
Thinking of this, I knocked on Mary's door again, and as the door opened, another pillow flew out. I watched the pillow fly towards my head, and at this moment, two fingers caught the pillow. I turned my head to look, and saw Gu Chen looking at me sullenly.
"Hero, what a skill." I said.
Gu Chen smiled and said, "I feel like there's nothing I can't hold."
Mary called out, "Aren't you two done yet?"
I poked my head out from behind the pillow and said to Mary, "Give me a map of the old town."
Sister Mary stretched out her fist and said, "I just want to tell you, if there is another time, it won't be a pillow."
Saying that, Sister Mary snatched back the feather pillow that Gu Chen held between her fingers.
After a while, the map of the old town appeared in front of us.
But this time, the three red dots were indeed within the scope of the old city, and this was the connection between the victims.
"Here!" I pointed to a place on the old city map.
The two looked at the computer, and said in unison: "Old City Cultural Center? What's wrong here?"
I looked at the two people and talked about my guess: "We all know that the development of Dongxing City is due to the strong support from above, which turned this small village into a metropolis."
"Yes." Sister Mary said, "I came to Dongxing City seven years ago. At that time, Dongxing City was still Dongxing County."
I said: "The entertainment of people in Dongxing County at that time was far from as developed as it is now. The place where entertainment can be performed is probably the so-called cultural center. The victim's family background, age, gender, working environment, etc. are all irrelevant, then The only connection is probably generated here."
"Then what will happen?" Gu Chen looked back at me and said, "And the probability is a bit too small, is it possible?"
I nodded seriously: "After all the impossibilities have been ruled out, the remaining impossibilities are the truth of the matter. I think these people will never know why they died. However, for a split personality For people, they are suspicious, mistrustful, jealous, sensitive, irritable, resentful, and even conceited."
"But what is there that the murderer will remember for so many years, and even the children who were babies at that time?" Gu Chen raised his question again.
I was silent for a moment, and then said to Gu Chen: "I think why the murderer can be a man and a woman at times, that should be the deepest secret hidden in his heart. As he grows older, he becomes more sensitive and resentful, So, he wants to kill the person who knew the secret before."
"Although, these people have even forgotten these things long ago."
I looked at the two of them and expressed my guess.
"He, or she, should be intersex."