"Oh my god, we won the bid again!?" Looking at the seven video thumbnails on the big screen, Cui Lizhu covered her face and said, "Actually, before coming to Guangdong, I had a bad feeling, and now... As expected... It’s come true!”
"Team leader," Zeng Ke said, clicking on the video with the mouse, "Miao Xiaowen's video is just the last one. Before that, the same publisher had posted 6 identical videos, with different victims in the videos. The Missing Persons Department has taken the impact information to the database for comparison!"
"No, no, no, please don't..." Cui Lizhu rubbed her hands nervously, "I hope this is all a prank, okay? It's a prank by the movie makers..."
After hearing Cui Lizhu's prayer, the office suddenly became quiet for a moment. Everyone was thinking about their own things. Only Ran Tao spoke up:
"The possibility of a prank is unlikely. At least Miao Xiaowen is a real missing person..."
"Zeng Ke," Zhao Yu pointed at the video and asked, "How long is the playback time of each video?"
"They are all about 20 minutes long, and there are obvious traces of editing in the video," Zeng Ke said. "That is to say, the actual crime process is longer than the playing time in the video."
"Editing..." Zhao Yu had already seen these murder videos before and saw obvious signs of editing. He immediately said to himself, "Why do you need to edit them?"
"Hmm... I think..." Wu Xiumin guessed, "Did the publisher intentionally make the video look like a film? He didn't want anyone to see that these are actually real murder images?"
"This sentence makes sense..." Zeng Ke nodded and said, "I took a look at the illegal forum. There are many videos similar to gimmicks, but most of them are movie clips, or short video clips shot with inferior means. At a glance, You can tell it’s fake.”
"I don't think so," Miao Ying retorted, "The victims in the video are all missing persons in the real world. Since he decided to upload the video, he must be prepared to be discovered!"
Um…
Everyone nodded in agreement.
"I think the reason why the publisher edited it..." Zeng Ke guessed again, "Perhaps he was afraid that the website would feel that the video was too real and bloody and would block his post?"
Um…
Everyone nodded again, agreeing with Zeng Ke's guess.
"I remember..." Miao Ying pointed to the video again and asked, "Does the video require payment?"
"Yes," Zeng Ke nodded, "pay or recharge the membership. In order to obtain the complete video, the police specially recharged the membership.
"Also," Zeng Ke transferred another set of data from his computer to the big screen and introduced, "Take the video of Miao Xiaowen's murder as an example. Within 48 hours of its release, this video had more than 50,000 views. The number of people who paid to watch was around 6,000.
"It costs about 3.2 yuan to watch once. If the website and the individual share it in half, the publisher will make a profit of nearly 10,000 yuan!"
"But..." Cui Lizhu reacted very quickly, "If all seven videos are added up, it will be more than this amount of money, and the longer the video is released, the higher the income will be!
"Grandma, you're a bitch!" the little girl scolded angrily, "This murderer has gone too far! He kills people and makes money from them! Why the hell is he raised by humans? He's really worse than a beast!"
"Tsk, tsk, don't curse, pay attention to your quality!" Zhao Yu warned Cui Lizhu, then slapped the table seriously and shouted, "Grandma, you are a bitch. If you don't catch this little grandson, I don't deserve to be a special detective. I will be a special detective." What a cold case sweeper!"
"Speaking of charges..." However, Miao Ying calmly noticed a detail and immediately asked Zeng Ke, "Since there are charges, there should be an account. Since there is an account, are you afraid that you won't be able to trace the person?"
“It’s like this,” Zeng Ke explained, “After I hacked into their website, I found that their funding system operates independently and cannot be traced.
"Moreover, their security measures are very powerful. All publisher information is encrypted with advanced algorithms. If you want to find out the publisher's account information, there is currently only one way, and that is to enter the server of their financial system!"
"Didn't you say it's overseas?" Ran Tao scratched his head, "The server may be hidden in any country! Even if it is found, we don't have permission, right?"
"Xiao Zeng, Xiao Zeng," Cui Lizhu said eagerly, "Can you find the server address of the website? As long as you know where it is, I will do the rest. I have stolen the server hard drive before!"
“…”
Everyone was speechless for 5 seconds before Zeng Ke replied: "We should be able to find it, it just takes a little time!"
"Can you hurry up?" Cui Lizhu said anxiously, "It's too late. Even if the account is checked, it will be useless. The murderer has already taken the money and ran away!"
"Of course I know," Zeng Kezuo said, "We are already doing our best. This time, the people who are helping us are the best in the country..."
Unexpectedly, before Zeng Ke could finish speaking, there was a loud knock on the office door.
After getting permission, I saw a local police officer rushing in from outside the door.
As soon as he saw the police officer panicking and looking uncertain, Zhao Yu already felt that something was wrong.
And the next second, Zhao Yu's worries came true.
The police officer told everyone that the missing persons department had compared the information of three victims from six new videos. These three people are all missing persons, and they have been missing for more than 16 years...
…
An hour later, it was still in the temporary office of the special task force, but the atmosphere was more depressing and solemn than before.
Because, they have got the exact information. Through the identification of the missing Kobe Bryant, the seven female victims in the seven videos are all real people, and they are all missing persons from a long time ago!
In the video, like Miao Xiaowen, they were all brutally murdered after being subjected to inhuman torture by the murderer!
The whole process made the viewers look askance, the listeners were indignant, and the listeners shed tears. It was really outrageous to the extreme!
What is even more staggering is that according to the data, these 7 victims are distributed across the country, covering 5 provinces and cities. The scope of their crimes is so wide that it is very rare!
In Zhao Yu's words, if the seven victims are really dead, then based on the nature of this case, it is not among the five major unsolved cases at all, and it is definitely a national first-level major case!
To a certain extent, it has even exceeded the impact of the Headless Female Corpse Case and the Demon Case.
The nature of this case is extremely bad, and the murderer's cruelty and arrogance have reached an unprecedented level.
After the report was reported, the leaders of the Criminal Department attached great importance to it and asked Zhao Yu's special task force to take full responsibility and use all resources to detect the case as soon as possible and catch the murderer!
For a time, the whiteboard in the special task force office increased from the previous two to eight. When the eight were full, it increased to 10, 12...
(End of chapter)