"White Chi, you go and get all the files of the victims first, preferably in order. This shouldn't be a difficult thing for you."
"An Miaomiao, I want all their information. Including hobbies, health status, places they usually go to, especially the itinerary of the day before their death..."
"Captain Chu, you... You take me to visit these people again? People I know around? Maybe useful information has been ignored."
The snow-white wood texture sets off a pair of randomly overlapping hands. The slender fingertips touch the tabletop, revealing a cold porcelain-like whiteness. The young man sitting behind the table orders without raising his head, everything is in an orderly manner. .
He casually took the cup of tea that Chu Kuang handed over to him, and leaned back against the back of the chair.
He has a calm expression, a clear tone, and a soothing and natural tone. He doesn't have to speak harshly, so that people? unconsciously obey? his orders, with a commanding demeanor.
It seemed that all the plans had been formed in his mind, and it was only natural for him to sit here calmly and give orders without ambiguity.
Wade White didn't want to understand it at all. They were still discussing whether it was a weird thing or a pot of a sealed item before they knew it. How did they become the other party's subordinates in a daze
Even the "usurped" captain Chu Kuang didn't have any objections. It seems that being? a newcomer? directing errands around is not such a rare thing.
Once this setting is accepted...
Well, you can experience the feeling of being hollowed out.
After all, someone? Squeezing tool people? No, cross it out. It is a means to fully utilize the value of each tool person. However, it has been personally verified by countless tool people. It is quite familiar. Woolen cloth.
... the old slave master.
When Yuan Buwei and Chu Kuang came back after walking around, all the things he needed were neatly placed on the table.
How many people? Sitting around the table together, the young man took out a blank piece of paper, unscrewed the cap of the pen, and a series of smooth handwriting came out.
[№1 July 23rd...]
"First, sort out the timeline from beginning to end..."
The time of death detected by the forensic doctors may be wrong, but the sealed item will definitely not. Because of applying to investigate this case, participants can temporarily increase their authority and rent some idle sealed items from the Bureau of Secret Affairs.
For example? "Death Declaration".
This is a whole body? Yellow, with slightly curled edges, about half the size of an A4 paper, it looks like a section of an old newspaper. If a person's photo is pasted on the paper, there will be a death announcement related to the other person, such as [died on July 23, due to lack of a heart], this is the first victim's death declaration.
One death announcement after another was listed.
The first victim was the man who lost his heart? After three days of calm, starting from July 27, and in the next few days, more victims appeared one after another. And the organs lost vary. The second person? Lost the liver, then the lungs and spleen.
"Heart? Liver, spleen, lung, and kidney... the kidneys are missing."
Unexpected fingers slid across? One by one, the black and white photos of the dead were cold and silent.
"You can't die if you lose a kidney, so naturally you won't be able to see the death announcement..."
Although the victim immediately called the police when he was examined in the hospital and found that he had lost a kidney inexplicably, but the time when this incident actually happened must have been some time before the police were called. But it is impossible to know exactly which day it is.
On the 27th, one person? was killed, missing a liver; on the 28th, one person? was killed, and what was missing was a lung; and on the 30th, a victim lost a spleen.
According to the time to speculate, the vacant number 29 in the middle is likely to be the day when the other party was recruited.
Until the 30th, the five people who were killed one after another lost five different internal organs, and everything seemed to have some kind of law that they didn't know.
Probably because they had just solved the bald cult issue, they had some kind of association, at this time Wade White couldn't help but say: "Could this be another cult's sacrificial ceremony? Offering living people at a certain time? Flesh and blood, pleasing evil gods, etc., haven’t there been plots like this in previous novels and movies?”
"It's not impossible." An Miaomiao also actively participated in the discussion, puzzled, "However, for the next twenty-nine victims, whether it's the time of death or the missing organs, there is obviously no pattern. .”
If it's some kind of weird rule, then after the first round is over, there's another ten days of quiet, starting on August 10th, and the second round should be like before. But the fact is not the case.
Ten people died directly on August 10th, all kinds of internal organs were missing, three more died on the 11th, and then on the 12th... There is no pattern at all.
"Of course there are no rules." Yuan Buwei tapped his fingers on the table, his lips curled up, and asked in surprise, "Do you care? Which pig does the pork you usually eat come from, and on which day was it killed? Did you kill it?"
He raised his eyelids, and there seemed to be black and calm flowing water in his cold and quiet pupils.
Several people were stunned at first, and then felt a slight chill in their hearts.
An inexplicable chill swept through his body.
It was clear that the young man's words were extremely plain, and it even sounded like a light-hearted joke, but they seemed to sense some kind of deep hidden danger.
"You mean..."
Chu Kuang said in a deep voice, "Do you still think that this is man-made?"
It wasn't because there was no answer, but his fingers were slowly stroking the paper in front of him, his tone of voice was calm and detached.
"Five people in the first round? Retired track and field athletes, gym coaches, winter swimming enthusiasts, and the remaining two? Although they are ordinary office workers, they are tall and well-known in the surrounding community... so? Five of them Personally, most people's first impression is that they are in good health, and their physique is far superior to other people, right?"
He paused, and without waiting for anyone else to speak, he said abruptly, "This is selection, fat and lean. To eat pork, you must first select the pig with the best growth."
For some reason, the three of them? Another chill.
An Miaomiao forcibly held back the hairy feeling that kept popping up, and continued by analogy: "The first round is carefully selected, and only one person is selected every day? The second round is very simple and rough. .It's like... like I lost my patience? Like?!"
At the end, she looked at Yuan Buwei with bright eyes, almost like a child who thought independently and solved the problem, expecting the teacher's praise.
Yuan didn't bend his lips for a smile, it seemed to be a default.
Others also suddenly realized: "Yeah, if this is not a weird act, but man-made, just like a serial killer committing a crime, the rhythm at the beginning seems very leisurely, every time Only deal with one person? Maybe he still stepped on the spot carefully and acted after understanding the other party's situation. Later? He obviously lost patience? He no longer screened the target, which was very rude."
"There are two possibilities for this kind of behavior. One is that he is in a hurry, maybe it is like the cult ritual that Wade White said. At the beginning, it was enough to just take away the organs of five people. Later, the demand became more and more Big, so? He didn’t have time to pick and choose carefully. Second, his courage has grown. At the beginning, he still had various concerns, and he was very cautious in choosing the timing of his strike. Later, he didn’t care whether it would be exposed.”
"—When you went to investigate before, somewhere must have caught his attention. The kidney that was taken away by? was a warning... This time, killing a popular star in full view is almost provocative. What gave him such confidence?"
Yuan Buwei said something to himself and shook his head.
How many people? They looked at each other and almost spoke in unison.
"... It's a sealed item!"
"Either the activation of the sealed item is very secretive, he thinks he has left no trace, and he will never be caught; or this sealed item has brought him great power, and even made him despise the authorities .”
The sound of the cap closing of the fountain pen is exceptionally clear.
Yuan Buwei put down his pen and smiled lazily: "Of course, there is another possibility, he is already crazy."
He was not joking. Many powerful sealed items are accompanied by powerful sequelae, such as the flame of hatred. The more you use it, the deeper you sink, the lower your sanity value, and it is not impossible to go crazy in the end.
He pushed the paper full of handwriting in front of several people. He found some candies out of nowhere, peeled off the sugar coating in one go, and threw them into his mouth.
"Hmm..." It looked like a well-plucked cat. It was not because it was lazily slumped on the chair, and half-closed its eyes in satisfaction. ? Taking away the skin itself is not in Tianshui City at all. It can be deduced that maybe this sealed item has no distance limit, but it must be targeted at people the owner knows? Maybe even the owner will see it with his own eyes. The other party... use these conditions to find, and the first five people are the clues."
"I have the opportunity to understand their situation. I have been near them that day, and maybe even have been? Stalking, maybe there are more close intersections. Recently, their whereabouts are secretive. There is a high probability that they often stay behind closed doors. It is very likely that they are in an abnormal mental state. …to find such a man?—”
The sweetness of the candy melted on the tip of the tongue, so that the young man's mumbled voice seemed to be laced with sweetness when he spoke, but his tone was so calm and cold, without any superfluous emotions.
There is no indignation, no excitement, and the jet-black pupils hidden under the shadow of eyelashes still have a bit of burnout and indifference.
"Especially the first case is the most special. There was a gap of three days between the second case... It is very likely that only the first victim was his target at the beginning. Maybe he had eaten pork once and thought it was good." Eat it, think about it for three days, and want more? Who knows."
He bit into pieces of candy and chuckled lightly.
Chu Kuang is the investigator with the most experience here, but his thinking at the beginning was always biased towards weirdness. Now Jingyuan didn't remind him of this, so he immediately adjusted his thinking and reacted.
"... that's right. If this person? was just an ordinary person before he got the sealed item, then there are only two possibilities for committing the crime for the first time. One possibility is that it was premeditated, so choose the first victim? It must have been carefully thought out. He must have been secretly observing the other party for a long time. Another possibility is that he didn't believe that the sealed item was so magical at first, maybe it was like a prank? He chose someone at random? Then, there is no ? He must have left too many clues around in preparation."
The last word was sonorous and forceful, and Chu Kuang's slightly frowned brows completely relaxed, his expression settled.
Having analyzed so many things, and with the power of the entire country behind them, the Bureau of Special Affairs is not afraid even if it is a competition for sealed items. It would be too ridiculous if they still can't catch people in the end.
Bai Chi on the side has already buried his hands in typing on the computer. He usually has an out-of-the-ordinary personality, but he is unambiguous in his business. He is also a master of computers. As soon as a few people were talking, he had already screened out the person who fit the speculation from a large number of surveillance based on clues.
After several rounds of elimination, only the photos and materials of three people remained on the computer screen.
Wade White excitedly stood up from his seat.
"It's much easier to choose one of the three. To avoid any accidents, let's act now."
After all, the impact of the previous live broadcast accident was too bad. In order to eliminate the impact, the Special Affairs Bureau had to urgently use a first-level sealed item, and carried out a large-scale conceptual blurring and replacement.
In other words, now, in the eyes of everyone who witnessed the live broadcast at that time, the star was not suddenly skinned by a mysterious force for no reason, but was used by an unknown fanatic sunspot using a new type of The chemical agent burned the skin all over his body, and he has been hospitalized for treatment.
"Wait a minute." Chu Kuang quickly grabbed him, his tone serious, "What's the first rule for investigators?"
"It's just Gou... Cough, it's about being cautious."
Anyone could hear what he was trying to say before he changed his words. An Miaomiao said angrily: "Observe first, then act. No one knows what strange and strange sealed items exist in this world. You forgot that we have all been hit by it." Have you been tricked? If you do it again, you won’t be able to save your life.”
Now that an agreement has been reached, how many people? Fully armed and brought all the sealed items that can be used.
It wasn't because I didn't know where to take out a small black box, and followed slowly behind.
Bai Chi looked at it curiously, and immediately couldn't help but take a step back: "... What kind of sealed item is this? Why haven't I seen it on the official website? Is it newly contained?"
In his eyes, Yuan Buwei was holding a bunch of indescribable things in his hands at this time, and the weird and inexplicable lines and indescribable aura appeared in front of him in a state that was incomprehensible to human beings. With just one glance, an inexplicable fear welled up in my heart.
"It's either a sealed item, or an ordinary sugar jar."
Bai Chi has a face of disbelief.
Yuan Buwei turned the box upside down calmly, spit out a candy from the gap, poured it into the palm of his hand, and handed it to Bai Chi: "Here, look."
Bai Chi was surprised for a moment, grinning at the corner of his mouth, subconsciously about to take it?: "Thank you, give me—"
Before the last word fell, Yuan Buwei had already peeled off the sugar coating neatly, put the candy into his mouth in one gulp, and finished the whole sentence vaguely: "Look, it's sugar, right?"
Wade White: "???"
He stared at the unprovoked cheeks, and was silent for a full five seconds before he said, "...that's really true."
"No." Bai Chi suddenly realized that he had been misleading the topic by Yuan Buwei just now, so he shook his head dumbfoundingly, "I said, what are you doing with a sugar jar instead of a sealed item? What's the point? use?"
"Can it add sugar to me, provide energy, and also cause mental intimidation to the target, isn't it very useful?" Like this? He pushed the sugar jar forward, and Wade White took a big step back almost subconsciously.
Then he paused in embarrassment: "…"
... What he said was so reasonable that he couldn't answer it.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, Chu Kuang turned around and saved Bai Chi's embarrassment: "By the way, Yun'an, it's convenient to talk about it...Why did you judge that it was a human? Because it was not weird? I always feel that you are not just guessing .”
"Well, it's really not a guess."
Facing the three pairs of eyes that were thirsty for knowledge, Yuan Buwei pondered for a second while holding the sugar jar, and fixedly looked at them.
He whispered: "Because of malice..."
The three of them discovered that the young man had a pair of extremely beautiful eyes, with long and thick eyelashes and sharp lines at the end of the eyes. However, the pupils were too deep, and when they looked closely, they seemed too cold, almost indifferent.
"Weirdness is mortal? A rule that can't be understood. Killing by weirdness is like killing people by natural disasters. It's just a rule. Water and fire are merciless. Will natural disasters be malicious to humans?"
"You mean..."
They vaguely understood something, but they seemed to understand nothing.
"—you are entangled with malice."
Yuan Buwei stated in a calm tone.
His eyes lightly passed over the three of them, and the color in his pupils became darker and darker, as if countless distorted shadows were reflected.