Wang Min, female, 34 years old, from Yuncheng, used to run a children's clothing store. After losing money, she went to the countryside to hide her debts and disappeared two years ago.
Liang Xiaojun, male, 25 years old, from Xushan City, worked as a "medicine man" and disappeared two years ago.
Xing Mao, male, 30 years old, from Sucheng, worked as a magazine model, also disappeared two years ago, and had not received a job for several months before he disappeared.
Zhou Li, female, 21 years old, works part-time in Maofeng City. There is no report of her disappearance in the system.
These four were the victims of He Yang's fourth game.
Zhou Shan confessed that their lives at the time were very unsatisfactory, and they were estranged from their family and friends. It was a simple matter to lure them into the game with money and the future.
He Yang divided them into groups, the older ones were Wang Min and Xing Mao, and the younger ones were Liang Xiaojun and Zhou Li. The game was played in an abandoned factory in the east of country E.
The factory has been bought by He Yang, and many terrifying and bloody scenes have been created in advance. Cameras cover almost every corner. The audience only needs to sit in the monitoring room to clearly see everything that happens in the factory.
Among the four, Zhou Li was the purest. He was very excited when he went abroad, thinking that what awaited him was a dream journey. Until the door of the factory slammed shut, she still thought the game was just a game.
He Yang never invited outsiders to watch his games in the past, but this time he invited Yin Zhen, who happened to be in country E, to the factory.
More than a dozen screens are constantly showing pictures of four people running and chasing, and the cries and screams are endless.
This greatly pleased He Yang and Yin Zhen. It was as if what they were watching was just an R-rated movie with very realistic special effects.
The first person to be killed was Zhou Li, who died under Wang Min's hammer.
In the photo, Wang Min is gentle and beautiful. When the clothing store was still open, the local media went to interview her and named her "Children's Clothing Xi Shi" according to the popularity of the year.
But under the huge fear, the desire to survive has turned her into a devil alive. After subduing Zhou Li, she roared like a beast, smashed Zhou Li's head into pieces with the hammer, and finally sat in a pool of pus and blood, laughing insanely.
Soon, she was thrown from the roof by Zhou Li's teammate Liang Xiaojun, her cervical vertebra was broken, and she died on the spot.
The game lasted from morning to midnight, with Xing Mao and Liang Xiaojun dodging each other most of the time.
He Yang and Yin Zhen were bored to watch, and they asked Zhou Shan to activate the "enjoyment" equipment prepared in advance, such as poison gas, organs, and even released a lioness locked in the basement of the factory.
Xing Mao and Liang Xiaojun were exhausted by escaping for their lives, and when they were finally forced into a room, they had no strength to fight.
They are like beasts locked in a narrow cage, they can only survive by killing each other, but for them, standing up has become a huge difficulty.
In the end, Xing Mao killed Liang Xiaojun.
The dagger was stuck in Liang Xiaojun's neck, and Xing Mao didn't even have the strength to pull it out.
There is no winner in this game.
Xing Mao had been seriously injured for a long time. After the door was opened, before he could celebrate his survival, his neck was bitten by a hungry lioness.
The complete video has never been uploaded to the Internet and is kept by Zhou Shan.
The detectives were shocked by the cruelty of the game, and even more angry at He Yang's madness.
Victims are scattered all over the country, many of whom are unidentified "little ghosts", and verifying their identities is an extremely time-consuming project.
And this matter involved the He family, and there were more annoying obstructions.
The police force of Dongye City Criminal Investigation Bureau is limited, Xiao Yuan reported the case to the higher authorities, and the special operations team led the inspections in various places. However, the verification of Xing Mao and other four people is still the responsibility of Dongye City.
"The intersection of Yin Zhen and He Yang appeared in this crime." Mingshu said, "If there is a 'third party', then the 'third party' is likely to know one of the four victims."
Xiao Yuan didn't say anything for a while.
Mingshu waited for a while, "Brother?"
Xiao Yu'an said: "I was thinking, we found the intersection of Yin Zhen and He Yang, what about Jiang Xiyang and Yue Shuqing? They didn't know He Yang, and He Yang never invited them to watch the massacre. The reason for the killing of these two people is still unclear. unclear."
Mingshu put his hands on his waist.
He had already changed out of his winter clothes. At this time, he only wore a shirt and a bottoming shirt. The hem of the shirt was tucked into his police pants, and his waist looked thin but strong.
"Jiang Xiyang and Yue Shuqing are temporarily put aside." Mingshu said: "The most urgent task is to find out the background of the four Xing Mao."
Xiao Yuan nodded, "Let go and check, Jiang and Yue will leave it to me."
The serious crime team and the first criminal investigation team jointly operated, led by Ming Shu on one side and Liang Zhao on the other, and rushed to the city where the four victims lived before they disappeared.
Xiao Yu'an stood on the terrace, silently looking at the spring trees in the courtyard.
He Yang personally said that he found a more interesting game and disappeared soon after. If this game is a bait, then He Yang is biting the bait.
The question is, what game is so attractive to He Yang? He didn't even want the new participants that Zhou Shan had identified for him
Maofeng City, Huotu Village.
Rapeseed flowers are blooming all over the mountains and fields, and Zhou Li's hometown is here.
After the other three victims disappeared, people who knew each other sooner or later called the police, but no one cared about Zhou Li's life or death.
Xu Chun spent most of the day in the village, and learned that the Zhou family was long gone and the old house was dilapidated. Zhou Li dropped out of school as a teenager and went to the city, and he hardly ever came back.
"Does she have good friends in the village?" Xu Chun asked.
"She doesn't look down on our village." The village cadre said with a strong accent, "Do you have any friends? Her friends are all in the city!"
However, the fact is that Zhou Li has no friends in Maofeng City.
Before being taken to Country E by Zhou Shan, she worked as a shopping guide in a pharmacy, earning more than 2,000 a month, and could not afford to rent a regular house. She lived in a group rented house. After cleaning up, it didn't take long for a new tenant to be ushered in.
The interpersonal relationship between Wang Min and Xing Mao is relatively simple. After some investigation, all the people who have contacts with them live peacefully in their respective cities, and it cannot be the possible "third party".
In Xushan City, Mingshu found a clue that was worth noting.
Liang Xiaojun is from Hehe County, within the jurisdiction of Xushan City. His family runs a hotel and restaurant business.
However, Liang Xiaojun went to the city to visit relatives when he was a child and saw the prosperity of the city. Since then, he has made up his mind to leave Hehe County in the future.
Liang Xiaojun's parents disagreed, but they couldn't control him either.
In Hehe County, Liang Xiaojun can be regarded as a "man of the moment". He probably read a lot of martial arts, and was very obsessed with "Xia Xia Zhan Yi". When he was in middle school, he even organized a gang to patrol nearby primary and secondary schools to help children who were bullied.
Back then, the term "school violence" was rarely known even in the city, let alone in the county. Parents and teachers did not take a group of students bullying a certain student seriously, thinking that it was a petty act and taught a lesson casually. It's a thing.
Liang Xiaojun did not do it.
One of the things his gang is best known for is helping a girl in the county's second elementary school.
The name of the girl recorded in the file is Cao Zhiya, from the countryside, without a mother, and her father is a disabled person.
Girls in the countryside generally go to school later, and some don't even go to school. When Cao Zhiya was of school age, she was unable to enroll because she had to do farm work for her family. Later, the village moved as a whole. She moved to Hehe County with her disabled father, and then went to school. She was transferred to the fourth grade, but she was already a junior high school girl. age.
And for a girl of this age, her body began to develop, and Cao Zhiya became an outlier in the class.
In the local dialect, the pronunciations of "Cao" and "Cao" are almost identical. The boys in the class and the senior boys continued to humiliate Cao Zhiya. It was only a verbal offense at first, and then it developed into a hands-on manner. The girls stood in line with the boys and even helped the boys bully Cao Zhiya.
They saw that Cao Zhiya's disabled father couldn't do anything to them, and they saw that the school would not punish such a large group of them for a girl who came to the countryside.
Cao Zhiya was bullied for at least half a year, and it was Liang Xiaojun who saved her, not her relatives or teachers.
In the men's toilet of the No. 2 Primary School in the county, Cao Zhiya was stepped on the urinal. The public toilets in those days were as dirty as rural latrines, and Cao Zhiya's cries were drowned out by the boys' laughter.
Liang Xiaojun led a group of brothers and rushed in. He didn't care about getting dirty and picked up Cao Zhiya, who was covered in urine.
In summer, the clothes were thin, and Cao Zhiya's clothes were soaked wet, sticking to her developing body, as if she had no clothes on. Liang Xiaojun took off his clothes and covered them with Cao Zhiya.
A group of elementary school boys were frightened and went to their knees to promise that they would never bully girls again in the future.
Later, Cao Zhiya became a member of Liang Xiaojun's gang, until the gang was finally disbanded by the police station because of a fight.
When Liang Xiaojun became an adult, he left home and came to Xushan City. From the diary he wrote on the social platform, it can be found that because he has no education and no skills, his life in the city is not satisfactory.
"It turns out that the prosperity here does not belong to me."
This sentence has long hung on his personality signature.
When he first came to Xushan City, Liang Xiaojun kept in touch with many friends. Among them is Cao Zhiya. After graduating from high school, Cao Zhiya did not continue her studies and went to work in developed cities.
But he couldn't make a name for himself year after year. Perhaps out of inferiority complex, Liang Xiaojun cut off contact with his old friends.
At the age of 23, he became a "medicine man".
Some people choose to become "medicine people" because of their life, and Liang Xiaojun does not count.
He was young and strong, and was fully able to find other jobs and become a "medicine person", which may reflect that he already had serious psychological problems at that time.
Two months after Liang Xiaojun disappeared, the nurse who contacted him discovered that he was missing and called the police.
Mingshu asked, "Can you find Cao Zhiya?"
Zhou Yuan shook his head, "Judging from the traces left on the Internet, the last time Cao Zhiya contacted Liang Xiaojun was half a month before Liang Xiaojun's accident. Liang Xiaojun told her that she would get rich soon, and then she would not have to do that. Work hard."
Fang Yuanhang said, "Are they a couple?"
"I don't think they understand each other." Mingshu said: "Because of the successive blows of reality, Liang Xiaojun is no longer the boy who used to be 'righteous'. He likes Cao Zhiya, but because of his poverty I don't dare to confess. Similarly, Cao Zhiya did not confess her intentions because of some consideration."
After a while, Mingshu said again: "But it doesn't make sense here - after Liang Xiaojun disappeared, why was the nurse calling the police instead of Cao Zhiya?"
Fang Yuanhang said: "Cao Zhiya actually knew that Liang Xiaojun had an accident? Is it useless to call the police?"
Mingshu turned to Zhou Yuan, "Liang Xiaojun didn't tell Cao Zhiya what he was about to do?"
"The only traces that can be found now are these." Zhou Yuan said: "What is strange is that after Liang Xiaojun was killed, Cao Zhiya also disappeared. She originally worked in Haizhou, but her mobile phone number and social account have been used for two years. never used."
"Master!" Fang Yuanhang said, "If Cao Zhiya knows what happened to Liang Xiaojun, then she may avenge Liang Xiaojun!"
Zhou Yuan disagreed: "Can Cao Zhiya do this?"
"Don't underestimate the impact of bullying as a child on a person." Fang Yuanhang said, "If there was no Liang Xiaojun, Cao Zhiya might have been destroyed. In her heart, Liang Xiaojun may be the most important person."
Mingshu called Yi Fei who was staying in Dongye City.
Yi Fei interrogates Zhou Shan again.
"Cao Zhiya?" Zhou Shan thought for a while, "Who is this?"
Yi Fei said: "Don't pretend to be confused. Since you know the background of the victims so well, how can you not know about Cao Zhiya?"
Zhou Shan seems to have become accustomed to dealing with the criminal police, and is much more relaxed than when he was brought to the Criminal Investigation Bureau. "I know the victims well, but not the people around them."
Yi Fei put Cao Zhiya's photo on the table, "She is Liang Xiaojun's friend."
Seeing the photo, Zhou Shan remembered, "It turned out to be her. She contacted Liang Xiaojun. Liang Xiaojun liked her very much and wanted to chase him, so I also checked her out."
Yi Fei said, "What did you find?"
"Just an ordinary working girl." Zhou Shan said, "Nothing else."
Yi Fei said again: "After Liang Xiaojun was killed, did you and He Yang do anything to her?"
Zhou Shan looked inexplicable, "Why do you want to do something to her?"
Yi Fei said: "Because she knew what happened to Liang Xiaojun."
Zhou Shan was startled and shook his head quickly, "You are cheating on me. Do you think Cao Zhiya was silenced by me?"
After coming out of the interrogation room, Yi Fei immediately called Mingshu back.
"So the disappearance of Cao Zhiya was not caused by Zhou Shan." Mingshu stood in the night of Xushan City, holding a half-burned cigarette between his fingers, and heaved a sigh of relief.
Yi Fei said: "Zhou Shan thinks that Cao Zhiya is just a working girl who can't threaten anyone. Well, I'll go to Haizhou City. Now it's hard to say if she's missing, what if she's still there? "
Luchuan City.
While the Dongye City police were actively checking the victims of He Yang's games, the Luchuan City Criminal Investigation Detachment was also investigating the case of He Yang's disappearance.
The investigations of the two cases proceeded almost without interference.
Whether He Yang's disappearance is related to the factional battle of Fengtu Group or revenge, Yang Jing, the captain of the Luchuan Criminal Investigation Detachment, believes that the former is more likely.
He Yang is an important member of the He Zhaochuan faction. Once he has an accident, it will be good for He Guozhou.
A behemoth like Fengtu Group is very troublesome to move. However, Yang Jing had the courage to carry the pressure from all parties to investigate the Fengtu Group.
After the incident, the police came to the headquarters of Fengtu Group every day. First, the middle-level members of the He Guozhou faction were taken away for investigation, and finally even He Guozhou himself was not able to escape.
The DNA test results showed that He Yang was indeed not He Guozhou's biological son, and that He Yang's real father was He Zhaochuan as people guessed.
He Guozhou admitted to having hatred for He Yang, but denied that it was related to He Yang's disappearance.
When Mingshu came to the Luchuan City Criminal Investigation Detachment, Yang Jing just came out of the director's office. He was obviously trained and his face was very ugly.
Fengtu Group is a major taxpayer in Luchuan City, and anyone who encounters it has to take care of it, but Yang Jing has "invited" all the bosses of Fengtu to the bureau, and plans to thoroughly investigate He Guozhou's network. The pressure came down layer by layer, and the director had no choice but to warn Yang Jing to let him stop.
Ming Shu waved to Yang Jing, and after Yang Jing saw who was coming, the sullenness on his face instantly faded a lot, and he strode over, "Yo, Lulu is here."
Mingshu: "…"
Yang Jing was Mingshu's college classmate. When he was studying, he was too stubborn and had a strong sense of justice. Now it seems that he is still the same.
The classmates at that time came from all over the country, and a brother in the dormitory recognized "Mingshu" as "Mingwu", and this dear friend came from a place where the front nasal and the back nasal were not clear. NU" has been talked about for a long time, and some people have nicknamed Mingshu "Lulu". The reason is very good. There is "Lu" in the name of the school flower, and there must be "Lu" in the name of Mingshu's school grass. ".
In the blink of an eye, many years after graduation, Mingshu almost forgot about this strange nickname.
Fang Yuanhang was curious, "Master, why do you call you 'Lulu'?"
Mingshu coughed and ignored his apprentice.
Fang Yuanhang thought to himself, my master is really a treasure boy, he is Xiaoming and Lulu, maybe there is a nickname I don't know!
There is a saying in the police that the classmates' reunion is held by the way during the joint investigation.
Mingshu and Yang Jing skipped even the chat and talked about the case directly.
Ming Shu made this trip mainly because he wanted to know how far the Luchuan City police had investigated Fengtu Group, which was directly related to whether the "third party" hypothesis between him and Xiao Yu'an was true.
Judging from the clues Yang Jing currently has, He Yang's disappearance was not the result of someone within the Fengtu Group.
But Yang Jing didn't give up, "I still have to investigate, by the way Lulu..."
Mingshu said, "In another word, don't be so naive."
Yang Jing laughed, "You don't have to be burdened by idols, okay? How many years have you called me 'Jingjing', am I unhappy?"
Mingshu said: "Is this a thing to be proud of?"
Yang Jing slapped his chest, "It shows that I am strong."
Mingshu waved his hand, "Okay, okay, what did you want to say to me just now?"
Yang Jing was suddenly stunned, "Oops, I forgot about it when I interrupted."
Dongye City, Criminal Investigation Bureau.
Xiao Yuan put a case file on the table and walked to the serious crime team downstairs.
He was reading the unsolved Lai Xiuliang case.