Black Lotus villain disguise strategy

"Yes," Xia Mingsheng nodded, and continued:
"I still remember the first case of decapitation recorded in the file. At that time, a woman said that her daughter had disappeared for three days without any reason, but the police couldn't find anyone.
On the fifth day of her disappearance, the woman finally saw her child sitting alone on a bench in the community. She ran up excitedly, and as soon as she put her hands on the other's shoulders, she saw her daughter's head snapped off her neck and rolled onto her. at the feet,"

He pursed his lower lip, no longer wanting to recall the woman's reaction at that time, and said:
"And the incision on the neck was neat, and even the blood was treated very cleanly."

Could the murderer be obsessive-compulsive?Xue Ran thought to himself.

"Although the murderer's methods are cruel, every time he commits a crime, the body and the head of the deceased appear together. I didn't expect that this time, the head will be placed in a different place and the head will be stuffed into the sculpture!"

"Perhaps the first time he commits a crime is a little unfamiliar, and his technique is relatively restrained," Xue Ran said:

"However, when you get used to killing people, it becomes commonplace. The murderer is evolving. He even started to play with new ways of playing. Are you starting to have fun while killing people?"

"By the way," she asked again, "is there anything missing from the victim, such as eyes, teeth, or other belongings?
The murderer of a serial murder case usually leaves something for the victim as a souvenir after committing the crime, just like ordinary people travel abroad and buy souvenirs when they leave, which is both symbolic and easy to recall afterwards. The murderer also uses this method , to remember and distinguish his victims. "

What she said was a bit shocking, and the two big men on the opposite side cast slightly surprised eyes at the same time.

"Uh... this, it doesn't seem to be mentioned in the file." Xia Mingsheng said.

No?In other words, from the murderer's point of view, the victims themselves are not the key point. The significance of the murder lies in his strange form and process of committing the crime?
"Okay." Xue Ran thought for a while, then said:
"Also... the targets are all women?"

She remembered that the head she had just seen belonged to a woman.

"Yes," Xia Mingsheng nodded,
"It is true that all women are killed, and one of them is randomly selected every year. Another thing that is unusual is that the murderer seems to have a deep obsession with the age of the victim. The deceased in the first case was 16 years old. The second starts at seventeen, the third starts at eighteen, and so on.”

The murderer is interested in gender and age?
Xue Ran asked again: "What about the date of birth?"

"That has nothing to do with it."

Xia Mingsheng stroked his chin and said, "I was thinking, the murderer cuts off a head every year, so he doesn't stop until he's dead? If the next generation of the murderer also behaves like this, then there will be no more Murderer 1.0, Murderer 2.0... "

He was talking when he was interrupted by the sound of someone banging on the door, seeing Ding Baiyi holding the door and panting:
"Team leader, there are family members downstairs to claim the deceased!"
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"Don't... don't bring that thing in front of me again!"

The woman on the chair clutched her chest and vomited again and again, expressing resistance all over her body, and said a little irritably:

"I'm all registered, can I go?"

She got up and walked and cursed bad luck, the family members of the deceased who stood aside were obviously more emotional than her, and they were going to collapse now.
Ding Baiyi whispered next to Xia Mingsheng's ear:

"This... the relatives of the victim must be uncomfortable seeing this scene, right?"

"My daughter, no matter what she becomes, she wants to take another look."

The couple who lost their daughter were weeping and weeping. Xue Ran couldn't stand the scene of great joy and sorrow, so she walked aside and watched Xia Mingsheng ask the deceased's parents about the victim's information from afar.

Just in time, the phone rang. Xue Ran picked it up and saw that the caller was her mother.

"Hey, Mom, I'm at work."

"Of course, are you still busy?"

The other party's voice was a little soft, but still so familiar, Xue Ran subconsciously squeezed the phone a little tighter,
"Mom just wanted to call you, and I haven't heard from you for a long time."

"Mom, what's the matter?"

"It's okay, hell, I just missed you," the voice on the other side of the phone paused and said:

"Go to the doctor tomorrow, oh..."

As if she accidentally slipped her mouth, the woman hurriedly said again: "No...it's nothing, you're busy with your work, Mom won't bother you!"

"Huh? Mom, what's wrong with you? Why did you see a doctor?"

"It's okay, it's okay, it's the wrong thing to say, oops!"

She reminded again: "Of course, remember to eat well, and remember to rest when you are busy with work. Mom is a little tired, so hang up first!"

Sudden call, and then hung up so suddenly.

There was an inexplicable call, and the tone of the other party was obviously not right, Xue Ran frowned, and suddenly felt uneasy.

She began to recall and carefully ponder every word and every pause in what the other party said just now, and the feeling of uneasiness became stronger and stronger, and she felt that she had to go home to have a look.

Just when Jiang Xun came over, seeing her worried expression, he couldn't help asking:

"What's wrong with you? You look so..."

"Detective,"

Xue Ran stared at him seriously and said:

"Can I take a leave of absence and go to City Z tomorrow, my mother may be sick, I have to go back and see her."

It's not a request, she's just telling the other party that she's going home, can Jiang Xun tie her up and not let her go?
Jiang Xun agreed to let her ask for leave to go home, but he said:

"Let's go there together tomorrow. I remember that there was a case that happened in City Z back then, and the Special Investigation Bureau had to send personnel to investigate."

"So coincidentally?"

"It's a coincidence."

He raised his head without changing his face, his clear eyes looked straight ahead, and said lightly:

"At eight o'clock tomorrow morning at your door, don't oversleep again."

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It seems to be an orphanage in front of me. The building is covered with thick dust and looks quite dilapidated after years of disrepair.
The surrounding atmosphere was weird, making the old building look like a haunted old house in a horror movie. Xue Ran swallowed uncomfortably, feeling a little apprehensive, and took a step back subconsciously, when he suddenly heard very light footsteps coming from behind,

She turned her head vigilantly, and then saw the little girl standing behind her,

The other party had short black hair, neat thick bangs covering his white forehead, and looked cute and cute, but under the influence of the surrounding atmosphere, he looked inexplicably eerie and paradoxical.

Xue Ran glanced down vigilantly, and saw a piece of suet white jade hanging on her index finger, and the red rope wrapped around her knuckles was so red that it was dazzling.

She frowned, and suddenly felt... Where did she seem to have seen the scene in front of her?
Just thinking about where this feeling of deja vu came from, the girl raised her head and smiled at her, her rosy lips slowly opened and closed and said:
"You are finally back!"

Xue Ran's breath was stagnant, and a terrifying loud noise came from her ear, as if a clamoring evil spirit stretched out its long claws, tearing her soul apart——

beep --

beep --

Opening her eyes, the bright sunlight outside the window shone on her body, Xue Ran's hazy consciousness was withdrawn from the dream, and realized that the terrifying sound he heard just now turned out to be a mobile phone alarm.

She yawned, turned off the alarm clock, closed her eyes in a trance, and was about to fall, when she suddenly shuddered,
It seemed that someone had warned her not to be late yesterday!

The strong breath of getting up made her curse irritably, and after a few seconds of mind wandering, she rolled over and got up from the bed.

She tidied herself up neatly, and as she walked down the stairs, she thought,

My shady cat has been entrusted to a pet store, and I hope I won't receive calls from the store manager asking her for medical expenses in the next few days.

Xue Ran walked out of the community and saw a black car parked at the door from a distance. She lowered her eyes and looked at her mobile phone. The time showed 59:[-].

Seeing Jiang Xun's side face in the driver's seat, Xue Ran opened the door, the door handle was a little hot, she pinched her burning fingertips and stepped into the back seat.

The quiet air in the carriage made her nervous. Xue Ran turned her head and looked around, and asked in surprise:

"What about the team leader?"

"Sticked up with troubles,"

Jiang Xun said: "It probably won't be finished until the afternoon, so let's go there first."

"Oh."

He looked sideways slightly, and looked at Xue Ran who was leaning on the back of the chair through the car rear mirror. Just as he was about to say something to her, he saw that the other party was wearing earphones.

Seeing that she closed her eyes, it seemed that she just changed to another place and continued to sleep, Jiang Xun couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, then turned sideways and turned on the car engine.

Feeling that the car body was moving forward smoothly, Xue Ran was still very conscious at this time, recalling in his mind the dream that gradually became fragmented in his memory due to forgetting,

Recently, I seem to always dream of the girl who is holding a jade carving and laughing at the Buddha. I feel that her voice is very low, and her voice has a very penetrating magnetism, which does not match her well-behaved face very well.
... Who is she? .
When she woke up, Xue Ran opened her eyes in a daze, she raised her head slightly, and suddenly met Jiang Xun's eyes through the rear mirror,
The eyes that met were split at once, Jiang Xun looked away and asked:

"Is your neighborhood in front?"

Xue Ran was not surprised by this, she knew that Jiang Xun was so vigilant, he must have found out the details of everyone around him, including her.

So she looked sideways out of the car window, saw the familiar streets and residential buildings, and replied:

"Yes."

　She was about to say that she should take a step first, when a woman's familiar voice came from her ear,
"Ran Ran?"

The woman in her 40s outside the car was Liang Xueli. She happened to be passing by when she was shopping for salt downstairs, so she saw her through the car window.

"mom!"

Jiang Xun turned his head when he heard the sound, and saw Xue Ran swiftly pushed open the car door and walked out.

She pressed the woman's arms and carefully looked at her from top to bottom. She concluded that she was still as energetic and radiant as before.

"Oh, what are you doing!"

Hearing the woman's angry voice, Xue Ran was a little confused. Was it a dummy who was weak when I called her last time?

"Good girl, you miss me so much!"

Liang Xueli said with a smile, turned around and saw Jiang Xun who was watching them both in the driver's seat, his eyes lit up suddenly,
"Hey, the one driving the car is..."

Seeing something wrong with the woman's eyes, Xue Ran hastily explained:
　"It's an old... friend."

She hadn't disclosed her work in the Special Investigation Bureau to the woman yet, so she decided not to tell the other party Jiang Xun's identity, so she changed her words temporarily.

Finally hearing a new word, Jiang Xun raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"Oh...bring a friend to visit mom at home."

Liang Xueli smiled and said:
　"Quickly ask someone to come up and sit down!"

　"No no no,"

Xue Ran quickly waved his hand, "He doesn't need it..."

"What do you mean people don't need it?"

The woman enthusiastically said to Jiang Xun who got off the driver's seat at this moment:
"What's the boy's name?"

"Hi aunt, my name is Jiang Xun."

　Looking at the two people in front of him, Xue Ran felt that Jiang Xun might have a face that would please the elders, and taught her mother to look particularly pleasing to the eye.

"Go upstairs and sit down, it's so hot, the house has air conditioning, and..."

"mom,"

Seeing that the situation was going to be out of control, Xue Ran quickly grabbed the woman's arm,
"Don't embarrass him, he has other things to do."

　"Little Jiang, are you in a hurry?"

"Don't rush."

"Look, people are not in a hurry!"

Hearing the two singing together, Xue Ran suddenly felt a rush of breath into his chest,

"But……"

"He sent you here anyway, why don't you know anything about hospitality?"

"..."

After listening to the other party's instruction, Xue Ran took a deep breath, finally gave up struggling, turned to look at Jiang Xun beside him and said with embarrassment:

"I'm sorry, my mother...is too enthusiastic."

The other party was quite reasonable, and said calmly: "It's okay."