Monster Paradise

"Uh, what happened to this sudden change in attitude?" Lin Huang murmured silently in his heart, "Could it be that he was hurt by a salesman before?"

"To tell you the truth, I have been scammed by a salesman before, so I am especially wary of strangers who block the way..." Before Lin Huang could ask, Xiahou told the story of how he was scammed by a salesman. s story.

After more than half an hour, after listening to Xiahou's story, Lin Huang was speechless.

This guy named Xiahou doesn't seem to be weak, and his combat power is also at the fourth-step immortal level, but he is particularly easy to be fooled.When he met a guy with good eloquence, he was easily persuaded by the other party's language offensive. As a result, he was tricked hundreds of times by various salesmen in the past few decades, and bought a lot of things he didn't need at all.

This also caused him to avoid people in the profession of salesman.

"Won't you refuse something you don't want to buy?" Lin Huang gave a simple suggestion.

"But there are some things, those salesmen said very temptingly when they were selling..." Xia Hou also had a helpless face. "For example, a piece of soap can be used to wash clothes, it can be used to bathe, it can be used to induce vomiting (when food poisoning), it can be used as a lubricant (don't think crooked, when the zipper is stuck), and it can be used to carve ..."

"You can't use some functions at all! What do you want to do with the soap at home? Are you picking it up for fun?!" Lin Huang complained silently in his heart. He knew that these functions must be popularized by salesmen. , Xia Hou was brainwashed after listening to it, and then couldn't help but pay for it, but regretted it after buying it.But the next time he meets a salesman, he will be brainwashed again by the same routine and fall into the salesman's pit again.

Lin Huang also knew very well that the main problem was not with the salesman, but with Xiahou.This guy has a brain hole, no, to be precise, there is a black hole, so he will fall into it again and again, and he will never have a long memory.

Chapter 744 Autopsy

The conversation with Xiahou gave Lin Huang a general understanding of him.To put it simply, it can be summed up in ten words - the person is not bad, but there is a hole in the brain.

Pulling Xiahou to register for the number of assistants in the alliance government, Lin Huang finally got the qualification to intervene in this serial murder case.

"Brother Lin, the registration is complete now, let's go." Xiahou turned around and walked towards the exit of the alliance government office building.

"Where are you going?" Lin Huang asked in surprise.

"Go to the scene of the crime." Xiahou turned around and looked at Lin Huang strangely.

"Uh... the details of this case and the victim's body are on the side of the alliance government, isn't it right now?" Lin Huang reminded.

"That's right, if you go to the scene of the crime first, you have to come back again." Xia Hou muttered to himself, and nodded immediately, "Then let's look at the corpse first."

"Brother Xia, you should go to the morgue first. I'll go to the database, and I'll come as soon as I finish downloading the materials." Lin Huang didn't bother to pull Xia Hou to go to the database together.

"Why do you go to the database? Didn't I share the case information with you when you registered just now?" Hou Xia looked at Lin Huang with some puzzlement.

"That's just the basic information. I still need to check some other information related to the case." The information shared by Xiahou was issued by the alliance government. It only had case records and incident reports. Both Lin Huang and Bloody felt that the information was far from enough .

"Okay then, let's split up." Xia Hou nodded after hearing this, and turned to walk towards the morgue.

Lin Huang went straight to the database with blood on his face.

The database of the alliance government is managed by an amethyst brain beast.In fact, this is not the first time Lin Huang has seen this monster. The first time he saw it was in the library of the Hunting Academy in the seventh district, where he existed as a librarian.

His body is like a giant blue brain wrapped in a layer of translucent lavender jelly, floating in the dome of the database.On the edge of the jelly-like body, there are dense lavender tentacles, like a giant jellyfish.

Lin Huang went straight to a chair under a tentacles and sat down, and began to quickly look up the information he needed.

The moment the emperor's heart ring was connected to the tentacles, the Amethyst Brain Beast recognized Lin Huang's identity as the investigator's assistant, and opened the relevant inquiry authority to him.

"The information provided by the black market before lacks a lot of information. To clarify this case, we need more detailed information. In addition to the detailed records of the case and the results of the forensic autopsy, detailed identity information of all victims, including victims Information about relatives and friends, as well as the itinerary of the victim before his death, call records, etc." Lin Huang had just sat down when Bloody's sound transmission came to his ears.

"Well, I'll download all these materials first and read them when I go back to the hotel. With Xiahou's character, I guess I won't be able to wait too long at the morgue." Lin Huang immediately got into work.

It took about ten minutes to download all the materials he needed, and then he got up and left the database.

When Lin Huang came to the morgue at the westernmost end of the office building, Xiahou was already observing the fifth corpse.

"You're finally here." Hearing Lin Huang push the door in, he turned his head and glanced at Lin Huang, then beckoned, "Come and see this corpse!"

"What's wrong?" Lin Huang walked over quickly.

It was a strong male corpse, the chest cavity was completely cut open, and the lungs inside completely disappeared.The fatal wound was the inside of the chest cavity, the heart that had been cut in half.

Seeing the corpse up close, Lin Huang couldn't help but frowned slightly, which was much clearer than the photos provided by the black market.

"Look at this incision, as well as the incision for removing the lungs, there is absolutely nothing redundant." Xia Hou pointed at the chest of the corpse and said to Lin Huang, "This is not something that a monster can do, it is more like a human who is proficient in anatomy made."

Lin Huang glanced at Xia Hou. He didn't expect that this guy was not as bad as he expected. At least his observation and analysis skills were reliable.

After checking the corpse according to the autopsy report and personal information, Lin Huang spoke after a while, but did not express any opinion on the corpse, "Let's look at the next one."

The sixth body was pulled out from the freezer, a headless body with an irregular shape above the neck.Before being cleaned up by the forensic doctor, it should be a bloody mess.

With just one glance, Lin Huang could tell how the deceased died.

"This is so miserable. The head is blown off, and the flesh on the neck is still blooming like flowers." Xiahou laughed, but quickly restrained his smile, "This way of death is different, it's a bit like a gunsmith doing it." of."

Lin Huang checked again against the autopsy report, and frowned even tighter.

The seventh corpse was a fat man, but his corpse looked even worse. There was hardly a piece of good meat on his body, and there was a basketball-sized pothole on his belly, with no internal organs left. up.

"Tsk tsk, this one is even worse. It looks like it was gnawed by a group of small carnivorous monsters. Not only the internal organs have been cleaned out, but bones can be seen in many parts." Xiahou paused, "This is obviously not made by humans. gone."

Looking at the corpses one by one, until No. 16, Lin Huang turned back to check the four corpses he hadn't seen yet.

Xiahou watched it again with Lin Huang, and the two left the morgue.

"What serial murders? It's clear that it was not done by one person. Some are obviously done by humans, and some are obviously done by monsters." As soon as he walked out of the morgue, Xiahou muttered and gave his opinion.

"If it's not a serial murder case, then how do you explain that the dates of the incidents are all consecutive, and the time of death in the forensic examination is around [-] o'clock in the morning?" Is it a coincidence?"

"The possibility of a coincidence is really small, but how do you explain the problem of different techniques?" Xiahou thought for a while, and then asked another question.

"At present, there are three possibilities. The first is that the other party is not a single person, but a criminal gang. The second is to imitate the crime. After someone knows what the first murderer did, he imitated his time to create a crime. The third possibility is that the murderer may be a person, or a monster with a very high IQ, deliberately creating different criminal methods." Lin Huang gave the result of his discussion with Bloody.

"It can't be a monster who can do that kind of anatomy?" Although he agreed with the three possibilities proposed by Lin Huang, Xiahou still raised the question of this detail.

"A monster with a high enough IQ can spend enough time with humans who are good at anatomy, or have been taught anatomy knowledge by humans." Lin Huang gave his own explanation again.

"The probability of this should be very small..." Xiahou curled his lips, he felt that Lin Huang was just playing around.

"It is indeed a small probability, but if the probability is not zero, this possibility cannot be ruled out." Lin Huang is still very serious on this point.

"I've seen the corpse, what's next?" Realizing that Lin Huang's analysis of the case far exceeded his own, Xia Hou simply gave up his dominant position as an investigator.He felt that following Lin Huang's train of thought was much easier than using his own brain.

"It's almost twelve o'clock, let's have lunch first, I can use this time to look at the information I just got."

Chapter 745 The tragic crime scene

While eating lunch, Lin Huang quickly flipped through the information.

Judging from this more detailed information, there is indeed no connection between the sixteen deceased, basically they all came from different strongholds, and family members can't see any intersections.No clues can be seen from the itinerary and call records of the deceased one month before his death.

"How is it? Is there any useful information?" Xiahou asked vaguely while chewing on a piece of medium-rare barbecue with a greasy mouth.

"No." Lin Huang shook his head, but the information made him even more clueless.

"Then what should we do next?" Xiahou asked again after swallowing the roast meat in his mouth.

"Let's go to the scene of the crime and have a look later." Lin Huang has no other options for the time being.

After lunch, the two rushed to the crime scene immediately.

The order Lin Huang chose to check was the chronological order of the incidents. The first one he went to was the first crime scene sixteen days ago, which was located in a small alley with densely packed low houses.

The two quickly found the specific location according to the coordinates provided by the coalition government.

That small alley has been completely isolated by the alliance government with super-grade treasures, and there are only two guards.After Xiahou and Lin Huang showed their investigation certificate and assistant certificate, they were allowed to enter the alley.

The ground of this alley is paved with bluestone blocks, and it looks like it has been around for a while.The entire alley is about thirty meters long and less than 1.5 meters wide. Although the houses on both sides are not high, they are at least seven or eight meters tall. The light in the alley is inevitably a bit dim.

"In such a small alley, what was the victim trying to do in the middle of the night? Looking for a place to pee?" Xiahou couldn't help muttering.

"You didn't read the information much, did you?" Lin Huang turned his head and glanced at Xiahou behind him, and continued without waiting for his answer, "The place less than 300 meters ahead is the black market. The victim was killed in this place, it should be the black market in the early morning Just off the black market when it closed."

"After coming out of the black market, didn't you just use the portal to leave?" Xiahou asked immediately.

"As expected, you haven't read the information... He lives nearby. It's a bed and breakfast. It's only a few minutes' walk from the black market. There's no need to use a portal."

While the two were talking, they arrived at the place where the victim died. The outline of the deceased's body was outlined with a white line by the staff of the Union government.

Under the cover of the treasure, the lines have not been washed by the rain, and they are still as clear as half a month ago.

Judging from the drawn lines, this corpse fell directly to the ground when it died, and the severed head rolled down a meter away.

The coverage of blood stains on the walls on both sides and the nearby ground is quite amazing.As soon as Lin Huang saw the scene, he almost imagined the tragedy of the victim's death in his mind - he was beheaded with a knife, and then the headless corpse spurted blood crazily from the carotid artery.

"Beheading with one knife is really a miserable way to die." Xiahou murmured.

"In such a narrow location, if a stranger came across in the middle of the night, I would definitely be wary. However, according to the previous corpse and autopsy report, the victim showed no signs of fighting and was killed without any resistance. The person beheaded from the front. This means that the murderer is either very familiar with the victim, leaving him unsuspecting, or the speed of movement and attack is so fast that the victim has no time to prepare..." Lin Huang said while turning Filmed on the spot.

After completing the observation and recording of the first scene, the two did not continue to stay, and immediately rushed to the second scene after leaving the alley.

The second murder scene, in an upscale hotel room.

Because of this case, the entire hotel is in a state of closure, except for the investigators and assistants of the case, no one else can enter or leave.

After Lin Huang and Xia Hou passed the inspection by the guards, they took the floating ladder to the 91st floor and found room 091021 where the case happened.

Except that the corpse was not in place, the room remained as it was at the time of the incident, and even the sheets and pillows had not been moved.

"It's so clean, has someone cleaned this place?" Xiahou yelled as soon as he entered the room.

In the living room, everything was clean and tidy, and it was completely impossible to tell that this was the scene of a murder case.However, Lin Huang had just read the information not long ago, and there was indeed no trace of a fight at the crime scene.

Seeing that Xiahou began to look through the case materials on his own, Lin Huang didn't say anything, and walked straight to the master bedroom on the right.

As soon as he stepped into the door of the bedroom, Lin Huang saw the bed where the incident happened.The blood stains on the bed sheet had turned into black spots, covering almost three-quarters of the entire bed.

The moment he saw this scene, Lin Huang's mind almost formed the picture of the victim's death—the head and limbs were cut off in his sleep, and he didn't have time to react at all.

"This guy is worse than the previous one. He was dismembered while he was asleep." Xia Hou also walked into the bedroom slowly. "If he had gone to bed later, he might not have died."

"It doesn't matter whether he sleeps or not. He will still die, but the location where the body is found will be different." Lin Huang gave a different opinion. "Every time the murderer finishes the killing on time at twelve o'clock in the evening, it means that the victim must have been selected in advance. So no matter where the victim is or what he is doing, as soon as the time comes, the murderer will definitely shoot."

"From what you said, the murderer should have chosen the victim in advance." Xia Hou nodded in agreement after hearing this, paused for a moment, and continued, "But there is one question I don't quite understand, Ma De In a B-level stronghold like the city, the number of immortal-level powerhouses is very small. It is estimated that there are less than 100 people who have settled down. Even if you count the people who come and go, there will never be more than 300 people. However, the total population here is more than 6000 million. That is to say, under normal circumstances, the probability of a murderer meeting an immortal-level strongman in Mader City is less than one in 20, and the probability of encountering one to three-step immortal-level is even smaller. In this extreme With a low probability, how did the murderer find these victims? It must be impossible to meet them casually on the street."

"I've also considered this issue." After reading the information just now, Bloody had actually raised this point, and Lin Huang had a secret discussion with it, "There are two possibilities. The first is that the murderer There is the teleportation registration list of Mad City. The second is that the murderer has been squatting near the teleportation gate of Mad City."

"I think the second possibility is unlikely. There are two portals in Made City, the old and the new, and the distance between them is thousands of kilometers. Can the murderer guard the two portals at the same time? Even if he has the ability to clone, it is impossible for him to be separated by thousands of kilometers. It can still maintain the normal operation of the avatar, which is something that even the strong in the imperial palace can't do." Xia Hou raised an objection again.

"Who told you that he guarded by himself? Couldn't he have accomplices? Couldn't he spend some money to hire someone else to guard?" Lin Huang asked with a smile.

"Uh, okay." Xia Hou was speechless, and immediately changed the subject, "Then the first possibility you mentioned just now means that the murderer is someone inside the alliance government?"

"Not necessarily. There are three possibilities for the murderer to get the transfer list. First, the murderer has associates within the alliance government. Second, the murderer hacked into the relevant departments of the alliance government through network technology to obtain the list. Of course, there are The last possibility-the murderer is someone inside the coalition government."

"Do we still want to watch the next crime scene?" Xiahou asked again.

"Of course I have to watch it. What if there are more direct clues in other scenes? Wouldn't it be a miss if I don't watch it?" Lin Huang also became excited after finding a new direction for the development of the case.Now he didn't care whether the murderer was the fire monster he was looking for. This process of approaching the truth step by step made him find fun, and let him temporarily forget the urgency to improve his combat power.

Chapter 746 No.17 Victim

After checking all sixteen crime scenes, it was already past six o'clock in the afternoon.

Lin Huang and Xia Hou found a ramen restaurant for dinner at random, and then went back to their hotels.

As soon as he returned to the hotel room, Lin Huang pulled Bloody to review the information together.

With the identity of an investigation assistant, Lin Huang obtained a complete set of information from the alliance government, but due to time constraints, he only took a rough look.If it wasn't for Xiahou's urging to go to the scene, Lin Huang would have spent the whole day looking for clues in the documents.

It wasn't until after eleven o'clock in the evening that the man and the beast finished reading all the materials.

"There are still no useful clues. Before each crime, all monitoring monsters such as monitoring birds and mosquitoes near the crime scene will be killed in less than 2 minutes. Even the sound transmission that can record sound Bei is no exception. The murderer didn't leave any video or audio information, and he did it perfectly." Lin Huang sighed helplessly. "The alliance government not only extracted the monitoring content of monsters that were effectively monitored around the crime scene, but also conducted a cross-comparison of the surveillance videos archived before the crime at sixteen crime locations, and retrieved a full 30 days of video archives, but still found nothing .”

"What I don't understand the most now is, if the murderer hadn't been to the crime scene before the crime, how did he know where the monitoring monsters were hiding, and managed to kill all of them without falling?" Some sighed. Afterwards, Lin Huang raised his own new doubts. "Could it be that this guy has the same ability as me, such as domain?"

Domain-type abilities generally can only be obtained after the battle strength has reached the Emperor Palace Realm and one has the Life Palace.And the murderer's combat power has long been positioned at the longevity level, and the probability of owning the domain is not high, so Lin Huang said this.

"Maybe he has the ability to camouflage, and every time he appears in a completely different appearance, so the cross-comparison of the video cannot find the same person. Of course, it is also possible, as you said, that he has the detection ability similar to the field, and can It senses the number and specific location of monitoring monsters within a certain range." While Bloody agreed with Lin Huang's idea, he also proposed another possibility.

"If it's the former, it's really difficult." Lin Huang frowned after hearing this.

As a person who has the ability of camouflage, he is well aware of the frightening nature of this kind of ability.His own camouflage is far below the level of a master, and he can almost fool everyone under the imperial palace.If the murderer's camouflage skills are stronger, I am afraid that even the strong in the imperial palace may not be able to see through his disguise. He is completely free to switch to any identity and roam freely in this stronghold with countless pursuers, and even be able to communicate with the pursuers. Pass by without being noticed.

"In less than half an hour, the No. 17 murder case will occur." Lin Huang looked at the time and continued, "But we don't know who the next victim is, nor the scene of the crime. Where it will be, there is no way to stop it."

Bloody was also quite helpless about this, "We can only wait for the case to happen, and we rush to the scene as soon as possible to see if we can find any clues this time."

Half an hour passed by, and although it was already midnight, Lin Huang didn't feel sleepy at all.He has been sitting on the sofa in the living room, quietly waiting for the notification from the Union government.

At about ten past twelve, the Emperor's Heart Ring vibrated suddenly.As soon as Lin Huang opened the communication page, a message popped up.

【Investigators and investigation assistants please rush to Chenxing Building as soon as possible! 】

Although the information was only such a simple sentence, Lin Huang immediately understood that the case had already happened, and the place was in the Chenxing Building.

There is also a positioning coordinate in the information attached to the alliance government. When you click it, it will automatically connect to the map function of the Emperor's Heart Ring, and directly plan the route map.

"The incident occurred in the central area of ​​this stronghold, only about [-] kilometers away from us." Lin Huang closed the communication page, turned around and walked towards the balcony.