Crime Hunt Files: Bloody Angel

"No matter what the meaning behind it is, find the person first and then talk about it." He Wei stared at the video and said, "Is there anything else?"

The video continued to play, and the next second after Hiroki Nakagawa finished shouting the distress signal, the video went black again.

"Gone?"

Zhou Qi moved the cursor, but the progress bar was still very long.

"Fast forward, it's probably the same as the previous one, a black screen and a video."

Zhou Qi kept tapping the right button until 5 minutes and 24 seconds later, the video came on again.

A minute later, Nakagawa Hiroki seemed to be much calmer than before.

He shook his body, looked at the camera, and swallowed nervously.

"He said he wouldn't kill me, he just wanted money. So please don't call the police. Based on the clues provided in the email and following the path he said, you will definitely be able to find me."

As soon as he finished speaking, the video went black again.

"It's really a kidnapping case."

Although Nakagawa Hiroki stated the gangster's purpose in the video, Zhou Qi just felt something was wrong.

The purpose of the kidnapping is to get money.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, after being kidnapped, the gangsters will immediately notify the victim's family and use the simplest and fastest way to extort ransom.

But this time, Nakagawa Hiroki has been missing for more than a month.

The first zero-point email appeared two weeks after his disappearance.

If ransom is really the gangster's purpose, then both the time and method of notifying the family are too cumbersome.

Zhou Qi now understood He Wei's mood.

I want to find the real culprit immediately, see who he is, and do all these things like taking off his pants and showing off!

"Continue to fast forward, there is more." Bai Ji'an stared at the end of the progress bar and said, "The total length of the video is 12 minutes."

Zhou Qi continued to type on the keyboard. This time the interval was very short, so short that he only typed once before the screen turned on.

Go back to the beginning of the screen, at 5 minutes and 30 seconds.

Same framing, same pose.

It was still Hiroki Nakagawa's face stained with tears and snot.

He tremblingly repeated what the gangster had taught him.

"When you see the video, you should have found the box. Come on, look for it and give me the money, otherwise, the hand in the next box is... a real hand."

Sure enough, after one sentence, the screen disappeared again.

Although it is annoying, Zhou Qi is used to it. Seeing that no one had expressed his opinion, he quickly moved forward like a robot that had been given instructions.

About half a minute later, the screen appeared at 6 minutes and 9 seconds.

There is an old photo on Nakagawa Hiroki's neck that no one has ever seen.

A half-length single photo, very clear, as if it was taken from a computer and printed out.

Even in the video screen, the face in the single photo can be clearly seen.

Judging from the appearance, the person in the photo is a Japanese military officer from the [-]s.

He was wearing a military uniform and a military cap, with the corners of his mouth raised, and his eyes looking directly into the camera with bottomless confidence and arrogance.

However, when his eyes moved up, Nakagawa Hiroki was sweating coldly, and the corners of his mouth were shaking out of control amid repeated hesitations.

Up, up, keep up.

Until a similar, extremely ugly smile appeared.

Suddenly, the scene freezes.

A half-length photo of Hiroki Nakagawa was randomly born.

The calm expression in the old photos and the distraught expression of Hiroki Nakagawa appear in the same picture, which is extremely funny and ironic.

Howie raised his phone to the screen and took a photo. "No wonder he kidnapped someone for half a month before giving any news. He's so good at playing."

Bai Ji'an said: "I'm afraid that Nakagawa Hiroki won't be able to hold on to the moment when the ransom is paid and replaced."

"You can't hold on anymore?" Li Wushang stared at the gate of the Unit 731 site and said, "Compared to the harm done to our compatriots in the past, these are just small tricks."

Zhou Qi echoed: "That's right! If it were me, I would be better at playing than him."

"Zhou Qi." Bai Ji'an frowned, "Don't make such jokes. You are different from them. You are human and they are not."

"I can't, I'm just talking, just kidding!" Zhou Qi grinned, "Let's continue, there's still half of it left!"

I pressed it continuously for a long time, but the screen did not appear.

Zhou Qi nodded and sighed: "Is there no more?"

"No." Bai Ji'an denied, "If there is no more, why extend the video duration to 12 minutes? It can end in more than 7 minutes."

All the way down, this weird video is always piece by piece, and each piece is still a sporadic fragment.

The short one is just one sentence and is gone in less than ten seconds.

The one that looks like the one where the gangsters just forced Hiroki Nakagawa to imitate the expressions of the Japanese soldiers.

Zhou Qi's fingers almost cramped even while clicking on the video.

This was his first time searching for videos, for fear that he might accidentally drop an important clue.

Finally, at the end of the video, at 11 minutes and 12 seconds, the screen flashed!

A line of white words appeared in the middle of the pitch-black screen.

"Come on, come to me, take the photo called Clues, I'll wait for you here."

"The photo called clue..." Zhou Qi picked up the photo of the bombed-out railway track with the words on the back, "This is it."

Bai Ji'an nodded, "It seems right."

"The location of the September [-]th Incident is Liutiao Lake in Shenyang." Zhou Qi reached out and patted Li Wushang's arm and said, "Let's run towards Shenyang first, and I'll take over for you in two hours."

"No, you concentrate on the analysis." After saying that, Li Wushang got up and set off.

Bai Ji'an clicked on the tablet, turned his head and said to Zhou Qi, "Send me a copy of the video. I'm a little confused."

Zhou Qi smiled slightly, looked at Bai Ji'an, and said, "Sure enough, the senior also found out!"

In the 12-minute video, the images are intermittent and appear at irregular times.

But this seemingly unintentional setting is often intentional.

Bai Ji'an said: "The first video appeared at 4 minutes and 12 seconds, and the last video appeared at November 11 seconds. They correspond to the birthdays of Nakagawa Hiroki and Nakagawa Hideshi respectively."

Zhou Qi continued: "The total length of the video is 12 minutes, which represents December, so the other three sections with images are also someone's birthday."

5 minutes and 24 seconds, May 5th.

5 minutes and 30 seconds, May 5th.

6 minutes and 9 seconds, May 6th.

"Sure enough." Zhou Qi stared at the dense information on the computer and said, "The birthday of Hiroki Nakagawa, the son of Hiroki Nakagawa and the father of Hiroki Nakagawa, is May 5."

Bai Ji'an held the tablet and murmured: "None of them."

"neither?!"

Zhou Qi immediately leaned over. Neither Nakagawa Hiroki's uncle Taichi Nakagawa, nor his aunt Megumi Endo, nor his sister, wife, and daughter had birthdays on May 5th or June 30th.

Bai Ji'an turned off the tablet and said, "It seems that there is a mysterious person involved in this who didn't have time to appear."