Warm and Cold CP Short Story Collection

We went directly to the home of Meng Linlin, the first victim of the "Whitechapel Case" in the online live-action game.

Meng Linlin herself is much more beautiful than the profile photo, but also much weaker.Just as Guo Xuan and I walked to her door, before we could speak, we saw her retreating into the corner of the wall like a frightened little rabbit, biting her lips tightly, and hugging a pink pig pillow with all her strength. Standing in front of him, his eyes were full of panic.

"Who are you? Why are you standing here? You're frightening Xiaolin, go away quickly."

The voice is not bad, if the tone of speech is not so rough.A boy about our age ran over anxiously, pushed Guo Xuan, and pushed me aside.He went in and slammed the door shut, followed by his gentle tone of voice to comfort Meng Linlin.

Guo Xuan and I stood in front of the closed door and looked at each other.This person suddenly appeared in front of us. It was the man who took a photo with the deceased Guan Xiaoxue. I didn't expect him to know the first victim.

Meng Linlin's father, who was leading the way, motioned us to go to the living room and wait for a while.

"Thank you for coming to visit Linlin. Don't mind what happened just now. Chu Jie is our neighbor, and we are childhood sweethearts with Linlin. After Linlin's accident, he has been with her all the time. Sigh! Don't look at our age, we actually know the dangers of online games. No, this kind of thing happened, Linlin's mother left early, and I raised her to grow up alone..."

Judging by Father Meng's appearance, if we don't interrupt in time, we will probably have to listen to the story all morning.It's also scary for men to nag.

"Uncle Meng, don't say that. We are all classmates!" Guo Xuan changed the subject without a trace, showing a curious expression, "By the way, what does this Chu Jie do? Classmate Meng seems to trust him very much."

"I major in psychology. I've been trying to get her back to normal these days. What's the matter?" It was the reckless boy who spoke just now, and he walked over with a cold, slightly blunt attitude.

"Oh, it's nothing. I won't bother you today! See you, Uncle Meng."

I stepped on Guo Xuan's motorcycle and left Meng's house. After walking a short distance, I turned my head and saw Chu Jie standing on the steps of Meng's house looking at me expressionlessly.

"Have you noticed?" Guo Xuan asked.His body leans forward to steer the locomotive for stability.

"What?" I was a little confused about Guo Xuan's question.

"When Chu Jie looks at people, he will stare at the other person's eyes. His eyes are relatively indifferent, his emotions are hidden deeply, and his speech speed hardly fluctuates. He is a person with strong psychological quality, calm mind, and good self-control. But , some things still haven’t escaped my eyes.”

Guo Xuan's voice was blown into my ears by the wind, and it was clear. "Isn't he the guy in the picture! Why are you praising him all of a sudden? I just think he's rude." I said.

"Chu Jie smelled of disinfectant. His fingertips had a thin layer of calluses. His nails were trimmed short. He was obsessed with cleanliness. He was physically strong and pushed us with great force. He saw us at first He unconsciously leaked a surprised emotion, as if he didn't expect us to appear. Although it passed by in a flash, I caught it. He deliberately raised his voice, and then pushed us away with rough movements , shut the door very hard. There was Meng Linlin who was easily startled in the room at the time, so she couldn't make any loud noises. If you are studying psychology, you should know this."

"From what you said, it seems a bit..." However, I only noticed that the boy was named Chu Jie, and he knew Meng Linlin and Guan Xiaoxue.

"Zhou Ping, sit down." Guo Xuan reminded, and then accelerated the speed of the locomotive, "Let's go to the White Pigeon Church to investigate the scene, and then go to the second victim, Li Da. I'll take care of it when we get back." I'll talk to you when I get my head around it. I think we should have some clues from him."

"okay."

I sat in the back with my arm around his waist for balance.There is no way, the speed of the locomotive is a bit too fast, although it is very exciting, but I still hope that Guo Xuan can concentrate on driving the locomotive first, and think about other issues when he is safely in the place.

……

The White Pigeon Church in the eastern part of the city and its surrounding environment are more complicated than expected.It is simply the best slum model base.I followed Guo Xuan around a few times, and I almost didn't faint myself. Fortunately, I have enough brains, and I don't have the road-crazy attribute.

The place where Guan Xiaoxue's body was found was in a small alley not far behind the White Pigeon Church. It was almost the same location as the murder case in the game, and it could be regarded as a semi-secret place.

It was dark at that time, if it wasn't for a drunk passing by and tripping, it might not be easy to be found.At that time, the drunk man was so frightened by the bloody and unrecognizable female corpse that he was mostly sober. He immediately ran out to call for someone, and then called the police.

It had not been more than 48 hours since the murder occurred, and electronic warning tapes were installed at the entrances and exits at both ends of the alley to warn others not to break in at will.

Guo Xuan greeted the police officers who stayed behind, and then led me to bend over the warning tape for a closer inspection.The body has long been taken away.It rained a lot yesterday, and the white lines on the ground are a bit blurred, but the outline can be seen clearly, and there are no obvious signs of resistance on the surrounding ground.Guo Xuan squatted outside the white line and observed.

I stood by and observed carefully for a long time but didn't see anything more. "It doesn't seem to be a lot of struggle. It must be done by an acquaintance." I muttered casually.

"Zhou Ping." Guo Xuan stood up, "Let's go see the last victim now."

……

Li Da didn't seem surprised by our visit. "You don't look like policemen, but you look like two students at school." He stood at the door and looked at us, a pair of small eyes shining shrewdly on his overweight face.

I looked at the opponent's huge figure that could block most of the aisle in shame. Just seeing him in person felt full of oppression.If you hadn't read the information, it would be hard to imagine that he played the role of a dancer with a voluptuous figure and a charming appearance in the online MUD live-action game.

I have decided that if I want to find a girlfriend in the future, I will definitely choose to look for it in reality.If the lover who loves to death in the game turns out that the real body of the other party is not the opposite sex, or even a human being, then it is really called life is worse than death, a super tragedy.

"We're detectives. We're investigating the attack on you near Whitechapel in the live-action game a week ago.If I disturb you, please forgive me. "As expected of Guo Xuan, he was not affected at all, and his tone of speech was as firm as ever.

"Then you all come in! Remember to close the door." Li Da turned around and returned to the bedroom with slow steps.He also knew that Guo Xuan and I would not be able to squeeze through the gap between him and the corridor wall.

A typical otaku bedroom, I won’t say much about what’s in it, but fortunately the space is big enough, we went in and found a place that looked relatively clean and sat down, Guo Xuan began to ask Li Da some questions.I looked at the bedroom environment curiously, and then I was attracted by a group of new computers placed in a prominent position.This latest model is not something ordinary people can afford. It is worthy of the rich people living in the North District.

"That's the latest model of computer, and the network terminal system is currently the most advanced. But there are some things that need to be improved." Look at his computer group with interest, Li Da said. "After entering the real-life MUD game, the signals of the body are synchronized, and the level of experience can be called perfect... MD, those few knife cuts on his body at that time almost hurt the old man to death." Li Da frowned when he said this. The two eyebrows, which were sparse and almost invisible, burst into a foul language.

"The attack a week ago?" Guo Xuan asked without losing the opportunity.

"That's right. My name is Linda in the live-action game, and my identity is... Since you know me, I must have investigated it, so I won't say it. The Whitechapel was originally the place I would pass by after work. I didn't expect a That night a week ago, someone suddenly rushed up from behind with something and covered my nose. Before I fainted, I felt a terrible pain in my ears, then my nose, and then my face... In short, when I think of that feeling I just feel the pain is unbearable... I dare not enter the live MUD game again for a week."

Thinking of the bad memories, Li Da's huge body trembled viciously.

"That's it!" Guo Xuan lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and then asked, "Then do you know 'Catherine' and 'Xue'er'?" Guo Xuan said the names of Meng Linlin and Guan Xiaoxue in the game.

"I don't know, who are they? Could it be that this happened to me?"

Fortunately, I can distinguish the bewildered expression on Li Da's face. For this, I deeply admire myself.However, Li Da's intuition was quite accurate.The massacre at the White Dove Church has been locked down. I think Li Da may not know that a victim has already lost his life in reality.

……

It was evening when we got back to school, and neither of us went to class all day today.The two simply ate something at the school gate.When I returned to my residence, I collapsed on the bed and refused to move.Guo Xuan loves cleanliness. As soon as he entered the door, he got into the bathroom, and the sound of splashing water kept coming out.

After Guo Xuan came out of the shower, he also lay back on his bed, keeping silent and staring at the ceiling.

I was a little bored, and I didn't really want to play games, so I picked up the photo that had been placed on the table and studied it over and over again.

The photo is a bit blurry, the two people on the screen are very young, it seems that it has been taken for a while, but it has been well preserved by its owner.In the picture, Chu Jie was half hugging Guan Xiaoxue, smiling brightly, with a happy expression on his face, not at all like the indifferent Chu Jie he saw today.It doesn't always feel like the same person.The more I look at it, the more I have this strange idea.

"Zhou Ping, what are you looking at?" Guo Xuan's voice came.It seems that he has finished contemplating.

"The photo you brought back. Guo Xuan, take a look." I pulled a chair and sat next to his bed, motioning him to look at the person in the photo, "Look carefully, is there a spot on his face?" A mole? It’s just a small brown spot above the right eyebrow, which is not very obvious. The Chu Jie we saw today, his face is very clean, without anything.”

Guo Xuan took the photo and looked at it carefully, then nodded.

"That's right. It's kind of weird."

"Could it be someone else in the photo, not Chu Jie? Are they twins?"

"Very likely." Guo Xuan suddenly turned over and sat up, jumped out of bed, turned on the computer, and began to enter some keywords to find information.

"If Chu Jie is Guan Xiaoxue's boyfriend, why does he always stay by Meng Linlin's side? When we went to Meng's house in the morning, he should have known about Guan Xiaoxue's death. After all, the police will notify the relevant family members or relatives and friends. Yes. But he didn't even show it at all, as if he didn't know anything about it."

"No, no. He should already know. Today's behavior is a deliberate behavior...to confuse the enemy...what a smart guy..." Guo Xuan stared at the computer and kept muttering in a low voice.

I was watching it at first, but the flashback of the information on the screen was too fast, and my eyes were not enough.Alas, although I am very smart, compared with Guo Xuanyi, I can only retreat to the level of average intelligence.

Before I could ask, a message alert flashed on the computer screen a few times, it was an e-mail.Guo Xuan clicked on the content, and there was a long string of text, and only he had the patience to check it bit by bit.After reading all of them, he fell into thought again.

"So what's going on." After a while, Guo Xuan muttered to himself, and after replying to an e-mail, he pressed his fingertips against each other again, staring at the computer screen motionless.

It will probably take a long time again, so I didn't bother, I simply took a change of clothes and went into the bathroom.I've been running around the city all day today, and I'm already terribly tired.Soaking in the bathtub, I don’t know how long it took, and when I almost fell asleep in the bathtub, the door of the bathroom was pushed open with a whimper, and then I heard Guo Xuan’s excited voice .

"Zhou Ping, the case is solved."

I was startled, my feet slipped, and I slipped directly to the bottom of the bathtub, gulping down a lot of bath water, and almost choking to death.

"Ah, I'm sorry." Guo Xuan fished me up, stuffed me with a dry towel and went out, standing outside the door and apologizing to me, "Zhou Ping, are you okay?"

"It's okay, it's okay!" I quickly washed off the foam on Xiao's body with water, and then changed into clothes, "By the way, you just said that the case was solved? What do you mean? The murderer has been found? Who is it?"

"There are three murderers. They have been caught, and we will rush there now."

"Three? Who are they? By the way, where are we going?" I hurriedly wiped my hair with a towel. It's not good to blow cold wind on my wet head at night.

"You'll know when it arrives."

Guo Xuan handed me a helmet and was the first to get on the motorcycle, motioning me to hurry up.

……

I thought Guo Xuan would take me to the police station, after all he said the murderer had been caught.

Standing in the hallway outside a hospital room, I looked through a glass observation window in one of the hospital rooms.

Chu Jie sat down on a small stool with handcuffs on his face, and two policemen in uniforms stood behind him.On the only hospital bed in the room lay a man with a pale face, except for a brown mole on the right eyebrow, he was almost the same as Chu Jie.On the other side of the hospital bed was Meng Linlin who had only met once this morning but failed to say a word. At this time, she was being supported by a policewoman, biting her lips with a stubborn expression, but there was no trace of panic in her beautiful eyes.

Is the murderer the twin brothers?He said there were three of them, and the other one must have been the weak-looking Meng Linlin, right? !Wasn't she one of the victims too?I turned my head to look at Guo Xuan and asked him silently.

"Zhou Ping, you guessed it right. The person lying on the bed is called Chu Hao, and he and Chu Jie are twin brothers."

Guo Xuan also looked at the situation on the other side of the glass window, and explained the case in a low voice.I listened quietly.

"Chu Jie does not major in psychology. He is a medical student and is currently practicing as an intern. Psychology research is Chu Hao's main subject. Two years ago, Chu Hao suffered a car accident and had both legs amputated because of his blood type. Quite special, the several bionic prosthetic limbs made are not very adaptable, and he can only lie in the hospital at present. Originally, his girlfriend, the victim Guan Xiaoxue, was very kind to him, but because of this incident, his temper became Extremely irritable, unstable temperament, easy to jealous and constantly suspicious of Guan Xiaoxue's friendship. These abnormal changes made Guan Xiaoxue feel scared, and gradually kept some distance from him. This triggered Chu Hao's criminal thoughts, He found accomplices, which eventually led to Guan Xiaoxue's death."

"Then why did he imitate Jack the Ripper's crimes?"

"Before the accident, he just studied several major events in history. Among them, the "Jack the Ripper" incident at the end of the 19th century had a lot of psychological content about the murderer's speculation.After the accident, although he couldn't move, there was no obstacle at all in re-registering his identity and changing his image in the online world.So..." Guo Xuan frowned, "In fact, they did this to mislead the direction of the investigation of the case: the famous Jack the Ripper killed people indiscriminately, and his cruel methods made people frightened, and the targets of the crimes were all young women... …so that everyone will think that it is an unknown person who committed the crime, and will not think of a familiar person. "

Looking at the expressionless man lying on the bed, I couldn't help but sigh with emotion.Sure enough, some people who study psychology and medicine can easily become deranged?

"Since it's Chu Hao who wants to take revenge, he can't move in reality, so he asked Chu Jie for help. It's easy to guess. But, what does this matter have to do with Meng Linlin?"

Guo Xuan glanced at me, sighed deeply, with a dull expression. "The boring polyamorous relationship, the plot level can be called eight o'clock."

"Ah?"

"The three of them grew up together. Chu Hao and Chu Jie are twin brothers. Chu Jie has liked Meng Linlin since he was a child and obeyed her. Meng Linlin likes Chu Hao. Chu Hao later had a girlfriend, Guan Xiaoxue. If it wasn't for Chu Hao got into a car accident, maybe their relationship will continue like this forever. Guan Xiaoxue’s death can be said to be caused by Chu Hao’s suspicion, Meng Linlin’s jealousy, and Chu Jie’s blind obedience.”

"At the residence just now, I sent an email to a senior from the School of Information, asking him to help me find Meng Linlin's student files. It really paid off."

"I asked the Internet police to help investigate all the hidden ID information that appeared in the game Whitechapel and nearby scenes during the three murder cases, and then found out a few fixed IDs. After careful analysis and investigation, coupled with the reality Finally, the IP address of one of the IDs was locked, and the identity was finally determined to be Chu Hao lying in it. He killed people on the Internet, and the IP address let Meng Linlin write several disguised programs to investigate the Internet police. interference."

"It is Chu Jie who kills people in the real world. His dissection skills are so proficient that even the teacher praised him. I went to the medical school in the middle of the night to do a small experiment, and found that there were hallucinogens in the residual tissue of the victim brought back. Ingredients. For a medical student, the drugs are easy to get here. In the online MUD live game, there are many underground black market transactions that take advantage of network loopholes, so Chu Hao in the virtual world can also buy psychedelic Potions and such."

"It's really you." I praised without hesitation, but I still had some doubts in my mind, "What about Li Da? He is even stranger to them."

"As I said, this is actually a misleading act. They imitated the modus operandi of the famous Whitechapel massacre in history, and committed several murders regularly in online real-life games. The location and time were chosen according to history. consistent with what is stated in the

"The first time Meng Linlin became the victim, so that the Internet police could pay attention to this murder case, and at the same time, no one would suspect that she was also one of the planners. The second time was an experiment. The victim It doesn't matter who it is, as long as it's a young woman and passes through the Whitechapel area in the game. It turned out that Li Da, who played the role of 'Linda the Dancer', won the grand prize."

"Regarding the "Whitechapel Massacre" that happened in history, so far no one knows who is the real "Jack the Ripper". Their ultimate goal is to kill Guan Xiaoxue, and no one knows who the real murderer is!That's why they chose this modus operandi.It's just that they never expected that the person who would participate in solving the case in the online world would be Sherlock Holmes. "

Under the supervision of the police, Chu Jie and Meng Linlin walked out of the ward door one after the other.When they saw me and Guo Xuan, they paused, and then moved on with the police.What greeted them was the sanction of the law.

After all, we didn't say a word to Meng Linlin, what a pity for this weak girl.But thinking about it, another innocent beautiful woman lost her life because of this girl's jealousy... It's terrible.People are unpredictable!

"Actually, thanks to you, Zhou Ping." On the way to leave the hospital with Guo Xuan, he said suddenly.

"Huh? Why are you thanking me?" I thought he would call me Watson, but I was still wondering whether to grab him and shake him a few times to wake him up—this is in the real world, not a game play .

"If you hadn't reminded me, I might still have to take some detours to solve the case." Guo Xuan showed a sincere smile, "Your words in the back alley and the details on the photo. Both brothers Guan Xiaoxue and Chuhao Chujie I know, you said that there is no trace of struggle, and the possibility of acquaintance committing the crime is extremely high. I will focus the investigation on the relevant people."

"Where is that!" I grinned, pretending to be humble on purpose.

"There is a good saying: every successful detective will have an excellent assistant by his side!"

"Hehe, that sentence is correct." This time I laughed smugly, and completely lost my modesty just now.When I walked to the parking place, I suddenly remembered something, "Oops, how did I forget?!"

"what happened?"

"Birthday gift! The day after tomorrow is your birthday, I forgot to prepare a birthday present. I will prepare it tomorrow, tomorrow. By the way, Guo Xuan, what gift do you want for your birthday?"

Seeing my serious expression, Guo Xuan couldn't laugh or cry. "Well, you just keep forgetting."

"That can't be done. I can't forget it when I think about it. It's Children's Day and Children's Day! That Thursday, there are no classes in the afternoon, why don't I invite you to play in the playground, okay? It's been a long time since we went out to play together Already!"

"Didn't you go around enough today? I took you around almost the whole city by bike."

"That's different. Today is to solve the case, and the day after tomorrow is to play. The mood is different, and the feeling is different!"

"Okay! I've convinced you! Get in the car, there's an exam tomorrow morning!"

I raised a smug smile, happily put on my helmet and helped Guo Xuan to sit still.The engine started and the locomotive roared onto the road.

In fact, you can also say the same!

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Every great detective will have a right-hand assistant who knows how to enjoy life!

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