[Criminal Minds] Wooden Legs of Justice

Nobody wants to keep flying north during the northern hemisphere winter.Anyone could swear that this is an absolutely terrible idea.But the BAUs have to.

"Maybe it will be better in the Lake District." Emily comforted everyone.

But nearly all of them packed their luggage with thick layers of clothing, hoping to beat Michigan's bitter cold.

Reid in particular, the cold shadow of Night in the Woods, doesn't look like it's going to dissipate anytime soon. The BAUs are almost all on the field - except for Garcia, they don't have such a lucky chance to stay in the warm room.

Lake Superior, the third largest freshwater lake in the world, will only freeze partially at such a high latitude—"Basically, it will completely freeze once every 20 years."——Reid language.But the moderate estimate only refers to the temperature of the lake water, which will definitely not affect the surrounding area-"The lake surface is basically kept around freezing point, if this is called mild" - Reid's language.

When BAU arrived, he felt that his decision was correct-the maximum temperature was only minus eight degrees.When I got off the plane, the little doctor felt that this wet and cold place was an upgraded version of Washington State.

With the help of Leo, Reid tried hard to wrap himself into a sphere, and even the most graceful Leo put on a down jacket, which made Leo somewhat resentful.

"Who would kill someone in such a ghostly weather..." Morgan was also full of resentment.

"How is it? Is it warm?" Reid sneezed and said to the shivering JJ.Girls are weird creatures sometimes, and they just want to be present whether they have a boyfriend or not, with or without a boyfriend—whether it's the FBI or not.

What the little doctor said got the eyes of the two girls, and even the pretty policewoman who came to receive him gave the little doctor an extra look.

"Kid, don't you plan to have a girlfriend in your life?" Rossi said helplessly.

The little doctor's face flushed instantly.He wasn't going to have a girlfriend - a big lion would be fine.However, at the moment he is not ready to tell his colleagues.

"Kid, you should take off your coat and let girls wear it at a time like this!" Morgan taught the little doctor how to pick up girls.

"However, in fact, the fat content of girls is about 1.5 percentage points higher than that of boys... In other words, they are actually more resistant to cold than men!" The little doctor scratched his furry head.

JJ: "..."

Emily: "..."

Morgan covered his face and sighed. Leo laughed.

Lake Superior is as huge as an inland ocean, with huge winds and waves in winter, it will definitely not be a calm lake.Su.St. Mary's is just south of the Sault Ste. Marie River on Lake Superior.The river flows extremely fast.

"Maybe you can go surfing in winter, the waves can be as high as nine meters." Leo is a little eager to try.

Morgan also seems to be very interested in this: "It is to defrost after surfing.".

"The first case happened half a year ago, and we all thought it was an accident. Sara. Deppt was the little girl who drowned. Her family went to the Giant Garden Park to play. In the afternoon, Sarah's family found that the little girl was missing. It was still not found for two days. The police found the body three days later. It was not until we were sorting out the files recently that four of the drowning accidents were found to be one of the twins. Three incidents happened in the surrounding small towns.” The local police officer briefly explained, “This place is too close to the Canadian border, and you can cross the border by crossing a bridge. We have to first notify the Canadian side to check any suspicious border crossers.”

"I think we need to meet some of the families of the victims," ​​JJ said.

The seven families were so far apart that the BAUs had to split up.

Reid is still with Leo.It seems that Rossi, the patriarch, has decided to give Reid to Leo to "raise".

Leo and the little doctor decided to visit the Deppt family first. After all, for the murderer, the first target always has a specific meaning.

It wasn't until they arrived that the Deppts had moved three months ago.Had to rush to the new home of the Deppt family.

"Their police station file is too old!" Reid, who was half frozen to death, complained to Garcia on the phone, "Fortunately, you are here!"

Leo licked the little doctor's hair to show comfort.

When they arrived at the Deppts, the family was preparing breakfast and the smell of cheese filled the kitchen.

A happy family appears to have recovered from the loss of a daughter.They seemed surprised by BAU's arrival.

"We have lost Sara. Fortunately, we still have Lina." Mrs. Deppt still had red eyes when talking about Sara.Lina in her arms hugged her mother and looked at the two BAUs curiously.

"Mummy, and me." The little girl comforted.

"We are very saddened by Sara's accident and have had to move and leave sadly," Mr Deppt said.

"I don't understand why the FBI is here now..." He was a little skeptical, "I've seen it on TV, are you suspicious of Sara..." He couldn't continue.

Reid handed him a tissue and comforted him softly.

Lina snatched the tissue from Reid's hand and wiped away the tears for Mr. Deppt, "Daddy, you still have Lina."

"Oh, it's good to have you!" Mr. Deppt took the daughter in his wife's arms.

"Sir, we want you to recall the scene at that time." Reid said the purpose of coming: "So far, it has been found that 7 children have been killed."

"Mygod!" Mrs. Deppt covered her mouth.

"We need your help." Reid knows that it is not a wonderful thing for parents to recall the murder of their children.

"It's a good thing they have a little daughter with them." Reid sighed as he walked out the door.

The killer took one of the family's children, but left them with another.Why is this?

Originally, the deppt family thought that Sarah's death was accidental, but the series of cases that followed made them understand how cruel it is that their child died of murder!Fortunately, their little Lina is a good girl, and her company made the couple feel better.

"I'm rather surprised why twins were chosen." Leo began to meditate just now, recalling the conversation just now.

The parents took their twin daughters to play in Giant Garden Park, the two girls played hide-and-seek, and then Sara, who was hiding, disappeared.This series of things developed very quickly.Forensic medicine also proved that Sara was killed almost at the same time as she disappeared.

"I thought that twins usually have a good understanding." Leo said while driving.

"Not necessarily. What you're talking about is a supernatural phenomenon. But there is an interesting twin theory." Reid said, looking at the handsome side face of the big lion.

On the way back, the big lion talked with his little doctor.

"Twins are often completely opposite in personality, one is outgoing and the other is introverted, which is very interesting."

"Dr. Reid, what kind of character do you think Lina is?" Leo frowned.

In the temporary office of the BAU, everyone exchanged what they learned.

"It's not easy to take away one child and leave another in a friendly environment that reassures parents," Emily concluded.

In this series of homicides, the parents of the victims did not expect any suspicious persons to exist.

"And according to Leo and I speculate, the children who are left behind are introverted and quiet. They tend to be more mature." Reid added, "Maybe because extroverted children are more likely to be abducted."

"What kind of person would a child believe? Maybe someone in uniform, or someone the child knows well," JJ speculates.

The BAU contacted the victim's family asking for details, but got nowhere.

"The parents didn't notice anything unusual, so that there would be no dangerous-looking people in the relaxed environment." The little doctor looked through the records of his colleagues' visits helplessly.

The BAUs were at a loss.

"The key is, why choose the twins?" Rossi affirmed Leo's thoughts, "There must be something wrong with it. The murderer fulfilled some of his desires on the twins."

Leo felt that the key to the first case, "It must be something that stimulated the murderer half a year ago. It seems that we have to start with the Deppt family." Reid agreed with Leo.

"Maybe the BAUs never have time to have a good meal," Leo thought.

At this time, they were sitting in the restaurant of the police station. The little doctor still had a stack of files in his hand, and he was checking to see if there had been similar cases across the country in the past five years. Morgan and JJ just rushed in, and then finished eating like a whirlwind, and ran away with the file.

The reason is that 15 minutes ago - "Look at the autopsy report of the forensic doctor. There are no additional injuries on the victim's body... It looks like he was not taken away by force." Leo flipped through the stack of autopsy reports in his hand .

"Oh! God! Can you not look at these unappetizing pictures while eating!" JJ complained unbearably, this is the first time that handsome Leo has encountered such treatment.

The corpse in the picture is really unappetizing, a swollen corpse, bluish white, partially decomposed, the scalp was cut open, pulled down to cover the eyes, and there was a Y-shaped dissected suture on the chest...

"Why do you have to cut the scalp!" JJ looked disgusted.

"I thought you knew, that's what forensic doctors in some places do. Cover the eyes of the corpse with the scalp to show respect." The little doctor waved his fork, not paying attention at all. "But I think it's because they have the uncanny valley."

JJ and Morgan obviously didn't know what the uncanny valley symptoms were, but, because of the phrase "cover your eyes with your scalp", they retched at the same time.

Hotch, Rossi and Emily at the next table looked up at the same time: What is it?

"Oh, it's the uncanny valley theory. The 'uncanny valley' was proposed by emstjentsch in his paper in 1906, and his point of view was adopted by Freud. Japanese Mori Masahiro diagrams are divided into dynamic and static, that is to say, human beings There is a certain degree of acceptance of human-shaped objects, and when the similarity exceeds 95%, even a [-]% resemblance at this time will lead to extreme disgust among human beings." The little doctor spoke very fast, just like It seems to be finished in one breath.

Leo handed the drinking water on hand to his little doctor.

The other BAUs looked at each other for a few seconds, and finally chose to look up at Reid in unison.Their expressions are too familiar to Reid—please speak English!

"It should mean that human beings feel that things similar to human beings are scary. When this similarity reaches a certain value, it will cause people's fear. For example, dolls or something, here refers to corpses." Leo finished. , looking at reid for confirmation.The little doctor's face is full of: that's the expression.

"That will give people the feeling of walking dead." The little doctor took a sip of water from Leo's hand.

JJ instantly thought of "The Walking Dead", felt sick, dragged Morgan and ran away.

"If you're in a country like England or Germany, you can really despise their IQ!" The big lion patted the little doctor on the shoulder and laughed.

"Hey, my little doctor, you should eat more." Leo filled the plate for Reid again.

The big lion doesn't like the little doctor's too skinny figure - after all, it's uncomfortable to hug like that.Lions are planning for their future welfare.

The little doctor looked at the plate of food in trouble, rubbed his swollen stomach, and finally decided not to disappoint his boyfriend's kindness.

"Since the key issue is the twins, why did the other twin stay?" The little doctor was struggling to cut the bacon on his plate, analyzing the case: "Leave a quiet child, who was killed. Both are cheerful and outgoing...probably because of their personality.Maybe the killer hates some kind of showman in contrast...but he didn't want to hurt his parents so he left another one for them and pretended it was an accident Incident—drowning. According to the report, the twin who was left behind basically found nothing, which means that the murderer just took one of them away alone, and didn't even want to hurt the left one at all. .”

Leo held his own coffee cup, watched the little doctor in front of him reluctantly eating, and put the hot milk in front of Reid's hand, "Think about it after eating, it's too affecting digestion."

After dinner, the duo of Leo and Reid drove to Deppt's house again.

In the darkness and snowstorm, the road and the surrounding scenery became blurred, like an oil painting covered with gauze, with only bumps and bumps, but no colors and objects.

The light from street lights at intervals is blocked within a limited range, forming a narrowed aperture, shackled in a cage of snowflakes.

There were no pedestrians on the road.Soon, the car drove out of the city.The scene is more blurred.The woods passing by outside the car window looked ghostly and haunted.On the other side of the road, there is a field covered by thick snow, with no end in sight.

The sudden sound of a car engine broke the silence of the snowy night.

"Kid, fasten your seat belt." Leo glanced sharply at the rearview mirror.

"What's wrong?" Reid rubbed his eyes sleepily and asked puzzledly.But he obediently fastened his seat belt.

Leo didn't speak, motioned Reid to look in the rearview mirror.

The little doctor looked over in a daze, still puzzled.

"There is a car following us."

"Huh?" The little doctor was a little short-sighted, and couldn't see clearly through the heavy snow.He realized that something might be wrong, but he couldn't react immediately.

Leo slammed on the accelerator, but this was a police car with average performance, not the George Patton he was used to, with poor grip, and the speed would be picked up in no time.

Reid finally responded.He had his phone in his hand, ready to call for backup.But the car made a sharp turn and the phone fell under the seat.

Just as Reid was about to bend down, he saw Leo looking at him with a terrified expression.

The car had just turned a big bend, and Leo felt something passing through the front window of the car. Leo instinctively chased after him.Then I saw a red dot appear between Reid's eyebrows...

Leo didn't think much about it, and rushed to the little doctor beside him...

The little doctor was pushed down suddenly by Leo, and his head hit the front drawer with a "boom", and then he felt a burning pain on his shoulder... The world was spinning for a while, and the seat belt almost strangled him in half...

The steering wheel continued to move according to the original arc, leading the car to take a big bend on the slippery road, the wheels locked up, and slipped horizontally on the snow, cutting a deep hole in the snow, at a speed of nearly 160 It hit the curb obliquely, and in an instant, a piece of the car body was cut diagonally.In the heavy snow, the car was like a toy car that was tired of being played by a little boy. It was thrown into the air while spinning, and then was pulled down to the ground by gravity.The snow on the snow field exploded like a disturbed surface of water. After 0.5 seconds, flames shot up into the sky, and the strong airflow of the explosion dismembered the steel and iron body, and the parts were shot around with flames.The snow instantly melted into a liquid state under the violent heat...

There was silence all around, only the crackling of the flames could be heard.

On the snowy ground ten meters away, lay a scarred mobile phone, flickering and displaying the dialed number: hotch.After a while, the other end of the phone was connected: "hotchspeaking...kid...kid?"

The author has something to say:

Thanks to a reader for encouraging someone!So touched!And someone who raised a question that someone misclassified someone is really sorry!Someone will say that I can't even find the classification...crying...fleeing away...