born criminal

Chen Jian brought Yang Zhou into an unremarkable small room. Yang Zhou took a look at the door when he entered, and found the words "interrogation room" written on it, and felt a bit ironic.

Without waiting for Chen Jian to speak, he said first, "The New York serial killer K may be at the base."

Chen Jian was stunned for a while, even his eyelashes were still, and then he touched his upper and lower lips, as if he wanted to say something, and finally changed his mind, pursed into a line, and fixedly stared at Yang Zhou.

Yang Zhou projected Kyle Green's photo to him, and quickly explained: "This person is Kyle Green, who was allowed to enter the base four days ago, and he is probably K. If Lily falls into his hands, it will be dangerous. Hurry up and search the whole city, and ask for a residence permit when you meet a suspicious person. There is genetic information here, and you will know if it is by scanning and comparing. Hurry up!"

Chen Jian received the message from him, turned around and left. The Yangzhou policeman suffered from an occupational disease and asked, "Where is the monitoring?"

Chen Jian glanced at him sharply, and Yang Zhou was anxious all the way. It was only then that he realized that he was not in a human situation on both sides. He paused, and changed his tone of gentleness: "Can I see the surveillance?"

Chen Jian didn't answer and left in a hurry.After a while, a policewoman opened the door and came in, telling Yang Zhou to follow her.

When passing by the reception room, there was a sudden hoarse cry. It turned out that the little girl's mother had an emotional breakdown.The cry was like a sharp hook, piercing Yangzhou's heart hard, forcing his steps to be messy.

When he arrived at the video archive room, the video he needed had been singled out, and Yang Zhou immediately clicked to play, staring intently at the content on the screen.

Only the back of Lily is shown in the video. She is ten years old, with light brown hair falling to her shoulders and wearing a lovely tutu.The mother and daughter stopped at the entrance of a candy store on the edge of the surveillance. Lily held her mother's hand and acted like a baby, as if she wanted to buy candy.My mother took a look and found that there were a lot of customers in the store, so she wanted to drag her away, but Lily didn't want to, so she shook her shoulders from side to side and lost her temper.After a while, the mother reluctantly agreed, touched her daughter's head, motioned her to stand where she was, and squeezed into the candy store.After her mother left, Lily looked around idly, and was suddenly attracted by something in front of her right. After looking at it for 2 minutes, she left the monitoring area step by step.

Yang Zhou tapped on the table with his fingers, then turned to ask the policewoman, "Have you asked her mother?"

The policewoman didn't know him, but before Chen Jian left, he had specially ordered that he didn't have to hide all the progress of the investigation from him, so he knew that this person was an unusual person, and Yang Zhou had a calm and sure voice when he spoke, which miraculously comforted her The nerves that were made extra anxious and depressed by Lily's parents.The female police officer took a deep breath and replied: "What her mother said was similar to what she saw in the surveillance. Before she entered the store, she specifically told Lily not to move around, and waited for her to come out—it took only five or six minutes before Lily disappeared. gone."

"Does Lily like candy very much?" Yang Zhou paused, "My surname is Yang, what do I call you, police officer?"

"My name is Fujii Sakura." The frowning policewoman unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Lily really likes candy. Her mother hesitated to buy it for her before because Lily had a tooth decayed."

Yang Zhou nodded and rewound the video to the starting position.At this time, the door of the monitoring room was suddenly pushed open, and a young policeman broke in and said in a panic: "Yakoko, come here quickly, Mrs. Geller has fainted!"

Fujii Sakura subconsciously glanced at Yangzhou, implying to ask for help.Yang Zhou looked away calmly, staring at the surveillance video thoughtfully.Fujii Sakura didn't call him, and hurried away with her colleague.

It's not that Yangzhou is hard-hearted, it's just that he has a gentle but distant temperament, doesn't know medical skills, and can't comfort others, so he just said a few useless nonsense, it would be better to get Lili back sooner.

Yangzhou looked at the surveillance again, stood up with a "huh", and decided to go to the scene where the incident happened.

He opened Stars while walking and contacted Lu Zhao.Lu Zhao seemed to have been waiting for him, and asked, "How is it, what happened to you?"

Yangzhou didn't have the time to explain, so he asked the key question: "When you were chasing K, you couldn't find nothing, did you do any criminal profiling?"

"It's been done, but it's very vague. It can only be calculated that he is about 1.8 meters tall and weighs between [-] and [-] kilograms. He has served in the army or the police. The range of these circles is too large, James Luther also fits."

Yang Zhou took the words: "But among the people who have recently been allowed to enter the No. [-] base, only Kyle Green is eligible."

Lu Zhao knew that something must have happened to Base No. [-], and his heart sank.Although Yangzhou didn't blame him, as a policeman, Lu Zhao was so ashamed and indignant that he couldn't hold his head up when he thought that his entanglement and weakness would lead to an avoidable tragedy.

"Help me find out about Kyle Green." Yang Zhou didn't have time to worry about the spring and autumn, and almost used a commanding tone: "And the women he has dated since he was a child, as detailed as possible."

Lu Zhao agreed, and reminded before hanging up: "You have to hurry up. K's murder motives are changing. Remember the first girl killed, Philippa, who was strangled to death. Many characteristics indicate that K was born For revenge, his actions were fairly straightforward. But later...he seemed to have had fun, and his methods became more and more cruel...The forensic doctor said that the girls were abused before they died, and he seemed to be... slowly playing with them to death."

The blood in Yangzhou's whole body was rushing at a terrifying speed. He tried to stabilize his mind and said heavily: "I know."

The gate of the police station is in the middle, and the monitoring room and reception room are located at the left and right ends.Yangzhou ran into Fujii Sakura head-on, and before she could speak, the policewoman said tacitly, "Mrs. Geller is awake."

Yangzhou breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, then I'll go to the square to have a look."

Fujii Sakura told him to wait, and walked into the corner room, and came out after a while carrying a backpack, which contained police equipment such as evidence bags, handcuffs, laser pistols, and tranquilizer guns.

Yang Zhou stroked these familiar things, and his hope grew a little more.He thanked him and turned to leave.As soon as he left the gate, he bumped into Andrew.

"What are you doing here?" Yang Zhou became angry when he saw him, although he knew that it was unreasonable to blame a robot, but his emotions were up, and his reason could not control him.

Andrew begged in a low voice: "Mr. Yang, can you let me go with you? Maybe I can be useful. "

Yang Zhou let out a heavy breath and didn't answer for a while.He stared at the glistening floor beneath his feet, meeting the projection of his anger.Somehow, the lines of the image gradually elongated, bent and recombined, and finally took the shape of a little boy.He shrank tremblingly under the bed, staring into a pair of terrified eyes.

When Yang Zhou raised his head again, he had already calmed down, and he said to Andrew, "Let's go."

They had only walked a few steps when a car slanted in recklessly, barely stopping at the entrance of the police station.A chubby middle-aged man emerged from the inside, with splayed shoulders, humming a song, and casually greeted Andrew when passing by: "Hey, brother, is there any news--wow, robot! Awesome, I didn't even recognize it! "

Even though Lily's disappearance was only known to a small number of people, the funny look of him made the insiders very annoyed. Yang Zhou asked coldly, "Who are you?"

The middle-aged man raised his eyebrows unexpectedly: "Oh, you're new here, right? My name is Ted Smith, a resident reporter for the Daily Mail."

The "Daily Mail" is the only "outside" media company that has a resident reporter at Base One.As a writer for the newspaper with the largest circulation in the world, this Mr. Smith is very disappointing. Throughout the year, the manuscript can only be published two or three times.He wrote about the peaceful and comfortable life in the base, but the editor-in-chief said there was no selling point.Mr. Smith has lived in the base for five or six years. Although he is still poor, his mentality is getting better and better.He wandered around the government, shopping malls, and bars all year round, asking everyone, "Is there any news?"

Yangzhou was in a hurry to investigate the scene of the accident, and he didn't want to talk to this weird guy, but when he heard that he was from the "Daily Mail", he paused.It just so happened that Mrs. Geller's mournful cry came from the police station again, Yangzhou pointed to the direction of the gate, and said to Smith: "Mr. Reporter, go in and have a look, there will be big news soon, your chance Coming. But until it's over, I want you to keep your mouth shut."

Ted knew something was wrong when he heard the cry.He put away his hippie smile and straightened his waist: "Okay, officer."

Andrew and Yang Zhou took a self-driving taxi to the Central District Square.

Yangzhou was not in a hurry to go to the candy store, but first looked up at the positions of the surrounding cameras, and sighed: "There are too many dead spots, it is easy to hide and escape."

The candy store called Sweety is still full today, and the carefree laughter of children can be heard from time to time.Yangzhou asked Andrew to go in to investigate, while he stood at Lily's position at that time, half-squatting and looking forward to the right.

What you can see is just a small open space. Farther away, there are a few poplar trees that have lost their leaves. Farther away, there is a coffee shop.It's all so bland, what the hell is Lily looking at?

"Mr. Yang," Andrew came out of the candy store, interrupting Yang Zhou's meditation, "the salesperson in the store has an impression of Lily, she often comes to buy candy. But yesterday was too busy to notice Lily standing at the door."

Yang Zhou didn't have much hope at first, so he sighed very softly when he heard the words.He walked forward slowly in the direction of Lily's line of sight, and asked Andrew: "What do you think a ten-year-old girl would be attracted to?"

"Many, they are just the age of curiosity." Andrew listed many things.

Yangzhou shook his head: "Maybe it's not as complicated as we thought."

They stopped by a poplar tree.The gray and white tree trunks are surrounded by withered grass leaves, creating a bleak scene.

"No footprints can be left on the cement floor, the square is crowded with people, and other biological characteristics cannot be detected." Andrew said: "There are no clues at all."

At this time, a gust of wind blew by, the withered grass fell down, and the shining green light flashed away.

"Did you see it?" Yang Zhou asked.

Andrew's camera was looking at the cafe, he didn't pay attention to the movement at his feet, and asked suspiciously: "What?"

For the first time, Yang Zhou let his intuition dominate his actions.He bent down, carefully poked through the grass to search, and finally found a crystal glowing green, no bigger than the cover of a little thumbnail. "What?" He didn't dare to move, and asked Andrew to bring tweezers.

Andrew bent down and took a look, and said in surprise: “Sun rain!”

Yang Zhou felt that the name sounded familiar, as if it wasn't dangerous, so he put on his gloves and picked it out of the dirt.Feeling the temperature of the palm, the small fragment suddenly turned crimson again.Getting closer, Yangzhou smelled a sweet fragrance, and could clearly see its material.What kind of weird crystals are these, they are just pieces of candy!

Yangzhou suddenly realized something, his pupils shrank.I only heard Andrew say: "Sun Rain is a new variety of lollipops launched by MZ Company a few months ago. It can change into [-] colors in total and is very popular with children. I heard customers talking at Sweety just now. Bring in the base."

During the conversation, the fragment had turned light yellow, and Yang Zhou quickly handed it to Andrew.As a robot policeman of UNPO, Andrew is equipped with some small inspection equipment inside his body.He cut open the skin over the navel and put the pieces into the tray on the abdomen. One minute later, he told Yangzhou that there was a new military anesthetic left on the candy.

Kyle Green...

Andrew said softly: "Mr. Yang, your inference is correct. What attracts Lily is not something precious, but... this rain of the sun."

In New York, a ten-year-old would probably not be attracted to a color-changing lollipop.But at Base One, this clumsy deception succeeded within a few minutes.Maybe it's been a long time since the days of peace without picking up lost things on the road, and even the parents have relaxed their vigilance against the danger.

Looking around in Yangzhou, cafes, candy stores, cinemas, sculptures in the center of the square, bare poplar trees, boys and girls talking and laughing loudly... these ordinary scenes and people suddenly became murderous.

"Contact Chen Jian," Yang Zhou said quickly, feeling a stone on his chest, "Look at what progress they have made, we must narrow the scope, we can no longer look for a needle in a haystack."

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a muffled sound of brakes behind him.In the whole base, only Chen Jian's broken metal car can make this kind of noise.

Yang Zhou turned his head and saw him and Fang Xing walking towards each other.