Fire to the Abyss

At the detention center in a small town in the south of Chengzhou District, an old guard carefully looked at the scar on Nine's neck in the photo and expressed his impression of him.

The old guard said that "the murder of a high-achieving student" was a sensational case back then. After Liu Changming was arrested, major newspapers and media came to interview him one after another. Claiming that he killed not a human being, but a demon.At that time, the details of the case were not disclosed to the public too much. After some media writers made vague statements, coupled with the inevitable distortion and exaggeration in the information dissemination process, Liu Changming was rendered as a cold-blooded and brutal murderer. , the kind of killing anyone who doesn't like it, makes other prisoners in the detention center feel a little scared of him.If the old guard hadn't seen him wake up in the middle of the night several times during the night patrol, hugging the quilt and curling up in a corner, he would really have thought him a cold-blooded murderer.

Presumably, all his calmness and composure in front of people have elements of performance. Midnight Dream recalled the plot of killing his biological mother, and he would still break out in a cold sweat. He would instinctively fear blood and death. He was afraid of seeing his mother's face. His face was disfigured, but this kind of behavior did not alleviate his fear. Instead, he spent the rest of his life in hostility towards women, so he uttered bad words to Li Xueen when he met him for the first time, knowing that it would be very difficult to change her lipstick. He's about to kill her, and yet he's slandering a girl he's about to kill as a "bitch."

It was also his insult that triggered the dispute with Li Xueen, deepened Chen Mubai's impression of him, and finally allowed the police to trace his true identity - since he tried every means to conceal his true identity, It means that there must be clues to check and materials to dig.

While the district police re-examined the death penalty records of the year, breakthroughs were made in the two trophies obtained when Nine was arrested. The USB flash drive he hid in the garbage bag was finally cracked, which contained his painstaking efforts over the years-hacking various The records of this kind of institutional network, in addition to the code that makes people look big, there is also an unexpected gift-the DNA data of Eleven that he stole from the public security database back then.

As for the other trophy - the small program with the puppet doll pattern on Nine's computer, with Xia Lin's help, the message full of numbers was also deciphered.After Xia Lin was able to walk by himself, he had to come to the detachment to be a free labor force. It happened that some important person in the district helped to decipher, Xia Yan sent a report to the top, and threw Xia Lin over to work with a group of experts with thin hair. Yes, at least it is safer than following him all day. The digital password used by Nine is relatively common. It corresponds to a codebook. A column of numbers is a combination of page numbers, rows and columns. Just find the codebook, find the characters corresponding to each column of numbers, and connect them together.It took a while to find the codebook, but no one thought that the "codebook" was an old newspaper from three years ago that Nine put under the table.If he hadn't lived there three years ago, Xia Lin wouldn't have noticed at all.

The code was deciphered to be a combination of letters and numbers. After screening, it was confirmed that it was the warehouse number of a wharf in Beibin District. Liang Song was leading a team to check.

On the other side, Xia Yan led a large army to bustlingly remove the puppet master's minions. The fight was so vigorous that he could arrest a carload of people a day.

As early as when Zhang Chi was arrested, Xia Yan had a preliminary guess that the puppet masters, especially the key members with code names, were able to slip away from the police after committing crimes repeatedly, not because of how powerful the members themselves were. After all, criminal geniuses are not as common as carrots and cabbages. Although Chengzhou District has always been known as "outstanding people", it cannot mass-produce so many high-IQ criminals.It’s more like that every link of a crime has been carefully designed. Appearance, crime, exit, police intervention and investigation, each link is assisted by a team. A crime is not completed by one person, but a group of people. .Some people are responsible for assisting the main criminal to evacuate, some people create chaos and disturb the sight of the police, and some people mix with the police looking for opportunities to destroy evidence.

Take the Chengda poisoning case as an example. Although the principal culprit was Zero, Nine changed the lipstick. The person who threatened Chen Zhifeng to settle the case for him was Zhang Chi. There are only two known participants, not to mention those who helped him master The actions of Wei Ziyi and Li Xueen helped him avoid the people who were being chased by the police.There is also Zhong Qing's kidnapping case, which involves too many related people, He Xiaonian's band, the woman who made his alibi, the homeless man who picked up the mobile phone, the mysterious Mr. K, Ren Qiang, the owner of the underground bar , the sales manager of the winery, the treasury manager who has ghosts in his heart, Liu Yifa who steals and sells wine... These are all just on the surface, and it is impossible to know how many participants are in the dark. Zero and the police are playing a game of time. If any one of them makes a mistake in any link, it will have an incalculable impact on the police's action time. No matter how powerful Zero is, it is impossible to control so many people at the same time. So many little details.

Therefore, Zero is more like a decision maker and controller. He has many gears in his hands. He decides where each gear should be embedded and when to turn it. It is these nested gears that rotate together that make the entire case to work perfectly.Following this line of thought, Xia Yan and Xia Lin came up with a bold speculation at the same time - the case of Eleven was also a well-designed serial murder case.

Although Eleven himself did show some traits in line with a criminal with a high IQ, such as calmness, thoughtfulness, and anti-reconnaissance awareness, he never killed anyone in the first half of his life, and he did not escape in time when fighting or fighting. Planning, but those are always just on paper, the theory often produces many variables in the process of practice, can he really kill the first person without any flaws?

Serial murderers usually gradually improve their crime skills through the accumulation of experience as the number of crimes increases. Therefore, when encountering a serial murderer, they usually go back to the first case committed by the criminal, because the first time Crimes often have the most flaws and are the easiest to find useful clues.

But Eleven is not like this. With such a high frequency of killing 11 people a year, his tactics are quite perfect starting from the first person.At the scene where No.11 was killed, the police found evidence pointing to Eleven's identity by coincidence, and also clarified his motive for killing. After Eleven left the key puppet doll on the scene, it disappeared for a long time, and after that, it was the era of various code-named monsters and ghosts appearing on the stage.

Eleven, an ex-convict with nowhere to go, how did he find out the police who framed him?And how did you find the family members of those police officers?Those policemen who have done bad things should be more or less aware of something in the process of his continuous killing. Why did No. 11 person Li Jianguo write a confession letter, and why was only Li Jianguo writing a confession letter?Has no one else repented?If so, why was it not found?

The timing of revealing Eleven's true face was so perfect, it was too perfect, and people can't help but suspect that someone deliberately designed it to clean up the aftermath for him during the process of his crime, erasing all unfavorable evidence, and letting him go after he finished the killing. His identity and motivation were exposed in order to "deify" him, create an image of a serial murderer who hates the police and has excellent professional ability, create enough panic, and then release news in due course through some underground channels to attract some like-minded people, Further build and grow the organization.And Eleven himself completed his revenge and had done enough on the front line of crime, so he retired to the leadership and became Louis XIV behind the scenes.

The district police pulled out all the case files on the puppet masters, put them together and compared them horizontally, focusing on people who didn't pay much attention at the beginning, witnesses, interested parties, handlers, grassroots police officers, and even passers-by who appeared in the surveillance After careful screening, a list of people who appeared in two or more cases at the same time was made, and the police from all over the country followed the list to arrest people outside, and then followed the people caught. Woren, at once, most of the police forces in the whole district were mobilized together, and a large number of minions were cut down quite efficiently.

But minions are just minions after all, and they haven't touched the core part. Many people who are caught are just doing things with money, and don't even know who their benefactors are. It is more uniform to run away when they see the police.However, even if the puppet master is a group of centipedes, as long as the legs are cut off one by one, there will always be a day when they will not be able to walk. Moreover, it is now in a period of division, and the insects will bite each other. They were attacked from both sides, which undoubtedly made them worse.

While the local police were arresting people according to the list, the district police also made a dark list of people involved. After all, it was much easier for insiders to destroy evidence.Zhang Chi was a thorn in the police force planted by the puppet master, but he was easily exposed by killing Chen Zhifeng. He broke away from the organization to complete the crime by himself. His rescue shows that he is a pawn that can be sacrificed at any time, and it also shows that the puppet master is not just a pawn.

Xia Yan had done nearly ten fights this day, big and small, and there were always some bloody young men. Relying on his youth and strength, and the weapons in his hands, the police uncle would definitely not dare to shoot casually, and insisted on confronting the police uncle. Just now, so that I can brag in front of my cronies in the future, "I once beat the police".This made Xia Yan have to spend some time, rolled up his sleeves, and used his fists to let them understand the real gap between himself and the police uncle.

Xia Yan's shirt was drenched after such a day of turmoil. One child was particularly immoral. Before the fight, he was as arrogant as a rooster. He wailed loudly, and used the sleeves of his hair-plucked head as a tissue, rubbing his tears and snot all over his face.

Although Xia Yan didn't have a cleanliness obsession, he still felt disgusted by such a disturbance, so he simply took off the shirt inside and threw it away, buttoned up his coat, and left work in a "vacuum" state.

Xia Yan thought it was time to see Lu Yuan. This bastard hadn't contacted him for a long time, and he didn't answer the phone.Xia Lin can walk quickly, and I don't know how his injury is recovering. With so many actions by the police recently, I don't know what countermeasures the puppet master has inside, so I have to talk to him.

Xia Yan sat in the car and made two phone calls to Lu Yuan. After no one answered, he hung up the phone calmly. He already had experience after several lost contact incidents, so he drove directly to LUNA. After the news that the building is living in", he drove the car directly to the villa in Lu Yuanshan.

There was no one in the villa, and the owner here had a rather weak sense of safety, and the broken iron gate was left unrepaired, just lying on the ground.Although the front door and the back door were locked, the glass door of the balcony on the second floor was not locked, and one could enter by pushing it open. Xia Yan stood in front of the glass door and hesitated for three seconds before sending a notification message to the owner: "At your house Waiting for you, come back early", and then, without getting a reply from the owner, trespassed in a grandiose manner.

The interior of the villa was kept clean and well maintained, like a high-end hotel ready to welcome guests at any time, Xia Yan looked around, and it was basically the same as the last time he came, except that there was an extra wooden box on the coffee table opposite the fireplace that he had never seen before .