[Criminal Minds] years before love

Kim's small helicopter was at the ready and quickly brought several people to the scene.

This place is not far from the sea, the mountain doesn't look high, but the cave is dark and invisible, there seems to be a salty air current, and I don't know if it is connected to the sea.

The site of the abandoned corpse is at the entrance of the cave.

It is still an inverted triangle composed of three heads, but this time it is much fresher. It can be easily identified as two men and one woman. One of the men is obviously much younger, and it may be a family of three.

"Has the body been identified?"

"not yet."

"It seems that he is not very obsessed with gender. Maybe the part that stimulates him is the family itself." Hotch stared at the scratches on the dead body and the writing 'Devil' on the stone in the middle, "There is not much blood from the gunshot wound on the forehead, it should be after death Caused."

Rossi stepped forward to pick up the stone with gloves on. Except for a word written on it, it looked the same as the fragmented stone next to it. It should be taken locally.

"Why is there no blood?" Kim asked suspiciously.

"It means that it is not necessary for him." Rossi tapped the thing in his hand, and handed it to the forensic officer who was busy collecting evidence.

"Dave." Hotch saw that there seemed to be something wrong on the ground, called him, bent down and pulled out a small half-buried thing under the gravel from the ground where he had just taken the stone, "Huh"

It was a cross less than half the size of a palm, made of animal bones, and almost broken in two.

Hotch handed it to Rossi, "Smooth to the touch, yellowish in color, probably aged."

There seemed to be fear in Kim's eyes again when he saw that thing, "Destroying the cross...would it be... heretics?"

Rossi touched the fracture, thought for a while and denied, "On the contrary, I think the murderer is a very devout believer. This thing should be carved by himself, and the pattern on it is very serious. I heard that it is useful here. The tradition of carving animal bones must have taken time and effort."

"This thing is hard to break." Hotch reached out and touched the material of the cross again, gave up on getting it back to its original shape, and put it directly into the evidence bag, "He spent a lot of effort, and it might break Injured hand, try to see if you can find blood on it."

"Then why did he do this?" Kim asked hesitantly, a little in disbelief.

"Desperate." Rossi looked towards the cave, where there was bottomless darkness.

"Our people have already gone to see it, and it doesn't look like someone has gone in." The police at the scene said quickly.

Hotch raised his flashlight and went to the hole to look carefully again, and returned to Rossi, "There is nothing unusual inside."

"If he doesn't want to be found, he moves the scene 10 meters inward, and no one will probably find it." Rossi turned and looked to the other side, "He's sending a message."

"You mean he wishes to be discovered?"

"Maybe he doesn't want to be found by us, but he definitely wants to be found by someone." Hotch frowned. "But it doesn't feel like passing a message to the police."

"He's sending a message to someone...someone he thinks can solve his desperation." Rossi agreed. "Maybe he thinks it's in this cave, but it doesn't seem to be working well."

"In this cave? The one who solves his despair?" Kim looked puzzled.

"This man has a clear purpose, every step he takes is step-by-step, and all the cases have nothing to do with sex." Rossi sighed, and led a few people away from the police who were handling the case, and said regretfully, "There is a There can't be humans. Aaron, unfortunately, I think he's trying to summon the devil."

Kim almost slipped, "But you just said that he is a devout believer."

"Yes, he is." Rossi looked at Hotch, who was frowning. "I think he also prayed for God's help. Apparently, whether gods or devils exist or not, they didn't respond to him."

"So this is?"

"Stupid and self-righteous sacrifice." Hotch looked livid, glanced at the scene again, and suddenly turned around, "Kim, take us to the church."

"Aaron?" Rossi was worried, and although he hadn't had time to investigate why, Hotch was clearly resisting the Church.Usually he would not let his subordinates avoid their weaknesses, and would even force them to face them, but this was Hotch, he almost subconsciously wanted to connive and maintain, "If you don't want to go, we can split up."

"I don't have a problem with church interviews." Hotch stepped into the helicopter first. "It's hard to get around here, and there are no other leads. I don't think we need to split up."

"Well, there are churches in every town, which one are we going to?" Kim steered the helicopter into the air and turned to ask them.

Hotch was staring into the distance, Rossi patted him reassuringly, looked up and said to Kim, "The first time he chose humans as his targets, he would pick a place where he felt safe and go back to your town— In fact, you probably know him. Think about it, a friend who has had a family accident recently."

Kim snorted, "None of my friends are divorced, and none of them can summon the devil."

Rossi ignored him and continued, "Very religious, well educated, good hunting skills and physical strength, looks clean and gentle, may have a slight obsessive-compulsive disorder. There is transportation, I tend to be helicopters, 3 months ago There are some problems with the family."

Kim opened his mouth, as if a name flashed in his mind but he didn't catch it, hesitated for a moment, and finally shook his head.