The fourth person has died, and the bizarre murders that have occurred in a short period of time have plunged the whole city into panic, and the police investigation has become clueless, and at the same time, everyone in the Beiting Detective Agency is also confused and anxious.

Li Yiting was even more worried that this incident would affect the reputation of the police, so he took the initiative to call Shao Xing, "I'm sorry, old man, you must know the matter, we don't have a clear clue yet, and so many people have died, this time it is really our dereliction of duty." ”

Guan Shaoxing didn't mean to blame, he was very aware of the ability of the Beiting Detective Agency, but comforted Li Yiting and said, "We are organizing police forces to investigate the death scene of the fourth deceased Hou Hong and the fifth deceased Liu Changshou in the vegetable market and on the beach respectively. So, Yiting, don't blame yourself too much. ”

Guan Shaoxing didn't blame, which made Li Yiting even more embarrassed, if it was inevitable that two people would die at the beginning, but later they had mastered Liu Xiaoquan's prophecy, and they were more and more inclined to believe that these victims were killed in the order of them, and they also sent people to protect them, but in the end, except for the missing Tong Yangyang, who was found by Liu Zichen, the others were still dead. If this trend continues, it is impossible to imagine that the sixth or seventh dead will soon be produced again.

Li Yiting couldn't agree with the supernatural view, he at least thought that the current clues were far from ruling out the possibility of man-made, so he said to Guan Shaoxing, "Old Guan, until the investigation is clear, we'd better not make a conclusion." Let's tell you this, take Tong Minghai's death as an example, he was killed by the music fountain after it was turned on, but the switch of the music fountain was not on the square at all, so it could not be that someone accidentally touched it, and in the control room where the switch was located, the staff on duty was not there. In addition, like Hou Hong's death, she was punctured by the hook in the roast duck oven, but the market confirmed that there should not have been a roast duck oven there. Therefore, everything is still unknown, but there is still no breakthrough point, and I believe that once I find the trick in one of the links, maybe the case will be clear. ”

"Okay, in that case, you will continue to investigate according to your own ideas, and we will further investigate and investigate the scene and witnesses. You don't have to blame yourself too much, anyway, no matter what, things are already like this, and only by revealing the final truth can the deceased be given justice!" Guan Shaoxing is worthy of being a bureau-level cadre, and his final concluding speech was very sonorous and powerful, and it also made Li Yiting regain his confidence.

Li Yiting hung up the phone with Guan Shaoxing, took the forensic doctors Xu Jingnan and Kuangsuo, and returned to the scene of the previous crime again, re-examining them one by one. From Binjiang Park to Beiyuan Square, from the vegetable market to the beach barbecue garden, the three of them walked through it again, and they didn't want to miss every detail.

But in the end, even a forensic genius like Xu Jingnan did not have any typical characteristics of murder in the deceased, but Kuang Suo used his super memory to memorize each crime scene by the way, and engraved it all into his brain in case of emergency.

Back at the Beiting Branch, Li Yiting summoned other people except Wan Yongkun and Pang Sheng to hold a case analysis meeting.

Shen Mingyue spoke first, she has been in frequent contact with Liu Xiaoquan recently, and she is deeply convinced of his views, she said, "You all know Liu Xiaoquan's prophecy, and now everything is developing according to his prophecy, don't you think what he said is true? Maybe you don't want to admit that there is death in this world, and you don't believe in any mysterious power, so we have been solving the case, but we haven't tried our best to protect the people in the prophecy, causing them to die one by one." Now we should cooperate with the police and strictly protect the remaining prophesied people, and we can no longer let them out of our sight. ”

Liu Zichen followed Shen Mingyue and said that her views were similar to Shen Mingyue's, because since the two met Liu Xiaoquan on Monkey Island, many things had met together, and their experiences were very similar, so she also believed a little bit in the Grim Reaper. It's just that for Chen Tianyu, she trusts her even more, and Liu Zichen did not make a definite judgment on whether to change the direction of detection, but only suggested that she should protect the people in other prophecies.

After listening to the speeches of the two beauties, Li Yiting couldn't sit still, the purpose of his convening of the meeting was to analyze the case and find clues to catch the murderer, but it turned into a dispute over the prophecy, except for protecting the parties, he did not analyze the case itself.

So, he stood up and said emphatically, "If you think about it, many of the cases we encountered in the past were also very mysterious, but in the end we found out that they were all caused by man-made, so I believe that this time is no exception, but this time the criminal's methods are more ingenious." As detectives, we must not be deceived by criminals in the first place, because the other side wants to take advantage of the people's belief to create a tragedy, and what is our task? That is, to defeat the other side and protect the lives of the people, but how to protect it? Fundamentally speaking, it is to discover the problem and catch the real criminals!

Xu Jingnan sat in the corner and shook his head, saying that he had not found any clues, so he remained neutral.

Finally, there is Kuang Shuo, for him, each crime scene has formed a three-dimensional concept in his mind, but so far, no valuable clues have been found, and he believes that there will always be a link that will be broken. However, as the leader of the Nine Paths of the Buyi Royal Clan, he still had something to say, "I went to the place where each deceased was, and the scene was perfect, and it was difficult to be designed well." Although there are some unreasonable places at present, such as the switch of the music fountain, this does not mean that someone deliberately hid there and waited for Tong Minghai to fall on the square and then turn on the switch, so I think that Mingyue's statement has some truth, no matter what, it is always right to protect the parties in the prophecy first.

Listening to the motivational discussions of the people under him, Chen Tianyu has always been silent, he first needs to gather the views of all parties, but he can't easily take sides. Judging from the current situation, whether the prophecy is true or false, or the facts of the case are artificially designed, there is no sufficient evidence to support these two views.

Under the impasse that everyone could not convince each other, Chen Tianyu made up his mind and put forward his own opinions.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I don't think the ideas of the two of you are wrong, everyone has their own positions and basis, but as detectives, especially the detectives of the dignified Beiting Detective Agency, we can't just rely on our own imagination to do anything, it is a castle in the air after all. We must have evidence to support our own statements, such as prophecy, where is Liu Xiaoquan sacred, can say the prophecy of death completely, and at present, the order of death is not right, we can't fool ourselves with skipping guesses. In addition, if it is artificial, then it requires precise design and layout, but no one can find a suspect with this method now, there is no witness, no physical evidence, just argument, is it useful?"

Chen Tianyu's words made everyone present speechless, they were not impulsive people who did not talk about evidence, it was only because of the excessive pressure and uncertainty of this case that everyone was a little confused.

After being silent for a long time, Chen Tianyu continued, "We have been focusing on cases where someone died, but we have neglected one crucial thing, that is, the origin of the entire series of cases. ”

"What you said was that at the time of Liu Xiaoquan's prediction, there was an accident on the Monkey Island Cableway where those people were located. Li Yiting suddenly realized.

Chen Tianyu nodded and agreed, "That's right, it's the ropeway of Monkey Island, if it weren't for that accident, there would be no Liu Xiaoquan's prediction, and these victims would not be put together, which is also one of the only things those people have in common." ”

Li Yiting understood, these days, he has indeed been completely involved in the case itself, but he has forgotten the cause and effect. In fact, in the process of solving the case, he would also think about the incident of Monkey Island from time to time, but because the cases came one after another and there was not enough manpower, he ignored this point for the time being. Now is the time to get back to square one.

"Maybe that's where we can determine if these cases are man-made or supernatural. ”

Chen Tianyu left such a sentence, and led everyone to Monkey Island, as for why he went there to judge whether it was artificial, he did not explain.

Back on Monkey Island, there are still a lot of tourists here, and although there are some turmoil, the natural scenery and wildlife of Monkey Island are still very attractive. Li Yiting came to the ticket office first, and he took the opportunity to buy a ticket to inquire about the cableway.

But the conductor directly denied it, the other party said that everything is normal with the cableway, there are no safety problems, as for the rumors outside, they are all released by competitors, if you don't believe it, you can go up to check it to ensure that the ropeway is still running smoothly.

This is all a side of the scenic spot, it is estimated that in order to confuse tourists, do not want to create a bad impression, Li Yiting had to take out his own documents, as well as the police to show the notice of coordinated investigation, the conductor called the leader.

Ten minutes later, a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes appeared in front of the Beiting Detective Agency and asked politely, "I'm really sorry to keep you waiting, I'm the manager of the Monkey Island Scenic Area, do you need any help?"

Li Yiting showed his ID again, and then lowered his voice and said to him, "Manager, I know you don't want to publicize the matter, but it is also your obligation to cooperate with our investigation, and we all know about it, so don't hide it, tell us what the accident on the ropeway is all about?"

Hearing this, the manager's originally smiling face changed, he looked around, and no one else noticed this side before he cautiously replied, "President, I won't tell you that there was such an accident, and several cable cars fell in mid-air, but this is not a big deal, there shouldn't be such a big move!"

"The cable cars have fallen, isn't it a big deal?" Li Yiting asked angrily.

Seeing that the situation was wrong, the manager hurriedly explained, "President, it's really not a big deal, but a few cable cars were broken, and those cable cars just fell into the sea, and there were more than a dozen tourists sitting in them at that time." We are a regular scenic spot, this kind of thing originally had an emergency plan, our rescuers rushed to the scene of the accident as quickly as possible, and fished up all those people, and some people were slightly injured, everyone else was fine, and no one died, but it was frightened, so this was really just an ordinary accident, and it didn't cause deaths!"

Li Yiting was a little incredulous, and continued to ask, "Since there are no deaths, why is it rumored that there has been a major safety accident in your scenic spot outside, and you deliberately conceal it and not report it?"

"Oh, yes, it's all our fault. The first reason is that our scenic spot does not want to affect the reputation outside, and indeed the news of this small accident is blocked, including the news that some people fell into the sea and did not say it outside, because there are no dead people, we can not report it, but we did not expect it to backfire, at that time some witnesses saw it, did not know the final result, they thought that those people fell to their deaths, and went outside to talk nonsense, which caused us a bad impact; , and finally spread falsehoods, and the originally small thing was described more and more black. In fact, it's all our fault, if we had released the real news first, there would have been no follow-up. ”

The manager of the scenic spot said very sincerely, and the reason is also very sufficient, and there is indeed no place to refute.

The more you don't say it, the more fierce it is, and when it is difficult to control, you will come out to refute the rumors, but it will be mistaken for covering up the truth of the matter, in short, the critical public relations has not been done.

But it's just a mistake in dealing with things in the scenic spot, it's not a big mistake, and it's not to the point of breaking the law, so it's understandable for the scenic spot to do this, Li Yiting agreed with his words, however, from the manager's testimony, it revealed a huge secret.

Since the disaster of the ropeway on Monkey Island is pure nonsense, there was no vicious accident at all, and even if those people fell into the sea, their lives would not be in danger, then Liu Xiaoquan's so-called death prediction that prevented everyone from boarding the ropeway on this reason is untenable, and the conclusive order of death he gave is even more difficult to believe. But how can the fact that so many people are still dying according to his prophecy?

If I had to find a plausible reason, it was that someone deliberately carried out a series of murders according to the entire death prophecy, so the view that the case came from murder has gradually gained the upper hand. And this prophecy was deliberately created by Liu Xiaoquan to kill people, and others used his prophecy to blame him, which is still uncertain.

Shen Mingyue's heart was already shaken, how much she trusted her classmate Liu Xiaoquan, so she was also convinced of her prediction, but in the current situation, this prophecy was obviously untenable. But she at least thinks that Liu Xiaoquan can still predict accurately, but someone has taken advantage of it, which may be an ingenious criminal layout by others.

Regarding Li Yiting's point of view, Shen Mingyue no longer refutes, she just wants to find the truth of the matter as soon as possible, so she took the initiative to talk to Li Yiting about the differences between the two, "Brother Li, if the case is all artificial, what should we do next?"

Li Yiting had already understood Chen Tianyu's decision at this time, and came to Monkey Island to investigate, and indeed successfully figured out the nature of the case, but he was still a little confused about Shen Mingyue's question, who should be the suspect he had been looking for?

He followed Chen Tianyu's train of thought, traced back to the source, and finally, he thought of another key person.

"Do you remember meeting that tall black man on this Monkey Island?" asked Li Yiting.

Shen Mingyue suddenly remembered, she said excitedly, "Of course I remember, that was a strange person, at that time Liu Xiaoquan said that he was the god of death!"

Li Yiting turned his head and asked the manager if there was this strange black man on Monkey Island.

The manager scratched his head and replied apologetically, "I'm really sorry, I'm mainly in charge of the operation of Monkey Island, as for who is here, I really don't know, but it's okay, I'll call the people below to check it out right away." ”

Li Yiting took people around to investigate, this Monkey Island is a busy scene, with an endless stream of tourists, monkeys climbing everywhere, and lush forests, all of which cannot be compared with the breath of death.

It didn't take long for the manager to bring good news that there was really such a black man on this island, and he personally brought a group of people from the Beiting Detective Agency to the island and met the tall and strange black man.

"He's the Grim Reaper!" Shen Mingyue recognized the man at a glance and pointed at him and shouted.

The manager was confused, and he hurriedly explained, "What is the beauty talking about? Death? I have just asked the personnel department, this foreign friend, a doctor who lives on Monkey Island to conduct research on wild monkeys, has lived here for several years. ”

"What?doctor?study monkeys!" Shen Mingyue was particularly surprised and exclaimed, "Then, how can he have that particularly weird smell on his body?"

A staff member who came with the manager replied in detail, "Yes, because I have to spend time with monkeys for a long time, so this doctor deliberately applies a lot of sandalwood baths to hide the smell of humans, because animals have sharp noses, and if they feel that the smell is problematic, they are reluctant to approach humans." In addition, as I mentioned earlier, this doctor from a foreign country has been living with monkeys on Monkey Island for several years, so it is inevitable that his body will be contaminated with the smell of monkeys. ”