"Actually, there is a possibility with a relatively high probability." On the way to the police station, Li Jing said.

Alas? What is possible? I stared at him with wide eyes.

He tilted his head: "Previously, we focused mainly on the victims he chose, but ignored the environmental factors. If we do not see his actions as an emotional interruption, it might be more reasonable to say that he has been unable to commit crimes for three years. This situation is generally that the suspect is arrested, and he cannot go out to commit the crime during the supervision period, and when he is released from prison, he has the conditions to commit the crime, and the previous anger has nowhere to vent, so it causes the subsequent retaliatory murder case. ”

I nodded: "Is it dissatisfaction with society?" But if it's an ordinary revenge on society, criminals will kill people without selectivity. ”

Li Jing shook his head: "It's not just revenge on society, but revenge on a specific type of people, there is a specific type of like, or there is his cognitive standard, such a person should have a detention record for harassing women." Call Shi Hao and ask him to see if any of the suspects he searched for matches the profile have ever been arrested for violating women, and ask him to pay attention to whether any of these people had a record of being imprisoned five years ago, with a sentence of between two and a half to three years. I nodded and went to call Shi Hao.

The inn where we stayed was very close to the police station in L City, and after showing the letter of introduction from Mr. Lu, a police officer surnamed Wang picked us up. "You're Teacher Lu's student Li Jing, right?" Officer Wang politely shook hands with Li Jing, "Who is this?" He pointed at me and asked Li Jing.

Li Jing pulled me aside and introduced: "This is my assistant Zhu Xiaozhi, who has also participated in the handling of several cases before. ”

After a pleasantry, Li Jing told Officer Wang about the temporary analysis.

"That's it for our analysis for the time being, I also want to take a look at a few crime scenes and see if there are any noteworthy clues nearby." Li Jing mentioned yì to Officer Wang.

Officer Wang nodded in agreement: "He is worthy of being a proud disciple of Teacher Lu." It just so happens that the location of this recent case is very close to the city bureau, and I will take you there. ”

"Close to the city bureau?" I muttered to myself.

"What's wrong?" Officer Wang saw that I was puzzled and turned his gaze to me.

I hesitated, "I think I've heard this somewhere, but I don't remember." ”

Li Jing touched my head: "Think about it again." Let's go to the scene of the crime, and if you think of something, feel free to tell me. ”

I nodded, still thinking about what had just happened, and I was sure the problem was the location of the crime scene. I always feel that similar cases have been heard somewhere.

The scene of the crime was indeed very close to the police station, less than fifteen minutes on foot, and now it was surrounded by a yellow cordon. Officer Wang led us through the cordon and walked inside. The evidence has basically been collected by the on-site investigators, and we just look at the geographical location and look at the surrounding environment.

Two streets away from the crime scene is a night market. The victims were found between 4 and 5:30 in the morning, which is the time when the cleaning staff did the morning cleaning. The victim died at 1 a.m. Even if it's not during the peak tourist season, the night market is basically open at 2 o'clock in the morning the next day, and although there are not many people who go there, there will still be scattered tourists wandering around the midnight hours. If someone commits a crime, it should be discovered quickly

"Is there any result over there?" Li Jing looked at the scene against the photo. In the photo, a woman is lying on her back at the scene of the crime, with her arms at her sides, and her left hand holding the hair that was cut off and braided by the murderer, with a hideous expression, but her expression is not particularly painful, except for the fatal wound. And some strangulation marks, there were no other external injuries, which should have been killed in one hit.

"The murderer's modus operandi was professional, the previous body also died after suffering a fatal blow, no other non-lethal wounds were found on the body, and the deceased's blood sugar was normal, indicating that he was not abused before his death. There are also the items that should be taken from the victim's body before the attack, and the victim should be imprisoned for a certain period of time before killing the victim, and the victim has a scratch on the neck or body of the victim with metal ornaments. However, the results of the examination showed that the scratches were caused about 3 days before the victim was killed. It is speculated that the murderer had fiercely resisted the victim when he kidnapped him. In the process of resisting, he was scratched by the ornaments he was carrying, and later removed them for the victim when the killer subdued the victim. Three days after the kidnapping, the killer killed the victim. Officer Wang said the autopsy results, but there was a sentence that puzzled me.

Before I could speak, Li Jing asked me about my confusion: "You just said 'them'. Is there more than one suspect? ”

Officer Wang nodded: "Our tentative speculation is this. It is based on the analysis of the corpse, first of all, the modus operandi, you look at the wound in the photo, the forensic examination results are that the 15 cm folding knife stabbed into the victim's vital parts. It is difficult for ordinary people to use this kind of folding knife to kill people, and it is difficult to pull out the murder weapon from the victim's body, but the murderer can not only stab the victim at one time, but also neatly pull the knife out of the victim's body, indicating that the murderer is quite familiar with the operation of the knife. ”

"It is possible that the murderer has a certain amount of experience in knife handling, and is familiar with the knowledge of debunking, knows all parts of the human body, and controls the strength and position of the knife. If the next person does not have too many traces of struggle or resistance, it also shows that the suspect's movements are clean and fast. The wound is on the front of the victim, indicating that the murderer is facing the victim, and the wound is located on the left side of the victim's front, which can also show that the murderer is right-handed. The killer may have worked in medicine. But why are there other murderers? ”

"Hair." I don't know how I suddenly thought of this and said it.

After listening to my words, Officer Wang nodded: "That's right, hair, because of the murderer's strength and the murder weapon used, the female killer is less powerful, and most of them are poisoned. In the vast majority of cases, the majority of long-term prisoners are also male murderers. Coupled with the fact that the women who were victims in these cases were not petite, it was not particularly easy for women to pay such people. But Xiaozhi also said just now, hair, this kind of skillful way of braiding hair is not like a boy's doing. ”

"Unless you're in a hairdresser or working in a wig shop, you're exposed to this kind of thing, and the cuts in the hair are so neat that normal scissors can't make the cuts that are as neat as they should be. It should be professional scissors for hairdressers. Li Jing looked at the photo in front of him.

Officer Wang nodded and continued: "Based on this consideration, we believe that the murderer may not be one person, but two or more people who committed the crime. The accomplice should be a woman or an employee of a barbershop. ”

"Anything else?" Li Jing asked.

Officer Wang shook his head; "No, this is not the scene of the first crime. Judging from the corpse spots on the back of the deceased, the body was dragged on the ground after being killed, and there were corpse spots formed by dragging on the back. There are no other clues for the time being. The perpetrator was careful not to leave any traces of the crime such as fingerprints, but we are in the process of examining the hair collected near the body. After the identification, DNA comparison will be done with the hair collected in several previous cases to see if it can be confirmed that the cases were all committed by the same gang. ”

Li Jing closed the notepad and asked Officer Wang to take us to other crime scenes. Officer Wang shook his head a little distressedly.

"What's wrong?" Li Jing was puzzled by Officer Wang's reaction.

Officer Wang smiled bitterly: "You don't need to look, the murder sites of the other victims are only about ten meters away from here." ”

Li Jing raised his head in surprise and looked around: "Aren't there any surveillance cameras nearby?" ”

"Yes, but the surveillance equipment was vandalized, and no valuable clues were taken." When he spoke, Officer Wang was a little angry, "I agree with what you said earlier that the suspect has anti-reconnaissance capabilities, and this was a pedestrian street before. We didn't follow the surveillance, so we didn't have any clues in the first few cases, but recently we installed surveillance here, but I didn't expect the murderer to find out and destroy it. ”

Li Jing looked at the direction of the intersection and said: "The murderer should have been here before placing the body, is there any record of the surveillance before the facility was destroyed?" I want to see the clues from there. ”

I was still thinking about my doubts in the morning, and looked at the photo of Li Jing holding it in his hand, the police station, the knife, and the hair. I always feel like I've seen such a scene somewhere.

"Xiaozhi, Xiaozhi." I heard someone calling me, and when I came back to my senses, Li Jing and Officer Wang were looking at me with curiosity.

"What are you thinking?" Li Jing asked me.

I rubbed my head. Li Jing asked me nervously, "My head hurts again?" ”

I waved my hand: "No, I think these scenes are very familiar, as if I have seen them somewhere, but I just can't remember them?" ”

"You've been exposed to cases like this before?" Officer Wang came up to me and asked.

"It's not." I hurriedly denied, "I'm not sure I've seen it with my own eyes, but I think it's familiar." It's like a cup. ”

"Embodyment?" Officer Wang didn't seem to understand what I was talking about.

I hurriedly explained: "To put it simply, it is to transform some of my fantasies into reality, but this usually appears in novels, but I think my familiarity with this situation is definitely not from fantasy or reality, but I feel like I have seen it somewhere." ”

"Like a movie or a book?" Little by little, Li Jing was guiding me to find the piece of the puzzle in my mind.

I shook my head: "It's similar but it's not." ”

"Could it be a novel?" Officer Wang reminded.

Some clips passed through my head, and my head suddenly felt a tingling pain, and I endured the headache and said to Li Jing: "Mother Goose nursery rhyme." ”

"Mother Goose nursery rhymes?" Li Jing looked at me unconvinced.

"Yes. Mother goose nursery rhymes. "As soon as I finished speaking, I fainted again.

When I woke up, I was lying in the infirmary of the police station, and Li Jing saw that I had woken up and asked me nervously if I was okay. Seeing that I was fine, I put my mind at ease: "Why did my health become so bad after changing jobs?" ”

"I'm too busy, I haven't rested!" I want to be perfunctory.

"The face is not good, but it looks very thin, why is it so heavy. All the way, I feel like an elephant in Bole. "Li Jing's poisonous tongue made me really urge to smoke him.

"You really can't hold an elephant." I glanced at him and ignored him.

"After holding your weight, it may feel light to hold an elephant."

I was about to hit him, but he dodged with a smile, but quickly regained his expression: "Xiaozhi, have you suffered a head injury before?" ”

"You've just been injured, if you want to scold me for being stupid, just say it, it's too immoral to be sarcastic." This joke made me feel a little angry.

He didn't defend himself, but he said to me sternly: "Your situation is not only lacking in the factor of rest, but it is more like the symptoms that some people with transient amnesia will have during the recovery period, to be honest. Do you have memory lapses. ”

Is there memory loss? I laughed self-deprecatingly, I really was, but I didn't really want to talk about it right now, so I shook my head. Denied: "No." ”

Maybe he saw that I didn't want to continue the topic, Li Jing didn't embarrass me, just stepped aside and poured me a glass of water. I looked at Li Jing's silhouette and pleaded, "Li Jing, whether I have memory loss or not, don't let Shi Hao check my past." I had a hunch that it was definitely not a good memory, and I wanted to escape for a while until I could accept it. Because there are too many memories, things are really headaches. ”

Li Jing handed me the water: "Although I don't agree with you to continue to avoid the problem, I still agree to give you a buffer, but if your head hurts again, I suggest that you still come to the hospital to have a look, don't hurt your health." After one more instruction, Li Jingcai continued, "However, thanks to the reminder before you fainted. I went to ask Shi Hao to check the mother goose nursery rhyme you said, are you talking about this poem? Li Jing opened his phone and showed it to me.

"Jack the Ripper is dead,

He lay on the bed,

He slit his throat with daylight brand soap,

Jack the Ripper is dead. ”

I nodded: "Yes, this one, how did you find it?" I looked at Li Jing excitedly.

Li Jing took the phone and flipped out another song to show me: "Let's see if this one is also familiar?" ”

"Pauline and I walked in the church of Baose,

The footsteps of the sniper crept in,

Jack the Ripper is here. ”

"I was really impressed. But you haven't answered my question yet, how do you know? ”

Li Jing put down his phone: "You reminded me yourself." ”

"Me?"

"You've been muttering 'police station, knives, hair' at the scene. Three words, these three words are related to the cases we are exposed to, in addition to referring to specific objects, the hidden meaning is something that you are not aware of but feel inexplicably familiar. If analyzed according to this line of thought, the crime scene is very close to Peking Opera and can be reached by walking, which can be said to be a provocation to the police, and the knife is a tool for committing the crime, that is, the modus operandi. And the hair in addition to the loot is also only with another murderer, so I asked Shi Hao to follow these three clues to find the relevant ballads in the mother goose nursery rhyme, and I found an analysis, which is about the background speculation of the first-hand nursery rhyme, many people suspect that the first nursery rhyme seems to be a satire on the murder of Jack the Ripper by Todd the barber, these two are more notorious serial killers in history, although Todd lived in the 18th century, and Jack the Ripper lived in the 19th century, The argument that Todd killed Jack is untenable, but it can be said that the fear and resentment towards them in the hearts of the people who want to be flexible is still very deep, and it ends with arranging them or letting these two brutal killers kill each other. But I'm curious if you remember such a poem. It's quite extensive! Li Jing looked at me with a look of exploration in his eyes.

I blushed: "I've read some of it, I've seen "Alice's Adventures Through the Looking Glass" before, and there is an egg man sitting on the wall in it called HumptyDumpty, isn't it?" It seems that in the West is still quite famous a fantasy character, and when I checked this fantasy image again, I accidentally found this poem, and by the way, I also read other stories in the fairy tale of Mother Goose, and I may have an impression of Jack the Ripper, and today I mentioned that many people committed crimes, and it was said that there was a murderer who might have worked in a hairdresser, and because the victim was hit by a knife and died, probably because this was associated with something I had read before. But if you think about it, the murderer's modus operandi is almost very similar to that of Jack the Ripper. By the way, do you know the identity of the victim? ”

Li Jing took the information that was put aside: "It's all sorted out, some of the women he killed do overlap with the victims chosen by Jack the Ripper, but not all of them are women in weathered places, the suspects we are looking for pay more attention to their appearance preferences, and all the victims are women with long hair." Jack the Ripper chose to commit the crime near Whitechapel in London's East End, and would later send a letter to the police to show off his achievements. And our suspect chose to commit the crime in the intersection area that is closer to Li Jingfang and close to the bar and night market, and there is indeed a similarity in the location of the crime, and there are also provocative elements in it. But there is a clear difference in the modus operandi, although the victims are not showing signs of excessive struggle, but the victims under Jack the Ripper are basically drunk women, but we did not find alcohol residues in the suspect's victim, and Jack the Ripper had traces of beating the victim, but we did not find other trauma to the victims in these cases, if it is a parody case, there are similarities but not exactly the same. ”

"An admirer of Jack the Nurse the Ripper?" I thought about it and asked Li Jing.

Li Jing shook his head: "It's hard to say now. After all, the techniques are not exactly the same. (To be continued.) )