Chapter 40: Common Ground
Ted has an absolute advantage!
He pinched Catherine's trump card and the Internet, a communication weapon in the era of self-media, which is equivalent to choking the throat of the police, Ted is not a bastard who holds hostages in his hands and cries about his ex-girlfriend's infidelity, this is a madman who dares to wipe Catherine's neck in front of the police and the world......
However, the experience of rescuing hostages in the weekend's mind was completely useless at this time, and the strong attack would definitely not work, and Chekov had learned to aim at the position where he was now is equivalent to the position after SWAT rushed in, where it was impossible to aim at Ted at all, and if you wanted to kill with a shot, you had to use a penetrating bullet through Catherine's body, which could not even guarantee the safety of the hostages; Not to mention the negotiators, Ted has no psychological weakness to exploit at all, his relatives can't go to the scene to persuade him, and he can't talk about a good life with such a person or give up the crime to minimize the punishment, this is a proposition that is fundamentally unsolvable.
A problem that cannot be solved no matter how extensive your knowledge and experience are!
What is knowledge and experience?
The knowledge is that when he saw Ted stuck a scalpel near the artery in Catherine's neck like the weekend, he clearly knew that as long as this knife went down, Catherine would spurt a large amount of blood in an instant, and as long as the blood spilled exceeded a quarter of the body, then she would die directly at the scene where the ambulance did not arrive, one body and two lives; As for the experience, Ted clearly understands how much force can be used to cut the artery in Catherine's neck, and he may even remember the trajectory of the blood splatter, because he killed a whole nine people in this way, and even remembers that when the artery is cut, the continuous blood splatter will exceed 1000CC.
At the moment, anyone will feel anxious when facing this situation, after all, the initiative is in the hands of others.
"What are you waiting for?" Asked tentatively over the weekend. He tried his best to control his facial expressions, and at this time, once he fell into the disadvantage, he would completely lose the opportunity to talk to Ted, and if Ted felt bored, then the whole game would enter the countdown.
The dust dances in the sunlight, and the sunlight that has moved from the waist to the legs announces the loss of time.
At this moment, Ted responded, "Man is indeed the most voracious species in the world. I wanted to start as soon as the number of people increased a little, but now I want more people to see it. β
I couldn't see Ted's expression on the weekend, and I didn't want to guess, so I followed the topic and said, "What you want is an increase in the number of people here, right?" After all, this is the last scene of your life, and you must hope that the scene will be as grand as possible, air support, SWAT, police dogs, demolition teams, when all these people appear in front of you, maybe you will be more excited. As for the number of people watching the live stream on the network. Do you care? Catherine was killed in this video, and someone must have spread the recorded video on the Internet, and the sensation that followed was no different from the heated discussion it is now. β
The moment Ted revealed half of his face through the gap between Catherine's bodies, and the other half of his face was hidden in the shadows, a very concerned gaze fell on Weekend.
For the first time, he found that someone knew himself, and it was not like a scientific report from a scientist studying a guinea pig, but a thinking pattern with common ideas and the same thinking, like two wagons on a railroad track. Instead of two wagons running parallel on two railroad tracks, you look at me, I look at you.
"You made Robin confess? Or is it in the police station, not because there is too much evidence piled up and the verdict is pronounced directly in the courtroom? Ted opened up a different topic.
"That's right."
Weekend nodded.
The whole scene is slowly advancing in a very peaceful environment. The expressionless face of the weekend and Ted's naturalness made people not believe that this was about to be a crime scene.
Including those who watched the live stream on the web.
In the live broadcast room of a well-known live broadcast website, as new people keep entering, something like 'Who is killing people in the live broadcast?' ''Which idiot uses this kind of name to attract attention' and so on, many netizens who waited in the room for a long time and only saw an ordinary conversation began to add fuel and vinegar, and some said, 'Isn't it to kill someone?' Why don't you get your hands dirty yet? 'Acting is too bad, this is Los Angeles, wouldn't it be too naΓ―ve to want to enter the showbiz with such a clumsy performance?' βγ
Of course, there are also good people who will stay, 'Don't do this.' She also has children! Such an exclamation, however, is too little and too little, and people have become accustomed to the equation of 'network = falsehood', and few people believe that it is true.
These comments will irritate a normal person. If a normal person who is holding hostages sees these things, maybe he will do it directly in this kind of message when he is emotionally uncertain, and at the same time that people's inferiority is revealed on the Internet, it also proves that in fact, everyone will inadvertently expose the dark side of their hearts in front of the computer screen, at that time, almost no one has thought about such a question - Zhuang Zhou Mengdie. In the end, which one is the real you.
Ted, on the other hand, didn't seem to be affected by all this, he enjoyed squatting there looking at the computer screen, complacent in the midst of the wild spray.
Hiding behind Catherine, he raised his eyebrows, as if he had seen a delicious food being served to the table in a French restaurant, and looked forward to the wonderful taste that might appear.
He was waiting, waiting for the police to surround this little warehouse, waiting for this room to be filled with police footsteps inside and out, and at that moment, he wanted to shock everyone watching this live broadcast and every police officer outside, whenever he thought of the frightened eyes and angry gaze...... He was intoxicated.
"Why kill people?" Over the weekend, in an atmosphere of stalemate to the point of almost no waves, inquiries began again.
"Interest."
"Like Henry Lee Lucas?"
"Don't mention that idiot to me."
Their intermittent conversation was like two partners who already knew each other very well, except for topics that could resonate, they were just chatting sentence by sentence.
"That's BTK."
Weekend mentions two serial killers who shocked the world without any expression on his face, but he never had a conversation with Catherine from beginning to end.
Ted finally gave up paying attention to the computer screen and stood up, he looked at the weekend and said, "You think they're better than me?" β
"Not either."
"But the way you send the DVD to the police station is imitating BTK."
BTK is a man who has been killing people since 1974 and has not been arrested until 2004, and he would not have been arrested if he hadn't been arrested if he hadn't been arrested if he had sent a photo of the slain to a magazine on the day he was arrested, at least for 30 years when he had written to the police department for every person he had killed.
Ted sneered and said, "Lucas, you are talking about, had an unfortunate childhood when he was a child and was abused by his mother, a prostitute, a woman; That bastard who only stares at corpses - self - blasphemy - has also been abused by his stepfather, what do I have? He looked at the weekend defiantly: "My parents, one is a university professor and the other is a philosopher, who wrote the best-selling philosophical works, and my childhood was carefree and free of any danger, how can you conclude that my psychological distortion comes from my childhood, the same as those two guys?" β
Weekend remembers all of Ted's stuff, everything he says is on the record, it's impossible to lie at all, and besides, this guy has no criminal record on his file, and there is no label of 'dangerous' or 'never to be trusted'......
"University!"
Thinking back to Ted's file, Weekend suddenly said a period that even he couldn't believe, at least there was no psychological distortion of any serial killer during this period, but from the information Weekend knew, only Ted's experience of studying in England was not recorded, and that experience was the only one that was not marked in the entire investigation process.
The weekend didn't ask nonsense, since Ted kidnapped Catherine, it means that he has accepted the consequences of holding Catherine hostage, this matter has reached the current situation, the only thing he can get is the influence brought by the fermentation of the incident, then, the previous murder cases are not a secret, the influence is officially obtained from these cases, then, there is no need for him to keep it a secret. In this case, you can ask all the places that the police have not yet figured out over the weekend, and all you need to know is the truth and the fake, so that Ted is like Lucas, who has confessed more than 600 real and false murders in a few years, making the police dizzy.
"Have you solved all those spontaneous combustion cases?"
Sure enough, Ted once again tried to lead the conversation, and in the eyes of the weekend, he was dodging, trying to use the most important points of the police to cover the unexplored blind spots.
"Ted, what really happened to your college career?"
"That's none of your business!"
Ted raised his eyes and replied very strongly!
Weekend ignored Ted, looked at his outfit and said, "Did anyone taunt you about your attire when you were in college?" β
"Who kills after being taunted?"
That's a definite answer, at least for weekends, yes.
"A lot of people will!"
"For example, the madmen who rushed into the school with a gun, and the information obtained by these madmen in the police investigation after the incident is that they are often bullied in the school, and they are looked down on everywhere. What's more, some famous universities in the UK still maintain the tradition of new students being cleaned up, drunk, or behaving strangely when they enter the school! β
"In this case, no one knows how embarrassing a child is from a family of scholars such as university professors and philosophers, and I understand as well as you the pain of being hit before puberty has even fully begun."
Swish!
Ted's gaze began to freeze, and he stared directly into the eyes of the weekend. (To be continued......)