Chicago time, 3 a.m.

"It's finally done." In the war conference room, Ryder stretched the swivel chair, kicked his feet, spun around the swivel chair and left the table, slid to Golia, who was sorting out the papers, and smiled: "Do you have time to enjoy your face and have a supper?" ”

"Supper? The executive department commissioner has a prescribed amount of calories involved in three meals a day, and I don't want to miss the physical fitness test in the department next month because of a late night snack. Gloria tapped the papers on the table, not even looking at Ryder.

"I heard that someone ordered a table of Alinea's takeout on the twelfth floor of the inpatient department." Ryder smiled.

"Did 'Marita' order it? Oh yes, her family can do that. Gloria put the sorted documents in the storage box, exhaled and sat down in her chair, "But speaking of which, 'Marita'... Is that Helena really okay? I always felt a little suspicious when I reviewed the whole mission just now. ”

"Suspicious?"

"Isn't Helena too lucky to be a victim?" Gloria took a few photos and threw them on the conference table, and after Ryder glanced at them, his original appetite for supper disappeared in an instant, and all of them were victims of the Bloodface Killer.

"If it weren't for Caesar Gattuso's timely control, she would have followed in the footsteps of these people." Ryder shook his head.

"But this last modus operandi is too crude... It's so simple and crude that it's hard to imagine that this is the work of the same murderer. Gloria frowned at the video of the hall of the inpatient department, which had been replayed hundreds of times on the surveillance screen, in which the burly murderer broke through the toilet door and was fierce and terrifying.

"But he fits the Bloodface Killer perfectly." Ryder picked up the remote control board and compared the afternoon video with the previous video of the back of the Bloodface Killer who happened to be photographed: "It's completely a person, and you can see the bloodline power that he burst out, do you want to say that the Bloodface Killer is not just one person, but an organization?" ”

"No, there is definitely only one person in the blood-faced killer, and there is no way to fake the modus operandi and scene of the first seven crimes, this is indeed a serial murder case completed independently." Golia shook her head: "It's just that I still feel a little strange, and there are some things that I haven't figured out, such as... The motive of the blood-faced killer to kill! Do you know Jack the Ripper? ”

"The killing of several prostitutes in the East End of London in 1888 in an attempt to create a dangerous half-breed of blood-deepening potions, a classic case, was hunted down by the British Secret Party in December of the same year to the underground sewers and executed, it is said that Jack was not far from completing Deadpool, and the bloodline rating reached a terrible 'A+', and the Secret Party at that time spent a lot of money to take him down." Ryder said.

"His motive for killing is that he believes that the 'filthy blood' of prostitutes can deepen his dragon bloodline, but later the autopsy proved that the blood of prostitutes has no effect on the evolution of the bloodline, and he has been getting stronger not because of those prostitutes, but because he is constantly unleashing his desire to kill, which causes the dragon bloodline to continue to erode the mind, and finally leads to Deadpool." Gloria rubbed her head: "The point is that you know why he is obsessed with killing prostitutes, and is sure that this will help him evolve?" ”

"Because he was hurt by a prostitute?".

"No, because his mother is engaged in flesh work, he hates his mother, after killing his mother, he awakened his bloodline, and with too little knowledge of the half-race world, he mistakenly thinks that killing prostitutes is a mission given to him by God, and the more he kills, the stronger he becomes, because he is purifying the world and doing the right thing, and those police and secret parties who track him down are God's test for him." "The more you kill, the more dragons want to kill, the more hybrids tend to be Deadpool, and they do get stronger, but at the cost of being humans," Goliath said. ”

"It sounds ridiculous, but it stands up to scrutiny." Ryder also thought carefully about Golia's words.

"The reason why most dangerous hybrids commit crimes is because they think they are the only evil wolves in the flock, they don't know the source of their power, and they don't know the existence of dragon civilizations, so they will have a great misunderstanding of their own strength, and 'the more people you kill, the stronger you become' is one of the most classic misconceptions, and there should be many similar cases you have seen in the ministry."

"The Philadelphia Necropolic Case, the New York Sewer Disappearance, the Tokyo Blood Rite Sect..."

"What was the motive for the Bloodface Killer to kill?" Gloria finally got back to the point.

"He peels women's faces." Ryder pondered: "Is this a misrepresentation of longing for 'desire'?" ”

"Then he should rape those women, but as far as I know, there are no similar marks on the bodies in the previous seven cases." "He just peeled off the faces of those women... What about those faces? ”

"The body of the Bloodface Killer has been sent to the hospital morgue for the time being, and the autopsy should be about to start the autopsy by now, right?" Ryder looked at the wall clock on the wall, "We can ask them if they found a woman's face on the corpse... He's a madman, how do we know how twisted the psychology of a face-peeling madman is? It's just a pity that the wonderful lives of those seven beautiful girls have not yet begun..."

Gloria looked at the photos on the table, then looked up at the video of the Bloodface Killer on the screen, her brows furrowed, and she sighed after a long time: "My instinct tells me that this matter must not be over... But all signs indicate that the mission is over, after all, the murderer's body is still lying in the morgue. ”

"Will a murderer who will give up hunting because he can't completely peel off a woman's face in 20 seconds, and instead wait for the next opportunity, really throw himself into the net like he did today?" Gloria whispered, "This is really completely inconsistent with the behavioral characteristics!" ”

"Or do you still think there's something wrong with Helena?" Ryder asked.

"After all, she's a living person who has appeared at the scene of a murder twice, and that alone gives us reason to suspect her." Goliath said.

"But Helena really has no problem." Ryder sighed: "She can't have a problem, when Minister Schneider took over the case, the first person to order a thorough investigation was Helena, her nineteen years of life history has been completely investigated dozens of times, the people she has come into contact with, and even the entire network have been spot-checked several times, and it is determined that there are no suspicious characters... Helena has no problem 100%, if Helena is really the murderer, then all the intelligence departments of the executive department should resign and apologize! ”

"Maybe it's really me who is too careful... Or maybe she's really beautiful, and I'm jealous. Gloria couldn't help but chuckle.

"You're not bad either." Ryder glanced at Gloria.

"I'm sorry if you think I'm going to be red-faced, I'm tired of hearing this kind of compliment at high school prom." Gloria stroked her forehead and chuckled, and Ryder could only smile wryly and spread his hands to show that he didn't mean that.

"Let's have some late-night snack, I know there's a sandwich shop nearby that tastes great, and it only takes a few minutes to deliver it." Ryder picked up the phone and sat down at the conference table.

"No avocado, less bacon, preferably vegan." Goliath said.

"Are you sure you're on a diet for a fitness test, not just trying to stay in shape?" Ryder jokingly lowered his head and was about to dial the button, but then a call came in, and he was stunned when he saw the caller ID.

"Who is it?" Goliath saw that something was wrong with Ryder.

"It's the autopsy department." Ryder raised his hand to signal Goliath to silence and picked up the phone: "This is the person in charge." ”

There was silence in the conference room for a few seconds, and Golia saw Ryder answer the phone with a surprised expression on her face: "What did you say?" The murderer's body is gone!? ”

Goliath subconsciously grabbed the gun at her waist, tensed up, turned her head to look at the burly monster in the video on the screen, and goosebumps rose all over her body.

"It's not... You say the body is still there? But the murderer's body is missing? No, what the hell are you trying to say? The corpse is still there, how can the murderer's body be gone? Ryder's words suddenly became inexplicable, and Goliath was also stunned, not understanding what the person on the other end of the phone was saying to Ryder.

"You sort it out for me, you're telling me." At Golia's motion, Ryder turned on the hands-free.

The voice of the staff member of the autopsy department on the other end of the phone was quiet for a few seconds, as if he was sorting out the words, and after sorting out the words, he said: "The three-meter-high murderer's body in the morgue is gone, and now I only found the body of a woman with a highly eroded body!" ”

"A woman's corpse?" Ryder froze.

The staff paused: "And this corpse has been determined to have no half-dragon blood... She's just an ordinary person. ”

"What are you kidding?" The next moment after digesting the words on the other side, Ryder's forehead instantly bloomed with blue tendons, and he couldn't help but roar: "Do you want to say that the enemy we took at the cost of a commissioner's death and a commissioner's serious injury in the afternoon is just an ordinary woman with no bloodline?" ”

"It's useless to yell louder... But that's just the way it is. Said the staff.

"Say it again..."

"Ryder!" Golia shouted in a low voice.

Ryder took a deep breath to suppress his restless emotions, and Goliath took the phone: "Can you be sure that the corpse is the same?" ”

"There has been no entry or exit in the morgue, we can guarantee this, and it is impossible to avoid our eyes and ears if the three-meter corpse is transported out, we prefer to believe that the body of the petite woman lying in front of us now is the three-meter giant man before." The autopsy staff said.

"How is this possible?" Ryder said subconsciously.

"How is this impossible?" The other side asked rhetorically flatly.

Ryder froze instantly, yes, how could this be impossible?

"We suspect that some kind of spirit of speech forcibly catalyzed this normal-sized woman into the enemy you met in the afternoon, and now that the spirit of speech is invalid, the corpse will naturally return to its original form." Said the staff.

"What do you mean... The strong man is just a trick, and the real murderer is still in the hospital? Ryder suddenly turned his head to look out the window at the North and South Memorial Hospital in the distance at night.

"The 'S' class is in danger with Helena!" Gloria immediately pushed away her chair, grabbed her weapon, hung it on her waist, and rushed to the door.