"Voyeurism?"

I was a little panicked in my heart, and took a sip of black tea, which was fragrant, but it was a little bitter in my mouth.

"He's a repeat offender." Officer Li nodded, "It's near the Oasis community, not far from your house." ”

I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart, it had nothing to do with me.

The Oasis community is a community about two kilometers away from my home, and there are several factories nearby, so there are a lot of migrant workers, there are many Internet cafes, and there are foot washing towns.

Officer Li briefly introduced the case, saying that it was voyeurism, but in fact, it was theft + voyeurism + rape, and there have been several similar cases in recent times.

One of the cases was reported to a woman in her thirties who was taking a shower in the bathroom when she overheard a knock on the bathroom door, and then saw an eye in the crack in the door, and screamed in fright. Fortunately, she shouted loudly and scared the thief away. When the police arrived, they checked the contents of the room and found that two mobile phones and a laptop were missing.

The other case was reported in the same community, but the buildings were different. The informant lived on the third floor, and it was a couple of girls in their twenties, who shared a two-bedroom apartment together. The girl who lived with her heard the scream and ran out, and the other party had long since disappeared. Later, it was discovered that outside the second floor was the roof of a row of merchants facing the street, and the thief could easily climb down to the third floor to commit the crime.

The investigation afterwards found that in addition to the mobile phone being charged in the living room was stolen, there were two less underwear drying on the balcony.

There is also a case in which it is suspected that the same person is the same as the previous theft voyeur. The crime scene was investigated and restored, and the perpetrator pried open the window and entered the room, and after stealing the gold necklace of the female tenant, he hid it under the bed. After the victim fell asleep, he secretly climbed into bed, covered the victim's mouth, and raped the victim.

Unfortunately, the victim's next room was occupied by two workers who shared a house, and when they heard the sound from the victim's room, they thought that the two were making love, and even eavesdropped on the wall. It was only after the police came that they found out what had happened.

Although these cases all started with theft, because the third case involved rape/rape and was of a bad nature, the bureau designated a police officer to personally lead the team to be responsible, and the appearance of the perpetrator, only the victim of rape/rape vaguely saw the whole picture in the dark.

That's why Officer Li came to me, hoping to help.

Two years ago, by chance, I participated in a case that was in charge of a police officer, and after the case was solved, he "compulsorily" registered me as a consultant of the Police Technical Division and a part-time portraitist for the outsourcing department.

To be precise, a "crime simulator".

It's a rare novelty in our area. However, there are many precedents at home and abroad, and through criminal portraits, the police can help solve some difficult cases. Professional crime painters can realistically portray the simulated portrait to some local details, and even restore the overall portrait of the suspect based on the oral fragments.

Ah B and I are in the same major, and he has also been pulled by the former police officers, but he is better at oil painting and comics, this kind of simulated portrait work, which requires more complex knowledge such as anatomy, behavioral psychology and even regional science and ethnography, but he can't do it.

In the past two years, I have worked closely with Officer Li. On the one hand, it's what I'm good at, and I like to improve my painting in this way. On the other hand, I have been friends with Officer Li for more than 10 years, and his identity has also helped me a lot in running my gallery.

In these cases, Officer Li believes that it is not very difficult to detect. In connection with the previous cases of peeping and bathing and stealing underwear, the motive for the crime can basically be determined, and it is likely that it is a foreign, single migrant worker, and from the perspective of stealing property, the usual expenses of the criminal are not small, and Internet cafes and bathing cities are the focus of investigation. But until then, if I can draw a portrait of the suspect through communication with the victim, it will be a great help to solve the case.

After eating the hot pot, Ah B went back to the gallery we co-opened, and I followed Officer Li's car to the hospital. As a result of the assault and fright, the victim was in a very poor mental state, unable to eat, sleep, or cry. After listening to Officer Li's introduction to the purpose of my visit, he just shook his head and didn't want to speak.

I gave Officer Li a look, and he nodded and left the room, leaving only me and the victim girl. She is not very old, in her early twenties, and she looks delicate, but she is very weak now.

Any normal girl who is subjected to this kind of aggression will be mentally devastated.

"I heard the police officer say, you're not a local? Hometown Hubei? "I opened a bag I had brought with me, pulled out a box of instant hot dry noodles from it, and tore open the package." I often eat this brand of hot dry noodles, and every time I eat them, I remember when I lived in Hubei, I ate hot dry noodles by the river, fried lotus root, fried fish head, ......"

Maybe I started talking about things that had nothing to do with the suspect, which made her feel a little strange. I put the hot dry noodles on the table and picked up the boiling kettle next to it, probably to make noodles for her to eat. She shook her head and said, "Don't pour water, I can't eat it." ”

"If you can't eat it, you have to eat it." Seeing her take the initiative to speak, I was relieved. When communicating with the victim, the most worrying thing is that the victim is stimulated to close himself off and refuse to communicate and recall any relevant scenes.

I poured boiling water into the box, and continued as I poured it, "I wanted to buy some hairy crabs, but the hairy crabs in Hubei are really good, they seem to be better than those in Yangcheng Lake." At first, I was too expensive, but then I figured it out, why don't you be kind to yourself when you are alone and uprooted from home? Then I ate more than a dozen in one go, and then I was disgusted and tired of eating hairy crabs when I heard the word "hairy crab". ”

"You don't have to persuade me, I'm fine." Her eyes were red, "I just miss my mother." ”

With that, she burst into tears.

It's good to be able to cry.

Officer Li reminded me that the police had contacted her family, but her parents had been divorced for many years. She has been following her mother, who passed away last year. So, now is when she's most vulnerable, and when she's at the highest risk of suicide.

I handed her the tissue, waited next to her with the hot dry noodles, she cried for four or five minutes, and I brought the noodles to her: "Your mother gave me a dream, and the most important thing now is to watch you slowly get better, and second, to catch that bastard." ”

"You're lying." She looked at the face in her hand and cried even more, "Why did my mother give you a dream?" ”

"Yes, she didn't. But who doesn't love their children? Your mother has a spirit in the sky, and she will only hate herself for not being able to be by your side right away, take care of you, and love you. I can only hate myself for not being able to catch that bastard out and tear him apart immediately. ”

"I wanted to skin him in my dreams." She closed her eyes in pain.

"But we have to catch him first, and we can't let him go unpunished." I said, "Eat a little bit of noodles and replenish your energy, and I need your help for the next two hours." ”

Hearing this, she began to eat hot dry noodles. I turned around, and Officer Li's head was right there at the window, and when he saw me turn around, he gave me a thumbs up.

When I first started trying to paint a crime, Officer Li would always arrange for a police officer to sit next to me and help me communicate with the victim. In some cases, this method is not as good as communicating with two people alone, especially when it involves some hidden memories, often when two people face each other, it will be easy to communicate something deep inside.

Later, I tried to communicate with the victim on my own, and when I was fine, I would always read some criminal psychology monographs and cases, and over time, I also became a communication expert.

When she finished eating the hot dry noodles, I brought the prepared laptop to her, and the feature library on it was a library of pictures that I had collected for a long time to help the victim recall and describe some details.

"Think about it first, what characteristics does that bastard have, you remember it best."

"Eyes!" She didn't hesitate, and wiped a handful of tears with her sleeve, "Single eyelid, very cold, and there is a scar at the corner of the eye." ”

That's the information I need most. Many times, when we recall a person's face, especially a stranger, we often can't remember anything, but if we experience a stimulus, often in our consciousness, we will leave a deep impression on the suspect, and even the victim does not know it.

"Scar?"

"Hmm, Scar."

This information is a very clear feature of the direction, which is very helpful to the police in handling cases. Of course, just having a scarring of information is not enough.

"Where is the location? How long is it......"

……

In almost two hours, I was almost done with the sketch in hand. The girl was tired, but her spirit went into another state of euphoria. "She thinks I'm a police officer, but I'm not going to correct that, and now, being a police officer gives her a sense ......of security, "Why are there such dirty people in the world?" I don't want to go back there at all. ”

"Then move to another house." I finished the last bit of the portrait.

"It's useless to change houses. Even though I live in the hospital now, there are police officers guarding outside, but when I sleep at night, I feel like there are eyes outside that are constantly peeping at me......"

Voyeur ......

My heart was shocked, and the lines of the pen were also messy, and the portrait in my hand, eyebrows, eyes, nose bridge, and face, the more I looked at it, the more familiar it became, and the more I looked at it, the more it looked like ......

It's like yourself in the mirror!

I panicked all of a sudden, my brain was also dazed, I felt that my face must have changed at this time, a lot of sweat oozed from my back, and my shirt was instantly wet.

"What's wrong, Officer Road?" The girl sensed that something was wrong with me and asked me.

I made up my mind, threw out the messy thoughts in my mind, looked up into her eyes, and said, "I'm done drawing, I'll show it to you next, just a few seconds, I want your first reaction, like or not, okay?" ”

My eyes gave her encouragement, and she bit her lip and nodded vigorously.

I turned the board around, took a deep breath, and held it up in front of her.

The moment she saw the portrait, her whole body ducked back, and her gaze was also very complicated, trance, uneasy, painful, resolute, all kinds of content mixed in, and instantly poured out.

She closed her eyes in pain, tears streaming down her face.

"That's !! him" The three words were very light, squeezed out of her throat, and the whole person gasped rapidly, as if he had exhausted his last bit of strength.

I walked out of the room with my sketch. The girl had fallen asleep, the police officer had been smoking in the hallway, and the cans on the floor had accumulated a pile of cigarette butts.

"It's finished?" He extinguished the cigarette in his hand, and by looking at my expression, he knew it was done.

"It should be no problem, although it is a little dark, but the key features have been dug out, and the characteristics are more prominent." I nodded, handed him the sketch in my hand, "I'll leave the rest to you." ”

"No problem, I'll hurry back and make arrangements." He took the sketch and was about to leave, but before turning around, he turned his head again, "Eighteen ...... Xia Yun's matter, really don't need my help? ”

"No, you don't." I shook my head, "I'll do it myself first, and I'll look for you when I need to." ”

"Well, okay...... One more thing. He paused, "At the class reunion next month, I'm thinking I'll have to let you know about it in advance......

He glanced at me.

"Chen Yiyao has returned to China."