At six o'clock in the morning, Kane sat on the sofa at home in a white dressing gown, and had just made himself a cappuccino. He took a sip, sticking out his tongue and licking the remaining milk foam on his lower lip.

Kane picked up the files of the butcher's case and flipped through them, trying to figure out if he had gone wrong in some way.

[Let me figure it out...]

He took another sip of his coffee, then closed his eyes and thought.

[On April 23, the butcher was first contacted, but was not captured. On the third day, the killer tried to commit a second crime, but was stopped by a third party. ]

After being deflated twice in a row, the man will definitely not come hard again, he is very smart, which can be seen from the extent of his anti-reconnaissance before.

[etc...] Since he has that little thing that can blackout power, why didn't he use it when kidnapping Zhang Jiajia in the hospital? ]

Thinking of this, Kane opened his eyes, and he put his coffee aside, searching for his previous profile report on the table.

[He must have known that there was surveillance in the hospital, and since it hadn't been filmed before, why was it different this time?] ]

The corners of his eyes twitched, and he muttered to himself,

"Unless he wants to be photographed...."

Kane suddenly remembered what Hongyu had said before, 'Zhang Jiajia has been discharged from the hospital...'

[Assuming this was what he had planned, the murderer feared that the masked man would come out again to stir up trouble, and if he failed, blame someone else for the trouble.] If a scapegoat is found, the police will close the case, and Zhang Jiajia will no longer be protected by the police, and he can...]

He felt something strange and lowered his head to find that the hairs on his arms stood on end, and his pupils seemed to vibrate.

[He could easily have gone for the fourth victim....]

"But why would Jing Li be like him?" He pondered puzzled, his heart full of doubts, "Even if he can threaten Jing Li as a scapegoat in some way, that kind of mental state and behavior style can't be imitated." ”

On the night of the rainstorm, Kane had been crouching next to Hiroha, observing the action with a telescope from beginning to end.

The reason why he didn't raise his doubts to his superiors afterwards was because at that time, Jing Li's every action was completely in line with the characteristics of a mentally ill person, and it was almost exactly the same as he expected.

"I mean, even if you're a scapegoat, you can't just find someone who shares your goals, right?"

Kane smiled and said to himself, a bit similar to Gu Chenxi's self-talk. The difference is that Gu Chenxi is to make himself less lonely, and Kane is to empathize with others, so that he can examine his mistakes in time.

"Unless...."

The smile on his face faded, and before he could finish his sentence, he hurried into the bedroom, changed into a suit, and prepared to go to the police station.

"Maybe I'm wrong..."

He muttered quietly and went to the underground garage to find his Audi.

Kane took out the key and pressed it, and the door slowly rose diagonally, like a migratory bird spreading its wings. He slipped sideways in, fastened his seatbelt, and started the engine.

'Toot ~ Toot ~ Toot ~'

He held up the phone as he pulled the car out of the underground parking lot.

After a long time, there was still no one answering the phone, so he had to hang up the phone and drive worriedly.

Jing Li's appearance seemed to be arranged, he was only suspicious before, but now he was almost sure. Kane must immediately report the matter to the director and send guards to Zhang Jiajia.

He drove his car to the city's maximum speed limit, and Kane wanted to get to the police station as quickly as possible before he could fully catch up with the rush hour for work.

When he got on the viaduct, the mobile phone that was thrown in the co-pilot's seat vibrate, and he picked up the phone and took a look, it was a call back from Team Xiao.

"Hey, chief."

"Hey, Kane." Team Xiao's voice came from the phone, and it sounded a lot more energetic than before, "I was at the scene of the crime, and I didn't hear your call just now." ”

A week has passed since the day of the rainstorm, and most of the injuries on Team Xiao's body have healed, and when they saw that there was no major problem, they went through the discharge procedures before Team Liu.

Team Xiao and Hongyu are standing at the scene of the crime, which is located in the woods in the park in the center of the city. A cordon has been set up around the area, and men from the Physical Evidence Bureau are wearing white hazmat suits and are coming and going around the corpse.

It was a cloudy day, and the light of the morning, which was not bright, fell through the cracks in the branches and leaves of the trees, setting off a cold and cloudy day.

The victim, a 41-year-old professor of chemistry at Hanning University, surnamed Wang, was abandoned on a small plot of flat land covered with dead leaves. The victim wore a brown knitted jacket and a gray plaid shirt.

The corpse was on its back, its back on the ground, its arms stretched out in a casual position, and its legs resting on the wood.

"What kind of case?" Kane asked.

"Uh... A homicide, I was thinking you could come and check it out if you had time. ”

"Yes, of course." Kane held the phone in his right hand and the steering wheel in his left hand, "Can you tell me about the corpse?" ”

"Oh! Of course, you wait a minute. ”

After speaking, Team Xiao held the mobile phone, strode over a few broken logs, and came to a colleague wearing a protective suit next to the corpse.

"It just so happens that Section Chief Chen is also here, let him explain it to you." Team Xiao put his mobile phone to Section Chief Chen's ear, "Chen Ke, Kane wants to know about the condition of the corpse." ”

Section Chief Chen took off his rubber gloves, took off his mask and took over his mobile phone.

"The exact cause of death is still being determined, and the only exposed wounds are abrasions on the wrists and ankles." Section Chief Chen pulled up the cuffs of the corpse and continued to elaborate, "It looks like it was left behind by a rope. ”

Kane slowly turned the steering wheel and drove the car off the viaduct, he took the phone and said: "If the fatal injury is internal, it means that the murderer spent a lot of time torturing him, and this is not the first crime scene." ”

Section Chief Chen unbuttoned the corpse's shirt and found a letter stuffed inside.

"You're right, boy, the murderer has left us a surprise, here's a letter."

Hearing Section Chief Chen's words, Kane became interested and asked, "What letter?" ”

"Uh... What dear.. The police... I saw them...."Section Chief Chen straightened his glasses with the back of his hand and frowned, "No, the font is too messy, I can't see what is written." ”

Team Xiao and Hongyu glanced at each other, leaned over and squatted on either side of Section Chief Chen, and looked at the letter.

"The words are messed up, and the writing is the same as that of a child." Hongyu chewed gum, his expression full of doubt, "This is illogical." ”

Team Xiao glanced at Hongyu, looking like they were reproaching him for eating gum at the scene of the crime.

Hongyu noticed his gaze and said, "Spare me, I really don't like the smell here." ”

As the two looked at each other, Kane's voice came over the phone.

"Maybe it's logical for him."

Several people looked at each other and asked, "How do you say this?" ”

"If you want to express your heart but the font is crazy, we are looking for a mentally ill person." Kane saw the red light at the intersection ahead of him come on, so he stepped on the clutch and slowed the car down, "a pure, even radical mental breakdown." ”

When the car drove behind the previous one, he applied the brakes and waited for the red light to end.

"It's due to delusions, or hallucinations, that we're looking for a delusional killer." Kane continued, "They often think that their actions represent some kind of sublime power. ”

Kane frowned as he said this, he thought of the murderer in the butcher's case, and the same was true of the person on the other end of the phone.

"Or a... Very dissociative voices, gods... Or demons. ”

Kane elaborated on his analysis on the phone, and while Section Chief Chen was not idle, he continued to examine the corpse. While examining his face, he noticed something unusual, the corpse's eyelids were strange, as if they had collapsed.

Section Chief Chen put on rubber gloves and reached out to open the eyelids of the corpse.

With a disgusting mucus tugging sound, the eyelids were slowly opened. They were surprised to find that the corpse's eyeballs were gone, leaving only hollow eye sockets oozing with a viscous yellow liquid and a few sticky threads attached to the eyelids.

"Uhhh

Seeing this scene, Hongyu felt a wave of nausea, and hurriedly stood up and ran to the side. Hongyu is not afraid of bloody things, but this situation is a bit strange for anyone.

"It's not like you see it every day."

Section Chief Chen smiled at Team Xiao beside him and teased, Section Chief Chen was very familiar with corpses, as usual in the eyes, which led to him being a bit eccentric in the eyes of his colleagues.

It's like right now, Team Xiao is looking at him at a loss, wondering how to reply to him.

"What's going on?" Kane asked over the phone.

"Both eyeballs were removed." Section Chief Chen replied.

Team Xiao looked at the corpse's terrible eyes, and without eyeballs, he felt that no matter where he went, it was staring at him.

He asked irritably, "What the do you mean?" ”

Section Chief Chen shook his head and said with great interest: "I don't know what it means. ”

At this moment, on the other end of the phone, the intersection turned into a green light, and the car in front of Kane also moved.

"I'll tell you when I get there."

After saying that, he hung up the phone and threw the phone in the co-pilot's seat. Kane's foot released the brakes and slowly picked up the car.

As the car pulled into the intersection, suddenly, a medium-sized truck burst out from the side. The driver had no intention of slowing down, and crashed straight into Kane's car.

By the time Kane noticed, it was too late, his eyes widened in horror, helpless in the face of what was coming.

A huge force of impact pushed the car out, and the windshield was shattered. Kane gripped the steering wheel tightly, his hands scratched by the crumbling debris, and the car spun sideways out of control, leaving a circle of tire marks on the ground.

After two turns like a loose ox, the chassis of the car hit the steps of the sidewalk, and the car flipped uncontrollably.

Instinctive fear filled Kane with adrenaline, and like in slow motion, he shielded his arms in front of him so that broken glass would not fly into his eyes.

After a whirlwind, the car finally stopped. The car flipped upside down, and he was caught in the driver's seat with his seat belt upside down, and his consciousness was blurred.

"It's on fire! Go and save people! Call an ambulance! ”

When other drivers on the road saw this scene, they hurriedly took out their fire extinguishers from the trunk and rushed to extinguish the fire that had just been ignited.

Among the pedestrians, the children were so frightened that they hid in their mother's arms, and the women covered their mouths in fear, unable to believe the scene in front of them.

The phone fell over Kane's head, and the screen was shattered but still working. There was a vibration, and it called again, and the caller's name was displayed on the screen - Helen, who was the British beauty who had a date that day.

Kane tried to touch his phone with what little consciousness he had left, but he did his best to raise his bloodied hand before falling helplessly.