10 o'clock in the evening.

Qin Ming's expression was a little numb, and he walked out of the corridor of Liu Kairui's house.

So far, I have been in contact with the families of all the victims.

But it was also limited to the family members, as well as the schools where the two victims were, and he had not found time to learn about them today.

After all, for junior high school or high school students, it is not their parents who accompany them the most in a day, but their teachers and classmates.

So it's still very necessary to investigate.

Although it was a little late, Qin Ming didn't want to go home, and then took a taxi and went to the Municipal Criminal Police Brigade.

After arriving at the Criminal Police Brigade, Qin Ming found the person on duty, and after explaining his intentions, he handed over Xu Minjia's mobile phone to him.

It's just that you can't take it away, you can only stay in the criminal police team to watch.

After Qin Ming symbolically exchanged a few words with the person on duty, he put his mind on Xu Minjia's mobile phone.

After turning on the phone, Qin Ming found that there was still some residual power on it, but there was a boot password on it.

He just wanted to ask the person on duty if he knew the password, but that person deliberately walked over to Qin Ming as if he had forgotten to say it before:

"The password is three zeros and three ones."

Qin Ming said thank you after hearing this, and then entered the password, and the phone was opened smoothly.

After turning on the phone, he began to carefully browse the APP that Xu Minjia had downloaded before.

However, after looking around, he didn't find any app to read books.

Then he opened it again and checked Xu Minjia's bookmarks, but he also didn't find anything related.

"Deleted?"

Qin Ming didn't find what he was looking for on Xu Minjia's mobile phone, but it wasn't a disappointment.

Because for the name of that book, even if he didn't find the exact answer to Xu Minjia, he would have found out.

The reason why he still came over and checked Xu Minjia's mobile phone was just because of his cautious habits.

Turning off Xu Minjia's mobile phone, Qin Ming handed the things back to the person on duty again, and then he left the criminal police brigade.

Lighting a cigarette, Qin Ming walked forward along the street thoughtfully.

For a person who can smoke, but doesn't usually smoke much, he has almost reached the top of his cigarettes today, and he used to smoke for half a month.

The emotional impact of the grief of the families of the victims is partly due to the fact that this incident is so weird.

The seven victims he knew of were completely different.

There are mirrors, there is air conditioning, there are delivery riders, and there are ...... about the beds

It sounds like the sneaky in this incident, not just one, but many.

This is undoubtedly quite different from the events he experienced before.

And in this complexity, there is also a kind of uncertainty.

That was Zhang Yaolong, who was the first to die, and the situation was completely different from that of the other victims.

If Zhang Yaolong has nothing to do with this incident, then it would be easy to say, but in fact, Zhang Yaolong is a person who can be sure that he is definitely related to this incident.

Because the examination room provided by the school is the community where Zhang Yaolong lives.

But after a whole day of investigation, Zhang Yaolong's death really looked like a pure suicide, and several other missing people seemed to be being targeted by sneakers.

And assuming that all the missing people have been killed, then Zhang Yaolong and the other six people are completely different in terms of death.

Because in addition to Zhang Yaolong, several other people can be described as having no bones.

However, based on his experience in resolving incidents, there must be some correlation between the victims.

This kind of connection does not mean that they must be acquaintances or intersecting people, but that they all have one or more things in common.

Judging from his investigation today, he feels that the common denominator between these victims should be.

To be exact, these people usually have the habit of reading.

And lately, have been reading a horror book.

In this way, combined with Zhang Yaolong himself, who is good at creating horror, the connection between several people becomes obvious.

He even had a bold idea that these people died because of a book of horror.

The reason why it is called bold is because the scope of this carrier is too wide.

If everyone who reads that book dies, then it's like a curse.

It is impossible for there to be only a few people who die.

Although he did not want the situation to go in this direction for the worst, he would not ignore the possibility of such a situation because he was afraid of it.

Just solving the curse, and solving the sneaky, can be said to be completely different in terms of difficulty.

Not long ago, when Xia Jie came to them and talked about class integration, he also specifically asked about the curse.

After all, if you think of the sneaky as a kind of monster, a special species, you can still understand it to some extent, but the curse is such a thing, it really can't be explained clearly.

To say that it is a ghost, it is completely invisible, to say that it is not a ghost, and that it is doing something similar to that of a ghost.

It wasn't until he listened to Xia Jie's explanation that he had a clear understanding of the curse.

According to Xia Jie, the curse is simply an evil energy.

It comes from the more advanced sneakiness and is equivalent to a variable.

It's like water that, under certain conditions, will solidify into ice and turn into gas.

It's just that this kind of change is not something that can be switched at will.

Two prerequisites are required.

The first premise is the carrier.

It is the carrier of the spread of the curse, to put it bluntly, the curse cannot exist alone, there must be something to carry it.

It could be an object, it could be a person, it could be an animal, or even a specific word, a particular posture can be a carrier of a curse.

Once you have the carrier, if the curse wants to spread, you need a second premise, which is the source of transmission.

Just like in the case of cats, the carrier of the curse was the cat, but the source of transmission was being alone with the cat for a period of time.

So the source of propagation can also be called the trigger condition of the curse.

As long as the conditions are met, the conditions can be triggered.

And with the presence of transmission carriers and transmission sources, high-level sneakers can exist in the form of cursed energy.

However, as long as the sneaky is transformed into a curse, then it can no longer return to its original form, but can only exist in the form of the energy of the curse.

It is equivalent to killing yourself indirectly.

But the trouble caused will be much higher than before.

Because the energy of the curse, once activated, can not only have a great impact on people, but also change the surrounding things.

Just like in physics, when an energy from the outside world enters, the original balance will inevitably be broken, resulting in some abnormal changes.

As for this kind of mutation, there is also an academic name in the academy, which is called concreteness.