introduction

City B in 2008 was the most dazzling existence on the world map that year.

In this world-renowned city, a young man walks out of one of the few rundown hotels in City B.

He took out a three-dollar pack of cigarettes from his pocket, lit a five-cent-a-one lighter, bit the cigarette hard with his teeth stained with food scraps, took a deep breath, and slowly exhaled the smoke as he looked at the huge footprints above his head that spread towards his dreams.

Then he threw the cigarette onto the brand-new asphalt and trampled it out with his slipper-wearing foot.

"What do I want?"

He asked himself softly.

"Why do I have nothing?"

He asked himself again, then shook his head helplessly.

The last footprints loom above the nest and then disappear.

"I don't like it."

"It's coming to an end, isn't it?"

"I see."

body

At the beginning of this year, there were serial murder cases of an extremely bad nature in the cities of H, N, Q and T in Z Province.

In District X of H City, on the road in front of the Huanglong Gymnasium, the body of a middle-aged man was found by cleaners at about half past five in the morning. The man had a fruit knife stuck in his chest and his eyes were missing.

In the F area of N City, at the dock of Xinlian Shipyard, an early riser was peeing into the sea when he was horrified to see a female ghost floating in the water. The female ghost stared straight at him. When the police arrived at the scene, they found that it was a young female corpse with a fruit knife stuck in her chest and her nose gouged out.

District K of Q City, Municipal. In the underground parking lot of the government building, when the mayor drove the car into the garage, he saw a person hanging not far behind him in the rearview mirror. Hanging was an old man with a fruit knife in his chest and his lip cut off.

In District H of T City, on the playground of Ningchuan High School in Ning Town, there is a female student lying quietly. Students who wake up early and go for a morning jog spot her. Soon, the entire playground was filled with talking students and teachers. The girl lying on the playground had a fruit knife stuck in her chest, and the blood stained the school uniform red. Attentive classmates noticed that the girl's ears were missing.

Four locations, four unrelated victims, died one after another in just half a month, and the cause of death was the same, all of them had some organs missing.

The police in each place where the crime occurred separately obtained surveillance of the crime scene.

At the Huanglong Gymnasium, surveillance showed that at about 3 o'clock in the evening of the crime, a man in a black coat came to the scene carrying the victim on his back. After placing the victim on the road, he took out a fruit knife from his body, gouged out the victim's eyes on the spot, and stabbed the knife into the victim's chest before leaving. The surveillance at the scene captured the murderer's face, but unfortunately the murderer was wearing sunglasses and a mask, and his facial features could not be recognized.

Xinlian Shipyard, Municipal. On-site surveillance of the underground parking lot and Ningzhong playground showed that the killers of the three murders were wearing sunglasses and masks and the same black coats. The victims were killed by having their organs removed and then stabbed in the chest with fruit knives.

And in all four murders, the murderer entered the surveillance blind spot after leaving the murder scene, and the murderer could no longer be found from the surveillance. The police suspected that the killer had changed his clothes and waited until there were many people before blending into the crowd and fleeing.

The medical examiner performed autopsies on the four victims and found that they all had scars on their heads, possibly having been knocked unconscious by the killer. Examination of the cut parts of the organs of the four deceased people revealed that the missing organs had been removed before their deaths. In other words, the footage captured by the surveillance video is the process of the murderer killing the deceased.

The Provincial Public Security Department attached great importance to it and set up a special team to investigate the four murders. After discussion, the four homicide cases were combined and handled.

"It's weird." Xu Ang looked at the photo in his hand and said, "Why does this murderer want to go around killing people?" Four cities ran over to kill people like this, are they sick? ”

"And there is no connection between the four people killed." Jiang Tian took over the conversation, "According to the family of the deceased, the four people have no intersection at all, let alone know each other, could it be that this murderer killed people randomly?" So why is it so troublesome to run four cities again? ”

"And why did the murderer take away the victim's eyes, nose, lips and ears separately? Could it be that some pervert wants to collect human organs? ”

"It's possible." Jiang Tian nodded, "But the strangest thing is why did the murderer go to four cities to kill four people?" ”

Xu Ang frowned and said, "I have already asked people to go to the railway department to check to see if anyone has been traveling to these four cities recently, and long-distance buses have also sent people." But if the murderer is driving by himself, or if there are high-speed trains, buses, and self-driving, it is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, and it is difficult to find anything. Also, if there is more than one murderer, then the case will be even more difficult. ”

"Not necessarily, if there are really multiple murderers, maybe there will be more clues. In this way, Brother Xu, I don't think it's much use for us to just sit here and read the case reports brought by various cities, so let's go to the various crime scenes and ask the people around the deceased. I have an idea that although these four deceased people did not cross paths and did not know each other, there may be something in common about them that the murderer is concerned about. ”

"Oh?"

"For example, if the four deceased don't know each other, but they have the same interests, or they all know the murderer, and so on, this may be a breakthrough in this case."

Xu Ang thought for a while and nodded, "Okay, Xiaotian, then let's prepare and go to these places to have a look." ”

"yes, okay." After a pause, Jiang Tian asked Xu Ang, "Brother Xu, why aren't there many helpers in the province in this case?" Brother Shen, what about them? ”

"In recent years, the volume of drug transactions in the drug market in various counties and cities in the province has increased day by day, dozens of times over the years, and there are more and more addicts, and even some school students have been poisoned. The strange thing is that although the police investigate and deal with a lot of drugs, the behavior of drug transactions has become more and more hidden and has become very difficult to detect, and even our undercover agents cannot figure out how the various large and small drug houses are traded. Since the beginning of this year, the crackdown has been intensified, and many police officers have been transferred to participate in the investigation of drug networks, in an effort to eradicate these cancers as soon as possible. The Wang Tao who had crossed paths with you before was also transferred. ”

"What about Brother Shen?"

Xu Ang said: "The Shen team has other things. Did you know that in the past few years, human trafficking has intensified in our province, and many children have been abducted and sold to various cities to become beggars, or to the mountainous areas of other provinces? The trafficker network is also difficult to figure out, and I heard that the Shen team went to investigate this. Not only that, but in addition to the drug trade and human trafficking, the industry seems to have become out of control. Hehe, in the past few years, the scenery of Z Province is infinite on the surface, but the black industry in the secret has grown to a point that we can't imagine. ”

"I said Dad, he has gone through so many vicissitudes in the past few years." Jiang Tian sighed.

"Director Jiang is also under great pressure, although the law and order situation in Province Z has improved a lot since he took office in recent years, but the things that really poison the public are ......"

"Brother Xu, then we have to hurry up and investigate this serial murder case now, and strive to solve the case as soon as possible, so as to relieve some pressure on my father." Jiang Tian is colorful.

"Hmm." Xu Ang nodded vigorously.