When Li Xunran woke up again, he saw a blazing white light above his head, which was extremely dazzling. ∷。 #. And he was still lying on a simple cot, covered in scars, with long shackles on his hands and feet.

He coughed lightly, the suffocating blood in his chest seemed to be relieved a little, and then slowly propped himself up from the bed, walked to the small sink in the corner, turned on the faucet, and lowered his head to pour a few mouthfuls of water.

With a "clang", a small window was opened under the iron door, and a plate of steaming roast goose rice was pushed in.

Li Xunran's face was much thinner than a few days ago, and his chin was full of blue and black beards, but his eyes were still cold. He glanced at the food on the floor, and slowly walked back to the bed and sat down, not moving.

"Hmph......" Behind the black iron door, a man's soft~ voice came, "Stupid." If you don't eat, how can you have the strength to resist me? ”

The voice was clearly voice-changing, sharp and treacherous.

Li Xunran ignored him, but closed his eyes, listened intently for a few seconds, and then suddenly opened his eyes: "What about the four people locked in the next room?" ”

His voice was hoarse, as if he had been run over by a wheel.

The man smiled, "Oh, I'm sending them home." ”

Li Xunran was silent.

But the man said, "Don't worry, in a few days, you will have four new neighbors." Eat well now, otherwise how can you have the strength to enlighten them like you did the other day? Gee...... It's really touching police spirit. ”

Li Xunran still ignored him.

After a while.

His silent resistance seems to have finally made the man impatient.

"Why are you so stubborn?" He growled, "There's no fun at all!" Hum...... Thanks to your tip-off, I'm stuck in Hong Kong. I don't like Hong Kong at all! ”

As soon as the words fell, I only heard a "bang", and the roast goose rice on the ground was dragged out and crackled and smashed on the ground.

The man seemed to calm his breath for a moment, and then the footsteps faded away.

With a "snap", the lights in the cell were completely extinguished. Li Xunran sat in the dark and slowly closed his eyes. Silence returned to the surroundings again, and in this seemingly endless deep dark space, only his occasional cough was heard quietly.

——

The sun shines like broken gold, shining all over this brilliant and beautiful and fashionable city. The smoke and waves in the distant mountains and bays, and everything is so peaceful, it is really difficult to connect it with the brutal murder that is taking place.

Jian Yao stood in front of the hotel window, distracted. Not far behind him, the sound of dripping water could be heard from the bathroom. Listening to the sound of the water, it makes people feel relieved and worried.

The special case team that went to Hong Kong this time are all top experts in various criminal investigation fields in China. After the video conference, they worked with the Hong Kong Special Operations Group to carry out various basic criminal investigation work: victim investigation, trace identification, evidence collection, and ...... Bo Jinyan and Jian Yao rushed directly to the police station after getting off the plane, and now they go back to the hotel for a short rest.

Soon, the sound of the water stopped. Bo Jinyan walked out in a bathrobe, and his whole person looked more and more handsome and fair.

On the surface, his expression is not unusual, he looks faint, and his eyes are clear.

He sat down on the edge of the bed, wiping his hair with a towel. Jian Yao walked over, stood between his slender legs, and looked down at him.

Bo Jinyan stared at her: "Want to?" Reaching out and caressing her cheek: "Baby, I'm sorry I don't have * now, double the satisfaction of you after solving the case?" ”

Jian Yao was slightly embarrassed: "Of course not!" ”

As soon as they walked out of the police station, almost everyone looked up at them, as if they were carrying a needle on their backs. The leader of the task force also quietly said to her: "You enlighten and appease Xiao Bo, don't have ideological pressure." ”

She reached for his towel and gently wiped his short hair: "I mean to tell you - don't be stressed. ”

But suddenly he stretched out his hand, and put his arms around her waist, and brought her into his arms. His breath sprayed lightly on her cheeks, but his dark eyes were as indifferent as water: "Why am I stressed?" ”

Jian Yao was stunned for a moment and replied, "No. 1 is in front of everyone, openly declaring war on you." Not to mention Bo Jinyan, who bore the brunt of the attack, everyone else was like a great enemy, tense and busy.

"Of course he's going to declare war on me—who can catch him but me?"

Jian Yao felt ...... He seems to have underestimated Bo Jinyan again.

His self-confidence and arrogance really reached a rock-solid point. She actually thought that he would have "psychological pressure", an emotion that normal people would have.

He didn't think about whether he would lose at all.

At this time, Bo Jinyan reached out and pressed her head, his thin lips were printed, and he kissed her lightly on the mouth: "Good afternoon." He let go of her, lay down, and covered the quilt.

Jian Yao was surprised: "Why don't we go back to the police station immediately?" ”

Bo Jinyan lay straight on his hands and feet, and glanced at her: "What's the hurry?" Can you catch him in a hurry? Of course I have to adjust myself to the best of shape. ”

He took the blindfold from the bedside and put it on himself. Jian Yao looked at his delicate and fair face, but her heart softened - he really hadn't slept well in the past few days.

"Then you go to sleep first, and I'll take a shower." She said. As soon as I arrived at the bathroom door, I heard his voice come again: "Call to order a table of seafood and fish, I woke up and ate it." Thank you. ”

This time Jian Yao smiled.

She really felt that he really had to go all out and adjust to the best state to deal with the murderer.

——

When the golden sunset shone on the window, Jian Yao woke up.

Bo Jinyan was not by his side. She looked up, but saw that he had changed into a suit, standing upright in front of the dressing mirror, his hair was obviously slightly groomed, not messy, and his leather shoes were polished.

He's ready to fight.

Jian Yao got out of bed, hugged his narrow waist from behind, and buried her head in his back: "What do you need me to do?" ”

He was silent for a moment, and a deep voice came from the front: "Dress pretty." ”

Jian Yao was surprised: "Why?" ”

He looked at her sideways: "I want to be at my best, and every parameter has to be adjusted to the best." From experience, every time you dress up, it makes me feel happier and my mind is quicker. ”

He looked arrogant and serious, but Jian Yao couldn't help but smile: "Okay." ”

——

In the evening, there is a bustling traffic outside the window. In the police office, the atmosphere was unusually cold.

All the personnel sat down, and the task force leader spoke: "Go through all the current clues." ”

How's it going?

First of all, all the bodies were found and discarded in the remote suburbs of Hong Kong. Investigators also discovered that No. 1 had also taken souvenirs from them.

The female deceased was taken away, of course, a whole piece of skin on her back; The part of the old man that was taken away was more secretive - it was a strand of silver hair on his head. The expert came to this conclusion after carefully comparing the condition of his hair follicles.

What the male deceased was taken away was naturally a heart that was taken away alive; The child is the young hand.

At Bo Jinyan's suggestion, Jian Yao walked to the whiteboard, drew a table, and wrote down these four souvenirs: skin, silver hair, heart, and hands.

An Yan cooperated with the Hong Kong police and also made important discoveries: although the sections of the road where the deceased disappeared were remote, some road surveillance records and the confessions of individual eyewitnesses showed that a black Honda 7-seater car passed by on the day of the crime.

The police listed the car as a suspect vehicle, but the license plate number taken by the camera was fake, and no one saw the face of the driver in the car. The Hong Kong authorities have searched the entire territory for the fake car, but, as expected, there is no result - No. 1 must have changed the license plate. And this model of car is very popular in Hong Kong, and to find one of them is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

A Hong Kong agent said: "We have questioned the relatives and friends of the four deceased, and they do not know each other, and it can be preliminarily determined that No. 1 was a randomly selected target." In addition, in addition to being a sales lady, the female deceased also attended a night school; The male deceased was not only an architect, but also a writer and winner of several awards. No connection between these two points and the facts of the case has been found. ”

Another forensic expert from the task force said: "But I don't think he's completely random. Surveillance footage around the four missing sections of the road showed that the suspect vehicle had entered and exited and stopped several times in those days. It can be assumed that No. 1 is observing and selecting targets. The female deceased and children were abducted by him on the way from work and school every day; The male deceased and the elderly do not usually appear on the missing section, but only pass by temporarily because of outings and visits to their daughters. ”

Jian Yao said: "So, it is very likely that the two are planned, and the two are improvised. ”

……

The meeting was over, and everyone who had been busy all day went to eat and rest.

And with the foundation of their investigation, the work of Bo Jinyan and Jian Yao has just begun.

Now presented to them is a table like this:

Woman, old man, man, child

Torture method: whipping, intimidation, cutting meat, dog bites

The way of death is poison, cutting the throat and digging the heart, poison

Souvenir skin silver hair heart hands Abduction method plan random random plan

An Yan and several other young Hong Kong agents remained in the conference room. Seeing this, one of them said: "I think this pervert~ is deliberately full of tricks, disrupting the audio-visual, and making us have no idea where to start." ”

Another said, "Or is he trying to imply to us that he has a quadruple personality?" ”

Everyone was silent. But there is such a thing as multiple personalities, everyone has only seen it in movies and television, and many people still have a question mark about whether it really exists.

At this time, An Yan said lightly: "Four people, there are three permutations and combinations:

In terms of the degree of torture, men and women are the heaviest, and children and the elderly are much lighter;

In terms of the mode of death, men and the elderly died more cruelly, while women and children died by poisoning, and were only skinned and cut after death;

Judging from the way of abduction, women and children are planned, and men and the elderly may be random. ”

Bo Jinyan glanced back at these young people and said to An Yan, "What conclusion do you have?" ”

An Yan also raised his eyes to look at him: "There is no conclusion, I am only responsible for discovering the rules of the data." ”

Bo Jinyan ignored him and turned his head to continue staring at the whiteboard.

Jian Yao asked softly, "What do you think?" ”

In the past, the psychopathic killers they have encountered have selected the same type of victims, with obvious and consistent marking behaviors. But now faced with four different modus operandi, she feels at a loss to make a portrait of a criminal directly.

Bo Jinyan seemed to see through her thoughts, and smiled shallowly: "Do you think it's complicated? ”

Jian Yao nodded.

"Then remember - no matter how complex the criminal psychology case is, it can't be separated from the essence."

Jian Yao and the others were slightly stunned, so they heard him say: "In essence, he has always been a psychopath. Even if everything we see is an illusion deliberately created by him, full of tricks to interfere with our thinking; No matter how proficient he is in crime and knows a little about the criminal mind...... However, for a person with a psychological abnormality, when he is abused and tortured, when he kills and dismemberes his body, he will always be unable to control * and reveal his true emotions. Therefore, the portrait factor we are looking for will definitely be hidden in the case. ”

Everyone was silent, and he said to Jian Yao again: "With his narcissism, with his stupid mentality that he thinks he can tame me, what do you think he can't help but show me?" ”

Some thoughts flashed vaguely in Jian Yao's heart, and she muttered.

Bo Jinyan had already said the answer in a cold voice: "Show his life." ”