The next half a month was a disaster for me.

Although I was somewhat mentally prepared, I was still a little too struck by reality to take care of myself - in the past half a month, my investigation work has still made no progress.

Not only that, but in this half month, there were two more deaths that were almost identical!

It's the same recipe: two dead people die in the middle of the night in front of a computer without a hard drive......

Part of the deceased's brain marrow was inexplicably cooked, and the specific cause of death is mysterious......

So far, there have been a total of 5 deaths!

No matter how much the police blocked the news, it was useless, although the official media has been denying that this was a vicious murder incident that was related to each other, but on the Internet, it had already been in an uproar, and netizens gave the imaginary serial killer a name with horror or curiosity-

Midnight brain-burning demons.

I'm really 10,000 *** galloping in my heart, God is "brain-burning"!

Grabbing my hair, I continued to stare at the map of Jinguan City projected on the white wall, on which the blue circle representing the "monitoring range" had been expanded twice, almost encompassing half of the city.

On the other side of the room, Li Yi and his two generals—gluten and sandbags—slumped on the couch, three large smoking guns swallowing clouds and fog together, making my office like a fairy-like heavenly palace.

The sun shone in obliquely through the floor-to-ceiling windows behind me, and the wall clock on the wall struck 6 times.

Li Yi spit out an eye circle and said, "Brother Ji, it's 6 o'clock, why don't we start the roll call?" ”

In the past week, we have had to screen out 25 of the more than 2,000 suspected targets every day, and as for the screening method, it is "roll call".

I glanced at the wall clock on the wall, clicked on a table on the desktop of my notebook, and said weakly, "Okay, let's take a roll call." ”

The so-called "roll call" is actually to call Li Yi and a few of them over, and then the four of us look at a table full of names (provided by Shen Tangzhi, which is a simple information of the suspected target), to see which name is pleasing to the eye, click on which name, select 25, call it a day for dinner, and in the evening, we will squat near the address of these 25 lucky people, and continue to wait for the rabbit.

This is a stupid and boundless method, and it is impossible to talk about any success rate, it is purely to buy lottery tickets and give yourself a hope.

It is consoling that such a stupid method is not only used by us, but also by the police department.

The criminals were so cunning that until now, the police have only been able to characterize these five cases as suicides.

The valuable evidence is almost zero, the motive and the method of murder are all inscrutable puzzles, and the police bureau cannot even carry out the identification of the suspect, not to mention the identification of the suspect.

Still, I felt that I was heading in the right direction, and there were two reasons for the futility.

First, we (even with the police department) can't monitor all the IT practitioners in the entire city;

Second, our investigative behavior may have attracted the attention of the adversary, and the adversary has taken certain countermeasures.

If the second speculation is true, then the criminal obviously has a strong anti-investigation ability, and to this extent, there is already a strong reason to suspect that the criminal is most likely not a single person, but a criminal team.

At that moment, the computer on my desk suddenly rang.

I picked up the phone, and on the other end of the phone was our old friend, Cheng Cheng, the chief of the Criminal Investigation Section of the Chengnan Police Bureau.

"There was a sixth fatality, and it was at midnight last night."

As soon as Cheng Cheng opened his mouth, he threw out a bombshell message, which undoubtedly gave me a blow to my head, I took a deep breath and hammered my fist on the desk, Li Yi and the three of them saw that my face was pale, and they didn't dare to provoke bad luck, so they ran to the sofa and continued to smoke.

Originally, Cheng Cheng and I checked ourselves and tacitly knew each other, but there was another death last night, and Cheng Cheng finally couldn't sit still.

Cheng Cheng said that he knew that Shen Tangzhi was entrusting me to investigate this case, and now this case has made the superior leaders extremely angry, if the case cannot be concluded as soon as possible, causing an even worse social impact, he, the head of the criminal investigation section, will bear the brunt, and there will definitely be no good fruit to eat. So, he wanted me to tell him about the progress of my investigation and we could exchange information.

I've never been in the habit of being helpful, of course Cheng Cheng knows, so he prepared a reward for me - his criminal investigation team will provide technical support when I need it, after all, such a meticulous crime has shown the strength of the opponent's team, then I will definitely need his battle-hardened criminal investigation team, not the rabble under Koi who will only do bad things.

I grasped the point of his words: "You also suspect that it was a group crime?" ”

Cheng Cheng said: "First, the other party doesn't care about leaving fingerprints and other evidence at all; Second, there were no duplicate fingerprints of each crime scene – I really can't imagine that this is a crime that can be done by a single person. In addition, the criminal's behavior seems to be bold, but in fact, we have so much evidence and clues, but we have found nothing, and the other party is always on the top of the game. I've been handling cases for so many years, and it's been a long time since I've encountered such a tricky criminal. ”

I was stunned for a moment and asked; "What did you just say about criminals?"

"Chess is high!"

I suddenly thought of a possibility, suppressed this accelerated heartbeat, and asked Cheng Cheng: "How do you do fingerprint comparison?" Did you enter the fingerprints of the victims into the fingerprint bank?! ”

"Why enter the fingerprints of the victims into the fingerprint bank? Ah, you mean—" Cheng Cheng's voice had finally changed tone.

If my conjecture is correct, the Criminal Investigation Bureau has undoubtedly made a major mistake.

I said, "Don't think about anything else yet, Team Cheng, hurry up and verify it." ”

Cheng Cheng replied yes and hung up the phone in a hurry.

I put down the phone and couldn't help but rub my hands excitedly: God, it's been half a month, is it finally going to break through?

Seeing my excitement, Li Yi squeezed his eyebrows at me and said, "My cousin's phone? Ask you for dinner? ”

Just kidding, who doesn't know that Shen Tangzhi is an iceberg beauty? When her face is cold, everything is normal, and once she smiles at you, it will definitely not be good.

She asked me out for dinner? I don't dare to go about me.

The sandbags and gluten on the side were all laughing - as far as the IQ of these two people was concerned, they knew that Li Yi was joking with me.

So, I gave the guy a roll of his eyes and ignored them.

When I looked at the screen of my laptop, I saw a friend request message pop up on the screen.

A stranger wants to add my QQ, and the name is "K".

The message from the friend application was: "You guessed wrong. ”