Taking advantage of this, I walked around the room a few more times, and when I reached the study again, my attention was completely drawn to the desk in front of me where the computer was placed.

The computer still shows the screensaver status, and no one has touched it.

The whole room, no, it should be said that the huge courtyard is extremely messy, but the desk in front of it is very neatly placed.

Computers, chairs, desktops, mice, everything, are well organized, and old desktop computers also clearly show traces of wiping. This made me feel as if the table in front of me was deliberately prepared for me.

With that in mind, I managed to get on the chair and move the mouse to remove the screen saver.

Suddenly, a few lines of large characters popped out of the pitch-black screen.

"Try it: ZXVKVI, k=?." Among them, the string of English numbers is deliberately marked in red fonts, which obviously has ulterior motives.

When I was in college, I minored in cryptography, and although the English in front of me seemed to be unfamiliar, I used specific ciphers, and I couldn't get the real meaning until I decoded them.

Does the other party really want to leave me some clues? Could it be the next death notice?

If you want to know the hidden secrets, you must decipher the English that appears on the screen.

There are hundreds of formats for pure English decryption, and each method used and the algorithm required in it are completely different, and if you test them one by one, it will just be a waste of time here.

However, since the English character is followed by a k, then I guess that this password must be the famous Caesar code!

The basic idea of the Caesar cipher is to encrypt and decrypt letters by moving them by a certain number of digits. All letters in plaintext are offset backwards by a fixed number on the alphabet and replaced with ciphertext.

But the other party didn't tell me the number of moves, the value, there are twenty-six possibilities, I thought about it, replaced a few, and the meaning of decoding was not quite right.

Strange, what will be this number? Since the murderer has set the value of k, leave it to me to solve. I must have acquiesced that I knew this value, and the other party was the initiator of the black gold case....

Black Gold Case! That's right, the numbers! 519,619,719！

The value of k must be related to the number of deaths left at the scene when each woman in red was killed! This is also in line with the murderer's consistent style of doing things, arrogant and arrogant!

Then the value of this k, it is only possible to be 9!

After substituting k, I tried to decode it, and in an instant, a few English words appeared in front of my eyes.

“IGETHER！ IGETHER”

The meaning of the breakdown is, she is in my hands!

In an instant, I felt like my whole body was frozen, and the blood in my body almost stopped flowing at this moment.

She's in my hands! Who is she?

Judging from the various traces left at the scene, in addition to Fang Guodong in this room, there is also a mysterious person who once lived here, and the Caesar password on the computer should have been left by that mysterious person. In this way, that guy probably expected this step from the police!

Just as I was leaving my chair, the phone in my pocket rang suddenly. looked down at the caller ID, and the person who called was Lin Xiaoxue.

Calling at this juncture, could it be that she is in a hurry?

Subconsciously picked up the microphone and pressed the answer button.

"Hey, Xiaoxue, why are the phones turned off one morning, we found you...."

However, Lin Xiaoxue's light tone did not come from the phone, but instead there was a slightly low male voice.

"Congratulations, you unlocked the password I left on my computer."

In an instant, I felt that time had stood still, and cold sweat continued to ooze down the back of my neck.

I recognized the voice, it was the guy who wanted to stab me to death in the dark in the orphanage. Lin Xiaoxue's mobile phone, why is it in his hand?

I get it! The one in Caesar's code refers to Lin Xiaoxue! Lin Xiaoxue is now in his hands, and his life is likely to be in danger!

However, the police have been sending heavy soldiers to guard the hospital, and Uncle Fang is still by her side, how did the other party break through the guards and take Lin Xiaoxue away? Could it be that this is the good thing he arranged for the guy in the police station again?

Before he could think about it, the deep voice continued to speak: "I want to know the ninth victim, who I have chosen?" ”

"What do you want to do!" I forcibly suppressed the anger in my heart, trying to make my voice sound as smooth as possible so as not to irritate the bastard.

"Hehe, if you want that chick to live, don't say anything! Now, you have an hour to save her! It was still the same cold tone, without any emotional changes.

"What do you want me to do?"

"Remember that bamboo forest? I want you to rush to the bamboo forest alone, if a second person appears near the bamboo forest, Lin Xiaoxue will die immediately! ”

As soon as he said that, the bastard hung up the phone and didn't give me time to think at all.

Since the other party can call me immediately after I decode it.

This meant that he was probably monitoring what was happening in the room somehow. For Xiaoxue's safety, I can't tell other police officers about this to avoid the situation getting out of control.

Now, he can only temporarily follow his request and rush to the bamboo forest.

There is a limited time of one hour, and there is still a long way to go from here in the courtyard to the place where the bamboo forest is! The officers on the side are all busy, and there is likely to be an accomplice lurking in the middle, and I have to quietly convey the message to the gold-rimmed glasses.

After calming down, I wrote a text message on my phone and put it directly on my desktop, and if I read it, I would soon understand what to do next.

After that, I hurried out of the house, got into the police car next to me, turned the key, and started the car.

It is only now that I understand that since the welfare home incident, the murderer has put the next target to be killed on me, because I am the only person who has successfully stopped his killing plan since the development of the black gold case.

He kidnapped Lin Xiaoxue, and he completely wanted to coerce me to go to the bamboo forest.

Even so, I decided to go alone and face the murderer alone.

First, I don't want anyone to take risks with me anymore, and second, in my heart, I also want to see with my own eyes what kind of guy this murderer who has committed a lot of blood debts and is extremely arrogant.

This choice is undoubtedly the most dangerous decision in my life for more than 20 years, whether to live or die, it all depends on creation.

The police car drove all the way and soon drove into the mountains, and the surrounding scenery was constantly changing. I still remember the road to the bamboo forest.

Half an hour later, there was no one at all, and there was a deathly silence in the mountains and forests. Gradually, the strange bamboo forest slowly appeared in my field of vision.

Even though it was morning, the bamboo forest still exuded the smell of death, and since the murderer had chosen this place, he must have prepared a "great gift" for me! ”

Twenty minutes before the scheduled time, I pulled out a box of cigarettes, pulled out one, and held it in my hand.

glanced at Hongta Mountain at his fingertips, and unconsciously scolded a few times. I knew that this was the case, so I brought the Yellow Crane Tower with gold-rimmed glasses and enjoyed it.

I took a sharp puff and looked at the smoke in front of me, this may be the last chance in my life to enjoy nicotine.

The good times were fleeting, and after a few moments, I opened the car door and slowly walked into the bamboo forest. There was a gust of wind in the mountains and forests, and there was an uneasy atmosphere everywhere, so I took it easy, brisked myself, and paid as much attention to the situation around me as possible, so that I could respond to emergencies at any time.

Because of the high visibility during the day, there was no confusion about the bamboo, and I was able to find the mark engraved on the bamboo that night, and it didn't take long for me to go deep into the bamboo forest.