The surveillance video at the entrance of the supermarket is relatively clear, showing the appearance of several people in Ying Caiyi two hours ago. But the man was wearing a thick velvet coat, a hat, and his collar was pulled up high, so his face couldn't be seen clearly. The car was black and the license plate was barely legible. Lu Ning took photos of the key information and thanked the people in the supermarket. She politely declined their questions about whether to call the police and walked outside.
boarding? She didn't know that Ying Caiyi knew such a person with a luxury car. Of course, it was possible that she did. But what exactly is that man doing buying some disinfectant supplies?
Just when Lu Ning was doubting, the phone rang - Ying Caiyi.
She picked up her phone and said "hello", and then she heard Ying Caiyi's voice: "Lu Ning? I just saw the message, sorry."
Hearing that she was still so energetic, Lu Ning was relieved: "I didn't even dare to call you. Where did you go? I thought you were in danger!"
"Don't worry, I'm not alone."
"I know you found two classmates together!"
"Ah, and my uncle."
"...your uncle?"
"Yes, my uncle came here to discuss business, but the road was blocked due to heavy snowfall. He came to see me when he knew I was studying in college here."
Lu Ning vaguely remembered that Ying Caiyi often said that she was not short of living expenses or money. However, because she was very keen on making money, no one took her seriously, thinking that she was just an ordinary middle-class person, and no one asked her about her family background.
"It scared us to death."
"Hey, didn't you go to meet a big star? Are you back so soon?"
"The road is too bad and we can't go there at all. We made an appointment at another time." Lu Ning prevaricated, "Where are you? Where have you been?"
"My uncle invited us to dinner. Didn't he just think of checking his mobile phone after dinner? We were at Fenghai Restaurant and just finished eating and went out. The traffic conditions are not good, but we will probably go back after a while."
"Okay, scare me. I'm going back to the dormitory first and waiting for you to come back."
Lu Ning hung up the phone, turned around and returned to school.
"Li Xian, I..."
"Lu Ning, have you found Ying Caiyi?"
As soon as Lu Ning opened the door, she saw Li Xian who was dressed and ready to go out.
"What's wrong?"
"I just received a notice from the teacher. Students should not go out recently and report their whereabouts at any time. There is a school nearby where two girls disappeared yesterday. The body of one of them was found at noon today!"
"Slow down, Ying Caiyi went to have dinner with her uncle and will be back in a while." Lu Ning quickly stopped Li Xian, "What's going on?"
"I see, I thought... forget it, just take a look for yourself." She pointed to a piece of paper placed on Lu Chunxiao's empty seat.
Lu Ning picked it up and took a look. The notice from the school was to the effect that there were dangerous criminals nearby, and the targets were suspected to be young men and women of high school to college age. All students were reminded not to leave the campus at will, and to report to the class teacher when going out. Not many details were given about the case.
"Why is there another death?"
"It was said that the method of committing the crime was the same as that of the four boys who died before. The one found this time was a snow shoveler. Fortunately, he was shoveling snow, otherwise if the large snow removal truck had run over, the body would probably have been rotten." Li Xian wrapped up her clothes. He walked into the house and opened the photo album on his phone. "I took two screenshots. They will probably be deleted soon. Take a look."
The screenshots are a few photos of the shooting scene. The person who took the photos was obviously not very professional. He didn't find a suitable angle at all and just took the corpse in. Lu Ning could only tell from the above that this was a girl. She only had a single piece of clothing on her body, which was stained with blood. Judging from the surrounding snow, she had probably been left here for a long time. It was difficult to tell anything else.
Lu Ning sighed: "Does anyone recognize this girl?"
"I only know that he is from the school next door. I don't want to inquire about the details. They have blocked the information. Should the serial murder case be considered a serious case?"
"That must be a serious case."
"I asked several classmates, but they didn't know. Now everyone is surprised and a little curious. No one left the school in this weather anyway, so there is not much panic." Li Xian spread her hands.
Lu Ning checked with her phone, but suddenly noticed that there were many messy footprints on the ground in the photo. Due to the thick snow, these footprints were covered, but they were revealed because of some traces of shoveling snow that seemed to be hidden.
These footprints were all broken, but the breaking did not affect the extraction of the footprints. Such obvious traces were left at the scene, which shows that the follow-up treatment after the crime was not very strict. It is estimated that there was some other evidence left at the scene.
Modern investigation methods are actually very sophisticated, and even simple crimes are easy to detect. The more we do, the more flaws we have. Lu Ning thought for a while and said to Li Xian: "Wait and see the news. The murderer this time will probably be easy to catch."
"The murderer this time?"
"Well, I also paid attention to the problem of the four boys before. It took more than two weeks for their bodies to be discovered. During these two weeks, the police must have mobilized many resources to investigate, but found nothing. This is a very special situation. A skilled habitual criminal who left no evidence to trace himself. But this time the scene was obviously much rougher."
"You mean..."
"Probably a copycat."
Ying Caiyi came back at about two o'clock, and brought back a large bag of snacks, which her uncle bought for her. Plus there were a lot of things by express delivery, but Ying Caiyi was obviously very happy and gave them to Lu Ning Li Xian and I stuffed several bags each.
Li Xian handed the notice to Ying Caiyi and took a look at it, reminding her to pay attention to safety. Ying Caiyi said with a smile that she had no problem, and then started to unpack her express delivery.
As Lu Ning expected, good news came a little later that day. The other one of the two missing girls was successfully rescued, and the suspect's identity had been locked and was being hunted. Given the current bad traffic environment and the poor level of erasure of suspects' traces, it won't be long before people are caught.
"It seems that there is an unemployed homeless person nearby. After seeing the news on the Internet, he wanted to imitate and commit the same crime. Alas, what a pity for that girl." Li Xian sighed after reading the latest notice, "Lu Ning, if you follow your As you said, this is just a copycat, and the real culprit is actually still at large, right?"
"Of course, the real murderer's methods are cautious and clean. He must be a cruel and cunning person."
But the real murderer was one thing. The appearance of the imitator made Lu Ning know what the first difficulty of this task was. Unsurprisingly, the next day, copycat crimes occurred in several nearby provinces and cities, and the targets were all young people. Some of them have been arrested, but some are still at large. This crime actually started to spread like a plague, and people became worried for a while. Even Lu Ning's father called her again to ask about Lu Ning's situation. Ying Caiyi and Li Xian were also questioned carefully by their family members.
Almost overnight, everyone seemed to know that there was a serial killer stalking the northern provinces, and many people began to imitate this killer. The previous cases of the four boys were also completely uncovered. For a time, everyone was accusing the police of being incompetent, discussing the inside story of the case, and analyzing the murderer's psychology. It seemed to be the biggest fun on the Internet during this cold time.
Lu Ning also contacted Liu Huanyu later, and this incident indeed attracted the attention of some people above. According to Liu Huanyu, some big figures have begun to order an investigation, and it seems that a special task force has been dispatched. Since this incident has caused some adverse social effects, public opinion control measures have also been implemented.
"This should be the prelude to the so-called '15-year-old murder case'. The real murderer should be a person with super powers. If possible, I would like to ask Li Xilou whether his ability can directly catch the murderer. "
"Unfortunately, his ability is not that convenient. Miss Lu Ning, if you want to find out the murderer, maybe you need some internal files? We can get part of this."
"Oh? Really? I thought Mr. Li Xilou..."
"Since Xilou came back, he has begun to develop his social circle in many ways. Some requests that are not too excessive can still be met. Everything he has done is to protect us from any harm in the future." Liu Huanyu said with a smile. , "And what you do is what he needs, so we will use these resources to support you."
"Thank you. When can I get the dossier?"
"If it's an electronic version, it can be sent to you tomorrow. By the way, Miss Lu Ning, I have another question that I want to ask personally."
"Um?"
"Can you describe to me what happened to you and Xilou in that world?"
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[Zhao Group hired Cen Gaifei as its chief consultant, setting a record for the longest tenure of its chief consultants. 】
"The things in newspapers always report on eye-catching things." Tang Ling folded the newspaper with some boredom and threw it on the table next to him, "Brother Meng, it's snowing heavily in the north, so we ran to the southern island like this Is it a good vacation?”
"You don't feel there's anything inappropriate in your heart, do you? You're probably just worried about the next mission? After all, both missions are in the north." Meng Juan was lying on the sun lounger with a glass of juice, wearing a floral shirt and shorts on the beach. , two people were enjoying the warm sunshine of the south on the balcony of the hotel.
"Yes, Brother Meng, who is the murderer of that murder this time?"
"I don't know." Meng Juan said with a smile, "Such a cunning murderer should at least be as good as I was back then. Otherwise, this task would be too easy. Of course, they all behave like those imitators every minute. Being caught...Oh, by the way, have you read the invitation?"
"The most annoying thing is pretending to be a ghost."
"Tang Ling, you have to learn to adapt to various conditions in diversified scenarios. The invitation letter is just a little bit literal, but the content is still very straightforward, isn't it?" Meng Juan smiled, "And I said, You actually have first-hand resources, it might not be a bad thing to make good use of them, we are the custody team."
"Uh... I'm sorry, Brother Meng."
"Nothing. Come, take a look at this newspaper. Cen Gaifei is not a famous person, but he has also appeared in our information. He caused some trouble to a few thugs at the second and third levels. But those trash Since he didn't reach the fourth level, he naturally didn't have the ability to cause trouble for him. He just reported it for information compilation. Such a person wouldn't be able to let the assassination team or the intelligence team take action, but he could successfully get rid of those crazy dog-like guys. There’s always something to be said for that.”
"Brother Meng, we deal with hundreds of names every day." Tang Ling was surprised.
"Just remember some of the outstanding people. This Mr. Cen, we can find a time to pay a visit and see if he wakes up. If not, then I think the next stage has begun to be set. "Meng Juan put the juice cup on the table, took the newspaper and unfolded it, "Zhao Consortium...ah, in my memory, there seems to be no such consortium. What about you, Tang Ling?"
"I have never left that place until my death, let alone how many big consortiums there are outside."
"Then I'm afraid we have to pay close attention to this consortium in the future." Meng Juan nodded lightly, "Don't use too violent methods. Let me think about it... find a senior executive of the group to baptize it?"
"Then it's better for me to just kidnap Cen Gaifei and open the third stage. Anyway, I've done this once, and I don't mind doing it again."
"Tang Ling, speeding must have its price." Meng Juan shook his finger, "This scene is not as simple as you think. It mixes the world of everyone's life and generates a brand new world. This world It's good for some people, bad for some people, but the most important thing is that it is still based on our world. But I think it is inevitable that there will be new people and worlds as the stage progresses If you mix in, you should know what kind of past the people in the distribution center have, right?"
"……Know."
"When the distribution center selected us, they only considered one condition, that is, dead humans on an Earth-like planet. As for the situation on this planet, we don't care." Meng Juan said, "We are living a good life now, let's take advantage of it Wouldn't it be better to think more about good things at this time?"
"A good thing?" Tang Ling was a little puzzled.
"For example, what can be obtained and learned in this scene." Meng Juan stood up and stretched, "There is no end to learning, Tang Ling, even if those super powers cannot be taken away, there are still many of us in the scene at the distribution center. The knowledge that can be learned, even if you just understand the history of different places, can increase your knowledge.”
"So...what about our mission?"
"When the snow becomes more severe, we will set off back to the north." Meng Juan took off his flowered shirt, and a maid came over and put a nightgown on him. A scarlet pattern flashed vaguely in the maid's left eye, and her face was expressionless.
