Team leader Li Wu obviously rarely heard of this term, so he turned to Lu Kai and asked:
“What is the grandfather paradox?”
Lu Kai scratched his head and explained:
"This is a time paradox. The grandfather paradox talks about the fact that once you go back in time and change certain historical developments, a logical paradox will occur."
"For example, if he went back in time and killed his grandfather with his own hands, would he still exist in the future?"
"If he doesn't exist, then his grandfather will not die, he will exist in the future, and he can go back and kill his grandfather."
This is a logical time paradox that was once one of the most serious scientific topics in the last Anthropocene.
In order to solve the "time paradox", there have been many hypotheses, the more popular of which is the "parallel universe" hypothesis, which means that every time a choice different from history is made, a new parallel world will be born.
It’s no wonder that young investigator Lu Kai couldn’t figure it out. Even today, not many people can figure it out.
"I have no idea."
Xu Can endured the physical discomfort and shook his head.
He is not a super superpower, he only has D-level superpower strength.
There is no senior guidance on time powers, so I only know so much for the time being.
Regular superpowers are divided into eight levels according to the strength of their superpower factors.
Class E, Class D, Class C, Class B, Class A, Class S, Class SS, Class SSS.
There is a big gap in its destructive power, power intensity and degree of control over powers between different levels.
Among them, A level is the watershed. Once reaching A level, the energy of the superpower is likely to surpass that of scientific weapons, the destructive power is astonishing, and all aspects of physical fitness will be transformed.
Seeing Xu Can almost collapse, Li Wu put the handcuffs on Xu Can again and said seriously:
"Xu Can, we can't release him until your suspicion is completely cleared. We can only ask you to cooperate with the investigation temporarily."
"Don't worry about Jianghai University. I will send someone to communicate and it won't have any impact on you."
Xu Can had no other choice and nodded in response:
"no problem."
Li Wu nodded slightly:
"Lu Kai, take him to rest first."
"yes!"
…
Click——
"Inform all major groups that the conference room will meet in ten minutes."
Li Wu walked out of the interrogation room and gave a loud order to all the investigators in the entire investigation room.
"yes!"
"yes!"
A major turning point in the case is a huge shock to the entire Irregular Seven Group.
Nowadays, all districts in Jianghai City are not at peace. Luohe District is not a rich area like Jiangdong District. Naturally, this is also the case. There is an urgent need to arrest the real murderer to appease the people of Luohe District.
Within the seventh team of the SCI Supernatural Crime Investigation Team, the team leader is Li Wu and the deputy team leader is Chen Jikang.
There are three major groups below: [Arrest Team], [Investigation Team] and [Forensic Team].
Among them, the arrest team is responsible for arresting criminals with supernatural powers. When there is no arrest mission on weekdays, they will participate in the work of the investigation team. Among them are not only those with extraordinary powers, but also ordinary people and elite agents who are proficient in various fighting and firearms skills. .
The investigation team is responsible for investigation, interrogation, and case analysis.
The forensic team is a technical department, which not only includes technicians responsible for surveying the scene and identifying authenticity in all aspects, but also a five-person forensic team.
Generally, the work within the Abnormality Bureau is not divided in detail. In many arrest tasks, people from the investigation team will also participate.
The forensic team will also participate in the investigation tasks.
…
Ten minutes later, SCI conference room.
Li Wu pushed the door open and walked in. The entire conference room was a little noisy, obviously everyone was discussing the case and the shocking Xu Can.
Before the meeting officially started, Wang Xiaoya, a beautiful investigator from Group 7 with neat bangs, quickly entered the conference room and whispered beside Li Wu:
"head!"
"Jiang Shen is here."
"How about it?"
"The information is correct and basically consistent with Xu Can's confession."
Time was running out, and Wang Xiaoya had already started questioning Jiang Shen on the case in the car when she and Jiang Shen were returning to the station.
When Jiang Shen heard that the Extraordinary Bureau was involved in the investigation, he didn't dare to hide anything without knowing what the big deal was.
"Where are the people?"
"Under further questioning."
"good."
"Let's get started, Ke Yue."
Li Wu looked at Ke Yue, who was calm, capable and heroic. She was the female investigator who had just been responsible for interrogating Xu Can.
Ke Yue nodded and inserted a USB flash drive, which contained all relevant information on this case.
Several pictures were automatically switched one by one. Most of them had been announced during the preliminary investigation meeting in the afternoon. Ke Yue quickly briefly summarized:
"The first deceased, Chen Lei, female, 23 years old, secretary."
"The second deceased, Jiang Mingyue, female, 19 years old, college student."
"The third deceased, Zheng Ying, female, 26 years old, unemployed."
"The cause of death is the same. They were all killed by dogs. The strength of the supernatural factors is similar. They are merged into one case for investigation."
The pictures of the deceased on the projection were extremely bloody.
Secondly, there were many bloody wounds on the bodies of the three deceased women, and the fatal injury was the carotid artery.
The first deceased, Chen Lei, was the most miserable. There were no whole corpses, only some body parts that were dismembered by canine monsters.
After investigation, it was confirmed that a person with supernatural powers committed the crime, and the dog bit the carotid artery until the deceased died.
This shows that the murderer is most likely a criminal who has the ability to transform into a dog, or has the ability to control dogs.
No intersection between the three deceased has been found so far.
The details of the case were discussed intensively during the afternoon meeting. Ke Yue did not talk nonsense and went straight to the topic:
"The breakthrough in the case was in the third case, the Zheng Ying case."
"Just now, we arrested the suspect Xu Can who appeared at the crime scene of the third case and brought him to justice."
…
Following Ke Yue's introduction, the picture on the PPT suddenly switched to a sunny young man Xu Can with a smile on his face.
As soon as Xu Can's photo appeared, a young investigator wearing glasses in the conference room pushed up his glasses, raised the corners of his mouth slightly, and showed a meaningful smile.
"Xu Can, 19 years old, sophomore at Jianghai University, power sequence 1-1, time and space power, power strength level D, basically confirmed that the confession is true."
As soon as Ke Yue finished speaking, the beautiful investigator Wang Xiaoya on the side immediately synchronized the preliminary oral description and basic information about Jiang Shen, and there was a lot of discussion in the conference room.
Obviously, so far, the mysterious time and space power controlled by Xu Can still cannot convince all the members of the seven groups. It is too mysterious.
"Head, is there a possibility that Xu Can made enough arrangements and preparations in advance to deliberately hide the second power? In fact, Xu Can is a dual-power user?"
"After all, the murderer's superpower level shouldn't be high."
The person who spoke out was a young investigator who had just joined Group 7 and participated in the investigation of Xu Can.
A dual superpower, as the name suggests, is a superpower who possesses two superpowers at the same time. It is extremely rare, but not unheard of.
Li Wu shook his head decisively and said in a deep voice:
"impossible."
Xu Can's superpower can complete self-certification at any time, so it is impossible to set up such a trap.
The second is that Ke Yue's lie detection ability confirms that Xu Can is not lying, unless Xu Can is an S-level superpower.
If Xu Can is an S-class superpower, can he be caught here just by relying on the seven special powers?
Another investigator spoke up and analyzed:
"That means Xu Can didn't lie. He really didn't know the reason why he appeared near the crime scene."
"It is confirmed that Xu Can was not at the crime scene that day. Then who was present at the crime scene that day?"
"Could it be that face-changing killer again?"
Upon hearing the words face-changing killer, the expressions of several investigators present changed.
This guy is one of the famous killers in Jianghai City. He has been wandering around Jianghai City, killing people to get paid. Because of his super power of changing appearance, SCI has been helpless until now.
"The chances are almost non-existent."
"Judging from the past cases of the Face-Changing Killer, apart from the ability to change his appearance, he is just an ordinary person and does not have the second ability to control dog changes."
Ke Yue, who stood tall and straight, analyzed.
There was silence in the conference room for a moment, and Li Wu turned his eyes to the middle-aged bearded man not far away who had been looking through the information.
Nie Zebing is currently the leader of the arrest team and temporarily the leader of the investigation team.
In terms of combat effectiveness, he is most likely the number one figure in the seventh group.
"Old Nie, tell me."
Nie Zebing closed the document, wiped his beard, crossed his legs, and expressed his opinion on the case:
"Let's do it step by step."
"Since this kid can complete time travel, it means that this guy is very likely to be himself."
"It's just that he doesn't know it yet."
Nie Zebing pursed his lips. The picture on the PPT was exactly that of Xu Can appearing near the crime scene.
The apprentice sitting next to Nie Zebing swallowed and his voice gradually rose:
"Boss Nie, you mean, this is Xu Can in the future?"
"If Xu Can from the future killed someone in the past, how should this be calculated?!"
Nie Zebing glanced sideways at this silly apprentice, leaned on the chair, folded his hands around his chest and said:
"Xu Can has no motive, modus operandi, or timeline."
"I don't think the murderer in this case is Xu Can."
Just now, Nie Zebing carefully looked through the relevant information about Xu Can.
Generally speaking, the three elements that form criminal motives include education, stimulation and environment. No one is born a criminal, and Xu Can obviously does not have this experience.
The second is the three elements for solving a crime: motive, method, and timeline. At present, Xu Can does not have them.
"Then is he Xu Can?"
Nie Zebing's apprentice was completely confused and stared blankly at the pictures on the screen.
Nie Zebing and Li Wu looked at each other, shrugged, and guessed:
"There is so much pressure from above now, do you think this Xu Can..."
"Did you send him there?"
The conference room quickly fell silent. As soon as these words came out, everyone's eyes focused on Team Leader Li Wu.
Li Wu's face was quite calm, and he was not surprised by Nie Zebing's guess, because he also thought of this possibility.
There are frequent cases of supernatural crimes in Jianghai Autonomous City, and the third death in the serial murder case in Luohe District can be said to be frightening.
Chen Jikang, the deputy leader of the Seventh Group of Yi Tiao, went to the SCI General Administration Bureau at noon to report on the situation and buy time for the Seventh Group to solve the case. The case was solved without delay.
"Time travel..."
"Time travel..."
"Yeah, just send this guy over and find out who committed the crime!"
One investigator hammered his fist and said excitedly.
The case is now at a deadlock, and the time given by the superiors to solve the case is limited.
Compared with the clueless random investigation, if this sudden Xu Can is not the real murderer, isn't it a gift from God to the Seventh Group of Yi Tiao?
"head!"
Li Wu touched his chin, then raised his head and said seriously to everyone:
"You investigate the case as normal and look for clues in other aspects besides Xu Can, especially the common characteristics and interpersonal relationships of the three victims."
"As for Xu Can, I will talk about it, but you don't have to worry about it for now."
"Don't treat Xu Can as a life-saving straw. Remember, you are SCI investigators."
After hearing Li Wu's words, the investigators immediately cheered up and Hongsheng responded:
"yes!"
"yes!"
"Okay, rest when you need to. Now is a special period. You have to stay alert."
It has only been 24 hours since the third deceased appeared. Before, they had focused most of their attention on Xu Can, and there was still a lot of information that they had not yet unearthed.
Although it was known that the murderer most likely had the power of canine transformation or the ability to control dogs, it was impossible to conduct a large-scale investigation.
General newborn blood tests will include abnormal factor detection.
If you are born without the superpower factor, it is impossible to awaken superpowers and become a superpower.
Once there is a superpower factor in the blood, it is a potential superpower.
But it is impossible to determine whether they are superpowers based on this, because there are many ordinary people who have not awakened in their lives.
There are usually five ways to awaken superpowers: [Inborn Possession], [Natural Awakening], [Accident], [Extreme Emotions] and [Acquired], and the types of awakening are also diverse.
Sorted by the sequence of abilities, the first category is [Space-Time Category], the second category is [Rule Category], the third category is [Element Category], the fourth category is [Simultaneous Category], and the fifth category [Control type], the sixth type is [Body type], the seventh type is [Soul type], the eighth type is [Healing type], and the ninth type is [Special type].
People with time and space powers are rare, and powers like Xu Can’s are even rarer!
After the impromptu meeting ended, Li Wu looked at the time on his phone with a solemn expression. It was already late at night. Some investigators had been called out by the case early in the morning. They had been busy all day and were extremely tired. They went back to rest for the time being.
There are also core investigators who know that time is tight and stay to work overtime to investigate.
"head."
Li Wu was about to leave the conference room when a familiar voice came. He looked up and saw that it was Luo Dongyang, a young man with black-rimmed glasses from the SCI General Administration.
The power sequence is [5-32], and the memory is deleted.
His job in the No. 7 team is very simple. If he needs to delete memories related to passers-by, he will take action.
"Dongyang?"
"What's up?"
"Take a step to speak."
"What's up?"
"About Xu Can."
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