Kai's analysis is very thorough and makes sense. But for the Chicago police, Victor's profile also matched many factors of the murderer. So they didn't care what Kai said and just arrested Victor as the murderer.
Kai didn't have any problem with this, because regardless of whether he was the murderer or not, their goal was to catch Victor. Chicago might even think of him as a murderer, maybe even harder. After all, a rotten person like Victor would have no one to pity him if he died.
Victor's residence in Chicago was not difficult to find. It was even very easy. He rented an apartment under his real name in an old apartment building in the South City. This kind of thing was very easy to find. The police quickly found Victor according to the address, but contrary to everyone's expectations... Victor was brought back easily.
No one put up any resistance...or he didn't have any ability to resist.
…
Kai rushed to the hospital as soon as he got the news.
"The patient should have been confined to bed for a year based on the level of degeneration in his muscles and spine, and his blood tests indicated that he had been taking a large number of medications, including antibiotics, perhaps to avoid bed sore infection."
"Can we talk to him now?" Kai asked tentatively. But there was no great hope in return. Because with the level of caution of the murderer, he would not leave such an obvious witness to the police.
"Although his brain has not turned into paste and he should still be able to think, he must first have a tongue that can speak. His tongue was bitten off a long time ago."
Kai looked at Victor's miserable condition through the glass of the sterile isolation ward and asked.
"Doctor, do you think it is completely impossible for him to survive?"
"If you shine a flashlight into his eyes now, you will scare him to death immediately!" Here the doctor paused, and then said: "Of all the patients I have ever seen in my life, he suffered the most severe pain and pain. Torture, this is not the worst, because the real hell is still waiting for him ahead. According to my point of view, the most merciful thing to do now is to go in and give him a shot in the head. Let him leave this damn hell early. !”
After saying that, the doctor turned and walked away. It was obvious that the doctor was also stimulated by Victor's tragic situation. In fact, he is not the only one. Two special police officers were frightened during the arrest operation and are now receiving psychological counseling. This guy has been tortured to the point where he is no longer human. He is more like a living mummy, and his whole body is rotten.
According to the doctor's guess, his tongue was bitten off by himself. One can imagine the torture he endured. Except for his tongue, his left hand was cut off and then tied to the bed for a year. His intestines and stomach have been severely degenerated, which shows that he has not eaten for a year and has always relied on infusions to maintain his physiological characteristics. I also use a catheter to urinate.
And his severed left hand was the source of the fingerprints in the previous case. What’s even more frightening is that the murderer also left photos of Victor over the past year where he was imprisoned. 365 days, 365 photos, not a lot of them. When the Chicago police found Victor, it happened to be... A whole year, one day is not more, one day is less...
"Okay, now we can provide custodial protection to Mills." Seeing the doctor leave, Kai shook his head, and then said to William next to him.
As for the reason, Kai didn't say it, and William didn't ask. Because it is obvious. Now, two of the three victims in this serial murder case are related to Mills. What's even more coincidental is that the time when the case happened happened to overlap with Mills' report to Chicago.
If there are too many coincidences, it is no longer a coincidence.
Although it is still uncertain what the existence of Mills means to the murderer, they must do this for the safety of Mills.
William nodded, then fell into deep thought, and then he said uncertainly: "Rage."
Kai didn't understand what William meant, and William continued: "Mills has a bad temper. He is very easily controlled by his emotions!"
Among the seven deadly sins is rage!
Think again about the troubles Mills made because of Victor's case.
Kai also understood that the murderer probably regarded Mills as his target!
"So that means the root cause of all this is that case!"
The murderer did not choose the target randomly, Kai had already seen this, and Victor was imprisoned for a year, which is a strong proof of this! But he was still not sure what criteria the murderer used to select his targets.
But William's reminder immediately reminded Kai of that case.
"Hailey! You immediately go to the headquarters to retrieve all the files of Mills and Springfield City, and ask them to send all the relevant information! By the way, there is also the fat man! He must be related to this matter too! Check it out for me!”
"Understood!" Haili immediately left with Jin.
Kay said to William: "I think we have to talk to Mills!"
…
In the middle of the night, Mills was ordered to protect Pepper, so he did not go home. Instead, he prepared to spend the night in the living room of the hotel's presidential suite. As for the two ladies, they naturally slept on the super-large bed in the master bedroom!
Just when Mills was about to fall asleep, the hotel door was suddenly kicked open.
William and Kai led a group of special police officers and rushed in with weapons in hand.
Mills jumped up immediately, and before he could figure out what was going on, the special police officers began to spread out and inspect every corner of the presidential suite.
"Safety!"
"Safety!"
Then Kai kicked open the ladies' room, which frightened the two drunken ladies to wake up immediately. Seeing Kai barging in with a gun, the two women instinctively wrapped themselves in quilts and screamed!
"Fake! What on earth are you doing?!!!"
Hearing the scream of veteran Tracy, Mills immediately pushed aside everyone and ran into the room.
But Kai and William ignored them. Instead, they searched the room with guns, even behind the curtains. When Kai was checking the window, he suddenly noticed a figure disappearing on the roof of the building directly opposite the hotel room!
Kai immediately turned his head and shouted to other police officers: "Send someone to the building opposite! I see someone watching over here! Immediately!"
The special police did not dare to delay. They immediately took out their walkie-talkies and asked their colleagues on standby outside the hotel to go to the roof of the building opposite to check!
"Adam!!!" Pepper immediately exploded after seeing clearly that it was Kai. She hasn't forgiven him yet! As a result, this guy barged in so rudely in the middle of the night!
Pepper was wearing a strappy silk nightgown, which revealed her perfect figure as she threw back the quilt and let out a tantrum.
After Kai was addicted to it, he grabbed an unknown coat and threw it to Pepper.
"This is a serious matter. I'll explain it to you later. Now, put on your clothes and we're leaving!"
Looking at a room full of armed SWAT police, no matter how angry Little Pepper was, she understood that this was definitely not for no reason.
The same was true for Mills. Although he hugged Tracy in grief and anger and glared at the group of people, he still helped his wife get the clothes honestly.
At this time, the police who went to the building opposite to check also reported back the news. There was no one on the rooftop opposite, but I found a telescope and a telephoto camera! Kai was right, there was indeed someone on the other side!
…
Soon the two ladies got dressed and were taken into a bulletproof car, which was the police chief's car. If there were only Mills and Tracey, they wouldn't be treated like this, but this was Pepper. Originally, this matter had nothing to do with Pepper, but she was so valuable that she couldn't afford any mistakes, so the police station took it very seriously.
"Okay, now you can tell me, what are you doing?"
Pepper asked impatiently after the car started.
Kai did not answer Pepper, but turned to Mills and asked, "Do you remember Victor, right?"
"That bastard? What happened to him?" For Victor, Mills probably will never forget him in his life.
"He's dead! He died in the Seven Deadly Serial Murder Case! And Gould, he was Victor's defense lawyer at the time!"
Mills opened his mouth. He had been removed from the case at that time, and he really didn't pay attention to who the defense lawyer was. All he knew was that he was a barrister who came to Chicago. But I didn’t spend much time remembering the name Gould.
"so……"
Mills is not stupid, so he naturally thought of what Kai meant.
"Well, we suspect that you have also been targeted by the murderer!"
Mills was stunned for a moment before asking: "Why?"
Based on the characteristics of the first three victims, Mills could also guess the murderer's criteria for selecting targets. The victims are all sinners, except for the fat boss who also knows that both the lawyer and Victor are among the guilty!
But Mills didn't understand why he was being targeted.
"In that case... your lack of calmness did allow a criminal to escape punishment in a sense. In a sense, you were indeed guilty." Kai said calmly.
When Mills heard this, his first reaction was to get angry, but he soon froze.
He blames his colleagues for talking too much, the judge for being incompetent, and the jury for being stupid. But if he thinks about it more carefully, why is he not responsible?
"I..." Mills was at a loss at this moment.
Tracy looked at her husband worriedly.
"For safety reasons, I need to put you into protective custody. I hope you can understand. As for the two of them... I think it is better to protect them together. Your hotel room has been monitored before."
Pepper should stop making trouble now, life is at stake!
…
Mills and his party were quickly taken to the safe room arranged by the Chicago police. It was an extremely luxurious villa with a wide view and high walls around it, which was very conducive to defense. In addition, there were twenty special police officers and ten The defense of the police detectives, and the police station is always on standby. If there is a problem, additional personnel will be sent out immediately!
This is not to say that it is impregnable, but it is almost the same.
"Mills, I need you to recall as soon as possible the other related persons who took up the case. As long as they meet the remaining characteristics of the seven deadly sins, they can be regarded as targets." Kai took the information and talked with William about the case with Mills.
In that minor sexual assault case, there were at least dozens of witnesses, investigators, etc., and the information of these dozens of people was placed in front of them, but the problem was that it was impossible to tell who would become a victim simply by looking at the information. The murderer's target.
Mills pulled his hair irritably, he was very irritable now. Because of Kai and William's inference, he felt that he had created the perverted serial killing. This made Mills very decadent and very self-blame.
"This is very important Mills, I need you to calm down." Kai has already asked people to investigate whether Susie's mother has anything to do with the case. Anyway, Maria was not included in the case files sent back by Springfield City. Kai now hopes that Maria will not get involved, otherwise...
"I...I..." Mills didn't know where to start. His mind was very confused.
When William saw this, he immediately took over the conversation.
"Let's take our time and eliminate them one by one!"
William picked up a piece of witness information and handed it to Mills. "Do you think this person will be targeted by a murderer?"
Mills finally calmed down a little. He looked at the information and shook his head: "He is a security guard at the school. He is a good person, but his brain is... congenital."
William nodded and immediately took out the next one.
Mills looked at it and thought for a while before shaking his head. After all, it was impossible for Mills to remember all the details of the case three years ago.
In this way, he read one by one, and he didn't stop until he came to a witness statement.
"Martha! She is a very proud woman. I remember very clearly that she was a model and a very famous one. She was very close to the crime scene that day, but she did not want to have anything to do with it. , because she felt it would affect her career. But we got the news that she heard the victim calling for help, but ignored it. When she testified in court, she said she saw nothing."
"Arrogance - the most serious sin, including disrespect for God and cruelty to others. She ignored the victim's cry for help for her own sake, and even after swearing on the Bible, she still lied. She fits the criteria!"
Kai immediately picked up the information and handed it to a policeman, asking him to check the woman's current location immediately!
"Go on, see if there is anything else?"
Mills shook his head: "I know only this much. I didn't pay attention to what kind of people these people were at the time. I... I only know this much."
"What about the victim? Where did he go?" Kai thought of the victim in the original case again. Maybe he's out for revenge? However, there is not much information about the victims in the case files. There was nothing left but a name and an address.
"I don't know, I never saw him again after I was removed from that case."
"check!"
…
While Kai and the others were searching for information and looking for people all night long, the Chicago media started a carnival again!
Victor’s tragic situation was exposed by reporters!
Now countless good people started to have a carnival! And to make things even more ridiculous, the bored media actually connected this case with the previous 'Chicago Massacre'! Many people think the murderer is Hannibal!
Because this case has some similarities with previous mass murder cases.
The victims were all guilty, the scene was very clean, and the methods were cruel.
Of course, this is far-fetched. Kai guessed that this must be a PR document bought by those film and television companies. There is no way. Since the last case, many film and television companies have planned to remake the Hannibal series of film and television dramas. Among other things, HBO and Netflix have already confirmed new series, and they are all based on Hannibal. Plus new Hollywood movies.
It just so happened that during this period of time, Hannibal's popularity began to subside and a new hit was needed.
Regardless, this series of cases instantly attracted huge attention.
