Detective: Open your eyes, I am handcuffed in the interrogation room

Before dinner, Zhou Yebin came, carrying food.

"I'm treating you today. You can eat whatever you want."

In the case handling hall, Zhou Yebin shouted.

Hearing this, all the staff on duty cheered and rushed forward to "grab" some of their favorite food.

"Chen Yi, come to my office."

Zhou Yebin motioned to Chen Yi with the remaining packing box in his hand, and the two left the case handling hall.

In the room, Zhou Yebin handed the disposable chopsticks to Chen Yi and said, "Did Director Zhang tell you about tomorrow's meeting?"

Chen Yi took the chopsticks and nodded: "I told you, it's the serial murder case in Jiangcheng."

"Team Zhou, do you know what happened? How many died?"

Zhou Yebin: "I know that five people died more than ten years ago, and now they have been reported to the provincial department. It is estimated that the murderer has come out to commit crimes again, so there are six."

"At least six."

This number made Chen Yi's eyes narrow: "Five? How long is the total time?"

Zhou Yebin: "About five years. On average, one person dies a year."

Chen Yi: “What’s the modus operandi?”

Zhou Yebin: "The details are not very clear. The information I know is highly consistent."

Chen Yi: "The five crimes committed, the techniques are highly consistent?"

Zhou Yebin nodded.

Chen Yi stopped talking and opened the packaging box in front of him. Inside was fried pork with chili pepper.

Then I opened another one, which was stir-fried yuba, and finally the cumin pork ribs. There were three dishes in total, very rich.

The two chatted while eating.

"This time Jiang Cheng didn't even investigate the case after discovering it. He directly reported it to the provincial department. It must have been a psychological shadow caused by him more than ten years ago."

"Five died more than ten years ago. Now ten years later, how many more will die?"

"No matter how many people die, Captain Zhao Qiming will stop doing this."

The speaker was Zhou Yebin.

Chen Yi said while eating: "Zhao Qiming is the captain of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of Jiangcheng City Bureau, right?"

Zhou Yebin hummed: "He was not the captain when this case occurred more than ten years ago, but he has gradually begun to stand out and is very capable. He recognized the old captain as his master and has been following his master to investigate the case."

"Five years later, the case progressed slowly. Instead of catching the murderer, he allowed the murderer to continue killing people under his eyes, killing four at a time."

"In the end, he took the blame and resigned, and the case gradually became an unresolved case."

Chen Yi nodded and ate his food: "It's a bit strange. It's rare for a serial killer to remain silent for ten years."

Zhou Yebin: "Yes, everyone thought that the murderer ran away or was hiding. In short, he stopped. I didn't expect that he would commit another crime ten years later."

"This person is not simple. He has strong anti-reconnaissance capabilities, but the murder symbols are quite unified. I don't know what the motivation for his behavior is. Obsessive-compulsive disorder? Special meaning?"

Chen Yi: "It is difficult to figure out the psychology of serial killers. We can only know the effects and infer the causes. This is a very important direction of investigation."

"Maybe we can identify the murderer's personal characteristics."

Zhou Yebin: "Jiangcheng police have been doing this kind of thing for more than ten years, and they seem to have even called in experts from the provincial department, but in the end they still didn't catch anyone."

Chen Yi thought for a while and said, "Is it possible that this is a copycat crime?"

Zhou Yebin: "I have also thought that committing another crime ten years later would be a bit like Bai Guoxiang's case, right?"

In the previous case of Bai Guoxiang, he killed an innocent girl again many years later. The motive for his behavior was that the victim matched the characteristics of Bai Guoxiang's ex-girlfriend.

What about Jiangcheng this time?

The motivations of each serial killer are different, and often the full answers can only be known after the person is caught.

Chen Yi nodded: "Yes, they are very similar in time."

Zhou Yebin: "I don't think the possibility of copycat crimes is very high. Serial murder cases are kept highly confidential. One of the reasons is to prevent outsiders from imitating them unless someone leaks them."

"We don't know what's going on with this case yet. We'll talk about it tomorrow."

Chen Yi: "Yeah, okay."

Zhou Yebin: "Also, this case should be kept confidential within a certain range. Don't mention it to others casually."

Chen Yi: "Of course, I know."

…

At eight o'clock in the morning the next day, Chen Yi and Zhou Yebin drove to the provincial hall. At this moment, there were already many foreign vehicles parked in front of the provincial hall gate.

At a glance, there are a variety of license plate prefixes, covering nearly 20 prefecture-level cities in Dongzhou.

It is extremely rare for all the criminal investigation detachment leaders in Dongzhou to gather at the provincial office. Apart from normal meetings and conferring titles, major cases have occurred.

Before the meeting, Zhou Yebin would inevitably meet old acquaintances, go up to chat, and introduce the deputy captain Chen Yi beside him.

This allowed Chen Yi to get to know many people in a short period of time.

For example, the person in front of me at the moment is Yan Quan, the leader of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Ancheng City Bureau.

"Is this Vice Captain Chen? I have admired you for a long time. I heard your name in Ancheng last year. You are really young and promising."

Yan Quan reached out and shook hands with Chen Yi, who said, "Hello, Captain Yan."

Yan Quan nodded slightly and did not talk to Chen Yiduo. He looked at Zhou Yebin and said, "Old Zhou, I heard that Fang Ting's mood is very bad this time. We must be mentally prepared."

"This has been a case for more than ten years, and the murderer shows up again. Needless to say, he is very courageous. What's more important is that he is very smart. Lao Kong has been investigating for five years and has not been able to find him, and he keeps killing people. "

Lao Kong's real name is Kong Hanyong, the former captain of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of Jiangcheng City Bureau, and Zhao Qiming's master.

Zhou Yebin said: "Then find someone smarter than the murderer to investigate. If all the detachment leaders are involved, plus experts from the provincial department, how long can this guy hide?"

Yan Quan sighed and shook his head, not very optimistic about the case.

Kong Hanyong's investigative ability is well-known. He has been investigating for so long and still hasn't found anything. This only shows that the murderer is indeed very cunning and smart.

Now that a new case has emerged, it is not so easy to find out.

As the time approached, everyone came to the conference room one after another and took their seats. There were about thirty people, including several bureau chiefs including Zhang Jingang. It can be said that all the criminal police officers in Dongzhou who can investigate cases and take charge of the matter have arrived. It can be seen that Fang Songping degree of importance.

At nine o'clock, Fang Songping and Wei Jianfeng walked in on time, and the whispers in the conference room suddenly stopped.

You can see that Fang Songping's face is indeed ugly, which makes the atmosphere in the entire conference room seem a bit solemn, and even the temperature has dropped a bit.

No one spoke after the two sat down. At this time, a police officer began to distribute information, and a female police officer began to pour tea for each captain.

Chen Yi quickly got the document. The cover was blank. When he flipped through the first page, he realized that this was the file of this case, including more than ten years ago and the last two days.

It's not very detailed, there's no autopsy report, and there's no investigation record from earlier years, but it's enough for everyone present to know what's going on in this case.

In the conference room, there was the sound of turning pages one after another, and Chen Yi was also watching.

Because it was not detailed, Chen Yi read it quickly and was the first to finish it.

When the last word came into his eyes, Chen Yi closed the file and frowned in thought.

Fifteen years ago, one person was killed every year, indicating that the murderer's crime cycle was one year, but why did he later enter a state of silence and wait ten years before coming out to commit crimes again?

This is a very important question, involving the murderer's motive.

Once the murderer's motive is known, it will be a big step forward in the investigation of the case. It can even be used to infer the murderer's characteristics and identify the murderer.

Then there’s the modus operandi.

Bury people in the soil with only their heads exposed, and then beat them to death alive.

Not only that, the murderer also placed a mirror in front of the deceased, allowing the victim to "appreciate" the entire process of his death. The method is really perverted.

This is the killing symbol.

If serial killers have highly consistent methods of committing crimes, they usually have their own murder symbols, which can even be called "totems" to put it mysteriously.

That mirror is very crucial, and it also involves the murderer's motive.

There is not much else. There is no detailed identity of the deceased in the information. It only shows the gender and age. They do not know each other. Chen Yi cannot speculate on possible connections based on the identity, as well as the previous similar characteristics of the individual victims.

Random killing?

Random killings within range?

Characteristic killing?

Or something else?

There is currently no way to know, and we need to look at more detailed files, but the gender and age characteristics... seem worthy of scrutiny.

Thinking of this, he opened the information again and studied it carefully.

On the other side, Fang Songping sat there quietly, rubbing his eyebrows, waiting for everyone to finish reading the information.

About twenty minutes later, Wei Jianfeng on the left came closer and whispered: "Fang Hall, everyone has finished reading."

Hearing this, Fang Songping opened his eyes, glanced at everyone, and said, "Have you finished reading? You know what's going on, right?"

Everyone nodded.

Fang Songping: "Okay, tell me what you think."

No one spoke.

Seeing this, Fang Songping glanced around and fixed on one of the people.

"Zhou Yebin, you said."

Yangcheng is the provincial capital, so he, the criminal investigation detachment leader of the Yangcheng City Bureau, naturally has to take the lead.

When he heard his name being called, Zhou Yebin was shocked and straightened up quickly: "Uh... the information is not very detailed. All I can see is that the deceased are all men, and they are all around forty years old. This shows that the murderer chose the target of the crime. It is by no means random and has a certain motivation."

"If it were me, I would definitely check the connection between the deceased first. If there is no connection..."

Fang Songping interrupted: "Wait a moment, I didn't ask you to tell me how to check. If it was so simple, Kong Hanyong would have broken it already. I just want to ask you what you think."

"Do you know what I mean?"

Zhou Yebin was silent.

Fang Songping looked away and looked at the others: "You don't understand, right? Okay, if you don't understand, I'll just tell you. Everyone can hear you clearly."

"This case has been in the past for so long and is highly confidential. It cannot be a copycat murder. It must be closely related to the case more than ten years ago. The murderer is likely to be the same person."

"Two months."

"Within two months, who can issue a military order to solve this case for me? If I can't solve it, take off your clothes, get out, and stand up."

As soon as these words came out, everyone's expressions changed slightly, including Zhou Yebin.

For a case that Kong Hanyong couldn't solve in five years, two months sounded like too much time, and a military order was required.

Once the case is accepted and has not been solved within the time limit, taking off the police uniform is a small matter, but being embarrassed and wasting time is a big deal.

If a new deceased person appears during this period, how should I explain it to Fang Songping? How to explain to the victim’s family?

Therefore, pressure from all aspects caused the entire conference room to become silent at this moment. Everyone lowered their heads slightly, and no one even looked at Fang Songping.

It's like when I was in school, the teacher asked on the podium: I am looking for someone to answer a question, who will raise their hand?

No one dared to raise their hands, they all lowered their heads, for fear that after they looked at each other, the teacher would say: "That one is you."

Fang Songping waited for a while, feeling a little disappointed. He subconsciously turned to look at Chen Yi and found that the other person seemed to be thinking about a problem, his expression was wandering, and he was even more speechless at the moment.

How long has it been since this happened? Your kid won’t fall in love these days and your brain will go crazy talking about it, right? !

Or maybe he just solved a double personality murder case and hasn't recovered yet?

"When will it be new?"

Fang Songping looked at a man.

This man is quite young, probably second only to Chen Yi, who is in his thirties. The fact that he is sitting here today is enough to show that he is not simple.

When he heard Fang Songping calling him, He Xin was startled and said quickly: "Fang Ting."

Fang Songping smiled half-heartedly: "Vice Captain He, your captain has been sick recently, right?"

Shi Xin, Ningcheng City Bureau Criminal Investigation Detachment, deputy detachment leader, has the same rank as Chen Yi.

"Yes, yes." Shi Xin said.

Fang Songping snorted coldly: "He really knows how to get sick sometimes. How about I give him a note and take a long-term sick leave at home."

When did Xin San San say: "Uh... this..."

He couldn't help but complain, it's not me who's sick, don't point it at me, I'm here, sitting here honestly.

Fang Songping didn't wait for the other party to respond and continued: "When is Xin, aren't you known as the most powerful computer expert in our Dongzhou Police Force? We advocate treating criminals and give full play to modern high-tech criminal investigation methods."

"No matter how powerful a person is, he can't compare to precision instruments or electronic information covering the entire network, right?"

Shi Xin said bravely: "Yeah... yes."

Fang Songping: "Well, this murderer used a shovel to kill people. He is not a high-tech talent. It must be very simple for you. Can the case be solved?"

Shi Xin hesitated: "I..."

Facing all Dongzhou detachment leaders in the conference room, he really didn't know how to answer.

able? What to do if it can’t be broken.

cannot? It's possible that Fang Ting could directly suspend himself out of anger.

Seeing this, Fang Songping sighed and turned to look at Wei Jianfeng. It seemed that the captain of the criminal investigation team had to go and take a look at this case in person.

As for the other people, let the other party deploy them according to the regulations of the task force.

Wei Jianfeng looked calm, looked at Fang Songping, nodded, and was about to speak.

At this moment, Chen Yi seemed to come to his senses, turned to look at Zhang Jingang, and then slowly raised his hand under the stunned expression of the other party.

"Fang Ting, I'll go and solve the case in two months."

As soon as these words came out, the eyes of everyone present fell on Chen Yi.

The first word Wei Jianfeng was about to say was also blocked in his throat, and he looked at Chen Yi with admiration.

Those who dare to stand up at this time need more than just confidence.

Fang Songping also looked over, and the slight disappointment in his heart disappeared. Was this kid really distracted just now? Or are you thinking about the case?

"Vice Captain Chen, have you thought about it?" he asked.

On the other side, He Xingen was a little surprised. He had heard the name of Chen Yi, a newly recruited crime-solving prodigy from the Yangcheng City Bureau. He was promoted rapidly in one year, almost at the speed of light, which also illustrates the other party's strong ability.

Unexpectedly, today, all the veteran detectives in Dongzhou, including myself, would be challenged by a young man.