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"Because Sean is not a good boy," Stephen said, his eyes were out of focus, obviously lost in memory, "he is very stubborn, always wanting to resist and escape, but how is it possible? A bad boy, always will be punished."

Dino asked the key point: "Do you know where Vincent took him?"

Stephen shook his head: "Why do you think he will tell me his decision? I'm just one of his dogs."

It was very quiet for a time.

Then Kathy asked, "Have you ever seen Vincent rape Sean?"

"Have you seen it?" Stephen smiled sarcastically, "What do you think we can do besides watching when we are in the 'waiting field'? Swimming?"

Everyone understood what he meant.

Shen Lie frowned, this is equivalent to not having a strong physical evidence: "Don't you have the slightest impression of where Vincent locked Sean? Even if it was a place he mentioned casually, what you saw A takeaway address...?"

Shen Lie could see that Stephen was trying to remember, but he still shook his head.

"Stephen," at this moment, Ning Yuan pushed these tall and strong people away, and sat opposite Stephen, "my name is Ning, and I'm a psychiatrist—"

"I can see it," Stephen smiled, "I've seen many psychiatrists, and you can see that kind of person."

Ning Yuan smiled and said softly, "Do you want to help us?"

Stephen asked back: "Otherwise what am I doing now?"

Ning Yuan asked: "What is the clearest thing in your memory about the place where Sean was held?"

Stephen frowned, thinking about it for a long time, seemed to recall bad memories, and paused for a while before saying: "When Sean tried to escape for the third time, Vincent took him away. Before taking him away, it seemed What was said, I... I can't remember..."

"It's okay, relax, sometimes our subconscious will remember more than we realize, believe me," Ning Yuan's voice is very soft and gentle, "close your eyes Stephen, let the memory follow my voice... ..."

Stephen hesitated for a moment, and still closed his eyes.

Ning Yuan said slowly with a soft and guiding voice: "You are in a dark room with no windows, and there is a strong musty smell in the room, as well as a faint smell of blood, which comes from Xiao En of……"

Shen Lie saw Stephen frowned, with a shrinking look on his face, obviously he had fallen into subconsciousness.

"...Because Sean failed to escape, Vincent was very angry, very angry, and he beat Sean severely, but this did not satisfy him, so he decided to change another way to make Sean regret his mistake ..."

"You hid aside, scared, and when Vincent said what he was going to do to Sean next, you focused because you were afraid that if you made Vincent unhappy one day, you would be It will become the same fate as Sean is now..."

As the content of Ning Yuan's questioning deepened, not only Shen Lie, but also Casey and Dino could clearly see that something was wrong with Stephen. He was trembling, and there was even an abnormal flush on his face, which was nervousness and emotion. Excited.

"You heard him say something to Sean, it must have stuck in your memory, he said—"

"He said, if you don't cherish the life in this house and the gentle me," Stephen closed his eyes and said tremblingly, "I will arrange another place for you to live in, which is damp, dark, and full of rats and insects. But it's very quiet, so quiet that you can't hear anything except the sound of ticking water. No one talks to you, no one can let you see, at that time, you will miss me terribly, and then regret your today everything."

Ning Yuan asked the answer, but the scope is still too large.

Stephen's eyelashes trembled a few times, then he opened his eyes and squinted his eyes stimulated by the strong sunlight. When he recovered, he looked at Ning Yuan: "Did I help you this time?"

Ning Yuan patted his head: "You did a good job."

Stephen suddenly seemed to think of something again: "I don't think the place where I was locked up and the place where Sean was locked up should not be very far away, because once Vincent mentioned that it only takes 10 minutes for him to come from Sean."

The officers exchanged a look.

After leaving the ward, Kathy scratched her head: "Damp, dark, full of rats and insects...we're talking about a third of New York!"

"This range is still too broad." Dino also frowned. "It will take a lot of time and energy to find."

Shen Lie nodded: "Let's go back and have a meeting." He turned his head to look at Ning Yuan: "Is it okay for you to do a geographic survey?"

"no problem."

After getting an affirmative answer, they headed home.

When he was about to turn a corner, Ning Yuan looked back at the closed door of Stephen's room and sighed softly.

NYPD Homicide Squad Office, Conference Room

The most conspicuous place in the conference room is a large whiteboard with an enlarged map of New York posted on it.

Auston, Dino, Casey, Jerry and Gloria, as well as Shen Lie and Ning Yuan were all inside. Ning Yuan stood in front of the whiteboard, holding a large compasses and a marker in his hand: "I researched In the previous case of Vincent, I found a pattern," he clicked on the map with a marker pen, "here is Vincent's house, I take it as the geographic center; here is Louis' house; here is Stephen's disappearance The place where I lived before, and here is the house where Stephen was imprisoned under Vincent's so-called Linda name—"

Ningyuan put these points in a circle with a compass: "All places are within a ten-kilometer radius with Vincent's home as the center. This area of ​​more than 300 square kilometers is Vincent's comfort zone. In this There is no psychological burden for him to commit crimes in the area, which makes him feel at ease. But it is too huge. So according to what Stephen said, it only takes 10 minutes. I did a math problem. Suppose Vincent is driving and the speed limit in the urban area is 40 miles. The range that can be reached in 10 minutes is—” He drew a concentric circle with a radius of 6 kilometers in the circle just now, “—in this circle.”

Kathy raised her hand: "I have a question!"

Ning Yuan raised his hand: "Please tell me, Barron."

Kathy asked, "If Vincent's geographic comfort zone is this ten-kilometer circle, what about Sean? He doesn't even live in New York!"

Ning Yuan tapped him with a pen: "I thought about this question too, I was very confused, and then I figured it out." He used a red marker to paint on a place, "This is the train station, Sean is coming to New York , will definitely leave the station from here, and the train station is in the circle."

Shen Lie raised his hand: "Another question, will Vincent definitely know how to drive? Can't the range be narrowed down a bit?"

Ning Yuan snapped Vincent's well-dressed photo on the whiteboard: "This is my simple test of him. I don't think a person like him can bear to wear his hundreds of thousands of custom-made suits." And leather shoes, go to such a dirty place, and then walk all the way home wearing hundreds of thousands of custom-made suits and leather shoes that have been soiled."

After finishing speaking, he seemed to suddenly think of something again: "Unless..."

Shen Lie asked: "Unless what?"

Ning Yuan frowned: "Unless this place is very close to Linda's house, so close that he only needs to endure for a short time, or along the way, he can ensure that no one can see him like this."