Phaseless Demon

This is a very dilapidated old house, located in the old city area that is about to be demolished, the painted walls can clearly see the yellow bricks that are not neatly laid inside, the corners are covered with moss, covered with gray or Black unknown dirt.

The nearby residents have already moved away in succession in the early years, and the subsidy given by the government is enough for them to buy a big house again, and no one wants to continue to live in this dilapidated one-story building.

In addition, the old city is very remote from the central city, the location is not prosperous, not to mention sparsely populated, there are always some criminals haunting, theft and robbery and other incidents occur endlessly, gradually, this area becomes even more desolate.

After people left the buildings, some homeless people and beggars began to stay in this deserted old city because they were all old houses with simple wooden doors and windows. It's old and loose, and it's as easy to break if it's locked as if it's not locked.

So taking advantage of the time when the old city hadn't been demolished, many homeless and beggars wandered here.

However, there are actually people living in the old city, such as the house at No. 108 East Street, where a man lives.

If the residents near No. 108 East Street hadn't moved away, the neighbors in the neighborhood would definitely know this man... He is the child of the widow named Zhang, who is both mentally retarded and disabled.

The kid didn't seem to have a name, maybe he did, but everyone called him a fool.

It is said that the idiot has some brain problems since he was a child. He never laughs or cries, and rarely speaks. He is a very weird boy in the eyes of other friends.

His academic performance was not good. It is said that he handed in blank papers every time he took the exam. In addition, he never spoke, and his attitude towards people was extremely indifferent. Gradually, no one in the class wanted to play with him. The widow talked, but there was nothing they could do about the child.

Widow Zhang's family is very poor, and Widow Zhang is just a middle-aged woman who sweeps the floor and washes dishes in a restaurant. Her husband seems to have died of illness. After losing her husband, she seems to have nothing.

He has no relatives or friends, and his only child is a mentally handicapped person who can't even take care of himself.

After the idiot finished elementary school, he didn't continue to study, because the family couldn't afford it, and reading didn't seem to mean much to a idiot, so Widow Zhang could only let the child squat at home every day, or let the child do whatever he wanted. He went out for a walk.

Because he is mentally handicapped, this child is often bullied by other children nearby. Those naughty children often throw stones at the idiot, or drag him to a corner where no one is around and beat him up, so that the idiot is bruised and swollen every day. of.

As a mother, Widow Zhang is aware of all this, but she can't and doesn't want to.

Widow Zhang can't say how much she likes this child. Even though she was born after ten months of pregnancy, she may have cared for this child with the feeling of "maternal love" at the beginning, but every time she faces the fool With a blank face, Widow Zhang's love for him gradually began to fade.

Because this child has almost no such thing as "emotion".

You won’t say thank you, you won’t respond to your efforts, you care about his tiredness, hunger, injury or sleepiness, you run back and forth for him all day, and you work hard to make him eat well and dress well , but he will never give you anything in return.

Yes, this child gives Widow Zhang such a feeling that he will never respond to you, as if everything you give must be taken for granted and he deserves it.

Widow Zhang didn't understand why the child gave her such a feeling, anyway, it made Widow Zhang very uncomfortable.

Widow Zhang once tried not to give him food, except for water. She didn't give the child anything to eat. For three days and three nights, the fool still didn't say a word, didn't open his mouth at all, and stared at him with creepy eyes. Widow Zhang looked.

He can actually talk, Widow Zhang knows it very well, and occasionally hears a sentence or two, and speaks very fluently, but this child has never called Widow Zhang to call his mother, no matter how many times Widow Zhang asked him to call his mother.

In fact, these are nothing. Although Widow Zhang is not such a strong woman, she is a very patient person. Even if she doesn't like this child, Widow Zhang will still take the responsibility of raising him. She will raise him. After that I won't care anymore.

But recently, Widow Zhang felt that she could not even fulfill the most basic parenting responsibilities.

This child made Widow Zhang feel extremely tired, because she found that the child had a weird hobby—he even liked to catch some small animals and kill them.

It doesn't seem like a big deal to say it, but once Widow Zhang witnessed the whole process of her son killing a cat, she really couldn't bear it.

Why did she have such a child?

Widow Zhang was very puzzled. When she saw her son carrying the bloody and bloody corpse of a cat, she was full of doubts and panic. To abandon the child's idea.

Even when she lost her husband and gave birth to a child alone, and even learned that her child was a deformed child with partially deformed hands and legs, during the most difficult time, she never thought of abandoning the child.

But now, she has.

But she couldn't do it, or... it was too late to do it.

In a hot June of a certain year, Widow Zhang disappeared, and no one in the neighborhood saw the woman again. No one knew where she had gone, and of course...no one cared about where she went.

Only Widow Zhang's deformed child is still in the house. The child was about 13 years old when Widow Zhang disappeared. I don't know how he survived. Anyway, he has been alive and well until today.

After he was alone, he seemed to become smarter. At the age of 15, he still took the household registration book to apply for an ID card, reported missing persons to his mother, rejected the adoption by the orphanage, and lived alone in that dilapidated house. inside.

He even works to earn living expenses by himself. A while ago, someone noticed that he went to work in a newly built place called Hezepo Amusement Park after the demolition nearby.

Everything seems to be normal.

until today.

The man returned to his dilapidated house in the middle of the night. He looked like a young man, about 1.7 meters tall when he stood up straight.

But he seldom stands up straight, and most of the time he hunches his back, giving people a feeling of being intimidated.

He walks with a limp and a limp, but he seems to work hard to make himself look like a normal person, so if you don't pay close attention, you won't easily find out that he has difficulty in moving.

He is very tightly dressed, the weather is already a bit hot at this time, and short-sleeved short skirts abound, but this man still wraps himself tightly, with a black long-sleeved jacket and black trousers, and he even wears Wearing a mask and gloves.

Dressed in black, he almost blended into the surrounding darkness. If he was traveling at night, he would probably not be noticed by walking in a dark corner.

The man walked into the door of his own room, without turning on the light, he walked into the bedroom in the dark but with ease, and then directly turned on an old-fashioned computer placed in the bedroom.

It's a very old computer, probably recycled from a second-hand market, but the basic functions are still there, you can watch movies and browse the web, etc., these are enough.

The man turned on the computer and operated it for a while. He seemed to have read some news, and then began to browse the popular forums in City A. Soon he saw the hot posts on the first page of the forum that were popular and had countless replies.

The title of the post reads like this - Deformed Killer.

A strange title, but because of the strangeness, many people clicked in to read it out of curiosity. However, after going in and taking a look, everyone discovered the mystery hidden in this post.

At the beginning of the post, the host who posted the post solemnly listed a series of missing children in the recent child disappearance case.

This seems to be nothing, the recent cases of missing children have caused a lot of trouble in the city, the police have long listed the list of all the missing children, and encouraged people in the city to help find the missing children.

So the landlord can report all the names of the missing children, and it won't make people feel strange.

It seems normal to others.

But in the eyes of the murderer, this is very abnormal.

The reason why it is abnormal is because the list of missing children has a sequence of names.

In fact, even the police in City A did not fully understand the exact time of the disappearance of these children, because there were three or four cases of disappearances in one day.

From the disappearance of the child to the time when the parents found something wrong and then called the police, and from the disappearance to the police, there was a critical time error.

This kind of time error has led to the fact that some children may have disappeared long ago, but because the parents called the police a little later, the police cannot specifically determine when these children went missing.

In addition, the place where these children disappeared is basically an amusement park, or a place with a lot of people.

Even the surveillance cameras on the street can’t capture the child’s figure, because there are too many people, and when people come and go, the child is so small, maybe he will be squeezed into the crowd and taken away .

So, even though the police listed the names of all the missing children, the order of the list was scrambled according to the time when the parents called the police.

But in this forum, in this post...

The names of the missing children are listed in order of their death.

This is what makes the murderer feel the most incredible and amazing.

As a thoughtful criminal, he knew very well the time and sequence of the deaths of the victims he had killed. For everyone he killed, he remembered the child's name, time of death, and appearance of the child when he died.

Remember clearly.

He could even make a death list in his mind, which was exactly the same as the list in the post he saw now.

The host who wrote this post, after making such a list, wrote the following sentence behind the names of these missing children:

Their souls are like birds in procession, marching in order of death to go to heaven.

This sentence is like blatantly telling the murderer that the order of the death list is not a coincidence.

Ever since, the man sitting in the dilapidated house opened his eyes wide, and was immediately aroused in interest.

In addition, this post also has an eye-catching title "deformed killer".

It also made the murderer realize clearly—someone knew his identity!