Criminal Psychology

"It's possible, of course, but the question is, Boss, don't you think your brain is too big?"

One minute ago, under the urging of his immediate boss, Comrade Chao Chao hurried to the underground shopping mall.

Probably too cool for Lin Chen or Xing Conglian, the underground market is really a rare and interesting place in this city for Comrade Wang Chao.

He threw down his schoolbag excitedly, talking about the pirate figurine he just saw.

"Turn out the surveillance video first!" Xing Conglian backhandedly scalped the boy.

Perhaps because he was too excited to run all the way, the boy didn't make any rebellious remarks about workplace violence, he quickly climbed onto the small bench in the jewelry store, looked at the camera model, and muttered: "It's still diamond-encrusted Ace, boss! "

"I'll buy it for you." Xing Cong said casually without even thinking about it.

Lin Chen couldn't help but glanced at him.

In the window of the jewelry store, there was a pirated Ace ornament studded with rhinestones hanging brightly. The female shopkeeper turned blue when she heard their conversation.

"Boss, not all the love in this world can be solved with money." Wang Chao jumped off the bench, ran back to the computer as if nothing had happened, tapped the keyboard a few times, and said, "It's not bad. The monitoring can be kept for a week, if you have money, you should give me some warmth."

Probably because there was really no way to stay in the store any longer, the female shopkeeper simply threw away the keys, picked up her bag and left.

Comrade Wang Chao also realized that there was a missing person in the store after calling up a series of videos.

"Hey, what about that sister just now, I want to ask her about what time does she open the door every day?"

"It's twelve o'clock at noon on weekdays, and ten o'clock in the morning on weekends." Xing Conglian replied.

Wang Chao made an OK gesture, and then found the exact time point.

"Damn!" the boy yelled, moved closer to the screen, and zoomed in on the screenshot, "Boss, you said that the floor-to-ceiling mirror does seem to reflect the corridor, but it needs to be at a specific angle when someone pushes the door, and the clarity is too poor Well, I don’t guarantee that I can restore the image.”

"Work more and talk less." Xing Conglian said quite naturally, "We count as much as we have. This may be our only chance now."

Probably Xing Conglian's tone became more serious, Wang Chao didn't dare to say anything more, and began to watch the video humming.

It's just that before his enthusiasm for work lasted for 2 minutes, the laptop he brought with him sounded a fierce electronic alarm.

"Fuck, fuck, finally there is a response!" The boy turned to the laptop screen excitedly, "The original red entry on the reward website has finally turned green, showing that someone finally answered the question they set earlier."

Then, Xing Conglian's phone rang.

Team Leader Ren's voice was sleepy and apologetic: "I'm sorry, Captain Xing, although the other party replied to the post, I don't quite understand it, so I have to trouble you."

Since Ren Xian couldn't understand it, it meant that the reply was not a URL, but something like a conversation.

Wang Chao proudly hooked his fingers at his boss, and then continued to devote himself to the great cause of "looking for it".

"What do you mean?" Lin Chen asked.

Xing Cong even looked closely at the complicated sentence, but couldn't answer Lin Chen's question for a while.

That simple reply, mixed with alphabetic characters and even emojis, looked confusing and unintelligible.

"I don't understand..." he answered honestly.

"Even groups on the Internet are exclusive, and this is likely to be a slang word among those watching the live video."

"So we look to them now as the kind of innocent and cute internet novices?"

"It's more like an old grandfather trying to get in touch with the lives of young people..." Lin Chen's eyes still fell on the youngest person in the shop, "Do you understand?" He rubbed Wang Chao's face head, ask.

"It's not BT, it's not a magnetic link. It looks more like gibberish. In short, I really don't understand what young people are playing now, but some people in the dark web are criminal geniuses and some are pure idiots..." Only 18 years old The adult Dynasty said disdainfully while chewing gum.

"That's right, if the other party wants to profit from this, then it's impossible to set too obscure levels, after all, there are always more idiots than geniuses, and this is the end, don't they want every psychopath in the entire network to spend money?" Why don't you come and see?" Xing Conglian said.

Lin Chen nodded thoughtfully, and continued: "If it hopes to attract viewers from all over the world, then the so-called 'black words' must break through the limitations of language..."

However, the so-called cracking of codes is indeed not a category he is good at. Looking at Xing Conglian and Dynasty, it seems that theory is more important than practice. They don't understand what this passage means.

"If you don't understand everything, don't you just see what you understand?"

Suddenly, a soft voice came from the door, and the lighting in the jewelry store was ambiguous. Lin Chen turned his head and saw Su Fengzi holding two cups of coffee in his hand, and Shi Shiran pushed the door in.

In short, Mr. Su had completely regarded the scene of the police case as his own study. Lin Chen took the Americano coffee he handed over to K's takeaway in a numb manner, frowning, wondering if he should accept the bribe.

On the contrary, Xing Conglian seemed very calm. He picked out a cup of coffee, tore two packs of white sugar into it, stirred it with a wooden stick, and said, "Mr. Su seems to know a lot about the inside story of this case?"

"Interpol officer, you..." Su Fengzi said, leaning on Xing Conglian's shoulder, and leaned close to his ear.

Lin Chen couldn't help but glared at him.

Su Fengzi didn't realize it, but moved his head closer. His rosy lips opened and closed slightly, as if he had said something. At the end, he ended up with a usual smile.

Lin Chen couldn't hear what he said at all, but he always felt that it must be something bad.

Xing Conglian went too far calmly, neither showing shame and anger after being molested, nor showing any surprised expression, but I don't know what Su Fengzi said, Xing Conglian actually let Su Fengzi go on the "insider" issue, and even helped him Liao picked up the topic that had been staggered before: "Mr. Su can understand?"

Su Fengzi held up the coffee, but did not answer the question.

He walked around Lin Chen and Xing Conglian, put down his coffee cup, put his hands on the front of the cashier, and surrounded the person sitting in front of the computer without caring about his posture.

Comrade Chao Chao opened a pair of clear black and white almond eyes, trying to tighten his body as if seeing a pervert.

Su Fengzi lowered his head, looked at the furry head in front of him, and said with a smile, "Very cute kid, how old is it?"

Lin Chen and Xing Conglian agreed tacitly, ignoring the boy's eyes asking for help.

Su Fengzi finally moved. His slender, white fingers lightly slid across the laptop screen, and then said: "If you remove all the symbols and expressions, there is still a 34-bit character string..."

"Day, day!" Hearing these words, Dynasty finally moved. He didn't care about the people on his body, he sat up straight and quickly processed the data: "Damn, this is the bit address!" The entire string of thirty or forty digits was copied out, and he kept saying, "Why don't you just make a QR code? Why is it so complicated, and I have to pay to get the address? Why don't you open a Taobao What about the store! Boss, what should I do, should I send money to this account, what if it’s not a paid account for live streaming!”

"It's not a paid account for live streaming. You can wait until you offer a reward to kill the person who gave you this message." Xing Conglian said boldly, "The price won't be too high. Considering the average price of the world, you can try 5 Bitcoin."

Dynasty whistled and quickly complied.

At this moment, Xing Conglian's cell phone rang again.

Presumably everything has a point of focus.

The caller was Jiang Chao.

Vice-captain Jiang said in a very irritable tone on the phone: "The fingerprints on the small marbles you picked up from the stairs came out, and it can be confirmed that one of the fingerprints belongs to a junior boy from Yongchuan University. Do I want to?" Go arrest people now, is the little bastard crazy!"

Xing Conglian's fingers lightly rubbed the phone, Lin Chen saw him glance at himself, and then replied decisively: "Not for now, wait."

On the other end of the phone, Jiang Chao was obviously a little dissatisfied with this order. In fact, he didn't know when it started. The real commander had already changed from Jiang Chao to Xing Conglian.

There must be someone who has the ability to make everyone trust and obey naturally. Although Jiang Chao was complaining, he still answered "yes".

"You left fingerprints?" Lin Chen was standing next to Xing Conglian just now, and he naturally heard Vice Captain Jiang's irritable voice on the phone. He repeated it inexplicably, and then looked at the other side, which was so clean that there were no fingerprints. The coffee bar left behind, "When did they change their sex?"

"How can you say it's sex change..." Su Fengzi stood beside Wang Chao and interjected with a smile.

"It may also be a mistake." Lin Chen abruptly looked away from the cash register, turned to Xing Conglian and said, "Actually, using the collective unconscious to control a group is itself a very dangerous thing."

"The suicide incident and the rainy night riot really don't seem to be planned by the same group. The latter has too many loopholes. Although it is dangerous, there are too many uncontrollable factors, and there is also a heavy rain. If you want to kill people, you will not consider it." Is it the weather?"

After hearing his words, Lin Chen took a sip of his coffee and fell into deep thought.

The so-called personality test itself was a temporary decision on his part, so the time left for the black hands behind the scenes to react is actually very short, which means that even if they had time to plan and create a stampede on the stairs, they had no time to broadcast it live, and could not Live broadcast means no profit, which really does not meet the motivation of the murderer behind the organization...

"Perhaps, in fact, the timed power-off device installed in the power distribution station is their only purpose. In other words, they just want to stop the personality test with an unknown purpose, and have no intention of planning a riot..."

"That is to say, those iron nails, plastic beads, and even those yelling in the classroom are not the original intention of the murderer behind the scenes, but some passionate members themselves did it?"

"I doubt..."

"Hearing what you said, why don't I think this is bad news." Xing Conglian drank the whole cup of coffee and said readily, "Can you give me a complete analysis of that group, for example , what was it like in the first place, and how did the whole organization evolve into what it is?"

"You really are..." Lin Chen was speechless for a moment.

"Captain Xing is really sharp." Su Fengzi greeted Xing Conglian with a cup of coffee as if holding a glass of red wine, "It's really amazing to ask him to use so few clues to describe the whole picture of a huge organization. Looking forward to it."

Su Fengzi probably has the ability to make everyone shut up.

But at this point, no matter how difficult it is, a complete profile of that organization is necessary.

"This involves the issue of group psychological dynamics..." Lin Chen walked out the door as if he had been chased away, took off the small blackboard at the entrance of the jewelry store, and brought it into the store, then wiped off all the promotional information on it with his hands, Draw a pyramid-shaped triangle.

"In the beginning, if I guessed right, the black hand behind the scenes just wanted to use some pure students to gain benefits. Its organizational structure is more similar to a pyramid scheme. It attracts students to join the organization through bait, promising them transformation, money, and A better life." Lin Chen painted the bottom of the Pyramid white, "There are skills in this. First of all, the people they selected are all inferior and introverted individuals. These individuals are often more than healthy people, so they are more yearning for others to build Although I have never actually been to the coffee bar opposite, the owner of the jewelry store told me just now that most of the books in the coffee bar are about life inspiration. In fact, those children were initially tempted to join the organization Maybe they just want to change themselves, they want to become better, more beautiful and more lovable."

Perhaps it was because the surrounding area was too quiet, the surrounding shops gradually darkened, and Lin Chen's tone softened unknowingly. Xu Haozhen's earliest appearance appeared in his mind. When he introduced himself on the podium, his little junior sister was So shy and timid, that's Xu Haozhen, and what kind of mood did he walk into that coffee bar?

Perhaps the clerk handed her some card, or someone in the store took the initiative to strike up a conversation with her.

She may have a feeling of deep gratitude at a certain moment. It turns out that in this cold world, there are still people who are willing to pay attention to such an inconspicuous her.

She followed her guide and walked into that warm family.

"Once a victim joins, the black hands behind the scenes have countless means to convince innocent people that they can only truly obtain a truly beautiful life in that organization. The world outside of this is all hypocrisy and darkness, group psychology The amazing thing about the collective unconsciousness in China is that the intelligence of all people will be completely wiped out, and they will no longer be bound by morality and law. Moreover, unlike the illusory MLM organization, in that group, they can complete tasks by Earning money, gaining love and a sense of belonging, they have indeed undergone a qualitative transformation, which makes them believe in the power of the whole group more and gradually become inseparable."

Lin Chen drew a horizontal line in the middle of the pyramid, and then filled it with the second color.

"Once a crime occurs, the entire group has changed from a purely social group to a criminal organization, but such a criminal organization is far more terrifying than those gangsters who have hacked people. A more appropriate name should be a 'criminal group' "

The third color appeared on the pyramid. Lin Chen continued: "Since it is a criminal group, it has its common characteristics. Generally speaking, criminal groups are easy to be instigated and trust others. They tend to go to extremes and are used to combining positive and negative things. Exaggerated emotions, they will show morality that is not usually present, just like all massacres, they are convinced that they have important missions, and the massacre is just to complete the mission, these missions may be for the prosperity of his camp, It is also possible that for the future of all mankind, it is never the individual self-interest that dominates the group, but the spiritual beliefs shared by the group.”

"So, what kind of spiritual beliefs do those children hold, and they can even commit suicide because of such spiritual beliefs?" Xing Conglian's tone was a little moved.

"For the collective benefit, for a better future...but they have no future." Lin Chen felt a little uncomfortable, and he almost began to regret this analysis, because no matter how he analyzed it, in the end, those suicides and criminals, They are all just poor children who yearn for beauty and are fooled by false beauty. Perhaps one day, when this case is opened, all the onlookers will say, look, those silly children, how gullible they are, it is simply Like mentally retarded.

And at that time, he couldn't explain the so-called collective unconsciousness and the fragility of human psychology to the disdainful people one by one.

Lin Chen took a deep breath, and said: "No matter what, no matter what they want to do next, they must be stopped. This whole group is constantly evolving, and it is very likely that even the black hands behind the scenes cannot fully control it now. "

"But we still don't know what their next goal is, what they want to do..." Xing Conglian once again brought the question to the most critical point.

"Actually, if it wasn't for that fingerprint, I probably wouldn't be able to imagine..." Lin Chen stared at the last blank space of the pyramid, and said, "If I'm not wrong, the man behind the scenes was to get rid of Cheng Weiwei in the first place, so I asked her and The three of Wang Shishi instilled a certain amount of belief, making them believe that their death would benefit the entire group. In fact, when someone sacrificed their lives for the group, the entire group would be sublimated to a more invincible stage. This is also the intention of the murderer behind the scenes. The fundamental purpose."

"Tell me, the deaths of Cheng Weiwei, Wang Shishi and the others were used as a catalyst, but what exactly did they want to catalyze?"

"Hate." Lin Chen put down the chalk and said lightly, "They hate them, so they want to kill them."

The riot on the rainy night, the small trap on the stairs, if that was not the intention of the murderer behind the scenes, it can only show that this is the spontaneous action of the group members, and they really want to kill the students around them.

Lin Chen couldn't understand the source of this hatred, it was beyond logic and irrational, yet it was so sincere.

Perhaps it was the contempt they had suffered, or the thoughts they had been instilled for a long time, which convinced them that those seemingly excellent people took away their love, status, and money, but they were actually sanctimonious bastards at all. , they don't deserve to have those things, one day, they will get back all the lost things...

And the deaths of Cheng Weiwei, Wang Shishi, and the others were not just behind the scenes to convince the members of the group that gossip really killed the members of their group. This world is ugly and evil, and they must unite to fight against the ugly and evil around them. people.

All of this, perhaps from Wang Shishi's mother watching her daughter's sex video, is a completely calculated process.

Some trivial gossip, the girl who committed suicide because of this, the angry mother, the indifferent classmates...

In the eyes of ordinary people, this is the process of the unscrupulous mother extracting the last ounce of value from her daughter, but in the eyes of the members of that group, every word of Wang Shishi's mother is their voice, and the indifferent world once again shows them a mocking smile ...

In this case, simple instigation and hints can make the whole group crazily hit the rocks like a torrent of sea water until they are smashed to pieces.

And Xu Haozhen's triple jump turned into a charge horn, which was a cry of resistance to the whole world.

Then, the real butcher's knife is about to be swung down.

Lin Chen held the coffee cup tremblingly, the liquid was cold and bitter.

In the small jewelry store, those rhinestones exuded a dark and bright light, no one spoke, and even the sound of breathing was inaudible.

"Actually, their goal has already been exposed. They want to kill people, they want to kill a lot of people, right?" Xing Conglian finally spoke, his voice was unexpectedly calm.

It was not Lin Chen who answered his question, but Comrade Zhao Chao who had been hiding in the corner.

"Boss...boss...Ah...Chen...Come here and take a look...this..." The boy said, turning around the laptop screen in horror. In the middle of the screen, a bright red advertisement almost dazzled his pupils. dyed red.

A huge black × traverses the entire bright red background, and the four areas separated by the lines are filled with various knives and pipes. blood and howling.

And under the advertisement, there is a very small URL and an accurate time point.

2016.4.1418:00

Xing Conglian glanced at the time in the lower right corner of the computer and said, "There are less than 20 hours left, we need to determine the specific location."

"Is this what the other party just sent?" Lin Chen asked.

"Five bitcoins, I bought this for 1 yuan... I really don't want to spend money in this life." Wang Chao said extremely sadly.

"The above did not imply any location, only the time, which means that they may attack any place in this university city." Lin Chen said.

Xing Conglian nodded, stared at Wang Dynasty again, and asked, "Has the content on the blackboard been recovered?"

"I only found it for two days, but boss, is the password recovered now meaningful?" Wang Chao said while opening the picture, "I know you are looking for clues about what they are going to do in the end, but look. , that store closed three days ago, which means that the last information was updated three days ago, will there be the last location on it, and a small blackboard, can you issue orders to everyone in this university town, boss Do you have too much brains..."

When Xing Conglian was really serious, he said so little to the extreme that he didn't even bother to answer the dynasty's questions.

Two blurred pictures appeared on the screen.

Dynasty has used the best algorithm to process the blackboard pattern reflected by the two mirrors, and the chalk writing on it can be vaguely seen.

The strange thing is that there is only one day apart, but one day's blackboard says "Today's Special Offer" and another day, it is changed to "Special Recommendation". Such a change seems really strange.

Xing Conglian carefully looked at the two blackboards, but apart from the menu, he couldn't see anything interesting at all.

"The key problem is, boss, even if it is a password, we can't crack it for a while... Our IQ can't even understand a simple bitcoin account..." Wang Chao lay in front of the computer and sighed, "Anyway It gives me a headache just looking at those numbers, really."

Xing Conglian was noncommittal about this. After a while, he straightened up and said to Wang Chao: "Send the picture to Jiang Chao. The book "Discrete Mathematics" is in the conference room. Let him see if he can unravel it."

"No way, count on Captain Jiang?" Wang Chao suddenly remembered something, turned his head suddenly, and looked at the man who had been standing beside him drinking coffee.

Lin Chen also raised his eyes, looking at his old friend whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

Xing Conglian raised his eyebrows.

The line of sight gathered together.

"Of course I can't." Su Fengzi raised his hands in surrender, "However, this is the area with the highest concentration of institutions of higher learning in the country. Is it difficult to find someone who can decipher the code?" He said.