last case

That night, the weather was still hot and muggy.

"Ho... ho, ho..."

The woman ran crazily, her original snow-white dress was scratched by a branch, her loose long hair was in a mess, and her pretty face was in a state of embarrassment at this moment.

"Ah -" sound.

The woman ran too hastily, and one of the slightly inappropriate high heels was thrown out.She was forced to stop, but had no time to pick up the shoe.

She looked back, it was pitch black, as if there was no one there, but there seemed to be a pair of eyes staring at her closely, which made her shudder and shudder!

The woman didn't dare to look any more. She was so frightened that her lips kept trembling and her throat couldn't stop making a "giggle" sound. Her eyes were already moist, full of complexities of despair and hope.

She seems to have seen...

That monster jumped out of the darkness in the next second and tore her to pieces!

The lights in front flickered, and there was the sound of a motor vehicle's engine. It was a taxi with its dome lights on, driving over alone.

This is the sound of nature!

The woman immediately became agitated. She almost cried out of excitement. Regardless of her sprained foot, she ran towards the taxi, waving her hands and shouting, "Taxi! Stop, stop! Help me!"

The dilapidated taxi stopped, and the woman couldn't wait to open the rear door and get in, shouting, "Go! Go! Go to the police station! Someone is going to kill me!"

The driver glanced at the woman in the rearview mirror, and the woman saw the same eyes.

A pair of indifferent eyes.

The driver didn't speak, just nodded slightly.

The woman's eyes widened urgently. Even after getting into the taxi, she was still afraid, afraid that the monster in the dark would catch up with the speeding car that was already in motion.

She stared closely at the darkness behind her, but ignored the weird smile under the driver's indifferent eyes.

tomorrow……

No, maybe a few days later.This brand new corpse will always be discovered.

……

—— "Memory of Fish·No.11 Volume"

Xie Jibai was still wearing white gloves, holding a book in his hand.It has a gray cover, and there is only one line of book title on the cover—Memories of Fish·No.11 Volume.

The rest don't even have an author.

From the title on the book cover to the story text on the inside page, every single word is not printed, but handwritten. The handwriting is neat, even meticulous.

In this era of advanced technology and widespread use of computers, such handwritten novels are probably rare.

This is an unfinished novel.

Perhaps it should be said that this is an unfinished story to be continued.

And Xie Jibai should say it is an unfinished case to be continued.

"Deputy team!"

A tall and strong man in a uniform walked in, holding a pile of books in his hands, at least seven or eight books, although the thickness was different, but the size was the same, and the covers were all depressing gray.

Memories of fish...

The name is written all over the book cover, the only difference is which volume.

The tall and strong man put all the books in front of Xie Jibai and said, "Deputy team, all the books have been brought here. Where should we start to check?"

Xie Jibai pointed to the book in his hand with a snow-white gloved finger, and said concisely: "Start here."

The tall and strong man looked at the book in Xie Jibai's hand.

Sitting not far away, a woman in uniform, who looked less than 30 years old, held her chin, looked at the books with a distressed look, and said, "This is the first time I have encountered such a difficult and perverted murderer."

"Yes!" The tall and strong man agreed: "Sister Chen is right. You said that he recorded all the murders so clearly. Why?"

"Show off." Chen Yancai said: "Pervert, Xiao Liu still doesn't understand, this kind of person's psychology is distorted, and killing people obviously can't satisfy him anymore. Every time he kills someone, he records the detailed process of killing, and then uses Isn’t it just to show off? To show off how smart and powerful he is, and to humiliate him is impossible to catch him.”

Liu Zhihui couldn't help scratching the back of his head, and said, "I'd better not understand the perverted psychology."

This spring is unusually hot, and the heat makes people irritated.First, several weird cases occurred in the adjacent cities X and D, and then, bad luck came to C city where Xie Jibai was located.

There's a murderer who's messing everyone up.

A few days ago, several people died in City X and City D, all of whom were murdered. The dead did not find anything in common, and they did not know each other at all.The causes of death of the deceased are also different, and the killing methods are all kinds of strange. The murderer seems to be not the same person, but everyone is sure that this frenzied murderer is the same person at all.

Because all the cases have one thing in common, that is the "Memory of Fish".

Not long after the death of the first deceased, the X city police received a handwritten novel, "Memories of Fish·Volume [-]".

This is a mystery horror novel, and the content in it makes the police dumbfounded.The novel describes the entire process of the murderer, even many details, and even the psychological activities of the murderer and the victim...

Three days later, the police again received the seventh volume of Memories of Fish.Soon, three days later, the police found a new victim, who was exactly the same as the storyline in the seventh volume of the novel.

Everyone was almost certain that this terrifying novel must have been written by the murderer and sent to everyone by the murderer.

There are too many details in it, except for the murderer, no one can know, not even the deceased.

The police in City X were helpless, and there was no clue left in the book they sent, so they couldn't follow the clues to find the real culprit.And what's worse, even if they got a lot of details of the case from the novel, they still couldn't solve the case. They seemed to be played around by the murderer, and they had no chance of turning things around.

Fear soon spread to City D, and the police in City D also received such a novel, and the god of death also arrived as expected.

Until the end of last week, at the end of the tenth volume of the novel, a passage was mentioned.

——In the past few days, I have dreamed about those times in City C, and I know it is time to go back.There are many pasts that I don't want to recall, but I have to go back, because I know that someone is there and needs me to visit...

The police in City C began to be on high alert because of this passage in the novel, and they couldn't let the fear spread any longer.

Team C of the special case team was established on the first day today. It was specially formed for this case, and all the people drawn were the top leaders of each police station.

Xie Jibai is the deputy head of Team C of the special case team.

However, just this morning, Xie Ji Bai received a brand new volume of the novel.

Xie Ji Bai finally closed the book in his hand and placed it on the table in front of him.His snow-white gloves and the gray book cover formed a huge contrast.

"It's time, is everyone here? Have a meeting."

Liu Zhihui immediately glanced at everyone around, and said, "The deputy team, the boss and Tang Forensic...seems like they haven't come yet."

"The director called the captain away just now." Xie Jibai said, frowned, glanced at the list under his hand, and said, "Tang Xin..."

late……

The word popped out of everyone's minds, they all had contact with Xie Jibai more or less, and they all knew that the deputy team was a serious and meticulous person with a cleanliness obsession.

As for Tang Forensic Doctor who was late on the first day of registration, they could only mourn for him.

"Don't wait for him, let's start the meeting." Xie Jibai said.

As soon as Xie Jibai finished speaking, his cell phone rang suddenly, Xie Jibai immediately picked it up, and the other party spoke for about five seconds.

Xie Jibai showed a serious expression on his face, and said, "Understood, go over immediately."

Chen Yancai sat up straight and asked, "What's wrong, deputy team?"

"Team A said they found the murderer and set off immediately."

As Xie Jibai spoke, he quickly stood up and strode towards the door.When the rest of the people heard it, their bodies were shocked, showing incredulous but serious expressions, they caught up with Xie Ji Bai and rushed out.

When Xie Jibai arrived with his men, the members of Team A were already there.

Xie Jibai didn't say a word of nonsense, and said, "What's the situation?"

The captain of Team A hurried up and said: "The murderer has taken a hostage. The hostage is a woman. On the sixth floor, the snipers are also ready, but they can't lock him. Our negotiators are already on the way and will be there soon." Yes. The plan is to persuade him if he can, and if he can’t be persuaded, find a way to lure him to the window, and the sniper will finish him off.”

Xie Ji put on the wireless headset quickly, bent over and tied the gun to his leg, then straightened his trouser legs, and put a pistol on his waist.

Xie Jibai said: "How can we be sure that he is the murderer we are looking for?"

The captain of Team A said, "He admitted it himself."

Xie Jibai frowned and said, "Are there any casualties inside? What's the current situation of the hostages?"

"No one was injured or killed, and the hostages are in good condition now. But the emotions of the hostages and the murderer are quite unstable." Team A captain said.

"I see, I'll go up and have a look." After Xie Jibai finished speaking, he immediately walked into the dark corridor of Tongzilou.

His legs and feet were nimble, and he walked extremely lightly. He quietly went up the stairs to the sixth floor.

The residents have been evacuated. At the door on the right, there are many police officers guarding the door, but they cannot go in. I am afraid that the murderer's mood will become more unstable and hurt the hostages.

Xie Jibai glanced at the few police officers standing at the door, one of them was a tall man, but he was not wearing a uniform. He was wearing a very flamboyant casual suit, just like a mobile vault.It's just that this man, whether it's body or face, is more brilliant than a superstar model, even if he wears extremely tacky clothes, he can't lose points in the slightest.

When the man saw Xie Jibai, he immediately raised his eyebrows, and his eyes quickly swept across Xie Jibai's body. He stayed on Xie Jibai's thin waist, upturned buttocks, and slender legs for 0.2 seconds. Although it was short, but Meaningful.

If it weren't for the inopportune moment, maybe the man would blow the whistle and come up to strike up a conversation.

Xie Jibai didn't look at the man any more, and quietly turned into the room, he didn't dare to go too far, just allowing himself to see what was going on inside.

He saw the "murderer," just the so-called murderer.

A man in his forties looked a little scruffy, and his whole body was full of irritability, anxiety, uneasiness, and fear.

Xie Jibai only took one look, then backed out immediately, raised his hand to support his wireless headset, and whispered, "It's not him."

The captain of Team A downstairs heard Xie Jibai's words, and immediately became anxious, saying, "You haven't seen the murderer before, how can you be sure it's not him!"

Xie Ji Bai just calmly repeated it, saying, "It's not him."

"Why not him? How did you see it?" Team A captain continued to ask.

Xie Jibai said: "Fish's memory! You have read those books. The murderer should be a person with a high level of education. Even if he is not a high-achieving student, he should be self-taught."

Xie Jibai also said: "He knows that nitric acid in aqua regia can be replaced by selenic acid, and the reduction product is non-gas, which will not cause gas poisoning, so that the reaction product will be completely in the solution. He knows that carbon monoxide poisoning is bright red in corpse spots, and potassium chlorate poisoning It is taupe, and it turns red when it freezes to death. He knows that the killing range of the Type 50 pistol is within 25 meters, and within a distance of 25 meters, it can penetrate [-] centimeters of soil, [-] centimeters of solid wood, and [-] centimeters of brick walls. Two millimeters of steel. But..."

Xie Jibai said a lot in one breath, and then said: "However, the robber inside is holding the hostage's neck with a fruit knife, and most importantly, he is pointing the tip of the knife at his own neck...how stupid this is mistake."