Monica and Rogers arrived at the scene of the incident before eight o'clock.

It was a building, a very common office building in New York. The fence started from the sidewalk in front of the building. Many people looked at it with probing eyes and tried to spy on what happened here, but they usually ended in failure because the wires pulled The investigators were far away and couldn't hear what the investigators were saying, and the fenced off area contained nothing but bricks shattered by radioactivity.

"Barton?" Monica got out of the car and showed her ID, then walked in smoothly and saw her colleague, 'Hawkeye' Button.This surprised her a little.

When she received the order, she didn't ask who was in charge, but she imagined that her most frequent partner Natasha was working in Stark Enterprises, maybe it would be the good old man Coulson, or the deputy director Hill who often went into battle in person , but she alone did not expect it to be Hawkeye.

"This is the case closest to the headquarters." Barton's simple answer explained Monica's doubts.

Hawkeye Barton is known for his extraordinary eyesight and is good at spotting details and things that are wrong, so Nick Fury handed over the security of the SHIELD headquarters to him. Usually he does not do field work, probably recently SHIELD The staff was really tight, and he had to be sent to this matter not far from the headquarters.

"This is the captain, and this is Hawkeye Button." Monica introduced to the two people around her.

"Hello." Rogers took the initiative to shake hands with Barton as a sign of friendship, and Barton nodded and glanced at Monica. After the latter showed no expression or explanation, he didn't ask any more questions.

Strictly speaking, Monica is now a part-time task and was recalled on vacation, so the incident leader did not fall on her.

She didn't have time to read the information before she came, so she asked, "What happened?" She looked at the enclosed ground that seemed to have been hit by something and asked.

"It was caused by a 250-pound fall from a nine-story building," Patton replied.

"People?" Monica keenly noticed that Barton did not describe what this object was.

"For the time being, we think it's a person." Barton nodded, raised his head and signaled them to look at the broken window on the ninth floor. "According to eyewitnesses, at eleven o'clock last night, a child fell from upstairs and was followed by a child." The one who jumped hugged him, fell to the ground, and the man ran away with the child."

"Eleven o'clock? Tell me there aren't many witnesses, right?" Monica said after listening to the brief report, a man staged a jump from a nine-story building to save people and was uninjured... This is not only inconsistent with mechanics, but also In line with biology, spreading such an unscientific thing will definitely cause a sensation, so S.H.I.E.L.D. will definitely ask to quell this matter, which is one of the reasons why they called her here.

"Not many, we only know about an alcoholic and a passing couple." Barton replied, "You can ask them for details, and then clear it."

"Know what? It's eleven o'clock on the street, and you expect me to ask what that 'wonder boy' looks like?"

"No." Barton shook his head. "Actually, in the other part, we found a dead body in the office on the ninth floor."

"..." Listening to Barton's words, Monica was discouraged. "Well, I should have guessed that things are not that simple."

"If it's simple, you won't be needed." Button glanced at Monica and replied.

"Okay, okay," Monica raised her hand to express her understanding, and then said, "Let's go up to see the scene first, and then I'll meet the witnesses."

In fact, when she got upstairs, Monica realized that her thinking was too naive.

That was not a murder scene in the ordinary sense at all, but more like——

"Explosion?" Rogers, who once knew this well, expressed his guess first.

Barton nodded affirmatively at first, which made Rogers wonder, "Are you sure there is only one victim?" The explosion seemed...

"Yes, according to the access control last night, it is clear that only the lady in this office worked late at night, and the DNA is also completely consistent. According to the identification of the staff, it is basically certain that the missing girl is the victim's daughter."

"Where's her husband?" While they were talking, Monica walked up to the broken window and looked down.

"Divorced for three years, I am rushing back from Chicago at this moment."

"The woman who brought the child to the office...isn't surprising." Monica raised her eyebrows and said without any surprise. She tried to simulate the scene at that time, but the explosion completely destroyed the scene, and she wanted to get clues from it. It is very difficult, even if the complete appearance of the relevant person can be extracted from the witness's mind, it is still difficult to know the truth...

Monica thought for 2 minutes, then turned her head, "Okay, let's exclude the super power incident and think of him as an ordinary case... Has there been any serial bombings in New York recently? Similar." Monica gestured around After a while, I really couldn't find a particularly appropriate word.

"I can ask." Barton nodded, and did not raise any objection to Monica's instructions.

"Fine, I'll go visit the witnesses and see what I can get, and then you, Captain." Monica walked up to Rogers and patted him and thought for a moment. "Can you help me see the scene? Anything, I think you are more professional."

"..." Rogers was a little surprised that Monica entered the role so quickly and mobilized the surrounding resources. Although Monica had always been strong, he had never seen her so energetic.

Even though he's just a side staff, he doesn't mind helping out.

An hour later, Monica came back here to look for him, and Hawkeye Button was with her.

"Five bombing files in the past three years." Barton handed a stack of files to Monica.

"The cycle is quite long." Monica said, but walked up to Rogers without looking through the information. "Any new discoveries, Captain."

"..." Rogers shook his head. After all, he is an undead professional detective. He didn't quite understand what Monica wanted to know from him, so he just said, "It can be seen that the method is very professional... He has mastered the weight and let the explosives Deadly enough, but the power is limited to this room. The explosion point should be there." He pointed to the half-destroyed desk.

"..." Monica and Barton looked at each other after quietly listening to Rogers' conjecture, and walked to the table. Monica's expression was calm and she could see what she was thinking. She stood behind the office and put her hands together. Looking up from the table and asking them "An obvious bomb that can be placed on the table, what would he disguise as? I have been working here until midnight, and the child next to me is playing, maybe she is hungry..."

"takeout?"

"Or something else for express delivery." Monica put her hand on the top of the table and made a square shape. "But obviously, it's not what the victim expected." Then she was silent for a while and looked up again. Barton said, "Call the FBI. It might be better to treat him as an ordinary serial murder case. If there were no accidents, that person would not have shown any talent different from ordinary people."

When he came out of the discovery scene, Rogers still didn't quite understand why Monica suggested Barton so much, so he asked, "Why don't you continue to investigate."

Hearing this, Monica stopped and looked back at the building they had left, where they could still see the broken windows, "It might be an instant explosive, as long as the victim disassembles somewhere... Boom." She said, "But it will take some time for the murderer to leave the room, but this time the murderer did not leave the room, but saved the little girl, which shows that the little girl was an accident in his plan, This kind of paranoid criminal usually has a breakthrough, or he also has a daughter, or other reasons, this reason is that the reason he saved the little girl may also be the motivation for him to start all crimes... But this Just my guess." Monica said this in one breath, then turned to look at Rogers, and Rogers could see his own reflection in Monica's blue eyes, and then he heard her say, "Criminal Minds is a science. Science is something that can be used as evidence in court, so it requires the brainstorming of multiple people to reduce the error of profiling. This is why the FBI has set up a special team for this purpose. I have quit this business. Just now I It may not be all right, so it is better to find a professional consultant."

"I thought you were a person who didn't give up easily."

"..." Hearing what Rogers said, Monica raised her eyebrows again, and sneered, "It seems that you still don't know me well enough." Then she turned and wanted to leave.

"Have you ever made a mistake?" Suddenly, Rogers asked again behind his back.

"..." Monica paused, but didn't turn around. "I don't know." There was no sadness or joy in her tone.

At one point, Rogers thought his words offended Monica, so he didn't speak all the way, until they walked into a restaurant for lunch, and when they ordered the meal and waited for the food to be served, Monica said——

"Everyone has unpleasant memories. As a person who studies criminal psychology, it is not worth remembering to face the dark side of human nature. Most of the time we can find the murderer, but we cannot save him. Everyone..." Monica said this in a tone that didn't seem to be talking about herself.

Rogers nodded understandingly, and listened to Monica continue to say, "I was very unreasonable when I first joined the FBI, because I have been unfamiliar with human feelings for a long time..." Under the puzzled eyes of the other party, she explained, "Our race and The difference between human beings lies in the processing of emotions. For amplified emotions, you can accept them, or you can isolate them... It’s like having a switch to control. Before that, I turned off my emotions... What happened at that time made In the later memories, I have to think about whether it was a bit too much..." Then she gave the other party a smile that you understand.

Work that does not involve emotions will distort the profile, and doing things that involve human emotions is very hard for the emotionally amplified blood race.

For some reason, Rogers felt he could always understand how Monica felt

The author has something to say: Thank you for your blessings... But I still haven't passed ORZ, so I came to catch up with the list...

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