Cannon Fodder Collection [Comprehensive]

The person knocked on the door twice and said, "Doctor Louis, Blair's family is here. Last time you said that if any of them came, let me tell you."

Lin Ning raised his eyebrows.

Afterwards, he lowered his voice, imitating Mr. Gua's deep and slightly weird voice, and said: "I see."

"Okay." The people outside the door quickly left in a hurry.

Lin Ning thought back to Lori Blair's family. Her father died of alcohol poisoning because of excessive alcoholism before she was an adult, and her mother, who was also a poor person, had been suffering from her husband's abuse. , but she has to choose to endure every time, regardless of whether she knows that her daughter was raped by her husband, but her spirit is not so stable, and she suffered from depression before her husband died.It is precisely for this reason that after the death of Lori Blair's father, the child protection agency had no way to agree with her guardianship ability, and under coordination, the guardianship was transferred to the name of Lori Blair's uncle, and after that , Lori Blair's uncle discovered her schizophrenia and sent her to a professional psychiatric hospital for treatment.

Only in the past six months, I met Mr. Scratch, a fake psychiatrist.

"Can you tell me who is visiting Lori Blair?" Lin Ning asked the White Queen.

The White Queen said later: "Her mother and her uncle."

"Let me guess, Mr. Scratch is also eyeing Mrs. Blair." Lin Ning said and gave Mr. Scratch a sideways look, and this realization made her original hesitation disappear.She first logged in to Mr. Scratch's computer from his office, and then asked the White Queen to hack into the data stream, copy all the contents of his computer, and then left Mr. Scratch in his office to deal with the zombies The hallucination of the siege, while she herself left Mr. Scratch's office calmly.

When she came to the garden, she made an anonymous call to the police detective in the Seattle Police Department who was in charge of filing the case, saying that when the homicide occurred at the Pacific Science Center that day, she saw Dr. Lewis from the St. Lee Blair will escape from the mental hospital and has a great relationship with Dr. Lewis.

Lin Ning did not directly say that Mr. Scratch manipulated the mentally unstable Lori Blair to kill, but language is often an art, which can make people who hear it unconsciously go to a deeper direction to understand, just like this time.

Mr. Detective, who had just been promoted to a police detective, understood this way. He said that he would follow up on this clue, that is, he would go to St. Mary's Mental Hospital and talk to Dr. Louis who appeared near the crime scene.

Lin Ning said, "That would be great."

Wait, didn't you say earlier that there wasn't enough evidence against Mr. Scratch?

about this?

It can only be said that Lin Ning has other plans.

While waiting for Mr. Detective to visit St. Mary's Psychiatric Hospital, Lin Ning continued to sit on the garden bench.Although Linning now knows the suspect in her closed case (Lori Blair), the mastermind (Mr. Scratch), and the possible three victims (one of whom is Pacific Science Center murder victim John Sussman), also knows how Mr. Scratch selected the victim. It can be said that apart from not knowing where the bodies of the other two victims are, the context of her graduation case is actually very clear, that is to say There is no need to go any deeper.

It’s just that there is one thing that Lin Ning can’t figure out, that is, it is Lori Blair’s second personality who is being manipulated by Mr. Scratch, but the first person to attack at the Pacific Science Center is the cowardly main personality. OK.In addition, the first two victims are now dead, and they have not been discovered until now, which shows that the two cases were done very rigorously, unlike the Pacific Science Center murder case, which was in public.

Thinking of this, Lin Ning also realized a question that she hadn't thought of before:

How did Mr. Scratch and Lori Blair's alter ego attract victims?

As mentioned earlier, Mr. Scratch hacked the official pedophile list to find Lori Blair’s father-like victims, but it’s not enough to locate them, you have to lead them somewhere, and then Kill them without witnesses.

What's more, the victims are all officially stamped pedophiles, so girls at the age of Lori Blair are not very attractive to them, and thinking about what Mr. Scratch is good at, Lin Ning can think of the most likely The method is that he pretends to be a child on the Internet to catch the victim.

What about the crime scene?

You must know that the victims are all strong men, and it is not so easy to hit them with one blow.No matter how weak the guardianship of St. Mary's Mental Hospital was, when Lin Ning came in, he also realized that there were no major loopholes in the guardianship. There were security guards on patrol and nurses on shifts. It was impossible for Mr. Scrape to take Luo Lee Blair had been taken out for too long, even if he could change the surveillance video, he couldn't change the fact that Lori Blair wasn't there.

That's close.

But the Pacific Science Center is only 10 minutes away from St. Mary's Psychiatric Hospital, which is not a close distance.Since Mr. Scratch took Lori Blair out and was never found, it meant that they hadn't been out for too long. In other words, they were likely to kill people on the spot and throw their bodies away.

Lin Ning called up the floor plan of the Pacific Science Center after thinking about it. As a landmark building in Seattle, the overall area of ​​the Pacific Science Center is actually not large.If she was asked to choose a place where she could hide the corpse and not be found in a short time, Lin Ning thought about it quickly, and suddenly came up with three places.

Lin Ning: "..."

But why the Pacific Science Center?It's like she's discussed with the White Queen, the main audience is still children, and kids like it more than adults.

Lin Ning suddenly realized something.

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps approaching, Lin Ning was interrupted from thinking, and looked at the person coming.She is a middle-aged woman with a sad face. In Seattle, which can still be called warm, she is wearing a knitted sweater, which is still a style a few years ago. I still feel cold, or it is a subconscious posture to protect myself.

Lin Ning recognized who she was, Lori Blair's mother, Mrs. Blair.

"Hello, ma'am." Lin Ning took the initiative to show the other party a non-aggressive smile, "Are you also here to visit relatives and friends?"

Mrs. Blair hesitated. "'Also'? You too?"

Lin Ning nodded: "It's my mother, she has lived here for several years."

Mrs Blair murmured, "Really?"

Lin Ning continued to act obediently: "I see that your complexion is not very good, do you want to sit down and have a rest?"

Mrs. Blair finally sat down. Lin Ning didn't take the initiative to say anything. Instead, Mrs. Blair was silent for a while and asked hesitantly, "Your mother, how is she?"

Lin Ning said indifferently: "I haven't asked the attending doctor, I guess she is not doing well."

Mrs. Blair: "?"

Lin Ning lowered his eyes and said: "She is suffering from a disease called Agent Munchausen Syndrome. By poisoning her daughter, she makes her daughter sick, and she obtains psychological satisfaction by taking good care of her, so I don't care at all whether she's doing well or not."

Mrs. Blair was a bit at a loss: "I don't know, I'm sorry."

Lin Ning shook his head slightly: "What about you? Are you here to visit the patient sincerely?"

"Yes, my daughter—is ill." Mrs. Blair embraced her arms, and the pain in her eyes became more intense, "She is about your age, I don't know if she will get better," Mrs. Blair looked at Lin Ning, who looked healthy and normal, couldn't help but covered his mouth and choked up, "She doesn't want to see me."

Lin Ning said bluntly: "Have you ever hurt her?"

Mrs. Blair was shocked by what Lin Ning said so harshly, but when she remembered why Lin Ning said that, she softened her heart and firmly vetoed: "No! I will never hurt her, she is my only one, I am willing to use I have everything to protect her."

Linning was inclined to think that what Mrs. Blair said was true, that she didn't know about her husband's bestiality in the first place, but that she probably did eventually.Lin Ning couldn't bear to provoke her anymore, so he tried his best to comfort her. Soon Mrs. Blair's emotional ups and downs were not so great. After Lin Ning faintly expressed her envy for her daughter having a mother like her, Mrs. Blair gradually Opened up my heart.

Lin Ning actually wanted to know some things about Lori Blair from Mrs. Blair. For example, when Lori Blair was young, where did she go with Mr. Blair?Especially places like the Pacific Science Center, or amusement parks, parks that children are particularly yearning to go to - Lin Ning speculates that the second personality of Mr. Scratch and Lori Blair can subdue the victim so quickly because they Let the victim see, or think they saw, the little girl who came to "date" them, and let the victim be distracted by the desire of the superior.

And where else can there be more children than amusement parks, parks, zoos, etc.?If Mr. Scratch wants Lori Blair's second personality to completely regard the victim as Lori Blair's father, then he seems to be very necessary to create an atmosphere for this second personality, that is to say, those places where the crime happened are very different from Luo Li. Lee Blair is special, like the Pacific Science Center, which Lori Blair went to when she was a kid, or her father promised to take her there after he did something horrific to her.

Having said that, Mrs. Blair still remembers Lori Blair's childhood events vividly. She mentioned a few places, and Lin Ning secretly wrote them down, and will look them up later.

Not long after, the White Queen told Lin Ning that Mr. Detective Mr. Lin was coming.

Lin Ning put away his mobile phone and said to Mrs. Blair with apology: "I have to go. Nice to meet you, Mrs. Blair."

Mrs. Blair was a little unfinished, but she couldn't tell Lin Ning to leave, and when Lin Ning took two steps, Mrs. Blair stopped her: "Can you tell me how you did it? I mean from Coming out of the hardships of the past, I hope so much for my daughter to get better."

Lin Ning couldn't answer this question honestly, and in the end she could only say, "I can't tell."

Mrs. Blair was disappointed.

Lin Ning sighed in his heart, and when he was far away, he took out his mobile phone and called up the computer camera and microphone in Mr. Gua Zha's office. After a while, Mr. Detective came outside Mr. Gua Zha's office.When Mr. Detective was still a few meters away from the office, Lin Ning manipulated the microphone and whispered: "The door in front of you is about to open, and it will be a more terrifying licker. You can't resist, you have to do whatever you want." Escape by any means."

Ten seconds later, Mr. Detective knocked on the door.

The door wasn't locked, and Mr. Detective knocked open a crack as soon as he knocked. He didn't come to arrest Mr. Scratch this time, but just knocked around, so his attitude was still very gentle.After asking, but no one answered, Mr. Detective subconsciously opened the door, and then saw Mr. Scratch who panicked when he saw him, turned around and jumped out of the window to run outside.

Is there any need to talk about this situation?

The other party must have a guilty conscience!

Mr. Detective immediately said: "Don't run away!"

Then follow up, the two staged a cat and mouse in St. Mary's Asylum, and it was even worse for Mr. Scratch, who was in a hallucination.In his hallucinations, people in reality will become zombies in his eyes, not to mention Mr. Detective is a more terrifying licker.Under such circumstances, Mr. Gua Zha had no choice but to panic and ran towards a place where there were few people. Finally, he ran to the roof of a building. jumped over.

Then, it fell in mid-air.

Mr. Detective: "!"

In addition to being shocked that Mr. Scratch could run so well, Mr. Detective was also astonished that the distance was obviously too far, even a long jumper would not be able to jump over it. Why did the doctor jump without hesitation?Could it be that after staying in a mental hospital for a long time, even the psychiatrist has become abnormal?

And now that the psychiatrist is dead like this, doesn't that mean that there is something else hidden about the murder at the Pacific Science Center?But the current situation is that one suspect is dead, and the other suspect is a schizophrenic patient. It is not easy to continue the investigation.

Mr. Detective’s troubles were actually not that troublesome, because after Lin Ning confirmed that Mr. Scratch had rubbed and rubbed against the stone-paved floor, she went to investigate where the bodies of the other two victims were.

Before that, Lin Ning also met Mark Foster, who had been hesitant to speak since meeting her, for the last time.

Lin Ning said coldly: "You are so interesting, Mr. Foster."

Mark Foster was taken aback: "What?"

"Erica is old enough, how much have you given to her? So put away your fatherly mentality now, Erica doesn't need to- like I said to Ms. Blunt, I am living better now than I was before It's so much better. If you don't see me doing well, you can come and bother me in the future." Lin Ning also looked down on Mark Foster. As a father, he didn't spend much energy on his daughter, even if It was because Maria Blunt took over all the care work, and the reason why Mark Foster divorced Maria Blunt was because he cheated on Maria Blunt's former colleague .

It can be said that what kind of pot matches what kind of cover.

Mark Foster was so choked that he couldn't speak, and Lin Ning didn't have the patience to wait for him to recover, turned around and left.

When Lin Ning left St. Mary's Mental Hospital, she let out a breath of foul breath and called Gideon first, "I'm in Seattle now, and I found some clues. After I go to verify, I'll go to the hotel to find You."

Gideon paused and said, "Be careful."

Lin Ning: "Yes."

Gideon: "..." What's wrong.

·

The two most likely victims selected by Lin Ning, in addition to the common points listed earlier, were that when their family members reported the crime, they both claimed that they both told their family members that they would see each other before going out for the last time. A friend, and the car of one of the victims was found in a parking lot near an amusement park, but even though the police from the Search Section searched the amusement park at that time, they failed to find anyone or a body.

And coincidentally, Mrs. Blair also mentioned this amusement park.

Lin Ning bought a ticket and entered this amusement park with the White Queen who was "parasitic" on her mobile phone.Even though today is not a weekend, the amusement park is still bustling with tourists, the screams and cries of children, the helpless voices of parents, the music in the amusement park, the hula of roller coasters, the sound of hawking, etc. All kinds of smells are vying to occupy Lin Ning's senses at this moment.

Lin Ning's five senses are not as sharp as usual, and after a period of training, she can receive information from ordinary people much faster, and many times she has formed a conditioned reflex, which makes her accept it all at once. The amount of information almost made her want to take a step back.

She also whispered to the White Queen: "I just said that I don't like places with many people."

White Queen: "Actually, I can evacuate the crowd in the amusement park."

Lin Ning: "That's not necessary." She also needs to observe the distribution of the crowd in the downstream park, and narrow down the area where the dead bodies are most likely to be hidden.

The White Queen: "Then do you think there will be any accidents in the amusement park later?"

Lin Ning was stunned for a moment before realizing what the White Queen meant. She couldn't laugh or cry and said, "You have pierced my heart."

That being said, Lin Ning still thought about it carefully, and the answer is no. After all, she came to the amusement park now to investigate the second personality murder case of Lori Blair, and according to her previous experience, most of the time she was in the amusement park If a case is discovered by her, it will not trigger any side accidents, which is the only consolation.

Ugh.

Lin Ning quickly walked around the amusement park, combining the geographical distribution of the amusement park and the crowd distribution, and considering that the corpse was well hidden, after a search by the Seattle Police Search Section, all After failing to find the dead body and other factors, Lin Ning finally set her sights on the haunted house in the amusement park. Seattle is the scariest, and there are pictures attached to it, in which the eyeballs placed in formalin jars and the stumps of broken legs were photographed.

It's really scary at first glance.

Of course, the owners of amusement parks will not kill people to get "goods". They have many channels to obtain those things, just like hospitals, schools, etc. can obtain corpses for autopsy. Amusement parks can still exploit loopholes deliberately. drilled.

I have laid out so much, I just want to say that Lin Ning found fresh stumps that had been dismembered for no more than three months among the formalin jars placed in the haunted house, and even the head of the victim was still soaked in it in.But no matter the staff or tourists, no one thinks there is anything wrong with it. This is the so-called darkness under the lights, that is, they cannot detect things and events that happen very close to them.

It can also be said that they never thought it would be real. They probably thought it was a prop.

Lin Ning took a closer look, and thought that in this case, even if there were any fingerprints left, they would have been dissolved by formalin at this time, and she still needed to make an anonymous phone call.

In the same vein, Linning found another body in an abandoned, mud-filled pond in a park mentioned by Mrs Blair.It's not that Lin Ning has clairvoyance, she just found scavenging beetles on the edge of the pond, which more often appear in cemeteries and feed on corpses.

This pointed out the direction for Lin Ning.

Lin Ning scanned the pond with the scanner that came with his mobile phone. With the help of the White Queen, the scanner could penetrate the soil as deep as ten meters. After that, he found a corpse in the mud. The level of decomposition of the bodies roughly coincides with when one of the victims was reported missing.

So far, Lin Ning can be sure that she did not find the wrong victim.

Here comes the problem.

What was she going to say that she found a dead body here?Even anonymous phone calls are not made anonymously like this. Maybe she was the one who was regarded as a suspect at that time.

In the end, Lin Ning still thought of a tactful solution. She didn't say that she found the body, she only said that she seemed to have seen someone throw a gun into the pond.Afterwards, people from the search department will come to search, and then they will find the corpse.

As for whether the Seattle police will link the two murders?That's their business, Lin Ning is only responsible for finding out here.

·

Lin Ning reported to Gideon on the investigation in the past few days, and finally said: "I haven't seen Lori Blair yet, because I still have a problem that I haven't figured out yet."

Gideon: "Huh?"

Lin Ning described her problem: "She has schizophrenia, strictly speaking, it is a dissociative identity disorder, that is, the main personality does not know the existence of the second personality, so she has a history of short-term amnesia."

Gideon: "I know what dissociative identity disorder is."

Lin Ning puffed up his face: "...I mean, the behavior of the main character at the Pacific Science Center bothers me a little bit."

"Maybe she is trying to protect her," Gideon said after pondering for a moment, facing Lin Ning's slightly raised eyebrows, he said calmly: "The main character just doesn't know the existence of the second personality, and she is not an idiot , she may have noticed something."

It just didn't work out as expected.

Lin Ning was thoughtful.

It makes sense to say that, under the confusion of Mr. Scratch, Lori Blair's second personality killed two not-so-innocent men one after another. Even if they handled them well, there would always be traces left behind Besides, no one is sure whether Mr. Scratch's drug on the second personality will affect the main personality... In any case, the main personality may have discovered the existence of the second personality and her actions. To prevent the second personality from continuing to kill, she chose to cut down their original target in such a large crowd at the Pacific Science Center.

Just chop.

The victim was given a warning, and she was exposed to the eyes of the hospital and the police, trying to prevent Mr. Scratch from continuing to manipulate the second personality in this way.It's just that the victim resisted, and the second personality could only come out to protect her from harm, which in turn caused the victim to die.

In general, Lori Blair's main personality and second personality are trying to protect each other, and such a symbiotic relationship is not very common.

Lin Ning only hopes that after such a series of changes, these two personalities are still there.

After having such an optimistic idea, Lin Ning suddenly remembered what Gideon said before, and continued to ask him persistently: "What decision did you make before?"

Gideon narrowed his eyes.

At this time, Lin Ning was blessed: "Is it related to Reid? Or is it related to BAU as a whole? Are you going back?"

It's not, but it's not that bad:

Gideon intends to return to Quantico, but he does not intend to return to BAU as an active agent, but to return to the academy as a senior analyst, teaching the freshmen admitted to the academy, that is, as a lecturer.

"It's a good thing," Lin Ning said with a smile. Quantico is the headquarters of the FBI, and it is relatively safe there.Lin Ning glanced at Gideon thinking about it, and saw that his expression was much more relaxed than before, his smile was deeper, and he dared to joke: "But if you go back to Quantico, then I won't be able to go to Quantico often Visiting you—you don't want Quantico to have accidents too often."

Gideon: "..."

To be honest, even Gideon often finds Lin Ning's mysterious physique at a loss.

But generally speaking, Lin Ning’s graduation case was completed quite satisfactorily. After being inspired by Gideon, she went to St. Accompanied by a psychologist, I met Lori Blair, who was still recovering.

What appeared in front of Lin Ning was Lori Blair's second personality.

After Lin Ning asked a few questions, she was sure that the master personality was still there, but fell into a deep sleep temporarily, which made her feel a little relieved.

Then, I created an occasion where the psychiatrist was not present, so as to get in touch with the "psychological shadow" left by Mr. Scratch to Lori Blair's second personality, and told her what the main personality did. I hope they can continue to believe in love.

Finally, before the accompanying psychiatrist came back, Lin Ning thought for a while and said quickly: "I hope you can tell Luo Li that Mrs. Blair has always loved her. Mrs. Blair didn't know what that man did to Luo Li at first , when she found out, this woman who never dared to resist that man in her life did the most daring thing in her life, she killed him."

When Lin Ning met Mrs. Blair that day, Mrs. Blair's strange reaction when she mentioned her husband caught Lin Ning's attention. This made her subconsciously go back and check the cause of Mr. Blair's death. He was introduced to a job as a tactical trainer for the Police Reserve, for which Mr Blair actively sobered up and died of alcohol poisoning for three months before his death.

Lin Ning thinks that Mr. Blair's death is very likely to be man-made, and the "person" in this "artificial" is no one but Mrs. Blair.

But the damage will not dissipate with the death of Mr. Blair, just like in this case, the three victims who became Lori Blair's second personality, they are all pedophiles, and some of them are pedophiles. Or his stepchildren had done it, which made Lin Ning unable to have any sympathy for them, and even felt that they deserved what they deserved.

Despite what Gideon had taught her, objectivity, calmness, and fairness were the rules of the game.

·

Quantico

Rhett got up a little late, and he hurried to the subway station (he usually takes the subway to work, although he has a driver's license but he has basically never driven a car), hoping not to miss his usual subway.But before he trot into the subway station, he was stopped by someone.

Reid looked back and saw Lin Ning, who was lowering the window of the car, and he couldn't help being surprised: "Emilia? Why are you in Washington?"

Lin Ning: "I'll take my dad to work."

Rhett: "?" But Rhett was not that surprised, he was talking about Lin Ning having a father.When he and Rossi met Lin Ning at the University of Washington, they profiled that there were no elders around her, but last time in Wilmington, the profile changed, and there was indeed an elder by her side.It's just that Rhett didn't expect that this elder worked in Washington.

"Come on, I'll give you a ride." Lin Ning added: "I have seen the traffic map of Washington today, and I can send you to the gate of the FBI within 10 minutes."

After thinking about it, Reid did not refuse. He sat in the passenger seat and smiled at Lin Ning: "Thank you."

"You're welcome." Lin Ning smiled, and she started the car as she said, "I will come to Washington often in the future, just take this opportunity to actually get familiar with the road conditions. Put on your seat belt."

"Yeah." Rhett subconsciously went to pull the seat belt, but was stunned again. When he was in the car in the group, only Gideon would remind him to wear the seat belt. He meant to use that kind of belt Caring tone.This feeling was a bit weird, and it made Rhett a little nostalgic. For this reason, he talked to Lin Ning about the traffic situation in Washington.

In a way, this avoided possible awkward chat scenes, but it also made Rhett gradually feel thirsty. Lin Ning gave him a bottle of water from the car refrigerator, and met Rhett's terrified little eyes as a result.

Lin Ning: "?"