doomsday exile

The shopping mall on Shuangjiang North Road is brightly lit.

It was already late at night, and all inspection work was basically over.

Yuan Zhongxia walked into the shopping mall by stepping on the broken glass next to the gate, looked at the empty shopping mall, lowered his head and turned on the wrist computer.

——The map location showed that the person he was looking for was on the third floor.

Yuan Zhongxia walked forward while watching the virtual projection released by the computer.

Broken cosmetic bottles, milk tea that fell on the floor, oden fish balls rolled to the side of potted plants, and people lying on the ground curled up in pain.

As Yuan Zhongxia moved forward, the projection kept changing and always coincided with the location in front of him, but it was the scene that the rescuers saw when they rushed into the mall ten hours ago.

This is a 360-degree panoramic picture taken by the miniature camera on the helmet of the rescue team. After being integrated by the computer, it will be released in time to cooperate with the actions of follow-up investigators.

In real shopping malls, the sundries are either cleaned or bagged and sealed for the owner to claim. The victim has already been sent to the hospital. The ground is clean, and it is completely impossible to see what happened ten hours ago.

This "restore the scene of the incident" projection technology is an important helper in solving crimes and investigating public safety accidents in the new era.

Not to mention Lu Di who came out of a small town, most ordinary people would not have access to this knowledge.

On the one hand, this kind of technology is not suitable for disclosure. On the other hand, the technology is developing too fast. The new technology will be updated after one or two years of application, and non-professionals have no time to know.

Yuan Zhongxia stopped and walked in the shopping mall, and went up to the third floor through the safe passage.

He saw Yan Long in front of a sneaker store.

There are two projection screens in front of Yan Long, one of which is Yuan Zhongxia's "Live Restoration", and the other one is scrolling and refreshing text and picture materials. Yan Long looks at the screen as if he is in deep thought.

The flow of data light reflected on the face, and the pupils reflected a special brilliance.

It was Chen Yan's body and Chen Yan's face, but it didn't look like Chen Yan at all.

Before Yuan Zhongxia "knew" Yan Long, he didn't believe in "temperament" at all. How could a person become completely different because of such mysterious and mysterious things? Later, he found out that he was wrong.

Yan Long, if you consciously "train" the students, it's okay, but once you concentrate on performing tasks, or meditate like this, it will really "make a difference".

If Chen Yan's parents came to see the person in front of them, they would wonder if this was a cousin whom they had never met. They looked a little familiar, but they were not their son anyway.

As a result, Yuan Zhongxia couldn't help researching how to do it every time he met him.

It's just that the curvature of the eyebrows, the corners of the eyes, and the corners of the mouth change... that's all.

Yuan Zhongxia reckoned that this could be a topic for Professor Xia to write.

What specific performance of acting skills?It is a huge difference in mental outlook!If it weren't for the fact that catching fugitives now basically relies on machine facial recognition, and relying solely on human eyes to see through this technique, what fugitives in disguise can't be caught?

Of course, Yan Long's unconscious "behavior of plastic surgery" also increases the "degree of recognition".People in the base who are familiar with Yan Long can recognize him at a glance, no matter whose body Yan Long uses.

"Haven't gone back yet?" Yuan Zhongxia stepped up his pace and took out a cigarette from his pocket.

The cigarettes are very common, an old brand that costs ten yuan a pack.

"Do you want it?"

"..."

Yan Long didn't speak, took the cigarette silently, and put his hand behind his ear.

Yuan Zhongxia nimbly took out another one, put it in his mouth, and did not light it, just enjoying it.

He said vaguely: "All hospitals have detectors, so can ghosts be found by doing so?"

"No."

Yan Long answered quickly and simply.

Yuan Zhongxia was taken aback for a moment, and then asked: "The base raised the order to search for the 'ghost' an hour ago, requesting to speed up, what happened?"

As the captain of the special execution team, I have the authority to know this, but Yuan Zhongxia is too busy this day, so far I haven't had a bite for dinner, and the confidential content cannot be exchanged in the communication channel, and the wrist computer can only be used to report tasks. As for processing the data, I have to hand over the task to Yan Long anyway, so I simply came over to ask about the situation.

"I heard that you caught a suspect. What did he say? Could this attack be related to ghosts?"

Yuan Zhongxia didn't see it with his own eyes, so he still made a good guess.

After all, now is not the time to care about urban ghost stories. The origin of the infrasonic weapon and the purpose of attacking Shangdu are the most important things!

Ghost didn't commit a crime, why arrest him, to claim for the damaged surveillance camera?

Yan Long thought for a while, and said to Yuan Zhongxia: "The person I caught called the ghost an 'evil ghost'. In fact, he didn't believe that there are evil ghosts in the world until he saw a ghost with his own eyes."

Yuan Zhongxia frowned, and cursed in a rough dialect: "What kind of scoop!"

It sounds like a terrorist organization that believes in a cult. This kind of person is the most troublesome and troublesome. If one counts as one, they must not be let go, otherwise there will be endless troubles.

"So does the ghost have green-faced fangs, or does it have a mouth full of blood, so that the dick will yell an evil ghost when it sees it?"

"...That's not true."

Yan Long paused, then added, "It's opaque, but it can pass through walls."

Very anti-scientific, worthy of a ghost.

"What about other clues? I know there must be." Yuan Zhongxia leaned against the wall with his arms folded.

Yan Long was silent for a while, and finally raised his head from the screen: "He is a very strange existence, not human, but human-like."

"Cough cough."

It's really strange that these words came out of Yan Long's mouth!

Yuan Zhongxia took the cigarette from his mouth, and asked awkwardly: "Aside from that? Are you looking at the list of staff in the mall, what is it? Do you suspect that ghosts are hidden in it?"

Yan Long described the whole process of encountering the ghost in the alley in a flat tone.

This is probably a common problem of AI, and Yan Long has also inherited it. No matter how exciting the battle is, as long as it is said by him, it will be in a straightforward report mode, which makes people want to fall asleep after hearing it.

Fortunately, Yuan Zhongxia has a high resistance in this regard.

He bit his cigarette butt, thinking speechlessly: Why does guessing each other's weaknesses sound so funny? Shall I give you and the ghost an empty house and let you play one, two, three wooden men, who will blink first?

"He can see that you used Chen Yan's body, not mentioning it for now, so you guess he is among the victims in the shopping mall, is it because of what the suspect said?"

"He is a 'ghost' that is separated from his body and cannot be touched. He will come out to look for the murderer only when he is sure that he is absolutely safe." Yan Long said without raising his head, "according to the time, the rescue team almost killed all the victims. It was shipped out, otherwise he would have blocked people long ago...Of course this is just a guess, his reaction confirmed my guess."

Yuan Zhongxia nodded, pointed at the projection screen and said, "So you collected yesterday's subway list and today's shopping mall victim list, and the comparison coincides?"

The ghost appeared in Shangdu three years ago. Excluding what happened in the past two days, it only appeared three times in total.

One time he stuffed the head of a robber into a trash can, one time scared the molester who was stalking women late at night out of his mind, and another time made two barmen who picked up corpses run wild in the street.

Yuan Zhongxia participated in the analysis and research on ghosts, which is called profiling in a popular saying.

The ghost should be a young woman aged 22 to 35 who lives alone, or a man who sympathizes with women. He is of average height, immigrated from outside, came to Shangdu three or four years ago, has a busy daily work, single or unmarried education.

The above information mainly comes from the criminals who encountered ghosts. Except for the first robber, the targets of the other two crimes were all women.

Single, unmarried, married and childless is a guess, because the ghost does not appear in the "crimes against children".

The appearance of the ghost is very ordinary. If it is a woman, it does not seem to be a very aggressive type;

Phantom has a very decisive personality. Apart from concealing his identity, he generally does what he should do, and he doesn't pay attention to tricks.If he or she has a stable income and free time, he or she may let ten bar corpse pickers run around in one night.

After all, robbers are not often encountered, and obscene criminals need to be encountered just in time, and the evil trend of picking up corpses is prevailing. If you spend a few days staying in the bar street or deliberately fishing, you will definitely encounter them.

Therefore, the traces of ghosts are very typical "saw it" or "provoked me" to count as your unlucky mode.

Now the ghosts appear for two days in a row, why else?

"Is there a lot of overlapping lists?"

"57 people." Yan Long looked at the information and said, "Most of them are employees of shopping malls, errand-runners on online platforms, and white-collar workers who work in nearby office buildings and leave work early today... In other words, they are all near the incident site. People who work, there are very few real mall customers.”

"Can you filter further?"

"I watched all the projections restored on the spot, and walked around the mall." Yan Long turned off the screen.

Yuan Zhongxia raised his eyebrows: "Is there anything suspicious?"

Yan Long stared at the glass in front, which was facing the escalator and the glass wall outside the shopping mall.

"The traces of moth powder on this piece of glass on the third floor are abnormal."

"what?"

Yuan Zhongxia was in a daze. It was pitch black outside. He went to the glass curtain wall to take a look, and found that it had been blown almost by the wind, and he couldn't see anything.

He called up the "on-site restoration" projection from the wrist computer, zoomed in and looked carefully, and he found a strange pattern on the glass wall covered with scales, and the scales in other places appeared unconventional and neat due to the infrasonic attack. , like a neat crop field, only here there is a "crop circle".

Look carefully, it is still symmetrical.

It is an abstract painting composed of geometric figures, full of wonderful beauty.

"Good guy."

The cigarette in Yuan Zhongxia's mouth dropped, and he looked at the position of the glass in reality with surprise and novelty.

Yan Long said seriously: "It should be some kind of electromagnetic wave that disrupted the arrangement of the scales, or it can be suspected to be a ghost that can separate from the body and condense into shape."

"So the people on the third floor of the mall..."

"That's right, we need to focus on suspicion." Yan Long said that his progress was faster than this. "I checked the subway surveillance before and after the accident, and confirmed that I took that train yesterday, and there were only five people on the third floor of the shopping mall today. Two of them switched to other lines before the dinosaurs came along."

As for the rest-

"One works in this sneaker store, and the other two are bookstore employees, and they were sent to the Seventh City Hospital."

Yan Long closed his wrist computer, turned his head and said to Yuan Zhongxia, "Comparing with the ghost legends that have happened in the past few years, the identity of the ghost should be revealed. I'll go to the hospital."

Just two steps away, the beep of emergency communication sounded from both of them at the same time.

Almost subconsciously, the body stood at attention and connected with the same posture.

"This is the special executive team Yuan Zhongxia!"

"The code name Yan Long has been received."

The next second, the news from the communication made them so surprised that they doubted their ears.

"Infrasonic weapon attacks in Europe? And the Americas? All in cities with a large population and well-developed commerce? There are heavy casualties?"