Throne of Radiance

"Mental status appraisal passed, no abnormalities."

"...There is no trace of being affected by drugs, nor is he drunk. After passing the test, his mind is very clear now, his mind is absolutely fine, and his logical thinking ability is even much stronger than most people. Such a normal person I can't be more normal, but you want me to show the attitude of treating seriously mentally ill patients?"

The young man in a white coat with a pair of silver-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose spoke coldly, and his face that was already too cold to be approached became more serious: "This is really unnecessary and a waste of time."

"—especially wasting my time."

Everyone present was a little embarrassed, but everyone knew that no matter how high the IQ of the person in front of him was, the EQ would be as low, and as talented as he was, he would be difficult to get along with.

Therefore, no one deliberately cares about it.

Liu Ningshuang, who was quietly standing in an inconspicuous corner, rolled her eyes secretly, and muttered, "Just talk to anyone, there's no need to look for this bastard at all."

The full name of the bastard Liu Ningshuang spoke of was Yin Xubai, and he was her cousin in terms of blood relationship.

But compared to Liu Ningshuang, who was lively and mischievous since she was a child, the other party is the child of other people in the legend. She skipped grades all the way from childhood to adulthood. She is proficient in several subjects such as medicine, biology and chemistry. She has already obtained a doctorate at the age of 27. He was almost retained to teach at Imperial University.

Even though Yin Xubai rejected the suggestion of staying at the school to teach, but chose to return to Yuanyang City to set up a private laboratory by himself, with the various honors he received during college, he still won the title of honorary professor of Imperial University.

Because he has helped the Yuanyang City Public Security Bureau solve cases several times, he is also one of the non-staff members of the Public Security Bureau.

——Compared with this brilliant resume, Liu Ningshuang's ability to become a policeman is simply lucky in the eyes of the elders.

And growing up in comparison with this other's child, the resentment accumulated in Liu Ningshuang's heart can be imagined.

In addition, Yin Xubai's personality is indeed difficult to get along with, as if people with low IQ are not worthy of talking to him, and every time he stands in front of the other party, he always feels that every look in his eyes is despising her own IQ, which makes Liu Ningshuang even more upset.

Just as she was secretly slandering, Yin Xubai seemed to have heard her muttering, and his cold eyes swept over directly, making Liu Ningshuang feel the familiar "king's contempt".

She shrank her neck involuntarily, and quickly changed the subject: "So, there is nothing wrong with Li Fufeng? Then what about the hallucinations he had before?"

Yin Xubai frowned: "——you don't believe my judgment?"

Before Liu Ningshuang could continue, the others quickly said, "How can we not believe Professor Yin's judgment?"

"only……"

Everyone looked at Li Fufeng one after another.

Li Fufeng understood what they meant, and didn't say much, but insisted: "What I want to say is still the same."

Yin Xubai had an expression on #你们在打什么猫笑#, and the others finally uttered the complete words: "It's just that this time it's really unimaginable."

——After Li Fufeng returned to the police station, he immediately told what happened to him, which immediately attracted everyone's attention.

I heard that he actually "saw" a hotel in the same place as the alcoholic, and everyone thought he had been tricked and had hallucinations at first.

But now, Yin Xubai has stated that he is clear-headed.But Li Fufeng still insisted that his rhetoric has not changed.

Then, there are only two possibilities before us.

Either Li Fufeng is lying, or the matter is true.The probability of the former is extremely low, and everyone can't figure out why he would tell such an absurd lie.

And the latter...

Which means the whole thing is pretty unusual.

Fortunately, Li Fufeng stretched out his hand to rub a little wall powder on the old hotel wall out of instinct, and this time he simply brought it to Yin Xubai's private laboratory.

Hearing that the wall powder was going to be inspected, Yin Xubai's attitude was much better than that of a living person like Li Fufeng.

When the results came out, this "Professor Yin", who had always lacked expression and looked too cold, showed such an excited, even fanatical expression for the first time.

His eyes glowed under the lenses.

Liu Ningshuang's face was horrified, and she couldn't help but take a few steps back: "This guy took the wrong medicine?"

Yin Xubai obviously didn't pay attention to her, but took a few steps forward and grabbed Li Fufeng's sleeve: "Where did you get this substance? Do you have any more?"

"What, what?" Li Fufeng felt frightened.

"In addition to the general building wall powder ingredients, rubber powder talcum powder, etc., it also contains an unknown ingredient-a substance that I couldn't identify before!"

Li Fufeng noticed that the hands pinched on his sleeves were trembling, and Yin Xubai's voice was also trembling with excitement: "I can conclude that this is definitely not any known substance. A blue star—do you know what that means?"

He met a pair of eager eyes that he had never seen before.

"—This means a brand new discovery!"

Hearing this, even the most stupid person will understand.Everyone could no longer hide the shock on their faces.

"Professor Yin, are you kidding me?"

"Why am I making this kind of joke?" Yin Xubai, who used to have an expression of #你在带省我的时候#, is now full of #快快快快!Come on waste my time! #, he couldn't wait to ask, "So, where did this thing come from? I must go and see!"

Seeing that his excited appearance did not seem to be fake, everyone looked at each other and realized the importance of this matter.

"It seems that we must report to the cabinet immediately..."

——And before receiving instructions from the cabinet, each of them cannot leave for the time being to avoid leaking secrets.

……

As one of the most powerful countries in Zhanlan Star, Yao Kingdom itself has a long and profound history. The feudal system of thousands of years has spread until 50 years ago, and it was only broken by the development of science and technology and the war that swept the world.

The last monarch of the feudal dynasty realized that the existing system was hindering the progress of the country and would make them fall behind in the competition with other countries, so he took the initiative to decentralize power and learned from the Morning Star Empire, which had the most developed system on the Azure Star at that time.

Since then, the feudal monarchy has been replaced by a more advanced constitutional monarchy. Since this monarch, the monarchs of Yao Kingdom have basically become a typical example of "government and rule".

He has a noble status and the honor of a king, but he has no real power to rule the country, and he doesn't have much preferential treatment in law.

All the citizens of Yao country can pass the national examination system and enter the officialdom of Yao country all the way. In the end, the cabinet composed of six cabinet elders elected by Wanmin will become the actual administrator of the country.

The situation reported by the Yuanyang City Public Security Bureau was reported to the imperial capital layer by layer through special secret channels, and it immediately attracted the attention of the cabinet, and experts were dispatched overnight.

——And their conclusions are consistent with those of Yin Xubai.

In the seemingly ordinary wall powder, there is actually some kind of substance that has never been found on the blue star before!

Combined with the testimony of Han Shan and Li Fufeng, everyone realized that they might have encountered a supernatural event.

The mysterious blood of unknown origin, the hotel that appeared and disappeared strangely, and the unknown substance that is enough to serve as evidence...all of these have broken everyone's original worldview.It made them have to start thinking that there might really be supernatural phenomena that are currently difficult to explain in this world.

Seeing that Yin Xubai had already started to plunge into the laboratory with new experts, and even had a heated debate on the research of this unknown substance, Li Fufeng was speechless:

"The focus now should be the serial killer, right? If we find him, we will be able to understand everything."

Of course, it is impossible for the cabinet to fail to consider this point.After receiving the news from the experts, the cabinet immediately issued an order to include #元阳市雨夜杀典# into the newly opened anomalous confidential archives, and sent people from the imperial capital to Yuanyang City to communicate with the local police station of Yuanyang City Jointly set up a special case investigation team to investigate this case.

In the early morning of the next day, the special case investigation team's plane landed at Huayang Airport in Xincheng District, Yuanyang City. As soon as the group got off the plane, the reporter who received the news spread the news of the special case investigation team's arrival on the Internet.

For a while, it triggered a new round of heated discussions on the Internet.

[Special case investigation team?No way, no way, the Yuanyang City Public Security Bureau won't be able to handle even one case, and ask for help from the imperial capital, right? ]

[This time I'm really disappointed with the actions of our local Public Security Bureau. It has been 18 days since the first murder case, and the murderer has not been found out. Now they have to trouble the Imperial Capital to come forward to help, isn't it? Let people from other provinces and cities see our jokes? ]

[Whether it is handed over to the special case investigation team, the talents from the imperial capital must be much more powerful.This rainy night serial murder case caused a sensation all over the country, and the murderer is probably not ordinary. I think the local police have done their best, and maybe with the addition of a special case investigation team, the murderer can be arrested and brought to justice. ]

[I do hope the serial killer doesn't get caught.Anyway, I don't think he killed any good things. These scumbags are a waste of food while they are alive, and they will cause harm to other people. It is not an exaggeration to say that they killed well! ]

[It is too extreme for the upstairs to say so.In any case, private executions are wrong. If the murderer cannot be caught and punished, then everyone will feel insecure. ]

[No, I feel very safe now.I walk upright and sit upright, it’s not me who should feel insecure~]

Unknowingly, the topic started to go all the way, and everyone began to discuss whether the killer should do it or not. In the end, supporters, opponents and neutrals fought evenly, and countless keyboard warriors killed each other on the Internet.

So much so that the topic about the special case investigation team was unknowingly forgotten. Even if there were a few sporadic comments, wondering if the special case investigation team would have any hidden purpose, they were quickly brushed down by the debate.

Invisible forces manipulate the direction of public opinion.

No one knew that just as they were arguing over the clichéd topic of #Justice# on the Internet, members of the special case investigation team from the imperial capital had come to the Yuanyang City Public Security Bureau and retrieved all the files related to this case.

Li Fufeng, Liu Ningshuang and other local police officers, together with Yin Xubai and others who could provide technical support, were temporarily incorporated into the special case investigation team.

At noon that day, the alley where the back door of Tianhai Bar was located and a nearby area were isolated. It was said that the government would demolish and renovate this area, and the few nearby residents were relocated after receiving some compensation.

Therefore, Tianhai Bar was notified to transfer.The bustling Maple Leaf Street in the past suddenly lost three points of its prosperity.

That night, it rained like a waterfall.

——Amidst the fear, worry or expectation of countless people, the rainy night came again, and the ghost that haunted the rainy night finally appeared and drifted away again.

What is different from the past is that three cases occurred this night, and the locations spanned the east and west of Yuanyang City.

According to the itinerary of a general vehicle, even without counting the murder process in the middle, it would take more than an hour to simply travel between the three locations.

However, the results of the autopsy showed that the interval between the occurrence of the three cases was a quarter of an hour.The three deceased died one after another, and the interval between them was only a quarter of an hour!

This made the special case investigation team who had just arrived and was preparing to do a big job seem to have been hit in the head: "It can be concluded now that the murderer definitely has some means of travel that surpasses ordinary means of transportation. One of the important reasons for the field route."

"Unless, the murderer is not a single person, but a gang—if supernatural factors are excluded."

"The murderer is likely to be a gang. Is this your conclusion?" the reporter who heard the news asked.

——As soon as the special case investigation team arrived, there was another murder case, and it was more serious than the previous ones. How could this not cause a sensation?How can we not let reporters come to chase after him?

The special case investigation team who was chased by reporters had no intention of answering their questions.After all, this is not the official media, but some reporters who follow suit and hype hot news.

The latter was not so easy to get rid of, not only kept entangled, but also seemed to suspect that the special case investigation team might return in vain, as if the murderer was omnipotent.

The youngest young man in the investigation team couldn't help it immediately, and blurted out a sentence: "It's just a sneaky gang. The so-called serial killer is probably just an unknown person who was launched to deceive and intimidate the public. We caught him." It's a matter of time to live!"

The reporter quickly clicked the shutter, recorded his words excitedly, and couldn't help repeating to confirm: "The murderer is likely to be a gang. Is this your conclusion? So you have the confidence to solve the case?"

The impulsive young man knew that he had made a slip of the tongue, and frowned at the reporter. It seemed that he could not change his words because of face, so he nodded proudly: "Of course!"

Liu Ningshuang watched from behind, dumbfounded.She didn't react until the reporters dispersed.

Li Fufeng patted her on the shoulder, Liu Ningshuang finally came back to her senses, she kept looking at the guy who spoke just now, she couldn't help but swear in a low voice: "I'll go! Where did this idiot come from! "

Li Fufeng shook his head, taking advantage of others not paying attention to them, he lowered his voice and said: "His surname is Chu, his name is Xingrui."

Liu Ningshuang looked puzzled: "So?"

"...The current monarch's name is Chu Xingbang."

Liu Ningshuang subconsciously wanted to say something, but she quickly covered her mouth. Her exposed eyes rolled around, revealing an expression of sudden realization:

"No wonder, it turned out to be gilded through the back door!"

Li Fufeng didn't say anything more.

He didn't think the higher-ups would send a person to the special case investigation team to gild it-if they really wanted to gild it, this was obviously not the best place.What's more, the real power is now in the hands of the cabinet. Without the permission of the cabinet, even the lord of a country cannot send his own people here.This case is so important, will the cabinet be so childish?

With a delicate mind, he observed after a while, and found that the friendship between the other members of the special case investigation team and Chu Xingrui was mediocre, but no one stopped him from talking loudly just now.

It seems that he has an attitude of allowing him to provoke and test.

Reminiscent of possible "supernatural events", Li Fufeng, who has always been meticulous, made some guesses.

If the existence of supernatural power is really discovered, it will undoubtedly be a "new weapon" that can affect the current social order. Whether it is the cabinet or the royal family, they must want to grasp it as soon as possible, rather than being excluded, leading to a further step. Falling behind, falling behind step by step.

Just like when the industrial age came, Yao Country was also the first country to make changes and control its own destiny from then on.

Therefore, Chu Xingrui, who seems to be gilded through the back door, is likely to be a representative sent by the royal family.The cabinet, looking at the face of the monarch, turned a blind eye to this and acquiesced in his joining.

That being the case, Chu Xingrui is definitely not an idiot.Even if he didn't know how to solve the case, he wouldn't be so reckless.

...So the provocation just now was on purpose?

...Does he want to take the initiative to attack and stimulate the murderer to act irrationally so as to find more loopholes and clues?

Considering the personality model of the murderer's arrogant ego that was previously tested, this approach seems reckless, but it is not hopeless.What if it works?

But for some reason, Li Fufeng had a premonition that this would probably fail.

It's not that the murderer won't be stimulated, but he thinks the so-called flaws and clues are not so easy to get.

Li Fufeng's premonition soon came true.

On another rainy night just a few days later, six victims appeared overnight in Yuanyang City.

The difference from before was that this time, there was a live mouth.

Of the six victims, six were alive.They all met the murderer at the time of the incident.

Their description was exactly the same as that of the mother and child.

The long black windbreaker, the big black umbrella, the special pale golden half-long hair, and the blue eyes that are different from those of Yao people... The murderer's appearance and attire have not changed for thousands of years, even though he has been wanted by the police, Still so arrogant and high-profile, without any intention of disguising himself.

Among the six survivors, one is quite special.

Others are not in the murderer's target, they are pure innocents.And he was supposed to be one of the killer's targets, but survived after killing another target.

——This person wanted to blame the victim's death on the serial killer at the beginning, but of course the police could not be so easily deceived, and soon judged the truth from the victim's injuries, and arrested this person as a suspect .

Even though he was already in the police station, the man was still trembling and full of fear. He tremblingly recalled the scenes that happened not long ago.

"At two o'clock in the afternoon, the victim Yue invited you to his house as a guest. After dinner, because it was raining outside, you were worried about danger on the road, so you stayed in the guest room overnight, right?"

"……Yes."

"What happened after that?"

"After that, after that..."

The man's voice was in a trance, and the sound of raindrops outside the window of the police station seemed to bring him back to the night not long ago.

"I drank too much wine that night, and as soon as I entered the guest room, I wanted to fall asleep. I was in a daze and suddenly heard a knock on the door. I thought it was Yue Feng who was looking for me, so I went to open the door, only to find that there was another person besides Yue Feng... ..."

……

"Good evening, sir!" The blond man who appeared at the door smiled at him with an elegant demeanor.And Yue Feng, whose face was frightened and stiff, stood motionless in front of that person, like a rabbit hanging in the mouth of a tiger.

At that time, he was so dizzy that he didn't realize what happened, but he swayed forward: "Yue Feng, do you want to see me? Why don't you come in? And this..."

Just as he was about to reach out to pull Yue Feng, he froze suddenly.

He saw the black muzzle of the gun behind the opponent.The muzzle of the gun slowly moved up and was aimed at him.

……

"... At that time, my head exploded. It was as if I was thrown into ice water. I woke up from the drunk state. Looking at that person's attire at this time, how can I guess? I don't know who he is..."

In the police station, the man's voice was a little weak.

His eyes fell into a trance again.

……

"Ah, have you been recognized?" K who noticed his gaze sighed softly, "This is really distressing."

Having said that, the weapon in his hand has been moving randomly between the two of them, aiming at this for a while, aiming at that for a while, making the other two people present freeze in place, not daring to make any movements.

——Although there are two of them, based on their understanding of the speed of bullets, if anyone tries to be impulsive, he will definitely be hit before he can even touch the corner of the opponent's clothes. This may create a little escape for the other person Or time to fight back, but what use is it to someone who has already fallen?

Neither of them obviously wanted to be the one who sacrificed for their companions.

……

In the police station, the man's tranced voice continued: "At that time, we didn't dare to act rashly, so we had to beg that person, we are willing to hand over all our property, and we are willing to do anything, as long as we can save our lives."

"and then?"

"Then?" The man clenched his teeth, "That devil!"

"—he said he was only going to kill one person."

……

The bright lights in the guest room could not dispel the darkness around them. In the eyes of the two people who stood still, the shadow under the feet of the uninvited guest seemed to spread continuously, covering everything in front of them.

The graceful K smiled slightly: "I came here only to kill one person."

——Since there is only one goal, of course it can only be the owner here, not an occasional guest.

The expressions of the two people who were originally stiff changed color at the same time.

It's just a look of horror on one face and a relaxed expression on the other.

K's eyes turned around the two of them, seeming to find it very interesting, and finally fell on the man who was relieved: "Unfortunately, an accident of fate made you appear here tonight, and it perfectly fits my mood." What about aesthetics?"

This time, the expressions on the faces of the two exchanged with each other.

But K changed the subject again, causing the two of them to panic again: "Ah, choose one of the two, but I have already visited five guests tonight, and now I only need to gather six guests, who should I choose? Really It's distressing."

His eyes flicked back and forth between the two of them, and when they fell on someone, the person couldn't help but his heart beat faster.

"Otherwise it's still the old way?" K suddenly took out a strange coin from his pocket, looked at Yue Feng who was near the door, "Do you like heads or tails?"

"Ah, ah? Right, no, negative, right?"

K looked at the other person: "Then you are positive."

The coin was thrown high into the air and fell into his palm again. His smile curved perfectly: "I only need one dead person. After 3 minutes, if there are two living people here, then let fate decide who lives and who dies." Let's go~"

While saying this, he slowly stepped back a few steps, giving enough space to the other two.

He stretched out his hand gracefully, as if to say: The stage is temporarily reserved for you, and it's your turn to perform next.

Whoa-!

In the torrential rain outside the window, there was a flash of lightning, illuminating two faces with a mixture of panic, embarrassment, and ferocity.

They are reflected in each other's eyes.

……

There was a flash of lightning, and thunder roared between the sky and the earth.

The man's weak and embarrassed face was illuminated by the electric light.

"Huh...huh...huh..."

He panted hard, as if he wanted to dispel the fear accumulated in his heart: "I didn't mean it, I really didn't mean it, that person forced me, he forced me!"

"If I don't kill Yue Feng, I will die!"

"--I did not do it on purpose!"

Seeing the man's emotions gradually collapse, which included not only real fear and fear, but also deliberately pretending to win sympathy, the police in charge of interrogation temporarily stopped recording and put down the pen in his hand.

After the man's emotions were appeased and he calmed down a bit, he asked, "What about after that? Do you have anything to add?"

The man tried his best to remember, but suddenly his eyes lit up, and he hesitated to say: "...I remembered. Before he left, he asked me to help bring a word to the police."

The policeman's expression became serious: "What are you talking about?"

"—It's an honor to be entertained."