The dim interrogation room was surrounded by iron walls, and a large fan was spinning above his head, casting shadows on the table, blocking the lights from time to time, making the room flickering, making it difficult to breathe.

Qiu Chengke's expression was not very good, it could even be said to be very bad. His hands were handcuffed behind his back, and a gun was pointed at the back of his head.

This interrogation room is not bright or ventilated. He sweated a lot. The strange policeman who caught him didn't care about the gauze on his wrist. Wrinkled.

A policeman questioned loudly across from him, but Qiu Chengke couldn't understand what he was saying.

He tensed his nose and slightly expanded his mouth, suppressing his anger and repeating over and over again, "I didn't kill anyone."

"Where's Grace Lucas!"

"I do not know."

"Where did you hide her!"

"I said I don't know!!!"

The pain made Qiu Chengke lose his patience. He stood up angrily, and the guard behind him hit his lower abdomen with a baton and pressed him to the table.

Qiu Chengke was forced to press his upper body on the table. The cold table made him shiver. His body temperature was getting higher and higher. His eyes turned black and his whole body was limp and weak. The wound on his wrist was bleeding, and his forehead was still hot. With a high fever.

The policeman on the opposite side began to ask him again, "Where did you hide the other victims' heads!"

"I do not know……"

…………

Al put the information of the six young police officers on the table, "This is all the people who fit the profile found in the local police station. On the day Serena disappeared, all members of the fire brigade were present for a large-scale drill, not people from the fire station. made."

Gordon flipped through the documents a few times and handed them over to professionals. He said to Dr. Letterman, "How much time will it take?"

Dr. Letterman went out to make a phone call. After a while, a woman who looked very similar to Al rushed over. She held out her hand to Gordon and said politely, "Gillian Foster, can I start? "

Gordon looked at Dr. Letterman, Dr. Letterman turned his head sideways, "Dr. Foster, no worse than me, we will conduct the screening separately, and the screening can be completed within half an hour."

"Carl, that's you, I need more time." Foster said to Dr. Letterman disapprovingly. Reid looked back and forth between her and Al, and found that the two were exactly the same except for their hairstyles.

Foster also saw Al who was dazed aside, she looked at Al's face in confusion, Dr. Letterman hugged her and pushed her away, "Come on, let's start, you can take Torres and It will be quicker if you interrogate together, Torres, come in!"

The BAU members stood outside the interrogation room and listened to the polygrapher's questioning. Rocker, who stayed outside, watched the video and told them what the expression of the person being interrogated meant.

Dr. Letterman's screening in the interrogation room was coming to an end, and he said to Gordon, "None of them are murderers."

Foster, who followed closely, also shook his head.

JJ walked in quickly on high heels holding the documents, she put the documents on the table and tapped to attract everyone's attention, she put a photo on the table "The police of the branch found the second victim Serena Brown Head, 16th Street, Lynnwood Complex, 907."

As soon as she finished speaking, Dr. Reid immediately said, "That's Qiu Chengke's neighbor's house. He lives in No. 910."

"That's the second thing I want to say." JJ said with an ugly face, "Qiu Chengke was taken away by the branch police. I heard that the interrogation method of the people in that branch is not honorable."

Dr. Letterman's expression was a bit ugly, he muttered in a low voice, "We should go to him quickly, Qiu Chengke insists, those people don't expect to hear anything from him."

When BAU and Dr. Letterman's team arrived at the branch, Qiu Chengke was being pulled by his hair and sitting upright, and the police opposite him were questioning him hoarsely.

Gordon's face sank, he pushed away the policemen blocking the interrogation room, and told them to stop the interrogation. "The FBI took the case and turned him over to us."

The police interrogating Qiu Chengke came out to stop the detective who was about to rush in, and he said with a cold face, "He is going to speak soon, the case will be solved soon!"

Dr. Letterman squeezed to the front and looked the policeman up and down, "He didn't say anything. You have been interrogating for three hours without getting any results. You still want to continue to torture to extract a confession? Hmm? You are afraid that this case will affect your official career. , so you are forcing him to confess."

"This is just a means of interrogation, a psychological tactic!"

Dr. Letterman pushed him away, "You don't understand at all, this room makes him very nervous, and he will have a nervous breakdown if you continue to ask. This is not psychological tactics, this is torture to extract a confession."

Reid followed Dr. Letterman into the interrogation room. The oppressive environment made him anxious. He quickly walked over to help Dr. Letterman untie Qiu Chengke's handcuffs, but felt blood on his hands.

"Blood? You're injured..." Before Dr. Reid finished speaking, Qiu Chengke, who was already in a semi-conscious state, softened. He quickly caught the fainted Qiu Chengke and put him on Morgan's back.

Morgan felt the scorching heat from his back, and said disgustedly when passing by the policeman, "He is just a suspect and has not been convicted yet. Do you want to create the next Abu Ghraib scandal, Mr. Police Officer."

Rhett said quickly, "Uh...the famous prisoner abuse incident, and he is not a prisoner... Qiu Chengke has two scratches on his wrist, and his body temperature is seriously high. He has a high fever, sir, you know."

The policeman muttered, "Isn't it just a fever, and he didn't make it himself..."

Hu Qi, who was walking behind, looked back at him, and he didn't say until the policeman closed his mouth wisely, "This case has been handed over to the FBI, please don't act without authorization to hide clues, oh, yes, what happened here We will report it as it is and you will lose your job very quickly."

Torres sneered and patted the policeman on the shoulder, mockingly said, "Isn't it just dismissal? You didn't do it yourself."

When Qiu Chengke woke up again, the first thing he saw was the old face of Dr. Letterman. He subconsciously tried to push it away, but someone held his arm. He turned his head and saw that Rhett was holding his arm, so as not to Needle.

There are only the two of them here, and Qiu Chengke doesn't fit the profile. Dr. Letterman just wants to find some clues from him. After all, he was the first person to find Serena's head. Dr. Reid was left to help appease Qiu Chengke.

Dr. Letterman told him that he didn't need to do too much, just stand where Qiu Chengke could see it, because after observing Qiu Chengke's expression, Dr. Letterman found that a person with a pure temperament and not aggressive can relax Qiu Chengke's nerves.

"The situation is urgent." Dr. Letterman pulled a chair and sat beside Qiu Chengke's bed. "Do you mind if we talk when you are sick?"

Qiu Chengke shook his head to express his understanding.

"Do you know these two people?" Dr. Letterman put the photos of the first two victims in front of Qiu Chengke, squinted his eyes and tilted his head to carefully observe the changes in his expression.

When Qiu Chengke saw Serena, he avoided his eyes. He said, "I saw her head on the kitchen table. I can't remember the exact time. I was very sick at the time."

"Why did you go to your neighbor in the middle of the night?"

"My dog ​​was holding her mobile phone, and I smelled blood on it." Qiu Chengke recalled. "You know, I am a little confident in my skills, so I took the dagger to see what happened."

Dr. Letterman nodded, and before he had time to say anything, a tall man in a suit walked in and said with a gloomy expression, "It's obvious that Grace is also very confident in your skills."

Qiu Chengke paused for breath, thinking of a bad thought, he looked at Dr. Letterman, and slightly clenched his hand without infusion.

Dr. Letterman glanced at the man who broke in suddenly, and he took out an evidence bag, which contained the mobile phone of Qiu Chengke's female neighbor, Grace Lucas, "There are some things you need to know, her last call was Calling you."

"What do you mean."

The man grabbed Qiu Chengke's collar, said with a trembling voice with red eye circles, "That was a phone call. It was a call from Grace when she was avoiding the murderer. My daughter didn't call me, nor did she call the police. She thought you would rush to protect her faster than the others, but you didn't find out what happened to her until five hours later!"

Qiu Chengke remembered that this man was Grace Lucas' father, Jason Lucas.

He ignored the hand grabbing his collar, and memories came flooding back. He remembered the phone call he ignored when he was recovering/drugs. He never thought it would be a life-threatening emergency call.

The people in the ward left one after another. Qiu Chengke lay on the bed and looked at the ceiling silently. After a long while, he sat up with difficulty and took out the tracking map. Following the release of the task [Serina's request], a small dot appeared on the map. He compared the map and locked the approximate position.

Qiu Chengke coughed lightly and pulled out the needle. He took a lovudan and waited for the medicine to take effect. The wound on his wrist healed slowly, but the high fever did not subside.

While changing his clothes, he checked the consumables he had, and found that they were all for hemostasis and recovery of blood to treat trauma and internal injuries, and the high fever did not belong to any kind.

Qiu Chengke took a sip of the water on the table and left the ward.

He has no right and no evidence to persuade the police and FBI to spend manpower to search the location he provided, so he can only go to find the murderer by himself.

He wanted to find the murderer, find her and protect her before Grace's head was cut off.

Qiu Chengke quickly arrived at the last place where the red dot appeared. He handed the taxi fare to the driver while clutching his painful forehead. He leaned against the big tree and took out the tracking map to make sure that the person he was looking for was here.

But Qiu Chengke looked at this parent-child paradise with some confusion. A group of children who had just reached his waist were playing here carefree. The adults present were all young mothers or elderly couples.

That point is here, Qiu Chengke looked around, and his eyes fell on a pregnant woman.

She was stretching her stomach, knitting a sweater, and looked up at the two boys playing on the seesaw gently from time to time, a peaceful and peaceful scene.

Qiu Chengke had to suspect that he had made a mistake, and he started comparing the maps again, feeling that something was wrong.

……

"If the head of the second victim, Serena, is in the house of the third victim, Grace..." Al pondered, "Serial perverted murderers will deliberately make their own characteristics, then we can understand that the first victim Han Na's head, in a place related to Serena?"

"There is another question, who put the head in, when was it put in, and where is Hannah's head." Morgan pasted the photos and home addresses of the three victims on the board, connected them online with a marker pen,

"Maybe we can make a hypothesis. Assuming this is a crime committed by a gang, then how did his accomplice send a head to Grace's house in a residential area where the crowd flow is relatively large? He needs a reasonable disapproval." Suspected identity."

Reed said quickly, "Children and pregnant women can make people lower their vigilance. If it is really a gang with vulnerable groups committing crimes, then our previous profile needs to be overturned. He doesn't need to be humorous and handsome. A crying lost A child with a child or a pregnant woman in desperate need of help can lead them into a trap."

Torres raised her eyebrows and pursed her lips in disapproval. Dr. Letterman whispered to her, "I was once fooled by a nine-year-old girl. I thought she was innocent, but the next day she Just strangled a three-month-old baby because he was crying too loudly."

"Like two ten-year-old boys who tortured and killed a two-year-old boy in 93 and Jesse in 74, there were three murders committed by children under the age of ten last year alone." Rhett coughed dryly, looked back and forth at the crowd, a little nervous Said, "I mean, maybe this one is made by children too...but it is also possible for the elderly or disabled, but judging from the crowd, children are more likely to make people let their guard down."

The room suddenly fell silent. Their previous profiles were all based on the premise of not committing crimes in a group. After all, serial murderers like this kind of special ones are generally independent and will not choose to cooperate with others.

"We need to find out the law of the murderer's killing, what kind of characteristics he wants to make, the connection between the three victims, and where the head of the first victim is, this is the key." Gordon circled the doubts and pondered." Now the scope of lack of clues is too large, we need to go to Grace's house again."

Qiu Chengke sat on the left side of the pregnant woman, watching the pregnant woman knitting a sweater slowly, recalling the whole case process in his mind, he searched here and there, but he couldn't find anyone who seemed to be the murderer at all, here are all vulnerable groups that need to be protected.

The Parent-Child Paradise was about to close, and the parents left with their children one after another. The pregnant woman also stood up to greet her two young sons, and she took them to say goodbye to Qiu Chengke in a friendly way.

Qiu Chengke watched them leave, and suddenly a thought flashed in his mind, a gang committed crimes.

He quickly took out the tracking map, the red dot representing the murderer was no longer in this area.

He was standing in the Parent-Child Paradise, where there had just been a child or a frail young mother who had killed Serena.

Qiu Chengke was stunned for a moment, and suddenly thought of a question, if killing Serena was a vulnerable group in the gang to cover up, where is the person who really wanted to kill Serena's brother now?

He dialed Rhett's phone, and after Rhett picked it up, he quickly said, "Mr. Detective, do you have someone to protect Serena's brother?"

"Why do you ask about this?"

"I remember that there are already two victims. The first victim's relatives have had an accident."

Rhett looked at Gordon in confusion. Gordon frowned and thought about it. He contacted Garcia and got a message a few minutes later.

The elder sister of the first victim, Hannah Chris, had not been home for three days, but because she was an FBI agent, she asked for leave with her leader to attend Hannah’s funeral before she left, and her family thought she had something to do. Special assignment, her colleagues thought she was on vacation.

"Why hasn't anyone told us this!" Morgan demanded loudly, calling his friends in Interim Intelligence to protect Serena's brother, FBI agent John Wilson.

John Brown is praying for his sister Serena at church, asking God to punish those who brutally killed his sister.

He took a deep breath, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and raised his hand to wave the car. There was an eight or nine-year-old girl sitting in the back seat of the car. The girl combed her ponytails and took out a handkerchief to wipe his tears.

John was about to take the girl's handkerchief when suddenly he received a call from his colleague.

"John, are you all right?"

"Not too bad, what's wrong?"

John was talking with his colleague and asked the driver to stop the car. From the corner of his eye, he saw the little girl take out another handkerchief from his pocket. John didn't care. He took the handkerchief and wiped his tears. After paying the fare, he got out of the car .

His colleagues quickly surrounded him and took him away for protection.

At the same time, Qiu Chengke heard the system beep

[Quest Serena's request, protect her brother, completed]

Immediately afterwards, Qiu Chengke discovered that the screen on the tracking map in his hand began to disappear. After the task was completed, the map lost its tracking function and became a blank piece of paper.

Qiu Chengke froze in place for a moment.

The map is no longer available, so what about Grace?

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