Synthesis of Terror: On the One Thousand and One Ways of Death of the Protagonist

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The convenience store closes very late on weekdays, but today, Ryan is always absent-minded when doing things. Even if the business in the store is good, Ryan can't get excited. He always feels that something is about to happen.

With things in mind, Ryan asked the clerk to go back early, cleaned up briefly, and then closed the convenience store and went home.

After Ryan got divorced, he seldom went home on weekdays, and usually lived in the warehouse behind the store, but recently he moved back home to live in the warehouse because of some family matters.

It was less than 10 minutes away from the convenience store to home. Ryan didn't drive and walked back slowly.

The light from the street lamp stretched his chubby figure extremely long.

Now it's autumn, the weather is getting cooler, and the temperature at night is much lower than during the day. After walking for a while, Ryan felt a lot of heat on his body. He tore open the front of his shirt, revealing the yellowish white vest inside.

There were many pedestrians on the street. Ryan lowered his head and covered his head with the hat behind his clothes. The wide brim of the hat covered his face. Ryan exhaled and quickened his pace.

After returning home, Ryan opened the door, and the weird smell hit his nostrils. Ryan took a deep breath, with a fascinated look on his face.

He loved the smell so much.

The lights came on, and the familiar scenery in the room appeared in front of him. Ryan sighed, took off his shoes, and walked barefoot towards the living room.

A string of gray footprints were printed on the white floor, the sour smell permeated the air, and the smell in the room was even weirder, but Ryan didn't seem to notice it at all. He opened the refrigerator and took out a bottle of beer.

There was a thud, the bottle cap was opened, and white foam gushed out, dripping to the ground. Ryan lowered his head, glanced at the wooden floor stained by beer, frowned slightly, sighed, and raised his head to the floor. A can of beer was drunk.

The cold liquid rolled down the esophagus into the abdomen, Ryan shivered and opened his eyes.

He was already chubby, and he liked to squint his eyes on weekdays. Over time, people got used to his posture, and no one ever thought about what was hidden in those squinted eyes.

It is often said that the eyes are the windows of the soul, and a person's eyes often reveal a lot of things. Ryan, who opened his eyes completely, lost all the kindness in his body.

Cruel, ruthless, indifferent... In those gray-blue eyes, there is no trace of emotion that normal humans would have.

After drinking beer, Ryan sat on the sofa for a while, got up, and walked towards the storage room at the end of the room.

He has a lot of words to say, not the hypocritical words during the day, but the real words from his heart.

He needs a listener who can listen to the voices in his heart that have been suppressed for a long time.

The door of the storage room was open, and the dark hole in the wall looked like a huge monster that would eat people.

A piercing chill rose from the bottom of his heart, Ryan froze there, as if he couldn't believe the scene in front of him.

How could this be?

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The boy's body was not covered with a thread, Qin Yue couldn't take him out like this, the golden blanket on the ground was very obtrusive, but it became the only cover.

The golden sheet wrapped the boy's hideous body, leaving only the unscarred face exposed.

Qin Yue put the boy on her back and walked out of the basement slowly.

She is going to take him home.

Qin Yue took Jack back home, and then called Cole.

"I found Jack."

In just a few words, Cole, who was already in a panic, lost his voice instantly.

Jack found it?

Very good!

Cole dialed the mobile phones of his wife and son and told them that Qin Yue had returned home.

The three people who were about to collapse while looking outside hurried towards the direction of home.

The night was already dark, and the lights in the living room were very bright. Qin Yue just placed Jack on the sofa in the living room. Qin Yue sat cross-legged on the ground, staring blankly at Jack, her mind was empty, she didn't know What are you thinking about.

She found him, but she also lost him.

Why is this happening?

Qin Yue thought that she was already used to death, but when the person she cared about died in front of her, Qin Yue found that even though she had gone through countless reincarnations, she could not accept this reality.

Jack, Jack, Jack...

Qin Yue recited his name over and over again, until tears streamed down her face, until she was in pain.

The unlocked door was pushed open with a bang, and the three of Cole ran in from the outside with a cold body.

"Alice!!!"

The three of them shouted in unison, their eyes fell on the thin figure of their daughter, and their hearts ached beyond measure.

The three people's attention was all on their daughter, and no one noticed the person wrapped in the golden blanket on the sofa.

Jesse and Scott rushed over and hugged Qin Yue who was sitting on the ground from left to right, tears streaming down uncontrollably.

"Alice, where did you go? You scared us to death, Alice..."

Qin Yue's soul, which had drifted to nowhere, finally returned to her body. She raised her head and stared blankly at the young man opposite her.

"I found Jack."

As Qin Yue said, she broke free from the arms of her mother and elder brother, and stood up unsteadily.

"I found Jack."

Qin Yue repeated it again, raised her arm, and pointed to the person who was less than one meter away from them: "Why can't you see it? I found Jack."

The three of them froze for a moment, then looked in the direction of Qin Yue's arm.

"Jack?!"

She said she found Jack, and she wasn't lying, she really found him.

Jack is dead.

Cole did not expect that his daughter had been missing for several hours, and when she came back, she even brought Jack, who had been missing for a long time, with her.

Where did she find him?

How did she bring him back who had become a corpse?

How could a 12-year-old girl have such courage?

Many doubts were churning in their hearts, however, she was their child, their treasure, and they would never doubt her.

"Alice, tell Dad, where did you find Jack?"

After patiently asking countless times, she finally found out the truth of the matter from Qin Yue's innermost point.

Ryan Bryce.

Jack was found in the basement of his home.

Cole froze there, he never imagined that his daughter would run to Ryan's house.

In the blink of an eye, Cole remembered the psychological portraits given by Mante and the three suspects they finally investigated.

Before they could investigate, his daughter had already found the real culprit.

It was impossible for Cole to stay at home any longer. When Jack's body was brought out, Ryan would definitely find something was wrong. If he ran away, it would be difficult to catch him.

Cole took Jack's body to the police station, and the three of Mantehanna and William arrived at the same time Cole arrived at the police station.

They saw Jack, the only one of the 56 missing teenagers who reappeared.

Even if he is just a corpse.

There were too many things, and there was no time to explain anything. Cole summoned all the police officers in the police station and went to Ryan Bryce's home.

There was no way they would let him escape.

Sitting in the police car, the neon lights outside roared past, and the faces of everyone in the car were dyed strange colors by the neon lights.

"Finding that he has been exposed, will the suspect commit suicide in fear of crime?"

Hannah asked in a low voice.

They have seen too many suspects who commit suicide in fear of crime. Could this man be one of them?

The expression on Mante's face was serious. Hearing Hannah's words, Mante said softly, "No, he doesn't have the courage to die."

"Ryan killed a lot of people, but he himself was a coward."

After seeing Jack's body, Manter had perfected the criminal's mental portrait, cold-blooded, brutal, and a real coward.

He didn't have the courage to commit suicide.

Hannah stopped talking, she was an expert on sex crimes, she knew exactly what happened to Jack.

The scars on Jack's body had completely exposed the criminal's psychological appeal.

Such a person, such a person...

Hannah bit her lower lip tightly, and the blood on her face faded completely. Even after going through countless cases, she couldn't bring herself to be calm.

The crime against a child is the most unforgivable crime in the world. No matter how many reasons he has, no amount of pain, no matter how much he cannot help himself, it is not an excuse for him to hurt the child.

Police cars surrounded Ryan Bryce's home, where they found the middle-aged man slumped in the basement.

Everything was exactly as Qin Yue had said, white walls, golden floor, and a big bed about 1.8 meters high.

What doubts?

Ryan Bryce was handcuffed and pressed into the police car. He remained silent until he got into the police car, and he spoke in a hoarse voice that didn't look like a human: "Jack was taken away by you?"

No one answered his question, and the policeman who caught him looked at him like he was looking at a dirty bedbug in the sewage.

Those long-standing memories that had been suppressed in the deepest part of his heart surged out, Ryan's eyes were stained scarlet, he let out a beast-like hooting sound, and slammed into the car wall uncontrollably.

bang bang bang! ! !

The car was hit by him and shook, and the two policemen took a lot of effort to suppress the crazy Ryan.

Ryan was panting heavily, his eyes were as red as a beast. At this moment, where did he have a trace of his usual kind appearance?

This large-scale arrest operation alarmed the surrounding neighbors. When they saw the house surrounded by yellow barriers, they seemed to be in disbelief about what had happened.

Ryan Bryce, what did he do?Why did the police take him away?

In this block, most people know Ryan. After all, he has been running a convenience store here for more than ten years, and the people living in this block have come into contact with him more or less.

In the hearts of these people, Ryan left the impression that he was a good person.

A good man, what would he do to make the police station mobilize so many police forces to take him away with great fanfare?

No one knows why.

After being brought back to the police station, Ryan was put into the interrogation room, where two special interrogators went in and began to interrogate Ryan.

"Name."

"Ryan Bryce."

"age."

"43 is old."

After the routine questioning, the interrogator's questions became sharper. However, no matter what the interrogator asked, Ryan refused to say anything except the age at the beginning of his life. He just sat there with his head bowed, the whole time. The portrait is like wandering in another world.

The interrogation went on for a full two hours, but in the end, no conclusions came out. The two interrogators returned without success and left the interrogation room.

"He won't say anything."

Outside the interrogation room, Cole and Mante have been closely watching Ryan's every move.

Mante had a panoramic view of Ryan's expression and dynamics. He clapped his hands, turned his head to look at Cole, and said, "Let's go and see the results of Jack's autopsy first. This person is the murderer. We don't need it now." Listen to what he said, the key is to find out more evidence."

Cole is also very clear about one thing, they are all sure that Ryan is the murderer, however, they have no key evidence.

Qin Yue brought Jack's body out of Ryan's house. After the second move, the evidence against Ryan became somewhat weak.

Qin Yue and Jack are boyfriend and girlfriend, she destroyed the scene again, her testimony cannot be used as evidence.

Moreover, even if Ryan admitted that Jack's body was found in his home, at most, he could only be convicted of molesting a corpse.

There is no evidence that Ryan killed himself.

The motive for the murder, the modus operandi, the scene of the murder... these things are all unclear now.

More favorable evidence is needed for Ryan to plead guilty.

When Jack's parents heard the news of Jack's death, their beliefs that originally supported them collapsed instantly. Jack's mother fainted from crying, and Jack's father also looked like he was holding back his grief.

Jack is their only child, and the blow of Jack's death to the couple can be imagined.

The police said that Jack's body would be dissected to find out the cause of his death, and the couple agreed.

Their child was dead, and they couldn't let him die unexplained.

The autopsy went smoothly, and the scars on Jack's body made the forensic doctor who had seen countless corpses startled.

"While this child was alive, he suffered a lot."

The heart of the young forensic doctor has not yet been tempered, and those shocking scars make the young forensic doctor feel very uncomfortable.

The cause of death was soon found out. He was injected with a drug and died—after he experienced countless pains, the murderer brutally ended his life.

That drug is not very common. They already know who the suspect is, and they will find out sooner or later along this line.

Three days later, the purchase record of the drug they found out followed the vine and found Ryan.

Facing such a piece of evidence, Ryan remained silent, not saying a word.

After some communication, Hannah entered the interrogation room and sat opposite Ryan.

Hannah didn't speak, and looked at the man sitting opposite.

After being locked up in the police station for three days, the man's complexion was very bad, his obese body seemed to have lost a lot of weight, and his facial features, which were originally slightly greasy due to obesity, also showed a slightly delicate appearance.

These few days are enough for them to check out Ryan's details.

After such an investigation, they discovered that Ryan Bryce, a good old man in everyone's eyes, had a criminal record as early as 18 years ago.

Eighteen years ago, he had violently sexually assaulted a 18-year-old boy. Because of his behavior, the boy caused damage to the reproductive system. Because the circumstances were too bad, he was sentenced to ten years in prison.

However, Ryan performed very well in prison. In the end, he was released after only one and a half years in prison. Because of his good performance after he was released from prison, the two-year bail period ended as scheduled.

Afterwards, Ryan ran a convenience store in this neighborhood. A few years later, he met his destined woman. The two got married and had their own sons and daughters. They lived happily ever after.

However, two years ago, Ryan and his wife divorced, and the two children were sentenced to his ex-wife.

The reason for their divorce was ostensibly because of a broken relationship. However, Hannah and Mante went to ask Ryan's wife, but learned from her wife that Ryan had a serious tendency to violence, and repeatedly raped her. Hands-on, for the physical and mental health of the two children.She had no choice but to divorce Ryan.

However, although she divorced Ryan, her ex-wife said that Ryan was a good person except for beating people.

For the first time, Hannah felt that the meaning of the word "good man" had a hint of irony.

Ryan had a criminal record, and they finally applied to the court for a search warrant and searched Ryan's home thoroughly.

After such a search, they found many things that they hadn't found before.

Behind the wardrobe in Ryan's master bedroom, there is a mezzanine, and there are many things in the mezzanine, none of which belong to Ryan.

Those small clothes, blood-stained hats, tie clips that were cut short, and many pages of homework books missing.

Behind every object stands a missing teenager, and these are the traces they left behind.

Hannah took out a photo from her pocket, looked down for a moment, then turned the photo over, facing Ryan, Hannah heard her own voice, very soft, soft, and even coaxing Soft as a child: "Do you remember this photo? Speaking of which, I still can't believe it. The child in this photo really doesn't look like you."

"I can never imagine that such a beautiful boy will become like you in a few decades."

"Ryan, take a look, I managed to find this photo, and there is your stepfather, John Connerson on it..."

Hearing the name of John Connerson, Ryan's body trembled uncontrollably. Nightmarish memories swept over from those memories he had discarded. He suddenly raised his head. Under the dazzling light, the In the family photo, the man's figure just broke into his eyes.

Decades old photos, many places have faded due to poor preservation, he saw in the photo, the blond man holding a 13-year-old boy in his arms, his right hand around the boy's waist With his left hand resting on the boy's abdomen, he looked at the camera and smiled slightly, showing a few fine white teeth.

The memory flashes back to decades ago.

He remembered that it was Christmas, the weather was fine, and his stepfather, who had formed a family with his mother for less than a year, said he wanted to take a family portrait.

On a festival like Christmas, no one would refuse the stepfather's proposal. They took that photo, and then, on Christmas night, the atmosphere at the dinner table was very good, and the stepfather persuaded the mother, who couldn't drink, to go back to the room early to rest , Then, he, who had never drunk before, was persuaded by his stepfather to drink the first glass of wine in his life.

He inherited his mother's physique, and just a glass of beer made him feel muddled.

And then, in his twilight, his stepfather, the man he wanted to love like a father, raped him.

A nightmare-like experience, all he remembered was the boundless pain. He struggled, but found that everything was futile, and there was no way for him to escape.

The nightmarish night passed, and the next day, when facing him, his stepfather acted as if nothing had happened, and still greeted him with a smile, as usual, warm and considerate.

At that time, he was timid and cowardly, and his strong stepfather threatened him when he was young. If he told everything, his mother, his younger sister, would encounter something even more terrifying to him.

The nightmare lasted for four full years.

From the age of 13 to 17, his youth was completely shrouded in the shadow of his stepfather.

It wasn't until the summer when he was 17 years old that his stepfather died in a car accident that he finally broke free from the nightmare. However, that nightmare haunted him for too long, too long, and those memories had been deeply engraved into the depths of his soul. place, indelible.

He once thought about how he would take revenge on the man who hurt him when he grew up. However, the man died before he was able to take revenge on him.

Fate made a great joke on him. The huge wound that was gouged out in his heart will never be mended again.

Until he grew up and met a boy who was so similar to his stepfather.

Is this the chance God gave him?

Because he had been treated badly, he was given a chance to make up for his shortcomings.