crime profiler in the dark

Just when Bai Haolin was going to Quanxin Psychotherapy on Friday to ask Zou Jun to return to the police station to assist in the investigation, Sergeant Qi from the Criminal Investigation Division [-] located the mobile phone of the first victim, Wu Jing, to determine where she last appeared. In the industrial area, due to the wide range of triangular positioning, the police officers of the Criminal Investigation Division [-] finally determined that the place where Wu Jing was murdered was in an abandoned hotel waiting to be demolished after visiting for nearly [-] hours a day.

This abandoned hotel was originally planned to be demolished and rebuilt at the end of last year. Due to the broken capital chain of the company, the reconstruction plan was stranded indefinitely. Now it has been occupied by the homeless and beggars nearby. Many of their belongings are placed in the corridors and vacant rooms. ——Small sheds made of waste cardboard boxes, beds made of rotten cotton wool and old clothes, supermarket shopping carts full of broken copper and iron, etc., due to no ventilation and no one cleaning, the air in the whole building It was cloudy, filled with acrid body odor, damp musty wallpaper, and the sour smell of rotten food.

It was Zhao Yue and He Huan from the Criminal Investigation Division [-] who found this place. When they thought this place was not what they were looking for like other places, they overheard a homeless man mentioning that there was a locked room on the top floor, and forcibly opened that room. After seeing the scene inside, the two immediately called for rescue.

When Bai Haolin arrived at the abandoned hotel after receiving a call from Sergeant Qi, the building had already been blocked, and many police cars were parked downstairs. The auxiliary police officers from the support department had already entered the scene to collect evidence, and the police officers were questioning the homeless people in the hotel. Look for witnesses.

The business suite on the top floor is [-] square meters, with a living room and a bedroom. Although the hotel has been out of power for a long time, the scene in the room can still be seen clearly through the light from the side window - the murderer is in the living room every other day. The rice was hung on the horizontal bars, and a dozen red scarves were placed on each horizontal bar. The scarves were all dyed red with blood. The strong smell of blood and the pungent smell of preservatives mixed together and reached the brain, penetrating people's hearts. The hairs stand on end, and the scalp is numb.

Although the assistant police were putting the red scarves into evidence bags one by one at this time, the blood mountain and red sea still made people feel extremely disgusted. Many people would leave after a quick glance, but Bai Haolin stood at the door On the side, the black pupils reflected the patches of blood red, and his expression was serious and thoughtful.

"Xiao Bai." Sergeant Qi, who was standing by the bedroom door, gestured to Bai Haolin for him to come over.

Bai Haolin suppressed the feeling of nausea and nausea, and walked through the red scarf in the living room to the bedroom. The sound of the flies fluttering became louder as he walked in. It seemed that the flies with a radius of hundreds of miles had given up the feast in the living room and gathered in the bedroom.

Through the window on the right, you can see the scene in the bedroom. This is a crime scene. In the corner near the window on the right, there are unused embalming fluids, catheters, and blood without preservatives in an iron bucket. , so the flies were all attracted by the smell of blood, and they all gathered in the bedroom, and the sound of "buzzing buzzing" was very annoying, and this was not the reason why Chief Qi called him Bai Haolin.

There is a female corpse on the bed. Her body is white and she has no clothes on her body. Only three red scarves are wrapped around her neck, chest and chest. Looking a bit like "2", her eyes are slightly open, the corners of her mouth are smiling, and the blush on her cheeks makes her look alive.

Before Bai Haolin judged that the murderer tied the red scarf on the No.2 victim after killing her, it was a psychological projection similar to cutting her throat, but the red scarf was wrapped in three places on this female corpse, which undoubtedly broke his previous inference.

At this time, the chief forensic doctor, Dr. Jiang, was conducting a preliminary examination of the corpse: "Same as the previous victim, there are two needle holes in the neck; the tongue is not swollen, and there are bloodshot eyes. The initial judgment is suffocation or strangulation."

"That is to say, it is very likely that, like Wu Jing, he was strangled by a large area of ​​soft objects?" Sergeant Qi confirmed.

"I can't give you an accurate answer before the autopsy, I can only say that there is a possibility." Dr. Jiang has always been rigorous in his work and will not jump to conclusions lightly.

Bai Haolin walked to the side of the iron bucket containing the fresh blood. The bucket was silvery white and nearly half a meter high. The blood inside occupied 2/3 of it. Unclear flies were clinging to the pool of blood in the barrel to feast on. At this moment, Bai Haolin thought of something and asked, "Doctor Jiang, how much blood does a person have?"

"The total blood volume of a normal adult is 7%-8% of body weight, usually 4-5 liters." Dr. Jiang replied.

Hearing what Dr. Jiang said, Sergeant Qi also felt that something was wrong. He walked quickly to the iron bucket and looked inside: "This kind of iron bucket is mainly used for industrial loading, and the capacity should be 20 liters. Visually, there is at least There are 15 liters!"

"Could it be that the blood of the two previous victims was also mixed in?" Bai Haolin guessed.

"Victim No. 1 has been murdered for almost a month, and the blood without special treatment cannot be preserved for such a long time," Dr. Jiang said as he walked to the iron bucket and observed the color of the blood. "It should be stored within 48 hours." .”

"Is there another victim that hasn't been found?" Sergeant Qi frowned.

"Although the murderer's cooling-off period is shortening, it hasn't reached the point where he can attack two victims at the same time." After Bai Haolin expressed his opinion, he remembered that he had made several mistakes in judgment in a row, and he felt a little uncertain. Recalling He Guangzhong's previous opinion that there were two suspects, he added, "Unless it is a gang crime, the leader and the submissive have conflicts and go their separate ways."

Sergeant Qi gave a "tsk", not knowing whether he felt that Bai Haolin's words were useless to express his dissatisfaction, or because he still had no clue about the case.

"Wait!" Dr. Jiang suddenly saw tiny blisters popping out of the blood bucket and then bursting. A few flies moved reluctantly. "Look!"

"Puff, puff" two more small bubbles rose and then burst. Before Bai Haolin could figure it out, Sergeant Qi yelled as if waking up from a dream: "Quick back!! Back up!!!"

Sergeant Qi pulled Dr. Jiang with one hand and Bai Haolin with the other. The three of them just retreated from the door when they heard a loud "bang".

I saw the iron bucket was torn into several pieces, and at the same time, the blood in the bucket exploded like fireworks, and splashed all around. Everything happened so fast that the three of them could not dodge in time, and the hair, face and clothes seemed to be unable to dodge. The torrential rain was completely soaked in blood. Bai Haolin felt his face was as cold as if he had been hit by a bean-sized raindrop. The loud explosion made his ears ring. Blood slid down his forehead to his eyelids, staining his vision red.

Everything happened too fast and too suddenly, and Bai Haolin's sanity was shattered in an instant. He didn't have time to recall the incident, his blood feud and the unsolved mystery of his father's murder, and he didn't even have time to review what he had done. The blame fell on the dark facts and the unfinished business with Xing Hongming, the roar of the bomb tore him apart, and the rain of blood mixed with thick and choking smell swallowed him in an instant.

"Back! Back quickly!!" The police officers shouted while pulling the stunned Bai Haolin and the others because they didn't know if there were any bombs in the room.

But to Bai Haolin, these voices were extremely far away, and only the ringing in his ears that kept clamoring indicated to him that the danger was not over yet.

"Quick! Send the bomb disposal team to support!" Although Sergeant Qi was also affected, his on-the-spot experience calmed him down quickly. He shouted to other police officers as he exited the suite.