Crime Profiler 2

Chapter 3 Marionette (3)
To put it bluntly, this is more like a small game. Players can control the actions of game characters through the mouse and keyboard. In this murder game, the three victims are the characters to be operated by the murderer.

On the left side of the screen is an operation interface through which the three victims can be controlled when to perform the next action.

Zheng Yan picked a character at random and began to observe the victim's trajectory.To the surprise of Team Z, all the actions of the victim were trivial daily life details, such as welcoming guests, cleaning, eating, and resting, without any overly complicated actions.

Looking at this scene, Zheng Yan frowned slowly.

"It's not unusual, is it?" He glanced at Du Li and asked.

"It's really not normal." Du Li nodded. "He spent so much time and energy, and in the end it was this kind of performance that was so ordinary that it couldn't be called a stage play at all. It's not logical."

"Yeah." Zheng Yan also nodded, did not speak, and continued to manipulate the character's next actions.

"You two, are you thinking too much? I don't think there is anything abnormal." Tang Hegong interjected, "After all, this is not a doll made of wood. The weight is placed there, and it is made by a machine. You can’t do particularly complicated movements if you manipulate it with a fishing line.”

Zheng Yan just shook his head, noncommittal to Tang Hegong's words.

After a while, the performance of the characters in the screen came to the final step. Tang Hegong, Zheng Yan, Qin Ling and Du Li looked at the performance in the screen but couldn't believe it. The puppet took out a machete from under the coffee table. He stabbed hard into his chest.

"Okay." Zheng Yan let out a long breath, "Now I'm going to start, and I'll start here."

Pointing to the room where the suspect had been hiding, he said.

He chose this place and those people after careful investigation.No one in this place will notice him, and the disappearance of those few people will not attract people's attention.

He spent a period of time observing the behavior of the victim, and finally confirmed that they would drink heavily every night, quarrel because of the demolition, and would use the water in the water tank to make tea.

That night, after confirming that the victim's behavior was normal, he put the sleeping pills and sodium citrate prepared in advance into the water tank in the dark.Because of his fear and nervousness, he didn't notice that some of the medicine powder was stuck on the edge of the tank and didn't dissolve into the water.

But the dosage of the medicine is enough, half an hour later, the effect of the medicine will take effect.Armed with all the tools he needed, he used a screwdriver to pry open the victim's home, which had fallen asleep on the couch.

He lifted the three victims onto the table, pointed the knife in his hand at the joints of the victims, tried several times, but did not do it.His body trembled uncontrollably, and every time the blade touched the skin of the three people, he would immediately bounce off like an electric shock.

At this time, he felt a little hesitant and unbearable.

Killing is not his purpose.

In the end, he still made up his mind and stabbed in fiercely.The wound caused by this knife was not large, but it accurately cut off the victim's artery, and hot blood gushed out all of a sudden, splashing into the bucket that had been placed long ago.A few drops of hot blood splashed on his body, but he was unmoved.

While waiting for the victim's blood to flow out, he did nothing, and even walked around the room a little anxiously.The victim's face gradually paled, his breathing weakened, and the unconscious twitching of the body stimulated the murderer.He ran back to the room, brought back a few sticks of incense and lit them in front of them.In this way he reduces his fear and guilt.

Perhaps he also bowed down before these few people.

When the victim's blood was gone, he took the barrels full of the victim's blood back to the hiding room, marked them, and lit incense in front of the barrels of blood.He regards this room as a mourning hall, and he worships it from time to time to express his guilt.

The next job was to make the puppet and cut the ceiling.This is a very complicated job, but for him, he enjoys it. This is the job he is best at. He devotes himself to it and is completely in his own world. All changes in the outside world will have no effect on him. influences.

This is the most proud work of his life, a puppet that can cry, laugh and get angry, he has done it with unprecedented seriousness.

This is the real purpose of his case.

But it's also the last thing he wants, they're the demons he made, so he lets them self-destruct in the end.

They were not supposed to come into this world, but they had to come for a special purpose.

All the preparations took about half a month, and then he called the TV station, which was the last step of the whole plan.

But the police came much sooner than he expected.He felt terrified and at a loss. He smashed the computer and jumped out of the window. Many traces were too late to erase.

"That's what the murderer did." Zheng Yan stood by the window of the room where the murderer was hiding, and slowly opened his eyes.

"Is Officer Zheng okay?" Watching Zheng Yan walk from one room to another, the expression on his face kept changing, and he even vividly described the murderer's trajectory as if he was at the scene, including the murderer's emotions and physical condition. Not letting go of the trembling, Police Officer Huang gradually changed from disdain to shock.

"He's fine." Tang Hegong shook his head, "This is called empathy, a special kind of criminal profiling, which can describe the whole process of the murderer when the crime happened, even including the psychological state."

"Isn't that amazing?" Officer Huang said with some doubts, "I understand crime scene restoration, and we often use it when handling cases. But Officer Zheng, even the suspect's emotions, some things have no evidence at all." It can all be restored, this..."

He looked at Tang He Gong with some embarrassment. This kind of thing is really unbelievable.

"There is a saying in psychology that people cannot go beyond their nature to do something." Zheng Yan took the mineral water handed by Mu Xue, took a sip, and said, "What he did here may not be left behind." However, he left traces in another place, and these two places are related, so it is not difficult to infer his actions and mental activities at that time. This is a very simple deductive reasoning " He smiled and said, "I have told you everything I have analyzed, now let's guess what kind of person the murderer is, and who will come first?"

"Throwing bricks to attract jade, of course I am here. Anyway, I have an old face and I am not afraid of shame." Tang Hegong laughed and said, "I think the murderer committed the crime premeditatedly. First of all, he did not choose this place on a whim, but after careful consideration. Considered, it is good for lurking, and it is not easy to be discovered. Secondly, before committing the crime, he has made sufficient preparations, including preparing a full set of crime tools and writing the control program. Thirdly, the choice of the target is not random. , but the result of long-term observation. As you said, he observes the family almost every day, and fully grasps the target's living habits, including when to drink, when to drink tea, and where to use water."

"Then what kind of person do you think the murderer is?" Zheng Yan looked at Tang Hegong with great interest.

"I think he is young, but he has a certain amount of social experience." Tang Hegong said, "We look at the target he chose, lazy, alcoholic, and living on government assistance. This kind of person is no different from a 'worm'. You just said He acted with guilt, and choosing such a person should also be to alleviate his guilt. But at the same time, it also shows that he is a bit evil, but the edges and corners are a bit smoothed. I speculate that the age of the suspect should be around 40 years old. Usually very honest, like a good old man."

"The boss just talked about guilt, so let me analyze the murderer's psychology." Du Li smiled slightly and said, "Zheng Yan just said that the murderer worshiped the victim, which represents guilt. Everyone should There is no objection. At the same time, Zheng Yan also mentioned that the murderer could not hide his fear during the crime, and tried to stop it many times in the middle. What does this mean? I think it means that he had no choice but to kill, at least in his opinion. This kind of no choice Where did it come from? I think this has a direct relationship with his decision to take this case, and it is very likely that it is out of a sense of mission rather than his original intention."

As soon as this sentence was uttered, everyone's faces changed. There are traces of vendetta killings and passion killings, but killing out of mission may mean that the murderer will commit crimes again, and the chosen target is With a lot of randomness, it is often what bothers the police the most.

"Don't worry, the murderer may not commit crimes again." Seeing everyone's reaction, Du Li quickly said, "The whole planning of the crime process and the meticulous production of dolls all show one thing. The murderer is a meticulous person. It stands to reason that he will do a very good job in the aftermath. But we also saw that the murderer left many clues, such as uncleaned water tanks, electrical wires with fingerprints, and computers that were not taken away. We caught him directly. And he left these things, it is very likely that he left them unconsciously because of guilt, and he may be waiting for us to come to the door."

"Guilty? Unconscious?" Qin Ling repeated these two words, shaking her head slowly, "I'm more inclined to stay because the murderer committed the crime for the first time, and his psychological quality is not strong enough. The murderer made a trial cut during the crime You think the murderer did it out of guilt, but I think it was out of fear. Zheng Yan reasoned that the murderer made many small mistakes that should not have been made. When the police came, they panicked. Instead of taking away the computer, they smashed it. It’s more like the first time to do this kind of thing, caused by inner fear. So my opinion is that the murderer committed the crime for the first time, as for whether there will be a next time, I, a forensic doctor, can’t judge.”

"Mu Xue, what about you, what do you think of this suspect?" Zheng Yan looked at Mu Xue and asked.

"Zheng Yan specifically mentioned in his sympathy that the murderer was very abnormal when making the doll, and completely entered another world, a world that belonged to him alone. This is a point worthy of our deliberation." Mu Xue pondered. For a moment, say, "Judging from the state you described, in that world, he is the absolute king. He has no fear or tension, and he is fully committed to it. So I wonder if the murderer's belief is a marionette. His Does the purpose also have something to do with the marionette?"

"In order to make the most realistic dolls? Didn't Brother Zheng say that these dolls are 'crying, laughing and angry' dolls, which are his most proud works? This is a bit like an extreme person pursuing some kind of Extreme." Qin Ling said.

"No." Mu Xue shook her head, "That way there is no need to go on TV, the murderer obviously wants to show something."

"Mission, puppet." Du Li frowned, her eyes suddenly widened, "I see. The murderer's crime is related to the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage!"

"What inheritance?" Tang Hegong asked puzzled.

"The inheritance of intangible cultural heritage." Du Li said affirmatively, "Marionettes are a kind of intangible cultural heritage, but this traditional culture is declining and facing disappearance. The murderer may just want to arouse the public's awareness of this intangible cultural heritage." Only this sense of mission will make him willing to bear the charge of murder! The murderer is a puppeteer!"

"Wonderful!" Zheng Yan applauded first, glanced at the dumbfounded police officer Huang, and said, "Dr. Cleaning up, but out of guilt, he has been afraid to face it, so he has not cleaned it up; he can take away the computer, but he left it to the police by smashing it. I also think that the murderer is the first time to commit the crime. Not good, but also the clues left to us subconsciously to solve the case. This further shows that the murderer did not intend to kill, but just had to kill for a more important purpose, and this purpose is the mission Dr. Du said."

(End of this chapter)