Returning from the abyss

Chapter 783 Imitation
The surveillance video at the entrance of the supermarket is still relatively clear, showing the appearance of several people in Ying Caiyi two hours ago.But the man was wearing a thick fleece coat, a hat, and the collar was pulled high, so his face could not be seen clearly.The car was black, and the license plate was barely recognizable. Lu Ning thanked the people in the supermarket after taking photos of the key information, and politely declined their question about whether to call the police, and went outside.

boarding?She didn't know that Ying Caiyi knew such a person with a luxury car, of course, it might be that she did.But what exactly was that man buying some sanitizers for?
Just when Lu Ning was in doubt, the phone rang - Ying Caiyi.

She picked up the phone and said "Hello", followed by Ying Caiyi's voice: "Is it Lu Ning? I just saw the message, sorry, sorry."

Hearing that she was still so energetic, Lu Ning breathed a sigh of relief: "I didn't even dare to call you, where did you go? I thought you were in some danger!"

"Don't worry, I'm not alone."

"I know you have found two classmates!"

"Ah, and my uncle."

"...Your uncle?"

"That's right, my uncle came here to discuss business, but the road was blocked by heavy snow and he was trapped here. He knew that I was studying in university here, so he came to see me."

Lu Ning vaguely remembered that Ying Caiyi did often say that she was not short of living expenses at all, nor was she short of money.But because she is very keen on making money by herself, everyone didn't take it seriously, thinking that she was just an ordinary middle-class person, and no one asked her about her family background.

"It scared us to death."

"Hey, didn't you go to meet the big star? Are you back so soon?"

"The road is too bad, I can't go at all, I made an appointment at another time." Lu Ning prevaricated, "Where are you? Where did you go?"

"My uncle invited us to dinner. Didn't he remember to check his mobile phone after dinner? We are in Fenghai Restaurant and just left after dinner. The road conditions are not good, but we will probably go back after a while."

"Okay, scare me. I'm going back to the dormitory first, waiting for you to come back."

Lu Ning hung up the phone, turned around and returned to school.

"Li Xian, I..."

"Lu Ning, have you found Ying Caiyi?"

As soon as Lu Ning opened the door, she saw Li Xian who was dressed and ready to go out.

"what happened?"

"I just received a notice from the teacher. Students should not go out these days and report their whereabouts at any time. There are two girls missing from a nearby school yesterday, and the body of one of them was found at noon today!"

"Slow down, Ying Caiyi went to eat with her uncle and will be back in a while." Lu Ning hurriedly stopped Li Xian, "What's the situation?"

"Well, I thought... Forget it, you can see for yourself." She pointed to a piece of paper on Lu Chunxiao's empty seat.

Lu Ning picked it up and took a look. The notice from the school was to the effect that dangerous criminals appeared nearby, and the targets were suspected to be young men and women from high school to college age. He reminded all students not to leave the campus at will, and to report to the head teacher when going out.Not many details were given about the case.

"Why did another death happen?"

"It is said that it was the same modus operandi that killed the four boys before. This time it was a snow shoveler. Fortunately, it was snow shoveling. Otherwise, if a large snow removal vehicle ran over it, the body would probably be rotten." Li Xian wrapped her clothes Walking into the room, he opened the photo album with his mobile phone, "I took two screenshots, which will probably be deleted soon, take a look."

The screenshots are a few photos of the shooting scene. The photographer is obviously not very professional. He didn't find a suitable angle at all, and just photographed the corpse.Lu Ning could only tell from the above that it was a girl. She only had a single shirt on her body, which was stained with blood. Judging from the surrounding snow, it must have been thrown here for a long time, and it was hard to tell otherwise.

Lu Ning sighed: "Does anyone recognize this girl?"

"I only know that it's from the school next door. I don't want to inquire about the specifics. I've blocked the news. The serial murder case should be considered a serious case?"

"That must be a serious case."

"I asked a few classmates, but they didn't know. Now everyone is surprised and a little curious. Anyway, no one leaves the school in this weather, so there is not much panic." Li Xian spread her hands.

Lu Ning looked at it with her mobile phone, but suddenly noticed that there were many messy footprints on the ground in the photo. Due to the thick snow, these footprints were covered, but they were turned out because of some traces of snow shoveling that seemed to be concealed.

These footprints were all broken, but the fragmentation did not affect the extraction of the footprints. Such obvious traces were left at the scene, which shows that the follow-up processing after committing the crime was not very strict. It is estimated that other evidence was left at the scene.

Modern tracing methods are actually very sophisticated, ordinary crimes are easy to find out, the more you do, the more loopholes you will find.Lu Ning thought for a while, and said to Li Xian, "Wait and see the news, the murderer is probably easy to catch this time."

"The murderer this time?"

"Well, I also paid attention to the issue of those four boys before. It took more than two weeks for their bodies to be discovered. During these two weeks, the police must have mobilized a lot of resources to track them down, but found nothing. This is a very serious situation. A skilled repeat offender who left no evidence to trace himself. But this time the scene is obviously much rougher."

"You mean..."

"Probably a copycat."

Ying Caiyi came back after two o'clock, and brought back a large bag of snacks, which were bought for her by her uncle, and there were quite a lot of express delivery, but Ying Caiyi was obviously very happy, and gave Lu Ning He and Li Xian stuffed several bags together.

Li Xian also handed the notice to Ying Caiyi to take a look, reminding her to pay attention to safety. Ying Caiyi smiled and said that she was fine, and then started to unpack her express delivery.

As Lu Ning expected, good news came a little later that day. The other of the two missing girls was successfully rescued, and the identity of the suspect has been locked and is being arrested.With the current bad traffic environment and the suspect's poor level of erasing traces, people will probably be arrested in Internet cafes in the near future.

"It seems to be a jobless person nearby. After seeing the news on the Internet, he wanted to imitate the same crime. Alas, it's a pity for that girl." Li Xian sighed after reading the latest notice, "Lu Ning, if you follow your As you said, this is just a copycat, the real culprit is still at large, right?"

"Of course, the real culprit's methods are cautious and clean. He must be a cruel and cunning person."

But the real murderer is one thing, the appearance of the imitator let Lu Ning know what the first difficulty of this mission is.Unsurprisingly, the next day, imitation crimes occurred in several nearby provinces and cities, and the targets were all young people. Some of them have already been arrested, but some are still at large.This crime started to spread like a plague. For a while, people began to panic. Even Lu Ning's father called her again to ask about Lu Ning's situation.Ying Caiyi and Li Xian were also questioned carefully by their family members.

Almost overnight, everyone seemed to know that there was a serial killer prowling the northern provinces, and at the same time, many people started imitating this killer.The previous cases of the four boys were also completely uncovered. For a while, there were people who accused the police of incompetence, discussed the inside story of the case, and analyzed the psychology of the murderer. They seemed to be the greatest fun on the Internet during this cold time.

Lu Ning also contacted Liu Huanyu afterwards, and this incident did indeed attract the attention of some people above.According to Liu Huanyu, some big figures have already ordered an investigation, and it seems that a task force has been dispatched. Since this incident has caused some adverse social effects, public opinion control measures have also begun to be implemented.

"This should be the prelude to the so-called 'Fifteen Youth Murder Incident'. The real culprit should be a person with superpowers. If possible, I would like to ask Li Xilou if his ability can directly catch the murderer. "

"Unfortunately, his ability is not that convenient. Miss Lu Ning, if you want to find the murderer, maybe you need some internal files? We can get some of this."

"Oh? Really? I thought Mr. Li Xilou..."

"Since Xilou came back, he has started to develop his social circle in many ways. Some requirements that are not too excessive can still be met. Everything he does is to protect us from any harm in the future." Liu Huanyu said with a smile , "And what you do is what he needs, so we will use these resources to support you."

"Thank you, when can I get the dossier?"

"The electronic version can be sent to you tomorrow. By the way, Miss Lu Ning, I have another question here, which I want to ask personally."

"Ok?"

"Can you describe to me what happened to you and Xilou in that world?"

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[The Zhao Group hired Cen Gaifei as the chief consultant, setting a record for the youngest chief consultant in history. 】

"The things in the newspaper have always been to report some eye-catching things." Tang Ling folded the newspaper a little bored, and threw it on the table next to him, "Brother Meng, it's snowing in the north, so let's run to the big southern island like this Is it suitable for vacation?"

"You don't feel anything inappropriate, do you? You're probably just worried about the upcoming missions? After all, both missions are in the north." Meng Juan was lying on a sun lounger with a glass of fruit juice, wearing a floral shirt and shorts on the beach. , two people are enjoying the warm southern sun on the balcony of the hotel.

"Yeah, Brother Meng, who is the murderer of that murder this time?"

"I don't know." Meng Juan said with a smile, "Such a cunning murderer should at least not be inferior to my level back then, otherwise this task would be too easy. Of course it will take minutes to act like those imitators. Caught... Oh, by the way, have you read the invitation letter?"

"Pretend to be the most annoying thing."

"Tang Ling, you have to learn to adapt to various conditions in a diverse scene, and the invitation letter is only a little wordy, but the content is still very straightforward, isn't it?" Meng Juan laughed, "And I said, You actually have the first-hand resources, it might be a good thing to make good use of them, we are the custody team."

"Uh... I'm sorry Brother Meng."

"It's nothing. Come on, take a look at this newspaper. Cen Gaifei is not a well-known person, but he also appeared in our materials. He caused some trouble to a few thugs at the second and third levels. But those trash If he failed to reach the fourth level, he naturally didn't have the ability to trouble him, so he just reported it for data collection. Such a person has no turn to be shot by the assassination team or the intelligence team, but he can successfully get rid of those mad dog-like guys There's always something in it."

"Brother Meng, we handle hundreds of names every day." Tang Ling was surprised.

"Just remember some of the outstanding people. This Mr. Cen, we can find a time to visit and see if he has woken up. If not, then I think the next stage has already begun. Meng Juan put the juice cup on the table, took the newspaper and unfolded it, "The Zhao Consortium...ah, in my memory, there seems to be no such consortium. What about you, Tang Ling?"

"I never left that place until I died, and I don't even know how many big consortiums there are outside."

"Then we may have to pay close attention to this consortium in the future." Meng Juan nodded lightly, "Don't use too violent methods, let me think about it... find a senior executive of the consortium to baptize?"

"Then why don't I just tie Cen Gaifei here and open the third stage. Anyway, I've done this once, so I don't mind doing it again."

"Tang Ling, there must be a price for speeding." Meng Juan shook his finger, "This scene is not as simple as you think. It mixes the world of every life and generates a brand new world. This world It's good for some, bad for some, but most importantly, it's still based on our world. But I think it's inevitable that there will be new people and worlds as the stage moves forward Mixed in, you should know what kind of past the people in the distribution center have?"

"……Know."

"When the distribution center selects us, only one condition is considered, that is, the dead human beings on an earth-like planet. As for what is going on on this planet, we don't care about it." Meng Juan said, "The life is going well now, let's take advantage of it Wouldn't it be better to think about good things at this time?"

"Good thing?" Tang Ling was slightly puzzled.

"For example, what can be obtained and learned in this scene." Meng Juan got up and stretched his waist, "Learning is endless, Tang Ling, even if those superpowers can't be taken away, there are many us in the scene of the distribution center." Knowledge that can be learned, even if it’s just a little bit of history in a different place, can be informative.”

"So... what about our mission?"

"When the snow becomes more severe, we will head back to the north." Meng Juan took off his floral shirt, and a maid came over and put on a nightgown for him.A scarlet pattern faintly flashed in the maid's left eye, her face expressionless.

(End of this chapter)