Chapter 402 Chain
"Is there any pattern among the four known victims? For example, their workplace, age, name, time of being raped, home address, location of the crime, or appearance, etc...."

The murderers of this type of serial crime usually have a purpose when choosing their victims, and there is something in common, whether it is explicit or implicit.

If we can find this similarity, we can find a breakthrough to solve this serial case.

Li Yancheng remembered that there seemed to be some kind of criminal psychology in his previous life, which was to infer the mental state of a criminal through his behavior, and thus analyze his personality, living environment, occupation, growth background, etc.

Of course, he didn't understand this stuff.

But he knew that the most important thing in this kind of serial case was to analyze the criminal's underlying psychology, so as to gradually narrow down the information and lock on the target by cross-reference and analogy.

Knowing is knowing, but what to do specifically...

On the other side, Jin Zhihai didn't say anything for a long time after listening to Li Yancheng's words. He just helped to clean up silently.

While cleaning, I recalled the key information of the case recorded in the notebook.

"Hey, you're almost breaking my window frame. If you can't do anything else, go back to the office and study the case instead of just standing here."

Seeing that Jin Zhihai was standing by the window and wiping the window frame until it was almost patinaed, Li Yancheng could only speak with a smile to wake up the guy who was lost in thought.

"Ah? Oh..." Jin Zhihai, who was awakened from his thoughts, looked confused at first, and then he realized what was going on.

He smiled and shook his head, walked to the washbasin rack behind the door, threw the rag in his hand into the basin on the rack and began to wash the rag.

"There's no need to go there. I was just thinking about what was written in the notebook and I was a little dazed."

“Zhi Hai, we still need to find ways to do more ideological work and get more victims to come forward, just like I just said, especially the first few people in this serial case.

Certain characteristics of those victims best illustrate the killer's thoughts at the time, and as for the later victims, they may have become a habit for the killer."

"Ugh……"

Jin Zhihai shook his head in frustration: "Everyone thinks this kind of thing is embarrassing, and they can't hide it. If possible, no one is willing to stand up and admit that they have been raped.

Among the four victims who have reported the case, one of them was somehow discovered by others after he made the report.

Finally, the girl couldn't stand the cold faces of her family and the gossips of her neighbors behind her back, so she attempted suicide. Fortunately, she was discovered early and rescued.

To be honest, Dacheng, I didn’t know how to face that girl in the hospital that day.”

Li Yancheng didn't know how to respond to this. He wasn't sure if this was considered victim blaming, but people's words were scary, and to say someone could be crushed to death with the power of your tongue was not something that could be said casually.

"So, in order to avoid more victims, we need to solve the case as soon as possible. Zhihai, is there anything I can help you with? Do you have any suspects now? I can help you interrogate them."

"Suspect? There really isn't one." Jin Zhihai shook his head in distress.

"This case gives people the feeling that a tiger is trying to eat the sky but has nowhere to start. It has been ten days and there is no way to catch him. Didn't I just tell you that the criminal knocked the victim unconscious from behind and then dragged him to a remote place to commit the crime?

None of the four victims saw the perpetrator. If the last victim had not reported the case in time and had male bodily fluids extracted from her, this case would not have been exposed, and we might not even be able to tell whether the perpetrator was a man or a woman. "

"Is it possible that the victim forgot some things about the time of the injury because of the stress reaction?"

???

Jin Zhihai, who had just cleaned the rag, turned his head and looked at Li Yancheng blankly. He didn't understand the meaning of this sentence.

Seeing his confused look, Li Yancheng immediately realized that this good brother probably didn't understand the meaning of stress response.

He didn't know how to explain this term, so he simply said, "Let's put it this way. After all, the victims have just suffered huge psychological and physical trauma. Is it possible that they have selectively forgotten some things?

I don't mean that they are hiding it on purpose, but that it is because of psychological trauma they have suffered.

You know, that incident was not a good thing. It is a bad memory for them. They are unwilling to recall some fragments of what happened at that time, or their brains deliberately exclude some bad memories. "

Now Jin Zhihai probably understood, but he didn't know how to answer this question. He stood there thinking for a while before speaking.

"Dacheng, if that's the case, can you help them remember it?"

"Yes, I can do it, but first, I need to obtain the consent of the victim. Second, if you really let me do it, you need to send a letter of assistance to our bureau."

"I see. I'll go talk to our director and see what he thinks."

"Okay, that's enough. Sprinkle the water in the basin onto the floor and help me sweep the floor."

"it is good"

……

"Wife, are you willing to work in our bureau?"

"Hmm? Going to work at your bureau?"

At night, Luo Min, who was resting her head on Li Yancheng's belly, was stunned at first when she heard this, then she sat up suddenly, turned around and looked at her man who was leaning on the bed with an incredulous look on her face.

"Oh my aunt, please slow down."

Luo Min's sudden jump frightened Li Yancheng so much that his hair almost stood up. He quickly reached out to help her lie down first.

"I'm just asking if you're willing to work in the same unit with me. Why are you so surprised?"

"No, Dacheng, why did you suddenly think of asking me to work at your company?"

After being helped to lie down again, Luo Min turned her head and stared at her man and asked.

"Isn't this for your safety? Working in our company is safer than working in other companies anyway."

"So... do you want me to go?"

"Of course I do. When I came back yesterday and heard that there was a lurker in your library, I broke out in cold sweat and my heart almost jumped out of my throat."

On the way back last night, Li Yancheng was really scared after hearing the details of the case that the driver helped to convey. Fortunately, nothing happened.

"Why didn't you tell me when we were having dinner? Mom and Dad were here."

"I forgot. I just remembered it when we were talking about work just now." Li Yancheng smiled embarrassedly and raised his hand to touch his nose.

Today I helped with the interrogation of the First Division again, and in the afternoon I heard Jin Zhihai talk about that case again. He had indeed forgotten what the management bureau told him at noon.

Just now, the couple were lying on the bed and chatting, and they talked about work, which reminded him of this matter.

"Well... OK, should I go to work now, or wait until after the baby is born? By the way, Dacheng, do you want me to work in your company?"

Luo Min didn't hesitate too much. After thinking about it for a while, he agreed and did not forget to ask for other opinions.

"Of course I thought about it. This way we can go to and from get off work together, which is very convenient. As for when to go to work..." At this point, Li Yancheng's eyes fell on his wife's bulging belly.

Luo Min has been pregnant for more than six months. Apart from going to the toilet outside which is a little troublesome because it has to squat, there is no inconvenience for her to do other light work.

In fact, pregnant women should have more contact with the outside world, so that they will not have wild thoughts due to having nothing to do all day.

"Wife, if you want, I think it's good to go to work now, so you won't be bored at home."

"Hey, I thought so too."

Although Luo Min doesn't like dealing with outsiders, he is not the type of person who is willing to stay at home and not see anyone.

She likes to have something to do.

"Okay, then I'll go to the bureau tomorrow and talk to the leader and start processing the procedures for you."

"Um"

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at the same time
Jin Zhihai was waiting while flipping through the notebook in his hand, constantly looking for any common information among the four known victims.

"What are you looking at, Team Leader Jin?"

Chen Zilin, a team member who went out for a walk and returned to the car, saw that his deputy team leader had been looking at the notebook with a flashlight and recording something since he came out to wait. He came over curiously and asked.

"I want to see if there is any pattern among these victims."

"Pattern? What do you mean?"

"I talked about this case with my brother Li Yancheng today." Jin Zhihai closed the notebook in his hand, turned off the flashlight, and raised his head.

Because he felt some discomfort in his cervical spine from bowing his head for a long time, he raised his hand to massage his neck, and then talked about what Li Yancheng had told him in the afternoon.

After listening, Chen Zilin frowned and thought for a while.

"What if the murderer just struck randomly?"

"No, this murderer definitely didn't act randomly, he had a purpose."

"What do you mean?" Chen Zilin was a little surprised at how Jin Zhihai made this judgment. There was no such statement at the case briefing yesterday.

"Actually, I am just guessing, and it is still too early to tell. Look at Zilin, first of all, these four victims were attacked after getting off work at night, in a place where there were no people and no street lights.

After the attack, the murderer would immediately move the victim to a more remote place to commit the crime.

The place where he committed the crime was not far from where he attacked the victim.

This behavior once or twice is accidental, but if it happens four times in a row it means he is particularly familiar with these places.

besides……"

Da da da da
Jin Zhihai also drew a map marking the places where the four victims were attacked and the places where the crimes were committed.

He told him all the vague clues he had guessed, which made Chen Zilin want to say more but seeing that he kept talking, he didn't feel comfortable interrupting him and could only listen patiently.

After waiting for a long time until he stopped, Chen Zilin took out a cigarette and handed it to him. He struck a match and helped him light it, then spoke carefully.

"Team Leader Jin, I can't tell what pattern or purpose you've been talking about for so long. Uh... No, there must be a purpose. The criminal's purpose is very clear, which is to commit crimes against those lesbians. But what other purpose..."

"Ugh……"

Jin Zhihai put the cigarette in his hand into his mouth and raised his hand to scratch his hair in annoyance.

He just studied it for a long time, and the things he said were actually mentioned at the case analysis meeting. As for new clues, haha, he didn't find any.

When he thought of those lesbian victims and the possibility of even more victims, he wished he could drag that man out and chop him into pieces.

Can……

Just as I thought of this, I suddenly heard a shout outside the car window. It was a man walking on the side of the road who was about to go to work the night shift. He saw a colleague riding a bicycle, and the man shouted loudly to the one riding a bicycle. While shouting, he ran to catch up with the one riding the bicycle and sat on the back seat of the bicycle. The two of them walked away while talking and laughing.

"bike"

"Hmm? What bike?"

Chen Zilin turned his head and looked out the window in some confusion, only to see that the bicycle that had just passed by was getting farther and farther away.

"All four victims were riding bicycles."

"That's right." Chen Zilin retracted his gaze and turned to look at Jin Zhihai who was sitting in the passenger seat.

“Do they take a fixed route home from get off work every day?”

"Yes, and they were all attacked not far from home."

"Then the murderer must have a bicycle to select his targets and keep an eye on them, otherwise he won't be able to keep an eye on them."

"Uh...right!"

"Then how did he choose his targets? These four victims are from different units."

"This..." Chen Zilin couldn't answer this question.

"The victims must have something in common, but we haven't discovered it yet, and this commonality is the reason why the murderer chose them.

Otherwise, with so many people getting off night shift every day, why didn't he choose others but chose these four people? The murderer must have been tracking them with a purpose.

He can't cast a wide net, hunting this person today and that person tomorrow. This murderer must have nothing to do at night."

Jin Zhihai seemed to be possessed. He sat there looking out the window with unfocused eyes, talking to himself non-stop. After talking for a while, he lowered his head to write something in a notebook.

Seeing him like this, Chen Zilin shrugged his shoulders, said nothing more, turned his head to look out the car window, looking back and forth.

They were waiting here at night, and now Jin Zhihai was obviously stuck in a dilemma of finding clues. He needed to pay more attention to observe outside to see if there were any suspicious people.

If the murderer slipped under their noses and committed the crime, they would be derelict in their duty.

Jin Zhihai, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was now completely oblivious to what was happening outside and was only focused on finding that common point.

(End of this chapter)

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