"What about the other victims?"
"I haven't seen them yet, but it should be about the same."
Gu Tianqing smiled and said, "However, the person controlling the leeches in the dark is very smart. He purposely left the mucus of the leeches everywhere in order to hide the real 'entrance' of the leech army. Moreover, the targets he chose seemed to have been carefully selected. The version of the AI butler in the house didn't have video surveillance. Interesting. "
"Actually, if he really wanted to hide, he definitely wouldn't be able to. After all, this kind of simple method might not even be able to fool the experienced criminal police officers who graduated from the special forces department. It's just that normal people haven't seen this kind of situation before, so they don't know how to deal with it. "
Gu Tianqing stopped smiling and looked at Irin. She said slowly, "Oh? You mean, the other party has already predicted that he's about to be exposed? "
"In this circle, don't underestimate anyone who can survive the trial, even if he looks funny and needs a beating. Right, I'm temporarily assuming that 'he' is an apostle. " Irin said to Gu Tianqing what he had experienced before, "What I'm more curious about is why the person controlling the leeches had to kill 11 people in the same place."
Gu Tianqing nodded and agreed, "That's right. If it's me, I'll kill one person and change the location to lower the chances of being exposed. "
"Oh, you're very experienced."
Irin's expression was calm as he looked at Gu Tianqing.
Gu Tianqing replied with an elegant smile, "I'm just giving an example."
"Hehe."
Irin smiled without saying anything. He didn't expose her.
"What do we do next?"
Gu Tianqing smiled and asked.
Although he knew that Gu Tianqing was trying to change the topic, Irin was too lazy to say anything and walked out of the neighborhood.
"After investigating, although we can confirm that the group of cute leeches is hiding in the sewers, this area is too big. However, this area was too large. It was very impractical to carry out a carpet search. Moreover, if our opponent is really a group of intelligent leeches, we can't catch them all in one go under the current conditions. "
"So, we can only wait."
Irin nodded and agreed.
That's right.
Wait.
This was the only way for now.
"Let's talk about it after you wake up."
Irin yawned and left Gu Tianqing with his back facing her.
Gu Tianqing looked at Irin who was quickly leaving and suddenly chuckled. She said to Irin's back, "I don't know if it's just my imagination, but you seem to be a little impatient right now. Did something happen? "
Irin stopped in his tracks.
But he didn't turn back.
"That's just your imagination. Besides, what does it have to do with you whether I'm anxious or not? "
"Yeah, it has nothing to do with me."
…
…
This wait lasted for three days.
During these three days, Molly finally replied.
"Awesome. How did you get your hands on this document? "
Molly praised Irin's efficiency.
"Hehe, trade secrets."
"Bah." Molly spat, but she didn't ask any more questions. "I've checked. According to the data, there are currently seven research institutions that possess Star Steel other than my laboratory. By the way, you're now in Cangyang City, right? I don't know if it's a coincidence, but there's a research institute that specializes in new semiconductor materials not far from Cangyang City. I'll send it to you later. Find a place to receive it. "
"Got it."
After Irin heard the news, his eyes narrowed slightly, but he didn't say anything.
There were some things that Molly couldn't know too much about.
Irin wasn't in a hurry to find Star Steel for the time being.
To be precise, he couldn't be in a hurry.
Although Yu Meng and Zhao Yulong didn't pay much attention to what happened in the Research Division, they didn't pay much attention to a document in area A. But Irin couldn't be completely sure that the loss of the document wouldn't attract anyone's attention. Therefore, Yi Lin could only temporarily put all his thoughts aside and deal with the leech murder case in Cangyang City first.
After investigating the location of the latest victim's death with Gu Tianqing, Irin had roughly figured out the sequence of events.
There was a person who had the ability to manipulate leeches.
For a certain purpose, he manipulated leeches and killed eleven ordinary people in a month.
Apart from the fact that they were all single, there was nothing else in common about these eleven victims.
In fact, "being single and living alone" was a common point in most serial murders without a specific target.
Because this type of target was easy to kill.
Generally speaking, the murderer of this type of murder case was also collectively known as a "perverted serial killer".
"In various senses, it can really be called a 'pervert'."
In these three days.
The mysterious "leech man" seemed to know that a large net was about to be spread in Cangyang City and had no intention of showing up at all.
It was as if he had completely disappeared.
Because the case was special and involved "abnormalities", the entire case was forcibly concealed.
At present, Cangyang City was still peaceful and did not fall into chaos because of this.
But it wasn't as if nothing special had happened in these three days.
At the very least, today, in the temporary office set up for Irin and the others at the Cangyang City Police Station, a special person came to visit.
…
Irin looked at the young girl in front of her with a long saber in a black scabbard hanging from her waist and felt a headache coming on.
"Why are you here?"
Oda Wu raised her eyelids slightly. Her gaze was cold. She said slowly in an indifferent tone, "Can't I come?"
"Ah, no, that's not what I meant." Irin retreated behind Gu Tianqing without a trace. "What I mean is, why aren't you practicing your saber at home? Why are you getting involved in this mess for no reason?"
Oda Wu said in a muffled voice, "My saber has encountered a bottleneck."
"So?"
What does encountering a bottleneck have to do with you coming to Cangyang City?
Continue practicing!
Maybe you'll break through the bottleneck as you practice!
Irin was stunned and couldn't connect the two things together.
"So, I want to cut something different."
Oda Wu said matter-of-factly.
Irin: "…"
Wang Bing: "…"
Yuan Zhiye: "…"
He was most afraid of the sudden silence in the air.
This young girl's murderous intent was too strong.
Irin was even more puzzled.
He had met Oda Wu by chance during the preliminary trial in the River Styx.
Speaking of which, what other demons have you not killed?
Gu Tianqing clapped her hands and smiled. She tried to smooth things over. "It's okay. We're short of people too."
While Oda Wu was pressing the katana at her waist, Irin had already slowly sent a question mark to Zhao Yulong.
This question mark already contained all of Irin's emotions.
Zhao Yulong seemed to understand.
He laughed in the communication channel. "Are you satisfied with the pink assistant I arranged for you? According to my rich experience, I'm definitely a fan, definitely — "
"Click."
Irin turned off Zhao Yulong's communication channel and blocked him.
When he was in a good mood, he would let Zhao Yulong out.
In short.
Irin roughly understood.
Zhao Yulong had used some unknown method to trick Oda Wu into joining the Special Case Unit.
According to the Special Case Unit's style of operation, most of the members worked in groups of two or three, depending on the abilities and characteristics of each member. There weren't many weirdos in the unit who liked to solve cases alone.
Oda Wu was currently considered an official.
In this regard, Wang Bing and Yuan Zhiye had already been notified by Zhao Yulong, so they weren't surprised.
Gu Tianqing, on the other hand.
As soon as Wang Bing saw Gu Tianqing's harmless smile, alarm bells went off in his mind.
In his opinion, this Gu Tianqing was obviously not a good person.
If it weren't for Irin's guarantee that Gu Tianqing should, maybe, possibly be of help, Wang Bing might have directly detained Gu Tianqing and interrogated her.
With Oda Wu here, the field team obviously had no place to be used.
Irin didn't hesitate and directly used the field team as an investigation team, sending them out to search for all kinds of information in Cangyang City.
The key areas to be searched were some places that were closely connected to the sewer exits.
For example, sewage outlets, light factories, and major residential areas.
On the other hand.
Yuan Zhiye was specifically responsible for locking onto the next possible target and narrowing down the scope of the leech people's crimes in advance.
Although Gu Tianqing didn't veto Irin's decision, of course, she wasn't qualified to object.
But Gu Tianqing only said one thing about this.
"Heh, this is a stupid method."
That's right, in Gu Tianqing's opinion, this kind of carpet search was a solution within a solution.
Strictly speaking, it couldn't even be considered a solution.
It was just that under limited conditions, she had gone crazy to find the murderer.
During the three days when the leech people were completely hiding, Irin even used high-tech methods to try to use mini robots with cameras to enter the sewers to see if they could find any traces of the leech people passing by. But this method was only tried for a while before it was declared a failure.
Not to mention that the route of the underground sewer pipes in a city was too complicated, even more ridiculous than a maze. Moreover, the sewers were dark and damp, and could almost completely wash away the mucous membranes and residual secretions left behind by the leeches when they passed by. Unless thousands of robot armies were invested in the sewers, it would be impossible to get results.
Everything was back to square one.
As the field team and the investigation team led by Wang Bing and Yuan Zhiye sent back "no findings" one after another, Irin, who was in charge of the temporary office, didn't show much emotion on his face, but it was undeniable that waves of anxiety did grow in his heart.
Just as Gu Tianqing had seen through at a glance, he was too impatient.
Irin thought of that guy's annoying smiling face and couldn't help but pick at the dead skin on his forehead and ask himself.
… Was it really that obvious?
Admittedly, there were indeed many things that made Irin irritable.
He felt that he shouldn't spend too much time on this kind of thing.
But at the moment, he wasn't fully prepared, and it wasn't time to completely leave the special group.
Compared to Irin's impatience, Gu Tianqing was strangely leisurely.
He even used his phone to open a game that had been very popular recently, and happily played a ranking match.
"Hmm, so this is how heroes act?"
"Ah, so mages will be scolded if they act like meat …"
"Forget it, I'll just surrender."
"…"
Gu Tianqing was having a lot of fun.
Oda Wu moved a small stool and sat in the corner. She took out a piece of cloth and carefully wiped the blade of her sword.
Another four hours passed.
Nightfall.
Yuan Zhiye hurried in with a heavy expression.
"Oh no! Someone was killed again! It's the leech man! "
Someone gave the murderer such a down-to-earth name, "leech man". At first, Yuan Zhiye felt that the name was weird, but as he shouted it, he inexplicably got used to it.
The three apostles sitting in the temporary office suddenly stood up with different expressions.
Irin and Gu Tianqing looked at each other and said at the same time,
"Five days!"
…
…
It was different from Yuan Zhiye's heavy mood.
When Irin heard the news that someone was killed again, he heaved a huge sigh of relief.
You're finally here!
Three days, three days, three days.
Irin had wasted three whole days here.
Do you know how I spent these three days?
Yuan Zhiye, who had barged in, was suddenly stunned.
Why did these two guys suddenly stand up with murderous looks in their eyes?
"Where is it?"
Irin didn't wait for Yuan Zhiye to hesitate and asked straightforwardly.
Yuan Zhiye also quickly reported the location.
When they heard the news.
Yi Lin and Gu Tianqing once again had a tacit understanding and thought of the same thing.
It had been five whole days since the last time the leech man was on the move.
This was also something that Irin found strange.
Before they came, the leech man had committed 11 murders in a short month.
On average, he would kill once every two or three days.
This time, they had waited for five whole days.
There were only two possibilities.
Irin: "Either there is a reason why he has to wait."
Gu Tianqing smiled. "Or he found out that someone is looking for him."
They thought of the same thing again!
Irin hated this feeling.
But he had to admit that dealing with such strange things with Gu Tianqing could indeed save a lot of brain cells.
As he thought about it, Irin glanced at Oda Wu, who was also standing up silently not far away.
In fact, it wasn't without benefits to act with Oda Wu, who didn't use her brain and only used her knife.
At least, it could save a lot of energy if something happened.
Half an hour later.
Irin, Oda Wu, Gu Tianqing, and Yuan Zhiye arrived at the scene.
This was the scene of the twelfth murder in the leech man's serial murder case.
— It was fresh.
The scene had been cordoned off by the police.
The informant was a neighbor.
After a simple investigation, the police directly ruled out the first informant, who was the victim's neighbor, as a suspect.
After all, the neighbor was rolling in the sheets with his girlfriend at the time.
There were still wet marks on the sheets.
There were witnesses and material evidence, so there was nothing to say. He was very innocent.
…
Inside the cordon, the chief of the Cangyang City Police Station, Liao Jianbai, personally arrived at the scene.
Irin had also seen them in the past three days, so he skipped the introduction step.
"Agent Irin, thank you for your hard work." Chief Liao was in a high position, so he naturally knew that the strange-looking people in front of him had extraordinary backgrounds, so he didn't dare to underestimate them. After knowing that Irin and the others had arrived, he was the first to step out of the cordon to welcome them.
"Tell me about the case."
Gu Tianqing was Irin's special assistant, so Oda Wu had difficulty communicating with her. Therefore, the arduous task of communicating with ordinary people naturally fell on Yi Lin's head. It was well deserved.
Liao Jianbai looked at the time, his face darkened, and he spoke very quickly.
"The time of the crime should be twenty minutes ago.
"The state of the corpse's death is more than 90% similar to the first eleven cases. The scene was covered with fresh mucus. We can rule out the possibility of a copycat crime, so the murderer should be the same person. But the specific autopsy report will have to wait for the forensic doctor to do the autopsy to come to a conclusion.
"Deceased, male, 24 years old, fresh graduate, living alone, single. Because his attributes were too low during the retest, he didn't find an ideal job. For the past six months, he had been running around looking for a job. Currently, he didn't have an official job. He was addicted to computer games and live streaming, a standard otaku. "
Bureau Chief Liao Jianbai wiped the sweat off his forehead.
He didn't know if it was because he was scared or anxious.
While talking, Liao Jianbai didn't dare to delay and brought them into the house.
Gu Tianqing nodded slightly at Irin and took the initiative to go to every room to search for clues that the police might have missed.
Oda Wu couldn't be bothered to pay attention to that. She simply glanced at the scene. There didn't seem to be any enemies she could slash, so she simply hugged her sword and stood behind Yi Lin like a super female bodyguard.
Yuan Zhiye quickly and skillfully gathered the other investigation team members in the house and prepared to summarize a report to Irin.
Sure enough.
It's so easy to have subordinates.
Liao Jianbai saw Irin and the others, after entering the murder scene, almost without any communication, and began to split up. He couldn't help but secretly nod.
So professional.
After a short pause, Bureau Chief Liao Jianbai continued to speak to Irin, "The first person to find the victim was a neighbor, a 32 year old male. His identity has been checked, nothing special, just a small staff member of an IT company."
"About twenty minutes ago, the victim's neighbor was sharing a room with his girlfriend on the bed. When they were sharing a room, the victim's neighbor described that there were sounds of things being smashed next door and the victim's screams. Because of the emotional disturbance, the victim's neighbor was unusually angry and rushed next door and slammed on the door. "
"Oh?" Irin raised her eyebrows. The process of discovering the murder was a bit dramatic.
"In short, we have ruled out the neighbor as a suspect. The murderer should still be … leech man. "
No one knew when it started.
After the murderer was inexplicably given the code name "leech man", even the police began to call him "leech man".
Although many people felt that there was something wrong with the name.
Although the murderer's code name was difficult to explain, the state of death and the tragic scene at the scene, if Liao Jianbai wasn't used to seeing many big scenes in his line of work, he might have immediately vomited when he saw the body.
Because the case had happened less than half an hour ago.
The police didn't have much information.
After a simple understanding of the situation, Irin smiled and said to Liao Jianbai, "Thank you for your hard work. From now on, we, the 'professionals', will take over this case. Remember, it's confidential. "
"Yes, yes, yes!"
Liao Jianbai couldn't wait for Irin to say so. When Irin nodded, he took the other police officers away without saying a word.
A few minutes later.
Only Irin and the others were left at the scene of the murder.
Wang Bing had been in Cangyang City for quite some time, but when he saw the "mummified" body again, he still felt his scalp tingle and his skin itch. It was as if he could empathize with the feeling of countless soft-bodied creatures wriggling on his skin and sucking his blood.
After the ordinary people left.
They were professionals, so there was no hindrance in their work.
Five minutes later, the group gathered in the living room again.
Except for Wang Bing and Yuan Zhiye, the other tool team members were chased out by the two of them to keep watch outside.
The few of them looked at each other.
After a moment of silence.
Gu Tianqing coughed dryly and smiled. "Then let me go first. Consider it as … throwing a brick to attract jade? From the clues on the surface, the victim's family should be quite rich. "
Yuan Zhiye: "?"
Wang Bing: "?"
Oda Wu: "?"
Question marks popped up on the heads of the three of them at the same time.
What did the family's wealth have to do with how the victim died?
The leech-people were greedy for the body of the victim, not for money.
Unexpectedly, Irin nodded. She didn't look surprised and said calmly, "Yes, a fresh graduate who didn't have a job for half a year and can still live in a high-end neighborhood. His family can indeed be considered rich."
Wang Bing finally couldn't help but scratch his head and ask, "This … What does the family's wealth have to do with the case?"
Gu Tianqing smiled but didn't say anything.
Irin explained simply, "It can be said that it has a little to do with it, but it can also be said that it doesn't have much to do with it. Forget it, let's not talk about it for now. There's no objection to the way the victim died. Like the other eleven victims, all the blood in his body was sucked dry in a short period of time. "
Gu Tianqing smiled and continued, "This time, the other party seemed to be 'too lazy' to hide the way of invasion. The secretions on the surface of the leeches didn't cover the entire house, but concentrated in a few drainage openings. Obviously, this army of leeches invaded from all the drainage pipes and then gathered an astonishing number in a short period of time, alarming the victim. "
Irin pointed to the ground, where there were all kinds of broken glass and furniture decorations, and said, "This time, the leeches seem to be getting more and more familiar with the route of their march. They directly blocked the exits and swarmed in. Yes, a classic dumpling-making tactic. "
Gu Tianqing pondered for a few seconds. Although she still had that annoying fake smile on her face, she shook her head helplessly. "We're very passive."
"Not necessarily." Irin smiled. "This time, when the leech-people were committing the crime, there were neighbors outside knocking on the door, so they had no choice but to retreat in advance without dealing with the aftermath. It's very likely that there are clues left behind here that haven't been left behind at other murder scenes. Also … "
Irin stopped halfway and looked at Gu Tianqing.
Gu Tianqing smiled and nodded in response.
F * ck.
Can you guys not be so obvious with your flirtatious glances?
Other than the indifferent Oda Wu, Wang Bing and Yuan Zhiye both felt like outsiders.
They couldn't understand at all!
Can't you say something that normal people can easily understand!
While Irin and Gu Tianqing were speaking in riddles in front of others, Yuan Zhiye suddenly remembered and hurriedly raised his hands as if he was presenting a treasure.
"Oh right, we found something here! The AI butler used in the victim's house is a high-end version with in-house surveillance. In fact, not long after the neighbors called the police, the AI butler also automatically sent out an alarm for help because it detected abnormalities in the images. "
"What about the video?"
"We need to go back and look at it. We didn't bring our tablets when we went out. "
"You guys aren't professional."
"…"
Irin waved his hand. "Okay, then we'll take it back and look at it slowly."
Irin already had a general idea of the information he wanted to know.
Irin believed that Gu Tianqing also had a general idea.
It was just that he couldn't be sure.
But ideas were just ideas. How to find this leech man was even more difficult.
After returning to the temporary office, Yuan Zhiye used the fastest speed to pull up the surveillance video saved in the AI butler's house.
There were many video angles.
Before he died, the victim was squatting in front of the computer, playing games with an arrogant expression.
Next to him was a fast food meal.
The room was originally very tidy, so tidy that it was ridiculous.
Soon, the "victim" seemed to have noticed something unusual. His expression changed, and then he left the bedroom and walked out.
The next scene was very brutal.
From the various drainage pipes, a black mass of leeches wriggled crazily and almost covered the entire room. This vivid scene made Yuan Zhiye's face turn pale. The main point was not the horror and blood, but that humans would always have an involuntary reaction to this kind of wriggling creature, causing their scalp to go numb and their stomach acid to increase.
This was a normal physiological phenomenon.
But the bloody scene did not last long. The leech army wriggled extremely fast. They split into several groups and directly blocked the camera. In the later video, only the sound of leeches wriggling, the sound of furniture being smashed, and the victim's short and panicked scream could be heard.
Within thirty seconds, the few of them heard the victim's voice go from high pitched to hoarse, then to weak, and finally to abruptly stop. Just by listening to the change in the voice, the few of them could imagine the despair of the victim when his body was covered in leeches and his blood was being crazily sucked.
When they saw a few groups of leeches blocking the camera in an orderly manner, Irin and Gu Tianqing frowned at the same time.
In the video, only the "chirping" sound of leeches wriggling could be heard.
Suddenly.
Irin's gaze froze, and he blurted out, "What's that sound?"
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