Captain Lu was aloof again today.

Chapter 144 Internet Addiction

Just then, Chen Jin and Xiao Song returned with the address they had just received.

Just as Zheng Xun said, these three are all internet cafe addresses.

Chen Jin deliberately emphasized, "Captain Lu, all three internet cafes are located in the old city area."

Lu Jingming's eyes darkened slightly as he immediately thought of the woman who had driven away and disappeared in the old town.

After leaving Li Linlu's house, the woman drove all the way to the old town and then disappeared from the surveillance camera's view.

The three IP addresses used by the person who uploaded the video were all from internet cafes in the old city area.

Both clues point only to the old town.

"Has that car been found?" Lu Jingming asked.

Chen Jin shook his head in disappointment: "Still looking."

The old town is like a giant spider's cave, cold and damp, with layers of spider webs spiraling around it.

The roads in the old town are like a spider web, with a very complicated road network. People who are not familiar with the area will definitely get lost.

Lu Jingming responded calmly, without urging him.

Xiao Song had somehow gotten close to the computer, staring blankly at the chat box on the screen, and cautiously asked, "Captain Lu, Zheng Xun sent you a lot of question marks. Should you reply to him?"

"Ignore it." Lu Jingming glanced at the computer screen casually and said indifferently.

He handed the dozen or so registration records he had copied down to Xiao Song: "Take this to the cyber police and have them verify them one by one to see if they are the victims in the video."

"Okay, sure." Little Song obediently replied and went to leave.

Lu Jingming nodded with great satisfaction.

If all the people under his command were troublemakers like Zheng Xun, he thought, his composure, which he had always been proud of, would surely vanish.

Wei Qingsong looked at him, hesitated, and asked, "You're not holding a grudge, are you?"

Lu Jingming, with clear eyes, nodded frankly and admitted, "Yeah, I do hold grudges. It's because he always teases you."

In some matters, Captain Lu is surprisingly naive.

Chen Jin, lost in his own world, stroked his chin, puzzled: "Have these young people been brainwashed? Our bodies are gifts from our parents, how can they so easily do things that harm themselves?"

Wei Qingsong said calmly, "The victims are all young. If I'm not mistaken, they should have a few common characteristics: they are usually introverted and shy, like to chat and make friends online, but don't like to go out and are addicted to the internet."

Chen Jin still didn't understand: "Are people like that easier to fool?"

Wei Qingsong pondered for a moment and did not deny the statement.

Not long after, Xiao Song and the cyber police verified this information and found that the dozen or so users in the group were indeed the victims in those videos.

Soon, the police also contacted the families of these victims. After some communication, the information provided by the families matched all the characteristics that Wei Qingsong had analyzed.

“The situation is now very clear.” Lu Jingming reorganized the contents of the whiteboard and said, “This is a series of cases of inducement targeting young people with weak minds.”

"This person with the ID 'Gray' selects users who seem insecure or have depressive tendencies on the dynamic square of Little Planet, induces them to engage in extreme behaviors, films them, and uploads the videos to sensational websites to profit from them."

Upon hearing this, Wei Qingsong seemed to be deep in thought, and said quietly, "This person has a rather weak concept of life and death, is cold and ruthless, worships death, appreciates death, and believes that death is absolutely beautiful."

And this is not the scariest thing.

These videos have been viewed nearly ten million times on that sensationalist website, which means that there are nearly ten million people in the world who share the same thoughts as this cold-blooded killer.

They might be ordinary white-collar workers, gentle and polite gentlemen, or teenagers whose values ​​are not yet formed.

The scariest thing is that you never know what kind of devil dwells in the heart of someone who seems respectable to you.

The sun rises as usual, but there are always places where its light doesn't reach. And the rampant darkness can become mad at any time, trying to devour the light.

But the world is not gray after all; it is colorful.

“We now have gray registration information, but it’s worth noting that the gray registration information shows him as a 27-year-old male, while the suspect we saw in the elevator surveillance was a woman.” Lu Jingming’s fingers pressed on the table, his eyes deep.

Wei Qingsong thought for a moment and then expressed his opinion: "Actually, we shouldn't let all the current clues cloud our judgment. First of all, his registration information may not be true, and further verification is needed."

"Secondly, the person who planned this shady scheme may not be a single person. The leader in the group and the woman in the elevator may also be the masterminds behind it."

Lu Jingming nodded in deep agreement, then said, "So, we need to follow both leads. I'll take a team to those three internet cafes in the old city to look for 'Gray.' Chen Jin, you take your men to continue searching the area near the surveillance footage where the vehicle disappeared and find that woman."

"Okay." Chen Jin, without any suspicion, quickly agreed.

Xiao Song couldn't help but ask, "Why did this person do this? What was his motive? He has no grudge against these young people. What benefit could he possibly gain from instigating them to engage in extreme behavior?"

“Watching living people being destroyed is his biggest motive.” After a long silence in the office, Wei Qingsong finally answered quietly, “As for the benefits, he derives pleasure from the withering of life, so I suppose that’s a benefit to him.”

Chen Jin shivered again for no apparent reason; this statement sent a chill down his spine.

He scratched his chin and asked, not ashamed, "Are the victims he chooses all introverted, shy young people with depressive tendencies?"

After thinking for a moment, Wei Qingsong said in a deep voice, "To be precise, it's internet addiction. He's looking for young people who suffer from internet addiction."

After listening to Wei Qingsong's extensive explanations, Chen Jin finally heard a familiar term. His eyes lit up, and he exclaimed, "I know this! It's internet addiction!"

Wei Qingsong nodded slightly.

Chen Jin was briefly excited, then became bewildered again: "I think I'm quite addicted to the internet, but if someone asked me to do something extreme, I definitely wouldn't agree."

Wei Qingsong glanced at him lightly, then shook her head and said, "Although many people jokingly call themselves 'internet-addicted girls' or 'internet-addicted boys,' in fact, they have a vague understanding of the two completely different concepts of internet addiction and liking to go online."

Chen Jin was even more confused. He muttered it to himself, then said with an awkward laugh, "What's the difference? Liking to go online is just internet addiction, isn't it?"

(End of this chapter)