Dragon, choose cultural victory to make money

The captain of the seventh squad of the garrison was sitting in the magic theater, feeling a little nervous.

Being invited by a devil to watch a magic show performed by the devil sounds like the first step in the story where the unlucky character has his soul deceived by the devil.

I don’t know if reinforcements have been called in from outside.

If anything unexpected happens, I hope the team leader can handle it.

He flipped through the movie tickets in his hand.

Because people like to collect used Magic Shadow tickets as souvenirs, about two years ago, poster images or individually designed character drawings were printed on the front of the tickets.

The poster image on this ticket looks very strange.

A frontal portrait of a woman, with only the facial features retained and the outline of the head blurred.

One can roughly tell from her features that it is Ms. Starling.

Only the mouth is blocked by a butterfly.

The butterfly does not represent good intentions. In church scriptures, the butterfly is a symbol of depravity and despair.

The captain doesn't think that the butterfly was added just because it looks good, it must be hinting at something.

In this case, what exactly does the title of the film "The Silence of the Lambs" mean?

Completely clueless.

The captain looked at the butterfly carefully. The pattern on the back was a skull, which was even more eerie, but still quite common. After all, it was a movie about the devil.

Wait, there seems to be something inside this skull?

The captain's eyes widened...

"what!"

"Sir?" the audience next to him asked, "Are you okay?"

"Nothing, nothing..."

The captain patted his chest. He had just vaguely seen the outline of a naked human body in the skeleton.

In other words, the skeleton is made up of people.

This is so scary.

It is definitely not a good idea to come and see this demonic shadow yourself.

Just when he was about to take a closer look at the skull to confirm that he was not seeing things, the theater suddenly went dark.

The screening officially began, and the only thing left in the hall was the green fluorescent sign of the emergency exit, emitting a sinister light in the darkness.

After the classic opening credits of Drogo's Roar, a cold and lonely forest appears, with few leaves on the brown and black branches and thick fog covering the sky.

Although there was nothing dangerous in the scene, the captain still felt a chill in his spine. It was an indescribable sense of weirdness.

This feeling is more frightening than a giant beast jumping in your face. The unknown is always more frightening than the known.

There is no winter in the Twin Towers City.

In the captain's opinion, this bleak winter scene itself made him uncomfortable.

The winter he likes is the kind in Frozen, with marshmallow-like snow, ice sculptures, reindeers, and big furry dogs everywhere.

Not this kind of rotten branches and leaves all over the ground.

Then, the title of Demon Shadow appeared.

It uses black with white borders and cold fonts, unlike most other magic shadow games that like to use carefully designed artistic fonts to write titles.

Perhaps influenced by the picture of a person hidden in a skull, or perhaps because he had a preconceived notion that there was something wrong with films involving the devil, the captain felt that all the elements in this film were hiding evil, waiting to scare the audience.

With the delusion of being persecuted and scaring himself, the captain began his first experience with a horror movie.

It is also the first experience of a thriller for all the audience.

This is the first thriller film in Feilin's film industry.

The "Journey to the Holy Mountain" back then also had some horror elements, but the scares were too direct, and it mainly told the story of the warmth and coldness of human nature, with the focus not on horror.

In the future the captain will realize that his intuition is correct. Every element in the film is deliberately designed to create a gloomy and evil feeling. This is called atmosphere creation.

Making people feel panic on a psychological level is always better than using jump scares from monsters and demons.

"Starling! Crawford wants to see you, in his office."

"Thank you."

As the main cast and crew were named, Starling ran back to the Waterdeep Special Police Department.

The captain quickly realized that the role played by this devil was a detective?

He knew what a detective was.

They are half of the same industry as the Garrison Corps. I can’t remember which countries they are in, but they have already started to implement the police system.

The captain thought that it would be more reasonable than the current garrison. Among the police, there would be people with different expertise in charge of different types of incidents.

Unlike the garrison, whether it is a quarrel or a fight, theft, fraud or murder, or a car accident, all are handled by one group of people.

Not scientific, not scientific at all.

But he never dared to say this to his superiors. He was just an unpopular team leader who was assigned to the retirement team.

The film shows a novel police station with staff of all races. Of course, the strangest one is definitely Starling.

A devil.

She walked through the corridors of the police station, and people passing by looked at her with a hint of ridicule in their eyes.

Do not trust.

Her colleagues didn't trust her.

Just as his colleagues did not trust him, the captain keenly realized what this shot was trying to convey.

Why not trust?

She obviously hasn't done anything yet, and judging from the scene of her training in the woods at the beginning of the film, she is definitely very skilled.

Is it because she made some big mistake in the past, or is it simply because she is a monster...

Mostly the latter.

The captain speculated.

Starling in the film does not appear completely in human form, but retains some devilish features.

There are two small pointed horns on the head and red pupils.

The attitude of other races towards the devil is to default to not believing in it.

He was the same, and so were most people in the city, so when Starling took photos with fans, she was reported as engaging in a worship ceremony.

When he arrived at the scene, he immediately considered Starling to be in danger.

And Miss Starling helped him out.

It's all prejudice against the devil.

The captain thought about it and realized that, in fact, the war with the devil had ended hundreds of years ago, and the last recorded direct conflict with the devil was also decades ago.

As for those who have been bewitched by the devil, to be honest, the number of people who have been truly bewitched by the devil in ten years is less than the number of unlucky old people who have been deceived into buying useless health products in one month.

Why do we say that "truth" is bewitched by the devil.

Because many of the people he arrested claimed that they were bewitched by the devil and committed their crimes.

He could understand if someone used this excuse to commit a serious crime.

But why do thieves who steal underwear and socks also say it’s all because of the devil?

What does the devil want that for?
Even worn!
Of course, when these people are finally investigated, most of them will admit that the so-called devil is just something they made up to mitigate their crimes.

Maybe we should give the devil a chance.

The captain thought.

It is completely understandable that during the war, the devil was described as an unforgivable villain.

But now that the war is over, it is not appropriate to apply the impression of a special period to the current devil.

In other words, one should not directly apply the impression of a group to each individual.

You should understand the specific individual before making a judgment.

It’s just that more than 90% of the people in Feilin don’t know much about the devil, let alone the opportunity to understand it.

By the way, in his guild of "Road to Conquest", the strongest fighter is a devil who plays a thief. His name is Amon Not Too Fat, and he calls himself the Lord of Hell.

Of course everyone thought he was joking, but they still kept calling him the Lord of Hell, the Lord of Hell.

He has a pretty good personality, he's very generous, he speaks in a sly way, and he likes to tell jokes. I used to think he was just pretending to be special, so he said he was a devil, but now I think maybe he is.

Because Amon knew too much about all kinds of demons.

Since there are demons that can play the role of demons, it is reasonable for demons to play games.

If most devils were like Amon in the guild, it seemed that this race was not as bad as the rumors said.

Temporarily putting aside his prejudice against the devil race, the captain began to fully appreciate the story of "The Silence of the Lambs".

In the film, Starling comes to the chief's office. On one wall are pinned with thumbtacks a lot of news clippings from newspapers and photos of the crime scene.

Most of the content is related to one character.

"Buffalo Bill's Fifth Murder."

"Bill strikes again, missing women leave shirts behind."

"A cruel skinner, Bill."

……

The camera was turned on too quickly and the captain couldn't see it all.

But based on his many years of work experience, he has deduced that Buffalo Bill is most likely mentally ill.

Serial killers are not necessarily abnormal, but those who target women and like to skin them and walk away are definitely not normal.

This kind of murderer whose brain is different from that of ordinary people is the most difficult to catch.

Although he had never caught a criminal of this level personally, and if he had, he would not have ended up in such a mess today, but he had participated in similar cases with his seniors in the group.

Well, in the end, he and his predecessors worked together and successfully arrested the criminal.

As for how much of the combined force he contributes, it is at least three points.

A total of 100 points.

The most difficult hurdle at that time was to find out what the prisoner was thinking and to have the same thoughts as him in order to catch him.

Sometimes he just couldn't understand how there could be so many perverts in the human species.

"I need you to go to the mental hospital and find someone who has refused to cooperate with me before." said the officer.

"Who is that person?"

"Psychiatrist, Hannibal."

"Hannibal the ogre..." Starling muttered.

"I don't expect him to talk to you, but at least try. You have to pay full attention."

The officer stared at Starling and warned her word by word.

"Follow the visiting procedures of the mental hospital. Don't do anything that violates the procedures. Don't let Hannibal know what you are thinking. Don't reveal any private matters to him. Trust me."

The officer's expression was quite serious.

"Believe me, you definitely don't want Hannibal to know your thoughts. Just carry out your mission well, and then, don't forget his identity."

"What identity?" Starling asked back.

The scene changed, and they were already in a mental hospital. The director replied frivolously: "A monster, a devil, a pure psychopath..."

It’s just that the Dean’s face looked excited, as if he was describing one of his own collections.

The captain almost laughed out loud, describing a psychopathic target as a devil to a devil detective.

If he were Starling, he would definitely be very angry now.

However, judging from the plot, the idea is to let this psychopath named Hannibal guess the thoughts of the psychopath named Buffalo Bill who has not been caught yet.

Let the mentally ill fight the mentally ill, and let the madmen chase the madmen.

good idea.

The captain was inspired.

Since the thoughts of perverted prisoners are so difficult to guess, why not let other prisoners who are also perverts do the research? Maybe they will have more common language.

The more the captain thought about it, the more he felt that this idea was reasonable, and it might be able to solve many unsolved cases.

Not only in Twin Towers City, the crime-solving rate in the entire Flynn is not very optimistic. If half of the serious cases can be solved, that year will be worth celebrating.

As for minor thefts, whether they can be solved depends on luck.

They also won't invest too much energy in small cases because it's troublesome and there's no reward if they're solved.

The reason why Team 7 has become a team with a relatively good public reputation in the garrison is mainly because they really take care of those small things.

The captain also wanted a big case, but unfortunately there was none.

No, how can you think like that?

The captain quickly realized the problem with his thinking. Every major case meant the death of several innocent lives. How could he expect a major case to happen?

It's better not to have it, live in peace and security, and there's no possibility of getting a promotion without any merit, since there isn't any anyway.

Those extreme cases are difficult to solve, on the one hand because of limited technical means, and although there is magic to help, many criminals also know magic, and many are even more skilled than the Guards.

Thugs who are capable of committing brutal acts usually have very good brains.

If I come up with a system that allows captured criminals to help solve cases, will there be a chance for a comeback?

The captain thought seriously.

Hey, why has no one thought of doing this before, until a magic movie was proposed first?

Oh, I see.

The captain slapped his thigh.

There is no mentally ill patient in Feilin who can still talk to him. Every one of them in the mental hospital has their brains drilled and become demented and stupid. They can't even analyze the case.

Even if there are, how to get them to cooperate is a problem.

What are the conditions that can attract criminals?

Reduce their sentences and release them when they are sufficiently reduced?

Makes no sense.

It's not worth it to catch a madman and then let another madman go.

Thinking of this, the captain gave up his idea.

But he was also very curious about why Hannibal in the Phantom would help Starling.

On the screen, Starling followed the dean, walking down the stairs one by one, passing through gates one by one, and passing by fully armed guards one by one.

What kind of person would be imprisoned to this extent?

Moreover, isn't it somewhat unreasonable to lock up prisoners of this level for the purpose of so-called spiritual research instead of executing them?

There is no completely secure defense.

One of the Guards' rules.

There is always a way to escape, and maybe this arrogant dean will pay the price for it.

The captain guessed.

On the way to Hannibal's cell, the dean explained the meeting procedures.

"Don't get close to or touch the door. Don't hand him anything except soft paper. Only paper, no pens, no nails or clips on the paper. If you need to deliver food, you can only deliver it through a fixed pipe..."

These rules sound very exaggerated.

As if he could escape death if he had a pen.

The superior's warning and the dean's description made the captain who was watching the film extremely excited.

What kind of character is this vicious Hannibal?

Ah, it must have looked quite evil and powerful.

Starling passed by other cells.

There are lunatics with strange behaviors imprisoned there, and the deeper you go, the more serious their madness becomes.

The captain's expectations are growing.

Finally, Starling stopped in front of a glass door.

The legendary Hannibal finally appeared after much anticipation.

The captain couldn't help but sit up straight. He wanted to take a closer look...

what?
That's it? (End of chapter)