Seeing the crime scene flashbacks made me the darling of the police station.

Chapter 245: I've handled similar cases before.

After watching the surveillance footage, Su Miaoyi went to the portrait room.

Lu Zhishen is trying to reconstruct the human figure from the blurry silhouette.

Su Miaoyi stood behind him for a while, but she couldn't quite understand it. She only knew that it was different from the way he usually described his paintings.

I can't understand what he's doing right now.

She watched quietly for a while, then sat down on the sofa and waited.

The figure on the tile was very blurry; Su Miaoyi felt she couldn't see any facial features, only the outline of the face.

The outline of the face also needs to be found at the right angle on the video.

Therefore, it is much more difficult than usual.

Su Miaoyi listened to the swishing sound of pencils while sitting on the sofa, and eventually fell asleep leaning against the sofa.

Not long after I fell asleep, I had another dream.

My dream was chaotic, filled with many cases. Sometimes it was a murder case, sometimes a fraud case, sometimes I was at a crime scene, and sometimes I was in the city police station office.

One minute I'm handling a case, the next I'm being scolded.

Then, she suddenly fell off the cliff into the icy water. She woke up with a start, her hand still on the sofa slapping her hand.

The commotion was so loud that it startled Lu Zhishen, who almost threw the pencil in his hand away.

He looked at her, surprised, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Su Miaoyi suddenly woke up, still a little dazed. After a moment of stunned silence, she looked at Lu Zhishen and said, "It's nothing, I was just dreaming."

"Did you hit someone in your dream again?" Lu Zhishen asked.

Su Miaoyi rubbed her face with both hands: "I didn't hit anyone, I just slapped Shui a few times."

"Who?"

"water."

"Huh?" Lu Zhishen was also a little confused.

Su Miaoyi looked at him: "water."

"Oh." Lu Zhishen understood. "You really went to become a beautiful fish-woman? Fighting with the water in the river."

“The river wants to drown me, I want to kill it,” Su Miaoyi said.

Lu Zhishen opened his mouth but didn't say anything.

Su Miaoyi got up and walked behind him, looked at what he was drawing, and couldn't understand what he was drawing on the paper at all: "Are you done drawing?"

"It will be soon," Lu Zhishen said.

Su Miaoyi didn't say she didn't understand, but just nodded knowingly and said, "I won't bother you anymore, I'm going out for a stroll."

"Okay," Lu Zhishen said, "Don't wander off and get lost."

“I’m not three years old,” Su Miaoyi said.

"But you'll be walking for hours to get to a strange place."

“Uh,” Su Miaoyi immediately changed her tune, “I definitely won’t lose it.”

Lu Zhishen nodded.

Zhuang Yanzheng had already greeted the staff on duty at the entrance.

If Su Miaoyi goes out and tries to talk to her, and she doesn't respond, they will immediately notify Zhuang Yanzheng.

After leaving the art studio, Su Miaoyi went to find Zhuang Yanzheng. Zhuang Yanzheng was still awake and was reviewing files.

Su Miaoyi knocked on the door, then peeked in.

"Is the portrait out?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

"It'll be ready soon." Su Miaoyi walked into the office and said directly, "Have we handled similar cases before?"

Zhuang Yanzheng looked at her: "You"

“I can’t remember,” Su Miaoyi said. “I just had a dream and suddenly it felt like I had handled similar cases before.”

Zhuang Yanzheng looked at her for a few more seconds, then nodded: "It's been done."

He glanced at the file beside him as he spoke.

Su Miaoyi saw a complex mix of emotions in his expression: disappointment, sadness, longing, but mostly resentment.

She had almost never seen so many emotions on Zhuang Yanzheng's face.

“Five years ago,” Zhuang Yanzheng said.

Su Miaoyi glanced at the date on the file; it was a little over five years ago.

"It started with a case handled by the branch office. A 47-year-old woman transferred more than 800,000 yuan to six accounts in succession. Her husband reported the case, and the police came to stop her. The woman refused to listen and insisted on transferring the money, saying that she was guilty, which was why she was unhappy and things were not going well. She said that as long as she transferred the money to the designated account, she would atone for her sins, receive God's protection, and everything would go smoothly for her in the future."

"It was an obvious scam, but the woman was too brainwashed. She didn't believe the police at all and insisted on transferring the money. If they didn't let her, she would cry and make a scene, curse and scratch people. She said things like that she was blocking her path to atonement."

"In the end, the couple got into a fight, and her husband hid her phone to stop her from transferring money."

"Has the money been recovered?" Su Miaoyi asked.

“No,” Zhuang Yanzheng said. “All the money was eventually transferred to an overseas account, which is very difficult to trace.”

"Initially, the case was treated as a fraud case. The police visited the woman's home many times to educate and persuade her. It was only much later that the woman gradually realized that she had been deceived."

"During the education and persuasion period, in nine cities including Jinghai, Jiangcheng, Luoshi, and Xiancheng, fifteen similar fraud cases were successively discovered within three months."

“And these cases all have one thing in common: everyone mentioned sin, atonement, the need to receive God’s protection, and the need to give away the money obtained through sin in order to receive protection.”

"At this time, the first case handled by Jinghai involved a 47-year-old woman who confessed to the entire process of being scammed."

"The woman had some depressive tendencies, didn't have many friends, and was unhappy all the time. Then she accidentally came across a psychological counseling service online and started doing online counseling. The person kept telling her that money is the root of all evil, and that if she gave it all away, she would be happy and receive blessings."

"Using various persuasive techniques, mixed with some psychological counseling, they constantly brainwashed her, eventually getting her to transfer money one sum at a time, continuously transferring the money out."

"Once they learned the source and cause of her depression, they would provide corresponding emotional value for every money she transferred, making her feel happy. She would then feel that it was really useful and effective, so she would continue to transfer money."

“Yes.” Zhuang Yanzheng nodded. “After she confessed, we went to that psychological counseling website, which turned out to be a complete brainwashing site. The more professional psychological counseling was mixed with all sorts of brainwashing tactics. The other fifteen cases were all similar. More than half of them had been to that so-called psychological counseling website, and some had been brainwashed by offline organizations.”

"Following this lead, we eventually uncovered a cult organization involved in brainwashing, fraud, and even instigating murder."

"Instigating murder?" Su Miaoyi asked.

"Yes. It also involves two old cases, murder cases."

Su Miaoyi frowned, remained silent for a while, and said, "I remember this case from back then, which was never solved. It seems that every time we found a clue or a person, the clue would go cold by the time we got there, and the person would run away."

She suddenly remembered something.

Zhuang Yanzheng didn't speak, he just nodded.

Su Miaoyi felt that the complex emotions on his face had intensified.

After a few seconds, he sighed: "The case has been under investigation for over a year, and it was still unsolved even when you went to carry out the mission."

(End of this chapter)