Blackstone Code

In the monitoring room, the detective kept watching the video repeatedly and already had some thoughts in his mind.

"What do you think?", he asked his assistant.

In a sense, the detective's assistant is also his disciple, apprentice, learning crime-solving techniques from him.

Most of the time, he would ask his assistant this way and ask for his opinion, but unfortunately, so far, this assistant does not have the ability to take charge of his own affairs.

I don't know if he is really stupid, or if he relies too much on himself.

The assistant was a little confused. He did watch it many times. The content of the picture was very simple.

The girl suddenly stopped, then took a step, then stepped back, put down her schoolbag, disappeared into the bushes.

After watching it many times, he was still not sure what valuable information he could get from this less than twenty seconds of footage.

But the detective asked him as usual, and he had to show off, even if his performance wasn't good enough.

"She was attracted to something and went inside."

The detective asked encouragingly, "What else?"

The assistant was silent for a while, "Maybe someone inside is calling her?"

"She then put down her schoolbag and ran in, and then this acquaintance took her away. We should start from her social relationships and investigate whether she and her family have offended anyone recently."

"Or there is someone who is particularly familiar with their family and may have some unhealthy thoughts about this girl.\

,"Seeing the assistant's excitement as if he had solved the case, the detective sighed.

"If they were really acquaintances, why did she choose to leave again after she stopped the first time?"

The assistant scratched his head. He vaguely felt that his genius idea was worthless again in front of the detective, but he was still trying to regain the victory. "Maybe she didn't hear?"

The detective nodded noncommittally, "What you said may happen, so if you are a girl and you pass by a bush, and someone calls your name deep in the bush where you can't see it, what would you do? ?”

The assistant was stunned for a moment, and he replied hesitantly, "I...maybe ask who is there?"

The detective pointed at him, "Did she speak in the video?"

The assistant still wanted to struggle, "Her lips moved."

"Although we haven't learned lip reading, you should be able to tell that she is not talking."

"It's possible she was simply vocal."

"If someone is really calling her name inside, then the most likely thing this girl will do is to have a conversation through the air."

"But she didn't do that. She seemed to be looking for something before entering the grass. When we looked in from the sidewalk, the outermost bushes were not high."

"And we found intact dust on the branches and leaves, which means that what attracted her attention was less than one meter high."

"This is not the height that an adult, or even someone of her own age, can achieve."

"So to a large extent, the thing she is looking for is not a human being."

After hearing this, the assistant agreed very much and thought it was reasonable no matter how he heard it, "What could that be?"

The detective gave some of his own ideas, "something that can make her feel harmless to her and something she also desires."

With his help, the assistant finally discovered Hua Dian, "Little animal!"

"Yes, small animals.", the girl's father admitted this, "She likes small animals very much, we have had pets, a dog, a cat, but because... you know, we can't take them with us Come over, so abandoned."

"She has been quarreling with us for a long time over this matter..."

"Did you find any clues?"

"Is she okay?"

The man's eyes were always red. Losing his daughter made him very painful.

The detective shook his head, "Do you know any of the nearby neighbors who have pets?"

The man said no, "I have never heard of anyone keeping a pet. You know that pets eat as much as people do, and there are other costs and expenses. Most people living here cannot afford to keep pets."

The detective then left after searching the girl's room. He knew that these actions were of little significance.

Soon the manager of this floor sent the information that the detective needed. No one on this floor kept pets.

There used to be some, but then they all ate them up and they disappeared.

This result made his expression become more serious, because he already had a guess in his mind that this was not a normal homicide.

This may be related to the recent monster murder case, and the scene of the girl's disappearance was the first scene of her murder.

It's just that the monster used some special means and left no evidence or traces of killing the girl.

"How about we drop this case?"

At night, the assistant already knew the detective's guess and couldn't help but persuade him, "If it's a human being, we have no problem."

"But you also said that it was a monster. We have no experience in dealing with monsters. We don't even know what it is. We have never done this kind of case..."

The detective interrupted him, "Just because we haven't solved it yet doesn't mean we can't do anything. I want to try. Maybe this monster's thinking is not chaotic."

"And have you noticed, it uses small animals and the like to attract people into traps, which means it has normal intelligence and is afraid of being discovered."

"As long as it has normal intelligence, it means it has normal logical behavior."

"It is very likely that it maintains the appearance of a human, hiding in a certain room or family, and coming out to eat every once in a while."

"It abides by the rules of human society, or in other words, after it becomes a monster, it still lives by the way humans behaved before it became a monster."

"This is our chance to seize it. As long as it maintains this way of thinking and behavior, it will definitely have flaws and we will definitely catch it!"

"I need files and footage of all the recent disappearances around here. Whether we can catch it or not, we need to give it a try."

The assistant could not be persuaded, and immediately began to coordinate various departments, and soon a large amount of materials were gathered to him.

Based on the detective's observation of the four missing case files and surveillance videos, he soon found some patterns.

"All of its crime locations have been observed and there are no surveillance equipment. In other words, it knows very well where it can commit crimes with peace of mind and where it cannot."

"Our surveillance equipment is basically not hidden, so it is easy to observe, but just because it is easy, it will definitely leave traces in the surveillance."

"Have people compare the cameras around these cases and look for all the people who appeared in these situations at the same time!"

The detective was a detective, and his arrival provided an opportunity to solve the case. Soon a large number of security department staff began to cooperate with the basic artificial intelligence of electronic computers to carry out screening.

Fortunately, the most abundant thing in the shelter now is human resources. In two days, they have locked several targets.

These people all appeared near the scenes of five missing cases, and their suspicions were greatly increased.

There are workers, teachers, and housewives here. No one seems like a criminal, but they are indeed very suspicious.

The mucus sent to the laboratory for testing also gave feedback results. As the detective expected, the mucus was human tissue fluid after genetic mutation, and it already matched the characteristics of the monster's genes.

So what they were facing was a monster.

This incident even alarmed Lynch, because a monster that lurks in human society, can transform, has the ability to behave logically, has complete intelligence, and needs to eat regularly, is very scary.

He also had a direct conversation with the detective. When he knew that the detective was planning to monitor targets who were already suspicious, he gave the detective an unexpected solution.

"Now that we have someone to suspect, let's arrest him first."

The detective was at a loss for words, "Mr. Lynch, we don't have enough evidence to prove that they are monsters..."

Lynch asked rhetorically, "Do we need evidence?"

For a moment, the detective didn't know how to answer this question.

"Times have changed, Mr. Detective. As long as you suspect that they may be monsters, then arrest them first. Our scientists have ways to let them prove whether they are humans or monsters."

"Instead of continuing to monitor them and allow them to continue to harm other humans, it is better to take enforcement measures against them first."

"I will have people urge the arrest of these suspects as soon as possible, and if you are interested, you can do it with them."

"In addition, thank you for your contribution to this case. I will consider recruiting you to work at the headquarters as appropriate. Your experience and ability can help us solve more problems."

After the call ended, the detective had some indescribable emotional changes. In the past, everything had to be based on evidence. Perhaps this was the reason why he was able to develop such detective skills.

Because the judiciary is fair and the process is just, it will not work if you make any mistake.

Everything must be done carefully, but now, everything is different.

He was able to arrest people directly without any evidence, which made him feel a little frightened, frightened by the uncontrollable power.

But as a detective, that seems like a good thing.

Because there are many suspects who cannot be tried due to lack of evidence. Even if you know that they did it, and even they admitted it, they cannot be brought to justice because there is no evidence!

After calming down, the security department immediately began to deploy arrest operations...