Chapter 2981

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 person."

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 did you notice that it uses small animals to lure people into the trap? This means that it has normal intelligence and is afraid of being discovered."

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

"It is very likely that it is now maintaining the appearance of a human, hiding in a room or a family, and will come out to eat every once in a while."

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

"This is our chance to catch it. As long as it still maintains this way of thinking and behavior, it will definitely have flaws and will definitely be caught by us!"

"I need the files and videos of all the recent disappearances in the vicinity. Whether we can catch it or not, we need to make a try."

The assistant could not persuade him and immediately began to coordinate with various departments. Soon a large amount of materials were summarized to him.

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

"All the crime scenes were observed, and there were no surveillance equipment. In other words, it knew very well where it could commit crimes with peace of mind and where it could not."

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

"Arrange people to compare the cameras around these cases and find all the people who appeared in these occasions at the same time!"

The detective is a detective. As soon as he came, he brought 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 screen.

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

These people appeared near the scene of the five missing cases, and their suspicion increased greatly.

There are workers, teachers, and housewives here. It seems that everyone does not look like a criminal, but they are indeed very suspicious.

The mucus sent to the laboratory for testing also has feedback results. As the detective expected, the mucus is human tissue fluid after gene mutation, which has met the characteristics of monster genes.

So what they are facing is a monster.

This incident even alarmed Lynch, because a monster that hides in human society, can transform, has logical behavior ability, 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 the target who was already suspected, he gave the detective an unimaginable solution.

"Since there is a suspect, catch him first."

The detective was a little speechless, "Mr. Lynch, we don't have enough evidence to prove that they are monsters..."

Lynch asked back, "Do we need evidence?"

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

"Times have changed, Mr. Detective. If you suspect they might be monsters, then arrest them first. Our scientists have ways to make them prove whether they are human or monster."

"Instead of continuing to monitor them and letting them continue to endanger other humans, it is better to take compulsory measures against them first."

"I will ask people to urge the arrest of these suspects as soon as possible. If you are interested, you can do it with them."

"Also, thank you for your efforts in this case. I will consider recruiting you to work at the headquarters. Your experience and ability can help us solve more problems."

After the call, the detective had some indescribable emotional changes. In the past, everything had to be based on evidence. Perhaps this is why he was able to develop this kind of detection ability.

Because of judicial justice and procedural justice, any step wrong is not acceptable.

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

You can arrest people directly without evidence, which makes him feel a little scary, the horror of uncontrolled power.

But as a detective, this seems to be a good thing.

Because many suspects are ultimately not tried due to insufficient evidence, even if you know that they did it, and even if they admit it, they cannot be brought to justice because of the lack of evidence!

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