Chapter 340 Cats, Dogs, Rats and Geese

Zhang Lu is a very special person among all the victims of abnormal suicide cases.

For the rest of the victims of suicide cases, no matter what, they can always find some unsatisfactory things in their lives as reasons for committing suicide.

It is precisely because of this that the existence of abnormal suicides in Blue Lake City has never attracted official attention.

After all, suicide is very common and not really special. No one is interested in a case where there is solid evidence that it is a suicide, and no one is going to devote a lot of energy to investigating it.

Only Zhang Lu really had no reason to commit suicide.

She is so happy.

Promotion and salary increase, close friends, kind colleagues, happy family, kind-hearted person, average appearance, and happy love. It seemed that everything in her life was good, and there was nothing unpleasant at all.

Even the security officer responsible for investigating the case could not find any possible reason for her to commit suicide.

But she just committed suicide.

Because of this, Feng Guozhu was alerted, and he began to seriously investigate the case. Only then did he discover the abnormality in the suicide rate and the existence of abnormal suicide cases, and only then did the second team take over the follow-up action.

She is the beginning of everything.

At this moment, her avatar also appeared in the box.

But in this box, she was not the beginning. Under her portrait, there is a thick stack of paper.

He Wei was still putting these papers into the evidence bag one by one. When they were almost at the end, He Wei saw another familiar profile picture.

This is a young man. His face was full of flesh, his head was bald, there was a scar on his face, and he had triangular eyes. He looks vicious at first glance, and he is not a good person at first glance.

Wu Biao.

The first victim of abnormal suicide that our side has documented. At the beginning, it was precisely because of Wu Biao's death that the custom of placing Bagua mirrors to ward off evil spirits and avoid misfortunes came into being in Nanlin Street, and it has been passed down to this day.

But Wu Biao's avatar is not at the bottom. Below him, there are three or four others.

"Before Wu Biao, were there other victims of abnormal suicide cases?"

He Wei took out Wu Biao's profile picture. Somewhat unexpectedly, under Wu Biao, there was a cat drawn on the piece of paper.

A cat with dirty and messy hair.

Lu Ming suddenly remembered the master, Zhou Mingsheng, who made the residents of Nanlin Street wear Bagua mirrors.

Zhou Mingsheng once confessed that when he came to Nanlin Street for practice, a cat committed suicide in front of him. He was so frightened that he left the next day without even daring to ask for more money.

Underneath this cat, again, is not a human, but a mouse.

A very vivid mouse with sinister eyebrows and rat eyes, all covered in gray fur.

Below the mouse is a group of geese. Underneath the goose is a dog.

There will be no more after that.

This box is empty.

The number of papers in the box was also counted, and there were 1,236 sheets.

1236!

Excluding the four animal pictures, the number is 1,232. If these 1,232 people were all victims of abnormal suicide cases... wouldn't this mean that Wang Quan killed a total of 1,232 people? !

This number, like an invisible giant claw, strangled Lu Ming's throat, making it difficult for him to breathe smoothly. An overwhelming fear spread in his heart.

1232 living lives! 1,232 families that could have been happy!

This number made Lu Ming, who had already witnessed many big scenes, feel a little overwhelmed.

After this box, the search for Wang Quan's courtyard continued. At this time, the security officer who was sent out by Zhang Dingshan to verify the situation also came back.

"Report, the situation has been verified. The man in the portrait, named Fei Ming, committed suicide about a month ago. The reason for suicide investigated at that time was that his girlfriend broke up with him. Because the motive was reasonable, it was not included in the list of abnormal suicide cases. Further We are investigating the situation.”

Lu Ming nodded.

It seems that Fe Ming's suicide is actually unreasonable.

At this moment, more than 1,200 head sketches have been sent to the Public Security Bureau. Zhang Dingshan gave the order, and immediately after that, dozens of security guards wearing full-body protective clothing came to screen them one by one.

Which profile picture depicts who, and whether it is on your list of abnormal suicide cases, all must be screened one by one.

During this process, the search for Wang Quan's courtyard finally came to an end. Apart from this box and the portrait inside, no other noteworthy things have been discovered yet.

After nearly evacuating Wang's family, the alert was finally lifted. It was almost daybreak now.

Even the nearby residents may not know that such a major thing happened so close to them last night.

A certain hospital in Blue Lake City was guarded by many security guards, and the head of the medical team came out.

"This is the patient's physical examination report."

A security officer looked at it and then faxed it to the Public Security Bureau, where it appeared in front of Zhang Dingshan and Lu Ming.

"Well... chronic gastritis, chronic rhinitis..."

Several disease names are listed above. But nothing serious. Overall, Wang Quan is relatively healthy.

But this is not what Lu Ming is concerned about. What he was more concerned about was whether Wang Quan was normal or not, or whether he... was still a human being.

Frankly speaking, up to the present investigation of the case, we have no evidence to prove that Wang Quan is the murderer.

After all, it’s not illegal to draw a stranger’s profile picture, right? It's not against the law to pierce the head with a needle and make a curse, right? This is not the ancient time. In ancient times, if a witchcraft disaster occurred, pricking a villain with a needle could wipe out nine tribes. But in modern society, no one believes that curses can kill people.

As for the person in the painting coincident with the abnormal suicide, this can also be explained by coincidence. If you insist that it is not a coincidence, then provide evidence. Wang Quan could have said that I just drew freely when I had nothing to do. It was none of my business if they all died in the end. You ask me why? If you ask me, who should I ask? how could I know?

However, all logic and clues point to Wang Quan.

From the standpoint of Action Team Two, who have extensive experience in handling supernatural events, it is almost certain that Wang Quan is the murderer based solely on the clues at this moment.

It was his "cursing" behavior that caused those people to commit abnormal suicide. Although we still don't know why Wang Quan's curse has an effect, this does not prevent us from identifying this reality.

Then a question arises in front of us.

Why?

Why does Wang Quan's curse take effect? Is there something abnormal about Wang Quan's body? Is he still human? Or is there something unusual about the tools he uses? Is that the pencil? Those papers? Or that idol? Or the ritual he used?

This is something that must be explored clearly.

At this moment, with the arrival of this physical examination report, we can at least preliminarily rule out the suspicion that "there is something special about Wang Quan's body."

Lu Ming shook his head, put the medical examination report aside, and ignored it.

"When will Wang Quan wake up?"

"His coma is deep and it is expected to take 6-8 hours to wake up."

"Captain, form a team of interrogation experts, psychology and psychiatry experts, and prepare to start the interrogation when he wakes up."

Zhang Dingshan agreed to Lu Ming's proposal: "Let Qing Liang find someone."

Judging from Zhang Dingshan's intention, he wanted to find the top team and treat Wang Quan as a breakthrough for subsequent investigations.

"good."

After waiting for a while, the preliminary screening of those sketched avatars was finally completed. Through comparison and query in the internal system, all these people were found.

Each sketched avatar has a corresponding person who lives or has existed in reality.

What was somewhat beyond Lu Ming's expectation was that not all of the people who were drawn on the paper and endured Wang Quan's curse actually died.

"Isn't Wang Quan's curse 100% effective? Are there any survivors under his curse?"

This is a completely new discovery. Before, Lu Ming thought that this was 100% certain death.

"Of the 1,232 people, a total of 106 are still alive. These people are located all over the world, and six of them are here in Blue Lake City at the moment."

"Do handwriting identification to confirm the time when the avatar was drawn. Then check the itinerary of these 106 people to see if they were in Blue Lake City during that time period and where they went after that."

"yes."

After ordering a security officer, Zhang Dingshan said again: "Except for these 106 people, how many of the 1,126 people overlap with the abnormal suicide cases we have already grasped?"

"From Wu Biao 14 years ago to the nearest Qi Huan, of the 852 people we have, 809 overlap with these 1,126 people."

There are 1,126 portraits, minus the 809 overlapping people, leaving 317 people. The suicides of these 317 people were considered normal. But now it seems that their suicide may not be justified.

Moreover, we have a total of 852 abnormal suicide cases, minus the 809 overlapping cases, the remaining 43 people may be reasonable suicides, but they are considered unreasonable by our own side.

The occurrence of this kind of thing is inevitable. After all, no matter how sophisticated the investigation is, it can only restore the truth as much as possible, but it is impossible to completely reach the truth.

"Go check the 317 and 43 suicides."

"yes."

In the morning when the sun was rising, many security guards who had been up all night took orders and left.

The first report came about 6 of the 106 survivors who were in Blue Lake City at the moment.

"You mean six years ago? July 14th? I've already forgotten. I come to Blue Lake almost three or four times every year. I'm not from Blue Lake, but I often come here on business, and I leave after a few days each time. I checked my business trip records... Well, I was indeed in Blue Lagoon on July 14, six years ago, but I left that afternoon. What happened?

Nanlin Street? Chestnut cake? I think about it... I remember that at that time, a manager from Party A invited me to have a meal. After eating, I wanted to bring some specialties back. I went to buy chestnut cake... There was an unpleasant incident that time. The stall owner of the chestnut cake, I vaguely remember, was very short, ugly, and thin. Some of the people in Blue Lake are really not of high quality. He brought me chestnut cake and accidentally dropped it on the ground. I asked him to change to another one. He refused to change and said I was bullying him. Can I tolerate him? I left at that time and didn’t buy it!

Later I rushed to the train station. I haven’t been to Nanlin Street much since then. Uh, no, I went there once later. I remember that the stall owner was still selling chestnut cakes. My colleague wanted to buy it, but I stopped him. I haven’t been there since. "

This is the record of the first person's inquiry.

The second person's inquiry record showed that he had indeed been to Nanlin Street around February 16 five years ago - a date that was also within the time range of the handwriting identification.

"I came here for cash. At that time, I had a girlfriend online who was in the Blue Lagoon. Unfortunately, when we met, I found out that she was a scammer, so I blew it. At that time, I thought that I couldn't come here in vain. I had to try something. I checked the local delicious food online and went to Nanlin Street.

You mean chestnut cake? I remembered. That stall owner was unreasonable, he only had the last piece left, and the portion was obviously smaller than normal. I said he would sell it to me for five yuan, but he refused, insisting on seven yuan. I wouldn't buy it, but he would scold me for bullying him. This guy must be crazy. He also cursed me to die badly. I was a little afraid that he would find someone to beat me, so I took a car and left. Where to go? Go back to my house. "

The inquiry records of these six individuals were quite consistent.

All six of these people had been to Nanlin Street within the identified time range, and had had a bad time with Wang Quan. After the unpleasant incident, these six people left Blue Lake on the same day.

For those survivors in other places, after asking the local security bureau to assist in questioning, the first seven survivors interviewed also gave similar answers.

Lu Ming was thoughtful.

"Perhaps this is the reason why these people were cursed by Wang Quan but did not die in the end. Wang Quan's portrait usually curses people at night. But they are no longer in the Blue Lake at night and are far away. Perhaps because of this, the curse is ineffective. . And those who stayed in the Blue Lake and did not leave were unfortunately killed."

"Wang Quan's curse also has a distance limit" seems a bit ridiculous. But at this moment it is the only reasonable explanation.

Follow-up inquiries are still ongoing. All 106 survivors in total will be questioned. However, Lu Ming felt that this should be the case.

After that, there was an investigation into the suicide who had Wang Quan's profile picture but was not included in the abnormal suicide case.

There are 317 cases in total, spanning 14 years.

Under conscious investigation, many clues emerged one after another. In just one morning's investigation, five suicide cases were ultimately determined to be abnormal.

Perhaps some cases are too old to be considered abnormal or normal, but this trend makes Lu Ming believe that there is a high probability that the mistakes will be made by his side, and it is unlikely to be Wang Quan.

As for the 43 suicide cases that we considered to be unreasonable suicides but that Wang Quan had not painted, after careful investigation, two cases were finally ruled out in one morning, and their suicides were deemed to be reasonable.

Lu Ming also believed that it was his side that was wrong, not Wang Quan.

After all, Wang Quan holds the final right of interpretation.

Now, it's afternoon. Wang Quan is about to wake up.