After surveying the scene, it was almost sunset.

They had arrived in the afternoon in the city, and the night had begun to cover in several places in a row.

Even if Holmes was alive, it would be impossible to solve the case in a short period of time with such a few clues, and it would take time for the police forensic personnel to come out.

The crowd had no choice but to go home, and James drove back to the city again.

As night falls, players also have an important problem to face.

Where to stay tonight?

Because the disappearance case has caused almost everyone in the city to be killed, all the hotels are closed at this time, and the three players can only run to the police station to make up for the night.

Fortunately, James patted his chest and said that he could stay at his house, and it didn't matter if he didn't rent a hotel.

So they went in a car to James's house.

"Come on, come in, this is my house."

James's home is a small two-story apartment, which is said to be small, but in fact there are more than 100 square meters, with two floors, the second floor is the living room, and the first floor is the living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom, etc.

"Haven't you stayed here lately?"

An Yizhi noticed that although the room was clean, there was no breath of life, as if no one had lived in it for a while.

"This was originally my parents' house, but then they moved to another city to retire, and I just returned to my hometown after graduating from the police academy, so I lived here."

He helped them find their slippers and said:

"But don't worry, there are a lot of rooms, and the quilts are all brand new. To be honest, it's a bit too big for me to live here alone. ”

When everyone entered the house, James showed them around the bedroom, and Ann Yi pointed out that he really looked to the side, and found nothing wrong.

I've always been suspicious, and James has always felt a little too much for him to be so enthusiastic, but now I haven't found anything suspicious, maybe James is really a hospitable guy.

"What would you like to eat? There were some quick meals in the fridge but we could order pizza though. ”

James behaved like a kid bringing his friends home to play.

Anyway, there is no open diet system, so it doesn't matter if the players eat or not, but in order to avoid NPC suspicion, the three of them still ate some pizza.

After dinner, the sky was completely dark. James and Brave Invincible, two young men at heart, sat in front of the TV and watched the cat and mouse, leaning back and forth happily from time to time.

- I wonder how old these two are......

An Yizhi and Lili Yuan Shangcao took out the information on the missing person given by the old police detective before and looked at it.

Speaking of the old police detective, he had to deal with the swarm of reporters and press conferences or something, so he never showed up again, obviously saying that he would help book a hotel, but the result seemed to be forgotten.

"Well..... there's really no pattern."

An Yizhi put down a stack of files and rubbed his dry eyes.

"I don't have it on my side."

In order to save time, the two split the material in half and read it from beginning to end.

The information is all basic information about the missing person, such as physical characteristics such as age and gender, occupation and address, etc., and only a few documents have some eyewitness testimonies, but obviously, those testimonies are of little use.

"Is the prisoner a psychopath who kidnaps and kills people indiscriminately? It feels like there is hardly any pattern among these victims. ”

Not to mention the grass on the plain, An Yizhi can't figure it out.

Don't forget, this is in-game, not reality.

Everything in the game is controlled by the system, and since the system sends the information to the player by the hand of the old police detective, it means that there must be some hints or clues in the information, and it is difficult to explain just one sentence of 'indiscriminate crime'.

"There must be clues we haven't noticed, let me think about it."

"Okay."

Standing up from the grass on the plain, it seems that he is going to the kitchen to get some coffee to refresh himself.

An Yizhi sat on the sofa, his eyes fixed on the stack of materials, but his mind was thinking about the corpse found during the day.

One was severely beaten, his brain was blown out, and his body was thrown away after death. One was skeletal intact, with flesh and blood gone, buried in the woods.

The most unpleasant thing for An Yizhi is the bite marks on his bones.

It doesn't look like the bite marks were left by wild beasts, if they were wild beasts they would bite the bones to pieces, and there were no damaged bones on the scene, none of them were as clean as if they had scraped off the meat with a razor.

Those bones give An a finger, more like gnawing on ribs.

Cannibals?

It's possible, but not certain.

An Yizhi's knowledge was still not enough, and he couldn't tell whether the bite marks on the bones belonged to humans or some strange creatures.

But none of this prevented him from detecting the suspicions between the two corpses.

- There is a clear difference in the treatment method of these two corpses!

The police have a technique called psychological profiling, which can guess the personality traits of the offender through the behavior and behavior of the offender, and even restore the physical characteristics of the murderer according to the personality traits.

The accuracy is magical.

An Yizhi knows a little about this aspect, but he is not very proficient. But he also knows that normally even serial killers don't handle bodies that differently.

What does this mean?

"Perhaps, we're not looking for a prisoner?"

As soon as I thought about it, it suddenly became clear.

Yes, that's right, there was more than one prisoner!

An Yizhi was misled by habitual thinking at first, believing that all disappearances were committed by a single prisoner, but the different methods of disposing of corpses made him realize that these cases could not be handled together, and it was likely that several prisoners committed crimes at the same time, and it was unknown whether they knew each other, but there was obviously some kind of potential tacit understanding.

After thinking for a while, he said to the grass that came back with coffee:

"Help me look at it again, this time you don't need to find what everyone has in common, and classify the victims according to a certain commonality, such as occupation or something."

This kind of crime-solving copy is where the inspiration is tested, and sometimes a flash of inspiration or two can go a long way.

The two buried their heads back in the data, and this time they quickly divided all the victims into three parts.

The first, and the first incident, was the prisoner in the Pontiac car.

There were 15 people killed, all of whom were determined to have witnessed them getting into the car.

The common denominator of the second is rather bizarre, these people all have the same birthday, if not the same year.

There are 54 of these people, and their occupations are also varied, and the only thing they have in common is their birthdays.

And the last one, all of them lived alone, missing for several days before being discovered.

This makes it much clearer, and assuming that there were three criminals or three gangs committing the crime, perhaps that would explain the difference in the way bodies were disposed of.

"The first case, let's call him the Pontiac case, is chronologically the first to happen."

All of the victims in the Pontiac car case disappeared within two to three days, and in all subsequent cases, no eyewitnesses claimed to have seen the Pontiac car.

"This is followed by the murder of people with the same birthday and the cases of irregular victims, which occurred after the Pontiac case. I guess that the murderers in these cases should have seen the murderer of the Pontiac case commit the crime, and felt that they could splash all the dirty water on him before they started to act, and the number of victims was huge, which is obviously not something that one or two people can do, and eighty percent of them are gangs. ”

"Now we've gone from one goal to three? How does it feel like the situation has become more tricky. ”

Ligakuma was right, there was originally only one prisoner, and now they were looking for not only a perverted murderer driving a Pontiac car, but also two groups of copycats.

"No, although there are more people to arrest, it is easier to solve the case."

Ann thought for a moment, and then said:

"It's hard to say whether there is any connection between these three waves of prisoners, but there must be some kind of tacit understanding among them, you look at the dates."

Picking up a few documents, he said:

"The dates of these missing people are very even, almost every day or two they commit crimes, and they do it alternately."

Lili Yuan Shangcao looked at it carefully, and it was indeed as An Yizhi said.

"In other words, except for the first Pontiac prisoner, the other two groups of criminals are likely to be imitators, cooperating to make things bigger?"

"I think they have different purposes."

Knocking on the armrest of the sofa, An Yizhi shook his head and said:

"Suppose the first prisoner is a pure psychopath, and the other two groups of prisoners have completely different purposes than him, from the perspective of corpse disposal, one of them will blow up people's brains, and the other will eat people."

Speaking of this, An Yizhi lowered his voice and moved closer to the grass on the plain.

There are not only players in this house, but also an NPC sitting in front of the TV watching cartoons, and there are some things that cannot be said in front of the NPC.

"This treatment reminds me of something bad."

"What is it?"

"Cultists and ghouls."

Ann has seen several original copies of the Cthulhu Mythos, and from a background perspective, the technique is very similar to theirs.

"Is it dangerous?"

"It's dangerous."

Ghouls are different from those in the multiverse, they are mythical creatures in the Cthulhu Mythos and are quite dangerous. And cultists are in some ways more dangerous than mythical creatures, because they are a bunch of crazy people with zero sanity, you can predict the behavior of stupid people, but no matter how smart you are, you can't predict crazy people!

- That's why everyone is so afraid of Nikolai.

"Perhaps, we can try not to contact them, anyway, the main quest is to live until the end of the plot."

"I'm afraid not, we've been stuck in it since we entered the city, do you remember the last time?"

That is to say, you do not die, but death comes to you.

"So it's best for us to find a way to find the murderer to clear the customs as much as possible, and it's better to have a greater priority than to wait passively."

Lili Yuan Shangcao nodded, he knew that even if the three of them were beaten passively, no matter how strong their combat effectiveness was, it would be easy to wipe out the entire army, not to mention that the combat power of the three people in this copy was just the level of ordinary people.

"So where do we start?"

"Tomorrow, let's go to the old detective's office first and see what else we have."

An Yizhi doesn't have any good way, every time the beginning of this kind of copy is always one step at a time, and the clues are not enough.