It was already 11 o'clock in the evening when Yan Su and Zhen Ai arrived at the Sun Tree Town on the Jersey border.

The Suntree City Police Station is brightly lit, gathering police officers in NYT, Jersey Suntree City, and Connecticut Elizabeth Town Police. The borders of these four places and three states are only half an hour away in a straight line.

Five or six casual clothes gathered in the police station conference room. Unlike the depressing atmosphere outside, people there seemed to be calm and calm. It seemed that the Ba team had sacrificed their rest time and came over overnight by a special plane.

As soon as he walked into the police station, Zhen Ai heard a low voice sob, and several couples sat on the bench in the corridor and shed tears. Judging from her age, it was probably the parents of the women in the audio.

Yan Su did not stop, so he walked straight to the door of the conference room, stood up, and gently buckled the door.

The people inside were talking in a low voice, and they all looked at it in the sound. Most of the BA profilers were about 3 or 4 years old. There was a younger wearing black-framed glasses, about the same age as Yan Su's brother.

He originally took a pen and wrote and painted on the whiteboard. When he saw Yan Su, he came over to open the door. He smiled moderately and self-restrainedly as an old friend: "hey, sa!"

Yan Su also said: "hey, spener!"

The same name as Brother Yan Su is, it is the penerrheid.

Zhen Ai was a little surprised. Yan Su habitually called someone's surname, maintaining a distance of respect and distantness. Even Eva was so familiar with him, he called her Diaz. It seems that Spencer Reed and Yan Su have a good relationship.

Others in the house also greeted Yan Su. Agent Neil appeared in the Maple Street Bank last time, Agent Cooper, Agent Cooper, a middle-aged man in charge of the case for many years, Smith, a strong black agent, and Lopez, a Latin beauty liaison officer, who is as charming as Eva. They all seem to know Yan Su.

There is also an older middle-aged man who doesn’t look like a behavior analysis profiler, but likes this group of chief executives. He walked over and his every move was very round, revealing his official style.

Rheid saw something in advance and was about to stop him, he had reached out to Yansu: "Mr. sa, I've long admired."

Zhen Ai is a little embarrassed,

Yan Su looked at him and stretched out his hand indifferently. Then he heard rheid say, "Mr. Les, I have said before that there are millions of bacteria and even viruses on people's hands. Shaking hands is actually very unhygienic."

Yan Su agrees with rheid very much, as if he has found a soulmate: "Let us jointly curb the spread of the virus and contribute to public safety!"

When he said this, he was very sincere and serious, and it was no joke.

Officer Rice's face was completely frozen. He, an administrative person who often deals with superiors and subordinates, met Yan Su for the first time. He was stunned for a while and didn't react. He had nowhere to use his skills on weekdays. He said a thousand words to one sentence: "ell~~k!"

Zhen Ai inexplicably thought of Eva once described the word "harsh environment".

Now, she stared at Reed for several seconds. There was really a channel person like Yansu in this world!

When I looked again, the other profilers in the room smiled with understanding.

Yan Su paused when he walked into the room because he noticed that everyone's eyes fell behind him. He put his hands in his pockets, looked back at Zhen Ai, and then looked at everyone, saying, "Well, this is ai, me, student."

Zhen Ai:

His introduction is really creative.

But she didn't mind. She was curious about this group of people. After Professor Hill scolded Yan Su on the phone last time, she wanted to see what a professional behavior analysis expert looked like.

Everyone did not have much greeting and was very attentive to the topic.

"The local police are collecting information and images of missing people. Let's take a look first," Lopez clicked on the display with the remote control. "Five families in four cities, including New York City, NYT, Sun Tree, and Elizabeth, received videos. The content is that their children were abused."

Zhen Ai frowned, 5?

After saying the opening remark, Lopez paused and looked at everyone: "You guys are mentally prepared first."

Neil wondered: "Low, how many bad cases have we seen?"

Lopez was nude: "Believe me, even you will feel gloomy."

This sentence made the indoor atmosphere inadvertently tense up.

The first video is in the basement with white walls on all sides. A girl with plump breasts is naked, her arms are wide open, and she is tied to a thick cross. Her body is covered with traces of abuse such as electric whip and other unknown objects, and blood flows between her legs.

She lowered her head, her long hair was loose, and there was a round piece at the top of her scalp, bare, revealing her skull.

Zhen Ai felt so painful when she saw it. A machine voice change came from the screen: "My child, please confess."

The girl tied up on the cross and trembled weakly: "If I confess, will it be over?"

The machine sounded without answering, repeating: "My child, please confess."

The girl sobbed and cried intermittently: "When I was in college, I worked part-time to take care of my family. Sorry, I was too young and ignorant at that time, and the little boy was too naughty. When I got angry, I threw him on the street, which made him lose and hurt him by pedophiles. I really didn't know that things would develop like this. I was wrong, please forgive me, please forgive me."

The video is disconnected.

In the second section, the same basement, Zhen Ai was surprised to find that the person in the video was actually the missing kindergarten teacher lady Su Qi said. She tied a cross wooden frame in the same posture and was also abused.

The scalp was fine, but the chest and lips were cut off, which was a terrible sight.

The prompt sounded, the kindergarten teacher lost his lips, his voice was blurry, and every time he said something, blood flowed:

"Not blame others, it's all my fault, and confession is not enough. Five years ago, in the nyt public kindergarten, the 5-year-old lively girl Meganzra disappeared. It was me who used the trust of this child to cheat her away and give it to the devil. She might have been abused to death by those men. Now everything is what I deserve. Is it useful?"

In the third video, the woman is miserable, unrecognizable, and can't see her face clearly. She seems to have been punished by the ancient Lingchi, and she has become a pile of bloody and bloody flesh, and there is not a single intact skin on her body.

Zhen Ai looked at this red blood man and was frightened.

But the woman is still alive, tied to the cross, and her voice is already hoarse:

"I repent! I repent for my debauchery in this life, without giving my sincerity, and repeatedly letting my sincerity." Her voice was as if she was a hell ghost, "I robbed many good friends and men, I had an affair with countless married men, and I also stirred up my mother and stepfather with my back. As a human being, I feel ashamed. I am sorry, I repent, please forgive me!"

The machine was dissatisfied with the voice: "My child, please confess."

A pot of boiling hot water poured over the screen, and the woman screamed heart-wrenchingly: "Oh my God, it's me that I was wrong! I interfered in the prosecutor's marriage, slandered his wife for having an extramarital affair, and pushed him downstairs with a pregnant wife. I really don't know she is pregnant, I don't know."

Cut off again.

Zhen Ai pressed her temple hard, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, she could no longer watch or listen. Looking at the people around her, Yan Su frowned slightly, and as usual, she looked at her expression when she thought seriously; the other profilers also looked at her seriously, as if she had not seen any pain or evil.

The fourth video was unexpected and not bloody, the victim was replaced by a man, disappearing Mr. Writer.

The camera only captured the writer's upper body, with whipping scars. He couldn't see the bottom, but he clenched his fists, his whole body tensed, and his muscles were clustered, making Zhen Ai think of the electric frog in the laboratory.

He looked into the camera, his eyes dissipated: "I have nothing to confess to you. As a man, I don't bully women; as a policeman, I don't use my power to insult others."

This answer seemed dissatisfied. I didn't know what happened. The writer's play trembled and sweated out: "I killed my boy, although this is not something I can control, this is the only sin in my life."

When the fifth video appeared, someone took a sip of air conditioning.

There was a stool under the big cross, and the little girl was tied to the cross while stepping on the stool. She was not wearing any clothes, and her body was covered with pinching and whip marks. She was blindfolded, and under the black cloth, two lines of blood were scratched across her face.

The child's voice was tender and ignorant: "I confessed that Jimmy and I quarreled and pushed him out of the car. My mother said I had sent him to heaven, and I was very sad."

Her voice was very well-behaved, and the people were talking a lot.

The screen turned white and it was over. A line of black words popped up on it:

“sa, areyenjyingn?”

sa, do you enjoy it?

Zhen Ai was stunned. Is this for Yan Su again?

Yan Su's face was calm.

The others were nothing unusual, except Les looked at Yan Su with a complicated expression and asked, "What do you think?"

Yan Su didn't know if he was implication, and replied: "The people in the video should be dead now."

Rice's expression was subtle: "How do you know?"

The indoor atmosphere became strange. Zhen Ai didn't like his tone, so Ke Yansu didn't mind. After watching Les for a second, he was suspected of playing a word game: "Everyone here knows it."

Les narrowed his eyes. He was just the executive leader of the Ba group, not a profiler, he didn't know.

rheid took over the words:

"Our statistics from the previous year showed that 98% of specific sadists would kill the victims after reaching the target. Judging from the current situation, unknown people torture these people in order to make them repent. Now that they have repented, unknown people have achieved their goals. When these people have finished repenting, their existence has lost their meaning."

Cooper looked solemn: "This man seemed to him that the means of tortureing the victims was just a legitimate way to force them to confess their guilt. He tied them to a cross with religious significance, like Jesus was tortured. He held ceremonies, and he was the emcee of moral commanding heights."

rheid turned the ballpoint pen and added: "He only repeated the sentence from beginning to end, 'My child, repent'. In this tone, who did he think he was? The Savior? The Father? Or God?"

Neil also participated in the discussion: "Several victims said 'please forgive me'. This 'you' means the suspect. It means that he communicated with the victim during the abuse process. However, when the victim did not repent according to his will, he did not answer or scold him, but repeated the sentence. What does this mean?"

"He keeps his distance from them," Smith next, "why? He is too arrogant and treats himself as a judge, and is arrogant and disdainful to communicate with them; or is he not sociable?"

After listening for a while, Zhen Ai realized that Yan Su had not spoken a long time ago. He sat upright, his back straight, and his face was as quiet as ever.

She knew that he listened and thought deeply.

Neil speculated: "This unknown person punished evil."

Lopez heard the words and stopped in time: "We have made preliminary inferences. Let's go here before the specific situation of the victim comes out!"

No one else objected. Rice was an amateur, and did not understand behavioral analysis and taboos in preconceptions and empiricism. He also wondered why the brain power exchange just now came to an abrupt end.

rheid agrees with Lopez's point of view, but when he was thinking about something else, he couldn't help but knock on the marker in his hand and said to himself: "I always feel that something is wrong."

He looked at Yan Su with his eyes straight, indicating that he was thinking, "Unknown characters did not record the torture process. It seemed that his eyes were these people repent. His behavior was like we encountered the 'self-proclaimed defender' in other cases. We paid attention to rituals and cleared the darkness. However."

But what?

He talked to himself, but ended with discussions and everyone else's attention was drawn to the past.

Yan Su suddenly spoke and took the rheid words: "However, why is there a little girl in the victim? If the unknown suspect wants to act as a defender, his goal is to force the sinner in his eyes to confess, then this little girl does not meet the role of "criminal".

Even if the little girl accidentally hurts her partner, it is too far-fetched to define it as a ‘crime’.”

"Yes!" A light flashed in rheid's eyes, "like"

"It's like he misled us." Yan Su spoke very quickly, as if his thoughts were experiencing sparks. "This person is very smart. He will set misleading options,"
To be continued...