The people who hired me are dead

Even though I have been mentally prepared, the feeling of being imprisoned/abuse/treated is far more difficult than Rhett thought.The candles had been extinguished for two rounds, and they had been locked up here for at least two hours.

Rhett looked at the candles on the ground. There was nothing to use here, and the murderer didn't raise the chair.The chair weighed down on his arm, preventing him from moving.

Al's head hung down weakly, and she was knocked unconscious by the murderer when Rhett was unconscious.

Reid barely kept awake, no matter what attitude or words they posed, the murderer would not let them go.He was sure the only way out for the two of them was outside rescue.

During this waking time, Rhett heard some strange noises.There is more than one murderer in this house, there is also a woman here.

Rhett did not hear her voice, but she could tell from her footsteps that she was not afraid of the murderer.There are two possibilities, the two are accomplices, or the woman doesn't know that he is the murderer.

The current time is probably between two and three in the morning, and the woman only comes down a few times for activities.The two men's footsteps were heard at the same time only once, and Rhett suspected that the woman might not even be aware that there was another man active in her house.

Every half hour or so, the murderer would open the door to check the candles.Rhett heard the creaking sound of the basement wooden door, and he looked up to see a rabbit head protruding from the door.Rabbit head shined on them with a flashlight, and the light from the flashlight moved from Al to Rhett's face, causing Rhett to squint his eyes.

After a while, the door was closed again.

Rhett coughed lightly, and his arm was already numb.He looked at Al, who had not moved for a while, and his breathing began to slow down.

His mind was no longer clear, and he had no way of telling the time.

His bloodshot pupils reflected the candlelight, and Rhett knew that the candle was about to go out.

Rhett's body remembered the pain of being abused, and in his memory darkness was accompanied by fear.He recalled many things, many things he believed he had let go of.

Footsteps were heard outside again, and the candle was extinguished.The wooden door was opened, and with a soft creak, Reid trembled uncontrollably.

In the darkness, Rhett saw the silhouette of a rabbit head approaching him.Rhett took a deep breath, and he lowered his head and closed his eyes tightly.The beam of the flashlight shone on Red's face, and now he only hoped that they would survive until help arrived.

"Stop... please, stop."

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Yun Xinzhuo stood with folded arms and listened to their discussion. Reid had been missing for two hours and 26 minutes.Yun Xinzhuo does not have the ability to find criminals, he will collect evidence and part of the investigation.But guessing the criminal on the spot is beyond his ability.

Garcia found surveillance video, but limited by the angle, they couldn't see the attacker's size or other characteristics.

"I was chasing the vehicle, but it went into a no surveillance zone."

Others at the BAU are profiling criminals through crime scene evidence, and Yun Xinzhuo's field of expertise is not criminal psychology.In fact, he just tried his best to become a qualified policeman in the past three years. After all, his mental illness prevented him from being involved in some fields.

"The direction of the scene is obvious." Morgan looked around the scene and said, "Just like the cloud police said, the perpetrator is provoking the police."

"There are many traces left at the scene. If he is not very confident in his plan, he is too high-spirited." He turned around and said: "In order to prove that he is brave enough, his age is roughly Between the ages of 35 and a mother or other female member of the family."

Before he finished speaking, Gordon suddenly raised his hand to stop him.He squatted on the ground, propped his chin and said in a deep voice, "What's wrong, what's wrong here."

"What did you find?" Hu Qi asked.

Gordon didn't answer, he narrowed his eyes and looked at the scene in confusion.After everyone else's eyes turned, he stood up abruptly, as if Hu Qi wanted to come to the live photo of the Hurley family.

He looked down at the photos quickly, then looked up and looked around, pacing back and forth in the room.

"Agent Gordon?" Yun Xinzhuo straightened up and called softly, "What happened?"

"The people who attacked Rhett and the others are most likely to be the ones who killed Little Hurley's family." Gordon turned around and said in a low voice, "The scene is just as messy. When he tortured/killed the victim's family, he used There are many ways of abuse, and even the way of binding is different. He has tried each of them. At that time, I thought that he had just acquired the skills through acquisition, and the techniques were not proficient enough, so he did not show obvious habitual characteristics. But Now it seems that the reason why he uses so many killing methods is to find something that can arouse his interest."

"He is not a sexual pervert/perverted criminal, because he didn't get satisfaction by abusing/killing the Hurley family at all. He tried to truly satisfy himself by changing the victim, so he turned his target to Reid and Al." Gordon paused, and said quickly: "His target is only the FBI, he doesn't care about gender, appearance, he just wants to make sure that killing federal investigators will make him feel differently."

"He hasn't determined the target style and behavior yet, so while he's trying, he won't kill Red and Al. He'll just torture them with different methods until he determines one that works for him, and then becomes a A real serial murderer. Or if it is determined that the FBI does not arouse his interest, then he will kill the test object." Gordon took out the map and pressed it on the ground, and he took out a pen to draw:

"He has limited patience for his own interest, and we have at most five hours of rescue time. But if my previous speculation is correct, Rhett and Al have been abused for more than two hours, and they have at most five hours of rescue time. It can last for two hours. After two hours, we can only bring back two people who are basically dying."

Hu Qi nodded, and he said to Garcia on the phone: "Garcia, investigate the people who have intersected with Al and the others in the past three days, and the people who used to stay near the headquarters and the two people's residences."

"I'm looking for it, I'm looking for it...it will take a while." Garcia tapped on the keyboard and said anxiously, "I'll do it as soon as possible...oh, Rhett...Al..."

"I think I know someone who meets the requirements." Morgan suddenly said: "Claude's neighbor, when we were arresting Claude, Al and the others met him. He often goes to Claude Having dinner at home, he can learn some sexual/perverted crime skills through chatting with Claude."

"Well... the results I found match Morgan's guess." Garcia took a few seconds to call out the information of Claude's neighbor.

Hu Qi looked down at the text message on his mobile phone and said: "Abner Kenneth, 36 years old, graduated from Texas A&M University with a major in accounting. He quit his job two months ago, and Crowder became his six months ago. Neighbor. He has enough money in the bank for him to concentrate on finding interests, and he's been planning for at least two months for this one day."

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"Oh, Kenneth, I don't know what I would do without you." Claude's wife limped down the stairs in her pajamas, and said to the man who was drinking coffee: "I can't think of Claude. De will kill me to escape."

"I didn't expect him to be so friendly, even though he can be easily irritable at times." Kenneth yawned, and walked over to help Claude's wife onto the sofa.

"What's the matter with the blood on your clothes? Are you injured?" Claude's wife looked at the little blood on Kenneth's body and asked with concern.

"It's just a nosebleed, I was still wiping it just now." Kenneth pointed to the trash can next to the coffee table, where there were a few balls of blood-stained paper.

"Maybe it's too much pressure recently, you know, after all, I still haven't found a suitable job."

"It's always hard to be unemployed. But to be honest, we are so lucky to have such a kind and considerate neighbor like you." Claude's wife said sincerely: "Although I'm just scratched, without you, I Really don't know how to get through this time. Thank you so much for taking the initiative to take care of me."

She touched her leg and said in confusion: "Tell me, it's obviously not a serious injury, why I still can't walk normally. Kenneth, I always feel that my leg can no longer be used."

"It's a psychological effect, don't worry." Kenneth said.

"I really hope that Claude can treat you well after he comes out. You are a good woman." Kenneth smiled gently, he looked at his watch and said, "You should go to bed, the patient should rest more."

Claude's wife smiled wearily, and was helped back to the bedroom by Kenneth.

After Kenneth made sure that the woman would not come out for a short time, he returned to the living room, took out a rabbit mask from under the coffee table, and put it on his face casually.

He looked down at the time again, finally picked up the flashlight and carried a bloody knife, bent down and pushed open the basement door.

The light of the flashlight illuminates the burnt candle, illuminates the bloody water on the ground, and illuminates two people who are motionless as if they are dead.

He sniffed Rhett's breath, and went to pinch Al's eyelids to check Al's condition.After confirming that the two people still had signs of life, he squatted down and checked the two candles on the ground.

Holding the knife, he walked up to Rhett, cut off his rope, and pulled Rhett who had lost the ability to resist.

"I know you recognized me." Kenneth said: "I can guess, after all BAU's name is so famous, you must know who I am."

Rhett lowered his eyelids slightly, panting weakly.

"When Claude talked about sexual abuse, he would become very excited. After he was drunk, he would tell me about his grand plan, but he didn't have the guts to do it." Kenneth said seriously: "I I think that since Claude likes it so much, it should be interesting. But obviously Claude is wrong, torturing/killing a person feels similar to torturing and killing an animal."

"Kenneth...I have read your profile." Reid said intermittently, "You have never suffered...unfair...treatment..."

"You want to ask me why I committed a crime?" Kenneth said, "I think what I just said is clear enough. I have done enough accounting work, and I am bored."

Rhett struggled to open his eyes and looked at Kenneth.This time Kenneth turned on the flashlight, and Rhett could clearly see the face of a rabbit, with huge hollow eyes, slowly falling blood drops, leaving a bloodstain on the exaggerated smile.

"I want to have more fun, like I know you guys will guess who I am, and I still wear a rabbit mask to torture/sad. Agent Rhett, I am honored to be the shadow of your life."