criminal profiling

Shi Ke went to the mountain, but the search and rescue failed.The area of ​​the forest is too large, and there are still many places where humans have not set foot. It is impossible to carry out a carpet search.

Even if the local residents are organized to help, they can only search the vicinity once, and there is no way to enter the place that is too deep.

In the afternoon, Zhuang Sheng and Shi Ke went to the local residents to learn about the situation.

Xu Jie also told them what he found in the morning.

He sat in a local hotel for less than two hours and listened to gossip. Except for the unconfirmed news of someone missing, everything else was trivial.

For example, whose house was robbed, whose vegetables were eaten by animals.Because it is close to the mountain, animals will come down from the mountain from time to time, break into the house and cause damage.However, they are usually small animals, and the lost things are worthless, just some food and clothes, presumably they were taken away by some animals.

In addition to these, there is one more interesting thing - or, a story.

There are two versions of this story, about the mountain god living on the mountain.

One of the versions is that the mountain god is protecting the forest and the people who enter the forest.Those who lost their way in the forest couldn't get out for several days, and their mobile phones had no signal and couldn't contact the outside world. When they were half-starved, the mountain god appeared and brought them food and water, and showed them the way out.This story was dismissed because of their mental state when they were found, thinking that it was just a hallucination caused by their starvation, like the little match girl.

One of them believed in the saying that the mountain god protects the world, because he had seen the mountain god with his own eyes.

"He accidentally broke his leg while digging medicine in the mountains. He lost too much blood and his consciousness gradually became blurred. He kept calling for help, hoping that some rangers or travel friends would find him. When he felt that the blood was about to flow out and he was about to die. , he saw the mountain god—”

"Wait, how can he be sure that what he saw was a mountain god and not a human being who simply saved him?" Shi Ke interrupted Xu Jie and asked him.

Xu Xie showed a clear smile, "I asked him that too, and he said—" Xu Jie's eyes became strange, "It looks like a person, but with draped hair, a snake around his neck, and a snake on his hand. Still holding a bow and arrow—doesn’t the gods in those ghosts look like this?”

"How did this person get down the mountain in the end?" Zhuang Sheng had been listening carefully, and then asked a question.

Xu Jie slapped his chin, his eyes lit up slightly, and his tone of voice raised a little, "The magic is here. When he woke up, he found himself lying on the bed at home, and the wound on his leg had been treated. No one saw how he came back. Then he found that there were a few pieces of bacon missing from the house, and he thought it must be a sacrifice from the mountain god to save him." Xu explained and muttered to himself.

"Could it be that God's taste has changed, instead of eating fresh offerings, he likes smoked bacon?"

Shi Ke stared at him, and then slapped him on the head, "It's silly to listen to the story, maybe someone passing by saved him, but he just didn't want to show his face."

Xu Xie scratched his head and dared to be angry and dare not speak out, aggrieved: "Can passers-by know where his home is?"

Shi Ke made a gesture to hit him on the head again, Xu Jie ran behind Zhuang Sheng with his head in his arms, and stuck out half of his head, "I'm raising a reasonable doubt, and if I can't say it, I'll hit him with my hands. Only uncivilized savages would do this!"

Scott rolled up his sleeves, "Come on, let me show you what it's like to be a real savage."

Xu Xie retracted the other half of his head.

Zhuang Sheng stopped Shi Ke, his train of thought was not distracted by the fight between the two, he turned his head and asked Xu Jie, "What about the other version?"

Seeing Zhuang Sheng's serious expression, Xu Jie was too embarrassed to mess around anymore, so he sat down again.

"In another version, the mountain god is bad and evil, and he will eat passers-by who get lost in the forest. So when you are alone, don't spend the night in the mountain, or you will be captured by the evil mountain god, and you won't even find your body .”

Shi Ke's hands itched again after hearing this, "You've been asking all morning, and that's all you've heard?"

Xu Jie quickly rolled his eyes at him, and said in a low voice: "This place has a high turnover of people, and even the disappearance can't be clarified. It's pretty good to be able to inquire about these things—if someone else asks, they may not be able to inquire about these things. "

Before Shi Ke started, Zhuang Sheng hurriedly asked one last question.

"The missing ones are all alone, without companions?"

Xu Jie was stunned, he didn't think about it, but now that Zhuang Sheng asked, it seemed to be true.He turned on the computer and checked it quickly, "Hey, although it is a story, the official disappearances seem to have happened when one person was alone—could it be that the mountain god also bullies the weak and fears the hard, and only picks out the single ones?"

Zhuang Sheng was immersed in his own thoughts, and the surrounding noises were automatically blocked, until he was awakened by the ringing of the mobile phone, and he didn't react for a while.

"Your." Xu Jie pointed to Zhuang Sheng's pocket.

Zhuang Sheng took out his phone from his pocket, and a name lit up on the screen.

——Meng Yan.

Look next to the name, there are several missed calls.

Zhuang Sheng hesitated for a moment, picked up his cell phone and answered the call.

"Where are you?"

The man's deep voice came from the other end of the phone. Zhuang Sheng, who was familiar with Meng Yan, knew that this man must be feeling depressed right now.But he has always suppressed his anger, and whoever offends him will make up for it in other ways.

"Well, Song County." Zhuang Sheng spoke with his mobile phone and walked out, pretending not to see the curious gazes of Shi Ke and Xu Jie.

The man chuckled softly on the phone, "Heh, Shengsheng, you are really bad-behaved now, the more you are not allowed to do something, the more you have to do it - to make up for the skin you lost when you were a child, right?"

The tips of Zhuang Sheng's ears were a little itchy, he paused, put the phone away a little, and said in a calm tone, "I don't know what you're talking about."

"I don't know? I told you to rest for a few more days before handling the case. That's what you listened to, huh?" The ending of the last word was accentuated, as if a feather was scratching at the tip of Zhuang Sheng's heart. His eyelashes trembled, trying to maintain Keep the composure in your voice.

"When did you say that? Besides, I've grown up, why should I listen to you?"

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, and when Meng Yan's voice sounded again, there was a trace of deep helplessness, "Shengsheng, it was my fault that I forced you to go abroad despite your wishes, and I apologize to you. Don't talk to me again." Get angry and make fun of your body."

Such a tone that seemed to indulge a wayward child made Zhuang Sheng frowned and kept his mouth shut.

Meng Yan felt Zhuang Sheng's stubbornness from the silence on the other end of the phone, and his tone became more helpless, almost sighing, "Although it has been 15 years, I know that you have never forgotten it. When you were young, you would do evil when you saw others get hurt." Meng, I need to be hugged and coaxed to fall asleep. Seeing such a bloody scene this time, how can I recover in just a few days." At the end, Meng Yan sighed.

"I told you to move back and I refused. The room you used to live in when you were a child has always been there—Shengsheng, don't worry me."

The man's sigh-like words made Zhuang Sheng almost cry. He closed his eyes and tried to calm down his breathing——when he spoke again, there was no abnormality in his voice.

"If there is nothing else, I will hang up, and there is still a case to investigate."

Meng Yan was silent for a moment, swallowed everything he wanted to say, and only asked in a soft voice, "Well, be careful yourself, and don't act alone at any time. If you encounter problems, call me at any time, understand?"

Zhuang Sheng responded, and Meng Yan tirelessly told him to eat well and pay attention to rest.Zhuang Sheng didn't interrupt, and quietly listened to him. When he finally hung up the phone, his drooping head slowly lifted, revealing red eye sockets.

The reason why I needed someone to coax me when I was a child was because I knew someone I could rely on.What about nightmares when there is only one person living?

No matter how terrible the nightmare is, you will always wake up, and you will find out after you get through it. It turns out that when you are not alone, you can't find out how strong you can be.

——I still get scared, but I'm used to being alone.

After Meng Yan hung up the phone, he stared at the phone thoughtfully.

He was still worried, thinking of the young man in the warehouse that day, shivering, his limbs were cold, just like every time he had a seizure when he was a child, he was so fragile that he couldn't bear a single blow.

If he knew what the young man looked like when he was alone, he would never be so cruel as to send him away.

Meng Yan decided that he would feel at ease by going to that person's side to watch.

The car slowly drove out of the community, passing through two security gates.After driving on the road for a while, his cell phone rang. Meng Yan didn't pay attention to it. He glanced over casually and his eyes froze.

If it wasn't for his quick reaction and the good performance of the car, he almost didn't brake and hit the guardrail next to him.

Meng Yan put his hands on the steering wheel and stared at the lit phone screen with a condensed expression.

Instead of a name on the screen, it's a string of numbers - not like any normal mobile or landline number.

Meng Yan answered the phone with a blank expression, and a foreign language could be heard in his ears.Meng Yan has been quietly listening to the other party, without making a sound.

The call didn't last long, and within a minute, the other end hung up.There was no communication between the two of them the whole time, but when the phone was hung up, Meng Yan's face was covered with frost, air-conditioning radiated from his body, and the car was almost frozen.

The phone vibrated and a photo came.

A young and beautiful woman was lying in a pool of blood, with neat clothes and delicate makeup on her face.She folded her hands on her abdomen with a peaceful expression, as if she was in a deep sleep—lying in her own blood.

On the back of the woman's folded hands, there was something neatly placed.

It was a poker card.

—— Heart K.