Paranormal incident investigation notes

After completing some preliminary preparations, the three of them took a plane to Blue Lake Airport.

At the airport exit, Feng Guozhu leaned against the car, the cigarette butt in his hand flashing brightly and dimly. Ahead, three young men, two men and one woman, walked over behind the subordinate.

These three people seem to be quite young.

Are these three people sent by superiors to investigate the case?

At first, when Feng Guozhu heard his superiors say that the investigation of the case would be restarted and elite forces would be dispatched to undertake the investigation task, he was still very excited. But now there is a little hesitation.

These three people don't look like old detectives...

After flicking off the cigarette butt, Feng Guozhu greeted him with a smile on his face.

"welcome……"

After chatting for a while, several people took a car and drove to the Blue Lake City Public Security Bureau.

Along the way, looking at the scenery of Blue Lake City through the window, Lu Ming felt a little sigh in his heart.

I don’t know what kind of story and what kind of test I and the others will face this time. I don’t know how this case will eventually develop.

One of the characteristics of supernatural events is that no one can predict what kind of case it will be and what it will involve until the case is actually investigated and closed.

What may seem like an ordinary beginning may turn out to be a shocking case in the end, and may even involve the life and death of the entire civilization. Or maybe it starts out very grand, like some big case, but in the end, it turns out that only a small aspect is involved.

It is precisely for this reason that the people in the research room were unable to classify the case at the beginning and put it into the hands of people who were really good at this type of case.

But having said that, there are so many action teams in the Operations Department, and there seems to be no clear classification, such as which type this team is good at, which type that team is good at, etc. They just do whatever they encounter, and there is no room for choice.

This time too.

"I hope the involvement this time can be smaller, and don't cause such a big scene again. It's always like this, and my heart can't stand it..."

Lu Ming muttered silently in his heart.

Arriving at the Public Security Bureau in a short time, the welcome party and the like were all waived at Zhang Dingshan's request. Feng Guozhu, who was nearly 50 years old, took on the responsibility of contacting the Second Operation Team and local government agencies, and dispatched a special team to directly follow the orders of the Second Operation Team.

Feng Guozhu was quietly observing these three young people. He felt that the young man called the captain among the three seemed to have discovered his observation. But he didn't seem to care.

Do you encounter this situation so often that you are used to it? These three people seem to be very experienced? Have similar strange cases happened elsewhere?

Observing secretly, Feng Guozhu showed no signs of neglect on the surface, and went all out to meet and cooperate with any request of the three people.

After settling in, the first case analysis meeting was held. Zhang Dingshan also announced several directions drawn from previous internal discussions and arranged manpower to carry them out.

It has been two months since Zeng Jian committed suicide. During this period, the task force came and went, and now the second operation team has taken over the case and is here.

It started with Zeng Jian's suicide. After that, the security officers increased their attention to and investigation of suicide cases. In this way, 17 more unreasonable suicide cases were screened out during this period. The bodies of the deceased in these 17 suicide cases, including Zeng Jian, were not cremated.

This will facilitate the genetic testing decided by Operation Team Two.

A total of eighteen biological samples were quickly collected and sent to the laboratory for genetic analysis as quickly as possible.

Results take approximately two days to come back. During the past two days, the security officers followed the orders of the second operation team and began to conduct interviews and investigations into the occupations and skills of the deceased.

Occupation and skills are two different concepts. What you are good at does not necessarily determine the direction of your work. Just like some programmers are good at fishing, and some chefs are also good at carpentry.

The statistics in this area are much more extensive, involving a total of about 500 abnormal suicide deaths in the past ten years.

Thanks to the hard work of the security guards, the statistics in this area soon came to fruition.

Only Zhang Dingshan, He Wei, and Lu Ming were present in the internal conference room. Looking at these results, Lu Ming pondered: "I'm afraid there won't be any demand for these professions and special skills."

Because these people's occupations and skills do not have any special direction.

If these people are all experts in a certain field, such as doctors, chemists, mathematicians, construction workers, etc., or a combination of the above different professions, you can make certain judgments from this.

But it's clear that these victims were ordinary. Their professions and skills are also very popular. For example, delivery people, company employees, restaurant owners, teachers, etc. Skills they are good at are nothing more than basketball, football, heavy drinking, good cooking, good poker skills, and stable driving, which are also very popular.

If these people all "fake death to escape", then at best these people can only form a group of ordinary people. This makes absolutely no sense.

Zhang Dingshan said: "I noticed that among the victims of these abnormal suicide cases, the proportion of 'high-end people' is very small."

High-end people refer to those with higher social status. Officials, celebrities, rich men, artists, etc. of a certain level. In the statistics of the dead, there are less than 20 such people out of a total of about 500 people.

He Wei wondered: "What? That force hidden behind the scenes still picks people to commit crimes? Only ordinary people?"

This doesn't seem reasonable.

If these are ordinary suicide cases that do not involve supernatural forces, and those people commit suicide because of brain tics, then there is no evidence that high-end people have a lower probability of brain tics than ordinary people. In other words, the numbers of the two groups should be roughly equal.

In fact, Lu Ming believes that it is possible that high-end people have a higher probability of brain twitching. Because generally speaking, high-end people have more pressure and think more. On the contrary, ordinary people, limited by the pressure of life, do not have so much time to think about what is there and what is not.

If supernatural power is involved, and a force hidden behind the scenes planned these abnormal suicide cases, then it seems a bit low-key to have already mastered this power and to focus on ordinary people.

Unless there is any special purpose.

There is currently insufficient data to allow further analysis. Lu Ming could only write down this doubt and related data for later analysis.

"There is currently no evidence to prove the possibility of 'faking death to escape'. This direction can be temporarily put aside. If new evidence or events appear in the future that hint at this possibility, we will pick it up again."

"I agree."

After some discussion, several people agreed on this.

The next day, the genetic analysis results of these eighteen people were returned.

Lu Ming took a look and saw that there were densely packed identical genes listed on it, and there were a lot of them.

But one problem is that none of these same genes are scarce. They are all relatively popular genes.

One of the rarest genes, the average human possession rate is about one percent. That means a total of about 100 million people in the world have this gene.

This number is too large and cannot be used as a basis for determining that "genes have similarities".

Although if eighteen people are randomly selected, the probability that each person has the gene with a possession rate of only 1% seems very low, it cannot be calculated like this here. Because there are a lot of genes with a 1% ownership rate.

What eighteen people have in common is that there is no A gene but B gene, and there is no B gene but C gene. As long as the number of genes is large enough, if a gene with a 1% ownership rate happens to be shared by eighteen people, it is not a small probability event and is not worth paying attention to.

This direction can also be temporarily excluded.

Although he had long been mentally prepared that the result of this case would not be easy to find out, at this moment, when these two possibilities were temporarily ruled out, Lu Ming still felt a little unable to start.

I don’t know where the breakthrough is, I don’t know where the entry point is.

"Is it really a random crime? This is difficult..."

Randomly selecting targets to commit crimes means great difficulties whether it is a routine investigation or an unconventional investigation at this moment.

Since joining the Second Action Team and being exposed to many things that he didn't know before as an ordinary person, many of Lu Ming's previous perceptions have been overturned.

In the past, Lu Ming had always thought, influenced by film and television works or novels, that high-intelligence crimes that could make security guards and detectives rack their brains until their hair fell out were very powerful. Although he himself had no urge to commit a crime, he had tried to conceive of the so-called "perfect murder", trying to find a way to kill a person without leaving any traces.

But now, Lu Ming knows very clearly that the so-called high-intelligence murder, the so-called perfect murder, such as intentionally leaving misleading clues, are all nonsense. It doesn't exist in reality at all.

The ever-changing criminal investigation methods make all so-called perfect murders become jokes. On the contrary, it is the simplest and most unpretentious way of killing, random killing, which is the most difficult to detect. At least it's much harder to detect than the so-called perfect murder.

A person with no criminal record wanders into another place, randomly selects a person, stabs him to death without monitoring anyone else, and then escapes. This case is extremely difficult for security officers to solve.

Now, the case before us shows some signs of random crimes.

Random crimes, coupled with the intervention of supernatural forces, double the difficulty.

In the office, the three of them fell into silence for a long time.

After a long time, Lu Mingcai said: "Even if it is a random crime, and it is a non-contact killing through some supernatural force as a medium, the murderer or the force behind the scenes must at least have been in contact with the victim? Otherwise, how would he know the victim's identity? exist?"

If you want to kill a person, whether it is through ordinary contact or a non-contact crime through supernatural power, the murderer must first know that this person exists.

A certain security guard in a certain community in a city thousands of kilometers away, no matter how powerful the murderer is, it is impossible to kill him.

If you don't even know this person exists, how can you kill him?

"So how did the forces behind the scenes know about these victims?"

Once the ideas are opened, subsequent sorting becomes much smoother.

"There are only two ways to know the victim. One, reality, and two, the Internet. There are only two methods, one, direct contact and knowledge. Two, indirect contact and knowledge. The combination of two and two is a total of four methods.

We don’t know exactly how the behind-the-scenes forces select their victims, but whether in reality or on the Internet, we can believe that there is a certain overlap in the activity areas of the behind-the-scenes forces and the deceased.

The greater possibility is that the deceased entered a certain area and were discovered by the forces behind the scenes, and finally became the target. "

He Wei raised an objection: "Why can't it be that the forces behind the scenes or the murderer were running around and actively entered the area where the deceased were active before discovering the deceased and targeting them?"

Lu Ming shook his head: "I have no solid evidence. However, such unreasonable suicide cases only exist on a large scale in Blue Lake City and not in other cities. This seems to indicate that the forces behind the scenes are not actively discovering the target of the crime."

In other words, the forces or murderers behind the scenes are "lazy". He or they don't even bother to go to Blue Lake City.

He Wei continued to question: "Perhaps they can only commit crimes in one city due to certain restrictions? But it is entirely possible that they are not fixed within the city."

"It is indeed possible." Lu Ming agreed with He Wei's objection. He continued: "However, if we only judge from the tendency at present, the murderer or the forces behind the scenes have a fixed area of ​​activity. The victims are more likely to come into this area and have direct or indirect contact with him."

He Wei was thoughtful.

"If this is the case, then there will inevitably be a certain overlap in the victim's activity trajectory. This overlapping area is most likely the area where the forces behind the scenes are active."

Zhang Dingshan knocked on the table lightly: "Let's check this idea first. If it doesn't work, then talk about something else."

The current stage is inherently a process of continuous trial and error. Regardless of whether the inference is correct or not, check it first before talking.

What is the best thing you can find. It doesn’t matter if you can’t find it.

"That's okay. Let's check it out then. I'll check the actual scope of activities."

Zhang Dingshan looked at Lu Ming: "Go and check the scope of network activities."

"yes."

Lu Ming found some network experts, retrieved the traces of the deceased's network activities during their lifetime, and directly began to investigate the overlapping areas of their network activities.

A certain forum, a certain website, a certain group, or a certain chat room are all within the scope of investigation.

Members of the task force have previously investigated the Internet activities of the deceased and retrieved call records, communication records, chat records, etc. But none of those things showed value, and the line was abandoned.