Chapter 34 Puzzle Pattern
At 2:45 in the morning, the TV screen suddenly lit up by itself.
The dim cold light illuminated the dark living room, and a few faces could be vaguely seen in the flickering black and white snowflakes.
Han Fei breathed a sigh of relief. His palms and back were soaked with sweat. He was really scared when his hair appeared in the gap of the quilt just now.
"Only twenty minutes left."
This hellish time was finally coming to an end. Han Fei didn't know how he had endured it. He saw a glimmer of hope in the long dark night.
On the sofa in the living room, five figures were facing away from the bedroom. They were all staring at the old square TV, as if there was something extremely attractive on the flickering snow screen.
Tick-tock, tick-tock…
The sound of the electronic clock hands moving mixed with Han Fei's own heartbeat. He tried his best to remain calm. Now it was the last moment and there must be no mistakes.
Han Fei's eyes swept across the figure on the sofa, and finally stopped on the TV screen.
Amid the rustling sound of the electric current there was a man's voice, which was not very clear, as if a madman was muttering to himself.
Han Fei focused his attention. The man seemed to vaguely say words such as dismantling, pupation, liberation, and beauty .
"Room 1044 is a haunted house. The dead bodies in human jigsaw puzzles are locked inside. I have seen Wei Youfu and Amei here with my own eyes. But the tone of the man on TV doesn't sound like a victim. Instead, he sounds more like a murderer."
The dead people in the human puzzle were all ordinary people. Han Fei had seen all their photos before they died. Every photo was filled with despair and pain. It was impossible for them to say such meaningless words at the moment of life and death.
In order to solve the case, Han Fei memorized everything the man said on TV.
"The murderer's state when he killed people was a bit strange, as if he was performing some kind of ritual." Han Fei recalled the information about the human body puzzle pattern in his mind.
The police attach great importance to this case. Even though ten years have passed, the Xinhu police are still investigating. All evidence has been retained, and they are offering an indefinite reward to the public for clues.
Han Fei also learned some inside information through some information released by the police.
Generally speaking, serial killers can be roughly divided into four categories: hallucination type, mission type, hedonistic type, and control type. The Xinhu police have classified the human puzzle murderer as a mission type and an extremely violent control type.
Most of the victims of the human puzzles are women and children, so most people think that the murderer may not be tall, and his physical strength determines that his targets will be people weaker than him.
He wants to gain something from those who are weaker than him to satisfy his twisted heart.
Of course, the police cannot disclose all the information before solving the case. Some of the information Han Fei found was compiled by himself on the Internet and is not necessarily accurate. It can only provide him with a direction.
He also thought in this direction at first, but after hearing the words of the man on TV, he realized that the murderer's purpose of killing was not simple, and there might be deeper reasons.
"Pupate? Butterfly?"
Han Fei obtained a piece of information in the game that the police did not know, which was that Meng Changan, the suspect in the refrigerator corpse case, had predicted the human body puzzle pattern.
Meng Changan himself is not a normal person. The first time he killed someone, he told his family that he was induced by something and did such a crazy thing in order to see clearly the butterflies in his mind.
"The body hidden in the refrigerator case and the human puzzle are both related to the butterfly. What does this butterfly symbolize?"
Meng Changan was once lured by butterflies. Judging from the man's voice on TV, the murderer of the human puzzle pattern seemed to have been lured by butterflies as well.
"Just looking at the murder scene, one would think that the human jigsaw murderer is a mission-driven killer, but after hearing his creepy and cruel voice, it seems that this madman is in some kind of hallucination. His motive for killing is very complicated."
Han Fei is not a professional detective. Just a few days ago, he was still racking his brains to figure out how to make the audience laugh. Reasoning and analysis are courses he has only recently started to learn.
His eyes moved to the figures on the sofa. Han Fei looked at the five blurry figures, and the information of the subjects in the human body puzzle emerged in his mind.
"If we look at the order in which they were killed, it doesn't seem to make any sense, but if we look at it in order of age..."
At 0:14, the child who first appeared in the house looked very similar to the youngest victim in the human puzzle.
"Cui Tianci, 12 years old, used to be a children's clothing model. The time of death was between 11pm and 1am."
Then Han Fei looked at the second ghost that appeared on the sofa. The woman with long hair passed by the door of Han Fei's bedroom at 0:44.
"Cui Caiyi, Cui Tianci's older sister, is 18 years old. She has a pair of very pure and beautiful eyes. She is a contact lens model and has taken photos for many contact lens stores."
His sight slowly moved towards the short-haired woman holding the fruit knife . Han Fei recalled the photo of the deceased in his mind: "Xiao Qing, 20 years old, was a female student who worked part-time as a tutor during college. She was excellent in both academics and character, and had a very good personality. She was also a leg model in private. In addition to paying for her own schooling, she also sent part of the money she earned back home to help her relatives get medical treatment."
Sitting next to the short-haired woman was a short woman with high heels and pale skin.
"Zhang Lingfan, 23 years old , a female anchor with little fame, had fair and beautiful hands and often appeared in nail art advertisements. She was a hand model. She died around 1 a.m., which coincides with the time she just appeared."
"Based on her age, the next victim is 25-year-old Amei. She had left photos of herself trying on lipsticks on shopping platforms, and there are also many lip photos on social platforms. Many people want to invite her to be a lip model."
"The person who was the closest to Amei in age was Wei Youfu, 26 years old, who died around 3 a.m. He was also the only one among all the victims who had no physical or physical advantages. The police believed that Wei Youfu was killed because he mistakenly walked into the murder scene, and it was the murderer's first crime. All these factors combined led to his death."
"In addition to Wei Youfu, there was another male victim. He was also the oldest of all the victims. His name was Gu Ye, 29 years old. He used to be a print model. He died between 3 and 4 in the morning."
There are eight victims in the human puzzle pattern. Except for the eighth victim whose information has not been found yet, the time of death of the remaining seven victims is linked to their age.
The older you are, the later you die.
From midnight to four in the morning, from the darkest night to the approaching dawn.
The human body officially enters puberty at the age of twelve, and physical fitness begins to decline slightly at the age of thirty.
Each victim in the human puzzle seemed to be carefully selected. This was not a random killing at all, but a premeditated crime.
