Chapter 1 Black Dahlia

People's fears are born in their hearts.

When it will disappear, it will be even stronger.

The case was finally solved, and our whole department suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. After all, the rice bowl was saved. Except for Zhang Jiewei, everyone else's state is even completely relaxed, of course, including me.

"Is there anything in your heart that scares you the most?" Xiao Fang opened the chat box in the office again. For sure, this is usually when Lord Jiang is away.

"The most afraid and most feared thing, you don't want to say your thing again, do you?" Gao Jianning also began to make fun of Xiaofa. After this period of time, everyone knows that Xiaofa is the kind of person who can't be separated from "that thing" in three sentences.

"Wrong! It's a big mistake!" Xiao Tiao vetoed Gao Jianning loudly, and then suddenly turned to me, "The most frightening thing in the world is not the external factor, but your own heart."

"You can only say this kind of words." Unwilling to be denied by a small setback, Gao Jianning continued to fight against him.

"Oh, don't believe it. Don't let you tell yourself what you are most afraid of." Xiao Zhe glanced at all of us maliciously, and the big guy's eyes still fell on him with great face.

"Black." Gao Jianning answered first, and he also answered very smoothly, but as soon as he spoke, he felt as if he had missed something.

"Forest." Smurfette smiled helplessly and replied softly.

Zhang Jiewei just gave Xiao Chou a cold look, and Xiao Cou automatically filtered him out, and the next focus naturally fell on my head.

"Light." I replied casually.

"Light?" Now Xiaochu, Gao Jianning and Smurfette were all surprised. Zhang Jiewei couldn't help throwing a playful expression at me, which was quite rare.

"Because I'm a vampire who has lived for 500 years, I will disappear when I see the light!" As I spoke, I made an extremely painful expression.

"Go! Who doesn't know that you are a monkey who has been suppressed for 500 years!" It is estimated that Gao Jianning became more and more "hungry" and irritable during this period. His mouth was full of gunpowder, and he actually forgot who he was speaking ill of!

"Go! Then you are the monkey grandson!" Young master, am I such an easy person to eat?

"You should have less trouble. You are not all the 'Monkey' family." Smurfette whispered, and her face was full of smiles.

"I said this Smurfette, are you ready to watch our two brothers 'play monkey play'," as long as I can win the smile of the beauty, why don't I sacrifice myself? "By the way, why are you afraid of the forest?"

"Well... Do you want to listen?" Smurfette restrained half of her smile and looked appetizing us.

Except for Zhang Jiewei, who had been watching coldly, Xiao Tiao and Gao Jianning nodded their heads like chickens pecking rice, and even consciously moved the chair to Lan Jinxuan's side, surrounded Blue Sisters with me, ready to listen to the beautiful woman's story.

"That was also a summer vacation in my junior high school. I signed up for a summer training camp, camping on the barren mountains for five days, and also conducting field survival training. At that time, I performed well among the students in that group. At the beginning, I was selected as his assistant by the administrator teacher who led the team to help him check his attendance. The first and second days were normal, until the third day..." Smurfette said this, her face was particularly solemn, as if she had said something that she had to wait for.

"What's that thing'?" A small setback interrupted inappropriately.

"Get out of here, can't you think of anything else but 'that thing'?" Gao Jianning is really determined today. He has to get along with the small setbacks.

"Stop it, listen to others." At this time, of course, I have to come forward and maintain a good image in front of the beautiful woman. Then I turned my head and smiled heartlessly and said to Sister Blue, "Don't be nervous, you go on."

So Smurfette nodded solemnly and continued, "Until the third night, I had just checked my bed and was ready to check with the teacher and then rested. When I walked to the teacher's tent, I found that my feet were on a pool of water. I clearly remember that it almost didn't rain in those days, and it was impossible for there to be water outside the teacher's tent. I stepped back and looked under my feet with the light of the flashlight. It was not water at all, but a pool of blood flowing out of the tent. At that time, I was very scared and didn't dare to make a sound, but I still dared to walk into the teacher's tent. But as soon as I opened the curtain from the outside, I saw the administrator sitting in front of me, sitting upright, looking at me with empty eyes, and there was no blood on my face.

I tried to call him. As soon as his hand touched his shoulder, he kept that posture and fell back into a pool of blood around his body. I was almost scared crazy at that time, screaming and retreating, running into the forest as if someone was chasing me. It was not until the next morning that another administrator teacher found me under a tree that he brought me back. The death of the administrator teacher forced us to end our field training early. On our way back, the police solved the case and caught the murderer.

After Smurfette finished speaking, her whole body seemed to be in a haze again, and then added, "Maybe this is why I'm afraid of the forest."

Seeing Smurfette like this, no one knew what to say to comfort the frightened beauty. Only Gao Jianning would ask unconsciously, "Really?"

"Of course, it's fake." Unexpectedly, Smurfette said such a sentence, and then laughed.

"Alas!" The three of us sighed almost at the same time, and our bodies leaned back, expressing speechless.

"To be afraid of the forest is to be afraid of the forest. I don't know why. It's because I'm more afraid inexplicably." Smurfette said innocently without hiding the smile on her face. Damn it, is this a "defamation" of our brother's third son's IQ?

"Then you make up this story well. It has great potential. Why don't you write a novel?" I'll make fun of it.

"Watch TV series." Smurfette stared at me again with her big innocent and clear eyes, which made me feel uncomfortable, but also a little enjoyment.

"By the way, the last email was signed by Smurfette's. How's your boy?" I turned my head and looked at Gao Jianning and said, changing the topic.

"Brother, you don't know that the sender must have been intentional. The IP of this email can be found, but it has appeared on tens of thousands of servers across the country. I hate these people who are so smart. Gao Jianning patted his thigh like an old mother who hated steel, and said angrily and helplessly.

"Just say if you can handle it?" I don't have time to listen to Gao Jianning complain too much. For the process and results, I always pay more attention to the latter.

"I can, I can definitely do it this time. I learned a lesson last time. This time, buddy, I spent a whole day designing a perfect program. It only takes me three days to figure out its path and find out the original server!" Gao Jianning said indignantly, as if he wanted to be ashamed.

"That's all right. Anyway, I have plenty of time to wait." As I spoke, I leaned on the back of the chair with my head in my arms, ready to rest again.

"I don't have time to wait. It's time to deal!" My good rest time was completely destroyed by Lord Jiang's kicking door and the "magic sound" that came one after another.

Lord Jiang arrived, and the big guy jumped up from his seat like an electric shock.

"You guys can handle the new case." Lord Jiang said and threw a volume of files to me. It seemed that Lord Jiang was still not ready for these public information at all.

"What's going on?" I weighed the file book in my hand and asked naturally.

"Cough, someone found a female corpse on the top of a hill in the western suburbs this morning, which is suspected to be a 'heavenly burial'. After an on-site survey by forensic doctors, it was confirmed to be murder." Lord Jiang said slowly, and a rare pale face that had always been ruddy and "leader's luster".

"Aren't we specifically accepting 'special' cases?" I casually asked, isn't that the nature of our "special service"?

"You think it's easy for me to find a job for you!" Lord Jiang really broke out like a complaining woman. Did I say something wrong?

"Look at this case. After reading it, you will know if it is a 'special' case." Lord Jiang also seemed to sense that something was wrong with his mood. He coughed twice and continued, "In a word, don't talk to me here, and solve the case as soon as possible!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lord Jiang left the office. I extremely suspected that he had his own office elsewhere, so he would never stay in our "special office" for a moment.

As soon as Lord Jiang left, Gao Jianning and Xiao Fou came up with their back feet to see what kind of case it was.

In front of them, I opened the archive book. The first thing I saw was those eye-catching and absolutely "exhilarating" photos. Gao Jianning couldn't help running to the bucket beside him and began to vomit.

On the photo is a headless female corpse, which should be two pieces to be precise, because her upper body and lower body have been completely separated, and some of her body is exposed without knowing what has been eaten.

"What's going on with his father!" I couldn't help sighing, and the file book in my opponent also had an inexplicable sense of disgust.

Smurfette took the file book from my hand. After seeing the photo, she also looked pale. At one time, she had the impulse to vomit. The only thing that made me happy was that she seemed to be a symptom of joy, which made me laugh out loud.

"You can still laugh!" Seeing my extraordinary **/swung smile, Smurfette gave me a white eye directly on the spot.

"However, it seems that there is no other real information except for these photos. The only thing that can be determined now is the identity of the deceased: Ou Jinglan, female, 25 years old, an unknown model, an ordinary worker's family background, nothing*. Looking at her death, is it revenge?" Smurfette then began to speculate.

"Is it revenge?" I seemed to be asking Smurfette and everyone. When their eyes were focused on my side, I continued, "Look around this corpse, it is obvious that someone deliberately surrounded the body with stones the size of a fist, which is a typical method of 'heavenly burial'. Look at the thing inserted in the body again.

"Do you mean this black flower? It's like cutting off the breast/head on the left side of the deceased and then drilled a hole to insert it. Although Xiao Fong looked disgusted, he still resisted and said.

"Ok, okay, stop talking, it makes me panic." Smurfette stroked her frightened heart, looked at Xiao Tiao with a disgusted look and said.

"This is a blacked dahlia. Haven't you heard of the black dahlia tragedy in California, USA, in 1947? Judging from the position and posture of the body, it is very similar to the case in those years, but there are only a few different places. As I thought about the photos I found on the Internet before, I said to everyone.

"So what?" Xiao Frustration immediately asked rhetorical.

"It's not good. The murderer left this black Dahlia on the body of the deceased, just wants to tell us that he is an imitator of 'Black Dahlia' and... a reformer." I said with a solemn face, but an idea couldn't help coming out of my mind.

"Which one of you will go to Youqiaolin with me?" Thinking of this question, I think it is really necessary to go to You Qiaolin to confirm it.

"I'm not going. You'd better take care of yourself." I know that Gao Jianning was the first to retreat.

I then looked at Xiao Tiao, and he waved his hand to me. And Smurfette returned to her position without throwing me directly, and broke my fantasy with her actions.

In the end, I have to pin my hope on Zhang Jiewei, who has not made a statement.

Zhang Jiewei didn't say anything, but walked to the door silently. I was overjoyed to know that people like him were always fearless and would not refuse other people's requests, so I quickly followed him.

When we walked into You Qiaolin's studio, he was already waiting for us there. Seeing him standing alone in front of the dissection table, I felt a little lonely.

"About Li Shaojing..." I don't know how to comfort You Qiaolin, but I always feel that it's unrealistic to pretend that this has never happened at all.

"It's all over. Stop talking. Let's get to business." You Qiaolin said a word and devoted himself to his work.

I looked at the headless female corpse on the dissection table, and the things in my stomach kept surging. Finally, I forced myself to walk over. Zhang Jiewei followed me, and the body didn't seem to be too deterrent to him.

"How's the autopsy?" I looked at You Qiaolin and asked, trying not to look at the headless female corpse.

"Look," You Qiaolin said as he touched the body with his hand. "The body was cut off from the navel, and the head was also cut off by a sharp weapon. Judging from the wound, it should be a sharp weapon such as a large machete. When the body was found at the scene, the body raised its arms, its elbows bent, and its legs stretched straight, separated by more than 60 degrees. The body was cleaned before it was found. There was no large amount of blood at the scene. At the same time, the right breast/room of the body was seriously damaged. The left breast/room was removed, and a black daliflower was inserted.

There are other abused scars on the deceased's body. From the wound, it can be preliminarily determined that the murder weapon used by the murderer to torture her was a short stick and a knife. The upper body of the deceased had many jagged cuts, and there were also many cigarette butts burns. The organs of the upper body were stuffed into the chest cavity. The autopsy found that there was no semi-digest food in the stomach, and some of the residue showed that the victim had swallowed or was forced to swallow stool.

There are many bruises and fractures on the arms, multiple finger fractures, most of the red nail polish has fallen off, and several nails have been pulled out, and there are tied scars on the wrist. There are tied scars on the ankle. The area of the scar is large, the wound is turned up from the bottom, the victim may have been hung upside down, the legs are fractured from the knee, and there are many deep knife wounds (mostly scratches) and bruises in the thigh, among which there is a large wound on the front of the left thigh. There is no trace of invasion. The vagina/way is filled with weeds. The intestines and other organs are flushed and stuffed into the abdominal cavity. There is a wound in the lower abdomen similar to a hysterectomy, and the uterus is taken away. Generally speaking, the organs of the lower body are more lost. Due to too many large wounds, there are many possibilities for the cause of death of the deceased, but there is no doubt that he was inhumanly tortured for thirty-six to forty-eight hours before the victim died.

"Do you have any ideas about this result?" Hearing such a result, I was even more sure, and I also knew that You Qiaolin must have thought of it too.

You Qiaolin nodded and continued, "Obviously, the murderer completely imitated the method of the 'black daliflower' tragedy. The only difference is the 'heavenly burial' environment at the scene, the black daliflower left behind, and the murderer took away the head of the deceased. This feeling makes me feel like a provocation to the police and a transformation of 'Black Dahlia'.

"I feel the same way!" Hearing that someone felt the same as me, I couldn't help but say excitedly, but then a trace of worry came to my mind.

If the murderer is really the reformer of "Black Dahlia", does it mean that this body is far from enough...