Chapter 098 Wanted Criminal Simulator

The sky was gloomy when he woke up the next morning. As a philosophy student, Ji Xu often read some literary works. After all, it was really difficult to find a job with this major, and he might have to go to the community to provide psychological counseling in the future.

Therefore, when he looked up at the sky covered with dark clouds, alarms inevitably sounded in his mind, as he had watched too many movies.

After a moment, he realized that not all bad weather is bad. Besides, weather laws usually apply to the protagonist, and he is the villain, so rain is a good thing for him.

——At least it becomes easier to eliminate evidence.

Soon, raindrops began to fall, leaving water stains on the glass windows. He opened his umbrella and hurried out the door.

The park that Ji Xu passed by when he came out of the Internet cafe was his new favorite place. Due to the heavy rain, there was no one here, even the dog was unwilling to come out. Only Ji Xu was standing on the gravel road, holding an umbrella that was not very useful, holding a multi-functional knife, and carefully cutting a small piece of maple tree bark.

He cut it neatly, revealing the wooden stem inside, and carved a sentence on it with the tip of the knife.

“Perhaps there is some misunderstanding between us, dear friends, I will visit you in three days, I hope you will be there then.”

The signature below is "Ji Xu".

Then he left without leaving any instructions or provocation to come to the park.

He even left his name, and knowing that the wanted criminal was suspected to be hiding in the city, he still couldn't find this clue. Ji Xu can only say: he is very slow.

His task suddenly became simpler.

The scratch is so thin and shallow that the tree's repair function will spontaneously help him cover up the message in about three days. If no one finds it during this period, it is estimated that no one will know that he has ever written this sentence.

Fortunately, some smart people discovered this place.

Yu Ke from the investigation team took a photo of the evidence with a camera, then hung it around his neck and picked up a special dye, applying it on the evidence while shaking his head in amazement: "Look, how arrogant this guy is, as if he is the hunter, waiting for the pursuer to catch up with him, so he has to show his kindness to us, but he won't tell us directly."

Instead, a time-limited test was left behind.

His partner He Xia stared at the message that appeared and asked habitually: "Have you analyzed anything?"

"He's quite caring, at least towards plants. You see, he was worried that the maple tree would die from being stripped of its bark, so he specially hung a bag of nutrient solution on it." Yu Ke pointed to the nutrient solution hanging on the tree trunk.

“…Don’t be ridiculous.”

"Okay, my life is over with my humorless partner... calm down, calm down." She then calmed down her angry teammate with skill and talked about business. "He has a mild obsessive-compulsive disorder, or a sense of ritual. The bark marks left by Ji Xu are very straight. He can't do it without deliberate control. In addition, he is very good at using a knife. He is not an ordinary person."

He Xia: "Nonsense, ordinary people won't become wanted criminals."

Yu Ke snapped his fingers. "That's the problem. According to eyewitnesses, Ji Xu is a young man, about 24 or 25 years old. Unless he went to the supermarket to slaughter fish and pigs at a young age, where did he learn the knife-wielding skills?"

He Xia frowned: "Do you suspect that his major has something to do with knife skills? Forensic medicine?"

Yu Kecai didn't promise and just said something nonsense: "Hey, I'm just talking nonsense and you're just guessing. What if he has to go back to the village to kill pigs during the New Year?"

He Xia blushed: "...Yu Ke!"

He shouted his teammates' names angrily, without a trace of being amused on his face, only the irritability of not completing the work. Yu Ke sighed loudly and honestly gestured the height to which the bark was peeled.

"About 183-187cm tall. Weight unknown, no footprints, but judging from his thinness in the confession, he is probably under 65kg. Polite and well-educated. Hmm...left-handed?"

As if seeing a surprising clue, Yu Ke lay on it and pointed at the knife mark that was several millimeters long.

"Look, the scratches are coming from right to left."

Holding the knife in the right hand in this posture can easily cut oneself, and if one is not careful one will scratch the palm if the knife slips out of the hand. The good news is that the special situation of the left-handed person allows one to further identify the suspect. The bad news is that the only name they knew before was revealed by the other party himself.

Yes, the name was left by the wanted criminal himself, and it is the same as the signature on the tree trunk now.

Otherwise, they wouldn't even know the name and still insist on analyzing it from scratch. This isn't a detective game where you track down a character with amnesia.

He Xia frowned as he looked at the message: "Does Ji Xu know that the pursuit has been handed over to us?"

Yu Ke sighed again: "Well, you should learn the required courses besides arrest and shooting. This is a typical psychological suggestion trick. If other agents were standing in front of the tree, they would also think that Ji Xu was talking to them."

After being implicitly scolded, He Xia shut up obediently.

Yu Ke: "Although saying this may boost the enemy's morale, Ji Xu is a seasoned criminal. The messages are time-limited, there are almost no clues, and he is very familiar with provocations." And my teammate is a fool.

She swallowed the last sentence and concluded calmly: "It's hard to believe that he was unknown before. It's better to say how the assassinated person offended him."

He Xia didn't care about the love and hatred between the victim and the wanted criminal: "How long is left until the three days mentioned in the message?"

"Tomorrow is the day." Yu Ke rubbed the faintly connected scratches through disposable gloves and murmured, "Looking at these marks, at least two days have passed, but today is safe and sound, so it must be tomorrow."

"Report."

Someone came over with a small transparent bag. "Our electromagnetic detector found this. It's extremely obscure and we just discovered it. We determined it's a bug."

When they discovered it, they immediately blocked the signal, but they didn't know how much of the conversation had leaked out.

He Xia and Yu Ke looked at each other.

Yu Ke wiped his face and said, "No wonder it took three days. It's not just the trees that need to be repaired, but also the power consumption of the monitor when it's in standby mode..."

The person who just reported revealed a piece of information that the electromagnetic signal was discovered not long ago, which means that the eavesdropping device had not been activated during the initial search of the scene.

He Xia turned around and left, gritted his teeth and said with a sullen face: "He has been watching this place, and only turned on the wiretap when he saw a large number of people coming."

Yu Ke grabbed him and said, "Don't tell me you're looking for Ji Xu."

Seeing He Xia nod, she put on a mask of pain and said, "Didn't I say that Ji Xu is very experienced? What if he didn't come to the scene and got the warning information from other sources?"

He Xia said nothing.

"No, can you go back to the academy to retake the course? Even if he is really there, other departments have already arranged a search. Can you go and add a head to the search team?"

Yu Ke sighed for the umpteenth time and soothed him, "Calm down, let's discuss the precautions for tomorrow. I don't want to enjoy my retirement life lying in the cemetery too early."

As for the other half, Ji Xu quickly isolated himself and conducted investigations after the signal was cut off.

He was not very good at hacking, so he relied on his experience in the previous world to gain some insights. He delayed the other party for a few hours, then came out of the street coffee shop, tore off his Bluetooth headset and threw it into the sewer together with his mobile phone, and was washed away by the running water that had not been drained away by the heavy rain in the previous two days.

Now he knew that the operation to arrest him had been handed over, and that there were only two people on the other side - the male voice said "the two of us" himself, and it was not Ji Xu's guess based on the two-person crosstalk in the monitor - the female voice was named Yu Ke.

The harvest is good.

Ji Xu sighed, and went back to the safe house to use a web crawler to automatically grab keywords, but the information he got was both little and much.

There are a lot of press releases, but they are all sparse praises that are broadcast back and forth. One thing has been talked about for three years, and there is very little useful information.

The season sequence is roughly summarized as follows:

Yu Ke, a special investigation specialist affiliated with the Security Bureau, is good at crime analysis and behavioral profiling.

His partner He Xia is a special investigation specialist affiliated with the Security Bureau. He is good at close combat and shooting.

Ji Xu finished reading: "...Although I know that your simulator is always good at avoiding sensitive words, you don't have to open a new department every time."

The Administration Bureau, the Inspection Bureau, and now there is a Security Bureau.

Shudong awkwardly turned around and faced the sun to draw strength: "We are just a game, and we have to abide by the laws and regulations. It's fine to be an outlaw in the game, but can there be any good people who go against the villain players? We can't smear them, how heartless."

Ji Xu: "You are so kind-hearted that you still make a villain simulator."

Shudong was angry: "Anyone who plays games is a war criminal! Compared to the extermination plan based on planets, we are already very kind! The only problem is that we are a little bit immersive."

Ji Xu said "Wow" expressionlessly and repeated the same thing to its thorny back with his mouth - he was immersed in the scene and felt a little better.

A tree hole with a 360-degree viewing angle: "..."

Ignoring the angry cactus that was basking in the sun, Ji Xu watched the past actions of the pair at a glance. While judging that they were an opponent worthy of vigilance, he also confirmed based on the content of their conversation that his previous plan of rebellion was not completely impossible.

Yu Ke sounds like a smooth person, while He Xia is a typical combination of being dumb and unhappy.

It's stable.

Ji Xu stared at the address of the Security Bureau and smiled in a good mood.

He opened the drawer, which was filled with cheap new mobile phones. He pulled one out at random, turned it upside down on the table and rubbed it hard a few times. When he picked it up again, it no longer looked brand new from the factory. He fiddled with it for a while before setting a password and putting it in his pocket.

…

The next day, a shy young man came to the Security Bureau.

The weather in late autumn was not good. Pedestrians on the road had already put on thick coats, and the visitor seemed to have just come out of the hospital. He wrapped his coat tightly and wore a disposable mask. The occasional breath he exhaled made the lenses misty. He lowered his head shyly as if embarrassed.

He took it off and wiped it. The corner of his clothes was accidentally stained with the smell of disinfectant. He spoke in a low voice: "I picked up a mobile phone on the way out of the hospital. It has a password, and I can't unlock it, so I can only bring it here."

This kind of thing is very common, and the front desk just asked a few details and told him step by step: "The owner called us himself when he couldn't find the lost item, so don't worry."

The young man nodded and prepared to leave. Halfway through his steps, he realized what was happening and turned around to ask, "Do you need to leave your name?"

In fact, it doesn’t matter whether you stay or not.

The receptionist was absent-minded. He turned his head to look outside the door. Hearing this, he pointed to a blank book and said, "Write here."

"Okay." The young man wrote Xia Zhuming in the notebook.