under hope

At the end of the 20th century, a horrific serial murder occurred in Donglu. The murderer killed seven people in three days, including three men, three women and a police officer.

The first victim was located in a city in southern Touriku. He was a boy in elementary school and was eleven years old when he was killed.

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Afan is the son of a large shopping mall owner. He has grown up biting a golden spoon since he was a child, enjoying the luxurious life of reaching out for clothes and opening his mouth for food.

His parents were busy working all day long and lacked education. Affan became a child who was easily overconfident and arrogant.

He formed cliques in the school and made the lower-grade students kowtow to him. He laughed at his classmates for not wearing exquisite clothes, or put on an ugly face and lifted up girls' skirts.

Whenever the teacher educates him, he not only contradicts the teacher, but also threatens to send someone to teach anyone who dares to criticize him after school.

A conscientious young teacher did not back down and severely criticized Afan because he was absent from class.

Since then, the teacher was surrounded by people every day when he went to and from get off work, and his face became more and more haggard day by day. He finally chose to resign on the third Sunday after criticizing Affan.

Since then, the teachers no longer discipline him, and his classmates often avoid him. Everyone hopes that he will graduate as soon as possible.

But he didn't take it seriously, and he still wandered around the school every day showing off his power, skipping classes openly and openly.

Afan believes that his father is the authority in this small county town because he controls almost all the supplies in the county town.

He also likes to imitate his father's behavior at work, bossing the gang boys around.

In Afan's understanding, as long as his father is still alive, he will always live such a relaxed and happy life, and things will never change unless their family's business goes bad.

However, fate likes to play tricks on people, and the business of Afan's shopping mall is extremely prosperous - there is no chance of failure in the family's business!

What's that sitting on the tall golden chair? Is it human? Is it a ruler? Is he a big boss who enjoys glory and wealth?

No, it's not the case. The guy sitting on the tall golden chair and boasting about himself is a devil, a devil who has lost his personality.

Demons crave money and power, and only demons will sit on chairs made of gold.

He was killed on Children's Day that year. It is said that the school would hold a party in the morning and have a holiday in the afternoon.

But that afternoon, Afan did not go home.

His shriveled body was found the next morning, in a park in the center of the city, or in a surveillance area.

Afan's fatal injury came from his neck, where there was a deep transverse incision; his limbs were brutally severed and arranged neatly next to the body; his abdomen was not spared, with a huge incision extending from his chest Extends to the bladder area.

Not far from where Affan's body was found, there was a man-made lake into which a lot of red liquid was poured. Combined with Affan's shriveled body... this park was not a must for Affan on his way home. On the way, for unknown reasons, Afan was brought here by the murderer.

The murderer first slit his throat and bled him by the lake. Then he dragged Afan, who had died from blood loss, to the surveillance area, and brutally disemboweled him and cut off his limbs on the lawn.

This is like slaughtering livestock.

The police immediately targeted the young teacher who had been persecuted by Affan, and they believed it was a revenge killing.

But after their detailed investigation and verification, they found that the young teacher left the city last month and has not returned until now.

They rushed to investigate the surveillance and found that the video recording from 22:00 to 23:00 on Children's Day was out of order, and the police could only see the blurry screen for one hour.

What the police didn't expect was that this incident was just the beginning, and the murderer disappeared and appeared like a ghost.

The second body was found in a city in the north of the Republic. It was that of a middle-aged electronics factory owner.

Guohua is the owner of an electronics factory and manages more than 200 employees. After five or six years of hard work, he has a small savings.

Some people say that he is a tolerant and open-minded person, amiable to his employees, and never defaults on wages. He also relies on this good reputation to recruit many employees.

However, he is actually a person who is good at disguising. His smiling face only appears when he is counting money. All employees see is his grinning roar.

In his factory, employees have to work non-stop for ten hours a day, and they are deducted for going to the toilet, and they are also deducted for eating in the middle if the assembly line is stopped.

There are also all kinds of weird rules, such as not talking during work, saying hello when meeting the boss, etc. If employees violate these rules, their money will be deducted.

Guohua has made a lot of money by relying on these unreasonable rules and fines.

And once you sign a contract with him, it will be a default period of three years. There is no Internet in the factory, and working here is equivalent to cutting off contact with the outside world.

It is true that he did not default on wages. When he signed the contract, he agreed to guarantee a minimum of three thousand, but the actual amount he received was three figures.

He is like a glutton, devouring employees' wages without knowing how full he is. People who work here are eager to burst his belly.

In recent years, Guohua has expanded its factory, added several new high-end machines, and began to accept some large production orders.

It was normal at first, but after he made a few bucks, he violently devoured property that didn't belong to him.

First, he tampered with the machine. He ate up the maintenance money of the machine and forced the machinist to pay for maintenance. If the machine broke down, he would deduct the machinist's money.

A dissatisfied machinist angrily shouted to leave, but was beaten half to death by his men before leaving. In the end, the machinist was asked to pay compensation for lost time.

The monster sitting on the golden mountain has a black hole in his stomach. He feeds on the labor of employees and makes side dishes with money, devouring everything without ever being full.

At noon on the day Affan's body was discovered, Guohua's body was also found in his office.

It is said that the workers went on strike collectively that day. They fiercely fought off the boss's minions and broke down the office door.

They cheered at the sight before them, and some continued to curse. When the police arrived, Guohua's body had been

——The eyes were gouged out, and the two legs were amputated and placed in the huge opening in the abdomen. This time the murderer did not bleed, but stuffed the deceased's abdomen with branches and straw.

The same incision was made from the chest to the bladder. The police in the two cities quickly shared information, and an experienced police officer made a guess based on the murderer's behavior.

He combined the ancient riddles of the Republic, that is:"There is a thing with four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening."

He believed that the murderer would kill another person at night, and based on the age difference between the first two people, the last person would It could be older people.

But other officers scoffed at the idea, saying it was naive.

Unable to get the support of his colleagues and superiors, the officer decided to investigate on his own, leaving behind the officers who were still chattering about plans.