Pure Darkness
Chapter 114
2020 Is rapidly turning into a year no one wants to remember. Hope you are safe and well, wherever you are. Let's treat our fellow human beings with respect and kindness (some remember ‘Try a Little Kindness’ by Glen Campbell?), and ‘thank you’ as big as ever to those who work hard to keep us safe.
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Bo Jinyan thought back to the beginning of ‘The Masked Killer’ (and reminded all of us of Fu Ziyu, the hyx) as she and Jian Yao revisited their assumptions about the identity and modus operandi of the Masked Killer. They draw some new conclusions and reflect on the key questions. Who exactly is this Masked Murderer?
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The afternoon wind was blowing slowly. At dusk, Bo Jinyan's face became blurred. Jian Yao looked into his eyes and her heart jumped silently. However, when he spoke, his voice was as low and as firm as before.
“Earlier, the FBI confirmed the identity of a person suspected of being a masked killer. Her name is Jam, 26 years old, blonde, blue-eyed, born and raised in America. He began committing crimes due to the death of his wife in a medical incident, which caused him to have a deep hatred for medical personnel. The masked killer is so nicknamed because he always wears a mask when killing people. His commonly used killing tool is an axe, which is related to Jam being raised on a farm. .”
Jian Yao recalled back a few years ago. At that time, he had also read the information about the masked assassin.
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That was quite a few years ago.
The masked killer has kidnapped several hostages at the same time and imprisoned them in a deserted house by the sea. The hostages were all members of the medical personnel's family, and among them was Fu Ziyu's lover and fiance, Han Yumeng.
He kills one person a day, right in front of the trapped girls. Unparalleled cruelty, unparalleled anger, unparalleled pain.
One day, college student Bo Jinyan offers her help to the police, and creates an accurate profile of the masked killer.
The masked killer may know that the end is near. Incredibly, he posed a difficult problem for the girls – he only wanted one person, a volunteer, to accompany him as he left for the sea, heading for life or death. Then, he would release everyone. Otherwise, they would all die.
Han Yumeng stepped forward.
Both sail to the sea. After that, the police launched a massive chase and finally found the shipwreck. Thus they concluded that the couple had experienced a storm at sea, which had almost no chance of survival. Case closed.
From then on, Fu Ziyu underwent an exhausting half-life.
Until Han Yumeng and the masked killer get back together.
……
Jian Yao looked at Bo Jinyan in fear, but hearing her voice, like clear river water, said, “Right now, we can reverse all the conclusions we have made about the masked killer.”
The night air was coldly colored, and only the two of them were along the long bank of the river. Jian Yao held her hands tightly; both of their hands were cold. He pulled his hand so that the two of them sat down by the river filled with pebbles. No one could hear their conversation, only the river muttered as it flowed past him.
“When he came back last year, he brought a maid. This goes against what the FBI has maintained all along about him committing a crime alone. It can also explain how he and Han Yumeng were able to be saved when they faced a huge storm at sea and their boat sank — because, from the start, it was not him who committed the crime himself, he said, but a large number of people.
The second point of doubt is that he always wears a mask while committing crimes in America. If he only wanted to take revenge for himself, if he was prepared from the beginning to escape to the corners of the world and so that his identity was quickly known by the police — then why is he still wearing a mask? Not even a single survivor saw his true face. What is he trying to hide?” Bo Jinyan continued to ask rhetorically.
“For . .” Jian Yao looked into his eyes, “hide his identity.”
Jian Yao was stunned, and she was gripped by a cold sensation. But, Bo Jinyan's expression, as she looked at him, was calm and cold, like a statue.
“Ya,” said, “a game. No matter if it was the case of the masked killer from that year, or the case of the previous year, where they were concerned, it was all just a game, a game played for the world to see, games for them look back and ponder. over!”
Jian Yao's heart surged in his chest. His surroundings were so silent, but he himself felt a strange force shake him to his core, reflecting that in Bo Jinyan's heart, as a result of their impending direct showdown with the masked killer.
“He has an extreme psychopathic personality*,” he said with certainty.
*T/N Ding Mo inserts a row of asterisks between ‘extrem’ and ‘personality’ in the original text. This was anyone's guess about what it meant! For the purposes of this translation, I will consider it as ‘psychopat’.
“Indeed.” The corner of Bo Jinyan's mouth lifted in her usual arrogant laughter. It was as if he was expressing his hatred towards all these savage and brutal criminals. Then, the obvious reason appeared like a burst of river water:
“Let's call this criminal gang head ‘masked killer’ for now. He has a very psychopathic personality, and has attracted a group of criminals with similar psychopathic personalities. He precisely planned and directed many of the crimes they committed. That year, he was so familiar with criminal organizations that he managed to cross the border illegally. Therefore, he should not be too young; he was at least 30 years old at the moment.
We can confirm that he is a man.
That year, many of the female victims in the case in America were Chinese. In the end, the person he wanted to keep by his side was Han Yumeng. Relatively, the likelihood of cross-ethnic crime is relatively low. Moreover, my conclusion was that he was hiding within the organization of the Buddha Hand at the moment, and no stranger held a high position there. Thus, we can conclude that he is Chinese. The blond clock identified that year was just a scapegoat.
In his disposition, he was very arrogant, ruthless, and stubborn, and it was very clear that he did not like to play tricks on people. There is a very high possibility that he enjoyed ‘’ role-playing games; in other words, he had the first signs of schizophrenia.
He probably returned to China a few years ago and joined Buddha’s Hand. After committing a crime last year, he once again went back to hiding in the Buddha's Hand. This, to him, is a safe place. However, when he joined the organization, he obviously did not bring along his subordinates. First, the members of this small gang would easily arouse the suspicion of Buddha's hand; for others, doing so would show his full strength, he said, nor will it be in line with his current attitude of relying on the Hand of Buddha while still looking down on these criminals. Thus, he would not do so.
However, even though he and Xie Han* have high IQs, psychopathic villains, he is far from Xie Han.”
*T/N Xie Han is the name of ‘Flower Canninal’, the main villain in the first novel featuring Bo Jinyan and Jian Yao, ‘When He Comes, Close Your Eyes’ (dramatized as ‘Love Me if You Dare’) .
Hearing this, Jian Yao was stunned. “Why?”
Very coldly, Bo Jinyan said, “Because there is a hidden fear in her personality. Come to think of it, up until now, he had never come face to face with me. Xie Han, on the other hand, was full of confidence and saw himself as a crime artist. Do you remember, in Hong Kong, how Xie Han's constant evil was meant to provoke me directly? Instead, the masked assassin seemed to make a threatening gesture* and had even ensnared a group of ruthless and perverted criminals as his accomplices, he imitated Xie Han in setting up a challenge for me, but, in the end, he did, he used a sneak attack to seriously injure me. In reality, Xie Han was far ahead of him. ”
*T/N (zhang ya wu zhua) – lighted. bare fangs and claws brandishing; ara. to make threatening movements.
Jian Yao felt this was both funny and pathetic. True, the masked assassin was actually hiding behind a shadow. But, what must be known is that, where the police and law enforcement are concerned, it is not the direct provocation of the criminals they fear, he said, but it was precisely this kind of person who hid in the shadow ditch and stabbed from behind. . Because justice always goes in the light, but a madman's knife, or his bullet, which suddenly comes from behind, can take the life of a highly respected and brilliant detective who has solved many cases.
From then on, he just wanted to continue protecting her.
If anyone wanted to kill him, it would be on top of his corpse.
This was what he thought calmly.
Bo Jinyan had yet to observe that the young lady in front of her was thinking hard. As he continued his reasoning, his voice even sounded as usual. He held her hand and wrapped his arm around her shoulder. This way, anyone spying on them from afar would only think that he was being intimate with his lover. He was really too thorough and meticulous.
He lowered his head and said, gently, “So, my wife, do you know what the most important points we should analyze clearly are?”
Jian Yao looked at his lower jaw. “What . . . What is it?”
“What is he looking for?”
