Chapter 7 1. Delusional

Li Tuzhi frowned and looked at the materials in front of him. This is a new case, and the title on the file bag is "0527 Suspected Disappearance Case". The case is very simple. A young man with severe malnutrition was found in a residential area. He was unconscious and unable to communicate normally with others, but he carried a diary with him. The handwriting on that diary is very beautiful, and two large characters are inscribed on the title page - "Labyrinth". On the first page of "The Labyrinth", there is a photo, which is the gate of a single-family villa. What is horrifying is that there is an upside-down female corpse hanging on the European-style iron gate with blooming flowers.The female corpse was wearing a colored striped silk dress. The skirt was blown up and down by the wind, covering half of her face.The corpse's legs were exposed to the air, white and slender, and there was a black butterfly tattoo on the left ankle, which was delicate and beautiful.

This female corpse, whose authenticity was not known, was tied up by a silver metal chain and hung upside down on the iron gate. There was a lot of blood on the dress, and a wound on the neck could be vaguely seen under the long black hair. The shooting time was a sunny noon, and the milk vetch in the flower bed at the entrance of the villa was very brightly blooming. The whole photo gave people the feeling that... it seemed that the photo was not a dead body, but a fascinating work of art. The second page is written in the same handwriting as on the title page.The owner of the diary recorded in detail the whole process of how he captured a butterfly named "Tiger Phoenix", how he kept it in the garden, how he played with it, and finally made it into a specimen.

The third page is another photo. This photo captures a swimming pool that is so clear and bright blue. There are two strings of white objects floating in the pool. The floating objects closest to the camera are two seventeen or eighteen-year-old girls in white clothes.They held hands and lay on their backs on the water, their white nightgowns quietly floating in the water, sweet and serene, as if they were asleep.A rope was tied around each girl's waist, and the rope stretched out. On the water not far from the white-robed girl, two thirteen or fourteen-year-old girls were half-floating on the water.

The rope is extended to their waists, like strings of pearls. Starting from the two girls in white robes, one string floats to the northeast corner of the swimming pool, and the other string floats to the northwest corner of the swimming pool. There are six children in the pool, and the furthest from the camera appear to be two babies wrapped in white cloth. These two strings of strange white objects float on the blue pool, and the person who took the picture is undoubtedly kneeling beside the pool. There are only four words on the fourth page: "Goddess of Light". On the fifth page, a single arm is photographed, the skin surface is smooth and delicate, the fingers are relaxed, and the fingertips are slightly raised, just like dancing.

Even fewer words on page six: "tentacles". Starting from the seventh page, a large piece of the diary has been torn off, but traces of glue left on the torn pages can be vaguely seen, and it can be seen that photos were once pasted.On the thirty-third page there was a new photo, and if the previous photo had any artistic sense, this photo was not art at all—it was a photo of a naked body.What was both frightening and surprising was that it was an intersex person, with a female-like left half with breasts and a male-like right half with chest hair. On the thirty-fourth page, five words were written: "Emperor Moth Yin Yang Butterfly".

Since then, the content of this terrifying and beautiful diary has become clear. The owner of the diary called these girls and dead bodies "butterflies", and fantasized and classified them.The "Tiger Phoenix" and "Goddess of Light" mentioned in the diary are all the names of butterflies. And the photo posted on the last page of the diary is quite different from the previous one. The photos in the front are all corpses, but the photo on the last page is a long-haired girl in dark orange and black patterned pajamas, with a dark complexion and a frightened expression, sitting blankly on the floor of a certain room.Some semi-dry white flowers and grass were spread on the ground, and her hands and feet were chained, apparently imprisoned.

But even disheveled hair and disheveled clothes can hardly conceal her slightly wild and gorgeous features. In the picture she is alive. Or a mixed race who seems to have foreign blood. There are no words behind this photo. Li Tuzhi frowned. Based on these photos alone, it was impossible to tell whether it was weird performance art or kidnapping and murder, and the man carrying the diary was unable to communicate. The young man carrying this diary is called Ji Chun, he is a rich second generation, and his family runs a famous chain department store.When Ji Chun was found to be mentally abnormal, his family members were very surprised. During the family dinner on May 15th, Ji Chun was still very normal, but the handwriting on the diary called Ji Chun was not Ji Chun’s, and none of the girls Ji’s family members saw. However, the mansion in the photo does not belong to Ji's family.The police in Pu City, where the incident occurred, tried to list Ji Chun as a suspect, but Ji Chun’s social and behavioral trajectory has been normal. On May 24, he went on a self-driving trip to Guangdong with his friends, and he returned to Pu City on May 26. Someone contacted him, and when he was discovered on the 27th, he was insane.

A diary of unknown origin, some girls suspected of being murdered, and a man insane. There may be some very serious crimes hidden behind the diary, and whether the girl in the photo is real or not, the truth must be found out as soon as possible.If the contents in the photos are all fake, then that’s good. I’m most afraid that the contents in the photos are all true... Li Tuzhi closed her eyes—even if they are all true, she must rescue the person in the last photo . She may not be dead yet. This case reminded him of some not-so-good memories, and he couldn't help but feel a little anxious, and his desire to save others was very strong.