The Origin of the Six Arts

  The Sixth Division, also known as the "Sixth Uncertain Event Research Division", does not belong to the police force and is a research unit composed of scholars or scientists. Its predecessor was the Criminal Psychology Research Group.

  Sixteen years ago, Professor Yu was still young but already a well-known scholar in the field of psychology, dedicated to improving research on criminal psychology. He and Li Kezhang, who was already an expert in criminal investigation, were alumni and both had a deep interest in criminal psychology. Because psychology is a foreign discipline, many viewpoints are not suitable for China's national conditions, so direct application will inevitably lead to deviations. Therefore, when Professor Yu proposed improving criminal psychology, the two men joined forces and established the Sixth Research Group, with Professor Yu as the group leader and Li Kezhang as the deputy group leader.

  Later, with the deepening of research, the sixth research group was upgraded to six departments and recruited a large number of researchers. Although the six departments did not belong to the police force, the superior leaders were very supportive of the research of the six departments, from the detention room to the death row, all places related to crime were green lights.

  Professor Yu has a viewpoint that in all criminal behaviors, the parties involved cannot predict their own actions. In other words, the behavior of murderers is random and this randomness is an inevitable result of social pressure. This means that killing person A or person B is essentially no different. Director Li disagrees with this viewpoint, believing that there must be a cause for every effect. If all homicide cases were random, then forensic science would be completely useless. The two people have differing opinions on this issue and both try to persuade the other, but each has their own perspective and examples. As a result, the research focus of the Sixth Bureau begins to shift towards studying death row inmates.

  As research on the psychology of death row inmates progressed, Professors Yu and Li became even more convinced of their own views.

  Just then, a cross-provincial murderer appeared, and Li Kezhang and Professor Yu cooperated to track down the clues and investigate. Finally, based on Professor Yu's simulated inference, they captured the killer on a mountain.

  The name of this six-province murderer is Zhuang Qin. He was unremarkable in appearance, short and small in stature, an extremely ordinary person who would not have drawn anyone's attention if he had not committed a serious crime. According to the relatives who turned him in for harboring a fugitive, Zhuang Qin was originally a honest and kind-hearted man. Over thirty years old when he married his wife, he made a living by growing vegetables and was known in the village for having a good temper, often suffering bullying from others, even children daring to suddenly kick him.

  Zhuang Qin silently endured all of this until one day a beautiful stranger came to the village, looking for him. She was said to be Zhuang Qin's middle school classmate. Several village bullies jokingly suggested that Zhuang Qin let them have his female classmate for a few days, but Zhuang Qin unexpectedly scolded them severely. The village bullies were furious and beat Zhuang Qin up in front of his classmate. Zhuang Qin's classmate stayed behind to take care of him for a few days before leaving with reluctance. After Zhuang Qin's classmate left, the village bullies came again to cause trouble, and Zhuang Qin's wife was so scared that she ran back to her parents' home. That night, under heavy rain, Zhuang Qin wore a red raincoat and stormed into the homes of several village bullies, killing them and their families with an iron hammer. He then spent the whole night killing everyone in the village who had ever offended him.

  Overnight, the entire village almost became a dead village.

  That night, Zhuang and Qin killed or injured 46 people, which was the sensational nationwide massacre case.

  After the incident, Zhuang Qin fled to other provinces and cities to hide his identity. However, due to being listed as a Class A wanted person, he was unable to obtain necessities through normal channels. As a result, Zhuang Qin would sleep in underground wells or deserted mountains during the day and come out at night to steal. If discovered, he would kill to silence.

  Zhuang Qin gradually developed severe psychological abnormalities and physical mutations in the process of continuous crime, with infinite strength. In the middle and late periods, he no longer killed people simply to obtain food, but for the instant pleasure of killing. His targets shifted from initial vagrants or *** to random targets, with a brutality that completely exceeded people's expectations. Zhuang Qin once stayed in a city for several months, living in a residential building, where he brutally murdered three households on the top floor and took photos with his camera among the naked corpses as a memento. He only left because the bodies rotted and emitted a foul odor.

  After the butcher village blood case, Tiannan City also received a notice of cooperation, but five years later, Zhuang Qin was still not caught. Director Li and Professor Yu had privately discussed this case before, they were certain that several bloody cases in six provinces over the past five years were related to it, and believed that Zhuang Qin had learned various skills on the run and enjoyed doing so, a criminal genius. Later, when Zhuang Qin arrived in Tiannan City and committed his first rape and murder of a child, Director Li was certain that Zhuang Qin had come to Tiannan City.

  Zhuang Qin was no longer satisfied with raping and killing adult women when he arrived in Tiannan City, and instead became fond of young children. He killed all the people in a secluded house in the city and drove to the vicinity of an elementary school to abduct children. A witness described the entire abduction process as taking less than five seconds: the car stopped, the door opened, the person was grabbed, and the car left.

  It was this case, initially suspected to be a kidnapping for ransom, that made Li Kechang realize that the serial killer had arrived in Tiannan City. Shortly after, similar cases occurred one after another, and Li Kechang and Professor Yu's inference finally landed on the desk of the municipal leaders, and Tiannan City began to hunt down Zhuang Qin comprehensively.

  Zhuang Qin soon realized that this time it wouldn't be so easy to escape, and began a desperate struggle. After several confrontations, Zhuang Qin managed to narrowly escape each time, killing one policeman and seizing a handgun with five bullets. However, no matter how vicious the criminal, they cannot escape justice's verdict. After escaping from Tiannan City, Zhuang Qin was unexpectedly surrounded on a mountain, and after several days of continuous searching, he was finally captured. In this process, another public security officer sacrificed his life, and the murder weapon used by Zhuang Qin turned out to be a chainsaw belonging to a forest ranger.

  The trial of Zhuang Qin was a long one, as he had committed crimes across multiple provinces, with over 50 victims, and many burial sites that even he himself had forgotten. Some localities tried to pin some unsolved cases on Zhuang Qin in an attempt to close them quickly, but all were eventually ruled out, causing great difficulties for the final verdict.

  On the other hand, Li Kechang and Professor Yu both took a keen interest in Zhuang Qin, conducting interrogations and psychological analyses simultaneously. Professor Yu used hypnosis to repeatedly recreate the scene of the crime, which led them to discover the burial site. The existence of Zhuang Qin made Li Kechang and Professor Yu realize that their debating points were actually both correct - every homicide case has its occasional and inevitable aspects, with the focus being on what the perpetrator had experienced in the past. If a person's growth experience was always in chaos and oppression, then regardless of whether the final motive was accidental or inevitable, the balance of human nature would inevitably tilt towards crime.

  Liuxue rose to fame due to the Zhuang Qin case and became a focal point of public opinion overnight.

  "We're not police officers, but we all have a sense of justice in our hearts."

  At that time, Professor Yu said so to the reporter.

  However, the fame of Liuke only lasted for a short month. After the Zhuang Qin case ended, Liuke disappeared from people's sight, as if such a psychological research unit had never existed. Due to some uncertain accidents in the Zhuang Qin case, young religious scholar Tang Hongming entered Liuke at that time. Shortly after she entered Liuke, Professor Yu and Director Li left Liuke one after another, and the research direction of Liuke also underwent major changes.

  At that time, due to the uncertain events that occurred on Zhuang Qin's body, Professor Yu was busy dealing with inquiries from his superiors all day long, and Li Kechang was busy figuring out how to safely detain Zhuang Qin. As a result, both of them showed great enthusiasm for Tang Hongming's appearance. The three of them were still young people in their thirties at that time, and they were all outstanding young people in their respective fields, so they admired each other. Unconsciously, the research direction of the Sixth Department changed, and Professor Yu was the first to wake up. After proposing disagreements with Tang Hongming without success, he left the Sixth Department. Li Kechang thought that after the competitor left, he would be the one who laughed last, but the result was different from what he had expected. He also left the Sixth Department and applied for a transfer to the Foreign Affairs Department as the department head.

  All this was triggered by the uncertain events on Zhuang Qin's body, and in these never-to-be-revealed uncertain events, the culprit was a little-known figure from Liu Ke, Yang Ming.