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Homicide

The Icy Crown of the Underworld

Jayden Bastille, in his third year of college, had lived a seemingly peaceful life — until tragedy struck. His world shattered when his only sister, Uriana, was murdered after going missing following a meeting with her boyfriend. Consumed by rage, Jayden confronted the boyfriend, only to find him dead. When the police investigated, they ruled the death as a suicide following a homicide. However, Jayden, despite not being an expert in the matter, knew the wounds on his sister and her boyfriend were far from a simple murder-suicide. Sensing something was wrong, Jayden refused to accept the police’s conclusion. He was adamant there was more to the case, but his claims were dismissed, and the investigation was closed. Still, Jayden couldn’t shake the feeling that there was a deeper conspiracy. His determination to uncover the truth led him down a dangerous path, one from which there was no return. The more he uncovered, the further he spiraled into a dark, unfamiliar world — one where his morals were upended, and his once-colorful life turned to shadows. The vengeance and hatred that consumed him fueled his relentless pursuit of destroying the rotten core of this world. As Jayden embarked on his mission to annihilate the forces behind his sister's death, he began to realize how far-reaching the culprits power truly was. Was it even possible for him to succeed, with his limited strength and the unpredictable challenges ahead? The road to revenge would not be easy, and his strength alone might not be enough to bring about the justice he so desperately sought.
Kuis · 91 Views

Quick Transmigration: Changing the Male Lead's Terrible Fate

On the fourth day of May, Kevin was murdered in his apartment. He has no enemies and no friends. His parents have their own families, and he lives alone in a 200 meter square apartment – in other words, he does not have anyone who bores hatred against him. But he died. And the police concluded his death was an act of revenge homicide. Kevin pondered who would kill him when he suddenly woke to unfamiliar surroundings. And it took a few minutes to be processed in his head… Why are the furnitures so big?! The bed's mattress is so wide it's like the whole floor uses it as a floormat! The window is so high Kevin felt he was inside a church with glass walls as high as a three-storey building! Even worse, the appearance of a flower vase at his side is as tall as him! What the hell is going on?! [Host, you now possess the identity of the Male Lead's precious cat!] Kevin: What did you say? [Current Mission Progress: 0%] [Host, please work hard and prevent the Male Lead's terrible fate!] Kevin: …… What nonsense?! I just died! ………………………. [Host, the villain is one step closer to harming the Male Lead's life! Please prevent them!] Kevin: …… [Host, a villain's lackey wants to kill the Male Lead! Please stop them!] Kevin: ….. [Host, the Male Lead incurred a huge loss because of the villain, please bring him home and pamper him well!] Kevin: …… [Host, the Male Lead is injured because of the villain! Please nurse him back to health!] Kevin: …… Am I the Male Lead's mom or a pet?! ______________________________________________________ Updates are on Wednesday and Thursday.
phoenixhyperion · 301.3K Views

Lam's detective story

He was the police captain of a city branch, he was in the city Bureau special patrol detachment and police station, has been on the front line. Lam's stories are often related to the social background and the changes of The Times. A homicide today may have been caused by another murder 20 years ago, and that tragedy 20 years ago was caused by the social prejudices of the time. What is even more tragic is that behind the seemingly close family relationship is the relationship of mutual use. Some even turned themselves into tools. Ibsen once said, "What you plant in youth, you reap in old age." I think the same applies to Lam's crime. A professor at China Public Security University summed up crimes into two categories, "dangerous personality" and "dangerous mentality." "Dangerous personality" is easy to explain, is the congenital type of criminal personality or childhood psychological development problems. The serial killers I write about all the time, that's the type. As for "heart knot", it is divided into three types: The first is the meaning of the crime, the causes of which are often unthinkable. For example, your classmates always insult you, you prepare for a long time, while they are in the dorm, hammer them to death. Another example is that you hit someone by driving a car, and if you think that there are so many people who are now hit by porcelain, there is a lot of pressure on follow-up medical expenses, and if you directly hit people to death, the loss of money is within the range of bearing. This kind of crime is often accompanied by an irrational thinking, and the mind enters a dead end. The second is knowledge, this crime is often related to cognition, because the price rises, your house downstairs from one dollar to two dollars, you feel that the boss is not rising right, you must overwhelm him through your reason, and he has a dispute. You think he's wrong, and in order to prove your own rationality, you argue more and more violently, and finally kill him. Such crimes often involve arguments, entanglements, and most often issues of paranoia. The third is complex, this kind of crime is rooted in the pain of daily life, such as parents do not love you, say you can not get a wife, relatives and friends hate you, no one to communicate. You will become more and more withdrawn inside, want to revenge society. So you go out into the street and you take a knife and you cut people - the most terrible crime, the most difficult to prevent, but also the one we should be most aware of. But whether it is "meaning knot", "knowledge knot" or "complex", it often originates from a dangerous idea. If we can face up to and try to understand the social influences behind criminal behavior, we may be more rational in the "dark moment" when dangerous thoughts arise.
furen_zhang · 3K Views

CANON INDEED

Ethan Yip was the sergeant detective of the Homicide Unit with the Hong Kong Police Department. With the sudden disappearance of his girlfriend of two years, Anita Mak, he became emotionally unavailable and was often unable to control his temperamental mood. That was until a clinical psychologist, Gillian Chan, came along. Over a course of events, the two eventually developed a close and intimate relationship. After dating for a couple of years, Ethan finally proposed to Gillian. Just when he and Gillian were making plans for their big wedding day, Anita resurfaced and was rescued from the abductor at large. When the truth about how Anita had sacrificed her life to save Ethan’s life over the last 3 years by pretending to be in love with her abductor, Gillian felt her future with Ethan as husband and wife was once again on rocky ground. Thinking Ethan would never be able to live with himself if he were to leave Anita after finding out the truth behind her 3-year disappearance, Gillian felt she had to be the one to make the difficult choice in severing from this somewhat triangular relationship. In order to detach her feelings for Ethan, she kept telling herself that he had never truly let go of his hope of finding Anita from the start of their relationship; even during the time when they were together as a couple about to be married. Gillian convinced herself that Ethan was still in love with Anita after all these years. Finally, she made a decision to move on and told Ethan that they would remain friends forever. She decided heading oversea was the best course of action to take. Total 45 Chapters
Aleiya · 13.5K Views

THE ARMAGEDDON: Man Eat Man

Jonas was a young College Student at Kibich College. He was gifted to stop the Armageddon but had no clue. His mother knew it from her grandmother but kept it secret. David, his father was a soldier. He was recently dishonorably discharged from the forces for disobeying a direct order. A decision that saved his life, his colleagues and the hostages. In both College and at home, Jonas life was hell because of his gift. The Clairvoyant, the mysterious antagonist, was in search of the identity of the gifted. His goal was to rule Earth. Only the chosen stood in his way. He infiltrated high ranks of the government and corrupted several officials who swore allegiance to his cause. He used them to commit unusual crimes among them callous murders just to flash out the gifted. For years, he was searching eliminating each that was born. Jean and John, KCPD homicide detectives at Kibich central precinct were busy trying to solve the crimes without mountable success. They encountered puzzles and riddles inscribed on bodies that they had no clue of solving whatsoever. In their desperation, John came across an article written by one Rebecca Maya many years past. The attention catcher was the article’s talk about the end times. Since the nature of death mimicked the work of a beast, they classified it a lead worth their time. That took them straight to David's home, former Rebecca Maya’s residence in search of clues. Jessica, Jonas mother and Rebecca Maya’s granddaughter, whom is well affirmed to the history, repudiated to help in the name of protecting his son. Jonas’ safety was the very reason she kept the secret from him and his father David until; she could not anymore. Before they left the compound, Jonas and his father, whom were away, arrived and changed their perspective and the course of everything. Jonas astonished everyone by knowing Jean, though he never knew of her line of work, whom he had never met in person. Among the strange dreams he had was her image. He showed his records of the dreams to them for proof of his story. Besides Jean's image, there was the first puzzle the detectives had found on the first victim. The detectives took Jonas with them for more investigations. His father, who was already aware of his son's gift offered to help as well. Aware of his military background; Jean went against protocol and approved him to accompany them. On arrival at the precinct, that which was meant to be investigations turned to something else. Jonas and his father became consultants to help the detectives make sense of it all as the mysterious murder cases increased. As they made efforts, Jonas was learning about his gift and the enormity of the gift and task ahead. Besides the extinction theory, which by then had become a fact, they uncovered deep darks secrets and colossal government conspiracies. With his identity exposed and known to the Clairvoyant, he fought them with everything he had at his disposal. From corrupting members of the task force to killing anyone and everyone that stood in his way. This action left a trail of bodies and sorrow on its wake. Besides Jonas and his great grandmother’s journals, the team discovered a higher power that was helping them. With all their skills coming short, they finally resulted to the church for answers. Putting the church, journals and their skills in play, they managed to identify the Clairvoyant and sent him back to hades.
Mutuma_J_Karuntimi · 4.8K Views

English-language werewolf novel from the mid-to-late 1980s

The book begins much as you described. An anthropologist is listening to members of a primitive tribe talk about how a werewolf had been killing people, twelve years ago, in sprees which always occurred during a full moon, until the tribal shaman was able to come up with a way to kill the monster. The scholar is interested in letting them talk, but personally suspects the "werewolf" was something like a victim of rabies who foamed at the mouth and seemed inhumanly strong as he went on a rampage -- although it is odd that he would survive long enough to launch three killing sprees at monthly intervals. The scholar silently speculates that perhaps there were multiple rabid attackers, in a monthly cycle -- each new one having been infected by the previous before he died of his disease, and only the last of them was somehow trapped and killed by the men of the tribe, who then blamed this "monster" for all of the previous killings. The scholar is trying to be polite, but evidently his skepticism shows through. The shaman is offended at being patronized by a white man who thinks he already knows all the answers. The shaman had kept a souvenir of the werewolf, dried out and in powdered form, believing it still contained the power to create another werewolf if need be. The shaman (called "Ugalde") puts that special powder into a bottle of whiskey and then . . . With the swiftness of a man half his age, the Indian leaped from a sitting position onto the other's chest, as if he were pinning him in some friendly athletic contest. But the crazed expression covering his face and the keenness of the knife blade removed any trace of ordinary competition from the action. Ugalde sat the bottle viciously on the ground next to the visitor's face and tipped the neck of it toward his mouth. "Drink," he ordered. "Ugalde!" the man cried frantically. Visions of wriggling microbes being revitalized by the liquor flooded his mind. Could any life survive for a dozen years in such a dehydrated state? Yes, yes, viruses could live for centuries! "What in the name of God are you doing?" A sneer replaced the sullen look the older man had worn. "Your god! You believe your eye, white man, and only that, so drink and see what the devils you don't know can cause a living spirit to become! Drink, or I will cut your throat!" Then a good chunk of the book deals with brutal murders taking place, always on the night of a full moon, and various characters getting interested in the investigation, for various reasons. At first, there's a serious lack of surviving eyewitnesses to describe the mysterious attacker to the cops, but gradually the evidence accumulates that something strongly resembling a Hollywood-style werewolf is involved in these homicides. We readers, of course, have a very good idea of how that happened. Then another large chunk of the book deals with what happens in one horrible night after the anthropologist has been taken into custody. (I think he finally surrendered himself to the police, voluntarily, and described everything he could remember about the incident with the shaman, and what's happened since then on the nights with full moons in the sky.) You are correct that becoming a werewolf appeared to be a type of communicable disease, although I can't recall if it was specifically established, during the novel, to be a "germ" or "virus" or what. You are also correct that silver was particularly effective against a werewolf. Other weapons could pierce its flesh, but it appeared to recover very rapidly from such wounds. (Sort of like Wolverine's mutant "healing factor" in the X-Men comics and movies.)
Catalyst_Horror · 2.3K Views
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