Love Me If You Dare

Chapter 64

Lisa replies : "No.1 declared war on you in front of everyone." Actually, everyone feels the pressure. They know they face a strong enemy. Everyone is a little tense.

"Of course he would say that to me, who else in this world would be able to catch him?"

Lisa realises.... once again, she has underestimated Jungkook.

His self-confidence and arrogance, is as concrete as a rock. 'Pressure' is what normal people would have, not Jungkook.

He never even consider that he might loose.

Jungkook leans over and pecks her lips : "I am taking a nap." He lies down and covers himself with the duvet.

Lisa is a little surprised : "We are not going back to the station?"

Jungkook smiles : "What's the hurry? We can't do much at the moment. Besides, I have to make sure I am in my top form."

He grabs the sleep mask on the bedside table. Lisa looks at him. Actually, he hadn't had a good sleep for days.

"Ok then. I'll take a shower now." She says. Then she hears him say : "Call the restaurant and reserve a table. Order some seafood and fish. I'll need a good meal when I wake up."

She can feel it. He is going all out for it.

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Sunset.

Lisa wakes up.

Jungkook is not beside her. He is changed into his suit. He's combed his hair back. He stands in front of the mirror. He is ready.

Lisa gets out of bed and hugs him from behind. She rests her head on his back : "What do you want me to do?"

He pauses, then he says : "Wear something pretty."

Lisa is stunned: "Why?"

He turns sideways to look at her : "I need to be in top form. And according to past experiences, every time you dress nicely, I feel pleased, and it helps me to perform better."

He is serious. Lisa can't help but laugh: "Sure."

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In the evening. Inside the conference room of the police station.

Everyone in the team is there. They start with a quick update:

First, they have found the bodies. It's dumped in four different rural locations. From each body, he took away something as a souvenir.

A piece of skin from the back is missing from the woman. He cut off some hair from the old man. The heart of the man is missing. As for the young boy, he took his pair of hands.

Lisa writes down the items on a whiteboard : Skin. Hair. Heart. Hands

Anam managed to make a discovery too. Even though the roads to where the bodies were dumped are in remote areas, he managed to find some surveillance camera images and eye witness that proves that the same Black Honda 7 seaters has passed by.

However, the registration plate is, as they have expected, a fake number. None of the images managed to capture the driver's face. This model of car is popular in Hong Kong. It will be very hard to find the vehicle with the information they have.

One of the officers from Hong Kong says : "We've asked the family members and friends of the four victims. They don't know one another. No.1's seems to choose his victims randomly. Besides that, we also found out the female victim attends night school classes, and that the architect is an amateur writer who has won a few awards. But we are not sure if they are relevant to the case."

Another senior investigator shares his views : 'I think his choice of victims is not completely random. We found surveillance camera images and eye witness accounts that shows that the same black vehicle were spotted multiple times in the areas where the victims went missing for a few days before the disappearance. The female victim and the child travel on the same route every day. As for the male victim and the old man, it's just by chance that they were in the area where they went missing."

Lisa summaries : "So, two abductions are pre-planned, and the other two are spontaneous."

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The meeting is finished. The officers have been running around all day. Some of them are going for a bite. Others are going home to sleep.

But for Jungkook and Lisa, their work has just begun.

They list the facts In front of them :

Woman, old man, man, child

Torture method: Whipping, mental stress, flesh cutting and animal bites

Cause of death: Poison, slit the throat, removing the heart, poison

Souvenir: skin, hair, heart, hands

Abduction: both preplan and spontaneous

Lucas and a few other young officers from Hong Kong are still in the conference room. One of them comments : "I think he is deliberately using different methods to confuse us, so that we cannot establish any patterns."

Another officer suggests : "Is it a hint that he has multiple personality disorder?"

Multiple personality disorder is something that occurs frequently in movies. But in real life situation, it's actually very rare.

Then Lucas speaks :

"Four people. Three possible groupings:

From the torture angle: the man and the woman suffered the most physical abuse.

From the angle of how they died: He chose a cruel way to kill the two men. The woman and child were poisoned before their bodies were mutilated.

From the angel of abduction: it's pre-planned for the woman and child only."

Jungkook asks him: "So, what's your conclusion?"

Lucas shakes his head : "I don't have one. I am just summarising the facts."

Lisa asks Jungkook : "So what are your thoughts?"

There's hardly any trend or pattern in the four deaths. She doesn't even know where to start.

Jungkook seems to be able to read her mind : "You think it's too complicated?"

Lisa nods.

"Then remember this. No matter how complicated a case seems, it still follows the same principle."

Everyone in the room looks at each other. They wait for Jungkook to explain.

Jungkook continues : "He is a psychopath. No matter how much he tries to complicate things, he will reveal his desires and real feeling through his killings. It's not something he can hide. He is very egotistic. He naively thinks he can tame me to be his partner. What do you think he is trying to show me?"

Lisa has some thoughts, but they are random thoughts that needs time to be organised and sorted out. But before she is able to work it out, Jungkook reveals the answer.

"He is trying to show me his life."