A World Where Devils Roamed

Playing "hide-and-seek" in a maze, anyone would grow tired after running for too long. But monsters would not. He was a "monster," wasn't he?

The FBI were human too. Every day, they had countless cases to handle. Although Zodiac had made a huge impact, he had not killed many people, and he had not appeared in years. Once the case was allowed to cool off, people would soon forget him amid the bombardment of celebrity news.

He was different from police like Jack the Ripper and Holmes, who treated murder as a "game." Zodiac liked playing "hide-and-seek." At first, he killed only to draw enough attention from the police, but anything could change. Once he understood the "joy" of killing, he would transform from a cynical "educator" into a true serial killer.

When we stared into the abyss, the abyss stared back at us.

After encountering too much evil, one's sensitivity to "sin" weakened. But more frightening than that was utter exhaustion. When more and more people worshipped serial killers and pursued extreme violence and thrills, the devil had already begun roaming this world.

Americans had become "immune" to gun violence, but if someone attacked with a knife, it would leave both body and mind shaken.

Besides strongly stimulating people physically and psychologically, stories of serial killers could also greatly stir their imaginations, because they possessed the basic elements of bestselling novels: danger, mystery, heroes, villains, and karmic retribution.

Witchcraft, magic, and mysticism had sunk into the dark side of the stream of consciousness, yet very few people truly studied them. In the end, people took things out of context and, relying on their own imaginations and interpretations, came up with many terrifying yet meaningless rituals.

The human brain was good at forgetting. Only then could it make room for