In the year 506 of the New Era, autumn cloaked the land. The Human Federation, North American Sector, United States, Nevada.
"...This is Nevada State Television HDC reporting: The chief justice of the Nevada Intermediate Court has signed the death sentence today. Eleven death row inmates will be executed at seven o'clock this evening. Among them, the most notorious is the serial killer Quentin..."
Suddenly, the visage of a beautiful newscaster from the Nevada State Television channel materialized on the silver billboards above the hovercar lanes. Concurrently, this sensational news echoed through the radios of the ceaselessly flowing maglev vehicles.
Since entering the New Era, Earth's humans had formed a unified federal nation, greatly elevating productivity and improving material life. However, the rise in productivity did not narrow the gap between the rich and the poor, and the scarcity of spiritual life only fueled rampant criminal activities.
The serial killer Quentin garnered the world's attention not merely because of his brutal methods and the ghastly scenes of his crimes but also because of the significant controversy his descent into murderous madness had sparked...
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Twelve years prior, in the second layer of Nevada's impoverished districts, a horrific bloodbath shocked the city.
On Christmas Eve, a middle-aged couple was savagely killed. The only ones left at the scene were the comatose five-year-old stepdaughter Eileen and the eight-year-old stepson Joey, sitting in a pool of blood, clutching a scissor blade.
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Through meticulous investigation, the police deduced that all evidence pointed to the stepson Joey as the murderer...
Of course, the notion of an eight-year-old as the perpetrator was too fantastical to fathom. This case quickly stirred up immense controversy throughout the North American Sector. The Nevada Child Welfare Agency swiftly intervened and produced numerous pieces of evidence of the deceased Foster couple's abuse of the siblings.
The Fosters belonged to the Europa race, immigrants to the North American region, and were not the biological parents of the siblings.
The siblings, of the Huaxia ethnicity, had lost their biological parents in a car accident. They were later adopted by the Fosters and renamed Joey Foster and Eileen Foster.
Under societal pressure, the Nevada police handed the siblings over to the Child Welfare Agency. A month later, Eileen was adopted by another family. Joey, burdened with the suspicion of murder, found no willing adopters. The boy reverted to his birth name, Quentin, and remained in the Child Welfare Institution.
Four years flew by, and just as this sensational federal murder case began to fade from memory, another homicide occurred in the Child Welfare Institution where Quentin resided.
A robust male nurse was found with his abdomen gruesomely ripped open, dead in Quentin's room. The twelve-year-old frail boy was once again found clutching a sharp scissor blade, bloodied and curled up in a corner...
After the incident, a director from the welfare institution leaked information claiming the male nurse had a history of child abuse and had been strictly warned by the institution. Due to familial connections with the institution's leadership, he was not expelled.
Quentin, claiming self-defense, was spared legal punishment. However, this incident seemed to unleash a Pandora's Box within Quentin's psyche. Diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder by a psychiatrist, the boy embarked on a path of destiny that seemed inevitable.
Over the following eight years, Quentin, in various institutions such as mental hospitals, juvenile detention centers, and maximum-security prisons, brutally murdered dozens, descending into a true homicidal maniac...