Although the leader of the detention center was obviously very dissatisfied, but it was not easy to turn against Deputy Yan's detachment, so he led the city bureau and his party to the infirmary, a room dedicated to administration and staff, separate from Li Yuxin on a different floor.
"The prisoner's head injury is very serious, we have made an emergency report and transferred her to the hospital..."
"Don't tell me this, I'm sure she has something to do with the kidnapping that's happening now, I have to ask!"
"We have our rules and regulations! Especially the underage prisoners! It's really embarrassing for you to do this to our detention center!"
…
A low-pitched but fierce dispute was heard outside, and through the hidden wooden door, it vaguely entered the medical room filled with the smell of disinfectant.
Jiang Zing was expressionless, watching his hands being repeatedly disinfected and wrapped in layers of white gauze.
"Be careful not to touch the water before healing, and change the dressing in time to prevent inflammation—and," the middle-aged female prison doctor said after hesitating, "pay attention to rest and supplement nutrition."
Jiang Zing just nodded.
Yan Yan pushed in the door with a baleful aura, "How is it? Is it serious?"
What the female doctor wanted to say was interrupted by Jiang Ting before she could speak: "It's okay, the bones are not broken. - Li Yuxin was sent to the hospital?"
"Fuck," Yan Yan scolded coldly, "that girl is evading interrogation, on purpose. I have already called Bureau Lv and asked the Provincial Party Committee Liu Ting to come forward and put pressure on her. I have to bring her back within two hours. Press back into the interrogation room!"
Yan Yan picked up Jiang Ting's left hand, dragged his fingertips, put the gauze on his joints in front of his nose and smelled the medicine.
"Smell what?" Jiang Ting drew back his hand.
Yan Yan said, "Oh, I just smell it. How did you disinfect it? You haven't washed the blood."
The female doctor immediately became unhappy: "I clearly..."
Jiang Ting did not let this inexplicable dispute continue.
"Li Yuxin's escape from the 712 kidnapping case does not seem to be a purely psychological problem, but she does feel a little self-sacrificing. Her head banging is not a performance, the self-harm is real, panic and fear are also real, a bit like the imminent catastrophe self-destruction."
Jiang Ting took a breath and said, "Her performance makes me a little suspicious."
"Doubt what?" Yan Yan sat on the table with long legs, "I'm not surprised what kind of perverted things this kidnapper did, maybe Li Yuxin was not only a 'notary', but was even coerced to participate in the execution process, so Are you so afraid of the police?"
"If the kidnappers forced Li Yuxin to participate in the process of killing He Liang in order to prevent Li Yuxin from calling the police, or stamped her fingerprints and blood on the murder weapon, she would have a feeling of 'If He Liang's body is found, I can't tell. ', then it's very possible." Jiang paused and said, "But it still doesn't explain our paradox: why didn't the kidnapper kill her directly."
"Does the kidnapper have some kind of emotional connection with Li Yuxin?" Yan Yan said, "I just called the Jiangyang County Police Station and asked to screen whether the Li family has any relatives with criminal records."
Jiang Ting said: "It is certain that there is an emotional connection, but not necessarily relatives. Otherwise, the kidnappers should also be relatives of Bu Wei..."
"No," Yan Yan interrupted him somewhat contentedly.
"…?"
"Shen Xiaoqi and Bu Wei's case is already the second. It is very common for serial criminals to deliberately imitate or even sublimate the details of the first crime in the follow-up crime—even if the kidnapper has no kinship with Bu Wei, Bu Wei may also get the same treatment as Li Yuxin."
Jiang Ting raised his head and glanced at Yan Yan.
"Why," Yan Yan spread his hands, "are you the only one who understands criminal psychology? I'm also the one who has hosted more than ten serial murder cases."
Jiang Ting waved his hand to indicate that he didn't think so, and then said to the female doctor:
"I'm really sorry, please avoid it."
He spoke in a light tone, but there was always a sense of politeness, command, and irresistibility. The female doctor was fascinated at first, but when she heard the words, she had to respond and went out embarrassingly.
It wasn't until only the two of them were left in the infirmary that Jiang Ting explained: "I didn't mean to doubt your ability. On the contrary, your speculation just now made sense. But why did the kidnappers extort one million cash in the He Liang case? , in the case of Shen Xiaoqi, the price was 200 million, I have doubts now, which is exactly contrary to your speculation."
"Ok?"
Jiang Ting sat opposite Yan Yan, his elbows rested on the armrests on both sides, and his body leaned back gently against the back of the chair. This action made him lift his chin slightly, in a quiet and contemplative posture, and said after a while:
"Maybe the ransom is not based on the boy's family background, but the girl."
"what?"
"… "
"Girl?" Yan Yan was really surprised: "Based on the appearance of a girl?"
- Bu Wei's stunning face is truly unforgettable.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Ting did not answer immediately, but remained silent for a long time.
The surroundings were unusually quiet. In the early morning in the infirmary, the pale walls and beds, as well as the iron racks and medical equipment glowing with blue light, smeared large chunks of cool light and shadow in the morning light.
"... I have been a police officer for more than ten years, and many cases are based on thinking, imagining and even substituting in the perspective of the criminal, so I can find the way to solve the case. But at the same time, as a law enforcement officer, I have always avoided understanding the role of the criminal too much. , so as to avoid deviations in their own emotions and behaviors because of empathy.”
Jiang Ting took a breath and shook his head gently:
"It's just that this case seems to always induce me to explore the inner world of the perpetrator. I have to keep thinking about what he wants to do, why he does it, or what kind of inner expression does he want to achieve? This kind of constant It was like being dragged into a whirlpool, and it made me feel very uncomfortable."
His words seemed to be just some kind of talk, but at the same time, it gave Yan Yan a strange feeling, as if he was being vaguely hinted at.
"...No way, Jiang Ting." After hesitating for a moment, he finally said, "Criminal investigators often overthink, this is a common phenomenon, but in fact, criminals will not deliberately induce psychological induction against the police handling the case, otherwise this kind of The crime is too advanced..."
Jiang Ting said, "No, you don't understand."
He didn't explain what Yan Yan didn't understand. He only looked at the fine dust in the air, his eyes were black and white, and his eyes were cold, and suddenly said:
"On the basis of looks, they are all fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls, and Bu Wei is unlikely to surpass Li Yuxin hundreds of times. Unless the two girls have other distinguishing characteristics besides looks, the blood and eagles stained on their shirts Blood also seems to be expressing this imagery."
Yan Yan frowned.
"But," Jiang Ting muttered, "what is the distinguishing characteristic?"
·
Early morning, mountains.
Birds and cicadas chirped intermittently from all directions. The first ray of morning light penetrated the dense canopy and reflected on the delicate and beautiful eyelashes like a girl's meticulous painting, making the black feather tremble for a moment, and finally struggled to slowly open it. .
"...Shen Xiaoqi..."
As soon as Bu Wei moved her lips, blood splattered from the corners of her dry and cracked mouth due to lack of water, but she didn't care about the pain, and stumbled and climbed up from under the tree: "Shen Xiaoqi!"
Not far away, Shen Xiaoqi was curled up in a haystack made of fallen leaves. His right arm was bloody and at a strange angle. It was obviously broken. He was only barely tied by two branches. His face was red and his forehead was hot.
"Wake up, wake up..." Bu Wei shook him weakly, even though she was extremely weak and weak. After a long time, Shen Xiaoqi woke up in a daze, coughed a few times, and barely opened his eyes: "Bu Wei..."
The girl's hair was stained with countless leaves of grass, and her fair face and hands were scratched with several bloodstains by the branches, because she couldn't even shed tears due to lack of water.
"I dreamed that I was dead..." Shen Xiaoqi said hoarsely, his eyes staring at the top of his head - although in the depths of the forest, the top of the head covered by countless towering ancient trees, the criss-crossing branches and aerial roots made them unable to see any line at all Sky: "I dreamed that I killed you too, if it wasn't to save me... If it wasn't for you trying to protect me... "
Bu Wei gasped: "You won't die, I won't let you die!"
The thin girl gritted her teeth and used all her strength to suckle. She even helped Shen Xiaoqi, whose height and weight were far greater than her own, to stand up and staggered forward:
"We must live, we must go out, we must..."
Eight in the morning.
The boundless virgin forest, like a huge mouth between heaven and earth, quickly engulfed their ant-like backs.
·
Jiangyang County People's Hospital, the elevator in the inpatient department opened, Yan Xun walked through the corridor first, took out his mobile phone as he walked forward, and shook the head of the detention center with an ugly face outside the ward. The screen clearly patted the handwriting of the Provincial Party Committee Liu Ting batch.
Yan Yan pointed to Li Yuxin in the glass window of the ward: "Can you go in?"
"Ha, it's still your city bureau being domineering!" The director snorted heavily from his nose: "I only saw this little place in the backcountry today. It turns out that this is called 'the first-level official crushes people to death'! … "
Yan Yan interrupted him unceremoniously: "Our entire detachment has been spinning for 30 hours. Your prisoner doesn't explain it. It's only at 8:09 tonight that you really want to die." He didn't talk much. , lifted his foot and entered the ward.
Jiang Ting, wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap, followed Yan Yan in a low-key manner, and the director suddenly called out "Hey": "What's the matter, didn't the approval note say that only the deputy detachment is allowed in? You, you, Are you-"
Yan Xun pulled Jiang Ting's arm and pointed at the director: "What are you doing? This is a criminal investigation expert specially invited by us from the University. The appearance fee is 3,000 yuan per hour. It was me who delayed his time. Is it your money or yours?"
"..." The director immediately hesitated, turning half of his face and muttering, "Just you Jianning City Bureau are rich, bah."
The wound on Li Yuxin's head had already been treated, and she was covered with thick bandages. Bloodstains could be clearly seen around the edges, which made her face extremely pale.
Probably because she was frightened by the madness, the police in the detention center handcuffed her both hands to the iron frame on the edge of the hospital bed, and took away the sharp objects on the bedside. Not even a ballpoint pen was left. A bare table top complemented her lifeless face, which made people feel embarrassed.
Yan Yan motioned for the ward round nurse to go out, and only clicked the door closed until only the three of them were left in the room: "Li Yuxin."
The girl's eyes were scattered, and she stared straight at the air.
"Do you think we police officers are so useless as the TV shows, and we can only solve the case if we get fired?"
"… "
"Let me tell you a story." Yan Yan pulled a chair for Jiang to sit down, and then sat beside the empty hospital bed next to her, with her thighs crossed, and said, "The real case may be with you. There are some similarities in the case of a wealthy businessman who was kidnapped with his driver a few years ago. The kidnappers killed the useless driver, but in order to fully control the wealthy businessman, they forced him to take the murder weapon and cut off the driver's head, and then killed the wealthy businessman. Let him go home to get the money. The kidnappers thought that the rich businessman who became a coordinated murderer would not have the courage to call the police, but to their surprise, the rich businessman turned himself in immediately after going out. Guess how the case was finally decided? "
Li Yuxin's mouth was still tightly closed, but anyone with eyes could easily see that her expression had undergone a subtle and complicated change that could be called fear.
"The wealthy businessman is innocent, and compensated the victim's family for humanitarian reasons. Do you know why it was sentenced?"
"… "
The girl's teeth were still clenched tightly, but Yan Yan didn't care.
"The police investigation, in addition to confessions, also needs a complete chain of evidence. A murder case must have complete links such as motive, physical evidence, documentary evidence, inquest, identification, etc., which are logically linked and cannot be overturned. Accepted by the procuratorate. In the case of the murder of the wealthy businessman's driver, the forensic doctor could clearly identify that there were many hesitant wounds on the neck fracture of the corpse, which did not conform to the characteristics of the general murderer's tactics, which proved that the wealthy businessman was indeed coerced; The wound did not reflect life, which means that the victim was already a corpse when he was beheaded. I was one of the criminal police officers who handled the case at that time. We fought hard for several months to collect evidence for this case, using all kinds of criminal investigation methods that you can't imagine. , and finally rescued the innocent from the dock."
Yan Yan leaned forward, her hoarse voice low and powerful from staying up late: "We can save him, and we can save you as well. No matter what you do, at the crime scene, as long as it happened, it will definitely leave traces. What the police have to do is to use these traces of evidence to completely restore every detail of the incident, so that the guilty will be punished, and the wronged will be punished.”
He paused and asked, "—Do you want to be remorseful?"
I don't know how long it took, Li Yuxin's eyes moved, like a stiff mechanical doll suddenly being injected with a trace of anger, she turned her head squeakly.
"... guilty people..." she said softly.
"Why do you want to steal?" Yan Yan asked, staring at her blank eyes.
"I don't know," Li Yuxin said in a small voice, "I don't know, I can't control..."
"You can't control yourself because kleptomania is actually a will-control disorder, triggered by intense mental stimulation and persistent stress. It's treatable with medication, which means you shouldn't be in Prison, you should go to the hospital."
Yan Yan reached out and touched her hair. This move was very natural. It was not like a policeman treating a prisoner, but a bit like a brother facing a poor little girl, which made Li Yuxin wince visibly.
"Tell us who he is," Yan Yan said in a low voice, "a major meritorious performance can get you out of prison immediately, and can also apply for a commendation for you. Trust me, the police will make the person who coerced you pay the price."
Time passed by, but no one made a sound. Li Yuxin seemed to fall asleep with his eyes open, and his thin body was immersed in a secret nightmare.
Yan Yan waited patiently, and out of the corner of his eyes glanced at Jiang Ting. Unexpectedly, the latter touched his line of sight, but for some reason he avoided it gently.
"?"
A trace of suspicion rose in Yan Yan's heart, but before she could see it clearly, she suddenly heard Li Yuxin's hazy voice: "...I don't need anything..."
Yan Yan and Jiang Zing suddenly glanced at her at the same time.
"I just want to be alone," Li Yuxin's face paler than paper was full of numbness, her lips were slightly open, and there was hardly any mouth shape when she spoke, not even the slightest pitch fluctuation: "As long as I am alone... let I am alone."
She slowly bent her feet, buried her head in her knees, and didn't move.
As if this pose was enough for her to resist the whole world with her thin body.
Yan Yan was stunned, not knowing how to react for a moment.
"Li Yuxin?" He frowned, "What are you thinking about?"
The girl is like an egg—fragile, helpless, futilely and firmly clinging to that small space, maintaining a dumb, but helpless silence.
Yan Yan's mouth was full of anger and sweetness. When he looked at his watch, at 9:30 in the morning, blood all over his head rushed to the top of his head: "Girl, think about those two innocent children who were tied up..."
"I'll come," he was suddenly interrupted by Jiang Ting.
Yan Yan looked up and saw Jiang Ting stand up.
"you… "
"Let's be alone for a while, Yan Yan." Jiang Ting's voice was very soft, with a strange calming power: "I'll talk to her."
At this time, there were only ten hours left before the execution time announced by the kidnappers. Yan Yan took a deep breath, his nose was full of hot air, barely kept calm and stood up, suddenly hooked Jiang Ting's shoulder and pulled it into his arms, hugging him hard. hug:
"Be careful, call at any time if there is a situation, I'm outside."
Before waiting for Jiang Ting to react, Yan Yan turned around and strode out of the ward.
"..." Jiang Ting couldn't help but watched Yan Yan leave, and only looked back at the hospital bed until his figure disappeared outside the door.
Li Yuxin seemed to have no sense of what was happening around him. He neither listened nor watched. She stubbornly resisted the outside world by closing her senses and thoughts, erecting a transparent wall in front of everyone.
But Jiang Ting looked down at her with pity, and with just one sentence, the invisible barrier instantly vanished into ashes:
"—What does it feel like to kill?"
Li Yuxin's body stiffened as if struck by lightning!
Jiang Su's fingertips lifted her icy face inch by inch, so that the girl's trembling pupils had nothing to hide.
He asked softly, word by word, "How did he convince you to kill He Liang?"