Two years later, Han Linke from London, School of Biology and Psychology, Columbia University, Lower Saxony, Germany, was giving a lecture on international criminal psychological profiling.
During the break, Dr. Colin, the dean of the college, came over with a young Asian man.
"This is my student, Mingchu, who's from mysterious Eastern country. He has a topic to discuss with you on DID issue. May I know if you have any interesting anytime?"
"Sure. My pleasure."
In the corridor at the entrance of Columbia University's comprehensive teaching building, male and female students gathered around a bulletin board.
"Hey, have you heard? They invited a forensic research team from China this time."
"Wow! That's a paradise for corpses... The population ranking is on par with India. Probability-wise, one person dies of unnatural deaths every five minutes."
"But forensic research has lagged."
"The local people have very strong traditional concepts. They want the body to be buried whole. They cannot tolerate the body having to be decomposed."
"In fact, body donation is a very scientific mentality. Our anatomy teachers still have many death row prisoners. If the family members do not recognize the body, the state will donate it."
"Hey, that one!"
"What's wrong? The handsome guy can't move his legs again?"
"That foreign student."
A white boy blocked the way of the Asian international student. Although the latter tried to avoid him, it was obvious that the white boy was deliberately provoking and causing trouble and had been blocking the way.
"Is Jordan crazy? He's looking for someone to fight again."
"I think he lost in Truth or Dare."
“Please, what century has it been and you’re still playing elementary school games?”
"Boys, you know. They're all childish."
"Would you like to help that international student?"
"It will only get him into trouble... Wow! Did you see that?"
"Look...here we go...he jumped over?"
"He jumped over! Directly over Jordan's shoulders. It couldn't be..."
The two girls who were watching looked at each other and said in unison, "A ghost clan from the mysterious east?"
Xia Mingzhi patted the needles that fell on his arm, turned around and looked at the dumbfounded white boy, with a disdainful smile on his lips.
Most international students who go abroad will learn some leg and foot skills. In other people's territory, it is often up to you to protect your own safety.
He is not usually a provocative person, but for the benefit of his compatriots, he does not mind occasionally showing a bit of inviolable ferocity.
When he saw the girl walking in front of him, he showed a faint smile.
Her name is Gu Anna, a second-generation immigrant, but her ancestry is truly Asian, mixed with blood from about seven or eight countries. Dating back to the time of her grandparents, both families have mixed blood from more than four countries, and even she herself has understood it. Not sure.
She is Xia Mingzhi's landlord and his campus buddy. The amazing thing is that she studied art, philosophy and religious studies.
"Are you driving today?"
"Looking for something."
"Corpse?"
One of the biggest hobbies of this artistic girl is to use home-made detectors to find unknown corpses left under the dead vines and old trees.
Xia Mingzhi got into her Nissan car. Compared with European and American cars with high fuel consumption, Anna prefers Japanese cars that are energy-saving and fuel-efficient but somewhat underpowered to drive.
"Because the scenery on the road is more beautiful than the destination."
She is a girl with beautiful feelings.
Although she suffered a certain degree of bullying due to her appearance in middle school, Anna is optimistic and cheerful.
"It doesn't matter. Those who bullied me will one day realize their mistakes. As long as I still live a noble and beautiful life by then, the only ones who need to regret are themselves. And suppose they never recognize themselves in their lifetime. Mistakes, it shows that their life is a failure.”
Xia Mingzhi didn't agree with her happy-go-lucky nature, but she admired it very much. This also shows her luck.
"Break up with Mike." While driving the car, opening the car window and letting the free wind blow by, Anna doesn't like things that are too artificial. She can go crazy in the bar, but once she calms down, her eyes change. Back to being an independent woman.
My favorite representative is Lisbeth Salander, who wears a nose ring and a flowery arm. She once shaved her hair very short, but it didn't suit her soft Asian face and looked a bit pretentious.
Xia Mingzhi has an aura that she likes very much, an ancient, quiet, and mysterious oriental aura. He seems to be a very calm person.
When he first moved into the garage of her house, he was carrying a big schoolbag, wearing a black baseball cap, and was tall, thin and muscular, which made people feel inexplicably untouchable.
But when he walks into the campus, he will restrain his aura, making people think he is just an ordinary international student.
Anna had seen him riding his bicycle to deliver express delivery, entering and exiting the slum streets where even the German police were on high alert. He was alone and didn't panic at all. His breath could be perfectly integrated there.
What confused him was that he had an inexplicable resistance to the French. When asked about it, he said that he had never been to France, but that he only had a deep dislike in his subconscious. He couldn't even explain why.
"Would you like a train trip?"
"No. Don't like inefficient transportation."
Anna raised her head and glanced at the roof of her shabby car, smiling happily, "Then you must like me very much, otherwise how could you tolerate this shabby car?"
"Because compared to buses, your broken bus is much more efficient."
"Uh, okay."
When Xia Mingzhi turned to look at Anna, he saw the corners of her mouth rising crazily, revealing a proud smile.
The forensic team from China brought a mummy!
It is said to be the finished product of folk homemade craftsmanship.
It was found underground in an abandoned town.
To be precise, there have been almost no residents in that town since the 1970s, when a massacre and murder occurred that caused a sensation in the country. Due to the secluded nature of the village, no one discovered it for a long time.
It wasn't until a young man who went out to work returned to his small village to visit his elderly grandfather and his younger brother who was staying at his grandfather's house that he realized that something unfortunate had happened.
The villagers who survived later left the village, and the entire town was occupied by the police and special investigation teams. They investigated the area for a full six months and dug up countless bodies from the ground.
Some were buried alone, and some were stacked together, making it impossible to tell them apart.
It’s surprising that no one reported such a big situation locally.
Local residents in the village said that a group of outsiders entered the village not long ago, stayed in an isolated farmhouse with no one around, and then left. However, there are different opinions, and it is impossible to investigate and collect evidence for a while.
The town was deserted and no one ever lived there again.
Until recently, some tourism developers targeted the village, and travel to deserted villages has become a new fashion.
Some adventurous young girls were as fascinated by the mysterious ancient power as Ancient Anna. During the development process, the geologists hired found a piece of land that was different from other places and was particularly soft, so they mined it. .
After destroying dozens of mummies, a complete mummy was finally dug up. This frightened them and they immediately notified the police several kilometers away.
These mummies look to be old, and the towns and villages have been abandoned for decades. Occasionally, homeless people passing by stayed there, but they may have left soon because of fear.
The excavated mummies were claimed by many different agencies in the country, and everyone wanted to investigate and solve the mystery to improve their reputation in the industry.
The mummies brought by the forensic investigation team this time were one of those mummies.
Gu Anna couldn't resist the temptation of the mummy, but she couldn't find anyone among her friends who was willing to accompany her, so naturally the only option left was Xia Mingzhi.
Xia Mingzhi took a sip of the free coffee, which was Anna's bribe to him.
"So why on earth would I want to see a mummy."
"The focus of forensic medicine is to find out the cause of death of the corpse. In addition to the research purpose of death pathology, a large part is related to criminal investigation, and criminal investigation is also a part of criminal psychological profiling. I want to do a good psychological profile Teacher, communication with forensic doctors is a necessary skill.”
Xia Mingzhi shook his head, "Have you seen Hannibal? A good profiler does not necessarily need to see the body with his own eyes. He only needs to see the report, or even the description of the other party's words is enough for psychological analysis."
"That is a novel. The conclusion derived from reverse reasoning. You know that human thinking is not very complicated. Many times it is just because part of it is hidden. When the human brain makes up for it, it will conceive other paths on its own, leading to the final result. Mismatch."
"The cause conclusion may not be precise, but the general direction is certain. All roads lead to Rome. Even if molecular structural reorganization is used, a slight difference in the time of arrival in Rome will lead to a different final time and space. Psychoanalysis is not a process, it must be There must be results.”
"So it's still the final theory? Then you have to take a look at the mummy."
"What's the reason?"
"The reason is that if you don't go see the mummies, you won't have free rides in the car and will have to wait for the bus. It's inefficient for you. Unless you plan to buy a car by yourself during your time at Columbia, you don't know anything about your study visa. It's due. And your rent may double in the near future... "
"Deal."
"Wise choice. Your Chinese name seems to be Mingzhi, right?"
Xia Mingzhi obviously went to read it with a closed mind, and even brought an e-book with him. When he was opening the e-book and preparing to continue reading the crime novel that he had read half of, his eyes were suddenly caught by an Asian woman next to the podium. Attracted.
She wore a simple and smart black close-fitting sweater, black slim-fitting trousers, a white coat, and refreshing short hair.
It should be one of the members of the inspection team. He has a temporary visiting card pinned to his chest and is taking care of the civilian mummy that is treated as a treasure.
"Is that the kind of sister you like?" Anna followed his gaze and looked at the woman beside the podium.
"What."
"Have you forgotten what we discussed? Using the characteristic identification method you developed yourself, you have never had a girlfriend in more than a year because your goal is too clear, that is, in your heart There is already a very special filter for partner status.”
"I didn't agree not to discuss this matter anymore. I discussed it with you because you suspected that I had perverted tendencies, and living in your garage might pose a life threat to your family. Now that it's been ruled out, I There’s no need to use your private affairs as a research topic anymore, right?”
"Tsk! I always feel that you have some kind of egoism in becoming friends with me."
"I would rather characterize our relationship as learning partners and landlord and tenant."
"So you won't contact me again after you return to China?"
"If you happen to be in the same city, or if your life is threatened and you have no better options, I can be your go-to person."
"Partner Xia Mingzhi, do you know that your words sound a bit callous."
"However, I did not refuse your request for help. I would refuse it to a stranger."
"Are you mentally defective?"
"…Probably a little."
"Is it related to the nightmares you often have?"
"It has to do with the fact that you often play dark music at home."
"Then tell me what you know about me?"
"Don't understand at all."
“…”
Anya left first due to time conflicts with other classes, but Xia Mingzhi sat alone until the end of the discussion.
He didn't care what these forensic doctors were trying to explain. His eyes were always fixed on the mummy and the woman behind it.
Have you seen it somewhere
Maybe I saw it when I was in China.
His eyes glanced sharply between her fingers, but he suddenly remembered that in China, women didn't care much about wearing wedding rings.
I couldn't help but shook my head, what on earth were I thinking about.
Anna sent him a message that an aunt from China whom she met would treat her to dinner that evening.
It was said that my niece from China was visiting.
In addition to being an art student and amateur designer, Anna is also a food blogger and has a large fan base on social media.
"That aunt works as a traffic announcer in China, and her voice is so stable!"
"Um."
"Can you dress a little more formally?"
"Are you sure? Family dinners in China may not be the same thing as what you think of as family dinners. When you visit someone else's home and the host is wearing pajamas, but you are wearing an evening dress, that is not overly polite, it is disrespectful to the host's family. humiliation."
"Uh, are you serious?"
"So I suggest you don't get involved in other people's family dinners."
"After all, you just don't want to go, do you?"
"I'm a little curious. It's the aunt you know. Why do you want me to go?"
"Because Mike and I broke up!"
"Does it matter?"
"Can't you just pretend to be my male friend?"
“We are, a landlord-tenant relationship.”
"Isn't there a campus buddy?"
"But he is no longer on campus."
"Xia Mingzhi!"
In the distance, members of the forensic communication team were walking out of the teaching building.
Shaking hands, hugging, and chatting with the reception staff at Columbia University, the woman finally said goodbye to everyone. The others seemed to be having a dinner together, and only the female forensic doctor left the group alone.
Xia Mingzhi decisively turned off her phone to block Anna's words.
He followed with brisk steps.
It doesn't require much thinking, it's almost an instinctive movement of the body.
There was a voice crying faintly in his heart, but he couldn't hear it clearly.
An Indian student from the medical school recognized the female forensic doctor as a member of the investigation team and struck up a conversation about the mummy.
Xia Mingzhi frowned inexplicably. After seeing the female forensic doctor quickly get rid of the student, he smiled again.
Suddenly a voice in my heart said, "My gilr".
Almost a surprise! Why do you have such thoughts? A person whom I just met for the first time.
When he left the seminar, he browsed the bulletin board. Among the six forensic doctors who participated, she was the only one female.
He remembered her name, LinwanChin. Chen Linwan? But there was no such impression in my mind.
Columbia is an open campus, and there are often homeless people and homeless women. When he saw the female forensic doctor walking in front of them, she did not deliberately avoid or give in. Instead, she nodded slightly as if she were meeting an ordinary person.
It looked like he was no stranger to this place.
Together they walked past the bookstore, past the ice cream truck, past the burger shop, and across the stone arch bridge. The scenery that Xia Mingzhi saw was the same as what she saw, except that one was in front and the other was behind.
I still don’t understand what’s so good about the scenery Anna mentioned. Isn’t the meaning of the journey the final destination
But at this moment, he clearly felt the tranquility and comfort during the journey. It turned out that the high efficiency he had been chasing was because he did not meet a travel companion who wanted to stay at the same time.
Germany and France are worthy of being close neighbors. Apart from France, strikes in Germany also come one after another.
When they walked to the bus stop outside the campus, Xia Mingzhi took a look at the strike information in his area, and sure enough, the bus no longer existed.
Many young people are catching rides on the side of the road, while older people are waiting for their families to pick them up.
The female forensic doctor stood in the crowd without knowing what was going on, thinking that the bus she wanted to take would come sooner or later.
Xia Mingzhi wanted to step forward to remind her, but suddenly stopped, not far from the bus stop, leaning on the roadside, looking at her quietly and quietly.
The feeling surprisingly calmed him down.
(End of chapter)