Che Linwan called Huang Yide in China, "I have to get into this case!"
Huang Yide said in a serious tone, "This does not mean that you can get involved if you want to. The case occurred abroad, the deceased was abroad, and there are only suspects, one is a second-generation immigrant, and only one is Chinese. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has no judicial power at all. "
"I don't care, I have to get into the investigation process of this case."
"The only thing you can do is find a lawyer. Start with a defense lawyer."
Che Linwan stopped talking.
"Xia Mingzhi's parents must have arrived there."
"Only his mother."
"Where is his father? His father is still the director of the Ministry of Justice."
"have no idea… "
"Che Linwan, you should come back first."
"I won't go back by myself." He hung up the phone directly.
Anya looked unhappy when they went to the supermarket that day, and she didn't know who had offended her.
When we came out of the supermarket, it was already a little dark. Anya drove the car back by herself.
They asked people along the way and took a ride before returning to Anya's home.
Xia Mingzhi and Che Linwan moved their things out of the car first. At this time, the car showed that it was out of gas. Seeing that Xia Mingzhi was busy moving things, Che Linwan drove out to refuel.
When I came back, I found that the doors and windows were locked and there was no light inside.
She patted the automatic door of the garage, and it was actually locked from the inside.
After calling for a long time, I actually heard the phone ringing from the inside of the window separated by a layer of curtains.
"Xia Mingzhi?" He was inside, but he didn't open the door for her
A man sat in the car silently, not knowing what happened.
It gets colder and colder as it gets dark.
The neighbor who came back from work outside began to knock on her car window. After seeing her face clearly, she changed to English and shouted, "Park in the garage!"
After a while, the garage door finally opened, and Che Linwan immediately parked the car.
She froze when she walked into the living room. Neither of the two men were wearing clothes.
The body is covered with plastic film.
"What's wrong?"
She saw the man thrown into the bathtub.
A tall, thin, white-skinned man. He looks to be about 30 years old.
Due to forensic intuition, she knew the man was dead after just one look. But he still stepped forward to check his pulse.
The body began to harden.
"who is he?"
"... He's a thief." It was Anya who spoke.
There were actually a lot of cigarette butts on the ground. Xia Mingzhi does not smoke.
"Why didn't you call the police?"
"already dead!"
"Why didn't you call the police?"
"Do you want us to become murderers, Doctor Che?"
Che Linwan looked at Xia Mingzhi and asked, "Who is it?"
Anya came over and pushed Lin Wan hard. But Xia Mingzhi, who was standing behind, didn't move at all.
The look in his eyes looked...off.
"...I don't remember." Xia Mingzhi said to her.
But she didn't want to believe a word of what Anya said.
Anya said that two people killed her together.
The thief slipped in for no apparent reason, hid in the kitchen, and attacked Anya when she entered the house. At this time, Xia Mingzhi came back first. An accident happened during the fight between the three people. The two teamed up to kill the thief.
wrong! Something must be wrong.
All the words were said by Anya, but when Che Lin asked Xia Mingzhi in the evening, he just repeated them and did not remember.
How could I not remember
When Che Linwan looked at Xia Mingzhi, he found that his eyes were dodging.
She suddenly had an ominous premonition, and Xia Mingzhi's original personality began to awaken again.
Although I'm not sure if it was her fault, that personality awakened.
Anya proposed to dismember the body and do an autopsy.
She felt that Che Linwan was a forensic doctor and must have rich experience in this field.
However, Che Linwan's responsibility was always to put the pieces of corpses back together, rather than to disassemble them completely.
"This is a thief anyway, a bad guy! No one is looking for him, the only ones who caught him are the police. We didn't do anything bad!" Every word Anya said was no different from a violent criminal, but Che Linwan had a vague intuition, Anya is not a murderer.
Xia Ming Zhi is.
After the body was soaked in ice water in the bathtub for more than eight hours, Xia Mingzhi finally agreed to call the police under Che Linwan's persuasion.
If a thief breaks into a house and is discovered by the homeowner and commits manslaughter due to excessive self-defense, the penalty will usually not be severe and he may not be guilty of the crime.
However, first it was necessary to prove that the man who broke into the house was a thief. And there is a problem. The person who died was a local German, but Xia Mingzhi was a foreigner.
Fortunately, Anya is a second-generation immigrant, so Anya's involvement in the case becomes particularly important. She's like a lubricant.
But the wounds on the man's body showed no signs of a struggle. The prosecutor suggested that Anya would have left some marks during the struggle, but all the marks on the deceased's body only showed signs of beatings by the same person.
And there are signs of dragging.
Anya said it was caused by them dragging the thief from the kitchen to the bathroom.
However, the prosecutor said that the dragging occurred before the death of the deceased, which means that after the deceased had lost the ability to continue harming the female suspect, someone was still violently violent against him, resulting in the direct death of the deceased.
Moreover, the wounds were deep and there were signs of abuse. It was no longer in the category of over-defense and death. There is definitely a phenomenon of beating and mutilating the dead out of anger.
Anya insisted no. But Xia Mingzhi always claimed that he could not remember.
The two were held separately.
Anya's parents arrived and asked for bail, but the prosecutor refused for various reasons.
Anya's parents even met with Xia Mingzhi privately and asked him to take on all responsibilities alone.
"Current evidence shows that all the injuries are not minor injuries caused by women's resistance, but are injuries caused by excessive abuse. Mr. Xia, can't you honestly admit that our daughter is helping you share the responsibility?"
Che Linwan wanted to help, but she was neither a family member nor a lawyer, and she could not enter the judicial process. She could only visit Xia Mingzhi, but she had to obtain his permission.
"Xia Mingzhi, you must carefully recall what happened at that time?"
But he just shook his head stubbornly.
"I don't believe what Anya said. I think she is lying. But I have no way to judge whether she is lying to protect you or for other purposes. Xia Mingzhi, do you believe me?"
He suddenly spoke, "What kind of person were you before?"
"What."
"Is the Xia Mingzhi you know a violent person?"
"Why do you ask that?"
"They asked me if I had ever beaten anyone. I remember not. But I have been dreaming these past few days, and in my dream... "
"Tell me what was in the dream."
"Are you the person I'm violently assaulting?"
"Xia Mingzhi! Now is not the time to think about it. You have to recall that day when we returned to Anya's house from the supermarket, you carried the things in first. What happened at that time?"
"… I do not remember."
“…”
When Che Linwan met Ma Jiaxunyi at the hotel, the two women were not polite.
"I remember you, the forensic scientist at the institute where you used to be an intern."
"Yes, Auntie."
"Why on earth are you here."
"Participate in academic research."
"I heard that your project has ended."
"Yes."
"What is your purpose in finding my son?"
Che Linwan took a deep breath and said, "Ms. Ma Jia, I know what happened to Xia Mingzhi. I also know that he was not born with split personality, but was caused by acquired hypnosis."
"You... who told you."
"Xia Xiyuan told me."
"What...impossible!"
"You have never regarded Xiyuan as your daughter. Otherwise, why would you leave her there alone?"
Ma Jiaxunyi finally burst out, "What do you know! You don't know anything! She is my daughter, the child I gave birth to in ten months of pregnancy. How could I not feel sorry for her? But, but only Xiaozhi and her If I could choose one, it would be a boy.”
"Why should Xia Mingzhi completely forget about herself?"
"Because there is something wrong with his personality..."
The prominent status of his parents and the lack of companionship with his children since childhood led to various abnormalities when Xia Mingzhi was growing up. But because he was a boy, his parents ignored his nature and overprotected him.
After doing something that hurt his sister, he fell into self-doubt. But at the same time, there is no way to realize the mistakes in myself. To be precise, there is no way to admit that I have done something wrong.
Xia Dongqing and Ma Jiaxunyi once again adopted a simple and superficial solution.
Although it had been very useful before, Xia Mingzhi's personality collapsed when he saw his sister who was injured and committed suicide.
At this time they contacted Dr. Smith. It started out as a way to help the brother and sister with their psychotherapy.
However, psychological experts saw Xia Mingzhi's personality flaws at a glance and suggested that such a personality would definitely cause trouble in the future. Treatment must be maintained.
This is unbearable for a justice chief's family. He represents justice, but his son is an antisocial personality.
So after settling for the next best thing, settling for this time, and settling for the second best, they adopted the most dangerous but most efficient method, hypnotic personality reshaping.
The only danger is that once the initial personality is triggered in the future, it will be difficult to suppress it, and it will even become more antisocial and destructive.
But the parents just compromised.
After reshaping his personality, it can be said that Xia Mingzhi is not the son they raised, but their ideal son, just like the person created by the simulator when playing The Sims.
Sister Xia Xiyuan is a pain point for Xia Mingzhi. Once he sees Xia Xiyuan, Xia Mingzhi's own personality will be ready to change. So in order to isolate the brother and sister, the parents lied that Xia Xiyuan was dead, and re-edited the whole story to lead the conflict to cousin Tang Zu, who had a good relationship with the family since childhood.
But, crashed.
At this point, the parents adopted the same solution as the first time and continued to cover it up.
"So, is it really possible for Xia Mingzhi to kill someone?"
Ma Jiaxunyi took a sip of the cold coffee, "It's very possible. Psychiatrists have said that repressed personalities become more and more irritable, antisocial, and angry as time goes by. "
"But it won't break out suddenly."
Ma Jiaxun flicked the table nonchalantly, "There must be a reason. But the main contradiction now is not his nature, but what has been committed. It must be resolved."
Che Linwan stared at the other party in disbelief. His personality flaws were the most important issue, but they were downplayed in the eyes of the other party. It seemed that as long as they didn't kill anyone, didn't get into trouble, and didn't break the law, they didn't care at all how Xia Mingzhi was artificially shaped.
"Ms. Ma Jia, have you found a lawyer?"
"Of course. I'm here just to help him solve his trouble."
"Can you ask a lawyer to help me and let me go in and take a look at the body?"
"Why."
"I always feel that what that girl says is not believable."
"I don't care if what she tells is the truth. But as long as it's good for us, it's the truth in my eyes, and if it's not good for us, it's all lies."
"ah?"
"I will send you in. And then you will tell me, man, that girl killed him."
"this… "
"Otherwise, you don't have to worry about it. My son has nothing to do with you."
(End of chapter)