After finishing smoking a cigarette, Qin Guosheng looked at the paper money and incense candles at his feet, picked them up, and continued walking towards the mountain.
When Hao Lu just died, he thought that he could not accept the life of a "degenerate" from a university teacher to an ordinary person, but he could leave the podium and leave the laboratory, no longer ignored by professors and despised by students, he suddenly felt heavy. Reborn.
Maybe it’s long overdue to give up, it’s long overdue to live in a different way, but it’s just that I haven’t been able to take the first step.
Thinking of this, he felt relieved. For nine years, he deliberately imitated Hao Lu, who only had a junior high school education, wandering around in the market, doing all kinds of low-level jobs, and wiping out the bookish air of senior intellectuals, almost from the past. He came out of the depression, and learned a simple disguise with the craftsman.
Most of the time, he thought he was Hao Lu, the rural man whose parents died of cancer and who was misdiagnosed as having cancer.
The identities have been swapped. The only person in the world who knows that he is not the real Hao Lu has long since died. Among them, the police even testified. There is no evidence of a perfect death, but he still does not dare to use Hao Lu's ID card often, never enters a regular hospital, and has never been admitted to a regular hospital. Not by plane or train.
Three years ago, he had the intention to return to the campus. He wanted to apply for a dormitory or librarianship at Dongye Medical University, but he was worried that he would be found to look like a dead "Lecturer in Qin Guo Province", and he was even more worried about those who used to be in the same school. Colleagues working in the laboratory can no longer remember the appearance of "Tan Guo Provincial Lecturer".
He has been neglected for most of his life, and what he cares most about is to be completely forgotten.
In the end, he chose to work at the Jiulin Psychological Clinic opposite the Medical University.
Jiulin Psychological Clinic belongs to Guangye Hospital, but unlike most departments in Guangye Hospital, Jiulin Psychological Clinic is relatively independent, and most of its doctors are hired from other places with high salaries.
He found a job as a security guard in Jiulin. He had a very leisurely job. All he needed to do every day was to patrol each floor.
Jiulin holds a weekly conference on psychology popularization for the public. Anyone can sign up to participate. The doctors in the institute take turns hosting. He was interested in psychology when he was still in medical college and read some books on psychology. At each exchange meeting, he would not leave, wearing a security uniform, sitting in the last row to listen to the lectures.
Of all the doctors who presided over the lecture, he was most interested in Luo Yi.
Luo Yi was young and talented, with a personable demeanor, the kind of person he thought he would become when he was in his twenties.
He envied Luo Yi, and he was jealous of Luo Yi, and the feeling of depression that had been stuck in his heart many years ago returned unconsciously.
He desperately wanted to prove that if he had specialized in psychology instead of pharmacy, his achievements today would not necessarily be worse than Luo Yi!
Jiulin has a small library open to all employees, and 90% of the books in it are related to psychology. He borrowed a few books to read when he had time, and consulted the doctor in the institute when he had the chance—but he never communicated with Luo Yi.
He is a highly educated person. Although he is Hao Lu who only has a junior high school education in name, he is actually Qin Guosheng who has obtained a doctorate degree. He digested the basic knowledge of psychology very quickly. After he had the foundation, he would listen to Luo Yi's lectures, and his competitive mentality would be even stronger.
The events of a few years ago popped into his mind, and he couldn't help thinking of his failed drug experiment.
Did the experiment really fail completely
If he failed completely, why was Hao Lu turned into a lunatic by him
If the experiment continues...
He was so excited that he seemed to have found the direction of his life again. He was going to do another experiment, and this experiment no longer used drugs to affect people's spirits, but psychology!
There are very few geniuses, most of us are ordinary people who are ordinary people who live hard, ordinary people are not shameful, and hard work is something to be proud of - this is what Luo Yi said to the "losers" at an exchange meeting.
He wanted to retort - the efforts of the mediocre are a disgrace! A person without talent, even if he lives, is a walking dead!
He used mahjong to form dominoes in his rented hut. With a flick of his index finger, the first tile fell, and then he never had to play again, and the next ones—those who were mediocre and hardworking—were pushed to death one by one.
The plan is formed.
He only needs to "knock down" one person to watch this massive death game.
Wu Zhen, the mediocre screenwriter who came to Jiulin to participate in the exchange meeting, was his first target.
After many years, he once again dressed up as a university teacher. It's just that compared to the past, his hair has turned a lot whiter, and the wrinkles on his face are deeper.
Last fall, he began to approach Wu Zhen.
Wu Zhen has been obsessed with writing scripts for many years. He did not know that a lecturer named "Qin Guosheng" in the School of Pharmacy of the Medical University had committed suicide by taking poison nine years ago. When he deliberately or unintentionally put the documents he had kept in front of Wu Zhen and talked about his work and identity, this middle-aged man who was hit by reality to the point of despair easily believed it.
He is older than Wu Zhen, and has successfully made Wu Zhen mistakenly think that he is a university professor. When he talked about his hopeless struggles in the past half of his life, Wu Zhen felt the same.
"People like us, we live only as the laughing stock of the world." He said to Wu Zhen many times.
In December, Wu Zhen fell into a very negative mood. He saw the opportunity and finally informed Wu Zhen of the "suicide" plan.
Wu Zhen was surprised, "You want me to kill you?"
"My life is mediocre, at least I don't want to be mediocre at the end of my life." He looked into Wu Zhen's eyes and said earnestly: "We are the same people, instead of being looked down upon by others and trampled under the feet of talented people, it is better to do something. Let the world finally take notice of us."
Wu Zhen was shocked beyond words and ran away immediately.
He was not disappointed, it was normal for Wu Zhen to have such a reaction, but after he figured it out, Wu Zhen would definitely come back.
In the meantime, he has one more important thing to do.
That is to find a scapegoat.
This person will die in front of Wu Zhen instead of him, making Wu Zhen believe in his death, and then take the baton from him. At that time, he will only have to push one "seed" to Wu Zhen's side , to see how Wu Zhen made them germinate.
He looked at all the fallen mahjongs and let out a series of gloomy laughter.
Once the experiment is successful, he will be a more powerful psychology expert than Luo Yi.
Jiang is still old and hot, how can a young man like Luo Yi compare to him
Huang Muquan, a man who sells skewers on Shanxiang Street, is Hao Lu's fellow villager—it's the same as his fellow villager in Tanguo Province.
This person came to Dongye City half a year earlier than Hao Lu. Hao Lu also told him about the tragedy of the Huang family and mentioned that he and Huang Muquan played together when they were children.
A few years ago, Qin Guo Province was most afraid of meeting people in Hu Luzhen, and even more afraid to contact people who knew Hao Lu.
But it's different now. Time is enough to change his appearance and blur his memories. He is no longer worried about being suspected by people in Hu Luzhen.
Time is running out, and he needs to find a suitable scapegoat as quickly as possible.
He went to Shanxiang Street to observe Huang Mouquan. Huang Mouquan did not look like him, but his body shape was similar.
Huang Mouquan lives alone in the deceased daughter's house, which is 4-1, Building 4, Kanzi Nine Lane, Shanxiang Street. He brought home-style braised vegetables and wine, and visited as Hao Lu.
After ten years of not seeing each other, Huang Mouquan was surprised when he met a blind date in a foreign country.
His mastery of psychology was unimaginable for ordinary people like Huang Muquan. After a meal, Huang Muquan let go of his guard. Since then, he has come to Shanxiang Street many times, wearing a mask and hat. Because it is winter, his dress has never attracted the attention of others.
When Huang Muquan was not paying attention, he took the key of Huang's house and matched it with a new one.
Soon, as he expected, Wu Zhen came back.
"I'll join your 'suicide' plan." Wu Zhen's voice trembled, "People like us have no choice but to help each other. To live... It's too painful to live!"
He comforted Wu Zhen kindly, "It's okay, we can't choose birth and talent, but luckily we can choose death."
The plan is set for the Spring Festival, when every family visits relatives and friends during the Spring Festival, and the urban management is not working, it is the best time to commit crimes.
"You don't need to be charged with murder for me, I will commit suicide by taking poison. You can come here to help me deal with the funeral." He took Wu Zhen to the door of 4-1, "This is the house left by my parents. I I seldom come to live here, and I didn't honor them well before they died. So I hope to spend my last moments here. My life is useless, I haven't established any fame, I have no face to meet my family, I will use this cloth to cover Hold your face, please don't take the fabric apart."
Wu Zhen nodded solemnly, "What kind of poison are you taking?"
He smiled, "Sodium cyanide, no pain, it will be over in a while. If you need it in the future, I can give you a copy."
On the third night of the first lunar month, he went to Huang Muquan's house to celebrate the festival.
Two old men who are in a foreign land and have no relatives, drink a little wine and eat side dishes together, and this year is over.
Huang Muquan prepared many hometown dishes ahead of time. Qin Guo Province cut the fruits he brought and put them on a plate. The highly toxic sodium cyanide was sprinkled on the oranges.
Huang Muquan is a rough man, he eats it when he picks it up. The toxicity of sodium cyanide quickly struck, and Huang Muquan collapsed on the table and breathed his last breath.
He put on gloves, moved Huang Muquan to the bed, wrapped Huang Muquan's head with the prepared black cloth, and tied a dead knot behind his head, just like Huang Muquan tied it himself.
Then, he packed all the small objects he had touched—such as fruit knives and dishes—into the bag, and then cleaned the site to ensure that there was no trace of his own left, and then left and put the key Put it in a pot outside the door.
Afterwards, Wu Zhen wore the clothes of a cleaner, opened the door of 4-1 with a key, put the corpse that had not yet stiffened into the prepared sack for sanitation, and dragged it from the 4th floor to the 1st floor. Then put it into the hand-carried garbage truck, and step into the black water-like night in the street full of "Fu" and red lanterns.
Four months later, on June 22, Wu Zhen committed suicide by taking sodium cyanide. He had "imaginatively" sealed himself in cement.
He happily played with the mahjong blocks at home, waiting for Sha Chun, who was "influenced" by Wu Zhen, to hand over the baton to the next "desperate".
Sha Chun was the most "excellent" one among the targets he chose for Wu Zhen. At the same time, he took great pains to lead Wang Ying, who majored in journalism of the Medical University, to Wu Zhen, but Wu Zhen seemed to be more interested in a person named "Luo Ganfeng".
The person later disappeared suddenly, and he sensed a front-line crisis.
However, the smooth handover between Wu Zhen and Sha Chun gave him great confidence and satisfaction. At this time, he happened to learn that Luo Yi had a patient named "Wen He", whose self-evaluation seemed to be very low. .
Another potential "seed".
He secretly laughed, remembering that Luo Yi once advised people with depression tendencies to develop personal hobbies at an exchange meeting, and guessed that Luo Yi had said similar things to Wen He.
So, he handed the flyer of "Jianjia Bailu" to the children playing on the street, and used change to trick the child into stuffing the flyer into Wen He's arms.
His "seed", and Long Tianhao who made a fuss at Guangye Hospital.
But like last time, the development of things deviates from his ideal again. The closest to Sha Chun is a high school repeater. This person took the initiative to learn guzheng at "Jianjia Bailu", not what he chose for Sha Chun. seed".
Gradually out of control.
Only one domino fell and it was almost stuck.
He was extremely suspicious that Luo Ganfeng learned the whole thing from Wu Zhen, and then suddenly disappeared. He must find Luo Ganfeng and use sodium cyanide to kill the man who escaped with the secret.
However, before Luo Ganfeng was found, Sha Chun died.
He fell into a huge panic - Wen He and Long Tianhao, who he chose for Sha Chun, were not in the country, and the other had long since lost contact with Sha Chun. The one with the closest relationship with Sha Chun was Yu Xiaocheng, and Yu Xiaocheng was in Not long ago, I went back to school and read it again.
Who would kill Sha Chun
He found that his "dominoes" seemed to have been moved by an invisible person.
Nine years ago, when he exchanged identities with Hao Lu, he met a group of police officers who only wanted to quickly close the case. The small tricks he played in DNA testing were not detected by the police, and they didn't even investigate," Qin Guo said. Why would you take out all the money in your passbook before you die and where is that money going now.
If the investigation of Sha Chun's case is this kind of perfunctory criminal police...
But the policeman in charge of this case seems to be the elite of the police world.
To this day, he still has a deep fear of the "elite", and fear gave birth to jealousy. He used to be jealous of the professors who were better than him in the School of Pharmacy, and later he was jealous of the young and promising Luo Yi. He is both afraid of them and wants to be them, and his psychology has long been twisted to the extreme.
The policeman named "Mingshu" found "Jianjia Bailu" from the entertainment group.
He couldn't sit still any longer.
In order not to attract attention, he privately asked the security captain for leave, saying that there was an urgent matter at home and that he would be away for a while, then dispose of all personal belongings, bring a little luggage, and board a private bus to Hulu Town.
Halfway through the car, he suddenly realized that Hu Luzhen is Hao Lu's hometown, but not his hometown of Tan Guo Province!
It was a long journey from Hulu Town to Lanchuan County in the southeast. He took a private car all the way, and when he returned to his hometown after decades of absence, he suddenly felt that nothing mattered.
Struggle, struggle, struggle, coax, kill...
Everything seemed to be a matter of a previous life, something done by others, and he just stood by and watched a depressed and crazy person.
He is not Hao Lu, nor is he a lecturer Tan, he is still the young man who takes his father's words as his motto, but now, he no longer wants to go to the big city, he doesn't want to make a name for himself, he just wants to be a man working in the countryside. Farmer, like his father killed by his mother.
But who killed the father
Is it really the mother
Or the one who is unwilling to give up the future
Qin Guosheng woke up from his memory.
The way up the mountain is difficult, and the two big bags of paper money and incense sticks are too heavy.
He stood for a while and whispered to himself, "It's really tiring to live."
Grandma Xu, who lives in 4-5, Building 4, Kanzi Nine Lane, is a lonely old man in her 60s.
Xiao Yuan asked the team to learn about the Xu family's situation from the surrounding residents, and learned many important details—
Grandma Xu's husband died young, and she is a woman who is both a father and a mother, raising her only son Zhang Yike. Zhang Yike once worked for a technology company called "Ming Mou", which specialized in providing camera monitoring equipment and technical maintenance to the government and major enterprises. In the past few years, "Bright Eyes" had a very strong development momentum, but it lost to a competitor in a government tender, and it has gradually become quiet in recent years.
Zhang Yike was laid off after "Ming Mou" began to decline. He was eager to find a new job, but he was involved in a car accident during the job search and died on the spot.
The white-haired man sent the black-haired man. From then on, Granny Xu became extremely gloomy. She lived on the car accident compensation, her son's savings, and her own pension.
Everyone who lives nearby recognizes Granny Xu. When her son just died, some women tried to comfort her. If the family made a good dish or soup suitable for the elderly, they would bring a portion to 4-5, but Grandma Xu's temperament changed greatly, not only did she not allow others Entering the house, and knocking over the food that others kindly brought.
Over time, no one went to 4-5 anymore, and the children were "childless" and called Granny Xu the "old witch".
This hard-fought old woman was probably the only witness Wu Zhen moved Huang Mouquan's body away from the first scene.
Xiao Yu'an took the medical examination report of Grandma Xu transferred from the community hospital and suggested a possibility.
The old man has poor hearing and inconvenience in his legs and feet, but his eyesight is not bad.
Mingshu judged from Granny Xu's reaction and the newly added safety chain on the door that Granny Xu saw the 4-1 abnormality.
But the premise of watching is that, like the residents of 4-6, Granny Xu heard the movement outside.
But obviously, with Granny Xu's hearing condition, it's not enough to hear the movement outside.
It is also impossible that Granny Xu just came back from outside at that time.
The last time I went to Kanzi Nine Lane, Xiao Yuan had noticed that there were no cat eyes on the doors of 4-5.
Then how did Granny Xu see what happened outside without the outside world knowing
Zhang Yike used to work in a company that developed surveillance equipment, and it was a no-brainer for his mother to install a tiny camera that was hard to spot.
Grandma Xu is not only an important witness, but may also hold more critical video evidence.