Regarding the phone call, Zhou Jiayu was really dumbfounded, with Lin Zhushui's expressionless questioning on his face, Zhou Jiayu could only explain cowardly, "Mr. is with me every day, why is there any need to make a phone call? Well."
Lin Zhushui raised his eyebrows slightly, but did not answer.
Zhou Jiayu coaxed again, and Lin Zhushui reluctantly hummed.
Except for Zhou Jiayu and Lin Zhushui, all the people in this room were single dogs, so everyone watched the two of them spread dog food, and their expressions were full of complicated tastes.
Shen Yiqiong, who was sitting beside him, touched Xiao Zhi's head faintly, and rubbed Xiao Zhi with his chin. He didn't know what he was thinking... Of course, 80% of the time it was possible to talk about it. in love.
Regarding Jiang Zhu, Xu Jian quickly gave more detailed feedback. This Jiang Zhu is a native of H city. His family was poor since he was a child, but his luck never comes alone. When Jiang Zhu was just an adult, his family suffered a cruel blow—he was in a car accident.
In this car accident, the driver fled and Jiang Zhu was seriously injured.
When Zhou Jiayu heard this, he remembered that he saw the man wearing a mask at the school and on the roof. The man seemed to be wearing a mask from beginning to end, covering his face tightly. Are car accidents related
Later, Jiang Zhu's home sold all the property in order to treat him, but even so, it could not close the hole with huge treatment costs. Under this premise, Jiang Zhu's father suffered another misfortune. Like Jiang Zhu, he also encountered a car accident. This time, the driver was drunk and driving. Jiang Zhu's father died on the spot, and he didn't even have a chance to rescue him.
"It's too miserable." Lin Jue felt a little embarrassed when she heard the story, "The family has encountered these things..."
"It's very miserable," Xu Jian said. "And the driver of the drunk driving is not well-off, so he can't get compensation at all. He can only squat in the bureau. Jiang Zhu's treatment fee is still unfunded."
"And after that?" Zhou Jiayu felt that this matter was definitely not over.
Xu Jian said: "Afterwards, Jiang Zhu's mother started to work on the construction site in order to earn treatment fees for him, but she still could not collect the expenses. Jiang Zhu was soon forced to leave the hospital because she could not pay the fees."
If things end here, that's fine, but God seems to think that Jiang Zhu is not miserable enough, and once again gave him a fatal blow.
Because of excessive fatigue, Jiang Zhu's mother had an accident on the construction site. After the accident, the owner of the construction site directly contacted him, and bullied Jiang Zhu for his lack of money and power, and he took Jiang Zhu without paying any compensation. I learned about the construction of my mother.
After everyone heard it, there was a little more sigh in their eyes, Jiang Zhu's experience really made people feel a little sympathetic.
"And then it seems that his mental state is not very good." Xu Jian said, "The specifics are not written in the documents, but he was indeed sent to a mental hospital for a period of time."
Zhou Jiayu said, "Is your mental state bad?" When he mentioned this, he suddenly thought of the young man who lived with Xiao Jinlong. That young man was also regarded as a lunatic by the locals at the time. Now that he thinks about it carefully, will he? Will Jiang Zhu also be like this
"Could it be that he awakened his talent in this area after being severely hit?" Zhou Jiayu asked, "For example, what kind of dirty things can you see..."
Lin Jue said: "It is also possible. There have been such examples before, but such examples are rare and the probability is very low."
Although the probability is low, it is not impossible, and since Jiang Zhu appeared beside Meng Yangtian, it means that he must have something special about him.
"Is there any news about him now?" Zhou Jiayu asked.
Xu Jian shook his head: "No, after he entered the mental hospital, he sneaked out of it, and then the news about him was completely cut off."
Jiang Zhu, who escaped from the mental hospital, completely disappeared from people's sight, and everyone quickly forgot about him. Perhaps no one who mentions Jiang Zhu's name can remember more than one hand.
Because this example is too tragic, the police who participated in the case at the time had some impressions. When Xu Jian checked his information, the police quickly turned over the file.
Zhou Jiayu saw the photo of Jiang Zhu back then. The man was really tall. At the age of seventeen or eighteen, he was already 1.86 meters. His appearance can be regarded as delicate, smiling quietly in the ID photo, without a hint of gloom. This made Zhou Jiayu think of Meng Yangtian at this moment. If it wasn't for Xu Jinghuo's news, I'm afraid no one would be able to connect the two together.
Now everyone doesn't know where Jiang Zhu is going. After a few people together, they decided to go to the mental hospital where Jiang Zhu escaped to see if they could find any new clues.
In fact, the attitude of the public towards mental illness is not friendly either in the past or at present. Unless you have a wealthy family and hire someone to take special care of you, you can't live a normal life in a mental hospital.
If Zhou Jiayu's guess is correct, then Jiang Zhu may not have a mental problem, which means that he was forcibly locked in as a normal person, and it is normal to want to escape.
The address of the mental hospital was a bit out of the way, and the only way of transportation in the past was cars, so everyone set foot on the journey.
As the car drove to the destination, Zhou Jiayu noticed that the surrounding scenery was getting more and more desolate. After asking Xu Jian, he found out that the mental hospital is actually in the deep mountains. It has been open for more than 30 years. It is funded by the government. of.
"That's too far." There are no modern buildings around, and the road is also muddy. The speed of the car is very slow. Zhou Jiayu said, "This person can get out after entering?"
"Alas, in the mental hospital, a few people who come in can get out." Xu Jinli said, "Even if a normal person stays in it for a long time, it will probably be useless."
Zhou Jiayu sighed.
Originally, after listening to the story about Jiang Zhu, everyone's mood was already heavy. When the car arrived at the destination, and everyone saw the appearance of the mental hospital, the mood became even worse.
The psychiatric asylum was nestled among thick trees, and only its old, towering walls could be seen vaguely, surrounded by barbed wire, and the masonry was clinging to a dirty green etched by moss.
This is not like a mental hospital, but more like a prison.
Because Xu Jian had already said hello before, he was not blocked when he came in from the door.
The security guards at the gate were two middle-aged men in their fifties and sixties, with very indifferent expressions. Seeing a few of them, they didn't say a word, but quietly opened the iron gate.
The feeling here is very uncomfortable, Zhou Jiayu paused involuntarily as he stood at the door.
"Jiayu?" Lin Jue noticed Zhou Jiayu's strangeness.
"It's not very comfortable." Zhou Jiayu honestly expressed his feelings, "I don't feel very good about this place..."
In fact, not only Zhou Jiayu, but even Shen Yiqiong, whose inspiration is not so keen, feels that the atmosphere here is very depressing. Although no one is seen, human beings obviously have the instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. In some places, you stand at the door I don't want to go inside anymore.
Xu Jian said, "A lot of people have died in this place." He pointed in one direction, "Some patients' family members disappeared after bringing the patient in, and the patient would not appear after the accident, so the hospital buried the patient in the Back on the mountain."
Zhou Jiayu frowned.
They went straight along the road at the door and arrived at a place that looked like an inpatient department.
The buildings here are all gray, and the roadside is overgrown with weeds. On this section of the road, Zhou Jiayu didn't see anyone, no doctors, and no patients.
"It seems to be inside." Xu Jian opened the door of the inpatient department, "Let's go."
Lin Zhushui seemed to be aware of Zhou Jiayu's indescribable anxiety, so he stretched out his hand to hold Zhou Jiayu, and there was a thin heat in his palm, which relieved Zhou Jiayu's emotions of being infected by the environment.
"It's really uncomfortable here." Zhou Jiayu muttered.
"Yeah." Shen Yiqiong said, "It's more uncomfortable than the prison..." At least the prison doesn't have such a decadent atmosphere that is close to death.
The lights in the inpatient department were not bright. It was broad daylight, but the curtains were tightly pulled up. The lights in the corridor were orange and projected on people's faces, showing a gloomy smell.
"Why isn't there a doctor?" After walking in for a while, he didn't see anyone. Zhou Jiayu took a look at the office next to him, and found that the office was empty and no one was seen.
"Are you eating in the cafeteria at this point?" Lin Jue glanced at her watch.
"It's possible, but where is the cafeteria?" Zhou Jiayu asked. It was just past twelve o'clock and it was time for lunch. But it's a bit strange that everyone went to have lunch, and the door of the office was left open, because no one usually comes here, so I'm not worried about being stolen at all.
"Second floor?" Shen Yiqiong noticed a sign next to the corridor.
"Go, go up and have a look." Lin Jue said.
The group went up the stairs. Zhou Jiayu saw some strange paintings hanging on both sides of the stairs. These portraits were very messy and could not identify the clear theme. They were more like paintings made at will. Most of the tones in the paintings are dark tones, and Xu Jinxuan jokingly said that the hospital would not hang paintings drawn by patients on it.
Xu Jian glanced at Xu Ruizang and didn't speak, Xu Ruizang's expression froze: "There really is such an operation."
This hospital is so abnormal, if Zhou Jiayu could choose to leave here immediately.
The second floor was indeed the canteen, and they saw the first person they saw in the hospital. The man was wearing a doctor's white coat, squatting at the door of the stairs, holding a box of lunch in his hand. After seeing them, he cast a rather unkind look at them: "What are you doing? What are you doing here?"
"Hello." Xu Rinliang said, "Because a murder case may be related to a patient in your hospital, we want to know something..." Before he could say a word, he saw the doctor stand up and turned away, starting from the beginning. There was no good face at the end.
Xu Jian gave Xu Rinliang a back: "I told you not to shave your hair, now you're considered a bad person, you can't even find your daughter-in-law when you go out like this! Look at Zhou..." He probably wanted to take Zhou Jiayu As an example, but when he turned his head, he saw Zhou Jiayu and Lin Zhushui holding hands and shamelessly continuing to spread dog food, so he swallowed the words abruptly.
Xu Jinliang: "..."
After Xu Ruizang failed, Xu Jian rolled up his sleeves and planned to go up by himself. But obviously the people in the hospital were quite disrespectful, and this time Xu Jian was even worse. The doctor left immediately before he even opened his mouth.
Everyone: "… "
Xu Rui muttered and said, look, this is really none of his business.
Xu Jian's expression was distorted, and he cast his eyes on Zhou Jiayu and said, "Zhou Jiayu, you should come."
Zhou Jiayu didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
As expected, the entire mental hospital was eating in the cafeteria. They stood at the door and saw the patients sitting quietly at the table, stuffing their mouths with food. The food doesn't look delicious, mostly vegetarian with very little meat. The doctors sat on the other side. After Zhou Jiayu entered the cafeteria, he felt a sense of discord. He soon discovered the source of the discord—the strange silence in the room.
It was so quiet in the cafeteria that there was no conversation, only the sound of quiet chewing.
The whole room seems to be a mime, and the doctors and patients who eat in it are mime actors.
Zhou Jiayu hesitated for a while, but went to the place where the doctors were eating. Although it looked weird, there was Lin Zhushui standing behind him, and he was not afraid of any monsters.
"Hello." Zhou Jiayu said softly, breaking the silence.
The movements of the doctors to eat stopped instantly. One of the people who was closest to Zhou Jiayu slowly turned his head. He still had the rice in his mouth and slowly swallowed: "Hello." He said so.
"Sorry, we came from the police station..." Zhou Jiayu whispered, "We made an appointment before, and we want to know about a patient."
The doctor nodded and said, "Okay." Then he turned his head and resumed eating.
Zhou Jiayu was a little embarrassed to be frozen in place. He didn't know what this person meant by this good sentence, but it was indeed inappropriate to disturb people's thoughts while they were eating. Zhou Jiayu thought for a while, then returned to the crowd, saying that they should wait for these people to finish eating before coming over.
Everyone agreed.
Originally, eating is a very happy thing for people, but whoever looks at the picture in the room behind him will not feel the slightest warmth.
Their eating seems to be just a task forced by physiological needs. As long as the food is put into the mouth, and then chewed mechanically and swallowed, it is completed.
After Shen Yiqiong came out, he kept looking inside the house, and his eyes became more and more panic.
Zhou Jiayu asked him what he saw, and Shen Yiqiong turned his head and said in a crying voice, "Have you noticed..."
"What?" Lin Jue asked.
"Each of them chews thirteen times when they take a bite of rice..." Shen Yiqiong said.
Zhou Jiayu looked into the room and found that Shen Yiqiong was right. The people who were eating in the room chewed each bite thirteen times, not more than once, not less than once. What makes Zhou Jiayu incomprehensible is that even the doctors sitting at the next table are no exception.
"To be honest," Lin Jue said, "If it wasn't for them wearing white coats, I wouldn't think they were doctors..." It was a room full of mental patients.
She didn't see any normal behavior from these doctors. Whether it's demeanor or verbal response, judging from the feedback from these doctors just now, they are almost the same as the patients around them except for their clothing.
Everyone was silent for a while, and Zhou Jiayu sighed: "Let's wait until they finish eating and come out to see the situation."
we can only do this.
Everyone randomly found a few seats outside the house, sat down and began to wait.
They had an extraordinarily long lunch this time. Lin Jue pinched her watch and watched as they ate from 12:30 to 2:00. Seeing that it was more than half past two o'clock, people came out of the restaurant one after another. .
The doctor Zhou Jiayu asked before also came out. He was wearing a white doctor's gown, and there was a nameplate on his chest with the words "attending doctor" written on it, and his name below it - Li Yihao.
"Hello." Zhou Jiayu bravely stepped forward again.
Li Yihao is not tall, and he looks like he is around 30 years old. If you just look at his face, you will think that he is gentle. But if he stares blankly at people, there is a kind of neurotic feeling.
"Hello." He responded to Zhou Jiayu's greeting.
If possible, Zhou Jiayu wouldn't want to deal with him too much, but Xu Jian and Xu Rinliang's conversations had been ignored before, so he could only bite the bullet and say, "We were sent by the police to investigate the situation. , do you have time to cooperate with us?"
"The police investigation?" Li Yihao said, "What happened?"
Zhou Jiayu was inexplicably relieved when he heard what he said. Although this person looked weird, at least the logic seemed to be normal. He didn't ignore his question directly, but asked what happened.
Zhou Jiayu said: "There was a murder in the hotel. We suspect that it has something to do with the patient in your hospital, so we want to know the specific situation of that patient."
Li Yihao said: "patient, which patient."
Zhou Jiayu said, "Jiang Zhu."
However, after hearing the name, Li Yihao's expression instantly distorted. It was an expression Zhou Jiayu had never seen before. His facial features almost seemed to be crowded together, and his eyes were filled with fear. Even his body was trembling uncontrollably.
"I don't know, I don't know Jiang Zhu." Li Yihao said quickly, "Don't ask me, I don't know anything." After he said this, he turned around and was about to run away, but was caught by Xu Ruiwang. Stay, just pick it up.
In front of Xu Ruizang's big man, Li Yihao's body was obviously not good enough, he was struggling in his hands like a little chicken, and he looked like he might be out of breath at any time.
"Don't make a toast, don't eat and eat a fine drink." Xu Jinhuang rolled up his sleeves, his face full of ferocity, and with his bald head, he really looked like a murderous thug.
Li Yihao was so frightened that he trembled all over, and finally looked like he was about to cry: "I don't know, I really don't know..."
Xu Jinxuan said, "I'm really going to start." Seeing that he was about to start, Li Yihao finally lost his mind. He glanced around, not knowing what he was looking at. After a while, he whispered Said, "You go to the dean, I can't say, only the dean knows."
"Where is he?" Xu Rui asked.
Li Yihao said, "The office..."
Xu Ruizang said, "You take us there."
Li Yihao originally wanted to refuse, but when he saw the muscles in Xu Jinxuan's hands, he still confessed, saying that it was on the fourth floor, put him down first, and he would take them there.
Only then did Xu Ruizang put Li Yihao down, and everyone looked at him with admiration. He reached out and touched his bare head, jokingly said, "There's only one golden chain left."
Xu Jian said, "Master bought it for you! Buy the one with thick arms, it makes a noise when you drag it!"
Xu Jinxuan: "..." Master, are you serious
Although the golden chain is quite attractive, the focus now is on the Li Yihao in front of him. Although he promised to take them to the dean's office, Li Yihao's eyes were very erratic, and he looked around, obviously if he found an opportunity, he would definitely run away.
But until he reached the fourth floor, Li Yihao didn't find a chance to escape. He stopped in front of an office at the end of the corridor and whispered, "The dean is inside."
Xu Jinxuan said, "You go first."
Li Yihao said: "I don't want to go in first, you guys are going to go. I still have something to do, I still have patients, you can't let me in." When he said these words, he seemed to be talking nonsense, no matter the tone of voice. Or the eyes, are very crazy.
Zhou Jiayu knocked on the door in front of him, but no one responded. After hesitating for a moment, he still reached out and grabbed the door handle and twisted the office door open.
With a crunch, the scene at the door was revealed, and everyone was stunned after seeing the scene behind the door.
There was no spacious office behind the door, but a narrow corridor that was extremely dark, with only a dim light at the end.
"Is this the office?" Xu Ruizang asked Li Yihao deliberately and maliciously.
Who knew that Li Yihao nodded his head like garlic: "This is the dean's office, and the dean is at the back of the corridor... I didn't lie to you." .
"Go in and have a look?" Zhou Jiayu said.
"Go." Lin Zhushui nodded.
Xu Rui said: "Let's go, let's go in and see what's going on."
Zhou Jiayu said ok, and followed Lin Zhushui's footsteps into the narrow corridor.
This corridor is only enough for one person to walk. If the height is about two meters, turning around in it is difficult, and the atmosphere is very depressing.
Lin Jue muttered that if there was no one inside, then Li Yihao must be beaten up after going out, and Zhou Jiayu said that your uncle, you are becoming more and more violent.
Lin Jue said, don't you want to do it
Zhou Jiayu glanced at the front and said that I didn't want to, but now I think about it - there is no room at the end of the corridor, but a corner. The device is attracting phototaxis mosquitoes.
"Continue walking or go back?" Lin Jue also felt uncomfortable here.
Lin Zhushui said, "Let's go." His tone was certain.
Hearing what Lin Zhushui said, everyone didn't refute, and continued to walk along the aisle, as if walking in an endless maze.
Zhou Jiayu had already begun to understand Li Yihao's reluctance to come in. The narrow tunnel was filled with a depressing atmosphere. As a normal person, after walking for a few minutes, he began to feel irritable, not to mention mentally problem patients.
Fortunately, after turning a few more corners, they finally came to the end and saw a door with a sign of the dean's room. At least that Li Yihao didn't dare to deceive them in this matter.
The author has something to say: Xu Jian: How can I make my apprentice stronger...
Lin Zhushui: Fall in love with him.
Zhou Jiayu: Yes, it is like this, I am very strong now
Xu Jian: Hmm...
Xu Jinliang: ? ? ? ? ? Master, do you think clearly? ?