Madness of the Heart

Wu Zhen's personal belongings have been sorted into categories and placed in the office of the Trace Inspection Division for the time being.

In addition to clothing and daily necessities, books and thick leather notebooks are the most common in the induction box. Xiao Man went to Liuguang Culture Media Company to read it. There are a large number of books for screenwriters to read, covering the most popular, film and television works, as well as almost all screenwriting textbooks. It stands to reason that Wu Zhen no longer needs to buy books by himself.

But for the same screenwriting manual, Wu Zhen did not borrow from the company, but bought it at his own expense, and made a lot of records in the book with blue pen and red.

"Really a hardworking person." Xiao Man sighed while reading these books while wearing gloves.

In addition to screenwriting-related books, Wu Zhen also has an Introduction to Guzheng.

This book was issued by "Jia Jia Bailu", as long as one-to-one courses are taken, one copy is provided.

Sha Chun's fingerprints have been collected on the book, and Sha Chun's handwriting is also on the first few pages. This is not surprising. When Sha Chun is teaching Wu Zhen, he will probably also flip through this book.

But when he picked up the thick-skinned notebook, Xiao Man suddenly had a weird feeling. He always felt that he had seen this notebook somewhere.

Notebooks are very common, and you can buy one online for less than ten dollars. The same book, e-commerce can sell tens of thousands of copies last month.

Almost all Wu Zhen wrote in his notebook were his thoughts on the drama, the outline of the script, and there was no lack of inner pain.

The professionalism of the film and television industry does not have much effect on the detection of the case. On the contrary, the sporadic inner portrayal may suggest something. Xiao Manzheng watched attentively, and suddenly heard a knock on the open door.

The serious crime gang is not so polite, and it hardly happens that they don't enter directly when the door is open.

Xiao Man didn't look up, "Don't you see that you are busy? Knock on the door, pretending to be gentle?"

The assistant patted him and said loudly, "Xiao Ju!"

Xiao Man immediately turned around and said awkwardly: "Xiao Ju, I didn't know it was you..."

Xiao Yuan smiled and didn't care, "I'll take a look at Wu Zhen's personal belongings."

"It's all here." Xiao Man handed over a pair of gloves and pointed to four thick leather notebooks that were laid out separately. "Wu Zhen occasionally writes a diary on it. Look here."

Xiao Yu'an took it, and his gaze fell on the short section of bold and powerful font.

"Why do good expectations always fail? Why do they catch me with'success'? Are they really better than me? No, they just have more luck than me. I want to fight again. I have given everything. I Is it worse than those people?"

"The three books have been written to the last page, and this one uses only one-third." Xiao Man quickly turned to the place where the fourth book had handwriting. "Before he disappeared, Wu Zhen's handwriting had changed significantly. "

"If it was strong and vigorous in the front, it was already a ghost painting peach charm after I wrote it." Xiao Yuan said: "The psychological change is a long and sequential process, but at about this time, Wu Zhen's psychology has undergone a significant change."

When speaking, Xiao Yuan's right hand finger pressed on a certain page.

Xiao Man said: "Do you want to determine an approximate time period?"

Xiao Yuan asked: "Can it be done?"

Xiao Man believes: "Yes!"

Xiao Yuan smiled, "Thank you."

Xiao Man said: "By the way, Xiao Ju, I think the clues of this notebook are more than just the contents."

"What else did you find?" Xiao Yuan asked.

"Not yet." Xiao Man scratched his ears, "but I have a strong feeling-I have seen a similar notebook somewhere recently."

Xiao Yuan picked up the notebook again, "This notebook is very ordinary."

"I know." Xiao Man nodded, "but just cares a little bit."

"Then think about it again." Xiao Yuan said: "Don't let go of any inspiration and clues."

Police officers transferred from the Criminal Investigation Team and members of the serious crime team led by Yi Fei visited around Yilu Street. Mingshu went to Shachun's home in Jiachuang Community again.

The room is kept as it is, and the food in the refrigerator has not expired. Yong Huan said that he wanted to sort out Sha Chun's relics, but it was not the time yet.

Ming Shu sits next to the Guzheng in the practice room, looking at the bracket used to fix the phone on the opposite side.

What does Sha Chun think about every time he sits here practicing and recording performance videos?

It must be successful this time.

The video recorded this time is great, and someone will definitely watch it.

Hold on, don’t give up...

Suddenly, the mobile phone in his trouser pocket vibrated, Ming Shu returned to his senses and found that it was a message from Xiao Yuan.

There is only one photo in the dialog box, a notebook with a black cover.

"Entering" is displayed on the screen.

Soon, Xiao Yuan sent a voice: "Do you have any impression of this notebook?"

Ming Shu zoomed in on the photo, thought for a long time, immediately stood up, and ran to the bookshelf on the side.

When he came here last time, he saw a thick-skinned notebook, but there were other things at the time, so he didn't take the notebook out to check it carefully.

There are not many books on the shelf, almost all of them are related to music. Ming Shu took off the notebook and opened it. It was blank, with no words written.

This is a brand new, unused notebook.

"Brother, where did you see the notebook in your photo?" Ming Shu called and asked.

"The trace inspection department was left by Wu Zhen." Xiao Yuan said: "Xiao Man has an impression of this notebook, but he can't remember it for a while. The places he has been to recently related to the case are the Performing Arts Center and Sha Chun. You happen to be at Sha Chun’s home, so I will let you take a look."

Ming Shu immediately put the notebook into the evidence bag and looked up at the bookshelf again. There were several other notebooks inside, "Wu Zhen and Sha Chun have the same notebook... Brother, Sha Chun's notebooks are all light-colored, girls The kind you like."

With that said, Ming Shu had taken out all the notebooks, and then walked quickly to the bedroom.

He still remembered that in Sha Chun's tent, there was a small hard-faced notebook with cartoon characters inside and outside, which was quite cute.

Young people now call it a hand account.

Compared with Sha Chun's other notebooks, the thick leather notebook looks very different.

"This may not belong to Sha Chun." Ming Shu said, "But if it's Wu Zhen, why is it here in Sha Chun?"

"Bring it back first." Xiao Yu'an said, "I will hand it over to Mark Inspection for identification."

Summer has reached the tail, but the last wave of scorching heat still makes people on the go cry secretly.

When Wu Zhengang disappeared, the police station didn't get Luo Xiu's clue, so he couldn't find Yilujie. Now the crime squad is here, and the best time to solve the case has passed. Even if it is going from house to house, the effect is not satisfactory.

School is about to start, and the children are hurrying to have fun. This area is full of old houses, the alleys are extremely narrow, and the ground is the kind of bluestone slab that has been paved for decades and has long been cracked. As soon as Yi Fei came out of a house, it was so hot that he unscrewed the kettle and wanted to take a sip, but was hit in the waist by two children running from behind. The water was not drunk, and his teeth were knocked.

"Fuck me!" The always-civilized deputy team also exploded, and saw the two children only seven or eight years old, carrying camouflage bags, wearing imitation military helmets, with a kettle on their waist, and heading towards an old staircase. Run away.

Yi Feideng remembered a ridiculous case in Xicheng some time ago-seven children teamed up to explore away from home. The equipment was quite professional. The compass engineers shoveled tents and infrared binoculars. Two children even brought parachutes.

The parents of the seven families were going crazy, looking for people all over the city. The police dispatched the police from the police station and the special police from the sub-bureau, and finally found the children in a cave on the outskirts of the city.

At that time, because of the heavy rain, the water of the river soared, and seven "explorers" hid in the caves. If the rain became stronger, they might be dead by the time the police arrived.

Because of this case, the city bureau held a special meeting and asked the sub-bureaus and police stations to step up patrols. If you see children who are showing signs of expedition away from home, you must stop them and contact their parents.

The serious crime team did not care about this kind of security incident, but Yi Fei was a policeman anyway, and quickly called a team member to follow the two children.

Not long after, the team member suddenly shouted in the group channel: "These two kids didn't run away from home, but their mother came to find the corpse! What's wrong with the kids now? I didn't have such courage when I first joined the team!"

There is a vocational school three kilometers away from the old residential area of ​​Yilu Street. It was closed more than half a year ago due to qualification issues. The teaching building was empty, but the staff dormitory still lived.

The dormitory and the teaching building are separated by a playground. Originally, the direction of the teaching building was the main entrance, but after the school was closed, the main entrance was closed and the small door near the dormitory was opened.

In this way, the teaching building seems to be hidden in the depths.

Before the closure, the vocational school also planned to build another laboratory building on the side of the teaching building, so there was a large amount of construction waste piled up behind the teaching building, as well as a cement mixer commonly seen in towns.

There is exactly the destination of the adventure of two daring kids.

As soon as he arrived at the scene, Yi Fei immediately smelled a not strong but very familiar smell-corpse odor.

The source of the body odor was a weird concrete pier not far away.

The vocational school was originally remote, and almost no one came back after it was shut down. The concrete piers were hidden under rotten wood and bricks, making it difficult to attract attention.

In recent days, even the high temperature has caused the cement pier to crack slightly, allowing the smell of the corpse to escape.

When he got the news, Ming Shu was driving to the Criminal Investigation Bureau and turned around immediately before hanging up the phone. Yi Fei's voice rippled throughout the carriage: "The pier has been opened, and the body has been put in a plastic bag. It has been badly corrupted. His clothing and physical signs appear to be male. Guess what we found in the pocket of his trousers? "

Ming Shu said: "Don't sell off!"

After the pier was opened, the smell of the corpse could no longer be suppressed, and Yi Fei was so dizzy that he couldn't open his eyes, "Langweixian's packaging bag!"

The two children were Zhou Li and Xu Yin, both of whom were only 8 years old. Xu Yin looked like a kid, but was actually a girl.

When Ming Shu asked, the two of them all recruited.

Zhou Li and Xu Yin are neighbors. Xu Yin’s parents are dead. There is only a deaf-mute grandfather in the family. Although Zhou Li’s parents are alive, they work in other places, and sometimes they don’t come back once a year. There are elderly grandma and grandpa in the family. .

The two grew up together and loved watching shows such as wilderness adventure and haunted house horror. They wanted to explore away from home for a long time, but they were stared at by Zhou Li's grandmother and grandfather, and they could only wander around nearby.

A week ago, Xu Yin discovered that there was a smell of corpses under the teaching building of the vocational school, so he told Zhou Li that the two of them planned to bring equipment and look for the corpse.

"Wait!" Ming Shu looked at Xu Yin, "How can you tell that it is a corpse?"

Before the pier was opened, there was indeed a corpse odor in the air, but it was not obvious. Let alone an 8-year-old girl, even an adult might not be able to smell it abnormally.

Coupled with the hot weather, there is a rotten plant behind the teaching building, which is filled with an unpleasant smell.

Xu Yin's eyes suddenly became weird. Zhou Li said, "Because she lived with the bodies of her parents for a week!"

Fang Yuanhang was horrified, "What?"

"I can tell." Xu Yin laughed, but the smile appeared on a child's face. It didn't make people feel cute, it just felt horrible. "I can smell it, that's the smell of a dead person."

Ming Shu motioned to Fang Yuanhang to investigate immediately, and contacted the psychologists in the bureau—no matter whether the little girl was involved in the unsolved homicide case, she must have serious psychological problems.

How could a normal child invite his buddies to play a game of finding the corpse after smelling the smell of the corpse.

Because of the partition effect of cement, the decay rate of the corpse is slow. Xing Mu shook his head after the initial autopsy. "There are no fatal injuries on the body surface for the time being. After the autopsy, I can tell you the cause of death."

Ming Shu looked at the male corpse's clothes. Although the surface of the clothes is already dirty, it can still be seen that this is the suit Wu Zhen was wearing when he was monitored and filmed on June 21. Combined with the Langweixian packaging bag in the trouser pocket, this male corpse is likely to be Wu Zhen.

The scene has been completely sealed off. Xing Mu took the lead in bringing the male body back to the bureau for autopsy and DNA comparison. Tracers stayed nearby to collect possible traces of crime. Ming Shu stepped back, looking at the cement mixer, and then at the teaching building, "Wu Zhen's behavior on June 21 seems to be about to find a short sight, but the victim just now must be killed by him. Use cement to hide the body and put it away. In this kind of place, which is no different from the wilderness, if the investigation is carried out according to the ordinary disappearance case, I am afraid that it will not be found in a year or a half.

Before the results of the autopsy of the male corpse came out, Fang Yuanhang figured out what was going on in Xu Yin's home.

Xu Yin's parents used to work in coastal cities. During the summer vacation two years ago, Xu Yin was taken to live with his parents. In that short summer, something appalling happened—Xu Yin’s mother had an affair with a worker on the construction site. Xu Yin’s father discovered that the two had a fierce dispute in the rented room, and Xu’s mother missed and killed him. Xu father died, and then committed suicide out of fear. Xu Yin witnessed her mother committing suicide and was so frightened that she fainted. After waking up, she wanted to go out, but found that the door had been locked long ago and she couldn't open it at all.

In this way, Xu Yin spent many days with the corpses of his parents in the sultry room, until the police broke in.

The coast was hot and humid, and the two corpses exuded an unbearable stench. After the investigation of the case, Xu Yin was sent back to Dongye City, where he received psychological treatment for a period of time, but he could not return to his original state.

She always said that she likes corpses and the smell of corpses. In that smell, she feels happy and peaceful, just like when she was still living with her parents.

"It's too pitiful." Fang Yuanhang said, "If her psychology can't be corrected, what will happen to her when she grows up?"

Ming Shu didn't have too much time to lament a little girl's life, there are too many things that need him to deal with right now.

Both autopsy and DNA comparison are in progress.

After Wu Zhen's disappearance, the police station collected DNA from Wu Zhen's daily necessities. This is currently the key to confirming whether the male corpse is Wu Zhen.

Xiao Man came from the Trace Inspection Division, holding the notebook Ming Shu brought back from Sha Chun's home, "Ming team! This is indeed Wu Zhen's notebook, and I got Wu Zhen's fingerprints on it!"

It’s not surprising that there are Sha Chun’s fingerprints and handwriting on Wu Zhen’s Guzheng learning materials, but why are there Wu Zhen’s fingerprints on Sha Chun’s laptop at home?

"The relationship between Wu Zhen and Sha Chun is definitely closer than we thought before." Ming Shu walked back and forth in front of Xiao Yuan, "Wu Zhen's course should have lasted until early July, but he was the last time he attended the "Jianjia Bailu" class. It was June 13th because of dissatisfaction with the course. Like this one-on-one teaching, the so-called'dissatisfaction with the course' usually refers to dissatisfaction with the teacher."

Xiao Yuan said: "Wu Zhen doesn't seem to be dissatisfied with Sha Chun. Let's push, why is this notebook in Sha Chun's hands."

“There are five notebooks in total. The technical investigation has already checked Wu Zhen’s online shopping records. These five were bought by him three years ago, and the five are a set.” Ming Shu said: “Before he disappeared, he ran out of them. Three books, the fourth one is in use, and the last one has not moved yet."

Xiao Yuan said: "Many screenwriters and writers are accustomed to carrying a notebook with them to record the sudden inspiration. Wu Zhen should be the same. But he has no reason to carry a notebook that he has not started using."

"In other words, as long as Sha Chun doesn't go to Wu Zhen's residence, he shouldn't see this notebook." Ming Shu fisted with his right hand and gently touched his chin. The colleague’s confession can prove that Sha Chun has indeed never been to Wu Zhen’s residence. This was not what Sha Chun asked Wu Zhen for, but Wu Zhen took the initiative to Sha Chun."

"Why would Wu Zhen do this?" Xiao Yuan asked.

Ming Shu twisted his eyebrows, "This..."

“Maybe it was given to Sha Chun as a souvenir.” Xiao Yu’an said: “I have roughly read the contents of the notebook in the Trace Inspection Division. It can be said that what is recorded there is Wu Zhen’s soul and effort as a screenwriter—— The biography of each script, the main line, every detail scene, and his perception before and after writing. There is no doubt that the notebook is very important to him."

"Wu Zhen knew that he didn't use the last one, so I gave it to Sha Chun?" Ming Shu said, "So in Wu Zhen's heart, Sha Chun is a very important person? This is obviously contrary to Wu Zhen's dissatisfaction with the course. Ah. And Sha Chun accepted the notebook and kept it at home. At least it means that Sha Chun and Wu Zhen actually have friendship. But after Wu Zhen disappeared, Sha Chun did not respond, as if the missing person was just a stranger. I think Through the transcripts of the police station's investigation into'Jiajia Bailu', Sha Chun asked three questions completely."

"She deliberately concealed the truth from the police, just like Luo Xiu." Xiao Yuan said: "Sha Chun may even know the truth about Wu Zhen's disappearance."

Ming Shu punched the edge of the table with a fist, "Unfortunately, there is no proof."

The DNA comparison results were released before the autopsy report, and the male body was indeed Wu Zhen who disappeared two months ago.

Later, Xing Mu called Ming Shu to the forensic identification center, "the victim died of sodium cyanide poisoning."