Madness of the Heart

Mother-in-law Xu still opened the door a crack like last time, with a safety chain hanging between the cracks. Her sagging eyelids lifted up laboriously, and her shriveled mouth wriggled several times.

Although Xiao Yuan didn't wear a police uniform, he looked righteous, calm and reliable. It was also an act of presenting his credentials. It was made by him and felt more credible than that made by Fang Yuanhang that day.

But Granny Xu was still reluctant to take off the safety chain, and a dry and harsh voice came from her throat, "You go, I have nothing to say with you."

"You have lived here for decades. You should have seen a little girl who lived in 4-1?" Xiao Yuan said: "20 years old, from the country, a simple and cheerful little girl."

Granny Xu looked blank and seemed to be remembering.

Xiao Yuan said: "You may not have a deep impression of her, because ten years ago, she passed away not long after she moved to 4-1. Do you know how she passed away?"

Granny Xu shook her head.

"She was killed by the gangster." Xiao Yuan said: "Later, it was her father who lived in 4-1, a miserable person like you who experienced the pain of losing a child and spent the rest of his life thinking of his child."

Granny Xu opened her mouth, and the wrinkles on her cheeks trembled slightly.

Xiao Yuan said sincerely: "I came to you today because I know that you have evidence that is crucial to us. Can you help us, and help the middle-aged father who lost his daughter and was alone?"

After a long time, Granny Xu finally let go of her grip on the doorknob.

She took off the safety chain and turned her sideways very lonely, "You come in."

Fang Yuanhang followed Xiao Yu'an into this old set of rooms and halls, and when he saw the black and white photos facing the door, he was obviously taken aback. Looking around again, I saw a dozen dead photos hanging on the surrounding walls, all with the same face.

Both are the sons of Granny Xu, Zhang Yike.

This scene is quite permeating, Fang Yuanhang immediately got goose bumps, but Xiao Yuan's reaction was very natural.

Mother-in-law Xu sat on a wicker chair, staring at one of the photos with blank eyes, "Is this scary?"

Xiao Yuan said: "The thoughts of parents for their children should not be described as scary."

Mother-in-law Xu laughed dryly, "Everyone who comes to my house thinks that I am scary, saying that I have a ghost son at home. Although some people didn't say it clearly, I know all of them."

After a few seconds, Granny Xu said again: "You are the only one who gave me a different answer. Just ask what you want."

Xiao Yuan solemnly said: "This Spring Festival, you saw someone moved out a ‘thing’ from 4-1, didn’t you?"

For a long time, Granny Xu said: "I also saw a person who went in and out 4-1 several times before the Spring Festival. The old man surnamed Huang treated him very well and lent him all the keys of the house."

Fang Yuanhang couldn't help but pull out the photo of Hao Lu-Qin Guosheng, "Look, is this the person?"

Granny Xu took a look, pushed the tablet away, got up and walked towards the back room, "I'll find it for you, you can see for yourself."

More than ten minutes later, Mother-in-law Xu staggered out, holding a cuboid-shaped paper box in her hands, "It's all inside. I don't know what else is there."

Xiao Yuan took it and opened it. What was inside was a miniature camera and an old-style laptop.

Shanxiang Street is under public surveillance, but over time, the records will be covered and there is no way to check it. There is no surveillance in Kanzi Nine Alley, not even in residential buildings.

Xiao Yuan was right, and Zhang Yike had indeed installed monitoring equipment for Xu's mother-in-law.

"Yike used to do this. She always worked overtime, and she didn't even have time to look for her daughter-in-law." Mother Xu's voice suddenly became gentle, and her piercing voice no longer pierced her ears at this time. "The public security here is not very good. Mr. Ke said that when we save enough money, we will buy a good house and we will move in together."

Granny Xu lowered her head and said, "No matter how much money I saved, I couldn’t save enough. Once Ke came back once, I put this thing outside the door, saying that I could go inside, see what’s going on outside, and save the video if it’s not right. , Call him right away."

Suddenly, Granny Xu's voice trembled, "But when I found something was wrong, Yi Ke had already left, and I couldn't get through his phone."

Xiao Yuan didn't urge, but quietly waited for the old man to talk down.

Granny Xu raised her head and exhaled a murky breath, "It was seen by that person. I was afraid, so I took it down. After the year passed, I asked the craftsman to install the safety chain."

"Seen?" Fang Yuanhang said, "It's impossible. If you are seen, you can't..."

"Thank you." Xiao Yuan interrupted Fang Yuanhang and said to Granny Xu: "I will not take the camera with me. I will return this notebook to you soon."

Granny Xu waved her hand and stopped talking.

Zhou Yuan exported all the videos in the notebook, and the surveillance records of different time periods were shown on several display screens.

The camera is not high-definition, the installation location is very hidden, and the shooting angle is not very good.

Nevertheless, the two people who appeared in front of 4-1 can also be distinguished.

One is Hao Lu, Qin Guosheng, and the other is Wu Zhen.

From December last year to the Lunar New Year this year, Qin Guo Province visited five times and seemed to be a guest.

On the 26th of the twelfth lunar month, when Huang Mouquan was out, Qin Guosheng and Wu Zhen came to 4-1 together. Qin Guosheng actually took out the key and opened the door of 4-1. Ten minutes later, Tan and Wu locked the door and left.

At 8:41 on the fifth day of the first lunar month, Qin Guosheng knocked on the door with fruit, Huang Mouquan opened the door and welcomed people into the house. At 10:25, Qin Guosheng came out from 4-1 alone, wearing gloves and shoe covers, and carrying a large bag. After closing the door, he wiped the handle and lock with a cloth, and finally walked out of the shooting range of the lens. Reappeared in the camera minutes later, and quickly went downstairs.

At 10:53, Wu Zhen appeared in the uniform of a sanitation worker. Like Qin Guosheng, he also disappeared in the same direction. When he returned, he had an extra key in his hand.

At 11:16, the 4-1 door opened again, and Wu Zhen dragged a sack dedicated for sanitation to appear. Judging from the proportions and shape, the sack is likely to contain a person. After closing the door, Wu Zhen walked towards the stairs.

When passing the camera, Wu Zhen suddenly raised his eyes and looked at the camera as if he had discovered something.

"Oh!" Zhou Yuan yelled.

No wonder Granny Xu thought that the camera was discovered, and Wu Zhen's glance with the person watching the video was equivalent to staring at each other.

Xiao Yuan stood in front of the display with his arms folded, "Wu Zhen just looked at the camera, but from the analysis of his behavior behind him, he did not find the miniature camera."

Fang Yuanhang nodded, "Otherwise he will definitely not let go of Granny Xu."

"But the video only shows Wu Zhen leaving with Huang Mouquan's corpse." Zhou Yuan said: "What will Wu Zhen do with the corpse?"

"There is a funeral home 4 kilometers away from Shanxiang Street." Fang Yuanhang said, "Will Wu Zhen take the body and burn it?"

Xiao Man sneered, "Your idea is too unrealistic. In the funeral home, you can burn the corpse if you want? Without a death certificate, which funeral home now dares to burn the corpse casually?"

"You can burn without a death certificate, as long as there is a way." Xiao Yuan said.

Fang Yuanhang glared at Xiao Man.

Xiao Man stared back mercilessly.

"But Wu Zhen is not the one who can find this kind of access." Xiao Yuan said again: "He is wearing sanitation clothes. It is very likely that he will not only get clothes, but also a garbage truck. Sanitation workers are the least cited. Where do people pay attention?"

"The street sanitation office...garbage disposal site!" Fang Yuanhang slammed his right fist on the palm of his left hand and frowned. "But that's not right. If Wu Zhen throws his body in the garbage disposal site, no one can find it."

Zhou Yuan pulled out the map, "The nearest garbage disposal site is 2 kilometers northeast of Kanzi Nine Alley. For walking, 2 kilometers is a bit far, but considering it is the Spring Festival, Wu Zhen wore sanitation workers’ clothes. It was not impossible to dispose of corpses in the past."

"Wu Zhen is not the murderer. He didn't know that it was the stranger Huang Mouquan who died. He thought he was going to deal with Qin Guosheng, Professor Qin." Xiao Yuan said: "Out of respect for Qin Guosheng, he should not The body will be thrown into the garbage casually. If it is buried in the ground, it will not be easy to find."

The joint tomb of Qin Xiao and Chu Qing was on the mountain. Qin Guosheng was panting. The two large packages of firecrackers, joss sticks, paper money, and fruit were too heavy. When he finally walked to the tomb, his arms were gone. perception.

He sat and rested for a while, unable to find a pole or firecrackers, and simply placed the firecrackers on the ground in strips, fire a little, and the red stuff immediately exploded into the mountains, and the air was filled with a heavy smell of gunpowder smoke.

There was no one else nearby. He knelt at the tomb, knocked his head three times to his parents, with a cold smile on his face, "Dad, Mom, I'm back, I haven't burned paper for you before, this time I burned enough. ."

The joss stick was lit, and the ashes of the paper money were swept into the sky by the wind. Although there were many firecrackers, they were gone in a few minutes. Tan Guosheng felt that the surrounding area was too quiet, so he used his mobile phone to play the downloaded mourning music.

When the joss sticks are burnt out and the paper money is burned out, and the belated memorial is over, he will kill his life.

In his last life, he lived as a lecturer Tan, and he never made a name for himself until he died.

In this lifetime, he became Hao Lu, and experimented with other people's lives, but only one "domino" fell and was destroyed.

For two lifetimes, he was a loser, no better than those talented pharmacy professors, and no better than the young Luo Yi.

He is really tired.

Looking back, I was actually no different from Wu Zhen and Sha Chun. They were both hard-working but mediocre losers.

Knowing this a long time ago, I didn't kill Huang Mouquan at the time. I fell as the first "domino". With a little sincerity, maybe this death game could continue one person after another.

The joss stick could not burn for a while, but the paper money could not stand the burning, and it burned out after a short while, Qin Guosheng stood up, turned off Ai Le, and the surrounding suddenly calmed down, and he finally heard the noise not far behind him.

"Hao Lu." Ming Shu looked cold, watching the perverted murderer who played the dutiful son in front of his parents' grave, "Should I call you Lecturer Tan now?"

Qin Guosheng was not surprised.

As early as when the serious crime team started investigating the Sha Chun case, he had an expectation that these elite criminal police officers, especially the captain surnamed Ming, would one day find out all the truth.

But he did not expect that Ming Shu would appear at this point in time.

He doesn't want to be caught.

It's not that you are afraid of being judged, but that you don't want to be judged by these elites.

Faced with them, all his self-esteem will fall apart.

He is jealous and hates them.

Fortunately, he was prepared, a bottle of highly toxic sodium cyanide, as long as he took it, he would be able to end his life immediately.

"Let me say a few more words to my parents." Tan Guosheng smiled, and put his right hand into his jacket pocket.

This seemingly ordinary action did not escape Ming Shu's sight.

After Qin Guosheng finished speaking, he turned around and immediately took out the sodium cyanide from his pocket.

He unscrewed the bottle cap very quickly, and the deadly powder was about to pour into his mouth. Ming Shu drew his gun sharply, and the sound of the gun sounded in the silent forest.

The bullet passed through Tan Guosheng's wrist, tearing a blood line, and the plastic bottle flew out and fell into the grass.

Qin Guosheng screamed and fell to the ground, Zhao Fan quickly rushed past Mingshu, and Qin Guosheng was steadily restrained.

"How many people did you kill?" Ming Shu shouted, "What qualifications do you have to commit suicide!"

After most of his life's failure, Tan Guosheng has no desire to survive. On the way to Dongye City, he did not look at Mingshu or Zhaofan. No matter what question Mingshu asked, he had only one answer-I was the murderer you were looking for.

There are 4-5 surveillance videos provided by Granny Xu as evidence in this case, but the evidence chain is actually incomplete. Huang Mouquan’s body has not yet been found, while the Wu Zhen case, Sha Chun case, and the “Qin Guo Province” case of the year, details Although the crime squad had all reasoned out, Qin Guosheng's confession was still very important.

If Tan Guosheng is unwilling to say anything, the rest will be very troublesome.

"He seems to be very afraid of us." Zhaofan said, "Especially you."

Ming Shu said: "Normal response."

"But it's not that the suspect is afraid of the police." Zhaofan said again: "It's not because you broke his wrist with a shot."

Ming Shu raised his eyes, "What is that fear of Dharma?"

Zhaofan thought for a long time, "Um... can't describe it."

It is rare that Zhaofan, who is a "huabaozi", can't describe it, and Ming Shu couldn't help but look at Tan Guosheng again.

This person's appearance does not make people's eyes shine. At first glance, he is a full-fledged ordinary person. But under this ordinary surface, there is a heart that can plan such a "suicide".

Qin Guosheng has been distorted to the extreme, is there anyone else to be afraid of?

The fear of the law that the police are not police, then what is the fear of law?

What Zhaofan could not describe was broken by Xiao Yuan. "What Qin Guosheng is not afraid of is the police, but an elite in the industry. He was still only a lecturer in the School of Pharmacy until he was 40 years old, and he did not do anything. Academic achievements, in his understanding, he is a person stepped under the feet of the elite. He is a Ph.D. After becoming Hao Lu, he has been at the bottom of society all the year round. Why do you think it is?"

Ming Shu said: "Although the only person who knows his true identity is dead, he still fears that the secret will be discovered. He doesn't even dare to ride the train, so how could he dare to go to higher places?"

"This is one reason." Xiao Yuan said: "But there is another reason, that is, he is afraid of contact with the elite. The elite will remind him of his failures in the school of pharmacy and make him feel bad."

Ming Shu scratched his hair, "It's hard to understand."

Qin Guosheng’s wrist has been treated, he stared at Ming Shu with blank eyes, and asked for another police officer to come for the interrogation.

"I confess everything, but I don't want to face you." He said, "Especially you."

Fang Yuanhang sternly said: "Now is not the time for you to make a request!"

Ming Shu thought of Xiao Yuan's analysis, "Who do you want to change?"

Fang Yuanhang was surprised, "Master?"

Ming Shu raised his hand at him and continued to say to Qin Guosheng: "If it is reasonably compliant, I can substitute for you."

Qin Guosheng unconsciously began to tremble, his tightly bandaged hands slid frequently on the table, "Is Officer Luo still there?"

Fang Yuanhang couldn't think of someone in the serious crime team with the surname Luo, "Which police officer Luo?"

Yi Fei suddenly reacted, "Do you want to see Luo Min?"

Tan Guosheng nodded, "Yes, it's Luo Min, you let Luo Min come! As long as Luo Min is sitting opposite me, I will say anything!"

Fang Yuanhang went to the Huayuan Street police station to pick up Luo Min. In the corridor, Yi Fei said worriedly: "The Hao Lu case, Luo Min, and the members of the ad hoc team at the time all have unshirkable responsibilities. Qin Guosheng handed it over to Luo Min for trial, I am afraid that nothing will be brought out."

"Qin Guosheng just wants to find someone he can face easily. His current attitude actually doesn't want to struggle anymore." Ming Shu said: "Qin Guosheng played a very low-level role in Hao Lu's death. This trick was not seen by the police who investigated the case. In his eyes, Luo Min and others are inferior to him. Only when he faces them, he has a sense of superiority."

Yi Fei sighed, "It's all to this point, Qin Guosheng is still looking for a sense of superiority."

"Isn't he looking for superiority in all these things?" Ming Shu said: "He is too lack of superiority, so he eagerly hopes to achieve something that exceeds the elites in his eyes. Unfortunately, his efforts are wrong. direction."

Luo Min arrived, wearing a police uniform, but very nervous.

He also expected to come to work here in the Crime Investigation Bureau. Four years ago, the suspect was tortured to extract a confession. First, the pressure on solving the case was too great. Second, the Dongcheng branch had a quota to be transferred to the Criminal Investigation Bureau. As long as he was good enough, he would “behave” well in front of the leaders. At the end of the year, there is hope to enter the Criminal Investigation Bureau. If it goes further, it is not impossible to join the crime team.

But all of this has been ruined, and now he is not even the criminal policeman of the Dongcheng branch, and he has "fallen" to the street police station to be a policeman handling trivial matters.

"Team Luo." Ming Shu stepped forward. Although he greeted him actively, his attitude was cold and alienated.

In Luo Min's eyes, this is arrogant.

"Team Ming..." Luo Min laughed awkwardly. He didn't know what to say, and he subconsciously defended himself. "The case of the School of Pharmacy is not my responsibility alone."

Ming Shu interrupted, "This is not the time to talk about this. You are the person in charge of the special case team, and Qin Guosheng called for you to see you, so you go to try him well."

Luo Min looked ugly and stammered: "If I contributed to this case, would the case nine years ago be okay..."

Ming Shu said: "Team Luo, I am just the captain of the serious case team. How to deal with the case you are responsible for is not something I can say."

The door of the interrogation room opened, and Qin Guosheng raised his head. The moment he saw Luo Min, his eyes suddenly lighted up and his tone was pleasantly surprised, "Officer Luo!"

Fang Yuanhang stared at the surveillance, "Qin Guosheng's attitude has become too fast, why do I feel like "the villager sees the villager, my eyes are full of tears"?"

"For Tan Guosheng, Luo Min is his fellow villager." Ming Shu said: "A fellow villager in another sense."

In the interrogation room, besides Luo Min, there was also a recorder and Lin Jiao, who was invited by Ming Shu from the Psychological Research Center.

Compared with Tan Guosheng, Luo Min turned out to be more like a suspect.

Qin Guosheng talked to him, especially when he talked about the case nine years ago, it was like showing off.

"What I am most worried about is not that you suspect that I am cheating on DNA. I have some understanding of the development of DNA technology. My DNA information has not been entered into the information database, and my immediate relatives are not alive. You found it in my home. Hair and body fluids are equivalent to the "orphan"."

"What worries me the most is that you check the whereabouts of the money in my account."

Qin Guosheng actually laughed, very happy, while Luo Min on the opposite side was already earthy.

"But you did not investigate. I emptied the money'before death', and you did not ask who took the money away."

Luo Min gritted his teeth, "You!"

"You were fooled by me!" Qin Guosheng stared at Luo Min, "I have never done anything successful in my life. I have always been stepped under the feet of the elites. Thank you, let me experience the stepping on others. feel!"