Criminal Investigation Notes

At night in Huadu in August, the city square is located in the suburbs of Huadu, and the night here is a bit quieter than in the urban area.

Due to the heavy rain in the morning, the asphalt road is still slightly wet, and the coolness after the rain has dissipated, replaced by a kind of steaming hot and humid moisture, which makes people feel a little anxious.

This area is a famous office area in Huadu. It is in a barren area, and developers have built a large area of ​​modern high-rise buildings.Several towering office buildings are luxuriously decorated, but the prices are famously cheap. The rent is more than half lower than that in the city center, plus various municipal subsidies.

Many bosses have chosen to locate their offices here, but this will make it difficult for ordinary employees who go back and forth.

The traffic in City Garden is very inconvenient, the subway station is still under construction, and it takes more than 10 minutes to drive to the nearest residential area.The nearby living facilities have not kept up with it at all. Under such circumstances, several convenience stores have become must-visit places for office workers.

There are few buses here, and the shuttle bus is limited. When you get off work every day, there are many black vans gathered on the nearby streets.

As time went by, the nearby office buildings began to vacate, those vans all disappeared, and the lights in several buildings gradually went out, falling into the tranquility of the night.

The road was very empty. At this time, the 24-hour convenience store on the side of the road became conspicuous, with white lights shining through it, and a few simple tables and chairs for people to rest inside could be seen at a glance from the outside.

As night falls, fewer and fewer people come here, only some programmers who need to stay overnight will occasionally visit, buy some supper and cigarettes to refresh their spirits, and prepare for the next night of fighting with lights.

Qu Ming, Qiao Ze, and Zheng Bai were in a van with dark glass, parked on the opposite side of the road, like a black car that missed the time to see off passengers.

"We stopped here, isn't it a bit conspicuous?" When Qu Ming was tracking before, the environment was much more concealed.

Qiao Ze adjusted the equipment: "But if it is a little bit farther away, you won't be able to see what's going on inside the convenience store."

"This is already the most inconspicuous place with the widest view. It's okay, anyway, there are no people at night." Zheng Bai was the driver just now, and he drove the car around a few times before settling on this observation position.

Qu Ming looked serious: "We still can't relax our vigilance, we don't even know who the other party is, and how many people will come."

"Shouldn't you see a group of thugs with weapons?" Qiao Ze controlled the monitor, and the picture on the computer gradually became clear. Through the camera in the convenience store, he could see Su Hui sitting at the table and pretending to be a shop assistant. Lu Junchi.

A middle-aged man entered the convenience store, and Qiao Ze hurriedly asked, "Someone has entered, is it this..."

The man bought a pack of cigarettes and went out. He didn't intend to stay in the convenience store for long.

Qiao Ze breathed a sigh of relief, he looked at his watch, it was already ten o'clock: "There are fewer and fewer people coming to the convenience store now, I don't know if the next one will be..."

The other party is late.

From a camera on the road outside, you can see the situation inside from a distance.

Su Hui was sitting in the back of the convenience store by himself. He was wearing a slightly larger shirt, which made his figure look thinner, and he looked indifferent and alienated.

Zheng Bai said: "Don't worry, Team Lu will go out in person today."

He volunteered to pretend to be a shop assistant before, but Lu Junchi chose to come in person and let him be on duty here.

Although Lu Junchi's location could not be seen in the camera, he must be not far from Su Hui.

The weather in summer is so unpredictable. It was boring just now, but now it rained suddenly. At first, it was just small rainflakes floating in the air, and then it became bigger and bigger.

Qu Ming suddenly pointed across the road, "There is a man who has been looking in the direction of the convenience store for a long time."

Qiao Ze followed his gaze, and it was more than 20 meters away from them. Under a tree in the open space, there was a young man standing in the rain without an umbrella. Motionless, like a statue.His whole body was shrouded in darkness, and he couldn't see his brows clearly, but he could feel a kind of gloom.

"It's raining, so I can't see clearly, and I guess he can't see clearly what's going on inside the convenience store either." Qiao Ze asked, "Do you think it's someone involved?"

Qu Ming remained calm, took out his camera, focused and took two pictures towards that person, and then zoomed in: "The rain does have an effect, it's a bit far away, and the angle is off, so the picture is not clear."

"That man seems to have moved... he shouldn't be an accomplice, right?" Qiao Ze watched the young man turn around and disappear into the rain. Maybe he just appeared by coincidence.

Then he looked at the middle-aged man who bought a pack of cigarettes at the convenience store: "That middle-aged man hasn't left yet, and he looks at us from time to time. I think this person has a bigger problem."

Zheng Bai, who had been staring at the convenience store, suddenly said, "Oh, don't look over there, here it comes."

While talking, a girl with a ponytail entered the convenience store, bought a bottle of drink, and sat opposite Su Hui.

In the convenience store, Su Hui also saw someone approaching. He squinted his eyes and looked up and down to see clearly. It was a young woman in her 20s. Bai Jing, wearing a white dress, looks like a Barbie doll in a closet.

In hot weather, the girl wore a lace glove on her right hand.

She asked Su Hui: "Hello, is that you?" Then the girl opened the drink by herself, "I am a sleeper."

Lu Junchi hid behind the shelf and adjusted the wireless headset so that the voices of the two could be heard clearly.Only one person from the other party entered the convenience store, and it was a woman, so he immediately relaxed a lot.

As time got later and later, there were no other customers in the convenience store, only Lu Junchi and a male clerk. The current environment was very favorable for them.

"How can you help me?" I have to say that the person in front of me is a little different from the person Su Hui imagined.

"You must have encountered difficulties in your life, and we will help you." The woman said, her voice was very gentle, her whole body was like a puppet cat, her beautiful eyes looked at Su Hui, " What you're going through right now is exactly what I've been through. So, we can empathize."

Su Hui looked at her. The indifference in his expression was the best way to cover up his emotions. Those people could easily regard him as one of the same kind: "What do you mean by a sleeper? Who are you?"

The girl looked at Su Hui and continued: "Life is always painful, and the meaning of the sleeper is that if you want, you can also enter the beautiful world like a dream. My name is Liu Mengying, and I am your guide."

So far in the conversation, nothing sounds suspicious.

Su Hui noticed that the girl had a beautiful left hand with fair and slender fingers. According to the old man, it was a pair of hands suitable for playing the piano.

Lu Junchi's voice came from the headset: "Ask her, who is the person behind the forum, and try to catch her words."

Su Hui received Lu Junchi's message, blinked and asked, "You're not the only one in that forum, are you?"

"Yeah." The girl responded in a low voice, "I used to live in pain. I was a patient with depression. There are many people like me in the Sleeper organization. We are a group of people who have recovered people, wanting to help more people.”

Su Hui continued the routine: "What does your help include?"

Liu Mengying said very conservatively and cautiously: "We can chat with you, recommend doctors to you, and solve the problems in your life so that you will not face pain alone. We can provide all the help that psychiatrists can provide, but they cannot. With your help, we can be satisfied as much as possible." She stopped here, her eyelashes fluttering, "But the premise is, I hope you can tell me, how did you get depression?"

Su Hui raised his eyes and asked her back, "How did you get sick in the first place?"

The girl hesitated for a moment, and pulled off her right glove. Her hand was very beautiful, but the little finger of her right hand was missing a joint. The wound seemed to have healed, but it was still a little shocking.

"I was born in a wealthy family, and I am the only daughter in the family. You should be able to hear my name, Meng Ying, and I want to win in my dream. My father used to be the pianist of the band, and my mother I was a violinist in an orchestra, because of my father's death, my mother has been very harsh on me since I was a child, to the point of being abnormal, she hoped that I would inherit my father's mantle and be a pianist."

"I spent several hours practicing the piano every day since I was a child, and even played for a whole day on weekends. My mother stood behind me with a pointer, and she would hit me and slap me on the back as soon as I was in a daze. I played until my fingers were bleeding, and my heart ached when I touched it. I didn’t have the game time of ordinary girls, and even my schoolwork would be delayed. If I played the piano a little wrong, my mother would beat me and scold me.”

"Moreover, she has a strong desire to control me, and she attributes it to me that she didn't remarry later. She will firmly control me by crying, making trouble, and hanging herself, scolding me for being unfilial... She deprived me of life."

"When I was 16 years old, she broke my leg because I didn't practice on time. Even though I had a cast on my leg, she still forced me to practice. I used all the ways I could to resist. Her. I went on a hunger strike, and my whole body lost more than 60 kilograms. Later, as long as I heard those piano sounds, I was about to go crazy."

"I didn't follow my mother's arrangement to go to a vocal university abroad, nor did I go on a blind date according to her arrangement. My life before the age of 22 was like wrestling with my mother. I wanted to prove to her that I was alone. , if there is no piano, I will live better. In order to break free from her control, after the performance she arranged for me, I faced all the audience, got up from the curtain call, and cut off my little finger with my own hands. At that time, bright red The blood dripped on my white dress, but my heart was more refreshed than ever before."

A smile bloomed on Liu Mengying's face, and she took a deep breath: "I didn't know until then that I was sick and depressed. Afterwards, I was sent to the hospital by my friends. Destroy my hand and get my life back. But my behavior was met with hysterical swearing and cursing from my mother backstage saying I screwed up and calling me a piece of crap."

"I started to see a psychiatrist to help myself, and now, I finally survived."

Liu Mengying recalled these experiences, her face turned pale, and her breathing gradually became short of breath.

In those years, in those days, she was like a person who was forced to run non-stop, until she was exhausted.

She didn't really have her own life until the moment her finger was broken.

That was my mother's dream, she never expected herself to be on that stage.

"What about now? Your problem is solved? Have you recovered?" Su Hui continued to ask.

"My depression is gone, my mother passed away a long time ago, and I can finally be myself again. Now let's talk about your story..." Liu Mengying put on her gloves and brought back the topic with a smile, " Can you tell me now, what problem did you encounter?"

Su Hui pondered for a moment, then raised his head and said, "I once had a serious accident. After the accident, I was in a coma for two months. The accident left me with serious sequelae. My vision is blurred. I lost my hearing, I lost my job. The whole world seemed different to me... and I woke up to learn that my family members were in a car accident on their way to see me and both died . . . I got depressed because of it."

Lu Junchi was arranging the shelves at the side, and looked at the two people in front of him through the gap. He knew that Su Hui was telling the truth mixed with lies, and then he listened to Su Hui continuing: "As for the reason why I asked you for help..."

Blinking his black eyes slightly, he watched Liu Mengying's expression silently. Su Hui looked at the pale girl in front of him, who had obviously not completely come out of the intense emotions. He could clearly recall that when the other party told his painful experience, his body unconsciously trembling.

In fact, looking back carefully, he seems to be...

I have never been so emotionally exposed since my illness.

Could it be that what happened to him didn't bring him enough pain?

But he was obviously in pain, the scorching air, the huge impact of the explosion, damaged vision and hearing, and the death of his family...

Those pains are like a layer of frosted glass, which cannot be seen clearly and cannot be touched, but it is accompanied by him, and he cannot be relieved.

This may have been caused by his depersonalization.

Now, he needs to break this layer of glass, he needs to find something that affects the other party's emotions, what will it be?

Those accidental deaths, those with vested interests, the mother who forced the girl...

He speculated, does this forum want him to kill the haters?Then there must be such a person.

He took a deep breath and continued: "It wasn't until later that I realized that the accident was not a coincidence, but someone caused it behind the scenes, and someone wanted to ruin my life..."

Su Hui paused at this point.

The girl's expression finally changed, "Who is that person? Are you the only one fighting against it? Then you must feel lonely and powerless..."

Lu Junchi stood behind the shelves, and his hands for arranging the shelves stopped.

From his point of view, under the reflection of the light and shadow in the convenience store, Su Hui's skin was cold white, and his eyelashes drooped down, making it impossible for him to tell whether he was telling the truth or a lie.

The girl's expression finally changed subtly. Her eyes flickered, and there seemed to be tears in her eyes. She stretched out her crippled hand to hold Su Hui's: "We will help you."

Two strangers communicated with each other in a convenience store on a rainy night, like wounded beasts licking each other's wounds.

The conversation seemed to have just gotten to the point, but the girl's cell phone rang suddenly, and she lowered her head to look...

Qiao Ze's voice came from the miniature earphones Lu Junchi and Su Hui were carrying: "Team Lu! Troop Lu! There is a man here who seems to be following the road. He seems to have spotted our car..."

That man was the middle-aged man they had seen entering a convenience store to buy cigarettes at the beginning. He originally only stood far away to smoke, but after he answered a phone call and walked near the car, his expression changed.

Qiao Ze and Qu Ming were discussing whether to move, the man left quickly, with his hair bowed and text message, apparently he was notifying his accomplices.

Sure enough, Liu Mengying stood up immediately after receiving the text message, and hurried out the door without thinking about saying goodbye to Su Hui.

Lu Junchi knew that this meeting could only come to an end, so he said into the headset: "Arrest."