Criminal Investigation Notes

The police car drove out, quickly shuttled through Wanhu City, and drew a long line on the narrow streets in the dark night.

Su Hui hung up Lu Junchi's call, covered his mouth and coughed uncontrollably for a while.

Qiao Ze, who was sitting in the co-pilot, looked back at him worriedly: "Ms. Su, the director sent over the material they had asked for the children to shoot. Do you want to take a look?"

Su nodded back, and stretched out his hand to take the tablet that Qiao Ze handed over.

There are a lot of documents, some of which are about the living environment of Wanhu City, some are about the lives of ordinary people here, and there is a special part about the children here.

He opened a folder, which was named after each child.

Su Hui supported his chin with his fingers, squinted his eyes and turned down, and saw Kong Tao's first.

He clicked on the video. The background of this interview video was the unfinished building, and the time was around dusk.

When the camera scanned, the unfinished building looked bigger than it looked at night, so many windows were black, revealing a sense of desolation.

Kong Tao was standing in the open space downstairs with a basketball in his hand. He patted the ball a few times before running towards the camera.There was no ball frame nearby, and he simulated a shooting action. The basketball flew out of a beautiful parabola, and then fell to the ground.

The boy's movements are very smooth, and if there is a basket in front of him, he can enjoy the pleasure of scoring.But in the ruins, there were no cheers, no applause, only the echo of the basketball falling to the ground.

He gradually ran away in the fiery sunset, and went to pick up the basketball.

Then the boy began to practice tirelessly again, Su Hui dragged the video back for a while.

The interview officially started. The sound of the video was a bit low. Su Hui couldn't hear clearly with one ear, so he had to turn up the sound a little.

"Were you born in Wanhu City?"

"Yes, I have lived here since I was a child."

"Did you enjoy your stay?"

"do not like."

"So are you willing to live here?"

"What can we do if we are not reconciled? We are still underage and not enough to change all this."

"Your hobby is..."

"play basketball."

"Do you think your life is different from other city kids?"

"Of course it's very different. My family lives upstairs behind here. When it rains, the rainwater sometimes falls into the house and makes half the room wet. Every day after school, I need to go to The water is far away and brought up to the eighth floor. I once suggested to my family that this place is empty anyway, should we move to a lower place? But my family objected, and they said that only the one room originally belonged to us Yes. They only live in their own house."

"Do you want to improve your living environment?"

"That's natural. I hope that the building here can be completed. Sometimes I can't think about why my home is different from other people's homes. But I also feel that I may not be able to eat, wear clothes, and learn. The kids at school are much better, at least I've made it through high school."

……

Su Hui watched the video quietly. The boy in front of him was tall and had bright eyes. He spoke a little fast when he spoke, and he was shy when facing the camera.

"Do you have a wish that you want to fulfill?"

"My wish is to be able to join the city's basketball team, so that I can probably change my life. Although I am no longer on the school team, I will still train by myself every day."

"Are you confident?"

The boy was silent: "Then I'd better change my wish. I hope to go to work during the summer vacation and buy a good pair of basketball shoes."

The camera panned down to the basketball shoes he was wearing. The edges of the shoes had been cracked. During a regular game, he would fall if he wore such shoes.More importantly, such a pair of shoes will allow him to face the ridicule of his opponents.

Seeing this, Su Hui didn't rush to open other videos: "Did a pair of sneakers be found at the scene of the first crime?"

Qiao Ze stayed at the scene before, and he still remembers it vividly: "Yes, it is a brand new pair of white sneakers, and the price should not be cheap."

Su Hui closed his eyes, and the scene of Kong Tao's death appeared in his mind.

The raging fire was burning, trapping him in it, he tried desperately to struggle, but he couldn't break free.

That pair of sneakers was the murderer's bait for Kong Tao. For that pair of shoes, he cooperated with the performance and then gave his life.

Su Hui clicked on Mo Xiuxiu's interview video again. The girl on the screen had light makeup on, and was wearing a beautiful dance costume with long sleeves. She played a short piece of music on her mobile phone and walked in the ruins. She did a few dance moves on the ground, and when she was throwing her water sleeves, the long sleeves streaked across the gray-blue sky.

Then she swished, and came a standard split horse.

The girl has a graceful figure and a flexible body, and there is a kind of spirituality in the dance.

Su Hui skipped the dancing part, and then the interview began. The questions were similar to those asked to Kong Tao before.

"Were you born in Wanhu City?"

"Yes."

"Did you enjoy your stay?"

"I don't like it, I don't think anyone would like it here." Mo Xiuxiu showed an expression on her face, as if she was talking about the most annoying thing to her. She tried her best to suppress her feelings, but she was still excited up.

"We met some people in the interviews and said they liked it here."

Mo Xiuxiu raised her head and pointed out mercilessly: "That's a lie. The children here sometimes tell lies. That's one of the reasons we survive. People like to be rich and good-looking , I like delicious food, I like a big house, I like to live a long life. No one wants to be born to suffer. You adults, you don’t understand these things, do you?”

"What's your hobby?"

"Dancing, I like dancing."

"What kind of dance?"

"All kinds, I will follow some video exercises."

"Do you have a wish that you want to fulfill?"

"I hope to be a real heroine one day."

"Is it an advertisement, or a video?"

"Anything is fine. Documentaries like this are fine too. As long as everyone is watching, it's fine. I like to stand in the center of the stage. I think I still lack a chance..."

After Su Hui finished watching the interviews of these two people, he casually clicked on the interviews of a few other children. He frowned and listened carefully to a few paragraphs, and said to Qiao Ze: "I think, someone based on the answers in these videos, conducted some interviews with those children. are screened. They are then seduced with their thoughts and desires.”

Qiao Ze asked: "Screening? Then what is his screening principle?"

Su Hui lowered his head and thought for a moment. He was trying to get closer to these victims: "Screen out those children who are unwilling to accept their current situation and want to change their lives."

Then Su Hui rummaged again, and finally he saw Tao Yingxu's.

Su Hui was even more curious about this person's psychology. If his and Lu Junchi's deduction was correct, he might be the one who initiated the live broadcast.

Tao Yingxu is a very handsome and good-looking boy, probably the school grass that people recognize is like this, the only thing that is not perfect is that he has a red birthmark on his forehead.

The birthmark was too characteristic to be ignored.It's a bit like overlapping, a few pink petals.

Su Hui couldn't tell whether the birthmark affected his appearance or made his face more attractive.

Tao Yingxu's voice is indeed very nice.

The video was shot in the background under a huge tree with white flowers in full bloom.Bloom on top of the boy's head.

Tao Yingxu recited a few poems under the tree, and finally said a few words that he liked very much.

"I see that the humblest flower has thoughts hidden deep where tears can't reach."

Su Hui remembered that these were Wordsworth's verses, and the interview then began.

"Were you born in Wanhu City?"

"Yes, I was born here, but I have also seen the bustling world outside."

"Did you enjoy your stay?"

"I like."

This answer is different from most of the children. He is probably the other person mentioned by the interviewer and the liar that Mo Xiuxiu refuted.But now, Tao Yingxu's face is full of sincerity.

Su Hui lowered his head and continued to watch.

"We rarely hear this answer. Can you tell me, what aspects do you like here?"

Tao Yingxu said: "I think there are many beautiful places here, there are many good people, and there are many delicious things. It's just that there are still some things here, so people live very hard."

"What do you think is missing?"

Tao Yingxu was silent for a moment, then said with a smile: "Pay attention."

He explained, "This place exists in Huadu, which is the most prosperous city in the world. This fact prevents many people from seeing it. You may find this statement a bit strange, but it is In fact, although this place is connected to the outside world, people outside don't know what it's like here, what kind of life people live...there are still many misunderstandings about this place."

"Do you think you are not taken seriously?"

Tao Yingxu nodded: "People living here are like invisible people... I am very grateful that you are willing to come here to shoot this documentary."

Su Hui felt that Tao Yingxu was indeed somewhat different from the other children, and his organization was clearer.Being able to empathize with these film crews in the conversation, maybe it is because of this that he has the opportunity to take up a position in this crew and help here.

It is also because of this that he can understand those children, confuse them, and gain their trust.

The interviewer was silent for a moment and said: "We think that someone needs to make such a record. We try our best to present the real life of the people here with better pictures. However, the click-to-play of this type of documentary has not been very good. "

This is a kind of self-deprecation by the creators, and no one would like to watch this kind of calm urban records.

To complete such a filming, it is not even enough to make ends meet. Whether it is the directors or the production staff, they are basically doing such things at a loss.

Such a documentary is destined to not have high hits.

People's own lives are already hard enough and busy enough, watching these things is tantamount to making life difficult for themselves, and some people even watch these documentaries just to find a sense of superiority.

Tao Yingxu expressed his understanding: "The pace of life now is too fast. Even if it attracts people's attention for a while, it cannot last for a long time. But I think it is very remarkable that you are willing to do this. Maybe when the editing is finished and played It will explode."

Su Hui frowned. He thought Tao Yingxu's words meant something. Maybe at that time, he was planning the whole plan.

Today, Huadu and even the whole of Huaxia are paying attention to Wanhu City.

This place, this huge unfinished building, has left a deep impression on people's hearts.

A place that has never been given much attention by people was suddenly pushed to the foreground.

The protagonist tonight is not the executioner, not those children, but Wanhu City.

Tao Yingxu's interview was the longest among the few that Su Hui had read. When he saw the last one, the police car had already driven into the hospital parking lot.

Compared with other hospitals in the city, this hospital is much smaller and the main building is much lower.

The video played to the end.

"What do you wish for?"

Tao Yingxu turned around and looked behind: "I hope that the shantytowns can really disappear from this city. The unfinished buildings behind me can be rebuilt. However, this is difficult to do... because some historical Reason, no one wants to take over here."

"Do you think your wish will come true?"

Tao Yingxu smiled. His smile was beautiful. When the corners of his mouth were raised, there was a dimple on one side: "How will you know if you don't try? Someone has to work hard to do this."

The footage of the interview finally freezes in this frame.

"Who is the person who kidnapped you? What does he look like?"

"I... I didn't see him. It should be a man..."

"Where did he kidnap you?"

"It's in the alley not far from my house..."

"What about the time?"

"After school, it's about four o'clock."

"Was there no one around at that time, didn't you call for help?"

"Someone suddenly came out from behind and knocked me out... I didn't know anything. When I woke up, I was already tied up and sitting there..."

When Su Hui and Qiao Ze walked to the inpatient department of the hospital, two police officers from the criminal police team were questioning Mo Xiuxiu.

They entered the ward, and Su Hui sat on the chair opposite the bed.

The girl lowered her head and twisted the quilt with her fingers. An oxygen tube was still inserted under her nose.

Su Hui listened to a few words, and what he said were all lies. He said, "Thank you, let's ask her."

The two little policemen responded, then went out and closed the door.

Not long after Mo Xiuxiu finished her rescue, her face was still pale, and she had already put on a hospital gown.

The girl looked curiously at the consultant Su and the little policeman in front of her. Both of them looked young, especially the consultant Su, who felt like he was about to be blown down by a gust of wind. She didn't look like her at all. Impressive police.

Su Hui opened his mouth, his voice was slightly hoarse, and he went straight to the point: "You don't need to tell lies. Who is the person who proposed this plan?"

Mo Xiuxiu froze for a moment, then frowned: "What plan?"

Su Hui stared at her closely: "The plan of the live broadcast of death, or do you have other proper words to refer to it?"

Mo Xiuxiu took a deep breath: "I don't know what you are talking about."

"What I want to tell you is that tonight's live broadcast is not a performance, and tonight's live broadcast has already caused two deaths, and you were almost drowned."

"Someone died?" Mo Xiuxiu sat on the bed for a moment. She only felt that she was soaked in water, a little groggy, and lost consciousness. When she opened her eyes again, she was in the hospital.

She thought everything was going according to plan, and she fainted just for the realistic effect, after all, she really survived.

But now, the person in front of her told her that she almost died?

Su Hui continued: "The time is urgent, I hope you can tell me, who is behind the scenes who first proposed this plan?"

Mo Xiuxiu lowered her eyes for a moment and hesitated.