i must be in hell

"Ding Yiyan!"

His ears were tightly pinched, and Ding Yiyan raised his head with a groan.

When I opened my eyes, I saw the math teacher's late mother's face looking at me fiercely.

"Sleep in class! Ding Yiyan, do you remember your score in the monthly math exam last time? You got nine out of ten questions wrong in yesterday's homework!" I called, I want to have a good talk with them. You are too shameless this month!"

"...they're not available."

"What did you say?" The math teacher turned around and gave him a hard look.

"No, I said yes, teacher."

Ding Yiyan escaped from the clutches of the math teacher until he repeatedly promised to call the parents over.He rubbed his red ears and sighed, how should he explain to his family when he goes back at night?Besides, even if you go back and say it yourself, are Mom and Dad really free to come?

They are too busy getting divorced now.

Since his father was found out as a mistress last month, the war in Ding Yiyan's family has never subsided.Every day when I go home, the two adults are either arguing or throwing things at each other. Ding Yiyan is already tired of watching them, and now he is waiting for the two of them to divorce. Divorce, the best way to get divorced sooner!Only then will he be pure.

And he didn't tell anyone about his parents' divorce, so who could he tell?He doesn't have many friends at school, but he has some on the Internet.He recently joined an online community, which made him unable to spare time to deal with reality, and indulged in virtual reality every day.

"I'm sick of going back and listening to their quarrel every day!" On the way back from school, Ding Yiyan swiped his phone and chatted with the person on the other side of the network.

[Then don't go back. 】

"Where can I go if I don't go back?"

[The sky is big and the earth is big, still worried that there is no room for you? 】

"...Are you going to let me run away from home?"

This time, the other party did not reply.Ding Yiyan shook the phone, but after all, he didn't dare to think about anything else.He had already walked to the gate of the community and looked up at the fourth floor. The windows of the house were dark and there were no lights.

It's been like this for the past few days, my mother goes back to her natal house, and my father doesn't come back at night.Every day, Ding Yiyan is greeted by a cold room and an empty home.He laughed self-deprecatingly, "Run away from home? The two of them left first, how could it be my turn?"

Ding Yiyan picked up his schoolbag and stepped into the dark corridor.

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"Hey, watch your step."

If the man in white robe hadn't reminded him in time, Ning Xiao would have almost tripped over.He looked down and saw a threshold about ten centimeters high under his feet, and he could easily trip over it if he didn't pay attention.What are the people in the police station thinking about such a threshold being placed in the freezer?

If the white-robed man realized something, he turned around and smiled at him. "Work required."

No longer speaking, Ning Xiao was surrounded by several criminal policemen and entered the room.As soon as he entered the door, the temperature felt as if it dropped by ten degrees, and the whole room was filled with a cold atmosphere.

Rows of tall iron cabinets are stacked up and down, and there are dozens of special freezing devices inside—for preserving corpses.In the middle of the room is a large table that resembles an operating table, and there are some unknown rust-colored traces on the table legs.

"Welcome to my studio." The white-robed man pointed to himself, "Ji Yuqiu works in the forensic identification department here."

He smiled at Ning Xiao. "You are still the first suspect to come here."

"I'm honored." Ning Xiao said, "But I'm sure I won't be the last."

"Ha, Xu Shangyu, this guy is really interesting..." Forensic doctor Ji Yuqiu winked and smiled at the captain of the criminal police. "No wonder you have a crush on him."

Captain Xu glanced at Ning Xiao, and said cheekily: "Otherwise, ordinary people can get into my eyes?"

Ji Yuqiu despised him very much. "Your narcissism is hopeless, old Xu."

"People with capital are narcissistic, people without capital are only jealous. Obviously I am the former and someone is the latter."

Ji Yuqiu endured it, "Do you feel uncomfortable if you don't mess with me all day long? Let me tell you, Old Xu..."

"No, I can't stand your shouting, I'm not as old as you."

"Xu Shangyu——!"

Ji Da's forensic doctor raised his voice unbearably, and the two of them were about to quarrel.

"Shut up for me!"

A cold snort interrupted the quarrel between the two uncles.

"If you want to fight, get out."

"It's working time now, do you two know what's important?"

"I don't care what you think, it's about my innocence, whoever wastes time will waste my life, don't blame me..."

In the middle of speaking, Ning Xiao noticed that the eyes of several people nearby had become a little strange, and he seemed to realize what he said.He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he had lost the momentum he had just had.

"Sorry, I'm in a hurry, and I can't control myself when I get impulsive." Ning Xiao sighed and looked at Xu Ji and the two of them. "Are you still arguing?"

The two shook their heads in unison.

"Then we can start examining the body?"

The two nodded in unison.

Ning Xiao smiled with satisfaction. "Ji Forensic Doctor, please start your work."

Ji Yuqiu stopped talking nonsense, walked to a row of iron cabinets and started to work.

Behind Xu Shangyu, the two undercover criminal policemen were still in shock.

"This person has such a strong aura that he can hold down the two big monsters in our team." Lu Fei looked at Ning Xiao with some admiration in his eyes. "It's definitely not an ordinary person."

"Can ordinary people become murder suspects?" Zhao Yun complained.

Xu Shangyu didn't comment, but his laughter made Lu Fei get goosebumps all over again.He observed Ning Xiao, and at this moment he was no longer as impulsive as when he was arguing with Ji Yuqiu just now, as if the previous quarrel was a play on the spot.

Lu Fei looked at his team leader, then at Ning Xiao who was standing beside Ji Fayi, and silently crossed himself, not knowing who he was praying for.

Ji Yuqiu pulled out a freezer and opened the zipper of the plastic bag wrapped around the corpse.

"Ding Yiyan, I think you only saw him yesterday."

The corpse that had just been taken out of the freezer was still covered in a layer of hoarfrost.Ning Xiao looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar face calmly. When he saw this boy more than ten hours ago, he was still alive and breathing, but now he was just a cold corpse.

"The cause of his death?" he heard his own voice ask.

"Pierce the heart with a knife in the back."

Ning Xiao turned pale when he heard this, and Xu Shangyu, who had been observing him, noticed this expression and asked, "What's wrong?"

"In the early morning, when I met him, he was going to rob." Ning Xiao took a deep breath, and said slowly, "But I countered him, and later taught him a little lesson."

"We've all seen this." Lu Fei interjected, "You pressed him to the ground and beat him up, it's all on the monitor."

"No, not just that."

Ning Xiao heard his voice trembling slightly.

"I pushed him to the ground, and at first I just wanted to scare him. Later, seeing that he was struggling, I picked up his knife..."

The people around him who were listening to his narration held their breath and looked at Ning Xiao.

"I asked him, is human life fun?" Ning Xiao said, "Then, holding a knife, I made a gesture at his back."

The room was silent, and the icy air seemed to freeze even the pores of people.Ning Xiao was breathing, but he felt the chill linger in his heart, almost freezing his whole body.

"I remember I didn't poke it in then, no."

Ning Xiao was the only one in the room to defend, and no one else made a sound.

Ji Yuqiu suddenly asked: "Ding Yiyan died around two o'clock in the morning, when will you get home?"

"Ten past two."

10 minutes, there is no time to commit crimes.

The moment Ning Xiao said it, he knew that it was almost impossible for him to get rid of this murder charge.

The way of death, time, motive, everything is so consistent, it is like saying that besides Ning Xiao, who else in this world could be the murderer?

"Captain, this..." Lu Fei looked at Xu Shangyu with some embarrassment. In fact, he was also a little shaken before, thinking that Ning Xiao, who is so clear and rational, should not be the murderer of the boy.However, now that the evidence is convincing, and Ning Xiao also confessed that he had done something to the deceased, what is there to justify?

"Ning Xiao." Xu Shangyu said: "You said that you just gestured at that time, and didn't stab him in the chest."

"I remember." Ning Xiao's face turned pale, "However, I'm not sure."

"What do you mean?"

Xu Shangyu stared at Ning Xiao closely, but Ning Xiao didn't answer him. After a long time, he spoke:

"I want to see a doctor, a psychiatrist."

If 10 minutes ago, Ning Xiao was sure that he did not kill Ding Yiyan, but now, he is no longer so sure.The memory in his mind told him that he did not attack this boy last night.For others, this memory is a complete assurance of their innocence.

But Ning Xiao was different, his memory would deceive him.

"I need to see a psychiatrist."

Ning Xiao spoke out again, shocking everyone.

He said, "I suspect that I am the one who killed Ding Yiyan."