i must be in hell

That night, no one came back.

Ding Yiyan sat alone in front of the TV, the remote control in his hand was switching channels meaninglessly.

As soon as the schoolbag came in, he was still at the door. Magazines, novels, and snacks were all over the table, and the floor was also a mess.He stepped on the scattered peanuts and went to the refrigerator to see if there was anything to eat.

"Nothing at all."

He closed the refrigerator angrily, and gave up on himself to go anywhere.

What time is it now?It was almost twelve o'clock, but no one came back from home.

No one but himself.

He rolled over and fell to the ground, burying his face in his arms.The young man curled up on the ground, only casting a Wugu shadow on the wall.

"It's so cold..."

He murmured in a low voice, but no one in the empty room answered him.

Then he fell asleep like that.

-

"Evidence?" Xu Shangyu was a little surprised, "Which aspect?"

"As for the murderer who killed Ding Yiyan, I think I have some clues." Ning Xiao said, "But the premise is that I want to watch the surveillance again to make sure, is that okay?"

Xu Shangyu carefully looked at Ning Xiao's expression, thought for a few seconds, and nodded.

"Okay. Ah Fei, call all the surveillance cameras from that night, and let's watch it again."

Five minutes later, the four of them reunited at the table and commented on the monitoring of the night when the incident happened.The therapist isn't here, she's gone.

Xu Shangyu was a little confused at this moment as to what the suspect was thinking, as his thoughts seemed to always change.From denying that he was a murderer at the beginning, to self-doubt later, and now full of confidence.

That's right, confidence.Xu Shangyu saw this kind of emotion on Ning Xiao's face, the corners of his eyes were raised, and the corners of his mouth were raised slightly, which was an expression that could not be ignored.

This means that Ning Xiao really has a certain kind of evidence that others don't know about, but which is crucial to the verdict.Xu Shangyu, who noticed this, frowned somewhat unhappily.He didn't like the feeling that things were out of his control.

"Wait a minute, resend the paragraph just now."

Ning Xiao suddenly made a sound.

"What do you want to confirm?" Xu Shangyu asked him.

Ning Xiao looked up at him and said.

"memory."

Human memory can deceive people, but monitoring cannot deceive him.This is what Ning Xiao wanted to confirm.

The monitoring screen showed that Ning Xiao left the range of the NO.18 monitor at around [-]:[-], and did not return after that.However, the place where the deceased died was also outside the monitoring area. It is very likely that Ning Xiao went back and killed Ding Yiyan outside the monitoring area.Therefore, this cannot be evidence to prove Ning Xiao's innocence.

But what Ning Xiao wanted to prove was not this point. After letting the criminal police slow down, Ning Xiao noticed Ding Yiyan's movements on the monitor.

When he got up, he was holding the dagger in his hand, and he was holding the handle of the dagger instead of the tip.And just now in the cold storage, the body of Ding Yiyan that Ning Xiao saw had wounds on his hands.

At the tiger's mouth, there are obvious traces of being scratched by a dagger.

Ning Xiao stretched out his hands and carefully observed his five fingers.The knuckles are long and the knuckles are protruding, and calluses have been worn down on the fingertips due to long-term typing.But most importantly, these hands have no wounds.

Not a single trace of knife wounds.

Until this moment, the hanging heart was finally let go.At this moment, Ning Xiao was finally convinced that he was not the murderer, and the so-called murderer was someone else.

The monitor was still on, and Ding Yiyan on the screen stood up and leaned against the wall.The tears in the corners of the boy's eyes have not been wiped dry, and he is leaning against the old wall with sadness in his eyes.After standing quietly in the dark for a long time, he turned and left.

Ning Xiao watched this scene repeatedly to ensure that he did not miss every detail.Ding Yiyan's tears, his loneliness, his back view.I watched it over and over again many times, making the detectives next to me confused.

Until the last time, staring at Ding Yiyan's expression on the screen, Ning Xiao finally spoke.

"I want to see—"

"Captain!" The door of the interrogation room was pushed open, and a criminal policeman entered without invitation, and said to Xu Shangyu, "They are here!"

After saying a word, the expressions of all the criminal policemen including Xu Shangyu changed.

But Ning Xiao had just finished speaking at this time.

"—to meet his family."

Xu Shangyu rubbed his temples, let out a sigh of relief, and turned his head to look at him.

"You want to meet the family of the deceased?" he asked, mocking himself. "Exactly, there is no need to make an appointment."

There was a noise from outside the wide open door, it seemed that someone was crying and making noise.Dimly, Ning Xiao understood what happened.Ding Yiyan's family members complained to the police force.

Those people seemed to be rushing so fast that the criminal police at the door barely had time to stop them.Ning Xiao only saw someone running towards here, with red eyes and a crazy look.

"Kill for life! Kill for life!"

In the chaos, the family members even rushed away the few policemen who stopped him, and they were about to rush into the interrogation room.

Xu Shangyu quickly pushed Lu Fei and Zhao Yun out.

"You solve it."

After speaking, he quickly closed the door from the inside with a snap, because the door of the interrogation room could not be locked from the inside, and he even moved a table to block the door just in case.However, even though the door was closed, Ning Xiao could still hear the mournful and indignant cries of the people outside.

"Kill for life! You give back my son, give me back my son!"

"Ah, ah ah! Yan Yan, Yan Yan!"

The voice was hysterical, so hoarse that it seemed like it was about to cry out blood.Over and over again, he yelled relentlessly outside the door, and gradually went away after a long time.

Ning Xiao sat motionless in his seat, and only twitched his stiff fingers when the voice was far away.But the crazy cry still lingered in his ears, refusing to subside.

"I think the current situation is not suitable for arranging you to meet."

Xu Shangyu sat on the table blocking the door, looking at Ning Xiao. "You seem a little sad?"

"...my doctor said." Ning Xiao said, "Sometimes I will forget a memory, so as not to bear the emotional overload."

"kindness."

"I used to think it was troublesome, but now I find that forgetting is not necessarily a bad thing."

Too painful memories can overwhelm the human spirit.This is true for parents who have lost their children, and it is also true for Ding Yiyan.

On the monitor, the last scene left by Ding Yiyan before his death was still playing repeatedly.

He stood in the dark, staring blankly at the night sky.

I don't know what this young man was thinking about in the last 10 minutes of his life, and which star stayed in his memory at last?

Xu Shangyu watched the surveillance with him, and asked for a while, "Who did you say was the murderer?"

Ning Xiao looked at him, his black eyes sparkled, and his lips parted slightly.

"Yes--"

-

【Maybe they don't love you. 】

This line of words was so glaring that it hurt Ding Yiyan's eyes.

"No, they don't love each other, but I'm their son."

【yes? 】

Sometimes just a rhetorical question can easily shatter a person's confidence.Ding Yiyan's fingers trembled a little, and he found that he didn't know what to reply.Looking up, the door has already arrived.

When he opened the door and walked in, someone was squatting in the room to clean up the mess he left last night.

"Yan Yan." The woman who cleaned up the house paused, put down the garbage bag in her hand, and walked towards him.

"I didn't eat well last night. You can't just eat potato chips. It's not good for your stomach, you know? Are you hungry? I'm cooking, what do you want to eat?"

Feeling the warmth of his mother stroking his forehead, Ding Yiyan thought quietly.They love me, even if they don't love each other anymore, they still love me.

Ding Yiyan sat in the living room, watching his mother busy in the kitchen.For the first time this month, the kitchen is functioning.

"mom……"

"Xiaoyan."

The woman came out with the dishes.

"I'm going on a business trip next month and I won't be back. You and...your father live alone, let him take you out to eat, understand?" She said, taking out another stack of banknotes from her wallet. "Pocket money for this month. Baby, Mom is in a hurry to leave first, so you can eat well, ah."

Hearing the sound of the door closing, when Ding Yiyan came back to his senses, he was the only one left in the room again.It seemed that the big hand that was stroking him gently just now, and the figure that was busy in the kitchen for him, were all just an illusion.

The house is cleaned up, the smell of vegetables is delicious, everything is exactly the same as before.It's just that no one would think he littered anymore, no one would care about him messing around with change, and no one would eat with him anymore.They gave him a greeting, a word of concern, and then left in a hurry.

What was left was an empty house, not a home.

The banknotes were dazzling red, but the temperature of the dishes was gradually cooling down.

"They love me."

Ding Yiyan sat at the table and sent a message to the person opposite.

Soon, a reply was received.

【Oh, how to prove it? 】