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Lang Xixi's most important task at present is not to follow the technical team to find Zhai Xiaofeng, but to complete a separate task assigned to him by Xia Bingyang.Xia Bingyang gave her a photo of Wang Yao, with the name of the photo studio watermarked "beautiful baby" on the back. The photo was taken nearly seven years ago, and it is impossible to search for this photo studio within the city today.Lang Xixizhuan started with the archives provided by the Bureau of Industry and Commerce, checked the records of canceling business licenses and changing unit names in the past seven years, and finally completed the investigation within the city within the sixth hour after receiving the task.

"Sister Lou!"

She raised her arms from her seat and waved to Lou Yue who was just going downstairs.

Lou Yue strode over, put her hand on her shoulder, and bent down to look at her computer: "Did you find it?"

Lang Xixi said: "Seven years ago, there were two 'beautiful babies', one was called 'beautiful baby camera studio' and the other was called 'beautiful baby camera studio'. The first one canceled its business license after paying taxes in 13, and the second In the middle of 14, the company changed its name to 'Chenguang Camera Studio'. This is the contact information of the first store before the cancellation of the license, and this is the current location of the second store."

Lang Xixi tore off a page of paper, wrote a few lines and handed it to Lou Yue: "Are you going to find them now?"

Lou Yue glanced at the note, folded it up and put it in her pocket, and just said: "There is no time." Then she left the technical team office area, stopped the criminal policeman Xiao Sun in the corridor, and gave him the contact information of the legal person of the first store , asked him to follow up on this clue, and then called Li Zhiming.

"Where are you?"

Lou Yue asked concisely.

Li Zhiming said: "I'm taking notes for a female student in the inquiry room on the third floor, and it's almost over."

"I'm going down, wait for me at the door."

After Lou Yue finished speaking, she hung up the phone and walked down the steps in a few steps, just in time to see Li Zhiming and a girl in white short-sleeves and denim skirts walking out of the inquiry room and standing at the door talking.

Lou Yue walked over, took the record in his hand, and asked while looking at it, "Who is this?"

Li Zhiming held his glasses and said, "Qiao Qi, a student from Changshui No. [-] Middle School. Captain Xia asked her to come over today to take notes."

Lou Yue took a quick look at the transcript, and thought that this girl was 'in the way of official duties'. Xia Bingyang actually only asked her to explain the facts and reduced them to zero. He is really kind to these beautiful and flowery flowers in the motherland.

Qiao Qi glanced at Lou Yue, then looked left and right, but did not communicate with Lou Yue, who seemed not to be trifled with, and asked Li Zhiming, who had a good-natured face, "Officer, where is Officer Xia? I'm here." I haven't found him for more than two hours."

This was the third time Qiao Qi asked about Xia Bingyang. Li Zhiming turned to Lou Yue kindly and asked, "Sister Lou, is Team Xia in the office?"

Qiao Qi added emphatically: "I know him well, I need to find him."

Lou Yue just finished flipping through the notes, patted a few pages into Li Zhiming's arms, and said to Qiao Qi, "Do you need something from him?"

"Yes."

Lou Yue smiled and said, "I also have something to look for him." She turned around and pointed to the office area of ​​the technical team and then pointed upstairs: "Everyone here has something to look for, and they are all looking for him. So you will not be able to get in the queue for a while. If you have anything to say, tell any policeman in this building the same thing."

As she spoke, she stopped a police officer who happened to be walking by, pointed at Qiao Qi and said, "This classmate still has something to explain, and I'll leave it to you."

Qiao Qi didn't expect that she dug a hole for herself, and said anxiously; "I didn't, I just wanted to find Officer Xia."

Lou Yue didn't listen to her explanation, turned around and led Li Zhiming downstairs, and said on the way: "The law enforcement agencies are not in the service industry. When you enter the Public Security Bureau, you will find the police by name and surname to serve you. Who is used to these stinky problems?" of?"

Li Zhiming's heart was as broad as the sea, but he didn't feel that there was anything wrong, so he didn't make a fuss, and asked, "Where are we going now?"

Lou Yue gave him an address and played Xia Bingyang's phone call in the car.

Xia Bingyang just arrived at the destination: "What's wrong?"

"Xixi has found clues to that photography studio. Xiao Wu and I are following one. How is your side?"

Xia Bingyang waited for Ren Erdong to come back from the car, and after showing his ID at the gate guard, they walked into the gate of the nursing home together: "I just arrived at the nursing home, and I haven't seen anyone yet, so let's do this first."

He hung up the phone and played the number of a nurse he had contacted just now. The nurse asked them to follow the signs to activity room No. [-].

The home for the elderly is full of arborvitae and boxwood trees. The narrow corridor seems to be opened in a dense forest. The thick shade on both sides does not reveal a ray of sunlight. From time to time, one or two birds fly between the green branches and leaves. A cool hideaway.Passing through a [-]-meter-long corridor, Xia Bingyang saw several houses with white walls and red tiles built on a flat terrain, probably the lounge that the nurse just mentioned.

There was a small gazebo in front of the house, and there were a few middle-aged women in light green uniforms sitting inside. Several people were chatting and laughing under the gazebo. One of them saw two outsiders walking out of the forest, and the others followed suit immediately. to them.

A plump woman took two steps towards them and asked, "Are you the policeman who called me just now?"

Ren Erdong took out his police officer ID and waved it in front of her: "Yes, you are Ruan Yulan's nurse?"

"It's me. Aunt Ruan is inside. I'll take you to find her."

She led the way ahead, and Xia Bingyang and Ren Erdong followed behind her, bypassing the activity rooms made up of several houses, and arrived in a neat and white six-story building.The nurse led them into the corridor on the left side of the first floor, turned two turns and stopped in front of the door of Room 107, saying, "This is the room."

The nurse pushed open the door, called "Aunt Ruan" inside, and then turned around and said to the two policemen, "The old man can't speak, and his ears are not very good. You should speak louder to her."

The room is a living room, the entrance is the bedroom, the opposite is the bathroom, the bedroom is connected to a balcony, the balcony is very spacious, and there is a green bamboo potted plant in the corner.

Xia Bingyang walked into the room and smelled the smell of sweat mixed with western medicine that is unique to the elderly. Behind the large French windows, he saw an old man in a wheelchair on the balcony.

Ruan Yulan is in her 70s this year. She is paralyzed and sits in a wheelchair all year round. She has not exercised for many years, so she looks like an octogenarian.She is thin, with white hair all over her head, wearing autumn clothes in the scorching heat, her shriveled body curled up in the thick clothing, which looks like a clear bone.

Outside the balcony is a small square sheltered by trees, where more than a dozen elderly people chat, play chess and exercise.

Ruan Yulan looked at the crowd in the square, and when she heard the nurse leading the people to the balcony, she turned her head and glanced at the two young strange men.The nurse lay next to Ruan Yulan's ear and loudly explained to her the identities of the two visitors. Ruan Yulan turned her head slightly to look at the two policemen, giving her a little reaction.

Xia Bingyang sent the nurse away with an excuse, and asked Ren Erdong to start questioning Ruan Yulan after the nurse left.When Ren Erdong received this order, he almost wanted to swear at Xia Bingyang. He secretly glanced at the old and dying Ruan Yulan, and said to Xia Bingyang in a low voice: "Leader, I can't understand you more and more. It's because of Huo Bingyang. With Haiqiao’s unsubstantiated nonsense, you start to investigate the cause of Tang Youjian’s death again. That was a case 25 years ago! There was no case and no files, and the witness Tang Xuehui is dead, and the suspected suspect Ruan Yulan is now It’s like this again, you have no evidence in your hand, the only thing you can do is to get the suspect to confess. But look at the suspect in front of you, she can’t even speak, and you still want her to confess Going a step further, even if you are capable enough to make Ruan Yulan plead guilty, you still want her to appear in court? With her current physical condition, do you believe that if you give her some stimulation, she can go to heaven?"

Xia Bingyang frowned, and said impatiently, "Have you finished?"

Ren Erdong said: "The last sentence, I advise you to give up Tang Youjian's case. This case cannot be solved. I beg you to open your eyes and look at the world, and don't spend your days dreaming in your own world."

Xia Bingyang: "Have you finished scolding?"

Ren Erdong said: "You are the leader, I dare not scold you."

Xia Bingyang said: "Then let me say something, I came to Ruan Yulan today not to check on Tang Youjian, but to check on Tang Xuehui."

"Is there anything else Tang Xuehui needs to investigate?"

"You'll know right away."

Xia Bingyang pushed him away and walked towards Ruan Yulan.

Ruan Yulan was paralyzed from the waist down, but her upper body could move freely.When Xia Bingyang stood in front of her and blocked the sunlight in front of her, casting a shadow on her body, she raised her thin and dry neck to look at Xia Bingyang, then lowered her head, her wrinkled face showed no expression.

Xia Bingyang moved a short square stool from the corner of the balcony and sat in front of her. He looked at her for a moment before saying, "I'm looking for you because of your daughter, Tang Xuehui."

He didn't talk to Ruan Yulan at the top of his voice like the nurse did, but his voice was slightly higher than usual.He wasn't worried that Ruan Yulan couldn't hear him, because he had noticed Ruan Yulan's hearing at the first sight when he saw Ruan Yulan. East talk.The reason why she pretended to be deaf was because she had not interacted with the world in front of her for a long time and lost her language ability, so she simply closed herself up.

The more indifferent she was, the more Xia Bingyang believed that she had heard the conversation between him and Ren Erdong just now, so now she knew the reason why the police came to her.

Xia Bingyang said: "Tang Xuehui told us something about your husband Tang Youjian."

Ruan Yulan didn't speak, just pulled down the cuff of her left hand.

Xia Bingyang put his hand on the armrest of her wheelchair, looked at her and said, "I know the real cause of Tang Youjian's death."

Ruan Yulan still didn't speak, and turned her head to look to the other side without paying attention.

Xia Bingyang looked at the thin and old woman who was like a skeleton in front of him, and didn't feel pity for her, but regarded her as a sinner who was imprisoned in a wheelchair and tortured with blood and crimes.Just as he treated all the sinners in the past, without the slightest extra emotion, he just dealt with business.Ruan Yulan could hear and understand what he said, but she refused to respond, just like other suspects who used silence to confront the police during interrogation.

Xia Bingyang said with his usual serious attitude and stern tone: "But I am only looking for you today because of your daughter Tang Xuehui. I want to hear what kind of person she is in your eyes. You are her mother, and you should know her best .”

The word 'mother' didn't impress Ruan Yulan at all. She tilted her head and stared motionlessly at a small table behind Xia Bingyang.

Xia Bingyang suddenly placed his hand lightly on the wrist in front of her, and said: "On February 11, 2, you fell down the stairs and became paralyzed from the waist down. Everyone treated this as an accident, but I know that It wasn't an accident."

Ruan Yulan didn't move at all, but the wrist under her sleeve trembled slightly.

Xia Bingyang noticed it, looked at her and asked again: "Tang Xuehui did it, right?"

Ruan Yulan finally reacted, she slowly turned her head to look at Xia Bingyang, her eyes covered by two drooping eyelids could not show any emotion, but it made people inexplicably feel that her eyes must be gloomy.

Although she has not spoken, Xia Bingyang has already got the answer from her reaction, but he still doesn't understand: "Why did Tang Xuehui do this? Did she push you down the stairs to kill you? Why did she Want to kill you?"

When Ruan Yulan heard this, the corners of her wrinkled and sunken mouth suddenly moved. Xia Bingyang thought she wanted to speak, but found that she just smiled lightly.Her smile made Xia Bingyang shudder suddenly, and caused a strong discomfort somewhere in his body. He resisted the inexplicable discomfort, and said: "Or I should ask it in another way, she wanted to kill you to get revenge on you, Then what did you do to make her want revenge on you?"

Ruan Yulan moved the corner of her mouth again, Xia Bingyang thought she still wanted to laugh, but later found that she opened her mouth slowly, as if to speak.He hurriedly approached her ear, and while smelling the unpleasant smell on her body, he also heard an old, hoarse, and deep voice like sandpaper grinding a mirror.

Ruan Yulan said in a low voice, "A daughter is like a mother."

After she finished speaking, she fell into the back of the chair, raised her head and closed her eyes serenely, with a proud and satisfied smile on her face that seemed to appear when parents were showing off their children.

Xia Bingyang stood up and took two steps back. Out of the corner of her eye, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a low table on the corner of the balcony. On the low table was an hourglass the size of a palm. The milky white sand slowly flowed down from the gap. The flow was slow and peaceful. , the rustling of the stream...

He remembered that Tang Xuehui in the video had also placed an hourglass on the dressing table, and the place Ruan Yulan had been looking at just now was in the direction of the hourglass.

"Do daughters look like mothers?"

On the way back to the police station, Ren Erdong repeated this sentence back and forth, wondering: "What does Ruan Yulan mean? Does it mean that Tang Xuehui looks like her? Then how do you explain Tang Xuehui's murder? I learned from her?"

Ren Erdong thought it was absurd, and sneered twice: "This mother and daughter are really weird."

He was the only one talking in the carriage. He went to see Xia Bingyang, and saw Xia Bingyang resting his arms on the window and propping his forehead, with his eyes closed and silent as if he was asleep.

He waited for a while, but still didn't hear Xia Bingyang speak, and urged: "Leader, can you say something, what should we do next? Should we continue to investigate Tang Xuehui, or should we concentrate the police force on Zhai Xiaofeng?"

After a while, Xia Bingyang said: "Let's talk in the game."

Back at the police station, Xia Bingyang was constantly stopped by the police officers on his way up the stairs. He stopped and stopped all the way, and it took nearly 10 minutes from returning to the police station to returning to the office.

Seeing that the office was right in front of him, Xia Bingyang just pushed open the office door when he saw a male police officer from the technical team running up with the documents: "Captain Xia, this is the transcript from City B. There are 36 passengers in total. After being questioned, two people met Zhai Xiaofeng before he got off the car—”

Xia Bingyang suddenly raised his arms to support the door frame, first pinched his waist and sighed, then turned his head to look at the male police officer who was chasing up the stairs and said: "I don't want to hear anyone call me in half an hour from now, here Please treat me as a dead person for half an hour."

The male policeman stood by the wall, looked at his watch and said, "Okay, okay, I'll wait for half an hour."

As soon as the voice fell, there was another sound from the stairs. Lang Xixi and Lao Wu's assistants also came up. Lang Xixi saw that Xia Bingyang was about to speak, but Xia Bingyang snatched it first. Xia Bingyang pointed to the base of the wall and said, "Shut up and line up."

He slammed the door shut with a bang, walked behind the desk and sat down in the leather chair, then pulled the phone in front of him and made a call.

This call was made to the command center of the Municipal Bureau, and he asked Professor Chen from the 'Criminal Behavior Office' to answer the phone by name.But the police officer who answered the phone said that Professor Chen had gone to the provincial department for a meeting, and gave him Professor Chen's personal number, asking him to contact Professor Chen directly.He broadcast Professor Chen's call again, but it turned out that Professor Chen's assistant answered it. The assistant said that Professor Chen could not answer the phone because the meeting had not ended yet, and promised to call back as soon as Professor Chen ended the meeting.

Xia Bingyang hung up the phone without waiting for the other party to finish speaking. He wanted to smoke a cigarette very anxiously, but found that he didn't even have the time to smoke a cigarette. He had to continue looking for the next expert without stopping.

Ren Erdong was determined to solve his problems: "Leader, what are you doing?"

Xia Bingyang had a sullen face, and because he was too irritable, he bit each word and said: "Look for an expert in the field of criminology."

"Professor Chen and Director Xiao."

"They're all in a meeting."

Ren Erdong thought for a while, and said: "By the way, Lou Yue seems to know an expert in this field. He is quite good, but he is not from this city."

Xia Bingyang said: "It doesn't matter if he is from this city or not, as long as he can get through the phone." After finishing speaking, he seemed to have realized what Ren Erdong said, and looked up at him: "Who are you talking about?"

Ren Erdong took out his mobile phone and called Lou Yue: "Wait, let me ask."

Lou Yue quickly answered, and quickly gave Ren Erdong a number, and then hung up the phone quickly.

Ren Erdong tore a piece of paper and copied the number onto the paper while saying: "The former consultant of the Xigang Branch of Wujin City, Wei Heng, is now teaching at the University of Political Science and Law."

Xia Bingyang took the note he handed over: "Is this the expert's number?"

"No, Lou Yue doesn't have this person's contact information either, this number belongs to his former partner."

Xia Bingyang dialed the number while facing the note and asked, "Partner?"

"It's Xing Lang, the detachment leader of the Wujin West Port Branch. You met him at the provincial government meeting earlier this year, forgot?"

After the number was dialed, Xia Bingyang listened to the microphone and thought for a while: "The one who is expected to be promoted to deputy director at the end of the year?"

"That's right, that's him, his old boss—"

Before the voice finished, the phone was connected. Xia Bingyang raised his hand to stop Ren Erdong from continuing, and instantly changed his business face: "Hello, Captain Xing?"

A deep, powerful, and extremely magnetic male voice came out of the microphone: "Well, are you?"

Hearing his voice, Xia Bingyang was distracted for a moment, because Captain Xing's voice resembled Ji Zheng's. Ji Zheng's voice had the same impact as his voice, but his impact was head-on, while Ji Zheng's voice was like Ji Zheng's. The impact of the sign is slowly entering the ear.Their similarity is the slightly trembling magnetic force in their voices, but Ji Zheng is much gentler than him.

Thinking of Ji Zheng at such a time, Xia Bingyang felt that he was a little outrageous, so he pinched his brows and said: "I am Xia Bingyang from the Nantai Branch of Weining City. We met at the Provincial Department at the beginning of the year."

"Oh, I remember you, what's the matter Captain Xia?"

If Xia Bingyang and Xing Lang have some friendship other than business affairs, it can be heard that Xing Lang has a lot of respect for the people he admires.

Xia Bingyang is used to talking bureaucratically, but now he has no time to speak bureaucratically, and said bluntly: "I heard that your unit hired a consultant before, do you have his contact information? I'm in trouble and I want to ask him for help." .”

The other party laughed without end, and said heartily: "Yes, you want to talk to him on the phone?"

Xia Bingyang said: "Yes, please give me his contact information."

"Okay, wait a minute."

There was no movement in the microphone for a while, Xia Bingyang thought that he was looking for the number, so he quickly took out the cigarette case and lighter from the drawer and lit a cigarette in his free time.In less than a minute, someone spoke again in the microphone, and a lazy and cold male voice came out: "Hello?"

Xia Bingyang was silent and said, "Captain Xing?"

The other party seemed to have just woken up, and his voice was full of sleepiness: "I am Wei Heng."

Xia Bingyang quickly took down the cigarette in his mouth, and didn't care to think about why Captain Xing just took a minute to hand the phone to Wei Heng who just woke up, and said solemnly: "Hello, I It's Xia Bingyang from the Nantai Branch of Weining City."

"Hello, Officer Xia, what's the matter?"

In less than 5 minutes, Xia Bingyang explained Tang Xuehui's criminal behavior and her mother's criminal behavior to the other party in a concise manner, and finally expressed his opinion: "Tang Xuehui's crime pattern is very strange. My first This is the first time she met such a murderer. She didn't tell the truth to the police after seeing her mother kill her father. Instead, she helped her mother to hide it. It can be explained if she has a good relationship with her mother, but she died at the age of 19. She moved out of the house to live on her own, and almost lost contact with her mother. And later I found out that she caused her mother to be severely paralyzed. She can even say that she hates her mother, but not because her mother killed her. Otherwise, she can expose her mother's crimes to the police at any time. I want to know what kind of relationship Tang Xuehui has with her mother, and is Tang Xuehui's murder influenced by her mother?"

He heard Wei Heng walked a few steps to find a quieter place, and said in a serious and low tone: "Your analysis is very correct, the murderer you met now is indeed not driven by emotion to kill." He paused and said, "On the contrary, your description just now makes me suspect that she is a highly narcissistic emotionally indifferent person."

Xia Bingyang said: "Please speak clearly."

Wei Heng said: "I haven't seen your prisoner before. I can only make a rough analysis from the description you gave me. There may be some inaccuracies."

Xia Bingyang smiled and said: "It's okay, I understand that psychological profiling cannot play a guiding role in criminal investigations. Now that the murderer has been identified and the investigation is over, I just want to know more about the perpetrator I met. So you Say it boldly, I took it as a lesson."

Hearing his words, Wei Heng felt that he met a rare first-line criminal policeman who could communicate normally and understand each other. This is really...a rare encounter in ten years.

Wei Heng let go of his scruples under his understanding, and said, "Okay, then I'll be straightforward. You just said that you want to know the real relationship between Tang Xuehui and her mother?"

"Yes."

"I roughly guess that Tang Xuehui and her mother don't have a deep mother-daughter relationship. Like I said just now, Tang Xuehui may be a highly narcissistic emotionally indifferent person. Such a person is easily irritated and aggressive. Sexual, and very selfish, lacking emotional tentacles. It is in line with what you just said about Tang Xuehui's behavior of blaming her husband and the victim after killing someone. I think her mother should have a similar personality to her. Killing her father without being drunk, without domestic violence, and without engaging in aggressive behavior shows that her mother also lacked motivation, thinking, and the most basic social ethics and morals before the murder, which is similar to Tang Xuehui's The modus operandi is very similar."

Xia Bingyang put his hands on his forehead and lowered his head to think for a while, then frowned and said, "You mean weak emotions, or antisocial|social personality?"

Wei Heng paused, and said: "I can't be so sure. Naturally born criminals, psychopaths, and antisocial personalities all have the characteristics of killing without motive. I haven't met Tang Xuehui, so I can't give a more precise judgment. But based on my experience so far, I personally tend to think that Tang Xuehui is an antisocial person."

"What about Ruan Yulan? It's Tang Xuehui's mother, so what happened to Ruan Yulan?"

"This is exactly what I want to tell you. Antisocial personality is one of the nine major personalities. It is born. You can understand it as a personality carried in DNA. People with antisocial personality generally show it before the age of 15. Affective disorder, they lack empathy and are good at lying, some of the other traits that can be found in 'bad kids' can be found in them, but they are generally high in intelligence, or good at disguising, so it is not obvious. When their After the emotional deficit disorder is revealed, they will not kill immediately. They need a transition, an experience that can really stimulate them and awaken their desire to kill. I have checked a lot of information, and most people with antisocial personality have lost their lives in childhood. The experience of relatives, they may have witnessed the death of their relatives, or they may have witnessed the death of others. In short, this kind of stimulation is deep, deep enough to awaken the part of their personality that longs for "slaughter"."

Xia Bingyang listened to his slow analysis, cold sweat unknowingly oozes from the palms of his hands, took a sip of water to moisten his throat, and said: "Tang Xuehui witnessed her mother kill her father when she was 14 years old, the reaction in her body Is the social |personality awakened at that time?"

Wei Heng said cautiously: "I can't say for sure, but I personally prefer what you say is the answer."

"The personality carried in the DNA...can anti-social|social personality be inherited?"

"It can't be the same, and everyone's growth environment is different, but if you can't escape the original family of anti-social people, the offspring of such people will also suffer from different degrees of mental illness. They are not necessarily anti-social. Social people, but they are all psychopaths."

At this time, Xia Bingyang thought of another person. When he thought of this person, his head suddenly buzzed, and a layer of cold sweat suddenly appeared on his forehead. After taking a breath, he said: "Tang Xuehui also has a daughter. After she divorced her husband Just raised her daughter alone, and now her daughter is involved in a serial murder—”

Before he finished speaking, Ren Erdong, who had just walked to the window to answer the phone, suddenly returned with his mobile phone, his face anxious: "Lou Yue's call is urgent."

Xia Bingyang put down the phone, took the phone Ren Erdong handed over and put it next to his ear: "What's the matter?"

Lou Yue didn't explain anything, and asked directly: "Ai Lu said that Zhai Xiaofeng liked Wang Yao, so Zhai Xiaofeng's motive for killing Yu Bingjie and Liu Changran was to avenge Wang Yao?"

"Correct."

Lou Yue was very angry, and sneered: "She is lying! The person Zhai Xiaofeng likes is not Wang Yao, but Ai Lu!"

The author has something to say: Xing Lang and Wei Heng who appeared in this chapter are the protagonists in "The Fall of the World".