Madness of the Heart

In the cold light of the private room, Yuan Ai was hugging and kissing a woman in her 20s. The woman was sitting on his lap, wearing a long purple dress with a graceful figure.A man in a tuxedo was playing the piano in a private room. The melodious sound of the music surrounded the few listeners like a gentle spring.

Yuan Ai didn't notice that the stranger was coming in from the door. He had just taken the medicine brought by his companion not long ago, and now he was in high spirits, only seeing the beauty in his arms.Zhao Mu called him several times but he didn't hear him. In the end, the woman struggled to push him away and said nervously: "Xiao Ai, okay, it seems that someone is looking for you."

Yuan Ai turned sideways impatiently, and his gaze fell on Yi Fei after a moment of wandering.

He squinted his eyes for a long time, as if he was focusing, and finally spit out a sentence: "Who the hell are you? You came to Lao Tzu's site to find trouble?"

Zhou Lan whispered, "Police?"

Yuan Ai was shocked, and the drug addiction seemed to be gone.

Yi Fei glanced over the faces of the group of underage "rich young men", one by one matched up with the students from Yiwai, and sighed in his heart, "Bring your personal belongings and come out with me."

Yuan Ai violently pushed the woman onto the sofa, stood up aggressively, and rushed forward to give Yi Fei a bad blow.

"You fucking..."

Before the words were finished, Yi Fei had cut his hands behind his back.

"Let me go!" Yuan Ai struggled indiscriminately, "What's your fucking name? Show me your ID!"

Seeing Yuan Ai being captured, Zhao Mu and Zhou Lan made a phone call, and the other quietly stuffed the remaining medicine powder into the coffee table drawer.

Yi Fei saw it all, and said sharply: "Don't make small moves!"

Several other team members have rushed in and controlled everyone in the private room.

From the clubhouse to the Criminal Investigation Bureau, Yi Fei looked at the student information again——

Yuan Ai, 18 years old, his parents are in the real estate business, his family background is superior, and his grades are at the bottom of the grade;

Zhou Lan, 17 years old, her parents are divorced, her father is the director of a hospital, her family background is superior, her grades are poor;

Zhao Mu, 17 years old, whose parents are in the pharmaceutical business, has a good family background and poor grades;

Wang Hongye, 17 years old, his parents are in business, his family background is average, and his grades are in the middle. He has been a follower for Yuan, Zhou, and Zhao since the first year of high school;

Meng Yi, 17 years old, his parents work in state-owned enterprises, the rest of the situation is similar to Wang Hongye.

There is no doubt that this is a small group with Yuan Ai as the core.

"Why did you arrest me!" The bright lights in the inquiry room made Yuan Ai very uncomfortable. He rubbed his eyes several times and stared at Yi Fei viciously.

18 years old, already an adult.Yuan Ai is tall, 1 meters tall, and has a strong body. It can be seen that he exercises regularly.He raised his chin and growled in a hoarse voice. If he hadn't been afraid of the criminal policeman in front of him, he might have greeted him with his fist.

"Based on this bag." Yi Fei picked up a transparent evidence bag, which contained the medicine powder hidden by Zhou Lan.

Yuan Ai's expression froze, and his momentum suddenly became decadent.

"Sit down." Yi Fei said, "I have something else to ask you."

Yuan Ai's eyes began to dodge, "What, what's the matter?"

Yi Fei said: "How much do you know about your classmate Xiang Haoming?"

"Xiang Haoming?" Yuan Ai's reaction was not small, with contempt in his eyes, "What are you asking him for? That poor ghost."

"Dead poor ghost?" Yi Fei said, "What else?"

Yuan Ai said impatiently: "No, if you want to know Xiang Haoming, then go to Xiang Haoming and you're done? He and I are not from the same world, and I haven't said a few words to him."

Yi Fei tapped his index finger on the table.

For a moment, Yuan Ai was taken aback, "Fuck, something happened to Xiang Haoming, right?"

Yi Fei said: "You don't know?"

"What the hell do I know?" Yuan Ai's face showed some inexplicable panic, "He... really had an accident?"

"Where are you in the early morning of the first day of the new year?" Yi Fei asked, "Who are you with?"

Yuan Ai shouted: "What the hell happened?"

Yi Fei stared at him, "Xiang Haoming was killed."

Yuan Ai was stunned for two seconds before reacting: "What..."

"So you think I killed Xiang Haoming?" Zhao Mu stared at the detective, "Why? Just because my grades are bad?"

Zhou Lan was relatively calm, "Xiang Haoming is dead? I don't know, it's none of my business. You have found the wrong person."

Meng Yi kept his head down and said in a low voice, "It's not me. I'm not familiar with Xiang Haoming. Please don't tell my parents. They are the ones who took the medicine. I didn't touch them at all! If my father knew that I was with them Mixed together, yes, will kill me!"

Wang Hongye seemed to be the only one among the five who knew that Xiang Haoming was killed. He was very depressed, "It's a pity, I can't think of anyone who would kill him."

When Yi Fei came out of the inquiry room, the technical investigation team had already completed the inspection of the powder—it was an improved traditional hallucinogen, and people would feel a short-term mental euphoria after inhaling it.

And Zhou Lan had already confessed that he bought the medicine powder from a dealer, and all four of them had smoked it except Meng Yi.

"Detention first." Yi Fei said to Xu Chun: "When Xiang Haoming was killed, Yuan Ai, Zhou Lan, and Zhao Mu claimed to be playing motorcycles on the mountain road in the urban-rural fringe of Dongcheng District, and their alibi is not sufficient."

"Playing motorcycles during Chinese New Year?" Xu Chun frowned, "These bastards really have ideas."

Yi Fei leaned against the wall with folded arms, "Wang Hongye and Meng Yi are attendants, and they spent New Year's Eve with their families. Yuan Ai usually took them with him, and today he also took them with him when he was taking medicine, but he didn't when he was playing motorcycles." Notify them. I always feel like there's something wrong."

Dongcheng District, Lantian New Street.

The heater was turned on in the car, but Wen Chaolong was still shaking.

"Are you here to ask me to understand Xiang Haoming?" He looked warily at the rearview mirror, where he met Mingshu's eyes.

In just a moment, he had already looked away.

Mingshu said: "You already know that something happened to Xiang Haoming?"

Wen Chaolong nodded slightly, "I heard."

Mingshu asked: "Who are you listening to?"

"They." After Wen Chaolong finished speaking, he added: "My classmate said it, and Teacher Jiang also called me, saying that if the police find it, they must cooperate."

Mingshu nodded, and asked a seemingly irrelevant question: "It's so late, where are you going alone?"

Wen Chaolong pursed his lower lip, "Internet cafe."

Mingshu said: "Because of conflicts with parents?"

Hearing this, Wen Chaolong's mood suddenly changed, "What does this have to do with you? If you want to know about Xiang Haoming with me, let me tell you. If you want to inquire about other things, I don't think I have the obligation to cooperate with you. "

"As far as I know, you, like Xiang Haoming, were admitted to No. [-] University based on your senior high school entrance examination results, but failed to squeeze into the experimental class." Mingshu kept staring at the rearview mirror while speaking, "From the first year of high school to the second year of high school, you The ranking with Xiang Haoming is relatively stable, he is first and you are second."

Clear masseter muscles appeared on Wen Chaolong's cheeks, and the lines of his neck became stiff.Anger, unwillingness, and jealousy erupted in his emotions almost instantly.

"The question I'm going to ask next may offend you." Mingshu said, "But I have to."

Wen Chaolong took a deep breath, "You suspect that Xiang Haoming's death is related to me? You want to ask where I was when he died, is there anyone who can prove it for me?"

Mingshu said, "So, where are you?"

"I'm reading at home." Wen Chaolong's eyes had turned red, and his hands were fisted, pressing tightly on his legs.

"your family……"

"My mother was playing cards at Lingju's house. I was at home alone. In the evening, I ate leftovers from noon. I worked until 10 o'clock to do the questions, and then went out for a run."

Ming Shu said, "Run?"

"Is running weird?" Wen Chaolong smiled softly. "I also want to celebrate the Spring Festival. There is a shopping mall four kilometers away from my home, and there is a fireworks show there. I...I want to go and see it."

Mingshu immediately thought of Xiang Haoming.

On New Year's Eve, Xiang Haoming was also doing homework alone, and he left home suddenly halfway, whether it was to take a breath or escape from the oppressive home, his mood at that time might be the same as Wen Chaolong's.

"I understand that you doubt me." Wen Chaolong shook his head bitterly, "I even doubt myself! My family situation is similar to that of Xiang Haoming. Both are poor and our parents are worthless. Except for me and Xiang Hao Ming, there are two other students admitted, all rich second generations! Their daily expenses are worth our food expenses for a week or a month. Our class is not an experimental class, and there is only one bursary quota per semester. On my head, he is the first in the class, and the stipend also belongs to him. I have thought more than once, if there is no him, it will be fine, if he..."

After a moment of silence, Wen Chaolong said, "It would be great if he died!"

Mingshu frowned, calmly analyzing Wen Chaolong at this time.

"But I didn't kill him." Wen Chaolong leaned back in his chair without strength, and snorted self-deprecatingly, "I am an ordinary person who can't be more ordinary. I have countless hatreds in my heart, and it is useless to hate me." And lowly mother, hates Xiang Haoming, hates the rich people in the class, I want to kill everyone. But I don't have the courage. "

As he said, Wen Chaolong put his head in his hands, "It would be great if I wasn't so ordinary. If I were smarter, I would surpass Xiang Haoming, and maybe I could get into the experimental class. If I were more cruel, I would could kill my mother."

After a while of silence, Xiao Yuan started the car.

"It's okay to go to the city bureau for a while?" Xiao Yu'an asked.

Wen Chaolong looked at the detective who had been silent all this time, shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't need to go home, but I feel relieved."

Everyone in the serious crime team was busy, Yi Fei handed a tablet to Mingshu, "The inquiry records are all in it."

Mingshu took a look, "Are they still taking drugs?"

Yi Fei said: "Yes, low-addiction hallucinogens. Among the five students, two have clear alibi, and the other three have good family conditions, but their parents are busy with work and neglect to discipline them."

Mingshu looked at it for a while, and his face darkened, "Wang Hongye and Meng Yi both said that Yuan Ai and Zhao Mu have violent tendencies."

"Yes." Yi Fei said, "These two are well-known bastard students at home and abroad. They were almost punished for fighting in the first year of high school. Wang Hongye and Meng Yi followed them, on the one hand because they were rich, and on the other hand because Fear them. As for Zhou Lan, this student plays the role of a military advisor among the three of them."

"He is addicted to violence, has the habit of taking hallucinogens, has a record of bullying classmates many times, did not have an alibi at the time of the crime, and claimed to be playing motorcycles in the urban-rural fringe." Mingshu said: "These three people are not small suspects."

"Xu Chun has already gone to verify it." Yi Fei said: "But it may be difficult. The surveillance in the urban-rural fringe area is relatively small, and I guess it is difficult to find witnesses."

Mingshu put down the tablet, "By the way, how did you feel when you met them face to face?"

Investigating cases requires solid evidence, but experienced criminal police will have their own judgments after contacting suspects even without evidence.

This is very mysterious to say, and basically it cannot be taught to newcomers like a class, and can only be explored by oneself.

Every criminal policeman who has been involved in serious cases all year round has a unique judgment model.

"The violent ones are Yuan Ai and Zhao Mu, but their reactions are relatively normal in my opinion." Yi Fei said: "They didn't know that Xiang Haoming had been killed, and the shock they showed was not bad." Moderate'."

Mingshu said, "You think Zhou Lan is weird?"

"What should I say, he has a kind of indifference that makes me feel uncomfortable." Yi Fei stopped, frowned and thought for a while, "Xiang Haoming is also his classmate, he learned that Xiang Haoming was killed, Both the tone and the look in the eyes are very indifferent, even with some mockery, the reaction is like, like..."

The description Yi Fei couldn't think of for a while was said by Ming Shu, "It's like watching a bug being trampled to death indifferently."

Yi Fei said: "Yes! That's how it feels! Zhou Lan was only 17 years old, a sophomore in high school, and she was able to watch the death of a classmate with a cold eye before entering the society. I remember the summer vacation when I was admitted to university, and I learned that my junior high school classmate died unexpectedly. , although I haven't seen him for more than a year, I was still in a daze for a long time, and when I went to the funeral home to see his body, I still felt unreal."

"The reaction of ordinary people is like this." Mingshu said: "Zhou Lan is worth noting."

"But Zhou Lan was with Yuan Ai and Zhao Mu when the incident happened." Yi Fei said: "If Zhao Mu and Yuan Ai had nothing to do with Xiang Haoming's death, logically speaking, he should not be suspected."

Mingshu picked up a marker pen, walked to the whiteboard, and quickly wrote down a few key names, "Xiang Lin still has no news, and Chen Hongbing offended many people, but after your investigation, these people either do not have the ability to commit crimes, or There is an alibi. There is more than one murderer. Setting off firecrackers is an extremely cruel method. They know that firecrackers will be set off on New Year's Eve in Fanglong Alley. Attack Xiang Haoming. It is difficult to determine the murderer's motive now, maybe seeing Xiang Haoming's pain is their motive."

Yi Fei said: "The murderer knows about Xiang Haoming, and Xiang Haoming may have drunk their wine."

Mingshu turned around, "Just now I thought of a scene."

Yi Fei nodded, "If I were Xiang Haoming, I couldn't bear Chen Hongbing's oppression, and I secretly went out with the intention of letting go. If I met my classmates—male classmates, they asked me to play together, even if they didn't know each other very well. , I will also be with them, and then... take the wine they handed over."

Listening to the analysis of the two, Xiao Yuan said, "Xiang Haoming has a not-so-obvious character trait - he has a low sense of presence in class and is not good at socializing. He has a strong sense of rejection towards his background and parents. This sense of exclusion made him long to blend into the circle of rich kids and escape from his original world. He appeared 'cold', not because he looked down on those with lower grades than him, but because when facing these people, he was very concerned about his family's situation. Low self-esteem."

Ming Shu closed the marker pen with a solemn expression, "The one who handed him an 'olive branch' on New Year's Eve is..."

The mobile phone on the table rang, Mingshu picked it up, and Fang Yuanhang shouted: "Master! I found something here!"

Xicheng District, Kuansi Street Fireworks Sales Point.

"I've been in business for decades. I can't do anything else, but I have a good memory!" The boss Gong Qiangguo patted the list and said, "This one was bought by three students. I definitely remember it correctly!"

Xiao Man asked: "Do you have surveillance here?"

"We are a mobile stall, and we only earn money during the Spring Festival. What kind of surveillance is there?" Gong Qiangguo said, "Anyway, I'm not lying. They bought so much, a total of 3412 yuan. I thought they were young people, so I thought they were sure." It’s a QR code scan, but they gave me cash directly. I said that whoever uses cash these days, I can’t make it up, and one of them said that there is no need to make up.”

Fang Yuanhang asked, "Did you see what kind of car they were driving?"

Gong Qiangguo shook his head, "Where can I see this, it's all people and cars, but 12 boxes is not a small amount, they must have cars."

"You have a good memory, so do you still remember what they looked like?" Fang Yuanhang said.

Gong Qiangguo rubbed his hands and thought for a long time, "Tsk, I have an impression. If you let them stand in front of me, I will definitely recognize them, but if you ask me to describe them, I can't tell."

Without further ado, Mingshu rushed to Kuansi Street, which belongs to the urban-rural fringe of Xicheng District. Naturally, the monitoring and construction is not as good as that of the urban area, but he determined to investigate, and it is not without gain.

"Master!" Fang Yuanhang raised his hands high, and breathed out a white mist as soon as he spoke.

"Thanks for your hard work." Mingshu rarely praised his apprentice, "You did a great job."

Fang Yuanhang took a deep breath of cold air into his lungs, and coughed continuously, "There is no surveillance near the boss' stall."

"It's not a big problem. When I came in just now, I saw a camera at the east entrance." Mingshu said, "You and Xiao Man will go to check the surveillance between 27:3 p.m. and 4:[-] p.m. on the [-]th of December. Don't let go of any cars."

Gong Qiangguo was invited to the police car, holding the tablet that Mingshu gave him in his hand.

"It's not this, and it's not this." Gong Qiangguo looked seriously at the single photos of the students in Class 17, Grade 23, Wen Chaolong, Lai Cheng, Yuan Ai... One by one, the photos were clicked to enlarge, and then swiped over. Until the [-]rd student appeared.

Gong Qiangguo held the tablet closer, "There is him!"

The one on the photo is Zhou Lan.

"I remember him. He gave me the money so that I don't have to look for it." Gong Qiangguo said: "There is also a man and a woman."

Almost at the same time, Xu Chun was at the Beixiang Police Station in Dongcheng District. After a complicated surveillance search, he finally found a video of Yuan Ai, Zhao Mu, and Zhou Lan driving a motorcycle in the video.

At 10:20 on New Year's Eve, the three were resting on the side of the road, and the camera clearly captured their faces.