Madness of the Heart

The Chu Ying that Zhou Lan mentioned was a student from Class 19 next door, and her mother was a senior manager of a high-end hotel.Yi Fei found her in a nail club in Dongcheng District, and when she revealed her identity, she even smiled and showed Yi Fei the beautiful nails she had just made.

"Xiang Haoming? Who is that? I don't know him." Chu Ying fiddled with her curly hair, "Are you also a student from the First Foreign Language School?"

"Stop pretending. Your companions—Zhou Lan and Wu Linxiao—have already admitted what you did to Xiang Haoming in the early morning of the first day of the junior high school." Yi Fei has a gentle personality and has always been good-tempered towards women, but at this time, facing Chu Ying , I really couldn't put on a good face, "Otherwise why would I find you now?"

Chu Ying's face with light makeup twisted slightly, and her slender, jade-white fingers were twisted together.But compared to many adult suspects, her reaction at the moment the lie was exposed was "calm".

A similar calm also appeared on the faces of Zhou Lan and Wu Linxiao.

Yi Fei didn't know whether to describe them as "naturally vicious" or "inexperienced in the world", but he felt coldness wandering around his body.

These three killed their classmates with cruel means that any normal person would find hard to accept. Although they made anti-reconnaissance actions, they all seemed very calm when they found that they could not deny it.

They know that they will accept the severe punishment of the law, but they have no remorse for what they have done, and they also hold an attitude of contempt for the law itself.

A fresh life is just a tool for fun in their eyes.

Nope, just change to another tool next time.

If the police do not find them in time, they will continue to commit crimes.

Killing is addictive, especially for minors with antisocial personalities.

Wen Chaolong may be their next target.

"Those two idiots." Chu Ying smiled indifferently, "I recruited them before the second round of the game."

"Why did you do this?" Yi Fei suppressed his anger, "You and Xiang Haoming haven't even spoken!"

"Who told him to take the bait? He bumped into it himself." Chu Ying sighed easily, "I have nothing to say, I just follow Zhou Lan and Wu Linxiao, and I will play whatever they say .You ask them."

Yi Fei patted the table with his right hand, "That's a real person!"

Chu Ying pursed her lips in trouble, her eyes were very clean, and she even felt a little wronged.

Her appearance is very lovable, but everyone who looks at her feels terrified.

"It depends on the reference." Chu Ying said: "To those who care about him, he is of course a real person. But to me, who is he? Uncle policeman, my life is not interesting anymore. If I don’t find some stimulation, I’m afraid I’ll kill myself. The expression on him that day when he was pressed into the pit by them, ah...it’s wonderful! It’s a pity that you didn’t see it. It turns out that when people suffer pain, That kind of reaction, hehehehe! If you want to arrest me, you can arrest me. The school is full of ordinary people. I am tired of being there. I want to get in touch with those prisoners in the prison."

Zhou Lan raised her head and squinted at the dazzling light above her head. The two eyeballs were illuminated like glass balls without impurities.

He maintained this posture for a long time, and when he looked at Mingshu again, there were tears in his eyes.

But these tears have nothing to do with repentance, nothing to do with guilt, even worse than "crocodile tears".

"At zero o'clock, we set off a few strings of firecrackers, and Xiang Haoming was already drunk." Zhou Lan continued: "As soon as he was drunk, he started talking about their family. It's so interesting, I can't imagine it Picture—did you know, their family would fight over a sock. His father’s sock was torn, and he bought three pairs of socks for ten yuan, and his mother scolded his father, saying, “I can give you ten yuan Why are you wasting money when you buy a quadruple pair'."

The light in Mingshu's eyes became colder and colder, and the frown deepened.

"Don't you think it's interesting? Listening to him tell these things, I hesitated, whether I should keep him and continue to tell us stories." Zhou Lan said: "But Wu Linxiao disagrees, he is not interested in stories, he just wants to Get to 'business' now."

Mingshu said: "After you got Xiang Haoming completely drunk, you took off his clothes?"

Zhou Lan seemed to recall the situation at that time, "Tsk tsk tsk, drunk people are really troublesome, they have no strength at all, and they still have to struggle."

Mingshu asked: "You and Wu Linxiao stuffed him into the pit together?"

"Otherwise?" Zhou Lan said, "Should we still let the girls come on?"

Mingshu felt that his temples were throbbing wildly, and this seemingly polite underage boy in front of him refreshed his perception of viciousness.

"Wu Linxiao said that his cry was very nice." Zhou Lan laughed, "But the noise of the firecrackers was too loud, and I couldn't hear it clearly. Then...he stopped moving after that. Wu Linxiao was going to order the first one." He was about to die when the shot was fired. By the way, have you ever seen those eels that were knocked out? He was like an eel that was knocked out, jumping and jumping on the chopping board, and finally died."

Mingshu took a deep breath, but still failed to suppress the burning anger in his heart.

Some of the team members who were watching the surveillance outside had kicked over their seats.

The evil of adults is often traceable, while the evil of minors is more "pure" and more piercing.

"After we finished, we buried him in a pit with red confetti." Zhou Lan said, "Those firecrackers were bought by his mother who hated him, and in the end he was buried by the firecrackers bought by her mother." Yes. Are you saying irony or not?"

Mingshu said, "You rushed back to the garage afterward?"

"That's right." Zhou Lan said proudly, "Those two idiots haven't woken up yet."

A strong sense of injustice prompted Mingshu to ask the last question, "If Xiang Haoming had been doing his homework at home on New Year's Eve and hadn't come out, wouldn't you have done anything to him? You have a certain awareness of anti-reconnaissance, no Maybe call and text him."

Zhou Lan said: "We have been prepared for a long time. It doesn't matter if he comes out or not. Isn't the location of his house very remote? Around 11 o'clock in the evening, everyone went to the empty dam to go to the group, and it was his mother who did it. It's easy to handle. As long as we throw a small stone on his window, he will definitely open the window and look down. When he sees some classmates coming to see him for the New Year, at least he will come down. Everyone comes down, it's okay Have you done it? There is no monitoring there, and the winter vacation is so long, Wu Linxiao and I have already checked it out."

The interrogation lasted until morning. After returning to the office of the serious crime team, Mingshu fell asleep on the "bed" made up of several chairs without saying a word.

Xiao Yu'an stood by the chair and watched for a while, then covered Mingshu's coat on him, and then put his coat on the outside.

Compared with most cases handled by the Serious Crime Squad, this case is relatively simple in terms of difficulty of detection.The murderer was young, and although he had the consciousness to deal with the police, he had already exposed his flaws in the preliminary preparations. Now that there are all physical witnesses and witnesses, and the confession is relatively complete, only some finishing work is left, and the case can basically be accepted.

But the heavy sense of depression lingered in the hearts of every team member.

The victim is underage, has a mother who doesn't really care about him, has some serious psychological problems, hates his own background, does not give up struggling, and is always working hard, hoping that one day he can be like those classmates who were born superior.

The perpetrators are also minors, living an enviable life, being rich makes them see everything, and they can get everything at their fingertips. Ordinary pleasures are hard to move their hearts. What they rack their brains to find is cruel and bloody "stimulation". ".

In fact, Ming Shu didn't fall asleep at all, and the recent cases kept popping up in his mind. Zhou Lan's face, Wu Linxiao's face, and Chu Ying's face gradually overlapped, and finally they were stuck on He Yang's face.

The psychology of these three underage children is very similar to He Yang's psychology.

They killed their classmates with their own hands, and He Yang forced the two desperate people to kill each other. It's hard to say who is more vicious and who is worse.

But He Yang's method is obviously more clever, even today, he has not revealed his tricks.

After lying motionless for a long time, Mingshu sat up and hugged the two coats in his arms.

Fang Yuanhang changed his usual activeness and put a heated breakfast on the table, "Master, I left it for you."

Ming Shu stared at Xiao Yu'an's coat for a while, "Do you know where Bureau Xiao is?"

"Ju Xiao went to interrogate Wu Linxiao himself." Fang Yuanhang looked in the corridor, "I don't know if the interrogation is over yet."

Mingshu closed his eyes and thought for a while, and realized that he had missed a place—how did these three people get together?

This question does not seem to have much to do with the case itself, but it is impossible not to care about it.

Zhou Lan, Yuan Ai, and Zhao Mu are close buddies. Yuan Ai personally said that Zhou Lan and Wu Linxiao have no friendship, and Chu Ying is not from Class 17 at all.

These three people have completely different personalities in the eyes of their classmates. What is the opportunity for them to come together and plan to kill?

Ming Shu finished his breakfast in a hurry, and walked quickly towards the interrogation room. Several interrogation rooms were empty. A recorder said that Director Xiao had just finished the interrogation, so he should have gone back to the office upstairs.

"No more sleep?" Xiao Yu'an had just mixed a cup of coffee, but he didn't drink it yet.

Mingshu bought the coffee while watching the live broadcast some time ago, and was criticized by Fang Yuanhang.

The coffee that even Fang Yuanhang found unpalatable, Xiao Yuan used it to mix it at this time, obviously not to taste the mellow aroma of the coffee.

Simply for refreshment.

Mingshu hung his coat on the back of the chair, "How did Zhou Lan, Wu Linxiao, and Chu Ying become friends?"

Xiao Yu'an said: "When I first entered the school, I participated in quality development."

Some key middle schools in Dongye City hold quality development activities for freshmen after they enroll. They take students to suburbs, mountains and other places far away from the city, and carry out various group activities that test physical strength, cooperation, and intelligence. The main purpose is to make freshmen They get to know each other as early as possible and cultivate a sense of collective honor, which can be regarded as the "swearing-in meeting" of the three-year high school career.

At the beginning, Yiwai chose an expansion base in the south of Dongye City. The activities were carried out in units of classes, and freshmen in high school had to stay in the base for ten days.However, many students and teachers regard the expansion as a "going through the motions", and only the activities on the first day are carried out strictly according to the schedule.

Afterwards, everyone started to move freely.

The base is built in a mountain, covering a vast area, and there are few people in the depths.

Zhou Lan hadn't gotten along with Yuan Ai and Zhao Mu at that time, and when he was walking alone in the ravine, he met Wu Linxiao, whose hands were covered in blood.

"You..." Zhou Lan asked, "What are you doing?"

"Can't you see it?" Wu Linxiao said, "Kill the cat."

What he held in his hand was a fat gray garden cat, which seemed to be raised by an employee of the base.

But it was already dead, and blood gushed out from its neck, staining the originally smooth fur and making it greasy.

Wu Linxiao killed it with a sharp stone the size of a palm, smashed its head, and twisted its tail like twisting a dirty piece of trash.

Zhou Lan's eyes sparkled, and Wu Linxiao could understand the excitement at the first sight.

Xiao Yuan dragged the progress bar of the video.

Wu Linxiao's ferocious expression and insensitive voice came from the tablet together, "I knew at a glance that he was my kind. We all like 'excitement'!"

Together, Zhou Lan and Wu Linxiao touched the blood gushing from the head and neck of Tian Yuan Mao, and laughed wantonly in the ravine where there was no one else.

Wu Linxiao said: "This cat is dead, let's bury it, and we will catch another one."

There are quite a few cats in the base, and the staff kindly adopted all the stray cats here, and some of them gave birth to kittens and lived together in the base.

Wu Linxiao told Zhou Lan that he had already investigated, and there were at least 50 pastoral cats in the entire base. They caught one a day, and they would never be discovered.

When catching the fourth cat, Chu Ying appeared.

The girl in the cute skirt asked in a sweet voice, "Can I join you?"

The cats disappeared one after another, and the workers went to the mountains to look for them, but found nothing.

On the day he left the expansion base, Wu Linxiao saw several employees wiping tears because they couldn't find the cat, and an indescribable sense of comfort arose spontaneously.

"Of course we can't let other people find out that we have a good relationship." Wu Linxiao smacked his lips, "I'm not talkative, I'm dull and honest, Chu Ying is innocent and cute, being chased by a group of boys in their class, Zhou Lan is elegant, and is seen by that big stupid Yuan Ai Hit. If the three of us got together, wouldn’t we cause trouble for each other? Everyone would ask—how can you play together?”

Xiao Yu'an asked, "What have you guys been doing since freshman year of high school?"

"Killing is the first time." Wu Linxiao said: "Others, there are too many, you don't want to hear about it."

Xiao Yuan turned off the video and looked at Mingshu.

Mingshu stared at the empty cup, and said after a while, "I'm going to wash the cup."

Cold water was poured on his hands, and the nerve roots were numb.

A few minutes later, Mingshu put the cup back on the table, wiped his hands with a tissue and said, "There is a certain deviation from what I imagined."

Xiao Yuan said: "You have thought that they were instigated by someone. It was someone who brought them together. After all, they have very different personalities, and it doesn't seem like they can spontaneously become friends."

Mingshu sighed, "But now it seems that they really became friends spontaneously."

The office was quiet for a while, Mingshu walked to the chair and sat down, "I'm very interested in their parents."

Xiao Yu'an said: "Do you think their current behavior is likely to be influenced by their parents?"

"Some people are born with evil, while others are formed in the subtle influence of the day after tomorrow." Ming Shu said, "Which type do they belong to? When I was down there just now, I kept thinking of He Yang. Zhou Lan and the three of them His face almost coincides with He Yang's. Brother, suppose, I'm just assuming, if He Yang has a child, will his child be infected with his evil?"

"I checked their parents first." Xiao Yu'an took out a stack of documents from the drawer, "Zhou Lan's father, Zhou Ye, is the director of a private hospital. He has made great achievements in the prevention and treatment of digestive tract diseases in China and has a high reputation , No stains have been found for the time being. Zhou Lan’s mother went abroad when Zhou Lan was very young. Zhou Ye is busy with work and has not been in Dongye City for a long time. Zhou Lan almost grew up without father and mother.”

Mingshu flipped through the information, "That is to say, the influence of the father's generation on Zhou Lan is actually very small."

"Yes, or maybe not." Xiao Yuan continued: "Chu Ying also grew up in a single-parent family, and her mother was awarded the Outstanding Female Entrepreneur almost every year. Chu Ying lives with the nanny. Wu Linxiao is different from them. Not divorced, and started a company together. In class 17, Wu Linxiao is not a particularly rich student."

Mingshu propped his forehead, "their growth environment is quite different."

"Although the case itself is not complicated, it involves juvenile delinquency, school bullying, cruel methods, and incredible motives. I will submit it to the special operations team and let experts from the Ministry of Public Security make a comprehensive assessment." Xiao Yuan said : "In any case, this case will play a certain guiding role in the investigation of minor cases in the future."

Zhou Lan's father Zhou Ye, Chu Ying's mother Ye Lishan, Wu Linxiao's parents, their head teachers and some teachers came to the Criminal Investigation Bureau to cooperate with the investigation.

Zhou Ye couldn't believe that his son would do such a thing. After reading Zhou Lan's interrogation record, he completely lost his composure and didn't say a word for a long time.

He knelt down in front of Chen Hongbing, who had a mental breakdown, and promised that everything would be done according to legal procedures. He and Zhou Lan would bear all the consequences and compensate the Xiang family for their losses.

Compared with Zhou Ye, the parents of Ye Lishan and Wu Linxiao didn't react too strongly. They only said that they didn't believe their children would do such a thing, and they also said they believed in the police and the judiciary.

The short Spring Festival holiday is over, but as long as the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is not reached, the year is not over.

The streets and alleys are still filled with a festive atmosphere, and the business of the "Ninth Battlefield" opened years ago in Dongcheng District is as good as ever.

The Serious Crime Squad never let go of He Yang, but he showed no omissions and did not reveal any clues.

Nancheng District, "Chunchao Riverside" community.

After media reports, public opinion continued to ferment.Under pressure, the property management removed the iron gate outside the Binjiang Greenway, and residents in the northern district were able to re-enter the southern district.

As if celebrating victory, many people flocked to the greenway, dancing, playing drums, and some even took pictures outside the private gardens of villas and bungalows.

In just a few days, conflicts broke out again between the owners of the North and the South.But this time, property management did not dare to intervene hastily.

Because it was so noisy outside, Lai Cheng stopped going out during the day, and only went out to walk the dog in the dead of night.

He was wearing earphones, humming softly, and suddenly stopped, rubbing his nose.

His sense of smell has always been very sensitive, and the cold river wind blowing from the river surface brought a strange smell that shouldn't be there into his nostrils.