Madness of the Heart

Wang Min, female, 34 years old, from Yuncheng, used to run a children's clothing store. After losing money, she went to the countryside to avoid debts. She disappeared two years ago.

Liang Xiaojun, male, 25 years old, from Xushan City, was a "medicine man" and disappeared two years ago.

Xing Mao, male, 30 years old, from Sucheng, worked as a magazine model, also disappeared two years ago, and had not received a job for several months before his disappearance.

Zhou Li, female, 21 years old, works in Maofeng City. There is no report of her disappearance in the system.

These four were the victims of He Yang's fourth game.

Zhou Shan confessed that their lives were very unsatisfactory at the time, and they were estranged from family and friends. It was very simple to lure them to join the game with money and the future.

He Yang divided them into groups, the older Wang Min and Xing Mao were in a group, and the younger Liang Xiaojun and Zhou Li were in a group. The game took place in an abandoned factory in the east of Country E.

The factory has been bought by He Yang, and many horrible and bloody scenes have been created in advance. The cameras cover almost every corner. The audience only needs to sit in the monitoring room to clearly see everything that happened in the factory.

Among the four, Zhou Li is the purest. He was very excited when he went abroad, thinking that what awaited him was a dream journey.Until the doors of the factory slammed shut, she still thought games were just games.

He Yang never invited outsiders to watch his games in the past, but this time he invited Yin Zhen who happened to be in country E to the factory.

Images of four people running and chasing were continuously played on more than a dozen monitors, and there were endless cries and screams.

This greatly pleased He Yang and Yin Zhen.It was as if what they were watching was just a restricted-rated movie with particularly realistic special effects.

The first person to be killed was Zhou Li, who died under Wang Min's hammer.

In the photo, Wang Min is gentle and beautiful. When the clothing store was still open, the local media went to interview her and dubbed her "Children's Clothes Xi Shi" according to the popularity of the year.

But under the great fear, the desire to survive has turned her into a devil.After subduing Zhou Li, she roared like a beast, smashed Zhou Li's head to pieces with the hammer in her hand, and finally sat in a pool of pus and blood, laughing out of her mind.

Soon, she was thrown from the roof by Zhou Li's teammate Liang Xiaojun, her cervical spine was broken and she died on the spot.

The game lasted from morning to midnight, with Xing Mao and Liang Xiaojun avoiding each other for most of the time.

He Yang and Yin Zhen were bored watching it, and asked Zhou Shan to activate the "enjoyment" equipment prepared in advance, such as poisonous gas, traps, and even release the lioness locked in the factory basement.

Xing Mao and Liang Xiaojun were tired of running for their lives, and when they were finally forced into a room, they had no strength to fight.

They are like beasts locked in a narrow cage, they can only survive by killing each other, but for them, standing up has become a huge difficulty.

In the end, it was Xing Mao who killed Liang Xiaojun.

The dagger was stuck in Liang Xiaojun's neck, and Xing Mao didn't even have the strength to pull it out.

There is no winner in this game.

Xing Mao was seriously injured a long time ago. After the door opened, before he had time to celebrate his survival, he was bitten off by a hungry lioness.

The full video was never uploaded to the Internet and was kept by Zhou Shan.

The detectives were shocked by the cruelty of the game, and even more angry at He Yang's madness.

The victims are distributed all over the country, and many of them are "kids" without identities. Verifying their identities is an extremely time-consuming project.

And this matter involved the He family, and there were many annoying obstructions for no reason.

The police force of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of Dongye City was limited, Xiao Yuan reported the case to the higher authorities, and the special operations team led the inspections in various places.However, Dongye City is still responsible for the verification of the four people including Xing Mao.

"The intersection of Yin Zhen and He Yang appeared in this crime." Mingshu said: "If there is a 'third party', then the 'third party' probably knew one of the four victims."

Xiao Yuan was silent for a while.

Mingshu waited for a while, "Brother?"

Xiao Yuan said: "I was thinking, we found the intersection of Yin Zhen and He Yang, what about Jiang Xiyang and Yue Shuqing? They didn't know He Yang, and He Yang never invited them to watch the massacre. The reason why these two people were killed is still unclear. unclear."

Mingshu put his hands on his waist.

He had already changed out of his winter clothes, and now he was only wearing a shirt and a bottoming shirt. The hem of the shirt was tucked into the police trousers, and his waist looked thin but powerful.

"Jiang Xiyang and Yue Shuqing will be put on hold for now." Ming Shu said, "The most urgent task is to find out the backgrounds of the four people, Xing Mao."

Xiao Yu'an nodded, "Go and investigate, Jiang and Yue leave it to me."

The serious crime team and the Criminal Investigation Team [-] jointly acted, led by Ming Shu on the one hand, and Liang Chao on the other, and rushed to the city where the four victims lived before they disappeared.

Xiao Yu'an stood on the terrace, silently looking at the spring trees all over the yard.

He Yang himself said that he found a more interesting game, and he disappeared soon after. If this game is the bait, then He Yang has bitten the bait.

The question is, for He Yang, what game is so attractive?He doesn't even want the new participants Zhou Shan found for him?

Huotu Village, Maofeng City.

Rapeseed flowers bloom all over the mountains and plains, and Zhou Li's hometown is here.

After the other three victims disappeared, people they knew sooner or later called the police, but no one cared about Zhou Li's life or death.

Xu Chun spent most of the day in the village, and learned that Zhou's family was long gone, and the old house was dilapidated. Zhou Li dropped out of school and went to the city when he was a teenager, and he almost never came back.

"Does she have any good friends in the village?" Xu Chun asked.

"She doesn't look down on our village." The village cadre said with a strong accent, "What friends do she have? Her friends are all in the city!"

However, the fact is that Zhou Li has no friends in Tradefeng City.

Before Zhou Shan took her to country E, she worked as a shopping guide in a pharmacy with a monthly salary of more than 2000. She could not afford to rent a regular house and lived in a group rented house. When she disappeared, she disappeared. The landlord cleaned up her cubicle. , It didn't take long to usher in a new tenant.

The interpersonal relationship between Wang Min and Xing Mao is relatively simple. After some investigation, all the people who have contacts with them live in their respective cities in peace and order, and it cannot be the possible "third party".

While in Xushan City, Mingshu discovered a noteworthy clue.

Liang Xiaojun is from Hehe County under the jurisdiction of Xushan City. His family runs a hotel and restaurant business. If he is not compared with the people in the city, his life is not bad.

But when Liang Xiaojun was a child, he went to visit his relatives in the city and saw the prosperity of the city. From then on, he made up his mind to leave Hehe County in the future.

Liang Xiaojun's parents disapproved, but they couldn't control him either.

In Hehe County, Liang Xiaojun can be regarded as a "man of the hour".He probably read a lot of martial arts, and he was very obsessed with "fighting for justice". When he was in middle school, he even organized a gang to patrol around primary and secondary schools and help children who were bullied.

Back then, the term "school violence" was rarely known even in the city, not to mention the county. Parents and teachers did not take a group of students bullying a certain student seriously. It's over.

Liang Xiaojun didn't do it.

One of the things his gang is most famous for is helping a girl from the Second Primary School in the county.

The girl's name recorded in the file is Cao Zhiya, she came from the countryside, has no mother, and her father is a disabled person.

Rural girls generally study late, and some do not even study.Cao Zhiya was unable to enter school when she was at school age because she had to do farm work for her family. Later, the village moved as a whole. She moved to Hehe County with her disabled father. age.

But girls at this age began to develop physically, and Cao Zhiya became an outlier in the class.

In the local dialect, the pronunciation of "Cao" and "Cao" are almost exactly the same. The boys in the class and the senior boys kept humiliating Cao Zhiya.The girls stood on the same line as the boys, and even helped the boys bully Cao Zhiya.

They were sure that Cao Zhiya's disabled father would not be able to do anything to them, and they also knew that the school would not punish a group of people like them for a girl who came to the countryside.

Cao Zhiya was bullied for at least half a year, and it was Liang Xiaojun, not her relatives or teachers, who saved her.

Cao Zhiya was trampled in the urinal in the men's toilet of No. [-] County Primary School.The public toilets in those days were as filthy as those in the countryside, and Cao Zhiya's cries were drowned out by the boys' laughter.

Liang Xiaojun led a group of brothers to rush in, and hugged Cao Zhiya, who was covered in urine, without caring about getting dirty.

Summer clothes are thin, and Cao Zhiya's clothes are soaked, sticking to her growing body, as if she has no clothes on.Liang Xiaojun took off his clothes and covered them with Cao Zhiya.

A group of elementary school boys were frightened and foolish, and knelt down to promise that they would never bully girls again.

Later, Cao Zhiya became a member of Liang Xiaojun's gang until the gang was finally disbanded by the police station because of fighting.

After Liang Xiaojun became an adult, he left home and came to Xushan City.From the diary he wrote on social platforms, it can be found that because he has no education and no skills, his life in the city is not satisfactory.

"It turns out that the prosperity here does not belong to me."

This sentence has been hanging on his personality signature for a long time.

When he first came to Xushan City, Liang Xiaojun kept in touch with many friends.Among them is Cao Zhiya—after Cao Zhiya graduated from high school, she did not continue her studies and went to a developed city to work.

But year after year, Liang Xiaojun couldn't make a name for himself. Perhaps out of inferiority complex, Liang Xiaojun cut off contact with his old friends.

At the age of 23, he became a "medicine man".

Some people choose to become "medicine people" because of the pressure of life, Liang Xiaojun does not count.

He was young and vigorous, and he was able to find other jobs. The move of becoming a "medicine man" may reflect that he already had serious psychological problems at that time.

Two months after Liang Xiaojun disappeared, the nurse who contacted him discovered that he was missing and called the police.

Mingshu asked: "Can you find Cao Zhiya?"

Zhou Yuan shook his head, "Judging from the traces left on the Internet, the last time Cao Zhiya contacted Liang Xiaojun was half a month before Liang Xiaojun's accident. Liang Xiaojun told her that he was going to get rich soon, and she wouldn't have to worry about it when the time came. Work hard."

Fang Yuanhang said, "Are they a couple?"

"I don't think they understand each other clearly." Mingshu said: "Liang Xiaojun is no longer the boy who used to be a 'chivalrous man' after being hit by reality one after another. He likes Cao Zhiya, but because of his poverty I dare not confess. Similarly, Cao Zhiya did not confess her feelings because of some considerations."

After a while, Mingshu said again: "But this doesn't make sense—after Liang Xiaojun disappeared, why did the nurse call the police instead of Cao Zhiya?"

Fang Yuanhang said: "Actually, Cao Zhiya already knew what happened to Liang Xiaojun? It's useless to call the police?"

Mingshu turned to Zhou Yuan, "Did Liang Xiaojun tell Cao Zhiya what he was about to do?"

"These are the only traces that can be found now." Zhou Yuan said: "The strange thing is that after Liang Xiaojun was killed, Cao Zhiya also disappeared. She used to work in Haizhou City, but her mobile phone number and social account have been there for two years. Not used."

"Master!" Fang Yuanhang said: "If Cao Zhiya knew what happened to Liang Xiaojun, then she might avenge Liang Xiaojun!"

Zhou Yuan disagreed: "Can Cao Zhiya do this?"

"Don't underestimate the impact of childhood bullying on a person." Fang Yuanhang said: "Without Liang Xiaojun, Cao Zhiya might have been ruined back then. In her heart, Liang Xiaojun might be the most important person."

Mingshu called Yi Fei who stayed in Dongye City.

Yi Fei interrogated Zhou Shan again.

"Cao Zhi?" Zhou Shan thought for a while, "Who is this?"

Yi Fei said: "Don't pretend to be confused. Since you know the background of the victims so well, how can you not know Cao Zhiya?"

Zhou Shan seemed to be used to dealing with the criminal police, and he was much more relaxed than when he was brought to the Criminal Investigation Bureau. "I know the victims well, but not the people around them."

Yi Fei put Cao Zhiya's photo on the table, "She is Liang Xiaojun's friend."

Seeing the photo, Zhou Shan remembered, "It turned out to be her. She had contacted Liang Xiaojun. Liang Xiaojun liked her very much and wanted to chase him, so I also checked her by the way."

Yi Fei said: "What did you find?"

"Just an ordinary working girl." Zhou Shan said, "Nothing else."

Yi Fei said again: "After Liang Xiaojun was killed, you and He Yang didn't do anything to her?"

Zhou Shan was puzzled, "Why did you do something to her?"

Yi Fei said: "Because she knows what happened to Liang Xiaojun."

Zhou Shan was startled, and quickly shook her head, "You're deceiving me. Do you think Cao Zhiya was silenced by me?"

After coming out of the interrogation room, Yi Fei immediately called Mingshu back.

"So Zhou Shan wasn't responsible for Cao Zhiya's disappearance." Standing in the night in Xushan City, Ming Shu held a half-burned cigarette between his fingers, and let out a sigh of relief.

Yi Fei said: "Zhou Shan thinks that Cao Zhiya is just a migrant girl who can't threaten anyone. How about this, I'll go to Haizhou City. It's hard to say if she is missing now, what if she is still there? "

Luchuan City.

While the Dongye City police were actively investigating the victims of He Yang's game, the Luchuan City Criminal Investigation Detachment was also investigating the case of He Yang's disappearance.

The investigations into the two cases proceeded almost independently of each other.

Whether He Yang's disappearance is related to the factional struggle of Fengtu Group, or to revenge, Yang Jing, head of Luchuan City Criminal Investigation Detachment, thinks the former is more likely.

He Yang is an important member of He Zhaochuan's faction, if something happens to him, it will be good for He Guozhou.

It is very troublesome for a giant like Fengtu Group to move.But Yang Jing was courageous and undertook the pressure of all parties to investigate Fengtu Group to the bottom.

After the incident, the Fengtu Group headquarters had police coming every day. First, the middle-level members of the He Guozhou faction were taken away for investigation. In the end, even He Guozhou himself was not able to escape.

DNA test results showed that He Yang was indeed not He Guozhou's biological son, and that He Yang's real father was He Zhaochuan who was speculated.

He Guozhou admits to having hatred for He Yang, but denies that it has anything to do with He Yang's disappearance.

When Mingshu came to the Criminal Investigation Detachment of Luchuan City, Yang Jing had just come out of the director's office, apparently having been scolded, with a grim expression on his face.

Fengtu Group is a big taxpayer in Luchuan City, and anyone who encounters them has to be taken care of, but Yang Jing "invited" all the bosses of Fengtu to the bureau, and planned to thoroughly investigate He Guozhou's relationship network.The pressure went down layer by layer, and the director had no choice but to warn Yang Jing to calm down.

Ming Shu waved at Yang Jing, and after Yang Jing saw who was coming, the annoyance on his face faded instantly, and he strode forward, "Yo, Lulu is here."

Mingshu: "..."

Yang Jing is Mingshu's college classmate. He was very strong and strong when he was studying, and he has a strong sense of justice. Now it seems that he is still the same.

At that time, my classmates came from all over the country. A brother in the dormitory recognized "Ming Shu" as "Ming Nu". In addition, this man came from a place where the front nasal and back nasal sounds could not be distinguished. "NU" and "LU" sound the same, "Ming NU" has been talked about for a long time, and someone gave Mingshu the nickname "Lulu". The reason is still very good. ".

After graduation for many years, Mingshu almost forgot this wonderful nickname.

Fang Yuanhang was curious, "Master, why did you call you 'Lulu'?"

Ming Shu coughed and ignored his apprentice.

Fang Yuanhang thought to himself, my master is really a treasure boy, he is Xiao Ming and Lu Lu, maybe he has a nickname that I don't know!

There is a saying in the police—class reunions are held during joint investigations.

Mingshu and Yang Jing skipped even the small talk, and directly talked about the case.

Mingshu made this trip mainly because he wanted to know to what extent the Luchuan City police had investigated the Fengtu Group, which was directly related to whether his and Xiao Yuan's "third party" assumptions were valid.

According to the clues that Yang Jing has so far, He Yang's disappearance was not caused by someone within the Fengtu Group.

But Yang Jing didn't give up, "I still have to investigate, by the way, Lulu..."

Mingshu said: "Another word, don't be so childish."

Yang Jing smiled, "Don't be burdened by being an idol, okay? You have called me 'Quiet' for so many years, am I not happy?"

Mingshu said, "Is this something to be proud of?"

Yang Jing patted his chest, "It means I'm arrogant."

Mingshu waved his hand, "All right, all right, you're big, what did you want to say to me just now?"

Yang Jing was stunned suddenly, "Oops, if I interrupted, I forgot."

Dongye City, Criminal Investigation Bureau.

Xiao Yuan put a case file on the table and walked downstairs to the serious crime team.

What he was reading was the unsolved case of Lai Xiuliang.