mind reader

"We walked to the door of Zuo Shanshan's ward. Feng Jing checked the names of the patients in this ward with the form in her hand, and then told me that this patient was the girl who made a fuss during the power outage. She seemed to be I was frightened during the power outage, and there was a lot of trouble at the time, so I took a sedative. At this time, I took a flashlight through the glass window of the door and looked in. Indeed, I saw a girl lying on the hospital bed. It's tied well... No, I don't know if it's tied or not, because it's covered with a quilt. I judged it from the belt. The belt on the edge of the bed hangs down when it's not tied. I saw The belt was turned up and stuck into the quilt, so I thought it was tied."

"Face? I didn't see her face clearly. Besides, Zuo Shanshan was not the patient I was in charge of. I didn't turn on the light. When I saw the face, I didn't know if it was her. When she was lying down, her head was The one facing inwards, only the hair is visible. Long hair, scattered outside the quilt, probably... probably below the shoulders. At that time, I heard Feng Jing said that she had finally fallen asleep, so when Ma Tingting asked, I said not to go in Oh, it's midnight, this kind of patient who just made a big fuss wakes everyone up, and everyone can't live in peace."

"What did you say at the time... At that time, it was Feng Jing who first told about Zuo Shanshan's situation based on the medical records, and said that Zuo Shanshan made a big fuss during the power outage. Then I took a flashlight from the window to see that Zuo Shanshan was sleeping peacefully, and said The patient was already asleep and she was in the room, so Feng Jing made a record. Then Ma Tingting asked if she wanted to go in and check on her condition, and I said no, this kind of patient who just made a fuss has to be woken up again. Don't go to bed at night. Feng Jing also said yes, saying that Zuo Shanshan usually doesn't sleep well, so don't bother her. Then Ma Tingting didn't say anything, and we went to the next ward."

I thought for a while and concluded, "That is to say, when you made the ward rounds, you only saw someone on the bed, but you didn't confirm that it was Zuo Shanshan herself. It was Feng who told you that Zuo Shanshan was in the ward." Nurse Jing, and she also specifically told you about Zuo Shanshan’s riot when the power went out, and made you judge that it’s best not to wake up the patient, so you didn’t enter the ward, and when Ma Tingting proposed to go in, she took the initiative to stop you she."

Xue Chaodong said with some embarrassment, "That's right...it's true that I didn't do my job well. I admit this, but I definitely didn't kill anyone!"

After Xue Chaodong left, Zhao Tiancheng asked, "How is it? Is it him?"

"No," I said, "he didn't lie about it."

Professor Cheng asked with interest, "Analysis of micro-expressions?"

"Well, it is."

"This topic is rare in China, but it is very popular in the United States. I have learned a lot!"

"Let's try Feng Jing again."

However, we didn't get this chance, because the police searched the hospital, but they didn't see Feng Jingren.

The record on the duty list indicated that Feng Jing was on the day shift today, and the day shift started at 6 o'clock. Feng Jing had already signed the shift handover to prove that she came to the hospital to report at 6 o'clock today.When I called the head nurse who took over the shift, the other party also said that she had seen Feng Jinglai sign before she left.Since there is no one in the courtyard, could it be that he escaped?

"It's unlikely," I immediately denied this statement, "Although she is suspected, after all, we first suspected Dr. Xue, and now there is no real evidence, she can push everything to Dr. Xue. The body is 11 I found out after clicking. The police immediately sealed off the scene when they arrived, and there were police cars blocking the gate. It is quite conspicuous for people to come and go in this kind of place. If Feng Jing had already left the hospital, the police at the gate could tell We got her out."

"That's right," Zhao Tiancheng said, "I've also asked, and it's true that no one has entered or exited the gate. The guard room and surveillance can prove this. But she can go out through other doors."

"There is only one gate here, and there are no gates in other places. The hospital is surrounded by barbed wire, and the area of ​​the barbed wire is also monitored. If someone climbs over the barbed wire, he will be found immediately. This is more eye-catching than entering and exiting through the gate. "

"Then you mean that Feng Jing is still in the hospital? But she was nowhere to be found after searching around."

"In this situation, she should know that she can't escape. There are only two possibilities now, either she is hiding somewhere in the courtyard, or..."

"Or what?"

"...In one of my paintings, there is a scene where a little white rabbit with fangs pushes an ordinary little white rabbit into the lake."

"Damn! Is there a lake in the hospital?"

"Unfortunately, there is."

The lake in the hospital is in the backyard of the critically ill area. It is just an artificial lake with a depth of more than one meter.There are quite a few patients with suicidal tendencies, and the lake dare not be built too deep, and the yard where the artificial lake is located is also monitored.So we went straight to the monitoring room and pulled up the footage that started at 6 a.m. and fast-forwarded it.

When it was placed at 8 o'clock, the monitoring was suddenly cut off.The screen went black for a while, and when it reappeared, the time jumped to 8:33.

"It's been broken for more than half an hour, what do you think?!"

Faced with Zhao Tiancheng's questioning, the staff on duty in the monitoring room was also in a cold sweat.

"The head nurse came to me for help at 8 o'clock, because people are concentrated in the front yard at this time, so I just..."

"The head nurse?"

According to the staff on duty in the monitoring room, at 8 o'clock every morning, the nurses would organize the patients to do exercises on the playground in the front yard. Sometimes the situation was chaotic, and it was common for the nurses to call them out to help.During this time, most of the medical staff and patients are concentrated in the front yard, so there is no problem in the back yard.This morning, head nurse Feng Jing came to him for help and asked him to take a look. He ran to the front yard, and it was almost 9 o'clock when he came back.

"In other words, Feng Jing appeared in the monitoring room at 8 o'clock. After the staff left, the monitoring was turned off, and it was turned on again half an hour later."

"During these half an hour, there was no monitoring on the other side of the lake, and most people were concentrated in the playground in the front yard..."

"So something must have happened here in the lake, right?" Zhao Tiancheng said with a troubled face, "Then let's see if there is a little white rabbit in the lake."

The lake is not big, and the water is not deep, and the water was pumped to the bottom within ten minutes.As Zhao Tiancheng said, there are indeed little white rabbits at the bottom of the lake.

Head nurse Feng Jing was tied hands and feet, and a pack of bricks was pressed on her back, and she was submerged in the lake water which was only a little over one meter deep.After the body was picked up, it was found that Feng Jing had a wound on her head. It seemed that she was knocked unconscious first, and then she was tied up and sank into the lake.

"It used to be one a day, but now it's two in half a day," Zhao Tiancheng said while taking notes, "Ma Tingting was killed between 7 and 8, and Feng Jing was killed between 8 and 8:[-]. This murderer killed two people in a row... But why did Feng Jing divert the surveillance personnel away? Was she coerced?"

"I'm afraid it's not coercion, but assistance."

"how to say?"

"If coerced, as long as Feng Jing is out of the hands of the murderer, she can immediately ask for help from other people, instead of obeying the murderer's words and obediently distracting the surveillance personnel. It is also impossible for the murderer to control her family. Feng Jing is single and alone. She is originally from Hubei, and her parents are in her hometown."

"Then Feng Jing took the initiative to distract the surveillance personnel."

"In other words, she is at least an accomplice, and may be the mastermind of the previous cases, but in this case she became a victim. We can guess that what she and her accomplices originally said, Feng Jing went to Divert the monitoring personnel, turn off the monitoring of the lake area in the backyard, and then her accomplice, or two people together, kill another person in the lake area according to the content of the painting. When Feng Jing turned off the monitoring and came to the lake area, was The person who killed became herself instead."

"Have you been betrayed by your accomplice..."

"It's also possible that the accomplice is the mastermind. He originally planned to kill Feng Jing after his goal was achieved. But I think it's unlikely."

"why?"

"Because of the painting," I reminded, "if the murderer, or the mastermind, killed people according to the contents of the painting, he had already achieved his goal in Zuo Shanshan's case. In Tong Qiu's case, if we are to Thinking of the element of painting, why did the murderer burn all the paintings instead of leaving the picture of the little white rabbit on fire as a mark?"

Zhao Tiancheng thought for a while, "That is to say, Tong Qiu's case is for the purpose of silence, and the painting is also destroyed along the way."

"Yes, the first case had a clear purpose, and the second case was silenced to prevent us from further investigation. After Tong Qiu's case, the original paintings had been burned. When the case happened, it is impossible for the paintings to come out again as the serial clues of this case. Because the paintings before the Tong Qiu case were drawn by Tong Qiu, and the paintings after that were drawn by me. I painted on a whim, and the prisoner could not predict this behavior at all. .”

"So the criminal changed his original intention after seeing your painting? Then he continued to commit crimes?"

"No..." I rubbed my aching head, and said with an air of trying not to let Qi Hao and the others notice my abnormality, "I think...the murderer in the first two cases is the same person. The killer was another person. There was an assisting relationship between the two."

In Zuo Shanshan's case, not only did the element of painting appear, but Zuo Shanshan was also specially changed into clothes. This design was designed to be closer to the case of the little white rabbit related to me.After this case happened, Tong Qiu's existence was exposed. At that time, I thought that Tong Qiu might know the inside story of the institute.But that night, Tong Qiu was silenced, and all the paintings were burned together with Tong Qiu's body.

Now that the painting is destroyed, it proves that the criminal's purpose is over.But less than an hour after I finished painting, Ma Tingting died because of it.Immediately afterwards, Feng Jing, who was suspected in the previous two cases, also died. The deaths of these two people were basically carried out according to the content of my paintings, but they were all a little different.In other words, in the latter two cases, the murderer didn't care whether the deceased was the same as the painting. The painting was just a temporary idea, and he wanted the police to contact an element of the first two cases, making people mistakenly believe that the four cases were done by the same person. .

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