Madness of the Heart

Haizhou City.

"Are you looking for Cao Zhiya?" A fat woman in her 40s stretched her neck, her oily face was almost touching Yi Fei's face, "I want to find her too! Why, this woman is doing trouble outside gone?"

The fat woman is the owner and manager of "Jinxi Club".Although this place is called "guild hall", it is actually an ordinary foot-washing city, and you can stay there for a day for 100 yuan.

Cao Zhiya did not have a decent diploma. After coming to Haizhou from Hehe County, she changed several jobs and finally worked as a waiter here.

Yi Fei asked: "Cao Zhiya didn't say hello to you before she left from you?"

"What hello!" The fat woman snorted dissatisfiedly, "She lived in a staff dormitory and was wearing work clothes, but she suddenly disappeared, and she didn't pay a penny for that month's food, water, electricity, etc. !"

"Then before leaving, did Cao Zhiya do anything unusual?" Yi Fei asked again.

The fat woman couldn't answer, so she called Chen Hongjiao, the waiter who lived in the same room with Cao Zhiya at the time, "Tell this policeman what happened to Cao Zhiya. If the police can help us find her, Let Cao Zhiya pay for your clothes!"

Chen Hongjiao shook her head in embarrassment, "A piece of ragged clothes, how can you pay for it?"

Yi Fei said: "Cao Zhiya borrowed your clothes?"

"Hmm." Chen Hongjiao was honest and introverted, not as good at talking as a fat woman.

According to her, Cao Zhiya has brains and is the fastest responder among all the waiters. She can also speak and is very popular with customers.I did a good job at first, but for a while, I often lost my mind, made several small mistakes one after another, and was deducted hundreds of dollars.

What kind of work is there without a mistake?The less technical the job is, the easier it is to desert.Everyone didn't take it seriously.But Chen Hongjiao was Cao Zhiya's roommate, and several times she slept until midnight, only to hear Cao Zhiya sigh frequently when she woke up.

Chen Hongjiao asked Cao Zhiya if something happened to her family. Cao Zhiya said that her only relative had passed away, so there was no family left, so she exposed the problem.

Then one day, after Chen Hongjiao got off work, she went back to the dormitory and saw Cao Zhiya packing her luggage.

Cao Zhiya took turns off that day and the next day, Chen Hongjiao thought about where she was going to do something.

The temperature was not high at that time, so Cao Zhiya went to the balcony to collect the thick coat she washed a few days ago, but found that it was not dry.

Chen Hongjiao took the initiative to say, "You don't have any other coats, do you? Wear mine."

Cao Zhi thanked her and pointed to the thick coat hanging out, "Sister Hongjiao, then you can wear mine."

Chen Hongjiao didn't understand what this meant, until a week later, Cao Zhiya still hadn't come back.

It is very common in Haizhou City for migrant workers and girls to suddenly disappear while they are working. Even though the fat women are talking about what Cao Zhiya owes her, they will not really call the police because of such things.

Chen Hongjiao sighed, and said to Yi Fei nervously, "I think something bad happened to Zhiya."

Yi Fei thought for a while and asked: "Before Cao Zhiya left, did she mention a person named 'Liang Xiaojun' to you?"

Chen Hongjiao said with certainty: "She said 'Xiaojun' several times. Although she didn't say it explicitly, but I heard her tone, she should like this person."

Yi Fei said: "Where are the others? Did you see anyone coming to her?"

Chen Hongjiao frowned, "I can't answer that. In a place like ours, there are too many people coming and going every day. Even if someone came to look for her, I don't know."

Yi Fei walked around in the "Jinxi Club", and then went to the staff dormitory to take a look.

Two years have passed since the incident, and the monitoring records have long been deleted. It is impossible to find out who Cao Zhiya met and where she last appeared.

But is Cao Zhiya's disappearance really related to Liang Xiaojun's death?

Furthermore, is it related to Yin Zhen's death and He Yang's disappearance now?

Is Cao Zhiya avenging her beloved?

How did she do it?Does she have this ability?

Yi Fei returned to the car, closed his eyes and thought.

He does not discriminate against women and low-level workers, but objectively speaking, the person who set up such a revenge situation cannot be ordinary.Even if Cao Zhiya is the smartest waiter in the entire "Jinxi Club", she may not be able to do it.

However, the timing of Cao Zhiya's disappearance happened so coincidentally, her behavior before disappearing was different from usual, especially the two points of being distracted at work and sighing in the middle of the night.

She may know that Liang Xiaojun was killed.

But how did she know about it?

In the traces captured by Zhou Yuan and other technical team members, Liang Xiaojun just told Cao Zhiya that he was going to make a lot of money, but did not say what he was doing.Although there is a possibility that Liang Xiaojun said it, but the technical team members have not caught it yet.

But this possibility is actually very small.Liang Xiaojun's personality would not allow him to tell Cao Zhiya the truth.More importantly, Zhou Shan will not allow this kind of thing to happen.

That being the case, how did Cao Zhiya know that something happened to Liang Xiaojun?

"Someone told her." Mingshu held the phone in one hand and put the other in the pocket of the police trousers.

Yi Fei pressed his temples, "But why did this person do this? Pull her into it? Or is it something else? Wait a minute, if this is the case, the Avengers will be someone else. The problem is that Cao Zhiya is the only one we have semi-locked for now. people."

"Pull Cao Zhiya to join..." Mingshu thought quickly, his eyes suddenly changed, "Use Cao Zhiya, use Cao Zhiya as a smoke bomb!"

Yi Fei said: "He expected that the police would think of revenge in the future, so he threw out a clue to mislead the police?"

Mingshu immediately opened his notebook and said while writing, "A person who disappears for no reason is the most likely to attract the attention of the police. Cao Zhiya and Liang Xiaojun have an unusual relationship, and Cao Zhiya disappeared. The police must think that Cao Zhiya Maybe revenge for Liang Xiaojun. In this way, Cao Zhiya becomes a shield. As long as we don’t find Cao Zhiya, that person can continue to hide behind this shield.”

Yi Fei said: "Isn't it possible that Cao Zhiya has been killed? Only the dead will 'disappear' for a long time."

Ming Shu put down his pen and said for a while: "The question you raised just now-Cao Zhiya is the only person we have semi-targeted at present. If Cao Zhiya is just a shield, then the 'third party' was as early as He Yang's fourth game It was there before it even started."

When one possibility is denied, many new possibilities are born, ideas are intertwined, and the case becomes more complicated.

Yi Fei couldn't help feeling a headache, "But if the 'third party' had appeared earlier, where would the intersection of Yin Zhen and He Yang be?"

Ming Shu squinted his eyes, "Jiang Xiyang and Yue Shuqing, I probably shouldn't let them go temporarily."

Dongye City, Interrogation Room of the Serious Crime Squad.

Zhou Shan looked surprised and was stunned for half a minute without making a sound.

There were two things that surprised him. One was that Xiao Yu'an was sitting in front of him this time - he never expected that Xiao Yu'an would come to interrogate him in person; the other was the question Xiao Yu'an asked just now: whether He Yang participated in Yin Zhen's plan Carnage game.

"This...it's impossible." Zhou Shan shook his head, "Mr. He has never participated."

"Why are you so sure?" Xiao Yu'an said, "In terms of massacre games, Yin Zhen is He Yang's senior. Since He Yang invited her to be a spectator, couldn't she have invited He Yang to be a spectator earlier? ?”

Zhou Shan frowned, "But..."

Xiao Yu'an said, "But what? But you don't know?"

Zhou Shan licked the corner of his lower lip blankly, "If there is such a thing, Mr. He will definitely tell me."

"Then bring you, you guys go watch together?" Xiao Yu'an said, "But what if Yin Zhen only invited He Yang?"

Zhou Shan's eyelids were wide open.

"The six massacres led by He Yang, you participated in all of them because He Yang needed you." Xiao Yu'an said, "But watching the massacres led by others, whether you are present or not, may not make much difference to He Yang? "

Grievance, disbelief, and even anger appeared on Zhou Shan's face.

Xiao Yu'an said: "You don't always know He Yang's whereabouts, do you?"

Zhou Shan nodded slowly, and said in a low voice, "I...I'm just his secretary."

Mingshu was waiting for Xiao Yuan outside the interrogation room, and rushed up as soon as the door opened, "Ju Xiao."

Xiao Yu'an raised his hand, "Go to the cafeteria first."

The meal was over soon, and there were no good dishes or meat left, so Mingshu had to trouble the chef to fry two bowls of fried rice with eggs.

"Maybe we should focus on Yin Zhen." Xiao Yu'an said, "Let me make a hypothesis——before He Yang's fourth game, Yin Zhen planned a game and invited many players including He Yang. spectators. Then the victims of this game are very critical.”

Mingshu said: "The games are all played abroad, country E is their 'home court', now that Yin Zhen is dead, she probably disposed of all the video and other evidence before going to Sifeng County last year. He Yang There is also a secretary, Yin Zhenlian..."

Speaking of this, Mingshu suddenly stopped.

"Yin Zhen doesn't even have an assistant?" Xiao Yuan shook her head, "She can't do this kind of thing by herself, it's just that her assistant doesn't follow He Yang all the time like Zhou Shan."

Mingshu responded quickly, "This person is not in the country. Yin Zhen is 'clean' in the country, and she 'raised' her evil side in country E?"

"There might be her team in country E." Xiao Yuan said, "One more thing, neither the Los Angeles police nor the Xucheng police have found any relevant videos. But from Yin Zhen's point of view, it is impossible for her to share the video. Completely destroyed. Those are her 'wealth' and 'pride', she will not destroy her 'work'."

"The clue is in country E..." Mingshu's eyes brightened, "I'm going to country E."

The egg fried rice was out of the pot, and Xiao Yuan brought the two bowls together.

The chef was very considerate and even heated up a large bowl of lotus root and ribs soup.

"One more thing." Xiao Yu'an said: "During the past few days when you ran across the country, I re-examined Lai Xiuliang's case. Before and after his accident, He Yang happened to be in Dongye City. We discussed before whether Lai Xiuliang is A bug in another sense?"

Mingshu was very hungry and drank the soup with a big spoon.

"Team Liang hadn't brought Zhou Shan back at that time, and now with Zhou Shan's retelling, I think that Lai Xiuliang was also treated as a bug." Xiao Yu'an said: "And it was a bug deliberately made by a 'third party'."

Mingshu put down the spoon, "'Recently I discovered a more interesting game'. Lai Xiuliang is a gift from a 'third party' to He Yang, or a bait?"

Xiao Yu'an nodded, "This can explain the many senses of division in Lai Xiuliang's case, and it can also explain why Lai Xiuliang was taken away so easily."

Mingshu thought about it carefully——Lai Xiuliang died on the pebble beach outside his own community. The murder weapon was the iron gate frame that caused conflicts between the rich and the poor in the entire community. This kind of death initially made the police think that the murderer hated the rich and deliberately took revenge on the residents. Wealthy owners of the South Side.However, after investigation, this possibility was ruled out. The new idea is that the murderer was an employee who had been humiliated by Lai Xiuliang. In order to hide himself, he deliberately created the illusion of hating the rich.However, it is very difficult to construct such a scene, and the possibility of exposure is not small, and a sense of logical division appears.And after investigation, those with motives have been ruled out the possibility of committing crimes.

That's it for the case.

Mingshu said: "If this is the case, then Lai Xiuliang's death is too unjust."

Xiao Yu'an said: "Which one of the victims who were killed as bugs was not wronged?"

Mingshu sighed, "That's true."

"I don't think it's just Lai Xiuliang." Xiao Yuan said again: "He Yang is not someone who is easily bewitched. The 'third party' should have other means."

Around the Spring Festival, celebrities are busy to show their faces on various programs.The starlet led by Yu Dalong is promising, and he has followed suit, not only making a fortune, but also satisfying his addiction of flying around all over the country. The scope of his activities is no longer limited to those few shopping malls in Dongye City.

After the beginning of the spring, Yu Dalong was promoted and was stuffed with a few artists, but the upper management didn't just oppress him and didn't give him benefits. When they made work tasks for him, they also arranged for him an assistant.

With an assistant, Yu Dalong finally relaxed, and the spring blossoms gave him a vacation. Thinking of Fang Yuanhang and the male god Mingshu who hadn't been in touch for a long time, he suddenly wanted to ask them out to play.

Of course, Brother Long is responsible for all expenses.

Male gods dare not make an appointment directly, Yu Dalong called Fang Yuanhang, unexpectedly Fang Yuanhang hung up on him directly, and called him after a few hours, explaining that the serious crime team had encountered a difficult case again and could not call for the time being. If you don't have time, you can't go anywhere.

Yu Dalong is a reasonable person, he comforted and encouraged Fang Yuanhang, and planned to find a place to have fun by himself.

He doesn't want to go out of town. He has been to all the interesting places in and around the city. He asked the assistant, and the assistant said, "Brother Long, do you know the 'Ninth Battlefield' in Dongcheng District?"

Being called "Brother Long", Yu Dalong was delighted, "'Ninth Battlefield'? Is it fun?"

The assistant nodded, "It's not really fun, but it's kind of fun."

Yu Dalong didn't quite understand, "What's in it? It's not fun and you still want to benefit me?"

"No, that place can't be described as fun or not." The assistant said, "Anyway, it's very special, you'll know when you go."

Yu Dalong has been to many secret rooms. During the Spring Festival, the stars he brought took part in the secret room games of the TV station. After thinking about it, he said: "Scary? Exciting?"

"Both." The assistant said, "It's not quite the same as 'Storm'. Sigh, I can't describe it well, you have to experience it yourself. Don't you have police friends? Call them and go together. The police are upright and can suppress Suppress evil."

Yu Dalong was amused, and decided to go there by himself first. If the "Ninth Battlefield" was really so "evil", he would ask the policeman to suppress the evil after Fang Yuanhang was free.

There are a total of 12 themes in "The Ninth Battlefield". Yu Dalong has plenty of time and bought a joint ticket. Theoretically speaking, each theme can be experienced, but most people will play two or three at most, and will not continue to play. .

Yu Dalong carefully paid attention to the matters, and chose a secret room with a high restriction level. As soon as he entered, he felt a faint sense of discomfort.

The cramped corridors, the flickering light, the weird music that appears from time to time, and the props that are indistinguishable from real corpses at first glance.

Yu Dalong swallowed, and quietly cheered himself up.

This kind of beginning made him have to cheer up and prepare for the sudden appearance of ghosts.

However, he did not encounter any ghosts until he left the secret room.

He was sitting on the bench in the rest area, holding a cup of hot milk tea he just bought in his hand, but he didn't take a sip, his mind was blank for a moment.

He understood the feeling the assistant said.

Many of the chambers are exciting, and people are screaming like crazy in them, and this kind of screaming can actually be regarded as catharsis.

The secret room here is quite the opposite. Walking through it, you will not feel the emotion of screaming at all, but feel very depressed and unable to scream.

Yu Dalong recalled what he saw in the secret room—the massacre was not ghosts killing people, but people killing people.

The slaughterer and the slaughtered have exactly the same face, the victim was disemboweled alive, his head was smashed and his brains splattered, all the scenes are extremely real, with the plot as a guide, and being in it, he seems to be this scene A participant in or a victim of a massacre.

And the cruel act of slaughter itself is turned into a work of art by flowers and lights, which seems to be beautified and deified.

Yu Dalong felt very uncomfortable, and he was particularly impressed by one scene: In a desolate cemetery, the corpse of a baby had not yet decomposed. At night, a group of immature children found the baby while playing hide-and-seek. They used firecrackers as a cradle for him. When the firecrackers exploded, The baby really rocked.

Yu Dalong shook his head, gave up his plan to go to the next secret room, and left in a hurry.

"What the hell!" he said to himself, "Don't be such a sociopathic pervert as a designer!"

The focus of the investigation shifted from He Yang to Yin Zhen.

There are many difficulties for the criminal police to go abroad to investigate cases. Mingshu was preparing to go to country E when he suddenly received a call from the capital.

"Xiao Ming." Liu Zhiqin said, "It's me."

Although Ming Shu and Liu Zhiqin didn't deal with each other, they also knew that the other party's call at this time was definitely not for idle business, so he said seriously: "Teacher Liu, did you find anything?"

"Well. About the two victims, Jiang Xiyang and Yue Shuqing." Liu Zhiqin said: "He Yang returned to China three years ago. Before he returned to China, that is, in March of that year, Jiang Xiyang and Yue Shuqing were not in the country and went out of the country. The records show that Jiang Xiyang is in country F, and Yue Shuqing is in country N. But the clues I got from invading the underground black market in country E are that they are all in country E."