Hunting down the Northwest Wilderness

The high-speed rail travels quickly through the mountain roads between Henan and Shaanxi. Occasionally, there are faint lights across the night, and the carriage is unprecedentedly dull.

Just 10 minutes ago, both Zou Kaiwen and Fang Lingshu were still talking and laughing when facing the Jinchuan case. They instinctively and self-preservingly faced it with a game-like mentality. This is the psychological defense of the investigators.Empathy can only be used for judging cases, not for sympathy, because a tragedy cannot be contemplated, the past is past, and bystanders can neither stop nor restore it. The result of abuse of empathy is endless heartbreak. stuffed.

They were still able to tease each other at first because they always imagined Luo Guishuang to be extremely vicious. He is the devil at the end of the chessboard, and they wished to attribute all the crimes to him alone.

But the answer obviously did not satisfy Fang Lingshu. The answer to the detection was complete, but the answer to human feelings was disappointing.

Neither of them spoke.

Fang Lingshu looked out of the window in silence, and Zou Kaiwen was also depressed, so he had to use love to adjust himself in his heart.He has worked in the FBI for many years, and he has experienced many criminal cases, just like a person rolling in love, having suffered many love breaks, and losing love again is not more unforgettable.

And Fang Lingshu is still his first love, this is the first major life case he has handled, and it may be the only one in his life.

Zou Kaiwen slowly swept his gaze over Fang Lingshu's side face—he hadn't looked at him so carefully for a long time. His skin was fair, the corners of his lips were slightly raised, and his eyelashes were also raised along with the tip of his nose and chin. Create a full and upward arc.

This whole arc is suitable for sweet acting like a baby, not for his melancholy at the moment.

When I fell in love with him at the beginning, it was unavoidable that there was a bit of flirtatiousness, Zou Kaiwen thought, unknowingly, I loved him so much that I couldn't extricate myself.He is unhappy, and I can't help being unhappy with him. This is a kind of right in love, and others have no right to enjoy such empathy.

He found a light brown freckle next to the tip of Fang Lingshu's nose—it seemed familiar—and then he suddenly remembered that this freckle was born later and was exposed by the sun. The two of them went out to play, and it grew back when they came back For this freckle, Fang Lingshu used many masks to eliminate it, but in the end they all failed.

Zou Kaiwen felt that this freckle gave his delicate and innocent face an extra touch of coquettishness.

He stared at this little mole, and after a long time, Fang Lingshu turned around, and they kissed together silently.This kiss is the pain reliever, the sugar after the medicine.

Kevin kissed him on the lips, then the mole.

"Baby, you will face many cases in the future, you have to learn to get used to it."

"I don't sympathize with Luo Guishuang." Fang Lingshu rode on him: "I just feel sorry for Liang Xu."

"If you always bring your emotions into handling cases, then I can only say that you are neither good nor competent in your job." Kevin's tone was wrapped in severe criticism: "You haven't caught Liang yet, and you Consider talking to him about the past of the Jinchuan case here—have you thought about how to arrest him?"

At this moment, euphemistic persuasion is useless, it is better to give it a blow.

Fang Lingshu really raised his head, and after a while, lowered his head again: "I'm sorry."

"It's not that I'm sorry, you have to be worthy of your career. Your father is still working hard. From just now to now, you have been depressed for 15 minutes. Isn't time precious?"

Fang Lingshu obediently crawled away from his arms, and sat aside with his head upright: "Teacher, you are right."

Kevin looked at him for a moment, then smiled.

Both reprimand and tenderness are necessary. Human nature is difficult to control, but there is still will to regulate it.

The curve of the mountains undulates in the night, which is probably the Qinling Mountains.

"Now there is a problem." Kevin took a candy bar and posed on the small coffee table of the train: "In the first two cases, the motives were very clear, and there were clear goals and directions. This does not conform to the mental state of a serial killer."

The vast majority of serial killers conform to three psychological patterns: one is "escape", that is, killing witnesses who may endanger themselves during the escape process; the other is "desire", many rape and murder cases and robbery and murder cases fit this pattern The third is "punishment". Most killers with this mentality start with revenge, and then attack all victims with similar characteristics.

None of these three common patterns fit Luo Guishuang's situation.

"Ask knowingly." Fang Lingshu hit him casually, "When will you change your habit of testing me?"

"I'm always your teacher." Kevin laughed, "This is the fun of the teacher-student relationship."

"I think the Jinchuan case can be divided into two stages." Fang Lingshu looked into the night: "The first two cases were intentional killings. All subsequent cases have been transformed into a 'punishment' mode."

Between these two stages, there must be a breaking point, a key, which opened the door of Luo Guishuang's madness.

That should be Luo Xiaoning.

"You've seen his medical records, and you've seen him in person." Fang Lingshu said sadly, "At first I boldly guessed that he was Luo Guishuang's son because Liang Xu and Luo Xiaoning told me that Luo Xiaoning was awakened by Liang Xu It was five years ago."

Five years ago was also the time when Luo Guishuang stopped committing crimes.

Luo Xiaoning is Luo Guishuang's only son, his awakening can give his father hope to stop committing crimes, and in turn, it can be inferred that his coma at the beginning can also lead to his father's madness.

"I just don't understand one thing." Kevin looked into the night: "Luo Yuan went to Myanmar to work hard to earn money, but broke away from his family for another commission. What's the point of that?"

"What's the point? Money is the greatest point." Fang Lingshu answered him: "In poor places, in order to survive, they would sell their sons and daughters. Kevin, you have never been poor, and you don't understand the feelings of the poor, even if you are living in poverty. The FBI had contact with a lot of low-level people during the period, and that didn't make you have enough empathy."

He gently turned the huge diamond ring on his hand: "For you, money comes too easily, you will choose to stay with me, and you don't care about your rich father's feelings, because you don't care whether you have money or not. But for Luo Guishuang, it doesn’t matter if he becomes a stranger as long as he can make his family live a better life. He has successfully passed on the family line, and the family has gained a lot of money, which is the best of both worlds.”

Kevin didn't say a word.

Fang Lingshu realized that he might have said something wrong: "Kevin, I'm not blaming you..."

Kevin bent down slowly, and seriously, he squeezed the chin of the house coffin: "Baby, your uprightness will make many people dislike you."

Fang Lingshu felt even more inappropriate in his words, and he blushed dully: "I'm sorry."

Kevin laughed suddenly: "It's because they have no vision that they let me take advantage of it."

"...What are you talking about?!"

Kevin laughed out loud: "Continue to discuss, continue to discuss, oops, I didn't expect you to care so much about my feelings."

"Did I say something wrong!"

"If you don't continue to talk about the case, I want to overwhelm you."

Seeing that he really didn't feel bad anymore, Kevin secretly felt relieved.Handling a case does not require a gentle and sensitive cutie, it needs a sharp and sharp knife.

"Not long after Du was murdered, Lu Xiande drowned to death." Fang Lingshu flipped through the case records on his phone: "I guess Luo Xiaoning was injured and unconscious at that time—the real Jinchuan case began with Lu Xiande."

"Yes, I was wondering why Luo killed Lu, and now everything is clear." Kevin stroked his chin: "Lu is crazy, and he has successfully embezzled his property. Unnecessary, but Lu hurt his son, that's why he wants to kill."

"If I were Luo Guishuang, I was earning money to help my son have a good future, but now I can't go home, and my son has become a vegetable again. It's hard not to go crazy." Fang Lingshu said: "I can even be very bold. Guess, it was the night when Luo Guishuang went to kill Du, Luo Xiaoning fell off the wall, and the crazy Lu Xiande came back from the outside, unexpectedly frightened Luo Xiaoning who was lying on the wall."

Kevin thought about his words: "You made this inference from the characteristics of the A Ling case."

"It's not just the A-Ling case, the A-Ling case is the fourth case. In the previous case, although the housewife was not pregnant, she was very fat and looked like a pregnant woman." Fang Lingshu said: "That family also has a son."

Pregnant woman, son, and happiness—these are the three switches that anger Luo Guishuang. The pregnant woman reminds him of Zhang Qiuyu, who killed him in the first place, his son reminds him of Luo Xiaoning, and a happy family reminds him of the home he can never return to.

He is no longer "Luo Guishuang".

"The third case happened a year later, around the time when Luo Guishuang's wife died."

All the clues are connected.

Fang Lingshu jumped out of Kevin's arms. Seeing him taking out the PAD from his backpack, Kevin couldn't help but stop him: "Don't do tidying up on the train, you take a rest."

"I'll draw a schematic diagram of the general clues." Fang Lingshu didn't listen to the persuasion: "Go back to the bureau for a meeting, and everyone will understand it at a glance."

"……"What? !Are you going to the bureau for a meeting? !Spin again? !

Zou Kaiwen is going to make trouble.

"Then you should take a nap, at least an hour."

"Just a moment, I'll go to sleep after I finish this."

Kevin really has no idea: "After writing this, we will arrive at the stop."

"An hour left!" Fang Lingshu pouted cutely at him: "Wow!"

What is your size?

"Your father told me to take care of your health." Kevin was angry, and he took the PAD in defeat: "Your Majesty the Emperor! Sleep quietly! The concubine is here to draw!"

Satisfied, the emperor stretched out his dragon claws happily: "The password is your birthday, Concubine Ai."

Suddenly the imperial study room, have you considered the feeling of the train box?The box is very wronged.

Fang Lingshu is a person who never speaks well, and he will not sleep well. How does Zou Kaiwen think he understands this?

Agreeing to "rest" was simply a tactic to delay the attack. Fang Lingshu was chattering beside Zou Kaiwen's painting.

I should have understood this earlier, Zou Kaiwen thought bitterly, my IQ may have insulted the average level of the FBI, but I can't blame me, because love makes people mentally handicapped.

He pressed the face of the house spirit: "Take a rest, you have received special training, and now you are required to fall asleep within 10 minutes."

Fang Lingshu screamed under his hands: "Can't sleep! You chat with me!"

To accompany the detective on a business trip and to chat with him, Prince Dare Sheng Jun is here as an escort across the country.

"Don't be noisy." Kevin let go of his hand: "Just now we talked about Luo's criminal mentality, please be quiet, I will mark it clearly-my Chinese writing is not good."

Spoken Chinese is easy for Kevin, but writing Chinese characters is a bit difficult, and he doesn't know anything about Chinese pinyin.

Fang Lingshu became obedient immediately, and put his head on Kevin's shoulder.

Like a domesticated cat.

"It's not here." Fang Lingshu pointed him out: "You wrote 'dog' here, it's too much below."

"Well, well, I said why can't I find this word." Kevin touched his face casually.

"Kevin, do you think Liang Xu's mentality of committing crimes will change?"

"Of course. This is what I'm worried about." Kevin didn't look sideways: "In Hong Qingshan, he was emotional because we lied to him. Even if he knew he was cheated, he was still controlled by impulse for a short time, so He's going to run away no matter what."

"When he figured it out by himself, he would find that fleeing is a dead end." Fang Lingshu said, "Don't talk about Liang Xu, my dad spent 15 years and couldn't dig out Luo Guishuang. If it wasn't for me and you On a whim, and just in time to find Zhu Tongbiao, the Jinchuan case will probably always be a death case."

Silently, Zou Kaiwen smiled meaningfully.

"Lingshu, you are too naive. Do you think Liang will surrender himself if he can't find the murderer?"

"I'm not that stupid." Fang Lingshu pulled his ear: "That's why I let my dad control Feng Cuiying."

The minds of the two of them can communicate without knowing each other—the mentality of the murderer will often change with the circumstances of the crime. It is true that Liang Xu's initial motive is "revenge", but when the target of revenge disappears without a trace, this mentality will transform into "discipline".

Liang Xu didn't want to punish the police. If he wanted to punish the police, he could attack Fang Lingshu in Hong Qingshan.

"So what he wants to punish is those who hurt innocent people." Fang Lingshu said softly, "He must want to kill Feng Cuiying."

Fang Lingshu asked Fang Zhengjun to summon Feng Cuiying as long as possible, in order to buy time for the police to apprehend Feng Cuiying. Of course, Feng Cuiying will not be very comfortable in the police station, but it is better than letting her go home.

"If you let Feng go back, maybe you can catch Liang." Kevin said, "It's just that you don't want to take this risk."

"It's not that I don't agree, even the Chang'an police will not agree. Isn't this a joke about Feng Cuiying's old life?" Fang Lingshu snorted: "She may cover up the murderer and abuse Luo Xiaoning, but that's not her turn." Come to Liang Xu to deal with her."

"I don't understand why she abused the child." Kevin shook his head: "Don't the Chinese elders love their younger generation very much? And it's a boy—in the words of you Chinese, the key to passing on the family line."

Fang Lingshu was momentarily at a loss for words.

It was quiet in the box.

"Wait, Kevin, why do I feel so wrong?" Fang Lingshu said suddenly: "Feng Cuiying didn't abuse Luo Xiaoning before, she only started to abuse Luo Xiaoning after he woke up—no, it was after Luo Xiaoning came home that she started to abuse him." abused."

"... What's the problem with this?"

"The problem is serious. If you want to abuse him, you can abuse him. You didn't hit him when he was in a vegetative state. Why did you wait until he woke up?" Fang Lingshu and him looked at each other: "Could it be that Luo Xiaoning said something after returning home?"

Abuse is often associated with intimidation and control. Feng Cuiying used to just not care about her grandson, but after Luo Xiaoning came home, what caused her to start abusing and beating Luo Xiaoning?

The two remembered Luo Xiaoning's performance in the hospital at the same time, "Kevin, do you still remember his demeanor at that time?"

——At that time, Luo Xiaoning was still immature, but his eyes were hard to disguise, and they were definitely not the eyes of an eight-year-old child.Fang Lingshu had this sense of disobedience when he first met him. He didn't know that Luo Xiaoning was mentally retarded, so he didn't notice the difference.

"The first time I saw him, he behaved well and was too clever." Fang Lingshu sat up: "Yes, now that I think about it, if he is really only eight years old, how can he have such good logic? ?!"

——In Qindu Hospital, Luo Xiaoning was unusually vigilant. Liang Xu didn't give him any instructions, but he knew not to mention his name, and he didn't want to talk to Fang Lingshu more.The moment Liang Xu got into the car and wanted to escape, he quickly turned from a hostage to an accomplice and stabbed Fang Lingshu. This was a halfway kill that no one could have imagined.

"Liang Xu doesn't know about it, and he has been kept in the dark." Fang Lingshu couldn't help but shiver: "Liang Xu is a high-achieving student, and he has been educated for five years. Both are eight years old."

Chinese and mathematics can train expression ability and logic respectively. Luo Xiaoning's expression ability is beyond doubt, and his logic cannot always lag behind expression.

People with bad logic will not choose to insinuate. People with bad logic are like dogs and cats. If you scream at the cat or dog, the cat or dog will only lick you, but will not know how to ask others for help.Cats and dogs who know how to ask for help from the outside world are known as god dogs and cats.

Luo Xiaoning is not a beast, Fang Lingshu recalled his accurate and subtle call for help in the ambulance - when he cried out for pain, he immediately knew to call for Liang Xu.

He recalled Luo Xiaoning's first words after the murder: "Leave me alone, go!"

Kevin fully understood what he meant: "He knew his father was a murderer, that's why he said this, and because he knew his father was a murderer, he wanted to repay Liang Xu with death."

"After he came home from the hospital, he must have asked Feng Cuiying something, and he might even have met his father. That's why Feng Cuiying kept beating him and threatening him not to tell the truth."

"..."

Terrible speculation, Kevin and Fang Lingshu didn't know what to say.

"I don't understand, Liang treats him so well, and he seems to care about Liang very much. I even feel that they have a hazy love affair for a long time." Kevin is unpredictable: "If he fell in love with Liang, he should have reported to the police in advance. Reporting the crime, Liang would not be what he is today—he wanted to protect his father, and the family values ​​of the Chinese are at work."

"You're thinking too much. Kevin, if you were Juliet and I was Romeo, assuming I didn't know you had a feud with me—would you tell me the truth?"

Comparing his heart to his heart, Kevin understood in an instant.

"If it were me, I wouldn't be able to face this fact. Luo's personality is far more extreme than yours and I, and he has no legal knowledge at all. It is even more difficult for him to sort out the pros and cons." Kevin understood what he meant: " Juliet chooses between family and love, and she will choose love without hesitation."

That was what Luo Xiaoning thought in his heart.

"He was afraid that Liang Xu would abandon him if he knew his identity, so he kept pretending to be crazy. Liang Xu really wanted to take revenge, and he wanted to remove all obstacles for Liang Xu." Fang Lingshu's face turned blue: "It's bad, I said the wrong thing Already!"

In the Armed Police Hospital, Fang Lingshu inadvertently revealed a dangerous fact in order to tease Luo Xiaoning to save Liang Xu. He let Luo Xiaoning understand that Liang Xu's target is not only Luo Guishuang, but also Feng Cuiying.

It is not only Liang Xu who is coveting Feng Cuiying's life, but also Luo Xiaoning who is wearing a harmless mask.

"The bad thing is that Liang Xu didn't explain clearly to Luo Xiaoning." Fang Lingshu wanted to pull his hair out: "Luo Xiaoning thought that Liang Xu didn't know his identity, or he deceived himself into thinking that Liang Xu didn't know, and Liang Xu also thought that Luo Xiaoning was something I don't know. Liang Xu is on the run now, Luo Xiaoning can't find his own father, so he will turn his guns and attack his grandma!"

Don't be afraid of thieves stealing, but be afraid of thieves thinking about it.Even if Luo Guishuang and Liang Xu are brought to justice, in Luo Xiaoning's view, the shooting of his father is by no means complete, because his beloved brother will also go to jail.With his nervous personality from time to time, it is inevitable that he will blame Feng Cuiying who refused to testify.

Fang Lingshu believed that he had the guts to stab the police, let alone a heartless old lady!

"Don't worry." Kevin held his hand: "Luo is under surveillance and cannot commit crimes, and with his physique, it is difficult to kill people."

That's right... Luo Xiaoning was restrained. Fang Lingshu and Zou Kaiwen went to see him, and he was still handcuffed to the hospital bed.

Thinking about it this way, I felt a little more at ease.

"No, I have to call my dad and tell him to lock up Feng Cuiying. Now I can suspect that she is covering up and summon her for detention. Anyway, just don't leave the gate of the Public Security Bureau."

For 15 years, Feng Cuiying not only helped her son seize Lu Xiande's property with peace of mind, but also helped him fabricate false testimony.

Fang Lingshu remembered the description of Lu Xiande's family in the Jinchuan file, which recorded the cause of death of Lu Xiande's mother - high blood pressure, cerebral hemorrhage.

Feng Cuiying "took good care" of Lu Xiande's widowed mother, and the neighbors praised her highly. She delivered hoof and mutton soup to Lu Xiande's mother every day, and she never broke the meat.

"They all go out to work together. My son is sick like this. It is all virtuous and virtuous to help. I will definitely help take care of my old sister."

Feng Cuiying shamelessly put gold on her face.

The old lady Lu, who lived half her life without tea and food, was soon filled with riches and riches. No one knew why she had a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. Poor people can't afford to be rich.

A sinister and sophisticated murderous scheme.

Just live in the detention center, vicious old lady, be careful that the black rabbit will chop you up.

When Fang Zhengjun received a call from his son, he thought it was a train arriving: "So fast? I'll pick you up!"

His voice was already hoarse, obviously from smoking a lot of cigarettes, Fang Lingshu didn't care about his father, and asked first: "Not here yet, Dad, how is Feng Cuiying?"

Fang Zhengjun didn't realize that he was asking this: "I didn't explain anything, and the summons time has passed. I discussed it with Li Jiancheng. She was suspected of perjury before. We plan to summon and transfer to detention."

Well done, Uncle Li and Fang Daddy Lao Jiang are hotter, they don't need Fang Lingshu to remind them, they already thought that Lu Xiande's testimony was suspicious.

A pony is a pony after all, and the old horse doesn't need you to lead the way.

Fang Lingshu felt relieved: "Yes, that's what I'm talking about. My dad is still awesome, so I'll hang up." Thinking about it, he hesitated and said: "You smoke less, then Cheap cigarettes, the lungs are going to rot, okay?"

Fang Zhengjun didn't answer his words, but was a little embarrassed: "Lingling, Feng Cuiying has passed out."

"what?"

Feng Cuiying was suspected of covering up the suspect, and she could have been detained, but she refused to admit the circumstances of Luo Guishuang's fake death, and she has always acted innocent.The police told her that Luo Guishuang was still alive, and that Feng Cuiying was really a showman. She foamed at the mouth and passed out.

"She is an old man in her late [-]s. She was strictly interrogated before, and everyone's attitude was stricter..."

Fang Lingshu supported his forehead: "Dad, don't engage in violent interrogations."

"There is no violent interrogation." Fang Zhengjun was wronged: "I didn't give her water and food, and she was asked to accompany the lesbians during the interrogation."

"Have you been sent to the hospital?"

"Send it, she must be treated." Someone called Fang Zhengjun next to him, and he cut the long story short: "Let's do this first, I'm very busy here, call me when you arrive, and I will pick you up in a car."

Fang Lingshu suddenly called him urgently: "Wait, are the suspects we sent to the hospital unified on the second floor of the Armed Police Hospital?!"

"Yes."

"When was it delivered?"

"It will be delivered in the afternoon."

"No matter what! No matter what Luo Xiaoning says or begs, don't let him meet Feng Cuiying!" Fang Lingshu anxiously pulled the sheets: "Didn't Luo Xiaoning know that his grandma is next door?"

Fang Zhengjun couldn't answer for a moment: "Probably not..."

It's too late.

Half an hour later, Fang Lingshu and Zou Kaiwen received a call, and Luo Xiaoning pushed Feng Cuiying down the stairs.

He himself fell down too.

Feng Cuiying suffered a fractured cervical spine and a ruptured aorta, and Luo Xiaoning went into severe shock.

Both are being rescued.