Criminal Psychology

"Consultant Lin, I... what can I do?"

Before Lin Chen left just now, he specially ordered him to go down the mountain together. Li Nuo was excited and at a loss.

He stood under the hill, breathing in the fresh air around him rapidly, but the disgusting smell of blood still lingered.He didn't even dare to close his eyes, because once he calmed down, the great fear of death would come back, so he could only desperately follow the person in front, lest he be left behind.

"Help me find a room." Lin Chen walked to the car at the foot of the mountain when he came, turned his head, and said.

Li Nuo was stunned for a while, the consultant in front of him seemed not to be affected by the previous brutal and bloody scene, except for his pale face, there was no abnormality at all.But there were still some moments when Li Nuo felt that grief was deeply rooted in his bones, and emotions that could easily find a channel to express were nothing at all.

So he sniffed and hurriedly asked, "What kind of room do you want?"

At the same time, the old police officer in the car at the foot of the mountain hurriedly pushed the door down and asked Lin Chen nervously, "Did you get caught?"

Lin Chen shook his head at the old police officer first, then turned to him and said, "Anything is fine."

Hearing this, the old man seemed to have guessed something, a terrified expression soon appeared on his face, and he was also deeply guilty, his back was about to bend.Li Nuo didn't know what happened in the middle, but it must not be a good thing.

Just when Li Nuo thought that Lin Chen would pass by the old man with a nod indifferently, he was surprised to see Lin Chen stop in his tracks.

The young police consultant stood in front of the old man, looking tall. He bowed slightly, held the cracked hand of the old man with one hand, and patted the other man's back vigorously with the other hand. His tone was calm, but with The power to calm people's hearts: "Do you remember what I said just now? I am serious. It was not your fault. There are many people who should take responsibility for this, and it is not your turn yet."

The old man trembled when he heard the words, and looked up to the direction of the top of the mountain, his eyes were cloudy and seemed to be glistening with tears.

Lin Chen didn't say anything more when he clicked. He opened the back door of the car and took out a stack of documents packed in kraft paper bags.

Li Nuo noticed that Shen Lian's name was written on the paper bag, and he shuddered again, only to see Lin Chen looking back quickly.That look made him wake up instantly. It turned out that Mr. Consultant said to find a room, which meant to find it immediately.

He hurried back to the mountain, although the surrounding mountain wind was calm, but he became nervous, and the brown blood stains on the old man's neck appeared again and again in his mind.But now is not the time, he suppressed the desire to vomit again, looked around, the old lady who was fanning the wind under the tree had disappeared, maybe she went up the mountain to watch the excitement.

In his memory, there was a hut where villagers piled thatch and sundries in this area, so he ran up the path on the right, and he saw that hut.But different from memory, this simple brick and tile hut is too dilapidated, without even a door.

He turned back to Lin Chen again: "I'd better find a resident's house."

Lin Chen shook his head: "It's fine here."

Li Nuo didn't know what Lin Chen was going to do, but he still rushed into the room first, and then took half a step back due to the filthy smell of thatch inside.

With a snap, a yellowish incandescent lamp was lit, but the light could only illuminate a small piece of broken brick and stone on the ground, and the whole space still looked gray.

Lin Chen didn't know when he stood at the door with a calm expression, and put his hand down from the switch on the wall. For a moment, Li Nuo felt that the dilapidated and leaky room in front of him was a true portrayal of this psychological consultant.

However, Lin Chen's action quickly drove this idea out of his mind. Mr. Consultant quickly entered the room, took out the papers in the information bag one by one, and randomly placed them on the haystack. , on broken cupboards, on the floor...

That is all the materials about Shen Lian saved in the personal file, from birth records to medical examination reports, from transcripts to teacher comments.There are even a few crayon drawings and handmade works that are probably submitted for the school's quality education evaluation.

One by one, it is a clear track of important events in a person's life, accompanied by Lin Chen's continuous bending movements, which are slowly presented in this sweltering and humid dilapidated room.

At the end, a large white ocean made of paper appeared in front of Li Nuo's eyes. When the wind blew, under the dim light, there seemed to be ripples.

Lin Chen took half a step back, leaned on a low brick with one hand, and sat on it.

Li Nuo tried his best not to let himself be struck by the connection between the low brick wall and the fence of the cattle pen, and he did not think about the past use of this dilapidated house. He followed Lin Chen's line of sight and looked back at the different shades of paper in front of him again. Material ocean, thinking about whether to go out and return this space to Lin Chen.

He took two steps back silently, stepped on a broken brick, and unexpectedly made a clanging sound, breaking the silence.

Lin Chen followed suit, and Li Nuo hurriedly said, "I'm sorry, Consultant Lin, I'll be leaving right away."

"Wait……"

Li Nuo raised his head suddenly, but when he looked at Lin Chen, Lin Chen was not looking at him.

The consultant sitting on the pile of bricks lowered his head slightly, and subconsciously held the phone in his hand. His black hair drooped, and a section of his fair neck was exposed above his neckline. Wanting to dial someone's phone, and showing a look that might be classified as weak or missing, and then paused for a few seconds, Lin Chen actually put away the phone and looked at him again.

Lin Chen's eyes were dark, and he said to him: "Stay here and talk to me."

……

City Bureau command room.

Xing Conglian still maintained the same standing position as when he entered the house. He was holding the mobile phone. The content of the previous call was that the traffic police in Yulin District had found the van abandoned by Shen Lian, and now police officers from the forensic department had rushed there.During the short time when he took the phone from his ear, he inadvertently glanced at the call records. Lin Chen's name was on the last frame of the phone page, and the lower half was covered by the number keys, revealing only half of his name.

Xing Conglian had an inexplicable emotion in his heart that he didn't even have time to think about carefully. His fingertips gently stroked Lin Chen to get half of the name, but he didn't dial the phone in the end.

……

"Say... what are you talking about?" Li Nuo carefully avoided the papers on the ground, and didn't dare to get too close to Lin Chen.

"Ask me questions, anything."

Lin Chen sat on the fence like this, with his toes pointing to the ground, and his heels were some distance from the ground, looking like an ordinary student.

"Why do you want me to ask questions, won't I bother you?" Li Nuo asked courageously.

"No, because asking questions is the best heuristic strategy to solve problems." Lin Chen replied.

Li Nuo squatted down, it was difficult to understand what a heuristic strategy was, and it was probably something in psychology.But since Lin Chen asked him to ask questions, and he had a lot of questions in his mind, why didn't he ask?

"Why did you put out Shen Lian's files, and what are you going to do?" In the quiet and dilapidated hut, Li Nuo asked, pointing to the large pile of paper materials.

"In front of you is Shen Lian's past, and I want to calculate her future."

"How do you calculate this? Based on Shen Lian's personal file, you can know what she will do next?" Li Nuo asked in surprise, but he suddenly remembered that Lin Chen could accurately locate the nursing home on the top of the mountain, and immediately wanted to answer what he just asked. The question was swallowed back.However, to his surprise, Lin Chen answered him very patiently: "Infer her personality traits by understanding her past, and use her personality traits to judge her logical way of thinking and behavior characteristics in a given environment. Human choices seem to be random and unreasonable, as if each of us has free will, but in fact it is just an illusion created by the person above."

When Lin Chen spoke, he raised his index finger and pointed to the ceiling. Li Nuo knew that the person Lin Chen was talking about above was God.He shuddered, the wick was dazzling, he couldn't help but said: "I'm a materialist, this sounds too mysterious."

"Who says it's not?" Lin Chen said lightly.

At this moment, Li Nuo's attention was drawn to a few paintings Shen Lian had drawn when he was a child in the corner, and he suddenly remembered the scene of the live broadcast, when Lin Chen and Li Jingtian faced each other on both sides of the wooden table.He watched the live broadcast the whole time, and to sum it up, Lin Chen asked Li Jingtian to draw a picture, and then miraculously guessed the exact location where Li Jingtian had hidden the criminal evidence.

Thinking of this, he asked, "Those pictures! Can you tell where Shen Lian will go now through those pictures?"

Lin Chen also looked over: "It's Shen Lian's childhood works. Paintings can indeed project children's hearts, but unfortunately, they can't." Lin Chen stepped off the pile of bricks and walked through the gap between the paper and the paper. Xiaojing picked up the painting on the ground and looked back at him as if he could see through people's hearts, "The success of the painting test for Li Jingtian is largely due to modern scientific methods that you have not seen, pressure sensors, etc. Wait, now that Shen Lian is not in front of me, I can't stimulate her with various questions to make her respond."

"You mean, it's more difficult now than it was then?" Li Nuo scratched his head.

"Yes, and Shen Lian is far more dangerous than Li Jingtian, this is the difference between terrorists and ordinary psychopaths." Lin Chen finished his answer very simply, but then looked at Li Nuo, as if waiting for the next question.

Li Nuo took a breath, and the crazy killing scenes in the nursing home reappeared in front of his eyes. Those scenes kept recurring in his mind, like a nightmare that he would never get rid of for a lifetime.He shook his head desperately, and tried to calm himself down with questions. He pointed to the picture in Lin Chen's hand and asked, "What was Shen Lian like in his heart when he was a child?"

It was a sketch, in which there were a bunch of children sitting in a room, it seemed that Shen Lian should have drawn a birthday party, with messy cakes on the table.The picture looks dark, which makes people feel very uncomfortable.

"She is very talented. She drew this when she was 8 years old." Lin Chen put the painting randomly on a pile of haystacks half the height of a person, staring at the drawing paper and said, "The house she drew is not a two-dimensional plane. She uses overlapping strategies, omits invisible lines, and even uses perspective when expressing the structure of the house, which reflects that the objects she draws are extended in three-dimensional space. She is a genius, or in other words, her space The thinking ability surpasses children of the same age." Lin Chen said to himself, "This reflects that her IQ is not low, so I doubt her low learning ability before the second year of junior high school. After the second year of junior high school, her grades have improved by leaps and bounds. From this abnormal interval, I deduced what Shen Lian might have experienced, which led to her major transformation."

"And her bad experience was related to the nursing home?" Li Nuo asked.

"No, it's more complicated." Lin Chen replied.

Li Nuo was a little stunned, but Lin Chen's dark and far-reaching gaze struck again, and he could only continue to ask questions: "I think she looks very withdrawn and scary in this picture, so could it be that her poor academic performance is because she was rejected by others at school?" Squeeze out, will she go to school to retaliate against teachers and classmates?"

After Li Nuo asked all the questions, he realized his arrogance. How could Lin Chen not think of things that he could have guessed? Lin Chen must have ruled out this possibility!He thought so, but saw Lin Chen turned his head and said seriously: "You think so?"

Li Nuo nodded, not knowing how he became the one to answer the questions.

Lin Chen asked: "If I told you that the person Shen Lian hates very much is her former neighbor Chen Jianguo, would you guess that Shen Lian is going to take revenge on Chen Jianguo?"

"That must be revenge on the neighbor. Where does her neighbor work? Do you want to notify the person concerned to take precautions?"

"Why is it impossible for Shen Lian to take revenge on Zhou Rui Pharmaceutical, after all, the other party ruined her good deed?"

Li Nuo was asked again: "It's also possible, very likely!"

After he finished speaking, Lin Chen suddenly turned his head and looked at him with burning eyes.

Li Nuo was taken aback, and quickly apologized: "I... I'm sorry, I really don't understand this."

"No, you understand the psychology of the public very well, thank you." Lin Chen lowered his head, took out the phone from his pocket, and dialed it.

"Do you know where Shen Lian will go?" Li Nuo asked.

"To a place where she thinks, I don't think she's going."