rogue flower

Maybe it was because of drinking and blowing the wind that night, Bai Zizheng felt that he must have a fever the next morning.There was fire coming out of his throat, as if he was burning, his head was heavy and his limbs were weak, and he woke up so violently that he almost fell off the bed.Father Bai usually wakes up about ten minutes later than him. He didn't see his son come out of the room after washing up today. He thought it was because he came back late yesterday and overslept today. His son's enthusiasm for work and life, he saw Bai Zizheng lying on the head of the bed with a weak face, reaching out his hand to touch his head covered in cold sweat, and the temperature was also horribly hot, so frightened that Bai Zizheng blurted out a sentence of "fuck you", and ran out of the house. Forget yelling for the kid's mother to come and help.

Bai Zizheng got a headache from his father's loud noise, and his stomach churned uncomfortablely.Yesterday he chatted with Lao Mai until late, and he couldn't drive back after drinking. He probably caught a cold while taking a taxi on the side of the road. He didn't expect the fever to be so serious, which made him feel like he was being pulled by a tractor. It was as if it had been run over once, and I couldn't even lift my fingers.After being woken up, Baimu also ran over in a hurry, and after testing the temperature of his forehead, she also let out an "oops".Bai Zizheng opened his eyes weakly, his voice was so hoarse that he couldn't speak, he still struggled and said, "Dad, cough cough cough, take my mobile phone and help me with Captain Fu, cough cough cough, please take a leave... "He also knew that he would never want to go to work like this.

Father Bai said angrily: "You kid still wants to go to work!" Then he said to Mother Bai, "Why don't you send him to the hospital?"

Bai Zizheng interrupted him and said, "I won't go." Without giving the two of them a chance to refuse, they simply fell asleep again.

I don't know how long I slept this time, but when I woke up, I felt a little more comfortable than in the morning.Bai Zizheng saw the water cup and antipyretics on the bedside table, and remembered that he woke up in a daze once. The medicine was probably brought by his mother. For the memory related to it, I still feel that my body is heavy, but the heat has receded.Mother Bai carefully closed the curtains. At this time, there was a dim silence in the room. Bai Zizheng heard the slight sound of spatulas clashing in the kitchen, and judged that his mother should be at home. He covered his forehead with his hand, and slowly let the Wake up yourself.

He picked up the phone next to the water glass, unlocked the screen, and found that it was already four o'clock in the afternoon. If he counted according to the time he slept last night, he had been lying in bed for fifteen hours. No wonder he would Feel back pain.The status bar at the top of the screen indicated that there were two unread text messages, which were condolence messages from Gu Xiaohui and Fang Lin after they knew he was ill.Bai Zizheng opened the call log and found the call to Fu Yunsheng this morning. He was relieved a little, but when he pulled up the call list, he suddenly found that there was a call from Chi Lang at 01:30 in the afternoon. The call time was 3 minutes or so.

Bai Zizheng is [-]% sure that he has no impression of this. After thinking it over, he can only pray that Chi Lang would not spout nonsense. After all, when he calls himself, the first sentence is often surprising. Really said something that shouldn't be said, Bai Zizheng really didn't know how to explain that he still had such a good "colleague".

However, that doesn't seem like a bad thing.

An unconscious smile appeared on the corner of Bai Zizheng's mouth, but it was soon interrupted by an uncontrollable cough.

Mother Bai came out of the kitchen when she heard the commotion, and saw that he was coughing like this and was about to get off the bed, so she hurriedly stopped him and said, "Zizheng, why are you up? Why don't you put the quilt on quickly, what if you catch a cold again?" manage."

Bai Zizheng said: "Well, Mom..." He was still holding the phone in his hand, and asked in a mysterious way, "Did you answer my call?"

Mother Bai didn't think his question was so abrupt. She was so sick in the morning and she didn't forget to ask his father to ask for leave from Team Fu. Now she is only worried about whether her son's health will be too much for him to devote himself to work. , Hearing that he was coughing badly, I went to find another bottle of cough syrup before remembering to answer his question: "01:30, right? The one with the surname Chi. I'm afraid it's something at work, so I'll pick it up for you. Whatever Answer your call, don't be angry."

Bai Zizheng said, "Well, it's okay...cough, what did he say?"

Bai Mu said: "I didn't say anything. I knew you were sick, so I told you to rest well. By the way, he also said that the case has been solved, so don't worry, just rest in peace and recuperate. We'll talk about other things when he comes back."

Case broken? !

... what case?

... Zeng Qi's case? !

Maybe it was because the news was so explosive that Bai Zizheng didn't even hear the phrase "I'll talk about it when I get back" that his mother relayed.There was a bang in my mind, I just felt that all the plots were disconnected.Just stunned for a while, and finally dialed the phone back to Chi Lang directly.

The phone was picked up as soon as it rang, and it was still Chi Lang's iconic voice with a slight smile: "Hello? Xiaobai."

Bai Zizheng didn't care whether his hoarse voice could still be understood, and asked directly: "You said the case...cough cough cough, why... cough cough, what's going on?!"

Chi Lang frowned when he heard him speak. He only found out from his mother that Bai Zizheng was sick and asked for leave today at noon. He originally wanted to tell him the good news that the case was finally solved. Hearing that he was still resting, he didn't bother him. Unexpectedly, his illness was much more serious than he had imagined, and he immediately said, "Why is the cough so severe? Have you been to the hospital? Has the fever subsided?"

Bai Zizheng paused, and said, "...I'm not that delicate."

These words sounded full of coquettishness to Mother Bai, but what really caught her attention was Bai Zizheng's tone of voice when he spoke, very friendly and undefended, seemingly impatient, but in fact he was not at all unhappy Emotions, this "abnormality" made her, a mother, feel a little uneasy.Women's intuition has always been the sharpest, but because the person on the phone is a man, Bai Mu relaxed her vigilance a little.However, Chi Lang already regretted telling Bai Zizheng about the case. He couldn't resist him, so he could only briefly summarize: "We recovered the data in Tang Zeli's computer and found Zeng Qi's murder video."

Bai Zizheng said, "...a murder video?"

Chi Lang said: "Yes, he recorded all the process of beating the victim himself. Through facial comparison, it has been confirmed that the person in the video is Zeng Qi."

Bai Zizheng said, "He, ahem, why did he do that?"

Chi Lang said: "Maybe it's for the sake of recollection, is it possible that he is still waiting to turn himself in in the future? As for his motive and process of committing the crime, we are sorting out Tang Zeli's statement, and I will send you a copy later, I can't wait." Just take a look first. Take a good rest at home these two days, and don't make a special trip to the bureau just for this."

Bai Zizheng said: "That's fine." Thinking of his previous "criminal record" of overwork, he added, "You also...be careful."

Chi Lang was startled for a moment, then a soft smile appeared on the corner of his lips, and he replied softly: "I understand." Hearing that, Xu Haiyang just wanted to sigh, "Why did you suddenly change your sex and pretend to be an innocent fool?" !

Maybe it was because his tone of "I understand" was too indulgent, or because he slept hard during the day, Bai Zizheng lost the desire to continue lying down after eating the steamed eggs brought by his mother, so he simply rushed away. I took a shower, called the bureau, and was cared for by the old man Bai who came home from work, "wow, why did you get sick when my baby hit you?", and finally stuffed a piece of golden throat Put it into his mouth, sit at the table and start browsing the files sent by Chi Lang.

It is a joint investigation report on the provincial capital case and the Jinnan case.

Because Tang Zeli was no longer the focus of his attention, so Bai Zizheng directly turned the file to the part related to Zeng Qi.If the psychological tactics they adopted before were mutually beneficial, then the recovery of the video undoubtedly gave Tang Zeli a head-on blow, leaving no room for him to fight back at all.According to Tang Zeli's account, he and Zeng Qi met at the hometown meeting when they first entered school.Because the two are from the same province, and the other is a senior in the same major, Tang Zeli exchanged contact information with him and often asked him for advice on study and life issues, and the two gradually became good friends.Tang Zeli's special growth experience created his sensitive and suspicious character, and the appearance of Zeng Qi made him see the beautiful and positive side of life.The more Zeng Qi helped him, the stronger his dependence on Zeng Qi became. After his mother passed away, it was Zeng Qi who comforted him in time and gave him a helping hand.Tang Zeli thus raised him to the height of a spiritual mentor, and regarded him as the goal he yearned for and worked hard for.

But with the development of their respective life trajectories, the intersection between the two has become less and less.Feeling that he might lose his only friend, Tang Zeli sadly left Sanqing in [-] and returned to Jinnan alone.At the beginning of [-], Zeng Qi took the initiative to get in touch with Tang Zeli. He said on the phone that he had encountered some difficulties and had returned to his hometown in Xinhai. He hoped that Tang Zeli could help him take care of his mother.Unfortunately, Tang Zeli was involved in a car accident, resulting in a comminuted fracture of his left leg, and he was unable to go to Xinhai in a short time.In addition, Tang Zeli gradually became estranged from his former classmates after graduation, and had no way of knowing Zeng Qi's current situation, so he believed that he was avoiding debts after failing to start a business. Since then, the two have kept in touch intermittently.At the end of [-], Tang Zeli recovered from his leg injury, and immediately rushed to Zeng Qi's home in Xinhai after arranging work. Only then did he learn the fact that Zeng Qi "run away from home" from Zeng's mother, and Zeng Qi also Confessed to him the truth that he was terminally ill and dying soon, and asked him to hide it from his mother who didn't know it yet.In February [-], Tang Zeli came to the provincial capital to take care of Zeng Qi who was hospitalized with a lung infection.One month later, Zeng Qi passed away. Tang Zeli took away his belongings and took care of his lonely mother according to his instructions until Peng Xiuyun passed away in [-].

The "murder video" and the burned diary are important contents of Zeng Qi's relics.

The diary recorded his motive for killing, and those videos are the process of his killing.

The reason why he chose children as his targets was not because children were weak and deceptive, but because the person who infected him with AIDS was a ten-year-old child.

Zeng Qi called this child "Boy A" in his diary. Interestingly, "Boy A" is also the real culprit behind a notorious case in Japan. He is a 14-year-old boy whose name has not been released.

Not all children are angels. This is the sentence in Zeng Qi's diary that impressed Tang Zeli the most.

After the identification results came out, Zeng Qi did two things, one was to divorce Song Mingna as soon as possible, and the other was to start investigating the cause and route of his infection.

AIDS has three modes of transmission: sexual, blood and mother-to-child transmission. Zeng Qi quickly ruled out the first and third possibilities.And in the process of reminiscing, he suddenly remembered an insignificant incident - a few months ago, he helped a child who fell down on the road, but the child stabbed him hard with a needle. He ran away without looking back.

He didn't pay attention to it at the time, but thinking about it now, it was the most abnormal event he had encountered in months.Afterwards, he asked a friend who worked in the medical system to screen out a list of eligible infected people based on age and location. Coupled with the vague memory of the "one-sided relationship" a few months ago, he finally locked The true identity of "Youth A" was revealed.

"Boy A"'s mother lives as a prostitute.He doesn't know who his father is, and he's more of a natural carrier.

His favorite thing is to take the needle used by his mother and aimlessly enjoy the pain of others.

He obviously didn't remember this stranger who had been looking for him, and a playful smile appeared on his indifferent expression that didn't meet his age: "My mother is not at home today, you can go find someone else, and ask her to give you a discount another day."

That expression dropped suddenly, becoming a seed of evil in Zeng Qi's heart.

He returned to Xinhai, settled down with his mother, and took away a plastic sheet from the house.

When people encounter misfortune, they often think-why me?

Why should the rest of my life turn into an endless nightmare when someone else can have a wonderful family and a happy life?

He rented a secluded apartment in the provincial capital, changed vehicles at any time through an intermediary, prepared rope, sleeping pills and ether spray, went to the mall to buy a large size of children's clothes and a dark travel bag, and finally He spread out a map of the provincial capital on the table, and decided the location of the first crime by rolling dice.He spent two weeks planning his escape route, cameras, traffic lights, and possible witnesses. He disguised himself as a tourist who was not familiar with the place in front of the children, and became a prostitute when he hugged them. The father who returned home from servants.

No one doubted him.

Bad boys need to be punished.

He set up the video recorder, and the terrified eyes of those demons were reflected in the lens.

However, the pleasure of control and the crime of murder quickly destroyed his body. The night before he stopped breathing, he said to Tang Zeli, "Little Tang, no one will forgive me."

Tang Zeli said: "How could it be, there must be some misunderstanding between you and sister-in-law, when the illness recovers..."

Zeng Qi shook his head, his cloudy eyes were full of blood dripping shadows.Small pale hands held black and blue marks on his ankles, as if slowly dragging his soul out of his body, sinking into the scalding deep sea.

Kang Zhenying once asked Tang Zeli a question: "Do you regret it?"

Tang Zeli's response was a contemptuous sneer.

At the last moment of his life, he did the same.

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The second half of this chapter is really written in the second half...