Criminal Investigation: Forbidden Rose

"In addition to the few children in Yanquan City, I also asked other people. Basically, it is certain that part of what the little glasses said is true-that night, Shao Yuan first found that the window beside his bed suddenly dripped water. There was a handprint of a 'child' on the window, and that handprint was wiped away, and when he opened the window, there was no trace of anyone on the snow outside."

"Shao Yuan's narrative should be true from his perspective."

"The temperature difference between indoor and outdoor is large, and it is normal for frost to form on the inside window. Shao Yuan felt 'water dripping down', it must be that the frost on the window melted, and it melted into the shape of a handprint. If someone puts the warm palm outside the door If you paste the window, it is possible to form such a handprint inside the room." Shao Lin analyzed, "However, Shao Yuan said that there are no footprints on the snow outside the window. Then we can be sure that this person did not walk over. Before and after There is no one around, so how did this handprint come from? It must have come from the sky."

"I looked at their dormitory schedule. Well, for the convenience of management in their training camp, all students live in one building. The boys on the first floor and the girls on the second floor. Chen Lingling and that mushroom head lived above Shao Yuan's head. Then this Do you still need to guess?"

"Xia Yi, do you still remember that day we went to the bus station to pick up Shao Yuan?" Shao Lin turned his head and said, "The little girl with the mushroom head breathed wildly into her palm as soon as she got off the bus, saying that it was too cold, and then Chen Lingling took good care of her, unpacked a pack of self-heating stickers shaped to be stuffed into gloves, and told her to put on the heated gloves quickly."

Xia Yi: "..." At that time, he was so focused on Shao Yuan that he didn't remember such details at all.

Shao Lin shook his head: "So, that mushroom head has a pair of heating gloves that can stick to the baby's hot spots. This is also normal. How can Yan'an be as cold in Yan'an in winter? Little girls who are afraid of cold always have these things."

"But," Yan Jingjing still felt the hair on her back, "Didn't Shao Yuan also emphasize that this is a child's handprint? A child younger than them?"

"Heating source problem. Think about it, a heated glove hangs from the second floor and presses it on the window on the first floor. The heating source of this kind of glove is usually in the palm, and then a little out from the base of the five fingers. The area where the window frost melts must be It is smaller than the area of ​​the glove itself. Therefore, this handprint must be smaller than the hand of the mushroom head."

"I have a problem relying on those little bastards!" Xia Yi was dumbfounded, "When did you find out?!"

"As soon as Chen Lingling said they didn't quarrel, I thought there was something wrong." Shao Lin smiled.This kind of kid lied in front of him, no matter how calm he pretended to be, it was like paper.

"This kind of female classmate who is beautiful, good at studying, and winning prizes in competitions probably has some privileges in the school. She is either the class monitor or the student union cadre. Look at those people, they all have to look at her face before opening their mouths. .It’s obviously something hidden, it’s for nothing.”

"Then why didn't you say it earlier!"

"It's all at this point, I don't have time to worry about who is scaring people with gloves. These little bastards may have really scared Shao Yuan with the 'Tongtong' incident, but I don't think it has anything to do with his disappearance." Shao Lin Frowning, "I confirmed with the class teacher that the four of them were studying hard the afternoon Shao Yuan left. It was the first time for everyone to come to Yan'an, so it's impossible to plan another kidnapping on the mountain, right? They scared Shao Yuan It should be because of that little game of truth or dare."

Shao Lin stopped suddenly and turned his head abruptly: "Wait, Jingjing is right."

"What?" Yan Jingjing was flattered, "Me? What did I just say? Take the Buddhist beads?!"

"If Shao Yuan didn't have some definite clues, he couldn't skip class and go up the mountain." Shao Lin finally realized, "According to normal logic, a handprint should not be enough to make Shao Yuan go up the mountain. He has been going to the library for the past few days. I went to the library for self-study, and went to the library once before going up the mountain. He must have discovered something in the library management!"

"Jingjing, follow the search and rescue team first, and wait for my news."

The two turned their heads and went straight to the library.

The main library of Yan University is divided into five areas, which are as big as a maze.Unfortunately, except for the location of the entrance and exit, and the presence of cameras on a few of the more precious collections, the monitoring coverage is not comprehensive. Xia Yi was unable to find out what Shao Yuan was doing in the library management.

He had no choice but to take Shao Yuan's photo and ask around in the library.Fortunately, there was a big librarian who stayed at the school for winter vacation and said she remembered the boy.

"He came and asked me how to find a book."

The two said in unison: "What book???"

The administrator explained: "I don't know the title of the book. What he gave me was a serial number, which was copied on a small piece of paper." The Yanda Library has a rich collection and has its own book numbering system. It's just a bunch of gibberish.

"Then do you remember?"

"How can I remember the number, but looking at the beginning of the number, I know that the book is on the second floor of Area C, and it is only for library collection. I also taught him how to use the remote control bookshelf over there!" The librarian said with a smile. The police went downstairs, "I thought it was strange at the time, how could a child who came to participate in the winter vacation training class be interested in the books here, and most college students don't come here."

It turned out that the second basement floor of Area C was the collection of school magazines.From the establishment of the school to the present, the publications printed by the school - school magazine, academic excellent papers, club works, school newspaper, etc. - have been kept here as backups that cannot be borrowed, just like a sealed time capsule.

With a "ding", the elevator door opened.

Xia Yi only felt a scent of books and ink soaked in by the heating blowing towards his face.The second basement floor is quiet, there is no one there, the carpet is vacuumed very clean, but there are rows of iron racks for collections, which look lifeless.

In order to save space, these bookshelves are movable: each row of iron shelves is marked according to the year, seamlessly arranged vertically, and students need to use the console on the side to move these iron shelves, so as to open a passable passage between the bookshelves .

Xia Yi took two steps casually: "Which bookshelf did he open at that time?"

The administrator spread his hands innocently: "I don't remember, I taught him how to use this machine at that time, but to be fair, almost no one comes to this floor. Besides, it's already a holiday now."

"You mean, if Shao Yuan was the last person to use this bookshelf, it should stay where he opened it?"

The administrator nodded.

Shao Lin walked towards the opened passage, and found that the index board read [XXXX.09-XXXX.06], which was almost ten years ago, and the commemorative publications of the school for a total of two school years were stored here.

Xia Yi suddenly remembered: "By the way, in XXXX, are you still studying at Yanda University?"

"Yes." Shao Lin walked through the bookshelf, raised his head and carefully scanned the carefully edited school magazines, and suddenly felt an inexplicable strangeness in his heart, "But I went abroad in my junior year, and the 2+2 project is only in Yanda University. Study for two years."

"Xishan Tongtong, did it happen when you were in school? Is it possible that some related things were recorded in the school magazine during this period?"

"I never heard of it when I was in school." Shao Lin shook his head, "It was when I came to Yanda to work last year that I heard that some students played that game."

There are left and right sides of the bookshelf aisle. Xia Yi and Shao Lin are in charge of one bookshelf, and they searched one by one, looking for traces of being turned over.

All the publications are covered with plastic sealant, which are neatly arranged in order according to the code.Xia Yi had sharp eyes, and when he carefully scanned a row of bibliographies, he suddenly realized: "There is a book whose number is wrong!"

Coincidentally, that book was still placed at the end of a bookshelf. It was very likely that someone took it away from the neat serial number, and when it was returned, it didn't remember where it was before, so it was simply stuffed on the tail.In the library management, the administrator will organize the bookshelves regularly to ensure that all the books are arranged in order of number, that is to say, this book in reverse order should have been read recently!

Shao Lin also came over.

It was an in-house publication of the Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences of Yanda University, called "Inner View".This publication is an old tradition of the Academy of Social Sciences. The publication focuses on some humanities and social science reviews written by students, as well as essays related to psychology and growth. One publication will be published every semester.

Xia Yi glanced at the catalog, his heart skipped a beat, and he vaguely felt that something was wrong: "Wait, your article is included in this book?!"

Everything came so suddenly that Shao Lin thought he heard it wrong: "What?"

But in the catalog, there is indeed an article: "On the Electra Complex-Boys, Fathers, and Umbilical Cord Blood", the author is Shao Lin from the Psychology Department of the XXXX Academy of Social Sciences.

"Looking at the time, it seems to be your second semester of sophomore year." Xia Yi turned to the corresponding inner page of the article, "I said, I know every word when you cultural people make a title, so why don't you put it together?" I know what I'm talking about hahahahaha!"

Shao Lin: "..."

The memories of the early days flooded his mind with a "boom" like a flood gate. Shao Lin was almost petrified in place, waiting for a social death visible to the naked eye.

Xia Yi glanced at it roughly. On the whole, this is an essay with some psychological concepts.

The article begins with a brief introduction to the Electra complex, which is the "Electra complex" in psychology, and some related theories of Freud.Then, the author mainly discussed that the Electra plot is not only aimed at girls, but also occurs in boys.Shao Lin analyzed himself as an example—the image of his father is tall and stalwart, but he seldom accompanies him, which creates a desire for his father, which will be projected onto other older male "mentors".

Shao Lin also mentioned his "extremely bad" younger brother, who did everything he could to win his father's attention when he was a baby, and even regarded his elder brother as a "competition object" for his father's love. According to Freud's theory, this is the He became a "rival in love".

Among them, the last paragraph of this article was highlighted with a pencil.

[Life may be time and time again, escaping and returning to childhood, but one day, I will kill that boy with my own hands.I thought, I'll bury him under the twin trees in Dew Lake.I love the way those vines entangle for a lifetime and grow old together, and I love the radiance of its empty heart at the beginning of the sun.I'll be there, dead, and reborn. 】

Xia Yi's eyes turned cold.

But Shao Lin looked at the hypocrisy in the school magazine, and was so embarrassed that he only wanted to die where he was.He subconsciously grabbed Xia Yi's hand, and explained in a tone of collapse: "I have never submitted a manuscript for this article! This is an essay I took in the "Child Developmental Psychology" class. The homework requirement is to reflect on my own growth. Some dependent emotions going through the process! As I'm writing this I'm—I—”

Xia Yi didn't have time to think about that, so he stretched out his index finger and pointed at the highlighted sentence: "What are you talking about, where are you going to bury the boy? Where is this twin tree?"

"It's just a metaphor!" Shao Lin felt a deep suffocation, "It means that I want to strangle the self who was addicted to childhood, and I didn't bury any boy at all!"

"I know, I know," Xia Yi comforted repeatedly, "I mean, does the twin tree mentioned in your article really have this place?"

Shao Lin seemed to have been hit on the head by a heavy object, and he didn't recover for a long time: "You mean, Shao Yuan—impossible?!"

"Is there? Is there such a tree, Shao Lin? Is it possible that Shao Yuan read this article and got in touch with Tong Tong, and took what you said as a clue?" Xia Yi asked urgently, "Think about it, but if anyone writes such an article, Shao Yuan may not be impulsive after reading it. But it's you who signed it, how could he not be curious?"

Shao Lin looked at him blankly and remained silent for a long time before his Adam's apple moved: "There really is such a place."

Lushui Lake is a small lake further south of Xiaoqiu Peak.

Influenced by the books he read at that time, Shao Lin felt that Thoreau could reflect on his inner conflicts by Walden Pond. Find a secluded place to meditate, read a book, and be alone.

On the Lushui Lake, there are two big trees—Shao ​​Lin doesn't know what kind they are—but they are entangled together like twists and turns, as if they are symbiotic.What's even more amazing is that there is a "love heart"-shaped hole in the gap between the two trees. Every morning when the sun rises, the sunlight just passes through that position.Soon, this became Shao Lin's favorite place to go.

"Small team, small team, listen to me!" Xia Yi quickly communicated the progress with the search and rescue team, and asked people to find the "twin tree" that Shao Lin mentioned.

"Are we going too?"

Shao Lin leaned against the big bookshelf, slowly sat down on his knees, and wiped his face with his hands weakly: "Let me stroke it."

Obviously, it is impossible for Shao Yuan to find this school magazine for no reason. Someone specially gave him a specific number, and even highlighted the "place where the boy was buried".But who is this person?And for what?

"Do you have anything to do with this Tongtong?" Xia Yi couldn't help asking again, "Don't lie to me?"

Shao Lin almost gritted his teeth and said, "No, yes, relationship, connection!"

But soon he looked elsewhere: "But before I went abroad, I did bury something under that tree..."

Xia Yi frowned: "What did you bury?"

Before Shao Lin could answer, Xia Yi's mobile phone and pager rang at the same time, and the search and rescue frontline called a series of life-threatening calls——

"We found the tree! It seems that someone has turned over the tree, and there are scattered footprints beside it!"

"Team leader, come here quickly, a corpse was really dug up under the tree!"