sincerity of lies

"You want to report someone poisoning in Qin University High School?" the policeman said.

Ji Xun was in the police station. The policeman who received him was the policeman who went to the attached middle school yesterday to deal with Chen Ya's jumping from the building. His surname was Qin, police officer Qin.From Ji Xun's point of view, the other party is quite young. First of all, of course, the other party's eyebrows are correct, with a dignified look, and second, there is a circle of fluff on the other party's mouth that is not enough to be a beard.

The circle of fluff swayed leisurely with Officer Qin's exhalation when he spoke, just like the other party's leisurely attitude.

"Yes." Ji Xun said.

"The police department has procedures for handling cases."

"of course."

"That is to say, ordinary people and students," he glanced at Ji Xun, "it's best to have solid evidence when you come to report a case, and you can't think about it all at once, otherwise you will abuse police resources and delay other cases. Crack it."

"Of course." Ji Xun paused, "Don't worry, I know, I'm a student of the Capital University."

"The Metropolitan University?"

Ji Xun saw the policeman in front of him showing a surprised expression.

"I also graduated from OUHK, what grade are you in now?"

"Big……"

"I just graduated not long ago, and I'm still familiar with it in school."

"Senior year." Ji Xun reluctantly swallowed back the "senior year" that he was planning to coax.

"It doesn't look like an internship is nearing graduation. Sophomores should focus on their studies." Officer Qin said earnestly.

"..." I couldn't continue talking.Ji Xun had no choice but to say, "Comrade police, let's continue talking about the case."

"Okay, back to the case, just call me senior."

"Let's call the police comrades. The seniors are law-abiding, and we must avoid melon fields and plums." Ji Xun finished with a smirk, pulled himself together, and began to describe the whole story of the poisoning case, "It was the mineral water bucket of Class E that was poisoned. At present, the buckets should be controlled by the school. I can’t confirm whether it has been cleaned and disinfected; secondly, I saw the elders of the middle school attached to Qin University went to Qin University, and told a professor of Qin University that they would do a toxicology experiment, and they met in the lobby of the complex building.”

"That is to say, the physical evidence is not in your hands?"

"Although there is no direct physical evidence, I have witnesses." Ji Xun said, "I am the witness."

"Besides you?"

"I think it will be clear if we go to collect the urine of the students in class E for drug testing. It's just a few reagent strips, Comrade Police."

"That means there are no other witnesses. What else..." Police officer Qin sighed, with concern in his voice but answered irrelevantly, "Physical examinations are necessary. The school can care about students' physical conditions. It must be a good thing to take the initiative to help with physical examinations. You Don't think too much about it, don't think of bad things just because of the physical examination. If there is, our police will definitely follow up in time."

"..." Ji Xun was speechless for a while.

Speechless for a long time, he asked back: "Don't you think the E class of the physical examination is strange? If it is an ordinary physical examination, why don't you start from the A class?"

"Because Class E is making a fuss."

"..."

"Brother didn't mean that." Police officer Qin realized that he had slipped his tongue, rubbing his eyebrows, "Brother means that the school should also be flexible, and whichever class is more urgent, give priority to which class."

At this point, the conversation couldn't continue, and the two of them just looked at each other awkwardly for a while.

Officer Qin turned his head to face the computer, and the clumsy mouse made the sound of a mouse gnawing on wood in his hand.He printed out a form to Ji Xun:

"Okay, I basically understand what you said... Come on, fill out this form first. We, the police, will definitely take what you said to heart. Don't worry, don't be too anxious, okay? There will be results Well, I will inform you in time. By the way, the OUHK has arranged for you to have a physical examination this year, right?"

"Physical examination, what?"

Officer Qin seemed to be rambling.

"Nowadays, the physical examination not only checks the physical health, but also pays attention to the mental problems. I think the attached middle school will do a better job this time, right? If you think it's troublesome to go to the hospital, there are simple ones on the Internet and in books. I usually don’t say this to other people, but we are all from the Capital University, so we can be regarded as our own people..."

"Senior, do you think I've been victimized by paranoia?" Anyway, it's meaningless to talk any more, and Ji Xun simply became less serious.

"I think you're thinking too much. A school is a school, not a den of criminals."

"Ha, I've filled it out." Ji Xun handed the form back to Police Officer Qin, but instead of hanging down to his side, Ji Xun raised his retracted hand, and tapped his slender fingertips on his temples, "If I want to If there are many, then senior, you may think too little."

He sarcastically:

"Common name, missing a string."

……

Ji Xun quickly came out of the police station, and Zhou was waiting for him outside. The sun was shining at noon, and his forehead and hair were wet with sweat, sticking to his head.Ji Xun took two quick steps and stood one step forward, artificially creating a shadow, and fanning the hot and sweaty classmate Zhou with his hand.

"Let's go, it's a waste of time to come back here."

"The police don't believe your words? Do you think there is insufficient evidence?" Classmate Zhou raised his face, "I have a bottle of poisoned water with me, you can take it out."

"I don't think there is enough evidence. Maybe the teachers in your school have already done it in advance...Of course, I'm not talking about giving money and things." Ji Xun explained, "I should tell the police about this first. , and persuaded. In this way, the police have a preconceived impression, and naturally they no longer believe the students who go to him later. After all, in terms of everyone's stereotyped understanding of authority, of course the teacher is infinitely greater than the students."

"Is this the policeman?" Zhou asked, "If the policeman is like this, it seems that we can't expect to get the truth from him at all."

"...Of course not." Ji Xun, "He is an example, not representative of all. He is too young, and his brain is not very good."

"You are younger than him." Classmate Zhou said objectively.

"But I'm also much smarter than him." Ji Xun said to himself, "In two years, I will become a policeman, and I will become the kind of policeman who never misses a truth or a justice."

"At that time, when you saw me, you knew what a policeman should look like."

"Oh?" There was a sneering smile on the corner of Zhou's mouth, "I can't imagine it."

"Tsk, that will let you see how powerful I am now..." He was still joking for a second, but in the next second, he put away his smile and looked coldly at Zhou, "I guessed from the beginning that you knew someone was in the water. Poisoning... But, how did you guess?"

He looked into the eyes of classmate Zhou, those eyes were as deep as night, filled with hatred as thick as a swamp.

murderous eyes.

"How did you guess it, and how did you think of it, to fix the evidence in time?"

The next day, Ji Xun, who hadn't slept well intermittently, got up early in the morning.

The signing will be at noon, which means that he still has the whole morning to do other things.He ate breakfast in the hotel's cafeteria, pressing his stomach while eating.

Maybe it was because he was not used to not eating breakfast for a long time, and of course it might be a little nervous tension. All in all, his stomach was twitching faintly, which seemed to bring some ominous omens, indicating that this would not be a pleasant day.

After breakfast, Ji Xun took a taxi to Guangrun Community—the community where he once sent Zhou classmate home in 07.

The community is still there, and generally not much has changed.Zhou Zhaonan's door also bears the traces of time, the owner's house has not been renovated in these years.Ji Xun took a deep breath, as if his stomach would not hurt, he rang the doorbell.

"Who?"

It was an elderly woman who opened the door, she was Zhou Zhaonan's mother.She is old, and her face has become a wrinkled fruit skin. Some people, the older they are, the more kind they look, even if they are shrunken, they still have a kind of clumsy cuteness; The wrinkled lines hide treachery, and even the corner of the eye seems to have a greasy light that hurts others and enriches oneself.

"Hello." Ji Xun said, "I'm here to inquire about something...about Huo Ranyin."

About the "Classmate Zhou" in the second year of high school.

He entered the door, sat on the sofa, and listened to Zhou Zhaonan's mother's ramblings. When you get old, you talk a lot... During the interval, he remembered the conversation he had with classmate Zhou that day.

"Police...brother." Classmate Zhou said the title that he had not said before in a flat tone, "You are really smart."

"I want to kill him."

"So I made a poisoning plan to buy drugs. But Xu Shijin seems to have stolen it."

"You want to kill him, who is 'he'?" Ji Xun asked urgently.

This was the first time that Classmate Zhou called him "Brother Policeman", and it was also the first time that he admitted to him that he had murderous intentions. He thought—he was sure—that he had broken through Classmate Zhou's defenses!

But he was wrong.

Classmate Zhou looked at him coldly.

That wasn't the look of a person whose defenses had been breached, it was just the look of an enemy who finally admitted his opponent.

"It doesn't matter who he is..." Classmate Zhou said, "He always likes to hide in dark corners."

Is it the one who snatched Zhou's classmate?Ji Xun thought.There is no love and hate for no reason, and the person who can be so missed by classmate Zhou must be someone who has had violent conflicts with classmate Zhou.

"It's dark, it's dirty, it's soaked in mud, it's covered in bugs."

Classmate Zhou described 'him' in such a contemptuous tone.

"He was always silent."

"Relying on the illusion of silence and cowardice, he escaped the punishment of the law.

"He deserves to be tried."

"If he's dead, he won't have to talk, which is good for everyone."

"...that child, just came to our house and couldn't make a sound."

This sentence brought back Ji Xun's thoughts, and Ji Xun looked at Zhou Zhaonan's mother who was chattering.

"We thought he was dumb. After checking and checking, the hospital said that his vocal cords are fine, but he just doesn't speak. What do you think is wrong? Outsiders can't figure it out, so we thought I was mean to him." Zhou The mother made a bitter face, "It's obviously his own fault! This is not his only quirk, he doesn't cover the quilt in winter, but sleeps in a down jacket, and he likes to open the window, and there is no air conditioner in his small room. , I don’t know how many times I’ve caught a cold, it’s because I talked about it later that I made him correct it..."

When Huo Ranyin first arrived at Zhou Zhaonan's house, his parents had just suffocated to death due to gas poisoning. He was afraid of this, so he didn't dare to cover the quilt.

And later, when he was repeatedly oppressed by adoptive relatives who didn't know or didn't care, he changed again and began to touch suffocation...

Ji Xun quickly left Zhou's mother's house.

With the address he got from Zhou's mother, he came to the place where Huo Ranyin used to live, an old community called Meili Lane.Over the years, this used to be one of the best residences in Qin City and has lost the aura of the past, but from the remaining scenery in the community, we can still see a little bit of prosperity.

According to the address given by Zhou Zhaonan's mother, Ji Xun found the house where Huo Ranyin's parents lived.

7 501 #

The jujube-colored anti-theft door is like an iron general guarding the entrance, and the thick dust accumulated on the porch stone indicates that it has been a long time, and no one has stepped into this place again.

Ji Xun pried open the door.

As soon as the door was opened, the long-accumulated dust and rot inside were like a cloud of gray mist, spreading its teeth and claws. Ji Xun covered his mouth and nose with his sleeve, and waited at the door for as much fresh air as possible. Some, and then, stepped in.

Since the house has not been rented or sold, the furniture and furnishings inside should still be the same as before.These furniture are covered with thick white cloth to keep out the dust.

At a glance, it looks like a house full of plains.

Ji Xun went all the way inward from the entrance, and walked into the kitchen first.

The kitchen was cleaned very clean, and the gas valve could still be seen in the open cupboard, which was within easy reach of a child.It no longer serves any purpose, but the air pipe is still lying limply on the gray gilt-edged brick floor like a dead snake.

He went into the bedroom again.

From the master bedroom of Huo Ranyin's parents to the study, and then to Huo Ranyin's room.

He uncovered a corner of the white cloth on the bed, revealing a blue and white headboard with a pattern of stars and moons. On the left side of the bed board is a corner desk next to the window, and on the right side is a wardrobe.

This is Huo Ranyin's room. Ji Xun didn't pass by like the rooms outside. Instead, he lifted the white cloth on various furniture one by one. He opened the drawer of the desk, but the drawer was empty, and there was nothing in it. After tidying up, he went to open the closet again, and there was a flowered quilt in the closet. Ji Xun's eyes glanced casually over the quilt, but he immediately sensed something was wrong from the image that passed over his retina.

His gaze was fixed on the quilt, and he took out the quilt stored in the cabinet, shook it out, and saw that the flowered quilt was covered with centipedes.

A centipede stitched with long and short needles and threads.

These centipedes are so densely distributed on the quilt that it is almost impossible to see a piece of intact backside that is bigger than the palm of a child. There are only threads of different colors, new and old, sewing and sewing this broken quilt.

But how could a quilt be broken into such a shape?

Why should the quilt that was broken into such a shape be sewn up and put away?

This quilt was placed in Huo Ranyin's bedroom, and the back also had a cartoon pattern. It should be the quilt that Huo Ranyin made back then... He turned the quilt over and saw that the quilt had a smooth edge, which looked like a hole caused by a sharp weapon.

Who cut the back with a sharp weapon?

This question popped up in Ji Xun's mind, and then he got the answer.

... Huo Ranyin.

Why did Huo Ran crazily scratch the back?

…Because of anger, this action represents anger.

Why was the broken quilt still stuffed in Huo Ranyin's closet after being sewn and sewn again?Was it Huo Ranyin who sewed the quilt?

... No, it's not.

Ji Xun suddenly realized one point, one point he had been ignoring all along, one point he had deduced in the past that was completely wrong.He always thought that Huo Ranyin's tendency to suffocation originated from his parents' gas poisoning deaths...but no, it was earlier.

Holding the broken quilt in his hand, combined with all the signs of information given by Zhou Zhaonan's mother just now, Ji Xun suddenly became enlightened, and felt a cramping pain in his stomach the moment he knew the truth.

In addition to gas, quilts can also suffocate people.

Probably these quilts, when Huo Ranyin was a child, on this bed, his parents covered his mouth and nose again and again.The shadow cast by this leads to Huo Ranyin's tendency to suffocate.Only in this way can it explain why Huo Ran didn't dare to put on the quilt at all when he went to Zhou Zhaonan's house.

He is afraid of the quilt.

Do Huo Ranyin's parents want to suffocate the child with a quilt?

No.

Zhou Zhaonan's mother's voice reappeared in Ji Xun's ear:

"That child, like a mute, can't hear the sound all day long..."

Huo Ranyin's parents covered them with quilts, and heard the desperate and painful cries of a child who had suffered from domestic violence.

They ordered him:

"Don't cry out loud."

The breakfast eaten in the hotel did not turn into nourishment for the body, but turned into a cold stone, tugging at his stomach, falling all the way into the abyss.

Standing here, he saw in a daze that a bed was torn apart and stitched together again, its appearance became more and more strange, more and more distorted, and the more and more cruel quilt as heavy as lead and iron fell from the sky and pressed on him.

There is a cage hidden in the quilt, the cage is closed on all sides, no light and no holes, there is only less and less oxygen inhaled and more and more despair in it, want to cry, want to cry, but are not allowed to cry and cry of despair.

In the end, the darkness, the darkness that exhausted all resistance but only fed and bred more pain, turned into the sticky mud in the swamp, first became the eyes of Zhou, and then turned into the eyes of Huo Ranyin.

The murderous eyes stared at him.