Madness of the Heart

On Sunday, the city center was packed with people.In the MES shopping mall with the best location, every store is full of men and women who come out to hang out on weekends. Even the Shuhan Cafe, which is located in a corner of the shopping mall and usually deserted and depressed, is crowded with people and is very lively.

Shuhan Café not only sells books, but also coffee and tea. It is a chain beverage store with cultural and sentimental brands. It entered Dongye City a few years ago and has opened more than ten times around office buildings and residential buildings. Direct sales, not many books are sold, all rely on high-priced drinks to maintain operations.

In Shuhan, the cheapest coffee costs 50 yuan a cup, and the solar term drinks launched a few months ago are as high as 70 yuan.After buying a cup, customers can take books to the consumption area to sit idle, and no one comes to remind them from opening in the morning to closing at night.

There are not many beverage shops in Dongye City that sell coffee to the [-]s and [-]s. Shuhan's relatively high personal consumption drives away some potential customers, and the store full of books attracts customers who like to read.Therefore, compared with other coffee shops, Shuhan's consumption area is extremely quiet. Even if people want to talk, they will subconsciously lower the volume.

But this is only the case on weekdays.

Once the weekend is full of people everywhere, Shuhan is bound to receive guests who can't control their mouths.

There is a large children's indoor play area on the first floor of the MES mall, and Shuhan Café happens to be the closest drink shop to this play area.

Young parents are more inclined to bring their tired children to Shuhan to drink a glass of milkshake, eat a plate of dessert, and pick a few children's books from the bookshelf.

With children in the quiet consumer area, it becomes a noisy "hardest hit area" in an instant.

She Qun was preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination this year, so she got a membership card in Shuhan, and came early to occupy the best position. The table was covered with study materials, and she could concentrate on studying in the first few hours, but she could beat a few noisy children to rush. When he entered the store, he could no longer concentrate on the exercises.

The children are eager for knowledge, and while flipping through the books, they asked loudly: "Mom, what is this? Mom, why are we sitting here?"

She Qun's train of thought was interrupted, and she turned her head several times to stare at those fathers and sons, mothers and sons who seemed to be making noise wantonly, with eyes full of resentment, but there was nothing he could do—he didn't have the guts to walk over and remind them that they shouldn't make noise here.What made him even more troublesome was that the children who asked "what and why" were the most "quiet" ones in the bookstore.

Even more frightening are those "little lunatics" who run around screaming and wailing.

She Qun scratched her head in irritability, feeling that she was about to be driven crazy by these "little lunatics".

He raised his eyes from the thick stack of documents and observed the customers who were disturbed like himself. sigh.

This man looks familiar to him. He is in his 30s and has a membership card like him. He often sits in the northeast corner of him, ordering a cup of mint tea and holding a stack of books every time.

Half a month ago, out of curiosity, he took a peek at the books on the man's desk while the man was leaving the shop to relieve himself, and found that they were all suspense and horror novels.

As a candidate who cherishes time like gold, he really doesn't understand why this man of few words can spend so much time reading "idle books".

The man is about 1 meters tall, with triangular eyes, prominent cheekbones, a pair of black-rimmed glasses, a long-sleeved T-shirt and well-washed jeans. He always walks with his head down, a little hunched, and he is probably a failed social person. Maybe it's because I lost my job that I come to Shuhan to kill time.

Thinking of this, She Qun couldn't help but "tsk".

A young man of his age has yet to experience failure at work, and has boundless enthusiasm for studies and careers. He usually looks down on social people who are self-willed and depraved.

Not long after, the man returned to the consumption area, and She Qun quickly put the book back in his hand.The man obviously noticed his actions, but he didn't show the doubts and dissatisfaction that he should have.When the two passed by, their eyes briefly met, and She Qun saw anxiety, depression, and mediocrity in each other's eyes.

A useless man——She Qun thought so at that time.

But at this moment, it was this mediocre man who stood up, raised his chest and walked towards the bar, asking the staff to remind customers with children to pay attention to the volume.

She Qun was quite surprised, and propped his chin to watch the man return to his seat.

Soon, a male staff member pointed to the young parents the sign "Don't disturb others to read" with a smile, and the consumption area became quiet.

She Qun breathed a sigh of relief, secretly thinking that this "good-for-nothing middle-aged man" is not completely useless.

However, the good times didn't last long, and the silence lasted only a short 5 minutes. The children were crying and making noises, and the parents seemed helpless.

She Qun slapped the pen on the table, couldn't bear it anymore, and complained to her friends on the phone: Fuck it!Children shouldn't be allowed in a place like a bookstore!Not McDonald's, not KFC!What books do they read?Do you understand?I haven't finished my questions today!

The man stood up again, this time instead of going to the bar, he went directly to the direction where the noise came from.

She Qun heard the man say in a harsh tone: "Please take care of the children, they are too noisy!"

The parents apologized softly, pretending to teach their ignorant children a lesson.

The tranquility brought by the man lasted for 2 minutes, and the consumption area was fried again.Some parents symbolically made a "shush" gesture to the yelling child, while more didn't care at all, and even played cartoons on their tablet computers.

She Qun was already numb from the noise, so she simply took a vacation for herself, put on her headphones and "fucked up" with her friends. From the corner of her eye, she saw the man reminded the parents at least five times.

"Damn, you really have perseverance!" There was no lack of sarcasm in his tone, and there was a bit of meaning to watch a good show.

"Why don't you just come back and go to some bookstore on weekends." My friend said, "Isn't our library quieter than a bookstore?"

"It's too quiet, I need proper white noise."

"Isn't the voice of a child called 'black noise'? Tsk tsk, those who reason with children and their parents are fools. Who the hell is listening? Parents who are really qualified should be reminded once or twice to take their children with them." I'm gone, and those who are still tossing around there now probably don't have the muscle of quality in their minds!"

After a few rounds, She Qun wiped her face, realized that today is really useless, and was about to pack up and go back to school, and go to the library to make a living, when suddenly there was a new movement at the table that made the most noise—— The woman in the long navy blue dress stood up, holding a pack of tissues in her hand, as if she was going to the bathroom, a monkey-like boy hugged her legs tightly, his voice was hoarse, and he was reluctant to shut up .

"Mom! Where are you going? Don't go! Watch cartoons with me!"

The woman comforted him for a long time, but "Hou'er" refused to let go. Instead, he yelled more vigorously as if he had sent out "people are going crazy".The woman got angry too, said two or three harsh words, threw the "monkey" where she was, and walked straight to the bathroom outside the bookstore.

Probably used to being pampered, "Hou'er" stayed for a few seconds, and suddenly burst into earth-shattering cries, causing everyone in the consumption area to look at him.

She Qun subconsciously looked at the man who stood up several times, feeling a murderous aura without warning.

In his perception, that man shouldn't even have resentment, not to mention murderous intent.

He almost thought he was delusional.

And at this moment, among the books piled up on the man's desk, the top one was just written with a row of large characters—they should all be damned!

She Qun swallowed her saliva, her pupils shrank slightly.In sight, the man's face was sullen, and he took out something from the backpack he was carrying and held it in his hands. Like the previous few times, he walked slowly to the "monkey".

Except for She Qun, no one sensed the danger.But She Qun was already standing beside her seat, her heart beating wildly, and she was dumbstruck.

"Monkey" was still yelling, and even grimaced at the man, his voice was like a little monster: "I just want to make trouble! I just want to make trouble! My mother bought me water, and I—"

The following words came to an abrupt end as the man stabbed forward with his right hand.

When the man inserted the dagger into the boy's throat, the consumption area was as quiet as a tomb, and everyone stood there dumbfounded, as if they didn't understand what happened.

Blood gushed out from the boy's neck artery, and the smell of blood changed from thin to strong, like sharp needles piercing people's numb nerves.

Only then did someone scream——

"Ah! Killed!"

The crowd centered on men, fading to the surroundings like a tide.The man pulled the dagger out of the boy's neck with a "huh", and the boy fell to the ground in vain like a piece of decayed wood, his limbs twitched violently, and his throat made a dry and terrifying breathing sound.

She Qun's pupils were almost pressed to the tightest, his eyes stared at the man without blinking, his lips trembled unconsciously, and streams of blood rushed straight to his forehead.

The mediocrity in the man's eyes has completely disappeared, replaced by madness and cruelty, and several streaks of blood seem to burst out.The tip of the dagger dripping with blood pointed directly at the crowd, and for a moment, fear made the air freeze, squeezing the witness's heart like a boulder.Several children whose parents were not present were crying softly, but the adults at the scene—from the staff to the customers, whether they were frightened or timid, none of them came forward.

The boy whose throat was pierced finally stopped moving. The man let out a ferocious smile, and immediately grabbed the child closest to him at a very fast speed.

The terrified cries of the children were like the horns of a rout. She Qun was the first to rush out of the consumption area, followed by the fleeing ones.

Many people shouted: "He has a knife!"

The man smiled strangely and threw the child in his hand to the ground. The immature head collided with the cold ground, making a muffled sound...

There has never been any vicious incident in Shuhan Cafe. It was not until the second killing had occurred that the staff on duty notified the security of the shopping mall tremblingly.

It's too late.

The man was red-eyed, and grabbed another defenseless child, like a beast in human skin finally tore off its camouflage, revealing its stinky fangs.

The consumer area turned into a purgatory on earth, people filed out, only a tall woman broke into it against the crowd.

Three days later, Ming Shu returned to Dongye City after finishing his one-year training for key personnel in the Special Operations Team of the Ministry of Public Security.

When he was recruited by the special operations team, he was already the leader of the Serious Case Team of the Criminal Investigation Bureau of Dongye City Public Security Bureau. He has been fighting in the front line of criminal cases all year round, confronting countless vicious gangsters, and solved a large number of difficult and important cases.

The word "Mingshu" can be regarded as the golden signboard of Dongye police circle.

The training of the special operations team is not as easy as that of the serious crime team when performing tasks. "Training" is just an external term, and those who have experienced it have a more vivid explanation-purgatory.

Mingshu filed to pieces his bones and rebuilt his skin in "Purgatory". Before he came back, he applied for a week's vacation.

At this time, he was getting a full night's sleep and was shopping for new men's clothing at the MES mall alone.

The 28-year-old top-notch expert of the Criminal Investigation Bureau, with a height of 1 meters and a deep and three-dimensional face, can support any fancy new clothes.It just so happens that although he is a serious criminal police officer, he doesn't ignore his appearance like most criminal police officers. Instead, he cares about his attire. When he is not handling a case, he is flamboyant and confident.

When the accident happened at Shuhan Café, Mingshu had just put on a short thin leather jacket and was standing in front of the full-length mirror looking around. Before he could pay in time, he heard a scream from below.

A group of security guards hurriedly ran past the corridor outside the men's clothing store. He stopped one of them casually and asked sharply, "What's going on?"

The security guard looked like a novice, he had probably never dealt with emergencies before, his face was ashen, he was startled and frightened, and he couldn't speak clearly, "Yes, someone is coming, kill, kill the child!"

Mingshu frowned, and his expression changed instantly.

He has a very aggressive appearance, with straight nose, deep eyes and arched lips. He is beautiful and handsome. When his eyes are smiling, he looks casual and easy-going. Once he is cold and severe, he is extremely intimidating.

The security guard was sweating profusely, his teeth chattering constantly, "That's right, it's the book down there, the bookstore!"

Mingshu glanced down and saw more and more people gathered downstairs, he decisively pushed the security guard away, quickly crossed his two long legs, ran to the stairs and jumped, avoiding the crowd, and went directly to the Jump downstairs.

Shuhan Cafe is like the eye of a typhoon, maintaining a suffocating calm.The man kidnapped a six-year-old girl, and the woman in gray who went retrograde not long ago was negotiating with him.

People have called the police, but neither the police from the nearest Jiangzhan Road Police Station nor the special police from the Beicheng Sub-bureau can arrive immediately.

The man's dagger pierced the girl's neck, tearing out a shocking line of blood. The woman in gray who was only three steps away from him had a serious face, but her voice trembled indistinctly, "Let her go, I will follow her!" Instead, I'll be your hostage."

The man brandished the dagger, with foul air coming out of his nostrils, his expression was extremely abnormal, and he said to himself, "I've already killed someone! It's the same if you kill one more or less! Get out of the way!"

"Give her to me." The woman took a deep breath, and slowly stretched her delicately trimmed fingertips towards the man.

The police car had already driven close, and the siren stimulated the man's nerves.I saw that his facial features became more and more distorted, gradually not looking like a human face.He howled frantically, and the dagger was about to pierce the girl's trachea.

There are two passages in Shuhan Cafe, one is the main entrance for customers to enter and exit, and the other is the side entrance for employees to enter and exit.Mingshu separated from the crowd, went around to the staff passage, showed his ID, and sneaked into the store without making a sound.

At this time, the girl was so frightened that she couldn't cry, and the tears fell down in big drops.And the woman in gray who was confronting the man couldn't seem to find a way to break the situation.

"They're all rubbish! They're all monsters! They're all damned!" the man yelled, "I warned them! They didn't listen at all! They're not human! I'm doing harm for the people!"

The woman shook her head, "They're just ignorant, if you have children too..."

"Fart!" The man interrupted roughly, speaking incoherently, "They are monsters! They are demons! They made a mistake, shouldn't they be punished?"

The dagger drew another line of blood on the girl's neck, and the woman tightened her fingers, knowing that she couldn't wait any longer, so she immediately leaned forward and stabbed at the man!

The man was about to burst into tears, and the hand that imprisoned the girl loosened for a moment.

At the nick of time, the woman bumped into the man's arms and forced the dazed girl out.

The man was furious, strangled the woman's snow-white neck, and breathed out evil, "You are fucking looking for death! You saved the devil! You are also a devil! I will kill you!"

The woman tried her best to appear calm, "I said, I'll change her."

Because of the limited viewing angle, most of the people outside the store couldn't see the flashy scene, they could only see the girl with a circle of bloodstains around her neck stumbling out, as if the head hanging from her neck was suddenly to fall down.

Only Ming Shu, who had already entered the store through the staff passage, witnessed this situation.His figure is like wind and electricity, using bookshelves and sofas as camouflage, he quickly shifted to the blind spot of the man's sight.

The man seemed to have sensed the abnormality, and he pinched the woman's neck even harder.

In the almost frozen air, there seemed to be a few sounds of bone dislocation.

Mingshu didn't wait any longer, and rushed from the bookshelf to behind the man. Before the man turned around, a sharp hand knife had already slashed down!

"Woo-woo-woo--"

The siren blared, and when the special police from the Beicheng Branch broke into the Shuhan Cafe, Ming Shu was lifting the man who had dislocated his wrist and elbow from the blood on the ground.

"Brother Ming?" The leading SWAT officer shaved his hair close to his scalp. After realizing who the person who captured the thug was, his eyes suddenly changed. "Why are you here? Are you back?"

"Pull the cordon immediately and evacuate the crowd." Ming Shu didn't respond, although he was still wearing a rather fluffy short thin leather jacket, his expression and demeanor were more professional than all the special police officers who came.

His gaze briefly rested on the two children who had been killed, and his already dark eyes suddenly darkened.

Beicheng branch, interrogation room.

Inside the one-way glass wall, the suspect Lu Kun was handcuffed, his face was as pale as paper, and his hands were shaking uncontrollably.Sitting opposite him were three criminal police officers, one for recording and the other two for interrogation.

Ming Shu stood outside the glass wall with folded arms, had already taken off the thin leather jacket that had not been removed, and frowned, looking at Lu Kun silently.

The eyes of this murderer who brutally killed children in full view of the public were dead, and the madness and ruthlessness in his pupils were gone when he committed the crime.He lowered his head slightly, not daring to look at the criminal policeman, his shoulders and arms were shaking, the upper half of his face was covered by shadows, and he looked cowardly and gloomy.

"They shouldn't be making noise..." Lu Kun's voice was hoarse, "I reminded them nine times in total, but they didn't listen..."

"So you killed them?" The policeman who spoke was obviously angry.

"Otherwise, what can I do? I have no other place to go, I arrived first, and I paid for it! Why can they still sit there with peace of mind after making a mistake? Should I leave instead?" Lu Kun shook his head. Burying even lower, he first embraced his head with both hands, and then inserted his fingers into his greasy hair.The head, which was so big because of the angle, shook frequently, shaking off a few strands of dandery hair, "They don't listen, their parents don't do anything! There is a sign at the entrance of the consumer area, 'Please don't make noise', None of them did!"

After a pause for a few seconds, Lu Kun suddenly raised his head, his eyes were bloodshot, as if filled with shame.

After a while, he trembled even more, burst into tears, and overturned what he had said before, "I was wrong, I shouldn't kill people! Can those two children be saved? I... I was just impulsive, I didn't mean it! Everyone has it!" When you are impulsive and confused, right? I am not a murderer! I am not!"

Mingshu let out a breath, noticed that the door not far away was opened from the inside, and turned around.

The first to come out was a female criminal police officer, followed by the brave woman in gray.

The routine transcript has been completed. The woman named Yu Caixin, 32 years old, is a partner of a headhunting company. Before the incident, she was waiting for candidates at Shuhan Cafe.Unexpectedly, the candidate hadn't arrived, but he witnessed the whole process of Lu Kun getting up frequently to remind children and parents not to make noise, and finally going crazy and killing people.

Compared with when he was in the coffee shop, Yu Caixin was much more depressed-this is a normal reaction after the extreme tension has passed.

Mingshu stood where he was, looked at her briefly, and then bowed his head to show his gratitude and respect.

It is hard to imagine that before the police arrived, Yu Caixin, who was wearing a slim professional skirt and high heels, was the only one who stopped Lu Kun from committing the crime.

She deserves the tribute of an elite detective.

Yu Caixin was taken aback for a moment, then shook his head regretfully, with a gentle voice and sad expression, "Children are innocent. Sorry, my reaction is still slow."

The female criminal policeman accompanied Yu Caixin to leave, and Mingshu leaned against the wall of the corridor, kneading the space between his eyebrows with his fingers.

Beicheng District is the place with the most developed economy and the most stable law and order in Dongye City, and the frequency of criminal cases is relatively low.

At that time, Lu Kun was in a crowded downtown area. He had already killed two children and held a woman hostage. The most likely way for the special police was to shoot him dead on the spot.

The video of Lu Kun committing the crime has been leaked on the Internet, and panic has spread rapidly among families with children.

However, although the social impact of this case is bad, the case itself is not complicated.Lu Kun is a typical passionate crime. After killing a boy, he was affected by extreme psychology and began to kill indiscriminately.

Psychologists from the cooperative unit have arrived and are about to conduct a preliminary mental appraisal of Lu Kun.Mingshu read Lu Kun's statement word by word, his beautiful lips were straightened, and the profile looked sharp and devoid of emotion.

Lu Kun’s personal information is clear at a glance—a 35-year-old from Chushan Town, Dongye City, graduated from a high-ranking university. Four months ago, he was a river monitoring programmer for a water conservancy company. He was fired due to a mistake at work. Now unemployed, unmarried, with a house and no car, he often appears in Shuhan Cafe in the past two months, borrowing almost all crime novels.

Wang Hao, the deputy captain of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of Beicheng Branch, walked quickly, followed by three criminal policemen.

Mingshu raised his eyes and met the angry gaze of the other party.

Mingshu made way sideways, but stopped him, "How do you plan to handle this case?"

Wang Hao had thick eyebrows and heavy eyes, and his facial features were rough like those of criminal police. He said in a bad tone: "This case has not been handed over to your serious crime team."

The meaning of these words couldn't be clearer - this is the territory of the Beicheng Branch Bureau, and there is no need to explain to you, the little head of the City Bureau's serious crimes team, how to deal with it.

Ming Shu looked at Wang Hao for two seconds, but he didn't get angry.

In the year he just graduated from the Public Security University, he stayed in the Beicheng branch and had some unpleasant troubles with Wang Hao.He has been in the serious crime team for these years, the wider his vision, the higher his vision, he has long forgotten the friction in the past, and he is too lazy to care about it, but Wang Hao clearly refuses to forget it.

At this moment, the phone rang, Mingshu picked it up and looked at it, the aggressive eyebrows and eyes instantly showed a gentleness that should not appear on his face.

"If I remember correctly, Team Ming just came back from the capital, right?" Wang Hao simply said: "I am currently in charge of this case. If there are other instructions from above, Team Ming will take care of it."

Mingshu didn't insist, Wang Hao thought he was going to answer the phone, but saw him hang up and put the phone back into his trouser pocket.

When passing by Wang Hao, Mingshu patted the other person's shoulder, his words were indifferent, but with a force that could not be ignored——

"You were not quick enough to call the police, and the newcomers were not mature enough to react on the spot. If the murderer this time did not commit the crime with passion, but premeditated, the consequences will be even more serious than now."

Unexpected events are the old enemy of the holiday. As soon as Mingshu walked out of the building of the branch office, he saw a tall man raising his right hand in the dark.

He paused slightly, stroked his forehead with his right hand, and walked towards the man.

The car drove away from the Beicheng Sub-bureau, merged into the main road, and followed the traffic to the direction of the Municipal Bureau.

"Your vacation is over early." Lu Yanzhou held the steering wheel, showing a strong blue meridian on the back of his hand, "Go back and report."

Mingshu put his elbows on the car window, and the neon lights in the streets and alleys reflected his pure black eyes into flashing amber, "Why are you here?"

"I can't come over yet?" Lu Yanzhou tilted his head and gave him a sideways glance, "I happen to be doing business here, so I'll give you a lift so that the brothers in your group don't have to run back and forth."

"I haven't seen you in a year, and I'm even more thoughtful and considerate." Mingshu dug out a bottle of drink from the car bucket, unceremoniously, poured most of it down with his head up, "Why don't you come to my team for the next shift?"

"Good idea." Lu Yanzhou smiled, and parked the car outside the zebra crossing, "I can still rotate at my level? I have several newcomers with good qualifications. If you really need someone, you can pick them yourself."

Lu Yanzhou is the backbone of the Special Police Corps of the City Bureau, and is not under the jurisdiction of the Criminal Investigation Bureau at all. However, he and Mingshu are the same age and class, and they have always been friends. In the past few years, the serious crime team lacked capable field staff. Mingshu repeatedly tried to recruit people. Lu Yanzhou They all refused to nod.

In Lu Yanzhou's words, that is—"I can't bear the hardships of your serious crime team."

There was a traffic jam on the road, Mingshu dozed off with his hands, Lu Yanzhou suddenly said: "By the way, have you seen your new leader?"

Mingshu half-opened his eyes, the dim light in his eyes floated, fleeting, and his voice was somewhat lazy, "Xiao Yu'an?"

The author says:

The city is empty, and the age of the characters is reduced.Generally, the city-level criminal investigation team is called the Criminal Investigation Detachment, the provincial department and the municipality directly under the Central Government are called the Criminal Investigation Corps or the Criminal Investigation Bureau, and the one of the Ministry of Public Security is also called the Criminal Investigation Bureau.My setting here is that Dongye City is a big city similar to a municipality directly under the Central Government, so the concept of the Criminal Investigation Bureau is used, but it is not any municipality directly under the Central Government in reality!