Madness of the Heart

Dongye College of Foreign Languages.

A cordon has been pulled up downstairs in East Nine Buildings, and many girls in pajamas are gathering in groups outside the cordon with terrified expressions.Many of them were trembling, their hair was disheveled, their complexions were either red or pale, and some of them were so frightened that they cried.

The crowded and noisy dormitory in the past has become like a hell on earth. The three girls who were alive and well last night were lying on their respective beds, with two lifeless arms hanging down from the edge of the bed.Blood gushing from their carotid arteries soaked mats and mosquito nets, spilled over the yellowed walls, and flowed onto the large cold checkered floor.

The whole dormitory in 509 is full of blood. Those black and red liquids that are gradually solidifying are like the screams that girls can't utter when their lives end. Just looking at it makes one's scalp tingle.

On one wall was written a string of big characters in blood: They deserve to die!

The handwriting is crooked and ugly, like the soul of the writer who has long been distorted.

A string of blood footprints stretched from 509 to outside the gate of Dongjiu Building, and disappeared into the flower bed, which looked abnormally permeable.

Three students from an institution of higher learning were brutally murdered overnight. This was an absolutely major case. As soon as the Nancheng Branch received the report, it immediately reported it to the Criminal Investigation Bureau.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, Xiao Yu'an had already led the serious crime team and the first criminal investigation team, and came to Dongye University of Foreign Languages ​​in person.

The trace inspectors were collecting traces in the terrifying dormitory. Mingshu stood at the door of 509, looking at the line on the wall with a serious expression.

It was Shu Yu from Room 510 who discovered the murder scene.In the morning, she planned to go to the playground to exercise her muscles and bones. When she opened the door, she saw that the door of 509 was wide open. The inside was eerily quiet, and the blood spilling out was shocking.

She approached tremblingly and took a look, only to see Wen Jingjing's head hanging beside the bed, and the wound on her neck looked like a bloody mouth.

For a moment, her mind was blank, only her feet were moving back mechanically.

When she finally realized what happened to 509, she collapsed to the ground and let out a hoarse scream.

At this time, she had been sent to the school hospital because of being overly frightened.

Her roommates also had dull eyes, unable to believe that such a tragedy that only appeared in TV dramas and novels would happen around them.

"Ken...it must be Li Hongmei, and that...that girl, Chi Xiaomin!" Wang Jiao's hair was soaked in cold sweat, and she kept breathing with her mouth wide open, looking a little weird and funny.

But at this moment, no one can laugh.

Mingshu walked over, suppressed the chill in his eyes, and asked, "Who is Li Hongmei? Who is Chi Xiaomin?"

Hearing these two names, the girls' emotions suddenly changed. Some cried louder, some shrugged their shoulders timidly, and more were full of anger.

"Yes! It must be Li Hongmei and Chi Xiaomin!"

"Li Hongmei is too vicious. She gave the key to the dormitory to outsiders without permission. She even preached before!"

"Jingjing and the others just said a few words to her, but she actually..."

"It's terrible. Fortunately, she is not from our dormitory."

"The school should be responsible for recruiting such lunatics!"

"509 said yesterday to send Li Hongmei and the woman with the keys to the police station, but Aunt Zhang refused to let them go. Hey, if they went to the police station, they wouldn't be killed."

"It's hard to say, the police station won't take care of this kind of thing at all, okay? At most, educate Li Hongmei and tell her not to take people to the dormitory casually in the future. Li Hongmei's personality will kill anyone if she wants to. Wen Jingjing and the others are too unlucky, especially It's Qin Manyue, she was speaking for Li Hongmei yesterday."

Mingshu listened for a while, and learned that Li Hongmei was a member of 509, and Chi Xiaomin was an outsider brought back to the dormitory by Li Hongmei.Last night, Li Hongmei had an argument with her roommate because she brought Chi Xiaomin back to the dormitory, and she left after ten o'clock in the evening.Before lights out, the 509 had only three victims.

Dongjiu Building is a four-person dormitory, and the identities of the three victims have been identified—Wen Jingjing, a local, 21 years old; Qin Manyue, a 22-year-old from Fengcheng; Lian Qiao, a resident of Xinfeng County, Dongye City, 21 years old.

The focus of the case is, where is Li Hongmei?Is that string of blood footprints left by Li Hongmei?

The trace inspectors completed the preliminary investigation, and Xiao Man's face was very ugly, "Ming team, a total of seven types of footprints were collected, including blood footprints. From the analysis of the footprints and other traces at the scene, there was only one murderer, and she was a woman. He didn’t even wear gloves when committing the crime, and directly cut off the carotid artery and trachea of ​​the three victims with a straight knife.”

Mingshu looked at the dormitory door, "There is no sign of violent damage to the lock. Either the murderer opened the door with a key, or the victim opened it for her. Brother Xing?"

"The two victims were killed in a sleeping state, with no signs of struggle. The other one struggled slightly." Xing Mu said: "The murderer opened the door with a key while they were asleep. The last victim killed the other two Woke up at that time, but it was too late. Her neck injury was the most serious, and the death process was the most painful. In addition, the knife marks on the necks of the three deceased were very messy, and the murderer obviously vented his anger."

In the dormitory management room, Zhang Chunfang, who is called "Aunt Zhang" by the girls, has been brought under control.

Judging from the rigor state of the three people, the murder occurred around 2 am today.Even in the summer vacation, the dormitory still has access control, and the gate is closed at 0:6 in the morning and opened at [-]:[-] in the morning.If the murderer is an outsider, then Zhang Chunfang will bear the inescapable responsibility.

"I... I don't know anything." Zhang Chunfang sat on the wooden chair, too frightened to stand up.

There is no air-conditioning in the dormitory room, and an old shaking head fan makes a "squeaky" sound. The strongest wind blows on her face, like a pair of rough hands, wiping her tears into her slack in skin and wrinkles.

"What's the matter with Li Hongmei?" Mingshu asked, "The students said that you stopped the victim from sending Li Hongmei to the police station?"

"There was a quarrel last night in their dormitory. Li, Li Hongmei lent the key to someone outside..." Zhang Chunfang stammered what happened the day before, and finally repeated: "I feel sorry for Li Hongmei, Only then did I persuade them not to send Li Hongmei to the police station. I never thought that such a thing would happen, and it was Wen Jingjing and Qin Manyue who finally decided to let Li Hongmei go, not me, not me!"

Mingshu has seen too many murders, and he has already pictured in his mind the scene of the four girls arguing in 509, and asked: "You said that Li Hongmei left after 10 o'clock last night, did she come back later?"

Zhang Chunfang cried and nodded.

Mingshu asked: "When?"

"One o'clock. She was ringing the bell outside, yes, I opened the door for her!" Zhang Chunfang slapped the table, her dry and messy hair hanging down her cheeks, "I don't know what she came back to do, to do that kind of thing, otherwise I would No matter how hard I try, I won't open the door for her! She has been working part-time since she entered school, and often comes back in the middle of the night, I really don't know..."

"Then when did she leave, do you remember?" Mingshu asked again.

"It was very late at that time, and I went back to sleep after I let her in." Zhang Chunfang sobbed, "The door is controlled only to enter, not to exit, anyone can open the door inside."

Xiao Man collected Li Hongmei's fingerprint on the access control button in the dormitory.

Ming Shu stood up, turned around and saw Xiao Yu'an walking quickly towards the dormitory management room.

"Ju Xiao." He raised his hand and shouted.

Xiao Yuan didn't wear a police uniform, but still wore a shirt and suit pants. The shirt was tucked into the suit pants, looking smart and straight.

"Li Hongmei's suspicion is serious, her mental state is unstable, and she is likely to continue committing crimes, so she must be found immediately." Xiao Yu'an raised his wrist and looked at the time, "Leave the on-site investigation to the Criminal Investigation Team [-], you go and locate Li Hongmei and Chi Xiaomin. "

"Yes!"

There is no surveillance inside the dormitory, but there are many high-definition cameras in the open-air areas of the campus.The members of the technical investigation team quickly called out the surveillance. The video showed that at 2:31 in the morning, Li Hongmei appeared in the cafeteria closest to Dongjiu Building with a straight knife in her hand, and then left the campus along Dongqu Avenue.

The last time she was captured by the camera was at the "Old Classmate Inn" outside the east gate of Dongye University of Foreign Languages.

Yi Fei showed his credentials.The receptionist was a middle-aged woman who had never seen so many police officers. She was so frightened that she hurriedly turned off the soap opera playing on the computer and immediately took everyone to the guest room on the third floor.

The environment of this hotel is terrible, the level of a low-end guest house, the walls are mottled, and the railings are all black and rusty. In order to follow the trend, the name was changed to an inn. It is the hotel with the lowest fee nearby, 50 yuan per room.

The receptionist opened the door tremblingly, "The person you are looking for, just, lives there. I just run a hotel, I don't know what she does."

Facing the female college students, the serious criminal police were really unwilling to take guns, but the tragedy of 509 kept reminding them that there might be a deranged murderer across the door.

The door swung open inward, and the creak of the rusted wheels made one's scalp tingle.

Many horror films use this kind of sound effect.

There is only one narrow ventilation window in the house, the glass is full of thick stains that have accumulated for many years, the light can hardly penetrate, the only overhead light is off, the darkness and musty smell seem to have substance, layer upon layer towards the criminal police They rushed.

The gun in Mingshu's hand was pointed at the forehead of a young woman two meters away.

It was Li Hongmei.

Li Hongmei was sitting on a bed with only a layer of straw mats, wearing a light yellow T-shirt, cropped jeans, and a pair of low-quality "clog shoes" on her feet.

In the ID photo, her eyes were dull and her face was stiff and ugly.The real person is even uglier than the ID photo - small eyes, flat nose, turned nostrils, thick lips, wide face, large forehead, acne on the cheeks and forehead, and thin hair pulled back in a loose ponytail.

Human beings are visual animals who like beauty and dislike ugliness.It is conceivable that Li Hongmei's appearance may have caused her to suffer discrimination and exclusion in her childhood.And this marginalized situation has followed her like a nightmare.

Seeing the police, Li Hongmei was neither surprised nor frightened, her eyes vacantly passed over everyone's faces, and finally fixed on the pistol pointed at her.

Mingshu put the gun down slowly, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the clothes hanging on the plastic rope at the end of the bed.

On it, there seemed to be bloodstains that could not be washed off.

Li Hongmei committed the crime in this suit.

Yi Fei had already walked over, took off the semi-wet T-shirt and straight-leg jeans, and put them into a large evidence bag.

"Are you here to arrest me?" Li Hongmei said, with a funny dialect in just one sentence.

Her voice was ugly, even at a normal volume, it was harsh.

Fang Yuanhang immediately thought of the woman in the countryside who was swearing at the street.

Mingshu asked: "You killed the three people in 509?"

Li Hongmei didn't answer, but slowly bent down, poked her hands under the bed, and dragged out a dilapidated cardboard box.

"Be careful!" Yi Fei shouted.

Mingshu didn't avoid it, and when he saw the contents of the cardboard box, he frowned severely.

It was a straight knife covered in blood!

"It's me." Li Hongmei took out the knife, and then said: "I killed Wen Jingjing and the three of them, because they all deserve to die!"

They all deserve to die.

This sentence was written impressively on the wall of bedroom 509.

"Let me take a shower again." Li Hongmei stood up and opened a wooden board, "After taking a shower, I will go with you. I have body odor, no one can bear it, and neither can you."

Criminal Investigation Bureau, Crime Squad.

After inspection, the blood on the straight handle knife came from three victims, and Li Hongmei's fingerprints were on the handle of the knife.The footprints and monitoring at the scene all point to Li Hongmei.Li Hongmei has also pleaded guilty.Li Hongmei was the undoubted murderer of this appalling dormitory murder.

Mingshu looked at her through the one-way glass in the interrogation room, a strong anger burning in his chest.

Xiao Yuan came over and patted him lightly on the shoulder.

"You only saw me kill them, did you see them kill me too? I was killed by them!" Facing Yi Fei, Fang Yuanhang, and a policewoman from the criminal investigation team, Li Hongmei He seemed very calm, "They are all devils. I have been bullied by them for three whole years, and they still want to play me to death. Why can't anyone come to save me?"

The policewoman asked, "What did they do to you?"

Li Hongmei pursed her lips, fell into a long period of thinking, and finally shook her head with a smile, "How do you people who have never experienced troubles, how do you understand? How do you believe it? When you look at me, do you still think—this The woman made it up, right? How can there be someone as miserable as her? They are all high-quality college students, how can they be as bad-hearted as she said?"

The policewoman said: "No reason is an excuse for you to brutally kill your classmates."

"Then my ugly appearance, body odor, poor family background, and lack of parents are the reasons why they can trample on me wantonly?" Li Hongmei squeezed her fingers tightly, "You people who are born with superiority treat other people's misfortunes as fantasy, you I thought I was kind, hahaha, I didn’t believe in other people’s suffering, satirized other people’s suffering, taught me a lesson from above, this is not kindness, nor is it innocent, it’s vicious!”

The policewoman blushed from the choking, "You..."

"Can't speak?" At this time, Li Hongmei was completely different from the dull person in the students' mouths. He was aggressive and eloquent. When you become a policeman, there are mostly men around you, unlike our foreign language college, where you open your eyes and see that there are only women. You are enjoying the beauty of the stars and telling me that any reason is not the reason for me to brutally kill my classmates. I want to ask You, what qualifications do you have to ask me? Have you experienced what I have experienced? I'm afraid you can't even imagine it. "

The policewoman stood up and rushed out the door.

Yi Fei and Fang Yuanhang looked at each other, and had to suspend the interrogation to wait for the replacement policewoman.

"Is it just the two of you?" Li Hongmei said, "Why did you let the policewoman come to talk to me? Is it to humiliate me on purpose?"

Fang Yuanhang didn't understand her logic, "This is the rule from above."

"Then find someone who looks as ugly as me." When Li Hongmei mentioned ugliness, her tone was almost sad, "I don't want to face beautiful women."

This requirement is embarrassing.

The female police officers of the Criminal Investigation Bureau do have ordinary-looking ones, but none of them can be called ugly, let alone Li Hongmei.

Li Hongmei's facial features, let anyone look at them, belong to the level of "crooked melons and dates".

"No?" Li Hongmei smiled, "Forget it, I don't want to talk about it. It's useless to tell you, no one can understand me..."

In the inquiry room on the same floor, Zhang Chunfang, who had calmed down, had already confessed everything she knew.

Li Hongmei is not from Dongye City, but from Xiaben Village, a backward fishing village along the coast. Both her parents died and she has no other relatives.

Because of her poor family background, her ugly appearance, severe body odor due to lack of money for medical treatment, and the short-sightedness and meanness brought about by poverty, Li Hongmei has been targeted by the whole dormitory and class since she entered the freshman year.

The classmates gave her an insulting nickname, "Sao Sao".

It's not a coquettish show, but a stinky show.

When the dormitory was divided, Wen Jingjing proposed to let Li Hongmei live in a room alone, the reason was that Li Hongmei really stinks.But firstly, there were no dormitories available, and secondly, Li Hongmei couldn't afford to live alone in a dormitory.

Li Hongmei knew that she was disliked, and she had little time to go back to the dormitory. Apart from attending classes, she was working outside.

Wen Jingjing is a local, a middle-class family, and her living environment is very good. At first, she just looked down on Li Hongmei. Later, because the brand-name perfume in the dormitory disappeared, she suspected that Li Hongmei stole it.

"It's not me." Trapped in the dormitory, Li Hongmei argued nervously, "I didn't take your perfume."

"Who else could it be if it wasn't you? You are so stinky, you wear six gods all day long. I just bought that bottle of perfume last week and used it once in front of your face. Have you missed it? I told you earlier, Body odor is a disease, and it needs to be cured! You earn so much money by working part-time all day, why don’t you go and cut up your stinky rotten meat? It’s really not enough money, we can crowdfund it for you!”

Wen Jingjing has a very strong personality and a loud voice. With such a shout, all the students on the 5th floor rushed to watch the excitement.

Li Hongmei kept explaining, but repeated those few words, "I didn't steal it, I didn't even know you had a bottle of perfume."

Wen Jingjing was furious: "Are you still quibbling? Then tell me, where is my perfume? There are only four of us in the dormitory. Do you want to slander Manyue and Qiaoqiao? They both have perfume, okay, you need to steal mine perfume?"

Qin Manyue is a goddess who majored in English. She is tall and tall. She usually looks aloof and stands aside without speaking.

Lian Qiao refused, and hurriedly stood in line with Wen Jingjing, "I'm stealing perfume? Li Hongmei, you can do it, you dare to pour dirty water on me!"

In the end, there was no result of the quarrel. Li Hongmei insisted that she did not steal the perfume, but no one believed her.The matter spread from the dormitory to the class, and even the few boys often used "ugly", "stinky woman" and "thief" to insult her.

In the first semester of freshman year, under Wen Jingjing's organization, Li Hongmei was completely isolated.

English majors have oral training classes every day, and no one is paired with Li Hongmei to practice.When everyone in the classroom was talking, she sat alone in a corner, reciting words in a low voice.

Sarcasm, insults, and wearing small shoes are common, and Li Hongmei is used to it.In her sophomore year, Wen Jingjing got even worse. She recruited a boy from another school to force open the bathroom door while Li Hongmei was taking a shower, and aimed her camera and mobile phone at her at the same time.

No matter how hard Li Hongmei struggled, the boy's arms clamped her down, and he sweared at her.She cried and refused, but the shutter sound of the camera became more intense...

There was no rumor about the nude photos, and Wen Jingjing didn't have the guts to do so.

After that, Wen Jingjing, Lian Qiao, and Qin Manyue saw that Li Hongmei would not resist, and all the boys in the class stood by them, so they became more confident.

Li Hongmei was beaten many times, and blood-stained sanitary napkins frequently appeared in the lunch box and water cup.

"Does the school not care?" a criminal policeman asked.

"Take care? How can I take care of it? Li Hongmei is the most difficult child in the entire English department. Those who bully her, some of their parents are officials, some are in business, and most of them are locals. She is an orphan and studies far away from home. How can I provoke those people?" Zhang Chunfang sighed, "Li Hongmei would ask the counselor for help when she was a freshman and sophomore, but the counselor ignored her at all, and the student union also turned a blind eye. Vice President of the Student Union. In her third year, Li Hongmei should be aware of her situation. She has never complained to anyone, tried not to stay with her classmates, and made friends outside, but they didn’t make friends. The missionary, brought back to the dormitory to drink water, was trained by Wen Jingjing and the others. I thought she was pitiful, so I relieved her, told her to endure until graduation, and she said she understood. I am just a dormitory supervisor, and I will I can't help her, the only thing I can do is to open the door for her when she comes back from working in the middle of the night... hey!"

A small number of students stood up and confirmed Zhang Chunfang's words, but most of them remained silent.

The school was busy controlling public opinion. Li Hongmei's counselor refused to admit that Li Hongmei had been bullied for three years.

In Wen Jingjing's laptop, Xiao Man found a photo of Li Hongmei being forcibly taken.

This is ironclad evidence that Li Hongmei was bullied.

Li Hongmei was in a state as if the event was over, she smiled and shook her head, "Actually, I should have killed them a long time ago. I was too kind to them, and I killed them in my sleep. As for them, they are much more cruel than me." , Ling delayed me for three years, I was in much more pain than them..."

As night fell, Mingshu drank a cup of herbal tea, rubbed his sore eye sockets, and picked up the coat that was draped over the back of the chair.

Li Hongmei has pleaded guilty, but the case is not entirely beyond doubt.

Where is that person named "Chi Xiaomin"?