Madness of the Heart

Before the transformation of economic structure, Dongye City used to be a heavy industrial city.

Along with large-scale factories comes a culture of semi-closed communities—in the community centered on factories, there are not only primary and secondary schools, hospitals, and department stores, but even larger ones have their own swimming pools and dairy farms.

More than 30 years ago, the most important factory in Dongye City was the Tianhong Arms Factory located in Xicheng District.Its community intelligence and workers' welfare are so complete that today's young people can hardly imagine. In terms of education, there is everything from kindergarten to high school. In terms of entertainment, there is even a popular science playground for children.

Today, the Tianhong Arms Factory has long been withdrawn from Dongye City, and the factory buildings and communities have been replaced by high-rise buildings. The only thing that retains the style of the past is the popular science playground that was once yearned for by all the children in the city.

Even the factory no longer exists, why is the popular science playground still in place?

This was related to the objective situation of Dongye City at that time - more than ten years ago, there were only park-like playgrounds in the city.The sum of these playgrounds is not as influential as Tianhong's popular science playground.When Tianhong was evacuating, a real estate developer bought the popular science playground from the Tianhong Weapons Factory under the instruction of the Xicheng District Government, and planned to upgrade and maintain it as a fee-paying attraction.

However, things backfired. The transformation of the economic structure meant that a large amount of foreign capital and emerging industries poured into Dongye City.After only three years of glory after Tianhong's exit, the popular science playground was replaced by two large-scale modern chain playgrounds.

Since about ten years ago, the popular science playground has been unmanned.And because of cooperation disputes and interest disputes, it cannot be demolished there.

Today, the popular science playground has become a joke in Dongye City.

Many young people dubbed it the "cemetery of childhood".

In recent years, this "childhood cemetery" has become a favorite place for photographers and young lovers.

Dongye City is changing with each passing day, and the popular science playground is surrounded by towering, cold and exquisite commercial office buildings.Its decline and obsolete just become another fascinating landscape, attracting people who are tired of the city and cannot escape from the city.

It was late at night, and the LED lights of the office building shone on the edge of the popular science playground, but could not penetrate into the deepest part.

A mottled amusement train parked in the overgrown bushes, the head and tail have fallen off.The sound of panting came from the third carriage from the front, and suddenly, a hand slapped on the dirty yellow and dirty glass, and the fingernails moved, making a teeth-stinging sound.

This rusty train is the favorite of "little freshmen" during the day-people pose various sad poses on the rails, and then the camera freezes it, and then it is accompanied by a paragraph such as "you don't understand my pain" Such texts are posted on social networking sites; at night, the train becomes a pleasure nest for sensual men and women.

Ten minutes later, the slanted car door was pushed open with a bang, and a plump woman in a white suspender dress jumped out of the train first.She walked a few staggering steps, took out the lighter, lit the lady's cigarette in her hand with a "ding", and puffed away comfortably.

Soon, the shirtless man also jumped down and shared a cigarette with the woman.The two snuggled together, talking in a low voice, and making ambiguous laughter from time to time.

After three cigarettes, the woman patted her skirt and seemed to be planning to leave.

But the man seemed to have more to say, holding her hand, kissing and sniffing at the same time.

The woman compromised with a smile, shaking her graceful waist, "Let's change places."

This popular science amusement park has a closed space like a train carriage. The man looked around, his eyes lit up, "Let's go there and punch a card."

The woman looked at the man's fingers, her eyebrows frowned slightly, "Isn't that good? It's too dangerous there."

What the man was referring to was actually a speeding bicycle suspended on a steel frame.The steel frame is about three stories high from the ground, and the bicycle does not have any security facilities, so it is quite dangerous just to climb it.

"Dangerous things are exciting." The man smiled seductively, and put his arms around the woman's shoulders, "Xiao Shan, didn't you suggest that we go to a different 'toy' every week to check in? Why, it's scary to change to the one in the sky?"

The woman snorted, "Why am I afraid?"

"Then go." The man was full of confidence, deliberately showing the bravery of a man, "Don't worry, with me here, nothing will happen."

Soon, the two climbed onto the bicycle.The old antique was crumbling on the steel frame, making creaking noises constantly.What's even more frightening is that most of the thin railings in the speeding car have been broken long ago, and three of them are stunned, shaped like sharp iron thorns.Once hit, the consequences would be disastrous.

The woman carefully grasped the unbroken railing, her face pale with shock, "Forget it, forget it, this thing is too unsafe, if we make a big move, it will definitely fall."

The man swallowed his saliva, and was obviously scared, but he didn't want to show his timidity in front of the woman, and said bravely, "Don't be afraid, it's okay. It's not very high here, and we still have the carriage to protect us. Even if we do fall, we will fall." Nothing wrong."

After speaking, the man stretched out his hand, intending to pull the woman into his arms.

But the woman slipped and fell to the front right.

The speeding bicycle was inherently unstable and could not stand the toss at all. The woman's fall directly caused the body of the bicycle to lose its balance.

The man and the woman looked at each other in blank dismay, and before they had time to react, they felt that the world had turned upside down.

The two of them fell straight down from the height of the three-storey building with the pedal bike!

"what--"

The terrified cries were lost in the swamp-like darkness.The speeding car tore through the air, slammed into the rocky ground below, made a heavy muffled sound, then turned over, poking upside down on the ground like a vehicle falling off a cliff.

After 5 minutes, a bloody hand protruded from the car body.The woman's white dress has been dyed blood red, and the nails covered with rhinestones are flying from the flesh.

Her face was smeared with blood, and she cried in a low voice while crawling, her long blood-soaked hair covered her heavily made-up face in strands.

This picture is extremely infiltrating, like a female ghost crawling out of the TV.

Behind her, the man kept moaning in pain.She knelt on the ground, turned around mechanically, and when she saw the situation in the carriage, her pupils shrank severely.

The man's upper abdomen was actually pierced by a slender iron thorn!

She wanted to cry out, but was too scared to make a sound.The man looked at her in fear, and said weakly, "Xiaoshan, save me...help me..."

Her eyes were blank, she shook her head numbly, the blood on her forehead dripped down with her movements, "No, no..."

The man gasped, his expression became fierce and distorted, "What are you doing in a daze? Call an ambulance, call a doctor, hurry up!"

The woman suddenly stood up from the rocky ground, her blood-red dress fluttering in the night wind.

"I can't save you." She murmured and stepped back, her expression was like sleepwalking, she took three steps back, but suddenly woke up, and picked up the cell phone that the man dropped on the ground.

"You..." The man's pupils had already faded, and more and more blood gushed out from the wound.

"Don't let others know, don't let others know..." The woman shook her head frantically, "I'm sorry..."

"Stop!" The man struggled vigorously, while the woman disappeared into the darkness as if fleeing for her life.

In the early morning of the next day, the elementary school students who came early to occupy the site saw a bloody scene that can only be seen in horror movies-a man lying on his side in the pile of rubble, with a rusty iron spike stuck in his stomach, and the gray-white stone has been stained. into black and red.His eyeballs were protruding, his frozen eyes were full of pain, and his right hand was stretched forward, as if to grab a chance.

The golden brilliance of Chuyang sprinkled on his body, and his breathing had already stopped.

After receiving the police, the Criminal Investigation Detachment of Xicheng Branch quickly blocked the scene.

The forensic doctor initially judged from the degree of plaque and rigor rigor that the man died between 11:30 p.m. yesterday and 0:[-] a.m. today.

Several police cars were parked outside the popular science amusement park, and spectators were kept out of the cordon.It was summer vacation at this time, and although the equipment in the amusement park had already stopped working, it was still a "sacred place" for children nearby.They stretched their necks one by one, and Baba looked inside.Some imaginative children have even made up a "Midnight Horror", gearing up to invite a few partners at night to explore the place where the corpse appears.

The car of the Crime Squad was not parked with the car of the Xicheng Branch. When Mingshu got off the passenger seat, he happened to hear a little boy excitedly say to his companion: "Do you know how the man inside died? My brother and I Said, he died from the witch's poisonous needle! The poisonous needle is so--what-long, and it pierced from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet in a swish!"

Mingshu: "..."

The little boy spit and said, "On the night of the full moon, witches will appear and punish those who make mistakes with poisonous needles! Do you want to see witches? Sign up here! My brother will take me, and I will take you!"

The children were eager to try, with expressions of anticipation and fear on their faces.

Mingshu said "Hello", the little boy turned around, blinked and looked at him, "Uncle, do you want to go see the witch with us?"

A fat kid said: "No way, uncle is an adult, and we are not from the same country. What if we sue?"

But the little girl with the shofar braids said: "Uncle looks good, let's let uncle participate!"

Mingshu squatted down, "Do you want to go on an adventure?"

The most active little boy said: "If you are willing to be our bodyguard and don't tell the truth, I will let you participate!"

"Bodyguard?" Mingshu showed a distressed expression, "But there are too many of you, I can't protect you."

The little boy opened his eyes wide and said doubtfully, "But you are very tall."

"I heard that witches like to eat children the most, and they eat at least seven children every night to maintain their appearance." Mingshu counted them solemnly, "There are exactly seven of you, and I can protect at most one."

Hearing this, the children all changed their expressions.

The little girl was the first to speak out: "Really?"

Mingshu: "Of course it's true."

The little boy hurriedly said: "Impossible! Don't listen to his nonsense! Witches don't eat children!"

Mingshu shook his head, "Why should I lie to you? Baby, if I protect you, I can't protect your companion."

The children looked at me and looked at you, but in the end they all retreated.

Mingshu smiled, then pulled up the warning belt and walked towards the corpse.

This case would not have alarmed the Serious Crimes Team, and the Xicheng Branch would be able to solve it, but Ming Shu had not long returned to Dongye City, and needed to enter the role of "Serious Crimes Team Leader" as soon as possible, so he rushed to the scene with his people.

The trace investigation work is in progress, and the extracted bloodstains and footprints need to be brought back to the branch for further inspection.Mingshu crouched beside the corpse, and looked up at the steel frame in the air.

"That's where the person fell from." Zhang Haiyu, the deputy captain of the Xicheng detachment, wiped off the sweat from his face, "There were bloodstains all over the scooter, after the deceased fell to the ground, he crawled five meters out from the compartment to where he is now. "

Mingshu put on the latex gloves, and thought to himself, "Why did he appear there in the middle of the night?"

"Some scavengers like to spend the night here." Zhang Haiyu said: "But judging by his clothes, he doesn't look like a scavenger."

Mingshu nodded, "Is there no surveillance installed around here?"

Zhang Haiyu frowned slightly, "There is no one here for a long time. There are no cameras in the park, only on the streets outside."

Mingshu pressed his fingers on the neck and collarbone of the deceased, and then moved to his lips, "There is another person who fell with him, most likely a woman."

At this moment, the trace inspector shouted that two fresh footprints were extracted from the carriage and the rocks, one was determined to belong to the deceased, and the other was from a woman with a height of 1 to 55 meters and a weight of no more than 1 catties. .

Zhang Haiyu looked at Mingshu and gave a thumbs up, "Ming team, you are amazing."

Mingshu walked to the carriage, his eyes swept over the blood stains, and finally fell on the seat on the left.

The seats had been crooked, and the iron and wood boards were squeezed and deformed.He bent down, twisted a long hair from the gap in the seat, and squinted into the sunlight.

The hair has been dyed, which is a popular golden red recently, and the hair root has hair follicles, which can be tested for DNA.

"Others are walking the tightrope for love, this one is climbing the track for love." Mingshu sealed his hair in an evidence bag and handed it to the trace inspector, his eyes were cold, "I don't like safe hotels, so I have to go to this kind of place to toss life."

Zhang Haiyu is also an experienced criminal police officer. Looking at the situation like this, he can understand what happened at night.

But what he didn't quite understand was, since the two were a couple having sex in the wild, why did the woman in the car leave the man behind after the bicycle crashed?

The man would not have died had he been taken to a doctor in time.

"The two of them had a secret tryst. Maybe they each have family members. This relationship is not visible." Ming Shu said, "There is no lack of evidence at the scene. This case is not difficult to solve. Let's confirm the identity of the deceased first. Does he have any documents?"

"Yes." Zhang Haiyu picked up a physical evidence bag, which contained a gray men's wallet, "Zhang Sihao, 24 years old. However, his identity needs to be further verified. The strange thing is that his mobile phone can't be found anywhere."

Mingshu raised his eyebrows, and after a while, his eyes narrowed into a long and narrow line, "It's his lover who took away his mobile phone."

When the police came to Joy Hotel, Xu Linshan was cleaning up the ashtrays that had been broken by guests.

She is 27 years old. She was born in a backward village under the jurisdiction of a neighboring city. She came to Dongye City to work before she was a teenager. She worked as a cleaner, sold fake wine, and sat in a hair salon.Three years ago, through someone's introduction, she married an honest taxi driver, and her life settled down. She gave birth to a child and worked as a room cleaner in this hotel.

She has not studied much, has no common sense and knowledge, is a bit pretty, loves vanity, despises her husband who is old and ugly, and has little skill in bed.

Half a year ago, she met Zhang Sihao, who also worked at the Joy Hotel, and it was as easy as burning firewood.

Zhang Sihao was born in the countryside like her, and left his hometown when he was a teenager. He has driven a car and cooked ducks. He is handsome and sunny, and his figure is many times better than that of her family.But Zhang Sihao was poor and couldn't save money just like her.

She looked down on her husband, but she didn't necessarily look down on Zhang Sihao much.During the few years she was on stage, she slept with many rich men.But relatively, they also look down on her.

Otherwise she wouldn't have married a taxi driver with a bald beer belly.

When Zhang Sihao chased her, she hesitated.But he hesitated and hesitated, and felt that it would be better to sleep a few times first, anyway, he was not the one who suffered, and if he met a man with better conditions in the future, he would just kick Zhang Sihao off.She has always had a clear understanding of herself - she is not a good wife and mother, she is greedy for the body of a handsome young man, and she is reluctant to part with the stable life given by her husband, she can have an affair without being discovered.

Zhang Sihao loves to play, and took her to the popular science playground "Night Battle" for the first time two months ago.She was hooked and proposed to "check in" on every ride.

Yesterday, it was their No. 11 "check in".

Her husband shared a taxi with others and often worked the night shift, which gave her the opportunity to have an affair, and they had sex with Zhang Sihao almost every night.

But she never thought that something like that would happen last night.

It was just bad luck.

Since the incident, she has been trapped in panic and confusion.The unstoppable blood in Zhang Sihao's abdomen and the ferocious and painful expression on his face were imprinted on her retina, making her shiver incessantly.

I didn't do it on purpose, I didn't do nothing—she said to herself over and over again—I really can't call an ambulance. Once the ambulance comes, our affairs will definitely be discovered, and then I'm done!I have kids and a family, and I can't let anyone find out that I'm having an affair with another man!

The moment the police showed her ID, she panicked like a puppet, not understanding why she was found.

Criminal investigation detachment of Xicheng branch, interrogation room.

Faced with her hair, footprints, and blood test report, Xu Linshan still refused to admit that she was with the deceased Zhang Sihao last night.

"You got it wrong. He and I are just colleagues, and we don't even have a few words. I have a family, and my child is only one year old. How can I stay with a man in the middle of the night?"

"The public camera outside the east gate of the amusement park has captured you—at 9:03 last night, you and Zhang Sihao entered the amusement park and behaved intimately; at 11:12, you left alone, looking flustered." Ming Shu looked at it leisurely. Looking at her, he turned the laptop that was playing the surveillance video, "Add the evidence I just presented, Ms. Xu, your statement is not as important as you thought."

Xu Linshan didn't have any anti-reconnaissance awareness, didn't know the existence of cameras, and didn't know that footprints and blood could lock a person's identity, so she thought that as long as Zhang Sihao took away Zhang Sihao's cell phone, making Zhang Sihao unable to call for help, and leaving the scene before being witnessed, he would be fine. Nothing goes wrong.

She was picking at her fingers irritably, all she wanted was to cover up her cheating.

Mingshu said again: "Your behavior contributed to Zhang Sihao's death."

Xu Linshan's eyes widened suddenly, "That was an accident! I didn't know that the iron spike would be inserted into his body!"

"So you admitted that you were in the speeding car with Zhang Sihao?" Zhang Haiyu said.

Xu Linshan trembled, "I..."

"Do you want to see Zhang Sihao's autopsy report?" Mingshu pushed a folder in front of Xu Linshan, fingers crossed, "There were multiple soft tissue bruises on his body, two broken ribs, internal bleeding, but there was no injury when he fell to the ground." Immediate death. If sent to the hospital in time, he can save his life."

Xu Linshan's eyes wandered, and her teeth "clacked".

"And you have no other injuries except your head." Ming Shu leaned back, "It seems that Zhang Sihao protected you when the accident happened?"

Tears suddenly appeared in Xu Linshan's eyes, and she shook her head slightly, "I don't know, I don't know that he will die..."

"Really? You really didn't know he was going to die? Did he ask you for help? I asked you to call 120 for him. But you not only didn't call an ambulance for him, but you also took his mobile phone on purpose." Ming Shu His eyes became colder, "Ms. Xu, if you keep hiding it, it won't do you any good."

Although Xu Linshan has maintained ambiguous relationships with different men all the year round, and was even scanned for pornography a few times when she sat on the stage in the hair salon in her early years, she has never been in an interrogation room, let alone dealt with serious criminal police. Being forced by Mingshu's few words, he immediately lost his footing and confessed his affair with Zhang Sihao tremblingly.

In the end, she looked at Mingshu with red and swollen eyes, "I...will I be sentenced? But I really didn't kill him, I didn't kill him, it was just an accident..."

The case was completely clear, Mingshu glanced coldly, got up and left the interrogation room, and when he closed the door, he saw a middle-aged man with half his head bald waiting in the corridor with a worried face.

The middle-aged man was Xu Linshan's husband. His appearance was ordinary, even a little ugly. If he used a popular word to describe it, he would be "greasy".

Mingshu sized him up for a moment, then sighed softly.

The man looks like an honest man who lives his life according to his duties, works diligently, and gives his wife and children the best possible life with a small salary.

People always laugh at "greasy", but they don't know that "greasy" is actually a state of happiness.

Xu Linshan was uneasy about this, and secretly had an affair with the handsome young man, easily smashing the man's unsustainable happiness to pieces.

This woman is typically stupid, poisonous, and ignorant.

Xu Linshan's cries came from the interrogation room. The man's facial features became more ugly, and he asked a policeman awkwardly, "What's wrong with Xiaoshan? Don't beat her..."

Mingshu twitched the corner of his lips, and was about to leave when he heard a rush of footsteps.

"Master!" Fang Yuanhang ran over with an excited expression, "The police are going to call again! There is actually a corpse buried under the rubble!"