Madness of the Heart

Wu Zhen's personal belongings have been sorted and sorted in the storage box, and they are temporarily placed in the office of the trace inspection department.

In addition to clothing and daily necessities, books and thick leather notebooks are the most in the storage box.Xiao Man went to Liuguang Culture Media Company to read it, and there were a large number of books for screenwriters to consult, covering the most popular, film and television works, and almost all screenwriting textbooks.It stands to reason that Wu Zhen no longer needs to buy books by himself.

But Wu Zhen did not borrow the same screenwriting manual from the company, but bought it with his own money, and made a lot of notes in the book with blue pens and red pens.

"What a hardworking person." Xiao Man, wearing gloves, sighed while flipping through these books.

In addition to books related to screenwriting, Wu Zhen also has an introduction to guzheng.

This book was issued by "Jianjia Bailu". As long as you take a one-on-one class, everyone will have a copy.

Sha Chun's fingerprints have been collected on the book, and Sha Chun's handwriting is still on the first few pages.This is not surprising. Sha Chun would probably have read this book when he was teaching Wu Zhen.

But when he picked up the thick leather notebook, Xiao Man suddenly had a strange feeling, as if he had seen this notebook somewhere before.

Notebooks are very common, and you can buy one online for less than ten yuan.For the exact same notebook, e-commerce companies sold tens of thousands of copies last month.

What Wu Zhen wrote in his notebook was almost all his feelings about the drama and the outline of the script, and there was also inner pain in it.

The professional things in the film and television industry do not have much effect on the detection of the case. On the contrary, sporadic inner portrayals may suggest something.Xiao Man was concentrating on watching, when suddenly he heard someone knock on the open door.

A group of people in the serious crime team are not so polite, and it is almost impossible for them not to enter directly with the door open.

Xiao Man didn't raise his head, "Didn't you see that he was busy? Still knocking on the door, why are you pretending to be gentle?"

The assistant patted him and said loudly: "Ju Xiao!"

Xiao Man immediately turned around and said awkwardly: "Xiao Ju, I didn't know it was you..."

Xiao Yu'an smiled and didn't care, "I'll take a look at Wu Zhen's personal belongings."

"It's all here." Xiao Man handed over a pair of gloves, pointing to four thick leather notebooks placed separately, "Wu Zhen occasionally writes a diary on them, look here."

Xiao Yu'an took it, and his eyes fell on the short section of strong and powerful characters.

"Why do good expectations always fail? Why do you use 'success' to fish me? Are they really better than me? No, they just have more luck than me. I want to fight again. I have given everything, I Is it worse than those people?"

"Those three books have been written to the last page, and this one is only used for a third." Xiao Man quickly flipped to the place where the fourth book had writing, "Before he disappeared, Wu Zhen's handwriting had already changed significantly. "

"If it was strong and powerful at the beginning, it was already a ghost painting peach charm after writing it." Xiao Yu'an said: "Psychological changes are a long and gradual process, but around this time, Wu Zhen's mentality underwent an obvious change."

While speaking, Xiao Yuan pressed his right hand finger on a certain page.

Xiao Man said, "Do you want to determine an approximate time period?"

Xiao Yu'an asked, "Can it be done?"

Xiao Man said confidently: "Yes!"

Xiao Yu'an smiled, "Thank you for your hard work."

Xiao Man said: "By the way, Jue Xiao, I think the clues in this notebook are more than the content inside."

"What else did you find?" Xiao Yuan asked.

"Not yet." Xiao Man scratched the base of his ear, "But I have a strong feeling—I've seen a similar notebook somewhere recently."

Xiao Yuan picked up the notebook again, "This notebook is very ordinary."

"I know." Xiao Man nodded, "But I just care a little bit."

"Then think about it again." Xiao Yu'an said, "Don't let go of any inspiration or clue."

The police officers transferred from the first criminal investigation team visited Yilu Street together with members of the serious crime team led by Yi Fei.But Mingshu went to Shachun's home in Jiachuang Community again.

The room was kept in its original condition and the food in the fridge was still not expired.Yong Huan said that he wanted to sort out Sha Chun's belongings, but it's not the time yet.

Mingshu sat next to the guzheng in the practice room, looking at the bracket used to fix the mobile phone on the opposite side.

What does Sha Chun think about every time he sits here practicing and recording performance videos?

It must be successful this time.

This is a great video, and someone will definitely watch it.

Just keep going, don't give up...

Suddenly, the mobile phone in his trouser pocket vibrated, and Mingshu came back to his senses, and found that it was a message from Xiao Yu'an.

There is only one photo in the dialog box, a notebook with a black cover.

"Typing" is displayed on the screen.

Soon, Xiao Yuan sent a voice: "Do you have any impression of this notebook?"

Mingshu enlarged the photo, thought for a long time, then stood up immediately, and ran to the bookshelf beside him.

When he came here last time, he had seen a thick leather notebook, but he had other things to do at that time, so he didn't take it out to examine it carefully.

There are not many books on the shelf, almost all of them are related to music.Mingshu took down the notebook, opened it, and saw that it was blank, without writing a single word.

This is a brand new, unused notebook.

"Brother, where did you see the notebook in your photo?" Mingshu called and asked.

"The Department of Trace Inspection was left by Wu Zhen." Xiao Yu'an said: "Xiao Man has an impression of this notebook, but he can't remember it for a while. The places he has been to recently related to the case are performing arts center and Shachun. You happen to be at Sha Chun’s house, so I’ll let you take a look at it.”

Mingshu immediately put the notebook into the evidence bag, looked up at the bookshelf again, and there were several other notebooks inside, "Wu Zhen and Sha Chun have the same notebook...Brother, Sha Chun's notebooks are all light-colored, girls The kind I like."

With that said, Mingshu had already taken out all the notebooks, and then walked quickly to the bedroom.

He still remembered that in Sha Chun's tent, there was a small hard-sided notebook with cartoon characters inside and outside, which was quite cute.

Today's young people call it a hand account.

Compared with Sha Chun's other notebooks, the thick-skinned notebook looks very different.

"It may not belong to Sha Chun." Ming Shu said, "But if it belongs to Wu Zhen, why is it here in Sha Chun?"

"Bring it back first." Xiao Yu'an said, "Leave it to Henjian for identification."

Summer has come to an end, but the last wave of scorching heat still makes people who are running outside complain secretly.

When Wu Zhen just disappeared, the police station didn't get Luo Xiu's clue, so they couldn't find Yilu Street. Now that the serious crime team is here, the best time to solve the case has passed. Even if they go door-to-door, the effect is not satisfactory.

The school is about to start, and the children are taking the time to play wildly.This area is full of old houses, the alleys are very narrow, and the ground is the kind of bluestone slabs that have been paved for decades and have cracked long ago.Just as Yi Fei came out of a house, it was extremely hot. He turned on the kettle and tried to take a sip, but two children ran from behind and hit his waist.

"Fuck!" The sub-team of Wenming also yelled, and saw that the two children were only seven or eight years old, carrying camouflage bags, wearing imitation military helmets, and water bottles on their waists, walking towards an old staircase. run away.

Yi Fei suddenly remembered a ridiculous case that happened in Xicheng District some time ago—seven children teamed up to leave home for an adventure. The equipment was quite professional, compass engineer shovel tent, infrared telescope, and two children even brought parachutes.

The parents of the seven families were going crazy, looking for people all over the city, the police dispatched the police from the police station and the special police from the sub-bureau, and finally found the children in a cave on the outskirts of the city.

At that time, due to heavy rain, the river swelled sharply, and the seven "explorers" hid in the cave. If the rain was heavier, they might have died when the police arrived.

Because of this case, the Municipal Bureau held a special meeting, requiring the branch bureau and the police station to step up patrols, stop any children who showed signs of leaving home for adventure, and contact their parents.

The serious crime team didn't care about this kind of public security incident, but Yi Fei was a policeman after all, so he quickly called a team member to follow the two children.

Not long after, the team member suddenly shouted in the group channel: "These two kids didn't run away from home, but their mother came to find the corpse! What's the matter with the kids now? I didn't have such courage when I first joined the team!"

There is a vocational school three kilometers away from the old residential area of ​​Yilu Street. It was closed more than half a year ago due to qualification problems. The teaching building is empty, but there are still people living in the staff dormitory.

The dormitory and the teaching building are separated by a playground. Originally, the direction of the teaching building was the main entrance, but after the school was closed, the main entrance was closed, and a small door near the dormitory was opened instead.

In this way, the teaching building seems to be hidden in the depths.

Before closing down, the vocational school planned to build another laboratory building on the side of the teaching building, so there was a lot of construction waste piled up behind the teaching building, and there was also a cement mixer that is common in towns and villages.

It is the adventure destination of two brave and big children.

As soon as he arrived at the scene, Yi Fei immediately smelled a not strong but very familiar smell - the smell of corpses.

The source of the smell of corpses was a strangely shaped concrete pier not far away.

The vocational school was originally remote, and almost no one came back after it was closed, and the concrete piers were hidden under rotten wood and bricks, making it difficult to attract attention.

Recently, the high temperature has been continuously sunny, and the concrete pier has cracked slightly, allowing the smell of corpses to escape.

When he got the news, Mingshu was driving to the Criminal Investigation Bureau, and turned around before hanging up the phone.Yi Fei's voice echoed throughout the car: "The pier has been opened, the body was packed in a plastic bag, and it has been severely decomposed. The clothes and physical signs appear to be male. Guess what we found in the trouser pocket of his trousers? "

Mingshu said: "Don't be a fool!"

After the pier was opened, the smell of corpses could no longer be suppressed, Yi Fei was so dizzy from the smoke that he couldn't keep his eyes open, "Langweixian's packaging bag!"

The two children, one named Zhou Li and the other named Xu Yin, are only 8 years old. Xu Yin looks like a boy, but is actually a girl.

As soon as Mingshu asked, the two of them all recruited.

Zhou Li and Xu Yin are neighbors. Both of Xu Yin’s parents died. There is only a deaf-mute grandfather in the family. Although Zhou Li’s parents are still alive, they are both working in other places. Sometimes they don’t come back once a year. There are elderly grandmothers and grandfathers at home .

The two grew up together, and loved to watch programs like wilderness adventures and haunted houses. They wanted to leave home to explore for a long time, but they were watched closely by Zhou Li's grandma and grandpa, so they could only hang around nearby.

A week ago, Xu Yin found that there was a smell of corpses under the teaching building of the vocational school, so he told Zhou Li that the two of them planned to bring equipment and find the corpse together.

"Wait!" Ming Shu looked at Xu Yin: "How can you tell that it's the smell of a corpse?"

Before the pier was opened, there was indeed a corpse smell in the air, but it was not obvious. Let alone an 8-year-old girl, even an adult might not be able to smell anything abnormal.

Coupled with the hot weather, there is a piece of rotten plants behind the teaching building, which is already filled with an unpleasant smell.

Xu Yin's eyes suddenly became weird, and Zhou Li said, "Because she lived with her parents' corpses for a week!"

Fang Yuanhang was horrified, "What?"

"I can tell the difference." Xu Yin smiled, but the smile on a child's face was not cute, but scary, "I can smell it, and it smells like a dead person."

Mingshu signaled Fang Yuanhang to investigate immediately, and then contacted the psychological experts in the bureau—whether this little girl was involved in the unsolved murder case or not, she must have serious psychological problems.

How could a normal child invite his friends to play a game of finding corpses after smelling the stench of corpses.

Because of the partition effect of the cement, the corpse decays slowly. After the preliminary autopsy, Xing Mu shook his head, "For the time being, no fatal wounds have been found on the body surface. I will tell you the cause of death after the autopsy."

Mingshu looked at the clothes of the male corpse.Although the surface of the clothes was filthy, it could still be seen that this was the one Wu Zhen was wearing when he was captured by surveillance cameras on June 6.Combined with the Langweixian packaging bag in the trouser pocket, this male corpse is likely to be Wu Zhen.

The scene was completely sealed off. Xing Mu took the lead to bring the male corpse back to the bureau for autopsy and DNA comparison. The trace inspectors stayed nearby to collect possible criminal traces.Mingshu stepped back step by step, looked at the cement mixer, and then at the teaching building, "Wu Zhen's actions on June 6 seemed to be about to commit suicide, but the victim just now must have committed suicide. Use cement to hide the body, put In this kind of place, which is no different from the wilderness, if we investigate it as an ordinary disappearance case, I am afraid it will not be found for a year or so."

Before the autopsy results of the male corpse came out, Fang Yuanhang figured out what was going on in Xu Yin's house.

Xu Yin's parents used to work in coastal cities.During the summer vacation two years ago, Xu Yin was taken to live with his parents.In that short summer, a shocking thing happened—Xu Yin's mother had an affair with a worker on the construction site, and was discovered by Xu Yin's father. A fierce dispute broke out between the two in the rented room, and Xu's mother accidentally killed her. Xu's father died, and then committed suicide because of fear.Xu Yin witnessed her mother's suicide and was so frightened that she fainted. After waking up, she wanted to go out, but found that the door had already been locked and she couldn't open it at all.

In this way, Xu Yin spent many days with the dead bodies of his parents in the sweltering one-bedroom apartment, until the police broke in.

The sea was hot and humid, and the two corpses exuded an unbearable stench.After the case was solved, Xu Yin was sent back to Dongye City and received psychological treatment for a period of time, but he could not return to his original state.

She always said that she liked corpses and the smell of corpses, and that she felt happy and at peace in that smell, just as she did when she was still living with her parents.

"It's so pitiful." Fang Yuanhang said, "If her mentality can't be corrected, what will happen when she grows up?"

Mingshu doesn't have much time to lament the life of a little girl, there are too many things he needs to deal with right now.

Autopsies and DNA comparisons are in progress.

After Wu Zhen disappeared, the police station collected DNA from Wu Zhen's daily necessities, which is the key to confirm whether the male corpse is Wu Zhen.

Xiao Man came from the trace inspection department, holding the notebook that Ming Shu brought back from Sha Chun's house, "Ming team! This is indeed Wu Zhen's notebook, and I extracted Wu Zhen's fingerprints from it!"

It is not surprising that Sha Chun's fingerprints and handwriting are on Wu Zhen's guzheng learning materials, but why is there Wu Zhen's fingerprints on Sha Chun's notebook at home?

"The relationship between Wu Zhen and Sha Chun must be closer than we thought before." Ming Shu walked up and down in front of Xiao Yu'an, "Wu Zhen's class was supposed to last until the beginning of July, but the last time he attended class at 'Jianjia Bailu' It was June 7, and the reason was dissatisfaction with the course. Like this kind of one-on-one teaching, the so-called 'dissatisfaction with the course' often refers to dissatisfaction with the teacher."

Xiao Yu'an said: "Wu Zhen doesn't seem to have any dissatisfaction with Sha Chun. Let's push, why is this notebook in Sha Chun's hands."

"There are five notebooks in total. The technical investigation has checked Wu Zhen's online shopping records. He bought these five notebooks three years ago, and they are a set of five." Mingshu said: "Before he disappeared, he used up all the notebooks. Three, the fourth is in use and the last one has not been moved."

Xiao Yu'an said: "Many screenwriters and writers are used to carrying a notebook with them to write down sudden inspirations. Wu Zhen should be the same. But he has no reason to carry a notebook that has not been used yet."

"That is to say, as long as Sha Chun doesn't go to Wu Zhen's residence, he shouldn't see this notebook." Ming Shu made a fist with his right hand and lightly touched his chin. The confessions of colleagues can prove that Sha Chun did not go to Wu Zhen's residence. Sha Chun did not ask Wu Zhen for this thing, but Wu Zhen took the initiative to give it to Sha Chun."

"Why did Wu Zhen do this?" Xiao Yu'an asked.

Mingshu frowned, "This..."

"Maybe it was given to Sha Chun as a souvenir." Xiao Yu'an said, "I have roughly read the contents of the notebook in the trace inspection department. It can be said that it records Wu Zhen's soul and hard work as a screenwriter—— The biographies of each script, the main line, every detail scene, and his perception before and after writing. There is no doubt that the notebook is very important to him.”

"Wu Zhen knows that he can't use the last one, so he gave it to Sha Chun?" Ming Shu said, "So in Wu Zhen's heart, Sha Chun is a very important person? This is obviously contrary to Wu Zhen's dissatisfaction with the course." Ah. And Sha Chun accepted the notebook and kept it at home. At least it shows that Sha Chun and Wu Zhen actually have friendship. But after Wu Zhen disappeared, Sha Chun didn’t respond, as if the missing person was just a stranger. I think Sha Chun didn’t know anything about the records of the police station’s investigation at Jianjia Bailu.”

"She deliberately concealed the truth from the police, just like Luo Xiu." Xiao Yu'an said, "Sha Chun may even know the truth about Wu Zhen's disappearance."

Ming Shu punched the edge of the table, "It's a pity that there is no proof of death."

The results of the DNA comparison came out before the autopsy report, and the male corpse was indeed Wu Zhen who disappeared two months ago.

Later, Xing Mu called Mingshu to the forensic identification center, "The victim died of sodium cyanide poisoning."