Madness of the Heart

Chapter 13 Demon Hunting (13)

Chi Xiaomin seemed to have evaporated, and disappeared too strangely.

Before the incident, many of the girls living in Dongjiu Building had seen her leave with Li Hongmei, but Li Hongmei was the only one who appeared on public cameras afterwards.

The 509 dormitory is undoubtedly the first scene. All traces left on this scene prove that the murderer was Li Hongmei, and Chi Xiaomin had never returned.

How can a big living person disappear for no reason?

Since Chi Xiaomin disappeared, he must have something to do with Li Hongmei and Dongye University of Foreign Languages.

Unanswered, Ming Shu took Fang Yuanhang back to Dongye Foreign Languages ​​Institute.

Dongjiu Building, which was full of life not long ago, has lost the slightest popularity. Although the cordon has been removed and only 509 has been sealed off, Dongjiu Building is a female dormitory after all. When this happened, the girls living on the 5th floor evacuated urgently at noon that day, some rented a house outside the school, some went home directly, and the 510 students received psychological counseling in the school hospital.

As soon as the fifth floor was evacuated, the girls on the upper and lower floors followed one after another. There are fewer and fewer people in the dormitory, even if some girls are courageous enough, they can’t live anymore.

The technical investigation team is still investigating the surveillance in and around the campus. Fang Yuanhang asked: “Master, we are looking for Chi Xiaomin, there is no need to come to Dongjiu Building again.”

“It’s necessary.” Ming Shu didn’t tell Fang Yuanhang. The main purpose of his visit was actually the string of **** characters on the wall of 509.

They all deserve to die.

This is Li Hongmei’s motive for murder.

From the perspective of Li Hongmei, she was oppressed for three years, suffered psychological and physical harm and insults, and finally broke out and killed the three headed by Wen Jingjing.

But why doesn’t it erupt early, and not late, so why does it happen at this time?

From a rational point of view, the oppression Li Hongmei received this time was no heavier than in the past, so Chi Xiaomin who was involved in this matter became a key figure.

However, in many cases, human behavior cannot be completely analyzed rationally. Some seemingly subtle elements can inexplicably crush a person who can bear it for many years.

It was dark. Even though the lights were on in the corridor and the room, and the three victims had been moved, 509 still looked **** and terrifying.

Ming Shu stood in the middle of the room, staring at the writing on the wall.

They all deserve to die;

Some people deserve to die.

The word “Damn” connects Lu Kun and Li Hongmei.

Ming Shu’s eyes became colder, and his eyebrows wrinkled tighter.

Has Li Hongmei read the Tomb Heart’s novel like Lu Kun?

For a moment, he lowered his head and pressed his fingers against his eye sockets, two conflicting thoughts repeatedly biting in his brain.

—Perhaps Li Hongmei was also affected by the heart of the tomb.

—You think too much, Li Hongmei has nothing to do with Lu Kun.

“Master?” Fang Yuanhang yelled several times. Seeing that Ming Shu did not respond, he had to raise his hand and push it, “Master, what are you thinking?”

Ming Shu took a long breath, “Come, check Li Hongmei’s personal belongings.”

Fang Yuanhang reacted now, “Do you suspect that Li Hongmei has also read Tomb Heart’s novel?”

“It’s possible.” Ming Shu walked to Li Hongmei’s bed. “Maybe there are clues related to Chi Xiaomin in her personal belongings.”

Although Dongye University of Foreign Languages ​​has been established for more than sixty years, the East Ninth Building was built only a few years ago. The environment is not bad, and it is a common bed and table configuration.

Li Hongmei’s bed is very tidy. The mosquito nets are opened and the quilt is folded on the head of the bed. The desk area under the bed has no extra items except for daily necessities, even a mirror.

And four-fifths of the closet is empty, which can be said to be empty.

Ming Shu took the only ten books on the shelf, all of them were professional textbooks without exception.

Fang Yuanhang said: “Master, there is no book with the heart of the tomb on the bookshelves of the other three.”

Ming Shu nodded and turned over the “Level 2 Translation Question Bank” in his hand. The book contains notes with pens of different colors, and it seems that Li Hongmei is planning to take this year’s translation test.

A person with a plan for the future tore up his own future with his own hands.

Suddenly, a sticky note floated out of the book. Ming Shu picked it up, and doubts gradually grew in his eyes after reading it.

The note says-

If I let you be wronged, then my life will be destroyed.

If I go to chase my life, then they will be happy forever.

What should I do?

Do you want me to look forward and live my life well, or do you desperate for you?

“What does this mean?” Fang Yuanhang took the note and said in amazement: “Who are’them’ and’you’? What is’injustice and snow’? Is this written by Li Hongmei? What does she want to express?”

“She wrote it.” Ming Shu said, “The handwriting is exactly the same as the notes in the book.”

Fang Yuanhang: “Fuck me, I’m a little confused now.”

“Li Hongmei is an orphan, both of her parents have died, and she has no relatives.” Ming Shu closed the “Secondary Translation Question Bank”, “‘you’ refer to her relatives who passed away. It seems that Li Hongmei’s burden is more than ours. I understand this. Go and check her background, what happened to Zha Xia Ben Village.”

Criminal Investigation Bureau, Li Hongmei is still under trial.

She confessed the crime but refused to tell the story of Chi Xiaomin, which makes it hard to figure out why.

“Where is Chi Xiaomin?” Although Li Hongmei has repeatedly stated that he does not want to face a beautiful policewoman, the rules are the rules. The female police officer of the Criminal Investigation Team, Cheng Qianxue, sat opposite her, looking at her face, gradually becoming a little impatient. “You took her out of Dongjiu Building, where did you go after that?”

Li Hongmei had little response, “I don’t know.”

Cheng Qianxue: “You keep saying that she is your friend, and you come out of the dormitory together, why don’t you know where she is going?”

Li Hongmei sneered, “Aren’t you looking for the murderer who killed the three Wen Jingjing? I killed the people. I pleaded guilty, and the evidence is in your hands. All of this has nothing to do with Xiao Min. What are you looking for with her?”

Cheng Qianxue slapped the edge of the table, “You killed three people less than four hours after you separated from Chi Xiaomin, and Chi Xiaomin was also a key figure in the murder!”

Li Hongmei’s eyes rolled weirdly, “Then you can check it out.”

The interrogation found nothing. Cheng Qianxue shook her head one after another when she came out of the interrogation room, “To be honest, if Li Hongmei and I are classmates, I hate her. Her face makes me uncomfortable.”

Yi Fei comforted: “Go and rest first, and leave the rest to us. Just let me talk about this. You are wearing a police uniform, so you can’t just complain.”

Li Hongmei didn’t want to say more, but fortunately, the campus arranged by Mingshu got a clue.

Chi Xiaomin came to Dongjiu Building more than once and left a deep impression. Several girls said that Chi Xiaomin had met Li Hongmei while working.

Li Hongmei worked three jobs in total. One was doing text proofreading in the night shift at a newspaper, the other was teaching English to junior high school students in an after-school tutoring organization, and the other was cashing in a milk tea shop.

After investigation, it was confirmed that Chi Xiaomin was a clerk at the fresh fruit shop next to the milk tea shop.

“What happened to this girl?” The owner of the fresh fruit shop was worried. “She was supposed to go to the morning shift yesterday, but she hasn’t come. It has been two days, and no one answered her phone. She has worked here for half a year. I’ve always been honest, never like this.”

“Where does she live, do you know?” Ming Shu gradually had a bad feeling.

The boss nodded, tore off a corner of the wall calendar, wrote the address, and asked, “What happened to Xiaomin?”

Ming Shu looked at the address, and it was nearby, a tube building that was about to become a dangerous building.

Fang Yuanhang rushed over immediately, and Ming Shu then asked Chi Xiaomin about his situation.

The boss didn’t know much about Chi Xiaomin. He only knew that the child came from the countryside. He was about 20 years old. He hadn’t studied for a long time. He came from his hometown to the city. He planned to find a job first, get a firm foothold, and then seek a job. Way out.

“She seems to want to save money to study, and she is very close to a college student. I haven’t seen that college student in the past few days. It’s an ugly girl. By the way, this is the copy of the ID card that Chi Xiaomin left me at the beginning.” The boss pulled out a double-folded piece of paper from the drawer and explained: “I met a worker who had just arrived a few days before stealing more than one thousand yuan and ran away. Now I invite people and let them all Show your ID card and save another copy with me.”

“It should be like this.” Ming Shu took the photocopy and saw that Chi Xiaomin was from Kongliu Town, Lanxiang City, thousands of kilometers away from Dongye City.

Soon, news came from Fang Yuanhang, saying that Chi Xiaomin was not in the rental room, and nothing else was found temporarily.

Another even more surprising piece of news came at the same time—Chi Xiaomin’s identity information was forged, and there was no such person in the household registration network.

“Fuck me!” Fang Yuanhang shouted: “Is this Chi Xiaomin a ‘little ghost’?”

In the internal statement of Interpol, “little ghost” refers to orphans who were born with no identity and no registered permanent residence, and were raised by some “big bosses.” These people don’t need to learn when they are young, and they don’t need to work when they grow up. Once the “little ghost” is exposed, or may cause trouble to the owner, it will be “handled.”

The endings of “Little Ghosts” are mostly miserable. They have no human dignity when they are alive, and they rarely have a resting place when they die. The police just wanted to investigate, and in many cases, they didn’t get enough information.

Ordinary people generally don’t come into contact with “little ghosts”, and have never heard of the term “little ghosts”. However, Fang Yuanhang participated in a large-scale joint military-police investigation when he was at the police academy. The “little ghosts” raised by the criminal leaders who were captured were more than 300 people who were still alive.

Chi Xiaomin’s situation is a bit like that of “little devil”.

If she is really a “little ghost”, then what is the reason for her approach to Li Hongmei? She disappeared now, was she dealt with by the master?

Ming Shu stood at the door of Chi Xiaomin’s rental house, looking at the room less than ten square meters.

The light in the room was poor, the air was filled with an unpleasant musty smell, there was a single bed against the wall, and the bed was piled up with clothes and thin quilts—the quilt was not folded. In the middle of the room is a folding table with a rice cooker, tableware, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar. It can be seen that Chi Xiaomin is cooking and eating on this table.

Like most cheap rental houses, there is no wooden wardrobe here. There is only a simple wardrobe made of steel bars and cloth. Next to the wardrobe is a “table” made up of four chairs with books on it.

Ming Shu walked over and picked up the top one. It was a love novel with a young man and a young couple on the cover, and the title was affectionate and confusing. Most of the novels left there are similar novels, but the one at the bottom has a completely different cover style.

Ming Shu pulled it out, his eyebrows suddenly tightened.

This is actually a suspense novel in the heart of the tomb.

Wearing handcuffs, Li Hongmei looked at the book on the interrogation table and said for a while: “This is not mine.”

“Yes, it’s not yours.” Ming Shu said, “Have you read it?”

Li Hongmei reacted slowly, “Xiao Min lent it to me.”

Ming Shu asked: “Do you like it?”

Li Hongmei shook her head.

Ming Shu asked again, “Does Chi Xiaomin like it?”

Li Hongmei shook her head first, then nodded.

Ming Shu’s tone changed abruptly, “Did you kill Wen Jingjing and three people because of the influence of this book?”

“No.” Li Hongmei bit her fat lip, “They deserve to die.”

Ming Shu asked, “Then who told you they deserved to die?”

Li Hongmei opened her mouth and closed it again.

Ming Shu asked again: “When did you think they deserved to die?”

Li Hongmei still did not answer.

Ming Shu’s tone was quick and his sense of oppression became stronger and stronger, “Did you read the book in the heart of the tomb?”

Li Hongmei shook her head.

Ming Shu continued, “Chi Xiaomin discussed the book in the heart of the tomb with you?”

Li Hongmei finally nodded, sweat covering her forehead.

Ming Shu seized this moment, “You already like suspense novels? You need to earn your own tuition and living expenses. Except for class, your time is spent on part-time work. Where do you spend your time reading novels?”

Li Hongmei shook her head frequently, “No, I, I have time.”

“Really?” Ming Shu asked quickly, not giving her time to think seriously. “Your book borrowing record shows that you have read only four novels from your freshman year to now, all of which are career struggles. Tomb Heart’s novel is your first contact with suspense?”

“Yes, yes.” Li Hongmei couldn’t control her tone.

Mingshu disrupted the order of the interviews, making all the questions seem to lack coherence and logic, “When did you meet Chi Xiaomin?”

“Early this year.”

“When did you start reading suspense novels.”

“Also, also at the beginning of this year.”

“When are you unwilling to be patient anymore and want to kill your roommate?”

Li Hongmei was dumb.

Ming Shu stared at her, his tone sank, “Early this year, right?”

After a brief stupefaction, Li Hongmei buried her face in her palm and made a vague voice.

Ming Shu heard it clearly, and she was still talking about that sentence-they all deserve to die.

“Chi Xiaomin is too strange.” Ming Shu was lying on the sofa in Xiao Yuan’s office. The sofa is not long enough to accommodate his two legs, so one is bent and the other is placed outside, “If she has nothing to do with Li Hongmei’s murder of three roommates, why would she suddenly disappear? Li Hongmei read the book in the heart of the tomb, it’s obvious It was influenced by her. But the question is, even if this is the case, Chi Xiaomin doesn’t have to leave. Is she trying to escape something, or is she experiencing an accident?”

Xiao Yuan stood in front of the window and didn’t speak for a while.

It was dark, and the glass reflected his figure like a mirror.

Ming Shu closed his eyes, filtering the case in his mind, while saying, “If Chi Xiaomin is really a’little ghost’, who raised the’little ghost’? Now there are two murder suspects who have read the heart of the tomb. Li Hongmei and Lu Kun both think that some people are damned. They…hey, Fang Yuanhang said that his brain is messed up, and I am messed up now. Brother, you have to take care of it with me.”

Xiao Yuan brought a black leather notebook and sat on the sofa, “You speak, I listen.”

“There are now four murders. In the first case, Lu Kun went crazy in a coffee shop and killed two noisy children. He read the book in the heart of the tomb and agreed with “some people should die”, thinking that the heart of the tomb instigated him to commit the crime; The second accident occurred in the popular science playground-I think this one can be temporarily put aside, because the accident is too great, and it has no particular deep connection with other cases; the third case, Luo Xiangfu was killed and his body was thrown, traditional interpersonal The relationship has ended. The people around him are motivated, but they have no time to commit crimes. I very much suspect that his behavior of forcibly filming women and children caused him trouble. This is still under investigation; the last is the fourth incident, Li Hongmei’s one night. Killed three roommates in the same time. She endured school violence for three years. After being bullied again, she finally broke out. Like Lu Kun, she has also read Tomb Heart’s novels.”

Ming Shu finished speaking in one breath and looked at Xiao Yuan, “In the three cases, two suspects have appeared and the motives are clear. If Luo Xiangfu was killed because of street shooting, then these three cases have one thing in common. ”

“The murderers think that some people deserve to die.” Xiao Yuan said.

“Yes!” Mingshu’s eyes shot bright light, “Not only that, they also believe that it is not humans that are killed, but demons! They find a reasonable interpretation of their behavior, that is, hunting demons!”

Xiao Yuan slowly said: “Then what role does Chi Xiaomin play in it?”

“This is also something I don’t understand. She can have many identities-she happens to know Li Hongmei’s migrant girl, don’t try to get close to Li Hongmei’s’little ghost’.” Ming Shu held her hands together, “She may even be the heart of the tomb. Do you think, if she is the heart of the tomb, will she be dissatisfied with only relying on novels to influence others? When she is dissatisfied, what will she do? Isn’t that just going’offline’? So Li Hongmei is hers test subject.”

“Your speculation is based on the premise that she is still alive.” Xiao Yuan said: “Think more broadly. Missing is nothing more than two possibilities. One is taking the initiative to hide, and the other is being killed. If she is already dead, Li Hongmei may be the murderer. ?”

Ming Shu suddenly felt a chill from the tail vertebrae, “What was the reason Li Hongmei killed her?”

As soon as the voice fell, Ming Shu himself was stunned.

The sticky note found in Li Hongmei’s book entered his mind again.

“What do you remember?” Xiao Yuan asked.

Ming Shu told the facts about the memo, and said: “I have asked Fang Yuanhang to investigate Li’s affairs. It is estimated that there will be results soon.”

The next day, Li Hongmei’s background was found out—

She is an orphan, but her family did not die normally. Her father and elder brother were beaten to death twelve years ago because of conflicts with “outsiders”.