Chapter 20 Section 1

"pistol." The young armed police soldier stretched out his hand, expressionless. Chu Tianying reluctantly took off the Type 92 9mm large-caliber pistol from his waist and handed it to the opponent.The young armed police soldier immediately stuffed the gun into a waist-high window behind him. There was a lock sound from the window, and a "copper button" engraved with magnetic dense patterns was handed out. The armed police soldier took it and handed it to Chu Tianying. Only then did Chu Tianying walk through the metal detection door.Guo Xiaofen, Aixinjueluo Ning, and Lin Fengchong, Chief of the Second Section of the Municipal Criminal Investigation Corps, were already waiting for him in the corridor.

"The defense is tight!" Chu Tianying couldn't help but sigh with emotion. This is the Mental Health Appraisal Center under the Municipal Bureau, located in the western suburbs.From the outside, it looks like three gray buildings like a township guest house surrounded by fences hung with barbed wire. In fact, the mystery lies in the backyard, where there is a bluish white three-story building specially used to detain the mentally ill. crime suspect.Among them, the third floor is the most tightly guarded. Before entering, not only must go through the security gate, but also hand over all destructive equipment, and no inch of iron can be brought in. According to Lin Fengchong's words, "just like the airport" - because of this The detainees at the highest level are all related to major criminal cases.

"It's kind of dark." Guo Xiaofen frowned and said, there was a window sealed with an iron fence at the end of the corridor far away. Slap, slap, slap, slap. Timer-like accurate and boring footsteps, a female doctor in a white coat stood in front of them, because her back was facing the window, she couldn't see her face clearly, only her high cheekbones could be felt. Lin Fengchong saluted, and then introduced to Chu Tianying and the others: "This Dr. Sha Li is Si Miao's attending physician..." Just as Chu Tianying reached out to shake hands with her, she had already turned around and walked forward.

Lin Fengchong hurriedly followed, and asked cautiously, "How is Si Miao's situation now? Still can't remember anything?" Sha Li said as she walked, "I just had a pet scan on her in the morning, and the activity of the frontal lobe and temporal lobe system has obviously slowed down, but it remains to be seen whether there is trauma..." "Frontal lobe? Temporal lobe?" Chu Tianying was confused. Sha Li explained impatiently: "Each side of the cerebral hemisphere contains four main lobes, namely the frontal lobe, temporal lobe, parietal lobe, and occipital lobe. These cortical areas are closely related to several subcortical structures inside the brain. Cooperation allows us to remember what happened—especially the frontal and temporal lobes, which are most closely related to memory, and their slowed activity may be due to injury, resulting in amnesia..."

"Could it be that the hippocampus is damaged?" Although the voice was soft, the atmosphere in the corridor changed, as if a kitten scratched its paw against the gloomy sky. It was Aixinjueluo Ning who spoke. When everyone looked at her, she smiled shyly, biting her bright red lower lip with her snow-white upper teeth, looking very cute. Sha Li stood still, turned her head, and looked at the girl with a hint of vigilance in her cold eyes, "Have you studied cognitive neuroscience?" Ning was a little panicked, like a primary school student who was called up by the teacher to ask a question, "Well... After reading a little, I remember that the memory of recent events mainly depends on the hippocampus. If a person is frightened or nervous, the heartbeat is blocked, which will cause temporary brain damage. Hypoxia causes a certain artery to rupture and ischemia occurs. There is a special part in the hippocampus called CA1, which is particularly sensitive to ischemia. This is one of the most common causes of amnesia syndrome."

"The textbook is quite solid." Sha Li sneered, "So, have you considered herpes simplex encephalitis? Have you considered Korsakov syndrome? Have you considered psychogenic amnesia? " A series of questioning made Ningman blush. "Before seeing the patient, don't jump to conclusions." Sha Li said in a preaching tone.After she finished speaking, she stood still in front of a silver-gray iron gate. On both sides of the iron gate stood an armed policeman with live ammunition.She gently opened a small window above the door, looked inside through the plexiglass, then took out a card, swiped it in a groove on the right side of the doorknob, Lin Fengchong immediately took out a card , Swipe again, only a click is heard, the door lock is opened, and several people walked into this ward like a prison cell together.

The door locked automatically behind them. Cement floors, white walls, high ceilings.A low iron bed was placed against the wall, the feet of the bed were welded to the ground, and next to it was a faded bedside table with an enamel jar on it. A gust of wind blows, blowing a corner of the white curtain. Si Miao was wearing a blue and white hospital gown, sitting on the bed with her knees hugged, her little white feet were just so bare.She looked at the flickering corner of the sky through the curtains that were blown by the wind—even if there was only such a small amount of sky, it was cut into several parts by the thick and rusty iron fence.

Guo Xiaofen walked slowly in front of Si Miao, squatted down, and stared into her eyes.Those eyes, which are keenly aware of clues in countless crime scenes and never let go of any trace of evidence, at this moment, are like two dry wells, empty and dull.Guo Xiaofen's nose was a little sore, and she gently grabbed Si Miao's hand.Si Miao trembled as if awakened from a start, looked down at her with a dazed expression, as if she didn't recognize her at all, after a long, long time, a faint smile finally appeared on the corner of her mouth, "Xiao Guo..." "Ah!" Guo Xiaofen was very happy, she turned her head and said to Sha Li: "She remembers me! She remembers me!"

"She just lost her memory of recent events, but she has not forgotten other things." Sha Li pouted, took out a medicine bottle from her pocket, unscrewed the cap, poured two pills into the palm of her right hand, and quickly put away the medicine bottle, spread his palms in front of Si Miao, and ordered: "Take medicine!" Si Miao seemed to be troubled by something and hesitated.Sha Li immediately reprimanded: "Take medicine, do you hear me?" "Hey!" Guo Xiaofen stood up abruptly, her brows were bristling, and she yelled at Sha Li, "Can you have a better attitude? She's a patient!"

Sally was taken aback for a moment.Lin Fengchong quickly smoothed things over: "Xiao Guo, Dr. Sha is going to treat Si Miao's illness, we must actively cooperate." Si Miao seemed a little scared, quickly took the pill from Sha Li's palm, put it in her mouth, and swallowed it with a gurgle of water in the enamel jar. "Doctor Sha." Lin Fengchong introduced, "The case involved by Police Officer Liu Simiao is very important and must be solved as soon as possible. Therefore, the superior specially appointed Aixinjueluo Ning from China Police University as your assistant to study with you how to solve the case. Restore her memory as soon as possible."

Sha Li opened her eyes wide, looking at the girl whom she reprimanded just now, "You are the one from the Mingming Restaurant..." "Aixinjueluo Ning." Ning smiled sweetly. After a long while, Sha Li's eyelids drooped, "I remember you are studying criminal psychology, what do you want to do with this case?" "It's like this," Lin Fengchong said nonchalantly, "Although Ning is still young, she is already the leading hypnotist in China." "Hypnosis?" Sha Li smiled disdainfully, "Then you start treatment now? I'm sorry, the conditions here are simple, but there is no hypnosis chair for people to lie on." Ning didn't care about her sarcasm.She dragged a round chair, sat in front of Si Miao, looked around, picked up a thin quilt from the head of the bed, covered Si Miao's bare feet, and rolled it into a ball, Si Miao felt It was very warm, and my feet were curled up inside.Ning smiled sweetly, looked into her eyes and said, "Sister Simiao, my name is Aixinjueluo Ning, and I am a student of the China Police University, so I am also your junior sister. I know you are being accused of something. Troubled, I can’t recall, that feeling is like... like driving on the Xizhimen Bridge, and found that I went wrong, but I can’t go back, and I’m getting more and more anxious. Now, you park the car in the emergency lane first, Relax, let me control the steering wheel, you sit in the co-pilot's seat, recall the journey when you came, let's get off the bridge together, okay?" Si Miao didn't nod or shake her head, she just stared at her blankly. "Then I'll take it as your promise." Ning continued, "I need to find the starting point of your memory loss first. It's like setting a restore point when the computer is broken and you need to restore it with one click. Next, I will Say a few words, recall the words and what they represent by feeling, without saying or doing anything." Chu Tianying and others looked at this scene curiously. Ning paused for a moment, and clearly said the first word, "crime scene." Si Miao blinked her eyes. "Edmond Locard." Si Miao's expression was suddenly full of fascination. Edmond Locard, French, the originator of forensic science.He founded the Institute of Criminal Forensics at the University of Lyon, and in 1920 he proposed the principle of criminal investigation that "as long as the criminal appears at the crime scene, he will always leave some traces and take away some evidence" - that is, "Locard's law". ", has been regarded as the standard by countless criminal forensics experts in later generations. "Kobe." Liu Simiao frowned, and his eyes dimmed. "Gillette." Liu Simiao's injured left wrist curled up seemingly inadvertently, and then slowly relaxed. "Jianyi Company." Liu Simiao's expression remained unchanged. "Lakeside building." Si Miao was taken aback, but there was no other reaction. Staring at her, she was silent for about half a minute, and then slowly said the last word—— "Lin Xiangming." At first, there was fog in Liu Simiao's eyes, the fog was so thick that it couldn't dissipate, it couldn't dissipate...Unknowingly, it condensed into tears, shining in both eye sockets. Chu Tianying turned her head. Already knew that, didn't you?When he personally interrogated the survivors at the Hulingzi Township Police Station, the first time he saw Si Miao, he was so shocked that his blood froze all over his body: Oh my God!Are you really Si Miao?How will you be here?How did you become a suspect in a mega-homicide?Why are you standing in the wasteland covered in blood? ! When Li Kuohai asked a policeman to handcuff Liu Simiao, Chu Tianying was so angry that he almost shook his fist.You all get out of here!No one is allowed to touch her! He stood in front of the shivering Si Miao like a mountain.Li Kuohai thought he was crazy, so he hurriedly called Deputy Director Wang, and suddenly called Deputy Director Wang back.After Chu Tianying spoke incoherently, Deputy Director Wang finally understood that Chu Tianying's request to second Liu Simiao to assist in the detection became the most unbelievable proposal in the world--borrowing a cat to catch a mouse. In the hole! The country's top criminal forensics expert became a suspect in a secret room murder case, and even lost his memory. Immediately block the news, except for Chu Tianying and Deputy Director Wang, no one knows Liu Simiao's real identity, they urgently dispatched a helicopter from the Provincial Armed Police Corps, and accompanied Simiao back to Beijing. Just after getting off the plane, a police car brought Si Miao here directly. From the moment she saw Si Miao again, Chu Tianying had already made up her mind to do everything possible to solve the case and clear her grievances.But the case is too big, and there are not many forces he can rely on: "Xixiangshe" and "Ninety-Nine" are far away in Jiangnan and Chongqing, and he doesn't even know where the gate is for "Team Group". Only the "Famous Tea Hall" was left, and he was very happy when he found out that the owner of the hall, Aixinjueluo Ning, was highly accomplished in hypnotism.When he was training at the police officer university, he knew that hypnotism has a unique effect on evoking memory-this is why he personally visited the door and went to the famous tea house to invite Ning to come out of the mountain. He firmly believes that as long as Si Miao remembers what happened in the lakeside building that night, everything can be solved easily. He had a small fantasy: maybe, his salvation would move Si Miao... No, no, purposeful love is a kind of blasphemy to Si Miao and himself!He would rather give everything in silence and not ask for anything in return, but... but there is still a little extravagant hope, can't it?Impossible? Now, he knew, it was impossible. Even though Si Miao's memory was frozen on that night on the prairie where the wind was howling, the three words "Lin Xiangming" were still like nectar, allowing her to melt so much in an instant... At this time, Ning stood up and said, "Judging from Sister Simiao's emotional reaction to the vocabulary, the starting point of her amnesia was before going to the lakeside building. Let her rest for a while, and let's discuss the specific plan for her recovery." .” Lin Fengchong nodded, took out her door card, and swiped it on the card reader inside the door. Then Sha Li took out her door card, swiped it again, and the yellow and green lights turned on at the same time, and the door opened with a click. Everyone followed Sha Li to the main control room at the east end of the third floor.Compared with the simple wards, this is a different world: the glass curtain wall separates several working rooms, the staff are busy on the neat office platform, and the whole LCD display wall, the situation of each ward is transmitted by the camera On the corresponding screen, there are two staff on duty monitoring each time period. "After all, they are all criminal suspects involved in major criminal cases. This kind of strict monitoring is to ensure that their escape or self-mutilation behaviors are discovered in time. As you have seen just now, all wards are double-access controlled, and two cardholders must be in charge at the same time. The door can only be opened by swiping the card," Sha Li explained. "The higher-ups specially ordered that a 24-hour dual post be added at the door of Si Miao's ward—that is, the two armed policemen, both for surveillance and to protect her. For the past two days, Dr. Sha and I have been holding dual cards, even for meals. We need both of us to drink water together to send her to the ward. Now it's all right, according to Director Xu's order, I will hand over this responsibility to Ning." Lin Fengchong said while handing the key card to Ning. Glancing at the screen in the center of the LCD display wall: Si Miao is still sitting on the iron bed, looking out of the window, with her feet wrapped in a thin quilt that she wrapped for her... The camera is placed very well, and the whole ward can be seen at a glance .Ning sighed softly, and took the door card with both hands. "Then...will we not be able to see Si Miao?" Guo Xiaofen was a little anxious. Ning comforted her and said, "Sister Guo, Dr. Sha and I are working to restore Sister Simiao's memory. Once there is any progress, we will definitely notify the bureau immediately. During this period, if you want to visit her, you can do so at any time." -" "During the treatment period, it's better for the patient to have fewer visits." Sha Li interrupted her, "In addition, the treatment methods of the two of us may be completely different. In case of a conflict of opinion, who should we listen to?" Lin Fengchong said: "It depends on your opinion." "That's good." Sally said. Ning shrugged her shoulders a little, looking indifferent. "I want to remind you a little bit." Lin Fengchong's tone suddenly became very severe, "This case is serious and has attracted the attention of public opinion. It is still unknown how deeply Si Miao is involved in the case. Once her identity is revealed, It is likely to arouse suspicion from the public, thinking that our police are protecting her. Therefore, everything about her must be kept strictly confidential, and no matter who leaks anything, they will be severely punished according to relevant laws!" Everyone nodded. "Then... I will leave Si Miao to you." Chu Tianying said, her tone was a little sad, "I want to take Lei Rong back to the province, and ask her to help review the autopsy. I will contact you at any time if there is any situation." After finishing speaking Then he walked out of the main control room, went outside the security gate, replaced the pistol with the "brass button" and stuffed it into the holster, and walked downstairs slowly with Lin Fengchong. Guo Xiaofen was walking behind, and overheard Ning asking Sha Li: "What kind of medicine did you give Si Miao just now?" Sha Li reluctantly replied: "Propranolol—a beta-receptor blocker." His eyes froze, as if he saw a mosquito preparing to be bloodthirsty in the mosquito net.