Chapter 32 Chapter 31 Luo

This psychiatric hospital is located in a very remote location, in a mountain valley close to another county outside the suburbs. No wonder it took Lao Yao such a long time to find Luo Xianmei's husband.As a psychiatrist, I have some contact with almost all mental hospitals in the whole province, but I have never even heard of this mental hospital, let alone been to it. So, when I first walked into the gate of the courtyard and looked at the barbed wire on the wall of the courtyard, which was similar to that used in prisons, I felt very strange and asked Lao Yao, what is the origin of this mental hospital and why it looks so mysterious .

Lao Yao told me that this is really not an ordinary mental hospital, because it specializes in accommodating some mental patients with extreme violent tendencies, and almost every patient in it has a criminal record, such as arson, and murder And not to kill one or two.So, it's essentially a prison, a prison for mentally ill criminals, and these criminals usually have a very extreme criminal history. I frowned and said, "Then why did Luo Xianmei's husband come into this place? What crime did he commit?" "This... I'm not very clear, go ask the dean, look, the one with glasses over there is the dean, he is waiting for us."

Lao Yao and I walked forward quickly, and after a short exchange of pleasantries, we went straight to the point. The dean personally led us to Luo Xianmei’s husband’s room, and I took the opportunity to find out why Luo Xianmei’s husband came here—— arson.He did go back to his hometown more than half a month ago and burned the ancestral hall in the village. After the villagers arrested him, they found that he was unconscious. , the villagers were afraid that he would commit another crime, so they sent him here. The dean also told me that since the crime committed by Luo Xianmei’s husband was arson, they were afraid that he would fall ill again and burn down the entire mental hospital, so they locked him in the room, only 10 minutes in the morning and 10 minutes in the evening. Go for a walk.And now it was past walking time, near noon, and he was in his room.

The dean brought us and left, leaving a guard to accompany us at the door. According to what we had discussed before, Lao Yao persuaded the guard to stay at the door and let me go in and talk to him alone. The guard was very happy. He used the key to unlock the door, opened the door, covered his nose with his hand, and shouted loudly: "0428, someone is here to see you." Then he motioned for me to go in. I walked into the room, and the door closed behind me, surprisingly quickly, as if I was afraid something would get out, but I quickly understood why-a stench filled the whole room, it was disgusting .

I looked for the source of the stench, and suddenly saw a black and yellow lump standing in the middle of the bedding of the flat bed. It was not a small lump, but a very large lump. Obviously, such a big lump was not Manufactured at one time, it is conservatively estimated to be at least 5 times. I couldn't help covering my nose with my hand, and looked around the whole room, only to realize that there was no one in the room.I frowned, and was about to turn around and open the door to go out to ask the guards, but I didn't expect a face to appear behind me, which startled me, and I took a few steps back to see clearly that this person was Luo Xianmei's husband, It turned out that he was hiding behind the door.

Luo Xianmei's husband looked at my frightened expression and smiled sinisterly. This smile was exactly the same as when I saw him looking up at the corner of the hospital that day.I hurriedly gathered myself together, smiled friendly, and said, "Big brother, long time no see, I was really taken aback by you, hehe... I came to see you today because I wanted to ask about the last time, Because I haven't been able to find you, I can only wait until now to deal with it, and I hope it won't be too late." He still smiled sinisterly, didn't speak, just stared at me like that.

Although his current appearance and demeanor do look like a mental disorder, my intuition tells me that he is actually normal, and these expressions are just pretended by him.But it's not convenient for me to break through his disguise in person. I started by pretending to "think he's crazy" as I planned before. "Big Brother, I'm sorry. I know that a large part of the pain you are going through now is caused by me. I killed Sister Mei and caused you to become what you are now. However, after I consulted a lawyer, he told My main responsibility is not mine. That incident was purely accidental, and I don't need to bear any legal responsibility. However, I always feel that Sister Mei died because of me. If I didn't frighten her that day, she would I won't roll downstairs either. Therefore, I have been very sad in my heart, and I wanted to find you to solve the matter, but I couldn't find you, and I didn't know where you went. Today, I finally saw you again, but because of Sister Mei's The death has become what it is now, and I feel even more uncomfortable. I decided to pay you 200,000 yuan in private, I wonder if Big Brother can accept it?"

I emphasized the word 200,000 yuan, and observed the changes in his expression as I said it. However, he did not experience obvious psychological fluctuations as soon as he heard this number like normal people, but from the beginning to the end. From the original gloomy smile to a very gloomy expression, this change seems to be caused by my constant mention of his dead wife. As for the 200,000 yuan I emphasized, it doesn’t matter to him at all. play any role. And, still, he didn't speak, he just stopped smiling and stared at me more sullenly. "Big brother, can you still not forgive me? I know 200,000 is not too much, but this is the maximum amount I can compensate you. How about it? Can you accept it? Or, how do you want me to compensate you? In any other way, if I can do it, I will try my best."

He still didn't speak, stared straight into my eyes, shook his head, then walked to the corner, squatted down, and buried his head in his knees.The posture of the whole person is exactly the same as that day in the hospital. He is shaking. Suddenly, I felt very scared, maybe it was just because of the way he was shaking, or maybe it was because I was afraid that he would raise his head again and smile slyly at me. This kind of fear made me feel goose bumps all over my body. get up. He is still shaking. Is he really crazy?I asked myself. No, he knows a lot of things, he knows better than anyone else, I can't be afraid, I can't give up, I must achieve my purpose of coming here to meet him, I must get the answer I want to know.I told myself repeatedly in my heart.

In the small room, there is still a disgusting smell in the air, but I no longer cover my nose with my hands, allowing the dirty gas to penetrate into the nostrils and penetrate deep into the lungs.I walked to the corner and squatted down like him. "Big brother, actually, I'm here today not only to discuss compensation with you, but also to ask you for a favor." He didn't look up, still shaking. "Sister Mei once told me that a family of four who used to live above my house, which is 702, died. They were killed. You also know about this, right?" His shaking stopped abruptly.

"Both you and Sister Mei know who killed all four members of that family, right?" He looked up and looked at me in astonishment. "The person who killed the family of four was the security captain in the community, named Liu Cheng, right?" He opened his mouth wide and looked at me even more in astonishment. "Big brother, since you know everything, can you help us testify against him as a murderer?" With his mouth still open, he began to shake his head frantically, saying, "No...no...no..." I immediately said: "Liu Cheng has been arrested, you don't have to worry about your own safety, as long as you testify against him, he will be sentenced to death..." Before I could finish speaking, he stood up abruptly, took a few steps back in a panic, and started shouting, "Impossible! Impossible! Impossible!..." impossible?I thought he said "no" before because he had concerns and didn't want to testify for us, but what does the "impossible" he shouted at this moment mean? I went closer, grabbed his shoulder, and said calmly: "Brother, don't get excited, what do you mean by saying it's impossible? I don't understand... Anyway, are you unwilling to help us testify against Liu Cheng?" ?” He tilted his head to look at my hand holding his shoulder, shook his head suddenly, then stared straight into my eyes again for a long while, and asked in a very cautious tone: "You...do you see me? Is it my old lady?" I felt a little puzzled by his question, but I still nodded and said, "Sister Mei told me about the killing of four members of the 702 family, so it's impossible for you not to know?" "Impossible...the old woman is already dead!" His words made me even more baffled. Luo Xianmei is indeed dead, but what does he mean by emphasizing this now?And so excited?This is so abnormal... "Big Brother, I'm sorry, Sister Mei is indeed dead, I caused her death, I said I will compensate you..." He didn't wait for me to finish, interrupted me again, and yelled at me: "What do you know?! I killed the old woman, I hacked her to death with my own hands! You can't see her! I hacked to death with my own hands She! I hacked her to death with my own hands! Ah... ah..." His roar was very loud, like the neighing of an old elephant before its death, and I was shocked back several steps.Almost at the same time, the door was knocked open, and the previous guard rushed in, pulled me away, pointed an electric baton at Luo Xianmei's husband, and threatened him to back away. When Luo Xianmei's husband saw the electric baton, he hugged his head and squatted back to the corner in extreme fear. I was afraid that he would be too scared to speak, so I quickly explained to the guard that Luo Xianmei's husband did not pose any threat to me, but that he was just emotional and spoke a little louder.The guard looked at me dubiously before putting away the electric baton. After I said a few more words, the guard completely relaxed his guard, told me to be careful, and walked out of the room by himself. I looked at Luo Xianmei's husband who was crouching in the corner with his head in his arms, and said apologetically, "Big Brother, I'm sorry, there was a misunderstanding just now, but you must not get excited... What did you mean by hacking her to death with your own hands? She meant Mei Miss?" Luo Xianmei's husband didn't speak or shake. "Big brother, don't think too much. Sister Mei was not hacked to death by you, but by me. I will compensate you. At the same time, I hope you can help us testify against the murderer Liu Cheng..." Luo Xianmei's husband suddenly raised his head, looked at me with a sinister smile, and said something that made my whole body temperature drop to freezing point instantly. This sentence is: "I hacked the old woman to death three years ago, and I put her hair in the refrigerator of 702, hehe..." Because what appeared with this sentence was the scene in my memory of digging the soil in the refrigerator in the bathroom of 702 alone more than half a month ago: the weird hair entangled in the soil, and the flashing figure of Luo Xianmei at the door, And the series of heart-piercing screams, and the rolling sound that stopped abruptly at the end... Thick blood... Luo Xianmei's body in the hospital... This person in front of me——Luo Xianmei's husband looking up in the hospital corridor with a sinister smile ... These pictures are repeated and stirring in my mind... They are so realistic, but now, the husband of Luo Xianmei, who is the person involved, told me that the hair I dug in the 702 refrigerator was a hair I had spent more than half a month. The woman I met before and was killed by me, and this woman was killed more than three years ago in her husband's description at this moment... Is Luo Xianmei a ghost?can i see ghosts Or, the old man in front of him, is he a lunatic? Reason tells me that Luo Xianmei is not a ghost, and Luo Xianmei's husband is definitely a lunatic!My previous intuition deceived me, he must be crazy... However, at this moment, I am still staring blankly at the lunatic in front of me, I can no longer calm down my emotions, I can't do it at all, I don't even know what to do next, the previous plan is completely disrupted, I I could only stare blankly at him like this, and listen to him start talking to himself: "Hey... the old woman used to boil water in the corridor. I thought she was dead, so I wouldn't be woken up by that damned sound in the morning. However, I would still wake up without that sound. I couldn't sleep after waking up. So , One day, I suddenly wanted to learn how the old woman got up to boil water. Not to mention, I became addicted to boiling water. Man, but I can still hear her continue to call me a fucking old man every day. At first she called me in my dreams, then she started calling me at night before I fell asleep, and then I could hear it even in the daytime She scolded me, and I wondered if there was something wrong with my brain... "After a while, you moved here. I thought she wouldn't scold me anymore. I didn't expect that she seemed to come back to life, and this feeling became stronger and stronger. Until one day, I really saw the old woman again. Appeared, she didn't ask anything, continued to boil water every day, cook for me every day, and scolded me every day. But, I said to her: "You are already dead, why are you scolding me?" The old woman ignored I still boil water every day, cook rice every day, and scold me every day... I think, my brain is really broken, I have become a lunatic, this old woman is obviously dead, why is she alive again? I have never seen a ghost , I felt like I was crazy. "However, one day, I didn't know if I was crazy, because I saw the old woman talking to you, and I was thinking about what's going on. It doesn't count if I'm crazy, but even you are crazy. Impossible, I hacked her to death a long time ago, she can’t be alive, if you are not crazy, how can you talk to a non-existent person? So, I should not be crazy, right? But, I am not crazy, how can I see her every day? She is obviously dead... yes! She is obviously dead, I hacked to death with my own hands! You are still talking to her, and you are also crazy! How funny, Ha ha. "The most unbearable thing for me is that one day, this old woman asked you to come to my house for dinner. You really came in to eat, and I was very angry. How could this be? The old woman is obviously dead, but she still wants someone else to eat, too. It's outrageous, I just slapped the table to make you angry, don't be with this dead old woman, you will be unlucky, the funny thing is, you still don't realize that she is dead, hey... "What's even more funny is that that day, the old woman died again. I saw her rolling down the stairs, and I was still thinking, well, this time I finally died completely, but no, she was dead in the first place Ah, so I didn't do anything, just watched you carry her to the hospital and into the operating room, and when she came out, she was covered with a white cloth, and it seemed that she was indeed dead this time... "But it's not right, she died very early, so I wanted to laugh again, you people are all crazy, even the doctor is crazy, I couldn't help it, I just laughed all afternoon... hey... "After laughing, I went home, oh my god, I was scared to death, the old woman is cooking in the kitchen again, she is not dead yet! "I closed and locked the door, and no one could have any contact with her. She continued to scold me for being a bloody old man. After a few days of scolding, I couldn't take it anymore, so I fled back to my hometown. I didn't expect her to follow me back. I told her: "Don't follow me all the time, aren't you dead? Why do you keep following me?" The old woman ignored me and still followed me, so I took her to the ancestral hall and locked her inside. , lit a fire... "Hey, but the old woman was not burned to death, but I was arrested by them. I thought, just in time, if I wanted to pretend to be a madman, I pretended to be a ghost, and they really sent me to a mental hospital. I am just happy that I finally escaped now, and I will never see the old woman again. The old woman will never go to a mental hospital with me. "Hey, I was wrong. She's here again. Look, isn't she just standing there and staring at me?" Luo Xianmei's husband finally finished speaking, and then he stared blankly at a place behind me. I subconsciously looked back, but I didn't see anything. This time, I didn't feel scared, because in the process of talking to himself, I have already made a relatively clear inference, that is: he has suffered from very serious paranoia, and has been suffering for a long time. It's time. At the very beginning, he fantasized about killing Luo Xianmei himself, thinking that Luo Xianmei was dead, but Luo Xianmei didn't actually die, but lived with him all the time. So, when did Luo Xianmei die? It should be the time when I went to dig the soil in the refrigerator in 702. Luo Xianmei was really scared to death. This, the taxi driver, doctor, and nurse can all confirm that Luo Xianmei existed at that time, not as Luo Xianmei's husband imagined. died. As for the hair in the refrigerator in 702, it is definitely not Luo Xianmei’s. The reason why Luo Xianmei’s husband said it belonged to Luo Xianmei may be caused by “substituting sexual associations”—after witnessing Liu Cheng’s murder, his spirit was stimulated, his memory became confused, and he would The picture of Liu Cheng hacking people to death was transferred into a certain memory in his brain more than three years ago, and partly replaced a certain memory fragment, so that he thought that he killed Luo Xianmei three years ago ... So, since this is the case, how can he demobilize the replaced memory segment, so as to effectively testify against Liu Cheng, the murderer?I couldn't figure it out for a while, so I decided to go back and discuss it with Lao Yao first. On the car back to the city, I described the situation of Luo Xianmei's husband to Lao Yao in detail. Lao Yao frowned and said: "Doctor He, I think this is just your personal inference, and it can't be confirmed as the truth. We arrested Liu Cheng, and he is also very suspicious, but we can't just arbitrarily determine it like this." He is the murderer. What's more, Luo Liangwei (Luo Xianmei's husband's full name) is indeed in a serious mental state now, so any evidence against him is legally invalid, unless we get him out of the mental hospital and let the dean Issue a certificate saying that he is not ill. Also, don’t forget, in order to convict Liu Cheng, in addition to witness witnesses, we must also find physical evidence, which is another very troublesome issue.” I nodded, thought for a while, and said, "It seems that the difficulty of obtaining the testimony of Luo Liangwei is not ordinary. Then, with Liu Cheng, is there still no progress in your interrogation?" Lao Yao shook his head and said, "This person is not simple..." "How to say?" "He insisted that his exhumation was an accident." "Accident? Didn't he happen to be digging up the corpses under the floor when you caught him? Was it such a coincidental accident? Also, he sneaked and ran to room 702 several times. Can this be considered an accident?" "Hehe, he has his own set of rhetoric, and we can't do anything about it for the time being. We summoned all the people who had contact with him, including the owner of the property, other security personnel under him, and some owners in the community. But these people also claimed to have a good impression of him, saying that he is a responsible and enthusiastic security captain. The only bad thing about him is that he has to drink every day and sleep after drinking. When he wakes him up, he loses his temper, but at other times he doesn't behave abnormally..." Hearing this, I thought to myself: I drank every day until I fell asleep...Liu Cheng must have an unhealable wound in his heart... Could this be the shadow in his heart after the murder? Lao Yao continued: "You know, although we can't find any evidence at the crime scene, that is, room 702, my intuition is the same as yours, that child was killed by him! So we put him on a polygraph Yi, but unfortunately, there is still nothing useful to ask... Hey, if there is some way to get him to confess by himself, there is no need to deal with such troublesome things as physical evidence." I thought for a while and said, "Would you like me to try?" Lao Yao looked at me suspiciously and said, "Can it work?" I said: "I suddenly thought of a few things just now, which may be useful, no matter what, let's try it." Lao Yao nodded and said: "For Liu Cheng, we still have the last trump card, and we will cooperate with you to use it when the time comes!" I said, "Ace? What trump card?" "Hehe, about Liu Cheng's historical files, I will tell you in detail now..." Lao Yao said so and so. I said: "This is indeed a trump card, but it is too challenging. Let's figure out how to use it..."