can not breath

chapter 29
Zhou Yuanyi sighed helplessly, and lit a white Marlboro.He felt that this case had temporarily entered a dead end.

For a full 24 hours, there was no news of Shen Xiaoye and Xiao Zhijie, Shen Jianguo fidgeted like ants on a hot pot.But his wife, Xie Yixue, kept her face livid and didn't say a word to him.Whenever their eyes meet, Xie Yixue always avoids Shen Jianguo's sight in a panic.

Sister He, the nanny, was cleaning in the house like a transparent person, without saying a word, wiping here and there.Although the TV in the room was on, the sound seemed to come from far away.The air in the whole room seemed to be stagnant, lifeless.It is more like a tomb than a house.

Did Yixue know something?Could it be that she got a little wind of the disgraceful incident four years ago?But, in fact, that matter was covered tightly, it is impossible for anyone to know about it!

Those nurses went to hospitals in other cities, and the more they messed around, the better.The restaurateurs also left, never to return.No one will know about it, everyone is settled - except for one person, Wu Wei.

However, it is impossible for Xie Yixue to know Wu Wei.There will be no intersection between Xie Yixue and Wu Wei, they are like two parallel lines that will never intersect.

Shen Jianguo thought so.But he would never have guessed that just this afternoon, Wu Wei was in this room, talking with Xie Yixue for an entire hour.

Shen Jianguo sat on the sofa, the ashtray in front of him was full of cigarette butts.After a long time, he finally stood up, walked into the bedroom, and then closed the door with a bang.In the bedroom, he took out his mobile phone and dialed a few numbers. It was Li Hanliang's number.

However, there were only a few cold female voices to answer him: "Sorry, the person you dialed has turned off the phone, please call again later."
Where is Li Hanliang?what is he doingIs it an operation?

Shen Jianguo called his friend at Jiangdu Hospital again, but the result was that Li Hanliang was not arranged for surgery that night.
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Could it be that Li Hanliang also disappeared mysteriously?
He suddenly felt besieged from all sides, and he suddenly found that there was no one around him who could even speak.The best brother Wu Qingsheng died. According to the police, the headless female corpse who died on the [-]th floor of the abandoned building was Wu Qingsheng's girlfriend Wei Linger.

Of course, the police did not tell him who the suspects were.From the standpoint of the police, it is impossible to tell him who the suspect is.However, Shen Jianguo felt faintly that this series of events were all related to that sunny boy named Xiao Zhijie.And everything involved that disgraceful scene four years ago.

What a terrible thing this is! He already knew that Xiao Zhijie was staying with his daughter, and he vaguely guessed Xiao Zhijie's identity.This made him feel creepy - could it be that Xiao Zhijie really did it?So what does he want to do to Shen Xiaoye now?
Shen Jianguo seemed to have fallen into an ice cellar, and lit a cigarette in the bedroom with trembling fingers. He couldn't remember how many cigarettes he had this evening, and his lips felt numb from smoking too much.However, he had no other choice but to anesthetize himself with cigarettes.

People related to him died one by one, first Ouyang Mei, then Wei Linger, and then Wu Qingsheng.Who will be next?Could it be himself?

He felt helpless and alone.And more importantly, he felt despair and fear.These two spontaneous thoughts, like twisted vines, twisted around in my heart, lingering.

Shen Jianguo's finger suddenly hurt. It was the cigarette that burned his finger. He quickly threw the cigarette butt away and blew on his finger.Only then did he realize that the cigarette butt had been thrown on the carpet in the bedroom, and it was about to burn a hole, so he stepped on it with his feet.At this moment, suddenly his mobile phone rang like a thunder, which shocked him.

"Hi, hello." Shen Jianguo tried his best to look calm on the phone.The reason why Shen Jianguo was able to grow his business so big and do such a job in a few years is inseparable from his hard work and dedication.Even in the most flustered of times, he tried to take his time in business.

"Father—" came the voice of daughter Shen Xiaoye on the phone.

"Xiaoye, where are you?" Shen Jianguo asked in a hurry.

"I'm fine."
"Where are you? Why is your phone turned off?" Shen Jianguo asked anxiously.

"The phone is out of battery... I forgot to charge it yesterday... Dad, I'm fine." Shen Xiaoye replied in a nonchalant tone.

Shen Jianguo suddenly felt an unknown fire in his heart, and said loudly on the phone: "What's wrong with you kid? If you don't come back, you won't call home. Do you know how worried Dad is about you?"
There was a long silence over there, before Shen Xiaoye said nonchalantly: "I'm sorry... Dad, I have something to do here, I won't be coming back tonight..."
"What's the matter with you? Is there something important that can keep you out all night?"
"Dad... I'll tell you when I come back tomorrow, okay?" Shen Xiaoye immediately hung up the phone after finishing speaking.

"Hey, hello!" Shen Jianguo spoke loudly into the phone receiver, but only a blind voice answered him.

He froze for a moment, and then remembered a very important thing - Shen Xiaoye stayed with Xiao Zhijie!Xiao Zhijie is a very dangerous person, but Xiaoye doesn't know that he is in danger at all.

Shen Jianguo hurriedly pressed the phone number he had just received on his cell phone, and called again.However, no one answered there.All he heard was a long and cold blind voice.

Could it be that the daughter was bewitched by Xiao Zhijie, or that the phone call just now was made under Xiao Zhijie's coercion?

Shen Jianguo wanted to call the police, but how could he express his suspicions?As soon as he said that he doubted Xiao Zhijie, he was bound to tell Xiao Zhijie's motives.Then, what happened four years ago will be pulled out of the radish and brought out of the mud.This is obviously what he doesn't want to see.

Perhaps, this matter should be handled by himself.

He looked at the received call number on his phone, trying to calm himself down.Judging from the first two digits of the number, the call should be from somewhere in the outer suburbs.But what exactly is it?To find out the source of the call, you can only ask the telecommunications company for help.But it is already late at night, and the telecommunications company can only check the address of the phone number at the request of the police.

What a hassle!
Suddenly, Shen Jianguo remembered that Li Hanliang's niece was working in a telecommunications company, and she seemed to be in charge of communication records.That girl named Xu Tingting, Shen Jianguo has met several times, maybe she can help him with this?
Shen Jianguo hastily called Li Hanliang's home, hoping to find Xu Tingting soon...

Wu Wei turned on the computer in his cold and damp apartment, and searched for Xiao Zhijie's information on the Internet.The window was not closed tightly, and the sound of the influx of wind was mixed with the groans of wild cats, which made him feel very uncomfortable.Wu Wei's way of thinking is different from that of the police. He doesn't like to find relevant clues from the existing materials. He prefers to learn what kind of person Xiao Zhijie is from these materials.
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Only by knowing what kind of person Xiao Zhijie is, can we analyze his thoughts from Xiao Zhijie's mentality.Only in this way, can you put yourself in the shoes and imagine what you would do now if you were Xiao Zhijie.

Wu Wei first opened the webpage of Jiangdu University.In the prior information, he already knew that Xiao Zhijie was the photographer of the school newspaper and was in charge of the school newspaper's digital camera.

Fortunately, all the articles and pictures in the school newspaper were published on the Jiangdu University campus network at the same time.Clicking on the post signed by Xiao Zhijie, Wu Wei saw pictures after pictures.In these pictures, there are many works with exquisite composition, such as flowers, birds, insects and fish, colorful.Wu Wei also saw some car accident scenes taken by Xiao Zhijie outside the campus, among which was a picture of a car accident that happened near the Guoshan Reservoir a few days ago.

What really shocked Wu Wei was the two series of pictures.

One set is an emergency that happened on campus.A poor kitten climbed up a big tree, but dared not come down, and kept meowing helplessly on the branch.So the students on campus all took action, trying to save the kitten.But the tree is too high, no matter what, I can't climb it.So, Xiao Zhijie stood up.He found several tables of different sizes, and stacked them one by one, and the small ones were stacked on top of the big ones, and they were stacked very high in a blink of an eye.Xiao Zhijie stood on the highest table and hugged the kitten with his own hands.And the person who took the kitten on the ground was Shen Xiaoye.The whole process was truthfully recorded by Xiao Zhijie's classmate with a digital camera. The last picture was Shen Xiaoye feeding the cat with a ham sausage, and Xiao Zhijie was looking at Shen Xiaoye affectionately.

All this made Wu Wei feel that Xiao Zhijie is a caring boy.Wu Wei couldn't believe that such a boy would do terrible things.

Another set of pictures that shocked Wu Wei was taken by Xiao Zhijie himself.The theme of this set of pictures is about mentally ill patients.Xiao Zhijie visited all the hospitals for the mentally ill in Jiangdu City, and took a series of dignified photos.He used black-and-white photos to record the daily behavior of mentally ill patients in the hospital, and accompanied them with text.

"This is a neglected vulnerable group, they are almost forgotten by society. How many people understand their living conditions? How many people understand the hidden side of the mentally ill?"
Wu Wei looked at the photos taken by Xiao Zhijie, while smoking a cigarette, he fell into deep thought.He always felt that this picture would be related to Xiao Zhijie's current whereabouts, and he didn't know why he made such an association.Perhaps, this has something to do with the intuition he developed from his years of criminal police career.

By the way, Xiao Zhijie's mother is a mental patient.No wonder he focuses so much on this forgotten group of the mentally ill.

According to the information obtained from Xiao Zhijie's neighbor, Uncle Gao, Xiao Zhijie's mother would often run out into the street for no reason and yell at strangers: "Everyone will die! Everyone will die! Everyone will die. Her husband It was Xiao Jian who died in Jiangdu Hospital Li Hanliang's operation four years ago. She suffered from mental illness because she was too deeply stimulated. For so many years, she has been staying at home.

Why does she stay at home all the time?Maybe Xiao Zhijie felt that he could take better care of his mother when his mother stayed at home?But he is a student now, how can he have so much time to take care of his mother?Moreover, as a college student studying medicine, he should know that staying at home will not have the best therapeutic effect on his mother's condition.The place where Xiao Zhijie's mother should really go should be a psychiatric hospital, Xiao Zhijie would not be ignorant of this.

So--could Xiao Zhijie send his mother to a mental hospital today?Today Shen Xiaoye stayed with Xiao Zhijie all the time. Could it be that she persuaded Xiao Zhijie to send his mother to the hospital?From Shen Xiaoye's information, she should also be a caring and careful girl.She is likely to make such a persuasion.

Everything is Wu Wei's speculation, and these speculations have no evidence, just based on Wu Wei's analysis of Xiao Zhijie and Shen Xiaoye's character.Wu Wei decided to call all the psychiatric hospitals in the city to see if Xiao Zhijie's mother had been sent to the hospital.

Wu Wei didn't know if it would be useful to do so.If he could really find the whereabouts of Xiao Zhijie and Shen Xiaoye in this way, he could only attribute it to the detective's intuition.

Fortunately, when he made the sixth call to inquire about a psychiatric hospital in the outer suburbs, he finally got the news-Xiao Zhijie's mother was sent to the hospital for inpatient treatment in the afternoon.

There were four people who sent him here.There are two young men and a woman, and there is also a man who is close to 50 years old.One of the young men and one woman must be Xiao Zhijie and Shen Xiaoye, so who is the other young man and the man around 50 years old?

This hospital is on the way to the Guoshan Reservoir in the outer suburbs, with beautiful scenery and few people.

Wu Wei did not continue to guess the identities of the two men, but immediately called Zhou Yuanyi.Twenty or ten minutes later, Zhou Yuanyi drove an off-road vehicle to Wu Wei's downstairs, and then they drove together to the mental hospital in the outer suburbs.

When they came to the psychiatric hospital, they saw a yellow taxi arriving here before them.The person who got out of the car was Shen Xiaoye's father, Shen Jianguo.

Needless to say, after contacting Li Hanliang's niece Xu Tingting, Shen Jianguo knew that Shen Xiaoye was calling from here, so he rushed to the psychiatric hospital in the outer suburbs immediately.

After he got out of the car, he immediately saw the off-road vehicle parked behind him.From the off-road vehicle, it was Zhou Yuanyi and Wu Wei who came down.When he saw Wu Wei, he couldn't help being startled—how could Wu Wei come here?He still came with Zhou Yuanyi, what is he going to do?
When Wu Wei saw Shen Jianguo, his first reaction was to sneer slightly.He originally wanted to ask, Mr. Shen, why didn't you drive your own Passat today, but took a taxi here?But he immediately remembered that Shen Jianguo's Passat had been turned into a pile of scrap iron at the scene of Wu Qingsheng's car accident a few days ago.

Zhou Yuanyi exchanged pleasantries with Shen Jianguo, and he also knew that Wu Wei had had a feud with Shen Jianguo, so when he saw that the two hadn't talked, he didn't say much, let alone introduce them to each other.The three walked into the high wall gate of the mental hospital in such embarrassment.

Psychiatric hospitals are different from other general hospitals. There is absolutely no beautiful doctor guide, and knowledge is almost forgotten.

There was only one solitary dark gray small building standing not far away, emitting a faint orange light, which looked very gloomy.In front of the building was the same gray lawn, perhaps because no one took care of it, the lawn was full of wild weeds, and it was in a mess.

Zhou Yuanyi, Wu Wei, and Shen Jianguo walked across the lawn and walked into the small gray building, each with their own concerns.

(End of this chapter)