C4 (1/2)
He pulled out his office chair and sat down, lighting a cigarette as he said, ”Shu Jing, our people have already checked out the internet cafes in the entire city. Last night, Li Fengyun, Xie Cong, and Yang Wenchao did not appear in any registered internet cafe, and your regular restaurants are all official internet cafes, so Yang Wenzhao's family probably does not care to go to the black internet cafe, so I speculate that after they left the three dormitories last night, they did not go to the internet cafe.”
”Where do you think they might have gone? Tell me where you used to go. I'll send someone to check and see if we can find anything. This case is full of questions. Yang Wenchao died in unknown circumstances, Li Fengyun and Xie Cong disappeared without a trace. Your suspicions are not small, but if you think about it carefully, there are many aspects where it doesn't explain everything. Go back to the station and think carefully, think about what else you missed, and if you remember, immediately inform my colleague. ”
After the boss gave his orders, he asked the two policemen to take me away. There were a lot of students gathered outside, including my classmates. Although I wasn't handcuffed, the two policemen held me on either side of them.
I'm the prime suspect.
After being taken to the police station, they locked me up in the holding cell and let me recall the details of the crime.
A day later, I was released, and my parents came to pick me up. They didn't say much, and they didn't ask me what had happened.
When we were leaving the police station, the leader came to find me and said, ”My name is Xu Haoqing, I'm the person in charge of Yang Wenchao's case, if you think of anything, you can contact me at any time. Although I don't have strong evidence right now, I sincerely hope that you're not a murderer, you're still young, and your future path is very long, I know that you're very good, but if I find out that you were the culprit behind Yang Wenzhao, I guarantee that you'll be brought to justice.”
I understood that there was no real evidence and I had to be released, but he would definitely continue to keep an eye on me. It didn't matter, he wasn't afraid of the shadow, I just thought that they would be able to devote more energy to investigating the real culprit, rather than trying to capture me and wasting their resources.
When we got home, my dad asked me, and I told my parents everything I knew, experienced, and speculated about. When they finished, they went to the other room and muttered for a while, as if they were having a fight.
I stayed at home for three days. Through the window, I could always see the people Xu had sent to keep an eye on me.
Within three days, my parents had called the local witch god to ”treat” me.
They thought I was bewitched, or had run into a ghost.
I'm not sure if the things I've experienced can be explained from a scientific point of view, and I don't know if the person who spoke to me that night was actually Yang Wenchao, the fourth oldest student. What does the story of the water dispenser have to do with his death …
All sorts of strange and wonderful abilities were displayed in the process of the ”doctor”, but all of them were certain that they were possessed …
The police didn't call me again. I tried to call my eldest brother and second brother, but they never got through.
My father sent me back to school, leaving me alone in my dorm room. I didn't dare to stay there, so I asked the counselor if I could change rooms and live with Taozi and the others, but I was rejected. What was even more unexpected was that I was isolated by my classmates.
The students who were on good terms with each other normally didn't pay any attention to me. They stayed away from me, always whispering to each other, making me feel miserable. Even Taozi didn't dare speak to me. Perhaps in his eyes, I was bewitched.
I became a monster, I became a strange thing that was different from them. I heard them say that I could see the unclean things, I heard them say that I killed Yang Wenchao, and I also exterminated the Second Brother's corpse. I heard them say that I was killed by a ghost, and they said that the police couldn't do anything to me …
Every day was torturous, and my life was a mess. No one paid attention to me, no one listened to me, and my friends in high school also began to distance themselves from me. My relatives at home did not like me, so they always felt that I had seen a ghost …
I still slept in room 206, under a great deal of stress, and was often half asleep and half awake when I heard the voice of my fourth brother, who was talking about the water dispenser in his house, who asked me in his hoarse voice in his sleep, ”What then?” I often dreamed that my eldest brother, my second brother, and my fourth brother were lying on their beds covered in blood, asking why I wanted to hurt them.
Actually, I didn't do anything.
After half a month of suffering, I broke down.
As if I had gone mad, I would tell others about my dream and tell them the story that Fourth Bro Yang Wenchao told me. They hid far away and I would knock on the doors of the other dormitories in the middle of the night, not daring to stay alone in the room 206.
In the end, I dropped out.
The school can't accommodate me, my classmates don't like me, my family doesn't understand me...
”...”
This disheveled man in front of me caused me to sink into deep memories …
He patted my shoulder and cleared his throat. ”Shu Jing, don't you recognize me?”
Heh, how could he not recognize her.
It's been three years. That incident has already happened three years ago, and I still haven't forgotten about it. I've been thinking about it every day, thinking about those two people, eldest brother Li Fengyun and second brother Xie Cong …
The man with the disheveled appearance was dressed in rags, as if asking for food. His body was a little thin and his face was haggard, but I still remember his face.
He has a resounding name, Li Fengyun.
He was just like his name. Back in school, he was known to be unrivaled throughout our academy. Fighting against four or five strong men by himself, he felt no pressure at all.
He and Fourth Bro Yang Wenzhao were like iron rods. One of them was rich, the other was powerful. They were able to make a name for themselves in the school …
However, this slovenly man now was completely different from the Li Fengyun of the past.
His heroic spirit was gone. Because of his slovenly appearance, his proud muscles had become skin and bones, and his face had become deformed from malnutrition …
The famous and influential Li Fengyun from back then had already become a poor middle-aged man.
In three years time, he was only twenty-six years old.
Li Fengyun is the boss of our dorm, he's one year older than us. I'm 25 years old and looking at myself in the mirror, I feel that I've been through a lot. I didn't expect Li Fengyun to be even worse than me.
I want to know what he went through in these three years. I also want to know where he went when Yang Wenchao died three years ago.
”Boss, long time no see.” I tried my best to suppress the waves in my heart as I spoke in a calm tone.