Chapter Seventy-Five: An Unquiet Way Home
It's always a pleasure to sit on the train and look out the window at the scenery, even if the speed of the bullet train and high-speed train is increasing rapidly, your eyes will be more eager to capture the continuous and fleeting picture.
However, if you close your eyes and breathe slowly, if no one in your carriage is loud and your mind is awake, then your most immediate feeling must come from the constant "buzzing" in your ears. It's the noise of the train, but you need to be so focused to feel it during the ride, and it will change its rhythm with the train, sometimes tight, sometimes loose, sometimes loud and sometimes low, disturbing your mood more and more intensely, until you are forced by it to open your eyes.
In his limited experience on trains, Shang Yiming is usually in the first state mentioned above. However, today, on the high-speed train back to Beijing, Dante is deeply trapped in the second state, but he has not opened his eyes.
Many movies have depicted that when someone closes their eyes, they recall some painful scene, or the voice and smile of someone they don't want to face again. But if you mention this to Dante today, he will be anxious and say, "It's all!"
He couldn't tell when he closed his eyes tightly, but he remembered that the reason he did it was because he was slumped in his seat and looked at the other people in the carriage, watching them make the usual movements around them, revealing all kinds of expressions that should have been commonplace. It's just that today's movements and expressions are particularly vivid, and the strong contrast with the smile left by Zheng Haohui before the gunshot the night before yesterday made him feel violently dizzy and even want to vomit, as if every movement of them, The vitality of each expression, combined with the vitality of their respective words, stimulated his nerves like a spasm, forcing him to think repeatedly of the man who had lost life and voice, so much so that he simply closed the window of his mind and let the darkness and noise rule his senses.
The night before, the policeman who opened fire was so accurate that Cheng Haohui's body fell to the ground along with his screwdriver, and Dante couldn't help but turn his head and did not witness the suspect being killed. It's just that from that moment on, his mind was completely confused. Then the police untied him, took him to a nearby hospital for examination, and then took him to the police station. During this process, in addition to feeling that the time was very long, he did not hear clearly what the police asked and what the doctor said, and naturally did not respond to a word. The police and the doctors were not surprised, believing that the poor lad was stunned, and that he was luckier than the people in the community hall.
It wasn't until he walked into the police station that he finally came to his senses, so thankfully, when the police asked him about his identity, he replied that he was a volunteer at the "Sincerity and Love" Rescue Service Center, and not Dante from the foul team.
"Do you have any relatives or friends in the city?" the police officer asked him. "Nope. To be honest, I don't know anyone here right now. Officer, if I don't need my help in the investigation, can I get ready to go home...... I mean, get out of here and go back to Beijing?" "In his usual way, Dante would find an excuse to linger at the police station for a while, even if it was to eavesdrop on the private conversations of the police, in order to gain some useful information for the group. But at this time, he didn't want to stay longer for a moment, and really wanted to be here right away.
"So, shall we inform your relatives in Beijing?" the policeman asked again. "Oh, this ......," Dante bowed his head.
"Dear passengers, our train is about to arrive at the final station, Beijing South Railway Station......" Dante finally opened his eyes when he heard this female voice accompanied by beautiful music. He tidied up his belongings, walked to the door of the carriage early with his head down, and was the first in line. Seeing that the train was slowing down, he hesitated for a moment and took out his mobile phone, "In my heart, there was a dream ......" I didn't expect the phone to ring before he pressed the button.
Crowding out of the platform with the torrent of trains pouring down, Dante walked to the parking lot with a glazed gaze. The parking lot at the big train station is always like a maze, and even if you know which numbered space you want to sit in, you often have to take a few detours to find it. Today, though, Dante is spared from being a headless fly, because the person who picks him up is waiting for him at the door of the labyrinth.
Li Yunqing was wearing a dark green coat and stood there with her hands in her pockets. Dante saw her from afar in the crowd, and she was looking out over the crowd with her neck outstretched. Seeing her face, he suddenly felt a lot more relaxed, but at the same time, he was worried: how should he face her, and what would she do to herself?
When Dante approached, Li Yunqing walked forward quickly, the two looked at each other, and then she looked him up and down. Although he hadn't spoken yet, Dante felt her gaze filled with concern.
"Have you eaten?" Li Yunqing pointed to the fast food restaurant next to him and asked, "Shall I take you to eat something first?" "No need Sister Yun, I'll ...... I'm not hungry, I've eaten in the car. Half of this was false, he didn't eat in the car, but he wasn't really hungry, because his stomach was full of troubles. "Oh...... All right. Let's go, let's get in the car. ”
Li Yunqing's car drove onto the road. Dante saw that her attention seemed to be completely focused on the road conditions, so he took the initiative to say, "Sister Yun, I'm sorry." "Don't say that. Li Yunqing continued to stare at the road and said, "The police have told me everything they can tell me about the specific situation of this matter." Speaking of which, this is the danger you are facing for the sake of the center, and I should apologize to you. "No, no...... I mean, I'm going to trouble you to pick me up today. "You're welcome. I can also understand why you asked the police to contact me instead of your parents - if they heard about it, they would have worried about you!" Dante scoffed slightly.
"By the way, how is Dr. Song?" asked Dante again. Li Yunqing pursed his lips and said, "It's much better, his body has basically recovered, but the psychological shadow left on him is still very big." Her voice trembled. "That collision was too hard, do you think this was also arranged by Zheng Haohui?" "Uh, what did the police say?" "After they investigated, they said that this was an accident, caused by the drunk driving of the minivan driver." But...... But is that really all there is? If it weren't for what happened to you this time, I wouldn't have dared to imagine that Zheng Haohui would have planned a murder case that would have killed dozens of people! Now that I think about it, those sensational Weibo posts a few days ago should have been his manifesto, as well as that text message. Well, why didn't they check these clues beforehand? Me too, why didn't I give his text message to the police and let them investigate!"
In fact, as the person in charge of the center, whether he wants to or not, Li Yunqing thinks more than he says at this moment. The police did not tell her about the death toll in the case, and that "dozens of people" were whispered to Dante when he got into the car. At this stage, the case is still under investigation, and once the investigation is completed and made public, such a large number of deaths will inevitably cause social shock, and the murderer was once a recipient and volunteer of the center, even if the police confirm that his criminal behavior has nothing to do with the center, it is difficult to guarantee that the media will not come to the door. It is unknown what kind of public pressure the center may face at that time, and whether its reputation will be affected.
"I can't imagine that Zheng Haohui can plan a murder case that will kill dozens of people", when Li Yunqing said this, Dante subconsciously "um" - he didn't dare to imagine it before, but now he is even more convinced that it is not exactly like that. Yes, he was bent on killing his father and his "kind", and he did, and of course the paint, the paintings, the temperature of the air conditioning, and the locked auditorium door were of course his "masterpieces". This series of brutal methods is coherent and distinctive, making it easy to have the impression that Cheng Haohui directed the entire case. However, when Dante reassembles the murder like a jigsaw puzzle based on his own experience, he finds that there are several tiny gaps in the current diagram.
Do you really think that Dante's eyes closed on the train just to dispel his troubles through noise? In fact, since last night when he was packing up at his accommodation, his mind has gradually become active, although his emotions are still fluctuating. He began to trace and analyze the events of the night of the crime, and used this as an antidote to the shock and fear that had been caused by it, and gradually he became aware of some suspicious traces. On the way back to Beijing, he was baptized by noise, and at the same time, he kept his train of thought running, polishing all the suspicious traces more and more clearly.
These traces may easily be obscured by Cheng Ho-fai's heinous acts, but they reflect another part of the necessary tricks that contributed to the success of this murder plan, which Dante is convinced that no matter how unexpected his ideas and guts may be, he cannot grasp and use them.
In this regard, he already has his own preliminary judgment, even when he got off the train and got on Li Yunqing's car, he was still considering the reasonableness and unreasonableness of the judgment. It is a pity that he was unable to report everything to the "colleagues" of the foul squad for the time being, after all, he only walked out of the public security bureau yesterday, and he was a person involved in the case, so it was difficult to ensure that the police were suspicious of him according to the normal habit of handling cases, so that they could pay attention to their communications. At this moment, even if you send a password text message, it will inevitably attract their "attention", even if it is unlikely that you will be regarded as Zheng Haohui's accomplice, the consequences of exposing the group are very serious.
"Sister Yun, you know, I originally took ten days off. He said to Li Yunqing, "When I come back this time, I want to ......" "You go home and rest for three days first." Li Yunqing said neatly, "You don't have to worry about the affairs of the center, the days when you ask for leave before you go and after you come back, the subsidy will be paid." "Oh......" Dante felt that there was nothing to say, so he said, "Thank you, Sister Yun." ”
(End of chapter)