"If you go through the files, you can see the serial robbery and murder case that was quite sensational 17 years ago, and the case was not closed. I thought back to the details www.biquge.info of the case I had seen earlier, "Although it didn't happen in the city where we live, it was a crime committed by the people who live with us now. ”

"Fleeing to us after committing a crime in another city?" Li Jing summed up what I meant.

I nodded: "That's right, after committing a series of robberies and murders, they fled to our current city, and some of them were incorporated into a well-known gang boss at the time; Others have started their business with the stolen money. ”

"Is the gang you're talking about the one related to you??" Li Jing asked me.

I hesitated to explain what I said, but after a long time, I sighed and told the truth: "It's related to me, but it's not directly related, I mean that the place where he was finally co-opted is actually the opposite of me." I'm sure your experience last night will help you understand what I mean now. ”

Li Jing glanced at me sitting next to him and sneered, "So you still told me about this case in order to be able to bring them down?" ”

I didn't refute it, but admitted it in a dignified manner: "Yes, if you keep them, sooner or later they will be killed." So if you can help the police arrest people and keep me alive, why don't you think you can't? ”

"But don't forget that your current behavior is tantamount to betrayal." Li Jing reminded me.

To be honest, I don't care about any of this, my only wish is to be free, and the rest of the things don't mean much to me, earning fame and position or even imposing a burden on me. "It doesn't matter, they are going to leave in the end anyway, they are arrested, and my life will be better for the time being. You make meritorious contributions, I am safe, as long as these two points are met, don't worry about other trivial matters. ”

"But have you thought about it?" Li Jing asked me.

Instead of answering him, I began to recount from memory the string of robberies and murders 17 years ago.

"The first case happened in a bank 17 years ago. At that time, it was Saturday, and there was no concept of weekends at that time, Sunday was a day off, and some temporary workers were paid a weekly wage, and Saturday was basically the day when workers received a weekly wage, and the major banks would send a lot of cash to the branches. And the security conditions at that time were not as good as they are now, as long as the security was subdued, the rest of the matter was completely beneficial to the robbers. Although the first case was the most costly, it was actually the smoothest case they carried out, and the reason why I say this is because no one died because of this case at the time, and the robbers' mood was calm, and they robbed the money and left. They should have had no other criminal experience before robbing the bank, and the book looked like a new hand in terms of the methods of crime at the time and the destruction of the scene, and even the tools of crime left at the scene still had the fingerprints of the criminals. At that time, they should have wanted to commit crimes on the run, so the preparation was not sufficient, and the tools involved in the crime were only a few imitation guns. Therefore, the police have been investigating this case separately from the robbery and murder cases that followed, in fact, this is the beginning of everything in the year. It's just that the latter cases have been upgraded in terms of modus operandi and modus operandi, and they have undergone earth-shaking changes from the original cases, which really can't make people have any meaningful associations with their relationships. ”

"But why do you think they're connected just because the perpetrators are the same?" Seeing that the sky was already white, Li Jing glanced at his watch, there were still more than 2 hours before the X-ray, and he took me to let the nurse line up first, and then estimated the time when it was our turn, and took me to a nearby restaurant for breakfast.

"The food in the hospital cafeteria is so unpalatable, you were so frightened yesterday, and now you are homeless again, it is too cruel for me to put up with such a bad taste for you. So take you out to eat something delicious. Li Jing said and took me out.

I hesitated, "Why don't you stay here?" ”

Li Jing looked at me with some confusion: "Why?" ”

"There will be people who will follow us, and if they leave a place like the hospital, where there are many people, they may strike at any time." I thought about it and voiced my doubts.

But Wei Kai obviously didn't feel anything wrong, but taking into account my thoughts, he also slowed down his tone to comfort me: "Don't be afraid, now I have another case in my hands, if they make a move, it will be considered an attack on the case-handling personnel, which is a crime, I don't think they are so bold." ”

I was still a little worried, but Li Jing had already grabbed me and walked out: "Okay, it's that I don't like to eat in the hospital cafeteria, let's go have a good meal and treat us who broke the answer yesterday." The ease between Li Jing's words was just to ask me not to take my mind too seriously.

I couldn't resist Li Jing, so I came to a Huaiyang restaurant with him, the front hall of the restaurant is not large, can only accommodate a few tables and a dozen chairs, but we went there relatively early, the small restaurant has just opened, except for the boss there are only two of us.

"Coming?" The boss nodded at us as a greeting.

"Boss, two bowls of Yangchun noodles." Li Jing found a place to sit down and greet the boss.

The boss glanced at the wall clock on the wall: "You guys came too early, and the soup is not ready yet." ”

"It's okay, the two of us can wait slowly." Li Jing glanced at me and asked, "Are you hungry?" ”

Probably because so much was going on, I didn't even feel a hint of hunger. I shook my head: "You and the boss seem to know each other very well, and you are a frequent visitor here?" ”

When my friend was interning at that hospital, she came to work and frequented the store. The owner is from Yangzhou, so the dishes are quite authentic. Li Jing introduced, "This boss hates others urging him the most, and always says that when the heat comes, the dish will be ready, and if you can't wait, you will go to the fast food restaurant to eat." His house only entertains guests who know what to taste. Also, you can't look at your phone while eating after a while, and the boss will blast you out. ”

"But everyone is in a hurry at breakfast, after all, we have to rush to work at dinner." It's too much of an exaggeration to taste breakfast, I complained to myself.

Li Jing glanced at me, then at the boss who turned to the back kitchen to cook the soup and said, "So the guests who usually patronize here are old grandfathers and grandmothers. It is only after devouring a lot of food that people learn to eat in small bites to appreciate the grace of each food; Life is the same, only after running in a hurry for most of your life, you learn to walk slowly in the last short distance before the finish line, and slowly notice that the world has changed so much when you are tired of running around with your head down, and you have missed too many interesting things when you have not had time to come down to take a look, and it is too late to experience it. ”

"However, the first thing that human beings will be born in this world is to try to live, so even if you think that most people's lives are busy and boring, in fact, not everyone can live their lives leisurely without regrets as you said. In order to be alive, everyone is busy, so there is nothing to do. I retorted to him, feeling that what he had just said sounded like something else.

"But do you know what you're after?" Li Jing suddenly stared into my eyes and asked.

Faced with this question, I was a little speechless for a while: "I, I want to just live." "It's the first time anyone has asked me such a serious question, in a small restaurant on such a morning in which the smell of chicken soup fills the air.

What are your dreams? This question has almost been asked since childhood, whether it is when I was a child, my uncle and aunt in the neighborhood pinched my face and jokingly asked what I wanted to do when I grew up? I didn't really think about it when I was writing essays about dreams in the classroom after school, I just followed the trend and wrote about things that I had never considered, as if it would be safe to have the same dreams as others. I've never even thought about it myself, and the only so-called dream, more like a wish, is to take control of this body that originally belonged to Xiaozhi and leave this place. But I don't know where I'm going or what I'm going to do. Suddenly, a great sorrow came over me, and I had no idea why I was doing it.

When I was about to burst into tears, the boss walked to our table with two bowls of noodles and put the noodles on the table, and the boss immediately did next to us and said to the two of us: "Try my craft while it's hot, the skills of the recently recruited small workers are very good, if you didn't come early today, I would have almost no chance to cook except for boiling soup." ”

I asked for a bite of noodles, which were soft and had the thick smell of chicken in the hot soup, and I was shocked to realize that I had been hungry for a long time, and my stomach was already hungry, and the heat of the soup just eased the stomach discomfort caused by hunger. I stopped talking, but ate the Yangchun noodles in the bowl seriously, the noodles are very thin, so they are cooked very soft and have a delicate taste. The hanging soup tastes very good, and the chicken soup is the base, which is rich in flavor but not greasy. It's just that I don't eat chopped green onions, so I really didn't try the taste of the handful of shallots sprinkled at the end.

I looked at the boss with a male face: "Boss, I, I'm not used to eating green onions." ”

The boss just lit a cigarette and shook his head with a smile: "It's okay, everyone's tastes are different, there's no need to force yourself to accept what you don't like." But next time, before I serve the food, you have to tell the cook in advance what you can't eat, after all, it is not advisable to waste ingredients. ”

I nodded, and then the boss turned his head to Li Jing and said, "I cook chicken soup, and I cook it every day to warm the stomach of others; As for you, you are talking about chicken soup, but the chicken soup you are talking about can't warm the hearts of others. ”

Li Jing just ate the noodles in the bowl with his head bored, and the two of us ate the noodles separately, and neither of us spoke again. The boss looked at us, shook his head, and went back to the back kitchen to prepare the day's food with the skilled cook he was talking about. It wasn't until both of them had eaten up the bowl that I looked up and awkwardly bumped into his gaze. Because of the lost support in my stomach, I am no longer as unconfident as I was just now: "I, my dream is just to live, and then find a small mountain village, watch the sunrise and sunset, and go through my life peacefully." I've been through all sorts of unexpected things that others might not have encountered in their lifetimes, so I hope I can be calm in the future. It doesn't matter if it's just me, after all, I'm not used to getting around other people. ”

"I didn't mean to make you sad by saying that, I just wanted to tell you that there are many things in this world that are much more interesting than thinking about how to get revenge on someone every day. I say so much just that I don't want you to end up pitting yourself, after all, no matter how unbearable this world is for you, there is something worth remembering about this team. Li Jing set his eyes on the poster on the wall that looked like an old Shanghai beauty wall calendar.

I also looked at the poster, which showed a cheongsam beauty, looking like a fan-faced beauty in the mouth of a storyteller. However, although the dress is very retro, the style of the clothes is mixed with the styles that are popular now, and I think it should be a retro poster of the model of the past two years.

"My girlfriend." Li Jing pointed to the woman in the painting and said.

I was surprised for a moment, thinking that how could I think that a person with a cheap mouth and a radical mind like Li Jing would not have such a beautiful girl take a fancy to him.

"You were scared crazy by corpses yesterday?" I shook my hand in front of his eyes.

Li Jing slapped my shaking hand and said, "No, I look at corpses every day, and I'm not crazy." It was indeed my girlfriend, and the photo was a poster of her previous commercial. We broke up, though. ”

"I'm not surprised at all, I think she made a wise decision." I nodded, but I felt like I was relieved, and then I said, "Why did you break up?" ”

Li Jing finally withdrew his gaze from the painting, and at the same time sighed at me: "This is why I insisted on bringing you here, and I talked to you about things other than the case just now, I don't want you to end up like her." I can't save her, but I want to save you. ”

"Your girlfriend? Is it dead? I asked cautiously.

Li Jing shook his head: "No, she is still alive, but it is more painful than dead, I mean mentally." I'm sorry to say this, but the first thing I thought when I saw you was that I saw Yuling, who was my girlfriend. I'm not saying that the two of you look similar, but you have too many things in common, both are strong and independent personalities, assertive and unpersuadable, and show a particularly extreme chase for what you believe. It's dangerous, especially when you're going to break down after you've been hit. And you will also affect your other personality, not only will you not be able to protect her, but you may also harm her. You can't control your emotions at that time, and you don't even know her anymore, and it may develop into you attacking her, such as using self-harm to eliminate Xiaozhi's personality, in this worst-case scenario, you will even forget the fact that you have two personalities, and treat yourself as an enemy, when you kill her, that is, when you destroy her, the reason why I tell you this is because I lost the important person around me, I hope you can do it yourself, not because you are bent on revenge, And ignore the feelings of the other personality who is with you, don't end up and you can't even find yourself. You exist to protect her, so her existence is the meaning of your life? Or do you tell me what you live for? At the mention of his girlfriend, Li Jing's eyes were clouded with a layer of gray color.

And I, however, were dumbfounded by his series of lessons and questions, yes, what am I living for? Although I always talk about replacing her, if I really let her disappear from this body forever, then what will happen to me? Once I'm in control, where do I go from here? I looked at the empty bowl on the table in confusion and lost in thought. Although, Xiaozhi agreed with me when she was 15 years old that she couldn't give Ban Que a lifetime of happiness, so she would give me her body and disappear on its own, allowing me to pursue the life I liked. But what about the life I like? What would her life become without her protection? Since I was born, I have been a haven for another self, and when my role is gone, what is the point of my continued existence?

Li Jing knocked lightly on the table, interrupting my thoughts, and then he looked at me and said, "That's it for today, it's up to you how to choose." Okay, now let's move on to that bank robbery back then, how did you connect it to the serial murders that followed? It's because you have the right time and place, and when they were co-opted, they said they did this? ”

Because I didn't expect the topic to jump so quickly, I didn't react for a while, and looked at him in confusion in place.

"I'm talking about the case you told me in the hospital, didn't the original bank robbery not be included in the later serial kidnapping and murder cases? But you firmly believe that they are the trigger for the subsequent case, what evidence did you find, or did you hear the rumors when those suspects joined you again? ”

I realized that we were going to talk about a new case that I had told him about for many years, and immediately refuted his speculation: "No. When they were co-opted, I, I mean me and my other personality, were still hiding in the mountains, afraid of dying if they were discovered. And I had just turned three years old at the time, and I didn't have any serious memories, and even if I did, I couldn't remember. "I'm so sure because I found a habit in one of the later cases that had three details that were almost 100 percent similar to the original bank robbery." ”

Perhaps because he was well fed and drunk, Li Jing's eyes were much brighter than just now, and I knew that what I was about to say aroused his curiosity.

"The first detail, the timing, was between 9 and 11 a.m. on Saturday. In the first case, because the cash truck usually delivers its banknotes to the bank before the bank opens at 9 o'clock, the robbers were able to confirm that the bank's cash flow was sufficient during that time, and everyone had to go to work during that time, so it was not a time when the bank was overcrowded, and the fewer people, the better it was to control the scene. But the later cases were basically similar in time to the first case, with a difference of less than an hour. But some of the cases that happened later really didn't have to be at that time, and some of them were even dangerous, so I don't think it was a good choice for them. But it's like some kind of ritual, so that they follow the same time. ”

As I thought back to the second detail, I said, "It makes sense, but it's still far-fetched. Li Jing said, but did not directly say that the reason I gave was problematic.

"Indeed, if it's just a similar time, it can only be regarded as a coincidence. The second detail is the escalation of their violent adaptation in the robbery. As I said, in the bank robbery, there were no fatalities, but there were injuries, and because they were minor, the police thought it was a bank insider who stole from them. In fact, that was the beginning of the violence that followed, and the level of violent adaptation in that series of pre-interception killings escalated, with people being seriously injured in the second case, permanent injuries in the third, deaths in the fourth case, and then increasing in the number of deaths and escalating violence. This in itself is a process that progresses from small injuries to irreversible ones. You studied medicine, I don't know if you know, many serial killers, including Russian chessboard killers, also started from abusing those small animals to killing maniacs. At first, they will bully animals much weaker than themselves, and eventually they will go crazy with murderers, like the first bank robbery, first with tentative small-scale injuries, and finally into a bloody massacre on the spot. ”

"It's doubtful, but it's not certain, I remember you said you had a third discovery?" Li Jing looked at me and asked.

I nodded vigorously, but I didn't say what I thought until then, and when Li Jing looked at me again, I said, "The third detail is the evidence they left at the scene. ”

"Evidence?" Li Jing frowned, "If there is evidence that the two cases are related, I think the police should have merged that case with the later cases a long time ago, and they should not be treated as separate cases." ”

"Wrong." I used my arm to make a big X, "because it's almost insignificant, it's the easiest thing to overlook." (To be continued.) )