We found the attending doctor of the suspect's mother, who listened to our question and muttered for a moment before she said slowly: "What I am telling you now is what I told him at the time, and his mother must be running out of life." ”

"But it's just a vegetative state." I remember a lot of vegetative people who eventually woke up and got better.

"Not all vegetative people can be completely cured in the end, and some vegetative people will eventually develop brain death, and there is nothing we can do about it. His mother had already told him about the situation when she was sent, and it was really the limit to be able to last for a year, and now that his mother's vital signs were gradually disappearing, I told him that he might not last a week, and asked him to buy a shroud to see if he could rush and let his mother be there for a while. However, according to his mother's current situation, it should be impossible, even if he lived for two more days, it would only be a psychological comfort. ”

"After hearing this, the patient's family did not react?" Officer Liu asked him.

The doctor shook his head: "There is no reaction, that person himself is very cowardly, and he usually acts like a submissive person and does not quarrel with others." A year ago, when I told him the truth, I just insisted on telling me that he wanted to hold on and see if there was a miracle happening, he said that he had seen many examples and finally the vegetative person was restored to the original state, he said that he felt that his mother would survive it, and he also said at that time that it didn't matter how much money it was, as long as he could save his mother and let his mother live. Since then, he has never defaulted on any medical bills, and although it seems like a hallucination, he always feels that his mother is getting better. Because as a doctor, every time he says this, I really can't do anything to deceive him, so I can only tell him the truth if I don't reply, his mother's condition is deteriorating little by little, so that he can be mentally prepared. But every time I say that, he seems very unwilling and makes me think of a way. I used everything in the hospital on his mother. But there is no hope at all. I told him the truth, but he was always very obsessed with getting along with his mother, so no matter what I said, he would just tell me how much it would cost me. Later, there was less communication between us. Because I couldn't persuade him to give up, in fact, his mother had already shown signs of brain death two months ago, but he had never wanted to believe it, and he was unwilling to end his mother's life, until now his condition is getting worse and worse. ’

"Did his mother ever seem to be getting better during treatment? Is it the situation of returning to the light? "Because they are all studying medicine, I can communicate directly with doctors if I have some questions.

The doctor nodded: "It is true that the patient seems to be recovering, but in fact, there is no improvement in pathology. But the patient's son seemed to be happy during that time. ”

"Have you seen any of the patient's other family members?" Officer Liu asked the doctor.

The doctor thought for a moment before nodding and answering, "I saw another visitor, a woman, who seemed to be very timid, I saw it when I went to the ward for a routine check-up, and when I saw it, she immediately hid behind the patient's son, and seemed to be reluctant to let me see her." However, the patient's son seemed to be quite opposed to him coming, and I heard the argument between them outside the ward, but it seemed that only the patient's son scolded him unilaterally. It seems that he doesn't want the girl to come and visit. The girl seemed to be scolded and cried, and said, 'Why can't I come to see my mother?' Then I pushed the door open and went in, and although he hid behind the patient's son, I could still see him sobbing all the time. Because it was someone else's housework, it was difficult for me to check it, so I told them that this is a hospital and you can't quarrel. The patient's son kept apologizing, not as fierce as he was just now, and I just left. ”

"Is that the girl?" Officer Liu pulled up the photo from his phone and showed it to the doctor.

The doctor looked at it and his eyes widened and nodded, "That's right, it's her." She? ”

"She's dead." Officer Liu's face was expressionless, and he continued to ask after putting away his mobile phone. "How many times have you met that girl?"

The doctor tilted his head and thought about it before comparing the number three and said, "It shouldn't be more than three times." But it must have been after the argument with his brother, which was the one I happened to hear, and the girl really didn't come to the hospital again. ”

"When did they quarrel?" Officer Liu's expression can be described as urgent,

"About two months ago. I can understand why the patient's son is so angry, as you mentioned earlier, his mother's condition deteriorated dramatically after the apparent recovery, and she also underwent a minor operation in the middle of the operation, and her spontaneous breathing and digestive function are slowly declining. I sued the patient's family after the incident. She just silently told me that she knew, and asked me to bother more, and she didn't argue with me too much, but she still insisted silently on the matter of extending her mother's life. The doctor on the other side was a little helpless when he said these words, "I understand his feelings very well, but I really can't deceive him about this kind of thing in life." We really don't have anything else to do here. ”

"By the way, when you discussed your mother's condition with him two days ago and told him about his mother's final situation, was he still as calm as before?" Li Jing's eyes stiffly admonished the doctor, as if he was confirming something.

The doctor nodded heavily and said, "Well, it's still the same as before, and I'm asking us to think about it again." ”

Leaving the doctor's office, we stepped into the ward again, and to see the woman on the hospital bed breathing and sustaining life, Li Jing asked Officer Liu, "Has the perpetrator of her car accident been found?" ”

Officer Liu shook his head: "I asked just now, it was at night, there was no surveillance in that area, and his mother was unconscious when he was discovered." Just let people check her information, she has never been married, adopted several children that no one wants, most of them were abandoned by their parents, and she is a very kind person. ”

Li Jing nodded and walked out of the ward, and Shi Hao's phone calls followed. Shi Hao has already found out the names of her family, she has adopted a total of three children, the second of the three children is the last female victim, the old man is amnesiac, and the boss, we asked the doctor to identify it, and the doctor is sure that it is the son of the patient who comes to visit every day.

Identity confirmed, the last suspect was called Mu Zi, according to Shi Hao's search. Mu Zi used to be a worker in high-speed transportation, but her family was not particularly good when she was young, and she went out to work before she went to high school, and her sister failed to finish high school because of her physical disability. And the younger brother (amnesiac) also dropped out of school early because of his leg and went out to work with his brother. They are not from Q City, but from L City, which is far away, just because they have been running on the TS Highway for many years and are familiar with several cities along the line, they have been transporting on the TS Highway for ten years. From the very beginning to pull materials for large companies, in the end, Mu Zi chose to go it alone and bought his own pickup truck to deliver goods between cities. The only asset of the four is the tiny pickup truck, and they live in a shantytown with a converted shipping container, close to where their mother had an accident. Before the accident of the three of their mothers, the family lived happily in the makeshift home of two small shipping containers. But after the mother's accident, the two little containers seemed to lose all their souls overnight, and the neighbors in the shantytown never heard any chatter from inside, and there was a faint sound of bone-chilling sorrow when approaching it.

According to the bank records that Shi Hao consulted, the money for his mother's treatment should have come from all the income that the siblings had saved in the past ten years. After calculation, there should be not much left, Mu Zi sold the car a few days ago, and then paid the last fee.

In October last year, after the mother of the Mu Zi siblings had an accident, Mu Zi and his younger brother worked as food delivery workers in Q City in order to take care of their mother, while Mu Zi's sister went to find a job as a cleaner in the hospital. In addition to saving money for his mother's treatment, they are also secretly finding out the truth about his mother's car accident. So nothing was filmed. According to the memories of the people on the right side of the traffic, the mother and son said that it was his birthday when their mother had an accident, and it was raining heavily that day, and the mother was afraid that a few of them would accidentally have an accident while driving. I stood at the intersection and waited for them, but I didn't wait for them to have an accident first.

The person on the right side of the traffic sympathized with him and privately told him that the tire tracks at the scene should be that the perpetrator was driving at speeding, and after seeing his mother, he couldn't stop the car and hit his mother, and there were brake marks at the scene. But she left directly without getting out of the car to check, so her mother became a vegetative person if she didn't get treated in time.

Li Jing also asked Shi Hao to check the driver's license information of several victims, and found that they had all been fined by the police for speeding and running traffic lights after their deaths. The time when they were killed was not the day of speeding, it should be that after Mu Zi found out about their speeding, he thought of what happened to his mother, and followed them for a few days and killed them. And the time of each killing happened to be the time when Mu Zi was told that his mother's condition had deteriorated again and again. It should be that these car owners who had nothing to do at the traffic lights and overspeeding stimulated Mu Zi's tense nerves, and finally caught them and sent them to their own residence, when they found that they had no intention of repenting, coupled with the disappointment that the flame of hope was extinguished again and again in the hospital, Mu Zi, who could no longer control his feelings, regarded them as the culprits who caused his mother to become a vegetative person, and killed them one by one.

After killing them, they drew a five-pointed star pattern on their right hand, in the religion that prevails in L City, the five-pointed star is a kind of charm that leads to the underworld and prays for salvation after death, and in the container where Mu Zi lives, many patterns of pentagram stars have also been found, and after testing, they come from the blood of seven victims, and the whole formation is like praying for the punishment of these victims in his hometown.

Suddenly, I had a bad premonition: "Li Jing, did the mother and son buy their own pickup truck to pay for the treatment of their mother?" ”

Li Jing looked at me with doubts in his eyes, and suddenly he shouted as if he understood my thoughts: "Not good. "Pulling me and Officer Liu rushed to the hospital.

"The three brothers and sisters should have wanted to leave a long time ago, but they just lived with the hope that their mother might still live. The doctor's truth about them shattered all their hopes, so it should be Mu Zi's younger siblings who asked the mother and son to kill them and follow their mother to the other world. As you said, among the three people, the mother and son are the only ones who have the most control, this kind of person is often very affectionate, thinking that the family should be together forever, so he must have agreed to the request of his younger siblings, and when he was told by the hospital for the last time that his mother couldn't survive, he carried out his plan and was ready to leave this world with the family. He knew that his mother would not survive for a few days, so he would probably try to go back to the hospital to see his mother, and then leave this world completely, and I believe that there should also be a pentagram on the back of his right hand. If we see it, we must stop him, he is really stupid. ”

By the time we rushed to the surgical inpatient floor, the hospital had lifted its lockdown and some family members had already entered the inpatient area. At the same time that Officer Liu informed the director to evacuate the crowd, the three of us had already arrived at the door of the surgery, and after signaling the nurse to protect the others from the inpatient unit, we slowly approached Mu Zi's mother's ward. Mu Zi was standing by the window with a knife and forcing his mother's attending doctor to write something. The window had been completely removed by him, and there was a freshly carved pentagram on the back of his right hand holding the knife, and the undried blood stains reflected the horror and weirdness of the pattern.

The attending doctor didn't look scared, and motioned for us not to go over, his neck was already oozing some blood from the sharp blade, and his hand was still copying something. Mu Zi saw us come in, turned to us and told us not to go over, we stood quietly in place, Li Jing asked Mu Zi to take a good look at his mother, if Mu Zi did something stupid, no one would be able to take care of her mother again.

Mu Zi just smiled and said with tears in his eyes: "You don't have to comfort me, the doctor has already told me about this, you see that my mother's EEG has become a straight line, there is really no hope, my mother is gone." So my last hope of living in this world is gone, and I will go to another world to reunite with my family. ”

"Aren't you worried about your mother's fate? When she dies, she will be buried in the ground. "I tried my best to divert his attention so that Officer Liu and Li Jing could stop him from doing more stupid things for a while.

Mu Zi shook his head, suddenly took the handle away from the doctor's neck, and wanted to pierce his chest, and the person also fell in the direction of the window. Officer Liu rushed up and hugged the mother and son's thighs, trying to catch him. I called in other police officers who were outside to escort the doctor out to treat the injuries. Officer Liu and Li Jing worked together to pull Mu Zi up, but Mu Zi was out of breath and finally died of excessive blood loss in the emergency room.

I went to see him and the last note written by the author's doctor asked the doctor to promise to help bury his mother after her death. The money was used for his mother's treatment and birth. Mu Zi's mother's brain waves had completely become a straight line, but when I approached her mother and told her my faith, I saw a drop of water drawn in the corner of her eye. I looked at Li Jing in amazement, but I didn't expect that Li Jing, who had always adhered to atheism, just told me with a very strict expression that it was tears from the soul, which was her mother's last 21 grams.

None of the three of us spoke, just quietly watched as Mu Zi's mother's soul slipped into her thinning gray hair and disappeared.

The last time I saw a doctor, it was just me and Li Jing.

"Actually, you already know the truth, right? You've seen amnesiacs. Li Jing looked at him and asked.

The doctor nodded noncommittally.

"Why don't you tell the truth?"

"Because at that time he had no killing intent, his mother was his last pillar, and his mother had no days to live, I wanted him to do his last filial piety. Mu Zi himself is terminally ill of cancer, even if he is caught by you, his time is running out, the truth is that he went to the dormitory to sue me the night before you came to me. At that time, there was a man named Wei Kai beside him, and that man asked me to give you a message. ”

"What?" Li Jing asked.

"It was Dante's vision on the third level of Hell: in the darkness I saw a jaw-dropping sight of two teams of men rolling with all their might, large round weights, sprinting and striking each other face to face. One side yells, 'Why don't you give up?' The other side shot back, 'Why did you let it go?' The pain of the impact of the heavy object caused both parties to let out an alarming wail. However, no matter how painful and tired they were, they could not stop attacking each other. He said that one day you will understand that there are some things that you can never stop from his intended end. (To be continued.) )