When I met Li Kai in the detention center, he had already been detained for four days. We were sitting in the lawyer's interview room in the detention center. His face was sallow, his eyes were swollen, and he had no energy. I handed him a cigarette and a lighter, and as he looked down to light it, I saw a piece of hair on the back of his head shaved off.

He took a deep breath of cigarette, saw me staring at his hair, and smiled self-deprecatingly: "I have been protecting my hair since I was a child, and I have always had long hair, my father beat me and scolded me, I didn't cut it, but I didn't expect to shave my head in just two days, it seems that I am going to be sentenced." ”

Lawyer Bao, who represented him in the case, told him to be optimistic, saying that the situation was still unclear and that there were no serious consequences. Li Kai shook his head: "I heard from my fellow inmates that only those who want to be sentenced will be shaved their heads, and those who are not prosecuted will not be shaved." Haha, it's okay, if you want to judge, it's not interesting outside! ”

Subways without guardrails are dangerous, so be sure to stand outside the yellow line

The investigation of Li Kai was purely coincidental, Zhou Yong was watching the news that day, and suddenly said: "Brother Xu, someone on the subway has been pushed down." ”

Did I ask the dead? Zhou Yong said no, and the man who was pushed down climbed up again. I asked why, so much hatred. Zhou Yong flipped through the content twice more and smiled: "This is too, it's because of spitting!" ”

On May 15, 2016, while waiting for the subway, Li Kai pushed the person next to him off the railroad tracks because the other party spat on the ground. Pushing someone you don't know off the subway because of spitting, I don't think that's true - there must be something hidden in this.

I decided to look into the matter.

Many people have a misunderstanding of the Nightcrawler and think that we only investigate some strange criminal cases - even Zhou Yong thinks so.

I told him that this time I would investigate this "subway push incident", and he complained: "Brother Xu, we are not short of funds, it's too boring to investigate, right?" "I told him that we were mainly investigating violent crimes, but occasionally we had to change our tastes, otherwise people would be perverted. Zhou Yong "cut": "It's boring." ”

I said this man might have murdered with intent to do so. Zhou Yong immediately came to his senses: "Then don't wait, hurry up, someone must have taken the lead if it's so slow!" ”

Before the investigation began, the media had already interviewed the person concerned and restored the incident. I called Tian Jing and asked if I could find an acquaintance of the media and ask for the contact information of the person who pushed the person. Not long after, Tian Jing called back, saying that she didn't ask for contact information, and only learned that the name of the pusher was Li Kai. I asked her to find a friend in the media circle to help me contact the person who was pushed off the subway and ask if I could talk to him. Tian Jing said yes, and then hung up the phone.

Zhou Yong and I searched for information on the Internet by keywords such as "Li Kai and Yan Shi", and found a person who used to work for a start-up company called "Little Telegram". I called the company and said that I was a friend of Li Kai, and that something had happened to him now, and that the other party had asked for the contact information of Li Kai and his emergency contacts. Li Kai's phone couldn't get through, but I'm glad - this increases the possibility that this Li Kai is the one who pushed the person.

Li Kai's emergency contact is his father. I called him and said that I was a journalist and wanted to talk to his son about the subway push, and if there was anything hidden, maybe it would be of some help. On the other end of the line is indeed the father of the pusher. But he told me that he didn't care about this matter, he had already hired a lawyer for Li Kai, which was considered benevolent and righteous, and let him fend for the rest.

Could it be that the problem of family education has created a Li Kai who pushes people off the rails? With this question, I called Li Kai's lawyer, Bao Hao. Lawyer Bao is very talkative, and when he heard that he wanted to interview Li Kai, he immediately agreed: "Yes." He's also quite pitiful, his father doesn't want to care about him anymore, and if he can report it, he may add some points to public opinion. ”

Two days later, as Lawyer Bao's assistant, I met Li Kai in the detention center.

Li Kai seemed to be a big smoker, and quickly finished smoking one, picked up a cigarette from the table, and lit another one. At this time, he finally relaxed a little, and adjusted his posture slightly: "If you want to ask something, just ask." ”

I asked him if he hated spitting so much.

He nodded briefly: "Very annoying, I think spitting in public is similar to defecating in public, but I've never seen these people stopped." I really feel disgusting, not only is there no quality, but there are so many bacteria in that mouthful of phlegm! When he said these words, Li Kai had obvious disgust on his face.

I asked him if he had ever had an argument with someone before over spitting. He shook his head: "This is the first time. "For the first time in such a blockbuster, there must be something unusual about it.

Before going to the detention center, I had a long chat with lawyer Bao, who represented me in the case, to discuss why Li Kai did such a thing. Lawyer Bao also had a headache: "This young man doesn't like to talk about his own business. You say that you don't usually like to talk about it, but how can you do it if you don't like to talk about it at this time, this is a matter of lawsuits! However, lawyer Bao remembered that Li Kai once mentioned his ex-girlfriend: "It seems that I came to Yanshi with my ex-girlfriend, and he mentioned it when I asked for information." I think this is a starting point, and I asked Li Kai if he could talk about his ex-girlfriend.

Li Kai: "There's nothing to say. We are fellow countrymen, college lovers, and we came to Yan City together a year after graduation. When asked about the reason for the breakup, he smiled: "She didn't really want to come to Yan City, I wanted to come, and then I encountered something and went home." I didn't want to go back, so I became a long-distance relationship and broke up in two months. ”

I asked his ex-girlfriend what happened, and Li Kai didn't want to talk more: "I was beaten by someone I don't know, and I feel that I can't be all here." ”

Talking about why he didn't go back to his hometown, Li Kai suddenly became talkative.

"I just want to get out of the way! My dad didn't want me to come to Yan City, so he wanted me to take the civil service exam at home. When I graduated, I was admitted to our local taxation bureau, and my dad was very happy during that time, and invited relatives and friends to dinner every day. I worked at the local tax bureau for half a year. The leader explained that he would write the materials, and if he didn't write the materials, he would drink tea and read the newspaper. Because he was the youngest, he also took the initiative to clean the office, and the others were gone. It's the kind of life that you can see at a glance thirty years later. ”

I can imagine the difficulty of Li Kai's decision to resign and come to Yanshi, as well as the resistance he suffered.

"My dad is going to cut off the father-son relationship with me. I said that the law does not allow the severance of father-son relations, and he beat me out with an electric mosquito swatter. I haven't been home for the Chinese New Year in the past few years, and I have called my mother a few times and asked me and said it was fine. ”

"At the end of 2010, I came here with my girlfriend with the salary I had saved, rented a room near the Xingyunqiao subway for 1,08 a month, and shared a bathroom with two other families."

"The girl in the next room is a salesperson, and she loves to lose her hair in the shower, and every time she takes a shower, she blocks the drain. My girlfriend and I had to pick up the hair from the floor drain and throw it in the trash every time we took a shower, otherwise it would accumulate water. Every time we felt like we were going to pick out a Sadako from the floor drain. But I don't feel bitter, I just want to live a different life, the kind that has become famous. ”

In the first three years of his arrival in Yan City, Li Kai worked for two large companies and a start-up company, and then made a decision.

"In Yan City, people with a little ability will have to start their own business sooner or later." Li Kai said this and lit the last cigarette: "You are a little unaccustomed to foreign cigarettes, but I still like to smoke flue-cured tobacco." China's flue-cured tobacco technology can't be compared with foreign countries at all! ”

I'm going to talk about entrepreneurship, what happened from the beginning of entrepreneurship to pushing people off the subway. Li Kai told me: "You can talk, but you have to go and see it first, follow the route I told you, take some photos and come back, and then bring me a box of flue-cured tobacco, Hongta Mountain." ”

Even if Li Kai doesn't say it, I have to take a look, from Xingyun Bridge to Science and Technology Village, Li Kai's life trajectory in Yan City.

There are no loopholes in what he says now, and there are few doubts about it — except for the ex-girlfriend who doesn't want to mention it. The next morning, I called Zhou Yong and asked him to go with me to Li Kai's place to have a look.

We took a taxi to Xingyun Bridge. Li Kai lives in an apartment near the subway entrance of Xingyunqiao, and it is about 400 meters away from the community.

Li Kai told me that he has lived here since he came to Yan City. At first, it was a shared house, but then I jumped twice, and my salary once rose to nearly 20,000 yuan per month. In addition, his girlfriend found a sales job in a 4S store, and she also had a monthly income of about 7,000 yuan, so the two of them changed to a single house of nearly 50 square meters, with a monthly rent of more than 4,000 yuan.

When Zhou Yong and I stood downstairs in Li Kai's rented apartment, Zhou Yong was still entangled: "Why was his girlfriend beaten?" Did you call the police? Do you have a photo? ”

I said, "His ex-girlfriend could indeed be a breakthrough, and today I'm done taking a photo, and you can find information related to his ex-girlfriend." ”

Zhou Yongmeng: "How do you find it?" No name and no photo, Brother Xu, don't make trouble! ”

I said, "If he is telling the truth and his girlfriend works in a 4S store, it must be in a 4S store near the Xingyunqiao subway station." Because Li Kai himself works in the Science and Technology Village, it is too far to live in Xingyunqiao, so he must live here for the convenience of his girlfriend. I asked Zhou Yong to go around the subway line to find a 4S store with a monthly salary of about 7,000 yuan. Zhou Yong left with a resentful face.

I followed Li Kai's route to work, and took pictures of the breakfast stall at the entrance of the Xingyunqiao subway and the bus stop 200 meters apart, and then took the bus that Li Kai would take every day at the bus station and got off at the Science and Technology Village Station. After walking for five minutes, I arrived at Li Kai's entrepreneurial location - Science and Technology Villager Science and Technology Pioneer Park.

When Li Kai told me that their business location was in the Science and Technology Village Entrepreneurship Park, I unconsciously thought of tall and bright office buildings such as the Science and Technology Village Entrepreneurship Building and the Bank of China Plaza. But when I arrived at the Science and Technology Villager Science and Technology Pioneer Park, I found that it was completely different from what I imagined - this is too broken! The way it looks reminds me of what the Old Summer Palace looked like after it was burned down by the Eight-Nation Alliance.

Li Kai smoked Hongta Mountain, looked at the photos I took, and smiled: "It's quite complete, even the breakfast stall was taken." ”

He pointed to the building where he lived: "After my girlfriend returned to her hometown, I didn't change this house." It stands to reason that I started a business in the science and technology village, living in Yunqiao, far away, and having to spend two hours a day on the commute. But I just don't want to change this house. It's been five years, and I've been calling Yan City to live here. ”

Li Kai's entrepreneurial content is to make a comic on WeChat and Weibo[1]

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I asked him why he didn't do manga on a manga site. Li Kai shook his head: "The competition is too fierce, the good pits are all occupied, and we want our film and television adaptation rights and game adaptation rights as soon as we come up." Now whether it's making comics or novels, they all point to the adaptation rights to make money, and they are all given to them, what kind of business are we creating, isn't it a disguised part-time job for people? And like "Cosmetic Liquid"[2]

This kind of strange series of strips and comics have become popular through WeChat and Weibo, which proves that you don't need to rely on comic websites to have traffic. ”

Talking about Tiaoman, he said eloquently: "Foreign countries have done a particularly good job in this regard, and there are many things worth learning from us. I want to make our series of strip comics into IP, just like "Plastic Surgery Liquid", and then develop the value of IP, and then develop new IP, and gradually expand the spread! Make it like "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" and "Tomb Robbery Notes". You know "Burning Brain", that domestic comics, I heard that the film and television adaptation rights sold for 10 million! ”

Then Li Kai asked me if I usually read the official account, and I said yes. He nodded: "Like Midnight Stories and the World, they are all story IPs." Seriously, I don't think they're doing as well as me. It's just that some time ago, the special article of "Pacific Battle Royale" sold more than one million, which hyped up this kind of non-fiction writing IP. ”

With "Pacific Battle Royale", I asked Li Kai what he thought about murder. He didn't answer, then flipped through the photo and pointed it out to me: "I basically don't buy food at the breakfast stall at the subway entrance of Xingyunqiao, it's uncivilized to eat on the subway, and I'm afraid of the cold when I get off the train to eat." Do you know why you can't eat on the subway? Not only because of the smell that affects others, but also because of the fear of rats. So I usually buy a pancake at the exit of Shangfeng Station and eat it while waiting for the bus, or go to the Techno-Tech Village to eat it again. When I didn't start a business, I was so tired that I was too lazy to eat breakfast every day, and after starting a business, I found that I couldn't stand tired without breakfast. ”

There are usually such breakfast stalls near the subway to provide convenience for people who are catching an early train

Looking further back, seeing the dilapidated building in Yan's Private Science and Technology Pioneer Park, Li Kai smiled: "When we were at our most brilliant, it was when we got a seed fund to move here." In the first few months of 2015, the start-up situation was particularly good. At that time, the science and technology village had an idea, made a PPT, and someone invested money in you. ”

"We spent two weeks making two comics and a PPT, met with a few investors, and quickly got hundreds of thousands of seed funds. The first thing investors do when they see them is ask you how your ideas make money. ”

At this point, it's time to visit again. After I left the detention center, I received a call from Tian Jing. She said that the person who was pushed off the subway was willing to talk to me.

Pushed off the subway was a middle-aged man, in his thirties, married, with a five-year-old daughter, and a daughter-in-law who does not go to work and is a full-time housewife. And he himself is an angel investor, specializing in investing in content startups. The only thing he can get involved with Li Kai is the identity of an angel investor who specializes in investing in entrepreneurs. But when I asked, he said he didn't know Li Kai at all. With this question, I went to the detention center again the next day to listen to Li Kai tell his entrepreneurial story.

Li Kai and his two partners, with 650,000 yuan of seed funds, began to recruit troops, rented office space, bought computers, and recruited people, and spent more than 100,000 yuan in the first month.

"At that time, we wanted to use these hundreds of thousands of dollars to make good content as soon as possible, and then immediately start an angel round of financing, and get a bigger amount of money, at least in the order of five million to ten million. But things are not as simple as we thought, and we ran into a lot of problems. ”

I asked him what he had, and Li Kai dusted off his cigarette ash and frowned.

"All aspects, first of all, recruitment. At the beginning, six people were recruited, three were recruited on the recruitment website, two were recruited on the forum, and one was recruited on the classified information network. ”

"The guy I found on the classified information online was a little stumbling during the interview, and we didn't want it at first. But he said he was particularly interested in what we were going to do, and begged us to let him try it, and we relented and agreed. As a result, I came to work for one day, and I couldn't get in touch the next day, and I really had everything on the Internet. The two painters recruited at the forum also had problems, they were slow to draw and they didn't paint well, which made us extremely suspicious of the teaching quality of the key universities at that time. Later, I found out that it was all resume fraud! No wonder I came to a startup like ours, and said that it was because I liked not clocking in and out of time. The new media operation recruited on the recruitment website is okay, there is a brush, and the mantra is: take a good title and blow up the circle of friends. But then I found out that he couldn't do anything but make a headline. This reminds me of the network management of an Internet café, no matter what happens to the computer, it will always be the same sentence: restart and try. ”

Many companies use fingerprint machines to punch in

"Everything else stalled, and we started to have 10,000 followers very quickly. And each article can reach more than 6,000 readings, and at that time, some people said that we swiped traffic, saying that the normal open rate is 10%. But it's useless to have a high open rate, the user base is not growing much, and other platforms can't lead traffic. At that time, I tried all methods, but the social platform had already passed the bonus period, and it just didn't increase fans. I heard from the big numbers and big Vs I know that if you send out one article, you can increase tens of thousands of fans, but now it doesn't work. The angel round of financing was not very smooth, and many companies in the private business park were liquidated at that time, although they were basically O2O companies, but they were also quite panicked. Later, there was a death list of O2O companies, and we didn't dare to read it, for fear that two months later, there would be a death list of content companies, and we were in it. Later, I learned that this is called the capital winter. ”

"We couldn't make any money, we couldn't get investment, so we opened all the employees, so we left three partners, and the three of us had a meeting and decided to save some money for the rest of the money. Like all start-ups that are running out of capital, we all cut our salaries and sublet out the big office in the private business park, renting a two-room house nearby, where we both worked. They draw, I write scripts, and the rest of the time is just going out and talking about financing. We did the math, and as far as the two of us were concerned, the money would be spent until the end of 2016. Entrepreneurship is particularly easy to get angry, and when there are more than a dozen ulcers in the mouth, I dare not open my mouth to laugh. When I smiled, I felt the little mouth inside laughing, and it hurt, painful and disgusting. ”

I asked him why he still insisted on starting a business at this point.

Li Kai is very firm: "There must be a way out for content entrepreneurship, you look at Pap some time ago."

ika, didn't you also do it against the cold winter of capital? ”

I asked how to solve the problem of that money?

He said: "There is no good way, everyone is the same, just keep meeting investors!" "After asking a few questions, I finally led Li Kai's words to investors.

"During that time, I was like a mad dog, meeting with investors and investment institutions non-stop, an average of four a day. Sell 40% or even 50% of the equity, and no one wants to invest in us. Once, I followed the investor who invested in our seed capital, and mixed in with an investor's dinner. He said that the people who came to the gathering this time were all insiders, including investors in the content industry, founders of cross-border incubators, and investors in the transformation of real estate tyrants, so I could seize the opportunity and strive to get an angel investment. I know what he means, but he just doesn't want the hundreds of thousands of seed funds he invested to go down the drain. ”

"During dinner, I was chatting with my buddy to my right, who said that he was an undergraduate at Stanford University, interned at Apple, met Steve Jobs alive, worked on iOS with Jobs, and then went to Google, in the big search group. After returning to China, he joined Tencent and developed WeChat with Zhang Xiaolong's team. Then he started his own business, and after he didn't make a project, he came to make a fund, raised 50 million US dollars, and is now a partner of XX Capital, I won't say what his name is, he has the same name as a star. ”

The investor Li Kai said has the same name as a star, and the investor who happened to be pushed off the subway by him also has the same name as a star. But I didn't interrupt Li Kai and listened to him continue.

"I wanted to take the chance, so I quickly told him about our comics. After listening to this, he was very interested, and dragged me out to chat every day, saying that he intended to invest angel funds in me, asking for 25% of the equity, and giving me 4.5 million yuan. He also introduced me to some other angel investors, saying that they could invest together with several companies, and each person could invest a little to diversify the risk. ”

"But as long as he comes to me, he just clubs to eat and sing K, and I spend money most of the time - I can't let investors spend money, what if he doesn't want to invest in me? Even he had two ***, all of which I spent money. The savings of the past few years in Yan City were basically spent during that time. At that time, my girlfriend called me and said that the shampoo at home was gone, and asked me to buy a bottle, but I had no money to buy it, so I had to ask her to transfer money to buy it for me. Later, I couldn't stand it, so I asked him to give me a letter of approval, when to vote, I changed the PPT five versions. He said soon, and then he couldn't get in touch. I looked for him for a week and then gave up. Later, I heard that there was a beast in the investor circle, and every day the entrepreneurs were tricked around, cheating and cheating. I inquired closely, and sure enough, it was him. He's a liar. Not only entrepreneurs, but also investors have been deceived by him, and he has managed many people who have borrowed money and have not repaid it. ”

Employee resume fraud, missed the bonus period of the content platform, caught up with the capital winter, and encountered animal investors, I asked Li Kai This entrepreneurial experience is legendary, right?

Li Kai shook his head: "This is a normal experience, there are many such things in the entrepreneurial circle." It is said that the most insightful thing is entrepreneurship, anyone can see it, and everything can be met. ”

I asked Li Kai, is it common for entrepreneurs to deliberately murder? He looked up and asked me what I meant.

I said, "I met the guy you pushed off the subway yesterday. He's an investor, he's about the same age and looks like the one you described to me, and he's the same name as a celebrity. Can I speculate that the investor who deceived you is the one who was pushed off the subway by you. You follow and question the other person, who becomes angry and spits at your feet – and you push them off the subway in a moment of excitement. ”

Li Kai's expression was very strange after hearing this: "That person is an investor?" Your imagination is too rich, and he's not the guy I'm talking about. If you go to the investment circle, you will know who the person I am talking about. ”

Since Li Kai said so, he must not be afraid of me to investigate. But I still don't believe that just because the other party spitting on the ground can push a person I don't know to the railroad tracks.

Li Kai handed me a cigarette: "I went home that day, and when I was waiting for the bus, someone cut the queue in front of me, I couldn't get used to it, and asked him why he cut the line, and the person came over and beat me with a scolding scolding." I also held back the fire in my heart for a long time, so I started with him. The two of us fought at the bus stop, and both of us were bloodied, but no one was there to dissuade us. It wasn't until the bus had gone twice that we both got so tired that we didn't stop until we were tired. ”

Bus stop at night

"I can't tell you how I felt at the time, but it was very uncomfortable. When I came home with a blue nose and swollen face, I remembered how tired I was when the two of us lived together, and I remembered that my dad didn't even want to talk to me, which made it even more uncomfortable, and I cried when I washed my face that day. Then I remembered that I was going to Dongcheng to meet an investment institution, and they had the intention of investing in me, so I quickly put on my clothes and rushed there. While waiting for the subway, the person standing next to me spat on the ground, right in front of me, and I was so angry that I reached out and pushed him down. ”

I smoked with him in silence for a while, and asked him what happened to his girlfriend before returning to his hometown.

Li Kai frowned, extinguished the cigarette, and opened his mouth: "There was a shrew who brought a bunch of people to the 4S store where she worked, beat her and picked her clothes, saying that she was a junior. But in fact, she recognized the wrong person, and it was a colleague of hers who was the junior. After the police mediated, the family lost some money and wrote an apology. But she felt that she couldn't get along in Yan City, so she went back. ”

I said, "What was your reaction at that time, do you believe that she is not a junior?" ”

He lowered his head and lit another cigarette: "I was too busy with work to tell what was going on. "I began to question my own speculation. This series of blows and tribulations can completely make a normal person do irrational things - such as pushing people off the subway, and there are no other clues, I am going to close the case.

After I came out, I called Zhou Yong to tell why Li Kai's girlfriend left Yan City after being beaten. Zhou Yong's curiosity was satisfied, and he said, "Cut, when I encountered this, I was still suspected by my boyfriend, no wonder I left." But it's not all to blame that buddy, everyone has to think about it! ”

At this point, I began to go home to sort out Li Kai's story and prepare to sell it for a good price. When I was tidying up, Lawyer Bao called me and asked me how I was talking with Li Kai, and I told him about it.

Lawyer Bao sighed with emotion after hearing this: "It seems that this young man is still good, but he is impulsive, and it is estimated that in the end, he will be punished lightly for the crime of intentional injury, and he is likely to be suspended." A guy who started a company with him called me today to ask me how he was doing, and if he was in good shape. I'll submit these things to the court for a suspended sentence. ”

With the mentality of giving it a final try, my lawyer asked for the phone number of Li Kai's partner, and then called him, in order to verify what Li Kai said. However, all the words Li Kai said were right.

When I hung up the phone, I wished them a speedy success in fundraising. He asked me strangely: "We have successfully raised funds, and he didn't tell you the agreement signed on the morning of Li Kai's push?" ”

I asked him who was going to talk, and he said that he and Li Kai were going to talk. The location is the same as what Li Kai told me. In other words, Li Kai and I lied. Everything else is true, only this one is a lie, so I don't feel any loopholes at all. He didn't need to go to the investor, he deliberately followed the person and pushed the person off the subway.

The reason why he agreed to talk to me was because he was confident that his motives would not be discovered, and after I investigated, I could help him testify that he did not have a tendency to intentionally hurt others.

At this time, Zhou Yong called: "Brother Xu, I seem to have found the 4S store where Li Kai's girlfriend works, a little south of the Xingyunqiao subway station, and the monthly salary plus commission of several of their employees is about 7,000 yuan." "I hurried to this 4S store and asked the staff in the store if anyone had ever come to this store to play the junior. He said yes. I asked if there was a video. He said that on the day of the beating, the employees in the store went up to help pull it, and no one recorded the video. But when the family came to apologize, they recorded a video, and he had it on his phone.

After that, he opened the video and showed it to me. A couple was apologizing to a girl in 4S shop overalls, saying that she had wronged the wrong person, and I looked at my husband's face - he was the one I went to see that day and was pushed off the subway by Li Kai.

[1]

A small comic strip, a small comic, is a new comic genre derived from a four-panel comic, which is a horizontal or vertical comic with no limit on the number of grids.

[2]

"Cosmetic Liquid", a comic work by Korean cartoonist Oh Seong-ho.