Take the subway to the bus station, then take a bus from the bus station to enter the county, and then take a van from the county seat back to the hometown village.

Li's village is not a big village, it is not particularly remote, and it is not the kind of village located in the deep mountains and old forests. However, the village is indeed built on the mountain, and there are many fruit planting areas such as fruit orchards contracted by the villagers, clear springs and flowing water fish ponds, and ancestral graves for generations.

The life of the people in the village is not bad, and many families live in small buildings and courtyards with two or three floors, and Li's family is one of them. And those old houses are now being demolished and rebuilt one by one. It's just that there are very few young people in the village, and most of the young people like to go out to work, so Li Ben walked on a familiar route, but what he saw were middle-aged and elderly people with unfamiliar street scenes and leisurely lives.

When he returned home, it was past dinner time and he had exchanged a few words with his parents. When they asked why they came back, Li Ben only said that he planned to rest for a few days and find some friends from the past to play with, so he went back to his room on the second floor to rest.

Before returning home, he went out of his way to buy several home surveillance cameras and installed them in various corners of the house during this time to capture evidence.

Of course, it is not enough to expect the person behind the scenes to take the initiative to expose himself, and it can be known from the previous cautious and unobtrusive mode of action that he or they are people with planning and rational guidance.

The next day, Li Ben went out early, he did not plan to wander around the village aimlessly, but left by car again, he was going to the prison where Su Xiaochuan was held to find him for questioning.

Except for relatives and guardians, according to the regulations, no one else is allowed to visit the prison at will. However, Li Ben had already entrusted Chen Yan to make a connection, and made an appointment through the back door to meet today.

Su Xiaochuan didn't know that someone would come to look for him today, but he was just called by the prison guards, and when he saw Li Ben, his expression looked a little nervous and unnatural.

Li Ben asked him straight to the point: "Have you instructed your friends or anyone else to harass and intimidate me?"

Su Xiaochuan's answer was naturally no, he said: "Brother, where do I really have that ability, don't wronged me, I have changed my past mistakes and changed my mind, I am 10,000 sorry for what happened before, even I can't compensate you now, when it comes out one day, I will definitely compensate you if I have the opportunity, really." ”

What purpose he said this, Li Ben didn't know, whether it was because of his sincerity, or because he was worried about the relationship behind Li Ben, these were not Li Ben's concerns.

He asked Su Xiaochuan again: "Who do you think might do this?"

"Uh... I want to think about it..."Su Xiaochuan pondered for a while, and said: "It's really not, I really don't think anyone will think of standing up for me, you should also know that it is said to be friends, but in fact, it is just a group of gangsters who are mixed together because of interests, where are there any real brothers." ”

"Think again. Li Ben asked expressionlessly.

"This..."Su Xiaochuan looked very embarrassed.

"Don't stick to people you have a relationship with. ”

"If that's it, it can have something to do with you... Ah..."Su Xiaochuan thought of something, he said: "That, the one who was hit by a car and finally died in your hospital, the one I called my godfather, he has a young son, he is mentally ill, before I was arrested, he just came out of the hospital, said that he was back to normal, and he came to me to ask about his father, could it be that he was stimulated and sick again?"

"Got it. Li Ben nodded to the prison guard, and the prison guard took Su Xiaochuan back to work.

After leaving the prison, Li Ben, who got clues, already had a clear direction of investigation. He called Chen Yan and asked him to find another relationship and inquire about the recent situation of the driver who hit the person.

"I know that man is driving normally, he is not responsible, and in the end he only lost some money. ”

"I wonder how he's doing. ”

"This is a bit troublesome, I'm not omnipotent here, maybe I really want to find some private investigators to help, their relationship network is much more complicated than mine, I'll find it for you." ”

"Good. ”

After a while, Chen Yan sent a text message, which was the contact information of the private detective, Chen Yan said that he had negotiated the price, and he would pay after the incident, and Li Ben only needed to hand over the specific information and requirements to the person.

I went back and waited for a day, and the news came from the private detective.

The driver had died last month, and the police judged it to be a suicide. The exact cause is unknown. The deceased had no obvious reason to commit suicide, had no debts, no signs of depression, had a wife and daughter at home, and although his life was not particularly wealthy, it was not difficult.

"Suicide... Is it just a coincidence?" With this question in mind, Li Ben asked the private investigator to inquire about the family of the deceased in the car accident, especially their youngest son, who had a mental record.

After explaining this, Li Ben rested at home, sorted out the investigation ideas, and carefully checked the surveillance video. Although there has been nothing at home for the past two days, if the people behind the scenes have not given up, they may wander around his house and leave some clues.

"It's a really bad feeling. "Worried all day long, Li Ben tossed and turned at night, and it was difficult to sleep.

"Bang!" a loud sound of glass breaking woke up Li Ben's parents.

The lights came on, and Li Ben and his parents gathered on the first floor.

What was broken was the window of the kitchen on the first floor, and a palm-sized stone fell to the ground in the room.

"Ben, you really didn't cause anything, did you? It's nothing that he's been smashing glass, and we're most worried about you. ”

"I'm just a doctor, how can I offend anyone... I'll figure this out, so go and rest first. ”

No one slept that night.

Li Ben immediately checked the surveillance, only to see a stone flying from outside the screen and hitting the window, but he couldn't see the suspect. It stands to reason that one surveillance can't be captured, and the other at an angle to it should be able to record key information, but the surveillance video inexplicably appeared a short snowflake screen, and it happened to be the time period when the window was smashed.

Sitting alone in front of the computer, with no other lights on in the room, Li Ben sat on the chair and watched the snowflake screen screen that was repeated in the computer.

How does this work? Powerful signal jammers? If that's the case, it's not just this one camera that's being interfered with. And the man must have known that he had secretly installed a camera in his home, so what was going on?

Thinking of this, Li Ben felt a chill down his spine.

At five o'clock in the morning, Li Ben received a message from a private detective.

It was found that in the past month or two, the living conditions of that family were very normal, and nothing particularly significant had happened, and the specific details of life, the private detective did not have the ability to go back to time and space, so naturally there was none.

However, about their youngest son, Zhu Hancheng, since he was discharged from the hospital, he has been staying at home and rarely comes out to walk around, what he can ask is that one day on the death day of their grandmother, someone saw him buy sacrificial supplies in the incense and candle shop.

"Can you find Zhu Hancheng's mental illness?"

"I can help you make some connections, but you have to go to the courtyard to see it yourself. ”

"Yes. By the way, send me the address of the incense and candle shop he went to. ”

Li Ben first went to the city's psychiatric hospital to read the materials.

"Schizophrenia, visual hallucinations, delusions..."

"The patient claims to be an exorcist, has yin and yang eyes, can see and communicate with all kinds of ghosts, and has a serious tendency to violence......"

Flip to the psychiatric evaluation report before he was discharged from the hospital.

"The patient has been behaving normally for a year, has no more gibberish and visual hallucinations in a series of guided stimulation tests, is able to communicate with people normally, jokes, has clear logic, and is able to recognize his own situation......"

Immediately afterwards, Li Ben came to the village of the deceased in the car accident, went around the incense candle shop, and chatted with the shopkeeper.

When asked about Zhu Hancheng, the shopkeeper said: "He, when he was a child, he lost it when he was turning around in the mountains, and the whole village searched the mountains for two days before he found him, and when he came back, he started talking nonsense." The older generation of people said that he was evil, and the Taoist monks invited him again, but they didn't see it well. Later, after a while, he himself returned to normal, and everyone thought that this was the end of the matter. ”

"When he was eighteen years old, he was fighting with people outside, and he went crazy, biting off other people's ears, holding him down and sending him to the police station, pretending to be crazy and stupid. I thought he was really stupid? He just wanted to get away with it, so he went back and sent a psychiatric evaluation, pretended to be quite similar, fooled the doctor, and stayed in it for three years. He only came out some time ago, and he didn't dare to cause trouble, so he just stayed at home obediently. ”

After learning this, Li Ben already planned to give up pursuing this clue in his heart, and judging from the current news, the possibility that Zhu Hancheng was the mastermind behind the scenes was really small.

First, he hadn't been out of the village much, and second, he didn't have enough money to hire someone to cause trouble, which was enough to eliminate him from the list of suspects.

However, in this way, Li Ben's investigation returned to the original point, who did it, and what was the purpose? He still did not know.

"Time is running out. "If I can't find a breakthrough, I'll have to go back to work.

Next, the only one who can become an investigation point is the driver.

Li Ben obtained the driver's home address from a private detective, obtained a fake police card from him, and planned to go there the next day to inquire about the situation.

That night, Li thought that after such a long time of running, he would be very tired, but he still suffered from insomnia. Since he couldn't sleep, he turned on the surveillance video again and watched the records up and down the sky when the glass of his house was smashed absentmindedly.

He was bored scrolling through the circle of friends, and found that Chen Yan, who had to post about the existence of the brush almost every day, had not published news for a week.

That's what happened to me... Li Ben thought.

At this moment, he looked up at the computer, intentionally or unintentionally, and out of the corner of his eye, he seemed to catch a glimpse of a blurry figure flashing in front of the screen.

Pressing the pause button, he rewinds the play and finds nothing.

Did you read it wrong?

He imported the video into Pr, looked at it frame by frame, and was shocked to see a faint and almost transparent figure disappear from one of the frames of the video.

It was a vague man, and the picture made Li Ben tremble.

He opened the photo sent by the private detective on his mobile phone, and judging from the outline, the man in the picture was very similar to Zhu Hancheng.

"Chirp Chirp !!" The electric car parked in the yard suddenly sounded an alarm.

Li Ben seemed to think of something, and suddenly turned around.