Ge Yumei is even more difficult than expected.

First of all, she is beautiful, her sunken eye sockets and narrow jaw converge on her snow-white little face, which looks a little bitter, but it shows a kind of beautiful beauty. She was much younger than her actual age, and it was hard to imagine that she would be the mother of a twenty-year-old boy if it weren't for the faint silver strands in her bun.

"You boys are quite young, and you haven't started a family yet, have you? You don't have children yet, but when you have children yourself, you'll understand me. She was half-holding a bag of tears, her voice trembled, but she was not in order, and at first glance she was a woman who had crawled and fought in society, and she knew best how to retreat as advance. Wang Shiqi saw that Xu Ye, who was in charge of recording the confession, was not calling his sister or calling his sister, so he almost handed over the tissue in person, couldn't help but snort in his mouth, and dialed a phone call to go in: "Come out, don't be ashamed, you can't be hungry if you don't have a partner." ”

"If you have a mouth, you can't come."

This was right in the middle, and two minutes later, Wang Shiqi had already sat opposite Ge Yumei. As soon as his buttocks touched the cushion, he had a bottom in his eyes - this woman is not simple.

The gesture of facing Xu Ye's beauty just now was instantly retracted, with tears of no money. She sat up straight, the shoulder line was elegantly and neatly extended, and finally ended on the tips of her well-maintained fingers, her posture was generous and full of style, and in a trance, Wang Shiqi thought that she had seen her own mother. - This trick is very powerful to see a man put on the plate. Wang Shiqi sighed in his heart, and his mouth was still very steady: "Don't beat around the bush, Ms. Ge, you haven't explained clearly, why has your only son been missing for so long, but you are reluctant to call the police in your busy schedule, opening a hospital really makes you want to stop?" ”

"That's not what I said, Officer Wang," she sighed faintly: "A single woman is outside, and I am the only one to support my family, and there is no way to be busy with work." But I don't call the police, not for this. ”

In Ge Yumei's mouth, Xie Li is a different look.

Rebellious since childhood, difficult to discipline, the broom has been torn off several without shedding tears, and he can still stand with a smile and squint at you. "It's my responsibility, his father went early, and there was no one at home to help, leaving me alone to earn money to support the family, and I was afraid that I would owe him, so I would give whatever I wanted, so I just raised my temper."

After that, Ge Yumei learned from the pain, but delved into a set of educational experience, strict, militarized, to say the same, in a word, is to let children "abide by the rules". She graduated from her own health school, contracted an abandoned nursing home, and turned it into a "growth center", focusing on behavior modification, from Internet addiction and early love, to disobedience and autism, as long as she is sent in for deep learning, at least six months and more than one or two years, to ensure that she is obedient and obedient.

Xie Li naturally bore the brunt of the new growth center and became the first batch of students in the freshman growth center, which is said to have achieved remarkable results, and once became a living advertisement for the center. "Even the dean's son is inside, so it's not going to be bad, right?" Batch after batch of parents sent the "problem teenager" in the family with the heart of Jackie Chan, the income is getting higher and higher, and the business is getting bigger and bigger, she started a national lecture tour to share experience, who knows that at this juncture, her son has an accident.

Before, she would take Xie Li on business trips from time to time, so no one paid attention to this disappearance, and it wasn't until the third day that the secretary called her, when she had just finished the business negotiations in the city next door, and on the way back, she was so anxious that she had a heart attack. "The Communist Party is just such a son, who can feel more distressed than me for a piece of meat that fell from my body?" The blackmail call came quickly, and she was afraid of tearing up the ticket, so she only thought that her money was being targeted, and she planned to break the bank and avoid disaster. "The man asked me to personally take the money to the abandoned steel factory on the outskirts of the city to redeem people, but I was so sick that I couldn't even walk, so I asked the secretary to put the money away, a total of 80,000 yuan, and the old money I specially took was not numbered."

Wang Shiqi tilted his head: "Oh? As far as I know, you have four or five hospital chains now, and they were not much worse five years ago, right? That's it? ”

"How do I know. I'll give as much as people want, maybe I've never seen a lot of money? Ge Yumei raised her eyes: "Are you doubting me?" ”

"No, I feel suspicious, just ask normally." Wang Shiqi smirked: "You want this time?" Didn't contact you again? ”

"No, it was a ransom note sent to the center's mailbox, and it is still kept, you can see it with your own eyes." Ge Yumei took out a yellowed envelope and slapped it on the table, Wang Shiqi didn't expect this, he hurriedly swept it, the date of the postmark and the year of the stamp were probably correct, not quite like something fake. "Okay, this is important evidence, and we'll keep it for further testing, but I still have a question," he crossed his fingers, his eyes staring at the other man like an eagle, and he felt that it was time to throw out the killer idea:

"The previous reunion of mother and son was quite touching, and you have always emphasized that you value your only child very much, but why do I think there is still a contradiction in the middle? You see, I also turned around at the grassroots level, the chickens and dogs in the police station are broken, ordinary people have to call the police if they lose a cat or a dog at home, the funniest thing is a brother, the old man's turtle is lost, it is said that it is worth the money of the old and the young, and people are indispensable to pull their trousers and go to the drainage ditch to fish......"

Ge Yumei heard something in his words: "Officer, are you hinting at something?" ”

Wang Shiqi smiled: "Look at what you said, do I still need a hint?" You've lost a big living person, and you've been missing for five years, so why can't you find any police records? ”

Ge Yumei took a deep breath: "I didn't call the police." But I've hired the best private investigators, I've contacted all the local connections that I can use, I've spent a lot of money, and I've always had hundreds of thousands, and you can investigate all of this, I-"

"The shortest straight line between two points is that you have to do things in a full circle around the earth, which hardly makes me suspicious." Wang Shiqi pressed step by step: "I'll just say it directly, you insist on not calling the police, do you have a ghost in your heart?" ”

Ge Yumei's well-maintained face didn't show a trace of fluctuation, only Wang Shiqi thought about the slight trembling of her eyes: "It's not as unbearable as you think." I am the dean, so many parents' children are studying in our hospital, how many pairs of eyes are staring at me, if it is spread that my own son is not controlled, will anyone trust here in the future? ”

"Your son was kidnapped and didn't leave on his own initiative, what do you have to worry about?"

"Don't you understand, officer?" Her thin white fingers gently slammed into the tabletop: "I was ...... You just thought I was confused for a while, I thought he had run away by himself. ”

Wang Shiqi was surprised: "Do you think he ran away from home?" ”

"The letter is so poorly written, and I asked for such a little money, how do I look like someone who specializes in this, if I really call the police, and find out that he directed and acted by himself, ran away from home, and lied, how else would I be a person?" Ge Yumei's voice rose for the first time: "Besides, what's the use of looking for the police, I don't know your routines, it's easy to talk about the powerful and powerful, if something happens to a flat-headed ordinary person, you don't care about it!" ”

Wang Shiqi's eyelids jumped: "What are you talking about!" ”

"Am I wrong? In the 1992 car accident in Lianhua Town, you go to investigate, how did my husband Xie Qin die, how did you police careless of people's lives, if it weren't for you, I would have been working outside day and night to make money, and my son would have become like that when no one cared about it? My son has been kidnapped for five years, and you are still trying me as a prisoner today, do you still have a conscience? ”

Wang Shiqi's evil fire burned up as soon as it struck, and he was about to slap the table and shout, when Xu Ye stretched out his neck and inserted it: "Interrupt, boss, there is a new situation." ”

Wang Shiqi came out with a tiger face, and Cheng Nuo was looking for him with a stack of photos.

"The results of the identification came out, and Gu Tianqing matched more than 99% of the fingerprints left at at least three scenes, namely Sun Zhijun, his parents, and his own death scene."

"What about the first four?"

"At that time, the case was closed by suicide, and it was suspected that the suspect was wearing gloves to cover up the traces when committing the crime, and no fingerprints were found for the time being, but there are still other clues to contact - the tranquilizer detected in Tian Yu's body is the same as the ingredient provided by Meng Xue to Gu Tianqing, and Hu Liqin's autopsy also found the same paragraph, thanks to your troubled little friend, although the first few victims have been burned, they have all applied for blood sample testing, and they have been queuing up at the identification center, and now all the channels are given priority, if the confession is not false, It was only a matter of time before the correlation was discovered. ”

Contacting Xie Li's testimony, the merger is almost a certainty. Wang Shiqi thought for a moment and asked, "Why did you emphasize his own death scene just now?" It's strange that there aren't any fingerprints for him, right? ”

"It's not as strange as his fingerprints, only his fingerprints are weird." Cheng Nuo showed him the autopsy report: "The cause of death was suffocation and hemorrhage caused by a puncture wound to the lungs, and he was the only fingerprint on the handle of the boning knife used as a murder weapon." Xie Li's fingerprints are there, but they are all on the knife body. In addition, his blood test also detected tranquilizers, and it is reasonable to suspect that he wanted to stop Gu Tianqing's actions at that time, but he was not strong enough. ”

Wang Shiqi raised his eyebrows: "What do you mean ......?"

"I mean, Gu Tianqing committed suicide."

***

"He suddenly picked up the knife and I wanted to stop him, but ...... It's too late...... It's too late......" In the next room, Xie Li's weak shoulders trembled, "I'm sorry...... Sorry ......"

"Don't get excited, it's not your fault." The little policeman who was in charge of recording the confession was a little panicked, and couldn't help but turn his head to look at the corner - that's Team Wang - ah can't be called Team Wang - Wang, Wang, Brother Wang arranged to let the man who was sitting and listening, he was a little thin and out of phase, looking sharp and angular, but his face was still quite gentle, his eyelashes like a small fan trembled, his calm eyes followed the projection, and his voice was soft, with a little local accent: "Don't be afraid, even if he doesn't commit suicide, he will have to pay the price for what he did, so many lives in his hands, The law will also sentence him to death. ”

His voice seemed to have a soothing power, and Xie Li sobbed and calmed down. In the next testimony, he restored the last night with the serial murderer and kidnapper Gu Tianqing:

On June 20, the sky was cloudy and rainy.

Gu Tianqing's opening time is becoming more and more irregular - according to the past, every two days he would come in on time to bring him something to eat, let him clean up the garbage and take it out, and from time to time he stared at him to go to the toilet to take a shower, but in the last half a month, he seemed to have changed as a person, and the clock that was running again and again seemed to be broken.

Sometimes he came in three times a day, his eyes looked chaotic, his hair was messy, his shirt was drooping outside, he fell asleep when he fell beside him, and sometimes he didn't open the door for days, as if he had completely forgotten that he existed. He cried and shouted, but no one paid attention to him. One day, he even noticed that he had brought a woman home, and even the sound of laughter through the iron door was very noisy, but he was starving in the secret room, so weak that he could not even scream.

At one point, he felt that he was going to die here - Gu Tianqing finally made up his mind to abandon him and let him spend his last breath in this cement coffin. But just when he almost gave up, Gu Tianqing came back, he untied his shackles, and said that he would take him away.

"Let's go," he said, "I'll take you out of here and never come back." ”

"Did he have any agreements or assurances with you?" The little policeman asked, "You didn't doubt why he took you away?" ”

"What's the use of me wondering?" Xie Li said faintly: "My life and death are already in his hands, and it is the same to kill me in another place." ”

"You didn't think about running away? Or take the opportunity to call for help? The little policeman flipped through the records at hand: "According to the investigation, Gu Tianqing rented a second-hand Nissan with a fake ID card and drove all the way along the national highway to Phoenix Ridge, during which there were at least twelve hours, what are you doing?" ”

"Look at the scenery."

“？！ You repeat? ”

"Look at the scenery."

"It's all this time......"

"I haven't seen the outside in five years, not a glance." Xie Li shrunk in the uncomfortable chair, as if he was going to tuck his whole body into the gap between the armrests. "This is the first time I've seen buildings, trees, and people...... I, I can't see it. He narrowed his eyes and took a deep breath, as if he had gone back to that day, the window rolled down a small slit, and he leaned over to breathe greedily mixed with the smell of dust, exhaust, and vegetative smell, which was the smell of freedom. He knew that their fate would come to an end in a few hours, but that didn't matter, at least for that second, he was free, they were all free.

"You still haven't explained why you didn't call for help."

"I ...... No, I don't dare. Xie Li's voice was filled with hesitation and fear, as if he was always on guard against a beast from any corner: "He will beat me, the first time I want to run, he will beat me......"

His trembling fingers reached up and unconsciously stroked the corner of his forehead, where there was an old whitened scar that presumably came from the brass buckle belt. Zheng Yuan felt a little unbearable in his heart - he guessed correctly, as a hostage, this boy had been completely domesticated, and in five years, he had completely converted to the kidnappers from body to mind, and the hardships he had to endure for this were probably much more than he could say.

"Later, he told me that I was also his accomplice, and that I just ran away and called the police, and the police would think that I had done it." His eyes were red: "He, he took my fingerprints, and every time he kills someone, he leaves a ...... at the scene"

The mirror, the halterhead, the raincoat, and the goblet correspond to Fan Jianguo's towel rack, Qian Pengyun's bathroom, Fu Yan's dress, and Meng Xue's last red wine. Zheng Yuan remained silent, and had already sent a message to Wang Shiqi in his hand, asking him to find someone to extract evidence again. If the situation is true, then it is reasonable for Xie Li to be locked up by him for five years.

"Next question, why did he take you to Phoenix Ridge?"

"Actually...... Gu Tianqing is not so bad sometimes...... He cares about me. ”

"He's a kidnapper, are you a hostage, or is he the object of revenge, why should he care about you?"

"I don't know, maybe ...... It's because of loneliness. After all, I was the only one in the world who knew what he was doing. Xie Liyi sighed: "He also asked me to write a letter, because once, I don't remember when, I was really locked up for too long, it was too uncomfortable, I wanted to kill myself." ”

He couldn't find a sharp instrument, and finally tried his best to break a mineral water bottle that stored water, sharpened the sharp angle of the plastic sheet, and cut it into his wrist little by little. But Gu Tianqing came back early that day, and tried every means to save him again. "It's ridiculous to say, he can't find a doctor, he actually got me a fishing line to stitch up the wound himself, do you know how painful it is? Half of my life was almost gone, and I thought it would be better to die. ”

"Then one day, he came in with a letter paper and a pen, and said that I should write a letter to the newspaper and write about my thoughts, so that it would not be so uncomfortable, haha, you say ridiculous...... Of course, I can only write, write gibberish, and who knows will send it to this reporter. ”

Zheng Yuan's eyelids jumped.

"He also gave me a set of painting tools because I like to draw, and he was in a good mood at the time, probably doing everything he wanted to do. There was no special drawing paper, he found me a discarded advertising poster and cut it, and I drew a picture of a meteor in the valley on the back - I had never seen a meteor, it was all based on imagination, at that time Gu Tianqing told me that he would always take me to see a real meteor, and one day I would ......"

Someday, someday.

When he's done with all his revenge, when he's completely liberated, he'll give him a meteor.

"But on June 20, the Phoenix Ridge stargazing station did not observe a meteor." Zheng Yuan's voice interjected: "The forecast for a week in a row is rainy weather, originally it was a popular tourist attraction in summer, and because of the bad weather in those days, no one went up at all." He tried to put aside his sympathetic empathy, and asked softly:

"Why do you see shooting stars?"

Xie Li was stunned.

Why can I see shooting stars? Because the meteors were there, one after another, from the depths of the universe, splendor pierced the darkness, and the extreme light was imprinted in his pupils, leaving an afterimage that would not be extinguished for a long time. The earth was shaking, the world was overturning, and in the midst of the turmoil there was only one fixed point for him, and it was the man, his warm fingers, his bright smiling face, who turned to look at himself, his hair blown like a flag by the damp wind. He said, "It's better to say goodbye at this time." ”

It was a meteor given to him by Gu Tianqing, a meteor that belonged to him alone.

Xie Li let out a laugh for the first time, getting louder and louder, and finally it became a sharp howl, as if he was about to break through his chest cavity directly, and his whole body bounced up from the chair, the little policeman and his colleagues hurriedly went up and held it, Zheng Yuan saw that the situation was wrong, and rushed over to pull them away: "Quick!" Get out there and get a doctor! ”

"W-What kind of doctor do you have to find for this? Do psychologists work? ”

"Neurology! It's a seizure! Zheng Yuan quickly put him down on the ground, loosened his collar, tilted his head to the side, and grabbed his stiff hands as gently as possible. He now has muscle spasms and can't force it, which can easily lead to fractures and muscle strains - didn't you notice it before? ”

The little policeman said a few words, ran away, and within two seconds, the door was pushed open again, and it was Wang Shiqi who rushed over, and helped clean up the tables and chairs around him with his reproachful eyes: "My fault, I was in too much of a hurry to solve the case, I didn't notice." ”

Zheng Yuan didn't speak, but his expression clearly read, "Are you an animal?" He had no choice but to continue to explain: "Hey, you can't blame me, he had that illness at the scene of the crime, and he has been fine ever since." At the time, I thought it was a stress response, but who knew it would happen...... Ahh

Wang Shiqi's expression was a little embarrassed, Zheng Yuan followed his eyes, and a small puddle of water stains slowly spread under Xie Li's body - he was incontinent.