Chapter 11: Inference
From the above analysis alone, regardless of whether Li He can do it or not, it is a bit unreasonable to just analyze her motives for doing so.
With my understanding of Li He, I know what she is thinking with every look and every gesture she raises.
The two of us can be regarded as the typical two little guesses and childhood sweethearts, from the days when they played with mud together in open crotch pants, to all kinds of things later, she trusted me even more than herself.
So she won't leave me for no reason, and she won't try to avoid me.
As it stands, I'd rather believe that she was coerced, that something must have forced her to do so.
Suddenly, I suddenly remembered her eyes by the bay window, full of reluctance and helplessness, and the love hidden in my heart, all of which showed that she had no motive or conditions to do so.
When my thoughts came to this, I recalled a detail that Sister Juan had said, she said that Li He complained to her that I had been suspicious recently.
Although I can't reproduce the scene when Li He found Sister Juan to speak, I can find two very contradictory problems from this detail:
1. Li He came to talk to Sister Juan in the form of complaints. But Sister Juan didn't seem to have a deep impression of Li He's expression and tone at that time, just like that kind of homely complaint, which was completely inconsistent with the look Li He had when he disappeared.
Second, the content of Li He's complaint is even more contradictory, and he complained to Sister Juan that I was suspicious. It's like saying that she lives with me, and then she looks at me every day looking for her, and thinks I'm suspicious. Imagine this kind of scene, Li He is clearly in the house, and I am still looking for her! If this is true, then I'm not just paranoid, I'm completely insane.
Thinking of this, I began to doubt my mental state a little, so I pinched my eyebrows vigorously, stood up and walked around the room again, looking at this house that had not been cleaned for a long time, I could be sure that I was not crazy.
I carefully pondered these two contradictions, and found that they were still the same, and there was no way to sort out these clues, but I always felt that something was wrong, and this wrong place was the source of the contradiction.
After thinking about it, I couldn't think of it for a while, so my mood became a little impatient at this time.
I pounded my head vigorously, and after recognizing my terrible state at the moment, I decided to wash my face and sober myself up.
When I walked into the bathroom, I saw that there was another thing on the sink, which was a watch.
I hurriedly pulled a tissue, carefully wrapped one end of the bracelet to prevent my fingerprints from sticking to it, and then pinched the bracelet and looked at it carefully.
This is an old-fashioned Shanghai mechanical watch, turned over the back, it is in steel stamp font, and there is nothing out of the ordinary.
I looked at the bracelet again, it was the kind of domestic bracelet that was common in the seventies and eighties, the kind with a zoom function, and the circumference of the bracelet was very small.
Then it became clear that it was a women's watch.
Because watches of that era were different from modern watches, it was not possible to tell whether they were male or female by the size of the dial, but vintage watches could be distinguished by the circumference of the bracelet.
By now, there have been three things that have appeared inexplicably: long hair, lipstick, and old-fashioned women's watches.
In general, what do these three things, combined with the ghosts that are always unclear in the house, usually conjure up with them?
A woman, a woman who does not belong to our time, who has been wandering in this room and making you feel her presence, but making you never find her, so, more accurately, she is a female ghost.
But for me, the appearance of these three things immediately made me think of a technical term - aggressive psychological suggestion, also known as malicious hypnosis.
Although it is not as exaggerated as it appears in the movies, in real life, it is ubiquitous.
It makes use of the conditioned reflexes of humans on a psychological level.
We all know the knee jerk response, which is a conditioning on a physiological level, and a conditioning reflex on a psychological level is almost the same.
As a very simple example, someone pretends to hit you in the eye, but it doesn't, but you still close or blink uncontrollably.
This is a kind of self-preservation instinct that human beings have gradually formed in the process of evolution.
Aggressive psychological suggestion is actually to use this instinctive characteristic, constantly provoking your nerves through some subtle actions, making your psychological defense line collapse, and finally follow the direction guided by the "aggressor".
So, when I saw this woman's watch, I was not as nervous as I was when I first saw the lipstick, but I felt a little lucky.
Because the more this kind of thing appears, the better it is for me, and I can rely on these things to put together the threads and figure out the whole thing.
As before, I found a crisper bag, put my watch away, and put it in the freezer of the fridge with my lipstick.
Just when I closed the refrigerator door and turned around, a question suddenly came to mind, that is, about the time when Sister Juan met Li He.
Sister Juan said that she met Li He at about two or three o'clock in the afternoon three days ago, that is, it happened during the time when I was not at home. Recently, I've been basically at home in a daze, and when I go out, it's one to two hours, why is the time so coincidental?
Could it be that Li He came back while I was not at home? How did she know I wasn't at home at that time?
So, here's the key point, who will know that I am not at home at that time?
Sister Juan?
Right!
Only she will know, because she is a housewife, she is always at home, and she lives downstairs from us.
And the contradiction that I have been unable to figure out before, when I got here, I suddenly had a very clear idea, that is, Sister Juan was lying.
If the premise of these contradictions is that Sister Juan is lying, then everything is easy to explain. And in order to make this lie seem more realistic, she made up a time period in my absence, so that I could not distinguish the truth from the false, and finally I had to choose to believe it!
Moreover, Sister Juan can't describe the specific details three days ago in great detail, just because this lie is not satisfactory.
Of course, she can't be blamed for this, because she doesn't know what Li He's mental state was like when she disappeared.
There is also the sentence that I thought Sister Juan was joking with me, she said that Li He went to a place I couldn't find, it seems that this is not a joke, but she knows where Li He went!
So, where did Li He end up?
It seems that there is only one place to go!