When I accidentally saw that post, Xia Jinyu was listening to Teacher Huo's lecture in the lecture hall. Originally, this class was about the theft of the portrait of the Mona Lisa, the treasure of the Louvre, which was a topic of great interest to the students, but surprisingly, the students' attention was not attracted by the wonderful class content.

In a very different way, more than half of the students did not attend the class at all. They either lowered their heads and fiddled with their mobile phones, or exchanged words with their classmates, talking a lot, as if they didn't pay attention to the teacher on the podium.

Xia Jinyu felt strange, because Mr. Huo's class has always been the favorite of the students, and even those students who usually skip class, sleep in class, and desert will listen carefully for the first time, but why is today's class as chaotic as a vegetable market?

He turned his head to look at An Ziyang, who was sitting next to him, and was surprised to find that this guy was also playing with his mobile phone with his head down, and the expression on his face was extremely heavy.

Xia Jinyu felt even more curious, and couldn't help but poke An Ziyang with his elbow, and asked in a low voice, "What are you looking at?" Why is his expression so serious? ”

"What?" Due to his excessive concentration, An Ziyang was taken aback by Xia Jinyu. He raised his head suddenly, looked at Xia Jinyu in a daze, and asked, "Did the teacher ask me to answer the question?" What's the problem? ”

"It's not." Xia Jinyu pointed to An Ziyang's mobile phone, "I asked what you were looking at." I think the atmosphere in the classroom today is a bit strange. ”

"Oh......" An Ziyang took a breath and said with that heavy expression again, "I just saw someone retweet a piece of news in the circle of friends, and the things mentioned in the news have something to do with my mother......

"What's the news?" Xia Jinyu asked suspiciously. He didn't have the habit of looking at his phone in class, and of course he didn't know what his classmates' attention was attracted to.

An Ziyang explained to Xia Jinyu: "Just look at the circle of friends, many people are paying attention to this matter. I guess they ......" An Ziyang looked around at the slightly noisy lecture hall and said with a wry smile, "They probably saw this news too, and they didn't have the heart to continue listening to the class." ”

At this moment, Huo Yan is still talking about the aftermath of the theft of the portrait from the podium: "On November 29, 1913, an Italian antique dealer received a letter signed by Leonardo. In the letter, the self-proclaimed Leonardo said that he had a portrait of the Mona Lisa in his possession, and that he had stolen the portrait of the Mona Lisa out of pure patriotism. He could return the portrait of the Mona Lisa to Italy**, but he demanded a large amount of money for his labor......"

Speaking of this, Huo Yan finally couldn't bear the students' listening state. She paused for a moment, frowned and asked, "You don't seem to be very interested in my class today, is it because my lecture is too boring?" ”

The classroom suddenly fell silent, but no one answered Huo Yan's question.

Huo Yan continued: "Students who don't want to listen to the class can leave now, I can't stop you from sleeping in class and playing with your mobile phones, but it's absolutely not okay to talk casually and disrupt the order of the class." It doesn't matter if you don't want to attend the class, but don't disturb those who want to attend the class. After Huo Yan finished speaking, she couldn't help but look towards Xia Jinyu's location.

Xia Jinyu is her favorite student, not one of them. Even if the whole classroom is not listening, Xia Jinyu will listen carefully to her from beginning to end, and can accurately answer every question she asks. But today, even Xia Jinyu was looking down at her phone, and Huo Yan felt that the sun was simply coming out of the west.

"Xia Jinyu." She exclaimed angrily, "Tell me, what is the psychological cause of the crime of theft?" ”

Hearing Huo Yan call his name, Xia Jinyu immediately stood up and replied absentmindedly: "The psychological reasons for the crime of theft are luck psychology, revenge psychology, demand psychology and ......" Xia Jinyu paused for a few seconds, suddenly looked at Huo Yan seriously and said, "Teacher Huo, I think you should take a look at this news, I have already sent it to your mobile phone......"

"Xia Jinyu, it's class time, I'm not in the mood to joke with you."

"Teacher, I'm not kidding you, this matter is ......" Xia Jinyu didn't say the words "related to you" in front of his classmates. Others may not know, but as soon as Xia Jinyu saw the news, she immediately guessed that Teacher Huo must have been involved in the investigation of these cases, otherwise on October 5th, she would not have come to the school with her brother to investigate An Ziyang's alibi.

"Teacher Huo, I think you should really take a look." A girl sitting in the front row was afraid that Xia Jinyu would be embarrassed, so she hurriedly relieved him and said, "The serial murder cases reported in the news are quite terrifying, and they happened around us." If this is true, isn't it dangerous for us? ”

"Have a woolen relationship with us?" As soon as the girl's voice fell, a male classmate immediately picked up the conversation and said, "Doesn't that killer only kill bad guys?" You don't do bad things, what is there to be afraid of. ”

"That's right, the body is not afraid of the shadow, and only those who have ghosts in their hearts should be afraid." Another boy said half-jokingly.

Afterwards, the classmates began to talk about each other, as if Mr. Huo had just assigned them a discussion topic about this news.

Huo Yan was a little helpless, but she couldn't ignore the topics that her classmates were concerned about. She took out her phone from her bag, clicked on the news that her classmates were discussing, and frowned tightly when she saw the eye-catching headline - "Clownfish serial murder case in R City".

She glanced at the content of the news, which reported on the four clownfish murder cases that she had participated in before. Previously, the police had not disclosed the details of the case to the outside world, first, for fear of causing panic, and secondly, for fear that someone would imitate the crime, but now, these cases are no longer a secret.

Huo Yan looked at the time eagerly, there were still more than twenty minutes before class ended, but she couldn't wait to call Xia Shi to ask about the situation on the criminal police team. She called the class leader and Xue*** to temporarily manage discipline, and she left the lecture hall with her mobile phone.

After Huo Yan left, the classroom suddenly became a pot of porridge, and the students who didn't dare to speak loudly just now also let go of their voices.

Xia Jinyu came to An Ziyang's side and asked quietly, "My brother came to the school to look for you last time, is it related to Ma Zhichen's case?" There was no specific information about the victim in the news, but Xia Jinyu read a staggering post in addition to that news (the poster Nemo is probably the legendary clownfish killer). The link to the post was also sent to him by An Ziyang, and the content in it was super violent, super bloody, and even accompanied by photos of the crime scene.

Within a few minutes of reading Xia Jinyu, the post was deleted, and searching for similar information on the Internet was basically impossible to find. Think about it, how could the police allow such a terrible information to spread on the Internet.

An Ziyang did not shy away from Xia Jinyu's question, thought for a while and said: "Ma Zhichen was killed, and my suspicion of committing the crime is the greatest. But during the crime, a group of us were eating at the hot pot restaurant at the school gate, and you can all prove that I am not the murderer. ”

"Of course." Xia Jinyu remembered this incident clearly, but he always felt that something was wrong. "But in the period after your mother's death, you often skipped class, sometimes disappeared without a trace, did you really not do anything to make the police suspicious?"

"I ......" An Ziyang hesitated, he didn't dare to tell Xia Jinyu that he had stalked Ma Zhichen for a while, and even imagined all kinds of ways to kill the other party. Xia Jinyu is his best friend and the only one who knows what he's been through, but that doesn't mean they can talk about everything.

After being silent for a moment, An Ziyang sighed and said, "I was in a bad mood during that time, and I didn't have the heart to go to class, so I skipped class more often." ”

Is it? Xia Jinyu was skeptical, but he still patted An Ziyang's shoulder lightly and said comfortingly: "I understand, I can especially understand the feeling of losing a loved one. ”

An Ziyang showed a wry smile, and then asked Xia Jinyu, "Can you understand the feeling of hating a person?" ”

"Yes, who hasn't hated anyone else when they're so big."

"I mean......" An Ziyang stared ahead with a blurred look, as if he was looking at another world, "I hate a person to the point where I want him to die, and I want to kill him with my own hands......"

"That feeling...... I also understand......" Xia Jinyu narrowed his eyes slightly, trying not to touch the black memory sealed in his heart.

Hates a person so much that he wants to kill him with his own hands, how could Xia Jinyu not understand that feeling, but this does not mean that he agrees with deciding a person's life and death in a way other than the law. Even if that person commits a heinous crime, people have no right to use their personal deeds to deprive others of their lives at will.

Xia Jinyu knew that An Ziyang asked him this question, and the implication was to ask him what he thought about Ma Zhichen's case. In An Ziyang's view, Ma Zhichen undoubtedly deserves it, and he is innocent of death, and the clownfish killer just did something for the heavens, and did what An Ziyang wanted to do but didn't dare to do, but Xia Jinyu never agreed with this kind of violent means of fighting evil with evil.

"Ziyang, we are law students, and we should be more aware of the concept of a legal society. Would you really be grateful to the murderer for killing your enemies for you? Do you think what he's doing is the right thing to do? ”

"I said I was grateful and recognized, will you break off my relationship with me because of this?" An Ziyang smiled, and his self-deprecating expression revealed infinite sadness. "Sometimes the law is not on our weak side, it does not become our umbrella when we are most painful, helpless, and desperate. Sometimes, it protects the rights of the perpetrators more than we victims, so should I continue to believe in the fairness and justice of the law, that it can represent justice, that it can punish the real sinners, and that it can give a reasonable account to the victims and their families? ”

"You're right, our law does still have some loopholes that need to be continuously improved and perfected, but we can't lose confidence in it and deny its existence altogether."

"But the Clownfish Killer has done what we all think is a relief and a pleasure, don't you think that some crimes can only be punished by means other than the law?"

"Maybe, but that's not right...... Xia Jinyu grew up in a police family, and the education he received since childhood was to do things in a proper manner and be a down-to-earth person. He has experienced unimaginable suffering, has long seen through the warmth and coldness of the world, and has seen the darkest human nature. But under the influence of his father and elder brother, he grew into a strong-hearted, kind and brave person. There is always a moral yardstick in his heart, reminding him what kind of things can be done, and what kind of things can only be thought about and not done.

"Extrajudicial sanctioners" have always been a controversial existence, both in film and television works and in real life. Their presence has indeed deterred some people who want to commit crimes, and it has indeed punished some sinners who have escaped justice. But on the other hand, in the so-called society where everyone is equal, some people have the privilege of killing, which in itself is a matter of great scary.

The existence of privilege also brings with it all sorts of social problems. Once the law acquiesces in the deprivation of the lives of others in the name of justice, then in the long run, one day in the future, the world will eventually become black and white, and there is no distinction between right and wrong.