Chapter 26: The Mysterious Tenant

In the afternoon, at the County People's Hospital, while Forensic Doctor Chen was looking for the victim's attending doctor to understand the injury, Gu Song and Huo Yan came to the special care ward and met Wu Kaifei, who was injured in the attack last night.

"Hello, we are the criminal investigation consultants of the R City Public Security Bureau, and we are here to assist Captain Zhao in handling the case of your son's attack and injury, and I hope that your mother and son can cooperate with our investigation." After entering the door, Gu Song briefly explained to Wu Kaifei's mother the identity and intention of his relationship with Huo Yan, and then asked Wu's mother for her opinion, "Can we talk to your son about the situation last night?" ”

"Didn't Captain Zhao already ask?" Mother Wu looked at her son lying on the hospital bed worriedly, and said reluctantly, "My Xiaofei is seriously injured, and his mental state is not very good, you can come and ask him in two days." ”

"Ms. Song, we are also doing this to catch the murderer who hurt your son as soon as possible. Rest assured, we'll ask a few questions and leave, and won't bother him for too long. ”

"But he ......"

"Mom, I'm fine." Without waiting for Mother Wu to finish speaking, Wu Kaifei smiled strongly at Gu Song and said, "Brother, sister, don't worry about asking whatever you want, as long as I can catch the bastard who stabbed me, let me cooperate with you as much as I want." ”

"Xiaofei, don't be reckless!" Wu's mother scolded her son unhappily, "You need to recuperate now, don't think about those messy things in your mind." ”

"Cut, how can I be so hypocritical." Wu Kaifei rolled back his mother's eyes, and continued to say to Gu Song and Huo Yan, "You don't have to worry, I don't have PTSD, I'm not afraid of being stimulated." ”

"Yo, do you still know about PTSD at a young age?" Huo Yan couldn't help but be amused by Wu Kaifei's cheerfulness and strength, and said half-jokingly, "Then I'm not welcome, just ask." With that, she walked over to the bedside and dragged a chair to sit down, with an amiable, warm and charming smile on her face.

"Eh, you ......" Mother Wu wanted to step forward to stop her, but Gu Song quickly pulled her and shook her head at her, "Let Teacher Huo talk to Xiaofei, she is an expert in criminal psychology and will not hurt Xiaofei." ”

"Alas......" Wu's mother sighed softly, seeing that her son was very willing to cooperate with the police, and that she was familiar with the beautiful female teacher at first sight, so she had to let them go.

"Do you like to read books on psychology?" In order to let Wu Kaifei completely relax, Huo Yan started a conversation in the tone of a friend's chat.

"Not either." Wu Kaifei grinned, revealing a mouthful of white and healthy teeth. "I've read a few crime-solving novels before, and PTSD is often mentioned in them, so I don't think I have that kind of problem, right? Although I was really scared when I was attacked by the killer last night, the most I want to do now is to get that bastard caught......"

"Xiaofei, you are very brave and strong, really." Huo Yan looked at the boy on the hospital bed with admiration, and couldn't say why she was a little moved. "I believe that with your help, we will be able to catch the murderer as soon as possible and stop him from continuing to hurt others. Now, please cooperate with me to seriously reflect on what happened last night, okay? ”

"Hmm." Wu Kaifei nodded slightly, his face showing seriousness and maturity that was not commensurate with his age.

"Last night, you left your classmate's house, did you come into contact with anyone on the way home?"

"No, I remember it was almost ten o'clock in the evening, there were not many pedestrians on the road, I walked quietly alone, and I didn't have any contact with anyone."

"Did you hear unusual noises as you walked, or did you notice someone following you behind you?"

"I didn't pay much attention to it. However, when I walked to the path where I had been attacked, the killer jumped out from behind me without warning and stabbed me with a knife without saying a word. If it weren't for my good physical fitness, I might have died in a few strokes after dealing with him for a while. ”

"What does the man who attacked you look like?"

"A little bit taller than me, not very physically strong, but very strong. He was wearing a hat and a mask, and I couldn't see his face clearly, but I seemed to see a cold light flashing in his eyes, and I thought it was probably murderous. ”

"Have you seen that person somewhere before?"

"I don't know, it was so dark that I really didn't see clearly." Wu Kaifei recalled carefully for a moment, and asked suspiciously, "Sister, do you think the murderer knows me?" He didn't attack me for no reason, right? ”

"Yes." Huo Yan said bluntly, "I think that not long before the crime, the murderer should have been in contact with you somewhere. So now I need you to think carefully about where you went yesterday, who you met, and whether there were any things around you that deserve your attention. ”

"I ...... yesterday" Wu Kaifei frowned slightly, trying his best to recall. Yesterday morning and afternoon, I had been reading books and doing problems at home, and I had never left the house until about five o'clock, when a very good classmate asked me to go to his house to play games. When we arrived at the same school, we basically stayed in his room, and dinner was brought by his sister herself. During this time, except for my classmate, my classmate's sister and mother, and his guests, I didn't have any contact with anyone else. ”

"Wait, do you have a lot of people in your classmate's family? What does his family do? ”

"His family runs a hotel, it's that kind of ......," Wu Kaifei paused and said, "The kind of small hotel that is not very formal, the conditions are very ordinary, but the price is not very cheap." ”

According to Wu Kaifei, his fellow student's hotel is on the second floor, and there are nine rooms on that floor, and the fellow occupies three rooms himself, and the remaining six rooms are for guests to stay. The classmate's room is located in the innermost part of the second floor, opposite the storage room where the miscellaneous items are stacked. So every time he went to his classmates' house, he inevitably walked through a corridor, and sometimes met guests in the hallway.

"When you went to your classmate's house yesterday, how many guests did you meet? Have you ever been up close to them? Have you spoken? ”

"As soon as I entered the door, I saw a young couple checking in. The girl didn't bring her ID card, but her classmate's mother still opened a room for them with one eye closed. I said hello to my classmate's mother and went straight to my classmate's room. ”

"Other than that, haven't you been in contact with anyone else?"

"It seems that there is no ......" Wu Kaifei knew that the information he provided would not help the police much, and he couldn't help but feel a little lost in his heart. But Huo Yan did not lose confidence and patience, and continued to guide Wu Kaifei in an amiable tone. "Xiaofei, I ask you to gently close your eyes now and imagine that you are standing in the hallway of the hotel.

"You've been there many times and are familiar with everything around you. The air, the smell, the light, the color of the floor, the stains on the walls, the order of house numbers...... It's all in your head. Do you inadvertently hear something, see something, and you don't care. Don't feel that those trivial things are meaningless, maybe the key to open the door is hidden in them. Xiaofei, do you remember anything, can you tell me now? ”

"I'm ......" Wu Kaifei frowned and said with some embarrassment, "When the game was halfway through, I went out to the toilet. I thought that the couple I stayed in before was from room 206, and I was curious and lay at the door, wanting to hear the movement inside. I made a mistake in the room and was discovered by the tenants inside. The man opened a crack in the door and asked me what I wanted to do, and I was startled, and quickly apologized to him, saying that I had made a mistake, and then went back to my classmate's room. ”

"Do you see what that man looks like?"

"I didn't see it clearly, I was so nervous and embarrassed that I didn't dare to look at him at all. However, he was wearing a hat and looked a little mysterious......" Speaking of this, Wu Kaifei suddenly opened his eyes, his expression looked extremely frightened, and a layer of cold sweat appeared on his forehead. "Oh my God!" He exclaimed hysterically, "That person, that person's figure is very similar...... Like ......"

"Like the guy who attacked you last night, right?" Huo Yan looked directly into Wu Kaifei's eyes and asked.

"I'm not sure, but I have a feeling it's him." Wu Kaifei held Huo Yan's hand tightly, and his cold fingers couldn't stop trembling.

Huo Yan helped him wipe the cold sweat on his forehead distressedly, and comforted him with a smile: "Okay, Xiaofei, it's okay." You are very safe now, and no one can hurt you anymore. ”

"But ......" Wu Kaifei looked at Huo Yan with a confused expression and asked, "Could it be him?" I didn't know him, and he didn't want to kill me. ”

"Alright, let's not talk about that." Huo Yan was afraid that continuing to talk would deepen Wu Kaifei's fear, so she changed the topic in a relaxed tone, "Xiaofei, you don't have to think about anything now, and you can recuperate in the hospital with peace of mind." When we catch that bastard, we'll know why he's doing it. ”

"Sister, is the information I provided helpful to you?"

"Of course, it helped a lot." Huo Yan showed a warm and bright smile at Wu Kaifei and got up to say goodbye to him.

Wu Kaifei's mother sent Huo Yan and Gu Song to the door of the ward, and asked worriedly, "There is nothing wrong with our Xiaofei, right?" What is the name of P and D that you just said, he ......"

"Ms. Song, don't worry." Huo Yan held Wu's mother's hand, looked at her firmly, and said, "Xiaofei is a strong and brave child, I believe he will be able to survive this." In the near future, you and your husband should spend as much time with him as possible, and provide him with appropriate psychological counseling to help him overcome his fears. Huo Yan said and took out a business card from her bag and handed it to Wu's mother, "Once you find anything wrong with Xiaofei, you can call me at any time." ”