Liu Huai'an was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground all of a sudden, and then cried loudly: "I didn't mean to...... I didn't expect ...... The fire is so big...... I didn't know my dad was in there too......"

At this time, there were already a lot of people outside, all pointing to the door of the consultation room, not knowing what was going on.

Not long after, Director Liu came in from the crowd and asked, "Ouch, what's wrong, what's wrong?" ”

Seeing Liu Huai'an trembling on the ground, and howling and not playing, Director Liu accused Aoki and said, "I asked you to see if you could stop him, but I didn't let you scare him!" It's going to scare a lot of people...... Alas, I wouldn't have brought him with me if I had known. ”

She dragged Liu Huai'an up and scolded: "Why is the big guy still crying? Okay, okay, don't cry, let's go home! ”

In the afternoon, Director Liu came back again.

"Oh, Aoki-sensei, I'm sorry about that. I didn't expect him to be like that, don't you mind! Director Liu was probably afraid that Aoki would pick on him and apologize vigorously.

Aoki smiled and said, "He's okay, right?" ”

Director Liu said, "Who? Oh, you said Huai'an! It's okay! What could he do? ”

"Director Liu, do you know the specific circumstances of the fire more than 20 years ago?" Aoki asked.

"You know, what's wrong?"

"Then tell me about the situation."

"Ouch, I panic when I talk about this, you let me think about it." Director Liu took a glass of pure water from the water dispenser and took a big sip, as if the water could extinguish the fire, "The fire was burned from the Internet café, and the fire killed many people!" At that time, your eldest sister was still young, and occasionally went to the Internet, but fortunately she was not there that day, and I was scared when I thought about it! ”

"Is the Internet café opened by Liu Huai'an?"

"How is that possible?" Director Liu looked disdainful, "At that time, Liu Huai'an was in his early twenties, a gangster, we call them 'rotten wood', just a rotten wood, how can he open an Internet café?" ”

Aoki thinks that the name "rotten wood" is appropriate, and the so-called rotten wood cannot be carved, which is much more like the name of the gangster.

Director Liu also said: "Liu Huai'an's family conditions are not good, his parents were laid off, and his father sold baked cakes at the entrance of the alley, and we all called him Wu Dalang." His mother is not a local, she is quite handsome, and everyone also jokingly calls her Pan Jinlian'er. However, his second uncle, who wandered outside for a few years, came back and opened a woolen factory, which was quite big. The Internet café was next to the woolen mill, and it seemed that his second uncle had also partnered with someone else. ”

"What about Liu Huai'an? Didn't go out to work or anything? Aoki asked.

"That rotten wood is idle all day long, and when he has no money to spend, he goes to his second uncle's Internet café to eat and drink for nothing, and he also makes the little girl who is the cashier of the Internet café have a big belly, and is beaten by his second uncle." Director Liu finished speaking angrily and sighed again, "But don't say it, this person's fate is doomed." The fire burned down the Internet café and the woolen mill, but it didn't burn Liu Huaian to death, do you say it's life? ”

"He wasn't there that day?"

"Yes, he was surfing the Internet at the Internet café, but it was so coincidental that when the fire broke out, he went out to buy supper." Director Liu said.

Aoki let out an "oh", roughly understanding what was going on, so he asked Director Liu: "His second uncle was burned to death?" ”

"It's not just his second uncle! His father, his mother, his aunt, his aunt, his uncle, his cousins, all dead! Director Liu's teeth trembled when he thought of this, and his face turned blue, "At that time, they were all working in the woolen mill and sleeping in the factory at night, and that day for some reason, Wu Dalang and Pan Jinlian also went, alas! It's all fate! ”

Aoki asked, "Have you found out the cause of the fire?" ”

Director Liu said: "The fire department said that it was caused by a fire in the power lines of the Internet café, and since then, it has been difficult to get a license for the Internet café." ”

Aoki understood that in the environment of the nineties, fire inspections would not be as strict as they are now.

Every improvement in the system is after a major accident; Every change in concept is exchanged for bloody lessons. Our respect for life, our reverence for nature, is far from enough.

Liu Huai'an is a person with severe paranoia, and he does not know why the evaluation given to him by the hospital does not meet the criteria for mental disability.

Aoki can now conclude that the fire was planted by Liu Huai.

Maybe he didn't mean it, maybe he just wanted to get revenge on his second uncle. He probably didn't expect the fire to burn so big that it burned the whole family of them.

Since then, his spirit has been split. He gave himself many reasons to set the fire, so that he didn't seem so unconscionable.

He began to be delusional that his mother was having an affair with his second uncle, and it just so happened that the legend about Pan Jinlian and Wu Er and his father's weak character gave him the basis for his delusion.

Liu Huai'an mentioned "The Matrix", which was a movie in the late nineties. Perhaps it was after watching this movie that he began to imagine that his body was put on a chip, and he imagined that the Internet was a huge network with intelligence, connecting computers and terminals all over the world as his nerve endings, monitoring human behavior, and eventually destroying human beings.

He delusionally imagined that he had become a double agent between humans and the Internet, so his fire became a fire of justice, and although he sacrificed his family, he saved humanity. He became a hero of righteous annihilation.

Aoki thought a lot, but he didn't tell Director Liu about these speculations. He believed that some smart people must have thought of this, but there was no evidence.

More than 20 years ago, not only were fire inspections not strict, the public's awareness of safety was not high, and the means and efficiency of detecting cases were far inferior to those now, and it was normal to treat an arson case as an accident.

Aoki also has no evidence.

But he doesn't need to.

He only needs to enter Liu Huai'an's subconscious. No one can hide their thoughts in their subconscious dreams. Unless the opponent's mental power is strong enough to resist his invasion. This kind of person, at least Aoki has not encountered so far.

But what?

The police won't believe him, and they won't be willing to overturn the case for an accident that was defined more than 20 years ago and turn it into an arson case, not to mention that this guy who may be the murderer is still a well-known madman.

In the evening, Aoki did not return to the Ruhua bar after closing, and in order to catch up with the schedule, the renovation workers always had to leave after dark.

He took the coal boss out on the street, ordered a bowl of fried fish noodles at a famous noodle restaurant in Liuying Lane, and asked the coal boss for a stir-fried shrimp.

There are a lot of people who eat noodles, and naturally they are cold to Aoki's dress, especially with a bird that is generally considered ominous.

Aoki has the courage to look at Qianfu coldly, with the readiness of bowing his head and eating fried fish noodles, as long as the coal boss is not noisy, most of the time, it will not cause too much criticism.

However, he knew that this crow's broken mouth would not be closed for long, and he should be blind after eating the shrimp, so he was also swept away and ate it as quickly as possible.

When he was paying, he asked casually: "The boss has been open for many years." ”

"It's been more than 20 years, and everyone in Old Wuzhong knows it." The boss said.

"It's been more than 20 years,...... Aoki sighed, "I heard that there used to be a woolen factory, but then it burned down." ”

"Yo, that's early." The boss seemed to remember his eighteen-year-old youth, "At that time, not long after my store opened, that fire burned for a whole day and night, good guy!" ”

"A lot of people died, right?"

"Not really! Officially, there are nine, but in fact, we know sixteen or seventeen alone. The boss shook his head and sighed.

"Where is the factory?"

"It's not far from the alley at the mouth of the alley, where the old farmer's market is. Originally, it was said that a residential building would be built, but the real estate company was afraid that the feng shui would not be good, so it was changed to a farmers' market. ”

"Oh, thank you."

Aoki led the coal boss into the alley at the mouth of the alley.