51. Rituals
When I walked to the sofa and saw that Gao Cheng was still focused on the script, I had to cough lightly: "Huh." ”
"What's the matter?" He didn't lift his head.
I was silent and said, "Xu Jianglun called me just now...... Du Xiangyuan died. ”
"The cause of death?"
"Suicide. The tool is a thin fishing line hidden in the epidermal layer of his arm. ”
"Oh." After answering the silence, there was no follow-up. I couldn't help but wonder and asked, "Why don't you seem surprised at all?" Only then did he raise his head and look up at me slightly: "You are surprised?" ”
I nodded honestly, but I heard him say, "That's you taking what I'm saying for a deaf ear." ”
"Huh?" Is it really impossible to keep up with his thinking, did he expect this before?
"The first time I mentioned 'psychogenic mental disorder,' I listed its symptoms: helplessness and panic as early manifestations, followed by hallucinations, betrayal, hatred, and death," he stated. They each represent a certain stage, and Du Xiangyuan is not so much venting his inner fear as he is performing a ritual, and death is the ultimate. ”
"What do you mean...... He never left himself out, and from the beginning he had the intention of dying? ”
Gao Cheng pursed his lips: "There is a special cohesion in the hearts of people with mental illness, in your layman's opinion, Wu Yan loves Yu Xiuping, and Yu Xiuping loves two men twice, but in fact, they have no love at all psychologically, but they just think that the three people are a whole." ”
I was silent because I had been involved in a case, and I would inevitably feel depressed after hearing this. In particular, the children and the elderly are innocent, but they have become the burial companions of three psychopaths.
There is no greater sorrow in the world than this.
"Stop your compassion. If you have that skill, why don't you come and read this to me? ”
The script was stuffed into my hand, and Gao Cheng dragged me to sit beside him. Then he leaned his head back on the back of the sofa chair and closed his eyes.
I pushed him with my elbow, "Don't you want to know if Du Xiangyuan has told the root cause of their illness?" ”
"I don't want to." He threw two words lightly, I couldn't help but get angry, threw the script on the coffee table and was about to get up, he suddenly opened his eyes and said casually: "If you can't hold it, just say, my ears are empty." ”
In the end, I still spoke awkwardly: "Xu Jianglun said ......"
He interrupted: "Straight to the point." ”
Gritted his teeth and continued: "In the past two days, Du Xiangyuan's performance was extremely unstable the day before, often yelling in the confinement room, and even hitting the wall with his head a few times, but he was stopped by the guards in time. By the next day, it was as if he had changed as a different person, completely devoid of the previous day's irritability, and only remained in silence, and no matter who interrogated him, he would not reply a word. At night, when the criminal police planned to interrogate him again, they found that he was still handcuffed to the iron bar, but he was no longer breathing. Cause of death: suffocation. A thin wire around the neck hangs from the iron. ”
Xu Jianglun was the interrogator of the criminal police, and he was the first to find out, and it could be heard from the slightly trembling voice just now that this incident had a big impact on him. It's no wonder that he was originally just an ordinary policeman, but because he was involved in the case tracking investigation, he was later promoted to the criminal police brigade by Zhang Ji, but he was still a novice in contact with this kind of murder case.
After a pause, Gao Cheng didn't react, and couldn't help asking, "What do you think about this?" ”
"There's nothing to talk about, it's all to be expected. Now that you've fulfilled your desire to speak, you can always read it. ”
I glared: "You knew he wanted to die, why didn't you alert the police?" ”
He said, "Believe me, death is the best ending." The law has relative immunity for the mentally ill, and once he is exempt, it will be a disaster. ”<