After dinner, I sat on the sofa in the living room and looked at the messages on my phone:

Wang Kexing, male, 15 years old, current address: Fengtian Psychological Treatment Center (formerly Fengtian Psychiatric Hospital)

Lu Lingyun packed up the dishes in the kitchen and came over to sit, and said with a solemn expression: "It's only fifteen, four years younger than you, and I can't step through the psychological hurdle of killing someone by mistake, and I've been in the hospital for almost a year." ”

"Brother Lu, don't you think it's strange? If he knew that the person was not killed by himself, why would he admit it? ”

"I saw the case file, and his confession was also there, he went to the same school that night to drink, and when he got home it was early in the morning, he said that he saw a suspicious figure in the living room, so he tore up with the man, but because he drank too much, he threw the person to the ground, and he was frightened when he saw the blood all over the ground, so he stabbed the victim in the heart with a knife."

What Lu Lingyun said is almost the same as what I saw in my dream, but the characters don't match, could it be that there is something wrong with my dream?

No, my dreams have never been wrong.

"I'd like to see him in the hospital over the weekend."

"Weekend? Not on the weekend, the wound on your head hasn't healed yet. ”

"It's okay, I won't freeze with a hat."

"If I have time to go with you on the weekend." After Lu Lingyun finished speaking, he stood up and took the coat on the sofa.

"Brother Lu, are you leaving?"

"Well, I'll go back to the team."

I also stood up and watched him walk towards the entrance, and I suddenly said, "You are all back or sleep at home, the bed in the duty room is not very comfortable." ”

Lu Lingyun stopped and raised his hand to look at his watch, thought about it and said, "Yes, I have to buy you breakfast early tomorrow morning, and the time to run back and forth will be delayed on the road." ”

As he spoke, he took off his coat again and turned to walk towards me.

said: "I sleep on the sofa, you go to the bedroom to sleep." ”

"Uh... Good. I didn't expect him to really not leave if I said a word of retention, and I was a little uneasy.

What are you panicking about? Although Lu Lingyun is a criminal policeman, he doesn't have the sharp eyes to see if I am a human or a demon, honestly go back to the room and hide, nothing will happen.

I reassured myself and left the living room and went into the bedroom.

Lifted the quilt and lay on the bed, staring at the dark environment in front of him.

I thought to myself: What time is this? Before nine o'clock, how could I possibly sleep.

I want to think about it, but the facts tell me that sometimes the body is not very obedient.

*****

Uh... Uh...

Breathing··· Can't breathe...

I opened my eyes to find myself half-lying on the ground, with a guy leaning behind me and holding a rope around my neck.

My hands were clawing back desperately, the more I struggled, the tighter I became, and I watched my feet kick hard, their nails painted crimson.

The strength to resist was gradually lost, and I stared at everything in front of me with wide eyes.

It was the same bedroom, with warm pink walls and a bed with white sheets right next to it, and I guess someone had dragged it down from it, because half of the sheets were already on the floor.

*****

Another life left, and I sat up abruptly, breathing heavily, my heart pounding, and I raised my hand to touch the sweat on my cheeks.

I felt like I might be a little dehydrated, groping in the dark for a glass of water on the bedside table.

Just as the fingertip touched the glass, it slipped down, and the sound of the glass shattering broke the silence of the midnight, and the door was suddenly pushed open from the outside.

"Xiaoyan, what's wrong?"

Lu Lingyun turned on the light, perhaps because he saw my haggard appearance, and he felt a little worried.

"It's okay, I had a nightmare, I woke up and wanted to drink saliva but the cup fell off."

"Don't go down to the ground yet, I'll pour you another glass of water." As he spoke, he turned and went out, bringing water and sweeping the floor clean.

With everything done, he sat on the edge of the bed and watched me finish a whole glass of water.

"I'll pick you up again?"

"No, it's already much better."

Lu Lingyun nodded and said, "It's okay to sleep a little longer, it's only half past twelve." ”

"Brother Lu, can you talk to me?"

He smiled, showing the dimples on his cheeks, and reached out to hit me on the leg.

"I didn't expect that the wild boy who was not afraid of fighting and stitches would be afraid of nightmares."

I didn't get angry or refute his words, but I said in a calm voice: "Just now a woman died, she was strangled to death, in a pink bedroom. ”

I saw that Lu Lingyun's originally smiling appearance gradually calmed down, and when he mentioned death, he would become very serious.

"I believe you, so I want to tell you."

As soon as Lu Lingyun opened his mouth, as if he wanted to ask me something, his mobile phone in the living room suddenly rang.

I watched him hurry to answer the phone, and when he came back, his expression was even more solemn.

"The team called, and a man turned himself in, saying that he had just strangled his wife at home."

I hung my head and touched the back of my neck, it was helpless and regretful, it turned out to be a tragedy caused by discord between husband and wife.

"Go ahead, see if what I'm saying is true, the woman's feet are painted with crimson nail polish, the sheets are white, the floor is dark brown, and her husband dragged her from the bed to the ground, and finally suffocated to death."

"Okay, wait until I get back." After Lu Lingyun finished speaking, he quickly left the house.

I didn't sleep in the second half of the night, and I couldn't sleep at all, and he came back at about 3 o'clock in the morning.

I sat on the sofa in the living room and watched the variety show, Lu Lingyun changed into slippers and put the car keys on the shoe cabinet in the entrance.

He walked up to me, expressionless.

"Yancheng, do you know, you really scared me, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I'm afraid I would never believe it."

Lu Lingyun lit a cigarette and waited for a moment before speaking: "How long have you been like this?" ”

"Nightmares?"

He nodded.

"It's been a long time, more than ten years, and I dream about it every once in a while, so I don't want to sleep because I'm a victim in every dream."

"You~~ You are really the one who was born to be a police officer." Lu Lingyun said meaningfully.

Is he jealous of my abilities? I'd rather transfer that ability to him.

No one can understand what it means to die countless times without experiencing it firsthand.

I'm not afraid of blood, I'm not afraid of corpses, I'm not afraid of death, not because I'm naturally strong, it's just because I've suffered too much.

"Now, do you believe me?"

Lu Lingyun nodded affirmatively.

"Shall we join forces?" I grabbed his hand on his lap.

He was happy, and so was I.

Lu Lingyun is a good person, he deserves my help, I think no matter what happens in the future, now we are brothers on the same front.

This time I said that I was going to visit Wang Ke in a mental hospital, and he called for gold and prepared three people to be together.

Gold hadn't seen me for a while, and seeing that I still had white gauze wrapped around my head, he asked what had happened.

Lu Lingyun told him while driving, and about living with him now.