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Private hospital inpatient department, second floor.

The young nurse politely knocked on the door, and then expertly pushed the cart in without waiting for an answer from the patient inside.

Not surprisingly, the patient was lying on his side on the bed with his back to the door, sleeping under the covers.

The nurse walked softly to the window and pulled the pure white curtains wide open to let in the bright and warm sunlight.

"Sorry, did I wake you up?" There was a commotion behind her, and the nurse turned around to see the patient shaking the quilt, revealing a disheveled head.

Even though she had been exposed to it many times, she was still slightly startled by the patient's animal-like eyes.

"But it's time for you to get up." The nurse softened her tone, trying to make herself appear as harmless as possible, "In a little while, it's time for lunch." ”

The patient stopped looking at her, brushed the hair that had been scattered in front of his forehead, and lay down again.

"Ugh." The nurse couldn't help but sigh, "Didn't I tell you?" You have to lie as flat as you can when you sleep now, or you'll be pressed-"

"You're ready to go out." The voice coming from the quilt was hazy.

The instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages made the nurse rub in place for a while, and then cautiously persuaded: "The doctor has told you so many times, you are recovering well now, there is no need to stay in the room all day, you can go out for a walk more." You see that the weather is so good today, and there are a lot of flowers in the garden, and even the grandmother next door who is just ready to go to the field has people go down and turn around twice. ”

Seeing that the patient had not answered, she felt that her advice might have worked, and hurriedly struck while the iron was hot: "You are still so young, and you will grow a long time in the future." I've heard that you used to love extreme sports the most, and you've won several awards in rock climbing competitions, but how do you ...... now?"

"Are you done?" The quilt was kicked to the ground, and the young patient rolled over and sat up, his cold gaze piercing the nurse like a needle.

"I ......," the nurse took a step back, and then stubbornly continued, "people have to come out of the past!" Your luck has already been calculated, the surgery was so successful, if you exercise diligently, you will not be any different from other people except that your appearance may not be good-looking! Why do you keep going day by day, the night before yesterday you actually pulled your own bandages, making the bed covered with blood, so scared that I almost lost my breath! ”

"I'll advise you one last time, if you meddle in your affairs again and keep your mouth open and talk about my affairs outside, I can tell my dad to fire you right away." The patient's voice was extremely hoarse, like sandpaper scraping against his throat. He raised his thin arms flat, pointed straight out the door, and roared at the top of his voice, "Now, immediately, get out of here!" ”

After the heavy closing of the door, the world finally cleared up again. The breeze ruffled the hair on his sideburns, and the young patient's eyes suddenly became extremely hollow. He looked around blankly, pulled out a remote control from the crack in the bed, and turned on the large TV in the separate room.

“…… The vicious murder that occurred the night before yesterday is still at large. The police remind the public to choose public transportation as much as possible when travelling at night. For the safety of you and your family, please don't be greedy for convenience......"

The hostess was still chattering, and the patient's hand holding the remote control was getting whiter. Unwarranted resentment welled up in his heart, he gasped hard, and then slammed the remote control on the screen with a force of his wrist.

The quality of the TV set was much better than he had imagined. In addition to adding a crack to the hostess's magnified face, the voices echoing in the room seemed to become louder. The patient held his head and suddenly broke down and screamed. He waved his arm, which was still holding a pin, and knocked down an entire row of bottles and cans made of glass.

Colored pills mixed with glass shards flew up on the floor, and the otherwise clean room immediately became a mess. The patient gasped quietly and placed his blood-dripping palm on the bedside cabinet at random.

After a moment of silence, he straightened up, dragged the infusion rod across the mess, tried to squat in front of a sideboard several times, and finally could only hold on to a large bulge in his abdomen and slowly bent down.

He pulled open the drawer in a strange gesture and pulled out a photograph tucked into his diary.

The girl in the photo is not particularly pretty, but she has a very friendly smile. The camera freezes her as a leap up holding a large pile of balloons, behind which is a group of young people wearing protective gear and holding flowers.

All kinds of instruments in the room have made alarm sounds. The patient opened his mouth and cried silently.

After about five minutes, he jerked his head back and followed the shadows that stretched on the ground to see the young man sitting on the edge of the window.

The patient subconsciously glanced in the direction of the door, and was surprised to confirm that the uninvited guest could only have entered through the window.

But the patient did not hear anything. The reason why he notices the appearance of young people is only because of some kind of intuition of "being watched".

"Who are you?" He asked sharply.

The young man's eyebrows and eyes were quite delicate, his sitting posture was straight, and his skin was almost a little unhealthy, even if he was casually thrown into the crowd, it was a very eye-catching existence. The patient stared at the dark eyes, which were not particularly oppressive, and slowly retreated with trembling steps.

The patient was convinced that he had never seen such a person. It only took a moment to easily defeat his self-satisfied acumen for more than 20 years.

“…… Speak up! His voice sharpened, "Otherwise, I'll call someone right away!" ”

The young man gave him a faint look, then took a few steps forward, flipping over the medical record card hanging by the bed.

The lights overhead suddenly went out. The patient was stunned for a moment, and soon realized that someone had cut off the power from the outside.

"Who the hell are you?" Great fear was swirling in his chest, and the patient had retreated to the wall.

Bowing his head and being silent for a moment, Ling Shucheng picked up the quilt that fell on the ground, put it on the head of the bed flatly, then turned his body sideways and asked calmly, "Do you want to stand and talk?" ”

"What do you mean?" The patient's gaze swept over the broken glass, and his brain raced as he thought about how to cut the nasty throat in front of him as quickly as possible.

"I mean, you're really a patient, and it's probably a little more comfortable to sit and talk." Ling Shucheng deliberately took a few steps out of the way, signaling that the other party could sit back on the bed.

"You didn't answer my question!" The patient continued to tear at his vocal cords, trying to bluff and crush the other person.

"Xiu, 22 years old, was involved in an accident with a friend half a year ago, and his kidney was severely damaged, and he received an artificial kidney transplant four months ago." Ling Shucheng's gaze swept over the other party's overly protruding abdomen, and there was a hint of sigh in his voice, "No wonder you have to go out in a sweatshirt that is both loose and can wrap around the whole body." ”

The fright was too much, but Xiu gradually calmed down. He snorted and replied calmly, "I don't know what you mean. ”

The person in front of him can't stay. He lowered his head, hiding the cruelty in his eyes.

"The night before yesterday, between the two shifts of nurses, you took advantage of the night to open the window and went out of the door, and broke all the way from the semi-open green facilities of the hospital to the small hills around Line 7." Ling Shucheng's tone was calm, not complacent because he already knew everything, "You used to be very good at rock climbing. Even if I have been neglecting training recently, I have not lost my foundation so quickly. ”

"What the hell are you implying about?"

"It's not a hint, it's a statement of facts." Ling Shucheng was not surprised by his reaction, "I can understand why you hate the gifted person to the core, but this is not a reason for you to kill innocent passers-by. ”

The slight sound of grinding teeth came into Ling Shucheng's ears, and he could feel that some strong emotion was leaking out of the patient opposite.

"You're that kind of monster too, aren't you?" Xiu asked through gritted teeth.

"Yes." Ling Shucheng nodded.

Dian Xiu forcibly suppressed the anger in his chest and revealed a chilling smile: "What, you yourself committed something and killed someone, and you want to find me to blame?" Don't, you can find a better partner. As far as I'm concerned, even if you brainwash me with some disgusting ability and bring it back to the police, they won't believe it. ”

"You climbed directly to the scene of the crime through the overhead track of Line 7." Ling Shucheng ignored his provocation, "You may have hidden for a short time with the help of the shadow of the wall, because there is not much traffic there. Moreover, for the sake of success, you can only choose the weakest-looking 'prey'. Finally, you waited for a person who could not have entered the city recently, judging by the way he was dressed, but a relative of a wealthy man with a certain amount of strength in the local area. ”

After all, the existence of karma is only an exception. Most of the city's gifted people are currently struggling to make ends meet. It is very realistic that the rich can cause more storms than ordinary people, which should also be an important factor when choosing the location of the crime.

"Judging from the fact that you are good at 'climbing', you seem to be a little more like a murderer than I am." Xiu glanced at the open window.

"The modus operandi in this case is actually not complicated, as long as you can figure out how the prisoner got there, the only thing left is to lock down the identity of the prisoner. But you do have a lot of thoughts, and even if the police can figure out what happened before, it's hard to look at a place like a hospital with suspicion. Ling Shucheng deliberately paused, and then asked unhurriedly, "Do you want to know how I found you?" ”

Xiu stared at him without speaking.

"After surveying the scene, almost everyone noticed a very strange place, which was the location of the murder weapon you discarded." Ling Shucheng's eyes narrowed slightly in the sun, "An ordinary murderer, in order to leave the scene as soon as possible, will definitely not do anything superfluous." This time, however, the prisoner made a detour and threw down his knife by the pool......" he suddenly curled the corners of his mouth slightly, "I also noticed it by being reminded." ”

"Oh?" Raise your eyebrows.

"I'm just like you, a patient who doesn't quite look like a patient." Ling Shucheng thought for a while, and then changed his words, "No, it should be said that you are a normal person who is close to the patient." ”

"You're a sick person?" Xiu was clearly not convinced.

"I asked someone to investigate the accident related to you half a year ago. You and your friends are camping in the mountains when they happen to be involved in a 'suicide' of a gifted person. Ling Shucheng sighed deeply, "That is a woman who finally escaped from the water city, but lost her job opportunity forever because of her talent, and her husband and children were seriously ill. She originally wanted to use her life to give ordinary people a little warning, so she specially chose to implement her own 'strategy' in the suburbs...... Unexpectedly, I rolled up all of you who happened to pass by. ”

"What, do you still want to say that we were unlucky and rushed to the door to die?" Xiu's eyes turned red in an instant, as if he could spurt blood in the next second, "Oh, I see, of course you'll excuse her, because you're the same kind as that monster!" ”

"I don't want to exonerate her, because her actions did make you the only survivor in the group, and you had to endure all kinds of pain to survive in this way." Ling Shucheng looked at him without giving in, but his voice was a little "gentle" emotion, "The artificial kidney that partially exposes the surface of the body can't withstand too much squeezing, so it's difficult for you to make a 'squat' action, right?" You were in a hurry to find a source of water to wash away the excess blood on your hands and face. Because a little bit of a stain is not strange for a mentally unstable patient like you, but if it looks like it's bleeding too much, the nurse will be suspicious. ”

Xiu didn't say anything, but his eyes were bright and terrifying. Ling Shucheng could clearly hear the sound of him ventilating too hard.

"The ditch is level with the path, which is convenient for normal people, but for someone like you who has difficulty squatting, there is no way to simply touch the water." Ling Shucheng did not avoid the hatred that came to the other party's face, "The pool is different, the water in it is at least at waist level, it is much easier for you to use." As long as you figure this out, it is not difficult to find a person in the nearby hospital who is about 1.75 meters tall, who has recently undergone inconvenient squatting surgery, and who is likely to have a holiday with the 'gifted'. ”

"But you don't have any proof." Dian Xiu clenched his hands into fists and smiled gloomily, "Everything you just said is just speculation. What is the danger of adding to the sin? If you want to put on me, a monster like you must have a lot of means. How? Could it be that my father, who was the dean, had provoked someone outside? Who hired you to fix me here? ”

Ling Shucheng didn't answer his question, but looked out the window: "Do you know? In order to prevent patients from pollen allergies, jasmine flowers are not planted in large areas in the hospital – besides, the nurse said, you haven't been out of the hospital room recently. ”

The corners of Xiu's eyes twitched suddenly.

"You already know what I'm talking about, don't you? Because you hid in a jasmine garden that night. Ling Shucheng refocused his gaze on him, "When I just turned it over, I found a jasmine branch that had broken off between the pipes in the wall. In addition, on the tracks of that section of Line 7, there are the same things. ”

"That's—"

"Don't tell me it might have been thrown from a window near you." Ling Shucheng took a step closer, "You often make noise, and the nurses don't dare to care about you because of your father's identity, so except for the old woman next door who can't walk, the wards around you have been emptied." ”

As soon as Xiu Xiu kicked the wall, he suddenly curled up like a feline and rolled sideways over the shards of glass all over the ground, grabbed a piece of glass at an incredible speed, and rolled over and rushed straight to Ling Shucheng's throat.

But a sharp pain stopped him. Xiu Xiu was stunned and glanced at his hand that had been pierced by bullets, and instantly trembled.

"No, I didn't do it." Ling Shucheng clarified to him, "There is a police officer with good marksmanship across the window. What I just told you, he could hear through his headphones. ”

"You, you ......" Despite rolling at the angle that would cause the least damage to the artificial kidney, cold sweat quickly crawled all over his blue face.

"Actually, there are no such coincidences." Ling Shucheng pressed his shoulder and forced him to sit back on the bed, "I didn't find any jasmine at all. ”

Before a squad of pistol-wielding policemen could storm the gate, Xiu had already fainted.

"Anything else you'd like to say?" Qiu Pingning stood at the front of the line with his waist in his hands, and asked Ling Shucheng with a smile.

"He obviously wanted to take revenge on the 'gifted', but he ended up killing ordinary people." Ling Shucheng lowered his eyes, not catering to the joy of the room, "That suicidal gifted person wanted to arouse a little sympathy from society, but it turned out to cause more discrimination. ”

"Ironic, isn't it?" Qiu Pingning was thinking that the two brothers would put their arms around his shoulders, but Ling Shucheng had already retreated quietly. He could only withdraw his hand and laugh for a while, and then said seriously, "Come to us, the brothers are all convinced of you now." ”

In the warm applause of the room, Ling Shucheng only nodded expressionlessly.