Chapter 17: The Sorrow of Oedipus (3)

"Tianyu, your dad called you!"

"Huh?" He knew that his father had been dead for almost four years, but in order to cooperate with his mother, he had to continue the play, "Well, here it is!" ”

"Wait a minute!" The curtain of the window next to the main door of the living room was not lowered, Tianyu walked over, it was pitch black outside, and the transparent glass used this as the background, like a black mirror, reflecting Tianyu's face, he grinned at the mirror, but looked away. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Because he suddenly remembered that his grandmother in the countryside said not to stare at the mirror at night, there was a danger of being dementored, although it was superstition, he still had palpitations.

When the curtain was halfway lowered, a gray child's handprint appeared on the glass on the left side, although it was not obvious, but it was really scary under the reflection of the light, Tianyu's heart beat fast, and he put down the curtain in a panic and hurriedly walked into his mother's bedroom.

"It's raining, help Dad put away this thick quilt and put it in the upper lattice." Father? Summer Rain's nerves suddenly tensed, and his mother seemed to be imitating his father's tone of conversation with himself, he thought that his mother's medicine should be almost finished, and she was a normal person during the day, working in a housekeeping company, hardworking and simple, and deeply liked by customers; However, at night, she became a different person, which was a combination of father and mother, playing two roles, Tianyu had been very scared, worried that one day she would not be able to see the strong mother during the day, so she tried her best to cooperate with her to play that role.

"Okay!" Summer Rain lifted the quilt high and pushed it into the lattice with the help of a stool, but the quilt was too folded to fit in, so he pulled out the half-stuffed quilt.

"Bang!" The sound of glass breaking.

"Why were you so careless?"

"Something has fallen!" Stuff? Tianyu hugged the quilt and looked down at the things on the ground, in a pile of broken glass, a black and white photo was embedded in a black plastic frame, that is? The portrait of my father, because I was afraid that my mother would see things and think about people, and then I had a nervous breakdown, so I threw away a lot of things about my father, except for those few photos of him.

Suddenly, the summer rain lost its direction, and the storm should be coming.

"This person?" Mom, like a schoolchild who suddenly realized, picked up the photo before the rain, "This person is dead, this person is dead!" The broken glass cut her finger, a small one, but the blood was still dripping slowly like tears.

"Mom?" Tianyu didn't know what to do, he brought a tissue to cover his mother's injured finger, "Mom, Dad, he's dead!" ”

"No, he's here, he's here!" The tone gradually calmed down, and her mother hugged the picture frame tightly, but the remaining glass slag on it had already pierced into her heart and into the chest of Summer Rain.

Tianyu wiped her tears and shouted loudly, "Mom, Dad is dead, already dead!" Dead! He screamed hysterically, the oppression in his chest was pulled up like a champagne cork, and he longed for a hug, a loving embrace, but the man was dead, and the woman was about to go mad; He fantasized that his mother would make him cry, just like when he was a child, crying was a sign of love, giving him a hug. But no, this woman, she's crazy, she's still alive, but she's dead.

The light in the bedroom gradually became dim, flickering and on, people's thoughts entered a different world, blurred and chaotic, the whole space resounded with crying, it seemed far away, it seemed to be near but not near, it was the cry of a seven or eight-year-old child, but there was no sadness, not because of pain, because of love, this should be the child's coquettish feints, he longed for a hug, a hug full of love, but everything was empty, and it was dark night all around.

Summer rain heard the cry, the crisp intestines were out of breath but the yin and yang were weird, which made people shudder, "Mom, listen, some people are crying, some children are crying." ”

"Not dead, not dead......" Mom continued to hold the picture frame, there were words in her mouth, but she didn't know what to say, Tianyu felt very scared, her nerves were about to collapse, how good it would be if she broke off like a dead father, all the pain didn't have to bear, so Mom, what should Mom do?

"Take your mother with you, let's die together, then we will be reunited!" The cry tugged at the nerves in his brain and turned into a series of conversations, "Die, die, it won't hurt when you're dead." ”

Tianyu picked up the broken glass on the ground, a sharp long glass, it should be soon!

"This is a reunion!" It's laughing.

"Little ghost, Hugh has to do evil!" Outside, in the bright moonlight, there was a thin woman.

"Hello Li Mengxiang, I'm Zhang Hanqing, can I ask you a few questions briefly?"

Through Officer Feng's arrangement, Zhang Hanqing went to the prison to visit the three suspects in the name of a friend, and through the asymmetrical holes in the thick glass wall, although he could clearly hear the voices, he could see that Li Mengxiang seemed to be a little jealous, because a stranger came to visit him and asked some strange questions, and he was still immersed in the pain of bereavement.

"Hmm!" The other man nodded.

"Were you particularly sober at the time of the crime?"

"I've already told the police who interrogated me, I just woke up, to be precise, I was dragged out of my sleep by my father, my head hurt, and I was dazed."

"Did you notice anything unusual during this process?"

"I don't know what you're talking about?"

"What is the change in the whole environment at home, what is different from usual, and how do you feel different?"

"It's like I had a dream when I was lying in bed," Li Mengxiang scratched his head and thought for a while.

"What dream?"

"It's like dreaming that the light in the room goes out for a while, and then I seem to see a child standing there......"

"Where are you standing?" Zhang Hanqing asked eagerly.

"It's like outside the window, it's like it's in front of my bed."

"Are you sure you were dreaming?"

"Huh?" Li Mengxiang was surprised, isn't it just a dream? But it's so real in retrospect. "Hmm... I was very tired, but I didn't dare to sleep because I was afraid that my father would come back and beat me. "It's normal to be in such a state of fatigue, dim lighting, and hallucinations.

"How much do you remember about the murder?"

"Sister, I really don't want to recall that terrible experience anymore, I'd rather die than live forever in the abyss of sin, please."

Through the heavy glass wall, Li Mengxiang did not have a single tear, Zhang Hanqing knew that his tears might have already frozen, just like his heart was numb, looking at his haggard face, killing his beloved with his own hands, is it really the thin boy in front of him? Zhang Hanqing wanted to say something to comfort him, but he couldn't think of any profound words.

There was silence for a while.

"At that time, it didn't seem to be me who killed people," Li Mengxiang himself didn't know what to say now, it was not the same as his previous confession, and Officer Feng, who was observing on the other side, was really startled, "I seemed to be watching a play, a game of killing, and I saw that I had a knife stabbed into my mother's chest......" Li Mengxiang couldn't hold back anymore, crying with confidence, and opened the floodgates.

The guards on the side seemed to be tolerant and did not stop him from crying.

Li Mengxiang continued to sob, "I saw my hideous face smiling at me who was watching, but I couldn't control it myself, and I stabbed it brainlessly. ”

"That's it," Li Mengxiang suddenly danced with his hands, and his bound hands slammed hard into his chest, "That's it, uh-huh-hmm......" he laughed insolently, "haha... That's it, kill, kill, kill..."The guard next to him immediately subdued him, but he still laughed dishonestly, "That's it, poke it in, hahaha..."

Zhang Hanqing sat quietly in the chair, watching Li Mengxiang's actions, he was not much surprised, but felt pity, this underage child, even if he was finally exempted from the death penalty, he had already died with his parents.

"Hey," the crow chased after Zhang Hanqing and asked, "Did you ask anything today?" Ah, tell me about it. ”

"Fuck off, don't bother me!"

"Rub your shoulders and beat your back."

For a day in a row, Zhang Hanqing looked at the three suspects, and his heart was greatly shocked, and he didn't have the heart to understand this fool at all.

Following.

"Yesterday I questioned the three suspects separately and got some gains."

"Tell me about it."

"First, before the three of them committed the murder, there were power outages of household appliances at home, whether it was a refrigerator, a TV, or a lamp, they all called intermittently; Second, after that, they all saw or heard the movement of the child, both the figure and the cry; Thirdly, they were not under their own control during the murder, and some told me that they didn't want to kill their parents, but they just couldn't control it. These three points suggest that it is possible that the spirit is at work, but I am not sure if it is or not. ”

"Hmph, it's a mystery. What kind of power outage, the ghost of the child, I think on the one hand, it is your inducement, you trick them into superimposing the usual events in the memory of that day, which is called the 'overlap effect' in psychology, and on the other hand, these teenagers have just experienced the pain of bereavement, and they have done it themselves, so they are very traumatized, PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder, and it is normal to not remember what happened at that time. So you, you don't have to talk nonsense anymore, when such an unfortunate thing happens, you are still pretending to be a god and deceiving here, which is extremely hateful. ”

"Wow! What a brilliant explanation! The crow looked at Teacher You with admiration.

"PTSD! Hmph, big expert, with your ability to see through people's hearts, can you know if what they say is true or false? They are victims, I know very well, because the culprits in this incident are by no means the three of them. Zhang Hanqing seemed to let out cruel words, and although he was much more relaxed after speaking, he didn't have enough confidence. But since they have heard it, there is no reason to take it back, and she has to investigate the case head-on.

"Then I'll see!"

"But I want you to do me a favor!"

"What's the rush? I don't want to mess around with you little girl. ”

"Teacher You, cooperate with each other!"

"Say, for the sake of Officer Feng's face, what's the help?"

"Hypnosis!"

"Hypnosis?"

"But before that, I'm going to go to the scene of the crime."

"Okay, I'll let Officer Wang lead you there tomorrow."