Chapter 19: The Vanishing Fragment
For the first time, I sat in the report room all night, and my colleagues on the night shift saw that I was shivering all the time, poured me a cup of hot water, and asked me what was going on.
I struggled to describe it in words, I struggled to remember what I had seen in those few seconds, especially the woman I saw in the reflection of the screen, and finally I attributed it to my hallucinations, probably because I was too tired, and it was only at dawn that my whole body slowly calmed down.
When Yun Duruo went to work, he saw me with dull eyes in the report room, and called me several times before I reacted, maybe it was because I had been dazzled by too much pressure recently, and I comforted myself like this in my heart, but the woman who appeared in the videotape, and the face that I don't want to think about now, it will definitely not be my hallucination.
I took Yun Duruo back to the dissection room, Chu Tianqi was wearing gloves and piecing together the corpse of the unknown woman, and there were messy evidence on my desk, just like when I left in a hurry last night, I took out the videotape and handed it to Yun Duruo.
"You'd better take a look at what's inside!"
"Something new?" Yun Duruo asked eagerly.
"Has the case progressed?" The butcher's voice appeared at the door, looking at us with a blank face.
I nodded, and shook my head suspiciously, the butcher frowned when he saw my ambiguous reply, and Yun Duruo next to him also looked at me anxiously.
I pointed to the tape and swallowed my saliva, organizing the words in my head, but the effect was not too obvious.
Zhang Songlin committed suicide, as the video in this tape can prove, but there is a chair in the basement...... The chair can move, and then a long-haired woman in red appears on the chair......
I paused, trying not to let myself think of that face.
Then the woman turned her head......
After I finished speaking, Yun Duruo's expression was dazed, the butcher's brows furrowed deeper, and his eyes were a little confused, in fact, I found it difficult to fully describe the ones I saw last night in words, even Chu Tianqi, who had always been quiet, put down his work after listening to it, and looked at me intently, with a look of surprise.
"You'll know by watching this tape, I can't tell." I put the tape into Yun Duruo's hand like a hot potato.
"Come to my office." The butcher dropped a sentence and walked away with his back on his back. "You two together."
The butcher sat on the chair, Yun Duruo put the videotape into the device, and the video I had already watched last night appeared on the screen, I always buried my head in the ground, and I was going to remind Yun Duruo, but the butcher had a solemn face and stared at the screen without saying a word, and Yun Duruo was also engrossed in watching every picture.
When Zhang Songlin knelt on the ground and the iron spike penetrated his body, I began to slowly raise my head and look directly at the screen, perhaps because there were so many people in broad daylight, and I also wanted to see that face again.
The silent video came to an abrupt end in the numb wriggling corners of Zhang Songlin's mouth, and I froze in place, and hurriedly rewinded the last picture to replay, trying several times in a row, and the picture stayed in the same place.
There were no moving chairs, no women with long hair in red, and no frightened faces.
The butcher and Yun Duruo both looked at me with strange eyes at the moment, as if they were waiting for my explanation, and I pointed to the screen and said seriously.
"I actually saw a chair in there last night...... Moving, there is also the long-haired woman in red sitting in a chair, and ......"
It was like I was writing and acting in a one-man show, and I started to get a little flustered, not knowing what to do about what I had seen last night, and I paused for a moment and stuck to my story. "I really saw it."
The butcher was silent for a long time, called Ling Guodong over, and asked Ling Guodong to immediately arrange for the technical department to check the video tape, the butcher put on reading glasses to process the documents, and Yun Duruo and I stood in the office at a loss.
I was shocked by the results of the examination that Ling Guodong brought back, the tape was complete, the total length of the video was only thirty-two minutes, and the last picture was Zhang Songlin kneeling on the ground, and the time just stopped at thirty-two minutes.
That is, what I am describing is what happened thirty-two minutes later, but it is absolutely impossible.
Ling Guodong didn't know what was going on, the butcher took off the glasses on the bridge of his nose and looked at me seriously, Yun Duruo looked concerned, I licked the corners of my mouth and began to panic a little.
"How long has it been since you rested?" The butcher asked with a serious expression.
"I ......" can see that in the eyes of the butcher, I am now like a patient, he has begun to doubt my judgment, and even my mental state is questioning, and there is more than one room where he thinks like this, Yun Duruo should think the same way.
I know my own state very well, but now no one believes it, the butcher asked, my previous firmness is slowly dissipating, I have not rested for many days, I subtly admit that everything last night was an illusion under pressure and heavy load.
"Hand over the work in hand, and I'll give you leave." The butcher buried his head in his papers, his voice full of concern, and he could be heard to be hiding it, and when I turned around, he said sternly behind him. "Remember who you are, I don't want to hear anything from you that shouldn't be said."
Leaving the butcher's office, I understood the meaning of his words, if what I said was spread, it would be a lie, confusing the public, and it would affect the investigation of the case, not to mention that I was a forensic doctor, and even misled the direction of the investigation of the case.
I went to wash my face to make myself sober, and when I came out, I saw Yun Duruo waiting for me on the bench in the corridor, and when I came out, I stood up and walked over, I went to the rooftop in distraught, and she followed silently.
I lit a cigarette and took a deep breath, rubbing my forehead was really tired, the wind from the rooftop was blowing on my face that had not yet been wiped dry, and the slightest coolness made me feel a little refreshed.
"Go back and rest, Jiang Ju is also for your good, at least it is proved from the videotape that there were other people in the room on the night of Zhang Songlin's death." Yun Duruo said softly beside me.
I leaned my hands on the guardrail, took a deep puff of my cigarette, and looked into the distance for a long time.
"I really saw it."
"The video is only thirty-two minutes long." Yun Duruo paused for a moment after speaking, and said comfortingly. "I'm too tired Sometimes I will be in a trance, it's normal to see dazzling eyes, there was no light in the dissection room last night, and you look at the screen alone for a long time, it may be visual fatigue."
"That's not all I've seen." I turned my head to look at Yun Duruo.
"What else do you see?" Yun Duruo asked curiously.
"I saw a bloody woman's face in the video, and then the screen turned off." I took a deep breath and replied vividly. "Then I saw myself in the reflection of the screen...... Also, there's a woman standing behind me! ”
"Woman?!" Yun Duruo was a little puzzled and at a loss. "What woman?"
I shook my head and told her that there was only a complete female corpse on the third dissecting table behind me, and the more serious I was, the more I had problems in Yun Duruo's eyes, and the concern in her eyes slowly turned into anxiety.
"I'm fine, maybe I'm really tired." I smiled faintly and dropped the cigarette butt in my hand to the ground. "The butcher has given me a vacation, just a few days away, if you need anything to inspect, you can contact Chu Tianqi directly, he can also help you."
I went in turn to comfort Yun Duruo, at least this would make her think that I was normal, Yun Duruo's expression was not relieved by my pretense of relaxation, I persuaded her many times before she left.
I've been standing alone on the rooftop for a long time, and I've never cared about anything outside of my duties, but before I knew it, I was caught up in this case.
The butcher asked me to find out the reason for Zhang Songlin's suicide for him, whether the butcher wanted to sharpen me, or whether the butcher was just just curious, just like whether I saw those weird pictures last night, it doesn't matter to me now-
I can't wait to know the truth of this case, I sorted out the work in hand and handed it over to Chu Tianqi, I am relieved to have him in forensic identification, maybe I can think better in a different environment.
When I got off work, I deliberately went to the criminal police team to find Yun Duruo, and wanted to get a copy of all the information about Zhang Songlin's case, and the colleague on duty told me that Yun Duruo had something to do and left early, I was a little stunned, this is not like her usual style.
After getting the file of Zhang Songlin's case, I went to the corner to take the bus, when the red light I looked out of the window casually, not far away in a black luxury Mercedes-Benz I saw Yun Duruo, she smiled and talked to the people around her, I noticed that the person used his hand to help her pull the low long hair behind her ears, very intimate movements, at a glance I knew that the relationship between the two was not ordinary.
Yun Duruo happened to look at me when she looked out the window, her expression was very calm, and she even nodded slightly to me, I was a little embarrassed to avoid her gaze, the person next to her should have been attracted by her movements, revealing an indifferent face from the side, and her bright head still disgusted me.
Yun Duruo sat next to the prince, I remember that night he told me that his Dharma name is Liudao, Han Yu said that the prince is a real Buddhist lay disciple who broke through Muren Lane, presumably the newly opened bar is also his.
A gang boss with a strange identity, a jealous and hateful criminal police captain, I never know how Bai Yun Duruo could be with the prince, but judging from these two contacts, their relationship is deeper than I imagined, at least Yun Duruo smiled casually in front of the prince.
When the light was green, the bus I was sitting in was separated from Yun Duruo's car at the fork in front of me, and I subconsciously looked back at the car that quickly disappeared from sight, and my heart was a little messy