17. Amnesia
I didn't dare to take the puppet too far, and after only half a block we turned across the street, and then started interrogating the puppet on the side of the street - when I broke off the arm and leg of the puppet with the knife and left the elevator in the hotel, the puppet that had threatened to "kill me" was suddenly turned into a lifeless piece of wood, so I guessed that the puppets might have a certain range of motion, and if they went beyond that range, they would die.
I don't know if my analysis is correct, but the puppet is still alive, because its head is always turning, and it is looking in the direction of the community's gate.
"Where did you tie up Mao Xiankang's wife? Hurry up! If you don't say anything, I'll burn you! I tried to threaten the puppet in a tough tone.
"You weishenme want to get in our way? We're helping you find Mao. The puppet's answer was very calm, its hands and feet were still suppressed by us, but it didn't seem to have any intention of struggling, my arm couldn't feel its liliang at all, and its answer to my question seemed to explain why it didn't struggle.
"I used to think that you killed Mao Xiankang, so I made a wish to let you take me to him, but that was my misjudgment, so now you don't need to look for it, you should also release his wife and children quickly!" I said.
"The wish has been received, and it must be fulfilled." The puppet replied stubbornly.
"Okay, I know your rules, if you want to cancel this wish, you have to use another wish, then give me half a day, and I'll make a wish to cancel this wish tomorrow, so you biedong Mao Xiankang's wife and children, this is always okay, right?" I compromised.
"Mao Xiankang, he will appear, he will definitely be." The puppet didn't answer my question explicitly, but its meaning was very clear - Mao Xiankang's wife and children couldn't let go.
"If you're so stubborn, then I'll have to burn you!" I threatened again.
"Yes, it really doesn't affect the wishes." The puppet's answer was very calm.
Everything is the same as we expected, we all know that it is very easy to catch a puppet and catch a puppet, but how to make a wooden lump open is a big problem.
I have seen many methods of coercing confessions, but no matter Zhang Yuchi's violence, Chang Le's perverted torture, or Qiao Wei's spending money, these tricks don't seem to work on puppets.
I don't have any tricks, and I can only stretch my hands and shrug my shoulders at Qiao Wei here, "I don't have a move, what about you?" Is there any way to do it? ”
"All I can think of is throwing it in the fire, and I really don't think there is any weakness in these things. What about you? Li Xiang, you are a puppet, you should always know something that puppets are afraid of, right? weaknesses and the like. Qiao Wei looked at Li Xiang and said.
"Me? The puppet's weakness? Two big brothers, don't make such jokes with me, what are the weaknesses of the puppets, I don't know, if you are thirsty, let me buy you some water, I can do it, don't give me this kind of work to come up with ideas. Li Xiang said.
"Isn't it always what you do with your brain? Thunder, you think! Qiao Wei threw the damn life back to me.
I scratched my head several times, but my head was completely empty, and there was no way to deal with it.
Threatening a puppet? This kind of thing was a joke from the beginning!
"Huh? That's right! "I suddenly realized something that I had completely overlooked.
"What's right?" Qiao Wei also wondered.
"We've been thinking about where these puppets tied up Mao Xiankang's wife and children just now, and we've been thinking that if we don't ask where Mao Xiankang's wife and children are, they are likely to die, but this kind of thing is impossible to ask, and there is no point in forcing these puppets to ask! Instead of pondering these, it is better to focus on Mao Xiankang! Will he weishenme disappear? Where will he go? weishenme, these puppets want to use the method of kidnapping Mao Xiankang's wife and children to force him to show up? I said.
"It seems that if you want to force someone out, you will use your family as a threat, right?" Qiao Wei said.
"Yes, that's how it is played in the movies. But there must be a big premise for doing this, the other party knows that Mao Xiankang took the initiative to hide, and he also knows that Mao Xiankang will pay attention to his family while hiding, otherwise this kind of intimidation will be meaningless. ”
"Well, that makes sense, you go ahead." Qiao Wei nodded.
"Let's ...... No, I thought Mao Xiankang had been killed by the puppet. But the actual situation is not like this, Mao Xiankang should have hid by himself. Before, I asked Mao Xiankang to go to the police to ask about Chen Jiawen, and he still behaved as usual here, but then he disappeared, I think something special must have happened to the police, so he chose to disappear. ”
"Then let's go to the police station and ask?"
"Well, that's what I thought." I looked at Li Xiang and said, "You send the puppet back to the gift shop, and then guard it with it, if Mao Xiankang really comes home, you can call the two of us, and we will go to the police station now." ”
"Oh, that's no problem! But what if this puppet wants to kill Uncle Kang? Li Xiang asked.
I thought about it for a moment, and then looked at the bare puppet hand that we caught, "My wish is for them to take me to see Mao Xiankang, not to let Mao Xiankang die, so it shouldn't be a big problem." But be prepared, get a longer metal stick or something. In addition, there are so many policemen in Mao Xiankang's family, if the puppet wants to kill someone, the police will also take action, you don't have to be afraid. ”
"Good! Leave it to me here! Li Xiang nodded very confidently.
Although this guy is not very old, he gives me a very confident feeling, and it should be no problem to hand over this matter to him.
Later, Li Xiang took the puppet back to the gift shop, and Qiao Wei and I went to the nearest police station to Mao Xiankang's house to inquire about the situation.
I still didn't go to the police station, I just waited outside for the results.
Qiao Wei went in for a full hour before coming out, and as soon as he came back, he said to me with a solemn expression: "Mao Xiankang has been here, and I have seen something special." ”
"What's special?"
"Remember the thugs Mao Xiankang mentioned?" Qiao Wei asked.
"Well, remember, he said he saw it on the news. Isn't this the thug you lied before? It doesn't seem like a lie, puppet thug. I said.
"Don't worry about whether I lie or not, the problem now is that the police are lying!"
Qiao Wei really gave an answer that surprised me.
"The police are lying? What do you mean? ”
"The police have the surveillance video of the hotel that day, and they all saw it, it was the puppet who was killing people, and they also saw the process of the two of us escaping from the puppet chase! However, the process was so weird that they chose not to disclose the fact of the puppet killing, and only said that it was a mob attack according to the statement I provided earlier. ”
"Did they show you the footage?"
"Well, they recognized me, and then the captain in charge of investigating the case also came over on purpose, so it took a bit of time."
"Oh, what about Mao Xiankang?"
"I heard from those policemen that Mao Xiankang also saw the surveillance video at that time, it seems that he has a lot of connections, and he also has friends in the police station, and now the police go to his house because his police friends also received kidnapping text messages. According to the police, Mao Xiankang had a strange expression when he saw the surveillance video, as if his head was hurting, and then ran out of the police station. ”
"Holy! Could it be that Mao Xiankang suddenly remembered something, right? I said.
"Remembering something about puppets?"
"Hmm." I nodded, "Do you think it's possible, Mao Xiankang once used that box to make a wish, a very terrible wish, and then the living puppet helped him realize it, but Mao Xiankang also suffered a big blow because of this wish, so he selectively forgot about it, just like amnesia, he also forgot about the living puppet." But after seeing the surveillance video, the memory that he had forgotten remembered again, so he chose to disappear. ”
"I'm not very willing to make this kind of speculation, but ......" Qiao Wei looked at me seriously and nodded, "You have a point, I think so too!" ”