Act VII
"Officer Chen, what's going on?" I immediately got up from my chair." Is this place really a restaurant? ”
"Dr. Xiao, what are these words, you also saw it. Which one of the people who came here wasn't having lunch? If it's not a restaurant, can it still be a bathhouse? Chen Xue and the waiter said that they would come back later, turned their heads and said as a matter of course.
"Then I'll put it another way, are the people who eat here all ordinary people?" I stared straight into her eyes.
Now that the stakes are high, I don't have time to take care of Chen Xue's identity and gender. This place is not a simple place like a restaurant at all, what is the purpose of her bringing me here? I do believe that there should be no danger to my life in broad daylight, and Wang Dazui is also there. But in this way, it was definitely not as simple as eating when she brought me to this place.
Chen Xue's movements stiffened slightly, although it was very small, I still noticed it. Sure enough, I guessed correctly, although I didn't see a single one wearing a police uniform along the way, I can't be wrong that most of the people here are police. Chen Xue's reaction made me confirm this.
"Dr. Xiao is really not simple, I really don't know how you found out." Chen Xue said admiringly. "You also know what the police in the city are capable of. Most of the people here are criminal police officers of the criminal investigation team, and their ability to hide their identities can be imagined. In the eyes of people who do not have sufficiently strong anti-reconnaissance capabilities, they are completely indistinguishable from ordinary people. ”
No difference? In my opinion, the difference is heavenly, and I still have a lot of contact with people who work as criminal policemen, and their habits at work will always be brought into life to a greater or lesser extent, which cannot be hidden.
Take the two people at the top of my staircase, the one on the left didn't even relax a little after eating, his eyes seemed to be looking at the dining table, but he was actually unconsciously looking around. The spoon on the right is almost the same as holding a gun.
Of course, this indication alone does not mean that the people here are all police, and criminals may also have this habit. There is a decisive factor in why I think they are all police officers. It's the mental state of all of them, I hardly feel any negative emotions, and none of them have turned "blue".
It is impossible to commit a crime in this state of mind, and it seems to me that this place is so glowing that I can't open my eyes. I've been to quite a few other restaurants in the city, and none of them are so bright.
In the end, there was only one possibility, and most of the diners here were police.
"What did you bring me here for? If I want to see the police, I just go to the police station. Is watching a group of plainclothes people eating here add to my psychological pressure? I asked, dissatisfied.
"Dr. Xiao is really thinking too much, the reason why there are so many police officers here. The reason is very simple, and it is not specially arranged for you. To put it mildly, Dr. Xiao, you are indeed very good professionally, but it is not so valuable for us to mobilize so many police forces. ”
"Team Chen didn't say it, you kid takes himself too seriously." Wang Dazui interjected. "As for what's going on, let me explain it to you."
Since they all said so, I had to sit back patiently. But when I thought that almost all the people around me were police, I couldn't help but think about running out. Although I am not a criminal and my criminal record is clean, the police in this city are different. Sometimes being targeted by them is more terrible than being collected by the gangsters
After that, Wang Dazui began to talk endlessly, and he was still the same as before, and he couldn't close the conversation box as soon as he was blocked, and he began to complain about how hard they were working now. How do you ask them, they can't go home every day. Knowing that Chen Xue coughed deliberately, he began to get down to business.
The reason why there are so many policemen here is as Chen Xue said, it is indeed very simple, these policemen are really here to eat. Although there is no outside life, this is actually the canteen of the entire city's police. Every year there is a special allocation from above, so they will give the police a very large discount, and the discount is almost the same as eating for nothing.
Because of the cheap price and the good taste, it naturally attracts a large number of police officers to patronize it.
"Especially for our criminal police, we often see blood in our work. Most people have no appetite, and some newcomers will reflexively vomit when they see meat. That's why we all come to this vegetarian restaurant often, it tastes good and can also arouse our appetite. Chen Xue explained to me.
"So that's the case, then I can really understand you, you have to deal with that kind of bloody case at every turn, and it's normal to have no appetite." From the look on her face, I didn't feel like she was lying. And for good reason, I slowly let my guard down.
"Now that the problem is solved, can we eat?" Chen Xue clapped her hands and said bluntly. "To be honest, we didn't eat anything when we woke up in the morning, and now we're really hungry."
After saying this, she didn't care about my thoughts and called the waiter over again. Once again, the menu was delivered to me, and I flipped through a few pages and found that the menu was quite complete, but the price was unacceptable. With my salary, I can't necessarily afford to come once a month.
"Doctor Xiao doesn't have to think about it so much, this time we invite you, just order. And we don't have to spend a lot of money, and for us police, everything on the menu here is a discount. Chen Xue seemed to see my hesitation.
I have no reason to shirk when she says this, they brought me to this place inexplicably, and if I don't have a good meal, I won't lose a lot.
Although it is a vegetarian restaurant, it is not only supported by the government that it is famous in the city. They do have more dishes than they have a reputation. It is said that it is the ingredients, but the menu has many names of meat dishes. For example, red stewed lion's head, abalone or something. I was a little strange at first, but Chen Xue told me not to worry, all the dishes here are vegan.
I didn't believe it, ordered a few "meat dishes", and left the rest to Chen Xue to deal with.
After ordering, the waiter ordered the menu and left. The efficiency of the kitchen here is really high, and it didn't take long for us to have all the dishes ready.
I looked at the dazzling dining table and didn't know how to put my mouth for a while. Especially the few "meat dishes" I ordered, no matter how I look at them, they are definitely meat, is this really a vegetarian restaurant? I'm a little skeptical.
"It seems that Dr. Xiao still doesn't believe me, so I'll explain it briefly. For example, the abalone in front of you, which is actually made of white mushrooms, don't believe you to taste it, although the taste is somewhat similar, but it is definitely a vegetarian dish. Chen Xue said.
Looking at Wang's big mouth, which had already begun to gobble, I sighed helplessly and had to pick up the chopsticks. After taking the first bite, I believed that what Chen Xue said was true, all the dishes here are vegetarian, the chef must have been well trained, and I really ate some of the original dishes of those "meat dishes". I can't help but admire the chefs here.
After Chen Xue herself was sure that I could eat well, she didn't say anything more, and ate herself. For a long time, I didn't mention the purpose of being here, just a small talk between the two of us.
After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, I finally couldn't bear it anymore
"Officer Chen, can you explain to me now the real reason for looking for me?" I said as I looked him in the eye. Although I don't know how to deal with the opposite sex, Chen Xue is more of a criminal policeman than a woman, so I can naturally calm down and talk to her.
"Well, at this point, I can't explain anything anymore." Chen Xue elegantly wiped her mouth with a napkin. "We're looking for you to help you investigate something."
I've finally told you why, but it's no different from what I did for the police before, right?
"Is that for this? Then don't bother Officer Chen to come to me in person, right? I put down my chopsticks and said. It shouldn't be that simple. "Like the previous times, it would be nice to call me to the police. I'm not a suspect, you don't have any concerns about startling snakes, do you? ”
The police in the city have a strong sense of justice, but they are also tough in their methods. If you are not directly involved, they will never come to you specifically, and ordinary witnesses or co-operators are just a phone call. If you don't, you won't be so polite when they come to you, and their attitude will definitely give you the illusion that you are actually the suspect.
Therefore, for a long time, no one in this city dared to throw a big card with the police, let alone commit perjury. This is a very extreme city, black and white, institutionally, and even more so in people's hearts.
This is the main reason for choosing to work here, it is simply a paradise for all kinds of extreme emotions for a person who studies psychology, and it is the best place to study. When I first came to this city, I was very excited, and I even felt the urge to settle here completely.
"We can't take you to the police." Wang Dazui suddenly said something that made me feel puzzled.
Can't let me go to the police? I'm a very suspicious person, and as soon as they say this, they can't help but make me nervous, what is this going to do? Can't they do what they want to do for others to know?
"Officer Chen, what's going on? Please explain it to me. I feigned composure.
If the two of them really want to hide something from above, I can't sit idly by. From now on, I have been directly implicated, and it is too late to get out.
I had sensed a lot of precursors to events, but I didn't try to stop them. The reason is simple, I have no responsibility to stop these things, and they have nothing to do with me. Besides, I don't have the ability to stop them from happening, I'm just an ordinary psychiatrist, helpless. In the past, it was in vain, and if it was called, it would simply be ignored, because the police station would receive more than a dozen such calls a day.
At first, they take it seriously, but gradually it doesn't matter, because the credibility is so low. Because of the previous assistance, I got to know a lot of criminal police, and what they told me was not fake, and I could clearly judge it.
They're really too busy to confirm that there's no credible information, and there's so much they need to deal with.
There are almost no police officers who act alone without the help of their colleagues, and they have little time to act alone. However, this kind of common sense has to be reconsidered here by Chen Xue, because she is not an ordinary policeman, she has a certain degree of power, and it is not impossible to do something secretly.
So breaking the law is no exception, and if she wants to do it, no one will really doubt her. I don't think the two of them would do that, but there's a chance in everything, and I don't think anyone will be able to do it. Someone who has been well disguised, or hypnotized, is still very likely to have deceived me.
"Doctor Xiao, it seems that you are overly concerned, we will not do anything dangerous." Chen Xue noticed that I had suddenly raised my vigilance, and immediately spoke out to comfort me. "We just care about one thing, and we hope that Dr. Xiao will solve it with us. And it's not that this matter is completely unrelated to you. ”
"What do you mean by that?" I suddenly felt unusually dry in my throat, picked up the teacup and took a sip and asked.
"Zeyu, let me explain it to you." Wang Dazui said.
This is Chen Xue stretched out a hand to stop Wang Dazui, and her expression was very serious. This stunned the two of us. This made me think that she had noticed some danger here, and immediately tensed the muscles all over my body. Wang Dazui thought that something was going to happen, and immediately reflexively went to pull out the gun.
"Team Chen, what's wrong with you?" Wang Dazui asked cautiously. "Isn't there anyone crazy trying to make trouble here?"
"No, I just want to say that I'll explain it myself." Chen Xue asked Wang Dazui to calm down.
Then don't make that kind of expression all of a sudden, I thought to myself.
"What's wrong? Is there anything wrong with that? Wang Dazui said strangely.
Chen Xue exhaled lightly, "Wang Keqiang, do you think we have plenty of time?" ”
"It shouldn't be a lot, right, there are still a lot of cases in the bureau? Team Chen, what do you ask for? Wang said with a big mouth.
"That's why I can't let you come, what time is it? Just let you explain, you gave me Lang an hour! She glared at the king sternly.
After that, until we walked out of the vegetarian restaurant, he remained silent like a little daughter-in-law who had been severely reprimanded. And Chen Xue explained to me a good way, and they came to me to commission the incident.
After listening to it, I realized that this matter really can't be said to have nothing to do with me. From Chen Xue's mouth, I heard a name that I have often seen recently, Chu Tianxiong.
I was very surprised when I first heard the name, he was a patient who had been coming to our treatment center recently, and I was the psychiatrist in charge of him. I don't like to call them patients, I always think that psychological problems can't be called a disease, it's more like a social state than a disease, it's not very contagious, and everyone's origins are different.
That's why I call them guests. I'm a researcher, and they're my subjects. It may sound scary, but I certainly don't use them for experiments, just to observe their behavior. Start by researching their behavior and finally finding ways to help them.
I'm not going to treat my guests like my colleagues like they do. Although I don't like Chu Tianxiong as a person, I have been dutifully treating him recently.
And the thing that Chen Xue entrusted me to assist has a lot to do with Chu Tianxiong, an old employee of an advertising company. And she also told me another thing that I was very concerned about, the girl who committed suicide in our treatment center yesterday was none other than this Chu Tianxiong's daughter!
Again, as I said before, a large part of the people who commit suicide in our area are family members of patients who don't have any problems themselves. After all this time, this kind of thing is happening again.
I suddenly remembered that recently, Chu Tianxiong's phobia has become more and more frequent, does this have anything to do with his daughter? Every time I asked him about his family situation, he flickered. When I think about it, I asked him any questions, and he didn't answer me directly. In retrospect, this is very suspicious indeed.
I can't do anything about this kind of person who doesn't say anything. I can deduce that he is definitely hiding it from me, and I can know the general thoughts in his mind at the time, but I really can't help about his memory. I wouldn't have known if he hadn't told me what had happened to me.
Recently, I can only watch his symptoms get worse and worse
"It's just that you don't need to come to me for this kind of thing, right?" I said. "We don't have one or two suicides from family members there. Officer Chen should know what we were called on the Internet, right? And I haven't seen how much you police care before. ”
"You're right, and this time is no exception. The higher-ups still didn't care about this suicide, so I didn't take you to the police station. Chen Xue sighed softly.
"So you're coming to me on your own?" I asked.
"Yes, there are still many doubts in this case. But the people above didn't take what I said seriously at all, and I wanted to take people to investigate deeply, but they took them as neurotic. She said viciously, and the tablecloth on the table was crumpled in a large piece.
"Suspicious? Officer Chen is too worried, right? That girl is completely suicidal, what is the doubt. "I feel a little depressed by Chen Xue's strange attachment. During this period of contact, I can clearly find that she is not a conspiracy theorist, but is very open to everything, although she is a little persistent
"Indeed, there is no doubt that the girl committed suicide." Chen Xue raised her head and looked into my eyes. "So I said a long time ago, the focus of the problem is not on this girl at all, it is on Chu Tianxiong!"
"What do you mean? Did he say anything? I asked.
"If you go with him once, you will know that what he said really cares me about. That's why I wanted to hear from you, who are his psychiatrist. She said.