Detective Files II

Chapter 60

[It’s a little late today, I went to the airport to send my friend back home in the early hours of yesterday, I didn’t sleep all night, so I was groggy all day yesterday, today’s update is delivered while it’s hot~]

Zhao Jiping showed no resistance to the request for a DNA test. He didn't know whether he was afraid that his failure to cooperate would cause more suspicions for no reason, or he was confident that he had nothing to do with this matter.

An Changpu took away Zhao Jiping, and only Tian Mi and Lu Xiangdong were left. Tian Mi endured all the questions before, and only waited for Zhao Jiping to ask when Zhao Jiping was not present. Now, her ideal time came.

"How did you do it?" Tian Mi looked at Lu Xiangdong in confusion.

"What and how?"

"It's just that Zhao Jiping insisted that it was the first time he met Qiao Qiong that day. How did you make him suddenly change his mouth and tell the truth?"

"flashback."

"I know you asked him to recount how he met Qiao Qiong that day. This is what I don't understand the most. Why does this make him obediently tell the truth?"

Tian Mi is puzzled by this point. Zhao Jiping's behavior can be said to be very cunning from the beginning to the end. He always lies, and then calmly uses another half-truth and half-false lie after the lie is exposed. Poked before going to prevaricate.With his behavior like this, and wanting to put aside the relationship with Qiao Qiong, and wanting him to admit that he and Qiao Qiong are old acquaintances, Tian Mi has long been mentally prepared to accompany him around the corner, but he did not expect that at this moment Closing his head, Zhao Jiping let go so easily.

The crux of the matter is that if Lu Xiangdong hadn't forced Zhao Jiping to admit the fact that he and Qiao Qiong had met in a short period of time, thus disrupting his original plan, he couldn't justify the lie in a hurry, and he would have been caught by them in the later questioning process. The three took advantage of the loophole.

"The key lies in flashbacks." Lu Xiangdong usually likes to have a vicious tongue, and takes pleasure in it, but when it comes to things like investigating cases, he makes a 180-degree turn, neither venomous nor secretive. , What to say, what to ask and what to answer: "Before I asked him to tell the process of the two people getting acquainted that day, when Zhao Jiping first talked about the reason for going to the party that day, he was recalling, but when he said When a group of people were playing truth or dare, his eyes involuntarily shifted to the left, and I speculate that there may be discrepancies between the scene he said next and what actually happened that day."

"Why?" Tian Mi was a layman after all, and was puzzled by the seemingly ordinary details in Lu Xiangdong's mouth.

Lu Xiangdong also understood this, so he didn't think she was dull: "It's very simple. The division of labor between the left and right brains is different. You should have some common sense about this, right?"

"I know, the left brain controls the right body, and the right brain controls the left body!" Tian Mi thought she had answered the question correctly, but when she finished speaking, Lu Xiangdong shook her head, and immediately became confused: "I should remember correctly, why, no Is it?"

"It's not wrong, it's just that I didn't answer the point. What we are dealing with now is not the body, but the mind."

"Then I don't know." Tian Mi spread her hands and said that she really didn't know much about it.

Lu Xiangdong had no choice but to explain to her from the root: "The division of labor between the left and right brains of people can basically be summarized as the left brain is responsible for facts, and the right brain is responsible for fantasy. In other words, the left brain is rigid and the right brain is flexible. , All real memories and logical judgments are issued by the left brain, and the right brain is responsible for emotion, creation and imagination.”

"Oh, I remembered! People rely on the right brain to dream, and the left brain to read, so people can't read when they are dreaming!" Tian Mi was inspired, and remembered the relevant materials she had seen before, and couldn't help it. He interjected, and realized that he had strayed off topic after he finished speaking. He felt a little embarrassed, and quickly said to Lu Xiangdong with an apologetic smile: "It's getting too far, you go on, you go on!"

"You also said just now that the left and right brains control the limbs on the opposite side respectively." Lu Xiangdong didn't care about her digression, and then brought the question back to the case itself: "When Zhao Jiping recalled what happened that day, everything was normal, but when When it comes to the middle part of the game, the movement of his eyes reveals his brain activity, and it can be seen that he is trying to integrate the fictional plot of the right brain into the real situation of the day."

"And then you interrupted him without giving him a chance to make it up."

"Yeah, and then I let him flash back."

"After talking for a long time, you still haven't told me the reason for the flashback!"

Tian Mi rested her chin in one hand, frowned and looked at Lu Xiangdong intently, with inexplicable confusion in her eyes.

Lu Xiangdong explained unhurriedly: "People have such a rule. The first is that when narrating the facts, it is easy to tell the story forward, but it is difficult to tell the story backwards. If you ask a person about a certain experience in reverse, he needs to recall it. The second situation is that for a long-fabricated and well-known lie, it is easy to narrate and flashback, because if a person wants to fabricate a lie that is not easy to be seen through, he must repeatedly consider, sort out, and fill in. Loopholes, a lie that has been scrutinized by oneself, often has a very deep memory, so no matter whether it is said forward or backward, it is memorized, as if it has recited the text a hundred times."

"Then the third situation is Zhao Jiping's on-the-spot knitting?" Hearing this, Tian Mi seemed to have vaguely understood something in her heart, but it was not very clear.

"Yes," Lu Xiangdong said, "for someone like Zhao Jiping who is cunning, clever and good at buying time for himself, if he is allowed to tell the story in a normal chronological order, he can make up false parts while going through the facts of the day from the beginning. And it's got a chance to tease the whole thing into a logical place. If he did that, we'd be pretty passive, but flashbacks are different."

"I seem to understand." Tian Mi muttered as if she had an epiphany.

"Then tell me."

"If you ask Zhao Jiping to tell the story backwards, if he wants to justify himself, he has to recall the situation of the day in reverse, and at the same time mix in the lie. In this way, the thinking time required will become very long, because he only needs to tell the truth. It takes time to recall, but when he lies, he still needs time to smooth out the logical relationship, which is basically impossible when facing us and sitting in the interrogation room."

"Yes, that's what it means." Lu Xiangdong affirmed Tian Mi's understanding, and added: "Give you a predetermined beginning and an end, let you make up a story, and it will be easier for you to complete it, but if you are under the same conditions , let you make up the story from the end to the beginning, and you will find that when you make up most of the story backwards, the beginning has already changed beyond recognition, and there is no way to justify it.”

(End of this chapter)