Only you are so different

Chapter 20
Are there any feelings that are eternal?If there is, it must not be love.

Indifferently watching the clear water slip through her fingers, taking away the thick and bright red blood, she raised her head to look at her face in the mirror.

It was a youthful face, but the fine lines at the corners of the eyes and the pale and swollen bags under the eyes told of her exhaustion at the moment.

She thought of that person, the person who gave her strength with gentle and wise words in the pure black chat room.

And his deep, elegant, and bewitching voice, so beautiful, so broad, it was he who gave her the courage to act... ended a love affair that had hurt her so much with his own hands.

Now, she no longer has to worry about her lover's lies and deceit, and she doesn't have to struggle with specious feelings. Every minute and every second is like walking in a tormenting hell.

She suddenly laughed in a low voice, and the sound of splashing water from the faucet covered her deep sneer.

Outside the window is the city's bustling and noisy traffic. The lights are just on, and the city's night has just begun. No one except her knows what happened here.

Su Xiuran had a not-so-good dream. He is not a dreamer, but perhaps thanks to his overpowering reasoning ability, even in his subconscious dream, the details and logical connections are very realistic.

So he doesn't like to dream, because once in a dream, there will always be a strange reality.

For example, this time, he clearly knew that this was probably a dream, and there was a voice in his head reminding him not to indulge in it, but he was still a little suffocated by the overwhelming sense of reality.

In the dream, he did not suffer from the disease eight years ago, he is still the leader of the Shenyue Group, living a cold and lonely life for many years.

In order to punish himself for the mistakes he made in his younger brother's love affair, he never fell in love and got married until two years ago... Two years ago, like his father, he chose a good-looking man from among the newcomers who stood out from the group. A beautiful woman, started a routine pursuit, and married her.

This woman was naturally Lin Mei. In her dream, she did not go to study in City B. After graduating from university, she naturally stayed in her hometown of City S to become an urban white-collar worker.

Because of the absence of the influence of "Su Xiu", she did not engage in the book industry, but applied to Shenyue Group and became a corporate copywriter.

Because he was so busy with work that he almost exhausted his energy, he naturally didn't care much about Lin Mei's pursuit. It was nothing more than being decent, sincere and thoughtful, and nothing else.

In any case, Lin Mei agreed to marry him, and the two got married in the solemn and solemn cathedral, and lived a married life of mutual respect.

However, deep down in his heart, he knew that Lin Mei in this dream did not love him... She married him, perhaps because she thought he had superior conditions, or because she was under the pressure of being pursued by her boss, but the exact reason was unknown. , she married him, but did not love him.

When he realized this, he felt a sharp pain in his chest, just like the feeling he felt when he got sick eight years ago.

He had no choice but to stand on the sidelines. In the dream, Lin Mei was like a mother to her father, speaking to him seemingly intimate but stylized words.

She was so much a mirror image of her mother that in the dream, they got along well—she even got along well with Xiuyan.

Occasionally, he would see her chatting with Xiuyan somewhere in the house, and she would show a lively expression that would never show in front of him in the dream, and they would sit opposite each other, talking and laughing, and there was no room for him to intervene .

In the dream, he became more silent, and the people who were sleeping with him were getting farther and farther away from him, but he didn't take any remedial measures as if he didn't notice it at all.

Finally one day, Lin Mei calmly said at the breakfast table: "I think we should divorce."

Sitting at the other end of the table, he subconsciously raised his hand and pressed his chest, raised his head and smiled politely at her: "Okay."

All marriages will not end as beautifully and simply as they did at the beginning. They each hired a lawyer and signed various documents over and over again for the division of various properties.

He knew that she was not a greedy person, and her request conveyed by her attorney was also to go through the divorce procedures as soon as possible.

She wanted to be relieved quickly. From the day she filed for divorce, she moved out of the mansion to live alone. It seemed that every minute she stayed with him was a kind of torture for her.

He gradually realized her attitude towards him, and also understood the resentment and hatred under her calm eyes.

She didn't know that her indifference and disgust made him feel as painful as Ling Chi.

No matter how many documents there are, there will always be a day when they are signed. When they are about to officially sign the divorce agreement, the first conflict in history finally broke out between them.

That was when he came home from work ahead of schedule, only to find that she had already moved out of the house, sitting in the living room chatting with Xiuyan, and her suitcase was still placed by the door. He left quietly before returning home.

Seeing him appearing in the living room, both Xiuyan and she were surprised, neither of them obviously expected that he would come back early, each stood up with unnatural expressions.

He was controlled by the sudden strong jealousy, and said coldly: "If Miss Lin is willing, she can marry into Su's family for a second time, I don't mind."

He never thought that he could say such vicious words—the information contained in those words, with so much resentment and insulting speculation, made him feel scared.

After he finished saying this, he couldn't help taking a step back, as if he could use this to escape the fact that he lost his composure.

But it was too late, she looked at him in surprise, and then she was furious: "You are so shameless! I thought you were at least an honest gentleman!"

She said angrily, looking at him with contempt and hatred: "Su Xiuran, you are simply a freak! Even a robot is more human than you! The thing I regret the most is marrying you! "

He opened and closed his lips in vain, trying to explain, but found that he couldn't find any reasonable words. Could it be that he was jealous that his brother got along well with his soon-to-be divorced wife?
Then why, as a husband, he couldn't get along with her emotionally?Why did he and her have such a relationship like strangers?

Everything still stems from his dereliction of duty and mistakes - if he hadn't started a marriage so utilitarianly, if he could have tried his best to remedy it when he noticed her coldness, if he had been concerned about this relationship earlier Put more effort and effort into...

But there are no assumptions anymore, he still lost her... And he has to add an even worse memory to this sad fact - when she leaves him, she will think of him for the rest of her life, and all she will think of will be him Today's ugly face.

The severe pain in his chest made him unable to breathe gradually, and his vision became uncontrollably blurred. He raised his head with all his strength, only to see Xiuyan and her standing there as if stunned, only a few meters away from him. A place that is just a step away, but never reachable.

The body slid down with the darkness in front of him, and the last consciousness in the dream was his thought: If this is the case, this time I hope he will sleep forever, besides his mother and younger brother, maybe there will be one more person .

It was Lin Mei's voice that pulled him back from his dream to reality. She whispered anxiously in his ear: "Xiu Ran! Xiu Ran!"

Even though she was burning with anxiety, she still lowered her voice, fearing that the noise would make him too uncomfortable.

He took a strong breath out of control, and only slightly got rid of the feeling of being on the verge of suffocation. There was still a bit of tingling in his throat and a faint smell of rust. He couldn't help coughing a few times, trying to focus his scattered eyes .

Lin Mei saw that his eyes had recovered, so she raised her hand in shock to stroke his chest, and wiped off the cold sweat from his forehead along the way: "Xiu Ran, what's wrong with you?"

Judging from the dim light leaking from the thick curtains that it was only early in the morning, he gasped for a while before speaking hoarsely: "I'm fine, probably the nightmare has arrived."

His hands were still tightly pressed against his chest, but the severe pain in his chest was gone, replaced by bursts of palpitations and a slightly violent heartbeat.

Lin Mei was still in shock, kissed the corners of his whitish lips, and then pointed to a lump of things around him, and said, somewhat dumbfounded: "I guess it's the punishment from the lord, just now I heard When you were breathing too heavily, when you opened your eyes, you saw the Lord pressing on your chest and neck... Fortunately, I quickly pushed it away."

The fluffy thing nestling beside him was naturally Chunshen Jun. Hearing that he was being called, it still lay lazily and turned over to reveal its belly.

Su Xiuran looked at it from the side, and was speechless for a moment, Chunshen Jun weighed a full eight kilograms, and such a big and hairy mass was pressing on his chest, no wonder he would have such painful nightmares.

If Lin Mei and Su Xiuran needed to solve any problem other than the case after returning to their villa in City B, it would be Chun Shenjun.

They walked for several days, and even asked part-time workers to feed it halfway, but they still ignored the master after all.

In addition, it was spring now, and the cats couldn't help feeling a little bit excited--and the function of the Lord Lord had long since disappeared. Hearing the cheerful calls of other wild cats outside the courtyard wall, new hatred and old hatred suddenly surged into my heart.

Well, although its function was solved by the previous pair of slaves, it does not prevent it from continuing to vent its anger on this new pair of slaves-does the Lord need to pick a date if he wants to trouble you?
So Su Xiuran and Lin Mei ushered in all kinds of difficult days, such as being woken up by squatting on their hairy buttocks in the morning, being slapped on the hand when the cat food was not put well, etc., and so on.

Chunshen Jun may have found a new way to torture people today, pressing the big cat with his chest, I am not afraid that he will not be able to deal with you, hehe.

Su Xiuran was so funny and helpless, he could only lie on his back on the bed a little bit exhausted, the heartache in the dream might just be sensory, but the suffocation was real.

His trachea is not very good, without Lin Mei sleeping beside him, he might really be crushed to death by his own cat.

Seeing that his face was still pale, Lin Mei leaned over to help him caress his chest, and thoughtfully helped him unbutton a few buttons on his pajamas.

They just did it last night before going to bed, and there were still some red marks on Su Xiuran's chest at the moment, seeing her hands fumbling into her clothes again, he smiled and held her hand: "Xiaomei , you are taking advantage of the fire."

Because he was on the verge of suffocation for a while, and the sense of powerlessness and dizziness in his body could not subside in a short time, of course Lin Mei was not so frenzied, she leaned over and kissed him on the cheek distressedly and said: "You scared me to death just now It's gone, his face is so pale, and he keeps pressing on his chest."

Hearing what she said, he seemed to have returned to the feeling in the dream: severe pain in his chest, and his mood was extremely depressed.

He quickly closed his eyes to calm himself down, Lin Mei was also a little frightened, and put her arms around his waist: "Xiu Ran, what's wrong with you? Let's call Dr. Cheng over."

Su Xiuran waited for his breathing to calm down, then opened his eyes to look at her, and smiled at her: "It's really nothing, maybe the dream is too real, and I can't pull it out for a while."

He seldom confessed that he would lose control of his emotions. In fact, Lin Mei hadn't seen him lose control of his emotions a few times in total. The time when she fainted from her anger before should count?

She quietly stuck out her tongue, leaned on his shoulder and said coquettishly: "What kind of dream is so terrible, do you want to tell me?"

Su Xiuran hugged her shoulders and patted her shoulders, then looked up at the gradually brightening sky outside the window, knowing in his heart that he might not be able to fall asleep, and thought that the dream was always about her, so he simply said what he dreamed about told her.

After Lin Mei finished listening, she hugged him in silence for a long time, and then whispered: "I love you so much, Xiu Ran."

Unexpectedly, she said such a sentence suddenly, Su Xiuran put his chin on the top of her head with some amusement, and asked, "What do you mean?"

Lin Mei put more force on his waist, the intimacy in reality was in stark contrast to the respectful guest in the dream, she said: "If I... I mean the me in your dream treats you like that, you It must be very sad in my heart, that's why I got sick, but in the end, no one understands you, just like your brother and mother didn't understand back then, even I don't understand you."

When she thought of Su Xiuran who was so sad alone in the dream that he fell ill and passed out, she felt extremely distressed, rubbed her face on his shoulder, and said, "Xiu Ran is not afraid, I love you, I have always understood you, in your life by your side."

Her tone seemed to be coaxing a child, and Su Xiuran couldn't help laughing, and said softly, "Thank you, Xiaomei."

Lin Mei thought for a moment, then said: "But I don't think the me in your dream is the real me...or it doesn't look like me."

Su Xiuran smiled and said, "How do you say that?"

Lin Mei put her hand on his chest, felt his warm body temperature and gentle heartbeat, and then said, "First of all, I will not marry someone I don't love; second, I'm very annoyed by your mother's acting , how could it be like her; third, I don’t like your brother, I just think he’s a bear, and it’s extra pleasure to bully him!” She said three reasons that sounded sufficient in one breath, and then emphasized, “Finally, the last The important point is, how could I treat you that way, the first time I saw you, I was not willing to treat you like that!"

Su Xiuran was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized something, and laughed in a low voice: "Xiaomei, are you admitting to me that you fell in love with me at first sight?"

Lin Mei smiled. Anyway, she is not afraid now, and simply admitted: "You are very attractive to me, and I have never denied it!"

As Lin Mei said, she suddenly felt that what she said was too absolute, and she continued after thinking for a while: "Perhaps the differences in the growth process and experiences will change some of my personality, but generally it will not change. It is impossible for me to be so treat you cruelly."

Su Xiuran was realistic, and asked a question directly: "Then if I'm not 'Su Xiu', would you still have a good impression of me quickly?"

This question really caught Lin Mei. She first thought about it carefully, and then cleared her throat. Su Xiuran suddenly had a bad feeling, and she heard her say: "You must still be you, but your personality You're so arrogant and coquettish, if you weren't 'Suxiu', I would still recognize your true nature, but I guess it will take some work."

Su Xiuran knew that she would have such an answer, so he could only sigh lightly, and pinched her upturned nose with his fingers: "Over the years, I have always been glad that I chose the path of writing, and now it seems that it is even more so. Thank you."

Lin Mei rubbed his fingertips affectionately, and like a kitten, she only grunted at him a few times to express her comfort. She said briskly, "Of course I'm glad that without the contemporary novels of 'Suxiu', there will be What a loss."

After she finished speaking, she suddenly proposed in a very unpleasant manner: "Master, you have also rested for a while, please read the outline of the new book and let's discuss..."

Su Xiuran glanced at her sideways, with a three-point smile on his lips, and a bit of teasing in his dark pupils: "Did no one tell you that talking about work in bed is a devil's style?"

They lay on the bed for a while, and when Su Xiuran fully recovered, they got out of bed and went downstairs.As a result, they had just had breakfast when they received a call from Zhang Yan.

After the last case was over, Zhang Yan once said that he would try not to disturb Su Xiuran and let him rest in peace.So when she saw the incoming call reminder, Lin Mei was a little surprised.

Su Xiuran answered the phone calmly, and Zhang Yan briefly explained the situation, and added: "I still have to work hard on you."

Su Xiuran laughed: "Don't be polite to me."

Seeing him hang up the phone, Lin Mei asked, "Another difficult case has arisen?"

Su Xiuran nodded, and then gave an address: "Let's go to the scene first, and then go to the branch office."

The time for the on-site blockade is limited. After hearing this, Lin Mei knew that there was no delay, so she quickly changed her clothes and went out with him.

Lin Mei drove the car all the way to a sewage treatment station near the outskirts of the city.

The huge sewage treatment pool has been blocked, and the water pump is humming nearby, trying to pump the sewage into the pool next to it, so as to expose the underwater things.

Zhang Yan stood aside, surrounded by a pile of sundries on the blue tarpaulin. In addition to the common garbage thrown into the sewage, there was also a pile of white things that were picked out.

Lin Mei walked over to take a look, and found that there were a few dark bones. The doctor Liu she had seen at the sub-bureau last time was wearing a mask and picking through the garbage with another forensic doctor. Pick these bones out.

Naturally, the smell of this kind of place is unpleasant, but Su Xiuran, who has always been obsessed with cleanliness, looked calm, walked over to look at the bones, and said, "There are skulls."

Zhang Yan folded his hands on his chest, nodded and said, "That's right, it's not this skull, maybe we can't find that it's a human bone."

Many bones in the human body are indeed not significantly different from animal bones, at least in the eyes of ordinary people who are not doctors, but the skull has obvious characteristics, even ordinary people can easily recognize that it is not an animal bone .

Lin Mei also endured the smell of the scene and squatted down to look carefully at the picked out bones. They had been separated from the flesh and bones quite cleanly, and there was no other tissue on the white bones.

Lin Mei is not a professional forensic doctor, but at least she is a fan of mystery novels and all kinds of detective knowledge. Seeing these clean bones, she couldn't help asking: "Is this not a state of natural decay?"

Dr. Liu said calmly beside him: "Judging from the damage of the bone surface membrane, these are treated with high temperature."

Hearing this sentence, and looking at the fragments of bones that were so scattered that even non-professional forensic doctors might not be able to pick them out, Lin Mei suddenly shuddered a bit after thinking about it: If human bones can appear in this form, it is a broken corpse plus High temperature cooking?
Although it is almost impossible to identify the bones that once belonged to humans, the impact on people's first impression is not as strong and terrifying as that of a complete corpse, but thinking about it deeply, it is even more creepy.

Goosebumps suddenly appeared on Lin Mei's arm, Su Xiuran stretched out his palm and touched her arm to comfort her, and said, "Have you checked the missing report information for the past few days?"

Zhang Yan nodded: "The sewage in this treatment pool is nearly three days old. I have asked Xiao Yu to check the disappearance report records in the past few days at the police station. I hope the identity of the deceased can be confirmed as soon as possible."

Compared with ordinary cases, the focus of this case is indeed to confirm the identity of the deceased first.

Su Xiuran nodded, he didn't pay too much attention to the human bones on the ground, but walked around, looking like he was observing the surrounding environment, and then said to Zhang Yan: "I'll go back to the police station first."

Zhang Yan naturally did not make demands on him, nodded and said, "Okay." After finishing speaking, he added, "Thank you for your hard work."

Su Xiuran smiled slightly, and took Lin Mei away.

Lin Mei unlocked the car and was about to get into the driver's cab, but Su Xiuran blocked him with his hand. He took the car key from Lin Mei's hand and sat in by himself. Lin Mei had to turn to the other side and sit in the passenger cab .

On the way, he concentrated on driving the car, keeping his thin lips lightly pursed and silent. Seeing that his lips were a little pale, Lin Mei was a little worried that he was unwell, so she hurriedly asked, "Xiu Ran, are you alright?"

Su Xiuran's eyes were fixed on the front, he smiled and said, "It's okay, don't worry." After speaking, he frowned slightly, as if he was telling himself or asking Lin Mei for proof, "Xiaomei , Are the recent cases too frequent?"

Lin Mei was taken aback. She had not been involved with Su Xiuran in the detection work of the police station for a long time, and she didn't have a deep understanding of it. However, judging from the past few months of her participation, recently... or since Su Xiuran After being stabbed and hospitalized by Su Xiuyan last time, the number of difficult cases has increased.

For example, the murder case under the cherry blossom tree in the park, and the dismemberment case this time.

Although in various TV dramas and novels, this kind of seemingly exaggerated case seems to be the mainstream of crime, but it is not the case in reality.

A criminal policeman may never encounter too bizarre cases in his life, but is busy in various cases with clear facts and no exaggerated plots.

This is also the reason why Zhang Yan and Yu Qizhen seldom bother Su Xiuran even though the sub-bureau is busy with work. Many cases can be solved without his intervention.The fact that Su Xiuran would ask this sentence also proves that he did not participate in cases as often as he does now.

While talking, they had already arrived outside the sub-bureau, Su Xiuran parked the car and opened the door to let her get out, and then the two walked in one after another.

Lin Mei heard Su Xiuran say in a deep voice: "We can't delay any longer, we must solve this hidden danger."

His voice is not loud, but his tone is extremely low.

Lin Mei paused, and guessed what he was talking about: such exaggerated crimes are so concentrated, it cannot be ruled out that someone instigated or fabricated them behind the scenes.

As for who the person hiding behind is, it has already been revealed clearly.

After understanding the situation with Yu Qizhen at the police station, Su Xiuran didn't stay any longer and left the police station with Lin Mei.

This time, Su Xiuran obediently sat in the passenger cab, and told Lin Mei not to go home in a hurry, but to walk along a certain road. His face was a little pale, and he pursed his lips as if he was thinking about something. Mei didn't ask any further questions, but drove according to his instructions.

Today is a working day, the morning and evening rush hours are staggered, and the road is not very congested. Su Xiuran first let her go to a main road, and then turned into a side road.

After a long circle, he finally said, "Go home, it's lunch time."

The road was not far away, and the two of them returned to the villa not long after. Lin Mei stood in front of the refrigerator with some confusion and said, "I don't know what to do for lunch."

Su Xiuran responded softly: "It's okay, I can't eat it either."

But no matter how picky he is, there is one thing that he will never get tired of eating. He tilted his head slightly: "You can make me some sugar water."

...Well, anyway, he doesn't gain weight no matter what he eats, and she always tries to put on weight for him.

Su Xiuran was really uncomfortable, so he didn't stay to help like before, but said: "I'll go upstairs to rest first."

Lin Mei was already worried about him, but seeing him taking the initiative to rest, she happily raised her hand and said, "Hey, go quickly."

Her tone was really the same as that of Chun Shenjun, Su Xiuran bent her lips and smiled, and went upstairs first.

Lin Mei made some syrup for two and took it upstairs, and saw him half leaning on the sofa in the study, with a laptop on his lap in front of him.

Lin Mei went to sit beside him, and he naturally moved his head a little, leaned on her shoulder, and said to himself: "What a headache."

Lin Mei guessed that what he said was referring to a physical headache, rather than feeling that the case was difficult, so she raised her hand and gently circled his temples. As expected, he slightly relaxed the frowning brows, raised his eyes and smiled at her: "Thank you." You, little eyebrow."

With him like this, for some reason, Lin Mei thought of Chun Shenjun, who was usually extremely cold, but would occasionally come over to ask for petting and smoothing. good."

While they were rubbing shoulders together, the sky outside the window became dark, and it seemed that there would be a heavy rain soon, and this rain had been brewing since the morning, and it seemed that it would be menacing.

Noticing that she was paying attention to the sky outside the window, Su Xiuran curled his lower lip and said, "In the next two or three days, there will be rain in this city."

Such long-term rainfall is different from occasional or non-existent showers, because the resulting atmospheric conditions are relatively easy to predict, and most of them have weather forecasts several days or even more than a week in advance.

When Lin Mei thought of this, she realized: "Could it be that the suspect chose this time to dispose of the corpse because it's going to rain soon?"

City B is located in the north and is a relatively arid city. The drainage and circulation system has always been accused of being unscientific. In the past few years when the rainfall was too heavy, the whole city was flooded many times. The water can cover the heads of pedestrians, and there have even been fatal tragedies due to heavy rain.

In that case, the sewage treatment plant was basically in a paralyzed state, and a large amount of water was directly flushed from the underground drainage system into the river, and even into the sea hundreds of kilometers away.

And now is the time of the year with the heaviest rainfall in early summer. If this fragmented corpse hadn't been sent to the sewage treatment plant this morning along with the city's normal drainage, it would have been discovered again. Instead, it would have waited until the heavy rain struck Afterwards, it is very likely that it has been washed away without a trace.

Su Xiuran said casually: "This time the weather forecast is slightly wrong again. According to the forecast, there should be heavy rain this morning."

That is to say, if according to the suspect's plan, when he throws the broken bones into the sewer system, there will soon be a heavy rain to wash away all traces for him.

It's a pity that people's calculations are not as good as heaven's calculations. The heavy rain that delayed the arrival caused the bones to be discovered by the police.

Su Xiuran said again: "The waste water treatment pond we saw today, the treatment plant has provided clues. This plant mainly receives waste water from a certain part of the city. Even though the underground pipes are intricate, there is always a fixed flow direction."

Lin Mei suddenly understood why he asked her to drive around the city today. After following Su Xiuran for so long, she should also have this kind of insight, but she didn't think of it for a while.

While Su Xiuran was talking, he took the syrup she had boiled, this time it was white fungus and lotus seed soup, which was stuffed in a pressure cooker until it was sticky and soft, very nourishing.

Seeing how many mouthfuls he had eaten, Lin Mei opened her mouth in dissatisfaction and said, "What about me?"

Su Xiuran was stunned for a moment, and after he realized it, he smiled and scooped up the cool air with a spoon and delivered it to her mouth, and said with a smile: "It's my fault, I didn't think of putting others before myself."

Lin Mei snorted softly, she was still occupying her hand with the massage, and she would not take the initiative to ask for him. Speaking of which, she felt that she should start cultivating Su Xiuran's skill in serving his girlfriend. The great master is as well-dressed as Chun Shenjun, stretching out his hands to eat and opening his mouth.

Even though she was muttering in her heart, Su Xiuran was still so considerate in serving people. After she swallowed a spoonful, she would blow it over and send it over again. The angle and strength of the spoon were just right, allowing her to relax Eat with his hands.

Seeing her slightly satisfied look, a gentle smile overflowed from his slightly drooping eyelashes, and he said softly, "Xiaomei, will you trust me? Under any circumstances?"

Lin Mei licked the corners of her lips and thought about it seriously. She is cautious by nature, and most of the time she would think before answering any questions. Facing Su Xiuran, her answer after thinking about it was still: "Yes, probably because of unconditional trust. Bar."

Even if this answer was not beyond Su Xiuran's expectation, the smile in his eyes was bigger, very joyful and comforting.

He turned his computer screen over and said to her, "Youth is already comparing missing persons, but even if we confirm the identity of the deceased, we still have a lot to do."

This is where dismemberment cases, especially cases where the bone fragments have been badly damaged, are at their most difficult.

In homicide cases, the information on the corpse often refers to the confession of the criminal, which is the key evidence to determine the facts of the crime. In the case of dismemberment, because the corpse has been deliberately damaged, very little effective information can be extracted from it.

There may even be situations where suspicious suspects have been basically delineated, but they still cannot be convicted according to the law.

But then again, being able to calmly and meticulously destroy the corpse after murder, even among the heinous murderers, the psychological endurance and cold-bloodedness of the murderer are rare, which is why even if the criminal knows the importance of hiding the corpse Sex, but few people can fully do it.

Lin Mei frowned as she thought about it, feeling very embarrassed: "Then what are we going to do?"

Su Xiuran was silent for a moment, and then said: "According to the working ability of the sub-bureau, Zhang Yan and Xiao Yu, as long as the identity of the deceased is clear, the main suspect will be delineated within three days, but there is no conclusive evidence, and the suspect is not If you confess, the case will be deadlocked."

Lin Mei nodded in understanding.

Su Xiuran went on to say: "I think there will be an 'instigator' behind this suspect, and we can find this 'instigator' to break through the suspect's psychological defense...if we are lucky, we may be able to find them The clues left behind during the exchange."

Lin Mei noticed that he used "communication" instead of conversation, and thinking that the "instigator" behind the scenes was probably Du Lin, and that he was a computer expert, Lin Mei thought he should infer that they established contact through the Internet. of.

Su Xiuran closed his eyes lightly, his thoughts were fast, it was very difficult for Lin Mei to keep up, she had just accepted what he was going to do, when she heard him speak again, with inexplicable emotion and exhaustion in his tone: "Maybe I shouldn't have escaped long ago, even if the two people behind these things... are all I don't want to touch."

Lin Mei was really stunned at this moment. She had always thought that the culprit was Du Lin. If she found Du Lin, or lured out this elusive lunatic, everything would come to an end.But she never thought that there would be two people behind her...Which two?Du Lin counts as one, who is the rest?She was at a loss for a moment—Su Xiuran's tone seemed like he had already guessed who the remaining person was, but he had no choice but to say it until now.

Seeing her doubts and gaffe, Su Xiuran smiled, but did not tell her who the other person he suspected was. He just put the porcelain bowl in his hand back on the table, sighed and said, "Maybe I should go to I've been in the hospital for a few days."

Lin Mei thought that what Su Xiuran said about going to the hospital for a few days was probably a joke or superficial fuss, but he didn't expect that he would really go back to the hospital.

In the afternoon, he called Cheng Yu and told him that his chest pain started again, which seemed to be the onset of an old illness.

He originally had a heart attack. Although the operation was successful eight years ago, he hasn't had another attack in the past few years, but no one can tell when such a disease will recur, and once it recurs, it is not a trivial matter.

Naturally, Cheng Yu didn't dare to neglect, and came here in a panic. Su Xiuran's face was not good at first, but he was anxious when he saw it.

However, Su Xiuran couldn't say what specific symptoms he had, but he said that he was dizzy and chest tight, he had no strength to walk, and he couldn't eat.

When he said that, Lin Mei couldn't get in a word by the side, she knew that she was not like Su Xiuran, who lied without even blinking her eyes.

For example, you have no strength to walk... In the morning, you ran around like flying, didn't you?
And I can't eat... Who drank that bowl of lotus seed and white fungus soup just now!
In any case, Cheng Yu was really in a hurry, without medical equipment, nothing could be found, so he immediately called the private hospital where Su Xiuran lived last time, and asked them to send an ambulance over as soon as possible .

Lin Mei was even more embarrassed when she heard that the ambulance was coming, but Su Xiuran still calmly half-lyed on the chair with her eyes slightly closed, as if she had really lost her ability to move and needed to be carried away by the medical staff to the hospital immediately .

The hospital is close to here. Within ten minutes after Cheng Yu made the phone call, the ambulance arrived downstairs, and then the stretcher went upstairs. Su Xiuran refused the help of the medical staff, and beckoned to Lin Mei for her to help him .

Lin Mei went to support his body and helped him move onto the stretcher. Su Xiuran leaned on her shoulder obediently as if she was really weak. I have to say that this kind of unwillingness to be touched by others must be hers. The special treatment is quite indescribably touching - if he is not pretending to be sick.

After arriving at the hospital, although Su Xiuran's condition did not require emergency treatment, he was quickly arranged for a series of examinations and hospitalized observation wards.

When Cheng Yu rushed out to discuss Su Xiuran's condition with other doctors, Lin Mei who stayed in the ward quietly said to Su Xiuran while there was no one else around: "Doctor Cheng seems really anxious, Shall we tell him you're all right?"

Su Xiuran glanced at her lightly, and said, "He can't lie just like you, if you tell him, you won't be able to deceive anyone."

Lin Mei could only be speechless for a while: Not everyone is as relaxed and stress-free as you and your brother, okay?

Su Xiuran said without burden: "Xiaomei, you should call now to inform everyone that I have been admitted to the hospital again. Call all the contacts you know who have contact information."

Lin Meixin said that you really don't think it's a big deal, and then she asked a lot: "Would you like to let the official Weibo of Xingwen Books notify you?"

She just said it casually, with a bit of teasing, but Su Xiuran really thought about it and said, "It's pretty good, you can do it."

Lin Mei was tongue-tied, feeling that if she added "Do you want to notify the media?", he would really continue to tell you to do it... So she quickly took out her phone and notified everyone she knew.

This includes the Su family from Su Xiuyan's side, the district criminal police team from Zhang Yan's side, and Du Yuwen from the editorial department.

Lin Mei could only bite the bullet and lie. Among the people who received the call, Su Xiuyan was the most nervous. After hearing this, he lost his composure and said, "Brother, what happened? Isn't he in better health? "

Before Lin Mei had time to say anything else, he said in a hurry: "I'll arrange for someone to book a plane ticket there immediately, and I'll be there tomorrow morning if it's quicker." Can't rest assured.

Zhang Yan's side was fine, maybe he had only met Su Xiuran in the morning, and he felt that he was in good spirits, so he told them to let him rest well and let them know if there was any progress in the case.

During this time, Su Xiuran had a lot of things to do, and Lin Mei hadn't checked in at the editorial department for a long time. When Du Yuwen received her call, he was silent for a while and said, "Remember to urge the new book."

Lin Mei was ashamed and felt that Du Yuwen really deserved to be her leader, and she still couldn't forget her studies even though she was here... She was thinking about it when Du Yuwen added leisurely: "If you don't get urged, you will be absent from work these days. "

Hanging up the phone, Lin Mei was almost on the verge of crying. Sure enough, to be a qualified editor, one must have a heart of iron and blood.

Lin Mei went back to report the reactions of these people to Su Xiuran. Who knew that Su Xiuran was not surprised to hear Du Yuwen say this, and nodded clearly: "Before when I dragged the manuscript, I always said that I was not feeling well. He probably didn't believe it. of."

Well, Lin Mei felt that she didn't have to complain to him anymore, and it wasn't the first time he had pretended to be sick.

It is quite cumbersome to do a thorough examination, not to mention that Su Xiuran only claimed that he was unwell and had no definite symptoms. In addition to his medical history, even if the results of some items were found to be normal, the hospital would not dare to take it lightly. draw conclusions.

When the examination results came out in the evening, Cheng Yu brought the attending doctor over. He was a little worried: "Xiu Ran, what's wrong with you? Do you remember what caused it?"

Su Xiuran glanced at Lin Mei, and then slowly said: "It's probably because I dreamed about something bad last night, so today I feel pain in my heart all the time."

Then he briefly talked about his dream last night. When he talked about the dream that he was still living in Su's house, Cheng Yu was obviously very sympathetic and distressed, and his face was also a little sad.

After he listened, he turned to Lin Mei and asked, "Xiu Ran feels unwell after getting up in the morning?"

These really happened, Lin Mei nodded without any pressure: "Yeah, I woke up when I heard that Xiu Ran was breathing rapidly, and then I saw Xiu Ran clutching his chest, with a bruise on his face." His expression was very painful, so I quickly woke him up."

Cheng Yu frowned after hearing this, his delicate baby face was full of tangles, and finally he said with emotion: "I think it might be psychological..." After he finished speaking, he was also afraid that he might make a wrong judgment, "In short, if If you have time, it's better for Xiuran to stay in the hospital for the past few days, so that it will be convenient for first aid in case something happens."

Seeing that Cheng Yu really cared about Su Xiuran, Lin Mei comforted him softly: "It's okay, I believe Xiuran will be fine."

Su Xiuran raised his eyes to look at her when he heard this, and raised his brows lightly, but Cheng Yu stared at the ground thoughtfully, not seeing the small movements of the two of them, apparently took her words as her own expectations , sighed and patted her on the shoulder and said, "Thank you too."

(End of this chapter)