sin drinker

Chapter 9 Three Roses Tattoo (1)
metamorphosis

It's been ten years.

Wang Shiqi shook his head, expelling those unnecessary overdue self-blame.He found it, he won, and that's what matters.It took him a lot of time and energy to discover Wu Hui's address. The planning of the southern city is poor, the facilities are old, and the cameras are sporadic. No one has an impression of him.The clues were broken, and pressure was applied from above. He was like a fisherman diving in the vast sea, looking for a mother-of-pearl in vain.Just when he could hardly hold his breath, the target came to his door by himself.

It was a case that couldn't be any smaller, and it was told as a joke by a soon-to-retire auxiliary policeman, Lao Sun. At that time, Wang Shiqi stopped by the nearby police station after finishing his street sweep and patrol, and was squatting at the door smoking a cigarette.At the first sentence, he was still laughing with everyone, but at the second sentence, he never put his cigarette back into his mouth.

"That girl is also, who doesn't know that she is in the flesh and blood business. I don't know how many men have seen that stuff. What a fuss. She is good. She insisted on calling me over, saying that she met a pervert and hid She took off her pants in the alley, and the pervert wanted to rape her. I asked her, what about the pervert? Was the crime successful? Guess what the girl said?"

Lao Sun was frothing, and when he talked about the exciting part, he just pinched his throat and imitated: "She slapped the ground and said: "It's useless! I took off my pants, and I scolded him." In a word, he was so scared that he jumped up and ran like hell, his leg was still stuck on the steel bar on the side of the road, ouch, he should have broken that thing, and he will have no children and grandchildren!'”

Several young people drinking tea shook their shoulders and laughed. Wang Shiqi laughed too. After laughing, he went over and ordered a Bai Wan for Lao Sun: "Uncle, can you take me to meet the victim?"

Twenty or ten minutes later, Wang Shiqi was brought to a low-rise homestay. Lao Sun went in and yelled for a long time. The girl who called herself "Mei Qi" finally walked out with a lonely bag hanging on her shoulder. The lace petticoat slanted towards the door, glanced left and right, and her snow-white chest immediately poked towards Wang Shiqi: "Hey, old grandson, what's the wind today, bring such a handsome little brother over to play."

Lao Sun scratched his head in embarrassment: "Don't talk nonsense, this is Captain Wang of the criminal police team. Didn't you say that you encountered a pervert last time? Team Wang came here to find out about the situation."

"Oh, it's from the criminal police team, no wonder it looks different." Maggie wanted to move closer, but Wang Shiqi put two fingers on her shoulder and pushed her back calmly.Meiqi rolled her eyes, squinted and sneered: "It's a pity, it's not good."

Wang Shiqi took out a photo from his pocket: "Think carefully, is the pervert you see this person?"

Meiqi and Lao Sun went up to look together, and it was Wu Hui in indigo overalls.The old grandson was still in the fog, but Majesty covered her mouth and yelled: "I don't know if it's a person, but I recognize this dress! Oh, that smoky and rotten alley is really thanks to the place he found, sneaking around Yes, half off..."

"Which alley, take me to have a look."

Majestic pursed her lips, and didn't move her feet: "Oh, just look at it, I don't do business anymore, right? The police need to be happy with the investigation of the case, right?"

Just as Lao Sun was about to explode, he was stopped by Wang Shiqi.He raised his hand, touched Maggie's arm with his fingertips, slithered down along the creamy smooth skin, sparking an invisible spark.Majestic was proud, and she was about to lift it up in a coquettish voice, when Wang Shiqi pinched her arm and poked her: "Then why did you go to that smoky alley?"

Under Wang Shiqi's finger was a blue mark with several small pinholes.Meiqi flinched, hesitated for a long time, Wang Shiqi answered for her by himself: "Okay, I'm not here to arrest you, the ring that should be given in the future, the appointment there to trade is just for robbing people like you, Call the police, you may not have such good luck next time."

There was a bit of dissatisfaction on Meiqi's face, she twisted her body like a water snake, and broke free from Wang Shiqi's shackles: "I'm not telling lies, there is indeed a pervert there, take it easy on you! "Wait, I'm going to put on some clothes."

Meiqi took the lead, leading Wang Shiqi and Lao Sun into a dark alley, backlit, dead-end, and piled up with construction waste on both sides.Wang Shiqi walked in slowly, and stopped in front of a pile of discarded steel bars. One of the rough sections had a dull color, and when he touched it with his hands, it was not hard and powdery, not like paint, but more like bloodstains .

"Did he hurt his leg here?"

"Yeah, he hit hard. I admire him too. He's guilty of being a thief, and he can climb over the wall while bleeding. Really, it's amazing."

Meggie was still baffled, but Wang Shiqi had already exerted strength on the ground, and jumped up to the wall at the end in three steps.He leaned over the wall and looked down, a little smile spread from the corner of his mouth.Although the other side was empty, the obvious shallow mark on the ground betrayed him.There must have been a lot of old furniture piled up here before. After climbing over the wall, stepping on the rotten old wardrobe and coffee table, and walking to the end of the alley, this person has quietly turned his route 180 degrees.Changed clothes, changed direction, no wonder the previous monitoring always checked half of it and lost it.

Wang Shiqi jumped down, took out his cigarette and made a phone call: "Xu Ye, now go to adjust all the monitoring on Meixi Road on October 10th, yes, the opposite direction...you can go if you are told, why are you talking so much nonsense? ...Pay attention to a man who is limping, yes, he is injured, his clothes are unknown, he may be covered by a hat or something." Wang Shiqi lit the cigarette in his hand, took a savage puff, and a burning darkness was reflected in his pupils. Hong, "Also, go and check Wu Hui's physical examination report when he was imprisoned. If his guess is correct, he should have a scar on his right leg."

shadow suspect

Zheng Yuan knew that he had dug out Wu Hui's truth, but he didn't expect Wu Hui to give more than he wanted.

"You guessed right, I did this for revenge." Wu Hui exhaled slowly, as if he was smoking a cigarette that didn't exist. The latter ones. Ah, what did that sentence say—trying to hide a corpse..."

"The best way is to hide in a pile of corpses." Zheng Yuan remained unmoved, "But none of the latter ones were killed, except for one."

"Except one." Wu Hui repeated mechanically, and suddenly laughed, "Reporter Zheng, do you believe in fate?"

Life?Zheng Yuan thought, he didn't want to believe it, but he didn't dare not believe it.He has hands and feet, and he is struggling, but he always feels that he cannot escape the control of fate.Fate is an invisible thread, which binds him firmly, and drags him down if he is not careful.Zheng Yuan didn't make a sound, so he took it as his acquiescence, and Wu Hui smiled, with a little more pity in his eyes.

"I don't want to kill others, I just want to kill her. After killing her, the hands behind her will be soft and boring. You know, killing people is very tiring. Watching killing people on TV, one stab, another stab, followed by It’s like cutting vegetables, let me tell you, it’s all fake. Where is it easy to die when stabbed with a knife? Heart, alveoli, spleen..." Wu Hui gestured nonchalantly on his body, disemboweling his virtual self: "But, The front is completely blocked by bones, which are hard, and when a knife goes in, it gets stuck in the cracks of the bones, creaking, and cannot go down or come out..."

"It doesn't make sense to say these details, I'm not a homicide lover."

"Then what do you want to hear? Oh, where did we talk just now? Fate? Yes, it is fate. I took a knife and wandered around that square, looking left and right, there were people everywhere, densely packed , like animals, with dark faces, lined up, come out of the building, go into the subway, I just killed someone and no one has time to look at me. Stab five, stab ten, dead or alive It doesn’t seem to make any difference at all. However, when that man sent it up, I didn’t know what to do, but he was ruthless.” Wu Hui’s eyelids trembled slightly, and his face seemed bitter and joyful, “I just watched the news later. I know, he is the one who is going to marry Xu Ziqian, ha, Reporter Zheng, you know, this is fate, everything is arranged, not bad at all."

Zheng Yuan raised his eyebrows: "Then why do you want to take revenge on Xu Ziqian? She is the daughter of a company boss, so she won't abandon you all the time."

"Would you believe me if I said that I took revenge on her because she loved that man?"

"One-sided crush? Kill if you can't get it?"

"It's more complicated than you think, but you can also think so." Wu Hui raised his hand and stretched his waist, "Yes, I joined Cedar because of her. I followed and watched for a year... Originally, I had A more careful plan might make her die more beautifully... Hey, it’s useless to say these things now, chances are given by God, as a mortal, you can’t be so picky.”

"This still can't explain your continuous wounding in Qualcomm Plaza." Zheng Yuan looked down at his notebook, "If you don't run away, you are ready to bear the fact of killing Xu Ziqian, but at the same time you are trying to hide this fact in a group of unconnected people. Among the random victims. The method is rough and inefficient, and it seems to be a temporary idea. What made you suddenly have the idea to hide? What are you planning to hide? Or... who are you planning to hide?"

"What do you mean?"

"I went to see Xu Ziqian's corpse, seven knives, from bottom to top, most of the styles are the same, only one..." Zheng Yuan's fingers lightly touched his heart, his eyelids drooped to cover the light, trying to pass through The cage, the air, and the flesh and blood intervened in Wu Hui's closed brain circuit—he held the knife, his hands were slippery and sticky, and the lines of the plastic handle burned into his palms. There was blood in front of him, and people behind him.Yes, there is another person, frightened, helpless, taller, he is very important, who is he?In the pulsating light and shadow, Zheng Yuan seemed to hear Wu Hui's hoarse voice piercing through time and space: "Go!"

"This knife is different. Although the forensic doctor can't define it, I can feel it. Tell me, who did it?"

Wu Hui moved his body slightly: "Who? Besides me, who else?"

"There's another one."

"Where's the evidence?"

"There will be evidence."

There was a bit of sarcasm in Wu Hui's eyes: "It's very interesting to fabricate this kind of reversal, but unfortunately, you are just a reporter, not a novelist."

"It's not you. This knife, no matter what, it's not you." Zheng Yuan's mouth was dry, exhausted by the long-term mental confrontation, he ran after his prey for twenty kilometers, seeing victory in sight, but he was stagnant like lead Heavy.He took off his glasses and pinched the bridge of his nose, his voice was as soft as a sigh: "You are crying."

Wu Hui didn't move, Zheng Yuan raised his eyelids, and repeated word for word: "You cried when you killed someone."

The face of the man on the opposite side quickly turned gray, and Zheng Yuan caught this signal. "You asked me for evidence, sorry, there is no evidence. Everyone in this world may feel that they are unique, and everyone's choices and actions are random and autonomous, but I tell you, it is not the case. something." Zheng Yuan suddenly cast his eyes on the other party's lower body hidden behind the partition wall: "Does the injury on your thigh still hurt?"

Wu Hui was stunned for a moment, before he had time to answer, Zheng Yuan continued, "The outer right side, the injury is not deep, but the wound is not healing well, the flesh should be scraped."

Wu Hui's shoulder became stiff, Zheng Yuan turned his eyes back, and faced Wu Hui: "Why do I know? Because of habit, you always lean to the left when you walk. Why do you avoid the right side? It's because it's uncomfortable, and short-term pain is not enough to cause pain. With this kind of habit, we tend to stop the pain quickly when we are in acute pain. Only wounds that have not healed for a long time will make people defensive. Why is it the outer thigh? Because our body and spirit are highly matched, and you can hardly feel anything at ordinary times. The existence of organs, but once there is a little abnormality, a little depression, a scar, or a protruding tooth, you will subconsciously touch it, just like your hand, you can’t restrain yourself from touching that scar. The reaction is more than Rationality, habits over thinking, human beings are so easy to see through."

Wu Hui looked down at his fingers, they were unconsciously rubbing against the outside of his thighs, through the trousers, a piece of hard skin always makes people can't help but pick along the edge.He was a little dazed, and turned back to find that Zheng Yuan was already close to the icy iron bar, his skin tightened subconsciously, as if he had just discovered that there was a beast hidden under his soft face lines.

"Except for lunatics, everyone's behavior follows logic. You are not a lunatic, so you are no exception. The knife in Xu Ziqian's heart is not your habitual position, and it is not your natural reaction to indiscriminately hurt people afterwards. You can't kill them, because You are not such a person at all. You are afraid and feel guilty, but you have to do it. I have seen the video of you killing Yuan Jiashu. Although I can’t see the face clearly, the knife went in too hesitantly. You said you wanted to kill him , I think it's the opposite, but you still caused his death with your own hands, and this kind of backfire is enough to make you cry."

It was only at this moment that Wu Hui truly confirmed that he underestimated the enemy, but it was too late, Zheng Yuan's fangs had already caught his life.

"At 25:[-] p.m. on October [-]th, Qualcomm Plaza, all your abnormalities can only be established by adding someone beside you. Tell me, who is he?"

Zheng Yuan knew that he was close to the truth, Wu Hui opened his mouth, but his voice didn't pass through his throat for a long time. He was struggling alone in silence, and sweat was already dripping from his forehead in the ice cellar-like room.

48, 49, 50... Zheng Yuan counted his heartbeats, feeling inexplicably panicked. For a moment, he even hoped that Wu Hui could say something to completely deny what he just said. His intuition told him that the forced answer might make some The so-called facts completely collapsed, just like what he had experienced before.That is a crueler punishment than death.

After 2 long minutes, Wang Shiqi's phone call interrupted the silence.

"Old Zheng, come quickly, I've found Wu Hui's house."

Foursome

At the end of the lunch break, there were already people in the teaching building in twos and threes.The third child came out of the teaching office on his front foot, and saw Zheng Que turn left on his back foot, and walked straight in the opposite direction.He shook his head, took a quick step to retrieve the man, and threw the school uniform he had taken off on his head.

"Why are you walking around blindly? The infirmary is here." The third child squeezed his injured hand: "Cover your clothes, it's bloody, don't scare anyone."

Zheng Que didn't speak, his eyes swept from the wall to the ground, but he didn't look at the third child's face.

"If you're not happy, let's fix your hands first, okay?" The third child sighed, "You hate me so much that you even made a special trip to smash the glass and tear up the photo. Where's the photo? Eat it?"

Zheng Que raised his head when he heard the words tearing up the photo. Coincidentally, his eyes just caught sight of the figure standing in the opposite corridor—it was her, with changed clothes, and her injured hand was in her pocket. Come over, the girl took a deep look back, then walked away.There should be a faint smile at the corner of her mouth, Zheng really felt that she was right.

Just being so distracted was enough for the third child to drag Zheng Que into the infirmary.The school doctor was busy going out to hand in the weekly report. When he saw that the third child had arrived, he threw a bunch of keys into his arms: "It's the school team again? You kids are really serious. Can you take a look... Do it yourself. Remember to fill out the form, and I'll get the key back to you."

The school doctor went out like a gust of wind, and Zheng Que was pushed into the chair by the third child, and turned around to find the disinfectant and gauze in the cabinet: "You said, aren't you afraid of scissors, so you won't be afraid if you make it like this? I don’t know what to draw.”

Zheng Que looked at the back of the third child, and the burning guilt in his heart finally overcame the awkwardness, and managed to squeeze out a sentence: "You...help me again."

The third child straightened up, turned around and glared at him: "If I don't help you, who will help you? Could it be that you will be expelled immediately after remembering three times?" After speaking, he laughed again, "Boss Zhou will hate me to death."

(End of this chapter)