The woman in the photo with a melon face, a handsome face and a tall stature is Li Xiaolan, Cheng Zhou's mother.

After staring at the photo for a few seconds, Jiang Chengyi turned to look at Cheng Zhou: "When you were three years old, in 1995, your father Cheng Zhong was imprisoned for wounding, and your mother Li Xiaolan had to go out to make ends meet. She worked part-time, but because she only had a junior high school education, Li Xiaolan could not find a satisfactory job and could only work in the service industry, so her income was very meager. This situation continued until 1999 - that is, your mother remarried, and the economic situation of your mother and son It only got better, of course, these are only superficial phenomena.”

Saying this, Jiang Chengyi walked back to the table, sat down again, and pulled out a yellowed sheet of paper in the case.

"This is an anonymous phone call received by the Shuilongtan police station on December 20, 1996. The complainant said that there were often children crying in the 4th unit of the community, and he suspected that someone in the building was abusing the children. The policeman's surname was Chen. Immediately rushed to Unit 4 for investigation, and finally determined that it was household 501. The head of the household is Li Xiaolan, which is your mother.

"After the police entered the house, they found that you had multiple traumas. Considering that your mother was emotionally unstable, the police took you away that night and sent you to a nearby hospital for medical treatment. The hospital x-ray showed that you had mild hydrocephalus in your brain. , After the doctor completed the examination, he immediately informed the police surnamed Chen of the result, and reminded the police that it was not the first time that the child had been beaten.

"The police officer surnamed Chen attached great importance to this matter, and reported it to his superiors after he came back. After discussion, the police station immediately contacted your relatives in the city, and soon learned that your father was an only child and his parents died early, and your Grandpa and grandmother do not live in the city. After weighing the pros and cons, the police station decided to contact your grandfather, but your grandfather was very indifferent after receiving the call and had no intention to take you away.

"After discussion in the office, we had to hand you over to your mother to raise you. The police officer surnamed Chen was very responsible. After your trauma got better, he severely criticized and educated your mother, and visited your home regularly afterwards. After that, your mother The performance is normal, because I found a job in the supermarket, and my mood is gradually stabilized, and I no longer beat you. Unfortunately, at the beginning of the second year, the policeman was transferred from the area.

"The police station did not receive any further reports after that. But in the second file, we learned that when you were in the sixth grade of primary school, your head teacher Liu accidentally found a small patch of bruises (about 5cm*7cm) on your back. ), out of concern for you, she immediately visits your home.

"Your mother was remarried at the time, and Liu found your mother at the mahjong parlor. Your mother denied that she had beaten you, and rejected the suggestion to have a long talk with Liu at home. Surprisingly, when the head teacher communicated with your mother, , although you were right next to you, you acted very resistant and indifferent. Afterwards, Liu chose to call the police, and the police came to find out the situation. You and your mother said the same thing, denying that you had ever been abused. , already has a certain ability of judgment, the police had to criticize and educate your mother and stepfather, and did not take the next step."

Jiang Chengyi read the two alarm records and looked at Yu Zheng.

Yu Zheng understood and deliberately looked at Cheng Zhou with a kind of sympathy and pity.

Under the long-term gaze of this kind of gaze, Cheng Zhou's stagnant eyes finally fluctuated, and he slightly twitched the corner of his mouth: "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Yu Zheng looked at the monitor, and sure enough, the heart rate changed again, from 80 beats/min to 110 beats/min.

He laughed and concluded calmly, "Your heart rate is up, but this time it's not because of excitement, but because of anger. Cheng Zhou, you are angry, not because we mentioned your family, but because of my pity. you."

Cheng Zhou slowly restrained his smile.

"But, in this world, who is qualified to have mercy on you? You, Cheng Zhou, are your own master and your own god." Yu Zheng smiled clearly, and closed the file with a snap, "Next, I will Everything that is said is not recorded in the file, because the data in the file is too dull and rigid to truly restore a person's growth trajectory, and the formation of criminal personality is closely related to genetic, physiological and environmental factors, so I chose to start with your neighbors, teachers, and classmates, because only in this way can I trace your personality formation system bit by bit.

"Let's start with Liu, your head teacher. Shortly after reporting the case, Liu was hit by a small stone flying behind him on the way home, causing a slight skull fracture. She almost Losing consciousness, when she turned back, she saw the figure of a boy and recognized you. She was very surprised. Even today, Liu still can't understand: she was helping you at the time, why did she attract your hostility For this question, I can immediately give the answer: help is too late. After nine years from the age of three to twelve, your abnormal personality has been formed, and by the time you are twelve years old, the warm help from the outside world will only Arouse your anger and violent impulses.

"We all know that from the age of zero to three years old, it is the first key stage of the initial establishment of personality. At the age of three, your father was imprisoned, and your mother, due to her personality flaws, did not have enough energy when faced with great changes in the living environment. The mind adapts to this change, but vents all dissatisfaction on you. This kind of abuse from your mother has caused a violent fault in your second personality growth, and it is also the first time your personality has changed and distorted. an incentive.

"Of course, I will analyze your mother Li Xiaolan's personality in the future, but now I am only interested in discussing you, Cheng Zhou, I guess your mother was very panicked when she was first warned by the police, and on the one hand she couldn't control herself and beat you up. You are too young, your mind and personality are far from mature enough to judge whether this threat is reasonable, out of survival instinct, for a long time Inside, you all regard Li Xiaolan as the master of your life.

The heart rate on the monitor quickly soared to 120 beats/min, and the breathing surged from 12 to 30 beats/min. This was the first sign of Cheng Zhou's loss of emotional control.

Xiao Zhou noticed it immediately, looked at Yu Zheng with admiration, lowered his head and continued to record.

"This abnormal living environment may be enough for you to form such a complex personality, and after you have the ability to commit crimes, you will deliberately choose women who are similar to your mother Li Xiaolan's physique to commit crimes, but this is not enough to explain your commitment to crime. The kind of obsession with ritual, so I think that in the process of being abused by your mother Li Xiaolan, you had at least one near-death experience, and it was at that time that you fell into extreme despair and violently smashed your mother's hideous face. It's imprinted deep in your consciousness, and that impression still fuels your criminal impulses from time to time, and you can't get rid of it for the rest of your life."

Heart rate 140 beats/min, accompanied by nostril fluttering and chest heaving.

"Crack." Yu Zheng began to turn the pen in his hand evenly and slowly, and said softly and slowly in an inducing tone, "Tell me what happened at that time."

Cheng Zhou was stunned for a moment.

Jiang Chengyi stared closely at Cheng Zhou.

Everyone fell silent.

The room was so silent you could almost hear each other's heartbeats.

ten seconds.

Twenty seconds.

Forty seconds.

Cheng Zhou finally reacted, but he slowly lowered his head and said with a sullen smile, "What are you talking about?"

Yu Zheng turned his pen for a while, and everyone's expressions flashed a hint of disappointment.

Jiang Chengyi looked at his watch with a fixed expression: there were still one hour and twenty minutes left. Long before the interrogation began, he had anticipated that it would be a tough battle, and calmed down in a blink of an eye.

He began to look through the dossier, but his attention was on Yu Zheng, ready to assist Yu Zheng to find the entry point and start the second psychological interrogation.

Dr. Yu smiled and looked at Cheng Zhou, but after several contacts, Xiao Zhou and the others knew that Dr. Yu's brain was running fast at this time. Facing such a cunning prisoner, the first psychological research failed. It is easier said than done to successfully find the second breakthrough point.

Jiang Chengyi turned the dossier page after page, a little absent-minded.

When he noticed the words "Water Dragon Pool" for the third time, he paused, but the next moment he felt the ambiguous stare from the opposite side. Flip back.

After being sent home safely by Xiao Zhou and the others, Lu Yan simply washed and went to bed.

slept until six in the morning before waking up.

Jiang Chengyi didn't go home. She should have been interrogating the prisoner overnight. Thinking that Jiang Chengyi had not slept for two consecutive nights, she also lost sleepiness.

Get up, wash up, and put your phone on the sink.

Jiang Chengyi had no news, and she did not dare to call him to affect his work.

clicked on a few WeChat groups and saw the news that had been piled up overnight. The most lively one was the Class 6 group. Last night, the students in the group discussed whether to visit Teacher Zhou in the hospital.

She was still on her way back from the film and television base last night when she learned about Teacher Zhou's attack from Yu Zheng. She knew that Teacher Zhou was currently living in icu, and as of last night, she had not woken up. It seems that although the news of Teacher Zhou's hospitalization was intentionally concealed by the police, it was spread by Teacher Zhou's neighbors.

The students were discussing which hospital Mrs. Zhou lived in.

In the end, they all suspected that they were sent to the First Affiliated Hospital, but they didn't know which department to live in.

Lu Yan did not participate in the discussion. Since she confirmed the teacher-student relationship between Teacher Zhou and Deng Man, she could no longer have a good impression of this person.

However, considering that Teacher Zhou was also one of the victims, especially thinking that he should know a lot about Cheng Zhou, which would be helpful in solving the case, she still tried to send a message to her colleagues in the ICU.

[I, Lu Yan, are you up? Who was on the night shift yesterday? 】

【I. Lu Yan, why do you wake up so early, you haven't been in the hospital recently, you went on vacation? 】

[Oh, I am preparing for an exam and taking a few days off at home. By the way, a teacher of mine named Zhou Zhicheng lives in your department, right? How is he doing now? 】

[The one whose suffocation caused cardiac arrest? Several indicators are not very good now, but the ph of myocardial enzymes and blood gas analysis are much better than the previous two days, and the kidney function is not a big problem. The overall is still optimistic. I just gave him the doctor's order for head CT. Take a look at the edema of the brain. If it doesn't fluctuate, maybe I can regain consciousness today, but I can't say for sure. 】

today……

[Then thank you, he is the head teacher of my high school, please take care of him. 】

[By the way, Lu Yan, is there something wrong with your head teacher? The police were guarding outside our icu every day for the first two days, asking him about his condition every half an hour, that is, he suddenly left in the middle of the night last night. There is only one policeman left, but just now the policeman seemed to have gone downstairs to buy breakfast and was not there. 】

gone? Could it be that because of Cheng Zhou's arrest, in order to concentrate the police force, the police thought it was unnecessary to keep two more people to continue to protect Teacher Zhou?

She took two steps back and forth in the room, remembering the explosive news report last night, so she quit WeChat and clicked on the news client.

There is overwhelming discussion about Zheng Xiaowen's disappearance.

One moment is the picture of fans praying for Zheng Xiaowen in unison, and the other moment is the live report of reporters outside the Anshan District Bureau. Obviously, although it was said that most of the night had passed, Zheng Xiaowen and Wen Peng had not been found.

She guessed that at this moment, Jiang Chengyi was either searching the scene or interrogating the prisoner.

After thinking about it, she found out the number of Lao Qin that Tang Jie had saved for her before, and called it.

Lao Qin picked it up quickly, the background was messy, and there was a "chuchu" sound from time to time, as if he was doing some kind of large-scale mechanical work.

"Doctor Lu, what's the matter?"

"Officer Qin, I'm sorry to disturb you. I just checked with my icu colleagues. If everything goes well, Mr. Zhou may be able to regain consciousness today. I think since he knows the murderer, as long as he goes in for the interrogation in time, he should be able to provide useful information. ."

She didn't know how far the search and rescue had progressed, but she vaguely reminded Lao Qin that the colleague who was guarding outside the icu had better stay outside the icu all the time, because the patient might wake up at any time, and this kind of experience was heart and lung. A patient who has been resuscitated may fall into a state of lethargy again at any time.

There was a rushing sound of water over Lao Qin, and someone was shouting from a distance, "No, the mud in the lake has been turned over, but there is still nothing."

Lao Qin responded, turned around and said to Lu Yan, "Doctor Lu, thank you for your reminder. I'm a little busy here, so I won't talk about it for now. I'll call my colleagues in the hospital."

Lu Yan breathed a sigh of relief, Lao Qin was very sophisticated and shrewd, and soon heard her euphemistic hints.

As soon as Lao Qin hung up the phone, he called Liao Qi: "Who is watching Zhou Zhicheng in the hospital?"

"Li Mao and Liu Qing." Liao Qi was obviously busy, "Oh no, it's Liu Qing."

"Who is it? Make it clear."

"Liu Qing Liu Qing. Li Mao was temporarily transferred to the suburbs to sweep Yanping Lake."

Lao Qin hurriedly called Liu Qing and heard the voice of a car passing by: "what are you doing, kid?"

Liu Qing's scalp tightened, and he hurriedly took a few mouthfuls of noodles: "I didn't eat all night, so I went out to the supper stall to eat noodles. What's wrong, Teacher Qin."

"Where's Zhou Zhicheng?"

"I haven't woken up yet."

"Hurry up and take me back to the hospital to guard. The doctor said that he might wake up at any time. Cheng Zhou still refuses to speak. If Zhou Zhicheng can provide any clues, you should contact Team Jiang immediately."

Liu Qing knew that it was a big deal, so he wiped his mouth and stood up. After paying the money, he ran to the hospital, lest he miss the best time to ask for a testimony from the witnesses.

Arriving at the door of the icu, there was a dead silence.

He was both relieved and slightly disappointed.

After staying for the whole night, he was a little tired, so he took out a cigarette from the cigarette case and squatted aside.

Just as he was about to light it, he looked up to see the "No-Smoking Zone" sign on the wall, and silently pinched it away.

He simply stood up and walked back and forth in the empty aisle. Just as he reached the end of the corridor, the door of the ICU opened, and a chubby female doctor stuck his head out from inside: "Who are Zhou Zhicheng's family members? The patient wakes up. already."

Cheng Zhou still did not speak.

Jiang Chengyi turned over the case file, and finally returned to the first page, staring at the three words "Shuilongtan" where Cheng Zhou's household registration was located, frowning slightly.

The phone vibrated on the table, he swept it over, saw that Liu Qing was calling, and immediately picked it up.

He heard the other side say, "Team Jiang, Zhou Zhicheng is awake."

Jiang Chengyi's eyes brightened, and he quickly looked at the old Liu who was very experienced in interrogation. He leaned over and said in a low voice, "Old Liu, Zhou Zhicheng is awake, hurry up and pass the time."

Lao Liu immediately understood and stood up without saying a word.

Cheng Zhou's expression did not change, but he involuntarily began to watch the movement here.

Fifteen minutes after Lao Liu left, Yu Zheng finally broke the deadlock and said with a faint smile, "Why don't we talk about your neighbors Zhou Zhicheng and Lin Chunmei."

Cheng Zhou was untouched, only pursed his mouth and twisted his body slightly.

Jiang Chengyi's phone vibrated again. Seeing that it was Lao Liu's number, his heart beat a little faster, and he picked it up, still staring at Cheng Zhou.

"Team Jiang, Zhou Zhicheng is still in a daze, but I asked him if he knew Cheng Zhou, and he just said repeatedly: The child fell into the well, save, save—"

"Didn't say anything else?" Jiang Chengyi was vaguely disappointed.

"No. He fell into a coma right away, and the doctor kicked us out."

Yu Zheng beside him has started psychological interrogation again.

But after hanging up the phone, Jiang Chengyi still felt a little stuffy in the room. There were only 40 minutes left until the deadline given by Cheng Zhou. Cheng Zhou's attitude was still stubborn. If a breakthrough could not be found in a short time, Zheng Xiaowen and Wen Peng would both It's a dead end.

He had to interrupt Yu Zheng and motioned for Yu Zheng to come out with him.

"You mean, Zhou Zhicheng heard Cheng Zhou's name when he woke up, and only said one sentence: The child fell into the well, save, save—"

"Yes."

"Well..." Yu Zheng was lost in thought.

"Yes, well." Jiang Chengyi was irritable like never before, pacing back and forth in the corridor.

"Child." Yu Zheng said thoughtfully, "If this sentence refers to Cheng Zhou at that time, it should still be when the two families lived in Water Dragon Pool."

The words "Water Dragon Pool" came again, Jiang Chengyi's back froze, and he turned to look at Yu Zheng: "Dr. Yu, repeat what you just said."

Yu Zheng was puzzled, but he repeated it again: "I said that if this sentence refers to Cheng Zhou at that time, it should still be when the two families lived in Water Dragon Pool."

"Yes, Shuilongtan! Well!" A look of joy flashed on Jiang Chengyi's face, and he hurriedly called Lao Qin, "Hurry up and check to see if there were any wells nearby before Shuilongtan was demolished, yes, wells or small ponds, etc. , look for it immediately, and call me as soon as there is news."

Twenty minutes later, Lao Qin called with ecstasy: "I found it! Water Dragon Pool is not called Water Dragon Pool now, it is called Runwang Road. There is indeed a well, quite wide and a bit like a pool, and it is just abandoned. Behind the No. 2 Plastics Factory, Zheng Xiaowen and Wen Peng were tied and thrown into the well."

"Are you alive?" Jiang Chengyi's heart skipped a beat.

"Live! Live!"