Chapter 422 Another Little Frost

In order to prevent them from not understanding, Director Sun gave some detailed explanations over the phone.

Schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder are two completely different conditions pathologically.

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder, while multiple personality disorder is a personality disorder.

The common mental illness in real life mainly refers to "schizophrenia", because once the disease occurs, many negative symptoms will appear, such as confused thinking, hallucinations and auditory hallucinations, abnormal emotions, and abnormal behaviors, etc.

In severe cases, there may be extreme emotions, manic behavior, and even self-harm or harm to others.

Because when the patient becomes ill, he or she has already lost the ability to restrict normal behavior.

This is also why legally, mentally ill people cannot bear criminal responsibility, because they are unable to recognize and control their own behavior when they are ill.

Director Sun said that Dong Lu’s original personality, that is, Dong Lu herself, suffered from schizophrenia.

According to Xiao Bing's description, when Dong Lu became ill, she would experience severe mental abnormalities and emotional outbursts, and even engage in self-harm, directly scratching her burned skin with her fingers until it bled.

So in the early days, Xiao Bing said she could only forcibly stop her self-harming behavior by tying her hands and feet.

However, after receiving Director Sun's drug treatment, this situation has rarely occurred.

But medicine is one thing, more importantly, Dong Lu herself has a special situation.

In order to escape the reality of the burns and her own schizophrenia, Dong Lu actually split and developed a new personality. The biggest characteristic of this personality is to escape from everything and completely isolate herself in a world with only herself.

The downside is that this personality hardly communicates with the outside world. Xiao Bing even said that he himself cannot communicate with this escapist personality.

Of course, before being sent to the hospital, Xiao Bing didn't know that Dong Lu had multiple personality disorder. He was just surprised by Dong Lu's behavior, but thought it was just a new manifestation of mental illness. After all, mental illness itself is unreasonable.

When Director Sun first diagnosed Dong Lu, he keenly noticed the abnormality. After several subsequent treatments, he finally determined that Dong Lu had multiple personality disorder on the basis of schizophrenia.

Because this split personality spoke to him in person, which was also the only sentence he spoke actively during the entire treatment process.

When Director Sun said this, the four people on the other end of the phone were shocked, especially Zhou Yi, who felt his scalp tingling instantly.

"Dong Lu's alter ego said that Dong Lu was born on the day of Cold Dew, and she was born on the day of Frost Descent, the next solar term after Cold Dew, so she called herself Xiao Shuang."

Zhou Yi was completely confused. Was this a coincidence destined by fate?

Director Sun said that Dong Lu started receiving his treatment in 1991, which means that at that time, Dong Lu had already split into a personality. This personality believed that he was born on the day of Frost Descent, so he called himself Xiaoshuang.

And six years later, Lu Xiaoshuang, who was actually born on the day of Frost Descent, stepped into the grand school gate.

There seems to be a sense of fatalism.

Director Sun continued speaking over the phone, unaware of the shock felt by the people on the other end.

He said that Dong Lu's "Xiaoshuang" personality did not show any signs of schizophrenia and her emotions were very stable. The only problem was that she was severely self-isolating, like a curled-up hedgehog.

As for the only time he took the initiative to speak, it was because that day happened to be the Frost Descent, one of the twenty-four solar terms.

After that, it’s no use asking anything.

Director Sun said that such cases are extremely rare. He has never encountered such cases in clinical practice in all his years of medical practice and it has great research value.

He even proposed to Xiao Bing that he hope to admit Dong Lu and provide her with long-term, close attention and treatment for her illness, and he would bear all the expenses.

Although Zhou Yi didn't understand the specificity of this case, he knew from Director Sun's tone that it was definitely rare. If he could cure Dong Lu, it would probably be enough for him to publish several high-profile papers.

But as expected, Xiao Bing refused.

Director Sun said with regret: "As doctors, we must respect the wishes of patients and their families. However, if a treatment for this rare disease can be found, perhaps it will help more patients in the future."

Director Sun also said that he was not sure whether it was due to the effect of continued drug control or the influence of Dong Lu's own subconscious mind, but the proportion of physical dominance between Dong Lu's personality and Xiaoshuang's personality gradually changed.

In short, based on the information Xiao Bing provided every time he came to get medicine, we learned that the self-enclosed Xiaoshuang personality was dominant more and more often, while the schizophrenic Dong Lu personality appeared less and less often.

Although the patient's condition has not been cured, at least his condition has stabilized and he will not engage in self-harm or other behaviors that could harm others.

Director Sun said that Xiao Bing came to get prescriptions about once every two months, and every six months he would bring Dong Lu for a follow-up visit according to his own requirements.

In the past two years, Dong Lu's overall condition has been relatively stable. In the two follow-up visits in the past year, the personality that appeared was Xiaoshuang, not Dong Lu.

Xiang Jie asked again about the medical expenses. Director Sun's feedback was that it had always been self-funded, but he remembered that Xiao Bing had filled in the patient's ID number and address on the initial registration information.

On behalf of the police, Qiao Jiali thanked Director Sun again for his cooperation and hung up the phone.

The four people gathered around the desk looked at each other in surprise, because the information they got from Director Sun was too shocking.

First, the name was confirmed. The woman's name was Dong Lu, one year younger than Xiao Bing, and her birth date was the day of Cold Dew in the twenty-four solar terms.

With the accurate name, the efficiency of searching for information can be greatly shortened. There is no need to flip through pages one by one. Just check the entire enrollment registration list, find out those with the same name and surname, and then distinguish them.

After Director Sun gives me the ID number, I can directly check the household registration file.

The work that used to take three days and three nights to complete can now be done in half a day with precise positioning.

Moreover, this task can be directly assigned to Director Fang, and the police force on the task force can be freed up.

Then, regarding Dong Lu's severe burns, judging from Director Sun's description, it basically matched the man in black who had appeared many times.

And it was not until this time that Zhou Yi and Chen Yan remembered that when they were investigating and visiting near Xiao Bing's home, a five-year-old boy had called the man in black a monster. It turned out that the little boy had not watched Ultraman too much, but had actually seen the burned face of the man in black.

In the eyes of children who have little discernment of things, that is equivalent to a monster.

Moreover, according to Director Sun’s description of Dong Lu’s two personalities, it seems that the one who will run away should be Dong Lu’s own personality, which means that it is somewhat dangerous.

The closed personality who calls herself Xiaoshuang is probably the one who has been staying in that basement for a long time.

After all, the secrecy of the basement fits perfectly with the personality described by Director Sun.

"So the large number of literary books and videotapes in the basement were all prepared by Xiao Bing for the personality of Xiaoshuang." Chen Yan said.

Everyone nodded, and Xiang Jie said, "That is to say, Xiao Bing often goes to the bookstore to buy books, but in fact he doesn't buy them for himself, but for Dong Lu in the basement."

Qiao Jiali raised a question: "I forgot to ask Director Sun just now. I wonder if this split personality is completely blank in terms of knowledge and cognition, or is it consistent with Dong Lu's original personality?"

Zhou Yi said, "I think they should be consistent. Director Sun said this personality was split off from Dong Lu's subconscious in order to escape reality and her original mental illness. That doesn't mean Dong Lu gave birth to a child on a spiritual level. This child doesn't understand anything and needs to start from babbling. It's more like Dong Lu forced herself to change her name to Xiaoshuang. Changing her name is equivalent to losing her memory and not remembering anything before."

In fact, a more accurate description would be like copying a file on a computer, renaming the file, and then formatting the file. The original records and viruses are gone, and it becomes a new file.

But maybe not everyone can understand it if I describe it this way.

But it seems that Dong Lu's mental illness is indeed very rare, no wonder Director Sun wants to conduct research.

Qiao Jiali said: "If this is the case, can it be understood that Xiaoshuang inherited Dong Lu's original aesthetic preferences? Those literary books and films in the basement are all Dong Lu's original aesthetic preferences."

Zhou Yi nodded and said that he probably did, because he already understood what Qiao Jiali meant, which was to use this to confirm whether it was very likely that Dong Lu was a college student.

After all, ordinary people can't get into art films. They will just find them boring, long and incomprehensible. To like art films and read obscure literary works, let alone in the 1990s, even 20 years later, one has to have some education and literary qualities.

Xiang Jie stood up and said, "Let me tell everyone the name Dong Lu first so we can adjust the direction."

Then he left the office.

The remaining three looked at each other, and Qiao Jiali asked seriously, "Zhou Yi, Dong Lu's second personality calls herself Xiaoshuang. This is too coincidental. Do you think it's possible that Lu Xiaoshuang was involved for this reason?"

Zhou Yi shook his head and thought that if we only talked about the grand case in the previous life, it would be hard to say, but this life also involved Xu Liu. No matter how you look at it, you can't see any relationship between Xu Liu and Xiao Bing and Dong Lu.

"I feel like there's still some logical gaps, but one thing is basically certain: the man in black who followed Xiao Shuang on the No. 68 bus on the 30th was Dong Lu, and it was her original personality."

"Could it be that she's the one who kidnapped Lu Xiaoshuang?" Chen Yan asked Zhou Yi, "Do you remember that auntie selling apples said she saw a man in black following Lu Xiaoshuang into the alley?"

"I remember, but with Dong Lu's physical ability, I'm afraid she can't control Lu Xiaoshuang. And do you remember that quarter footprint you found? It wasn't the size of a woman's."

Upon hearing this, Chen Yan nodded, because it was indeed a bit far-fetched to say that Dong Lu had kidnapped and knocked Lu Xiaoshuang unconscious.

Even if a person with 80% severe burns recovers to normal, it is highly unlikely that she will be in good physical condition, let alone a woman who has been hiding in the basement for years.

"But at least some of the information from the previous on-site investigation can finally be matched."

There were several pieces of information that matched what Zhou Yi said.

In addition to what Chen Yan had observed before, many daily necessities came in pairs.

Zhou Yi also raised several points.

First, there is not even a mirror in Xiao Bing’s house.

Because Dong Lu is a severely burned patient and suffers from multiple personality disorder.

Neither of these two points is suitable for looking in the mirror, as it can easily cause a huge psychological burden. After all, Dong Lu's personality also suffers from schizophrenia.

Second, the restraint ropes on the iron bed in the basement.

It was not a tool for playing some perverted games, but was prepared by Xiao Bing to control Dong Lu's self-harm when she was ill.

As for why no biological tissue was extracted from the rope during the on-site investigation, according to the information provided by Director Sun, it should be due to the frequency of drug control and closed personality, which makes this extreme situation very rare.

As for the previous traces, Xiao Bing will definitely actively clean them up, so it is normal that they cannot be retrieved.

Third, it is about why Xiao Bing’s house is covered with tiles everywhere.

Especially in the basement, which is covered with tiles on all sides, it feels very cold, but there is an electric fan in the corner.

Zhou Yi recalled the female worker he had met when he was a child. He remembered his father once saying that people with extensive burns would suffer from many serious sequelae later.

After all, it was a psychological trauma from his childhood, so when he was in police school, he specifically looked up relevant information.

There are two most common sequelae.

One type, called hypertrophic scarring, can cause persistent pain and itching, and in severe cases can last for years.

Another reason is that deep burns damage the skin and sweat glands, making the patient unable to sweat on his own, so he is particularly afraid of heat and will induce a series of problems.

"So the purpose of covering Xiao Bing's house with tiles might be to reduce the temperature and provide Dong Lu with a relatively comfortable living environment."

After all, air conditioners are a luxury these days, and even if you can afford to install one, you may not be able to afford to turn it on. If you turn it on for a long time when you are not at home, it may arouse suspicion from others.

Chen Yan suddenly realized: "No wonder Xiao Bing's house gives people a cold feeling. I also find it strange. Whose bedroom is covered with tiles?"

"Sister Qiao, have you found the foreman who will be renovating Xiao Bing's house?" Zhou Yi asked.

Qiao Jiali shook her head and said not yet.

Zhou Yi said, "Maybe our previous speculation was wrong."

"What do you mean?"

"About the relationship between Xiao Bing and Dong Lu."

At this time, Xiang Jie came back and after learning the content of their conversation, he asked Zhou Yi to continue.

Zhou Yi nodded and said, "We previously suspected that Xiao Bing didn't want to get married because he was emotionally hurt. After being hurt by Dong Lu, he developed psychological problems, and then angrily kidnapped Dong Lu and imprisoned her in his basement. Then, during this process, Dong Lu, the hostage, developed unusual feelings for Xiao Bing, the kidnapper. This is known as Stockholm syndrome."

Chen Yan nodded, because this speculation was analyzed by him and Zhou Yi.

"But we didn't know before that Dong Lu had severe burns and mental illness."

"Let's put the mental illness aside for now, as it most likely only appeared after Dong Lu was burned. I want to focus on the issue of Dong Lu's severe burns."

"Generally speaking, there are only three types of severe burns: accidental, self-immolation, and arson."

"Arson resulting in severe burns is already a very serious criminal case. Sister Qiao, please check if there is any record of such cases in Hongcheng." In fact, there is basically no need to check, because Zhou Yi does not remember any similar cases, but it is better to check again to be on the safe side.

Qiao Jiali nodded: "No problem."

Zhou Yi continued, "The remaining options are accident and self-immolation, and I prefer accident. Self-immolation usually involves suicidal thoughts, a desperate attempt to live. It's almost impossible for someone to survive the painful treatment and recovery period. To survive, one must have a genuine desire to survive."

Humans are very magical animals. Sometimes we can't blame some people for being too idealistic. Under the same physical condition, people who have no desire to survive will die soon, while those who want to live will breathe tenaciously as long as they have a breath, even if they are like a piece of rag.

"If it was an accident, it might not be classified as a criminal case, but a normal report would definitely remain on the criminal record."

"Based on the premise of accidental severe burns, and considering Xiao Bing's use of renovations to dig a basement, our previous speculation may be overturned."

Chen Yan vaguely understood Zhou Yi's meaning. "You mean... Xiao Bing might have dug the basement from the beginning just to accommodate Dong Lu?"

Zhou Yi nodded. "That's right. We'll know this once we find the construction team that originally renovated Xiao Bing's house. As long as the tiles were installed at the time, it means Xiao Bing did all this to accommodate Dong Lu. And do you remember that Dong Lu's footprints were found at Xiao Bing's house, but no fingerprints? And the mysophobia and obsessive-compulsive disorder displayed by his family can all be explained by Dong Lu's burns and mental health issues."

Such a result still surprised everyone.

In other words, Dong Lu was severely burned in an accident. Although he survived, he was completely unrecognizable and looked like a ghost.

Xiao Bing, who never left Dong Lu, transformed his home into a cold living coffin in order to properly accommodate her body and spirit.

She hid for at least seven or eight years. During this period, Dong Lu had mental problems. Xiao Bing took her to see the best psychiatrist and prescribed her medicine regularly.

I would also go to the bookstore to buy books and videotapes for Dong Lu.

In order to protect the disfigured Dong Lu, Xiao Bing, who was originally regarded as a cheerful and optimistic person by his classmates during his undergraduate studies, gradually became a lonely and solitary man, and even cut off contact with his relatives.

How can this be called a pervert? This is just a deeply infatuated and miserable man.

As soon as Zhou Yi said this, Xiang Jie immediately asked a question: "If Xiao Bing is not a pervert, then why did he trick Lu Xiaoshuang into going to your house at noon on the 30th? And why did he run away?"

Yes, Xiang Jie’s question hits the nail on the head.

If Xiao Bing is not a bad person, why would he do these things?

And it was obvious that the people who escaped now were not one but two people, Xiao Bing and Dong Lu.

Could it be that Dong Lu has some unknown secret?

Chen Yan suddenly said, "I understand."

"What?" The three looked at him.

"That fragment of the photo! Do you remember it?"

Zhou Yi nodded: "Of course I remember. The front is Xiaoshuang's eyes, and the back is some French words."

"Think about it, where could this photo have come from? It couldn't have been given to Xiao Bing by Lu Xiaoshuang, right?"

Zhou Yi nodded, there was no such possibility.

Chen Yan said, "So Xiao Bing must have taken the photo secretly, and he also wrote some sentimental words in French on the back. Let's not talk about what Xiao Bing's feelings are towards Lu Xiaoshuang. Just to say that the photo was torn up manually, right? There are only two people in Xiao Bing's family. If it's not Xiao Bing, then it can only be Dong Lu."

Zhou Yi understood what Chen Yan meant, and so did the other two.

"If it was Dong Lu herself who stumbled upon this photo, she might have been triggered into schizophrenia. Director Sun said that she would suffer severe self-harm during a schizophrenia attack, which suggests that Dong Lu was violent and aggressive during this episode."

Qiao Jiali continued, "So after Dong Lu became ill, she probably regarded Lu Xiaoshuang as a love rival, or even a target, because of this photo, and intended to harm her."

Chen Yan said excitedly, "That's right. Perhaps Dong Lu directly expressed his desire to harm Lu Xiaoshuang, or perhaps Xiao Bing guessed it. In short, Xiao Bing believed that Dong Lu, driven by love and hatred, wanted to kill Lu Xiaoshuang, which is why he was so reckless in tricking Lu Xiaoshuang into coming to you at noon on the 30th. Didn't Lu Xiaoshuang's confession also state that Xiao Bing was extremely nervous at the time, and this nervousness even affected her judgment?"

Chen Yan's analysis is very reasonable. The most important thing is that he did not make guesses out of thin air, but used various case details to verify it.

Zhou Yi couldn't help but sigh, a top student is a top student, and he makes rapid progress.

Chen Yan also found the feeling. The more he spoke, the more excited he became, and his thoughts became more active.

"We've previously analyzed that Dong Lu is most likely an orphan without any relatives. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been missing for so long without being reported. Director Sun's information now at least confirms that Dong Lu wasn't held hostage for an extended period of time, so the orphan theory is likely correct. Dong Lu is an orphan, and with the burns and disfigurement, her only lifeline is Xiao Bing."

"So when she discovered Xiao Bing had 'switched his affections' and fallen in love with another woman, her heart was bound to break down, leading to extreme thoughts. This should be the motive for the crime."

Zhou Yi couldn't help but nodded. For a patient with severe burns and mental illness, this was a criminal motive that was very consistent with normal people's logic.

Chen Yan said, "According to the information provided by Director Sun, the person wearing black and running outside is Dong Lu's true personality. The closed personality who calls herself Xiao Shuang probably won't run outside. The fact that neighbors have seen this person in black before suggests that Xiao Bing is unable or unwilling to restrict Dong Lu's behavior."

"The fact that Dong Lu wrapped herself up so tightly when she went out suggests that although she may be mentally ill, she hasn't lost her original intelligence. Of course, I don't know what her purpose is in going out."

"Brother Yan, please continue." Zhou Yi put his hands together to cover his nose and mouth. He was thinking about what Chen Yan said.

Chen Yan scratched his head sheepishly. "Actually, I've almost finished what I meant. What I meant was that Dong Lu was provoked and had an attack, intending to harm Lu Xiaoshuang. Xiao Bing was caught in a dilemma and could only remind Lu Xiaoshuang to seek refuge with you. He certainly didn't want to see Lu Xiaoshuang get hurt, but he certainly didn't want Dong Lu to be arrested either."

"But how did he know that Zhou Yi was on a business trip?" Qiao Jiali wondered.

"Tracking." Zhou Yi said, "Brother Yan is right. The photos must have been taken secretly. Xiao Bing must have been secretly following Xiao Shuang long before I met her. So that incident at the food street was not a coincidence."

Regarding the so-called noodle restaurant in the food court, the task force sent people to investigate and found that there was indeed such a noodle restaurant, but the owner and waiters had no impression of Xiao Bing.

This does not prove that Xiao Bing must have lied, but this proof is actually invalid because it is too ambiguous.

"So Xiao Bing must have some unusual feelings for Xiao Shuang, which is why he followed her for so long and secretly, and then knew my location and that I was on a business trip."

But Zhou Yi still had doubts about the business trip, because when he came to Lu Xiaoshuang to talk about the business trip that day, he was extremely cautious and found a place where there was no one before speaking.

He noticed at the time that there was no one around and no place to hide that would block his view. It was unlikely that Xiao Bing could hide nearby and hear their conversation.

"Then how did he know whether you came back from your business trip?" asked Qiao Jiali.

"He doesn't know. He might just think I'm back, or..." Zhou Yi paused, "He has no choice but to take a gamble."

No matter what the reason, it is an indisputable fact that Xiao Bing hid Dong Lu. If he directly told Lu Xiaoshuang the truth or asked Lu Xiaoshuang to seek asylum at the Public Security Bureau, the end result would be that Dong Lu would be forced to be exposed, which is obviously not the result he wants to see.

Therefore, tricking Lu Xiaoshuang into coming to find him is the only option.

Hearing this, Xiang Jie said, "So, Xiao Bing ran away not because of himself, but because he felt that Dong Lu and Lu Xiaoshuang's disappearance were related?"

Zhou Yi suddenly remembered the time when he and Chen Yan pretended to leave and then eavesdropped outside Xiao Bing's house.

There was no sound in the room at that time, but after a while there was a sound of a door slamming.

In addition, there was Xiao Bing's reaction when he opened the door to the inner room and found that the door was locked.

Probably at that time, Dong Lu was in the basement of the inner room separated from the three people by a wall, and it must be because of Dong Lu's closed personality that she locked the door.

After they left, Xiao Bing probably went into the inner room and down to the basement to question Dong Lu whether she had hurt Lu Xiaoshuang, so Zhou Yi, who was outside the house, heard nothing.

Then the sound of the door slamming was probably Xiao Bing venting his emotions, because for patients with multiple personality disorder, each personality has independent cognition and memory.

To put it bluntly, he asked Xiaoshuang's personality Dong Lu whether he had hurt Lu Xiaoshuang, but he got no answer at all.

That's why he slammed the door in anger to vent his emotions.

But when he calmed down, his first reaction was to run away with Dong Lu.

But the question is, where can the two orphans escape to?

The four people in the office discussed it and fell into deep thought.

Because if we reason in this direction, then Xiao Bing and Dong Lu actually don't need to run at all.

Although the person on the No. 68 bus was probably Dong Lu, Dong Lu did not meet the characteristics of the murderer who was currently holding Lu Xiaoshuang hostage.

Not to mention the issue of physical ability and vehicles, which are essential tools for committing crimes, even Dong Lu couldn't get the ether used for knocking people out.

Even though the supervision and management of some controlled drugs was relatively lax in the 1990s, it was impossible for a person who had been hiding in Xiao Bing's basement for seven or eight years and was completely out of touch with society to get such a thing.

So it was purely Xiao Bing's wishful thinking to think that Dong Lu had killed someone and was therefore escaping.

"In other words, the murderer is someone else!" Zhou Yi said.

The three nodded in agreement.

This judgment is basically certain!

Based on Xiao Bing's social relationships that have been investigated so far, and the situation between him and Dong Lu that we just learned about today, it is unlikely that a third accomplice will emerge between the two of them.

And it is not ruled out that Xiao Bing himself has some mental problems. Judging from the fact that he has been keeping Dong Lu in his own home and stalking and secretly photographing Lu Xiaoshuang, he may have some mental or psychological problems.

Two mentally ill people could not have come up with such a meticulous criminal plan.

What's more, the first victim in this case was Xu Liu, who was broken into thousands of pieces.

All the current clues about Xiao Bing have nothing to do with Xu Liu.

Chen Yan asked, "Do we need to investigate further about Dong Lu's situation?"

Just as Zhou Yi was about to speak, Xiang Jie spoke first, "Investigate, we must. These are just our speculations at the moment, and the purpose of the investigation is to verify whether these speculations are reasonable. Only after thorough investigation and confirmation can we rule them out."

Zhou Yi nodded. "Yes, Officer Xiang is right. And as long as we get Dong Lu's ID number, it will be much easier to check her information without much trouble. But I can't understand how Xiao Bing could hide for so long with someone as physically and mentally unstable as Dong Lu. It's strange."

"Yeah, it's really strange," Xiang Jie said. "How about this, I'll ask our Liang Detachment about mobilizing the media and finding a way to get the public to report this, or to get Xiao Bing to turn himself in."

"That's all we can do. Thank you, Officer."

The analysis here is almost done, and everyone starts to act separately.

Soon, a doctor from the Department of Psychiatry of the Third Municipal Hospital contacted Qiao Jiali and said that Director Sun had asked them to find the patient's information and sent it to the task force via fax.

The task force successfully obtained Dong Lu's ID number. Some information can be confirmed from the ID number alone. Dong Lu is a native of Hongcheng and was born on October 9, 1966.

That day was Cold Dew.

Then, they started checking her household registration information based on her ID number.

With the help of Director Wang, Zhou Yi and his team quickly obtained Dong Lu's household registration information.

And there is an extremely important key piece of information in the household registration information!

Dong Lu was indeed an orphan, because her registered residence was the Hongcheng No. 1 Social Welfare Institute where Zhou Yi had visited before.

However, Dong Lu’s ID photo was not seen in the household registration information, which might be due to the incomplete registration at the beginning.

Zhou Yi and Chen Yan immediately drove to the welfare home, while Qiao Jiali continued to check the relevant archival records of the burn case.

On the way, Chen Yan finally remembered: "Oh, right, didn't you say before that you wanted to check something? Were you talking about this matter about Dong Lu?"

"No, I went to the city bureau this morning and picked up Xiao Shuang."

"Oh, then where did you send her now? It's not safe for her outside now, right? If there's nowhere else to go, you can send her to my house. My mom and I are the only ones there. Even if the murderer had stalked Lu Xiaoshuang before, he wouldn't think of such an unrelated place."

Zhou Yi was very touched and said, "Don't bother Auntie, I'll send her to Qian Hongxing's home."

Chen Yan nodded: "That's a good choice. You haven't told me what you want to check yet?"

"After I sent Xiao Shuang over, she gave me a clue. She had a classmate named Zheng Jianxin who had confessed his feelings for her not long ago. We hadn't heard of this before, so we thought we'd go talk to Zheng Jianxin and find out more about the situation. I've already gone to the back office team to get the investigative materials on Zheng Jianxin, but he hasn't mentioned anything about this."

"But don't worry. Since we have Dong Lu as a clue, let's investigate this first. We can look for Zheng Jianxin later when we have time."

"Oh, I see." Chen Yan suddenly said with a smile, "Then is this guy your love rival?"

Zhou Yi was stunned. Chen Yan, who was usually serious, actually joked.

He stretched his body and said, "There's no such thing as a love rival."

What stood between him and Lu Xiaoshuang was never a love rival, but an unsolved case spanning two lifetimes.

Zhou Yi and Chen Yan came to the welfare home. Since Zhou Yi had been there with Lu Xiaoshuang last time, he went straight to the director's office with ease.

After knocking on the door, Dean Hu's voice rang out from inside the room: "Come in."

Zhou Yi pushed open the door, and Dean Hu stood up in surprise when he saw Zhou Yi.

"President Hu, do you still remember me?"

Dean Hu nodded repeatedly and said, "Officer Zhou, of course I remember. What brought you here?"

Zhou Yi introduced Chen Yan and showed his ID.

When Dean Hu saw the other party showing his ID, he knew it must be some official business and asked, "Officers, is there anything I can do for you? Is this...about Xu Xinxin's parents' case?"

Zhou Yi shook his head, took out Dong Lu's household registration information, handed it over, and said, "President Hu, we are here for this person."

Dean Hu took it and looked at it. "Dong Lu? This name seems familiar. The registered address is indeed our welfare home."

According to Dong Lu’s household registration information, in addition to her registered address being a welfare home, her household registration is also a collective household registration.

But the other information has obviously not been updated for a long time, and the education level column still says high school.

"Director Hu, I remember that children in the orphanage have to leave the orphanage and become self-reliant after turning eighteen. Doesn't this mean their household registration doesn't need to be moved?"

"As for household registration, it's not compulsory. If there's a place to accept it, then you can move there. If not, it will remain in our welfare home. After all, there's nothing we can do about it. Comrades, please sit down for a moment. I'll go look for Dong Lu's information." Dean Hu said as he took out the key from the drawer of his desk.

"Excuse me, Dean Hu."

"It's my duty." Dean Hu said as he walked out of the office. Then he heard her calling the staff in the corridor to go with her to the warehouse to check some information.

Zhou Yi did not sit down, but walked to a wall because he saw an area on the wall covered with photos.

His eyes casually swept across the photos, all of which were the smiling faces of the children in the welfare home.

Suddenly, his eyes fell on one of the new photos.

A group of children were playing Eagle Catches Chicken, and the person protecting the large group of children behind them was Lu Xiaoshuang.

The photo was taken by the welfare home staff the last time they came.

Lu Xiaoshuang in the photo has a bright and sunny smile.

After a while, Dean Hu hurried in with a stack of information.

"Gentlemen, I've found information about this Dong Lu. She's indeed a child from our orphanage, but it happened a while ago, so I haven't met her. I was only transferred here in 1992 to take charge of the work, so I've never met this child."

Zhou Yi took the information and started reading it with Chen Yan.

Dean Hu poured tea for the two of them.

According to the information, Dong Lu was admitted to an orphanage in 1966. Someone abandoned her at the door of the orphanage when she was just born.

Director Hu said that this kind of thing still happens today, not just in the past, but more often in the past. For example, there's a preference for sons over daughters, illegitimate children, unmarried pregnancies, families too poor to raise children, and so on. Those who can abandon children at the doorstep of the orphanage are considered to have a conscience.

The unscrupulous people just throw it into the river, into the trash can, or into the reed marshes and wastelands.

As he said this, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh. People who do their job see too many things like this, just like criminal police see as many murders as they do.

The day she was thrown into the welfare home was the Cold Dew Day of 1966.

That's why she was named Dong Lu. As for this name, President Hu said it should have been given by the old president.

Director Hu said: "The old director's surname was Dong, so many abandoned babies without names or surnames took on the old director's surname Dong, and in this way, these children became family members."

Chen Yan asked, "Dean Hu, do many children have the surname Hu these days?"

Dean Hu smiled and said nothing.

The following information was relatively normal, recording some information about Dong Lu's elementary school, junior high school, and high school. Zhou Yi paid special attention to junior high school and high school and found that he and Xiao Bing did not attend the same school, which meant that the two had no intersection in their schools.

By 1984, Dong Lu was already eighteen years old.

According to the law, orphans who are over 18 years old, if they are physically healthy and have no intellectual disabilities, need to leave the orphanage.

According to the information, Dong Lu also completed the relevant procedures in October of that year.

Judging from her year of admission, she had just finished the college entrance examination and started college.

The welfare home’s information is the same as the household registration information, and there is no record of Dong Lu going to college.

However, there are several black and white photos in the information. One is a photo of Dong Lu when she was a baby, and the other is a photo of her when she was five or six years old. She had pigtails and a round face and was very cute.

The last photo was probably taken when Dong Lu was fifteen or sixteen years old. Although her face still looked childish, it can be seen that she was very beautiful.

What made Zhou Yi's breath stop was that Dong Lu in the photo was actually 60% similar to Lu Xiaoshuang.