Chapter 15
Meng Qirang heard Lin Anyu's nonchalant words and interrupted, "Don't blame Captain Jiang for doubting your name. Judging from your state just now, I suspected that you had changed into a different person."
"Is it that outrageous?" Lin Anyu asked back.
"Absolutely. You just boasted about my test results and said something about hallucinogens and hypnosis," Meng Qirang said. "You are a completely different person. I almost believed what you said."
"Haloquist? Hypnosis?" Lin Anyu asked, as if he had grasped the key words.
"Yes, that's what you said at the time," Meng Qirang reminded, "and you also said that using hallucinogens for hypnosis is the worst form of hypnosis."
Hypnosis?
Hypnotist?
Did he contact the sleep aid he met this morning?
Lin Anyu had no answer.
As soon as Meng Qirang finished speaking, she finished queuing.
She immediately said to the auntie who was holding a stainless steel lunch box at the window, "Auntie Wang, one spoonful of braised pork ribs, one spoonful of bean sprouts, and a bowl of rice, thank you."
"Okay," Aunt Wang asked after everything was ready, "Do you want some soup over the rice?"
"Pour it on," Meng Qirang replied quickly, "Thank you."
"You're welcome." Aunt Wang just handed the stainless steel lunch box to Meng Qirang, and when she looked up, she saw Lin Anyu who was trying hard to recall something.
Lin Anyu is usually very warm to others, and his favorite thing to do every day is to help everyone.
From the security guard at the gate to the auntie serving food, there is no one who doesn't like her.
When she saw her, Aunt Wang immediately smiled widely: "Eanyu, what do you want to eat today?"
Lin Anyu didn't say anything, his brows were furrowed, as if he was thinking.
After a while, Lin Anyu realized that it was her turn in line. She said briefly, "Oh, rice and bean sprouts. Thanks, Aunt Wang."
"Okay." Aunt Wang agreed and gave her some chicken wings in addition to the bean sprouts.
"How much?" Lin Anyu asked.
"5 yuan." Aunt Wang said as she steadily entered "5.00" yuan on the time clock.
Jiang Nan, who was standing behind him, poked his head out from behind. After seeing this, he said unconvincedly, "Auntie Wang is too partial. She didn't even ask for chicken wings, but you gave them back to her, and you charged her the same price as a vegetarian dish!"
Aunt Wang seemed to be particularly partial to Lin Anyu. When she heard Jiang Nan's "dissatisfaction", she ignored her and said to Lin Anyu, "Anyu, ignore Jiang Nan. He is just a big mouth. You are still growing, so eat more."
"Auntie Wang, are you kidding me?" Jiang Nan's defense broke down. "Lin Anyu is 27 this year. He will be 30 in a few years. How can he still grow? I should grow."
Aunt Wang ignored him and kept asking Lin Anyu: "Anyu, is there enough food?"
Lin Anyu couldn't refuse Aunt Wang's kindness, so she took the stainless steel rice bowl and said hastily, "That's enough, Aunt Wang."
In an instant, Aunt Wang didn't know what she felt. Her hand that was serving the food paused for a second, as if an irrepressible emotion surged up. She tilted her head and touched her nose with her shoulder.
When he spoke again, his voice was nasal: "Eat more, eat more."
Lin Anyu had been thinking about other things and did not notice that something was wrong with Aunt Wang.
After she left with the stainless steel lunch box, Jiang Nan, who had noticed something strange, walked up to her and asked, "Auntie Wang, are you okay?"
"It's okay, it's okay," Aunt Wang wiped the tears from her eyes, "Jiang Nan, what do you want to eat today?"
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After Jiang Nan finished his meal, he walked out of the crowd holding the plate.
He sat opposite Lin Anyu and asked curiously, "Did you know Aunt Wang before? Why do you always have more rice in your plate than us?"
Lin Anyu ate slowly, occasionally raised his head and answered: "I don't know him."
After thinking about it again, she felt that it was not very accurate to say so, so she added while chewing her rice: "No, it should be considered as knowing each other."
Meng Qirang stopped eating melons and asked, "Hmm? Then how did you and Aunt Wang know each other?"
"Auntie Wang said that the first case I handled before I lost my memory was her case. Her seven-year-old son was brutally dismembered by her remarried husband, and I personally sent the murderer to prison." Lin Anyu smiled embarrassedly, "It's a pity that I don't remember anything."
"Oh," Jiang Nan replied calmly, "No wonder she always gives you a bigger share than us."
Lin Anyu was not modest: "I can't help it, I was too awesome before."
Meng Qirang shook his head and continued eating his meal.
Jiang Nan almost pounded the table: "Angry, but refuted!"
Lin Anyu bit his chopsticks, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Jiang Nan, are you busy this afternoon?"
"Not bad." Jiang Nan said quickly.
"Please accompany me to a place." Lin Anyu said.
"Where are you going?" Jiang Nan asked.
"You'll know when you get there." Lin Anyu said mysteriously.
"The case hasn't been solved yet, I don't have time," Jiang Nan said, "I only have half an hour to eat, I don't have time to waste."
"It's not a waste," Lin Anyu said, "I seem to have found an outrageous but very likely clue."
"What clues can you find?" Jiang Nan said nonchalantly, "Stop joking, I really have something to do after dinner."
After saying that, he caught a glimpse of Jiang Aichen who was queuing for food: "Go find Captain Jiang. Didn't you and him get along well this morning?"
Lin Anyu glanced in that direction and said truthfully: "Actually, I'm still a little afraid of him."
"In fact, no one here is not afraid of him," Jiang Nan said, "Do you still want to stick to your idea?"
"I do." Lin Anyu said firmly.
"Then go ahead."
Lin Anyu hesitated for a moment, but still rushed forward.
She stood behind Jiang Aichen, looked around, and finally mustered up the courage to speak.
Jiang Aichen looked through the files without even raising his head: "What's the matter?"
Lin Anyu chuckled and said, "Captain Jiang, I think I have a little clue."
Jiang Aichen understood what she meant. Before she could tell him why she came, he predicted her purpose: "I'll accompany you."
Originally, Lin Anyu didn't have any expectations. After all, even Jiang Nan rejected him.
As the captain of their criminal police team, how could Jiang Aichen really be willing to believe the few clues he had?
But surprisingly, he agreed.
Lin Anyu was surprised and delighted: "Captain Jiang, I will never let you down."
Jiang Aichen took his eyes off the file and looked at her carefully.
His eyes were dark, and he had an aura that made him seem difficult to approach.
He suddenly asked: "Have you been to the hospital?"
"Ah?" Lin Anyu didn't know why he suddenly asked this. She was curious: "Why should I go to the hospital?"
"Is it possible that you..." Jiang Aichen stopped talking halfway, "Nothing."
Jiang Aichen's hesitation made Lin Anyu even more curious.
He didn't have anything he dared to say before.
Lin Anyu was filled with curiosity: "Is there anything I can do? Captain Jiang, just tell me. I can handle it."
"Is it possible that you..." Jiang Aichen paused for a second, as if the following words were extremely difficult to say. He gathered his emotions and said, "Split personality."
Lin Anyu's smile froze:...
I thank you.
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Along the way, Lin Anyu sat in the back seat of Jiang Aichen's car without saying a word.
They walked all the way to the [Sound of Sleep] on the fourth floor of Shengxia Plaza. The two looked at each other and walked in tacitly.
"Welcome." Xu Jinshu, who was checking user information at the front desk, said kindly.
When he looked up, he saw that it was Lin Anyu and the others, and immediately greeted Lin Anyu kindly: "Officer Lin."
Turning his head and noticing Jiang Aichen standing behind Lin Anyu, Xu Jinshu asked in confusion: "Who is this..."
Lin Anyu's eyes sank for a second before he replied, "Jiang Aichen, the captain of our detachment."
"Hello, Captain Jiang." Xu Jinshu was the first to greet.
"Hello." Jiang Aichen said in a cold voice.
"Are you coming to my store to investigate something?" Xu Jinshu asked.
Jiang Aichen asked straight to the point: "Where were you on the night of the 22nd? What were you doing?"
Xu Jinshu was not panicked at all: "At five o'clock in the afternoon, I was in the store helping a patient with poor sleep with auxiliary treatment. I left at nine o'clock in the evening, got home at nine twenty, cleaned up until eleven o'clock, and then fell asleep."
Jiang Aichen: "How do you remember it so clearly?"
Xu Jinshu: "Since I met you this morning, I knew you would definitely come again. Combined with the recent hot news, I know why you are suspicious of me. So I didn't eat lunch and reviewed my schedule for the 22nd in advance."
"You are quite a good guesser."
There was no discernible tone in Jiang Aichen's words.
Lin Anyu walked to the front desk and said to the staff inside: "Can I see your customer information?"
"The information is customer privacy. It's inconvenient." The front desk staff refused while looking at Xu Jinshu, as if asking for his consent.
Jiang Aichen sensed the obstacles that Lin Anyu encountered, and he said to the front desk staff: "Xi Zixuan is an important suspect in this case. I heard that he is a client of yours, so I want to investigate."
Xu Jinshu was not stingy and turned to the front desk and said, "Give it to her. Police-civilian cooperation is a must."
After getting his approval, the front desk staff agreed and politely led Lin Anyu to the back, where she used the key to open the safe.
As a result, just as she was about to take out the customer information, Lin Anyu took the initiative to hold her hand.
"What kind of person is your boss?"
The receptionist looked guiltily at Xu Jinshu who was not far away.
Seeing the girl at the front desk was afraid, Lin Anyu explained: "Don't be afraid, he can't hear you."
The receptionist hesitated and said, "I'm not afraid that our boss will hear it. He is a very nice person and cares about us employees. His salary is several thousand higher than that of his peers. So I really don't understand why you suddenly asked our boss."
Soon the girl at the front desk had her own guess: "Could it be that you suspect he is involved in the recent popular cult suicide case? Absolutely impossible, our boss is very law-abiding."
The little girl raised her voice unconsciously as she spoke.
Not knowing how much Xu Jinshu and Jiang Aichen, who were not far away, heard, Lin Anyu only knew that when he turned his head, he met their slightly inquiring gazes.
Lin Anyu quickly held the girl's shoulder, and the serious image he had created with great difficulty disappeared in an instant: "I know, I know, hush, keep your voice down, don't be so loud, we are just chatting casually."
Xu Jinshu and Jiang Aichen withdrew their gazes.
Xu Jinshu was the first to speak, and sighed: "It's really completely different."
Jiang Aichen replied: "What's different?"
"Everything is different now," Xu Jinshu asked in a clichéd way, "Did she go through something?"
Although no name was mentioned, both of them knew exactly who they were talking about.
Jiang Aichen half-truthfully said, "Three years ago, she encountered a fire while catching a criminal and her face was burned, so she had plastic surgery."
Xu Jinshu didn't know how much he believed. He looked at the backs of Lin Anyu and the receptionist whispering to each other. He was silent for a while and asked, "How did she escape?"
"I was rescued by a brave passerby." Jiang Aichen said.
"Where is the brave man?"
"Dead."
"How did he die?"
"She died the moment she rushed out of the sea of fire carrying Lin Anyu on her back."
Xu Jinshu's voice trembled unconsciously: "How true is it?"
"One hundred percent. This is a notice issued by the Zecheng Public Security Bureau itself."
Xu Jinshu still held out a glimmer of hope: "Has Lin Anyu's DNA been tested?"
Jiang Aichen stared at him warily. His intuition told him that the man in front of him must know something. He said, "It's been tested. It's him. I took the blood sample myself and submitted it to the Forensic Department."
It's not that Xu Jinshu hadn't seen reports about the fire on the Internet, but he had always been reluctant to read the details. Until now, he completely believed it.
"So..." Perhaps because his only remaining hope was shattered, Xu Jinshu endured it until his eyes turned red. He gritted his teeth and said, "Since she was lucky enough to survive, she gave herself a plastic surgery to look like her savior? She thinks that she doesn't need to feel guilty and can live on in her place, right?"
Jiang Aichen clenched his fists and suppressed his temper: "What did you say?!"
"I said, three years ago, during the fire in Zecheng, it was Song Lue who saw Lin Anyu rushing out of the sea of fire, desperate to save people," Xu Jinshu had obviously investigated everything. He said word by word, "He was your immediate superior, the master who brought you up. I saw it with my own eyes!"
Jiang Aichen didn't know how he could understand his affairs so thoroughly.
But he knew that the person in front of him was indeed acquainted with Song Luo.
Jiang Aichen's nails dug deep into his flesh. He suppressed his emotions and tried to calm himself down: "Sorry, I don't know what you are talking about. My master is in the Imperial Capital General Administration. You got the wrong person."
"You can fool others about this, but you can't fool me," Xu Jinshu said solemnly, "If she is really still alive, she will definitely come to find me. But I have waited for her for three years, and she has never come once, so what do you think is the chance of her survival?"
What are the chances of survival?
Jiang Aichen's emotions were completely out of control.
He knew that she often risked her own life to save others.
But she had won the bets several times before.
Only this time...
Jiang Aichen grabbed Xu Jinshu by the collar: "Why didn't you stop her?"
"I said I don't want to stop him," Xu Jinshu gave up resistance and seemed to deliberately provoke him, "Do you believe it?"
Before Jiang Aichen could say anything, Lin Anyu came over with a stack of client information and saw the stalemate between the two. He asked, "What are you doing?"
Jiang Aichen didn't know how to face Lin Anyu for a moment. He let go of Xu Jinshu and said, "Nothing. Take the information you want and let's go back to the police station."
"Oh, okay." Lin Anyu agreed.
After Jiang Aichen left, Lin Anyu was about to follow him when Xu Jinshu suddenly called her, "Officer Lin."
Lin Anyu stopped and asked: "What's wrong?"
Xu Jinshu handed her a file bag and said, "This is the contact information of all hypnotists in Beihai. It should be useful to you."
Lin Anyu glanced at the file bag and asked curiously, "How do you know we need this?"
Xu Jinshu's tone was much colder than before: "When you asked me if I could hypnotize you this morning, I knew you would need this."
morning? Ask him if he can hypnotize?
When did she ask?
Lin Anyu was puzzled.
Mingming first learned about the connection between hallucinogens and hypnosis during lunch.
Why does she often suffer from memory loss today?
Lin Anyu raised some caution, but since he was already prepared, she didn't bother to be polite with him.
Lin Anyu took the file bag and said, "Thank you."
Just as she was about to leave, Xu Jinshu stopped her again: "Officer Lin, I want to ask you something."
He had prepared such a big gift for her, so it was hard for Lin Anyu to refuse. She said, "Three years ago, you experienced a fire."
"Yeah." Lin Anyu replied.
Xu Jinshu continued to ask: "I heard that you were rescued by someone."
Lin Anyu: "Well, how did you know?"
Xu Jinshu: "Do you still remember the name of the person who rescued you?"
Lin Anyu answered truthfully: "Her last name seems to be Song."
Xu Jinshu's aura turned colder: "You don't know her full name."
"have no idea."
The anger in Xu Jinshu's tone was hard to conceal: "You don't even know the name of your savior."
Lin Anyu didn’t notice anything wrong with him. She said, “I don’t know. My parents don’t let me go to pay tribute to her. They said they can go every year…”
Before she could finish, Xu Jinshu ordered her to leave: "Go away."
"Um?"
Just now, Lin Anyu noticed that something was wrong with Xu Jinshu, so she asked, "Do you know her?"
"know."
Xu Jinshu stared at her and said word by word: "Her name is Song Luo."
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