Chapter 429 Two Personalities (Day 10)
On the way back to the Municipal Bureau, Xiang Jie was driving and Zhou Yi was sitting in the passenger seat.
Liang Wei sat in the back row, looking through a stack of documents.
It is a copy of the communication records just exported from the telecom operator.
"Are you already checking the source of these numbers?" Liang Wei asked.
Xiang Jie said: "Yes, I'm checking."
Liang Wei nodded and continued to look through the long communication records.
Just now in Liu Baoguo's office, before leaving, Zhou Yi asked Chen Gengyun a question: Why were Dong Lu's confirmation of responsibility and application for withdrawal not placed with the archival materials, but kept separately by you, Dean Chen?
Chen Gengyun explained that Dong Lu was a graduate student at the School of Social Sciences and he was the dean of the School of Social Sciences.
If something happens to students in his college, he must step in to resolve it. After all, this is his responsibility.
Zhou Yi asked again: Dean Chen, have you met Dong Lu before this?
Chen Gengyun shook his head slightly and said that he was not her graduate supervisor and had no chance to meet her, but he heard from her supervisor that she was a very beautiful girl.
Chen Gengyun sighed deeply, thinking that God was not kind to him, allowing such an outstanding young man to suffer such a misfortune.
Zhou Yi then asked about Dong Lu’s mentor mentioned by Chen Gengyun, because this person was a very important and directly related person.
But unfortunately, Chen Gengyun said that Dong Lu’s graduate supervisor at the time unfortunately died of cancer last year.
Just when all the people involved in this incident were unable to speak, Dong Lu herself was found.
In fact, if Qiu Zhiyong hadn't wanted to go back to Xiao Bing's house to check, he might not have been able to find Dong Lu hiding in the basement for a while.
Because from the subsequent visits and investigations, no one around noticed anyone entering the Xiao family.
I guess he went back home at midnight yesterday.
Although opening the door would inevitably damage the seal, it started raining heavily early this morning, which must have washed away the seal on the door as well.
In this way, there will be no trace of the seal being damaged, and no one will notice anything unusual in a short period of time.
If things go wrong, by the time Dong Lu is found in the basement again, she might have already met with an accident.
After all, given Dong Lu's situation, if no one takes care of her for a long time, she might not be able to survive.
When getting in the car, Xiang Jie told him that Qiao Jiali had gone to pick up Director Sun Haosun from the Third Municipal Hospital. Because they were worried that Dong Lu's condition was unstable, professional personnel had to be present.
Liang Wei handed the communication records in his hand to Zhou Yi and said, "Take a look."
Zhou Yi quickly took it and said okay.
Then start looking through.
The communication records were earlier than expected. As Xiang Jie mentioned earlier, operators can currently save records for up to one year.
The earliest call record was in September last year. Judging from the prefix of the phone number, it was Huaixing's number.
The timing coincides with what Zhang Wenhua said about their first phone call after Xu Liu came to Hongcheng to attend university. There were two more calls at the end of September, which should be about their agreement to travel and meet during the National Day holiday.
The following October, November and December all saw calls from Huaixing numbers.
However, the number was different each time, just as Zhang Wenhua himself confessed, in order to prevent Xu Liu from taking the initiative to contact, he contacted through a different number each time.
The last time was in early December, which coincides with the time Zhang Wenhua stated the two last met.
Before this, all calls to this pager were from Huaixing.
In other words, from September to December 1996, this pager was indeed a private and targeted communication tool between Zhang Wenhua and Xu Liu, there is no doubt about that.
After Zhang Wenhua contacted Xu Liu for the last time in early December, no one called the pager again until February of this year.
The next time I was called was on February 14th of this year.
Judging from the prefix of the number, it is a Hongcheng landline. Obviously, this number needs to be checked carefully. I don’t know if it is a coincidence, but the date is too sensitive.
February 14th, Valentine's Day.
Four days later, another call came from a Hongcheng number, but it was not the same number as the previous one.
After that, about every three to five days, a strange number would call, all of them were from Hongcheng.
Zhou Yi compared them and found that there were repeated numbers in the middle, but at most there was only one repetition, and no repeated numbers.
This operation is quite familiar.
It's exactly the same as Zhang Wenhua's previous approach.
In other words, the financial backer behind Xu Liu, like Zhang Wenhua, is also a person who does not like to be seen in public.
If it were a businessman or a big boss like Qian Hongxing, there would be no need to be so secretive.
Just look at Zheng Guangming in the previous Anyuan case and you will know that the real bottom line of rich people in relationships between men and women is illegitimate children, which involves the issue of property division.
The anomaly occurred on April 13th. From that day on, and even until yesterday, different numbers in Hongcheng were calling every day.
There are at least seven or eight numbers a day, and at most dozens, which is why the communication records are so long.
In just one month, there were hundreds of call messages.
This is very abnormal. Not to mention that Xu Liu's pager is very private, even if it is a normal pager, it is impossible for so many numbers to call in a month.
Unfortunately, the operator's backend only retains call records and cannot retain the call content, otherwise we would know what happened.
Zhou Yi turned around and pointed at the paper and said, "Captain Liang, I think this number on February 14th is very suspicious. We need to investigate it carefully."
Suddenly, he noticed that Liang Wei's brows were furrowed.
"Captain Liang, have you found anything?" Zhou Yi asked.
Liang Wei took out his cell phone, handed it to Zhou Yi, and said in a deep voice, "Turn on the speaker and call this number now."
Zhou Yi didn't understand what was going on, but he did as he was told immediately.
Accompanied by the "beep beep" sound of the keypad, Zhou Yi pressed the call button.
“Beep—beep—beep—”
“Click.”
"Hello!" A man's voice came from the other end of the phone, and Zhou Yi felt it sounded familiar.
The next second, the man said, "Captain Liang, what else is going on?"
Liang Wei said, "Oh, sorry, I dialed the wrong number. Sorry, Principal Liu."
Zhou Yi's eyes widened instantly. This number was actually the number in Liu Baoguo's office!
"It's okay, it's okay."
"Then I won't disturb you from working."
"Okay, thank you for your hard work, Team Liang."
"goodbye."
"goodbye."
The phone was hung up.
Zhou Yi finally understood why Liang Wei had that look just now.
Because he had already recognized the number that had called Xu Liu on February 14th.
Liu Baoguo, the vice president of Hongda, is he the financial backer that Xu Liu is looking for?
"Captain Liang, what should we do?"
Based on this call log alone, the task force could have invited Liu Baoguo to the task force for a conversation. However, the other party was, after all, a university official, the person in charge of liaising with the task force. He had to rely on the official's opinion on what to do, and he couldn't speak carelessly.
Liang Wei pondered for a moment and said, "Arrange two people to secretly keep an eye on Liu Baoguo. First, go back to the bureau to interrogate Dong Lu. Then I will discuss this matter with Director Xie."
"good."
"Have Chen Yan ask the back-office team to check Liu Baoguo's personal household registration information. Just check the household registration information first, no need to contact the school."
"clear."
"Remember, let Chen Yan do this in secret and don't let the news leak out."
Zhou Yi nodded: "I understand."
This is probably to guard against Ni Jianrong. After all, judging from what Chen Gengyun inadvertently revealed earlier, Ni Jianrong should have a friendship with those two people.
Liang Wei was still very cautious. Checking the vice-president's detailed information would inevitably alarm many people.
Moreover, even if an investigation is conducted, it will be useless with only a call record because the content of the call is unknown. Liu Baoguo can completely deny that he called the wrong number. After all, this number only appeared once from beginning to end on February 14th.
Suspicion also needs to be based on reasonable logic.
The task force certainly has the right to ask Liu Baoguo to cooperate with the investigation and conduct questioning.
In fact, this is what happened in the previous life. In the previous life, many school leaders took the lead and took the initiative to request the special task force to investigate themselves in order to prove their innocence in the subsequent large-scale external investigation.
There were so many records that even Zhou Yi couldn't remember them all. He only knew that there was nothing wrong after checking them.
That means that in the previous life, Liu Baoguo and Chen Gengyun were both investigated and cleared of suspicion.
But Xu Liu's pager number had been silent for three months, and the first call number it received was from Liu Baoguo, which made people suspicious.
The car stopped and the three of them got out immediately and hurried into the municipal bureau office building.
In a detention room, Zhou Yi met Dong Lu.
To be precise, it was a man dressed in black, huddled in a corner in fear.
When the door of the detention room was opened, Zhou Yi saw that the other party began to tremble as if frightened, and buried his head under his arms.
But judging from the exposed skin on the back of her neck, it was certain that it was Dong Lu who had been burned.
Her skin was a sickly gray-brown color, and the surface was like dry, cracked earth.
I really can't connect her with the beautiful girl in the photo.
And this was just the tip of the iceberg. She was curled up in a ball and her appearance could not be seen at all.
Liang Wei took a look and asked Qiu Zhiyong in a low voice: "Is it always like this?"
Section Chief Qiu nodded. "She was like this when we found her, hiding under the iron bed in the basement like a kitten. It took a lot of effort to bring her back. We didn't dare handcuff her because we were afraid she'd get too excited and hurt her. And she's been like this ever since. She refused to sit down, refused to drink water, and just hid in the corner."
Zhou Yi knew that judging from all these signs, Xiaoshuang should now have a closed personality.
Liang Wei walked in cautiously, then bent down and asked softly, "Are you Dong Lu?"
The other party did not answer, but just shook even more violently.
Liang Wei asked a few more questions, but got no response. He could only shake his head helplessly at the people at the door.
In this situation, let alone questioning him, I'm afraid he can only be sent to a mental hospital first.
Zhou Yi whispered, "Captain Liang, how about...let me try?"
Liang Wei nodded doubtfully.
Then Zhou Yi waved to Xiang Jie and Qiu Zhiyong at the door, motioning them to come in.
The two didn't understand what it meant, but still came in.
After coming in, Zhou Yi immediately closed the door gently.
Just when they didn't understand what he was going to do, Zhou Yi suddenly turned off the lights.
This detention room had no windows and was immediately plunged into darkness.
At this time, Zhou Yi's voice sounded in the darkness.
"Are you Xiaoshuang?" Although it felt strange for him to ask this, he still asked after figuring out Dong Lu's current psychology.
There was dead silence in the dark interrogation room. Liang Wei, Xiang Jie and Qiu Zhiyong didn't even dare to breathe hard.
Just when Zhou Yi thought there was no hope, a kitten-like voice suddenly answered from the corner: "Hmm."
Zhou Yi was delighted, and the others also understood his thoughts at this time.
He was using darkness to create a sense of security for Dong Lu.
Dong Lu has two personalities. One is the true personality who likes to go out but suffers from schizophrenia; the other is the closed personality who likes to hide in the basement alone, reading books and watching movies.
Zhou Yi couldn't be sure how Xiao Bing and Dong Lu's two personalities usually got along with each other, especially since Director Sun said that after drug control, the dominant personality was now the closed Xiaoshuang personality. Could Xiao Bing contact her and communicate with her?
But he knew that this closed-off person must like the dark and cold basement very much, as it gave her enough sense of security, otherwise she would not have come back.
So he wanted to try whether he could communicate with the other party in this dark environment.
Although it worked, the results were also very worrying.
Because this reminded him of how Dong Lu had lived underground like a rat for ten years, which was so devastating.
If she had not been raped, if she had not been burned, she would have been a wife and a mother by now, and she and Xiao Bing would have been able to live a happy life.
Two orphans with miserable life experiences can form a happy family.
Zhou Yi held his breath and asked in a low voice: "Xiao Shuang, where is Xiao Bing?"
After a while, Dong Lu began to sob softly, her sobs interspersed with vague words. "Brother...Brother is gone...He doesn't want me anymore...Wuwuwu..."
In other words, in Xiaoshuang's eyes, Xiao Bing is not a lover, but a brother, or more like a father figure.
But how could Xiao Bing abandon Dong Lu?
"Xiao Shuang, do you know why your brother took you away?"
There was only sobbing, no answer.
Maybe the other party shook his head, but unfortunately Zhou Yi and the others couldn't see it in the dark.
In other words, the escape should have nothing to do with Xiaoshuang's personality.
It's also normal. She has a closed personality and is a frightened hedgehog. The one who followed Lu Xiaoshuang on the 30th must be Dong Lu's true personality.
Zhou Yi took a deep breath. He felt that this closed personality was not only unable to communicate normally, but also likely had certain problems with his mental age. He might have remained in the state of a teenager, before any danger occurred.
In short, it doesn't seem to match Dong Lu's physical age.
After all, Dong Lu is mentally ill, but not intellectually disabled.
Director Sun didn't mention this before, probably because Dong Lu herself basically didn't go for follow-up visits in the past two years.
In other words, communicating with Xiaoshuang's personality may not yield any useful information.
It is necessary to communicate with Dong Lu's original personality.
But Zhou Yike had no experience in treating mental illness and did not understand psychology.
He could only try to ask: "Xiao Shuang, can you let Dong Lu come out?"
Unexpectedly, this time, there was an immediate reaction. A voice in the corner said in fear: "No... My brother said my sister is very fierce... He won't let her out..."
As expected, Xiaoshuang's personality and mind are not mature enough, which can be heard from her words.
Moreover, the two personalities of Xiao Bing and Dong Lu get along in a very strange and weird state.
To a certain extent, there are actually three people living in Xiao Bing's house.
"It's okay, we won't hurt her... We just want to know where your brother is now?" Zhou Yi said softly, "Is that okay?"
After a moment, the Little Frost personality sobbed and responded with a "hmm".
Zhou Yi didn't know what was happening, but gradually, he heard the sound of Dong Lu sobbing in the darkness slowly disappear.
Suddenly, Dong Lu's voice sounded again.
But it was the same voice, but the tone was completely different from before.
Dong Lu shouted in a frightened and wary voice, "What is this place? Who are you?"
Zhou Yi knew that this was Dong Lu's true personality.
It's amazing. If Director Sun hadn't previously confirmed that Dong Lu suffered from multiple personality disorder, Zhou Yi would even suspect that she was pretending.
"Are you Dong Lu?" Zhou Yi asked.
"Who are you? Where is Xiao Bing? Where is Xiao Bing?" Dong Lu asked anxiously.
"Dong Lu, calm down. We are police officers. You are in the Public Security Bureau now. You are safe and no one will hurt you." Zhou Yi quickly spoke to comfort her because he found that Dong Lu's breathing was obviously getting more and more rapid.
She may not have taken her medicine for several days and her mental state is on the verge of collapse.
"I want to find Xiao Bing, I want to find Xiao Bing! He's gone, he doesn't want me anymore."
Zhou Yi could feel that Dong Lu stood up. As expected, the behavior patterns of the two personalities were different.
But what’s strange is that both personalities said that Xiao Bing didn’t want her anymore. Why?
"Dong Lu, calm down first. We will help you find Xiao Bing, okay?" Although he said so, Zhou Yi knew that Dong Lu was sick and she couldn't calm down just by wanting to.
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Yi suddenly felt a hand touching him.
The hand just touched him and suddenly retracted. Then Dong Lu yelled hysterically, "Get out of here! None of you are good people. You are all devils! Die! Die!"
As Dong Lu yelled, Zhou Yi heard the sound of her body hitting the wall.
He was suddenly horrified. Dong Lu lost control of her mind and started to hurt herself!
Liang Wei shouted, "Turn on the lights!"
At the same time, he and Zhou Yi rushed towards the direction where Dong Lu collided.
Xiang Jie, who was standing at the door, turned on the light with a click.
As the lights came on, Zhou Yi and Liang Wei had already grabbed Dong Lu's arms.
But Dong Lu's skinny body burst out with amazing strength, and Liang Wei couldn't hold her and she slipped out of his hands.
Zhou Yi was young after all, and he was quick-eyed and quick-handed. He grabbed her arm tightly with one hand and pressed her shoulder hard with the other.
If it had been half a second later, Dong Lu's head would have hit the wall hard, and blood would have splattered everywhere.
Because at this moment there were already bloodstains on the wall left by the impact.
Suddenly being pulled, Dong Lu turned around and looked at Zhou Yi.
Her face shocked Zhou Yi.
Dong Lu had no hair on his head, and the skin on his face was like cooled charcoal, without a single piece of good flesh.
Her forehead was broken when she hit the wall, and bright red blood covered her entire face.
Even a criminal policeman would be terrified by such a face.
But what shocked Zhou Yi even more than this terrifying face was the bottomless despair in Dong Lu's eyes.
There was no light in her eyes, like a pool of stagnant water that had long since become smelly and rotten.
Suddenly, tears flowed from Dong Lu's eyes, and the tears mixed with the blood on her forehead turned into shocking tears of blood.
She yelled at the top of her lungs, almost like a madman: "Why are you trying to hurt me...why why why...ahhhh..."
The force was so great that Zhou Yi could no longer control it. Liang Wei shouted, "Help me!"
Xiang Jie and Qiu Zhiyong rushed over, and the four of them held down the crazy Dong Lu.
At this moment, the door of the interrogation room was suddenly opened, and Qiao Jiali appeared at the door, her face full of confusion and nervousness.
Behind her, there was a gentle and elegant middle-aged man wearing glasses. He was probably Director Sun Hao of the Third Municipal Hospital.
When Director Sun saw Dong Lu being pinned to the ground by four adult men, he immediately understood what had happened.
He quickly pulled out a medicine box from his backpack, opened it, and took out the syringe and medicine bottle inside. He shouted to the others, "Find something to stuff her mouth with, or she'll bite her tongue!"
Dong Lu, who was pinned down, screamed and struggled frantically, not caring about her physical condition at all, as if she was determined to escape even if her bones were broken.
Zhou Yi looked around, but there was nothing that could fill her mouth.
Without hesitation, he bent his left thumb and stuffed it, along with the outer part of his palm, directly into Dong Lu's mouth.
The next second, a huge and piercing pain came from the palm of his hand, and Zhou Yi clenched his teeth in pain.
It was as if the burning pain that spanned eight years was passed on to me.
With the joint efforts of several adults, Director Sun successfully injected a shot of sedative.
Soon, Dong Lu stopped struggling, her body slowly went limp, and she lay on the ground like a puddle of mud.
She slowly loosened her grip on Zhou Yi's palm, murmuring incoherently, "It hurts...it hurts...someone please save me...save me..."
…
In the infirmary, Zhou Yi sat on a chair, looking down at a row of deep teeth marks on his left hand.
The bleeding had stopped, but the wound was deep.
It's just very strange. When Zhou Yi was bitten, he felt a piercing pain, but now he just feels numb.
Even when the doctor on duty disinfected and cleaned the wound just now, he only felt a slight stinging pain.
Xu Nian passed by the door and stopped when he saw Zhou Yi inside.
"Why are you here?"
As soon as she asked, she saw the wound on Zhou Yi's hand and frowned and asked, "How did this happen?"
Zhou Yi smiled and said, "It's okay, just a minor injury."
"Where is Sister Sun?" Xu Nian asked. The Sister Sun she mentioned was the doctor on duty at the city bureau's medical office. She was a woman in her forties. Her husband worked at the Qingshan Branch, and they were in the same industry as Zhou Yi and the others.
"He said they were out of gauze and went to the storeroom to get some."
Zhou Yi looked up and saw that she was carrying a toolbox. His heart tightened as he asked, "Are you...going to the scene?"
Xu Nian nodded solemnly and said, "I just received a notification that a floating corpse was found in the lower reaches of the Nansha River."
"What..." Zhou Yi suddenly felt his head buzzing. He didn't remember any murder at that time.
Or was it just a person who accidentally fell into the water?
"If the rain had continued for another half an hour, this floating corpse would have rushed out of Hongcheng." Xu Nian checked the time and said, "I'm leaving first, otherwise Teacher Song will be worried."
Then he patted Zhou Yi on the shoulder and said, "Be careful and don't get hurt."
Zhou Yi looked up and smiled at her.
Watching Xu Nian leave, an idea that had appeared in Zhou Yi's mind before suddenly popped up again.
Dong Lu's Xiaoshuang personality ran back to the Xiao family and kept saying that Xiao Bing didn't want her anymore.
But Xiao Bing took Dong Lu away and it was impossible for him to be ignored.
Unless it was on the night of the 10th, Xiao Bing was almost discovered by the patrolling police, and he might have been separated from Dong Lu while trying to escape.
Dong Lu, who couldn't wait for Xiao Bing, had to return to the Xiao family.
What about Xiao Bing? Will he become so depressed because he can't find Dong Lu that he commits suicide?
His character of being patient and tolerant for ten years can easily lead him to extremes.
Especially...his parents died by jumping into the river.
Please don't do that, Teacher Xiao. As of today's investigation, Xiao Bing is almost clear of suspicion.
The only thing that cannot be confirmed now is why he took Dong Lu away?
But this question is probably difficult to answer now.
Because Dong Lu's original personality became ill as soon as it came out, the mental illness attack really made him feel scared. Her power was surprisingly strong, and he really couldn't control her by himself without hurting her.
After Director Sun gave Dong Lu a sedative, Dong Lu fell into a trance-like state. She calmed down, but there was no way to ask her any questions.
After understanding the specific situation, Director Sun believed that it was probably caused by not taking medication for a long time, otherwise it would be unlikely that the emotions were so out of control.
His suggestion was to immediately force the patient to be hospitalized for treatment and to control the condition.
This is embarrassing. Xiaoshuang's personality is stable, but it seems that she knows nothing.
Dong Lu's original personality must know a lot of things, especially the few words she said when she fell ill, which contained some information.
First, when she said Xiao Bing didn't want her anymore, she probably didn't mean they were separated while avoiding being hunted, because at that time she should have been in the Xiaoshuang personality.
So why did Xiao Bing say he didn't want her? Judging from the facts, he didn't. It was probably just a rant during the argument.
Judging from the information provided by Director Sun, Xiao Bing is wholeheartedly devoted to Dong Lu and is very tolerant.
Let’s not talk about anything else, just take Dong Lu’s case as an example. Xiao Bing raised her for eight years.
It is said that there is no filial son by the bedside of a long-term patient, let alone two people who have no legal or blood relationship.
So what kind of situation would make Xiao Bing say such angry words?
Only the two parties involved knew this.
Second, when Dong Lu was roaring, she mentioned "Why are you trying to hurt me?"
Zhou Yi did not think that this "you" was the principal Xin Yunfei who had raped her. The fact that Dong Lu was able to take the postgraduate entrance examination showed that she had moved on from that.
The incident happened in June 1988, and the Hongda postgraduate entrance examination was between the end of December and the beginning of January, which was half a year later.
So this "you" means that her burns were man-made.
She might even know who set her on fire.
It’s just that Dong Lu doesn’t have sound behavioral capacity, so her words cannot be used as evidence.
But it can definitely serve as a clue.
Given Dong Lu's current condition, it is unknown when she will be able to speak effectively.
But if Dong Lu knew, Xiao Bing should know too.
So finding Xiao Bing is the key now.
As for the issue of admitting Dong Lu, Zhou Yi followed Liang Wei and discussed it with Director Sun.
Hongcheng does have a mental hospital, but due to municipal funding issues, it is small, has outdated facilities, and the treatment level is also poor.
It is more like a prison for the mentally ill than a mental hospital.
The main idea is to lock people up and control them, not allowing these mentally ill people to come into contact with society, and that's how it works when it comes to treatment.
Jiang Hu's mother, Yang Xiujuan, was imprisoned there.
Zhou Yi went to see it once. Anyway, it really looked like a prison, with the main theme of being isolated from the world.
Most of the time, their families are helpless and cannot take care of the children, so they have to send them over.
After all, the consequences of leaving it alone are serious and will pose a hidden danger to social stability and people's safety.
For suspects or persons involved in a case who have undergone a psychiatric evaluation, their family members or guardians are generally ordered to strictly supervise and provide medical treatment. Compulsory medical treatment will only be provided if the family members do not care.
It’s not that Dong Lu can’t be sent there, but if she is sent there, she will be locked up and fed medicine regularly.
But this is not what the task force wants. The task force hopes that she can regain her sanity as soon as possible and speak up to provide effective clues.
So in the end, Liang Wei found Director Xie to discuss it and decided to hand the person over to Director Sun and take him back for treatment, with the city bureau paying for the expenses.
Director Sun was very happy to do so, after all, Dong Lu was his patient.
However, Dong Lu is still involved in the case, and the normal ward of the Third Municipal Hospital cannot ensure her personal safety.
We can only ask Director Sun to arrange a separate ward for him, and then the Municipal Bureau will send police to guard him 24 hours a day.
Director Sun said that once Dong Lu's original personality status stabilizes, he will notify them as soon as possible.
By the time we had dealt with all these objections, it was already dark.
Liang Wei was concerned about the injury on Zhou Yi's hand and asked him to go to the hospital with him to get a tetanus shot.
Zhou Yi did not refuse and followed him to the hospital.
Dong Lu was carried on a stretcher into the ambulance. Director Sun was in the car himself, and two colleagues from the team were also on board.
Qiao Jiali drove a car herself, and Zhou Yi sat in the passenger seat.
On the road, the night was dark and the air was particularly humid because it had rained.
"Is your hand okay?" Qiao Jiali asked with concern.
Zhou Yi looked down at the gauze wrapped around his hand and said, "It's okay, just a minor injury."
"By the way, I was planning to go back to ask Lao Zhang about this tonight. But he called me at noon and said he had to go on a business trip that evening, so I asked him to help me find out about the anonymous report letter."
Zhou Yi knew that this was a result, and quickly asked, "Did Director Zhang agree?"
Qiao Jiali nodded. "Well, he asked someone about it this afternoon and just called me. He said that this anonymous letter of complaint appeared in the Policy Research Office of the Municipal Party Committee on the morning of May 2nd. There was no one in the office at the time, and when someone went in, they saw an envelope on the ground with three words written on it: "Report Letter." Then the people in the Policy Research Office didn't dare to open it and sent it directly to the Supervision Department. The Supervision Department opened it and read the contents before reporting it to the city leaders."
"That's about it."
Zhou Yi was very confused because there were two strange things here.
First, the report letter appeared on May 2nd?
I had always thought it happened before the incident, or during the time period when the incident occurred.
Unexpectedly, it was May 2nd. The first bag of body parts was found on the night of April 30th. Many body parts had already been found during the large-scale search on May 1st.
By the evening of May 1st, Lu Xiaoshuang had been rescued from the mine.
When the case broke out in full swing, how could the murderer only send the anonymous report letter on May 2nd?
This is so weird.
Second, the letter of complaint was not sent to the Municipal Party Committee Office by mail, but appeared in the Municipal Party Committee Policy Research Office in a strange way.
You should know that in the previous Long Zhiqiang case, in order to check the photos sent by the driver Liu Jianshe, they had to ask the post office to confirm that ordinary mail is anonymous.
Moreover, there were plenty of mailboxes on the streets in 1997. If you were worried about being targeted through a mailbox later, you could just run farther away and find a random mailbox.
Why not send it by surface mail?
Are you afraid that it won’t reach someone useful?
That’s not right. This letter appeared in the Policy Research Office of the Municipal Party Committee.
What kind of department is this? It is a department that is specifically responsible for leading important speeches and reports, organizing investigations and research, and compiling comprehensive written materials.
It is the department that writes speeches and reports.
It's not their responsibility to report.
How did he appear in their office?
"Any ideas?" Qiao Jiali asked.
"I have two ideas," Zhou Yi said. "First, the whistleblower didn't send it by ordinary mail because he was probably worried that ordinary mail would be too slow or overlooked, thus failing to achieve the desired effect. After all, a normal letter would pass through many hands, and there's a lot of uncertainty."
"Also, the date of May 2nd is very intriguing. Logically, the body parts had already been found by then, so we shouldn't risk doing this again. So I haven't figured it out yet, unless there's some special reason."
"Secondly, the reporting channel is very strange. If you don't want to send a letter by ordinary mail, there are actually many other channels for reporting. There should be a reporting mailbox at the entrance of the municipal government compound, as well as the Letters and Visits Office and the Discipline Inspection Commission. You can also directly deliver the letter in person. Why would it be sent to an unrelated policy research office? Are they afraid that this reporting channel will be easily exposed?"
Hearing this, Qiao Jiali suddenly sighed helplessly.
Zhou Yi immediately realized that something was wrong and asked hurriedly: "Sister Qiao, what's wrong?"
"I don't know about the Petition Office and the Discipline Inspection Commission. I heard about the reporting mailbox in the municipal government compound from my old man Zhang. It seems that someone maliciously and anonymously reported for a long time, fabricating a lot of false information out of thin air, which affected the work. So later some registration requirements and other measures were added."
Zhou Yi nodded and said, "I understand." No wonder the murderer didn't deliver the letter directly through the mailbox. It turned out that it was to avoid witnesses.
There was another point he didn't mention. The municipal government compound wasn't accessible to just anyone, and the fact that the letter was dropped into the research office meant the whistleblower had gained access to the inner workings of the Municipal Party Committee.
Or, the murderer has a certain identity background.
Or, he cleverly used his own connections to get internal staff of the Municipal Party Committee Office to do this for him.
Zhou Yi immediately thought of someone.
The person who called Xu Liu on Valentine's Day was Liu Baoguo.
With his status, he should be able to do this.
Could he be the murderer?
But the problem is, he has nothing to do with Lu Xiaoshuang.
Lu Xiaoshuang is just a freshman, while Liu Baoguo is the vice president. The two have nothing to do with each other.
If it is said that he might be Xu Liu's later financial backer, this is possible.
But Lu Xiaoshuang had nothing to do with him. Why did he kill and dismember Lu Xiaoshuang in his previous life? Why did he put the blame on Lu Xiaoshuang in this life?
This left him puzzled.
Soon, the car arrived at the Third Municipal Hospital.
Qiao Jiali followed Director Sun to escort Dong Lu to the hospital. She asked Zhou Yi to go get a tetanus shot as soon as possible and meet her in the car later.
Zhou Yi felt mixed emotions as he watched the medical staff carry the semi-conscious Dong Lu off the stretcher.
He prayed silently in his heart, praying that Xiao Bing was okay.
If Xiao Bing really had an accident, not only would the clues of the case be cut off, but more importantly, what would Dong Lu do in the future?
Who on earth caused all this to happen?
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but angrily smash the hood of the car.
Suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind, because for a moment, Dong Lu's appearance before he was injured and Lu Xiaoshuang's appearance overlapped in his mind.
From Dong Lu’s hysterical roar earlier, it can be basically confirmed that the burns were not self-immolation, but deliberate arson.
No! It's not arson, it's murder!
Is it possible that the person who set fire to Dong Lu eight years ago was the same person who killed Lu Xiaoshuang in the previous life eight years later?
After all, Dong Lu and Lu Xiaoshuang look so similar. If someone has a pathological possessiveness towards Dong Lu, this pathological mentality will be re-developed because of Lu Xiaoshuang, who is very similar to Dong Lu.
Although I haven’t figured out the connection between Xu Liu’s death in this life and Dong Lu’s affairs yet.
However, if we analyze it in this direction, the Hongda case may not be an independent case that occurred in 1997, but a continuation of the arson and murder case that occurred in 1989!
This thought made Zhou Yi shudder.
Because if that were true, Lu Xiaoshuang's death in her previous life would have been too unjust.
A man is innocent unless he is in possession of a treasure.
Suddenly, the cell phone in his pocket rang. Zhou Yi picked it up and had a bad feeling in his heart.
Because the call was from Xu Nian.
"Hello, Xu Nian, it's me."
Xu Nian said six words on the other end of the phone: "Zhou Yi, Xiao Bing is dead!"
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