The Devil in the World (18)

Two hours later, the Psychiatric Hospital Testing Center cooperated with the police and sent a car to the nursing home to pick up the person.

Feng Shaomin went directly to the testing center of the mental hospital, and asked Meng Siqi and Zhao Leiting to go to the nursing home first and accompany Yao Renjun to the testing center.

In the lobby of the nursing home, Meng Siqi met Yao Kunming again. This time he took the initiative to step forward and said, "Two police officers, you came to talk to me that day. I went back and thought about it, and also discussed it with my family. My father used to work hard for the factory. He was honest and selfless. He is old and has no cognition. This does not mean that he will back down. You police are in trouble. If I stop my father from cooperating with you, then I will be going against his will. How can I bear it? I still leave my father's situation to you."

Yao Kunming once again showed the same deep and heartfelt ability as in the last conversation, which moved people, but Meng Siqi was not moved at all. She said very professionally: "Thank you for the cooperation of Mr. Yao and his family. Don't worry, we definitely care about Mr. Yao's condition."

"Okay." Yao Kunming nodded heavily, "I believe you. My father will be here soon."

The elevator door opened, and He Ling pushed Yao Renjun out. Meng Siqi looked at him. Yao Renjun was dressed neatly, and his hair and beard were extremely clean, but his expression and body were motionless, and his eyes were dull.

The mental hospital's car was parked at the door, and the people from the nursing home helped to lift Yao Renjun and the wheelchair up.

During the whole process, Meng Siqi did not notice anything unusual. Even when the wheelchair was lifted into the car and shook violently, Yao Renjun did not behave abnormally. The only change was a look of exploration in his eyes, which was very much like the curiosity of a child facing an unfamiliar environment.

Even patients with severe Alzheimer's disease are conscious. Combined with Lu Guangsheng's description, this reaction made Meng Siqi feel that Yao Renjun did not seem to be pretending at all. It is not difficult to pretend to be dull, but occasional subtle changes make people even more confused.

This was a box truck similar to an ambulance. Meng Siqi and Zhao Leiting accompanied Yao Renjun throughout the whole process, and He Ling also accompanied him. Yao Kunming did not get in the car.

There was no conversation along the way, and soon the car arrived at the mental hospital testing center. The people from the hospital helped to lift Yao Renjun. This mental hospital testing center is an institution relatively close to the police station, and it is also considered to be a relatively large one in Jinyang City. For Jinyang City, the hardware facilities are not bad, but in this era, the conditions are very average, and there is also a certain gap compared to big cities like Shanghai.

It is good that Yao Renjun has agreed to be tested. It would be difficult to send him to Shanghai or other big cities.

After pushing Yao Renjun to the testing center, Meng Siqi met Ouyang De, the doctor in charge of the test at the mental hospital testing center. Feng Shaomin was also there, and he should have just introduced the situation to Ouyang De.

After greeting each other, Ouyang De picked up the medical pupil flashlight, gently lifted Yao Renjun's eyelids, and shone it into the center of his pupil. After a careful observation, he said to Feng Shaomin, "Officer Feng, we have nearly 40 to 50 minutes of testing process next. I hope you will wait outside the door calmly during this process."

Feng Shaomin nodded, "Dr. Ouyang, thank you."

"You're welcome. This is also our responsibility. We hope to give you a satisfactory result."

He Ling suggested: "Doctor Ouyang, I am Mr. Yao's nursing home guardian. Can I stay here in case there is a situation that requires temporary care?"

Ouyang De nodded, "Okay."

Following Feng Shaomin out of the testing center room, there was a bench against the wall in the corridor. Zhao Leiting said, "Brother Feng, let's take a break."

The three of them sat down, and there was no word between them. Yao Renjun was a patient, and even during the test, his privacy needed to be protected, so Ouyang De did not allow anyone else to enter. Of course, He Ling did need to be present.

The corridor was silent, no one was around, Zhao Leiting said: "Brother Feng, I don't understand why Yao Kunming didn't come with us today, doesn't he always claim to be a filial son?"

Meng Siqi also found it a little strange.

Feng Shaomin hadn't seen Yao Kunming today. He looked at Meng Siqi and asked, "What do you think?"

Meng Siqi replied: "Master, I don't know either."

Zhao Lei Ting guessed, "Does he have something more important than testing his father? Brother Feng, should we get someone to follow him?"

Feng Shaomin seemed to think about it, shook his head and said, "No need. The focus now is Yao Renjun. Yao Kunming is not coming. It is very likely that he thinks there will be no accidents this time, and he may also convey a message to us."

Zhao Lei Ting asked hurriedly: "What information?"

"It is possible that this information was also instigated by Yao Renjun. He may hope that no family members would be involved in the whole process and only the police would be accompanied, which would increase the credibility of his verification results."

Zhao Leiting patted his thigh and said in surprise: "Brother Feng, you are absolutely right. Yao Renjun must have been threatened, so he must prove once and for all that he has Alzheimer's disease."

Meng Siqi also felt that Feng Shaomin's analysis made sense, and the corners of her lips curled up.

Feng Shaomin said: "Let's wait for the results. Yao Renjun has his own ideas, and Ouyang De is also an excellent doctor at the testing center. As for whether there will be any discoveries, we can only wait for the results."

Meng Siqi and Zhao Leiting nodded at the same time.

While waiting silently, Meng Siqi was a little nervous. She noticed that Zhao Leiting occasionally touched his chin, which was a sign of his nervousness. Feng Shaomin was relatively calm, but he would occasionally look towards the door of the testing center room.

The investigation process during this period was undoubtedly long, and everyone almost bet on Yao Renjun for a breakthrough in the case. If Yao Renjun really had Alzheimer's disease, then all the investigations would be meaningless. If Yao Renjun was indeed pretending, but as Lu Guangsheng said, assuming he had a strong will, then this would also be a bleak future.

Meng Siqi couldn't get rid of this tension. She felt her heart beating and contracting rapidly, each time so violently, and each time carrying expectations. She knew that all the good and bad results would be presented today.

"Squeak..." The door of the testing center room slid open, and a wheelchair was slowly pushed out. First, Yao Renjun's unchanged face appeared, followed by He Ling's figure. She was very calm.

He Ling pushed Yao Renjun to the door and smiled politely at the three people.

The three of them stood up at the same time. Because the most important person, Ouyang De, had not come out yet, Feng Shaomin asked, "Ms. He, was there anything serious during the test for Mr. Yao?"

Meng Siqi understood that Feng Shaomin was concerned about the other party and also wanted to find out some information from He Ling.

He Ling smiled and said, "Mr. Yao was very good throughout the whole process, and Dr. Ouyang was also very attentive." She added, "I will take Mr. Yao to the lounge to rest for a while."

"Okay." Feng Shaomin said, "I'll arrange a car to take you back later. Please wait a moment."

After He Ling pushed Yao Renjun away, Zhao Leiting said, "Brother Feng, shall we go find Doctor Ouyang?"

"Wait a minute, maybe Dr. Ouyang hasn't finished his work yet, let's wait patiently for a while."

"good."

Another twenty minutes later, footsteps were heard in the testing center room, and three people stood up almost at the same time. Meng Siqi had never felt so nervous before, and his heart was in his throat.

Ouyang De's figure then appeared at the door of the testing center room. Meng Siqi confirmed the expression on his face at first sight. He was very calm, but then shook his head slightly.

As he shook his head in denial, Meng Siqi's long-suppressed sense of loss suddenly surged into her heart, and she felt despair.

*

In the office of the Technology Department, there is a wide and long table that is as high as an adult's waist. This table is usually used by the Technology Department, but today, a lifelike architectural model is placed on the table.

The Technical Department is a major department in the police department, covering a variety of technical work including on-site investigation, trace identification, injury identification, forensic identification, physical evidence collection, physical evidence examination, trace evidence analysis, image analysis, crime scene reconstruction, and criminal image characterization.

Among them, the Trace Inspection Department and the Forensic Department, which are often present at the scene, belong to the Technical Department. These are important departments set up to determine the direction of detection and define the scope of detection in criminal investigation work.

Making sandbox models and restoring crime scenes are what the technical department is best at. Today, Luo Xiaoguo and Yan Chun asked the Urban Planning Bureau for the urban construction map around the Sujiang Lighthouse in the urban area. After continuous work, five or six colleagues from the technical department built a large area building model on the other side of the Sujiang Lighthouse in five hours.

The size of the building model and the scene distance are compressed to less than a hundred times the real size. Standing next to it and watching it is like taking an airplane from high above the Jinyang city to overlook the scene near the Sujiang Lighthouse.

This model sandbox is even more "terrifying upon closer inspection". Countless red lines are connected from the top of the model of the upstream lighthouse to the building model on the other side of the river.

It is like countless red lights radiating from the lighthouse on the other side of the river, and at first glance, the dense red lines appear to be radiating one by one, giving people an inexplicable visual shock. People with trypophobia will definitely feel dizzy when they see this.

Lu He stood in front of the sand table model, looking down from the direction of the Sujiang lighthouse at the buildings opposite the lighthouse, his eyes sharp.

All members of the team stood beside Lu He, observing every plant and tree on the sand table. Colleagues from the technical department also stood on the opposite side of the sand table, watching and waiting quietly.

In front of Lu He, on the empty table at the edge of the sandbox, there were five photos, but these five photos had been specially processed. Lu He had cut off pieces of single-sided tape with scissors in advance and pasted them on the photos. Many parts of the woman's body in the photos were blocked, so when these five photos were presented in front of everyone, the focus was all on the environment around the woman.

Liang Yunfeng was standing next to Lu He. He knew that the on-site model did restore a corner of the real world, but the Sujiang Lighthouse in the photo was blurry, and the structural features at the top of the lighthouse were also blurry.

Theoretically, the distance and angle between the lighthouse and the window as seen from the window can be used to infer its position. However, a series of factors, such as the focal length of the camera, changes in light, deformation of space, etc., make such inference extremely difficult.

In addition, people who make inferences need to have a strong sense of spatial logic. Liang Yunfeng was good at physics and mathematics in college, and his grades were among the best in the class. At this moment, when he faced the complicated red lines, he felt a sense of claustrophobia, let alone inferring the specific location.

A colleague from the technical department reported: "Team Lu, judging from the light and texture of the photo, we infer that the camera was taken by a famous Japanese brand camera, with a standard 50mm lens, and the image is closer to reality. The photographer probably used the default settings for point-and-shoot."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work." Lu He replied.

Since he approached the model, Lu He's eyes have never left the model. He stood there for a long time, at least an hour. He crossed his arms, his expression solemn, his eyes as bright as stars, focused on the other side of the lighthouse, as if he was tracking the path of every red line.

Occasionally he squatted down and looked at the lighthouse on the opposite bank from the building model, and occasionally he looked down and looked at the model of the building opposite from the direction of the lighthouse.

Luo Xiaoguo licked his dry lips, wanting to persuade Lu He to take a break, but given Lu He's temper, it would be better not to say anything. The other police officers looked away from the sandbox, some rubbed their sore eyes, and some moved left and right to eliminate the fatigue of standing for a long time. The colleagues in the technical department began to be unable to stand, and some had already left the sandbox and returned to their desks to drink water.

Luo Xiaoguo knew that Lu He was a very stubborn person. When he was solving a case, he didn't care about his own health at all. In this regard, Luo Xiaoguo felt that there was no one else like him in the entire police station.

That year, the Provincial Department specifically asked Lu He to go to the Provincial Department Criminal Police Team, but Lu He did not go. In fact, Luo Xiaoguo could roughly guess that there were still many unsolved cases in Jinyang City, and Lu He wanted to rely on his ability to continue to solve them.

But in reality, there are many regrets in this world that cannot be solved by the efforts of just one person or one team.

Luo Xiaoguo is an optimistic and open-minded person, but Lu He is not. He understands Lu He, so he will try his best to support him.

When the Provincial Department nominated Lu He, many people hoped that Lu He could go, because the Provincial Department had a better future, and with his ability, he would at least be the captain of the Provincial Department's criminal police team in the future. However, he knew that Lu He would not leave, and he did not "encourage" him. On the one hand, he hoped that Lu He could continue to lead the team, and on the other hand, he was also worried that someone would think that he wanted to be the captain.

Just when Luo Xiaoguo was lost in thought, Lu He suddenly moved. He picked up a photo and started moving his feet far and near.

Everyone had endless expectations because of his sudden and frequent movements; they knew that Lu He must have found some clues.

Amidst many expectations and nervous eyes, Lu He walked around the sand table and reached the other side. Everyone made room for him. Lu He sometimes walked quickly and sometimes slowly, his eyes always jumping between the photos and the sand table.

Lu He returned to the front of the sandbox. He stretched out his bony fingers and pulled out a red line from the lighthouse model. The red line was not connected to any model. He carried the red line around the sandbox and returned to the other side of the sandbox.

Under everyone's focused gaze, Lu He tightened and straightened the red line, pointing it at one of the building models in the complex.

It was a model of an eight-story building. Lu He hung the rope on the top window of the model.

Luo Xiaoguo swallowed quickly, his eyes gradually moistened, "Hurry up and find the exact location!"

Yan Chun and Lin Tao quickly flipped through the city construction map. Yan Chun found that his fingers were trembling. Soon, he found it. He blurted out with unprecedented excitement: "Seattle Club, it's Seattle Club!"

Lu He's thunderous voice rang out: "Search warrant! Surround the Seattle club! Send the maximum police force."

At that moment, Liang Yunfeng's eyes were filled with sadness, he knew that Lu He had found the devil's cave!

Ten minutes later, loud sirens sounded in the sky of Jinyang City, shaking the dark cloudy sky into pieces. The sunlight shone through the thick clouds, dazzling.

A dozen police cars set out from the police station gate and rushed towards the Seattle club like a long dragon.

On the way, Lu He received a report from the intercom in the car. It was the fluent voice of Lin Minjia, a policewoman from the Information Department: "Captain Lu, the general manager of the Seattle Club is Jia Longhui, a native of this province, 41 years old this year, and the founder of the Seattle Club. Seattle mainly provides entertainment services, with a large number of cabarets, dance halls, and chess and card rooms, but they are officially registered and have no illegal records."

"Captain Lu, we found some information here. The Seattle Club has investments from many well-known companies, including Expressway Capital, Dragon City Enterprises, Wanfeng Enterprises, and Kawai Enterprises..."

Lu He remembered that these companies had also invested in the Hoh Xil Tourism Company, the same travel company that hosted the Municipal Flower Museum.

He didn't know whether these companies were related to the case, but at least Jia Longhui must be a major suspect in the Ruan Mengying case.

Director Cao of the Information Department said through the intercom: "Lao Lu, the Seattle Club has cooperated with many prominent figures in Jinyang City. Should we wait for Director Liu's instructions?"

Luo Xiaoguo was also in the car and reminded: "Captain Lu, what Lao Cao said is not without reason. We have to check such a big club just because of a photo of Ruan Mengying. What if we find nothing and offend a group of big guys."

Director Liu went to the province today and gave authorization. If there is an emergency, Lu He will be in charge of temporary dispatch and command.

"There's not enough time." Lu He said firmly, "If there's any problem, I, Lu He, will take responsibility!"