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1
"At about 23:00 on October 13, the Yihua District Public Security Bureau of our city received a call from the masses and found an unknown female body in Shazipo, Shixi Town, Yihua District. The deceased was between 18 and 30 years old. Around 165, she was wearing a white dress and a red sweater jacket. The deceased had a large incision on his head and his brain tissue was removed. The deceased died around 19:00 on the 10th. The cause of death was initially determined to be homicide. The suspect has not yet been identified. ....."
Early in the morning is the busiest time in Zaojiao Alley. The shouts of buying and selling breakfast, the irritating horns when the car is blocked by the crowd, the quarrels over the mobile stalls, the TV and radio broadcasts... all kinds of noisy sounds are crowded together, like boiling water covering the pot. It makes a clanging sound.
Xie Baiyong is still wearing an exquisite suit, which is somewhat out of tune with the bustling surrounding environment. He calmly looked away from the TV in the breakfast shop and asked me: "What do you want to eat today?"
I glanced at the menu hanging on the wall: "Add a cup of soy milk to the meat and vegetable buns, and add more sugar to the soy milk. "
Someone was urging me from behind, and Xie Baiyong took his time ordering with the boss, and took out his mobile phone to scan the QR code to pay. When
walked out of the crowd, someone behind him taunted me in local dialect: "Why are you crowded here dressed like this? If you have money, go to a big restaurant! Pretend!"
Xie Baiyong turned a deaf ear and led me out of the messy alley. A low-key colored Continental was parked on the roadside at the entrance of the alley.
At nine o'clock sharp, Xie Baiyong and I appeared at the entrance of the institute on time, and immediately saw three police cars parked at the entrance.
Xie Baiyong's senior brother Gu Wen came up to him anxiously: "Why are you here? Didn't you see the WeChat message I sent you? I'm just waiting for you."
Xie Baiyong raised his wrist and glanced at the time: " Not late. "
It's obviously not a question of lateness.
Gu Wen was speechless for two seconds. I quickly took over and asked, "Is there something urgent?"
Gu Wen led us to the conference hall and explained: "Last night, a female body was found in Shixi. The police followed The clues are coming to us."
Xie Baiyong frowned slightly: "What clues?" Gu Wen opened the door of the conference hall, and most of the researchers from the institute gathered here. A man in a police uniform was talking by the window.
Gu Wen lowered his voice and added, "There was a button sewn on the deceased's coat with the institute's icon on it. It was the button of our lab coat. The police suspected that the deceased was from the institute. Of course, we have checked the list. Well, there is no such person in the institute, which means that someone in our institute is related to the deceased, or there is a murderer. "
A young woman died tragically in a small town, and an icon on her clothes button made the police discover something fishy.
Gu Wen didn’t say the last two words, and only moved his mouth in an exaggerated way.
My scalp felt numb and I glanced at the people in the conference hall.
FLC.L Research Institute is a scientific research institution on future life sciences. Due to the high level of confidentiality, whether it is the location of the base or the appearance of the base, everything is low-key and copycat.
But apart from the failures, the researchers in the institute are basically industry masters and potential rising stars sent by various countries.
murderer? these people?
"Isn't that possible?" I followed Xie Baiyong and picked up a seat to sit down. The people in the institute are all highly intelligent. Even if they really wanted to kill people, they wouldn't just dump the bodies casually and be discovered easily.
"Not only are there buttons, but there are also doubts about the body. The brain was taken out entirely. I just took a look at the photo. 's craniotomy 's technique is absolutely professional.Gu Wen clicked the work badge on his chest, "Have you forgotten what we do?" "
Institute of Life Sciences, animals, plants and microorganisms, cells, molecules and DNA, genetics, ecology, and of course neuroscience related to the brain, covering everything related to life.
I hissed and thought about it , Ordinary people do not have the motivation to take away brains, and they do not have such professional methods, but the research institute does not do this kind of thing casually. Donated remains and animal experimental subjects are also sufficient for daily experimental research.
Gu Wen said. : "I just heard them guessing at the stairs that we were conducting inhumane experiments. "
" You have watched too many movies. "I couldn't help but say.
Gu Wen coughed and echoed: "I've really watched too many movies. "
Xie Baiyong, who had been silent, spoke calmly: "What did Professor Gao say? "
" The police said they wanted to search when they arrived. Where is this place? Can I search at will? It would be good to let them in, but how could Professor Gao agree to a real search? "
Gu Wen pointed to the senior deputy director by the window. The senior deputy director is an academician. He has a very high status in the industry and is usually strict. The unhappy look on his face now is really scary, "But the police The work was difficult, and the clues were all pointing to us, so we had to cooperate. After some hard work, Professor Gao took a step back and agreed to the police's individual questioning of the people in the institute. "
The interrogation was conducted in a small conference room.
The two policemen had been questioning all morning, and the hard-hitting people were a little tired now. After I entered, they came straight to the point and took out a few photos and placed them in front of me.
" do you know it? "
The woman's body in the photo has been cleaned, and no trace of blood can be seen. Her skin is gray and gray, showing the state of a dead person, but it is not difficult to tell from the three-dimensional skeletal outline of her face that she was a beauty during her lifetime.
The woman should not be older than At the age of 25, I became an empty shell at such a young age.
I looked at the face in the photo and felt an indescribable discomfort in my heart, but I didn’t dare to show it at all. I just shook my head and replied, “I don’t know him. . "
The police looked at me for a long time, but they didn't seem to see any flaws in my face. They asked me questions such as where I did what I did on the night of the 10th.
I answered them one by one. The questioning time was very short and only It took about ten minutes, probably because of the pressure from the research institute, and the police were also in a hurry.
After this inquiry, the police found nothing. Sinking to the bottom of the lake, no one will discuss it anymore.
The Institute has many projects to study every day, many experiments to be done, many data to be verified, and many documents to be consulted. It is a waste of time to think about irrelevant things. For people who are engaged in scientific research, it is really a waste of life.
It is probably because I was not aware enough and wasted my life absent-mindedly all day long. Xie Baiyong reminded me to pay attention several times. It was probably because of my influence.
He rarely did this. I think I had a great influence on him.
We didn’t complete the experiment until 10 o’clock in the evening.
I was on my way back from work. Discussing that woman with Xie Baiyong.
"The buttons on the deceased's body are specially used for the lab coat of the institute. It is said that they were found on the clothes of the deceased. The sweater jacket of the deceased was missing a button. This button was used as a replacement. Since the button was sewn on, does this mean that the deceased and the owner of the button had a close relationship and probably lived together? "
" maybe. "Xie Baiyong was not very interested in this matter and answered absent-mindedly.
I was still very interested: "Could the murderer be someone from our research institute? Do you think it was a love killing or a vendetta? "
" is possible. "Still perfunctory.
"Why do you want to do such a cruel thing? You can't really do an experiment, right?" Thinking about this, I seemed to suddenly find the thread in a pile of messy threads, "Hey, what groups are there in our research institute now? Are you doing a brain-related research project? Maybe..."
"Bai Tang." Xie Baiyong interrupted me, "Instead of thinking about all this, you might as well save some energy and deal with me later."
Xie Baiyong turned the steering wheel and the car drove into Binjiang Road. The colorful neon lights shone on his face through the car window. His eyes were indifferent, and his voice was smooth even when he said obscene words.
He is always cold and always hot.
is really strange.
In the end, my tirade got stuck in my throat and turned into a blush on my cheeks.
Xie Baiyong is always not interested in these things, and it is inconvenient for me to talk to him again. Fortunately, there is also Gu Wen in the research institute who likes to discuss all kinds of news.
As soon as we entered the office the next day, Gu Wen set up a chair in front of Xie Baiyong and I and began to talk mysteriously about the news we heard earlier: "The police detected a large amount of diazepam and anesthetics in the body of the deceased. Antidepressant drugs were also detected. The deceased had a long history of depression and had taken drugs for more than four years. "
Anesthetics are not sold in general pharmacies and need to be prescribed by a doctor in the hospital. Unfortunately, This thing can be found in the laboratories of the institute.
Not only did the police suspect, but the institute's own people began to suspect that there was a murderer around them.
"Is it possible that he committed suicide due to depression? Isn't it possible that he took a lot of diazepam?" I asked.
"Do you think it's strange? The amount of diazepam the deceased took was completely lethal. However, the cause of death found in the autopsy was either diazepam or a craniotomy to remove brain tissue." Gu Wen thought for a while and added , "Even if the person died after taking diazepam, the fact that the deceased was craniotomy shows that this matter is definitely not simple."
To sum up, the institute is still the most suspicious.
So the police will definitely not give up on the research institute line. But Gu Wen said that the police applied for search warrants several times, but they were all rejected.
I discussed with Gu Wen what projects and topics related to brain research the institute has. Gu Wen was very knowledgeable. He stepped forward and asked Xie Baiyong in a mysterious voice: "I remember that there is a zero project in the institute, which is research. Regarding the human brain, the level of confidentiality is very high. We don’t even know who the project participants are. Do you think it’s possible..."
"Brother, don’t make random guesses."
Xie Baiyong interrupted. , Gu Wenshan smiled and touched his nose: "Hey, I'm just curious about what that project is researching."
Project No. 0, I felt a strange sense of familiarity in my heart. I always felt that I had heard of it somewhere. .
3
Because the confidentiality level of the institute is too high, the police cannot apply for investigation authority. They have publicly abandoned the institute's line, but we all know that everyone in the institute is being watched in the dark by the police. We They will investigate everything they did a week ago, a month ago, or even a year ago.
Of course, the police cannot stick to this line.
Two days later, a detailed report on the case was posted on Weibo.
The deceased’s name was Zhu Yuan, 23 years old, from Pi County, Jiang City. The police found her hometown. She has a biological mother, a stepfather at home, and a five-year-old brother who was born to her stepfather and biological mother.
What is surprising is that she is a murderer who has been on the run for five years. She has been on the run since she committed a murder five years ago. Where and what did she do during her escape, as well as her activities and interpersonal relationships in the past few days and even in the past few years. , the police found nothing at all. She seemed to disappear out of thin air and appear again out of thin air.
also talked about the murder she committed five years ago.
Zhu Yuan suddenly dropped out of school two months before the college entrance examination five years ago. A man named Li from his hometown had connections in some factories in Sui'an, so Zhu Yuan and several girls from his hometown followed the man named Li to work in Sui'an City. Make money.
passed through the expressway service area. Zhu Yuan had no intention of going to the restroom and asked the man surnamed Li to take her back. After walking most of the way, she was almost at her destination. Besides, she was still on the expressway. The man surnamed Li Of course he didn't want to, and he planned to go to Sui'an and buy her a ticket back. Zhu Yuan disagreed, and the two had a dispute, and Zhu Yuan ran away without her.
were brought out by a man named Li. He was worried that something happened to a little girl and he would have to bear the responsibility, so he quickly chased after her. Several witnesses who were on the same journey said they saw the two people running into the woods on the hillside. They didn't see them for more than an hour. They got impatient and went to look for them together. In the woods, they saw the brain of the man named Li. A hole was opened and he was lying in a pool of blood, but his wishes were nowhere to be found. In just two days, the trend of comments under the
article changed from "Strictly investigate the murderer" and "Girls must pay attention to safety outside and not walk at night" to "evil will be punished and the murderer deserves to die."
When the truth of the matter developed like this, my sympathy and discomfort became speechless for a moment. On the contrary, Xie Baiyong, who had always been uninterested in this matter, sneered.
is really weird.
I looked at him in confusion and asked him what he had in mind. He put a stack of test data sheets on my desktop and asked me to finish the calculations today.
is really sick!
"Life is so short, put your time and energy into meaningful things." Xie Baiyong still taught me this.
I am not convinced: "But isn't it meaningful to focus your eyes on the dark corners?"
Eyes are also light, and light can drive away darkness.
A faint smile appeared at the corner of Xie Baiyong's mouth: "Are you going to expel the darkness with your eyes that can't even understand calculus?"
Damn it! It can poison people to death as soon as you open your mouth.
Me: "..."
I began to reflect on why I fell in love with such a boring man. In addition to being more handsome, with a decent figure, a better job, a cleaner private life, a little richer, a smarter mind, and a better career...
Wow, I really found a treasure.
4
October 17th, seven days have passed since the death of the deceased, and four days have passed since the police found the body.
The police found Xie Baiyong.
"Dr. Xie, we suspect that you are related to the 1013 murder case. Please come with us."
A police officer who claimed to be surnamed Jiang blocked Xie Baiyong at the entrance of the institute. At that time, I was discussing with Xie Baiyong to go back and think about snail powder . Xie Baiyong told me not to think about it, and his face was so dark that it was rare to be a bit vivid.
The police shattered this vivid scene. Xie Baiyong put on a cold face again and said yes, as if the police's suspicion and the suspicion and speculation of his colleagues in the institute were no big deal.
As if my surprise, worry, and fear were no big deal.
He just comforted me calmly: "It's okay, don't be afraid."
The police took Xie Baiyong away.
"Where were you on the night of the 20th?"
"At home."
"What are you doing at home?"
"Do experiments, write reports, sleep."
"Lie!"
Officer Jiang slapped his palm hard on the table. The disposable cup fell down with a sound, and the steaming warm water dripped from the table and fell to the floor like a line, accumulating a puddle of water, which was reflected by the lights on the ceiling in a dazzling white color.
This unexpected roar scared me to a cardiac arrest, but Xie Baiyong couldn't be shocked at all. He lifted the cup and straightened it, raised his eyelids and looked at Officer Jiang opposite: "Officer, you can apply from above. Looking at the video record of my experiment that day, according to the regulations of the institute, we need to record it even if we experiment at home. "
It's really damaging. The police can get the application related to the institute, but the institute has already been turned upside down, so there is no need for him to remind you here.
Officer Jiang's face turned dark, and he didn't want to talk about anything else. He directly turned on the display screen on the wall and called up a video surveillance.
monitoring is divided into several sections. The time shown in the first paragraph is 23:00 on the evening of the 11th. The location is familiar to me. It is in our parking space in the parking lot of the community where Xie Baiyong and I live. Xie Baiyong was moving a wooden box about one cubic meter into the trunk. The box was quite heavy and should be full of things. After Xie Baiyong got in the car, he drove out of the community.
"Is this person in the video you?" Officer Jiang looked at Xie Baiyong coldly, trying to find any trace of panic on his face.
Xie Baiyong didn’t panic, I panicked.
He was carrying a box out late at night, why didn’t I know? I carefully recalled what happened that night. We did an experiment in the small laboratory at home. Xie Baiyong finished writing the experiment report and we went to bed.
Did he do this while I was sleeping? Why late at night? What's in the box? Where did he go?
I now have more doubts in my heart than the police.
Officer Jiang continued to put down a period of surveillance. At 0:36 a.m. on the second day, Xie Baiyong's car appeared on a remote stretch of road. The car turned off the road and disappeared from the surveillance camera. At 1:42 a.m. on the 12th, the car returned from the small road and appeared in the surveillance again. At 2:15 in the morning, the car drove to the community, and Xie Baiyong got out of the car and returned home.
"Doing experiments? Going to the wilderness to do experiments?" Officer Jiang sneered, then showed a fierce look and said impatiently, "Be honest, why did you go there? What is in the box?"
Xie Bai Yong was still very calm: "It's lost."
"Where was it lost? What's in it?"
"Officer Jiang, the question you asked involves the secret of my project experiment. I can't tell you. Maybe you can go Apply for an investigation order. "
"What the hell -" Officer Jiang lit up his cigarette and took a deep breath to calm himself down, then continued in a good voice, "Since it is a thrown away thing, what kind of secrets can you tell me? You are a smart man, and you know what the police suspect now."
Xie Baiyong was silent for a moment: "Do you suspect that the box contains a body, and I am going to dump it?"
Officer Jiang did not say anything.
Xie Baiyong said again: "Officer Jiang, you are the police, how can you make such an imprecise and far-fetched guess? Do you want me to remind you that the place where the body of the 1013 deceased was dumped was in Shixi Town, Yihua District, inside the surveillance room The direction I was driving was towards Tangjiapo, Fengdong District, which is more than 80 kilometers away from the south and the north. Do you think I could throw the body that far?”
’s unfounded and outrageous speculation.
...
"How could the police base their suspicion on you?" After I went back in the evening, I couldn't figure it out.
Xie Baiyong, who was under suspicion, could figure it out: "The timing is right and the actions are weird. Every doubt may be close to the truth. Of course the police will not let it go."
Many times, the most impossible things turn out to be is closest to the truth.
5
It was probably influenced by that period of surveillance. At night, I had a dream.
I dreamed that I woke up in a bright room. The room was like an airtight iron box. It was surrounded by various medical equipment, several containers filled with special liquids, and the human brain was connected with several wires. Soaked in liquid, the electric current stirs up fine foam.
This is Xie Baiyong’s home laboratory.
Two operating beds were placed in the center of the laboratory, and the white sheets were stained red with blood.
I woke up from one of the beds and saw a woman lying on the other bed.
The woman’s face was covered in blood and I couldn’t see her face clearly, but I knew she was the 1013 deceased who had her brain removed.
I was scared to death, crying and laughing, but it didn't take long to calm down.
I put Zhu Yuan’s body into a box and drove it to the suburbs. The winding roads in the countryside seemed to have no end. I didn’t know how long I had been driving, but in my dream, I reached my destination in the blink of an eye.
It was an abandoned ruined temple, with cobwebs hanging all over the beams and incense ash accumulated layer after layer, but they were all left behind by believers in the old days. The incense here has long since stopped, and it is a place where no one comes easily.
I moved the box behind the Buddha statue. During the whole process of dumping the body, I was extremely calm and composed, like a cold murderer, handling the murder scene with an expression on my face.
At the end, I left a farewell message of unknown meaning.
"My wish, you are finally dead."
I woke up from my dream.
Xie Baiyong could always sense my uneasiness easily. He seemed to live in my brain. He opened his eyes almost at the same time, held me in his arms and comforted me: "Are you having a nightmare? Don't be afraid, I Right here."
His voice was light, but his words were soft.
He is always gentle to me.
I am shaking. The heart and blood were trembling abnormally, and the brain was trembling to the point of feeling slightly swollen and painful.
"Is it at Tangpo Temple?" I asked.
’s voice is also shaking.
Xie Baiyong was silent for a moment and asked me: "Do you want to take a look?"
Xie Baiyong meant that he understood what I asked and gave the answer.
I was shaking even harder, I knew I was scared. Xie Baiyong is in danger at this moment, but I can't help but want to see what happens. The person carrying boxes to the suburbs in the surveillance video was clearly Xie Baiyong. Why was it that I did all this in my dream?
Am I a murderer?
Is he a murderer?
Or am I paranoid and mistaking the dream for reality?
But Xie Baiyong also admitted that it was in Tangpo Temple.
After one o'clock in the morning, Xie Baiyong drove me to Tangpo Temple. It was deserted and dilapidated, with weeds growing up to my thighs, and no trace of human life.
We just got out of the car and saw two car lights on the rugged road in the distance.
The police are following.
I looked at Xie Baiyong in panic. Xie Baiyong seemed to have guessed it a long time ago. He stood there and looked coldly at Officer Jiang who rushed towards him.
"Boy! I finally caught you!"
Cold handcuffs were cuffed on Xie Baiyong's wrists.
Xie Baiyong has been the proud son of the emperor since he was a child, and he has always been far ahead in study and style. He received a PhD in Biology from Cambridge University at a young age. He is excellent and proud. How could he be reduced to a prisoner?
I had a lump in my throat and asked the police to explain.
The police ignored me. The two of them looked at me and Xie Baiyong. The two of them led police dogs into the ruined temple to search.
Xie Baiyong remained calm and comforted me: "Don't be afraid, it's okay."
I couldn't calm down. Two minutes later, the police found traces of burning in the temple.
"There is wood and broken bones."
I took a breath and looked at Xie Baiyong.
is finished.
6
Xie Baiyong and I sat in the police station all night.
Xie Baiyong couldn't pry anything out of his mouth, and Officer Jiang didn't care whether Xu Heng was stern or rational. Xie Baiyong only said to wait for the police's inspection results of the incinerated objects.The results of
came out at ten o'clock the next morning.
Also here were lawyers Gu Wen and Xie Baiyong, who were sent by the institute to check the situation.
Officer Jiang took the report results with a face full of disbelief: "No, what's wrong with you? Go to the wilderness in the middle of the night to burn pigs, rabbits, mice ? Huh?"
"It's normal, many of our experimental items are They need to be burned. Some involve technical secrets, and some will cause serious problems if they are not dealt with." Gu Wen explained to Officer Jiang while blowing some tea.
Nothing related to Zhu Yuan was found in the pile of burned objects. Xie Baiyong was cleared of suspicion for the time being and sat lazily aside as a hands-off shopkeeper, watching Gu Wen deal with the aftermath like a social little prince.
"Then shouldn't you all handle them in the same way? Why would he deal with these experimental wastes privately? And go to such a remote place? It's a temple! Even if it's abandoned, it's still a temple? You still want to give it to me? Can the undead souls of these pigs and rats be saved?”
“Dr. Temple, Gu Wen must be a little confused like me. He turned to look at Xie Baiyong, "Baiyong, do you believe in Buddhism?"
Xie Baiyong said, "I do."
Gu Wen patted his thigh and looked Officer Xiang Jiang, you mean, isn’t this the end?
Officer Jiang sneered and looked at the three of us.
The police had no evidence, so they could only let Xie Baiyong and I go back.
But I know that they are still keeping an eye on all Xie Baiyong’s actions and traces.
Similarly, I still have many questions.
But I didn’t dare to ask Xie Baiyong.
were probably squeezed together, and I started to have that dream over and over again. Sometimes it was me from the first-person perspective, putting the woman into the box, and sometimes it was from the perspective of God watching Xie Baiyong calmly drive the vehicle in. In the vast darkness, I put the carton into the abandoned temple.
The Maitreya Buddha on the holy platform looked at Xie Baiyong with a compassionate smile, and stared at me as if through a dream.
I woke up from my dream again. Xie Baiyong did not comfort me immediately as usual.
He was not in the bed or in the room.
Because of dreaming, I haven’t been sleeping well recently. I take some sleeping pills at night to help me sleep. Xie Baiyong also took some.
It was obvious that sleeping pills were not working for either of us.
I walked around Xie Baiyong’s more than 200-square-meter flat twice, but I didn’t see him. His shoes were in the shoe cabinet, and there was no missing pair.
Where could he be?
Fear and anxiety, doubt and worry, a variety of contradictory emotions were tugging in my mind. Finally, I covered my panicked heart and pushed open the door of his laboratory.
We often do experiments here, but my deepest impression of this place comes from the vine that generally invades and entrenches me in my dreams these past few nights.
The cold test equipment, the test objects soaked in green liquid...except for the two beds that have been put away, everything is exactly the same as in the dream.
I didn’t dare to go in. After a quick glance, he closed the door and left the laboratory without seeing Xie Baiyong, as if he would see the woman lying there lifelessly if he stayed a little longer.
I was probably too flustered. When I returned to the living room, I tripped on the leg of the sofa. The sofa was pushed three inches. My toes hurt so much that I couldn't feel anything. And just when I was tortured by the pain and couldn't think, I saw that I was blocked by the sofa. The wooden button under the sofa.
In the early morning of October 22, 12 days had passed since the death of the deceased, and 9 days had passed since the police discovered the body. I found the replaced button on the deceased's clothes at Xie Baiyong's home.
The pain subsided, and fear came like a tide, rushing out two roads in front of me.
is calling the police on one side and defending on the other.
I don’t want to go either way.
Sometimes, all it takes is a crack of light.
Sometimes, if you have a clue, you can get countless clues by peeling off the cocoon.
There are buttons left by the deceased in Xie Baiyong's home, and there will also be other things.
For example, I dug out a box of amitriptyline, an antidepressant drug, from the cabinet in my study. For example, I dug out a platinum ring from the pocket of Xie Bai's coat at the bottom of the box, with the letters ZY engraved on it.
ZY happens to be the abbreviation of Zhu Yuan. What a coincidence.
I arranged the buttons, the amitriptyline medicine box and the ring on the coffee table in order, waiting for Xie Baiyong to come back.
I don’t know when Xie Baiyong came back. Probably under the influence of sleeping pills, my eyelids couldn't hold out and I fell into a deep sleep in the second half of the night. When I woke up again, the hands of the clock on the wall had already pointed to half past seven. And Xie Baiyong was sitting tiredly on the sofa, looking at the three sharp weapons that exposed his lies.
His eyebrows were still calm. I looked at him for a long time, but I didn’t see any anger or panic at being exposed.
"Do you have anything to say to me?" I asked.
Xie Baiyong told me about Zhu Wish.
They first met five years ago.
At that time, Xie Baiyong was working with the team in a deep mountain in Sixi Town. It was a project to observe monkey behavior. On the seventh day, Xie Baiyong got separated from the team, and then met Zhu Yuan.
In the mountains in late autumn, a bone-chilling chill has begun to brew. Zhu Yuan was only wearing a thin piece of clothing, and his body was covered in wounds for some reason. The blood dyed the clothes red and condensed into a black patch. There was also a red and swollen slap mark on his cheek. He looked really pitiful.
Xie Baiyong couldn't turn a blind eye, but he stepped forward and asked a few questions, but Zhu Yuan didn't answer, probably because he was too defensive. Xie Baiyong was not a patient person to begin with, and in the end he frowned and threatened: "If you don't say anything, I'll leave."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhu Yuan's tears rolled down, and he choked up a few times. He cried, but stubbornly gritted his teeth to hold it back. Xie Baiyong unexpectedly softened his heart.
This is the first time I heard that Xie Baiyong, the cold-faced King of Hell, can also be soft-hearted, which makes me feel uncomfortable. Xie Baiyong continued to talk about their past as if he didn't notice.
They spent a night in the deep mountains and old forests. Although Xie Baiyong seems to be the kind of person who doesn't pay attention to others, he is actually very attentive and a gentleman. He gave the only tent to Zhu Yuan and lit a fire by himself to guard it all night.
The next day, Xie Bai led Zhu Yuan all the way and finally found the way down the mountain. Later, Zhu Yuan said she needed to go to the bathroom, and Xie Baiyong waited for her to open her cell phone to see if there was any signal to contact anyone. The news about the murder case of a woman who escaped was the first to pop up.
There is a photo of the absconding suspect. The girl is wearing an old-fashioned and loose school uniform. Her ponytail is high and her face is pretty and flamboyant. However, her eyes are a bit gloomy, like someone who is silent in a remote corner and gives alms all year round. A pool of stagnant water.
Xie Baiyong frowned and felt something was wrong, and walked in the direction Zhu Yuan left. All wishes disappeared.
Xie Baiyong is a very observant person, and it took him less than an hour to find her.
It was the first time he saw someone crying so miserably, and it was also the first time someone knelt down and begged him, asking him to let her go, and to save her.
7
Zhuyuanjiang City, Pi County, his father died at work when he was ten years old, and his mother remarried a local truck driver. My stepfather is honest and friendly, and is praised by everyone in his area for his warm-heartedness. Zhu Yuan originally thought so, until her mother went out to play mahjong, and the kind-faced man walked into her room, took her hand and told her wish with a smile.
Zhu Yuan hit the man with a flower pot on the desk, and the man's expression changed.
"You two are eating me and using me. What's wrong with me touching you?"
"You bitch, why are you pretending to be noble? You live in my house just for me!"
"You two are both. I raise a dog, you dare to fight me and beat me to death, believe it or not!"
The dirty words and fierce slaps crushed her into a puddle of mud. She was shivering in the gutter. What was ridiculous was her mother! After she came back, she didn't dare to step forward to stop her. She even cautiously tried to please the angry man by sharing the news of her pregnancy.
Men dare not really do anything. They still maintain the image of a good husband and a good father outside, but when they get home, they immediately change into a different image. Fierce, ferocious, greedy, and contemptuous, looking at her is like looking at a disobedient wild dog , and sometimes he is very satisfied and says that she is worth money.
Zhuyuan didn't know what "valuable" meant until she was eighteen years old, when she was just an adult and in her promising senior year of high school, the man found a reasonable excuse for her to drop out of school.
Zhu Yuan was sent on his way to work in other places.
She got on a bus leaving her hometown with a group of girls from her hometown, and the opportunity to take the college entrance examination, which changed her life, disappeared together with the speeding scenery outside the bus window.
The accident occurred in the high-speed service area. When Zhu Yuan went to the toilet, he heard the man from the same village who introduced them to work in the factory talking on the phone.
"That man is one of the joints of the pimp gang. He is responsible for identifying women and defrauding them in the name of working in the factory." Xie Baiyong lit a cigarette, his face as calm as ever, not showing any sadness. Joy, no resentment.
He is always so cold, like a machine without emotions.
At that time, after Zhu Yuan was discovered eavesdropping, he ran away to the mountains behind the service area. There was no way an eighteen-year-old girl could outrun a man in his twenties. Zhu Yuan was dragged into the woods and slapped several times by the man. He probably felt that the lesson was not enough, and he was probably worried that she would go out and talk nonsense, so the man threw her to the ground. Started tearing her clothes off.
Zhu Yuan touched the stone at hand and hit the man's head with a hammer. The blood flowed from the man's head to her face like a faucet opening.
She ran away, and then met Xie Baiyong on the edge of the cliff of life.
Xie Baiyong took Zhu Yuan back. What was more terrifying than hiding her name was that she had to live like an invisible person. Xie Baiyong's family will be her heaven and earth for the rest of her life. They eat together and watch TV together every day. Occasionally, Xie Baiyong will disguise Zhu Yuan and go for a walk by the river together at three o'clock in the middle of the night.
I can tell that Xie Baiyong loves Zhu Yuan very much. Xie Bai and I were together for a year and a half and were almost inseparable. Then they broke up a year and a half ago.
My heart was so blocked that I asked: "Why did you break up?"
Xie Baiyong was silent for a long time, then turned around and smiled at me: "I separated from her so that I could meet you."
He She rarely talks about love, but when she does, it's deadly. But probably because such love words were based on another woman's misery, I didn't feel very happy. I always felt that he didn't tell me the truth.
I asked again: "Then why do you pretend not to know her?"
Xie Baiyong's answer was very realistic: "Then the police will know that I have sheltered a murderer for several years."
The word "murderer" has changed from The words coming out of Xie Baiyong's mouth were too lethal. I have some pitiful wishes for those who died.
"Is she a murderer??"
"She is."
"Is she guilty?"
"She is guilty."
"Does she deserve to die?"
"I don't want her to die."
"Who punished her? "
" Who is it? "
...
I had a question and answer with Xie Baiyong, as if we were discussing what to eat today.
So I asked the last question -
"Do you love her?"
Xie Baiyong took the cigarette butt into his palm and extinguished it.
"I love her." He murmured softly, "I am the only one in the world who loves her."
This is the first time I have seen him so affectionate.
My boyfriend, in front of me, personally admitted that he loves another woman. I should feel pathetic for myself, but surprisingly, I feel that Zhu wish is even more pathetic.
He loves her.
But they still broke up, but she died, but he pretended not to know her in order to protect himself.
But he was even the suspected murderer of her.
8
Just when I was worried that the police would once again find clues to find Xie Baiyong, Zhu Yuan’s case made new progress.
The police found a woman from the same hometown who had traveled to Sui'an in the same car as Zhu Yuan.
Women now work at Zui Renjian nightclub, and Gu Wen can always get first-hand information. When he shows me pictures of women, I always feel that they look familiar.
Gu Wenxi smiled cheaply at Xie Baiyong and said, "Isn't this woman your old friend?"
Me: "???"
"No." Xie Baiyong was a little flustered, and he asked me Deny it to Gu Wen.
Gu Wen exposed him unceremoniously: "What are you pretending to be? You have often gone to the drunken world to find her before. They are all men. I still don't understand you."
I stared at Xie Baiyong.
Gu Wen continued to add as if I didn't exist: "I've been gone for four or five months in a row, my dear, my senior brother has underestimated you."
I've been gone for four or five months in a row? ? When did this happen?
Xie Baiyong ignored my anger, pinched his brows, and changed the topic: "You talk about business, don't talk about other things."
Good guy, this is an admission and a guilty conscience.
I really wanted to get angry in front of Gu Wen, but what Gu Wen said next made me speechless.
This woman’s name is Lan Die. A native of Pi County, Jiang City, he left his hometown to work in a factory in Sui'an under Li's persuasion, and took the same bus as Zhu Yuan. Later, Zhu Yuan killed someone on the way, and the matter of going to Sui'an was no longer an issue. Of. It was not until half a year later that another person came to take over Li's job, saying that he was specifically recruiting people for factories in big cities, and led a group of people to Sui'an again.
Just like what Xie Baiyong said, these people did not go to the factory to work as assembly line workers, but were deceived into specializing in special services.
Zuirenjian is one of them.
The police re-investigated Zhu Yuan’s case and found many people who were in the same car. Most of those people’s jobs were actually not very honorable. The police became suspicious, and later Lan Die revealed many things, so they followed this point to investigate and found out a huge industrial chain.
"Now things are getting serious." Gu Wen said.
There was almost an uproar on the Internet. The police withstood pressure from many parties and followed the vine to identify many people.
"The most surprising thing is that the stepfather of the woman who died a few days ago was one of the contacts."
The cause and effect of Zhu Yuan's murder and the truth finally came to light.
In the rotten soil, flowers of evil continue to bloom.
Is she guilty?
She is guilty.
But is she really evil?
Gu Wen was filled with emotion: "Thanks to Landie for daring to reveal it to the police. I heard that the forces behind their industrial chain are very powerful. If you enter this quagmire, you will die. I don't know if the police can completely investigate those behind the scenes." Someone found it."
Xie Baiyong said calmly, "I hope so."
looked like it had nothing to do with him.
But I can guess to some extent that if Landie dared to confess to the police, it must be his handiwork.
He hoped that the original truth would come to light, but did Zhu Yuan's death really have nothing to do with him?
9
The murderer is still at large, and people's attention to the impact of Zhu Yuan's death has exceeded their concern for the truth about her death.
Xie Baiyong and I’s lives have returned to the right track without any problems.
We have not had any further discussions about the Zhu Yuan incident. He pretends that he has never been with that person, and I am happy to cooperate with him. I think, if I had not accidentally seen the Project Zero research materials in Xie Baiyong's study, Zhu Wan might never have appeared in our lives.
Xie Baiyong's health started to get a little worse, with visible fatigue, headache, abdominal pain, heart and mouth pain, and occasional sudden bleeding from his nose and ears, and he also vomited blood once or twice.
I often see him injecting painkillers.
I wanted to take him to the hospital for a check-up. He said he had been checked and it was because he had internal heat.
responded like I was a fool.
He will also disappear inexplicably for a period of time.
I suspected that he was terminally ill and secretly went to the hospital for treatment without telling me.
Once, Xie Baiyong disappeared inexplicably. I went to his study to see if I could find any cases, and then I saw the research project information.
FLC.L Institute Project Zero.
"New Humanity Project - Research on Consciousness Planting"
I remembered what Senior Brother Gu Wen said about Project Zero, and opened the thick stack of project books with trembling hands. The pages of
are densely packed with jargon that makes my mind feel like a rusty gear. But I am also a researcher, so I managed to get through it with difficulty, but I still understand a little bit.
Consciousness planting: Extract brain information and consciousness to synthesize artificial meninges, and implant them into the brain of another person, allowing the consciousness of two people to live together in the same body.
Brain, extraction, implantation, symbiosis, new human beings...
These words came into my mind one by one, like a tsunami, chaos, fear, and coldness all came over me.
Xie Baiyong, awareness planting project.
wishes, brain tissue was taken out and died.
Xie Baiyong and Zhu Yuan, former lovers.
Everything seems to be connected into a closed line, and the switch is turned on, exposing the secrets hidden in the darkness.
I couldn’t help but feel chills in my heart. What was even more frightening was that Xie Baiyong suddenly appeared at this moment.
He slowly closed the document and looked at me indifferently.
10
The orange light is like the sunset on the mountain top, and Xie Baiyong sitting aside is like the silhouette of the old tree on the mountain top.
He is the darkness within the light.
I asked Xie Baiyong: "Did you kill her?"
Xie Baiyong said: "No."
"How did she die?"
"Sleeping pills committed suicide and cannot be saved."
Autopsy report available It was said that the brain tissue was taken out and he died.
Xie Baiyong saw my doubts, pulled his lips and said: "We can't save her, so I performed a small operation on her."
- Consciousness planting.
My throat is so dry that I can hardly speak. After a long time, I continued to ask: "Where is she?"
Xie Baiyong's slender index finger pointed at his forehead, paused, maybe feeling something was wrong, and tapped his heart again.
He made my heart ache.
Should I despair?
My boyfriend has two people living in his body, one is himself and the other is his ex-girlfriend. He has personally said that he loves her the most.
They are now a whole, a new human race under human technology, maybe another species, which is really absurd.
And now that I know their secret, what will he do to me?
Xie Baiyong didn't do anything to me. The lives of the two of us and the three souls seemed to continue in a weird and mediocre direction.
I occasionally wonder, will the two people in Xie Baiyong's body quarrel?
One said: "Why do you want a girlfriend?"
Another said: "We are one now, and she is also your girlfriend."
One said: "Do you love me or her the most?"
Another said : "Fool, I love them all."
....
Haha, I almost laughed out loud.
This weird and abnormal relationship.
I know I shouldn’t continue, but I really can’t let go of Xie Baiyong, and Xie Baiyong won’t let me leave. I mentioned breaking up, but Xie Baiyong said no with a straight face, and then used all kinds of means to trap me by his side.
It was probably for revenge, so I started asking him often: "Do you love me?"
Xie Baiyong said: "I love you."
I asked: "Do you love Zhu Yuan?"
Xie Baiyong said : "Love."
I asked again: "Then do you love me or her the most?"
Xie Baiyong was stunned for a moment, and whispered: "I love them both."
Scumbag.
I don’t quite understand whether Xie Baiyong’s body is jointly controlled by two consciousnesses, or whether Zhu Yuan is just a “renter” with no right to speak.
Xie Baiyong said that when extracting information and implanting it into the artificial meninges, the priority of the consciousness in the artificial meninges to the control of human nerves can be limited, and the two consciousnesses can be prioritized.
So most of the time, he is the one controlling the body and controlling the primary and secondary consciousness. When his consciousness is dominant, Zhu Wan is like a wandering soul separated from the body, looking at the world from his own perspective like a bystander. When Zhu Yuan's consciousness dominates, Zhu Yuan occupies Xie Baiyong's body and sees the world from his perspective.
They alternately exercise the right to use this body. The rules of alternation depend entirely on Xie Baiyong's will, and there are also cases of external interference. For example, when Xie Baiyong is in a deep sleep and unable to wake up, for example when Xie Baiyong faints.
I asked Xie Baiyong, how do I know when I am facing Zhu Yuan?
Xie Baiyong said: "When you can't see me."
I think this is a standard nonsense sentence in literature.
Later, I began to lose sight of him often. Occasionally I would wake up from a dream in the middle of the night. He was nowhere to be seen in the bed or in the room. Occasionally, the moment I woke up, he would disappear from my eyes.
I realized that when he said he couldn't see him, he didn't mean that his consciousness temporarily shrank into a corner so that I couldn't see him, but that his entire body wouldn't appear.
I thought, maybe Zhu Yuan doesn’t want to see me either.
"Then does she see everything I say to you and do to you? Just like your third eye, does she know that she is just a consciousness?"
Xie Baiyong shook his head: "Psychological There is a kind of hypnosis in science that can edit, modify and block people's cognition, consciousness and memory. "
Through hypnosis, he can make her think that she is a living person. He could make her think that they were two people.
"I put a lock on her memory and cognition." Xie Baiyong said, "She will never know that she is in my body."
11
Xie Baiyong became weaker and weaker. At first, he could not eat. I vomited after eating, and then I couldn't sleep all night long. I woke up occasionally in the middle of the night and saw him trembling while pressing his cramped stomach and colic heart. He took pain-relieving injections from three a day to five a night.
In the spring, Xie Baiyong left the institute and took me to settle down in Cambridge, England.
The house he is preparing has a small garden filled with Austin roses.We occasionally went out for shopping, but most of the time we stayed at home reading, cooking and raising flowers. He wanted to drive me to a manor in the countryside to ride horses, but by that time his health was already not very good.
The analgesics no longer work, and many times he will faint from the pain.
Xie Baiyong said that this is a rejection reaction caused by consciousness implantation. The reason why this project has not been clinically available is because the rejection rate is too high and no solution has been found yet.
The final result of the rejection reaction is that only one of the two consciousnesses in his body can remain, or both will disappear.
I asked Xie Baiyong why he insisted on planting the consciousness of Zhu Yuan in his mind when the technology was immature or even not successful.
Xie Baiyong took a lot of effort to put on a weak smile.
"I love her." He said, "I don't want her to die."
Well, my boyfriend loves another woman with his life.
When spring passed, Xie Baiyong told me that he was leaving.
What he wants to leave means that his consciousness disappears, and from now on, there is another person in his body.
This hurts me more than if he were actually dead.
"Then what should I do?"
You can't let me fall in love with Zhu Yuan who occupies his body.
"After I leave, you go find Professor Wilson, and I left something for you."
Xie Baiyong seemed to be saying his last words.
Three days later, he really disappeared, and even the body in which the consciousness of all wishes lived never appeared again.
12
The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness does not receive the light.
Sometimes I wonder if it was because Xie Baiyong wanted to abandon me, so he made up such a ridiculous story.
After being tortured by discomfort and anger for a month, I finally found Professor Wilson according to Xie Baiyong’s last message. Wilson was an old lady in her seventies. She wore a pair of reading glasses and sat in the yard reading the Bible. She read softly along with words in her mouth. When she saw me following the servant, she was slightly surprised: "Edwin ?”
Edwin is Xie Baiyong’s English name. I nodded and answered in English that Edwin called me here.
Professor Wilson looked at me for a while, as if she wanted to understand something. She stood up and led me to a mirror. She smiled kindly and asked me what my name was.
I looked at the mirror without knowing why. The woman in the mirror had long, slightly curly hair, and her facial features were bright and flamboyant.
I remember Xie Baiyong said: "Your name is Baitang, life is sweet, and you are sweet too."
But the moment I looked at myself in the mirror, I knew that my name was not Baitang.
What is my name?
This question is like a switch, opening up the past that is blocked in the black box of memory.
When I was eleven years old, before I could get over the grief of my father’s death, I moved into another man’s home with my mother.
When I was fifteen years old, the kind man who always smiled and smiled took off his disguise, and the obscene words and slaps came like a roaring train. My mother's cold eyes were colder than the river in winter. I wrote in my diary whether it would be better if I lived under the sea.
When I was seventeen years old, I was sitting in a noisy classroom, with a pile of college entrance examination books piled on the desk. I was surrounded by classmates who were busy writing, and outside the window were pink flowers peeking out in the spring sun. I wrote in my composition that reading can change your destiny.
When I was eighteen years old, I got on the bus leaving my hometown. I had an old canvas bag on my lap, and I was surrounded by anxious girls of the same age. Outside the window, I could see the clouds and mountains retreating rapidly. I think, in fact, this is good, leaving is also a new life.
But fate is not up to anyone. Fortunately, I met Xie Baiyong on the edge of the cliff of life.He doesn't look like a friendly or patient person. He always scolds me with a straight face, telling me not to play with knives, not to go to high places, and not to take medicine randomly.
But he was always gentle to me. He played the piano for me, taught me how to draw, and put pork liver in the hot pot that I loved but he despised. He would always be the first to wake me up from nightmares in the middle of the night. Hold me tight, and he will risk taking me to the top of the mountain to watch the sunrise.
When I was twenty years old, Xie Baiyong found a doctor for me. He said that I was sick, but I was not sick. I didn’t want a doctor, I just wanted him. So he took a long vacation and took me on a trip. I cut my hair very short and pretended to be his cousin who was far away from abroad. We went to Gansu and drove all the way from Gansu to Mohe in the north.
We seem to be playing an exciting game of hide and seek. I like this excitement. But the police quickly approached Xie Baiyong and asked him if he had seen the person in the photo when he was working on a project in Sixi Town two years ago. The person in the photo was me when I was eighteen years old.
Xie Baiyong said that they had met before, and they separated after going down the mountain together. He answered perfectly, and the police stopped talking to him after several visits. But I no longer dare to go out, I'm afraid of everyone's eyes.
When I was twenty-one years old, Xie Baiyong started to lecture me again, not to play with knives, not to go to high places, and not to take medicine randomly. Later, he threw away all the knives at home, sealed off the balcony, and locked the medicine I needed in a drawer.
When I was twenty-two years old, Xie Baiyong proposed to me. He said that after the project at hand is completed, we will go to live in Cambridge, where we can go out for a walk at any time and watch many sunrises and sunsets.
When I was twenty-three years old, I swallowed a handful of sleeping pills and finally lived in the seabed that had been calling me.
Later, Xie Baiyong and I became one.
I woke up from Xie Baiyong's laboratory and saw myself lying aside with a cold body. I threw myself into a deserted ruined temple.
Xie Baiyong woke up, and he said my name was Baitang.
He blocked and modified my memory and cognition, and created an identity and a life for me.
I live in his body, but I will never know that I am like a brand new life, perceiving the world and his love again.
Memories of the past come in like a tidal wave, and like waves retreating from the beach into the deep sea.
I came back from the memories and gradually saw my appearance reflected in the mirror. I was 187cm tall and straight as a pine. The camel cashmere coat I was wearing was the one I bought for Xie Baiyong when I first learned how to shop online. Um. The hair on her front was slightly curly and messy, and the wind blew through the ends of her hair, revealing her sharp eyebrows and her eyes that were so indifferent and emotionless.
Maybe it was a minute or maybe ten minutes before I slowly looked away, looked at Professor Wilson, smiled and replied in English: "My name is Xie Baiyong."
Professor Wilson said, Edwin, congratulations. You wake up unlocked.
I know he will never wake up.
But from now on, I will be him. (original title: "The Waves and Me")
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