Chapter 20 The Reappearance of the Shadow

In my eyes, it is obviously five ordinary fingers, but Xiaoxuan is so fascinated, as if it were the most magical thing in the world.

Chen Yujia made a forbidden mouth shape for me. Now Xiaoxuan has entered the state, and the loud voice will wake her up.

I sat quietly aside. Chen Yujia bent the thumb of the five fingers first, and then bent the other fingers one by one, and finally there was only one little finger left.

"See its lines clearly. That's the spiral of time. You can find any point on it, stay there, and go back to the past."

The distant and empty voice came out of Chen Yujia's mouth without vitality. I understand a little that his voice must have been specially trained, just like the handwriting of a traditional Chinese medicine. Except for what he and the people in the pharmacy can know, other people can't understand and can't learn.

As soon as this voice appeared, Xiaoxuan's eyes began to blur, as if she really got into Chen Yujia's fingers, broke free from the shackles of time and returned to the past along the circle of circles.

From this time on, Chen Yujia stopped talking, but I knew that he must have another way of communication, just like I was hypnotized that day, guiding me invisibly in the dark.

The room was so quiet that the sound of the heartbeat could be heard. Xiaoxuan's eyes slowly closed. I suddenly had a feeling that Xiaoxuan was really leaving me. She was going up the long river of time, against the current, leaving me standing alone.

There was a burst of fear in my heart, for fear that I would really lose her, but knowing that it was only for a moment, the next moment she would open her eyes and stare at me, blaming me for not accompanying her back to the past. This feeling is very strange. I think it's because I value Xiaoxuan too much, not because I distrust Chen Yujia.

At this time, Xiaoxuan suddenly moved, and my heart became nervous and couldn't take my eyes off her. She frowned, bit her fine teeth, and her face showed a look of pain.

In normal times, I would have hugged her in my arms and comforted her, but now she is in a hypnotic state. Everything she has experienced is illusory, and I don't have to worry about her at all.

I told myself to calm down over and over again. Maybe Chen Yujia found some hidden danger of Xiaoxuan, and now she is doing some guidance.

Xiaoxuan's face became more and more painful, and the fine beads of sweat oozed out of her forehead, and even her hand waved unconsciously. And Chen Yujia also seemed to be a little difficult. The tip of his nose was shining brightly, which was the light shining on the sweat. It seemed that he must have found something.

At this time, I suddenly had a strange idea, so I secretly took out my mobile phone, turned on the camera function, and recorded all the scenes in front of me. I want to play it back to Xiaoxuan when I have nothing to do. When she sees her embarrassment, she will definitely chase me to delete it. At that time, I can threaten her and further 'infringement' her. Thinking of the ** scene, my blood began to run around, and my throat began to dry and heat up.

I looked at the time. It has been more than a quarter of an hour since Xiaoxuan entered the hypnotic state. I thought it was almost over, so I put away my mobile phone and sat quietly, pretending that nothing had happened, but my heart had been happy for a long time.

At this time, Xiaoxuan's painful expression was gone, and she returned to her previous calmness and confusion. After a while, Chen Yujia stretched out his finger again and said in that magical voice, "Time has no beginning and no end. Looking at it, you can come and go at will."

Xiaoxuan's eyes slowly opened, confused. She looked at Chen Yujia's fingers, one, two, three, four. When Chen Yujia's five-finger fingers were completely open, Xiaoxuan's whole body trembled and woke up.

"Where am I?"

The first thing Xiaoxuan said when she opened her eyes was that I believed that she must have been to a place I had never been to, so she hurriedly said, "We are in Dr. Chen's clinic."

Xiaoxuan touched her forehead and said in disbelief, "What happened just now? Why don't I remember at all?"

I don't think it's strange. I remember that after I was hypnotized last time, I remembered what happened inside clearly. Why didn't Xiaoxuan remember?

Chen Yujia smiled and said, "You were deeply hypnotized last time. Naturally, it seems to have happened. Of course, your memory cells will be stored, and Miss Lan only received extremely mild hypnosis. What happened in it was like clouds, so she forgot it all when she woke up."

After listening to his explanation, the two of us suddenly realized. Xiaoxuan tilted her head and asked, "Have you checked anything?"

Chen Yujia said, "As I expected, your work puts a lot of pressure on you. Although you don't usually feel it, it may be because of your love for work, so it hides its harm to you."

His words are very reasonable, because for a girl, being a policeman is indeed a big challenge, not only physically bear the intensity that ordinary profession does not have, but also psychologically. When you face vicious criminals and see terrible victimization scenes, only people who are police officers know that feeling.

Xiaoxuan's face suddenly changed. She seemed to be four or five years old. Chen Yujia hurriedly said, "But it's not very serious. It's far from reaching the real pathology. As long as you pay attention to adjustment in the future, there will be no big problems, and I have treated you just now, which will be of great help to your body and mind."

Hearing this, Xiaoxuan's face suddenly became clear, and she returned to her original age, and she was four or five years younger. I really don't understand whether this is Chen Yujia's treatment or her own psychological role. However, on the other, isn't Chen Yujia a psychologist? No matter what method he uses, as long as it can make Xiaoxuan's mental health smooth, that's his ability.

Thinking of this, I said to Chen Yujia, "Thank you so much for finally making our policewoman healthy and beautiful again."

Xiaoxuan said, "You mean that I was unhealthy and not beautiful before?"

I waved my hand and said, "No, no, I used to be healthy and beautiful, but now I'm healthier and more beautiful."

Xiaoxuan still looked unrelenting. Fortunately, my phone suddenly rang at this time. I took out my mobile phone and looked at it. It turned out to be the phone in the duty room of the bureau, and I felt that it was not good.

"Officer Wang, please go to the forensic office immediately. You Qiaolin's forensic doctor has just been attacked!" The sound on the other end of the phone was fast and urgent.

The string of my brain tightened and said to Chen Yujia, "I'm really sorry. There is something urgent in the bureau. I have to go there immediately and come back another day." Then he turned his head to Xiaoxuan and said, "There's something coming. Let's go quickly."

It was already more than eight o'clock in the evening. It was dark outside, and we roared all the way to the Forensic Medical Office. Seeing that it was quiet outside and I couldn't see other colleagues, my heart was finally calmer. Because if something big happened, then this place would have been blocked for a long time. Now it seems that there is no big deal to You Qiaolin, at least his life is absolutely not in danger.

Xiaoxuan and I hurried into the forensic office and saw two colleagues, who should be on duty. As soon as they saw me, they immediately said, "Officer Wang, the forensic doctor is waiting for you in the office."

"Are you all right?"

"It's okay, but the back of the head was hit hard, and the person was in a coma for more than ten minutes. Now he has used medicine, and there is no big problem."

You Qiaolin is a doctor himself. I believe that he has not been seriously injured, but this nature is very bad. You should know that the police station is a local base for fighting crime. Now the criminals dare to come here and attack a forensic doctor, which is simply hitting us in the face.

I thought angrily in my heart that I must catch this guy. Without saying a word, I will slap him in the two big mouths first.

Entering You Qiaolin's office, he was lying on a temporary stretcher**, the kind used to carry the body in the morgue, but it was very hygienic, with a layer of disposable sheets on it.

You Qiaolin's head was wrapped in white gauze, and there should be a wound in the back of his head, but he was very sober, which showed that the criminal was extremely measured. Presumably, he did not want to bear the charge of killing the police and die for life. At the same time, it also showed that he did not have a grudge against You Qiaolin, but had a certain purpose. You Qiaolin's sobriety would undoubtedly prevent him from achieving this goal, so he forced You Qiaolin's brain to rest.

After seeing me come in, You Qiaolin winked at me and signaled to see me. At this time, I looked at him carefully and saw that his face was pale, and the golden glasses that had never left the bridge of his nose were missing, revealing two slightly puffy eyes inside. Without glasses, he is a little less elegant, a little more like an ordinary person, and because he has no lenses in his eyes, he also lost a little sharpness, but this is probably because he is weak now.

This is the first time I have seen You Qiaolin without glasses. Suddenly, I feel that this is the real him. The person who used to hide behind the golden glasses finally appeared completely in front of me.

I was stunned for a moment and immediately remembered that it was not the time to be stunned. He called me after being attacked, so something related to me must have happened. I stepped forward and asked softly, "How do you feel?"

He hummed gently, then closed his eyes for a while, and then said, "The dusty substance you found from Jiada is important evidence. The person who attacked me is coming for it."

My heart tightened, and the first idea was to go back to Jiada immediately and collect some from the air conditioner. But on second thought, since the criminal can come here, he must have cleaned up the traces of Jiada and will never give me another chance.

At this time, Xiaoxuan had learned the basic situation from the first colleagues who rushed to the scene and made records one by one. I sat by the bed and said to You Qiaolin, "Did you see the front of the murderer?"

You Qiaolin shook his head slightly and said, "At that time, I was examining the dusty substances under the microscope, and suddenly I was attacked from behind. When I woke up, I saw that the experimental platform was in a mess, but all the dusty substances disappeared. He must have come for this thing. Well, it's a pity. If I had tested it earlier, I might have found a new clue.

I also feel very sorry in my heart, but at this point, I can only let it take its course. I can't blame a hot-blooded forensic doctor who worked overtime to help me solve the case as soon as possible.

"What do you think those dusty substances are?" I asked with a trace of luck.

You Qiaolin said: "It should be a chemical and harmful to the human body. From the analysis of the fact that the murderer is eager to take it back, I think it should be a relatively rare thing, and there are only a limited number of people who can contact and get it."

I nodded and said, "Yes, this thing must have exposed the identity of the murderer, so he took the risk and forcibly took it away from here."

Unexpectedly, the really useful clues have always been in our hands, and I have been focusing on collecting corpses before. And the murderer's move made me start to doubt whether my direction was wrong. Maybe he didn't take hundreds of corpses to practice knives at all?

My previous idea is based on my reasoning and restoration of the whole case, but if my reasoning is wrong at all, then reasoning and truth are two parallel lines that never intersect. If I follow the original line, I will always miss the truth.

This is a fundamental thing. I can't make a decision easily, so I calmed down and asked, "Forensic Doctor, can you be sure that the wound of the deceased is indeed caused by a sharp knife cut?"

"Of course, that's a typical knife cutting surface. It should be using a scalpel, and the technique is very skillful. We have discussed this before. Why did you bring it up again? Is there any problem?"

I seemed a little confused. If the wound of the deceased was caused by a sharp knife, then my reasoning should be correct, but in this way, the dusty substance on the air conditioner is superfluous. Because the murderer has all the conditions to kill, there is no need to add anything at all, not to mention that it is distributed in the air conditioner. It takes a lot of effort to do this.

It is unreasonable to put a lot of effort into doing a superfluous thing. For an experienced murderer, such a thing is even more incredible. And afterwards, he had to take great risks to take it back. The strangeness in the middle is obvious, but it is elusive.

I fell into meditation, and my brain quickly rotated, showing the whole event back and forth, and then slowly scruising, approaching the truth little by little.

Will the things on the air conditioner be a dizziness agent?

A scene appeared in my mind:

A shadow climbed from the back wall to the second floor of the girls' dormitory, and then came to Shi Yingjie's room. There was no one in the room. The shadow removed the grille outside the air conditioner and sprayed the ductor into it. When Shi Yingjie and Wang Jie, who was sleeping in the upper bunk, entered the room and turned on the air conditioner, the substance blew into the nasal cavity of the two with the wind. The two people slept more and more deeply, and finally completely lost consciousness. At this time, the shadow appeared silently again. He took Shi Yingjie into the bathroom and cut her neck easily. Shi Yingjie, who had fallen into a coma, could not feel the pain. Blood spewed out of her carotid, flowing into the sewer with the sloping ground, and a life disappeared like this. After Shi Yingjie's blood was dry, the shadow took out the already prepared scalpel, divided Shi Yingjie into pieces in exquisite ways, then wrapped it with clothes and put it back to **, and then disappeared in a strange way from our eyes that happened to arrive at the scene at that time.

The above inference can fully explain why Shi Yingjie did not resist before she died, and the girl sleeping on the upper bunk was not awakened.

But is the truth of the matter really like this?

Is the dusty substance a fainting agent or something?

If so, then this kind of item must be a very rare forbidden drug, something that ordinary people can't touch and even more can't get.

Thinking of this, I said to You Qiaolin, "If the dust-like substance is something that can cause people to fall into a deep coma, can you think of what kind of medicine it is?"

You Qiaolin closed his eyes and opened them after a while. He looked a little tired. It can be seen that the previous attack had a certain degree of damage to his brain.

His voice was very weak: "There are many kinds of drugs that can cause people's coma, but most of them are extremely volatile and cannot exist in the form of dust for so long, and such drugs are strictly controlled. Even in hospitals, there is a set of perfect measures to prevent drugs from flowing into society and causing adverse effects."

"In this way, as long as we find a dizziness drug that can exist in the form of dust, we will be a step closer to the murderer."

You Qiaolin shook his head and said, "As far as I know, it is not available in regular drugs, but now many illegal drug dealers are involved in such drugs, which are likely to spread from them, so it is still difficult to find the source."

I nodded and said, "Well, don't worry about it. Naturally, our secret service office will investigate this matter. At that time, we will definitely find out the guy who sneaked you." Then he whispered in his ear, "I can let you beat him hard without pretending not to know."

You Qiaolin's mood suddenly became excited: "Don't joke, that's illegal!"

Xiaoxuan turned her head, frowned and asked, "Brother, what are you going to do?"