Crazy Detective

At 10:30 pm, in the Yaoming city Special Investigation Group's temporary office, Zhao Yu was talking to Miao Ying on the phone with a smug look on his face.

"What do you think, MeowMeow? You can't convince me, can you?

"You know what? When I told the doctors in the mental hospital that Liu Cheng had spoken to me, they were all dumbfounded!

"In their eyes, this is an impossible task. My achievements have even enlightened them ..."

"That's enough," Miao Ying said."You're just a blind cat that got lucky. If it weren't for your bad habits, how would you know that Liu Cheng had always been interested in the stones and not the flowers?"

"Hey? You're still not convinced?" Zhao Yu replied,"ten days! 10 days! If it were any other person, they would have gone crazy along with him! Just give me a compliment or two, baby ..."

Miao Ying laughed and said,"well, I have to say, if it were me, I wouldn't have your perseverance!" No matter how unreliable things are, miracles always happen when they're done by you!"

"Hmm ... You don't seem to be complimenting me!" Zhao Yu was not satisfied.

"Alright, let's get down to business!" Miao Ying became serious again."Since we can prove that the murderer of the sanatorium murder case is not Nong zhifa, then this matter really needs to be investigated!

"It seems that your premonition was right!"

"Mm ..." Zhao Yu said."Before I went to the mental hospital, I watched all of the videos of Nong zhifa's confession. I keep feeling that there's something wrong with this person!"

"Oh? What's the problem?" Miao Ying asked.

"In fact, the reason why I stayed in the mental hospital for so long was not entirely for Liu Cheng," Zhao Yu finally revealed his true intention,"in fact, I just wanted to feel the world of mental patients, and then compare it with Liu Cheng ..."

"Ah? "No way ..." Miao Ying was shocked."Zhao Yu, are you trying to say that Nong zhifa is also a mental patient?!" This ... This is also ..."

"Yes," Zhao Yu nodded,"you know me best. From the moment I saw the video, I felt that Nong zhifa was not mentally sound!

"Now, after my experience in the mental hospital, I'm even more certain of this guess!

"Nong zhifa's eyes, expression, and the numb expression he had when he spoke were exactly the same as those mental patients. He couldn't have faked it! I suspect that Nong zhifa might have a delusional disorder!"

"Delusional?" Miao Ying was shocked."I ... I've seen the video, but ..."

"Yes," Zhao Yu said."It's precisely because of the melancholy in Nong zhifa's eyes that it's easy for normal people to have the illusion that this person is very similar to those psychopathic murderers!

"So, it's very likely that from the very beginning, we fell into an established prejudice and fixed this person in place!

"But what if ... He's just a patient with a delusional disorder?"

"This ..." Miao Ying gasped."Isn't this too scary?" If he was delusional, then who was the real murderer? It must be ... Someone who's very familiar with Nong zhifa, right?"

"No matter what, this is just my personal guess," Zhao Yu said."I plan to go to the prison that Nong zhifa is in and ask the people there to see if I can get any clues.

"I ... Tsk tsk ..."

"What's wrong?" Miao Ying was familiar with Zhao Yu's style and immediately noticed the problem. She asked,"have you thought of something?"

"Well ..." Zhao Yu stammered."I don't want to reveal my secret until the critical moment ..."

"Don't keep me in suspense, alright?" Miao Ying urged him,"my great detective, good detective, tell me quickly. I can help you think of an idea!"

"Mm, alright!" After thinking for a while, Zhao Yu said,"I suspect that the key point of the memory of the murder record is likely to be in the prison!"

"Oh?" Miao Ying asked,"you mean, the real murderer is also the prisoner in that prison?"

"No!" Zhao Yu said with certainty,"I feel that the real murderer is not the criminal inside, but the prison guards of the Kongtong gang!"

Zhao Yu's words shocked Miao Ying, who was on the other end of the phone.

After more than ten seconds, Miao Ying finally recovered from the shock and said in a trembling voice,"You mean ... There were prison wardens ... Who made Nong zhifa confess? Why ... Why?"

"I'm not sure," Zhao Yu said bluntly."I just think that the real murderer knows how the police handle cases, so it's very likely that he's someone in the police system!

"And, according to the prison records," Zhao Yu continued,"Nong zhifa was a loner and didn't have any fixed cellmates, so it was more convenient for the prison guards to get in touch with him!

"Moreover, only the prison guards knew more about Nong zhifa and knew that he was the best candidate ...

"And ... From a social class perspective, the prison guards have a strong influence on the prisoners, so it might be easier to implement psychological suggestions!"

"Psychological suggestion ..." Miao Ying said in surprise."My God! You think that a prison guard saw that Nong zhifa was delusional, so he gave him a psychological suggestion to make him think that he was a serial killer, so that he could admit to the crimes in the memoir?

"Isn't this ... A little too ridiculous?"

"There was such a scene in the movie, but I haven't studied it carefully yet," Zhao Yu said."So, I'm going to discuss it with Wu Xiumin later to see if there is such a possibility."

"MeowMeow, look ..." Zhao Yu opened his palms and analyzed,"assuming that my previous guess was right, Nong zhifa was a mental patient, then ... Why was there no record or report on this in the prison's report?

"And ..." Zhao Yu continued,"I've seen the interrogation reports from the prison. The testimonies of Nong zhifa's fellow inmates were all vague, and they avoided the subject, as if they were afraid of something ...

"So, I think there's something fishy going on in the prison, and this is probably the key to solving the case!"

"You ... Hmm ..." Miao Ying thought for a long time, then said,"it sounds like you have a point, but you seem to have overlooked an important issue!"

"What's the problem?" Zhao Yu asked.

"Did the murderer have nothing better to do?" Miao Ying also pointed out the suspicious points."The murderer was clearly at large, and no one knew about the memoir of the murder. So ... Why would he take such a big risk to entice a prisoner?

"This will increase the chance of him being exposed. If he is a prison guard, it would be even more unreasonable, right?"

"Yes, indeed!" Zhao Yu admitted,"I have considered this before. I think there are two possibilities for the murderer to do this.

"First, he was old, or maybe he had a terminal illness or something. He didn't want the case he had committed to be forgotten, so he wanted to use the agricultural record to express his desire.

"It's like some kind of perverted show-off!

"Secondly, something happened that made the murderer think that his crime would soon be exposed. He was in a hurry to find a scapegoat, so he chose Nong zhifa!"

"Tsk tsk ..." Miao Ying pouted and said,"I still can't agree with your speculation! I've always believed that psychological cues are too far away from reality, and the success rate is low.

"Nong zhifa is still an important suspect in the memoir of the murder!

"However, some of the cases weren't committed by him. Maybe he had an accomplice, or ... Something else!"

"Alright then," Zhao Yu said."Actually, I hope that I'm wrong, but I still think that Nong zhifa doesn't fit the basic characteristics of a murderer at all ..."

"So, let's continue the discussion after I come back from my investigation in the prison ..."