Although this interrogation left Feng Cheng speechless, his evasive attitude was also quite suspicious. At first, he could answer the police's questions calmly, but in the end, he simply refused to acknowledge the unreasonable contradictions, or remained silent. The police did not have strong direct evidence, so they could only engage in psychological warfare with him.
At this moment, Liu Qingrong, the bureau chief who was busy with everything, suddenly came to the inquiry room. He looked in through the single-sided glass and asked Ling Feng who was standing aside: "Is this the murderer you captured?"
Liu Qingrong rarely came to the interrogation room in person, which gave Ling Feng a bad feeling: "What happened?"
"Sun Ruoyi, the president of our city's chamber of commerce, just called me." Liu Qingrong's eyes were a little complicated: "I provided this person named Feng Cheng with an alibi from the night before yesterday."
Ling Feng was stunned for a moment and asked quickly: "President of the Chamber of Commerce? He personally provided testimony? Did he see Feng Cheng that night?"
"No." Liu Qingrong replied: "He provided a photo, saying it was taken by a friend who was also present, and a profile of Feng Cheng was captured in it."
"Where are the photos?" Ling Feng asked.
Seeing the photo that Liu Qingrong pulled out from his phone, Ling Feng couldn't help but be dumbfounded: "This... this is so heavily coded, can this kind of photo be used as evidence?"
"It's already very good that people are willing to provide photos," Liu Qingrong snorted: "The more status people have, the more they pay attention to privacy protection. If these protagonists are not coded, they will not be willing to show them. Anyway, what we are concerned about It’s just Feng Cheng who accidentally slipped into the camera at the back, so don’t worry about the people in front.”
"If you really want to sleep, please give me a pillow." Ling Feng said sarcastically.
"Let it go first." Liu Qingrong said helplessly. "Anyway, there is no conclusive evidence now. Keeping it here all the time is not an option. Let's monitor it secretly instead."
When he heard that he was going to be released, Ling Ling was naturally the one who reacted the most. After finally forcing him into a corner, he had no way to retreat, and now he was about to lose all his previous efforts.
"Who is this Feng Cheng? How can he let the president of the Chamber of Commerce call him to testify for him? There must be something wrong with it." Ling Ling said angrily: "There is something wrong with that photo too!"
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"Hey, tell me, is there a method in this world that can make criminal suspects truthfully confess their crimes? For example... hypnosis?"
Ling Ling asked with a sad look on Liu Mengwei's office at the School of Psychology, Yunhe Medical University.
"Why are you still thinking about this?" Liu Meng said with a smile: "You just follow the procedures to investigate the case and look for evidence, right? Why do you only want to find shortcuts all day long, and they are all whimsical shortcuts."
"But we have clearly found the suspect, but because there is no direct evidence, we cannot convict him. There seems to be someone outside to protect him, so now we can only let the tiger go." Ling Ling said anxiously.
"What happened again?"
Ling Ling then told Liu Mengwei what happened that night, and how the police found Feng Cheng by comparing shoe prints.
After listening to her description, Liu Mengwei thought for a moment and said, "It does sound suspicious."
"What does it mean to be a little suspicious? It's quite suspicious. It just says 'I have a problem' written on its face!" Ling Ling shouted: "The problem now is that on the one hand, we can't find direct evidence that can convict him. , on the other hand, there are people who provide him with alibi. What’s even more difficult is that we haven’t found any relationship between the two people, and we can’t find Feng Cheng’s motive for the murder.”
"Then...could it be that you made a mistake?"
"Absolutely not! Why don't you believe me?"
"Oh?" Liu Mengwei asked with interest: "Then what is your basis for judgment? Why should others believe you?"
"...I..." Ling Ling was discouraged by her question: "My intuition, and..."
Ling Ling took a deep breath and said slowly: "And the panic, uneasiness, and cover-up I saw from him all illustrate the problem."
"You didn't see his performance in the interrogation room. I felt that the entire interrogation process was like a performance by him. I asked other employees in Feng Cheng's company, and they all spoke very well of him. Although he is the boss, he gets along very harmoniously with the employees below, without any airs of being a boss. This shows that he is not usually the kind of character who likes to use his power to suppress others."
"But during our questioning, he always showed that he had a powerful background, intentionally or unintentionally, and looked arrogant and nonchalant. This is very different from the image he shows when he usually gets along with others."
After Liu Mengwei listened carefully to her analysis, he smiled and said, "It seems that you have slowly learned to use what I taught you. You are a good student, and good students should be rewarded."
"Reward? What reward?" When Ling Ling heard the reward, he instantly became energetic.
"Of course it's what you said at the beginning. There are many ways to make someone tell the truth."
Ling Lingpi said with a smile: "You don't want us to torture you to extract a confession, do you?"
Liu Mengwei waved her hand: "How can I be so bloody and violent?" She approached Ling Ling and said mysteriously: "To put it bluntly, you police just want to know what the criminal suspects are really thinking. But human instinct is Those who seek advantages and avoid disadvantages will definitely tell lies, cover up the facts, and steer everything in a direction that is beneficial to them.”
"People in this world live with thin or thick masks, so we are often deceived by illusions. Therefore, if you want to see the essence through illusions, you must take off this mask."
"How can we take off this mask?" Ling Ling asked.
"Open their brains," Liu Mengwei tapped her fingers on Ling Ling's temple, gently scratching from one side to the other. Ling Ling felt her fingers were as cold as knives. "Let their disguises be invisible, so that all the secrets you want to know will be revealed to you without reservation."
Liu Mengwei had a sinister smile on her face, like a life-seeking witch with ulterior motives.
Ling Ling was stunned, suddenly stood up, and said angrily: "I know you are not upright, and nothing you say is reliable! If you can't think of a way, just tell me, I I won’t laugh at you!”
Liu Mengwei was not annoyed at all: "Where did I start from? Which of my words are unreliable?"
"Well, how about you tell me how to open a person's mind and see the true thoughts inside?"
"Just a minor surgery is enough."
"Minor surgery? You call a craniotomy a minor surgery?"
Liu Mengwei looked at Ling Ling with wide eyes, and suddenly burst into laughter: "What are you thinking about? What kind of craniotomy? You don't think I really want to cut open a person's head, do you?"
"No... isn't it?" Ling Ling felt embarrassed.
Liu Mengwei stopped teasing her, but the smile on his face gradually disappeared: "But do you really want to do this?"
"Once the cage that imprisons a monster is opened, it is not easy to put it back in the cage."
"Suppose you are facing a heinous murderer, but because you can't find conclusive evidence to convict him, you can only be detained for 24 hours according to regulations, and then you have to let him go. Now there are two things in front of you. Path: The first is to let him go and continue to search for evidence in the remaining time. But during this long process, he may continue to commit murders, of course, he may not. After all, no one can say what will happen in the future. Qing. The second way is to exert some kind of mental or physical control on him, or to put it bluntly, torture, and we assume that he cannot survive three days, and he will truthfully confess his crime after three days. This Which of the two roads would you choose?"
"I...I..." Ling Ling opened her mouth and was speechless. "What if it was you?"
"I'm not a policeman." Liu Mengwei's cold eyes seemed to be able to see deep into Ling Ling's heart. "We have different positions."
Ling Ling was silent, still unable to say a word.
Seeing her bitter and resentful look, Liu Mengwei showed a relaxed smile and comforted: "You don't have to answer me right now. This is not a question to you. You don't have to care about these questions at all. This world We will make our own choices and go our own way. We don’t have to bother ourselves about this, and we can’t interfere with a general trend that is about to take shape.”
"Then... what exactly is the method you mentioned?" Ling Ling changed the subject.
"Oh. That's really just a small operation, almost like a mosquito bite." Liu Mengwei said lightly: "As long as you stick a probe from above the eye, you can easily touch the cerebral cortex. Read a person's thoughts, see what he has done and the memories stored in his brain. This process is like using the mouse to open a computer folder and you can see the files stored in it. .”
Ling Ling was extremely shocked by what she said: "How is this possible? It sounds like a fantasy.".
Liu Meng smiled helplessly: "Yeah, I think it's incredible, but it really happened."
Liu Mengwei's eyes were wandering, and the unknown black hole was frightening: "That person successfully connected himself to a human brain, and he read the data in it. Not only that, he may even have completed new creation, copy, paste, Deletion and a series of more complex behaviors. All of this happened as if the human brain acted spontaneously, and she was unaware of it. Until the operator lost control, he went too far, causing the system to completely collapse. .”
