Chapter 4: Wild Dogs of Prey
It would not be difficult for a legal reporter to contact Han Yun through his connections in the police station, but Su Mo resorted to making a scene at a press conference to attract his attention .
Han Yun sat down, took his laptop, opened Weibo, and searched for Beidu Legal News.
Soon, the official Weibo account of Beidu Law Newspaper and personal Weibo accounts certified as editors, reporters, and distributors of Beidu Law Newspaper were also searched out.
Scrolling down, Han Yun found several Weibo accounts with the Orange V certification of "Beidu Legal News Reporter" and clicked on them to take a look. Finally, he found a selfie in a Weibo account named "Mo who likes reasoning".
The girl in the photo is the same girl who appeared at the press conference.
After reading all of Su Mo's Weibo posts, Han Yun discovered that she had only officially joined the Beidu Legal News as an intern more than a year ago after graduating from university, and had finally stayed after several months of hard work.
Because I have loved reading detective novels since I was a child, I am very satisfied with the job of a legal reporter. Not only can I get involved in the case and feel the thrilling and exciting process of solving the case by the police, but I can also demonstrate justice. It is a respected profession.
In addition, Han Yun discovered that "Mo who likes reasoning" followed his Weibo and liked a Weibo post he had published. The Weibo post he liked was two years ago, when Su Mo had not yet graduated from college and Han Yun had just participated in the "Most Powerful Brain" program. It seems that Su Mo has always been following Han Yun's dynamics.
So, is this the reason why Su Mo came to him?
Han Yun thought about it, clicked on the private message, found a photo on his phone, only took a screenshot of one-third of the photo, and then sent a private message to Su Mo, with a message attached below: "I will be here at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning."
This photo only captures one-third of the picture, which only includes the sky and a small part of the building. The full photo is a cafe that Han Yun must go to every morning after moving here.
After sending the private message, Han Yun closed Weibo, put his laptop aside, stood up, looked at the paper with the name "Su Mo" nailed to the wall again, then stretched and left the studio.
In the living room, there was originally a person-high mirror next to the door. After Han Yun moved it in, he pasted a completely disrupted portrait on the entire mirror, completely blocking the mirror.
If a normal person looks at this portrait, he or she will have no idea what the painting is about. However, if someone can piece it together and put each sticker back in its place, they will find that this is a face, a childish, non-existent face imagined by Han Yun.
At one time, including at certain moments now, he would think that the face in the portrait was the one that should belong to him, not the face he had now.
He had a very deep memory of the face in the portrait, and equally deep in his memory was a name - Qin Xiang.
The owner of the face in the portrait is Qin Xiang.
Apart from that face and name, my memories of Qin Xiang are still fragmented and cannot be pieced together. My memories of Qin Xiang cannot be pieced together; nor can my memories of Han Yun.
Han Yun had been in a deep coma for seven years. After waking up, his brain was completely blank, like a piece of white paper that had never been written on.
The first thing he wrote on the white paper after waking up was done by his parents. They told him that his name was Han Yun, and that seven years ago he slipped while climbing a mountain and fell down the mountain, hitting his head and becoming a vegetable.
Originally Han Yun accepted this character, but not long after, another face was automatically drawn on the white paper, and another name appeared, as well as scattered memories about the other name.
The memory of Qin Xiang once overwhelmed Han Yun. He was extremely frightened at that time and even thought that he might have been manipulated by some demigod to transfer his (Qin Xiang's) soul into Han Yun's body.
Seeing that their son, who had just woken up with great difficulty, was nervous and talking nonsense all day long, the parents discussed and found a psychologist to counsel their son.
After the diagnosis, the psychiatrist explained that Han Yun, who had been in a coma for seven years, had an active brain during his coma, so he created another person named Qin Xiang. In other words, Qin Xiang did not exist in reality, but only existed in Han Yun's mind during the seven years he was in a coma.
Compared with the theory of soul swapping, the psychologist's explanation is easier to accept and more scientific.
But Han Yun has always had a question that has been bothering him: "Qin Xiang, does he really not exist in reality?" This was the main reason why he agreed to be hired as a "case consultant" by the Beidu Police Station after participating in "The Brainiest".
While helping the police solve the case, he also used his identity to investigate the "Qin Xiang" who had always existed in his memory.
There are many people named Qin Xiang in China. Han Yun did not let any of them go and conducted in-depth investigations. In the end, he found that there was no one named Qin Xiang who matched the image and experience in his mind.
Only then did he completely admit that the psychiatrist was right. Qin Xiang only existed in his mind and only existed during the seven years he was in a coma. It was during the coma that he created this person and used this person's image to continue living in his mind.
So from then on, he tried to forget Qin Xiang and tried hard to accept the role of Han Yun.
But it's not easy.
Han Yun stared at the jumbled jigsaw puzzle picture on the mirror for a while, then walked directly into the bedroom. There was a bed in the bedroom, but the bedding was spread on the floor between the bed and the wall.
The small sleeping space makes him feel more secure.
He took off his coat and T-shirt and threw them on the bed. Without turning on the light, he walked directly to the quilt and lay down, his body against the wall, his head buried in the pillow, and gradually fell asleep.
In the dream, it is Qin Xiang’s world.
That's why it's not easy to get rid of the memory of Qin Xiang. Because dreams are uncontrollable, and Qin Xiang always occupies his nights in dreams and tries to control his days.
In my dream tonight, Qin Xiang was running desperately. There was a forest all around him, it was raining heavily, and there was a dirt road under his feet. His body was already wet, and the bumpy dirt road tripped him from time to time, and he almost fell several times.
Behind him, a series of dog barking sounds were heard, and then three or four wild dogs jumped out of the woods and chased Qin Xiang viciously.
The distance between the wild dog and Qin Xiang was getting shorter and shorter, even though Qin Xiang was running as hard as he could.
But how could a person outrun a four-legged wild dog? When the wild dog was only half a meter away from him, he kicked his legs, jumped up, and pounced on him from behind, then opened his fangs and bit Qin Xiang's left arm. Qin Xiang was thrown down, screaming and waving his hands and feet.
Several other wild dogs also caught up and surrounded Qin Xiang, eager to try and share the food that was about to be in his hands. Blood continued to flow from Qin Xiang's shoulder. Another wild dog bit his leg. When the dog standing next to him tried to bite his neck, a shotgun sounded not far away.
