All happy families were similar, but each unhappy family was unhappy in its own way.
Gu Jun left Lin Jing's home and walked down the dilapidated alleyway of Anfu Village. The uneven cement cover of the sewer creaked noisily as he stepped on it.
He had studied the health status of all the villagers in Anfu Village. This was something that the Eastern State Investigation Department had done a long time ago. After receiving the lead from Lin Jing, the Investigation Department had reorganized the information, especially the 'negative choice' situation in the village.
In this small alley alone, there were many things that caught people's attention.
There were two children with Down syndrome, one in his seventies and the other in his thirties. There were two children with cerebral palsy due to lack of oxygen during birth, one in his teens and the other seven. There were three children with polio sequelae, an old man in his sixties in a wheelchair, a man in his forties who was dragging his legs, and a child who was not even ten years old.
Not far south from Lin Jing's home was another family with five daughters. The youngest daughter was in her teens when she was still a baby. Due to a house fire, half of her body was burned. She did not receive proper medical treatment, so from her head to her hands, half of her body was deformed. She was another 'monster' in the alley. Further east from Lin Jing's home was another family. The eldest son was in his forties. When he was young, he was a chauffeur. Due to a car accident where he saw the horrifying body, he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, and it slowly deteriorated into schizophrenia …
These people were not related by blood. Even though there were quite a number of them, there were more than a hundred families in the alley, so the number was not that high.
No matter where one was, this group of people would exist, and this did not include those who were handicapped due to accidents after birth.
At that moment, Gu Jun reached a small basketball court that had been built a few years ago at the end of the alley. There were a few old people resting on the bench beside the court.
On the cement court, a young man was riding a bicycle. He kept circling the court, and his lips appeared to be mumbling something.
Gu Jun stopped and looked at him. This young man was called Chen Xing, 27 years old. He was also a "celebrity" in the alley, a schizophrenic.
Chen Xing's father was a businessman. When Chen Xing was young, he was one of the richest people in the village. However, good times did not last long. Chen Xing's father became addicted to gambling and lost all his money. He was in debt, so he abandoned his wife and two children and ran away. Chen Xing had a younger sister who was already married and raising a child.
Before the age of twenty, Chen Xing was still normal. He failed in his studies and did not have a proper job. According to some confirmed investigations, Chen Xing became addicted to online gambling, delusional about getting rich overnight. However, he only lost all of his meager wealth and gradually became mentally ill.
Chen Xing had not always been a quiet madman. He had once used a kitchen knife to chop someone because of an argument with a neighbor. Fortunately, there were no casualties.
Because of this, Chen Xing was forcibly locked up in a mental hospital for the first time. After he was discharged, he had been in and out of the hospital three times because of his aggressive behavior.
Now, Chen Xing was taking olanzapine, a neuroleptic drug to treat schizophrenia.
Chen Xing's daily life was like this. In the morning, he cycled around the basketball court, went home for lunch, and in the afternoon, he cycled around the basketball court until he returned home in the evening. The next day, he did the same thing again. The villagers were used to this, and no one dared to provoke him. After all, Chen Xing had used a knife to chop people.
According to age, Chen Xing was only a few years older than Lin Jing. According to Lin Jing's parents, Lin Jing would sometimes go to Chen Xing's house to play, but the two were not friends. Chen Xing's house had a game console, and many children would go there to watch him play. Lin Jing was one of them.
Negative Choice, Life Society, Alien Baby Disease, Murder, Alien Hand Syndrome, Lin Jing … Did Chen Xing have anything to do with any of these? Did he know anything about them?
Gu Jun had no clue. He just watched the madman walk around in circles. He wanted to know what he was muttering.
He asked Cao Yicong and the others to stop and slowly walked up.
Chen Xing's bike was a yellow shared bike. Now that the trend of sharing was over, no one cared about this stolen bike. Chen Xing was wearing an old green school uniform. His hair was cut flat, and his slightly chubby face looked very calm, but there was something strange about it.
"Hello." Gu Jun walked to the side of the basketball court. When Chen Xing walked in circles, he called out to him, "Hello, Mr. Chen."
But Chen Xing didn't seem to hear him. He pedaled his bike and walked over. His eyes didn't move, and his mouth muttered something inaudible.
There was no point in being polite now. Gu Jun shouted, "Chen Xing!"
However, Chen Xing still didn't respond. He just continued to walk in circles tirelessly, immersed in some kind of mental world.
Until the bike he was riding was pulled to a stop. Chen Xing's feet were on the ground, and his pair of cloudy eyes turned and fell on Gu Jun's face. Because Chen Xing was short and he was on a bicycle, he had to raise his head to look at Gu Jun.
That expressionless face suddenly showed a trace of an inexplicable smile.
"I know you..." Chen Xing said. His voice wasn't loud, but it could be heard. "You are that... that... that..."
Gu Jun waited silently for Chen Xing to finish his sentence, but in the end, the man only smiled. That was the end of the sentence. Chen Xing started to mumble something again.
If the other party was involved in abnormal power, Gu Jun felt that with his current perception, he should be able to sense something. But everything was normal now. Just like when he was facing Lin Guowei and Chen Shengdi in the living room of Lin Jing's house, Chen Xing seemed to be an unrelated ordinary person.
But in the depths of Gu Jun's consciousness, there was another inference. This alley wasn't simple.
"Do you know Lin Jing?" Gu Jun asked directly, paying attention to Chen Xing's expression.
"Let me tell you, don't tell anyone else. I found a website..." Chen Xing's voice was very small, but there was a hint of excitement in it. "There is a lottery every five minutes, and I found the pattern. I can earn hundreds of yuan a day. I don't need to work... I can earn more than you..."
Gu Jun couldn't tell if Chen Xing was really crazy or just pretending. Schizophrenia would have symptoms such as delusions and violence, but it could also be normal sometimes.
"I heard you killed Lin Jing." Gu Jun said again. "You tricked him out of the village, killed him, and buried him. Someone saw it."
Chen Xing's smile was even weirder, and his eyes narrowed into slits. "You know? You will die, you know... You are not far from death. It wasn't me who killed you, it wasn't me... "He wanted to step on the bike again, but the front of the bike was still held down by Gu Jun.
"Was it Lin Jing?" Gu Jun asked.
"It was you, yourself... strangle yourself..."
Chen Xing laughed.
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