Rubik's Cube Seven Days Dream

Professor Kang walked to the parking lot within three to five minutes, and the rose-colored sky completely darkened. He felt an indescribable melancholy in his heart, and his mind was full of what the young man said just now.

What exactly does "Rubik's Cube" mean?

After returning home and eating, he waited for the bath water to be ready, played the symphony on the ipad playlist, and sat on the toilet to relax his exhausted brain.

The more relaxed you are, the more your brain favors memories, good and bad.Professor Kang divorced his wife three years ago. His wife is a university literature lecturer, and she is also a person who loves life and has a gentle temper.There were many reasons for their divorce. For example, he didn't stay at home. When he got home, he was either preparing for lessons or busy with academic research. He even lacked interest in married life.

When the two were young, they looked like a pair of lovers to outsiders, with similar appearance and education, and they were definitely the best candidates for marriage.They are also very satisfied with this, so they contact and get married under the introduction of their friends, but they ignore that marriage is not a question of filling in the blanks.

To sum it up in one sentence: what they want is different.

In this city, there are also successful people with glamorous careers like Professor Kang, but they don’t even have a bowl of hot rice when they return home. However, in those noisy alleys, small businessmen who sweat during the day can enjoy reunion and hug after get off work. family.

Different lives have always depended on people's different choices.Professor Kang thought more than once that if he had followed the arrangement of his family back then, stayed in his hometown after graduation, and married the girl with a mole on her lower lip, everything would have been different.

He fantasizes about a house full of fireworks, children's cute smiling faces, no lecture hall with a hundred people, and no contest between brothers, and his surging heart turns calm in an instant.He thinks that what he wants may never be accompanied by loneliness.

After the bath water was put away, he got in, and when he wanted to turn off the music, he remembered that Xu Minglang also made music, and he happened to be curious about what kind of music such a person would write.

He entered the three words "Xu Minglang" in the search bar, but found no related tracks, so he searched on Baidu instead. In addition to the pages full of "Who is Xu Minglang?" There is a "Xu Minglang Cosmic Equation" inscription.

He clicked in, only to realize that "Universal Equation" is a band formed by Xu Minglang in high school, and also released an album of the same name, but the reason why Xu Minglang's name cannot be found now is because he no longer publishes in his own name. Most of the songs are written and composed.

He searched for "Universal Equation" in the album column, and saw a crude album cover with a handwritten equation directly on it.He clicked in and looked through it. The titles of the songs were relatively new, and it didn't seem like he would like to listen to them.So I clicked on a random song called "Together".

At the beginning, there is a piece of guitar fingering, the melody is sad, and the boy's hoarse voice is narrating...

Stripped of me from the shadows,

exiled behind you,

Roaming together on summer nights,

Count the fireflies in the rice fields

thought there was no end

if you are leaving

don't tell me

I would like to return to your feet

burning like a rosy fire

like light and shadow

if you want to wander

please take me

maybe i can empathize

this longing life

Stop using wounds to prove freshness

hate to smash all

light and shadow

even in a dream

mourn your sorrow too

……

It is hard to imagine that the young man full of talents in the past is now reduced to a serial killer.If it wasn't for his profession, he would attribute this madness to mental illness, so that he could ignore the spreading of the soreness in his heart.

Xu Minglang wasn't pretending to be crazy. It could be seen from many details that he believed what he said from the bottom of his heart.Professor Kang has met a difficult character in the past, and he knows how to deceive others first and deceive himself, which once blinded the judgment of the jury.But in the end he found a flaw.

Is Xu Minglang really crazy, or is he playing tricks?It still needs time to prove it, but there is one point that he can't figure out.

It is emphasized in psychology that no matter how chaotic the logic is, there must be some kind of logic in it, which may be revealed by the subconscious mind, or some kind of metaphor.From the moment the appraisal and evaluation began, Xu Minglang showed that he didn't care about the appraisal results, and began to tell a story of a powerful and unconstrained style.What is rare is that Professor Kang is a very good listener, but what if the person who comes for the appraisal is not him, but another person?Or maybe Professor Kang didn't want to listen to nonsense at all, and just sent him away in two hours?

Xu Minglang couldn't predict the prophet, and if he didn't use the "play hard to get" method correctly, he might really be sentenced to death.

He would rather risk the death penalty. Is it because of his stubbornness that "scholars can be killed but not humiliated" and he refuses to stay in a mental hospital for the rest of his life?Or is it deliberately trying to cover up something and confuse the public?

But they all know that when the matter has come to this point, what is the point of confusing the public? Xu Minglang has reached the final interrogation stage. The fact that Xu Minglang is the killer of the Rubik's Cube has already been confirmed. What else can he defend? Mud Bodhisattva crossing the river I can't protect myself.

He thought of Zhou Xuerong again, where is he now? He knew that Xu Minglang might be sentenced to death, how would he react?

After taking a shower, Professor Kang called the people from the Municipal Bureau.

"About Xu Minglang's personal information, can you provide some details? I want to know Zhou Xuerong's recent situation."

There was a sound of typing on the keyboard on the other end of the phone, and then he said, "Okay, are you in a hurry to get the materials? Can I get it for you tomorrow?

"Better as soon as possible."

The other end of the phone was a bit awkward, who would have thought that answering a call in the middle of the night made him work overtime.

"Okay then, I'll call it later and send it to your email. You just asked about Zhou Xuerong, right?"

"Yes, sorry to trouble you."

"Hey, wherever it is, it's our job. Bring this pervert to justice as soon as possible, so that the people of Binhai can feel at ease."

Professor Kang agreed with a smile, waiting for the next step.After a while, the other end of the phone said: "Ah, Zhou Xuerong...he's not in Binhai."

"Not in Binhai?" Professor Kang put down his hand holding the hair dryer, "Has he gone abroad? When did it happen?"

"No. Three months ago, Zhou Xuerong bought a plane ticket to Beijing."

"Three months ago... what date?"

"July [-]th, flight at [-]:[-] in the evening."

Professor Kang took out the documents in his bag and turned to a page, which clearly recorded that the day Xu Minglang was arrested was July [-]th, which was the day after Zhou Xuerong left.

The timing was too coincidental.

What made Zhou Xuerong choose to leave the hotel the day before Xu Minglang was arrested?Did they break up?Or, did Zhou Xuerong already sense what Xu Minglang was doing, so he chose to escape?

Speaking of Zhou Xuerong, Professor Kang was very confused, because the Zhou Xuerong he knew was completely opposite to the person Xu Minglang described.A confident and talented person with a vast and bright future.The other was gloomy and despondent like a sewer rat.

And that girl named Xue Yingying, and Xu Minglang turned out to be boyfriend and girlfriend.Professor Kang's definition of homosexuality has always been vague, and he wondered how those people could fall in love with people of both genders.

This question is as confusing as how Xu Minglang could kill several people in a row, because all actions in criminal psychology must have motives, but Xu Minglang's growth experience and his evaluation of Xu Minglang's character, Xu Minglang's moral sense even Taller than average.This is why when his family proposed to conduct a psychiatric evaluation for Xu Minglang, they appeared under the double pressure of public opinion and the court jury.

Unless Xu Minglang is really crazy, who would give up his original life and become a serial killer?

It was almost eight o'clock in the evening, and Professor Kang remembered to eat, so he ordered a bowl of spinach noodles and ate it.Later in the day, he made another pot of tea and sat in the study pondering the case when the computer beside him was turned on.

The mailbox reminded him that he had received a new email.

Professor Kang couldn't wait to click load, staring at the blue progress bar, and opened the file as soon as it was loaded.

There was also a picture in the folder, he clicked in, but he was surprised.

It was a death certificate.

This is to certify that Xue Yingying, female. Born in Beijing in 1993.Han nationality, ID number: 110101199303060183, Beijing, where the agency is located, on October 2014, 10, our office received a report saying: Xue Yingying fell off a cliff and died at the bottom of the cliff because of a breakdown while riding a high-altitude iron cable.The family has no objection to Xue Yingying's death, and now issues a death certificate.

The signature is the police station of the Beijing Public Security Bureau.

In 2014, when Xu Minglang was still in his junior year, Professor Kang remembered that he mentioned that he and Xue Yingying traveled to Huashan together.Xu Minglang is afraid of heights, but Xue Yingying is very interested in high-altitude walking.If he remembered correctly, the two of them traveled during the November holiday.

This coincides with Xue Yingying's death time.

If Xu Minglang really fell into delusions because of this, it could explain the original intention of the whole story.The young man was devastated by the accidental death of his childhood sweetheart. He imagined that he could "save" the other party by killing, but from his point of view, he did not kill, but just like in the story he told, he fell into a A parallel world, in that world, everything he does is not bound by the laws or morals of this world.

This is why Xu Minglang kept saying that "this world is all fake".

Xu Minglang felt guilty in his subconscious mind, he refused to admit the reality of this world, because once he let go, he would have to confront his own moral sense, admitting that he was a murderous maniac, and that he himself had committed heinous crimes .

As for the "Rubik's Cube" repeatedly mentioned by the youth, and the "vagrant" that runs through everyone's memories, maybe it's just an obsession of Xu Minglang, like some kind of totem, and the meaning behind it may only be known to him.

It's just that there are too many distracting items in this story. Besides Zhou Xuerong, who are the other five people?Professor Kang even doubts that those people exist.

Of course he wanted to listen to it, but work was work, and since the answer was solved, it was time for the scene to end.

He was about to cut open the young man's heart completely, to see if there was nothing inside, or if he had fallen into madness.