Chapter 7: The Human Launcher

  This is a traditional practice in China since ancient times. However, the negative effects brought by this tradition are very obvious: extortion of confessions through torture and false accusations - the lord of the yamen would shout "Do you confess or not? Not? Then get ready for severe punishment!" followed by a flurry of beatings, after which the person being beaten would become disfigured and cry out loudly "I confess! I confess!", then press their fingerprint on a pre-written paper, and subsequently be thrown into prison or taken to the market square to be executed.

  The famous Dou E's injustice, Yang Naiwu and Xiao Bai Cai are all examples of this. Or, think back to Stephen Chow's "Royal Tramp" where Zhang Min played a woman who had a miserable experience, you can understand then.

  Of course, with the progress of the judiciary, the current criminal proceedings have gradually shifted from relying solely on the confessions of suspects to requiring a series of evidence, including physical evidence, documentary evidence, witness testimony, and conclusions from investigations and appraisals... All these pieces of evidence form a complete chain of evidence that can lead to a conviction.

  And in my hand is Wang Yongshun's confession, the most crucial thing inside is that belly wrap. Now it seems that the so-called "soul-controlling wrap" was purely nonsense. Wang Yongshun put on a good show and made me believe that such a thing really existed.

  Since this belly wrap is something he made up to deceive his father, this confession is completely useless.

  What's even more frightening is that in this video, Wang Yongshun's face is covered with injuries. If I provide this video as evidence, not only will he be unable to escape punishment, but I'll also add the crime of intentional harm and desecration of a corpse to his charges, and he'll have to spend even more time behind the high walls of prison!

  Grass!

  I've been played thoroughly!

  He was pretending to be a good boy when he recorded this video, looking very reluctant. In fact, he was laughing wildly in his heart, mocking me: You stupid fool! I'm pushing you to death here! Hahaha!

  Now I am like ** in front of Wang Yongshun, without any cover. If he wants to deal with me, just go to the police station to report me, and I will be arrested in minutes!

  What's wrong?

  What's wrong with me?

  All I have now is a name and a phone number, but I'm not even sure if the phone number is his. If he used a temporary SIM card bought on the street at that time, then all I know is his name...

  And his trump card is my life and property.

  Is this all I am?

  I'm so nervous I'm shaking all over.

  I am in light, he is in darkness. I, Lin You, have never fallen into such a perilous situation before.

  I suddenly reached out and slapped myself in the face.

  Lin You, you can't lose!

  ...hand, finally stopped trembling.

  When I was completely calm, my eyes were filled with coldness and indifference.

  Wang Yongshun stirred up my fighting spirit, this spirit is completely different from the small tricks I played when I was against Cao Bin. Now, I want to use all my abilities to deal with this person. Protect myself, protect Xiao Luqi.

  I turned on the computer, first picked up the pinhole camera, plugged in the data cable, copied the video content to the computer, then opened Baidu and entered the three words "Wang Yongshun" to start searching.

  But the name Wang Yongshun is too common. The scope must be narrowed down.

  When searching for someone's name on the internet, there are only two types of information that come up: one is what others (the media) have mentioned about this person, and the other is what they themselves have written.

  Judging from Wang Yongshun's age and occupation, he is not a celebrity, so the first possibility is unlikely. I can only start with the second one.

  So I opened a bunch of web pages and entered the three characters "Wang Yongshun" separately.

  These websites include: Jiayuan, Zhenai, 51job, 58.com, 51 Community and so on.

  The common point of these websites is that you are likely to put your real name on them.

  Places like Tianya Forum and Xici Hutong, most people will not use their real names.

  However, it seems that Wang Yongshun is not young anymore and does not plan to find a girlfriend. His information cannot be found on websites like Zhenaiwang. There is also no information about him looking for work on 51job and 58 Tongcheng.

  I suddenly remembered that there was a very popular website recently, called Xiaonei (now renamed Renren). On this website, people generally register with their real names and include information about their school or work unit. I quickly opened the website and entered the three characters "Wang Yongshun" to start searching.

  The result left me stunned: there were actually 300 results!

  It's possible to find one by one, but it's just too troublesome.

  I racked my brains to recall every word Wang Yongshun had said in my home - too many lies, couldn't tell what was true or false, but one sentence, I believed he unconsciously blurted out, that is - "Lao Ma Pi".

  This is obviously a scolding remark. Scolding remarks, due to the excitement of scolding, are generally in one's native dialect and difficult to change intentionally. This is a profound influence of childhood language environment on the subconscious. If you're from Shanghai, even if your Mandarin is at the highest level, when you get excited and start scolding someone, it will still be "册那" or "刚度".

  And I know, "Lao Ma Pi" is actually Hunan dialect, so Wang Yongshun said he was a "Xiangxi Lian Shi Hu", the last three words may be fake, but the first two words are likely to be true.

  Wang Yongshun's hometown should be in Hunan.

  I chose Hunan as my hometown in the classification search.

  There is only one result. And this person named Wang Yongshun actually used a skull as his avatar, and his current residence is surprisingly Shanghai!

  It's probably this guy. However, I haven't added him as a friend, so I can't see any of his information.

  I hastily applied for an email account and registered on the school's internal network. I came up with a nice-sounding female name. Then, on Netease's same-city friend-making website, I found a girl who looked quite pretty, with many photos in her album. I downloaded all of her photos from her album, used Windows Paint's screenshot function to remove the Netease 163 logo from the photos, and posted all of them on the school's internal network.

  The address of this fake account was written as Shanghai, and some personal information was casually filled in. Then, a few QQ space logs written by girls were found and posted on it. This way, the credibility will be higher.

  The school network has a function that allows you to write a sentence to describe your current status, just like QQ signature. In order to attract more eyeballs, I even wrote a very ambiguous sentence as the current status of this fictional beauty.

  After finishing the preparation work, I first randomly found a bunch of men and women and added them as friends.

  Then I sent a friend request to Wang Yongshun.

  After this, the only thing that can be done is to wait quietly.

  Time is pressing, I must seize every second. So in this process, I went to the Tencent website and applied for a QQ number, set the gender to "female", and filled out the information exactly the same as on the campus network. Then I wrote the number into the newly registered campus network account.

  Soon after, I received a message saying that those men who had randomly added me as friends had passed the verification.

  None of these matter, the key is Wang Yongshun.

  I stared at the computer screen intently.

  Suddenly, the phone rang, I was startled, picked it up and saw that it was a call from Dad.

  My family should be considered a relatively well-off one. My mother works in the personnel department of a factory, but the factory is not doing well and was bought by a private boss, all the original employees were laid off, and many years of seniority only got a little bit of severance pay - called "buying out seniority". My father is a mid-level leader in a state-owned unit and will retire soon.

  In this day and age, seniority can be bought, lives can be bought, integrity can be bought, all bottom lines can be bought. What's left that cannot be bought?

  I couldn't help but glance at the bedroom door. The girl in the icebox outside the living room, no matter how much money she gave me, I wouldn't sell.

  "Hello, Lin You. How have you been lately?"

  "It's okay, I'm in good health and work is going smoothly." When talking to my parents on the phone, I always report the good news but not the bad.

  "Oh, that's good."

  "Dad, how's that stock I recommended you buy last time? Not bad, right?"

  "It's really good. You work at an investment company, it seems like you have some information. By the way, I've been eyeing something recently, can you help me think it through?"

  The thing Dad is looking at is a zodiac commemorative coin issued by the People's Bank. Starting from 2003, one commemorative coin is issued every year. Dad thinks that the value of this sheep coin will surely rise steadily. The reason is simple, it was the first to be issued among the zodiac commemorative coins and is called "the leading sheep". By the time the zodiac horse coin is issued in 2014, after 12 years of wind and rain, big waves washing away the sand, there will be very few sheep coins left. And many people have a collecting habit, wanting to collect all 12 zodiac commemorative coins. At that time, the rare sheep coin will naturally be valuable and expensive.

  I listened to him and nodded repeatedly. Dad's investment vision is still very unique.

  "You're in Shanghai, it's more convenient. Spare some time to run an errand for me, go to the Luwan District Workers' Cultural Palace and take a look at the price of sheep coins. If it's less than 20 yuan, buy one piece. I'll transfer the money to you later."

  One piece refers to a professional term for commemorative coins, which is 2,000 pieces.

  I was just about to respond when I suddenly saw that Wang Yongshun had passed the friend verification!

  My heart was racing with excitement, and I hastily said, "Okay, Dad, I know. I have something to do, that's all." I didn't even have time to say goodbye before hanging up the phone in a hurry.

  Hurry to open Wang Yongshun's campus network homepage, then enter the information page - 30 years old, hometown is Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, then... the work unit is actually Shanghai Chest Hospital!

  It's him after all! This is really a case of "the journey is long, but the reward is worth it". A cold smile escaped from the corner of my mouth.