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Chapter 9 Shroud
Have I ever been here?
This is the third time Kanazawa asked me this question, but this time I didn't shake my head decisively like the previous two times.

I stared blankly at the frozen picture, I didn't know what to say for a moment, I even questioned myself in my heart, have I really never been here?But who is that person hiding in the woods in the video?

And I finally understood why Jin Ze wanted to investigate those two cases together, and said it was because of me, because I was a common character in these two cases!
Seeing that I didn't speak, Jin Ze stretched out his hand to move the handcuffs, so I hurriedly said, "I know you won't believe me, but I really don't remember that I've been here, I don't have any memory at all!"

Then he pointed to the video, then pointed to the woods not far away, and said to me: "Think about it carefully, whether you want to go to that woods and see if you can think of something."

I know that Jin Ze is giving me a chance. He definitely does not believe that a normal person has amnesia or something. He must think that I am still talking hard and wants me to admit it.

But I really couldn't admit it, so I just stared at the video, trying to find out something was wrong, I just wanted to make sure if this person was me, or if the video was composited.

Suddenly my brain seemed to be hit, and I really found a place that was beneficial to me, so I immediately said to Jin Ze excitedly: "This, this person is not me, he is pretending to be me!"

Kanazawa looked at me and said nothing, meaning to tell me about my discovery.

So I pointed to the video screen and said to him: "Look at this man in the woods, although he looks like me at first glance, but because of the light, and he didn't fully show his face, in fact, it can only be said that he Much like me."

After a pause, I continued: "In this world, it is difficult to find two similar people, but it is actually quite easy to say. And more importantly, the reason why I said that this person is not me is because Because I don't have the clothes on him!"

Yes, I have never worn the clothes on his body. It is a blue Tang suit with many white spots on it. It looks very simple. Anyway, it is impossible for me to wear such old-fashioned clothes.

Suddenly, I thought of something, so my heart skipped a beat, and then I felt bad all over, with a gust of wind blowing down my back.

Because I remembered that this is not a Tang suit, but a shroud!This guy who looks a lot like me, he's wearing a shroud.

Then I didn't know what to say, and Jin Ze broke the silence, he said: "And then? If you are really sure that you have not been here, then either it is as you said, someone pretended to be you, or it is you Forgot, and if you forgot, how can you be sure that you didn't wear this shroud?"

When Kanazawa said this, I was speechless. His logic was indeed correct.

Then he continued to say to me: "So I'm going to take you for a psychiatric appraisal. I've already made an appointment for you with a psychiatric doctor. Do you have any objections?"

I was in a daze at the time, so I could have no objection, so I shook my head.

Then Jinze started the car, we left the crematorium, and kept driving for about half an hour before arriving at our destination. Our mental hospital here, standing at the gate of the mental hospital, I suddenly felt a little conflicted, to be honest I didn't want to go in, I was very scared in my heart, I was really afraid that I would somehow become a psychopath with split personality.

But I had to face this, so I followed Jin Ze in. Instead of going to the psychiatric area, we went to the diagnosis room and met a specialist named Zhang Wentong.

Zhang Wentong is a middle-aged man in his 40s, with a fat body and a kind smile on his face all the time, like a Maitreya Buddha.For some reason, when he looked at me, I suddenly felt very uncomfortable. I felt that his eyes were strange, as if he knew me.

Jin Ze introduced me to Zhang Wentong, roughly talked about my possible existence, and asked Zhang Wentong to conduct a detailed mental appraisal on me.

Then Zhang Wentong took me to another room, where there were some instruments that I had never seen before, which should be used for identification, and this also made the result more convincing.

But after I sat down for two, Zhang Wentong said something inexplicable as soon as he came up, but it shocked me inexplicably.

He said: "Chen Mu, do you still remember me, do you still want to change back to the old way?"

After hearing what he said, I opened my mouth wide and was dumbfounded. I asked him what he meant and if he knew me.

But he opened his mouth and laughed loudly, unscrupulously, as if mocking me.

Just when I felt very uncomfortable and couldn't take it any longer, he suddenly withdrew his smile and said, "Okay, this is my opening statement. Don't be nervous, we're officially starting now."

I was relieved when I saw him say that. It turned out that he was deliberately stirring up my emotions to let me enter the appraisal state faster, which shocked me. I really thought he had some ulterior secret with me.

Then we started. He asked me some questions, all kinds of questions, and I answered him truthfully. I didn’t believe that there was hypnosis in this world before, but when I answered his questions, there were a few moments. I really felt that I was in a trance, my head was dizzy, as if I was controlled by him.

After asking some questions, he also put on something like a helmet for me. There are many wires on this thing, which should monitor the activity of my cerebral cortex.

After wearing it, Zhang Wentong asked me to close my eyes, and told me to close my eyes and rest my mind, as if I was sleeping. I did so, but I didn't fall asleep, but my whole body relaxed a lot.

After finishing this test, Jin Ze was called in by Zhang Wentong, and we did the last test, lie detection.

This time it was Kanazawa who administered the test to me. I put on a polygraph cap and the instrument was still clamped between my fingers. Kanazawa still asked some familiar questions, such as whether I had been to a funeral home or not.And I naturally followed my heart, I said no.

Then the test was over, and I was like a child waiting for the test results, waiting for Dr. Zhang Wentong to give the results.

In the end I was relieved, Zhang Wentong said that I am a normal person, not mentally ill, nor split personality, and I am not lying.But he said that I have borderline personality loss, which is just a slight tendency to mental illness. In our stressful society, quite a few people have this tendency. It's normal to have this tendency in your own world.

But my borderline personality disorder is not normal. Zhang Wentong said that I am a little bit hysterical. To put it bluntly, I may have sleepwalking.We often hear about sleepwalking, and occasionally we hear that there are people around us who sleepwalk.But Zhang Wentong said that sleepwalking generally only occurs in children aged 6 to 12, even if adults sleepwalk, it will not rise to the level of hysteria, at most it is talking in sleep, or sitting up from the bed.But I am not the same, my sleepwalking is similar to that of children.

This scares me because I heard my dad tell me before that I sleepwalked when I was a child. They said that they couldn’t find me at night when I was a child, and they found me at the door of the pigsty. At that time, I was standing in the pigsty. The door smirked at the pigs, startling them.

But when I grow up, there will be no such exaggerated sleepwalking. I always thought I was fine, but now that I think about it, it’s probably because I live alone, and Fang Lin doesn’t live with me. So no one has ever discovered that I can still sleepwalk.

So my heart was completely suspended. Could it be that the person in the video that Jin Ze showed me was really me, and I was sleepwalking?

So are some other cases also related to my sleepwalking?

I was very nervous and scared, my palms were full of sweat, and Jin Ze was obviously interested in these questions, he asked Zhang Wentong: "Doctor Zhang, if an adult sleepwalks, is it possible for him to kill someone in his dream?"

Zhang Wentong suddenly raised his head and looked at me. He was still smiling. He said with a smile: "It's impossible. Killing people is a physical effort. As long as the victim resists, the sleepwalking person should be awakened. And when killing People's mood swings are very big, such big mood swings, people have already woken up from sleepwalking."

Zhang Wentong's answer made me breathe a sigh of relief. Even if I really sleepwalked, I wouldn't become a criminal inexplicably in my dream.

In the end we left the mental hospital like this, and Jin Ze sent me home. On the way, he told me that although I ruled out split personality, if I really have sleepwalking, then the person in the video must be me , even if I am not a suspect, I must have something to do with this case, so he told me to turn on the phone at all times and notify him as soon as there is a situation.

Then Jin Ze left, and I went home alone. I was in a very complicated mood, half afraid and half relieved. I didn't know what state I was in at the time. Anyway, it felt like a dream. I suddenly I feel like I don't know myself well enough.

I just lay on the bed like that, because the hole in the ceiling had been blocked by Kanazawa for me, so I wasn't that afraid. Although I didn't dare to sleep, I fell asleep soon.

After falling asleep, maybe because too many things happened that day, I was too nervous, so I had a nightmare. I dreamed that I was arguing with Fang Lin in my dream. Excited, I strangled her as soon as I missed it.

I was frightened awake by this terrible dream I had. After waking up, my forehead was covered with beads of sweat, my whole body was drenched, and a layer of cold sweat broke out all over my body.

So I planned to take a shower, but when I opened the closet to get clothes, something happened that made my hair stand on end.

I opened the closet and a piece of clothing fell out of it.

A blue shroud with blood on it.

(End of this chapter)