When they heard what Ye Ling said, both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang frowned. They looked at Ye Ling and asked, "who?"
Ye Ling looked at Zhan Zhao with her eyes wide open and whispered, "have you forgotten? It's the person with the codename Number One."
"Number One..." Zhan Zhao asked, "Does he have a name?"
Ye Ling tilted her head and thought for a moment before she replied, "I don't know. Don't you though?"
"Me?" Zhan Zhao was stunned as he asked, "you mean, he knows me?"
"That's right." Ye Ling said, stretching out her hand and gently playing with one of Zhan Zhao's sleeves. Then, she muttered, "Number One is your friend, that's why he was able to kill you first so easily."
Zhan Zhao thought for a moment, then grabbed some photos from Bai Yutang. He handed them to Ye Ling and asked, "Take a look at these. Is one of them Number One?"
Ye Ling leaned over to look at the photos, then she shook her head. "No."
Zhan Zhao frowned and thought to himself, "there's someone else?"
While he was thinking, Ye Ling leaned up, put her arm around Zhan Zhao and said, "Mo Mo, why don't we go and eat together? I want to eat the Rice with Stewed Chicken Leg from Yanhe Tea Restaurant. I haven't had it in a long time!"
"Yanhe Tea Restaurant..." Zhan Zhao thought for a moment and asked, "is it the one we went last time to eat together?"
"Mmhmm." Ye Ling nodded. "Mo Mo, the food in that restaurant is really delicious, and the owner is a really nice person."
"Have I ever been there with Number One?" Zhan Zhao asked.
Ye Ling looked at Zhan Zhao in confusion and asked, "Mo Mo, how come you're so forgetful? Number One works there. Otherwise, I wouldn't have known that the Rice with Stewed Chicken Leg is delicious."
Zhan Zhao asked in excitement, "Ling Ling, do you still remember the exact location of that restaurant? I haven't been to S City for years, so I can't remember."
Ye Ling smiled. "Mo Mo, you still have no sense of direction. It's very easy to find. The restaurant is right across from Hebin Park. There are many restaurants there, such as hot pot and barbeque... We used to go there a lot."
Zhan Zhao nodded and looked at Bai Yutang.
Bai Yutang leaned against the door and stared at Ye Ling coldly, as she was leaning against Zhan Zhao. Bai Yutang's teeth were grinding very hard, but there was nothing he could do. He could not act against a crazy person.
Zhan Zhao thought for a moment and said to Ye Ling, "Ling Ling, are you thirsty? Why don't I go get a glass of water for you?"
Ye Ling looked at Zhan Zhao happily and nodded, "Mo Mo, can you get me orange juice? I want to drink it."
"Okay, I'll buy it for you." Zhan Zhao stood up and walked out the door. Bai Yutang also retreated outside the door. Dong Moli went in to accompany Ye Ling.
Bai Yutang asked Jiang Ping to check the address of the restaurant. It turned out that the restaurant had been there a long time, and it was still open. Business was very good because of the delicious food.
Bai Yutang tugged at Zhan Zhao's arm. "Cat, let's go check out the restaurant. Maybe someone still remembers Number One."
Zhan Zhao said with hesitation, "I want to hypnotize Ye Ling."
Bai Yutang replied, "Why the rush?"
Zhan Zhao saw Bai Yutang's unhappy face and smiled. "Why? Does it bother you?"
Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows. "If someone hugs me like that, would you mind?"
Zhan Zhao reached out and raised Bai Yutang's chin. "Are you really jealous? Ye Ling was glued to me because she thinks I'm Hao Mo, not because it's me... Good boy, there's no need to be jealous."
"Hmph!" Bai Yutang grabbed Zhan Zhao's hand and said, "if you hypnotize her, I should also be there. Otherwise, who knows what she will do to you."
Zhan Zhao was helpless. "You also want to be there? What if I accidentally hypnotise you as well?"
Bai Yutang thought for a moment and said, "I'll wear headphones."
Zhan Zhao could not refute.
Afterwards, Bai Yutang quickly ran out of the nursing home, got in the car and grabbed a MP3 player. He then went to the shops to buy a drink for Ye Ling. Walking back with a bottle in his hand, Bai Yutang muttered, "Damn it, that girl."
After walking a few steps, he saw Zhang Hua sitting on a bench in the middle of a grass area.
Bai Yutang thought for a moment and walked over. "Are you not leaving? How's your injury?"
Zhang Hua shook his head and looked up at Bai Yutang with a gauze on his shoulder.
Bai Yutang stood beside him for a moment and asked, "why did you come to find Ye Ling?"
Zhang Hua hesitated for a moment and said, "I told you..."
Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows and nodded. "I have been a policeman for many years. Some people seem nice on the surface but are bad on the inside. We get a feeling when we see this type of person. On the other hand, there are people who look suspicious on the surface, but are in fact the opposite of bad."
Zhang Hua smiled and asked, "which one do I belong to?"
Bai Yutang shook his head and said, "it doesn't matter. I just think you're not that bad, but you're not telling the truth either. There's something you're hiding from us... What is it?"
Zhang Hua said nothing and lowered his head.
Seeing that he was still unwilling to open his heart, Bai Yutang turned and walked back. After he took a few steps, he suddenly heard Zhang Hua say, "Captain Bai."
Bai Yutang looked back at him.
Zhang Hua was silent for a moment before he said slowly, "Just now, Ye Ling stabbed towards my throat."
Bai Yutang frowned slightly.
Zhang Hua was silent for a long time before he said, "there are some things I don't understand. I'll talk about it when I figure it out, okay?"
Bai Yutang looked at him for a moment, nodded and asked, "did you come by yourself?"
Zhang Hua shook his head and pointed to a police car parked not far from the door. "The policeman you arranged came with me." Bai Yutang nodded, turned and went back into the building.
When he arrived at the door, he saw Zhan Zhao standing there waiting for him, dissatisfied. "Even buying a bottle of drink takes you this long."
Bai Yutang handed him the bottle and told him what Zhang Hua had just said. Zhan Zhao frowned and lowered his head in contemplation.
"What's wrong, Cat?" Bai Yutang asked.
Zhan Zhao thought for a moment and said, "I don't understand. Do you have the headphones?"
Bai Yutang smiled, took out the MP3 player and said, "Chi Chi left it in my car the other day."
Zhan Zhao entered the room. He had wanted Dong Moli to leave, but the little girl insisted on staying, saying that this was a once-in-a-lifetime study opportunity. Even if she was hypnotized to run naked, she still wanted to stay here and watch. Feeling helpless, Zhan Zhao started to hypnotize Ye Ling. Bai Yutang and Dong Moli stood in the corners of the room wearing headphones.
Zhan Zhao asked Ye Ling to lie down quietly. Then he looked at his watch and began to hypnotize her.
Ye Ling was a bit insane, and she mistook Zhan Zhao for Hao Mo, so she was extremely obedient. Her hypnosis went very smoothly. Soon, Ye Ling entered a state of deep hypnosis, and Bai Yutang and Dong Moli also turned off their MP3 player and watched quietly.
Zhan Zhao grabbed Ye Ling by the wrist and pressed her pulse while asking, "Ye Ling, today is the summer of 1999, and the summer vacation is coming. You all went to the club that had the DJ."
"Mmmm." Ye Ling nodded. "We went there to DJ, there's a band, it's very fun."
Zhan Zhao then asked, "do you like Hao Mo?"
"I do." Ye Ling replied, "unlike other boys, Mo Mo is kind-hearted and simple."
Zhan Zhao continued to ask, "are boys normally complicated? For example, the people around Hao Mo?"
"Yes." Ye Ling whispered, "they are all tacky, and they said I would lie to Mo Mo. They say I was just playing with him."
"Later, they all fell in love with DJ'ing. Didn't your relationship improve as well?" Zhan Zhao continued to ask.
"No." Ye Ling's answer was not what Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang had expected.
"They still didn't like me being with Mo Mo. They were so annoying." Ye Ling gritted her teeth.
"How annoying were they?" Zhan Zhao asked.
"So annoying that I wish they would all die." Ye Ling, who was hypnotized, showed some of her character. She was not so pure and innocent.
"What about Zhang Hua? Do you hate him as well?" Zhan Zhao asked.
"I do. They all want me to leave Mo Mo." Ye Ling answered.
"Why? You guys are good together!" Zhan Zhao said, "Hao Mo is lucky to be with you."
Ye Ling obviously liked this very much, as she nodded. "Yes, we are very good... Unfortunately, Mo Mo was soft-hearted and listened to their lies. He began to waver."
Zhan Zhao seemed to have heard a slightly different tone from Ye Ling's answer and asked, "so, you are very happy that they are dead, right?"
Ye Ling nodded. "Of course. They are all dead at last. They deserve it!"
Zhan Zhao frowned as Bai Yutang looked at him. It was obvious that Ye Ling was crazy, not because she had witnessed the fire, or that the truth at that time was not what Zhang Hua said, but because of something else.
"Are you very sad that Mo Mo is dead? "Zhan Zhao asked again.
"No." Ye Ling seemed to be a little uncomfortable. She shook her head in agitation. "Don't curse Mo Mo. He's still alive. How can he be dead?"
If it hadn't been for Zhan Zhao's instructions to remain quiet, Bai Yutang would have lifted the table by now. "What the hell is going on? Who exactly is telling the truth?! Now, she says Mo Mo isn't dead? Then who on earth died back then?" Bai Yutang thought to himself.
"If Mo Mo isn't dead, then where is he?" Zhan Zhao asked.
"In... A very, very safe place." Ye Ling laughed and said, "No one can hurt him!"
Zhan Zhao felt that they had talked enough about this topic, so he asked, "is there a fire?"
"Yes." Ye Ling nodded. "It's a big fire."
"Did it kill a lot of people?" Zhan Zhao asked.
"No." Ye Ling shook her head blankly. "Only one died."
Zhan Zhao frowned. It was impossible for a hypnotized person to lie, but the truth of that fire was that there had been five bodies. This meant that only one died from the fire, while the other four were already dead before the fire.
"Who burned to death?" Zhan Zhao asked.
Ye Ling suddenly fell silent as she seemed to be thinking.
Zhan Zhao gave her time to think. Then, Ye Ling's head began to sweat. Bai Yutang and Dong Moli both saw that something was wrong with Ye Ling. Zhan Zhao felt Ye Ling's pulse beating wildly, which showed that she remembered the most important thing that stimulated her. This was also the main reason for her craziness.
"Who is it?" Zhan Zhao asked loudly, "Ling Ling, if you remember this person, you will be able to get through this. Think, who is this person?"
"I-it's..." Ye Ling suddenly struggled madly, and then her eyes opened wide. She sat up upright, opened her mouth wide and shouted, "ARGH!!!!"
The cry was mournful and strange. Looking at Ye Ling, who suddenly acted crazy, Bai Yutang rushed to hold her down and said to Zhan Zhao, "Cat, wake her up! Quick!"
Zhan Zhao nodded, looked at his watch and said to Ye Ling, "Ye Ling, come back now, don't be caught by the darkness. You'll be back on the count of three. One, two, three." While saying three, Zhan Zhao raised his hand and patted Ye Ling on the shoulder. Ye Ling woke up suddenly. She was breathing heavily as she looked around in horror.
"Mo Mo!" Ye Ling jumped into Zhan Zhao's arms, trembling.
"Cat, what happened to her?" Bai Yutang asked.
Zhan Zhao gently reached out and patted Ye Ling on the shoulder, comforting her in a low voice to calm her down. He turned to Bai Yutang and Dong Moli and said, "do you know why Ye Ling is crazy?"
The two shook their heads at the same time.
Zhan Zhao sighed and said, "the long hypnosis has not been completely lifted, so she can't tell the difference between the reality and a dream... Ye Ling was hypnotized back then, so what she and Zhang Hua saw may not be real. The killer this time is not only fierce, but also cruel."