Criminal Psychology Book 1

Chapter 30: Select

These types of scenes, like encountering true love in the vast sea of people, or cutting the correct wire out of many, were only scenes in a movie.

While movie stars played the superhero role, Huang Zhe knew that the one who would choose the correct wire wouldn't be him. He wasn't so lucky.

Earlier, after driving Lin Chen away, he fell into an unspeakable emotion again.

He didn't regret it, even when he was squatting in front of the time bomb and was forced to face the death that may be coming. After all, as Lin Chen said, the occurrence of established facts wasn't based on personal will. The reason why he felt inexplicable was because he discovered that he would really become a different person because of Lin Chen; emotional, irrational, and even his way of thinking became ugly. This was completely contrary to the elite education he had received, and all of this was because of Lin Chen.

So now, when Lin Chen asked him to do something irrational again, what should he do?

Nearly a hundred kilometers away, in the surveillance hall, Lin Chen stood quietly in front of the big screen, as if waiting for the result of Huang Ze's thinking.

"You should know that this is very dangerous. It's also possible that when he cuts off the wire, the bomb could detonate instantly," Xing Conglian tilted his head slightly, leaned towards Lin Chen's ear, and whispered.

"I know, but with only ten minutes left, it's also equally as dangerous to let him discharge the detonator." Lin Chen blocked the microphone as if he didn't want Huang Ze to hear his next words. "And I suspect that the driver is lying."

"How so?"

"There are three issues. First, when people lie, they will inadvertently remove the subject 'I', meaning themselves. He said, 'while taking a smoke break', instead of 'I was taking a smoke break', 'the man stop halfway' instead of 'the man told me to stop halfway'... Because these events were not personally experienced by him, these sentences have lost the subject 'I' when he's making up lies."

"That's too farfetched. He has used 'I' in his testimony." Before Xing Conglian could speak, the chairman, who had been paying attention, interrupted.

Lin Chen nodded, then wandered around the room. His gaze fell on the technical geek who was desperately tapping on the keyboard and said, "Wang Chao, tell me your age. Lie the first time, then tell me the truth the second time."

"What?" The addressed technician raised his head and gave a confused look.

"How old are you this year?"

The question came so quickly that Wang Chao had no time to react.

"16, ah!" Wang Chao held his head high and replied confidently.

"Let me ask you again, how old are you this year?" Lin Chen aggravated his tone and repeated it.

"Uh... I'm 18 this year."

Hearing this answer, Lin Chen turned his head and gave Xing Conglian an incredulous look. "Child labor?"

Xing Conglian felt slightly embarrassed but had to say, "He's an adult."

The chairman still wanted to refute him, but Xing Conglian glanced at him and motioned for him to be silent.

"Continue," Xing Conglian said to Lin Chen.

"Second, lies are different from memories of real events. Lies often have more details and are very clear. When I asked him how the suspect hijacked the bus, his answer was very clear, and he could quickly recall the place named 'Yinchuan'. On the other hand, when I asked the Fengjing school teachers, I had to use some methods in order to get them to recall the specific name of the place."