Chapter 324 Professional

If economic factors are excluded, could it be that the Blue Lake citizens have conservative social customs, but in recent years the new generation has been influenced by Internet thinking and has open personalities, and the conflicts between the older generation and the new generation have led to an increase in the suicide rate?

Could it be that mistakes in urban planning and construction have compressed living space and affected people's psychology, leading to an increase in the suicide rate?

There are many, many possibilities, each with a certain possibility. But the possibility of it being a criminal offense is very small.

No criminal clues have been found in hundreds of consecutive cases. Is this always the real reality?

Feng Guozhu was a little unwilling, but he knew that he could only accept this result.

The superior seemed to notice his emotions and added: "If you want to check, you can check again. And you are also responsible for finding a team of social psychologists. In terms of funding, I can give you some approval. "

Feng Guozhu breathed a sigh of relief.

This is fine and acceptable.

"Thank you, leader."

He had made up his mind. While you are looking for a team of psychologists to conduct a public psychological survey, you should also do your own research.

At this moment, he already had an investigation idea.

With funds in hand and authorization from his superiors, Feng Guozhu took action immediately. He activated his personal connections and soon contacted the deputy dean of the School of Psychology at a university in a nearby city. The deputy dean introduced him to a psychology professor named Yang Liu.

Faced with Feng Guozhu's invitation, Professor Yang Liu was very happy.

"I am currently leading graduate students to do a project on the impact of technological development in modern society on the suicide rate. The suicide rate in Blue Lake City has been high in the past two years. It is a good research sample. I have long wanted to study it. .”

Professor Yangliu is less than forty years old, well-maintained, intellectually elegant. She smiled and said: "It's just that it's difficult to apply for research funds, so I haven't been able to go. If you can afford the research funds, I can leave at any time."

With the funds approved by his superiors in hand, Feng Guozhu was very wealthy and agreed immediately: "This is no problem."

"That's good."

Yang Liu nodded, and was a little curious: "But this kind of thing... doesn't seem to be under the control of your Public Security Bureau? Why did you come forward? Is it involved in some criminal case? Or do you already have some clues?"

Only in this way is it reasonable for the Public Security Bureau to step forward.

Feng Guozhu couldn't explain much, so he could only vaguely say: "It is indeed a bit suspicious, and we are currently investigating. The specific results depend on Professor Yang's investigation conclusion."

"That's it, that's okay. I'll form a team and we can set off the day after tomorrow."

After finalizing the matter, Feng Guozhu returned to Blue Lake City without stopping, summoned his men again, and arranged the matter.

"There's definitely something weird in this."

The security guards under his command nodded with concern.

Every effect must have a cause. Even if Blue Lake City's poor feng shui leads to a high suicide rate, this can be considered the reason, right?

If I don't check it out, I'm wearing this uniform for nothing.

"In terms of criminal investigation, we don't have to waste our efforts. First, there are hundreds of cases, and we don't have the manpower and funds to investigate them one by one. Second, even if we have the manpower and funds, we can't find anything. To If it can be found out, the brother team has already found it out.

In terms of social psychology, I also asked Professor Yang Liu to lead the investigation, so we don’t need to worry about this aspect.

Let's just focus on one line to investigate, that is, what these victims of unreasonable suicides have in common! "

These three words "common ground" are Feng Guozhu's investigation ideas.

If these unreasonable suicide cases are deliberately carried out by some hidden force, then they must have a standard when selecting their victims, right?

In the past, some serial killers sometimes specially selected specific people to commit crimes, such as certain practitioners in the custom industry. Once you have determined what you have in common, you can move forward.

After assigning the task, the dozen or so security officers under his command immediately split up and attacked.

Suicide files cannot be too detailed. There are many things that require security officers to visit and investigate on the spot to know.

The day after tomorrow, Professor Yang Liu also came to Blue Lake City with several young male and female students who seemed to be polite. After a night's rest, they also started investigating the next day.

Before setting off, Professor Yang Liu had already formulated an investigation plan with the students. Just follow the steps now. Faced with this rare practical opportunity, which may also involve their own studies, the students also performed their duties diligently.

On the first day, Professor Yang Liu, with the assistance of Feng Guozhu, retrieved the meteorological data, economic and population data, urban construction data of Blue Lake City over the years, and even the birth rate, urban population inflow and outflow data over the years, and the average household car Ownership rate, per capita disposable property, average life expectancy, infant mortality rate, average number of sunny days, cloudy days, rainy and snowy days per year, environmental pollution data, per capita alcohol consumption, etc., there are dozens of data.

This made Feng Guozhu couldn't help being surprised.

"These data...are they also related to suicide?"

"Of course it does matter." Professor Yang Liu explained with a soft smile: "It's like weather data. When it's cloudy, are you too lazy to go out? Without sunshine, is it easy to feel depressed? Economic data is more direct. Does having no money mean you are stressed? If the per capita alcohol consumption is high, does it mean that people have a higher need to relieve stress? These data will eventually be reflected in the final suicide rate figure."

At this moment, Feng Guozhu had a thought in his mind.

This is called professionalism!

He had always thought that suicide was something more random and idealistic. But now, Professor Yang Liu's team clearly treats it as a science that can be accurately measured by numbers.

Feng Guozhu didn't know how serious he was.

"Well...there is so much data, is that enough?"

Professor Yang Liu smiled and shook his head: "This is not enough. Later, we have to conduct field surveys and distribute questionnaires. When looking at data, we should not just look at the macro, but also look at the micro."

Sure enough, the next day, students from the Yangliu team took to the streets. They brought small gifts purchased in bulk and set up stalls in different places such as subway stations, shopping mall entrances, pedestrian streets, urban villages, city suburbs, and school entrances. With the slogan of free gifts, they began to recruit people on a large scale to fill out surveys. Questionnaire.

Although the gifts are cheap, they are all things that can be used daily, such as shampoo, paper towels, toothpaste, toothbrushes, washbasins, eggs, salt, noodles, etc.

And the questionnaire does not involve any personal privacy. The personal name, place of origin, ID number, and contact information are not asked at all. There are only some specially designed questions, such as "At what level do you feel the pressure you have faced recently, on a scale from 0 to 9?" Questions such as “Where does the most stressful thing come from”, “Personal monthly income”, “How do you feel about the weather recently”, etc.

There will be no on-site inspection after filling in, just put the questionnaire into a sealed box.

In this way, people are relieved of their worries and can ensure the authenticity of their answers as much as possible.

The funds that Feng Guozhu applied for turned into a mountain of small gifts and were distributed to people in exchange for answers to questionnaires.

Professor Yang Liu’s team is busy, and Feng Guozhu is not idle either. In the past few days, his security officers were attacking everywhere, and soon, a large amount of information was gathered in his office.

In the evening, the security guards will gather together to analyze the information collected during the day and begin careful screening and consideration.

Originally, Feng Guozhu thought this work should not be difficult to do. But once the analysis began, he realized he was wrong.

He found it difficult to use a unified label to classify the deceased involved in unreasonable suicide cases.

Economic conditions?

Some of these people have rich families, and the richest ones have family assets estimated to be in the hundreds of millions. The poorest ones owe hundreds of thousands in debt because their family members are seriously ill and have to work on construction sites all day long.

Profession?

The occupations of these people include white-collar workers, teachers, construction workers, restaurant owners, etc.

age?

From childhood to adulthood. The youngest is in middle school and the eldest is retired.

disease?

Some people are in good health, some have just recovered from a serious illness, and some are suffering from chronic diseases.

The intersection of time and space?

There is no one place or event that these people have all been to or done. Some of these people are atheists, some believe in gods, and not all of them have performed certain rituals or worshiped certain gods.

Feng Guozhu worked hard for more than half a month, but in the end he got nothing.

At this moment, he even began to doubt whether these people's suicides... were all reasonable. The so-called unreasonable was just his own personal doubts?

Under this situation, he had no choice but to pin his hopes on Professor Yang Liu.

No matter what, there has to be an explanation for this. Even if there is no premeditated or organized criminal group, Feng Guozhu can accept the answer if he can find it from the perspective of social psychology.

Blue Lake City is Feng Guozhu’s hometown. He was born here, grew up here, got married and had children, and has been working here. For the sake of his hometown, he must find out the truth.

You can’t really say there’s something wrong with Blue Lake City’s feng shui, right?

As a native of Blue Lake City, he couldn't accept this statement.

Professor Yang Liu's work is now nearing completion. All the data that should be collected have been collected, and the analysis shouldn't take long, right?

On the third day, Feng Guozhu saw Professor Yang Liu, who had no sense of intellectual elegance. He looked haggard and his hair was slightly greasy.

"Just tell me the conclusion."

Professor Yang Liu’s voice was a little hoarse: “My team collected various data and did all the work they could. We all agreed that compared to other cities, the suicide rate in Blue Lake City should be lower than the average. The figure should be roughly between 10.9 and 12.1 suicides per 100,000 people per year."

This number is 15.60% to 4.13% lower than the average.

Previously, after Feng Guozhu removed obviously unreasonable and ambiguous suicide cases, the number he obtained was only 1.59% higher than the average.

Feng Guozhu knew that among those suicide cases, there must be some unreasonable suicide cases, but he failed to screen them out.

I just used the unsatisfactory events that happened in my life before committing suicide as a criterion to screen.

If there is a major unsatisfactory incident, it will be regarded as a justified suicide. If not, it is regarded as unreasonable suicide.

So, is it possible that although some people had major unsatisfactory events in their lives before committing suicide that were sufficient reasons for committing suicide, they would not actually commit suicide under normal circumstances?

There must be such people. But Feng Guozhu couldn't screen them out.

After removing those who commit suicide that are obviously unreasonable and ambiguous, and then remove those who have reasons to commit suicide but would not commit suicide under normal circumstances, Feng Guozhu believes that the final value is probably consistent with the final data provided by Professor Yang Liu.

The combination of the two further verified Feng Guozhu's guess. That is, there are indeed abnormal suicides, and there are a lot of them.

A security guard murmured: "Professor Yang, this, how come this predicted value does not match the actual value?"

Yang Liu said hoarsely: "Generally speaking, this means that there is an error in the prediction and calculation model. We usually check the model in turn and eliminate the errors. But... this time, we did not find the error in the model."

She shook her head again: "Sorry. Social surveys and psychology are not omnipotent, and they cannot fully reflect human social life. The data I provided can only be used as a reference. Why is the suicide rate in Blue Lake City so high... I can't answer that question. There's nothing I can do."

Feng Guozhu sighed: "Professor Yang, thank you very much for your work."

Yang Liu looked at the students sitting around him participating in the meeting, and saw frustration on their faces.

After working hard for more than half a month, I got nothing. Not everyone can do this. It doesn't matter.

"Then...sorry. Let's go first."

The Yangliu team left. The security guards looked at Feng Guozhu.

"Team Feng, what should we do next?"

He waved his hand tiredly: "Seal the file. Report the results and let the superiors handle it."

He really couldn't find it anymore.

Just as he expected, after reporting the matter, there was no response. Obviously, the superiors did not think this matter needed to be reopened.

He can understand this. After all, in this incident, the evidence proving that there was no abnormality in this incident was too much, too complete, and too convincing. There is too little evidence to prove that this incident is abnormal. There are only some guesses and vague numbers of my own, which are not convincing at all.

Time passed quietly, and several years passed in the blink of an eye. Feng Guozhu gradually got older, and finally after seven years, he retired from the front line of criminal investigation and switched to doing some management work on the second line.

This matter was buried deep in his heart and he never told anyone again.

Until the young, newly hired security guard came to him full of excitement and excitement, as if he had discovered something big.

"Leader, this suicide case is abnormal! I suspect it is not a suicide, but a homicide! You see, the global average suicide rate last year was 12.3 per 100,000 people..."