Lost Memories | A Liskook Adaptation

Chapter 62: Who's Being a Psycho Part 2

The night is quiet.

Lisa and the others are busy organizing the information and the recordings they've gathered. Jungkook walks out of the office by himself. He stands in the hallway, looks up at the stars in the sky and many dots of lights in the city.

He keeps quiet for a moment before taking out his phone.

In his cellphone, there's a text message sent by Ji Bai ( This Is the Jungkook in 'when a snail falls in love' ) tonight.

Ji Bai, the friend whom he had asked to help him investigate the murder case that happened in Beijing five years ago.

"I've sent you the details via email.

Whatever it is that you want to do, be cautious and protect those who are around you well..

Ji Bai."

Jungkook opens his mailbox.

The email starts off with a paragraph written by Ji Bai: "In that year between January and December, in Beijing and other districts around it, there was a total of 64 murder cases that were not included in the Public Security Bureau's total, But based on a document from one of the internal departments, these murder cases had already been put away as 'case closed.'

The police made official statements to console the victims' families. The summary reports of closing the cases were deemed as top secret. Even with my level of authority, I can't see them."

Jungkook reads his words and keeps quiet for a long while.

He scrolls down and sees the details of the 64 victims along with their autopsy reports completed by forensic investigators.

Jungkook finishes reading them and puts his phone back into his pocket. He rests his arms on the railing with his hands held together. After a moment of silence, he reaches into his chest pocket for a cigarette. It's empty.

Therefore, he becomes even quieter.

Until faint footsteps appear from behind.

Lisa walks to his side, leans on the railing with him and looks to a distance.

"What are you thinking about?" she asks. Jungkook doesn't answer. He reaches out his arm and wraps it around her shoulders.

Lisa turns her head to look around immediately. Seeing that everybody is working with their heads down, she doesn't bother to stop him. It's cold at night, so she leans closer to him and rubs her head against his chin.

After a while, she says, "Jungkook, it's quite weird. Why do I feel particularly interested in psychopathic killers?"

"Maybe because you were an expert in the past," his deep voice sounds especially gentle at night as if he's pacifying her.

The comers of Lisa's mouth curve upwards. She says as if she's murmuring to herself, "It really does feel different. It's as if I'm slowly recovering something that I'm familiar with. Some blurry images in my mind are slowly becoming clear."

"I also have had that feeling before," Jungkook says, "Four years ago when I woke up, some of the bigger cases I handled felt unfamiliar and familiar at the same time. After a few cases, everything flowed."

"Recovered?" the word spurts out of Lisa's mouth.

Jungkook shifts his gaze sideways to look at her.

"You've been at that deserted place, Guanhu station, this whole time and all you do every day is either fighting against sex trade and other small cases. You've been living a simple life so your recovery has been slow. That's normal."