Chapter 324 Professional

Author: Xingyun Luoyanyu

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 an open personality, 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 such possibilities, each of which has 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 said, "If you want to check, you can check again. Also, you are responsible for finding a team of social psychologists. In terms of funding, I can give you some approval."

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Feng Guozhu breathed a sigh of relief.

This is fine and acceptable.

"Thank you, leader."

He had made up his mind. While he was looking for a team of psychologists to conduct a public psychological survey, he also had to check it out himself.

At this moment, he already had an investigation idea.

With funds in hand and authorization from his superiors, Feng Guozhu immediately took action. 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 and found him.

He met 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.

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Professor Yang Liu 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 the trip has never been possible. 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 have you already grasped 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: "I do have some doubts, and we are currently investigating. The specific results will 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 about 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 higher suicide rate, this can be considered a 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 a hidden force, then they must have a standard when selecting 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 they identified common points, they could move forward.

After assigning a task, a dozen security guards under his command immediately split up and attacked.

The files on suicide cases 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 a few young male and female students who looked polite. After resting for a night, they also started investigating the next day.

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

On the first day, Professor Yang Liu, with the assistance of Feng Guozhu, retrieved Blue Lake City's meteorological data, economic and population data, urban construction data, and even birth rates, urban population inflow and outflow data over the years, and the average number of cars per household.

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 also related to suicide?"

"Of course it does matter." Professor Yang Liu explained with a gentle smile: "It's like weather data. When it's cloudy, do you feel too lazy to go out? Without sunshine, do you tend to feel depressed? Economic data is more direct.

If you don’t have money, do you feel 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 used to think that suicide was relatively 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 it enough?"

Professor Yang Liu smiled and shook his head: "This is not enough. Later, we have to conduct on-site 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, began to call people on a large scale to fill in the questionnaire.

Although the gifts are cheap, they are all items 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. There are only some specially designed questions, such as "The pressure you feel you have faced recently, rated from 0 to 9."

"Which level", "What has been the most stressful thing for you recently", "Personal monthly income", "How do you feel about the weather recently" and other questions.

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 with great effort turned into a mountain of small gifts and were distributed to people in exchange for answers to questionnaires.

Professor Yang Liu's team was busy, and Feng Guozhu was 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 officers will gather together to analyze the information collected during the day and begin to carefully select and consider it.

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

He found that it was difficult for him to classify the deceased people involved in unreasonable suicide cases with a unified label.

Economic conditions?

Some of these people have wealthy families. The richest ones have family assets estimated to be in the hundreds of millions. The poorest ones owe hundreds of thousands of dollars 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?

They range from small to old. The youngest is in middle school and the eldest has 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 place or event that these people have all been to or done. Some of these people are atheists, some believe in gods, and there is no such thing as having all performed a certain ritual or worshiping a certain god.

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 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.

In any case, there must be an explanation for this matter. Even if there is no premeditation or the existence of an 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 could not accept this statement.

Professor Yang Liu's work is now coming to an end. 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 aura 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."
To be continued...