Chapter 380: The Mental Patient

"This one, compare the facial data and find him for me; within an hour, I want to see him!" Han Fei pointed at the man captured on the surveillance and gave the order.

"Yes!"

The difficulty of catching this man within an hour is undoubtedly considerable, yet the officers showed no sign of trouble.

After all, casework demands efficiency.

They first compared in the Facial Database, quickly locked onto the suspect, then directly used Tianyan Search to locate the suspect's position, and immediately carried out the arrest.

From locking onto the suspect to arresting him, it took less than fifty minutes in total.

When arrested, the man didn't even resist; instead, he cooperated fully and went with the officers to the Police Station.

Police Station.

Interrogation Room.

A man who looked mentally very abnormal sat in the interrogation chair, staring expectantly at Han Fei and Xu Mo sitting opposite him.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time; you finally found me."

Upon hearing that, Han Fei's anger flared.

The two explosions today have already caused a three‑digit death and injury count, with severely harmful impact.

Unexpectedly, the mastermind shows not a hint of remorse, but rather seems excited, as if he doesn't think he did anything wrong.

"Do you know how many people you killed this time and how many families you shattered?"

"I don't know," the man shook his head. When he smiled, his mouth stretched widely like a complete pervert; he leaned forward toward Han Fei and said, "Then tell me, how many people did I save this time?"

"Save? You think you're saving people?" Han Fei, surprised, raised his voice several notches.

"It's not my assumption; it's a fact. I am indeed saving people! I am the messenger chosen by Heaven to save humanity!" the man shouted hoarsely at Han Fei.

"Everything I do is to save people... Though you may think I'm a madman, a heartless murderer, in reality I'm not; I am the savior!"

"You don't know yet, Blue Planet has entered a countdown to destruction; in less than three years it will be completely annihilated. Then everyone on Blue Planet will die, and I'm here to save you..."

"Those I killed may seem dead to you, but in fact they aren't; while they disappear from this Blue Planet, they will be revived on another Blue Planet that won't be destroyed. On that other Blue Planet, I'm regarded as the greatest hero! I bear the burden of saving all humanity!"

Han Fei and Xu Mo exchanged a glance; from the man's words and demeanor, they concluded that the guy is mentally ill.

At this point, they were more curious whether the lunatic's statements were his own delusions or were deliberately implanted by someone.

If it's his own delusion, the case is basically closed here; he is the mastermind.

If someone fed these ideas to this mentally troubled man, the real mastermind is another person—the one who implanted the thoughts.

They must figure out this problem before allowing the guilty to escape justice.

"Who told you that Blue Planet will be destroyed and that you're the savior?" After exchanging a glance with Xu Mo, Han Fei asked.

"My parents!"

"Your parents?"

"Yes! After they died, they sent me a dream, saying they were doing fine over there; they also told me about the situation there, urging me to keep saving people." At this, the man became unusually excited; "You know I'm telling the truth, right? Interested in working with me? Join my team, save humanity together; when we go to another Blue Planet, you too can become heroes revered by ten thousand people!"

"So your parents were also 'saved' by you?" Xu Mo asked, following his words.

"Yes, yes, that's it... At first I didn't know I was a savior. After my parents died from gas poisoning, I was heartbroken every day, thinking my negligence caused their death. Until they sent me a dream, I realized I hadn't killed them; on the contrary, I saved the people closest to me, and in the future I can save even more!"

"When did your parents die?"

"About a month ago... but that's not important. What's important is whether you want to join my team. With your official support, I can save as many people as possible!"

Xu Mo ignored him and instead glanced at Han Fei.

"Almost there?"

Han Fei rubbed his temples and nodded, "Hmm."

The whole chain of events is now roughly clear.

The man's parents died about a month ago from gas poisoning; after their death, his mind suffered a severe blow, and he believed his negligence caused their demise.

Such an event is almost unbearable for anyone, so under these factors, the man's mind collapsed.

He needed solace, needed to escape reality; his subconscious caused him to have a dream.

That dream was his so‑called "parent dream transmission"; in it, he imagined himself as a savior, and his deceased parents were not truly dead but revived on another Blue Planet.

This is also his motive for murder; he believes those he directly or indirectly killed can be revived on another Blue Planet.

The man's words—Han Fei didn't believe them, and even Xu Mo, a transmigrator, didn't either.

Because the man's mental state is clearly off, he has a mental problem.

He acts this way because his mind suffered severe trauma; his killings are merely to escape the fact that he inadvertently caused his parents' death.

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Outside the Interrogation Room.

"In this case, should we contact the Mental Hospital or... use legal measures against him?" Xu Mo asked curiously.

Han Fei shrugged.

"It's hard to say; I think he's mentally abnormal, but that's not our concern. We just reconstruct the case, and how he's dealt with later depends on how the next person handling this matter defines it."

Xu Mo, still a rookie, wasn't clear on how to punish a mental patient: "Do mentally ill murderers truly escape legal punishment? Does anyone pretend to be ill after killing to evade the law?"

Han Fei shook his head, denying it.

"Not all mentally ill murderers avoid punishment; only when it's clear the crime occurred during a disease episode, with consciousness and actions completely uncontrolled, can they possibly escape legal sanction..."

"Moreover, although a severely offending mental patient won't be sentenced, they will be forcibly committed to a Mental Hospital, which is as hard as lifelong imprisonment; being locked in a mental hospital is even more unbearable than jail, so there's essentially no escape from legal sanction—just a different form of punishment."