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The school was located in the suburbs, and it took half an hour for the police to arrive on campus. The forensic expert came from the city bureau, and due to rush hour traffic, they didn’t arrive at Dormitory 407 of the boys' dormitory until an hour later.
The forensic examination revealed that Lin Yun had died between one to one and a half hours prior. The washbasin in the bathroom was inexplicably filled with detergent. After questioning Lin Yun's classmates, it was discovered that the call made to Xu Bei came from Lin Yun's mobile number. The phone submerged in the washbasin also belonged to Lin Yun. Coming from a poor background, he used an outdated second-hand flip phone.
From this, it was clear that Lin Yun was still alive when he made the call, and his exact time of death should be around one hour ago.
Su Yu provided crucial information, prompting the police to summon Shen Jia, the owner of the tailor shop.
Upon seeing the piece of floral fabric presented by the police, Shen Jia was taken aback. She told the investigators, “This fabric is not some blessed artifact or cursed item; I just used it to scare those students. It’s a cleaning rag I cut from a larger piece of floral velvet fabric, and it works well for cleaning.”
She explained that she had just opened her shop today and had lost a piece of velvet cloth, forcing her to cut another piece from the remaining fabric. However, shortly after that, the new piece went missing as well.
To prevent further loss of fabric, Shen Jia concocted a frightening tale that anyone who stole her cloth would be cursed by a stone monkey. As for the stone monkey, it wasn’t a deity meant to ensure her business prospered; rather, since she was born in the Year of the Monkey, she believed that the stone monkey could bring her good luck, which is why she kept it on her altar.
After looking at Lin Yun's photo and recalling for a moment, she said, “As for this student, I can’t be sure if he ever visited my tailor shop. This afternoon, there was indeed a long-haired student who brought in a pair of pants for me to alter. But he kept his head down while speaking, so I couldn’t confirm if it was him.” The long-haired student had come to the tailor shop shortly after Su Yu and Wang Xiaofeng left, which was about an hour before Lin Yun’s body was discovered.
Shen Jia found the pair of pants that needed alteration, and after confirmation from Lin Yun's roommates, it was indeed his pants.
It seemed Lin Yun had indeed visited Shen Jia’s tailor shop and taken away a piece of fabric draped over the stone monkey’s hand. However, if the fabric truly held no curse, why would he choose to take his own life? A young police officer speculated that perhaps Lin Yun had unconsciously accepted the psychological suggestion that the fabric would bring misfortune. He might have continuously reminded himself of being cursed by the stone monkey—similar to self-hypnosis—believing he would inevitably face doom. Unable to bear such pressure, he ultimately succumbed to despair and chose suicide.
Although this theory sounded somewhat bizarre, it was not entirely implausible.
In psychology, there is a classic case where a psychologist bound a blindfolded death row inmate to a chair and told him he would slowly bleed out over three hours through a small hole in his wrist. In reality, bleeding stopped immediately. The psychologist turned on a faucet nearby to create dripping sounds as strong psychological suggestions for the inmate. By the end of three hours, the inmate indeed died—not from blood loss but from intense psychological suggestion.
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