He turned around, still looked at the man in police uniform with red eyes, and called out his name word by word—

"Li Yun?"

"..." The police officer paused and smiled, "How did you recognize it."

Xie Qingcheng's eyes swept over the other's hand, although it was very fast, the police officer felt it keenly.

"Oh..." The officer looked at his wrist thoughtfully.

Xie Qingcheng: "I don't think I admit my mistake."

Li Yun was quiet for a few seconds, then lowered her hand and smiled slightly: "Yes. You are right. I didn't expect you to remember me, Xie Qingcheng."

Li Yun was another apprentice of Xie Ping.

He and Chen Man's brother Chen Lisheng were graduates of the police academy at the same time, and later died in the mission.

Like Chen Lisheng, Li Yun showed astonishing talent when he was studying. He was talented and smart, and he had a lot of skills. If it weren't for the fact that his latent ability was weaker than Chen Lisheng, the first place in the police academy would have been Should be his.

After Li Yun entered the police station as an intern, after several cases, the leaders thought that he was a very good person, because he did things neatly, wherever he pointed, no matter what tasks were handed to him No matter how difficult it is, he can do it very beautifully.

An old criminal investigation expert at that time commented that he was born to be a police officer.

However, Master Xie Ping kept a certain distance from him, which is why Xie Qingcheng was familiar with Chen Lisheng, but did not have much interaction with Li Yun.

In the beginning, the young Xie Qingcheng did not understand why his father treated the two students differently.

Until one day—

"Officer Xie? He's on the fourth floor, go find him."

It was one night. Little Xie Qingcheng, who had finished his homework at the police station, wanted to find Xie Ping. The aunt who was sweeping the floor showed him the way, and Xie Qingcheng went upstairs like this.

The fourth floor is a place he has never been to before. There are interrogation rooms and temporary detention rooms, and the police uncles who are usually on duty will keep him away. But that day was an exception. That year was 2000. There was a fireworks festival to celebrate the millennium in Shanghai. It was a rare moment in the millennium. When the fireworks bloomed, the night sky was like day, and the host’s excited voice sounded on the TV, even on duty The police officers couldn't help but stand in front of the window and probed to witness the change of history at this moment.

So no one noticed a little child, Xie Qingcheng walked to the depths of the corridor on the fourth floor by accident.

"Dad? Daddy..."

Maybe it was because of the iron fences that stood on both sides, and the lights were dim, the very young Xie Qingcheng couldn't help but gently aroused Xie Ping.

Suddenly, he heard a slight movement in front of him.

He thought it was his father, so he walked over quickly, but before he opened the door, he saw a scene outside the iron fence that made his heart tremble—

There is a middle-aged man with tattooed arms in the house, Xie Qingcheng knows him, he is a drug dealer caught by the police. This drug dealer is very hard-spoken. It is said that he has a crush on their female boss, so after many days of trial, the man just refuses to reveal the information about their gang.

At this moment, perhaps because of the millennium event, the rules of interrogation of prisoners are not implemented according to the rules. It is reasonable to say that the prisoners should be questioned in groups of two, but at that time the prison was not Very unruly, only Li Yun was an intern guarding it.

Through the cold fence, Xie Qingcheng saw that the prisoner's face was covered with a pale layer of white stuff. Upon closer inspection, it seemed to be toilet paper everywhere in the office. The tissue was wet and pressed tightly against the drug dealer's face, suffocating him so much that he couldn't see anything clearly, and what about Li Yun?

This intern, who was only in his early twenties at the time - was holding a vat of enamel cup, her snow-white fingers elegantly and weakly lined the cup ears, her lips were lightly opened, and the heat was blowing away, Li Yun took it slow. He took a sip of hot tea, lowered his head, and stared at the wet paper covering the prisoner's face.

The prisoner's legs were constantly spasming and kicking, pumping and pumping like a dying fish.

Li Yun said softly, "Brother, this water is almost dry, do you want to say it?"

The teacup was hung by the man's cheek, and the man's face was deliberately touched with the body of the cup.

"If you don't tell me, I don't mind buying you some more tea, but I don't know if you can afford it?"

"You are extorting a confession! You are extorting a confession!" the drug dealer shouted hysterically, "I...I want to report you for breaking the law! I want to file a complaint! !"

Before he finished speaking, the warm tea soup had already been splashed on his face, and the paper towel was beaten again to make it wet.

Li Yun still felt that it was not enough, and put a few more wipes on his face. The drug dealer's breathing became more difficult, and the breath he exhaled could not lift the wet paper, and he could not even make a sound. come out. He struggled hysterically, rattling his handcuffs and shackles, but to no avail.

Li Yun approached him and said coldly in his ear: "Illegal? You are a drug dealer, you told me that it is illegal?"

He raised his hand and stroked the dealer's throat.

"I'm not a policeman, you don't need to report it to intimidate me. In addition, I'll tell you another situation, the surveillance video here is broken, and it will take many days to fix it. Guess I do Who will see these things? If you suffocate here, who will advocate for you? As far as I know you have no father, no mother, no wife and no children, I really think someone will tell you the cause of your death Are you going to get to the bottom of it?"

The sound became lower and lower, and it seemed so strange in the sound of fireworks and cheers coming from outside.

"Think clearly, do you want to tell all that information... You are protecting your boss, she doesn't know, I don't see you in her eyes at all, it's worth dying for her like this not worth it?"

The prisoner's struggle became more and more fierce, and the low voice from his throat became more and more shrill.

The cold light hit them, the shadows of the two were twisted and elongated, projected outside the iron fence, and fell on the young Xie Qingcheng, like a terrifying and absurd shadow play. Dancing like crazy.

Xie Qingcheng's eyes widened, his mind was blurred, and he could see everything...

Yes.

He remembered - he went to Xie Ping when he felt a fever at that time, and this scene gave him too much mental stimulation. The mark on Li Yun's wrist, he watched Li Yun strangle the drug dealer's neck, as if he would end a living person's life at any moment.

On the wrist, there is a cinnabar mole the size of a copper plate.

The red birthmark turned into a red spider, crouching on Li Yun's pale wrist, crawling around in Xie Qingcheng's memory...

Twenty years.

At this moment, Xie Qingcheng was staring at the middle-aged man in front of him. The cinnabar red mole still recalled the reflection of this person in the back of his mind. At this time, if you look carefully at his eyebrows and eyes, you can still vaguely see some outlines.

Xie Qingcheng remembered that he was hot and frightened at the time. The child seemed to be in a nightmare and passed out. After waking up, he was already lying in the infusion room of the hospital. are all around.

He told his father what he saw outside the cell door. What impressed him was that his father looked strange at the time. Although he was angry, he seemed to be indifferent to what Li Yun did. strangeness.

When he grows up a little more, he will know that his father feels that there is a problem with the quality of Li Yun from the beginning, this young man looks lazy and quiet, does not fight or rob, but he has several This behavior made Xie Ping feel that he was overdone and inhumane. That cruelty allowed Li Yun to complete the task more decisively than others in the same period, but in Xie Ping's view, this was actually not a good thing.

Xie Ping later told Xie Qingcheng that although no one believed that Li Yun really used the method of suffocation to extract a confession, they still transferred Li Yun from her post at that time to be cautious.

The drug dealer was finally sentenced to life, and until the sentencing, he did not say the whereabouts of his sweetheart. Li Yun knew, but said lightly: "It's stupid."

In Xie Ping's evaluation of Li Yun's internship completion, there is an intriguing passage. Xie Ping said that Li Yun is only suitable for the technical department, not suitable for the front line, and is not suitable for fighting side by side with teammates.

In too many tasks, he has done too much, and it seems that he doesn't care about anything at all. "Achieving the goal" is his only pursuit.

No one can trust or control such a person.

Xie Qingcheng's family and Li Yun have always been indifferent. When Xie Qingcheng heard the news about him again, it was already a few years later - Li Yun died.

It's surprising, because according to everyone's understanding of Li Yun, his personal ability is very high, but he does not have much team spirit, and he knows how to protect himself very well. He should be the least prone to accidents in the task. the kind of person. But he did fall off a cliff during a pursuit operation and died in the fire of the explosion of the vehicle.

People searched the archives and found that he was following the case of Chen Lisheng's sacrifice.

He is indifferent to everyone, and Chen Lisheng is also indifferent, but as a contemporaneous student, in a university dormitory, Li Yun and Chen Lisheng are indeed more in contact than others, and Chen Lisheng This person is calm and upright, and treats people very well, so people in the police station think that maybe Li Yun recognizes Chen Lisheng as a teammate, but he is not good at expressing.

Only a few people have some doubts in their minds.

For example, Xie Qingcheng, because he has seen Li Yun kill people without blinking, so he always seems to have a stalk in his heart. It is difficult to imagine what kind of mentality Li Yun is holding to investigate the cause of death of his teammates sacrificed his life. But death is the most important thing. Except for an old detective who publicly expressed doubts about Li Yun's death, no one else said anything.

Until now—

Li Yun appeared again.

Twenty years after he "died" for Chen Lisheng, he appeared in front of Xie Qingcheng again, on the island where Mandela fought, asking them to get into his car, saying yes organization requirements.

Although Xie Qingcheng couldn't figure out a clue yet, he stepped forward on guard, grabbed He Yu's wrist silently, and pulled He Yu behind him again.

"Have you been working for the organization in the dark?"

Li Yun said indifferently: "Twenty years."

"Why this way."

"This is a very long story." Li Yun said, "I can't tell you in detail here. If you want to listen, then get in the car, go back to the ship, You can take your time and ask the commander-in-chief about my situation. Or would you rather defy the order and insist on staying here?"

He said, looked at Xie Qingcheng's hand holding He Yu's wrist, and Xie Qingcheng's lips that were even paler because he broke free from the blood poison - he waited quietly, Waiting for the lips to give him an answer.

He Yu is still not sure, so he only knows that Xie Qingcheng must know the person in front of him. During the observation, he suddenly felt that Xie Qingcheng was holding his hand and moved slightly, rubbing his fingertips, and then again. Move it, like a hint.

He Yu didn't move for a while, his apricot eyes turned slightly, his eyes quietly fell on Xie Qingcheng's fingertips, watching Xie Qingcheng's fingers on his wrist Knocking up and down.

At the same time, Xie Qing coughed slightly, and after a while, he said to Li Yun, "I choose to stay."

"Why?"

"Are you going to leave your companion, Officer Li?"

Li Yun did not answer immediately, but asked, "Even if this is an iron order from the headquarters?"

Xie Qing submitted: "I have never been a real policeman. Any order from the headquarters is invalid for me."

“…”

"You can go to work, Li Yun." Xie Qingcheng looked into the man's eyes, "Go back."

"You insist on not leaving?"

"No."

Li Yunjing leaned against the car door, while he observed Xie Qingcheng's actions, especially the detailed movement of Xie Qingcheng's fingertips tapping He Yu's wrist, while draining the Marlboro in his hand Now, when the cigarette **** hit the ground and hit the spark, he suddenly raised his head and laughed loudly: "...Xie Qingcheng, it's really worthy of you. The Morse code with your little boyfriend is so good, how long are you going to pretend? ?!"

"!"

As the picture shows, the arrow on the string suddenly broke through the air, breaking the tense atmosphere.

Several things happened almost simultaneously—

The jeep behind Li Yun roared, carrying Chen Wan straight towards the dark forest.

Xie Qingcheng suddenly rushed forward to stop the car, and said sharply to He Yu, "Do it!"

The next second, He Yu suddenly raised his blood-stained hand, sternly in the direction of Li Yun, and ordered with the power of blood Gu: "You kneel!"

The shock is only a split second.

Li Yun opened her eyes wide and staggered forward, He Yu shouted to the driver who was stepping on the accelerator and rushing towards the jungle wolf: "Stop! Stop!"

This time, for some reason, the jeep driver was not affected by the blood poison, and still broke through the obstruction of Xie Qingcheng and He Yu, and galloped away with the dazed Chen slow. go. Xie Qingcheng's face changed slightly, and when he was about to chase, he suddenly heard a faint voice behind him—

"The game is here, it's almost time."

Impact!

Li Yun's lips closed, and she said coldly to He Yu and Xie Qing: "I'm sorry, it's me who is being controlled, I'm teasing you. I haven't played with my juniors like this for a long time."

“…”

"It's a pity. Blood worms have no effect on me."

He Yu: "...you have a heart ring on you?!"

"Che Heart Ring?" Li Yun chuckled, "No. I don't need that kind of thing. By the way—"

He glanced at Xie Qingcheng's gesture of putting his hand behind him: "Don't play any tricks on me, because the latest generation of obedient water is already flowing in your blood. My orders are useless, but my orders work for you."

He Yu didn't believe it, and said with a livid face: "Impossible...! When..."

He and Xie Qingcheng pay attention to their diet, especially before the decisive battle, He Yu can confirm that he has never eaten anything suspected of being poisoned.

"Oh? Don't you believe it?"

Li Yun smiled slightly, and there was still the splendid and lazy look in that smile. At this moment, he seemed to be that young man who was like a snake in the prison and was almost suffocated to death by drug dealers Beautiful intern. His smile is cruel and dangerous, like the bones of poppies in the mountains and fields of his hometown.

The man did not explain, he just proved that he did not lie with practical actions: "Then, let's try it."

In the mouth of the words, suddenly turned—

"Sleep."

The two words are firm and decisive, and the order falls. Xie Qingcheng and He Yu suddenly felt an extremely strong dizziness in their brains. It felt so terrifying, as if a large amount of anesthesia was spreading in the body, and it only took an instant to seize consciousness!

Before they lost consciousness completely, they heard Li Yun say something of unknown meaning—

"Xie Qingcheng, I appreciate your choice of not abandoning him. It's just a pity that the different ways do not conspire, and I have to be your enemy... So, I'm afraid this will It's between the two of you, the last time we met."

…

Last meeting?

"Don't...no...don't meet for the last time..." Suddenly a whisper floated into Xie Qingcheng's ears, slowly spreading in his heart like ripples.

Xie Qingcheng's consciousness was very blurred, but he still turned his head and looked at the young man who murmured.

It's He Yu who can't hold it anymore.

He Yu's consciousness was already blurred and his eyes were very slack, but the lonely little dragon insisted on using the last bit of strength to step forward, trying to hold Xie Qingcheng's hand: "Don't be The last time we met, you just agreed to hug my... brother..."

But the eyes are getting heavier and heavier, like a butterfly entering a cobweb, unable to break free.

Xie Qingcheng saw that his other hand took something from his pocket, and stretched it out to him, as if trying to give it to himself with the only remaining strength, the young man whispered: " Brother, I'm sorry, I've implicated you again...I..."

He didn't finish.

Or Xie Qingcheng didn't finish listening, just like inhaling anesthesia before the operation, at a certain point, people's consciousness disappeared instantly.

Xie Qingcheng only remembered He Yu's almost sad look at the end, and then he didn't know anything, and he was completely plunged into darkness...