Xie Qingcheng closed his eyes, and when he said the next sentence, there was almost no ups and downs in his chest.

"Or, should I call you directly, Chen Lisheng?"

Duan heard the words and was silent for a long time.

I don't know how long it took before he smiled.

His smile was very shallow at first, like a snow-white silkworm cocoon breaking open, revealing a little bit of throbbing black claws, and then abruptly expanded, all of them spread out in his no longer young but still very handsome On his face, it was like a transformed moth and butterfly biting out of its cocoon, struggling to break the cage, and its horrified wings sloughed out from the pupa, which had dried up and was exposed to the blue sky and daylight.

"Haha..." Duan Wen raised his head, and there was a smile in his smile that finally didn't need to be fake, and even seemed to be happy when an old friend reunited, "You have never disappointed me at all, Xie Qingcheng ."

Xie Qingcheng slowly lowered her eyelashes.

He was not happy at all for this praise, let alone for his identity as Duan Wen.

His face was indifferent and numb, and it could also be said to be filled with endless cold.

Xie Qingcheng: "It's really you."

Duan Wen: "It's really me."

He said again: "Can you tell me why you guessed it was me?"

Xie Qingcheng raised his eyes, as if he was looking at a stranger, at the man he had sacrificed for nearly 20 years, his lips closed: "Tell me first, how is He Yu? ."

"What?" Duan Wen said, "It's okay. He's not dead."

Xie Qingcheng looked fierce: "What are you going to do to him?"

"I think you should have already guessed it." Duan Wen said slowly, "I captured him at this juncture, of course, because he can be used as a weapon against the attack of the Dreambreaker. -Don't worry, he can't die, just after we deal with it, he will accept our thoughts and concepts thoroughly... He will still remember you and your past, but he will think it is wrong, we Call this..."

Duan Wen paused and said, "Conceptual transformation."

" So don't feel sad, Xie Qingcheng, he just changed his mind, as long as you are willing to rely on us, you will be on the same front with him again, I believe he will still want to treat you like before "Okay." Duan Wen said, raising the corners of his lips lightly, "But of course, if you stick to your current camp, I think he will dismiss you."

“…”

"In fact, people are only limited by their own vision and fight for what they think is justice. But what is right in your eyes is not wrong in the eyes of others." Duan Wen said in the meeting of the two bodyguards Under the protection, he said to Xie Qingcheng very leisurely, "You don't have to rush to reject me, you can think about it carefully. Now—"

He tilted his face, two bodyguards immediately stepped forward, one held down Xie Qingcheng, and the other started a carpet-like search on Xie Qingcheng.

Duan Wen said lightly, "Let's find out your Fengbo system first."

"Mr. Duan! Found a suspicious one!"

After a while, a bodyguard found the bracelet and leather rope from Xie Qingcheng's clothes.

Duan Wen took it, took it in his hand, and looked at it carefully.

"It's really exquisite..." He said slowly, "It seems to be an ordinary ornament...no interface, no electronic response...but..."

The strength of the hand increased sharply, and the leather rope broke, exposing the thin cable below.

Duan Wen showed an expression of "as expected", then raised his eyes to Xie Qingcheng: "I'm glad you only took it off and hid it in your pocket, you don't need me Stripped your clothes, or cut open your flesh to find it. To be honest, I don't really want to hurt you."

Xie Qingcheng was pressed by the strong bodyguard, with an extremely cold look on his face.

"Are you trying to say that there is still humanity in you, Chen Lisheng."

Duan Wen threw the broken wristband to another bodyguard behind him and said, "Yeah. I let Chen slow go, and I hope to let you go."

"You let Chen slow?" Xie Qingcheng's face was stained with blood, he stared at Duan Wen who was content in front of him, his voice hoarse and low, "If I'm not mistaken, In order to get rid of Huang Zhilong's influence, it was you who sent Chen slow that videotape, right? In order to convince him, you even acted like you weren't dead, but he desperately wanted to investigate the case for you. Going down, I almost took my life, you call it letting him go, right?!"

Duan didn't care, and calmly listened to Xie Qingcheng finish his words.

Then he said: "I really didn't care about his life or death, and only regarded him as a toy, a chess piece."

"But... he surprised me a little. I didn't expect him to take the so-called brotherhood so deeply. After seeing a glimmer of hope, I couldn't get out of my fantasy of being alive for a long time. When everyone gave up, he still had this extravagant hope. I admit that I originally meant to play with him, and I was curious about how deep the so-called brotherhood was."

After a few seconds of pause, he said, "In the end, his performance was with me, and he got a high score."

"So although I still don't pay much attention to him, since there is a chance to let him live, let him go. Quan should be the reward given to him by his brother."

"So you really sent that roll of video..." Xie Qingcheng gritted his teeth.

"Yes, waste utilization." Duan Wen sneered and spread his hands, "Chen slow is a waste in my eyes."

"Then what are you trying to do with me now?"

Duan Wen's arrogant smile was restrained.

He stared at Xie Qingcheng, and after a while, he turned his head, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, and lit it. He smoked the cigarette, but never answered Xie Qingcheng's words.

until the smoke is gone.

Duan Wen threw the cigarette **** away, and in the thick mist of green mist, he opened his mouth again—

"I won't kill you, not for the purpose of taking advantage. It's because I promised someone."

The man said, his eyelashes drooped slightly, which made his eyes that were hard to understand even darker. He continued: "I promised him that I would try not to kill you."

“…my father?”

Duan Wen did not answer.

After a while, he staggered the topic and smiled slightly: "Professor Xie, let's be fair, I've said so much, but you don't seem to have answered my question. Tell me first. Well, how did you guess that I am Chen Lisheng?"

"...a lot. You chose to let Chen slow down. Li Yun's sudden appearance. He Yu's blood poison is ineffective against Li Yun, and..."

"Huh?"

"What you said to me when you met me that night."

Duan Wen frowned slightly, fingers crossed: "What did I say to you...?"

"You said the word police after all, not the title on the shoulders of the clothes, not the power and power, but the heavy responsibility and shackles."

Duan Wen's face changed suddenly and he realized the problem.

Xie Qing said: "This is my father's original words. He often tells me and his apprentices. The only apprentices he has brought are you and Li Yun."

"..." Duan Wen's lips twitched and he laughed, "What a mistake... I didn't expect you to remember your father's words so deeply."

Xie Qingcheng said, "I didn't expect you to remember your master's words so deeply."

Duan Wen: "…"

"After I heard this, I also mentioned the fact that Zheng Jingfeng and my parents were teammates since the internship. Team Zheng is strict, few people know about this, even me I only learned about it before I went to the island, but you are not surprised when you hear it. Neither my parents nor Team Zheng would say anything to others, and I am afraid that only their apprentices can know these details."

"Actually, after I finished talking with you that night, the person who was more suspicious was Li Yun." Xie Qingcheng said, "But then Li Yun appeared, so you are the only one left."

"As for that Li Yun, I'm afraid it's not true. He should be a transformed person, because He Yu's blood Gu usually only has no effect in two cases, one is that the other party wears it Che Xinjie, there is another situation, the other party is a living dead whose brain is controlled by a chip. I prefer the latter, because he feels wrong to me, not like a normal person."

Duan Wen lit a cigarette: "I underestimated you, Xie Qingcheng. Since it's all over, you might as well guess who is begging me not to kill you. ? I think you already know the answer."

In this silence, Xie Qingcheng slowly raised his eyes: "It's not my father's words, is it - Li Yun?"

Duan Wen glanced at him: "Xie Qingcheng, you are indeed... very, very suitable to be a policeman."

After he finished speaking, he said lightly: "Yes, it's because of him."

Intuition tells Xie Qingcheng not to say anything at this time. He can see that Duan Wen is pressing a lot of things in his heart, and those things have been pressed for too many years. Judging from Duan Wen's expression at the moment, It's not that he doesn't want to talk, but because none of these people on the island is something he can really relate to.

They just thought of the Gu worms in the pill furnace. They got together because of their ruthlessness. They were a gang but not a group. Even if they were not careful, they would be swallowed by other Gu worms.

Perhaps the moment when Xie Qingcheng took off his mask in front of Xie Qingcheng, it was the most relaxing time for Duan Wen in the past 20 years.

As expected, after several minutes, Duan Wen spoke slowly.

"Li Yun and I were both students of your father in the beginning..."

"Master treats me very well." Duan Wen looked at the sky outside the window and said indifferently, "He treats me much better than Li Yun, when he lacks skills, he can only take one apprentice He chose me, and suggested that Li Yun go to study with another old economic investigator, and even told Li Yun bluntly that his character was not suitable for front-line work."

This is not surprising, Xie Ping is a person who has one thing to say. He does not avoid relatives when he acts internally, and does not avoid hatred when he acts externally. It is normal for him to say such offending words to Li Yun.

"In everyone's impression, he has always had opinions on Li Yun, and I'm afraid you think so too."

Xie Qingcheng: "Isn't it?"

"It was indeed the case." Duan Wen said, "Originally, Master really disliked him. He felt that he was ruthless, good at disguising, and double-sided, but then his mind changed."

Xie Qingcheng took precaution: "He never told me."

"Because this happened very late, almost before he and his wife were killed." Duan Wen said, "Actually, the misunderstanding between them could have been resolved earlier. However, Li Yun doesn't like to mention his family very much, and it can even be said that he is deliberately concealing some of his past."

Xie Qingcheng frowned, the police academy needs political review when recruiting, like in Infernal Affairs, where the parents are big bosses of the youth gang, but it is almost impossible to become a policeman.

Duan Wen saw what he was thinking, lit another cigarette, took a sip and said, "It's not a bad background, so the police academy won't record the files in detail, and Master, he naturally doesn't know . To be honest, if it was someone else, they would not necessarily hide it, and even the comrades who were eager to work with them would know."

"What background?" Xie Qingcheng asked.

"Informant." Duan Wen said, "His father was an informant for the anti-drug police officer. He has worked for more than ten years. All are greengrocers.”

“…not verified by the police academy?”

"He didn't lie." Duan Wen brushed off the ashes and exhaled a breath of smoke, "His father is a fruit and vegetable dealer - he has been living with this stepfather who sells vegetables and fruits since elementary school, and his mother left When he got married, he was sentenced to his mother. His biological father looked like a homeless man, no one could stand it, but he was an informant.”

The ash rustled like a ghost of the past in the darkness.

"Li Yun didn't know the true identity of his biological father until he was in high school. At that time, his biological father died. He was discovered by the drug dealer when he was in contact with the police, and there was a shootout. To save a comrade-in-arms, he can only choose one of the two, and when he wants to go back to save the informant... his father is out of breath."

Xie Qingcheng felt slightly cold in his hands and feet.

He remembered the scene he saw when he was young. Before Li Yun obtained the police certificate, he used abnormal interrogation methods to extort confessions from drug dealers. The methods were cruel and his eyes were cold.

It turns out…

"The reason why his father is also an informant when his wife and son are separated is because his father is a complete idealist. As a native of the Golden Triangle, his father has seen too many ruined by drugs He once wanted to be a policeman, but unfortunately his physical fitness was not so good, and his physical examination was screened, but he never gave up. It was only after seeing a diary among the relics handed over to them that I learned these truths."

Duan Wen paused and continued, "You can imagine how complicated Li Yun's mood was when she read that diary."

As Duan Wen spoke, he leaned lazily on the chair and smoked a cigarette.

His tone was very indifferent, blood and rain were in his mouth, just as calm as he told Xie Qingcheng stories before.

But Xie Qingchen couldn't see the color in his eyes.

“Li Yun is very resentful to his biological father. For an ideal, his father left him and his mother. Between family and righteousness, his father resolutely chose the latter. He felt Extreme anger, unwillingness, pain. Yet…”

Taking another puff of cigarette, Duan Wen said, "In the college entrance examination that year, Li Yun gave up her original art school exam and filled out the police academy instead."

Xie Qingcheng: "…"

"I shared a dormitory with him for four years in college, and he was a bit arrogant and arrogant. I was the one who got along best with him, but during the four years, he never mentioned these past events to me. So later we entered the public security system. Your father, as the first master of the two of us, didn’t know anything about his family background. He thought that he was desperate for quick success and could be described as unscrupulous. I think your father must regret it when he finds out the truth. , he and Li Yun had a private conversation once, and I think that conversation between them was about this matter."

"…why guess."

"Because not long after, Master was murdered by the Mandela organization. At that time, there were two people who insisted on investigating the cause of Master's death. One made a lot of noise, so that everyone would know, that It's me. The other is very cautious, he noticed that there seems to be a ghost in the bureau, and he thinks that his bad relationship with Xie Ping is the best cover - that person is Li Yun. "

"!"

"Yes, Xie Qingcheng, Li Yun didn't have an accident to investigate my case. He had already stepped into this field of death long before he investigated my case." Duan Wen Dao, "Actually, he is the police officer who insisted on the innocence of your parents and gave his life."

Xie Qingcheng originally thought that after what happened to He Yu, there would be nothing that could greatly stimulate his mood, but at this moment, he knew that he had made a mistake in predicting and had to try his best to Allow yourself to breathe calmly.

The whole thing has reached the most critical time, and no move can be wrong.

"He pretended to be like that at the time. No one knew that he had broken up with Xie Ping and even became a year-old friend. He lied to everyone, including me at the time."

A cigarette is running out again.

Duan Wen did not smoke any more, he held the cigarette in his hand, and watched the filter paper slowly curl up in the spark, turning into black ashes: "Xie Ping is a very good policeman, but he I did two worst things in my life. First, I misunderstood Li Yun. Even if Li Yun made a mistake, it was not because of her vicious nature. Fortunately, he corrected this mistake before he died. And the second mistake..."

Duan Wendao: "He believed me wrong."

Xie Qingcheng seemed to be cold even in blood, he looked at Duan Wen blankly: "Duan Cuizhen arranged for you to enter the police station from the very beginning?"

"I'm also interested, so it can't be considered a complete arrangement." Duan Wen said, "But I did belong to Mandela from the very beginning. I have been since I was a child."

He stared at Xie Qingcheng's eyes, those eyes were cold, but there was no surprise.

"It seems that you are very clear about this." Duan Wen said, "I am Duan Cuizhen's junior. When I was very young, I completely accepted her thoughts."

"Since when."

Duan Wen calmly said: "From the first time I saw her. At that time, my mother and I were very unhappy."

Xie Qingcheng knows a thing or two about Duan Wen, that is, Chen Lisheng's family affairs.

Chen Lisheng's father originally had a wife, who was Kochi, but he gave up his studies and career for the family, and later fell ill and died.

After she passed away, Chen father formed a family with another woman, that woman was Chen Man's mother. But Chen's mother is very good to Chen Lisheng, there should be no gap between stepmother and stepson, and there should be no such thing as a mistress.

Duan Wendao: "My mother's marriage is unfortunate, and it really has nothing to do with Chen Wan's mother. My stepmother, like my biological mother, is the kind of person who can easily be carried away by emotions. I The father was handsome again, and they all liked him... My biological mother at least once liked him."

"And then."

"Later?" Duan Wen smiled lightly, "He is different from her. My mother is affectionate, but he got tired of her early."

It is Duan Cuizhen's mind. She was admitted to Shanghai University with excellent grades. According to the wife's statement, she would have a great future in scientific research, but unfortunately in college, she met my father and fell in love. "

"Their marriage has been fiercely opposed by the wife from the very beginning. The wife hopes that she can have a farther vision, not to stick to personal love, human energy is limited Yes, ordinary people are separated by so-called love, friendship, and family affection, so they fail to reach the peak of their ability. My wife has taught her this way since she was a child, and she has always taken this as her creed until love overwhelmed her cleverness. Mind." Duan Wen said leisurely, "She has become a captive of dopamine."

"The great-grandmother put a lot of effort into cultivating her, but she finally chose to be a housewife for a man, which made the great-grandmother very angry. She told my mother, if this is her She will regret it sooner or later. My mother is a very stubborn person, and the more my wife says so, the more she insists on doing what she wants to do, so after this conversation, they completely parted ways. The great woman expelled my mother, and my mother resolutely married my father."

Duan Wen went on to say: "She could have been a tree, but she chose to make a vine. My father may have longed for that kind of even-handed marriage, or maybe it was a natural Unsettled, all in all, he got tired of living with my mother very quickly after marriage."

All the trivial matters were left to his wife, who became a 24-hour nanny for him, and she was still the kind that didn't need to pay a salary. But when he got it to the outside world to comment, in that social environment at that time, no one would think that my father was my father. What's wrong with him. He can support his family and make money, manage himself well without looking for a mistress, and he is already an excellent husband. Even in the eyes of many women, he is impeccable. As for love and communication, that kind of Things are illusory and ethereal, and speaking out will only make those housewives who are knitting sweaters and washing dishes laugh. My mother feels that this home is no longer like a home, but more like a cold grave. But she doesn't even have a person who can really understand her. No one can be found."

"Tropical fish cannot survive in the Arctic. My mother is out of tune with the housewives around her, she is an island, and she lives empty and lonely every day. She wants to go back to college, but has Impossible... Eventually my mother suffered from severe depression and passed away in depression."

Xie Qingcheng: "...haven't you given her any encouragement?"

Duan Wen laughed.

He was very indifferent: "Encourage? That's her own choice."

"When people have feelings, they will have desires, and when they have desires, there will be disputes. There is no need for human life like ants to exist - this is what my wife told me since I was a child."

"Yes." Seeing Xie Qingcheng's unexpected eyes, Duan Wen said, "The great lady disappeared in my mother's life, and they never met again until she died. But actually, for as long as I can remember, as long as my mother wasn't home, the great-grandmother could show up at any time, and when my mother came back, she disappeared. We were playing some kind of secret game, and I knew my mother must have noticed that, Once I didn't mean to say something, I said something my grandma often said - 'natural selection, no one species can't be replaced', the look in her eyes when she looked at me...like a ghost Just as terrified. But there's nothing she can do to stop it."

Duan Wendao: "To an ordinary housewife, the great-grandmother is like a **** to mortals, completely crushing it. Every thing the great-grandmother does, even if my mother knows about it, she can't prevent it. "

"In this way, on the surface, I live and grow like an ordinary person, but in fact I have made a choice, my wife let me immerse in those ignorant enlightenment games when other children are still When I was young, I came into contact with real scientific research. I learned conspiracy calculations before they learned the multiplication formula table. I learned to master ambition before I learned a lot of social experience. Start helping her improve the organization, research drugs, collect wealth, and search for talent."

His voice is like spider silk, weaving the veins of the past, when he said these words, his eyes were lighter than the haze of cigarettes.

"It's not difficult to do these things. As long as there are needs in this world, there are diseases, and there are people's love and hate... We will never be short of collaborators. They can be high-ranking government officials or intellectuals , it can be a businessman who is greedy for profit, it can be a **** of a dealer... Emotion is an invisible thread on a person, and anyone who can't let go of his emotions may become our puppet."

Xie Qingcheng: "...like Zoya?"

"You must sympathize with her."

"I just think you guys are far more crazy than He Yu." Xie Qingcheng said, "You have read a lot of books, you should have heard a proverb - if you can feel pain, it means you are still alive and able to Only when you feel the pain of others does it show that you are an individual. Duan Wen…”

He didn't even call him Chen Lisheng again.

" Duan Cuizhen taught you those things, which is completely dehumanizing you. She wants you to be like this... But you are like this, even if you build the Mandela Metaverse , what if you gain the status of a ruler and the ability to think about immortality? Are you still alive? Are you still alive?"

There were the last two cigarettes left in the cigarette case, Duan Wen knocked them out, kept one for himself, and handed the other to Xie Qingcheng.

“…”

Xie Qingcheng did not answer.

Duan Wen didn't force it, he put the cigarette on the table, lowered his head and clicked the lighter, and took a puff.

"That's interesting. He said that too."

He, of course, was referring to Li Yun.

Xie Qingcheng: "Did Li Yun find out your identity before he died?"

"Yeah." Duan Wen exhaled a smoke ring and said, "I said, he is very smart, just as smart as you. The reason why I had to use Wei Rong's hand to make it The fake death case of his own car accident and explosion was forced by him."

When he said this, he finally revealed some normal emotions in his eyes.

But the emotion was very strange, not sad or melancholy, but a joy, as if recalling a wonderful competitive game.

"After our two masters died, I pretended to investigate, but in fact I was cleaning up the evidence, and the constant lack of the evidence aroused Li Yun's suspicion. Of course, he did not suspect at first Me, he trusts me, I know he sees me as his only friend in his lonely life. He even specifically warned me to be careful about it."

"...How ridiculous. If he hadn't had feelings for me and believed that I was not a ghost, and told me these clues that only he had investigated at the time, I would never have realized that he had Look so deep."

"Can you imagine that when he showed me the evidence I exposed in the crime, he didn't know that I was the one behind the scenes? Our two masters were right - he did this He is very talented, but he is really not suitable to be a front-line criminal police officer. He looks vicious and vicious, but he is actually too self-motivated."

"And his temperament caused him to directly expose himself in front of me. In front of the leader of the enemy organization."

Duan Wen said here, paused for a while, and said, "And the video tape you just mentioned that identified the crime in the basement of Huang Zhilong Entertainment Company was actually Li Yun at the earliest. found."

"!"

"He didn't show it to anyone, only me. He seemed to sense he was in danger, and when he handed me the tape, he said to me if something happened to him , I hope I can continue to investigate this case and give justice to the teacher."

When he said this, he sneered while holding his forehead: "There are so many people in the police station, why do you think he chose me as his partner?"

"I saw the video tape and even mentioned the Australian overseas organization, and I knew that the matter could not be dragged on any longer." Duan Wen said, "If I continue to investigate with his ability, I will sooner or later. Exposed. There were only two paths in front of me at that time, one was to directly plan to kill Li Yun, and the other was to fake my own death, lest he finally find me."

Xie Qingcheng asked: "Why didn't you choose one."

"…" Duan Wen did not answer.

After a while, he simply skipped the question and continued: "At that time, the social relationship line I laid was almost the same, and I was tired of Chen Lisheng's identity as a good policeman of justice. I took this opportunity to get rid of this life - Wei Rong thought she really killed Chen Lisheng, but she just made a wedding dress for my liberation. After 'Chen Lisheng' died in a car bombing, I went back to Mandela Island, I spent time changing my face, body shape and even my voice with the help of my great-grandmother... No one can guess my identity over the years, except you, only two people can do it. One of those two Personally, a blind cat killed a mouse, and he is not sure."

Xie Qingcheng: "One is Li Yun."

"Yes, he still refused to give up after my death. In the end, he found Duan Wen's identity and saw me after my appearance." Duan Wen paused, "As for the blind cat, you've seen it before."

Finally he raised his eyes: "Huang Zhilong."

Duan Wen smiled and said, "I was right to keep you. Xie Qingcheng, after Li Yun died, I haven't experienced this kind of chess match for a long time."

"—Yes." He said, "It's Huang Zhilong. How did you guess?"

Xie Qingcheng had a cold face: "He made Chen Man arrested in the basement incident, but if it is just used to blackmail Political Commissar Wang, the success rate is not high. Huang Zhilong and Political Commissar Wang have contacted It should be very clear that Political Commissar Wang is a person who did not recognize his six relatives before the big situation, so it is possible that he thought at the time that besides Political Commissar Wang, he was holding this card and there was another person who could be coerced."

Duan Wen smiled and nodded: "...So it is. It is true. Huang Zhilong accidentally bumped into the conversation between me and my wife, he didn't hear it completely, but he began to suspect that I was Chen Lisheng... Said To be honest, as long as he has a brain like yours, he shouldn't use Chen Yan to blackmail me. For me, Chen Yan's life and death are no different from the life and death of an ant."

"But you let him go."

"I said it." Duan Wendao, "after he realized that I might still be alive, he has been obsessed with the possibility of my 1/10,000th life. Just because of this, I finally Decided to let him die."

Pause, he said, "But you are different, Xie Qingcheng."

Duan Wen said here, his eyes slightly blurred.

He looked at Xie Qingcheng in uniform, as if from a simulated bright silk flower, he saw the white tan that bloomed and died on a summer night.

He slowly recalled some things related to Li Yun—