Star City Detective I Royal Cat and Mice

Zhan Qingyun didn't smoke the cigarette he just lit, but let the fire spread towards his finger little by little.His eyes were staring at something, but he didn't seem to see anything.The two of them stood in a stalemate in the cold wind for a long time.

When Zhan Qingyun was finally burnt to the end of the smoke, he raised his head suddenly.He took out a key from his close-fitting pocket, shook it, and then threw it in front of Bai Yan.I don't know if it was a mistake or intentional, but the arc and strength of the key's flying were obviously not enough, so it fell to Bai Yan's feet.

"You go." Zhan Qingyun turned his back and said, "I will re-edit the scoring book before I submit it to the Academic Affairs Office."

"Can I go?" Bai Yan recalled every word he said just now, thinking about which word touched Zhan Qingyun and made him suddenly change his mind.

"Are you sure?" Things seemed to be going too smoothly, Bai Yan frowned suspiciously, "I don't quite understand."

"There's nothing you don't understand - you got your twenty credits back. Understand enough this time? Now you can still catch the last bus home. Oh - sorry, I should have thought, how could you I know how to take a bus. Then, do you need me to call a car for you? Master Baiyan?"

Master Bai Yan?Bai Yan sneered - this is what people around his father used to call him, but it was so harsh when it came out of Zhan Qingyun's mouth.Bai Yan has an impulse at this moment, he wants to rush up and slap Zhan Qingyun.But he couldn't do that because his hands were still cuffed.

"You're right, I adopted your suggestion." Zhan Qingyun said again, just as Bai Yan was bending down to pick up the key in front of his feet.

"What suggestion did I say?" Bai Yan just half-bent, looking up at Zhan Qingyun.

"You're not like them—really. Yes, you have a father, a good one. And they—those kids, they don't. I thought they were you, and I expected them to be you , and none of them is you."

Bai Yan gave up picking up the key, and he straightened up again.In comparison, he was obviously more interested in what Zhan Qingyun had to say next.Thus, Bai Yan heard such a story——

Twenty years ago, when Zhan Qingyun was a trainee police detective who had just entered the police station, the first task he took over was to serve as a lineman for two police officers who were undercover in a drug cartel.As for this case, Zhan Qingyun followed him for three years.In the past three years, the cooperation of the three of them can be said to be seamless.Finally came the day when the evidence was conclusive and ready to be collected, but the undercover identity was accidentally exposed.Inevitably, those two undercover agents had a miserable time, and all the evidence was destroyed.After experiencing this incident, the drug cartel became more aggressive than before, and they even expanded their business scope from Star City to the edge of New Star City.

Bai Yan listened to Zhan Qingyun's speech indifferently, which did not cause any waves in his heart.What is the so-called empathy?Totally non-existent.Bai Yan felt that Zhan Qingyun's story was no different from those old-fashioned plots on TV.Even so, when Zhan Qingyun finished his story, he still expressed regret for the sacrifice of the two police officers.

"It's true—" Bai Yan shook his head and said, his tone was full of polite reassurance, "If, I mean, if, this matter has something to do with my father, then—although I know that apologizing is useless , but I still want to make amends for him.”

"One of the undercover agents—I'm sorry I can't reveal his name until now." Zhan Qingyun ignored Bai Yan's interjection, and continued, "He has a ten-year-old son. On the day he was killed, he His son is also missing."

Bai Yan noticed that Zhan Qingyun used the word "disappeared" when narrating.But Bai Yan felt that anyone with a clear mind in the leadership of the drug cartel would not allow the word "missing" to appear.They can only silence, and outright.

Zhan Qingyun is still talking, but he narrates very slowly. In some places, he will repeat a sentence several times. He seems to be thinking about memories, or he seems to be stuck in it, unable to Don't think of ways to slap yourself hard time and time again.

Bai Yan understood that in the past few years, Zhan Qingyun had spent all his time trying to find a dead person in Star City and New Star City in vain.Bai Yan didn't know what to say about this.Between the two of them, more and more cigarette butts were scattered on the ground.

"So, you now suspect that I am the missing child?"

"Not doubting. Do you think I would tell you the whole thing if I wasn't quite sure?"

"What makes you so sure about this?" Bai Yan asked, which sounded like a question in court.

"I don't have any evidence, I'm just sure—" Bai Yan felt that Zhan Qingyun, who said such nonsense in front of him, might be more like a mysterious stick than his identity as a police officer.

"I'm sorry to interrupt you again." Bai Yan said, "If necessary, I can show you my birth certificate, identity certificate, and even my elementary school and kindergarten report cards."

"I don't need it. You probably forgot that when you were admitted to the police academy, you had already submitted the materials for a comprehensive review." Bai Yan said oh, he really forgot this.

"So, in your opinion, why did the police academy allow the son of a drug dealer to enter?" Yes, why?Bai Yan also wanted to ask.In fact, applying for the police academy at that time was just a prank with his father, Bai Yan never thought that he would be admitted.But now it seems that his successful entrance into the police academy obviously has a lot to do with Zhan Qingyun.

However, this doesn't make sense.If it was Zhan Qingyun who managed to get him admitted to the police academy, why would he face the end of being kicked out of the campus without even finishing the first week of classes?Just to humiliate the drug dealer's son?Like a stuffed cat teasing its prey?Bai Yan felt that his train of thought was starting to become a little disordered.

"So, if I go back with you tonight, will you explain everything to me?" Bai Yan asked.

"I gave you a choice, you don't have to follow me."

"Why are you such a mother-in-law—" Saying this, Bai Yan kicked the keys on the ground into the gutter beside the road.

"I choose now—to go with you." Bai Yan said firmly, and ran in front of Zhan Qingyun in two steps, "If you don't want to freeze to death on the street and be the headline of tomorrow's morning newspaper, you'd better walk quickly."

When the two returned to Zhan Qingyun's home, it was already late at night.As soon as he entered the door, Zhan Qingyun found another key out of nowhere, and helped Bai Yan unlock the handcuffs.

"This is a spare." When Bai Yan looked at Zhan Qingyun, Zhan Qingyun explained, "You know, those who work in our line of work must make more preparations."

Zhan Qingyun didn't vacate his bedroom like entertaining guests.Instead, he let Bai Yan sleep on the sofa in the living room.

This night, Bai Yan didn't sleep so soundly.In a daze, he had a long, long dream.In the dream, his past life became a huge jigsaw puzzle.But each episode of his life does not fit together with the others.This made him extremely anxious.He put it together again and again, and took it apart again and again.There must be something missing in the puzzle, but Bai Yan couldn't tell what was missing.

When Bai Yan woke up the next day and looked at the handcuffs on the bedside table, he felt that something was wrong.

At breakfast, he finally woke up.

The key that unlocked his handcuffs was completely different from the one that Zhan Qingyun threw on the ground the night before, no matter the size, material or style.

Bai Yan understood that Zhan Qingyun would not let him go no matter what, no matter how he chose, and whether he was voluntary or not.