Chapter 11: Bondage

He had a feeling, he could almost touch the mystery. [Full text reading. This is the feeling that every time a major case is decisively advanced.

"So, what are you doing here for me?" Hindy asked suddenly.

Li Changgeng didn't know how to answer for a while, fiddling with the cigarette case in his hand, his eyes staring at Xindi, and there was a very strange light in his eyes.

She knew what that look meant, but she wasn't going to say it directly, but forced the other party to play a card, "Why don't you report it directly?" ”

"You want me to report the investigation? That's a problem. As I told you earlier, once these are reported, all the previous conclusions about the accident will be overturned, and the process must be followed by intentional homicide. I'm not in the special police now, but I still have a criminal police position. If I hand these up, you should know very well what the result will be. ”

Xindy felt his words loosen and had a chance to break free. The question she wanted to figure out the most had been answered: who was the target of the special high-level police who suddenly appeared in the hotel, whether it was herself, Li Changgeng, or other targets. Now it seems that the first possibility can be ruled out, and it would be much easier.

"So what? Since you don't report it, what do you want to do? ”

He sighed: "I have been understanding you from your state of mind, and I hope you can understand my position. If it had been when I was young, I would have handled this case strictly to the end, and sent everything to the procuratorate, and I was determined not to let go of a bad person. At that time, my mind was full of handling cases, and I kept working hard, hoping to be appreciated by my superiors, hoping to be promoted, and hoping to achieve something successful. However, at this age, I have seen too much, and my heart is tired. No matter how hard we try, there is no way for us to go up after all. But some people are different, they have just graduated from the police academy, and they can get high-ranking officials by changing a few police stations to hold some positions. ”

"Your police profession is not what I imagined."

"Hehe, yes. Actually, it's not that imposing. He laughed dryly, "Among the cases I have handled, there was a case of intentional injury caused by financial fraud, and I cooperated with the economic investigation. I thought it would be a great thing to catch the real culprit, collect evidence, and send the bad guy to the prosecutor's office. But the murderer was just an ordinary person, he was driven to a dead end, all his money was cheated away, and his family was ruined. Let's take a look at the victim in the case, who lives a lascivious life with the money he defrauded on weekdays, and can still reach a deal with the economic investigation when he encounters something. Seeing their collective celebration of triumph, I felt like I was a big loser. In this world, good people have no way to live, they can only be forced to sin; Bad guys can play with the law in the palm of their hands. Therefore, it is really pointless for me to desperately arrest these ordinary people. That's what I think about your case. ”

"You mean, as if I had really sinned." Xindi also admired Li Changgeng's sincerity to a certain extent, but she did not relax her defense in the slightest.

"No, it's just assumptions. Like I said, assuming there is a crime, you fit the situation I said. However, once the evidence has accumulated enough to support it, the assumptions can be very scary. When a suspect is convicted, it is often not the truth that is revealed, but the fact that he is trapped in a hypothetical cage supported by strong evidence, and there is no other possibility than a hypothetical situation, so the suspect will be convicted regardless of the facts. ”

"You're scaring me."

Xindi took Li Changgeng's cigarette case and smoked from it, unceremoniously. This surprised him a little, and he hurriedly lit her fire with a lighter. Her beautiful lips gently spit out curling green smoke, and then held the cigarette with her slender and elegant fingers, her posture was charming, which deeply attracted Li Changgeng's attention.

"You're really different from your partner."

"Partner?"

"That high-level police officer named Liu Shan."

"He came to you?"

"Right where you and I made an appointment, Tokita Shindi."

Xindi's words made Li Changgeng very surprised. He has been feeling that things have not been going well lately, and it is especially strange that the sudden search of his home by the special police force a moment before his appointment with Xinti has forced him to stop the operation. It seems that there is a problem around him. Unexpectedly, Liu Shan, the partner who takes the most care of him on weekdays, would take the lead in meeting Xindi for him. From this, it can be inferred that all the results of the investigation have been mastered by him.

"What did he tell you?"

"Like you, it was said that it was to find out some details of Master Lei's case, but in fact, there were other plans. Ask me if I know about Mr. Fu and the mausoleum. ”

"What did you say?"

"I don't have anything to say."

"I see," he judged through his own investigation, and did not doubt Xindi's words, "maybe I had a misunderstanding with him at work." ”

Xindi held a cigarette in her right hand and looked at him, "It seems that you still don't know that Liu Shan is dead." ”

Hearing this, Li Changgeng frowned, this was what he was most worried about.

"No wonder. You have quit the special high police, and the case of Commander Lei is completely investigating privately, and it is estimated that you will have to hide in Osaka. When you have time to watch the news, you can see Officer Liu's misfortune. I'm sad, but the police are searching everywhere in the hope that they can catch the killer soon. ”

Seeing that Li Changgeng didn't speak, Xindi knew that she had broken free from the other party's threat. For both sides, the time is ripe for a showdown.

"Why do you keep staring at me?"

"There are a lot of suspicious places on you."

"I can explain them all, but this hotel is closing, so we don't need to change places."

"Somewhere else?" Li Changgeng swallowed his saliva.

"Change to a quieter place, me and you, the two of you will communicate alone."

"Okay."

She smiled: "Mr. Li, I'm not a little girl anymore, let's just say it." You concealed this case and didn't report it, and investigated it privately, but you actually had a plan for me. However, he hesitated. To be honest, I don't think you're such a superficial person, you have goals - big goals that you finally grasped, this is an opportunity to achieve a lifetime, and it's hard to give up. But this heart is always disturbed. ”

His face suddenly turned pale.

After a while, I gradually calmed down. As an ordinary middle-aged person, it must be admitted that he has been deeply fascinated by Xindi. If he could spend the night with her, he would give up anything. But Hinty's charm awakened him even more to his exuberant passion, which is a feeling that only young people have, and this feeling represents fame and heroism. Hinty has taken him to the place where the mystery is revealed, and the greatest villain is at hand. At this moment, Li Changgeng's curiosity, sense of professionalism, and the pleasure of being a hero in front of the woman he is obsessed with finally overwhelmed the superficial physiology.

It was only after this contest between the two men that they reached a certain degree of alliance. Li Changgeng needs Xindi's help to further explore the final mystery; And Xindi also wants to ask for insurance on him.

"Liu Shan's affairs, I will take care of it. Also, can I ask you a few questions? ”

"I'll answer your words."

"Where are you going before you go back to the hotel?"

"Go to the house of a gentleman surnamed Fu on Nakanoshima."

"Nakanoshima, is it Mr. Fu from the Revar?"

"Yes."

"Okay, that's for a conversation. Will you still go? ”

"Yes."

"What are you going to do?"

"As a companion, I guess."

When Li Changgeng heard this answer, he felt a little resentful in his heart, "He is exactly my target." ”

"I can estimate that. You don't want me to go, though, do you? ”

"That's true."

"Can you tell me what's going on?"

"As you can hear, the final core is a place code-named the mausoleum." He hesitated for a moment, then continued, "Yes, the mausoleum should be the code name of a certain location, not something else. I have seen this code name in several cases of the Seven Aces of the First Five-Year War, and it just so happens that these cases are more or less related to you, and we can talk about it together. I started with the Lu Tong case of the Seven Aces, and you have also read the reports from the outside world that he created a fake death incident in order to escape. ”

"I've heard of it. At that time, I had just come to Xindongdu to develop. ”

"There are a lot of doubts, so I won't explain them all. In short, his death is probably not fake, Lu Tong is really resurrected from the dead. ”

"Are you serious?"

"I've visited all the people and places involved, and I've ruled out all other possibilities." His expression was very serious.

"I can't believe it."

"You can listen to me go on, after all, the next case is your personal experience, that is, Shi Yi, one of the seven aces, who was killed immediately after visiting your former Cent branch, right?"

"It was a fight."

"Yes. After Shi Yi's death, Shishi Company grew rapidly under the leadership of his adopted daughter, Wang Xiangzhu, and at the same time, there was another thing growing at the same time. ”

"You mean the puppet phenomenon?"

"Absolutely. I've done a lot of research, and the puppets aren't purely AI-controlled, and they're not driving live people. ”

"I've heard some legends. The recurrence of the dead by the Baker Island convoy is one of the more eyewitnesses. ”

"The same goes for the other puppets. Those machines are like some kind of vehicle for the resurrection of the dead, but they are imperfect, the consciousness of the resurrected is unstable, and it is too aggressive. ”

Xindi didn't answer, and the topic really scared her.

"The third case, maybe you are not so familiar with, is Qiao Fu of the Seven Aces, he committed suicide in Osaka."

"Hmm."

"It's not him, it's his daughter Qiao Hongyu. Qiao Hongyu died of a sudden illness at the Upper Tang Base in Bori Prefecture in the record, which was a completely definite death. Incredibly, there are many people who have witnessed Qiao Hongyu on the aircraft carrier Glorious Liaoning. He paused slightly, and then said, "At this time, we can move out the conservative assumption first, Lu Tong is playing dead, and the puppet mercenaries recruited by Shi Yi are a drone scam, but Qiao Hongyu's situation can't be explained in any way." However, if we turn it over and acknowledge these incredible events, we can draw a very interesting conclusion. ”

He became excited, "Here, we have to go back to Mr. Fu first." He is a man of unbridled wealth and monopoly, and it is unreasonable for such a person to invest in a project without hesitating his blood to invest locally. However, he did invest countless amounts of money in the Seven Aces of the First Sino-Japanese War, regardless of the profits, and the case of the Seven Aces was also related to these huge capital flows. Lu Tong's money was used as a 'test', and he was later briefly brought back to life in some inexplicable form; Shi Yi's money was used to 'recruit test subjects', and the mercenaries recruited by his company eventually formed a puppet tide, and Qiao Fu committed suicide after the war, but his share was hung in the Shishi company, which was used for 'full-state experiments and final activation', and his result was probably Qiao Hongyu, and I once saw the description of her as 'immortal'. ”

Xindi did not question it, because she had also investigated the flow of funds for Lei Yujian, and what Li Changgeng said was consistent with her investigation. However, she had not been exposed to the experimental report on Qiao Hongyu, and she could not refute his words, she only felt that there seemed to be some kind of memory floating in the dark, a memory about the mystery, but she couldn't think of anything.

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