Chapter 14: Making a Second Choice

"Shi Hao, concentrate on the poster, and I'll take care of the rest." Team Xiao picked up his phone, and after a few minutes, he put down the phone and said to us: "We have found the school of the two children, and now we are looking for the children's residential address through the school department, whether the suspect is Lauren or Anru, we will try to arrest him before he has a seizure." ”

Twenty minutes later, Team Shaw arrested Lauren, who was heating breakfast for the children, at the address given by the school. When she opened the door and saw Team Xiao, Lauren was not surprised, but simply said goodbye to the children, reminded them to pay attention to safety on the way to school, and left with the police very meekly.

Team Xiao interrogated Lauren in the interrogation room, while Mr. Lu and Li Jing observed Lauren's reaction through the surveillance screen.

"Mr. Lauren shouldn't need us to ask for an interpreter, right?"

Lauren smiled slightly and said, "No, I am very good at Chinese." ”

"Looking at the entry records, Mr. Lauren should have been in China for almost nine years, right?"

Lauren smiled without saying a word, nodding or shaking her head, seemingly familiar with the police interrogation process.

"I read the information, you worked in the theater where we found the victim before, which is the Light and Shadow Theater, the predecessor of the current movie theater, more precisely, you are an actor in the shadow theater troupe, right?" Team Shaw showed Lauren the materials in hand.

"I wonder if there's any other interesting information about me in that thick pile of materials in your hand?" Lauren asked rhetorically without answering.

Team Xiao didn't make trouble when he saw him like this, but kindly opened the information and read it: "There is some information about your rebellion in the juvenile detention center." Do you need to revisit it again? ”

"Who doesn't make mistakes in their youth?" Lauren didn't look at the information.

"But as an adult, you can avoid touching these mistakes again."

Lauren stopped talking, knowing that he would be better off not saying a word, and anything he said could pose a threat to Encore's actions.

Team Xiao saw him sitting there without saying a word, Team Xiao was still calm on the surface, but in his heart he clearly knew that the rich mercenary experience of the person opposite had trained a strong mental power, and it was not so easy to break through Lauren's psychological defense, but now, finding An Ru and saving the next victim was the most important task now, and he didn't have time to grind for Lauren. Ten seconds later, Team Xiao left the interrogation room, and when he returned, he was followed by Teacher Lu.

Teacher Lu stopped Team Xiao's introduction: "Time is really running out on our side now, when Xiao Xiao only brought you back, I knew that we might not be able to stop you and An Ru's actions." But I tried to make a last-ditch effort, hoping to save one more life like your former captain. Maybe the person who is about to die is a heinous bastard in your eyes, but have you thought about it, all the victims are just like you before you met Comrade Baoguo, just blinded by demons, and they all deserve spiritual salvation. ”

Lauren looked at Teacher Lu indifferently and sneered.

"Do you realize you've done something wrong when you're mercenaries?" Teacher Lu probably guessed Lauren's thoughts, "You destroyed the family of the old man Musa, but the old man exchanged his life for the salvation of your heart in the forbidden area." You haven't forgotten her back on crutches, have you? I found this at Anru's house. Mr. Lu spread out the notebook, which was mixed with a piece of food wrapper, which was plasticized in a plastic film, and the handwriting on the food wrapper was blurred, but the number TL0626 was vaguely recognizable.

Finally, Lauren lost his cool, he got up and wanted to take back what was in Mr. Lu's hand, Team Xiao pressed him back to his seat, Lauren's mouth trembled, and he wanted to say something but couldn't open his mouth. Li Jing then walked into the interrogation room with a tablet, and he handed it to Lauren, who discovered that there was a new post on "tamoo" written by the person who had caused the start of the killing.

"For all of you who have seen and are reading my post now, I am not posting this time to stir up a dispute in the forum like before, but rather to apologize for my childishness and cruelty. This morning, I received a message from a police officer, and I realized that what I had once posted to show off my knowledge and ideas had turned out to be the beginning of a killing. 6 years ago, when I wrote the post, I was going through a frustration period in my life, and it should be because of the unhappiness in my life, the Internet has become my outlet, and I preach violence in my post, just to cover up the cowardly and timid character in reality. At that time, my arguments about war were widely supported and satisfied my vanity, but I think that people who have no respect for life like me are losers in the real world.

What saddens me the most is that my words deeply hurt two soldiers who have been to the battlefield, who have experienced the horrors of war, the panic of people displaced by war, and the fear of losing their lives before their eyes. I didn't have the courage to defend like they did, and I didn't even have a chance to delete the post and apologize before I knew about it. Because of my cowardice and selfishness, the number of victims continues to increase. Soon after I posted the post, I moved to another city and started a new life, and I slowly forgot about the post.

Later, after I was in a car accident, when I woke up from my hospital bed, I realized that what was really powerful was not to destroy lives, but to save lives. I remembered what I had said in my post before, and I felt very guilty. I feel very guilty about these things that happened later, both for those victims before me and for survivors of the war who were hurt by reading my posts. Whether you can forgive me or not, I hope you will stop what you are about to do, I know that we are not worth pleading in your eyes, but I still hope that you will save us and make us atone for our mistakes. I'm sorry for all the things I've done, and we'll be punished for the sins we've committed. Just hopefully, you can get rid of the damage we have caused you soon.

War is the greatest evil, and life is the best gift from God. ”

After reading the post, Lauren's tears had already slipped down, and his eyes seemed to appear in front of his eyes the humble shelter where he was when he first opened his eyes and saw Old Man Musa, who saw him wake up and folded his hands and said: "Thank Allah, this young man is still alive." Her lips trembled, and she motioned for Team Xiao to hand him the paper and pen, and wrote down the message he had left for An Ru last night.

The man stood in the hidden place of the corridor and smoked, looked at his watch, it was already 9 o'clock, and the people in the house still did not move, the man remembered what Lauren said yesterday, and it was estimated that the news released by the police made the prey vigilant. There may be someone upstairs decorating, there is the sound of a sizzling electric drill, the man feels that his head is starting to hurt, his vision becomes blurred, he closes his eyes for a moment, and when he opens them again, he finds himself hiding in a trench, he quickly extinguishes the cigarette in his hand, and can't let the flickering sparks reveal his position. He looked at the other side, and behind the bunker over there should be where the enemy was hiding, and he had to rush over to escape from here. He kicked at the most vulnerable part of the bunker, and the enemy behind the bunker didn't seem to react, and he rushed over with his knife.

It was also at this time that he heard movement behind him, and he grabbed the enemy in front of him, and he now needed this captive to help him escape from this forbidden area. Then he heard the language he had once known, and it sounded like an old man, who was saying something in a hoarse voice, a voice that seemed to have been heard somewhere.

Li Jing turned the phone up to the maximum and turned it on to the public, and he motioned for the victim to be quiet, and the phone came from a burst of intermittent Arabic. On the other end of the phone, an old man was reciting the Quran in Arabic accompanied by Xiaozhi.