I didn't have an outburst, I didn't even have any anger because he was right.

I do love to see the faces of my enemies distorted by fear and tears of despair. I even occasionally deliberately create a panic atmosphere to make them even more frightened. In this way, I, who am easily frightened, can also look like a strong person. That's the nature of my meanness.

But on top of that, I don't have any shortage of merits. This is a virtue that even a person like me, who often doubts himself, often affirms himself. That's how I've always been honest with myself. I may avoid the questioning of others, but I will never avoid my own. Whenever I deceive other people and make them think that I am a terrifying monster, I do not even deceive myself and mistake my mask for my true face.

In addition, I always keep in mind my principle of "never harm the innocent."

However, he said: Your roots are not right, and you will deteriorate sooner or later!

Nonsense.

*

"It's time to answer my question, right?" I asked.

"Why?" Xu Shengxing asked rhetorically.

"The reason why you led the team to infiltrate Beaver Pharmaceutical's security team is probably because you also noticed something, right? As it happens, I'm here for the problem. I said, "You can distrust me, but that doesn't stop us from being honest and working with each other to be more realistic about how we use each other." ”

"The Black Zone Way of Thinking." He smiled sarcastically.

But a second later, he continued, "My motivation for coming here is very simple, recently I was investigating the disappearance of people in Beaver City during this time, and after a series of investigations and analysis, I suspect that some of the missing people have nothing to do with the sheepskin killers that have been rumored recently, but that Beaver Pharmaceutical is more suspicious." ”

Hopefully we can continue the conversation, I think.

He was exactly as I had thought, and although he hated me, he didn't shy away from cooperating with me when necessary.

As for the fact that he was able to track down Beaver Pharmaceutical through normal investigative means, it is not surprising. If Beaver Pharmaceutical is really the "mysterious organization of laymen at the decision-making level", then it is strange that he can't catch the slightest clue.

"What does this have to do with your current actions?" I asked.

"One question and one question." He said what I had just said.

I recalled his previous question, which was "what are you investigating here", and I replied, "Beaver Pharma is probably putting all the missing people into a very dangerous human experiment." ”

His eyebrows furrowed deeply, as if even the green beans were firmly sandwiched in the middle.

Then, he nodded slowly, and answered my question as well, "There was an incident of a mad psyker attacking Beaver Pharmaceutical's technical advisor during the day, and I suspect that he will attack Beaver Pharmaceutical's headquarters next, but if he is only one person, I am afraid that he will be more than lucky." So in order to prevent Beaver Pharma from preemptively catching him and seizing him privately, I had to make sure that the person who captured him was on my side. That way I could interrogate him so I could find out more about Beaver Pharmaceutical—and he clearly knew that. ”

I was about to continue talking when he suddenly interrupted me, "Now is not the time to communicate, you leave the contact information first, and I will take the initiative to contact you when the time comes." ”

Leave a contact information? If he contacts me at home, and my cell phone rings in the same room, wouldn't it be immediately a goof?

Thinking of this, I said, "I'll contact you myself tomorrow, you just wait." ”

With that, I ignored his obstruction and left the place.

*

It didn't take long for me to join Adam.

After briefly explaining the situation encountered on my side, we agreed that since the headquarters of Beaver Pharmaceutical Company was heavily guarded, and the room where the precious materials were stored at the beginning has now become worthless, then, under the premise that it is impossible to decide on the follow-up plan for the time being, choosing to cooperate with Xu Shengxing is also a valuable route despite the risks.

Then, after a temporary separation from Adam, I returned to my home, and I took off all my disguises and restored myself to my original self.

It was past midnight, and it was hard for me to fall asleep when I got home, and my mind was full of the previous battle. Just thinking about whether he needed to take a pill of melatonin to help him sleep, he got up and went to the kitchen to boil some hot water, Xu Shengxing also went home.

He was walking from the entrance to the back room, and then he noticed me standing in the kitchen, and was a little surprised, "You haven't slept yet?" ”

"I've gone too far online and I'm getting ready for sleep." I said naturally, while secretly checking my appearance: the cane was still on crutches in my hand, no problem; Although the blindfold is not worn, it is not abrupt when I am preparing to sleep.

Not long ago, I fought him as a faceling at Beaver Pharmaceutical, but when I got here, I had to pretend to be my disabled son, and the two identities were so different that they were really contradictory.

Then I asked, "How did you get back today?" ”

"There was something unexpected at work." He said vaguely, as if he was a little embarrassed, and the whole person was no longer the aggressiveness of the previous battle, but instead looked like a clumsy parent who didn't know how to communicate with his children.

As for the work accident he said, I think it was because he had set fire to the headquarters of the beaver pharmaceutical company in a frenzy, so he was complained by the company. Otherwise, according to his original plan, he would have stayed up all night at Beaver Pharmaceutical's place today.

I suddenly remembered that he had not returned for several days in a row, and that the truth had now been revealed, and that he was busy investigating the problem of Beaver Pharmaceutical.

As I walked out of the kitchen, I casually asked, "Isn't it like before, when chasing criminals too violently, you broke some public facilities?" ”

"How so?" He said reflexively.

"Your right hand is always clenched into a fist when you lie." I say.

He subconsciously glanced down at his right hand, and at the same time, I added with a smile, "Lie to you." "Maybe it's a little more than some people expect, but when I'm not a Faceling, I still have a normal smile or a joke; To put it mildly, the image of the Faceling's cold-faced powerhouse was originally played by me, and I have emphasized this many times before.

"Children don't tease adults!" He said with a straight face.

"Eighteen is also a child?" I asked rhetorically.

He asserted: "If a man is not married, and if he is not yet forty years old, he cannot speak of true adulthood." ”

This sentence is also too crude. I said, "Forty is too much, why not change it to thirty?" ”

"You children always regard people who have passed the age of 30 as middle-aged, but at my age, you will understand that 'unmarried 30s' are even later than 'married 20s'." With that, he took off his coat and threw it on the sofa in the living room, and sat down tiredly. I couldn't find anyone else to help confirm whether what he said was right or wrong. Maybe that's just his opinion, and I can't judge. Who made me never experience life after the age of twenty-four? Don't take "forty-two years old mental age" to compare the answer.

"Moreover, this time it was not only me who destroyed the building, but also the criminal, and the result was also counted on my head." He seemed to defend himself, and then muttered, "Besides, how can that kind of guy really be an 'ordinary person', even if it is really not a psyker, it is definitely not a human anyway, but a monster in human skin or something...... I'm going to arrest him sooner or later......"

The person you want to arrest is standing right in front of you, living in the house you paid for, eating the meals you paid for.

I thought to myself as I went back to the kitchen, poured the freshly boiled hot water into my cup, and thought: Is he really suspicious of me?

I just exited the Black Zone last year with a serious injury, and he was extremely suspicious of me. This suspicion is quite hidden, if it weren't for the fact that I was "a thief" at the time, and I also thought that it was too coincidental that the two things of "Faceling's withdrawal from the black zone" and "Xu Fu's serious injury and disability" came together, otherwise I wouldn't have noticed his suspicion of me.

Admittedly, I blamed my disability on the accident at the beginning, specifically, when the "team of super-psionics" besieged the "Facelings", "I" was seriously injured as a passerby who was accidentally involved - no way, although I didn't want to mix in the "causes of disability" related elements of the siege, but after the battle, I was too badly injured to go far, so I had to disguise myself on the spot, and a few passers-by were indeed involved at that time.

However, this sloppy disposition really aroused Xu Shengxing's suspicions, and later I had to hire someone else to disguise myself as "me", while I appeared in another place at the same time as a "faceling" to create an unshakable "alibi".

And in order to prevent some enemies from rushing to the well like dogs smelling meat, I tried my best to let only a very small range of people know about this appearance, including Xu Shengxing.

It stands to reason that that operation has dispelled Xu Shengxing's suspicions, but I am not completely sure - because there are supernatural powers in this world, the police community generally lacks enough trust in material evidence, and some police officers will be suspicious of even the most basic common sense and logic, so there are not a few who go crazy, and I even occasionally hear things like "Hey, do you remember Officer John, who is known as a detective in the next district, but recently disappeared?" I saw him eating cockroaches in the madhouse yesterday".

The more experienced the policeman, the more suspicious he is, and it is really difficult to determine whether Xu Shengxing trusts me or is suspicious.

*

The next day, in the morning.

Xu Shengxing was not in a hurry to go to work today, according to him, because "there was some accident at work", so his superiors granted him a few days off.

He seemed to think that he should spend more time with his family, so he agreed with me to go to see a new movie together at noon.

I said yes, then turned back to my bedroom and sent him a text message on my work phone as a Faceling, designating a location and asking him to continue the conversation he had last time.

Then quickly shut down so that he wouldn't call me.

After a few moments, I heard a knock on the bedroom door, and then he opened the door and said to me, "I'm going to work." ”

"Didn't you say that work was temporarily suspended?" I asked with a blank face.

"There was something unexpected at work." He said awkwardly.

"Really? Let's go early and come back early. I said.

"I'm sorry." He seemed rather guilty, "I'll definitely spend more time with you next time." ”

"Don't worry, I don't care." I took the initiative to comfort, "I'm eighteen years old, and it's no longer the age to let my parents watch movies with me." ”

He nodded silently, closed the door, seemed to hesitate for a few seconds, then turned to change his clothes, put on his shoes at the entrance and left.

I waited for a while, then went out on my own, completed my disguise in the park two and a half kilometers away from my home, and finally came to the meeting place, where I saw Xu Shengxing with a stinky face.

The meeting place was a popular breakfast restaurant, and he sat in the corner with his hands folded around his chest like an invigilator, with a bowl of salted bean curd in front of him.

I sat down across from him, the last time I fought him, I had been wearing a helmet the whole time, and now I was in a disguised face, so he didn't recognize me for a moment, but said politely, "There are people here." ”

"I'm that person." I say.

His eyes changed suddenly, to put it simply, from "citizens looking at citizens" to "police looking at criminals", and his tone changed from politeness to sarcasm, "I initiated a request to meet, but I myself was late?" ”

"I didn't specify a time." I said, "So, without further ado, let's get straight to the point......

"What's the 'right topic', exchanging information?" He interrupted me impatiently, "That's, isn't it?" Exactly what you want, say it. ”

"Then I'll be blunt." I'm not angry either, "I want you to provide power from the perspective of the police, and our side from the perspective of the black zone, to establish closer cooperation with each other to investigate the truth about Beaver Pharmaceutical." As for now, let's just exchange sincerity and talk about the information we have. "That's what I discussed with Adam last night.

"'We'?" He repeated the phrase, and then his face showed the condescending attitude of the police towards criminals, "And whether or not I am willing to establish any 'closer cooperation' with you, are you not afraid that I will suddenly arrest you all and send you to prison?" ”

"You might as well give it a try, but if you don't succeed on the spot, you'll do it at your own risk." I said tit-for-tat, "I heard that although you were widowed in your early years, you still have two sons at home, the younger brother is studying in other places, and the elder brother lives locally, right?" It was like a young man with crippled hands and feet, blind in one eye, how pitiful! The thought that he might find himself in an even more pitiful situation made me feel sympathy. ”

His tone suddenly froze, and his voice turned into a spear made of ice, piercing violently, "You've let me down so much, Faceling! I thought you were lawless, but you still had the most basic rules of being a human being—"

"It's a pity that the root is wrong, sooner or later it will deteriorate, right?" I let my tone be just as cold.