"It's called this name, it turns out that Cheng Qingjun has heard of it." Wei Yibai looked at Cheng Qingdi in front of him with a puzzled expression, and responded again in his heart.

"Of course I've heard of it, I've heard about this novel from my classmates before, and I've been interested in updating it for a long time. And it's not just novels, but even the comics related to it have been collected......" Cheng Qing said incredulously.

"It turns out that the reason why I thought the manga you drew yesterday was familiar, is like this...... Then it can be explained. Once, after reading the updated novel, I went to look up the related comics, and found that the art was very good, but the length of the update was not very large at the time, so I decided to save up and wait until the manga came out of the physical book before buying it...... Later, after putting it in the favorites, I forgot it a little after I didn't turn it out again over time......"

"My classmates should be happy to know that her novels are so popular, as a new writer. And I was very happy to hear Cheng Qingjun's appreciation of my comics just now. ”

Wei Yibai smiled and said.

It's just that this beautiful situation and time are short-lived. Just before the start of this year's summer vacation, I knew that my sister had been given a valuable job opportunity. My sister didn't plan to go to work at first because she had to take care of me at home. But I can't waste my sister's future because of my condition...... That's why I offered to go back to my home country to study. ”

"And if I want to go back to my country, I will definitely be separated from Shen Tongsheng. In this way, many questions about novels and comics cannot be discussed in a timely manner, because people in both places are not together, and they both have all kinds of things to be busy. If you feel that a plot or content needs to be revised, it will inevitably take a lot of time to adjust. This is very draining for either side. ”

"Therefore, I asked to temporarily step down from the position of chief comic writer, hoping that she can find a painting expert in another country, and continue to help her adapt her novels in the form of comics for me."

"But this issue has caused a lot of controversy among us. Shen Tongsheng insisted on not changing the main writer, because she felt that if the comic had been updated for a long time, she suddenly changed the style of painting, which would definitely cause readers to be uncomfortable and cause the comic to lose its original flavor. She said that she would devote more time to the novel and try to take on the energy-consuming things, while I was relieved of the pressure and could finish the comic work with ease. ”

"However, if in order to balance both ends of the novel and the comics, I can't accept it if I put all the burden on Shen Tongsheng to trouble her like this. So the differences of opinion between us grew wider. And the dream I had yesterday was also about it. I'm just scared that because of this disagreement, we'll end up ...... Thoroughly ...... Part company with. ”

"That's why I said don't go," Cheng Qing finally understood the meaning of Wei Yibai's "don't go" yesterday, and continued, "In other words, the novelist is willing to take the initiative to take on more complicated affairs because the two parties are in a foreign country, and let the comic side reduce the pressure and update the comics in a normal state." As for the comic side, because I have just returned to my home country, I have too many things to deal with, and I can't draw comics in my usual state. However, I don't want the novelist to take on more affairs because of this, so I hope that the novelist can find a new artist to continue the comic work. It's just that neither side agrees with the other's ideas, so there is a difference of opinion. ”

"Yes, and the controversy has become more and more frequent...... So Shen Tongsheng just sent me a message, hoping to officially communicate face-to-face again. Since she is also on vacation, she will return to her home country once in the near future to meet me. ”

Wei Yibai mentioned the news just now, his expression darkened a lot again, and said.

"Don't worry, I think you need to have a good talk with her in this case. If you still want to continue creating, you can leave a series of busy affairs here in your home country to help me take care of them. Because you are now staying in our home, which is a kind of trust for us. Then we must also take corresponding actions to respond to this trust. ”

"Also, the last time Xu Huichen came to the house to see Aze, I told him...... You're mine...... Friends are coming. Cheng Qing deliberately dodged Wei Yibai's eyes when she said the last sentence.

"Friend...... Yikes......"

After Wei Yibai gently repeated the word "friend", his eyes changed a little to look at Cheng Qing, stretched out his white right hand, and said, "Thank you, Cheng Qingjun, I am the first person I met after returning to China...... Friend...... Yikes......"

Cheng Qing didn't react to Wei Yibai's outstretched hand, and after a while, he stretched out his hand a little sluggishly and said, "And Xiaoxi." ”

After Cheng Qing shook Wei Yibai's hand, she quickly let go after a while. It looks as if he has never shaken hands with the opposite sex before.

Thinking of the embarrassing scene of being hung aside by Wei Yibai when Li Chengtao took the initiative to stretch out his hand just now, Cheng Qing couldn't help but sigh that he was lucky to be shaken by Wei Yibai now.

It is estimated that Li Chengtao will be even more embarrassed when he sees this scene now.

felt a little pity for Li Chengtao just now, and Cheng Qing's thoughts were interrupted by the sudden ringing of his mobile phone in his pocket.

Wei Yibai, like Cheng Qing just now, distanced himself from Cheng Qing. After Cheng Qing took it out and glanced at the caller, he looked at the caller panel with some confusion, and then crossed the answer button.

On the caller panel, the caller shown is:

Lin Xinlu.

At this time, in a foreign company, a man was signing a contract with the CEO of the company. The two sides stood up together, shook hands and said that they were happy to cooperate, and then both sides left the venue together.

"Xiaotong, arrange for me to return to China in the near future, the things that need to be busy have been dealt with recently. I need to go back to my country now and see my daughter, whom I haven't seen in three years. ”

Although the man looks relatively young, his temperament is very mature, but there is a high-end style of an entrepreneur contained in it.

"Mr. Wei, Miss has returned to her home country and stayed at Mr. Cheng's home, and at present, Mr. Cheng's family only has his son Cheng Qing and daughter Cheng Xi. Miss's safety, we have sent someone to protect it in the dark, so that no one will find the traces of the protector. ”

Known as Xiaotong, he was a person who walked quickly behind the man. He wears a pair of glasses, holds a folder in his hand, and has a pen pinned to his breast pocket, and his eyes are serious. His identity is the assistant of the man who spoke, and his real name is Fu Zetong.

Mr. Cheng...... Yes. ”

is known as Mr. Wei, who is naturally Wei Yibai's father and the CEO of Mingcheng Group, a well-known enterprise in Dongdu, Wei Mingcheng.

As if thinking of what happened in the past, Wei Mingcheng said to Fu Zetong on the side: "Give me the photo, I want to take a look." ”

Fu Zetong flipped through the folder, found a photo from it, and handed it to Wei Mingcheng. And that photo is exactly the same as the one Su Zhongting put on the desk before.

"It's all old classmates...... It's been a long time. ”

Wei Mingcheng stroked the photo with his hand, his eyes flashed with the same look of reminiscence as Su Zhongting, and he fell into the memories of the past time.

"I'm sorry Mr. Wei, I just mentioned Mr. Cheng...... I lost my words. Fu Zetong looked at Wei Mingcheng's appearance and hurriedly apologized.

Mr. Cheng...... It's been six years since we found out about his accident. ”

When Wei Mingcheng mentioned Mr. Cheng, his eyes became a lot sharper, he squinted his eyes, looked at the person in the photo, pinched his eyebrows with his right hand, and said as if unintentionally.

"Yes, it's been six years."

Fu Zetong lowered his head, as if he understood that Mr. Cheng in the words just now seemed to be a taboo word, and hurriedly replied to Wei Mingcheng, not daring to be a little lazy.

"In the past six years, we have been sending out manpower to find even the slightest clue about the events of that year. So far, have you gained anything? Wei Mingcheng's voice did not fluctuate, but there was a terrifying pressure in it.

"Right...... I'm sorry, Mr. Wei, we will continue to send people, and I will definitely report to you as soon as any news of the year is found out. Fu Zetong felt Wei Mingcheng's sudden and sharp breath, his forehead was full of cold sweat, and even his voice was a little vibrato.

"It was a rainstorm when the accident happened six years ago, and as time went on, there were definitely fewer and fewer clues. I'm still sending people to find out something, and I'm afraid I'm just comforting me......"

Wei Mingcheng sighed and walked to the gate of this company with Fu Zetong. The weather outside the door was terrible, with a cloudy sky and heavy downpours accompanied by thunder.

The service staff on both sides of the door hurriedly opened the door of the enterprise. Fu Zetong also quickly held up an umbrella and respectfully gave Wei Mingcheng a hand.

"The car has arrived, please come here."

Fu Zetong stretched out his hand, pointed to a luxury stretch car parked on the side of the street not far away, walked over with Wei Mingcheng, and opened the door first. After waiting for Wei Mingcheng to get into the car, he finally put away his umbrella and got into the car.

"Let's drive." Fu Zetong motioned to the driver.

"Understood." The driver immediately shifted gear, and the car started quickly and drove down the road.

"That's it, Mr. Cheng's matter, let's continue to investigate. I heard that Li Ju and Mr. Lin are also secretly investigating this matter again? ”

"Yes, the Li Bureau also sent some manpower, ostensibly to carry out an operation to re-investigate old cases, but in fact, after only investigating a few important old cases, it began to devote most of its manpower to Mr. Cheng's case six years ago."

"And Mr. Lin has always been the same as you, because of his association with Mr. Cheng, so he is also sending people to investigate."

Fu Zetong rummaged through the information in the folder and replied to Wei Mingcheng.

"It seems that he only superficially agrees with the conclusion that the case was closed that year, and in fact, he is also suspicious of the accident," Wei Mingcheng looked up at the road in front of the car and said, "If you can, try to contact the people on the Li Bureau's side to see if we can help anything, after all, the people on their side are more aware of the things of the year and are more professional." ”

"I understand, and then if you need to return to China as soon as possible, it can only be half a month at the earliest, because there are still some companies that need to be inspected recently, and it will take time to discuss cooperation matters."

Fu Zetong took out the notebook he had been carrying, and after opening the notebook, he found a document on the desktop. When opened, there is a planner of the trip. He said after a few moments.

"In a month, it's okay, just this time." Wei Mingcheng said in agreement.

Fu Zetong typed in the document for a while at the end of the document, attached specific things, and then saved the document and closed it.

"Buzz." The notebook vibrated for a moment, and on the status bar below, an email came.

Fu Zetong pushed his glasses, manipulated the cursor of the computer, and double-clicked the email icon twice. The computer loads for a while, and the email site opens.

The content of that email was clearly displayed in front of Fu Zetong's eyes, and after he read it quickly, his face showed a solemn look, he gently picked up the laptop, put it in front of Wei Mingcheng and said, "You take a look at this email, it seems to be related to Mr. Cheng's affairs back then." ”

Wei Mingcheng took the laptop and carefully began to read the full text.

"Dear Mr. Wei, hello."

"We hope that you will not continue to send your men to continue to search for some old things, this is not an wise choice. Why don't you let the past pass like this? What is going on in this matter, it will not have a great impact on your business, and I hope you will consider my remarks. Otherwise, you may be responsible for the consequences of many investigations. ”

"Here, succumbing."

Wei Mingcheng looked back and forth, but did not find any information about the identity of the sender. His face turned gloomy, and he returned the notebook to Fu Zetong, and said, "I have been in business for so many years, and this is the first time that someone has spoken in such threatening words. Xiaotong, you analyze the source of the email. ”

"Yes, I'll do the analysis right away." After Fu Zetong opened a piece of software on the computer, his fingers quickly tapped on the keys of the laptop, and many codes appeared on the computer screen, followed by a long list of garbled characters, and finally a world map appeared on the screen, with a bright red dot on it, but it showed that the location of the letter writer was at sea.

"The letter writer uses a virtual location, and the real identity of the real letter person cannot be found." Fu Zetong shook his head and said regretfully.

"It seems that there are also some threatening capital in hand," Wei Mingcheng looked at the current situation and said, "Xiaotong, send someone to continue to investigate, the letter must know that we will not give up." ”

"I'll be more involved in manpower."

"At least it's not in vain that these six years of hard searching have been in vain......," Wei Mingcheng sighed with some relief, "Snake ...... We've been lured out of the hole. ”

"By the way, Xiaotong, remember to give more benefits to the brothers who are doing this, they have worked hard. When I get to the hotel later, I'll give you a card, and I'll have to trouble you to buy it. You too, for so many years, you have been following me all over the world to investigate, travel, and have children at home like me, and you have worked hard. ”

"No, thank you for your trust over the years." Fu Zetong bowed his head and said respectfully to Wei Mingcheng.

Wei Mingcheng opened the glass window of the car door, looked at the bustling scene on the street, and couldn't help but sigh at the increasingly busy work in recent years. After looking at it for a while, he found a pack of cigarettes in the car, opened the package of the cigarette case, and pulled out a cigarette from it.

Fu Zetong took out a lighter from his pocket, opened the lid, put his fingers lightly on the grinding wheel, pressed the upper end of the grinding wheel, and then slid his fingers down hard, and blocked the wind blowing with his hands, and asked Wei Mingcheng with his eyes.

"No, no, no, from the day my wife conceived my daughter, I decided never to touch a cigarette again. Now that I take it out, I can only look at it, suppress the idea of smoking in my heart, even if they are all grown up, but they still can't set up a bad image of smokers for their daughters. Wei Mingcheng waved his hand, signaling that he didn't need it, and asked him to close the lid of the lighter.

Recalling his daughter's appearance in his mind, Wei Mingcheng smiled with relief. He took out his phone and made a call.

After the phone was connected, Wei Mingcheng said gently: "Yahe, pack your luggage, I will fly to another country tomorrow." I'll tell you the good news, in a month, we will be able to go back and see Yibai. ”

"Really? Where is Yibai now after she returned? How's it going? The voice on the other end of the line asked, overjoyed.

"Don't worry, I asked Sister Wei to let Yibai stay at their house."

"Is it at Mr. Cheng's house?"

"Yes, that's why I let my daughter return to China, and I can rest assured that Mr. Cheng's family is at ease."

"Then it's troublesome for Mr. Cheng's family, if you have a chance, help me say thank you to Sister Wei. By the way, Yiqing still stayed abroad this time, didn't he return to the Eastern Capital with Yibai? ”

"Yiqing, she has her own work to be busy, and when we go on a business trip to the country where Yiqing is studying abroad, we can go to see her." Wei Mingcheng replied.

"Okay, I'll leave it to you to arrange, I'll hang up first."

"Hmm."

At the same time, in the public security bureau in Dongdu, the atmosphere today is more serious than before.

"Bureau Li, this is today's letter, please take a look at it." A man dressed in a police uniform walked into the office of the director of the city bureau.

"What's the matter?" The man sitting at the desk asked.

The person sitting at the desk at this time was naturally the director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, named Li Guofeng. He has made great contributions to the rectification of the social environment of Dongdu City, and has solved many major cases. It frightened the criminals in the entire eastern metropolis and caused the crime rate in the city to drop in a straight line. Later, because of his outstanding military achievements, he became the director of the Dongdu City Public Security Bureau five years ago.

"The letter was sent by a child, and he said he must let me show it to you, and it seems that he knows that I am your assistant."

"Did you ask where the kid came from? How could a child write a letter and hand it to the director by name. Li Guofeng took the letter, unpacked the letter, and began to read the contents.

"This letter is of course very important, and I will automatically filter out frivolous messages such as pranks," said the assistant, "I asked the child, and he said that a man gave him the letter, and asked the child to give it to me, and I will pass it on to you." The child was given some candy and toys by the man, and naturally listened to the man and did things. ”

"At first I thought it was just a joke and didn't pay much attention to it, just asked the child about the appearance of the man who was handed over to Thaksin. But the child only told me that the man was wearing a scarf, sunglasses and a mask, a hat on his head, and two gloves on his hands. ”

"I feel that in such a hot summer, I still make myself dressed up in such a strange way, and I don't think the origin of that man is simple. So I opened the letter and read it, and found that what was written in it was related to the six-year-old case that you had been investigating. That's why I have brought it to you to show it. ”

Li Guofeng briefly read the letter that his assistant had brought up. The content of the letter is almost exactly the same as what Wei Mingcheng reads, except that Wei Mingcheng's name is changed to Director Li, and the company is changed to incumbent performance.

"It seems that I came prepared, otherwise I would not have dared to openly provoke the police, at least we have now proved one point, that is, the accident that happened to Mr. Cheng back then was not an accident. By the way, did you just look up about the mysterious man you talked about? ”

Li Guofeng put the letter back into the package and asked his assistant at the same time.

"It's been checked. According to the boy's account, we retrieved the surveillance footage of the street where the boy was at the time of receiving the letter, and indeed found the strangely dressed man he said," said the assistant, "but the area is still under development, and the surrounding surveillance equipment is not very complete, and only a small part of his walking track was filmed." And this man has a strong anti-reconnaissance ability, and after he finally walked into an abandoned alley, he completely lost his trace. I looked at footage of a large area around the abandoned alley and found nothing. ”

"And what about this letter? Did you leave any useful clues or something? ”

"No, I've found a technician to do the analysis. The letter is packaged in plain kraft paper, which can be purchased at a roadside convenience store. Because the letter is printed, it uses ordinary printing paper, which is used by many print shops, and it is very simple for him to get the paper and print it at home. The font is also a normal document font. And neither the packaging nor the letter paper detected the presence of fingerprints, and there was no clue that could be used. ”

"Seems to be a veteran, and he has a lot of experience in this kind of thing." Li Guofeng knocked on the table, and there was an unfathomable sense of oppression at the bottom of the letter, which added another pressure to him who had been conducting a secret investigation at this time.

"In this way, since after such a long period of fruitless investigation, we have finally obtained some clues, we must not let this clue be broken. The other party may have found some clues by us, and this kind of letter will appear at this time, and we will continue to investigate, and the party who sent the letter will definitely block it. It is necessary to wait until the big fish has completely surfaced before catching it in one fell swoop. Therefore, our investigative action must not be stopped, and it will inevitably bring them a kind of pressing effect. ”

Li Guofeng slapped the table, then clasped the hand on the table tightly, looked at the assistant sitting opposite, and gestured.

"Yes, I will obey the order and send all the men at my disposal to investigate. By the way, Mr. Li, Mr. Wei and Mr. Lin asked if we needed some help from them. The assistant said.

"Try not to bother them, and let me know the results of any investigation as soon as possible. Mr. Cheng may not be the only one involved, and there may also be a lot of shady and conspiracy hidden under the water, maybe the aspects involved will be ......."

Li Guofeng thought for a while and said something to the assistant, but the words did not end, and left it to the assistant to guess by himself.

"Do you mean ......" After listening to Li Guofeng's words, the assistant used his index finger to draw a circle on the table, and then pointed to the top and bottom.

"I didn't say that, so don't figure it out, give me your lighter." Li Guofeng showed a meaningful smile, and then stretched out his hand to the assistant.

"Do you need to smoke? I have a box of ...... I just bought. Although it is cheaper...... "The assistant took out a lighter and took out a pack of cigarettes by the way and handed it to Li Guofeng.

"I recently decided to quit smoking, smoking too much is not good for your health, you should also pay attention, your body is the capital of work." Li Guofeng only took the lighter in the assistant's hand, then placed the ashtray on the table between the two of them, picked up the letter, pressed the grinding wheel of the lighter, and then moved the lighter so that the flame was close to the letterhead.

The letter paper quickly burned after encountering the flames, and the thick smoke produced after the burning rose up, covering all of Li Guofeng's expressions. The assistant didn't dare to say anything, and only after the letter paper was completely burned out did he ask tentatively: "Bureau Li, what is this?" ”

"That's what you see."

"Ahem, why did Bureau Li do this?" Choked on the smoke from the burning, the assistant tilted his head to the side, covered his mouth, coughed a few times, and then asked puzzled.

"Slow down and drink saliva." Li Guofeng took out a bottle of pure water from the drawer of his desk, took out another paper towel, and handed it to his assistant.

"Thank you, Bureau Li, for the trouble." The assistant took the water and tissue from Li Guofeng's hand, opened it and drank a few sips, and after pressing the stimulation of the cigarette, he covered his mouth with a tissue and coughed a few times, and then he eased up.

"Isn't this letter the first clue we've gotten in the long history of searching old cases? This is probably the closest we've ever come to the truth, so why are you ...... here?" asked the assistant again.

"Do you know from the contents of this letter what the true identity of the person who came to the letter is?"

"I can't."

"Did you detect any fingerprints on this letter?"

"Nope."

"So what is the purpose of the existence of this letter?"

"This ...... I ......" The assistant was momentarily speechless by Li Guofeng's continuous questions, and he didn't know what to say to answer.

Looking at the appearance of the assistant, Li Guofeng did not continue to ask, his fingers tapped on the edge of the ashtray, making a crisp collision sound.

"Since this letter will not play any role in our next investigation, then there is no need for it to exist," Li Guofeng said as he looked at his assistant, "and its only use is to prove that Mr. Cheng's accident was not an accident back then, and to tell us that the direction of the investigation is correct and the investigation is effective, nothing more." ”

If you keep this letter, and if the contents of the letter are inadvertently understood and spread, then things will go out of control. First, we will be accused of handling the matter ineffectively back then, and closing the case in an accident without investigating the truth; Second, the mastermind behind this is likely to cause panic in society after the news spreads; The third is that if the boss learns about this, he will definitely order us to search for the mastermind behind the scenes, and now we can't even figure out their periphery, and we can't play the edge ball, not to mention the true face of the people behind the scenes? If you want to force a breakthrough, you can't rule out that there will be casualties......"

Li Guofeng took a deep breath and continued: "Therefore, if we are secretly investigating this matter now and have not made extremely large-scale progress, we must not put it on the surface and let others know about it, otherwise the consequences are unimaginable." Remember, be sure to cut off any bit of news that could leak out. ”

"I've been taught, Bureau Li, thank you for teaching me another lesson." The assistant immediately bowed his head and said respectfully.

"I have always brought you with me because you are still relatively clever and willing to study and learn. Many things have to be experienced after countless experiences, and gradually accumulate experience, and when you are experienced, you will be able to understand these things enough. I hope you can learn a little more when you follow me. ”

"Yes, I will continue to work hard, thank you Li Ju for your continuous teaching." The assistant kept a respectful posture just now and said.

Li Guofeng stood up and walked to the window in the office. At this time, the weather in the eastern city has lost the wind and sunshine just now, replaced by gusts of wind and dark clouds. The oppressive atmosphere instantly filled the entire city.

"The mountain rain is coming, and the wind is full of buildings......"