The last day of 2011.

"I'm a ghost detective."

"Well, now I have only one request, please don't look at Conan again!"

"Officer Ye Xiao, I'm not joking with you."

"It's getting dark, you should go home early, or your mother will call me again." He was looking at the bathroom mirror and shaving with an electric razor, "Si Wang." ”

Another face can also be seen in the mirror, the face that has passed the sixteenth birthday is not long ago, it has reached the age of blooming, and there is a rebellious and calm light in the eyebrows, and it will be a little more handsome than Ye Xiao in a few years.

"I'm affirming."

These four short words, spoken in the tone of an adult, are still juvenile, but they hide the resentment of sixteen years of death.

Ye Xiao turned off the razor, and the whole world fell silent, half of his beard was unshaven, and he looked at his face through the mirror.

After only a few seconds of pause, the noise began again, and he sped up his shaving, but he was looking out of the corner of his eye.

"Thank you for reporting to the police, and finally know a shocking secret!"

Ye Xiao lives on the 28th floor of a high-rise building, facing the Future Dream Building, which is bright all night. There was a military sniper rifle with sights by the window, Si Wang curiously picked it up and touched it, and he grabbed it back: "Be careful! This is a real thing! ”

"Who do you want to assassinate?"

On the opposite side of the window on the top floor of the Future Dream Building, there are several lights on, which is really an excellent sniper position.

He put the rifle away in the cupboard and sternly admonished, "Don't tell anyone, or else—"

"I'll keep it a secret." Si Wang boldly bargained with the police, "The premise is that you believe everything I say!" ”

Ye Xiao is a bachelor who lives in a one-bedroom high-rise apartment, which is neater than that of the Huanghai police officer, but there are also a lot of instant noodles and junk food. There is no smell of smoke at home, and I don't see any wine or coffee, and I am an ascetic who does not smoke or drink.

"In 1995, after Shen Ming's death, his ghost had not dissipated, and he had wandered in the city for sixteen years, hiding in the body of a boy named Si Wang."

"The surprise attack came to my house just to tell me this? Since this secret has been kept for so many years, why are you telling me for no reason? ”

"I'm afraid I won't live to be eighteen."

"Someone is threatening you?" Ye Xiao looked at the cat's eye on the door, "I will protect you." ”

"No, lately I've been having nightmares about myself dying — either someone slashing my throat with a knife, or being hit by a truck while crossing the street, or falling from the top of a building......"

"Are you afraid that once you die, this secret will be buried in the ground forever, and you will have no chance to avenge yourself?"

"Ye Xiao, you are so smart."

"At a young age, less sycophants! If you're the ghost of the declared one who died in 1995, why don't you just go and kill the murderer? ”

Si Wang smiled bitterly: "I don't know who he is?" The killer stabbed me in the back, and I didn't see the other person's face. ”

"I'll catch him."

"Got a clue? The middle-aged man who opened the video store? Only I can help you solve the case! Because, I affirm, I am the second victim in 1995, and I can tell many secrets that others do not know. For sixteen years, from the first day I was born as Si Wang, I vowed to find the murderer, and all these years I have followed Officer Huanghai to investigate, and I am more qualified than you to investigate this case! ”

"Okay, then you're also a murderer, and you killed the dean harshly, didn't you?"

This rhetorical question made Si Wang tremble slightly, and his expression became terrifying, as if he had returned to the scene of the murder: "Yes." ”

"Sometimes, I wonder if you have another person hiding in your heart, because in your eyes, I will see the shadow of an adult, who has experienced unimaginable pain - only I will understand you, because we are the same kind of people."

"I'm guessing you've suffered the loss of someone dearest to you."

"It hurts my heart."

"Ye Xiao, but you haven't tasted the pain of being killed, it has nothing to do with physical pain, but after death, you will become another person, say goodbye to everyone around you, and start growing up again from a baby, and the more than 20 years you have lived have all been in vain!"

"Although, I don't believe that there are ghosts in this world, you can tell me everything you know—whether it's real or what you have come up with in your delusion. Say it, Ghost Detective. ”

"For sixteen years, you have one of the biggest questions, on June 19, 1995, why did you want to run to the witch area to die?"

"Yes, figuring out this reason may be a big step closer to solving the case."

"But it's a secret."

Hearing such an answer, Ye Xiao shook his head in disappointment and opened the door: "You can go home." ”

"Wait a minute, there's another question about *pine."

"Actually, I have already talked to * Song, and he said that Huang Hai talked to him countless times back then, and even took him to the Public Security Bureau a few times, and it was the leaders of the Education Bureau who bailed him out. Is this man a murderer? I can't judge either. ”

"Why don't you just go and search his house?"

"Without any actual evidence, how easy is it to apply for a search warrant? Especially this kind of character with a head and a face. The logic in Ye Xiao's mind was very clear, and he immediately pulled his thoughts back, "Off topic!" All your words can't be proven, and you're still delusional, Si Wang. ”

"If you don't believe me, you'll regret it."

Ye Xiao thought of Shen Yuanchao, let's give him one last chance: "Let's talk about Shen Ming's biological father Shen Yuanchao, if you still have memories." ”

"I am the illegitimate son of Shen Yuanchao, and this matter is his biggest secret. When I was still alive, he was always afraid that the secret would be discovered. But he is not a cold-blooded and heartless person, and he will subsidize my living expenses every month. When I was still living in the basement, he used to send me books, from comic books to world classics. The most impressive is "How Steel is Made", a hardcover hardcover book he treasured as a young man, with a cover of Paul Kochagin in color engraving, riding on a horse and wearing a Red Army pointed hat, and his eyebrows resolutely looking into the distance. I read the book at least ten times, the cover was almost worn out, Ostrovsky read it by heart, and I still remember the Chinese soldiers who appeared in the ranks of the Red Army that attacked Petliura, and I wrote in red ink the famous quote on the title page - the most precious thing in man is life, and each person has only one life. A man's life should be spent in such a way that he will not regret that he wasted his time, nor will he be ashamed of his inaction......"

"I've seen this book, at Shen Yuanchao's house, on his bookshelf — he said it was taken back from his dormitory at Nanming High School after Shen Ming's death."

"That's great! He even kept it for me! ”

Ye Xiao carefully observed the young man's face, it was completely the expression of a middle-aged man, if this was still fake, then it was really an actor.

Suddenly, he took out a pen and paper and said, "Can you write it all over again?" ”

Si Wang nodded in fear, grabbed a pen and paper, and wrote in the handwriting of the statement-

The most precious thing for a person is life, and each person has only one life. A man's life should be spent in such a way that he will not regret that he wasted his time, nor will he be ashamed of his inaction. On his deathbed, he was able to say: "My whole life and all my energies have been devoted to the most magnificent cause in the world — the struggle for the liberation of all mankind." ”

This is the only mark he can prove himself.

Ye Xiao saw that he had finished writing this text, and sighed lightly: "Paul Kochakin...... I also memorized this passage at the age of sixteen. ”

"Why did you become a police officer?"

"Fate."

"Like when I die, I become a Siwang?"

"Probably so."

"You recognize me as a declared ghost?"

Ye Xiao shook his head and said, "There are no ghosts in the world, but I can help you, and you must also help me." ”