Chapter 176: While It's Still in Time

Lin Li's decision to tell Lu Li those truths was a decision made in a moment's time.

In the year that he left without saying goodbye, he would think about this question every once in a while before going to bed at night, and every time he thought about it, his decision was rotten in his stomach, and he would never tell Lu Li.

But today, seeing Lu Li, who appeared in front of him as a documentary director, looked at the faint layer of breath left on the isolation mask between her breaths, and decided to subvert it instantly.

He was going to tell her while he was still in time.

After surviving a slight tinnitus, Lin Lin began to speak, and as soon as he spoke, he showed the kind of smile that attracted Lu Li at first, and looked at it lightly.

"I'll omit what you already know, and start directly with Officer Bai after he entered the criminal police team."

Lu Li nodded, feeling a layer of cold sweat on his forehead, and wanted to raise his hand to wipe it off, but he couldn't do it at all in a heavy isolation suit.

The feeling of powerlessness began to spread through her.

"In the year we graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, the provincial criminal police team was ready to recruit a graduate with a solid professional foundation from our current year to work as a criminal investigation simulation portraitist, and also emphasized that as long as she was a female graduate, she was recommended by the school, and it didn't take long for her to pass the exam smoothly and stay."

Lu Li listened quietly, trying to imagine in his mind what Officer Bai looked like in uniform back then, he must have been very beautiful and charming.

When Lin Lin said this, Bai Xinyu stood in front of him in uniform for the first time, at that time they were full of infinite longing for the future, and both of them did the jobs they liked as soon as they graduated, and their relationship was stable.

If you look ahead, all you can see is happiness.

In fact, I was happy for a long time.

Lin Lin caught up with the restoration of a key cultural relic in the museum when he was interning in the restoration room, and he emerged as a newcomer, which also strengthened his confidence in this job.

Bai Xinyu also quickly adapted to the work of criminal investigation simulation portraits, and almost a year after joining the team, he successfully restored the appearance and characteristics of the suspect according to the description of the victim in the detection of a fraud case, speeding up the detection of the case.

When the two of them were going well in their careers, they also rented a house and began to live sweetly together. Two people get off work as long as they buy vegetables and cook together to go out for leisure and entertainment, if one of them has no time, the other is also at home to cook and wait for the other to come back.

Lin Lin misses this feeling of being cared for and caring for others.

After a few years, changes began to appear quietly between them, Lin Lin was not unaware, but he thought that it was something that every pair of intimate people would face, he only thought of actively facing the problems that appeared, but he did not expect that the changes would one day be completely beyond the scope of his cognition.

Lin Lin remembered that when he was interviewed by Lu Li in the Arctic Circle, when Lu Li told him that Officer Bai was also a hero, the corners of his mouth instantly froze with a smile. He replied to Lu Li at the time that he was not a hero, and neither was Officer Bai.

When others heard this, they would think that he was humble, but Lin Lin knew that it was all the truth, and he was talking about the bloody facts under the surface.

The description of the cultural relics case three years ago in the documentary "Ninety-two Days" is basically consistent with the actual case, and the death of Officer Bai Xinyu Bai is also recognized as a martyrdom according to the official statement, and Lin Lin can't remember how many times he repeated it to the media, almost numb.

Lin Lin felt the shivering all over his body start again, he knew that another round of high fever was about to start again, and he had to hurry up and finish speaking, and he couldn't do it like every time.

"She fell under my gun, it was just me and her at the scene, she fell down and kept her eyes open, but it wasn't me, she stared at the air with empty eyes...... I can remember her very clearly now, this one is the clearest. ”

Lu Li listened to what he said, and he couldn't describe the corresponding tragic scene in his mind, but looking at Lin Li's flat gaze, his heart ached for a while.

She understands that the pain that is not shown is a thousand times more painful in a place where there is no light.

"Xinyu's father is also a very senior collector in the industry, but he began to use his talent and vision in the shadows very early, cooperating with those overseas cultural relics trafficking groups to resell many of our precious cultural relics, and some transactions even led to irreparable and devastating damage to cultural relics, and that cultural relics case is one of them."

"Xinyu participated in the investigation of that case, and when she was making a portrait of a suspect to an eyewitness, she knew that her father was involved, and she felt a lot of guilt about her father because of family reasons, so she compromised when her father asked her for help and did what she shouldn't have done."

Lin Lin stopped, picked up the water cup in his hand and took a sip of water, he lowered his head and frowned, he needed to do a mental construction before continuing to talk.

This gap made the isolation ward, which was originally only the sound of them talking, quiet again, Lu Li's eyes locked on Lin Li's fingers holding the water glass, she dreamed several times that these beautiful fingers caressed her cheeks, and it took a long time to recover after waking up from each dream.

What she had just heard made her guess what was wrong with Officer Bai, and she couldn't help but think of herself and her father.

Lin Lin put the water cup back in its place, looked at it levelly, and did not move for a moment.

"I only got involved in the case later, and as a professional in the restoration of cultural relics, after I knew what Xinyu had done, I persuaded her to turn herself in, but she refused." Lin Lin coughed, "She couldn't accept the future of becoming a prisoner after turning herself in, and she had just learned the news that her father was shot dead by the police at the trading scene, and her emotions collapsed all of a sudden, she handed me the gun and held it, pointed the muzzle of the gun at her head, and put her cold fingers on my fingers to force it...... She killed herself, and I lied to everyone. ”

Lu Lixi moved his lips, but in the end he didn't make a sound.

Ten minutes later, Lu Li walked out of the isolation ward, and after the door closed, she didn't dare to look back, and she didn't have the courage to look at the gaze that looked directly at her inside.

When she went to the room to take off her isolation gown, Lu Li received a call from Qi Ju, and without waiting for Qi Ju to ask about her, she said about her meeting with Lin Leng, but the specific content was not mentioned.

Qi Ju listened quietly, and waited for Lu Li to finish speaking before he spoke, "It's been a long time since he's spoken to someone for such a long time, and in the past year, he was most afraid of talking more, and he worked very hard to survive." ”

Lu Li pursed her lips, and every word of Qi Ju made the red that had been pressed in her eyes spread outward, so she had to lower her head and not make a sound, and only her heavy breathing could be heard on the other end of the phone.

Qi Ju's breathing was also heavy, if it hadn't been felt from the earpiece, Lu Li would have forgotten that Qi Ju was now a patient lying there for treatment.

"He has given too much and sacrificed too much to protect the country's cultural heritage...... Lu Li, "After Qi Ju called Lu Li's name, he didn't say anything further.

"Huh?" Lu Li responded.

Qi Ju's tone was rare and gentle, and he only said a short sentence: "Lin Lone, he should have a good ending." ”

This sentence tore open the last gate on Lu Lixin's heart. On the way back to the studio, she thought about one thing, and when she went to do a formal interview with Lin Lin tomorrow, she would make that sentence clear to him.

Definitely.

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The next day was a sunny day, and Lu Li arrived at the hospital very early with equipment and Xu Wei.

As soon as he changed into isolation equipment and walked to the isolation buffer zone, a bad news smashed over his head, Lin Lian's high fever continued to go away, and his condition worsened, and there was no way to interview him today.

After listening to the doctor's words, Xu Wei turned his head to look at Lu Li who was covered in an isolation gown worriedly, Lu Li felt that he also turned his head to look back, Xu Wei was not sure if he saw Lu Li smiling at him.

"Can he still talk, I mean on his phone." Lu Li asked the doctor in a calm tone.

"It shouldn't be too long."

Lu Li nodded, "What I'm going to say isn't long, I want to talk to him on the phone now, Director Xu," she said and approached Xu Wei, "I'll deal with my personal matters first, and then we'll continue filming, okay?" ”

"Yes, of course." Xu Wei immediately agreed, but he was not worried about what Lu Li was going to do.

Lu Li didn't hide it, and when the nurse helped her take the phone and hold it in her hand, she told Xu Wei what she was going to do.

"I'm going to propose to him."