There is no joy in life, and there is no sorrow in death.

Liu Suxi was crying in the house, and the entire corridor was crowded with neighbors who heard the movement. I squeezed into the crowd and looked into the house, and a strong smell of Chinese medicine came to my nose. The three medical staff in white coats looked depressed, some kept shaking their heads, and some were packing up medical equipment, but they didn't see anyone in need of rescue.

I walked into the open door, inside was Liu Yi's mother's bedroom, the floor at the head of the bed was a mess, there were blood stains in the basin and tissues that could be cleaned up in the future, Liu Suxi lay alone on the side of the bed and cried, and the person on the bed covered his face with a sheet motionless.

"Shioshi!?" I stepped forward and patted Yoo Su-hee on the shoulder. Needless to say, I've already guessed the bad news when I see this state of affairs.

Liu Suxi's eyes were red and swollen and turned her face, looking like she had been crying for a long time, "Brother~!" My mom she... She... Let's go! After choking on a word, she fell back into crying and couldn't extricate herself.

Turning his head to look at the person covered by the sheet, and then looking at Liu Suxi, who had been lonely since then, his heart was still inexplicably twisted. Seeing that she has been out of breath, there is an indescribable bitterness in my heart, I lost your brother, what should I do in the future? How could she live alone?

It's about to take the college entrance examination, and I came all the way like that, of course I knew how much pressure would be at that time, but how could she bear it when such a thing happened at this time.

Liu Suxi still stood there alone, crying uncontrollably, and since then there has been no comfort from her relatives, and even her crying seems desolate. I couldn't bear it, so I had to help her sit on the sofa in the bedroom next to me, but I didn't think that she buried her head in my arms and cried even more sadly. I wanted to push her away, but suddenly another person appeared in my mind, Li Xiaoai, who was sitting in front of the TV screen and crying, also fell on my shoulder and cried like this. But just a flash of thought stopped the memories in my mind, some of the past really shouldn't come back to the surface, and restraining myself from thinking about it would give her the peace that should have belonged to her.

I resolutely pushed Liu Suxi away, held her shoulder and looked at her, "Xixi, it's okay, it will pass..."

Liu Suxi looked at me with teary eyes, couldn't stop her tears, but still nodded slightly, "Hmm~"

Behind him, a female doctor in a white coat came into the room and asked, "Are you a family member?" ”

I looked back and said, "No, but we've always been good friends, and I can help her if something happens to her." ”

"Please mourn, but we need someone to go to the hospital to go through the death certificate of the deceased and other related procedures, and then go to the neighborhood office and other departments to expunge. The body can directly contact the funeral home and other funeral services, so there is no need to go to the hospital. ”

Liu Suxi still couldn't control her emotions, and the conversation with the doctor could only be replaced by me temporarily, "Is there an approximate time of death?" What about the cause of death? ”

"It should be between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., we just arrived here, and it's already 7 p.m., so it's well past the effective time for rescue. We have already seen the medical records of the deceased, and it is good to be able to last so long, so please mourn. It is estimated that Liu Suxi, who came back from class, noticed her mother's abnormality, and then called the emergency number.

The death of a loved one is sad, but there are still a lot of things that need to be done, although Liu Suxi is an adult, she may not be able to deal with her mother's funeral, seeing that her mood is finally improving, I advised, "You may need to contact the funeral home tonight, and the relatives at home on Auntie's side, do you have an aunt or uncle?" ”

"I have an uncle, but I haven't been in touch for a long time, and the last time we saw each other was three years ago during the Spring Festival." Liu Suxi had a helpless expression with red eyes, and her distant uncle probably couldn't help much.

"Do you have a night study hall tonight?" I suddenly remembered her studies.

Liu Suxi nodded but did not squeak.

Approaching May, this is more than a month after the final sprint of the college entrance examination, and it is sad to think about this kind of thing at home. I can't take the college entrance examination for her, and even I will suddenly disappear in a few days, she can only continue to live and study on her own, and it is estimated that she will not be able to avoid repeating. But if the mentality can be adjusted well, it is not necessarily impossible to perform well in this exam.

"Xixi, you will ask the teacher for leave tonight, and you can not go to self-study in the evening for the next two days. But from tomorrow onwards, you still have to go back to class obediently, and the college entrance examination is already very close. "The college entrance examination is a very important level on the road of life for most people, and Liu Suxi is no exception.

"But..."Liu Suxi still looked overwhelmed.

"Don't worry, I happen to be okay in the past two or three days, and I'll help you temporarily." But it's only for two or three days, and I'm silently thinking in my heart.

"Thank you~" She looked sad and spit out two words faintly.

I called my mother to explain the situation, accompanied Liu Suxi to the hospital to issue a death certificate, and then informed the funeral home and her mother's relatives and friends. Sure enough, Liu Suxi's uncle was on a business trip in a different place, and he had to wait until the day after tomorrow to be cremated at the earliest, and all the aftermath was pressed on a girl who was about to take the college entrance examination.

has been busy dealing with Liu Yi's mother's funeral, but he has no time to discuss with his mother in detail about the need to change her address in a few days. By the time the body was sent to the funeral home, and the incense candles and tablets were placed in the home, it was already early in the morning. Liu Suxi was so tired that she couldn't stand anymore, but she still refused to sleep.

"You go to bed quickly, you can't ask for leave tomorrow morning, your studies are still the first thing for you." The shirt that had been soaked with sweat was stained with dirt, "I'll go back and change it, you can rest quickly." ”

"Brother!" I was about to open the door and leave her house, but I was stopped by Liu Suxi shouting loudly.

"Huh?" The door didn't open, and I looked back at Liu Suxi, who stood up from the sofa with a frightened face.

"You... Will it come back later? She asked with her head buried in her head to the other side, and stopped talking.

I didn't understand what it meant for a moment, but after carefully looking at her expression, I shook my head, it turned out that I was afraid that I would stay alone in the room where the incense candle spirit seat was placed, "I'll go back and take a shower and change my clothes, and remember that the fire of the incense candle can't be extinguished." ”

In traditional customs, the incense candle flame that has just passed away and has not been mourned at night should not be extinguished, meaning that the soul will not be scattered, and the fire can retain the memory of the person so that he can find his way home and keep his relatives mourning.

"Okay~" Liu Suxi finally settled down.

Stepping out of the corridor, the night was already very late. The waves are still there, and the sea breeze is gentle. Walking back to my house from Liu Yi's house was less than 100 meters, I didn't pay too much attention, but then a gust of sea breeze blew on my face, and my heart was instantly lifted.

Rustling... Rustling...

I paused and looked around at the dimly lit quarter. By midnight, most of the residents had already fallen asleep, and the occasional light was nothing more than a dim lamp. The beach, the benches, the shade, everything around me was something I couldn't be more familiar with, and no one could cause a surprise here that I didn't know anything about.

Rustling...

Maybe it's just the wind?

Meow~!!

It happened to be the season of wild cats, but it was like tearing through the eerie silence that made me feel sick. I turned my steps and sat down on a bench in front of the beach, looked around, and didn't move, thinking that maybe I was just too tired. I pulled out a cigarette and lit it, and before I knew it, I began to ponder the conversation I had with Zhong Shi and Officer Yang this afternoon.

Pendulum? What exactly does it do? The video that Li Shukang left to Li Xiaoai shows that Aikang actually wanted to complete an experiment that used drugs and hypnosis to make people lose their memories and re-inject them into their memories behind the scenes, and the harm of such experiments was obvious but unsuccessful. If Aikan is just a tool for the pendulum to support and use it to complete an experiment, will there be other successful experimental cases from unknown institutions? I suddenly remembered the video I had seen circulating on the Internet before, and whether the strange, trance-like crowd around the campfire was somehow connected to the whole thing. Li Shukang only touched the surface of some incidents, and he had already paid the price with his life, so that Li Xiaoai was not implicated, so that this matter was buried.

After a while, the action will be more tricky than before, and what kind of teammates and action plan will the person named Lei Ling bring to carry out the next action?

A gust of sea breeze blew away the soot, rustling...

I didn't care about the strange feeling around me, but still looked at the starlight at the end of the distant sea. I wonder if she is in Hong Kong or the Special Administrative Region at this time? Unconsciously, that clear smile was reflected in my mind again, but for a moment I had to restrain myself again, don't think about it anymore, the more I think about it, the more distracted I will be. With Dong Jian and them, her life will only get back on track, and her accident should have ended long ago.

The sound of the waves is still mixed with the sound of the wind, rustling...

I looked around again, and there was no one except for the dim street lights in the neighborhood. When I put out the cigarette butt and went home, my mother and Jingjing were already asleep. I walked to the window with a better view, and there was nothing unusual about me looking out of the house through the screen, maybe it was just the sea breeze blowing, and I was too worried.

A total of 20 minutes have passed since leaving Liu Suxi's home and sitting alone on a bench to smoke a cigarette, then returning home to change clothes, and then locking the door and returning to Liu Suxi's home. It was late at night, and there was no sound in the hallway except for my own footsteps. But when I twisted the door lock with the key left for me by Liu Suxi, I found that the lock was not quite right, the key was twisted, and there was no force that the lock cylinder was connected to rotate. The door seemed to be open without a key, and I did unlock it with a little force, and the living room was lit with incense and candles, and the items were a little messy, and although it seemed quiet on the surface, I was still wary and looked inside.

Liu Suxi was lying quietly asleep on the sofa alone, and the ground had been cleaned by us before, and we couldn't tell whether there were footprints, it was too chaotic before, and the different footprints of a total of five people, including the medical staff, couldn't tell the clues. I re-examined the groove of the lock, and a lump-and-out paper towel was stuffed into the groove that had been used to jam the lock. The people in and out of the hallway were so chaotic that I couldn't tell when the ball was put into the groove of the lock.

I picked up the short-handled metal fruit knife on the dining table with my backhand and hid it on my wrist, and then walked as lightly as I could towards Liu Suxi and her mother's bedroom, there were originally three rooms in the hallway, one originally belonged to Liu Yi, one belonged to Liu Suxi, and the innermost was Liu Suxi's mother's bedroom. I didn't choose to turn on the light, but used the fluttering light of the candle to connect my shadow with the shadow at the foot of the wall and slowly move inside.

In the first room, Liu Yi's room, except for an empty bed and bookcase, there was no one to hide. I shook the fruit knife and continued to walk inside.

Behind me came the sound of Liu Suxi turning over on the sofa in her sleep, I paused and looked into her bedroom, a neat girl's bedroom, except for a desk piled up with tutoring materials and a wardrobe that was not too big, it was difficult to put many things in the room.

Only the last bedroom remains...

"Brother? What's wrong? Liu Suxi's panicked shout came from behind him.

I ignored her, and instead rushed into her mother's bedroom. There was no one inside, maybe I was too worried, but the sea breeze outside the window still came with that strange rustling sound...

"What's wrong? How do you have a knife in your hand? Liu Suxi's tone was frightened, "There are bad people in the family? ”

"No, maybe I'm overthinking." I turned on the ceiling light in each room, carefully inspected each room again, and then put the fruit knife back on the table, "You go back to your room and sleep, I'll stay in the living room." ”

"What the hell is going on?"

I hesitated to tell her about the paper ball in the groove of the door lock, but after thinking about it, I still felt that I didn't tell her, lest one of them feel scared, "It's okay, I'm too worried, let's go to sleep." ”

Liu Suxi's frightened eyes gradually became confused, "What did you see?" ”

"No, I just entered the living room and saw strange footprints on the floor, but I think back that it may have been inadvertently left by the doctors of those ambulances, I really was too worried." I prevaricated.

Still confused, but without further questioning, she turned and walked back to her mother's portrait to renew the incense candle, and then stood silent. I reopened the door and quietly removed the paper ball from the lock, locking it from the inside.

"They were reunited, but I was left alone." Liu Suxi's faint voice, the slender back projected by the candlelight looked particularly desolate. My heart also became sad, if Liu Yi was still there, maybe her mother wouldn't have left so suddenly, maybe she wouldn't be as lonely as she is now.

"Don't think about it, it'll be fine." I tried to say as softly as I could.

Liu Suxi silently turned to face me, her voice was still faint, "Thank you for staying with me, thank you~"

"Don't say anything thank you, I should do what Liu Yi should do for him, go back to sleep."

For some reason, her already dull eyes darkened, and she silently walked back to her room and closed the door, and there was no more sound. I turned off the lights in my room and stood by the window and looked out.

The sea breeze still shook the leaves, rustling... Rustling...

The whole night was calm as usual, but the strange feeling lingered, and the deeper the night, the more uneasy I felt. Before I knew it, a glimmer of light had gradually floated at the end of the sea, and I sat on the sofa all night, but for Liu Suxi, I could only live stronger from now on, and she was the only one to walk on the road ahead.

Liu Suxi woke up and walked out of the bedroom with blank eyes, and at first glance, she knew that she hadn't rested all night. I heated the milk in the refrigerator and placed it on the table with the fritters I had just bought at the entrance of the community.

"Breakfast?" She was a little surprised.

"Why don't you go to school without breakfast?"

"Usually I get up early to prepare for my mother, thank you~"

While busy with her mother's funeral and also busy with her own studies, Liu Suxi showed amazing perseverance, it seems that there is a kind of strength supporting her, I don't understand and don't have time to figure it out, in addition to helping her take care of her family's funeral, I have other important things to deal with.

"What? Moving? I've lived for more than 20 years, how can I say that I can move. The mother questioned while cooking in the kitchen.

"I'm going to be on a business trip for a while, maybe a few months if it's a few weeks, and you and Jingjing's safety must be guaranteed."

"The community we live in is also very safe, and the neighbors know each other, even if there is an unfamiliar face, anyone can recognize it." Mother thought she was talking about family life and didn't take it seriously.

"That's not what I mean, I am participating in the operation of the army this time as a combat adviser, and I need absolute protection for the personal safety of you and Jingjing, this is the rule!" I have some fires, but I can't do it.

"Combat? Where to fight? Syria or Libya? Now where is there a place to fight for you, I see that you have loved the military since you were a child, and you still think that the last time you were in the army did not kill you, you have time to go out and find a job, don't fool around. ”

… I was completely choked speechless, "Who told you to move you?" ”

"Your daughter-in-law, it's a pity that you don't, so don't talk nonsense, open dinner!"

On the third day of Liu Suxi's mother's death, Liu Suxi had to take a day off, every day before the college entrance examination was very busy, and this only day was very precious, so he had to rush out of the funeral on this day. There weren't too many friends and relatives in attendance, including my mother and me, about 20 people.

"Xixi, come to my house to eat after school during the exam period in the future, the outside is not clean and nutritious, you take the exam well, your brother and I will help you." 's mother is kind-hearted and has taken good care of Liu Suxi since she was a child, but now she can't help but feel pitiful when she is left alone.

"Well, thank you, Auntie~" Liu Suxi looked at my mother and then looked at me sideways.

I nodded and smiled in welcome.

When the body was cremated, Liu Suxi cried so much that she was in tears, her uncle supported her, with a regretful and reluctant expression, but still did not forget the lines, "Sister, you go all the way, don't worry, I will take care of Xixi for you." ”

A wisp of smoke drifts into the air of nothingness, this is life, when you come with nothing, you can't take anything with you when you leave.

Rustling...

The strange feeling returned, and I pulled my gaze away from the mourning crowd and searched for something around me. There was no wind or waves, and the scorching sun was scorching everything that was hot, but I could still feel a pair of strange eyes watching me.

In front of the iron gate of the crematorium stood a special-looking figure, with curly brown hair and a peaked cap, and a pair of sunglasses that covered her gaze but could still feel the temperature of the cast. There was a man standing next to the girl, but by the time I spotted him, he had turned and walked out the door. Suddenly a thought flashed through me, and I stumbled upon these two men three times, and although I could recognize the curly-haired brown girl each time, I had never looked at the front of the man beside her, not even a full side. The two surveillance footage retrieved by Zhong Shi was very blurry, and even then did not capture any of the man's features.

Who the hell are they? Why is it here? I need to know the answer.

I didn't have time to think about the feelings of the people around me, I let go of my steps and rushed towards the iron gate, just forty meters away from the five or six seconds, out of the iron gate to look in the direction where the brown girl's back disappeared, only to leave an unflustered back at the corner of the last thirty meters, and disappeared.

Continuing to run around the corner, there was another cremation area like the one before, crowded with people. I went inside and looked around, but the two men were completely gone.

Why? Who the hell are they? Do you want to do something to me here? Could it be that the girl with curly brown hair is really a vicious killer?

The murderers who created the case in the Hong Kong hotel have not been locked up so far, let alone killed like in the previous cases, are the murderers really these two people?

No, my instincts told me that there must be something wrong, and that these two people were related to the case but not necessarily the murderers, and this combination was really weird.

I continued to search inside and outside the funeral service area for more than 30 minutes to no avail, so I had to give up. When the hell will that guy named Lei Collar contact me? At this point, I finally got a little impatient to wait.

"Where have you been? We're all looking for you. Back at the urn storage in the park, my mother asked.

"Suddenly there's something urgent to deal with, how about it? Is it done? ”

"After completing the formalities, you can go back, Xixi's mood is not very stable, let her uncle accompany her more."

Standing in the distance, at the parking apron at the entrance, Liu Suxi was chatting with her uncle, but it didn't look kind at all. Sometimes he shook his head, sometimes he shook his head harder, as if he was rejecting something. Her uncle suddenly took out two stacks of banknotes from his briefcase and stuffed them into Liu Suxi's hand, she refused to accept anything, broke free and ran away, her expression was lost and sad but she looked overwhelmed.

She stood on the empty parking apron and looked around, helpless but not wanting to lose her self-esteem, with a kind of unaccompanied desolation in her figure.

"Shioxi!" I shouted and beckoned to her.

Liu Suxi turned around like a lost child, her eyes lit up again, and trotted in the direction of me and my mother.

"Let's go? Go home, I'll order some delicious takeout tonight, cheer up and go to school tomorrow. I said in as kind a tone as possible so that she could not be so upset.

"Hmm!" Liu Suxi responded softly.

"What takeout to eat, go, go back and make food for you Auntie, and treat our house as your own in the future."

Liu Suxi looked relieved, being able to give her a trace of warmth at this time is what I should do for Liu Yi, I hope the road in the future can be smoother, this is my wish, and it is also the wish of my family who loves her.

In the evening, the sea was reflected in the setting sun, and the weather did not seem to be affected by the gloomy atmosphere of the whole day. Before returning to the community, Jingjing was just picked up after school, and the four of us walked through the corner together, and walked around the corner towards the main entrance of the community. Along the way, Jingjing led Liu Suxi and kept talking about the interesting things that happened in the kindergarten, although naïve, the innocence of the child could still temporarily blow away the haze in her heart.

An inconspicuous armed police off-road vehicle was still parked across the road not far away, and I didn't look much at it, following them into the main entrance of the community. Walking like this, passing by Liu Suxi's corridor and continuing to our building, there was an unrelieved back sitting on the bench in front of the beach, I wanted to escape, but my heart kept calling her name.

"Little love? How did you end up here? ”