I looked at the bright night sky of the United States on the screen, and the nebula looked like an orchid, the petals of which were swaying in the evening breeze. And if this starry sky is a flower, then its roots must be rooted in each of us.

"What does this mean?" Xiaolan looked at this strange photo with a blank expression. "What kind of evidence is this?" There was a clear mockery of the American police in her tone.

"Miss, I just said that this is evidence that has nothing to do with Xiao Yin's cause of death, and we filmed it because it has a lot of strange places." The policeman pointed to the photo. "I don't know if you've ever raised an orchid, but if you've ever raised an orchid, you'll find that this orchid is a little different from my usual potted plants, first of all, the petals are thinner than the usual flowers, of course, I guess you won't notice these details." But even if you've never raised an orchid, you should notice something strange about the petals scattered around the pots, right? ”

The camera continued to focus on the picture of the pot of orchids, and I saw the broken petals again.

"It's really a little strange, these petals seem to be broken, and they are really different from the red I usually see." Xiao Fang began to look at the orchid repeatedly, and his eyes scattered a look of surprise. "It's not like petals, it's more like shards of glass."

"Let me tell you, what came to mind when I saw this orchid." The policeman's tone suddenly deepened. "It's as if the flower died in an instant."

"Dead in an instant?" Xiao Fang's mouth opened wide, obviously he didn't understand this strange explanation. "Can you please use some language that the audience can understand?"

"I'll tell you this, if you have raised flowers and plants, you should know that no plant will die instantly, unless it is corroded by chemicals, in other words, the death of these plants is a relatively slow process, many times it is rotten from the roots first, and then spread up little by little, in this case, although the petals wither but still remain active, just like human nerves can still beat for a long time even after a person dies. But if I look at the petals of this flower, I guess it must have died in an instant, and the whole plant was completely dead, from the root to the stem to the leaf and even every cell in the leaf, completely dead in an instant. ”

Xiao Fang's whole body seemed to freeze, and she looked at the young policeman in a daze, not knowing what to say. She didn't expect that this little policeman would observe so meticulously, to be honest, she usually raises flowers, but she never thought about this, maybe this is the policeman's observation.

"Because only this kind of instant death will the plant completely lose its nutrients, so the leaves will wither like shredded paper."

The little cop slowly tucked the picture into an envelope, then squeezed past the surrounding cameramen and walked out of the crowd, quickly moving off the edge of the screen.

His words not only shocked Xiao Fang, but also made people suddenly realize, the only difference is that they have no clue, and I have already had an inference, the words of the little policeman only made me more convinced of my thoughts.

Because five years ago in the Valley of Love, Mo Lan once said that the orchid that grew from Xiao Yin's body was connected to Xiao Yin's life, and when Xiao Yin died, the orchid would also wither. This is more and more convinced that all this must be related to Orchid Gu, in view of the previous situation of Xiao Yin's character deterioration, my preliminary inference is that Xiao Yin neither committed suicide nor killed him, the cause of his death was the Orchid Gu attack in his body, all of which seems reasonable.

"Wait for Comrade Policeman!" Xiao Fang grabbed him. "I have one last question."

The policeman's face was resentful, I think if it was in the past, he would never let himself stand in front of the screen, today he is willing to be so tolerant or just because Xiao Yin is a well-known Chinese, maybe he has some common confiding in life on the other side of the ocean. "Okay, you ask."

"I want to ask you, if you stand on your personal point of view and put aside the clues and evidence you see with your eyes, will you think that Xiao Yin really committed suicide?"

The policeman has his back to Xiao Fang, and we can only see one of his backs through the screen. "We always use evidence to speak, the first photo is evidence, the second is also evidence, why do you think I should take the time to shoot something that has nothing to do with the case?"

"Comrade policeman, you ...... Doesn't seem to answer my question at all? ”

"This orchid is very weird, which indirectly proves that the environment Xiao Yin was in at that time was very complicated, so if Xiao Yin may not commit suicide, then the result must be related to this orchid." After saying this, the policeman hurriedly got into the police car with several of his men and left the crowd, and this time no matter how much the reporters begged, they would not stay for a moment.

Then another team of police officers began to come forward with batons to drive away Xiao Fang and the others, and the reporters were forced to keep walking out.

"Audience, this is the end of today's live broadcast." Xiao Fang found a relatively spacious place and broadcast for the last few minutes. "Anyway, I hope that Mr. Xiao Yin's ending will be tolerated by the audience, maybe things are not what we imagined at all, and we will follow up on the follow-up news for you as soon as possible, thank you for watching."

This was the end of this rare live break, and then several stations switched back to their original programs, and the noise made me have to turn off the TV hard.

I took a deep breath and felt my whole chest feel stuffy, I don't know whether to breathe or sigh, and my throat hurts faintly. Today, my eyes were a little sore because of lack of sleep, and with the pain of witnessing death, the whole person became sluggish, and I didn't know what to do day and night.

Xiao Yin no longer has a chance to stand in front of me, just like Aunt Xiao said, it's over, it's over. He's a genius, he could have done more things that were meaningful and useful to humanity as a whole, and I don't know why he did those things on the last day of his life, but I knew it was pointless to pursue them at this point.

No matter what he did wrong, he was my friend at the moment, and watching him die, I couldn't do anything, nothing but tears.

I gently took the cigarette out of the TV stand, I had never smoked before, but today I wanted to smoke one, I wanted to collapse on the couch, I wanted to forget about it for a while.

I took out the lighter, rubbed my thumb lightly against the wheel of the lighter, raised my eyebrows slightly, and the cigarette in my mouth lit under my gaze, like a light in the night, like a touch of afterglow in a dim room.

I tried to hold the cigarette between my feeble fingers, and I took a hard puff, and the flames slowly burst out, the smoke ring slowly rose, and the world was turned upside down, and I felt as if I had fallen asleep.

A man in a suit suddenly appeared in front of me, his back to me, I couldn't see his face, but his back was as familiar to me as I wanted to accompany him.

"Liu Quan......" is his voice, Xiao Yin's voice.

"Xiao Yin? It's you? You're not dead? I shouted at him hard, but I couldn't seem to make any sound, like a mute.

I tried to go up and grab him, let him look me in the eye, and tell me what was all going on, but I found that I couldn't lift my hand at this point, and could only watch the cigarette burn in my hand and the ash splash on the back of my hand.

"Liu Quan, don't say anything, because you need to find the answer yourself." His voice was still so calm that it was hard to resist. "Please do me this last favor."

I squeezed my throat hard, using all my strength to barely utter a word. "Xiao Yin! What's busy? ”

But when the voice appeared in the air, he disappeared, like a wisp of green smoke, and then I felt a tingling in my fingers, and it turned out that the ash really fell on the back of my hand, and it turned out that it was really a dream, a brief dream after extreme grief.

Life is like a dream, and a dream is like life. When you open your eyes, you will find that all this is just a dream, and if you wake up from the dream, your life may not have woken up; Life has woken up, but dreams may not have woken up.

The dream of life is too long, and sometimes, it is incredible. The dream of life is sometimes too short, too short to say goodbye.

I got up tired and weak, and walked slowly to Aunt Xiao's bedroom, as soon as I entered the door, I saw her pale face, lying on the bed weakly, but her eyes, her eyes full of a thousand emotions, seemed to be about to cut through me, and at that moment I heard the sound of something falling into her heart and shattering. The shards of glass that fill the atrium are dazzling, reflecting the chaotic light. And then, as if someone was pinching their heart hard, and all the pieces were inserted deep into the heart.

Is it painful? I don't even think it's a pain to summarize, and that look is by no means a pain that can be described.

"Izumi, don't disturb Auntie, let her rest for a while." Yu Ge has been guarding Aunt Xiao's side, and at this moment she came over and hugged me gently. "She couldn't bear anything more after all this experience, and she didn't have to tell her anything after that."

I nodded, didn't say anything, turned and walked out of the bedroom, and gently closed the door for them.

Then turn on the TV, turn up the volume to the minimum, and then keep staring at the news channel, hoping to get any news about Xiao Yin, I now have a thought, that is, although I can't save Xiao Yin, I must find out the cause of Xiao Yin's death, whether it is suicide, he kills him, or it is caused by the mysterious orchid Gu, I need to figure everything out, and then tell the old aunt one by one, which can be regarded as an explanation to a white-haired person.

Today the TV is surprisingly harmonious, the media that scolded Xiao Yin a few days ago have disappeared at the moment, and the TV began to broadcast Xiao Yin's glorious deeds on a loop, from his entry to promotion, from his high school to college, I want to listen to these things, because at this time, this information has no value at all, and instead it is like locusts, gnawing at the last happy land in the hearts of the audience.

Finally, after about five hours, the news station finally had an update on the incident, but to my disappointment, there was no exterior footage this time, but just two people sitting in a studio with a pile of materials on each table in front of them.

The subtitle above reads: Today's conversation Xiao Yin incident follow-up and analysis.

I know this show, which is a popular legal program, is usually composed of a host and an expert, and this time is no exception.

After a closer look, I found that one of them was Xiao Fang, who had been broadcasting for us, because she combed her long hair and changed into a white coat, plus maybe because she was too hasty, she was almost photogenic, so I didn't recognize her at all at first, and the expert sitting next to her seemed to be the little policeman earlier today, and at this moment he took off his police outfit and put on a suit and tie, so I didn't recognize her either.

These two people got together again, and it seemed that some exciting information was about to be exposed.

"Mr. Yao, I'm really sorry, I only know your surname now." Xiao Fang first apologized at the beginning. "Because the TV station strongly requested to broadcast an additional episode of such a program in the United States, the time was in a hurry, and I didn't say hello to you in advance. This time you can come to the rescue, on behalf of the entire program team, I would like to express my gratitude to you.

"Miss, you've won the prize." Although Mr. Yao, the little policeman, had changed his clothes, the grim expression on his face had not changed at all. "I'm here in large part because I want to share a lot of important information with you."

"Okay, then let's just start talking."

I've watched this show no less than ten times, and it's always been a show that talks a lot of nonsense at the beginning and even reads out the law. And today's fast pace surprised me, as a show, these two people were not polite at all, and they were about to start analyzing the case directly, and it seems that the importance of this case is incomparable.

"Mr. Yao, has the forensic doctor given an answer?" Xiao Fang asked, his tone hurried.

"The forensic medical examiner has given the results of the examination, Mr. Xiao Yin committed suicide by being shot, because there are no other signs of injury on his body, no internal organ damage, and the wound matches the only bullet casing, and there are also the same traces of gunpowder on his fingers."

Xiao Fang is obviously not very satisfied with this answer, because just looking at this evidence, this is tantamount to another definite suicide incident, whether it is suicide or homicide, it is classified as suicide, and shirk responsibility, this has always been the attitude of the United States towards Chinese Americans, so Xiao Fang is understandable for being suspicious. "Mr. Yao, do you believe these results?"

"I believe that medical examiners don't lie, which is also consistent with my previous inferences."

"Then can this suicide be settled?" Xiao Fang could not hide the disappointment on his face.

Mr. Yao shook his head. "As you said before, if you only look at this limited evidence, the cause of death by suicide is indisputable, but the purpose of my visit this time is not to repeat the forensic report with you, because I have new evidence."