Yan Ruyu nodded, "I'll come first, I got a notice in the game to get clues about the case 20 years ago." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"I'm just like you, but I got the notification via text message - and it's also a text message from the gaming platform."

"It seems that someone wants to bring together people who care about that old case through this game...... By the way, I thought you didn't want to look into old cases. ”

"I can't tell, probably because I don't want anyone to make a fuss about it." Wu Cuo threw Yan Ruyu a cigarette and lit one himself, "However, did you really get that clue?" ”

Yan Ruyu took out a cassette tape from his pocket, the tape was milky white, and it was surprisingly clean.

"Do you have a Walkman or a tape recorder or anything like that?" Wu Cuo asked, he knew that Yan Ruyu had been interested in electronic products since he was a child, otherwise he would not have developed into an Internet addict.

"There's an old Walkman, go back and try it."

The two returned to Yan Ruyu's house and dug out a blue Walkman from the bottom of the cardboard box where he stacked outdated electronic devices, and the Walkman even had Conan's stickers on it, causing Wu Cuo to laugh.

Yan Ruyu shrugged, took off the two batteries in the alarm clock, put it into the Walkman, pressed the play button, and the Walkman spun up.

"It's still durable, and it hasn't broken for so many years." Wu Cuo was very pleased.

Yan Ruyu stuffed the tape into the Walkman, plugged in the headphones, put one on herself, handed it to Wu Cuo, and started playing.

First, there was a burst of background noise unique to the cassette, and a few seconds later, Teresa Teng's "Sweet Honey" came from the headphones, which was very different from expectations.

The two glanced at each other, and they both saw a scolding on each other's faces.

Who's going to go to the trouble of sending them a tape of a song?

Wu Cuo was in a hurry, and couldn't help but press the fast-forward button, but who knew that the fast-forward button was broken, so he had to be patient and continue to listen.

This is a mixed tape, not a single person's album, but a collection of popular songs on the market at the time, "Sweet Honey" followed by a song "The Heart Is Too Soft", and then "Wait for a Thousand Years".

These songs now sound like a world away, and for a while both of them were silent, and the atmosphere was quite weird.

Just when the fourth song "You at the Table" played "Dress for You", the song stopped abruptly and the noise sounded.

It's a recording! The two of them were shocked.

The sound quality of the tape is really flattering, and there is a lot of bang on and off.

"This recording...... The quality is too bad. Wu said wrongly.

Yan Ruyu still listened intently, "It's the sound of rain." ”

"Huh?"

"It's the sound of rain, and now this, do you hear me? It's thunder. ”

Suddenly, a voice was heard.

Under the noise, the human voice seemed very abrupt, and neither of them could hear it clearly for a while.

Wu mistakenly pressed the rewind button, but fortunately, the rewind function is still intact.

Hearing that voice again, both of them concentrated and pricked up their ears, Yan Ruyu even turned up the volume, and finally came to the conclusion: If the tape is not technically processed, it will definitely not be able to hear the result if it is only listened to by the human ear.

Soon, though, a short roar came.

It's gunshots!

The two were no strangers to this voice.

There was another thunderstorm, followed by a regular crackling sound, as if someone was stepping on a puddle on the ground from a distance.

"Deal with it." A cold and excited voice sounded, "Brother, welcome to join, let's make a fortune together in the future." ”

The sound of the car door closing.

The sound of wheels crushing over puddles.

Smack.

The recording ends, and the song continues to play.

"You at the Table" has ended, and it goes straight to "At least there is still you", the soothing tone and eloquent monologue-like lyrics form a strong contrast with the tense atmosphere in the recording, and there is a sense of absurdity.

Yan Ruyu lit a cigarette, Wu Cuo also lit one, and the two continued to listen to the tape, but they were somewhat absent-minded, probably subconsciously feeling that there would be no more valuable recordings in the future.

"Do you want to look further? It's been 20 years, and there are no clues at all, and sometimes I even wonder, do they really exist? ”

"Of course they exist! We are the proof! ”

Yan Ruyu seemed to have a sea of stars in his eyes, which made Wu Cuo a little afraid to look directly.

Yan Ruyu shook Wu Cuo's shoulder and said, "It's been 20 years, and there are no clues at all, shouldn't someone find out?" That's 5 lives! Why did they die? Is it really as officially announced in order to fight against the evil forces? So has this underworld force collapsed? Have their killers been brought to justice? Don't you want to know? Or is it ...... Are you scared? ”

"Yes! I'm scared to death! Taking the last puff of his cigarette, Wu Cuo snuffed out the cigarette butt, "I'm afraid this incident will kill us!" I'm scared we'll be like them back then! ”

"You...... Do you know something? Yan Ruyu sat up straight and looked at Wu Cuo expectantly.

Wu Cuo was silent, he shook his head for a while, clenched his fists for a while, and looked extremely struggling in his heart.

"Remember the case of the headless corpse in the deserted tomb in the northern suburbs?" Wu Cuo finally spoke.

"You were also injured in order to catch the murderer, and you got 7 stitches on your head, of course I remember."

"At that time, you didn't enter the city hall, so you didn't know the specifics."

"Then tell me! What exactly is the situation?! ”

"At that time, like you, I was secretly investigating the old case 20 years ago, but all the information on the case was erased, and even the other cases they had investigated before their death were also sealed, you should know this, right?"

"I know."

"So I started to investigate what happened in the police station in the years they were in the police, especially in the six months before they died, and it turned out that I really found out one thing."

"What?"

"More than a month before the accident, a thief entered the evidence room of the city hall - let me tell you my opinion, I think it must have been done by the thief, otherwise who would have blatantly entered the city hall and stole something? However, this is not the point, the focus is that the investigation report shows that the relevant evidence in 11 cases was stolen, but in the investigation report there is also a preliminary investigation result of the grassroots criminal police, which clearly records the theft of relevant evidence in a total of 13 cases. ”

"Do you think there are two cases that have been deliberately concealed?"

"That's right! Although this is only a preliminary investigation, I believe that in the case of the stolen evidence, the preliminary investigation is sufficient to clarify the situation, and there should be no discrepancies. ”

"You went to find the grassroots criminal policeman back then?"

"Yes, but when I found his house, he was already dead, and I only saw his widow, an old lady over 70 years old. The old lady told me that her wife had retired early, just a week after the theft of the evidence room. ”

"So coincidentally?"

"Yes, it's a pity that I couldn't ask him about the situation back then, and then I went back and forth to find the police officer who was on duty in the evidence room back then, but he reasoned that he couldn't remember how many pieces of evidence had been stolen.

About half a month later, there was progress in the case of the headless corpse in the deserted tomb in the northern suburbs, and I followed the team leader to arrest the suspect.

There were two suspects in this case, one of them was captured, and the other escaped by taking advantage of the fact that there were passers-by around and the police did not dare to shoot, I went to chase the fugitive, but halfway through, 5 or 6 people wearing hoods suddenly appeared, they had machetes in their hands, if I hadn't been practicing sanda all the time, and there were criminal police who were involved in the case who came to fire a warning shot in time, I'm afraid I would have to confess there that day. ”

"Who are those?"

"I don't know, but I remember one of them telling me that someone didn't want me to look into the case from 20 years ago again, and they just used people's money to eliminate the disaster for others.

Later, when I woke up again, I was already in the hospital, and when I opened my eyes in a daze, I saw a person in the ward, he was wearing a mask and a white coat, and when he saw that I was awake, he stuffed a note in my hand and left. ”

"Notes?"

"There's only one sentence on it: watch your life!"

"It's a threat." Yan Ruyu smashed his fist on his leg, quite annoyed.

Wu Cuo breathed a sigh of relief, and seemed to have unloaded a big stone that was pressing on his heart, "Later, when you entered the hall, what I was most worried about was that you went to investigate the old case, but fortunately, it seems that someone has cleaned up the relevant information more carefully, and even the record of the theft of the evidence room has been erased, and you have not found any clues, fortunately, there is no danger." I finally put my mind at ease, but I didn't expect to bring up the old thing again tonight......"

Wu Cuo looked up at the sky outside the window, there were no stars, and the moonlight was bleak, "It's going to change the sky." ”

"At that time, I was young and had no choice, but now that I am also a policeman, I still have to find out," Yan Ruyu handed Wu a cigarette again: "Besides, I don't have no clues." ”

"You...... What did you find? ”

"It's not that I found it, but I remember," Yan Ruyu pointed to his head, "A conversation between my parents and my mother before their deaths is very vague memory, they seem to have offended a certain high-ranking person." I'm thinking, it should be related to a certain case they investigated, is it collusion between officials and gangsters? I...... I can't tell, but since someone has sealed all the cases they investigated back then, it can be seen that there are some ugly things in it. ”

"Stolen evidence...... Past case records are sealed...... Hire a thug threats...... A mysterious man with a high authority...... And tonight...... What do you think of this tape? Wu Cuo pondered.

"There are gunshots, it can only be assumed that someone was killed, otherwise this tape is meaningless, the question is, who died? And who is the murderer? ”

"Also, who is recording?" Wu Cuo added.

"I'm going to get someone to do the recording and see if I can figure out what the first few sentences are."

"Looking for someone? Netizen? ”

"What do you want to say?"

"No, nothing, just ask."

Yan Ruyu continued, "The weirdo who saved us is quite interesting, have you ever heard of such a skilled cripple? ”

"No, but eighty percent of this kind of person has a criminal record, I'll check."

"Also, the people who grabbed clues from us are organized and disciplined, and they are by no means idle gangsters, but mature underworld gangs, and it should not be difficult to check, since the person who posted the clues has muddied the waters, we just fish in troubled waters."

Wu Cuo pursed his lips, "Maybe in the eyes of others, we are fish." ”

Yan Ruyu smiled, "Then let's take the bait and see which key person can be drawn." ”