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The chandelier on the ceiling of the living room consists of eight silver-gray lampposts, each with a set of diamond-shaped luminaries at the end, and a translucent lampshade divided into three layers to cover the outside of the lampposts. www.biquge.info This is a smart lamp that can emit different lights according to the instructions, and can also change the color tone of different moods every few seconds according to the instructions, aiming to create a feeling that suits the mood of the owner in the room.

Zhong Xian casually pressed on the phone. Resigned to fate, I want to see which color will be pressed. The light turns blue, and then the color slowly deepens.

Officer Deng blinked his eyes and was taken aback when the lights suddenly changed, and he looked around before looking up at the chandelier. The light gradually changes, gradually emitting an almost purple light.

The sight of the eye is also softened by the light, including the human face.

The uneasiness on Zhong Xian's face gradually subsided like this light.

"It's a smart lamp, and it's the most technologically achievable part of the smart home project I'm going to do next. Deng sir, what do you think? ”

Officer Deng's expression was puzzled for a moment, and Zhong Xian's reaction caught him a little unexpected. But he still said quietly: "The topic of smart home is quite hot now." I always thought it would be a few years before it happened. ”

"I said it was the easiest part of it to do." Zhong Xian said, he glanced at Deng Yi, who was staring at him suspiciously, and said, "I should thank you for not using the police to force me." But it still surprised me to know that you've been dealing with me with a suspicious mindset, and God knows, I'd be stupid enough to start treating you as a friend. ”

"Your reaction is very unreasonable," Officer Tang said, "and most people will immediately defend themselves." You care more about anything else. ”

"Have you doubted me all along? I'm going to make sure first, am I talking to a friend or the police? ”

"I'm going to be suspicious of anyone involved in the case for a while." Officer Deng said frankly.

Zhong Xian smiled: "Have you been secretly observing me from the very beginning?" It's not that you're coming to me to find out what's going on, and it's not to get me to cooperate with you, but you're always looking at me as a suspect to observe? ”

Police Officer Deng stared at him for a while and said, "This case has not yet been decided. "It means that if you haven't determined whether Xiao Zhu has an accident, such as dying or something, you can't call him a suspect.

"Why didn't you just ask me this question when we met for the first time?" Zhong Xian's tone was as if he had been betrayed.

"You misunderstood. I also just got his call logs, and I only got them yesterday. Officer Deng explained, "It's not easy to file this type of case, and the bureau won't use much resources for me." I don't actually want to take on this case, but I'm a newcomer, so it's so boring to give me this kind of rotten work,...... I did not approach you with the intention of deliberately tempting. ”

Zhong Xian let out a laugh from his nose: "It's normal even if it's with a purpose, you're a policeman." Officer Deng spoke to him in a completely consultative tone, which also made him calm down quickly. At least the policeman's words revealed that he didn't think the case would be anything important. "You're still watching my reaction, right, I should have made a defensive, angry and uneasy look so that it didn't look suspicious, right? I also wonder why I'm calm. Hell, I don't even remember talking to him on the phone, and I didn't even have his number stored on my phone. ”

They looked at each other for a few seconds, and then Zhong Xian continued, "I'm also surprised, how could he call me?" This must be wrong. ”

"You haven't had a bit of a memory problem lately."

"I still have a number in my mind. The person in front of you who has memory problems used to have excellent memory, and every detail will remember clearly the person who is looking for troubles. ”

"And when did you have a problem with your memory, haven't you seen a doctor?"

"Yes. Find a friend to introduce a famous doctor. The first one is a Chinese medicine practitioner, and he said that I may be depressed, this kind of mental problem, which is difficult to prove with any physical examination data. I know that this doctor's diagnosis is pure guesswork, but I still obediently took the medicine according to his prescription, and I took it with a mixture of Chinese medicine and Western medicine, this kind of medicine just makes you stupid and makes you forgetful, you know? On the one hand, I want to forget, so I would rather pretend to be stupid and take medicine, isn't this kind of mentality the most important concern of that doctor? Then I found a second doctor, who gave me a full body check-up and even asked me to get checked for AIDS. Zhong Xian laughed. He pointed to his brain, "No one is going to try to figure out the real problem. All they think about is fooling this patient, making his money, and living their own little life. Sorry, I look excited. ”

"Is it possible that Xiao Zhu called you and you really forgot?" Officer Tang stressed this point again.

"Am I not clear what I said? More than half a year ago, I didn't have that bad memory. "If he did call, I should remember." However," he thought for a moment, "it's been too long, and if he just called to say something about the customer's work, I guess I might have forgotten it now, because many colleagues will report to me, maybe he left, but there is still work that has not been handed over clearly, so he called me again." If there is such a phone call, at most it is about these work matters, and we have nothing else to do with it. Am I talking too much, what am I now? Surrounding people, witnesses, suspects? ”

"Nothing." Officer Deng said, "I'm sitting on your couch right now, and I just want to be your friend." "Officer Deng still speaks like a friend." And not a person in a case. ”

Maybe this cop really thinks so, as he said, he is a novice in the police force, he is still relatively 'immature' in the face of crime, he does not like to take on such boring bad cases, cases that even his boss does not care about, just treat it as an inconsequential trouble to a novice to deal with, and he would rather make friends more important than the case, and do not put his mind on solving the case. Zhong Xin waved his hand: "I'll think again." I think you should check if there is an error in the call log. It may be more correct to document why something went wrong, and to investigate in that direction. ”

"I'll check again." Officer Deng said. He got up from the couch and looked in the direction of the balcony, the wind outside whipped something black and whirring by, "It may be hard to sleep tonight, such a wind." ”

"In this kind of wind, I will sleep more peacefully." Zhong Xian said. He kept his eyes on the TV as the soccer match came to the end of the penalty shootout. Together, they watched the game intently and didn't say anything. The wine ran out quickly.

Officer Deng picked up the trauma spray: "Spray it again, just go to sleep, you can see if you have any other problems tomorrow morning." Zhong Xian was still holding the wine glass in one hand, and the injured right foot was on the couch. Officer Deng lifted his soft bathrobe and squirted lightly on his right leg. "Are you still taking that antidepressant pill?" He asked.

Zhong Xian put the wine glass in his hand on the coffee table, "Eat if you want, don't eat if you don't want to eat." "I probably subconsciously knew I wasn't that disease." ”

"And what do you think is wrong?"

Zhong Xian seemed to want to laugh.

"You may not be sick at all." Officer Deng said.

"I'm not sick." Zhong Xian also said, "But I hope to be sick, because only when I am sick can I have a cure." ”

Officer Deng looked at him as if he didn't understand. "What do you want to heal?"

Zhong Xian still had a smile on his face, "I want to take medicine again." ”

"Why?" Officer Deng actually broke the posture of the casserole to ask the end.

Zhong Xian sat up straight on the sofa: "If your life is about to end, what do you regret the most in your life?" ”

Officer Deng looked into his eyes, and the topic jumped again in surprise. "It seems like we're less than halfway through our lives."

"I mean hypothetical."

"If you're going to die now...... Officer Deng thought about it seriously and quickly replied, "I'll regret not falling in love with anyone once." What about you? ”

Zhong Xian looked at Officer Deng, and his expression seemed to mock him: "Haven't you been in love?" ”

"I mean a passionate one." Officer Deng explained, "You probably think I'd say I don't have a successful career, if you didn't assume that I'm going to die now, I really think that I think I made a career a major event in my life." But what you asked was the most regrettable thing, the first thing, if I really were going to die now, I felt from the bottom of my heart that it was the most regrettable. What about you? ”

"I'll regret it...... I didn't resist. Zhong Xian took half a day to give this answer.

"Resist what?"

"Rebel against the people who bullied me when I was a child."

"That's it?" Officer Deng looked dissatisfied.

Zhong Xian rubbed his hair: "There are too many regrets, I can't pick any one that can be ranked first." ”

"You're playing a scoundrel." Officer Deng said, "To put it another way, what is the happiest thing you've ever experienced so far?" ”

Zhong Xian put on a serious thinking look: "The first time I made a million and that." ”

Officer Deng was stunned for a moment and smiled, "It's money and ...... Then why did you drive Miss Yang away? ”

Zhong Xian didn't answer, and he yawned on the couch. "Go to sleep." Officer Deng walked over and put an arm under his armpit. 'Don't help me. Zhong Xian wanted to say this, but he didn't. Officer Deng's arm had passed under his armpit, wrapped around his waist, and held his hand on the other side. The arm was strong, and it lifted him steadily from the couch.

"Thank you." He said.

23

By the next morning, the typhoon had weakened significantly. The rain was falling messily, and the sky was still cloudy like a big black quilt.

Zhong Xian didn't sleep soundly all night. It was the first time in two years that he had slept with someone other than him in the bed of his new apartment.

Only then did he realize that he was trapped in his own vortex again. He had always felt that he wanted Officer Deng to leave his home, but on the other hand, he was allowed to keep close to him.

It's like he's always wanted to forget, but he's desperately trying to remember what he forgot. Such a contradictory state is his real illness.

At dawn, before the typhoon abated, he fell asleep unconsciously. Officer Deng slept about 30 centimeters away from him, and he tried to measure the distance between them with his arm more than once, but he held back.

He closed the electric curtains, which had been an ornament for two years - he was not in the habit of closing them to sleep. In the darkness where he couldn't see his fingers, there was a man sleeping beside him.

He woke up at 8:30 a.m., he had only slept for about three or four hours, but Officer Deng was gone. He left a message on WeChat, saying that he was going to work, and told him to call him immediately if he woke up and felt unwell.

Zhong Xian did want to throw up. But he didn't think it was any concussion. He got up and cooked himself a bowl of noodles.

Then he called Dake, he wanted to tell him what happened yesterday and clarify his thoughts.

After listening to this, Dake's voice changed: "You let that police officer live in your house?" You can say that you are inconvenient or something, anyway, there is a reason to drive him away. ”

"I can't chase him away."

"Why not."

"That would be too obvious. It's like I've got something unsavvy about. ”

"Yes." Dake seems to be convinced, but Zhong Xian begins to wonder if he really did his best. Dake looked distressed: "He said that Xiao Zhu's last call was to you?" What's going on? I haven't heard you tell me about it. ”

"I didn't talk to him on the phone, what did I talk to you?"

"But it's not possible to make mistakes in the call logs."

"How could it not be? Is there any software that allows the number to be displayed according to the perpetrator's wishes, like those scam calls? It shows that 10086 is actually not the number that was dialed at all. ”

"But who around us has the ability to do this? Why would someone who has this ability target you? Don't talk nonsense. And in the record, you said that he called you, so it is even more impossible to make a mistake that I talked to you. ”

It seems to be true. "But I really can't remember." Zhong Xian said helplessly.

"That officer is suspicious of you!" Dake concluded. "Xiao Zhu has been missing for half a year, and he is probably dead. If it's a homicide, your suspicion ......"

"Don't be alarmist!" Zhong Xian was a little angry.

"I'm thinking about you. Big brother, we have to take precautions. You said that Deng sir took you as a friend? ”

"Yes."

"Don't believe him!"

24

Zhong Xian sat motionless in his dining chair all morning. Only a few bites of breakfast. After a struggle of thoughts, he took out a bag of Chinese medicine from the refrigerator, soaked it in hot water, cut open the bag and poured it into a bowl and drank it.

He was accustomed to the taste of this herb, and the sourness far exceeded the bitterness. After drinking for a few minutes, he sat there for a while, picked up a pill box on the table that said 'Prozac,' took one and put it in his mouth, and took another big sip of water. After about five minutes, the effect of the two pills made him very happy, and he stood up to get something, but forgot it in an instant. After standing there thinking about it, he simply gave up, and then he picked up his phone and wanted to send a WeChat message to someone, but he instantly forgot the boot password.

After sitting at his phone for five minutes, he gradually remembered the password, and he turned on the phone, but forgot who he wanted to text. When he saw Officer Deng's profile picture on the WeChat interface, he clicked on it. Officer Deng's WeChat profile picture changed from a chrysanthemum to a handsome photo of himself. Zhong Xian stared at the photo for a while, and it was hard to imagine that this handsome guy would say that he had never been in a passionate relationship.

He started sending WeChat messages to Officer Deng. I wrote a lot of words with the handwriting function of my mobile phone: [Ah Yi, after yesterday's incident, I feel uneasy, of course, the reason for the uneasiness is because of Xiao Zhu's call records, I know that you don't pay much attention to this case, but now I attach great importance to it, are you willing to let me help you, since your bureau doesn't give you more support, I can be a helper for you and help you solve the case.] After writing these words, he deleted them again, feeling that too many words were too wordy, but suspicious.

After thinking about it, he changed it to a short line again: [I'll help you solve the case.] It just so happens that I've been available lately. And I think it's too simple. Delete it again.

[What you said last night made me interested, I want to help you solve the case and figure out why he called me,] He didn't finish typing, so he accidentally pressed the wrong button and sent it out, just as he was annoyed, and it took a minute to remember that he could use WeChat's withdrawal function, Officer Deng had already replied.

[Okay.] There's only one word. But he really agreed to him.

Zhong Xian replied: [You don't have any help.] Make me your little brother. ]

Officer Deng replied: [I'm going to Longgang in the afternoon to see Xiao Zhu's girlfriend's factory.] ]

[Okay.] See you in the afternoon. Zhong Xian replied, thought about it and added another one. [Lunch together?] ]