There are iron doors in the prison, which are opened, closed, and walked through them, and you will hear a loud metal crash.

After passing through an unknown cage, there is a whistle from inside, lewdly and presumptuously proclaiming that this is their territory.

It was the first time he had walked into the depths of the prison, and even if he had come here for work, he had only stopped at the infirmary. The high windows in the hallway were blown and clicked, and the people in the iron railings had their own stories, some dormant and some proclaiming. Women are like otherworldly creatures here, bringing commotion and whistles, but also a dangerous aura.

A few days ago, she received an unexpected message from the man inviting her to meet. Although the prison authorities had advised her to consider it carefully, she said incompetently that she could be regarded as coercing and inducing the warden to agree by her professional relationship. Of course, no one should be allowed to know.

The light cast by the high window shone on Xun Keran, and her shadow fell on the depths of the cage, at the man's feet.

Hou Guangyan raised his head, looked at the figure of Xun Keran in the backlight, and slowly walked out of the darkness of the cell, still the face that seemed to have lost his joy, anger and sorrow, looking at her for a long time through the railing.

"I thought you'd never want to see me again in your life."

“…… I looked at your visitor history. Coco avoided his gaze and topic, "Uncles and aunts have come to see you many times. ”

Hou Guangyan unconsciously rubbed his fingertips, "My dad kept saying that the biggest mistake in his life was to force me onto this road...... Actually, it's none of his business. ”

As if remembering something funny, Hou Guangyan looked up at Coco, and his expression actually showed a smile.

"What's so funny?"

"You're fat."

Coco instinctively rolled his eyes back. Then the atmosphere suddenly calmed down, neither of them spoke, and even the prison guards who were guarding not far away felt weird, and couldn't help but lower their breath.

"You asked me to come here just to catch up?" Coco kicked on her toes, showing her impatience.

Hou Guangyan didn't answer, but there was a deep meaning in his gaze at Coco, and it took a while for him to let out a soft sigh. "The psychiatrist came a few days ago." He glanced at Coco's reaction, "You already knew. ”

"Know what?" Xun Keran's eyes turned up, the ceiling was quite clean, and there were no cobwebs to settle down.

"Fang He."

Xun Keran's eyes tightened. Loud screams, the burnt smell of electric shock, distorted smiles...... A flash from my mind.

Hou Guangyan didn't know the fragment in her mind, so she just said to herself, "To be honest, I believe or don't believe what he said." After all, I am the one who has the blood on my hands, no matter who whispers something in my ear. ”

"The consciousness is very high." A ridiculous sentence, but Coco can't say it in a ridiculous tone.

"You come in and try it, facing the wall every day is very helpful to improve the state of mind."

"Thanks, my office also has four walls, and there are frozen ice beds, which is more efficient than yours. So you called me thousands of miles here to express your feelings about life? ”

"Xun Keran, how many years have you been practicing medicine?" The man in the cage changed his words, so that Coco couldn't catch up with his train of thought for a while.

"It's almost ten years since the apprenticeship in the hands of the master."

"Let's change jobs."

"Don't."

Hou Guangyan smiled and shook his head, "I knew you would say that, but today I said it for your sister." Give up, Xiao Ranran. ”

Coco's fist clenched silently, then released.

"He told me everything about Fang He, and about you being targeted. I know I'm not qualified to say anything about you, but I'm also the one who is best qualified to say you. Xiao Ran, look where I am staying now? If what he said is true, the person named Fang He is too deep, and if you are not careful, you will probably go the wrong way like me. ”

Xun Keran finally suppressed the anxiety in her heart these days and quickly turned back, she knew that Hou Guangyan was right, but it was precisely because he was right that her fearless insistence became a little willful. This time it was her turn to start sighing, "I understand the truth, but Hou Guangyan, monkey...... Brother. No matter how strong the enemy is, it is not a reason to retreat. This sentence was also said by my sister. ”

"Okay, don't learn, learn from your sister."

"There's a kind of ...... you go down and reason with her yourself," Coco said defiantly, "I know you care about me, and that nosy woman has come to talk to you about what you're doing." ”

"What woman?" Hou Guangyan tilted his head sideways, his expression changed slightly.

"That psychiatrist Guji."

Hou Guangyan slowly stood up, approached the prison bar, and looked at Coco with his eyes narrowed into a slit.

"It's a man who came to me."

Xun Keran stiffened in place.

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No one knows what Hou Guangyan said at that time, everyone only knows that that Monday, Xun Keran directly applied to the director for indefinite leave. Everyone understands what this means for a policeman who is free from illness and disaster. Perhaps the person is about to leave his profession, or perhaps it means a brief stop. But every colleague who is in the bureau and is almost on all fours knows that there is no escape from an indefinite vacation, for whatever reason, and that person may never appear in the police station again, for whatever reason.

Zhou Daxuan also found Hou Guangyan and asked him what he said to Coco, but he was only ridiculed by the other party.

She didn't tell you? You don't even have the trust of your girlfriend, but you expect me to give you an answer?

Zhou Daxuan turned around to leave, but heard a serious persuasion behind him.

"Don't ask those who stay, don't chase after the deceased."

Zhou Daxuan came with suppressed anger and returned with double anger. The next day, the whole line and the whole group went crazy and worked overtime to investigate the case.

Bai Ling hugged the table leg and sobbed resentfully: Sister Xun, Sister Guanyin, Sister Bodhisattva, please come back and work in peace and stability, I still want to live until the day I retire~

Xue Yang passed by him with a serious face, Sister Guanyin is not there, and the Hell Rakshasa asked you to go and urge the report of the physical evidence.

Bailing Shihua: I just went to ...... 10 minutes ago Xue Yang, can I take a vacation too?

Xue Yang looked at him with a deep face: Want to lie in the hospital for two weeks like last time? Come on, I'll help you, it just so happens that my fist is a little itchy......

Bai Ling got up and ran out, physical evidence! I'm going to urge the evidence!

In front of the smoky desk, Zhou Daxuan squinted at the case materials, but he didn't turn a page for ten minutes. He knew that Xun Keran had gone on a trip, but no one knew where she had gone. Not knowing anything was more uncomfortable for him than anything else.

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Blue sky and white clouds. The air streaked across the faint tail line of the plane.

The tourist city of City C is a good place with warm seasons, and good places have only one meaning in Coco's mind: there are many delicious foods.

So in this city in the off-season, many owners of famous restaurants will remember that there is a girl who chews lollipops all day long, who seems to be a little old, and behaves like a student who has just entered society, who comes quietly alone, leaves mysteriously, orders a bunch of delicious food, occasionally shows a contemplative silence, never takes the initiative to talk to anyone, but is happy to look around, and watch the words and deeds of tourists or residents next to her while eating.

Until one day she came to a small Japanese restaurant with a hot business, there were too many customers, and the proprietress smiled and arranged another single guest at the same table as her.

You're alone, huh? The man who laughs like crow's feet, but still looks like a big boy, has short, coffee-colored hair, and his face shines like it glows on itself.

Coco just chewed on the dried squid in her mouth and looked at him with a smile.

The boy claimed to be Ou Sheng, in the lively little shop, he chattered about the cocoa and talked about which attractions he ran around, on the morning when the sun rose, he saw the beautiful women on the street chasing the underwear thief chasing three roads, and the night light was shining on the road, and he saw two groups of people fighting for a string of mutton skewers, sleeping in the park with a stray cat, and also sleeping in a five-star room in a hotel.

At dinner, Coco listened to him talk with a smile, and the lively guests next to him changed until the snack bar closed, and Ou Sheng jumped to his feet and found that the restaurant he was staying in was the same as Coco's. As the lights on the side of the road dimmed, the two walked all the way back to their accommodation.

After returning to the room and locking the door, Coco threw herself into the soft and collapsed mattress, thinking of some jokes told by the man named Ou Sheng, and couldn't help but giggle alone. It turns out that there is such a person in the world, when you are with him, you will feel as if the sun is shining with you, every three minutes he will tell you something that makes you laugh, and every ten minutes you will refresh the interesting things in this world. Beyond the world of death, crime, and darkness, there is such a ......

A bell rang, and the giggle stuck in the mattress stopped in an instant, and the phone screen showed the big number.

"Where?" All of Captain Zhou's text messages and phone calls in the past few days are on this one topic.

Coco was weak for no reason, and coughed dryly, "I'm traveling, I've been talking about it for a few days." ”

"Where to travel?" The first interrogation skill Captain Zhou learned was perseverance.

"Well, you're not supervising that illegal trade syndicate today......" Coco threw a flashbang to divert his attention, but the person on the other side was sinisterly silent for a long time, with an attitude of not intending to answer. provoked a weak heart like a river that broke the embankment, spreading in Xun Keran's heart, hmm...... A handsome guy I met on a solo trip......

Zhou Daxuan finally just held back a sigh, he has recently begun to understand that feelings and some people, the harder they are held in their hands, the easier they are to break. Xun Keran is not a small animal he raised, she has an independent personality and action, even if her desire to protect is about to overturn, it can't cover her sudden whim to travel alone.

All he could do was hold his breath and check all the backlogs at hand.

Then he sneered at the "Backlog Case Solving Award" issued by the bureau: Xun Keran, if you make more awkward trouble, Lao Tzu can break all the case-solving records in the bureau.

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Qian Zixuan's room was dim, and she tiptoed to the window, looking out carefully through the heavy airtight curtains. After Mr. Zhou sent her back last night, her heart has been occupied by two emotions, one is irrepressibly excited and full of anticipation for today's date, and the other is also unavoidable, intuition that the danger of the past has returned. Her nerves, which had been soaked in joy, tensed up again, she changed her mobile phone number, canceled all her online records, and the only thing she was reluctant to do was the email address with many email records with Mr. Zhou, which was the only window for her to communicate with the outside world when she was isolated from the world.

Qian Zixuan walked to the kitchen, no matter what, eating and sleeping still had to continue, although she didn't sleep very well. But the footsteps stopped with a ding-dong email chime. The sender column of the mail is garbled, and there is only one photo of her walking on the road with Mr. Zhou. Fear and anger came up from the soles of her feet, taking over her trembling body, it felt all too familiar, and the disgusting things she thought she had gotten rid of had never been far away.

But Mr. Zhou, the smiling, grinning, and melancholy who would see through her melancholy, really made her unable to let go.

Qian Zixuan suppressed the anxiety of pacing back and forth, and picked up the phone, "Mr. Zhou......"

"Just call me by name, Zixuan."

Wen Yong...... Me, that ...... Today's date, as expected, is still ...... "I can't say it, how do I say it, I obviously like each other."

"Did something happen?" The tone of the man on the other side also became serious.

"No...... I...... I am...... Sorry ......"

I'm sorry, I don't want you to be in danger because of me, I'm sorry, I'm so weak...... Qian Zixuan looked back at the photos on the screen, and the possessiveness and control in the wordless email were too obvious, making her angry and helpless.

Zixuan...... Qian Zixuan! A shouting on the other end of the line interrupted her bewilderment.

"En......"

"Zixuan, you have to remember, no matter what happens...... I will protect you. Mr. Zhou said.

After a short silence, Qian Zixuan sat on the ground, covered her mouth and cried quietly.

Just as she was about to tell the truth, the computer screen, which had been dimmed, suddenly flashed, and an email chime of "Ding Dong" echoed in the room. Zixuan feels like the protagonist of a horror movie, and the computer behind her is the source of the horror. She turned her head slowly, unsurprised to see the headline of the new email pop up, "Die to a!! ”

Ding dong...... Ding dong...... Ding, ding, ......ding,

In just three or four seconds when someone on the other side of the microphone called her name a few times, Qian Zixuan saw that the mailbox seemed to be highly poisoned, and new email reminders kept popping up, and those prompt boxes that repeatedly appeared on the screen were like the knocking sound of a demon, drilling into her brain from her ears and constantly hammering her nerves that were about to collapse. Qian Zixuan was so frightened that she dropped her phone, covered her ears, and closed her eyes tightly. Finally, when everything finally stopped, the page looked like you had 174 unread emails above the simple frame.

In three minutes, 174 cursed messages.

Ignoring the eager inquiry on the other end of the phone, Qian Zixuan hurriedly said goodbye, and then cut off the phone. She really didn't have the courage to say one more word now.