When Coco returned to the Physical Evidence Section with the denim jacket, he was almost a hero who came back triumphantly, and Wang Tao and the other colleagues of the physical evidence couldn't wait to start analyzing the coat, because in some probabilities, this may be the most powerful thing to conclude the case other than the destroyed physical evidence, so that in this case, Coco swaggered and snatched a large bag of original potato chips from Wang Tao, and no one had any opinion.

Wang Tao maintained a friendly smile on his face, but his heart was dripping blood. In an office full of colleagues during the day, he had to take care of his dignity as "Teacher Wang".

Unlike some people, they don't care about anyone's eyes. Coco squinted and munched on the chips and went back to her place.

Monster.

Scum.

Slag. -- Mr. Wang shouted about 10,000 words of foul language in his heart.

As a monster scum scum who was very happy to eat potato chips and buy a cup of cocoa milk to drink, Xun Keran felt a trace of something not quite right before he walked to the door of the forensic office.

The door was open, and the smell of smoke wafted from inside.

The only small sofa in the office sat the pensive director, the cigarette from his fingertips burning white, and the old fox director looked like a statue of David.

Coco stood in the doorway, thinking about the purpose of the director's stay on his own turf.

"Yo, Xiaoxun, you ...... Ahh The smoke burned out between his fingers, and the director frantically snuffed it out on the glass coffee table.

"Leader, that's a glass coffee table, not a glass ashtray." Coco said a word and took a sip of the cocoa milk in his hand.

The director glared at her, then immediately withdrew his gaze. This made Coco feel very curious, since the last time she "surrendered" in front of the director, theoretically she watched the leader take a detour, but at the moment the other party looked weak-hearted.

The director's voice was a little depressed, "Xiaoxun, what about people, you will encounter all kinds of things, don't think about it too absolutely, don't be too extreme in any feelings, full of damage, full moon ......"

Ahh Xun Keran coughed, leader, do you want to demote me or reduce my salary, just say it.

The director stopped talking in embarrassment, but when Coco saw that the old fox was so nervous that he licked his lips, she thought it was funny, but gradually she couldn't laugh anymore.

What he can say so nervously for the old man will not be such a small thing as a demotion and salary reduction.

"You that, what is Zhou Daxuan...... DNA Records? ”

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(From now on, please read it in conjunction with Hikaru Utada's latest song "Midsummer Showers")

Zhou Daxuan has been missing for two weeks, and many people in the bureau have heard about it. But this morning, a charred adult man's body was found in a ditch on the outskirts of the city, and the remaining pieces of clothing on his body belonged to Zhou Daxuan, but only a few people knew about it.

The director took Coco to the completely closed "secret room" in the basement of the Public Security Bureau and talked for a long time, that room was shielded from all kinds of electronic signals in all directions, and it was impossible to leave any records. But the well-eyed people knew that Xun Keran, accompanied by two colleagues, went home to collect Zhou Dazhang's DNA evidence, and in order not to worry Dazhen's parents, the bureau made the decision to hide the family first.

The next day, when rumors began to quietly breed within the Public Security Bureau, Xun Keran still appeared in the bureau with a flat face.

The murder committed by Chung Dikin in the subway station was originally certified as conclusive physical evidence, but due to the accident of the Physical Evidence Bureau, there are now many piles of materials that need to be made up. Su Xiaozhe, a little pot friend with a stupid face, can clearly feel that the number of people who come to the forensic department today has doubled. Then he learned from another fool about the discovery of a body that might be Captain Zhou's body.

"No wonder Sister Xun confessed that if she revealed the news of where she was today, she would break my legs." Xiaozhe hid in the corner and quietly talked to Bai Ling on the phone.

"Oh-" Bai Ling on the other end of the phone paused, "Then where did she go?" ”

Faced with Bai Ling's question, Su Xiaozhe thought cautiously for a while, and finally came to the conclusion: "I think my legs are more important." ”

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In the afternoon, the gossip finally reached Xu Wanli's ears, and she looked for cocoa everywhere for the first time, and if she couldn't find it, she looked for the director. This is the first time that Xiao Xu has asked things loudly regardless of whether the other side is a leader or not, but the answer he can get is just the director's "no comment" with a tense face.

Xiao Xu cried on the spot, having no comment means a lot of things, and most of the time, it is a sad fact that is helpless and unspeakable.

The crying Xu Wanli was finally picked up by her colleagues.

Watching everyone leave the room, the director, who was nearly 60 years old, opened the drawer with a trembling hand, poured out two heart-saving pills from it, swallowed it in one gulp, and collapsed on the chair for a long time.

It only takes more than ten hours for an urgent DNA analysis to produce a report, and sitting in the position of director today, you have to endure the heaviness behind this position.

The weather is actually getting hotter, and in late spring, just before the height of summer, there is a stuffy breath in the humid air.

It wasn't until the silence of the night that Xun Keran quietly appeared in the public security bureau. Because of the destruction of the physical evidence department, the basement that had been abandoned for many years was temporarily arranged for them to be used as a temporary physical evidence experimental site, so that Xun Keran could prepare all the forensic materials needed for Zhong Dijin's case without being disturbed in this situation.

At this moment, she walked back to the corridor of the forensic department, and she walked countless times in the night of this corridor, going to work, leaving work, going to the police for an inquest or going to the criminal police office. But there is no time like this, standing in the sassy night wind, there will be a sadness.

Years have passed, thinking about how I have known Zhou Daxuan, it is already the sixth year. The first impression of the poor first impression, the prank of chasing him on the highway, is now a memory that smiles slightly when he misses it.

Being a police officer and a medical examiner is their respective choice, and the danger behind this uniform is also part of their choice. But the thought of the stabbing wound on the back of the uniform came from a companion in the same building, and she felt deep distress for that person. She silently recalled the scars on his body over the years. He never cried out of pain, and he never counted the source of the scars, but he had forgotten about her and could clearly tell what each mark meant.

I don't know how much of his so-called pride will be added to his return this time.

Coco slowly sat down on the floor in the hallway with his back against the wall, anyway, the white robe on his body was a uniform, not a money to buy.

The smell of nightshade in the wind took Cocoa's thoughts away from everything in front of her.

Da Xuan is in trouble, and it is an established reality. He loses contact with the Director, and then Coco notices that someone has broken into his apartment and the office of the Forensic Science Department silently, as if trying to find something. When Coco took it upon himself to pass the news of the fingerprints to the bureau, the physical evidence section, which kept the fingerprints and was preparing to compare, was thrown into a bomb that caused a small fire. All this clearly points out that there is at least one traitor within the Public Security Bureau, just like in the Infernal Affairs movie, Da Xuan lurks inside the evil forces, and the forces over there have also sent people to squat in the building where Coco is.

Xun Keran sat alone in the dark corridor, and even hoped that this guy lurking in a corner would try to get close to him like the last time the lights went out in the laboratory, so that she could face him with confidence and ask him what happened to Zhou Daxuan.

But it was cold and dark, and no one appeared until the whispers of morning birds began to be heard.

Watching the dark, watching the dawn.

The text message on the phone rang and the DNA conclusion came out.

It's too late.

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When did the director leave her office, Xun Keran didn't notice it at all, she only heard the director say sorry several times in her mind, and the voice was intermittent......

DNA identification results match the cadavers and the available DNA.

There was a crack in the window of the room, and some cold wind quietly blew into the room, swept through the corner of the sofa cover that he loved to sleep on, and carried up a trace of suspended dust, and then passed through the half-open main door.

Xun Keran sat on the chair and looked up at the door, from the moment the director entered the door to talk to her, he had not moved at all, like a stone statue sitting in the deep sea, without any movement, and even the stiff expression at the corners of his mouth had not changed.

Until a cacophony of voices from far and near, broke into the room.

"Xun Keran, are you sure you didn't get the DNA wrong? Are you sure it's my brother's? Could it be mistaken? Could it be just a coincidence? There is a small probability that DNA analysis will be wrong! Xu Wanli's question didn't stop even half a beat, ignoring Xue Yang's gesture behind her to try to stop her, her eyes widened and waited for Coco's answer.

The stone statue Xun Keran began to inhale again, "DNA...... Analysis, Errors...... The probability is small, and if the comparison is successful, you won't be mistaken. ”

"Impossible!" Wanli's voice was almost screaming, "If it's technology, it will go wrong, there is no perfect technology!" You must be getting the sample wrong or something! That's not my brother, the corpse is charred like that-that's not Zhou Daxuan-that's not!! ”

Xu Wanli was screaming piercingly, and the air seemed to be filled with the sharp blades she had erected with sound waves. Xue Yang was trying to calm her down, but he had only been dealing with her cries at the end of her pain in vain, and the colleagues who came in later also handed over tissue boxes and so on, coaxing her in a few words.

No one noticed that Coco, who was like a ghost, had quietly left the room.

She got off the elevator silently and walked out of the side door of the Public Security Bureau with a blank face, no coat on, nothing on her body.

Where are you going? She didn't know.

Why is everything getting gray? She couldn't tell.

Cars on the road come and go, but what about the sound? Why is the world so quiet?

Beep-beep-beep

A taxi stopped on the side, and the driver poked his head out, "You hailed a taxi?" …… Or lost? ”

Xun Keran sat in the car calmly, not even realizing that he didn't have any money on him.

"Where?" After the driver asked, there was a long silence, so long that he couldn't help but speak, "Miss, if you don't want to take the car, you can also take another ......"

"Go to the highest place......," said the man in the back seat, "go to the new one...... The highest ...... by the river."

The driver looked meaningfully into the mirror for a few seconds, then nodded and silently started the car.

The city kept receding outside the glass, all kinds of people on the road, the beautiful windows shining on the streets, but the world became so strange in her eyes, those places that she had passed by many times, it seemed that she could not recall any of them.

“…… Miss? …… Girl? …… Hello? The driver couldn't remember how many times he called the passenger in the back seat before he could refocus her gaze.

Well? Xun Keran's only bit of sanity was still operating, and he slowly understood what the driver meant by pointing to the meter, and then felt into his pocket ...... "I'm sorry...... I didn't come out with any ......."

The driver showed a headache expression of 'I know', "Little girl, Uncle has been driving for so many years and has seen a lot of things, but this is the first time I have encountered you like this...... It's a broken love, right? It doesn't matter if the little girl who is out of love, Uncle's wife also changed three girlfriends to find it, and now the little boy has no heart and lungs, you just treat him as dead, it's fine! ”

Xun Keran lowered his gaze, and the corner of his mouth turned out a smile that was more ugly than crying, "I'll write you the mobile phone number and address, and I'll make up the money to you tomorrow." ”

"Forget it, just run away for nothing, you guys are very interesting when you're young, and you lose a love like you'......re dead."

Xun Keran never explained anything, she walked alone through the long stone path by the river, and then squatted down by the closest water platform to the river. The limelight raised the river and pounced on her face in a fine and dense manner. When I squatted until I couldn't find consciousness on both feet, the bitterness in my heart poured out little by little.

She still remembered that she had told Da Xuan the story that on the night of an autopsy, the cell phone wrapped in the corpse's clothes rang all night, and she was called over and over again until there was no power. She remembered saying to Da Xuan, don't let me be the fool who keeps calling you, because I don't have that patience. But now she felt that she could be patient, and if he could answer, she would be willing to sit by the river and call his phone again and again until it was dark, until dawn, until all was gone......

As long as he can answer.

The people in the open-air restaurant by the river were sitting down one after another, and the sun was on the way to work, so many people talking, laughing, and working at the computer, and no one noticed that a pale-faced woman walked slowly by.

We are all too small, so small that even greater than life and death, and have little effect on others who are close at hand.

But we're so great, so great that even if I'm far away, losing you will make me breathless.

Consciousness is intermittent, Xun Keran doesn't know how he entered the newly built landscape building by the river, the number on the elevator is soaring, and he has reached the 98th floor in the blink of an eye. She didn't even know what she was doing at the highest point in the city, she just sat by the wall of clear glass, looking down on the city from a perspective she had never seen before. The huge city, originally overlooked from a high place, shimmered in different colors like a Christmas tree, a little shimmering, warm and lonely.

Da Xuan once said, "What kind of tallest building seems to have been built?" It's the building under your feet that you can see in mid-air with glass, and I'll take you to play after work that day? Not in a hurry, sightseeing opened late at night, there was a chance to ......"

At that time, we all believed that there was time and there was the future.

That was the only time he took the initiative to mention going to play, and most of the time it was Coco clamoring to go to Disney, to Happy Valley, to go to museums...... Then it was ruthlessly suppressed. Thinking of this, she smiled in a daze, at this point in the night, only a few buses were still running, she fumbled for a long time, found three or four forgotten coins from the corners of her pocket, and by the time she approached the door of the house, she was truly penniless.

When she walked to the door, Coco's trance sensed something else, she didn't have the key, she didn't have anything with her.

But the door opened on its own.

The moment the door opened, she felt that her blood had stopped flowing, and the one who came in and out of this apartment the most except herself was the captain Zhou who never took invading the house seriously.

But eventually, Coco sees her mother's worried face.

"I'm back, Lao Xun." The mother turned her head and called inside, and then pulled Coco into her own apartment very naturally.

"Mom......"

"It's okay, it's okay." Her mother pulled her to a chair and sat down, touching her head gently, "It's okay, Mom is here, Dad is here." The leaders and colleagues of your unit have told us that they have been looking for you all afternoon, and they are dying. ”

Xun Weizhen put down his phone and came over, "It's okay, I told Lao Chang, it's good that people are back." Hungry or not? ”

"Eh, my mother cooked the fish for you, and it's still warm in the pot, can you eat it hot?"

Xun Keran looked at his parents and wanted to say something, but his eyes were blurred, and tears poured out like a broken embankment. In front of everyone, she is calm, she is strong, she fights, but at any time, when her parents touch her head and coax her, all the hidden appearances are shattered. In the deepest part of my heart, the child who was full of uneasiness, pain and sorrow dared to appear and throw himself into the arms of his parents.

Because they're going to hold you over and over again and tell you it's okay, Mommy is ...... It's going to be fine, dad promises......

Her mother hugged her, letting Coco's unbridled cry echo for a long time......