Chapter 22: The Past
"Then why don't you get treatment?" Lao Jiang noticed the confusion in the eyes of the poker face, and his voice returned to steady, without emotion. www.biquge.info He regained his posture as the leader of the Fulong Gang, he was in an underworld family, and he heard and saw more killings and deaths than ordinary people since he was a child. In his bones, he is more indifferent than ordinary people, or should I say, he despises the impermanence of life and death.
When Jiang was ten years old, his mother died of illness; When Jiang was seventeen years old, his father was hit and killed by a car in front of his eyes; He was raised by his grandfather, who is presumably still alive, but he doesn't know where he is. He vaguely remembered that his grandfather left him the day after he handed over the Fulong Gang to him the day after he became an adult. His last memory of his grandfather is the back of the old man walking in the alley of Huanxi Village in the early morning mist. Lao Jiang was wearing pajamas, looking at the slightly staggering back in a daze, walking farther and farther, and finally disappeared around the corner. He didn't call him, just watched quietly, silently wept, and then engraved the last back of his grandfather in his memory.
He hasn't cried since.
Now, he noticed that his mood was very similar to that time, he looked at the poker face, stunned and confused, but he was able to control the calmness of his mental emotions. Calm is that he understands the poker face and understands that there is nothing he can do about anything other than to stay calm.
Poker Face knew that Lao Jiang at this moment would not be as emotional as he had been a few times before, he was the one who could sit down and talk calmly, he needed such a conversation, a conversation that could be understood and supported. Instead of sympathy, pity, or worse, stand in a "good for you" gesture and help him plan for any meaningless treatment plans in the future. This is also the reason why he has not been able to tell anyone about his last wishes before.
But now, he can speak.
Pokerface sat down in his chair, "You know better than anyone that I became the way I am because of that plane crash." ”
"Hmm." That's what Pokerface knows. He responded, then looked at Pokerface, waiting for Pokerface to continue telling him what he wanted to say. He had always suspected that what he knew was only a small part.
"Later, I checked the weather conditions on the day of the plane crash and various reports of the plane crash in the library, and combined with my own calculations of the flight distance of the plane, I came up with the approximate location of the plane crash." Poker's face was as if he was revealing a great secret, and his voice was deep and steady.
"Where?" Lao Jiang was a little impatient, on the one hand, he hoped to figure everything out quickly, but on the other hand, he was a little hesitant.
"In the waters where the East China Sea meets the South China Sea." Poker said calmly.
Lao Jiang wasn't too shocked, as if he had known this answer for a long time, he nodded, "It's really strange there." ”
"Oh?" Poker Face noticed Lao Jiang's expression, as if it was a sign that he knew something, so he asked, "Do you know something?" ”
Lao Jiang nodded calmly, "Do you remember Luo Jin?" ”
"Yes." Of course, Poker Face remembered that he had heard this name in Lao Jiang's old mansion last night, not to mention, he had witnessed the process of Lao Jiang expelling Luo Jin from the gang.
"At the time, did you think I was very unkind?" Lao Jiang coughed lightly, hurriedly picked up the teacup, and took a sip of water, "Actually, it was asked by Luo Jin." Lao Jiang looked up at the poker face, but the poker face did not answer, nor did he question. Lao Jiang felt kind to such a familiar poker face, and smiled slightly, "I once sent Luo Jin to the sea to find Zhuo Fan and the two who went to sea without permission, but they were blocked because of the storm. After the storm stopped, Luo Jin personally went to the sea and searched in the East China Sea, but found nothing. Speaking of this, Lao Jiang paused, changed his words, and said, "Actually, the forbidden sea plan in the East China Sea was promulgated by my grandfather himself. At that time, when my grandfather handed over the Fulong Gang to me, he told me how to maintain the Fulong Gang well. Instead, I must strictly abide by the rules of the forbidden sea, and no matter what, this rule cannot be broken. ”
"So, did you send Luo Jin to investigate?"
"Luo Jin is seven years older than me, he and the two brothers Rayong were accepted into the Fulong Gang by my father since childhood, when Rayong was studying finance in school, Luo Jin and the other brothers in the gang mingled in the street crowd, and he had a natural sensitivity to various relationships within the social gang. He was seven years older than me, and the year my father died, I was 17 and he was 24, and he could already see more than anyone else than I did. Lao Jiang paused at this point, as if he was accumulating more energy, preparing for a sentence that he had not been able to say all along. The sun shines calmly through the window, and the room is bright and full of peace and warmth. Lao Jiang's heart began to churn slightly, like a sailboat on the sea, which was knocked down after it was raised, and was propped up after it fell.
"Including my father's death."
Poker face was shocked, he always thought that Lao Jiang's father's death was purely a traffic accident, and never thought that there might be a deeper truth hidden behind this. He didn't even suspect it. He remembered that he attended the funeral of Lao Jiang's father alone, and at that time he was used to life without parents, indulged in academic research, and did not feel any lack of spirit. When he saw Lao Jiang kneeling in front of the spirit, accepting the memorial service of relatives and friends for his father, in the coffin, there was a body of his father that the funeral home spent a day and a night trying to piece together, and his poker face can still vaguely remember how shocking it was. He closed his eyes, stabilized the shock in his heart, and said to Lao Jiang, who was in tears, what everyone said to him, "Please mourn, people can't be resurrected after death." ”
"Why?" If you haven't asked before, it may be too late to ask now.
"Of course, it wasn't a simple accident, the car that was coming towards us, after hitting my father, then reversed again and ran him to death. After that, he ran away without a trace. After that, no matter whether the grandfather used the Fulong Gang or called the police, the car and the perpetrator were not found. ”
"Then what does this have to do with Luo Jin."
Luo Jin was 24 years old at the time, and he was there at the time. He remembered this incident better than anyone, and it took him more than ten years to find some clues little by little, and these clues were finally all connected after that voyage. Lao Jiang raised his head slightly, his face was completely bathed in sunlight, he squinted his eyes slightly, as if feeling the sun, and then he said slowly, "Back then, my father once went to the sea within the forbidden date. After coming back, the whole person seemed to have been hit hard, and his spirit suddenly became very weak, and he passed away in less than a month. "This is what Luo Jin told me after he came back from going to sea, "For more than ten years, Luo Jin has been secretly tracking down the clues of the perpetrator at that time, but he didn't think of my father's abnormality. That time at sea, he suddenly remembered it. I don't know what kind of relationship Luo Jin used, found the surveillance video of the traffic at that time, and found an organization called SS (Special Suvant). And learned that this organization has a research base at sea. ”
Pokerface thought of something, he knew that something was about to surface, but it was still in the dark water, looming.
Lao Jiang nodded, "Yes, it's Zhuo Fan's base." Lao Jiang sighed, "I also listened to Duanmu Hong's words before I connected all this." ”
"Duanmu Hong once said that what secrets the Duanmu family guards, according to Zhuo Fan, the secret guarded is the jade plate. But what does this have to do with killing your father? ”
"I think, it shouldn't be Duanmu Hong who wants to kill my father, the time is not right. When my father died, Duanmu Hiroshi had not yet worked for SS. It was the SS who killed my father. Judging from SS's motives, what I guessed was that my father accidentally learned about SS during that voyage, so SS killed my father. ”
"What kind of organization is it, why did the Fulong Gang and the police use it back then, but nothing was found?"
"At that time, there was really no evidence left, even if it was traffic monitoring, there was nothing, and in the end it had to be dealt with by accident. Luo Jin wanted to find out all this, but he was worried that his actions would affect the Fulong Gang, so he asked me to expel him from the gang. After Lao Jiang finished speaking, he took a deep breath as if he had unloaded the burden of his heart.
"I see." Poker Face seemed to be thinking, "According to what you said, the organization that Duanmu Hiroshi and Gao Ze stayed in is called SS, according to Duanmu Hiroshi, this organization is studying the affairs of the Gate of the Matter Realm, and your father knew about their organization, so he was killed." Poker Face realized that something was wrong, "According to what you said, Zhuo Fan also knows about the existence of this organization, so isn't he also in danger?" ”
"Don't worry, I have thought of this a long time ago, so let Luo Jin secretly protect Zhuo Fan. According to his report, there have been no strange signs these days. Since Zhuo Fan came back from Xinjiang, every day is just a two-point line between the magazine and his home. When Lao Jiang said this, he turned his head to look at his poker face, "You just wanted to say that your plane had an accident in the waters at the junction of the South China Sea and the East China Sea?" ”
"Yes. There must be something in that sea. Poker Face was thoughtful.
"What do you think of it?"
Poker face groaned, and he already had a bold conjecture in his heart, "We need to take a look." At the same time, we are also going to take a look at the base of the SS. ”
Lao Jiang nodded approvingly, "I think so too, now that the Fulong Gang can't stay out of the matter." This matter cannot be handed over to Luo Jin alone, it is my responsibility. ”
The two of them fell silent, the room was unusually silent, but their hearts fluctuated. What they did not expect was that from the moment they decided to go to sea, they began to move towards the edge of the world.