After one o'clock in the morning, when Mu Tianyu returned to the foot of Tianfeng Mountain, the convenience store was already closed, and he tried to dial the boss's phone, but the other party never answered. Oh, it won't be so miserable, Mu Tianyu sighed, is this job going to end in absenteeism, this is not the first time, although he is beneficial to this society, and it is also the deepest level of peace maintenance, but his bosses will not think so. It is inevitable that such a good man will be favored by married or unmarried women, and even strict rules and regulations cannot stop the moment of passion.

Desolate streets, only the silent night breeze as a companion, looking down at the shadow under the lamp, Mu Tianyu has an indescribable sadness, although the memory is always vague, but the intuition tells that he has more than a few times with the grim reaper, he has also tried to give up such a tasteless night work, but after all, the economy needs to maintain, the fire half a year ago, burned all his property and hope, even if it can be recovered, but he is not willing to touch the forbidden place in his heart. He left the land of right and wrong, and it is precisely because of this. Street lamps are projected on the door of the convenience store, and through the glass, a green wooden sign is placed on the familiar front desk, which glows faintly under the dim yellow color, and the words "Welcome" are printed on it.

"Hey." A familiar word, Mu Tianyu turned his head.

"Hey."

"I guessed you might come back." Zhou Meng said, walked over from the sidewalk around the corner, she didn't wear an evening dress anymore, she matched it very casually, and put on a short black coat in the cold night, which was still pure and lovely.

"Is the banquet over?" As soon as Mu Tianyu spoke, he patted his head and sighed regretfully and apologetically: "Oh, it's one o'clock in the morning, look at my brain is short-circuited." ”

Zhou Meng gradually came to his side, with the help of the warm sun like a sunset, she stared into the other party's eyes, and then a wisp of breeze hit her face, stirring her hair, before she came back to her senses. "The banquet ended after nine o'clock, and I looked for you for a long time, but I was nowhere to be found, and finally I went back. But thinking that you would be working the night shift, I drove over again to ask you what happened last night, because my memory is always fragmented and I can't remember the specific events. But this wait is two hours. "Who would believe that she was just asking about what happened last night, as strange as why she was here.

Mu Tianyu found a maroon off-road car in the corner. "I'm sorry because I've been delayed, but I didn't expect it......," he said, pointing to the convenience store. It is estimated that this job is in danger. ”

"Are you going to the dungeon? The shirt was covered in filth. Zhou Meng pointed to Mu Tianyu's chest, placket, and corners.

Mu Tianyu's eyes twitched, and he asked puzzledly, "Dungeon?" "It's a very unfamiliar word.

Zhou Meng smiled: "Yes, the dialect of our hometown often compares the dungeon to a secret job. ”

Mu Tianyu was shocked: "Working in secret? No, no, no. He immediately thought of the xing trade under the temptation of materialism, which was not only limited to the bustling city, but also the seemingly peaceful and full town in the countryside, and he hurriedly spread his hands and explained: "This is not a shameful thing, I know, it is unbelievable, but I am by no means the kind of person who indulges in love." ”

Zhou Meng shook his head awkwardly and tried his best to explain: "No, I mean the work that is not visible, but it is very righteous, just like a heroic movie, where the protagonists are all fighting or punishing criminals in the dark corners of the city, doing the right thing for heaven." ”

"No, no, no." Mu Tianyu sighed for a long time and smiled: "I'm not so noble. He looked at his shirt, which had turned gray in less than a few hours, and said, "I accidentally fell and lost my coat." "Zhou Meng is the leader of the serious crime team, and she has good criminal investigation ability, of course she knows the truth of what Mu Tianyu said, but since the other party doesn't want to mention it, it is inconvenient for her to ask, and she has never talked to Mu Tianyu in the tone of a sheriff, since that night, everything has changed." Eh, by the way, do you police station on the shores of Lake Rhine a few days every month? Mu Tianyu changed the subject.

"Is the tide rising? Yes, I've been there once or twice before, and the temperature difference between day and night is so great by the lake that even if you go there now, you'll probably have to put on a leather jacket, so how could you remember to ask this question. ”

"Actually, what I want to ask is whether one of the police officers was killed in the previous garrison." Mu Tianyu asked solemnly, desperate to know the answer.

"Killed?" Zhou Meng pondered for a moment, shook his head, and whispered, "It seems that no police officers were killed." She frowned, then continued, "However, one of the officers is missing. ”

"Missing?"

"Yes, missing, about eight years ago, when I had just graduated from the police academy and was transferred to the Crime Unit because of my excellent studies, a middle-aged man in his forties disappeared in the night during a platoon stationed at the high tide of the Rhine. The media also made a detailed report on this, and the police also attached great importance to this matter, after all, it was snow in front of their own house, and all the police officers were summoned overnight to carry out salvage in the lake, and the carpet search on both sides of the lake shore. It may have lasted for a week of rescue, but no clues were found, and the media explained that it was unlikely that he would survive, because the police officer was a gambler and owed usury, so he was extremely likely to commit suicide, and later in the police department's files, this incident was defined as a disappearance. ”

Mu Tianyu pondered, the clues provided by the other party were already very detailed, and the so-called disappearance was probably not just to restore the fault of the police department, I am afraid that there were still clues hidden in it. "Let's go, we'll go to the shores of Lake Rhine now."

"On the shores of the Rhine? Go now? Zhou Meng was puzzled, what kind of clues could be investigated from more than a year ago, and what case was this related to, although she thought so, she still followed Mu Tianyu's proposal and got into the car.

The off-road vehicle is speeding in the middle of the night, the path is desolate, about two o'clock in the morning, there are few people at the intersection, and the whole speed has hardly dropped below 80 miles, and the word flying can not be more appropriate. The bright high beams make the dark side of the alley visible, and the more shiny the city on the outside, the more excrement on the inside. Weaving through bustling skyscrapers and brightly lit viaducts, vehicles make their way into the suburbs, occasionally hearing the sound of equipment engineering coming from the commercial buildings on both sides. If this magnificent city loses these hardest workers in the lower classes, it will be just a pictographic shrine when it rises from the ground.

Mu Tianyu stared at the navigator, and he asked, "Where is this fork in the road ahead?" "Because it is on the same side as the Rhine, although it is more than ten kilometers away.

Zhou Meng slackened the throttle and slowed down slightly, she glanced at it and said, "It seems that this road has been abandoned." After a moment's hesitation, she nodded, very sure. Yes, it was abandoned a few years ago, and shortly after the police officer's accident, the road collapsed in the middle of the road, and then because of its remote location and proximity to the river, the government did not invest in reconstruction. ”

"The mouth of the river? What is the road leading to? ”

"That's right, this road leads to the lower reaches of the Rhine, where there used to be a large external farm, which is the best place for a picnic party in the whole Tiandu City, I went there once during my time at the police academy, the farm is wide, and it is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the environment is extremely beautiful. Lying leisurely in the vast lawn, you can not only enjoy the warm sun, but also feel the breeze from the valley, carrying a faint fragrance of lilacs. The comfort of riding a horse galloping in nature is still unfinished" Zhou Meng seems to have returned to the past, that carefree time, the years have brought her rich experience, mature and elegant temperament, envious faces of others, but also brought her Shaoguang dark sorrow, sad troubles. She took a deep breath and came back to her senses, and continued: "Helplessly, there was an accident on the path later, it should be that the entire downstream river collapsed, resulting in the annihilation of the entire farm, not only that, but with the entire highway as the radius, at least nearly three kilometers collapsed. It was noon, and the entire Tiandu City could feel a noticeable shaking, and the sign on the top floor of the police academy was also shaken down in this violent shaking, smashing into an empty grass, kicking up several meters of dirt. When I went back to the police academy for retraining, I stood in the middle of the school yard and did a simulation of the outdoor rescue plan. At that time, the whole team of us was stupefied, after all, it was the first time to experience this devastating catastrophe, and the scorching sunlight was gone, like the end of the world. And we can only be regarded as rookies, with inappropriate consciousness and emotional control, let alone formation, and a complete collapse and disintegration. Zhou Meng smiled awkwardly, after all, such a thing would damage his current image.

"It's okay, even if I meet it, I guess I'm even more flustered than you, maybe I lie on the ground weakly and even bring nervousness." Mu Tianyu soothed, but it seemed that he had not suffered an earthquake in his memory so far.

Zhou Meng glanced at him with satisfaction, continued to drive the vehicle and said: "Probably the whole duration is not too long, maybe only ten seconds, or less, after the earth shaking stopped, everyone had a look on their faces, sluggish, frightened, and numb. But then, the police sounded a siren, and it was estimated that the entire Tiandu City could hear it: this was not an earthquake, but a landslide in the Rhine Lake. We were also told to go to the rescue immediately, but ...... It was all late, and when we got there, it was a mess, the other side of the road was overturned by a muddy torrent, and the whole farm was gone, and there was no cry for help except for the raging waves. The rescue team stood within a few meters of the safety of the river like a knife, and I was not sad at that time, and I did not shed a single tear, because I was already in despair, like a walking corpse. Zhou Meng's eyes were red, and she let out a long breath: "That catastrophe caused a total of 136 people to be killed, and no one was spared. ”

Mu Tianyu patted her trembling shoulders and whispered: "It's none of your business, you have done your best, the world is impermanent, and God is unpredictable." He stared out the car window at the approaching dark and secluded deserted road in the distance, and said gloomily, "Let's go, pass through here." Zhou Meng was surprised for a while, but Mu Tianyu smiled: "Don't worry, it's okay, I'm here." ”

Maybe it's really the power of faith, when this man appeared beside her, Zhou Meng never felt hesitant and scared.