Wen Ning hesitated for a moment, and then, he nodded: "I can try my best to find Luo Xi for you, but about Du Lei's news, I can't interfere for the time being." ”

I was slightly stunned and asked, "Why?" ”

Wen Ning was a little embarrassed, the car stopped on the side of the road, the cold wind was blowing, and the moist moisture in the air covered the windows with a layer of confused white fog. Wen Ning told me that not long ago, he received a call from Xu Tong, who relayed to him the order of his superiors: it is forbidden to investigate any clues related to the 330 case.

I suddenly remembered that when we were sitting at Liu Jia's house to discuss, Wen Ning's mobile phone suddenly rang. Wen Ning went out to answer a phone call, and after coming in, Wen Ning's expression was different from before, originally I thought it was the police station in trouble, but I didn't expect that it was the superior who ordered the investigation of the 330 case.

The meaning of Wen Ning's words is very obvious, this ban is an absolute ban.

In a few months of talking with Xu Tong, I learned that the Criminal Investigation Corps had been investigating the 330 case in a small and secret way, but it was not made public at all. But this time, the investigation of the Criminal Investigation Corps was also banned by the superiors, and I suddenly felt anger, and I had no way to understand it at all.

"Professor Li, this may be the last time I help you." Wen Ning smiled bitterly. Wen Ning felt that he was too close to me during this time, so he attracted the attention of his superiors, and I was investigating the 330 case, and everyone in the system knew about it. Looking at Wen Ning's smiling face, I nodded lightly and agreed.

Wen Ning is just a vice captain, in the eyes of everyone, his position is already very high, but in the face of his superiors, Wen Ning must obey orders. And, during this time, he has helped me so much.

Wen Ning sent us back to the police academy, and Wen Ning said that he would investigate the list of orphanages when Dean Luo was still a few years ago, and most of the children who were the same age as Luo Xi were adopted by people in City B. The orphanage is not big, and the children who get along with each other at the same time may know more about Luo Xi as a person, and they are more likely to know where Luo Xi will go.

As far as is known, the orphanage has been relocated twice. One was relocated from other provinces to City B, and after completing the formalities, the orphanage was established in a relatively remote alley in City B, and the other was after the death of Dean Luo, five women moved the orphanage to the suburbs in order to cover up their crimes.

So, at the request of Jiang Jun and me, Wen Ning would investigate Dean Luo and find out from which province the orphanage was relocated. According to the five women who committed the crime, Luo Xi was the first child they came into contact with, and the first children in the orphanage were all brought by Dean Luo from other provinces.

If Luo Xi escapes, it is very likely that he will want to go home, and even if he doesn't want to go home, Luo Xi may also go back to worship his parents. Therefore, it is very necessary to find the earliest location of the orphanage. After explaining everything, Jiang Jun and I finally returned to the unit, my mother had gone to bed early, I went back to the room, washed up, and closed my eyes.

A dream, about the memories of the past, this memory, has almost disappeared in my brain, but I didn't expect it to resurface clearly in my mind at this time.

A few months before Du Lei's disappearance, we had just graduated from the police academy.

Du Lei and I walked under the scorching sun, and the high temperature of City B almost roasted people, and the sun pierced us so much that we couldn't open our eyes.

"Li Ke, I like the scorching sun."

"Why?" I looked at Du Lei's sweat beads on his head, and his clothes were already tightly attached to his body.

Du Lei: "I also want to shine like the scorching sun." ”

I smiled, "You can." ”

Du Lei: "It's just that I've been living sadly behind that cloud. ”

Du Lei said, pointing to the sky, a storm is coming, and a dark cloud is floating in the sky. Not long after Du Lei's words fell, the clouds slowly blocked the scorching sun, the dazzling sunlight was not there, and the outlines of the clouds became bright. The sun seemed to be struggling to break through the clouds, but it didn't succeed in the end.

The raindrops fell, the clouds in the sky became more and more, and the dazzling scorching sun was no longer there.

I stared at the sky in a daze, letting the rain wet my whole body, and a strange thought sprouted in my heart, just when the thought was about to break through the shackles of my brain, Du Lei patted me on the shoulder: "Run, it's raining heavily!" ”

I opened my eyes, the dream was over, I sat up slowly, and it wasn't until now that I finally understood, not only when Du Lei committed suicide, but long ago, Du Lei seemed to have something unspeakable. Everything he ever said to me seemed inscrutable, though I didn't know what he meant by me.

In the eyes of everyone, Du Lei has always been the most ordinary person.

I took out a photo of Du Lei from the drawer, and Du Lei was facing the camera with a standard police salute. I sighed slightly: "Du Lei, are you really ordinary?" ”

The 330 case seems to be the beginning of Du Lei's tragic fate, but perhaps, long before that, Du Lei had a premonition that he would have such an encounter.

Jiang Jun and I left the house very early, and according to my speculation, Dr. Liu's donation of the orphanage was probably a guide for me. Du Lei has a close relationship with the orphanage, and Dr. Liu and Du Lei have a close relationship, so Dr. Liu may know Du Lei's unspeakable secrets, but it is inconvenient to say them clearly, so I became concerned about the orphanage.

Jiang Jun and I decided to conduct another rigorous survey of the orphanage.

This time, we not only went to the orphanage in the suburbs, but also to the original location of the orphanage in City B. When Du Lei went to the orphanage, the orphanage had not yet moved to the suburbs, and there may be more clues there.

We didn't find any other valuable clues in the orphanage in the suburbs, so we rushed to the small alley in the city. The orphanage has been relocated for years, but it's still as deserted and isolated as a few women's memories. There are several courtyard houses outside the small alley, and there are still houses from a long time ago in City B.

In the courtyard, children frolicked happily, and the elderly also sat in the courtyard and chatted.

Passing through the small alley, we saw a small dilapidated wooden door, which was not repurposed after the orphanage was relocated due to its remote location. Jiang Jun stretched out his hand and gently pushed the door open, and then we crossed the threshold. The door is also a courtyard, the yard is very large, when Dean Luo was there, there were dozens of children at most, such a big place, but enough for so many people to live.

We surveyed room by room. Several women moved in a hurry, there are still many things in the orphanage that have not been moved, and after so many years, those things that remain in the orphanage have long been covered with dust. Jiang Jun and I opened one drawer after another.

It was full of textbooks and books for children to read.

We surveyed every room, and just as we thought we were going to get nothing and were about to leave, something at the foot of the table caught our attention: an armband. I recognized it at a glance, it was the armband used by the students of the City B Police Academy.

I suddenly remembered that a few years ago, Du Lei was punished by the instructor for missing an armband on his police academy uniform, and ran 20 laps of the playground. This armband seems to be Du Lei's. If it weren't for the particularly intense friction, it was unlikely that the armband would fall off automatically, so at that time I kept asking Du Lei where the armband went.

But Du Lei only replied very perfunctory, and now that I think about it, the armband was torn off by Du Lei himself. You can't wear a uniform when you go out of the police academy, and the armband will appear here, which is naturally brought by Du Lei himself. Thinking about it carefully, why did Du Lei bring an armband, it was nothing more than to give it away.

Du Lei and Luo Xi are often in contact, so it is very likely that the armband was given to Luo Xi by Du Lei.

"Why did Du Lei give the armband to Luo Xi?" Jiang Jun was puzzled.

I narrowed my eyes, I couldn't know what this armband represented in Du Lei's eyes. Du Lei has told me more than once: justice and reason.