Then Bai Ran took out a small bottle from her small waist bag and handed it to Chang Xiaoqiao.

"This, what is this?" Chang Xiaoqiao asked curiously, looking at the pale golden liquid that kept stirring in the bottle.

"Currency. ”

Chang Xiaoqiao was speechless, she really wanted to smash this small bottle into Yan Qi's head at this time.

"So much. Chang Ziming is quite a treasure of this thing, took it from Chang Xiaoqiao's hand, and played with it carefully.

Then Bai Ran waved his hand slightly towards the two.

"Bye-bye. ”

followed Yan Qi out of the tea house.

"Ziming... You..."

Chang Xiaoqiao looked at Chang Ziming, who was fanatical in her eyes, this is something she doesn't often see, her younger brother is obviously a gentleman who has maintained a gentle and elegant attitude at all times.

After cursing Yan Qi silently again, she sighed helplessly, recalling what she saw in Yan Qi's eyes just now, in addition to indifference, it seemed to be mixed with a trace of pain and... Vicissitudes.

Coming out of the tea house, Yan Qi asked Bai Ran to go home first, but he didn't know where he went, so he got into a taxi and left.

When Yan Qi returned to the downstairs of the apartment, it was already close to three o'clock, and he was still carrying a paper bag in his hand.

Along the way, Yan Qi sorted out his thoughts, connected all of them together, and had roughly come up with the answer he wanted, but he still couldn't guess why the organization was involved in it, what role they played in this incident.

Thinking about it, he saw that downstairs in the apartment, two familiar figures, a man and a woman, were standing at the entrance of the building, the man was constantly swallowing clouds and spitting fog, his feet were full of cigarette butts, and he thought he had been waiting for a long time.

Seeing Yan Qi approaching, he immediately threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, and kicked the cigarette butt at his feet elsewhere by the way, and then beckoned to Yan Qi.

"Why has it been so long, where have you been?" This person is Cui Jianming, still wearing his old beige coat, with sharp eyes like a falcon, but at this time, he looks a little vicissitudes.

"Xiaobai and I have been waiting for you for a long time, what are you getting here?"

The girl next to Cui Jianming was Bai Ran, and the two seemed to be chatting about something just now, at this time Cui Jianming noticed the bag in Yan Qi's hand, leaned over to take a look, but was stopped by Yan Qi, he kneaded the bag a few times, and pinched it into a small burden, so he hugged it under his waist, making it impossible to see what it was.

"Went somewhere, the matter is settled over there?" Yan Qi hugged the paper bag and walked to Cui Jianming's side, and then glanced at his feet. "Still smoking?"

"Ahem!" Cui Jianming coughed a few times, obviously skipping this topic directly, and also skipped the topic of the paper bag in Yan Qi's hand by the way.

Then he actually sat directly on the stairs, Yan Qi didn't care, and sat down next to him.

Immediately, Cui Jianming said to Bai Ran: "Xiao Ran, you go play by yourself first, and we'll come to you later." ”

Bai Ran nodded, like a child who didn't want to disturb the adults talking, and walked out of the corridor without looking back.

"You're still reluctant to go upstairs?" Yan Qi said.

"If you don't go, it's sad to see it. ”

The room where Yan Qi and Bai Ran live now is Cui Jianming's previous house, and since that incident, this house has been vacant, until now it has been given to Yan Qi and Bai Ran to live temporarily.

"It's time to put it down, it's been almost three years. Yan Qi looked into the distance, outside the corridor, because of the dense fog, the field of vision was still very narrow.

"You can't let go, there are some things that you can't let go of for a lifetime. Cui Jianming's tone seemed to reveal some kind of vicissitudes. "Besides, it's been almost ten years, haven't you put it down. ”

"That's right. Yan Qi took out the cigarette, Cui Jianming's eyes were straight, and he looked at Yan Qi with a smile.

"Don't think about it. As he spoke, Yan Qi took out one, lit it, and twitched it to himself.

"Xiao Yan, as soon as I was empty, I kept thinking, you said that you don't need to drop out of school at all. Cui Jianming's tone seemed to become a little heavy. "You finally got into the Public Security University, if it weren't for that... You must be like your father..."

"Like my father, killed the whole family. Yan Qi said coldly.

"Enough, I don't allow you to insult your father like this!" Cui Jianming stood up abruptly and glared at Yan Qi fiercely. "There is no evidence for anything, nothing can be asserted, you should believe him! What kind of person is he! You and me! We both know best!"

Yan Qi did not continue to speak, the investigation of that year was almost a dead end, there was no evidence or suspects, the only possible speculation was that his father joined the cult, carried out some kind of superstitious ritual, and killed his own family, and this speculation actually intensified, and some irresponsible media actually reported this speculation in a grand manner.

A series of analyses and comments were conducted, and all the fingers were pointed at the postponed father, and finally only added a sentence at the end of the report: "So is the real murderer or not?" We believe that in the near future, when technology is enough to solve this case, the police will definitely give us the truth." ”

In this way, this irresponsible report has been turned into a speculative analysis of the case.

Cui Jianming saw that Yan Qi didn't react, let out a heavy breath, and continued: "Don't talk about this... It's you, Xiao Yan, I heard that you are still to Xiao Ran..."

"Grandma downstairs told you that?"

"You don't care who says it. Cui Jianming stroked his forehead, sometimes he felt that Yan Qi could always bring some topics naturally. "It's been ten years, but I still don't have a clue about what happened back then. ”

Yan Qi still didn't speak, every time he talked about this topic, his psychology was like a pinprick, both helpless and unwilling, he used to firmly believe that his father was innocent, but the more he learned about that world, the more fragile his confidence became.

Because he knows that those monsters have this power.

"But it doesn't have much to do with Xiao Ran... Even if she's... Even if she's from that world... But you did this to her, and if it weren't for her, you wouldn't..."

"She's one of those monsters, and her arrival is no accident, one day. Yan Qi snuffed out the cigarette butt, he looked at the direction Bai Ran left and said, "I will find a way to cut off the connection between us, and then... I will..."

Cui Jianming sighed deeply, the tragedy of the Yan family back then was completely a headless unsolved case, and there were even shadows of many "organizations" also participating in it, but for Bai Ran, Cui Jianming really can't say that there is any rejection, even if she comes from a different world, even if her world seems to just regard humans as ants.

But if it weren't for her, I might never have been able to pull myself together.

Thinking back to that year, and that incomparably cute smile that could be seen every day, Cui Jianming's face became more and more heavy.

"You mentioned to me in a text message, you think it's a little weird, it's about something. Yan Qi's question pulled Cui Jianming's thoughts back from his memories.

He seemed a little grateful for the well-appointed interruption, then sank and said.

"Fountain pens. ”

"Zou Xing's pen?"

Cui Jianming nodded.

The fountain pen was indeed found in Zou Xing's office, but later he felt that something was wrong, and even the nail clippers he used for manicures and the waste paper in the trash can were taken away from Zou Xing's office, leaving only an empty desk. ”

Yan Qi seemed to realize what he wanted to say.

"This fountain pen, is it really Zou Xing's. ”

"Well, I've seen him use it a few times... But it's also possible that... Well, the people above are really careless. ”

Yan Qi pondered silently in his heart, would the people of the organization be careless if they took such pains to investigate Zou Xing.

At this time, the phone rang.

"Hey, well, it's me, what did you say? Say it again!