The huge mystery that spanned more than ten years, and the ins and outs of everything behind it, finally became completely clear under the narration of "Cheng Ruxue".

Of course, there are still some things that everyone present has not been able to verify in person, but according to what has happened in the past, who has seen them, and the clues they have obtained, all of them can still be connected in a complete way.

Summer 1995, Jingshi, Jincheng Pavilion Hotel.

Fan Zhi walked back to the box with a group of bodyguards in embarrassment.

Zheng Huairen, Li Zhuo, and Xiao Xinyu had gloomy faces, and Fan Zhi subconsciously lowered his head in the face of the former's gaze.

"What about people?" Zheng Huairen asked in a cold tone.

"Master......" Fan Zhi hesitated several times, and finally squeezed out the answer from between his teeth, "We didn't catch up, he ran away......"

"A bunch of rubbish!" A very loud insult, I could hear that Zheng Huairen was forcibly suppressing his anger, "Just one Cheng Di, so many people can't deal with it, what use do I want you?!" ”

In fact, most of the anger had just been sent out towards Li Zhuo, Xiao Xinyu and others.

Fan Zhi didn't dare to answer, and Li Zhuo also hesitated for a long time before he said to Zheng Huairen: "Mr. Zheng, don't worry, we will find his trace as soon as possible......"

"You'd better be able to walk the talk." Zheng Huairen glanced at Li Zhuo and threatened gloomily.

"Mr. Zheng, no matter what...... It's a hassle now...... Before we find Cheng Di, should we do something? Xiao Xinyu's reminder at this time made Zheng Huairen temporarily get rid of his anger and think deeply.

After a long time, Zheng Huairen thought of something, stretched out his finger, pointed at the faces of Li Zhuo and Xiao Xinyu, and said: "Listen, I want you to immediately form a new team and re-walk the route of the archaeological team of the Western Expedition, including the Western Xinjiang Desert, including Tarim Mountain, I want to know what happened there, at least one of you must personally lead the team!" ”

Li Zhuo and Xiao Xinyu couldn't help but look at each other, although they were reluctant in their hearts, they didn't dare to raise any objections, so they had to nod their heads slowly.

A few days later, Li Zhuo and Xiao Xinyu launched separate actions.

Xiao Xinyu used his connections to start searching for all clues about Cheng Di across the country, while Li Zhuo led a new team to the west.

As a result, it is easy to guess that Li Zhuo and his entourage failed to find the ancient country of Pozi, and with the skills of those people, even if they found it, it was impossible to come out alive, but in Tarim Mountain, they found something interesting.

A strange creature with a mysterious blood poison, and a group of ancient buildings with strange styles, that is exactly where Zheng Xiaofeng and the others saw later.

……

A year later, in autumn, Fengyun Village, Liu County, Changliu County, Hangzhou, Bodhi Temple.

After bidding farewell to the long-haired old monk, Cheng Di walked out of the gate of the temple, and then walked straight towards a thatched house not far away.

In his hand was a beautifully crafted compass, a gift he had promised to bring to his daughter.

As soon as I opened the door, I was greeted by two people who were surprised and then delighted.

"Daddy! You're back! The little girl screamed, hurriedly ran over, and pounced on Cheng Di, who took her in his arms and looked at his wife with a smile.

This is about the first time in a year that Cheng Di's bitter face has shown a smile.

Xiao Cheng Ruxue began to cry and began to make trouble, and it was not until Cheng Di took out the compass in her pocket that she calmed down a little.

If it is really the nature of a child, as long as he sees a gift, his attention is quickly distracted.

The family got together tightly, shouted for warmth, chatted for a long time, and finally, Cheng Di made a promise that he would never leave again this time.

In this way, the days of peace did pass for many months, until that snowy night.

……

It was winter, but there was constant thunder in the sky, and the atmosphere was extremely depressing, as if it was a sign of something.

Cheng Ruxue and her mother sat at the table, the oil lamp was slightly bright and cool, Li Xue was teaching her daughter to read poetry, the environment was very difficult, but Cheng Ruxue still learned with relish.

With a "bang", the door was suddenly knocked open, and Cheng Di rushed in from the outside with a panicked face with snowflakes fluttering all over his body.

Cheng Ruxue was stunned, but Li Xue immediately realized that something was wrong, frowned, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"It's too late to explain! Hide! Cheng Di's tone was extremely hurried, which was completely different from his style all along, Cheng Ruxue was still confused, and was pulled off the bench by the husband and wife.

With a "squeak", Cheng Di lifted the wooden plank on the ground, and below was a dark cellar, at the same time, Cheng Di urgently instructed: "Daughter, hurry!" You hide in first, be with your mother, and don't make a sound! ”

Cheng Ruxue obviously didn't know what was going on, but she was smart since she was a child, and she knew that she must not cause trouble at this time, so she didn't ask anything, so she hurriedly got in.

The husband and wife stared affectionately for a short moment, and when Li Xue was about to step on the ladder to go down, noisy footsteps suddenly sounded outside the door.

The eyes of the two people changed in an instant, the voice was so close, they could push open the door of the house in the next second, and you can imagine what kind of scene the people outside would see when the door was pushed open.

Naturally, it was a scene where Li Xue was hiding.

Then they will know that there is a cellar under the house.

In just a moment, the couple made a decision together, Li Xue did not go down, and Cheng Di let go and closed the plank.

At the same time that the plank fell, the door slammed open, muffling the sound of the plank falling to the ground.

Zheng Huairen, Li Zhuo, and Xiao Xinyu rushed into the house with hundreds of thugs.

Li Xue's face suddenly showed a look of panic, and Cheng Di immediately protected Li Xue, with only helplessness and embarrassment in his eyes.

Zheng Huairen looked at Cheng Di with pity, laughed, and sighed.

"Mr. Cheng, it's been a year, and I finally found you, you are really good at hiding, I never knew that you still have a wife."

Of course he wouldn't know, not only his wife, but Cheng Di also had a daughter, but for the safety of his family, except for the old monk he completely trusted, Cheng Di never mentioned these things to anyone, including the bearded man of the archaeological team and the Mediterranean Sea when he asked himself.

Cheng Ruxue curled up in the dark, and through the gaps in the wooden plank, she saw everything that happened that night clearly.

She panicked and frightened, covering her mouth with her hands, but she didn't make a sound, and with the sound of a gunshot, Cheng Di fell to the ground.

Zheng Huairen kept rummaging on Cheng Di's body, as if he heard what sound he made when he was dying, but Zheng Huairen didn't care, but the vague singing voice was really heard by Cheng Ruxue.

"You ask me how much I love you......

I love you a little bit......

My love is true......

My love is ......

The moon represents my heart......"

Tears poured out in an instant, and in a blur, she saw her father and mother's faces pressed against the ground, their empty gaze through the gap, staring at her in dead silence.

Those people left quickly, but Cheng Di and Li Xue didn't breathe anymore.

Flames burned all over the room, little by little.

"Daddy! Mom! At this moment, Cheng Ruxue finally cried, the heart-rending sound wrapped her, but she was lost in the fire and wind, she didn't understand, why did this happen, in her eyes, her parents are the best people in the world, those thugs, like the devil, broke into her life for no reason and took away everything from her.

She wanted to climb up so much, wanted to get to her parents' side, but the strong sobbing made her unable to do anything for a while, and suddenly she was dizzy in front of her, suddenly felt a pain in her heart, suddenly felt nausea in her stomach, and a voice faintly appeared from her head.

"Don't cry ......"

Cheng Ruxue was half-conscious, her expression was painful, and she asked out loud with difficulty: "Who are you......?"

"It doesn't matter who I am, it's important that I can help you." This voice seems to be very familiar, very, very similar to his father Cheng Di's, but Cheng Ruxue doesn't understand, his father is obviously dead, how can this voice appear in his head.

Indeed, it is not heard, but it comes out of thin air.

The voice continued, "You can not be in pain, you can not remember anything...... I'll help you remember...... I will always be with you and protect you......"

The vision gradually became pitch black, and with a severe headache, Cheng Ruxue fainted little by little.

When I woke up again, it was already noon the next day.

Cheng Ruxue crawled back to the ground in confusion, looking at the house that had been burned to ashes, and was stunned for a long time.

"What happened...... she muttered, she had tried her best to remember, but she couldn't remember anything.

"Right...... That's it...... I remembered......" After a long time, Cheng Ruxue shook her head, and said to herself with a struggling expression, "Dad is missing...... My mother was so anxious that she got sick and died...... Right...... That's ......"

As the voice in her head said, she didn't need to remember anything, someone would help her remember.

It's the second personality that's helping her remember.

She is obviously such an innocent and innocent girl, so pure that she doesn't even want to put hatred in her heart, and the emergence of a new personality is the autonomous protection mechanism of her brain to relieve her of that huge pain.

Just like Storm Demon.

Similarly, the strong skills shown by his father before his death were also imprinted in that person's personality. She didn't want to believe that her dearest and dearest father had left like this, so Cheng Di seemed to be really alive.

Since then, Cheng Ruxue has been in exile for nearly ten years.

……

Three months later.

On the way to the airport, Xiao Xinyu inexplicably lost consciousness.

And when he woke up again, he was surrounded by a dark enclosed space, and he was tied up and down by flowers, and an extremely gloomy face was in front of him.

Zheng ...... Mr. Zheng?! Xiao Xinyu was instantly frightened.

Zheng Huairen just looked at him like this, his eyes were cold, he was holding a gun in his hand, and the muzzle of the gun was also cold.

"Deputy Director Xiao, who is in such a hurry to go to the airport, where are you going?"

"Huh? I...... I ......" Xiao Xinyu trembled even more when he heard this, and replied in a hurry, "On a business trip... Business trip...... Mr. Zheng, what are you doing here? ……”

"Oh, it's a business trip. I don't want to do anything, I just want to give you a ride. Zheng Huairen said, and suddenly laughed, "Seeing that I killed someone, I was afraid that I would kill people, so I wanted to go on a business trip, right?" ”

"What?! Ah no, no, no! Mr. Zheng, you misunderstood! We...... We're in the same boat, how could you think that?! ”

"You made me think that." Zheng Huairen's muzzle was raised suddenly, and a creepy murderous aura suddenly burst out of his eyes, he spoke in a hurry, as if he didn't want to talk nonsense, let alone delay time, "If you don't escape, I can't make up my mind, but you did it." Business trip? Amusing! Is there anyone like you who travels with all your net worth together?! ”

As soon as these words came out, Xiao Xinyu's expression was so frightened, what Zheng Huairen would do next could already be guessed with his toes.

"Mr. Zheng! Mr. Zheng! You let me go! I beg you to spare me! At this moment, Xiao Xinyu really couldn't pretend anymore, so he could only nod his head fiercely, as if he was kneeling and begging for mercy, "I promise!" I promise you, I won't tell you about it! Absolutely not! ”

"I believe in you." Zheng Huairen said, and he regained his calm for a while, but he immediately said another sentence.

"But I only believe in the dead."

On the same day, the police station received a report that Xiao Xinyu died in a car accident.

……

"What?! Xiao Xinyu is really dead?! Thailand, Li Zhuo screamed in amazement in the third second after receiving the call.

"Luckily...... Fortunately, I was prepared and left early, otherwise I would have followed in the footsteps of Lao Xiao! ”

"Don't worry, no one knows about the documents you have read, I am out of the country now, Zheng Huairen will not know, you can be the director of your scientific research bureau with peace of mind, if there is no need in the future, you don't need to contact again!"

In just a few words of conversation, Li Zhuo hung up the phone and disappeared completely.

……

A few days later, in the suburbs, when Zheng Huairen drove to the outskirts, a woman had collapsed in a pool of blood, next to a killer wearing a mask.

The mask has a distinctive gray skull logo on it, perhaps a symbol of some organization. Zheng Huairen just sent a message to find a killer with good ability, but he didn't know where he was invited.

Seeing this, Zheng Huairen hurriedly got out of the car, and the killer took the initiative to greet him, and said flatly: "Employer, the person has been killed, but a medical bill was found in her handbag, and she is pregnant." ”

"What?!" When Zheng Huairen heard this, his eyelids jumped suddenly, and after being stunned for five or six seconds, he still regained his calm.

He couldn't help but let out a "tsk", slowly walked to the corpse, squatted down, and watched silently for a long time.

One corpse and two lives were indeed a result he didn't expect, and at this time, he still felt that what he did was too ruthless.

But there was always a reason why he had to do all this.

"Lao Xiao, I'm sorry, I'm also helpless." After a long time, Zheng Huairen said in a low voice, "Every year in the future, I will go to the grave of your family to burn paper, don't blame me." ”

The car finally left, and under the handling of the killer, no one found any trace of Xiao Xinyu's wife.

Many years later, Zheng Huairen adopted a child in an orphanage, I don't know if it was an accident or deliberate, in short, he specially named the child, not Zheng, but Xiao.

……

Fast forward to 2005.

Summer.

Chen Jinyi was sitting in the office of the director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Antiquities and Cultural Relics as always, when a hurried knock on the door suddenly sounded from outside.

Chen Jinyi didn't care, while reading the newspaper, he just said please come in, and when he glanced at it, he couldn't help but be stunned, the visitor quickly closed the door, the brim of his hat was very low, and his face was tightly wrapped in a mask.

"Are you ......" Chen Jinyi asked subconsciously, and the other party took off his hat and mask, revealing Li Zhuo's face.

"Y-you!" Chen Jinyi was stunned and stood up from his chair suddenly, Li Zhuo didn't speak, and his expression was extremely ugly.

Even after nearly ten years, Chen Jinyi recognized this face, and one second was absolutely enough.

"How did you get back?!" This question is not only questioning why Li Zhuo is not afraid of death, but also questioning why he came back to harm himself.

If Zheng Huairen knew about this, the two of them would be destroyed.

At this time, Li Zhuo opened his mouth and said, "I have something to do urgently, and I need your help." ”

"What's worth your urgency, you don't even want your life?!"

The two are in completely different states, one is anxious to die, and the other is surprisingly quiet.

Li Zhuo slowly stepped forward, pressed his hands on the table, stared at Chen Jinyi's eyes, and lowered his voice to the lowest, "I'm going to—kill Zheng Huairen—"

"What?!" In just a few tens of seconds of meeting, Chen Jinyi couldn't count how many times he was shocked, "Are you crazy?!" ”

"I'm not crazy, now that I'm back, I have to get this done."

"Then you do it! Don't pull me! Chen Jinyi said, feeling that he had never seen such an unreasonable person. But who knew that Li Zhuo suddenly smiled and said gloomily: "If you don't help me, before I die, I will definitely tell Zheng Huairen that you know everything about the past." ”

"You ——!"

Being able to talk so unpleasantly in a few words is that it's hard to find the other two.

But at this time, Li Zhuo changed his words and said: "Don't get me wrong, I just want you to make up your mind when I say this." Zheng Huairen is dead, it is good for you and me, I believe that you must have struggled all these years, right? If he doesn't die, you'll never be able to settle down, am I right? No matter how small the fire is, sooner or later the paper will not be able to contain it, you know, now that the two of us have joined forces, if we can completely kill him, why not? ”

As soon as these words came out, Chen Jinyi's face suddenly changed, this was probably the only sentence that could make him listen to it, and Li Zhuo almost immediately said this sentence to his heart, so it seems that he is indeed fully prepared to come back this time, at least in Chen Jinyi's part.

Next, without Li Zhuo saying anything more, Chen Jinyi thought about it himself, and his eyes began to roll.

After a long time, Chen Jinyi also calmed down and said to Li Zhuo: "What do you mean, tell me carefully, don't fight with me." ”

When Li Zhuo heard this, of course he understood that there was a way to do it, so he sat down by himself, and Chen Jinyi also sat down when he saw this, and the two of them were on both sides of the table, facing each other.

Chen Jinyi lit a cigarette, and Li Zhuo unceremoniously asked for one, and then said: "You know, I have been hiding from Zheng Huairen's pursuit all these years, but no matter where I flee, his eyes and ears will always be around me like a ghost, and I can't hide anymore." As a last resort, I had no choice but to kill him, which of course was in our common interest. ”

Chen Jinyi took a puff of his cigarette, laughed strangely, and said, "To put it mildly, let me help you?" How can I help you? You don't know the power of the Zheng family, if you can do it, I would have done it myself. ”

But Li Zhuo also laughed: "I admit that with your and my strength, I really can't kill him, but the police are different, and getting rid of him by the police is the easiest way." ”

Chen Jinyi's eyes suddenly narrowed, and he hurriedly asked, "What do you mean?" ”

Li Zhuo explained: "In recent years, I have been trying to do the cultural relics business, and by chance I learned some news. Now there is a new rising force in the underworld called the treasure thief world, the four evildoers, the sixteen thieves, famous, Interpol is very concerned about these people, and therefore formed a team called the Flying Eagles. The whole world, no matter where it is, but everything related to cultural relics and ancient tombs, this Flying Eagles are very interested, I was asked by Zheng Huairen to go to Tarim Mountain, where I knew some things and got some things, if these things are revealed to the police, the Flying Eagles will definitely focus on Zheng Huairen's body, and when the time comes, even if Zheng Huairen does not die, even if he just spends his whole life in prison, it is not a good result for you and me. ”