Chapter 453: A Mentor and a Friend
After filling out the work report, Hannah habitually glanced at the phone on the table.
Ah, another day of working until the wee hours of the morning.
If this continues, sooner or later, she will have to hire a psychiatrist like her colleagues, take some antidepressant medication every night to sleep peacefully, and tomorrow, after attending the bureau hearing and dealing with a series of handovers, she will have to attend a class reunion in the evening.
Hannah, hopefully this time you'll be able to resist the pressure of work and get out of the 7th district.
After a year on the job, Hannah's dream changed.
Like countless graduates, she once dreamed of becoming the backbone of the department and one day becoming a managerial figure through her own efforts.
To do this, she devised a detailed schedule on her first day on the job.
And now, her dream is much simpler, and it can be described in just two words - to live.
It's a day to live one more day.
The next day's reunion was a rehearsal for the follow-up activities, the main purpose of which was to bring together students who had not seen each other for a year and connect with each other, but this reunion was overshadowed by death, the suicide of Professor Myers, and the bizarre murder of the teaching assistant generated a lot of gossip in the college, and the atmosphere of the whole class reunion was shrouded in dreary.
Because of her work, Hannah arrived half an hour later than scheduled.
As an honor student in the former class, her appearance did not cause any coaxing and attention, but the former classmates staggered their eyes and looked unfamiliar with her.
And she has no interest in the next process of the class reunion, she just wants to complete the process as soon as possible and return to her residence to lie down.
Hannah looked around and soon found a piece of pure land in the class reunion venue.
It has to be Lu Xiang.
She sat maverickly in the corner, ignoring the comments of her classmates and the dark rubbing of her eyes.
Hannah walked straight to Lu Xiang's seat, there were still some common topics between them, "The results of the investigation of the anomalous androids have come out, and the upper authorities feel that this is not enough to prove that Angel is innocent." ”
In the face of these obviously abnormal situations, the boss once again adopted an attitude of turning a blind eye.
They quickly pushed the black cauldron of the anomalous androids on Angel's head, believing that the programs of the androids were broken by him, and he planned to use the hands of the androids to kill the teaching assistant, but he did not expect the anomalous androids to attack him.
It was a flawed reasoning, but everyone in the bureau chose to believe it.
Hannah, of course, didn't object.
Agent Angley used his personal experience to show everyone what it would be like to work against the General Administration and the company.
"Lu Xiang, although you found clues that we ignored at the scene, I still hope that you can leave this case to the Abnormal Case Investigation Bureau to deal with, which will be beneficial to you and me."
Hannah weakly persuaded that she had seen a thrilling scene in the café through surveillance footage yesterday, and that if those androids had pulled out knives or guns instead of plastic bags, the other party's boyfriend would have been really lucky.
"Well, thanks for the reminder."
After getting along with Song Lan for such a long time, Lu Xiang learned a lot of skills from him.
For example, on the surface, obeying the other party and agreeing, but in fact it is contrary to the yin, which can effectively avoid meaningless verbal disputes.
"I wish you listened to me."
"What has happened to you in the past year? I remember you used to ...... Much more cheerful. ”
Lu Xiang asked curiously.
Since it's a class reunion, she has to talk to her former classmates even if it's polite, and she's genuinely curious about Hannah's transformation.
In her memory, Hannah was a lively girl who was full of subjective initiative, and despite repeated defeats, she was able to regroup and challenge her from different disciplines, and now Hannah looks like she has lost her soul.
A greeting from an old classmate made Hannah unable to hide her sadness.
She glanced at the wine on the table, unscrewed the cap with her bare hands, and poured herself a sip.
"The Bureau of Anomalous Investigation is really not a place for people!"
Stimulated by alcohol, she finally said something she had never dared to say to anyone.
There are people used as livestock all year round, and they can't return home for a few months when they go on a business trip, and they are still faced with some fantastical cases, and there is a possibility of being slaughtered by prisoners if they are not careful.
It's like now, she finally took a short vacation and was invited to the class reunion, which was supposed to be a relaxing trip, but as soon as Angel had an accident, the boss kicked all the mess at her and asked her to deal with the aftermath of the seventh arrondissement.
Hannah's accusation was so sincere that she almost burst into tears.
Her true feelings deeply touched Song Lan, making him temporarily forget the identity of Hannah's Anomalous Investigation Bureau agent, because they are now facing a common enemy:
Unrestrained overtime, a system that drains people's value, and a working environment in which people blame each other when something happens, and let subordinates take the blame for themselves.
In such a deformed working environment, even the best graduates of Daystar Academy can be crushed.
Hannah quickly complained about the work environment to the family.
She was born in the core area since she was a child, her parents are company executives, and she has been given an elite education since she was a child, and whenever she complains about the working environment to her family, she will be severely reprimanded by her parents, thinking that she must have relaxed her requirements for herself.
In order to help her grow better, they also took the initiative to help her set a new goal of becoming a four-star rescuer within two years.
She hadn't called home for months on the back of her day, and for a long time she felt sick to her stomach as soon as she heard the voice on the other end of the phone.
Lu Xiang gradually stopped gnawing on pears, she didn't expect that Hannah, who was strong everywhere in the past, would show such a vulnerable side in front of her.
"That's how a bad work environment affects people."
Song Lan said solemnly, as a pioneer against overtime and exploitation, he felt obligated to say something, "Hannah, a person's strength is weak after all, you can't fight against the work environment, so you can only learn how to protect yourself." ”
For the sake of Hannah and Lu Xiang, he unreservedly taught his fishing experience after years of actual combat.
As he spoke emotionally, the expression on Hannah's face gradually replaced by surprise.
She vaguely realized that she seemed to have a wrong evaluation of Song Lan - this person was by no means an ordinary ordinary person.
He is clearly a master of theory in the field of modern fishing!
This is the first time in her life that she has systematically heard the theoretical knowledge of fishing, and the person in front of her has already elevated a work phenomenon into a discipline, combined with the narration of practical experience, as well as the analysis and guidance of specific cases, she actually has a feeling of enlightenment.
At this moment, Hannah felt that what she needed was not a psychiatrist at all, but a theoretical mentor of fishing!
It's a pity that she didn't meet Song Lan earlier.
But then she made an important discovery, which quickly turned into a fierce curiosity.
"Song Lan."
Hannah stopped talking, but with the help of alcohol, she still asked what was in her mind, "Your immediate boss...... It should be Lu Xiang, right? ”
Most of Song Lan's actual combat experience stems from the process of fighting wits and courage with his top boss, and when they talked, the top boss in the story was staring at them without saying a word, smiling.
In Hannah's impression, Lu Xiang had never smiled so much as he did now.
It's just that her smile didn't make people feel kind and warm, but made her feel a little inexplicably cold.
Although she really wanted to listen to all of Song Lan's theoretical knowledge, for the sake of the personal safety of this theoretical master, she had to remind Song Lan, who was talking about it.
If you want a knife, you can't hide your eyes.
Hannah's work experience in the Abnormal Case Investigation Bureau convinced Hannah of this - the serial killers in those bizarre cases often show Lu Xiang's eyes at the moment before committing the crime.
I'm going to recommend it today.,There should be more~.
(End of chapter)