Zhang Yichi couldn't bear this kind of needle-like temptation, and he said in a tone mixed with a hint of impatience: "Is there anything you can say directly?" Don't beat around the bush, it's boring. ”

"Nothing." Li Xiangnian smiled, and the atmosphere in the car suddenly relaxed a little, "I just want to talk to you casually, I think you kid is quite interesting." ”

Zhang Yichi did not speak.

"Before, I was a promising police officer." Li Xiangnian changed his words and talked about his past, "At that time, I had a happy family. But everything...... All changed thirteen years ago. ”

Zhang Yichi frowned and listened to Li Xiangnian's narration.

"My wife was hit by a car on her way to work at night and died." Li Xiangnian said.

When he said this, Zhang Yichi couldn't help but glance at him again, Li Xiangnian's tone was flat, and his expression did not change, but the hand holding the steering wheel seemed to be tighter.

"At that time, surveillance cameras were not yet widely available, and no one knew who the killer was. I was not convinced, so I went to find it myself. I looked for clues at the scene of the crime and checked the maintenance records of the city's auto repair shops in those days...... A suspicious young man is finally found. I checked his itinerary, and on the night of my wife's accident, he went to a restaurant party and came home at about ten o'clock. When I went back to his house from that hotel, I happened to pass by the place where my wife had an accident. Li Xiangnian's hoarse voice has not had any emotional ups and downs, he slowly parked the car in front of the zebra crossing, waiting for the green light, "The time, place, and maintenance records are all right, but unfortunately I can't catch him." ”

"Why?"

"None of this information directly proves that the person is the perpetrator, and in the eyes of others, the most this information is to name that person as a suspect. If no other direct evidence is found, no one can be arrested. The green light turned on, Li Xiangnian pushed down the gear hard, stepped on the accelerator and continued driving, "but I still caught him." Without the permission of my superiors, I seized him and interrogated him overnight. My instincts told me he was the murderer, and I could feel his mental defenses crumbling. It's a pity that before the results came out, his family came to the bureau to make trouble first, and the director was forced to release him under pressure. That person went out and reported me for not complying with the rules and regulations in handling the case, and the director tried his best to protect me, so I was not fired, but demoted. ”

"After all this time, do you think he is really a murderer?" Zhang Yichi asked.

Li Xiangnian shook his head: "He has a good life now, and that incident is just a short time for him to get off the right track." Is it important to ask him if he is a murderer after thirteen years? Can he be brought to justice? Can my wife be resurrected? And looking at it now, it was really just speculation at that time, and I was too eager to find the murderer at that time, so I ignored a lot of logical flaws...... In fact, the truth also has a time limit, and after that period, the truth is really meaningless, and no one cares. ”

“……”

"I don't want this to happen a second time, to let the truth come to the surface while it still has meaning. It's still too late, although some people can't be resurrected, it's still important whether some people are murderers or not, and it's also important what choices he makes next. It happened to be another red light, Li Xiangnian stopped the car and looked at Zhang Yichi.

Zhang Yichi could feel that Li Xiangnian was observing his expression, and he turned his head to look at Li Xiangnian: "You really don't care about your wife's death, don't you care if the murderer can be brought to justice?" ”

Zhang Yichi knew that Li Xiangnian was finally hinting at him to turn himself in, but he was not sure whether Li Xiangnian had all the evidence, just wanted to give him another chance to forgive at the last moment, or only a part of it, and now it was just a temptation.

Instead of responding positively, he diverted the topic and led him back to square one. On the one hand, he is also adjusting his emotions and state to ensure that he does not show flaws.

Li Xiangnian was stunned. It's not that Zhang Yichi was not tested, but he was poked in the heart by Zhang Yichi's question. Thirteen years later, his life was in shambles, and he struggled to face his death in pain and fear. But wife, murderer, are you really relieved?

Did you really think like that when you said that, or were you paralyzing your incompetent self?

"Drip-"

There was a whistle from behind.

Zhang Yichi reminded: "It's a green light." ”

Li Xiangnian, who came back to his senses, drove forward, and went backwards, without saying anything all the way.

Sending Zhang Yichi back to his house downstairs, Li Xiangnian's face was solemn. When Zhang Yichi entered the corridor, he finally couldn't help coughing violently, curled up in a ball holding his chest, opened the medicine bottle and poured out a few pills and hurriedly drank them. Now he coughs more and more often, and each time he feels that he is a little closer to death.

Standing at the corner of the corridor on the second floor, Zhang Yichi looked at Li Xiangnian's miserable appearance in the car through the corridor window, pursed his lips and fell into silence, melting into the darkness.

Soon after, Li Xiangnian drove away. Zhang Yichi also turned around and continued to go upstairs, but before he could take a few steps, his brain was in severe pain again, he leaned sideways against the wall, and memories poured in again.

……

"How much is your phone password?" One day after school, Zhang Yichi's mobile phone was turned off when there was no power, so he borrowed a mobile phone from Lu Tao.

“124816。” Lu Tao replied.

……

This time the memory was very brief, taking less than ten seconds. But Zhang Yichi faintly felt that this memory was not so simple, and it had an unsettling directionality.

He went upstairs and returned home, found Lu Tao's mobile phone hidden in his bedroom, and thought about whether to open it.

So far, a total of three memories have been unlocked. The first two paragraphs respectively overturn Zhang Yichi's speculation about the case itself, and the third paragraph is bound to be more important. Maybe all the truth is hidden in Lu Tao's mobile phone.

But Zhang Yichi didn't dare to open Lu Tao's mobile phone, he had some fears. Today, Li Xiangnian has almost had a close encounter with him, and it has been determined that there is a huge ulterior secret between him and Lu Tao. According to Li Xiangnian's vigorous and resolute work style, he is afraid that even if he starts the machine once, it is not unreasonable to be monitored.

He will be able to leave this damned world tomorrow afternoon, and until then, is it necessary to risk the truth?

Zhang Yichi thought it carefully and decided to take a risk.

There is no big reason, but it is affected by what Li Xiangnian said before. Perhaps, there really is a deadline for the truth, and after that deadline, there is no meaning.

Turn on Lu Tao's mobile phone, enter "124816", and the phone is successfully unlocked. Thankfully, Lu Tao's phone is not in the habit of being cleaned regularly, so a lot of important information is saved for reference.

So, Zhang Yichi uncovered the story behind the tragedy.