Born in the dark, Ended in the dawn

Chapter 41 41 Changes

The handwriting on the note was very scribbled, and it could be seen that it was written in a hurry.

Why leave this information before death and hide it in such a difficult place to be found?The bathroom is humid, and the decoration materials are mainly ceramics and marble, which are not easy to burn, and the toilet tank is a safe room in a safe zone. That is to say, Chen Zhong consciously hides those two things there to ensure that no will be burned.

He hoped that these two things would be discovered, but after all, they were too hidden to be discovered, so what?That's why he repeated the "ghost incident" again and again, creating a fake fire in room 819. In order to attract attention, when the number of accidents increases, it will inevitably attract the attention of the police.

In this way, can it be guessed that Chen Zhong's ultimate goal is to hope that the police will find these evidences?

"The doctor probably wants to use Wen Peng's death to provide you with clues, or other police officers who took over the case." Guo Wen said.

"No, I don't think so." Wei Lan denied Guo Wen's remarks, "The doctor didn't have any malicious intentions. After he prompted Wen Peng to discover the contents of the water tank, he immediately let Wen Peng go. I'm sure he intended to kill Wen Peng. The purpose of those guys was to prevent Wen Peng from passing on the clues to me, so they killed him, but Wen Peng's obsession reproduced everything that happened that night for me."

Guo Wen nodded in agreement, "According to what you said, can it be doubted that those who killed the doctor in the first place and those who killed Wen Peng later belonged to the same wave of forces?"

"It doesn't look like that either." Another bunch of grilled eggplants went into his stomach, and Wei Lan stared at Guo Wen's shiny Mediterranean head in a daze, "I saw those who killed Wen Peng once in the hospital, and they were all drowned ghosts. The method of harming people is inseparable from water, how could it be possible to burn Dr. Chen Zhong to death."

"It's getting more and more complicated by what you said." After drinking a few cans of beer, Guo Wen burped, "By the way, you don't look very good recently, you're going to get sick if you see too much of the hell, you should go out and sunbathe more if you have nothing to do Sun."

To put it lightly, there has been no progress in the case. Knowing that Wen Peng was killed by a ghost, the case has never been settled. The upper management keeps putting pressure on it. Everyone in the criminal investigation department is very busy. It is really a time to bask in the sun nothing.After eating and drinking enough to see off Lao Guo, Wei Lan lay tossing and turning on the big sofa in the lounge, thinking about another thing.

How long has it been?It's been a long time since I visited Xiao Zixian. Ever since the unpleasant night at the hotel, Xiao Zixian's ghost has never appeared again.It doesn't seem right to say ghosts. He is still alive, so how can he be considered a ghost? Could it be that his soul is out of his body?Well, this statement seems more reasonable.

The knot in my heart couldn't be untied, why did Xiao Zixian appear in such a strange place, why did he inject himself with that terrible thing?In fact, it is not impossible to calm down, maybe it is required by the task, or maybe it is forced.In this business, identity and awareness are above all else, and sometimes, it is really necessary to make a last resort.

but……

Why are you playing with me like that!

In front of so many people, you trampled on my dignity like that, and completely destroyed my admiration for you.

Shameful and ugly.

Wei Lan is insensitive to feelings, but is inexplicably sensitive to some details. Maybe Xiao Zixian was shaken and helpless when he injected him, but what happened next, Wei Lan couldn't feel a little bit from Xiao Zixian. A little bit of hesitation and guilt, and even a faintly malicious touch.

With what kind of mentality did that icy figure appear by his side?Wei Lan's mind was in a mess, and he found that he couldn't figure out what Xiao Zixian was thinking at all, maybe since the day they met, he had never figured it out.

I thought that the relationship between each other was already very close, that they were good brothers who could talk about everything, but the truth was not what I thought. Now that I recall it, it is not difficult to find that Xiao Zixian has always been just listening, and has never poured out his heart to him the sound of.

It's a hot face with a cold butt at all, Wei Lan smiled self-deprecatingly, curling her body into the thick quilt.It has nothing to do with forgiveness, he just feels that before he has figured everything out, he cannot face each other calmly, so he rejects and escapes, instinctively wants to believe that Xiao Zixian will not hurt himself, but reason is persuading himself not to be sentimental.

"Brother Xiao, you really taught me a lot, not just about work..." Wei Lan muttered softly to himself under the quilt, "There are also these suspicions that shouldn't be there." The voice became smaller and smaller, and finally Disappeared in the sound of even breathing, the long-term fatigue made the overwhelmed body fall into a deep sleep.

On a snowy day, the Criminal Investigation Team [-] ushered in a long-lost personnel change meeting.There were not many people in the conference room. Apart from Wei Lan, Yin Hang, Lu Wei, Liu An, Chen Yanhua, and the deputy director Li Zheng who presided over the meeting, there was also a familiar new face——Zheng Kai.

Seeing Wei Lan looking at him, Zheng Kai grinned brightly, with the same sunshine energy as Wei Lan.Wei Lan couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the child's heartless appearance is quite similar to his own when he was young. After thinking about it, he felt inappropriate. Not long ago, Chen Yanhua also commented on his recent changes. Except for the occasional worry, EQ still hasn't improved much.

Li Zheng cleared his throat and officially announced the start of the meeting. "There are two things I want to talk about today. The first thing is the personnel change of the first criminal investigation team. Wei Lan was promoted to the captain of the first criminal investigation team, and Yin Hang appointed the vice president."

The crisp and only applause echoed in the conference room. Zheng Kai looked at Wei Lan happily and applauded sincerely. He didn't expect that on the first day he entered the criminal investigation team, he would meet his idol's promotion live broadcast, and said he was not excited. Absolutely deceiving.

This is a good thing, promotion is a good thing that everyone longs for, but there is no atmosphere of joy in the meeting room, leaving Zheng Kai laughing more and more awkwardly, and letting go of his clapping palms at a loss, Nervously rubbing the signature pen back and forth, he didn't understand why everyone looked unhappy.

"Starting today, Zheng Kai has officially transferred to the Criminal Investigation Team [-] and will work together with you. He will be your help. I hope you can make better achievements and solve unsolved cases one by one as soon as possible." Li Zheng continued. The formulaic lines scanned everyone's expressions one by one. He knew very well that these people had something to say and questions to ask, but they didn't dare to ask them. This kind of ambivalence was just like his own at the moment ,hard to decide.

However, some things cannot be avoided. What should be faced must be faced after all. The same is true for these young people in front of them. What I will say next may be more difficult for them to accept than myself. After all, they used to get along day and night Militant and friendly bro, "The other thing I'm going to say is..."

Li Zheng looked straight at Wei Lan who was sitting at the end. Even though he couldn't bear it, he still made up his mind and said the key points of today's meeting word by word, "Xiao Zixian... died in the line of duty."

Nothing but silence.No one spoke, no one even breathed, and the meeting room was so quiet that the sound of air flow could almost be heard.

"My condolences..." Li Zheng said in a hoarse voice, his eyes still looking at Wei Lan's reaction, he knew that the child and Xiao Zixian had the best relationship, and this bad news would probably be a traumatic injury to him, "This is On Saturday, all members of the Western District Administration must attend Xiao Zixian's memorial service."

"When did it happen?" Wei Lan asked calmly.

Li Zheng's eyes were sour from the shock of Wei Lan's flat tone.It doesn't matter if you yell or cry, whatever, but don't face it so calmly, vent your emotions to your heart's content, maybe you won't be so painful, "October [-]th."

"Is it the day when the body of Wang Xiang, the head of the Southern District, was found?"

"Yes."

"It's December now." Wei Lan stated calmly, without any sadness or emotion on his face.

Li Zheng was very worried. Wei Lan's mental state was not normal. This child was always smiling, rarely frowning and rarely lost his temper, but no matter which one was vivid, it had never been so frightening as it is now. "What do you want to say?"

"Why did it take so long for the memorial service to be held? Could it be that you guys colluded to scare people?" With that said, Wei Lan stood up abruptly and was about to go out.

"Where are you going?" Li Zheng called Wei Lan worriedly.

"I'll go to Uncle Xiao to find out."

There was a messy noise, Wei Lan looked blankly at the heavy notebook that fell on the ground, the back of the head was hit painfully, and before he could recover, he was kicked hard on the stomach again, and his lower plate was unstable and fell heavily on the ground. on the ground.Wei Lan looked up at Liu An who suddenly attacked in confusion, "What are you doing?"

"I still want to ask you what are you going to do? It's all you!" Liu An angrily kicked Wei Lan, "You killed brother Xiao, so you still want to disturb his peace now?"

"He wanted to kill me!"

Finally, after the uncontrollable roar, the meeting room fell into a long silence again. No one said a word, silently watching Wei Lan's every move, watching him get up from the ground, tidy up his messy clothes, Leave here without a word.

Don't want to believe it, still can't believe it, Wei Lan can't tell, why is it that day?Just because I let him 'scroll', and then he really completely 'scrolled'?Don't be kidding, he can't accept this ending.

How long has it been since you visited Xiao's house?Xiao Zixian has always lived alone in the house he bought and rarely goes home, so Wei Lan only often goes to Xiao Zixian's place, and neglects to visit the elders of the Xiao family.

Xiao Zixian's room was neatly tidied up. A black and white photo was neatly placed on the desk. Wei Lan was very familiar with this photo because Xiao Zixian didn't like taking pictures. This photo was taken after the commendation meeting was over. Wei Lan pulled Xiao Zixian to stand in front of a tree of peach blossoms, and forced him to take a photo. It was originally a colorful photo, but now it has been removed and placed here.

"Aunt Sun..." Wei Lan stared at the photo, his mind was full of the ridiculous scenes when the photo was taken, as if infected by the emotions in the memory, the corners of his lips curved up unconsciously, "Is he really gone?"

Sun Xueling saw Wei Lan's expression completely in her eyes, her heart ached, and she smiled at what should have been a sad thing. Will this child's spirit be broken by this blow?Such a smile makes people feel distressed.

Tightly hugging Wei Lan who was sitting on the edge of the bed, embraced that hopeless smiling face into her arms, stroking the soft hair in her arms with trembling fingers, Sun Xueling softly comforted her.

"Cry out, please."

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