Five minutes.
Lu Yuzhu thought that in five minutes, everything would be over.
The ticking sound of the detonator echoed in the basement, like the pendulum clock in the old town house many years ago, in her peaceful life, ticking.
At that time, she thought she could spend her life peacefully and smoothly.
Suddenly—
It was as sudden as the hairy reporter who broke her life.
The countdown to death has stopped.
At the same time, Lu Yuzhu heard the muffled roar of the elevator cabin behind him.
She turned around abruptly and saw that the warehouse door slowly opened, and a tall man with broad shoulders and long legs stood inside. A pair of beautiful peach eyes were born, with sharp firelight splashing inside.
Xie Qingcheng came out of the silver-gray elevator cabin, his eyes were like wedges, and his heart was pierced.
He Yu guessed it right.
Lu Yuzhu is here. Before he entered the archives, the mirror software downloaded on his mobile phone triggered a high-intensity signal reminder. He Yu conducted a connection scan and found that there were even detonators.
More than one.
Unfortunately, these detonators can be controlled by mirror software, which enables He Yu to break through the other party's firewall before entering, preventing the countdown.
They didn't notify the police before they broke in, time was running out. Moreover, they have determined that the police also have internal ghosts, and the notification will only make it easier to change.
Now things are very clear, Lu Yuzhu will take suicidal actions to "clean up" the documents and evidence for her benefactor.
"I know the countdown is only five minutes. But now it has stopped." Xie Qingcheng stared at the woman's face, "Can we talk."
"The countdown has stopped...how come the countdown..."
"Then thank your boss for your love of high technology." A gentle satin voice sounded behind Xie Qingcheng.
Lu Yuzhu discovered that there was still a person standing deep in the elevator.
The aura of Xie Qingcheng just now was too impactful, stepping out of the slowly opened warehouse door seemed to be standing upright, and every step seemed to be walking on her heart. So much so that she didn't notice the young man hiding in the dark of the large elevator for a while.
The young man was wearing a simple black autumn turtleneck, looking very casual and peaceful, and even when he walked out, he was still casually playing with his mobile phone. If the archive room was replaced by a bookstore or a club, he would This outfit, this pair of eyebrows, is not inconsistent at all.
The young man smiled at her: "Mr. Lu, technology is indeed a good thing."
But he didn't talk to Lu Yuzhu too much, the other party's technician was frantically hacking the program system he just kidnapped. He Yu said hello gently and considerately, and then leaned against the wall to continue the silent procedural battle with the other party. His eyes settled down, and he gathered his spirits. He never cared about the relationship between Xie Qingcheng and Lu Yuzhu. dialogue.
Lu Yuzhu is a woman who has experienced strong winds and waves. Even in such a situation, she regained her composure after a brief shock.
"You are not the police." She looked at them, and her tense muscles relaxed slightly.
"No."
"The dog hasn't even smelled it, you can come first." Lu Yuzhu narrowed her eyes, "Who are you?"
Xie Qingcheng didn't intend to talk nonsense with her, and went straight to the point: "Nineteen years ago, my parents died in a car accident. A driverless car hit the car, and the front of the car ignited spontaneously after the impact. Destroyed valid evidence, the method is exactly the same as your people killed Zhang Yong just now."
"..." Lu Yuzhu said, "So are your parents the traitors who should be swept away, or two police dogs?"
Xie Qingcheng: "They are the police."
"It's a good death, and it's not wrong at all. Chasing a martyr, right?" Lu Yuzhu twisted a smile mockingly.
"No."
Lu Yuzhu's smile froze.
"They didn't die in the mission, and there is no direct evidence to prove that they were killed for vendetta. Although all the colleagues around them understand that this is not a coincidence or an ordinary car accident, but as long as If you can't prove it yourself, it was an accident."
"..." Lu Yuzhu's eyes dimmed slightly, as if thinking of her past experience.
"I read your profile. I know what happened to you."
Xie Qingcheng paused for a moment: "I know what it's like to not get a fair response for so many years. Lu Yuzhu, not all police officers are extremely sinful."
“…”
"My parents died when I was thirteen years old. In my impression, they have done nothing to be ashamed of their conscience. In fact, they are because they are constantly chasing people like you. He was brutally murdered to seek the truth and to wash away his grievances."
"Lu Yuzhu." Xie Qingcheng said, "I know you hate the reporters, economic investigators, and all relevant personnel who framed you at that time. You left your hometown and suffered so much. It's too late, nothing in the past can be changed."
"But do you know that, in order to give you and those who bear unwarranted charges, how many you can't see, your unknown reporters, police, prosecutors, are doing their best With all their strength, even their lives were sent in in the end? Why did they sacrifice their blood, youth, and even their lives for the things that had been settled in the past, for those things that the parties could no longer forgive after the verdict was overturned? "
"Because the belated truth cannot change the past."
Xie Qingcheng's voice trembled slightly, he seemed to be not only talking to Lu Yuzhu, but also tearing at himself who had been stuck for nearly twenty years—
"But at least, put the future back on the right track."
"It can make the living people who have been wronged rise up again. It can make the martyrs who died without a name, Jiuquan buried. It can remove the heavy shackles on the shoulders of the victims, and let those who are out of the law open. Know what it means to be clear."
"It can't heal the wounds of the past, Lu Yuzhu." Xie Qingcheng said, his voice was calm and his emotions were suppressed, but his red eyes revealed that he was actually broken and fragmented. "But it's not meaningless. The truth is never meaningless."
Happiness comes with endless pain, but at that moment you can finally breathe."
"..." Lu Yuzhu's eyes moved slightly.
"You waited, Lu Yuzhu. I've waited for almost twenty years, and I haven't waited yet."
Lu Yuzhu: "…"
Xie Qingcheng: "Where you can't see, there are many people who shed blood for your grievances. You don't even know their names. But they have been seeking justice Make up for mistakes, seek justice for the sake of not their mistakes, seek justice for the living and the dead... Do you think this is pointless?"
"For more than ten years, even if your husband betrayed you, your children no longer know you, even if you don't even remember what Lu Yuzhu, the county party secretary of Qingli County, looked like. , but those people who have never lived with you haven't been willing to put down your files. Do you think they are doing this just to say sorry to you?... At least my parents are not. They become police officers for the purpose of To make money, to support a family, is to see it as a profession. But they say so, and in the end die for the profession, have no money, and raise their children. When they left, I Only thirteen years old."
"Lu Yuzhu, you are also a mother, can you imagine what my mother was thinking when she died?"
Lu Yuzhu was only silent before, but when she heard this sentence, her body trembled fiercely, as if there were a pair of weeping eyes in the sky, just like her, she was forced to leave her The child's woman is looking at her silently.
"She was crushed halfway. I saw it with my own eyes."
"By your people."
“…”
"What did she do wrong, Lu Yuzhu? She never said anything great in her life. She only said something solemnly, which I still remember. She said that every Ordinary people yearn for a truth when they are in distress, and in this world, people must believe in something bright in order to survive."
" She wants the badge on her shoulder to be bright, something that can be trusted by everyone who is helpless. But your companions, your organization, your people, killed she."
"Her epaulets were crushed to pieces."
Lu Yuzhu's fingertips trembled slightly.
Xie Qingcheng said: "What you should hate is not the police, you should hate the criminals who frame you and slander you. ... Come back, Lu Yuzhu. Some things should not be like this."
Lu Yuzhu looks like a wandering soul, the intricate life of more than ten years is tearing and spinning in her body. Finally, she raised her head and opened her mouth to Xie Qingcheng, her voice hoarse: "...I'm sorry."
“…”
"I'm sorry..." she muttered.
But—
However, she added:
"You know... This sentence is the most repeated sentence when the prosecutor who overturned the case for me found me."
Lu Yuzhu said softly: "I thought at the time, what is the meaning behind my regret? You have a miserable life, but it has nothing to do with me."
She looked at Xie Qingcheng with very complicated eyes.
After a few seconds of pause, she continued: "But now I'm telling you, I'm sorry. I feel it, I'm thinking, maybe... maybe he didn't I don't mean it. He really, really embarrassed me. It's just—"
The conversation has changed.
Under the cold light of the basement, Lu Yuzhu said slowly, "...Some things can't go back."
"Maybe our people are forced to implicate innocent people. Or maybe it is indeed guilt and wrong, but when I was most desperate and unable to persist, it was our people who saved me. A place for me to live."
“…”
"Without them, I may have committed suicide during this long retrospective and waiting. It is so painful that I can't wait for the day when the case is overturned."
Lu Yuzhu said slowly to Xie Qing: "I can't say that you are wrong, and I know that I am wrong. But I, as a person, have completely belonged to the darkness. The light is unfamiliar to me."
"Wrong or right, he gave me this life. I will not betray him even if I die."
Xie Qingcheng: "...do you think he was not using you to save you? For this day, for the sake of someone risking their lives, you must keep your mouth shut! The countdown to death is five minutes, and it can be controlled remotely. , why didn't they take you? Let you die in an explosion with what they're going to destroy?"
Lu Yuzhu smiled: "You underestimate him."
“…”
"He said he wanted to take me away, but he didn't intend to leave me. It was I who wanted to stay, because the matter was getting bigger and the warning was enough, he always wanted to stay a few people in the country. People will close the case to the police." Lu Yuzhu said, "If I want to live, I can escape after pressing the button, and he even gave me time to go back."
“But I don’t want to,” she said.
"I don't want to fall into the hands of the police, I don't want to go back to the place where I have been locked up for too many years. I don't want to accept any more torture, I don't want to do any more cooperation. Death is for me It's not scary at all."
"It is long and hopeless to be alive."
Lu Yuzhu said, slowly retreating deep into the basement, out of the light, into the darkness.
She didn't want to step forward.
She can't step forward.
She turned her hand away and had a pistol at her waist.
She didn't use the gun, it was the last thing the organization gave her, it was just in case, she wasn't sure if she could really aim, but she had to try...
Her eyes fell on the young man in black who was silent all the time and quickly clicked on the screen of his mobile phone.
Yes.
She can no longer remember the appearance of Lu Yuzhu, the former county secretary of Qingli County.
Her heart clenched, she gritted her teeth silently, and shuddered to open the gun buckle...
Suddenly—
A message beeps.
He Yu, who is playing a program battle.
He set up a message block, but this message was sent by the technician of the other party who broke through the barrier. During the confrontation between the two, the other party sent him an anonymous message.
is a video.
Anonymous message: "Edward, I found out the identities of you and him. Look at this first, and then consider whether to do this for him."
Five minutes.
Lu Yuzhu thought that in five minutes, everything would be over.
The ticking sound of the detonator echoed in the basement, like the pendulum clock in the old town house many years ago, in her peaceful life, ticking.
At that time, she thought she could spend her life peacefully and smoothly.
Suddenly—
It was as sudden as the hairy reporter who broke her life.
The countdown to death has stopped.
At the same time, Lu Yuzhu heard the muffled roar of the elevator cabin behind him.
She turned around abruptly and saw that the warehouse door slowly opened, and a tall man with broad shoulders and long legs stood inside. A pair of beautiful peach eyes were born, with sharp firelight splashing inside.
Xie Qingcheng came out of the silver-gray elevator cabin, his eyes were like wedges, and his heart was pierced.
He Yu guessed it right.
Lu Yuzhu is here. Before he entered the archives, the mirror software downloaded on his mobile phone triggered a high-intensity signal reminder. He Yu conducted a connection scan and found that there were even detonators.
More than one.
Unfortunately, these detonators can be controlled by mirror software, which enables He Yu to break through the other party's firewall before entering, preventing the countdown.
They didn't notify the police before they broke in, time was running out. Moreover, they have determined that the police also have internal ghosts, and the notification will only make it easier to change.
Now things are very clear, Lu Yuzhu will take suicidal actions to "clean up" the documents and evidence for her benefactor.
"I know the countdown is only five minutes. But now it has stopped." Xie Qingcheng stared at the woman's face, "Can we talk."
"The countdown has stopped...how come the countdown..."
"Then thank your boss for your love of high technology." A gentle satin voice sounded behind Xie Qingcheng.
Lu Yuzhu discovered that there was still a person standing deep in the elevator.
The aura of Xie Qingcheng just now was too impactful, stepping out of the slowly opened warehouse door seemed to be standing upright, and every step seemed to be walking on her heart. So much so that she didn't notice the young man hiding in the dark of the large elevator for a while.
The young man was wearing a simple black autumn turtleneck, looking very casual and peaceful, and even when he walked out, he was still casually playing with his mobile phone. If the archive room was replaced by a bookstore or a club, he would This outfit, this pair of eyebrows, is not inconsistent at all.
The young man smiled at her: "Mr. Lu, technology is indeed a good thing."
But he didn't talk to Lu Yuzhu too much, the other party's technician was frantically hacking the program system he just kidnapped. He Yu said hello gently and considerately, and then leaned against the wall to continue the silent procedural battle with the other party. His eyes settled down, and he gathered his spirits. He never cared about the relationship between Xie Qingcheng and Lu Yuzhu. dialogue.
Lu Yuzhu is a woman who has experienced strong winds and waves. Even in such a situation, she regained her composure after a brief shock.
"You are not the police." She looked at them, and her tense muscles relaxed slightly.
"No."
"The dog hasn't even smelled it, you can come first." Lu Yuzhu narrowed her eyes, "Who are you?"
Xie Qingcheng didn't intend to talk nonsense with her, and went straight to the point: "Nineteen years ago, my parents died in a car accident. A driverless car hit the car, and the front of the car ignited spontaneously after the impact. Destroyed valid evidence, the method is exactly the same as your people killed Zhang Yong just now."
"..." Lu Yuzhu said, "So are your parents the traitors who should be swept away, or two police dogs?"
Xie Qingcheng: "They are the police."
"It's a good death, and it's not wrong at all. Chasing a martyr, right?" Lu Yuzhu twisted a smile mockingly.
"No."
Lu Yuzhu's smile froze.
"They didn't die in the mission, and there is no direct evidence to prove that they were killed for vendetta. Although all the colleagues around them understand that this is not a coincidence or an ordinary car accident, but as long as If you can't prove it yourself, it was an accident."
"..." Lu Yuzhu's eyes dimmed slightly, as if thinking of her past experience.
"I read your profile. I know what happened to you."
Xie Qingcheng paused for a moment: "I know what it's like to not get a fair response for so many years. Lu Yuzhu, not all police officers are extremely sinful."
“…”
"My parents died when I was thirteen years old. In my impression, they have done nothing to be ashamed of their conscience. In fact, they are because they are constantly chasing people like you. He was brutally murdered to seek the truth and to wash away his grievances."
"Lu Yuzhu." Xie Qingcheng said, "I know you hate the reporters, economic investigators, and all relevant personnel who framed you at that time. You left your hometown and suffered so much. It's too late, nothing in the past can be changed."
"But do you know that, in order to give you and those who bear unwarranted charges, how many you can't see, your unknown reporters, police, prosecutors, are doing their best With all their strength, even their lives were sent in in the end? Why did they sacrifice their blood, youth, and even their lives for the things that had been settled in the past, for those things that the parties could no longer forgive after the verdict was overturned? "
"Because the belated truth cannot change the past."
Xie Qingcheng's voice trembled slightly, he seemed to be not only talking to Lu Yuzhu, but also tearing at himself who had been stuck for nearly twenty years—
"But at least, put the future back on the right track."
"It can make the living people who have been wronged rise up again. It can make the martyrs who died without a name, Jiuquan buried. It can remove the heavy shackles on the shoulders of the victims, and let those who are out of the law open. Know what it means to be clear."
"It can't heal the wounds of the past, Lu Yuzhu." Xie Qingcheng said, his voice was calm and his emotions were suppressed, but his red eyes revealed that he was actually broken and fragmented. "But it's not meaningless. The truth is never meaningless."
Happiness comes with endless pain, but at that moment you can finally breathe."
"..." Lu Yuzhu's eyes moved slightly.
"You waited, Lu Yuzhu. I've waited for almost twenty years, and I haven't waited yet."
Lu Yuzhu: "…"
Xie Qingcheng: "Where you can't see, there are many people who shed blood for your grievances. You don't even know their names. But they have been seeking justice Make up for mistakes, seek justice for the sake of not their mistakes, seek justice for the living and the dead... Do you think this is pointless?"
"For more than ten years, even if your husband betrayed you, your children no longer know you, even if you don't even remember what Lu Yuzhu, the county party secretary of Qingli County, looked like. , but those people who have never lived with you haven't been willing to put down your files. Do you think they are doing this just to say sorry to you?... At least my parents are not. They become police officers for the purpose of To make money, to support a family, is to see it as a profession. But they say so, and in the end die for the profession, have no money, and raise their children. When they left, I Only thirteen years old."
"Lu Yuzhu, you are also a mother, can you imagine what my mother was thinking when she died?"
Lu Yuzhu was only silent before, but when she heard this sentence, her body trembled fiercely, as if there were a pair of weeping eyes in the sky, just like her, she was forced to leave her The child's woman is looking at her silently.
"She was crushed halfway. I saw it with my own eyes."
"By your people."
“…”
"What did she do wrong, Lu Yuzhu? She never said anything great in her life. She only said something solemnly, which I still remember. She said that every Ordinary people yearn for a truth when they are in distress, and in this world, people must believe in something bright in order to survive."
" She wants the badge on her shoulder to be bright, something that can be trusted by everyone who is helpless. But your companions, your organization, your people, killed she."
"Her epaulets were crushed to pieces."
Lu Yuzhu's fingertips trembled slightly.
Xie Qingcheng said: "What you should hate is not the police, you should hate the criminals who frame you and slander you. ... Come back, Lu Yuzhu. Some things should not be like this."
Lu Yuzhu looks like a wandering soul, the intricate life of more than ten years is tearing and spinning in her body. Finally, she raised her head and opened her mouth to Xie Qingcheng, her voice hoarse: "...I'm sorry."
“…”
"I'm sorry..." she muttered.
But—
However, she added:
"You know... This sentence is the most repeated sentence when the prosecutor who overturned the case for me found me."
Lu Yuzhu said softly: "I thought at the time, what is the meaning behind my regret? You have a miserable life, but it has nothing to do with me."
She looked at Xie Qingcheng with very complicated eyes.
After a few seconds of pause, she continued: "But now I'm telling you, I'm sorry. I feel it, I'm thinking, maybe... maybe he didn't I don't mean it. He really, really embarrassed me. It's just—"
The conversation has changed.
Under the cold light of the basement, Lu Yuzhu said slowly, "...Some things can't go back."
"Maybe our people are forced to implicate innocent people. Or maybe it is indeed guilt and wrong, but when I was most desperate and unable to persist, it was our people who saved me. A place for me to live."
“…”
"Without them, I may have committed suicide during this long retrospective and waiting. It is so painful that I can't wait for the day when the case is overturned."
Lu Yuzhu said slowly to Xie Qing: "I can't say that you are wrong, and I know that I am wrong. But I, as a person, have completely belonged to the darkness. The light is unfamiliar to me."
"Wrong or right, he gave me this life. I will not betray him even if I die."
Xie Qingcheng: "...do you think he was not using you to save you? For this day, for the sake of someone risking their lives, you must keep your mouth shut! The countdown to death is five minutes, and it can be controlled remotely. , why didn't they take you? Let you die in an explosion with what they're going to destroy?"
Lu Yuzhu smiled: "You underestimate him."
“…”
"He said he wanted to take me away, but he didn't intend to leave me. It was I who wanted to stay, because the matter was getting bigger and the warning was enough, he always wanted to stay a few people in the country. People will close the case to the police." Lu Yuzhu said, "If I want to live, I can escape after pressing the button, and he even gave me time to go back."
“But I don’t want to,” she said.
"I don't want to fall into the hands of the police, I don't want to go back to the place where I have been locked up for too many years. I don't want to accept any more torture, I don't want to do any more cooperation. Death is for me It's not scary at all."
"It is long and hopeless to be alive."
Lu Yuzhu said, slowly retreating deep into the basement, out of the light, into the darkness.
She didn't want to step forward.
She can't step forward.
She turned her hand away and had a pistol at her waist.
She didn't use the gun, it was the last thing the organization gave her, it was just in case, she wasn't sure if she could really aim, but she had to try...
Her eyes fell on the young man in black who was silent all the time and quickly clicked on the screen of his mobile phone.
Yes.
She can no longer remember the appearance of Lu Yuzhu, the former county secretary of Qingli County.
Her heart clenched, she gritted her teeth silently, and shuddered to open the gun buckle...
Suddenly—
A message beeps.
He Yu, who is playing a program battle.
He set up a message block, but this message was sent by the technician of the other party who broke through the barrier. During the confrontation between the two, the other party sent him an anonymous message.
is a video.
Anonymous message: "Edward, I found out the identities of you and him. Look at this first, and then consider whether to do this for him."
